The Era of Hard Work

   Chapter 19 High Income

Carrying a handbag and a bucket, Lu Dong asked the price in several places along the way, then found a shop that felt good last time, smiled and greeted the short man in his thirties: "Brother Niu, I'm here again. ."

  This shop is like a grocery store, from pork offal and mutton offal, to silkworm chrysalis, golden cicada and mountain buffalo.

   Brother Niu saw that Lu Dong's face was familiar, the slightly immature and honest face reminded him, and asked, "Is it really in stock?"

   Lu Dong put down the bucket, opened the lid, and there were all the monkeys: "What's the price today?"

  Brother Niu bent over to pick up a handful, flipped it over, sniffed it again, and then threw it back into the bucket, without fuss: "Fifteen dollars a pound, I want all of it."

   The market found out that the monkeys are not one, and the prices are basically the same. Lu Dong was very happy: "Okay!"

Brother Niu found a plastic basket, weighed it first, let Lv Dong look at it, put it on the big basin in front of the door, Lv Dong poured the monkey into it, the water splashed down, Brother Niu kept turning it inside, seeing The black monkey takes it out and throws it away.

   After waiting for this period of time, Brother Niu made several transactions, and among them, someone took away a bag of cicada monkeys and mountain buffalo.

   Obviously, he has big clients.

   Lu Dong did not speak, and kept waiting patiently.

   Drain the water, Brother Niu went to the scale, and Lu Dong was watching.

  There are scales in the orchard. When I didn’t go this morning, the old lady weighed the leeches and the monkeys.

   Brother Niu has stable customers in several food stalls and barbecue streets in Quannan. Knowing that Monkey is relatively small, he has a group of enthusiasts. The size of the business has always been limited by the supply of goods.

   He asked Lu Dong to come over and take a look: "It's more than three pounds and one tael, count you three pounds and two taels!"

  Because there is water, I picked out some bad ones, and there are some discrepancies, which is normal, Lu Dong replied: "Okay."

  Brother Niu ordered 48 yuan and handed it to Lu Dong. Seeing that he was leaving, he pointed to the empty water glass: "Fill it up before leaving."

   Lu Dong was also welcome, took the kettle that Brother Niu brought from the house, filled it with cold boiled water, and stuffed it into the bag: "Thank you."

  Brother Niu specifically asked, "Is it coming tomorrow?"

   Lu Dong confirmed: "Come on, pay back this time."

  Brother Niu raised his thumb: "Children now, you know that you don't make much money."

   There is a special area for bicycles in the market, and there is also a janitor. In order to save 50 cents in the parking fee, Lu Dong did not move the car at all, and hurried to the nearby platform on foot, which was not much distance.

   A few minutes later, he found the bus stop sign that went directly to the West Market. It was during the morning rush hour, and there were many people on the platform.

   There were leeches in Lu Dong's black handbag, so he didn't crowd into the crowd, and stayed in a place with few people.

   "Don't worry, I'll be there in a while." A woman's voice vaguely beside her: "The draft will be changed when I arrive at the company."

Lu Dong turned his head and looked at the woman. The woman was about twenty-five years old, with neat short hair, black-rimmed glasses, a red mole on her chin, a pink shirt and straight-leg pants, a handbag in one hand and a handbag in the other. Phone calls.

   Many people around are looking at her, not because of how beautiful she is, but because of her mobile phone.

   Even in 1998, people with mobile phones are still in the minority.

   Either rich or special.

  Mobile phone plus Internet access fee, many people's income for a year.

   took a glance, Lu Dong turned around, the lengthened bus had arrived.

   In this era, Quannan has popularized the unmanned ticket car.

   took out the prepared fifty cents, and Lu Dong walked to the front door, because he didn't want to squeeze in hard, he fell behind.

   Seeing that it was impossible to have a seat, he slowly moved forward with the crowd.

   In the morning rush hour, if you want to grab a seat on the bus, you really have to fight a **** road.

   After getting in the car, it was crowded, and the people standing were all lined up near the front door.

   Lu Dong looked back, he was the third from the bottom, the short-haired woman who had just called on the phone was at the end.

   The bus is very crowded, especially when people stand near the front door, and you have to squeeze past when you go to the back.

Lu Dong took the black handbag and the 50 cents. He took a step into the car when he spotted a short man in his twenties who was walking from the car to the back of the car while he was in the car. Squeeze, hands fall on a satchel.

  This is a pickpocket!

   In this era of severe crackdowns, there are quite a few pickpockets on the bus, often not alone.

  Lu Dong quickly retracted his gaze to avoid the pickpocket noticing.

   He is not a Virgin, so he is not stupid enough to call for a thief.

   Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Lu Dong asked the driver in a silly Qingzhao accent, "Master, this train can't reach the West Market!"

   The voice was so loud that many people turned to look at it.

   The short man withdrew his hand and looked towards Lu Dong. Seeing the mud on his face and the discoloration of his clothes, he was a silly boy from the countryside and turned his eyes back.

   "The last stop is." The driver reminded: "Go to the back and pay attention to the announcement station!"

   "Thank you!" Lu Dong thanked him hurriedly, put money into the car, and went straight to the back of the car as if he had never seen a pickpocket.

   But he remembered the appearance of a pickpocket, and he can beware of him when he encounters him in a car in the future.

  The bus is very long. When we went to the back compartment, the hand of the bag was specially placed in front of the trouser pocket, and it contained more than 40 yuan.

   Lu Dong glanced back, the short-haired woman also came halfway behind the car, the pickpocket didn't seem to move, secretly relieved.

  These days, thieves really dare to use knives, good people and good deeds must do what they can, but also pay attention to methods.

   No matter how high your kung fu is, you are still afraid of kitchen knives.

   Not to mention, he can only master eight punches.

  When the car arrived at the Central Hospital, the pickpocket got out of the car behind a few people. Lu Dong looked out of the car for a while. The pickpocket walked with a flat-headed man who got off the car. It was obvious that they were in a group.

  The number of people in the car gradually decreased, and Lu Dong got to the seat and sat down, thinking about making money, he was stunned.

   Almost arrived at the West Market. There were not many people in the car. The short-haired woman reminded Lu Dong: "Young man, the next stop is the West Market."

   This person obviously heard what Lu Dong said to the driver when he got into the car.

   Lu Dong came back to his senses and said with a smile, "Thank you."

   There are still many good people.

   After getting off the car, Lu Dong didn't waste time, went straight to the north gate of the medicinal herbs market, and met the middle-aged man.

   The other party was calculating accounts, and Lu Dong waited for him to rest before saying politely, "Hello, I'm..."

   The middle-aged man looked up, recognized him, and interrupted directly: "Are there leeches?"

   Lu Dong opened the bag swiftly, took out a convenient bag, and dozens of mollusks squirmed back and forth.

  The middle-aged man glanced at him and shouted casually: "Little Wang, go and weigh him, eight yuan per catty, and put it in the back basin."

   A fat guy came over and greeted Lu Dong: "Follow me."

   Lu Dong handed the bag to the fat guy and followed him to the electronic scale.

   The fat guy squeezed two handfuls through the convenience bag, making sure that there was not much water, and put it directly on the scale.

  More than seventy leeches, totaling three and a half catties, gave Lu Dong 28 yuan.

   Lu Dong said hello and accepted it, packed the money and went out.

   The middle-aged man didn't look at him again, Lu Dong knew that compared to such a big store, it could only be considered a trivial small business.

   Today's trip, I know the monkey plus leech, and the total income is 76 yuan.

   In terms of single-day salary, this era is a high income.

  The main reason is to know the monkey, the leeches are less caught, and the price is also low.

   Passing by the small commodity market, Lv Dong bought dry batteries and ten rolls of wide tape at wholesale prices, costing 27 yuan.

   Returning to the East Outer Ring Road, I bought a meat fire at a roadside stall for 50 cents. It tasted delicious, mainly because I was hungry.

  Tossing back and forth, my stomach is empty, I don’t eat, I can’t hold it anymore.

   After eating a fire and drinking a small half glass of water, Lu Dong picked up his bicycle and rushed back in the 11 o'clock sun. On the way, he went to the river to collect four bait nests.

   Luckily, four bundles of wheat straw smeared with chicken blood yielded nearly forty large leeches.

   went back to the orchard and rested for a while, Lu Dong wrapped tape around the fruit trees, and Hu Chunlan came to help after taking a nap.

   Born in the countryside and raised in the countryside is not a job.

   Lu Dong also mentioned the harvest this time, not giving money to Hu Chunlan.

   "Don't spend money indiscriminately!" Hu Chunlan has seen young people who have gone down the wrong road because of looking for money, and this society has become more and more real: "You can't do it without money, and the little girl will ignore it."

   This topic, Lu Dong did not answer, and continued to work hard.

   The two of them spent most of the afternoon to finish it. When the sun was in the west, Lu Dong went to the river with a fishing net and a water bag.

   He owed Uncle Tie's Lu Lanlan fish, and he had to use chicken blood in the back, so he couldn't use it in vain.

   Lu Dong came to Triangle Dam again.

  The fish tide brought by the flood discharge from the reservoir has dissipated, and the big fish are scattered in the river. The first net is only a slap-sized gargoyle, and there are not even leeches.

   Putting away the fish, Lu Dong moved to another place and continued to cast the net. The big fish disappeared, and only a few leeches and crucian carp were harvested.

   When he cast the fifth net, he finally caught half a catty of grass carp.

   Returning to the dam, Lu Dong collected the fish and then let off the net. After changing the bad luck before, a large catfish weighing three and a half pounds was dragged up.

   This must have come down from the reservoir. In the dry season of Lujia Village, the flow is often cut off, and the water will occasionally dry up, so it can't grow this big.

   More than two hours later, Lu Dong caught some gar-ya and catfish, both of which were average in size.

   Not too many meetings, a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old came over from the chicken farm, climbed the river bank, and shouted at Lu Dong, "Brother Dong! I'm here!"

  Lu Lanlan took a hard cigarette case, and kept pinching out the seeds and throwing them into her mouth. It was very delicious.

   came to the triangular dam, and she handed the cigarette case to Lu Dong: "Brother Dong, eat melon seeds."

   "You can eat it." Lu Dong dragged the water bag and let her come over to see: "The big fish are grass carp and catfish, and the other bag has some squid. Lan Lan, you can choose whatever you want."

   Lu Lanlan has known Lu Dong since he was a child, and she is also polite: "Is catfish okay? My dad killed one last time, and it weighs five pounds. It's delicious!"

  Lü Dong looked at the sky speechlessly, thinking of the catfish in Uncle Tie's chicken dung pond, and 90% of the time he told Lan Lan that it was one.

   Feed your daughter chicken manure to feed big catfish, Uncle Tie, are you Lan Lan's father?

  Lu Dong thought of that catfish and felt that he could not eat catfish in the future.

   Now he finally understands why the catfish fell to the altar.

  Lu Dong came to Lala, and he was going to get the biggest catfish.

   "Small as long as you want." Lu Lanlan hurriedly stopped: "As small as you want."

Lu Dong did not take the smallest, but grabbed a catfish that weighed more than a pound, pierced his mouth with a lala seedling, and handed it to Lu Lanlan, specifically instructing: "Lanlan, when you go back, let your mother kill it and stew it, but don't let your father keep it. ."

   "Got it." Lu Lanlan ate up the sunflower seeds, threw the cigarette case on the shore, took the fish, and asked, "Brother Dong, are you going to the city today?".

   Lu Dong said vaguely, "I went there."

   Lu Lanlan shook the catfish: "I also want to go to the city to play, but my dad doesn't want to, saying that there are many bad people in the city."

  Thinking of the pickpockets he saw today, Lu Dong said, "There are a lot of bad guys."

   Lu Lanlan suddenly remembered and called out, "I'll go first, I'll go back and let my mother cook fish to eat."

  The little girl hurriedly ran down the shore.

  Lü Dong looked at the sky, went back in no hurry, and continued to use the net.

   is also thinking about a problem.

   These days, it is somewhat chaotic, including in rural cities. In the future, he may often take the bus, and there is a high chance of encountering pickpockets.

   The small business he did was all cash transactions, and he was targeted by pickpockets.

  Do you want to use a knife or something for self-defense? Lu Dong immediately shook his head, how could a good person use a knife, and now they are being severely beaten, if something happens, it is hard to say.

   (end of this chapter)