The part of selling cloth and buying cloth in the story

Selling Cloths (a comic opera)

A In the past, in Beijing, small businessmen used to yell the most. For example, those who sold sugar gourds were not all the same in the east, west, south, north and south cities.

B Yes, there are nine dialects and eighteen tones, so what do you think about the North City?

A "honey to hey ice sugar gourd hey--"

B to the west of the city where?

A "Gourd child ice sugar."

B This saves a bit of work, to the south of the city?

A "Gourd."

B That's even less work!

A At the Dong'an market, the stalls were fresh: "Freshly dipped!"

B Not even the word "gourd"!

A Beijing is called ice-sugar gourd, to Tianjin is called sugar pier, yell up the most economical, just one word: "pier ai --"

B right.

A This is the seller of candy canes. There are also fruit sellers: "Fragrant fruit! Smell the fragrant fruit!"

B That's nice.

A It's like singing a folk song. If you know how to write down the music, you can write it down and it will sound great.

B This can be written down?

A I've written it down, I'll hum it for you.

B Okay, hum it.

A What do you sell?

B This ...... don't know!

A This sells peas.

B I remember selling peas by yelling, "Cowslips to peas!"

A

B "More peas than hazelnuts."

A

B "Peas come much given."

A

B Hey! It's really like singing.

A The most elaborate yells are those of the cloth sellers, of which there are two kinds in Tianjin and two in Beijing.

B Which two kinds are there in Tianjin?

A One is the one who carries a bag on his back and strings it along the hutongs, and the other is the one who sets up a stall on the street.

B How do you shout in the hutongs?

A I'll give you a lesson: "Buy some cloth, make it into a lining, make it into a face, make it into a pants and coats, go."

B Hey, it's all the same flavor, the kind of stall where?

A That can scare you if you're not careful.

And the other thing is, you're not going to be able to get away with it, are you?

A He yells so loudly that people with nervous breakdowns don't dare to hit him in the head!

B You learn.

A "Look at this piece of hey, really fine hair month real color does not fall, buy home to make pants and coats to go--"

B ooh!

A These are the two types of cloth in Tianjin.

B What about Beijing?

A There are also two kinds, a soft-toned one and a hard-toned one.

B You should learn the soft tone.

A "This piece of yell, yell is cheap is not playing the price mile it, this piece of this color white ah, how it is so white ah, how it is so white ah, hey, you say how so white?"

B I don't know!

A "How is it so white ah, it killed the first snow, do not let the second road frost, sub race over the Fuxing of the foreign white noodles mile it, buy to your old home to do the quilt to go, it is forbidden to wash and forbidden to the sun, forbidden to cover and forbidden to cover, forbidden to pull and forbidden to pull, forbidden to stir and forbidden to kick!"

B What is wrong with this person?

A What's wrong with him?

B Probably describes him as a strong cloth.

A Another black one for you, this one is German green.

B Yes, they used to say that German dyes were good.

A "This piece of German green, ah, how is it so black, how is it so black, hey, you say how is it so black?"

B Ah ...... here we go again!

A "how so black, gas death Zhang Fei not let Li Kui, sub race over the Tang Dynasty black Jingde mile it, in the East Mountain sent charcoal, West Mountain plucked coal, opened two days of coal factory sold two days of coal, and it has been two days of coal store two bosses of it. This piece of German green, real German dyeing, real Germans he made this cloth, nicknamed three not afraid, what is called three not afraid: not afraid of washing, it is not afraid of rain, it is not afraid of the sun ah, let you how to wash, it does not lose color ah!"