The Era of Hard Work

  Chapter 8 Fish up a vinegar dish

   That night, Lu Dong woke up several times, but fortunately the terrifying emergency gong never rang again.

   Something in his heart, before five o'clock, Lu Dong got up and thumped sandbags in the yard of the old house.

  What he doesn't know about professionally is purely a punch, and he should exercise his body.

   After playing some sandbags and washing briefly, Lu Dong found a maza and sat down to think.

   Since I returned to 98 the night before yesterday, I have been busy fighting the floods, and it is too late to think about many things.

   Especially about the future.

  In that lifetime, for a long time after 1998, Lu Dong lived in a daze.

  I have been on the streets and addicted to online games. The money I earn is only enough to support my living. I need help from my mother and cousin from time to time. It was not until 2010 that I woke up.

   Don't go the old way, get rich!

   There are many measures of happiness, and wealth is the cornerstone.

   What opportunities are there in the past two years, Lu Dong is confused.

  The really impressive thing is the university town.

  What you want to do, you must first investigate on the spot.

No investigation, no right to speak.

   And then there's money.

   Society is very realistic.

   There is no need to expect at home, Lu Dong knows the situation at home without asking.

  Today, July 12th, not long after the payment of the public grain, the orchard has not yet planted apples, and the family does not even have 500 yuan.

  The orchard has more than 20 mu of land, and it does not produce grain. The public grain is also temporarily borrowed, and the debt will be repaid after the fruit is sold.

  The public grain cannot be delayed, otherwise the consequences will be serious.

  This life is not easy for the old lady. I can't put any more burden on her. As an 18-year-old adult, I have to shoulder the things that should be shouldered by myself.

Uncle   , I can't count the amount of help over the years, and I don't know how to pay it back.

   Even blood relatives cannot be taken for granted.

   In the future, we still have to rely on ourselves to break through, work hard, and fight hard.

   Little people may not succeed if they work hard, but there is no hope of success if they don't work hard.

   The reality is here, people are poor, and there are also a bunch of poor people around, who can help whom?

  In the countryside, too many people are exhausted just to maintain the basics.

  The most important thing is to support yourself first and earn at least a decent amount of money.

   This is the most realistic goal at this stage.

   After all, money is the most basic! Lu Dong's forehead is all about making money.

   Therefore, the goal at this stage is to earn a foothold and start-up capital to develop in a university town.

   Step by step.

   Locked the door and went to the orchard to have breakfast. Lu Dong went up to the river bank to take a look. After one night, the water level dropped by more than two meters from the highest level, and it was almost level with the road outside the river bank.

   This flood is about to end, as long as there is no sudden heavy rain upstream, there will be basically no problems.

  Breakfast is noodles in clear soup, boiled noodles with soy sauce, old vinegar and sesame oil as seasonings, and topped with coriander, which is simple and convenient.

When Lu Dong was eating noodles, Hu Chunlan began to routinely nag next to him: "I went to the village to change noodles in the morning, and I heard that the troops were leaving in the afternoon, and they were so busy for us. Our fruits, loofah, cucumbers, etc. I’m not familiar with it, and I don’t have anything to give. Dongzi, go to your seventh uncle to borrow a net and see if you can catch a few big fish and give it to the troops.”

"Well, I'll go after I finish eating." Lu Dong glanced to the east of the columbarium, where bundles of wheat stalks left over from the wheat harvest were piled up there. .

  There is really nothing that can be done at home.

   Can’t always send straw? Troops are not paper mills.

   The water was big this time, and the fish in the reservoir didn't know how much they went down.

  After breakfast, Lu Dong returned to the village and asked Uncle Seven to borrow a fishing net. He was shocked when he entered the door.

   Seventh Uncle is leaning on a shovel, Seventh Aunt is holding a harpoon, and the couple are facing each other in the yard.

   At the entrance of the main room, sitting on a bamboo chair was an eight or nine-year-old boy who kept throwing peanuts into his mouth, watching the show with great interest.

   "What's wrong?" Lu Dong had a headache: "What's wrong with this?"

   Although it belongs to Uncle Seven and Aunt Seven’s daily wars, this dazzling harpoon is really scary.

Aunt Qi was not tall and lean, she put away her harpoon and leaned on the ground: "Dongzi, here it is." She pointed at Uncle Qi and almost jumped: "You come to judge the judge, you drink in the morning, and you can stay awake this day? "

   Lu Jianren stretched his neck: "Can you work hard without drinking? You don't admit it if you say you don't know anything!"

   Lu Dong saw that a porcelain gourd wine bottle had fallen from the kitchen door on the west side of the yard, and there was a brown wine box next to it. From his angle, he could just see the famous words on the box.

   "Last night, the wind and rain were abrupt, and the heavy sleep did not eliminate the residual wine..."

   Qingzhao wine.

   "Seventh Uncle, didn't you say fishing yesterday?" Lu Dong didn't try to persuade them to fight. The two were fighting all day, and persuading them was useless: "Let's go, grab two nets, and let's go together!"

   said to the little boy again: "Nails, go and coax your mother! I'll catch fish for you later!"

   "It doesn't look good!" Nails entered the hall eating peanuts: "I didn't fight..."

   Lv Jianren threw down the shovel, called Lv Dong, took two fishing nets and a few homemade water bags, and went straight to the north embankment.

  The two chose the section of the river that almost burst the bank the night before.

On the Triangle Dam, Lv Jianren has been fishing and catching rabbits all year round. He has rich experience and pointed to the gentle area on the north side: "The water flow is slow here, and there are definitely fish! The net is fine, wait and go down. I'll go north, you At this."

  Lü Dong looked down, the water level dropped significantly, and countless sandbags were piled up on the **** to the north, and the iron chicken cage inside could not be seen at all.

  The shore is basically empty, the lights and cables should be taken back by Uncle Tie, leaving only two long bamboo poles.

  There are many water hyacinths in the gentle area. When Lv Jianren went to the north, Lv Dong brought a bamboo pole and picked up the water hyacinth. When the bamboo pole moved into the water, something jumped out of the water. It looked either carp or grass carp, and it was not small.

  Maybe there were too many leeches on the water hyacinth, so Lu Dong retrieved the bamboo poles and brought two big ones with little fingers.

   Lu Dong kicked it down with the bottom of Melaleuca and kicked it into the sun.

   It is said that when there was a famine in the early years, the villagers dried and cooked this stuff as food.

   It is even more difficult than those places where you are poor enough to eat hairy crabs.

   Lu Dongshun took good fishing nets and waited patiently. He just picked up the water hyacinth, which may have disturbed the water.

  The water was very turbid, and I couldn't see what was going on below. After waiting for seven or eight minutes, Lu Dong stood up and cast out the net.

  Although he has been casting nets for fishing with Uncle Qi since he was twelve or thirteen years old, but he has not touched it since he came back. The net has not been completely cast, and the accuracy is not bad, and the fishing net falls in a flat area.

   Waiting for the net to sink to the bottom, Lu Dong grabbed the rope tied to his wrist and slowly pulled the net upwards. After the rope was taut, the feeling in his hand told him that there was stock!

   The fishing net was pulled ashore one foot at a time, and at the moment when the water came out, Lu Dong raised his eyebrows, and among the lead weights, it was fish!

  Lü Dong lifted the net ashore, opened the net to pick up the fish, and threw the entrained stones and garbage first, and then fetched the fish.

  The biggest one is a grass carp, which may weigh more than two kilograms in the hand; there are two yellow squid with three sharp thorns on the sides and back, which hurts very much.

   Then there are a few leeches.

   Lu Dong put the fish into a water bag, and the leech threw it on the **** to receive the baptism of the sun. The two water bags were thrown into the water on the south side of the dam, and the rope of the water bag was tied to the tree outside the dyke.

  Shun the good net, sat on the dam, and waited again.

   The two soldiers who were patrolling the river came over at this time, and stopped curiously when they saw Lu Dong fishing.

   The dark-faced one touched the leech in the sun with his foot, then squatted down and took a look.

   Lu Dong greeted with a smile: "Hello, brother soldier."

   This relatively novel name made the two soldiers laugh and politely replied: "Hello."

   The dark-faced one with a southern accent asked Lu Dong, "Dry it and use it as medicine?"

   "Use as medicine?" Lu Dong never thought about such a thing: "Can it be used as medicine?"

   The soldier said again: "Yes. There is a Chinese medicine market near our station. I have seen it there."

  Lu Dong thought for a while and asked, "They accept?"

   "I don't know." Brother Bing smiled: "I didn't ask."

   Lu Dong had some guesses: "Can I ask where you are stationed?"

Brother   Bing said: "Quannanxi Market is over there."

  Lu Dong knows this place, the largest comprehensive wholesale market in Quannan City, even in 2019, it is still second to none in the surrounding areas.

   "Thank you." Lu Dong thanked.

   "You're welcome." The two soldiers continued to patrol the river.

   Lu Dong dropped the net again, the second net went a little off and entered the rapids area, but he pulled it back in time.

  Seventh Uncle is indeed experienced, this place is a fish nest, and there is a big catfish on the second net.

  It is different from the plummeting later, now the soil catfish is a popular fish, with a lot of oil and no thorns.

  Because of Brother Bing's words, Lu Dong threw all the leeches he caught in the sun.

  The sun was rising, and people who had nets to spare came to the river one after another with their nets. From the east side of the gate to Lv Dong, there were seven or eight people who were fishing.

   There are many big fish in the water, and Lu Dong has a good harvest. Near noon, there are about ten pounds.

   This is also a special period. In normal times, luck is against the sky.

   Before leaving, Lu Dong cast his last net, which deviates again and falls into the rapids.

  Although the water level has dropped a lot, the water level is still very urgent.

   The fishing net was swept away, and Lu Dong exerted force in his hands and dragged it back with the rope.

   Pulled the net to the shore. There was no fish in the net, but there was a shallow dish the size of an apple. Lu Dong wiped off the mud.

   Turned it over, there was a pattern on the bottom of the plate, and there were four traditional characters. The scumbag Lu Dong only recognized the first character as king.

   Well, this word is the same as traditional and simplified.

   "Antique?" With a poor ambition, Lu Dong could not avoid fantasies.

  Seventh Uncle came over with a fishing net: "What?"

   Lu Dong shook his head: "A plate from the Internet."

Seventh Uncle took it over and took a closer look, then threw it to Lu Dong: "We had quite a few of these vinegar dishes in the early years. I used them when I was a child, but later they all smashed. Your second uncle hid one and sold it to us two years ago. Shunshan, who went to the countryside to collect antiques, seems to have sold them for 50 yuan."

   Lu Dong didn't even have half a dime: "50 yuan?"

  Seventh Uncle added: "Take it to deceive people! The Shunshan Cultural Market is full of rubbish. I've been there a few times. Those training stalls only collect old and worthless things, and they sell great things to make money."

   In recent years, many people have gone to the countryside to collect antiques.

  Lv Dong knew that the Shunshan Cultural Market was different from the West Market, which specialized in flowers and birds, old books, antiques and strange stones.

   Maybe we can take a look? Not to mention 50, 10 dollars is a lot for him.

   Besides, what if it is valuable?

   Lu Dong will borrow the net next, give all the garfish to Uncle Qi, and go back to make soup for the nails.

   This fish is delicious and better than black fish.

  The leeches continue to be exposed to the sun on the shore, and no one will pick up this thing that is disgusting to feed chickens.

  The rest were brought back to the orchard and kept in pots for a while, one was kept at home to eat, and the other was sent to the uncle's house after eating.

I went to my uncle's house to deliver the fish, and learned that the troops would be dispatched soon, Lu Dong ran back to the orchard to pack the fish, and people from Lujia Village spontaneously came to the entrance of the primary school to send them on both sides of the road, carrying steamed buns, eggs, fruits, vegetables, etc. .

All the    troops refused, not even the instant noodles and bottled water provided by the village.

   Jiefang trucks went south.

  Looking at the soldier in neat uniform, thinking of the heroic act of blocking the water yesterday, Lu Kun, next to Lu Dong, cried to his father, "I'm going to be a soldier!"

   For these teenagers who have been poisoned by young and dangerous, being a soldier is actually a good way.

   The last Jiefang truck drove past, and Lu Dong seized the opportunity and threw the fish bag on it.

   The contract is officially signed, twice a day, old time.

   (end of this chapter)