Chapter 24 Self-reliance

If you want to buy a bicycle or a watch if you don't get married, then basically no one will care about you except your parents, and you will have to say that you are a burnt bag behind your back. In the sketch cross talk of later generations, I will tell you a sentence as a joke, that is, the only household appliance in the family is a flashlight, in fact, this is not a joke, many families were like this at that time, such as Hong Tao's family, Hong Tao's grandmother's house is a little stronger than Hong Tao's family, and there is one more radio.

There was no meat, no extra eggs, and he couldn't even eat tofu openly, so where did Hong Tao go to replenish his nutrition? At that time, the common people also had a way to deal with it, they raised chickens at home, raised and laid eggs, and grandma's family did just that, and the three big hens were locked up in the coal shed, eating only eggs and not chicken. But there is not only such a child as Hong Tao in the family, the little uncle is the youngest son of his grandfather, although he is always scolded, but he is really distressed, Hong Tao is just because of his young age, if he grows up to 1o years old, grandpa and grandpa will not spoil him so much.

In fact, even if grandpa gave Hong Tao all the eggs to eat, he was not enough, the chickens raised at home did not lay eggs every day, and it was not reliable to count on the chicken butt to replenish the body, and Hong Tao had to find his own way. Not to mention, Hong Tao's brain is really useful, and after only thinking about it for a few days, he came up with a good way, neither violating national laws nor family rules, and the difficulty is still very small, at least for Hong Tao, there is no difficulty.

Hong Tao first went to the altar of the earth to find a relatively straight bamboo, and then asked his uncle to help him break it and steal it back, why do you say steal, because the bamboo forest was planted by the management office, and it was at the door of the management office. But the little uncle had a way, and he got it back at night, more than 3 meters long, the thickness of an adult's finger, a yellow-green bamboo, straight and straight.

It's not good to have bamboo, there is moisture in this thing, and it has to be roasted. Hong Tao can't do this job, his arms are too short, he can't get on the stove, and he can only be replaced by his grandfather, who is an old fitter, has very strong hands-on ability, and bakes bamboo very professionally.

After the bamboo pole was baked, Hong Tao had to prepare two more things. The same is a strong thread, this is not easy to find, at this time the thread is mostly cotton, very not strong, a little hard pull, it will break. But this is also difficult to Hong Tao, next to the school is the BJ children's clothing factory and the BJ canvas factory, there are strong chemical fiber lines in it, as long as you give the little uncle a few more dollars, the little uncle will help him go in and steal a roll.

In the end, it was a fish hook made of a sewing needle, but Hong Tao's requirements were more demanding, he did not use a sewing needle to make that simple fish hook, but stole a few shuttle needles for weaving from the canvas factory, which were all steel, and after letting his grandfather take it to the unit, it was processed into a large hook with barbs, and after quenching, it was much stronger than the fish hook made of sewing needles.

Speaking of which, it should be clear what Hong Tao wants to do, and he plans to pick up one of his best skills in the future life, fishing! Hong Tao has figured it out in the past few days, among the four things of chicken, duck and fish, chickens and ducks don't think about it, and they can't eat a few bites of meat, but this fish is still very promising. Why? Because 2oo meters north of the school is the second ring road, and there is a moat on the side of the second ring road.

Are there any fish in the moat? Hong Tao dared to swear to the lantern, 100 percent, and they were very large, in groups and groups, which he saw with his own eyes when he was a child catching birds and dragonflies by the river. At that time, he didn't know what this black, bearded fish was, so ignorance was the same as fear, and when he saw this fish coming, he quickly avoided it, for fear of being bitten by them.

But when he grew up, Hong Tao knew what kind of fish it was, catfish! Authentic four-whiskered catfish! In fact, Hong Tao never understood in later generations why everyone was losing meat in their stomachs, but no one ate the big catfish in the moat? At that time, his grandfather had passed away, and there was nowhere to ask if he wanted to, so he asked his father, and his father couldn't say one, two, or three, but said that it might be that the moat was too dirty, and everyone didn't want to eat it.

"Catfish! You're going to fish for catfish! I said good grandson, that thing can't be eaten, why are you fishing for it!" When Hong Tao asked his grandfather this question again, his grandfather was very surprised.

"Can't you eat catfish?" Hong Tao replied strangely.

"The catfish in the moat can't be eaten, you listen to your grandfather tell you, in the early years, there were always dead people in this moat, some starved to death, some died of disease, and some people died, anyway, they were all thrown into the moat. These dead people, in the end, they all let those catfish eat, you think, they all grew up eating dead people, do you dare to eat them? Good grandson, let your grandma make you meat dumplings to eat tomorrow, don't think about that thing!" Grandpa told Hong Tao about the origin of those catfish, and it was the same as the real thing.

"It's disgusting, then I won't fish for them, I'll go to the altar of the earth to fish for small crucian carp. Hong Tao pretended to have a disgusting and frightened look on his face, but his heart blossomed happily.

It sounds disgusting, but there has never been a dead person in the natural waters, and in later generations, those Ga fish and crayfish were raised with swill dung, even silver carp and silver carp would be fed with human feces and animal feces, for this, Hong Tao had no psychological barriers. As for saying that the moat is dirty, it does look dirty, because at this time, there is still some domestic wastewater discharged into the moat, so it looks a little dirty.

But Hong Tao knew in his heart that the river water at this time was much cleaner than the river water that looked slightly muddy in the moat in later generations. At this time, there were no chemical ingredients in the residents' domestic water, there were no detergents, no various detergents, very little shampoo, at most a little soap, and there were very few heavy metals and toxic substances. Therefore, the human eye can sometimes deceive people, and what you see is not necessarily the truth. After listening to his grandfather's words, Hong Tao had already made up his mind that his small body and bones would have to rely on these big catfish in the moat to nourish him.

It was still quite cold in November, and although there was no ice on the river, the northwest wind blew and blew on the face like a knife. In order to blow a little less wind, Hong Tao deliberately crossed the bridge to the hB bank, so that it was more comfortable to face south and give his back to the north wind. However, you can't fish yet, because Hong Tao doesn't have bait yet.

Catfish is a carnivorous fish, as long as it is meat, it eats everything, including the dead corpses that Hong Tao's grandfather said, so Hong Tao can't use dough to catch catfish, he must find a kind of meat bait. But Hong Tao couldn't buy mutton with a strong smell like later generations, and he didn't even have nowhere to find lamb intestines. However, this is not difficult for Hong Tao, who is good at fishing, and he has a way to find the meat bait that catfish like to eat.

There were a lot of toads on the side of the moat, and at this time they had all burrowed into the soil on the river bank to begin hibernation, and Hong Tao searched along the river bank for a while, dug several holes, and finally caught a toad, and then directly used the small scissors he carried with him to stab it to death, and got off the two hind legs. Hooking on one of the hind legs, Hong Tao found a place where the water was relatively deep and threw the hook into the water with all his might.

He tied a large screw mother at the top end of the hook more than 2o centimeters away, so that it could be used as a lead sinker, so that when the screw mother fell into the silt at the bottom of the river, the hook was just exposed outside the silt, and the toad's legs would be swayed back and forth by the current, which was just right to lure the attention of the catfish.

Because the water temperature is already very low, most of the catfish are no longer swimming in the water, and the range of activity is also very small, so Hong Tao can not stick in one place, you need to follow the river, throw a few rods to change places, and see if you can bring the catfish ** under the water up.

Compared with later generations, fishing in this era is really too easy, Hong Tao just changed a place, the nylon line tied to the bamboo pole was straightened, Hong Tao held the fishing rod with both hands and dragged it up, the feel was very heavy, it was obviously a fish, and the bottom of the water a few meters away in front of him was immediately stirred up with a ball of silt, and the hooked catfish was struggling desperately.

This is a problem that Hong Tao remembered, and he obviously ignored a big problem, that is, his own strength! He is only less than 5 years old now, not only is his wrist weak, but his arm is also weak. The fish in the water didn't care whether it was an adult or a child on the shore, it struggled desperately, digging into the mud and turning the bottom of the water into a pot of porridge within a radius of several square meters.

Hong Tao didn't dare to hold the bamboo pole with both hands at all, so as soon as the big fish turned around, he had to pull the bamboo pole away, and if he didn't do it, he would have to sprain his wrist. He could only wrap his arms around the bamboo pole, and then pestle the tail of the pole in the soft soil of the riverbank, relying on the strength of the lever to compete with the big fish. Hong Tao's luck was better, because the water temperature was too low, the catfish's body was obviously affected, and it only struggled for more than 1 minute, and then lay on the bottom of the water and did not move. Hong Tao didn't dare to be careless, he slowly retreated back with a bamboo pole, trying to drag the big fish ashore.

"Hey, kid, what are you doing!" Seeing that the big fish was about to be dragged to the shore, a shout suddenly came from behind Hong Tao, and Hong Tao was so frightened that he almost threw the bamboo pole.

"I said that you, a comrade of the People's Liberation Army, can't you speak quietly? People are scary and scared to death, do you know?" Hong Tao glanced back, it was a People's Liberation Army about 3o years old, the north bank of the moat here is a large barracks, the red brick wall is very high, and there is a barbed wire fence on it, what unit Hong Tao does not know, only that when he was a child, he often came here to catch crickets in the cracks of the red brick wall.

"Hey, kid, you're quite horizontal, what are you doing?" The soldier didn't expect to be taught a lesson by a child, and walked to Hong Tao's side in a few steps, looking down.

"Why do I still need to report to you? I don't know if your leaders have taught you politeness, you scared me, shouldn't you apologize to me first?" Hong Tao ignored him, while continuing to drag the big fish in the water to the river bank, while squeezing this People's Liberation Army with words, people at this time are more reasonable, and their temper is not as big as that of later generations, and they will not bully a child, not to mention that he is still a soldier.

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