Chapter 31: Li Kui's Fish Pond
A day later, the snow stopped and the sky cleared.
Thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloomed, and the earth was pale under the sun, in the morning, Li Feng built a snowman in the yard, and picked up a shabby hat for it to bring, but Li Mei was very happy.
But she cried for a long time, because the weather was still cold, and some snow turned into ice, and she picked up and ate the original ice skate under the eaves and was beaten twice by Yang Yushan with a wicker branch.
What's wrong with a child eating some ice skates? It's not a big deal to have diarrhea compared to being in a good mood!
However, the domineering president's mother didn't dare to provoke, even if Li Feng wanted to help when he saw the injustice, he could only take two fruit candies to coax Li Mei well.
As the saying goes, the snow is not cold, but no matter how cold it is, it can't afford Li Shan's trip, so he put on rain boots and a sheepskin jacket, and led a donkey to a nearby village to buy soybeans and broad beans.
Yang Yushan has already soaked two large pots of soybeans and broad beans in the yard, preparing to set up a stall in the town on the fifth day of the new year, Li Feng's main task during the day is to take care of these two pots of soybeans and broad beans to prevent them from being caught by foraging chickens.
After the two of them paid for the benefits brought by the stall last year, they became more and more active, and they were thinking about how to become bigger and stronger every day.
When the two of them were not bright on the fifth day of the first month, they drove a donkey cart to the town and started to set up a stall.
Li Feng also wanted to go with the two of them, but some snow on the top of the mountain had not yet melted in the past few days, and it was cold in the morning and evening, so he gave up for fear of the cold.
Li Feng has taken care of Li Mei in the past few days, and the four-year-old child is not afraid of heaven and earth, and he dares to grab and touch anything he sees, which really gives Li Feng a headache.
Li Kui took a hoe during the day, and has been wandering around the river recently, not knowing what to think.
Li Feng thought that his grandfather was going to make traps to catch fish, until the dinner on the sixth day of the new year, it happened that Yang Yushan and Li Shan and his wife also came back from the town.
"I want to turn that swamp into a fish pond and raise some fish, what do you think?"
After the meal, Li Kui and Yang Yushan, Li Shan and his wife discussed.
"I think it's okay! The fish in the town are all supplied from other places, and the dead fish in the far distance are not fresh, and they are usually sold to the restaurants in the town, and the common people will also buy some during the New Year's Festival, and our family must dig a fish pond for business. ”
Yang Yushan's first support, after a few months of career as a stall owner last year, her vision began to gradually change, and the whole town now does not even have a fish pond, she knows that the fish pond must make money.
"It's spring soon, what's the toss about, the land at home is no longer planted? She has two less laborers to set up a stall during the day......
Yang Cuihua complained on the side that people who were once hungry had an obsession with the land.
Li Kui was also a little hesitant.
Li Shan said beside him: "Our family's annual harvest is only a thousand catties of grain, and I am afraid that we will not be able to buy grain when we earn money......
"That's it, tomorrow I will ask Li Siguo to contract me the swamp land on the river beach, and if it doesn't work, I will exchange it with the village on the east slope. ”
Li Kui thought about it, and the matter of the fish pond was settled.
Li Feng didn't interject, he was very relieved in his heart, and silently watched the changes in his family beside him.
Yang Yushan and Li Shan set up a stall, Li Kui wanted to run a fish pond, and the family began to slowly get rid of the land and dependence, everything was centered on economic construction, which was not something in the previous life, and this life is expected to be a rich second generation, Li Feng, the little butterfly, did not cross in vain.
Li Feng silently imagined that when I grew up, I would drive a Santana, comb my hair backwards with distilled water, and park my car at the gate of the university on weekends to wait for the school flowers to get out of school......
"What do you think, hurry up and put away the dishes and chopsticks......" Yang Yushan interrupted Li Feng's imagination.
"Hey......" Li Feng smirked a few times and then went to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.
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Li Kui's style was resolute and resolute, and the next day he negotiated with the village on the right to use the swamp by the river.
On the third day, I invited many old and young masters in the village, and about a dozen people began to work on the swamp with shovels, hoes and other utensils, and they were in full swing.
In these years, the villagers in the village are simple and unpretentious, and there is no salary, you help me, I help you, it's normal, but if you raise the salary, you have to be anxious, at most, just take care of some food for the villagers who come to help.
So Yang Cuihua cooked at home, Li Feng watched Li Mei at home, and by the way, he helped Yang Cuihua lick some firewood into the stove and choose vegetables or something......
As for Yang Yushan, Li Shan and his wife began to go to the town to set up a stall to make money on the day the fish pond started, but they got out of the stall very early every day, and rushed back to the village before the sun set.
Every day after dinner, some villagers will stay for a meeting, drink and chat about something, so Li Feng's house is very lively these days, and such days last for seven or eight days before it ends, because the fish pond is built.
Li Feng also went to see the fish pond on the day it was flooded, and Li Feng couldn't figure out how a dozen people could build a fish pond in seven or eight days with shovels and hoes.
When they got to the ground, they realized that because the swamp was lower than the river level and there was no need to dig deep, Li Kui and the others just cleaned up the rocks and weeds inside, strengthened and raised the section of the embankment away from the river, and left a water inlet at the top and an outlet at the bottom, and a simple fish pond of about three or four acres was completed, and it was a living pond.
In those days, cement was rare in the countryside, and Li Kui didn't seem to have thought about using cement, and the canals at the inlet and outlet were built with stones, and there were simple iron fences, at least the fish couldn't escape from the fish pond.
This day is a formal day, Yang Yushan and Li Shan couple did not go to the town to set up a stall at home, before irrigation, Yang Cuihua first chanted the words of the gods and Buddhas for a few minutes, and several incense sticks were lit by the fish pond.
The appearance of the first fish pond in Woniu Village is a big event in Woniu Village, many people in the village also come to the side to watch the excitement, in Li Siguo's ridicule, Li Kui lit a string of firecrackers, in the roar of the cannon battle, Li Kui lifted the wooden plank blocked by the water inlet, and the river slowly flowed into the pond.
flowed into the hope of Li Feng's family.
The next day, the river water filled the fish pond with water, Li Feng ran to see again, about three acres of fish pond, under the warm sun in the afternoon, the pond surface was drenched in microwaves, if you plant some flowers and plants on the edge of the fish pond in the future, plant a few weeping willows, it is considered to add a good scenery to Woniu Village.
Li Kui was sitting by the pond smoking a cigarette pot, Li Feng also sat next to him silently, saw Li Feng coming, touched Li Feng's head with his rough big hand, and said slowly: "Grandpa is old, even if one day his eyes are closed, he finally left something for you." ”
Li Feng understood the meaning of this, and when he looked closely, he found that Li Kui's temples were a little pale, and his face was already covered with many deep wrinkles.
Up to now, all he thinks about every day is how to benefit his children and grandchildren, Li Feng first started to do trap fishing just to add some food to his family, and later went to the town to sell fish because his family couldn't finish it.
Who knew that Li Kui drew inferences from each other and built a fish pond.
I remember that in my previous life, my grandfather was less than seventy when he left, Li Feng was in his second year of junior high school, and his grandmother said that he had died of hard work all his life.
"Master, it's time for you to retire!" Li Feng leaned on Li Kui and couldn't help but say.
"In the future, you and your grandmother will plant flowers and raise fish by the pond, and my parents will worry about the family affairs, they are still young and can withstand the toss. ”
Li Feng thinks that Li Kui will work less hard in the future, and the social medical conditions will get better and better, so it's no problem to live at least eighty.
"Grandpa's body is good, and when the big cow grows up, grandpa is retiring. ”
Li Kui smiled with satisfaction and looked at the pond with deep eyes.
"Let's go, go home, I will make you a small slingshot today, and by the way, look at the sleeve in the forest......"
Under the sun, an old man and a young man held hands, and the shadows were one high and one short, slowly moving towards home.