Market Fire
Yue Huayang helped Lin Fang back to the car under the eyes of the passers-by. Lin Fang cried in pain again, and then fell into a deep sleep with the colorful night.
Yue Huayang woke up several times during the night. Occasionally, he would look at the bustling crowd outside the car warily. Fortunately, they were safe for him and her.
At dawn, the two of them were woken up by someone knocking on the window. After some communication, it turned out to be the owner of the shop next door. He asked them to move the car so that it would not affect his business. Yue Huayang had no choice but to drive forward and stop in front of a small restaurant that had not been open for a few days. It was a place where a restaurant operated. It was estimated that it would not be open for a long time. Stopping there was the best choice. This was also the suggestion of the shop owner.
Ever since the government had completely restricted the trading of most food products a few days ago, many of the semi-finished products in the market had been confiscated by the government. Even the most basic food had been required to be purchased at a designated place by the government. Almost all the restaurants were short of food and other ingredients. Even if they wanted to continue operating, they could not afford to.
Food became the most scarce resource. It was almost impossible for those who were wandering outside to buy food. If they did not want to starve to death, other than returning to their hometown to receive food, the only way was to enter the settlement set up by the government because the government provided the most basic three meals a day. Although it was only a very ordinary food, it was more than enough to save their lives.
Of course, there was another way, which was to let the company take care of the local workers. The company contributed to the country's economy, so the country had to make some adjustments to the company. Therefore, the company had the right to take care of the most basic living security of the employees.
Today was the eighth day of the New Year, the eighth day of the first lunar month. According to the customs of the Chinese people, the eighth and ninth day of the lunar month was the day when many shops and factories opened for business. Today was not as lively as usual, giving people the feeling that a very important link was missing.
Yes, because there was much less advertising than before: Fireworks and firecrackers. Although real fireworks had been banned decades ago, the working people had created new wisdom and invented a kind of firecracker that relied on compressed air to produce explosions. As long as electricity was connected, it could be used for a whole day without any pollution. Moreover, it could be reused. However, this set of devices was relatively expensive for the general public. Ordinary people could not use it, or rarely had the opportunity to use it. Therefore, they wouldn't just buy it. When someone needed it, they would find a specialized rental company to solve these problems. There was also a kind of firework, which was also launched into the air by compressed air. When the firework reached a certain height, it would explode after losing the network connection with the specific equipment on the ground. There were also colorful fragments compressed in the firework, which could reflect colorful lights under the sun or special lights at night. It was much more beautiful than real fireworks and lasted longer. Similarly, it was not something that ordinary families could afford. If there was a need, it would be done through the rental company.
However, this year, the government even restricted such fireworks. They said that the violent sound caused by the compressed air explosion would spread far away. It would sound like gunshots within a certain range, causing some people to be sensitive and not conducive to social stability.
Last night, because he was too busy comforting her, he didn't buy a small suitcase on the way back. It seemed that he had to go out and buy them today. The two of them simply ate some food in the car. Fortunately, there were more snacks in the car. Most of them were gifts for her and her relatives when they went home. From the share, it seemed that there were six families. There was wine, milk, bread, and some snacks for her and her children. And now, it had become their food.
The weather was still cold in the morning. The two of them nestled in the car and repacked their luggage. As the car windows had been closed for almost the entire night, they opened a few windows to let the air in and out of the car circulate. After opening the windows, the noisy world and information outside the car poured in.
Outside the car, two people were walking and talking.
A: I heard that the new farmer's market in Mo Yang City will open at 8:08 this morning. In the past, on the first day of every year, the price of the goods would be close to the cost price. This year, they announced that it was still the tradition. I'm going to snatch some goods. Are you going?
B: Things outside are getting more and more expensive now. I wonder how the prices of the goods inside are? If the price is right, I'm also prepared to buy some things back. Sigh! The things outside were becoming more and more unaffordable…
As the two of them walked further and further away, their voices became more and more indistinct. However, there were so many people around them, and many of them were discussing this matter. Soon, many people were heading in one direction. Their faces revealed excited expressions, as if they had seized this fleeting opportunity.
Yue Hua Yang and Lin Fang did not care about these things at first, but when they heard that many people were talking about this, they also wanted to take a look. Maybe they could find something!
First of all, they found the location of the market in the car's navigation system and found that it was not far away. It was only a little more than a kilometer away from where they were.
So they locked the car again and prepared to go take a look. Along the way, the two of them did not leave as urgently as the others. This was mainly because Lin Fang was wearing a pair of high heels today. She did not plan to take this pair of shoes away, but she was very reluctant. The reason why she wore this pair of shoes today was mainly to let it accompany her for the last time.
Perhaps it was because of this pair of shoes that they had avoided a very serious accident.
There was only a 6-meter-wide gate in this market, which was used to facilitate the vehicles that pulled goods in and out. When they arrived there, the gate was already packed.
More than a dozen security guards who maintained the order of the market stood guard at the gate, blocking the entrance of the six-meter-wide road so that only one or two people could enter and exit. Their purpose was to collect a hundred yuan entrance fee from each person who entered. The fee was called the market comprehensive management fee.
Before the New Year, there was a fee before entering this market. The merchants who entered basically charged 10 to 100 yuan for the use of the booth area, while the fee for ordinary customers was only 10 yuan.
Because of the large scale of this market, the goods inside basically included all the daily necessities used by the ordinary people. Moreover, the prices were very low, so it also attracted many merchants and customers to come here to do business, making this place once become the commodity distribution center of the entire Hengyang area. However, later on, many cities imitated this business method and carried out this kind of commodity trading method in other cities. As a result, the popularity of this market slowly declined. However, this market was still very influential in the entire Leiyang City and the surrounding districts.
There were a lot of people gathered at the entrance of the market. They were all preparing to enter because someone had already finished buying the goods. After asking, they learned that the prices of the goods inside were only twice the price of the previous year. Although it was not the original price of the previous year that the customers had expected, the prices of the things inside were much cheaper than anything in the market outside. Moreover, according to the people who had bought the things and came out, Because the price in this market was much lower than the price in the outside market, the merchants were a little reluctant, so they did not prepare too many goods. This meant that if they wanted to buy things, they had to do it early.
For many people who were eager to buy items, this news was enough to make them go crazy. There were even many merchants who asked their relatives and friends to buy their things. Because they felt that if the market management had not strictly limited the price, they would definitely have made more money. They felt that it was a big loss to sell the goods at twice the price before the year, so they were unwilling to bring in too many goods. They thought that as long as they survived today, the price here would gradually be in line with the price outside. Even if it was lower than the price outside, it would not be much lower.
There was a rule in this market. On the first day of opening, the goods had to be sold at a price close to the cost price, or at a price lower than the market price for all future times. This was a promise that every merchant had to sign and abide by when they entered. In addition, because today was the first day of the reopening of all the merchants, every merchant who signed a contract had to be there to sell things today. This was to show the prosperity of the market. If they didn't show up, the management department of the market would punish the merchants very severely.
As more and more people gathered at the entrance of the market, the 10-odd security guards finally changed their formation under the command of the manager of the market. From one passage, they could enter into four passages. However, the problem was still not solved. More and more people were pouring in. The people at the market entrance were still unable to enter smoothly. There was still a human wall dozens of meters thick outside the market entrance.
Yue Huayang originally wanted to squeeze in with the crowd, but he looked at the pair of high heels on Lin Fang's feet and wondered if she could squeeze in so easily.
Lin Fang originally wanted to squeeze in, but when she thought about the high heels she was wearing, she felt that it would not be easy to squeeze in. Suddenly, she regretted wearing high heels. Now, she could only look in the direction of the market through the thick human wall. She felt a little disappointed.
Lin Fang looked in the direction of the market from afar and suddenly asked curiously," Was there a barbecue stall in this market? Why was there a small cloud of smoke floating into the sky from the market?
Yue Hua Yang was also a little surprised because according to the situation they had learned in the past few days, any food that could be linked to food had been banned from sale. There should not be a barbecue stall in there, then what else could it be? There was no need to think about food. What other products needed fire? He really couldn't figure it out, but he suddenly thought of an impossible possibility. Could it be a fire?
Even he was shocked by this feeling. However, the world soon proved that everything was as he thought. The market was really on fire.
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