Wake up（38）

 

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After graduating from high school, Nan Yunshan failed to enter the university, and his family was poor, so he gave up his desire to study and started to set up a stall with his grandfather He Jiafu to sell some Chinese medicinal materials and vegetables. When I am free, I go to the gym with some young friends who are fond of martial arts. He also learned Wing Chun, a traditional Chinese martial art, which is a technique to deter invasion, an active and streamlined system of self-defense, and a boxing technique for the legal use of force. Basically mastered "Xiao Nian Tou", "Xunqiao" and "Biaozhi", especially "黐手" and "黐脚" for sparring.

In the past, his elder brother Nan Yangsheng and his grandfather always went to the fields and forests to collect Chinese medicinal materials, and his elder brother always accompanied his grandfather to the market to set up a stall for sale. Now, because his elder brother is in college, Nan Shanyun couldn’t find a job after dropping out of school, so he accompanied his grandfather to set up a stall. After becoming a hawker, he not only experienced the hardships of his grandfather, but also knew that setting up a stall had to avoid the city management.

Hawkers, also known as street vendors or itinerant vendors, refer to a commercial form with a long history on the street or in the open air, which can be said to be as long as human commercial history. Vendors do not rely on advertisements to sell, but rely entirely on the flow of people. They are the most primitive commercial vendors. Hawkers are also a thermometer of the economic downturn. When the unemployment rate rises, many people become hawkers in order to make a living. The sales method of hawkers is also called setting up stalls, setting up stalls, setting up stalls or setting up roadside stalls.

The development of street vendors has taken on many forms so far. Hawkers are divided into itinerant hawkers and stationary hawkers. The former may be light goods placed on the ground for sale at stalls, or wooden trolleys loaded with mobile hawkers. Fixed hawkers, also known as roadside stalls, usually apply for a hawker license and operate on designated streets. After the goods are closed or placed in fixed roadside stalls, they are locked and opened on the next working day.

Since ancient times, human beings have opened the market for trading at a fixed time and place, or market. At that time, people either carried things with poles or wrapped them in cloth towels, and started trading activities while sitting on the ground. This crude but convenient selling method is the most basic type of "stall", which is still seen everywhere today.

With the development of means of transportation, trolleys, bicycles, tricycles, motorcycles, trucks, etc. have gradually become the means of transportation for street vendors. Some vendors who sell food and drink then use their ingenuity to modify these means of transportation and design a sales platform with awnings and simple cooking tables. In addition to participating in traditional markets, this kind of selling platform is more convenient for selling along the street and increasing the source of customers.

In ancient Chinese markets, apart from fixed shops, there were hawkers selling goods from the neighboring countryside. The general hawker goods included timely agricultural products, cattle and sheep, and handmade daily necessities. Bianjing depicted in "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was a big city at that time. Generally, small towns and villages set up bazaars, and there are designated bazaars, and hawkers will come according to the schedule. In order to facilitate the separation, they will set up stalls in the same place, or record them with their surnames.

Setting up a stall is actually a common people's economy. Since most of them do not have a storefront, the operating costs are relatively low. Therefore, the selling price of goods can usually be lower. At the same time, it has the characteristics of low capital amount and low education experience threshold. Because stalls often occupy arcades or sidewalks, they are often banned by the police in densely populated urban areas. It is believed that setting up stalls hinders traffic and affects the city environment.

However, street vendors tend to gather customers to form a market, so vendors will have a crowd effect among each other. Vendors are a special group in society.

There is a long history of bazaar trade in China. People go to fairs to shop or sell goods, commonly known as taking advantage of fairs, and hawkers to set up stalls in various markets are commonly known as walking fairs. Decades have passed since the reform and opening up, but the roads in the small town here have not yet been opened, and hawkers maintain the form of street sales. Later, the local government saw environmental and traffic problems, and started planning to build a market to accommodate vendors. It also divided the street area for each market, stipulating that "those who carry fish, meat and vegetables on their shoulders are not allowed to display in the street to which the market belongs." Hawkers were reluctant to move in after the market was completed because rent was charged for admission. He Jiafu also entered the market by setting up a stall to earn some money to support his family.

That day, Nan Yunshan and his grandfather He Jiafu went to the market to set up a stall. Nan Yunshan pushed a wooden trolley, which contained some collected and dried Chinese medicinal materials. Grandpa He Jiafu leaned on a cane and told Nan Yunshan the names and functions of some Chinese herbal medicines to be sold along the way.

When they first arrived at the market, they encountered trouble. A group of city management officers rushed over and threw their Chinese herbal medicines on the ground. He Jiafu pleaded pitifully with his cane, but it was of no avail.

It turned out that the urban management received a report that the butcher shop in the market was photographed placing a food basket containing chilled chicken directly on the ground outside the shop, attracting more than 10 rats to flock to eat the chicken. A large number of unlicensed hawkers nearby blatantly occupied a place about 10 meters away from the sidewalk, setting up street stalls to sell vegetables and fruits. The hygienic conditions there are really bad, which attracts rats and insects to feed on. Some neighbors denounced the government's inaction and complained many times about the peddling incident, but the problem has not improved.

As soon as the media reported it, the government became frightened and quickly dispatched a large number of urban management personnel to raid the market. Step up law enforcement and take surprise action against unlicensed peddlers. Even excessive violence was used to beat the vendors.

Several urban management personnel saw that He Jiafu was a disabled old man with missing legs, so they were more polite and persuaded him to go home as soon as possible. The superiors have instructed that unlicensed street vendors must be severely cracked down, and major cities have been completely purged. Although we are a small town here, we cannot turn a blind eye to the improvement of environmental pollution.

At this time, a senior urban management officer came. He was the deputy captain of the urban management team, and everyone called him Deputy Liu. He was tall and tall, with broad shoulders and a straight waist, and his whole body was as black as a layer of ashes. He walked up to He Jiafu, put his hands on his waist viciously, and his tall body was blocked in front of the disabled old man with missing legs like a half wall. This big guy roared like a big bear: "Go away! Go away!"

Although Nan Yunshan is only 18 years old, but this tall and handsome young man has a body like cast iron.

He has thick eyebrows, dark skin, broad shoulders, and a rough nature, like a fierce bull. He stood up like a half iron tower, squatted down like a bronze bell, and possessed inexhaustible strength. Look at his appearance, he is only three points from the town!

Nan Yunshan saw that Deputy Liu humiliated his grandfather so much, so he rushed forward while protecting his grandfather, and scolded: "Why do you bully a disabled old man! You can attack me if you have the ability!"

Deputy Liu was startled: "Who are you to this old man?"

Nan Yunshan slapped his left hand like a palm fan, and his raised right hand clenched like a hammer. Nan Yunshan roared: "I am the Nan Bawang here, ask around, who doesn't know me!"

At this moment, a city manager came up to Deputy Liu and said quietly: "Vice Liu, this young man has been aggressive since he was a child, and he can't be messed with. We can just persuade the old man to withdraw from the stall."

Nan Yunshan took off his coat and threw it on the wooden cart. There were two bulging muscles on his shoulders that looked like steamed buns. He puffed out his chest like a toad, showing off the bumps on his body that rose and fell like hills. The muscles on his arm protruded in chunks, and the whole arm was like the root of an old locust tree, and when he knocked it with a small stick, it made a dull sound. Every part of his tendons were as hard as lumps of iron lumps.

Deputy Liu looked at the young man's bulging muscles, and immediately restrained his arrogance just now. He relieved his breath: "I didn't come to fight with you, let me tell you, our urban management is here to clean up the environment on behalf of the government. For the sake of this old man, you should close the stall and go home."

He Jiafu slowly left the market with a cane and pushed the wooden cart.

Nan Yunshan didn't step forward to help his grandfather push the cart, but just stood upright on the spot, he was guarding against the city management's tricks to hurt his grandfather.

Unexpectedly, this move blurred the IQ of the urban management. No one believed that this young man had any family relationship with He Jiafu, but only thought that this young man was easy to fight and meddle in other people's business. This left a foreshadowing for the future story.