Chapter 4 Soft-shelled turtles
The front is okay, in fact, the first few sentences are not simple, at least not a child can write. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
But when he saw the last sentence, Mr. Xu almost knelt.
Li Mo checks the test papers.
In my previous life, I was always impatient when I was young, and generally after the test papers were written, I handed them in, and the whole reading time was often the fastest person in the class to hand in the papers, and no one reminded me, in fact, this was wrong.
Especially when it comes to the high school entrance examination, one point can often determine a person's fate.
Teacher Xu came to his senses and asked, "How did you practice this word?"
Even if there is a genius, this character is too sophisticated.
"Teacher Xu, have you heard the story of Ouyang Xiu's family being very poor when he was a child, and he used a stick to practice calligraphy on the sand?"
In fact, not only Ouyang Xiu, in ancient times, because of the backward productivity, paper and ink were expensive, pens were expensive, inkstones were expensive, and books were expensive, and even the children of small landlords may often use sticks to write on the sand table in order to save the cost of reading and writing. But in this era of serious lack of information exchange, how does Mr. Xu know?
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I can't say I haven't heard of it.
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"Grandma, give me four cents. ā
"Little Mozi, what do you want to do for four cents?" asked Grandma with wide eyes.
In 1978, four cents was not a small number, or rather, a pound of pork was only seven cents, a pound of rice was only a dime, a pound of Chinese cabbage was only two cents, and when it was low, it was only a penny, and four or five thousand yuan could buy a decent set of courtyard houses in Kyoto. The wages of the workers in the town are only a dozen yuan a month, and the highest is only about 20 yuan, which is enough for them to despise all rural people. Selling all the Li family's property, including pots and pans, clothes, beds, quilts, plus all the renminbi in his hand and various food stamps, cloth stamps and bonds, together with two hundred yuan.
"Grandma, it's borrowed, and I'll pay it back to you in four days. Li Mo was coquettish, and he couldn't explain it clearly.
"What are you borrowing money for? Grandma asked worriedly.
The Li family had just moved in, and the door was thin, and she was afraid that other people's children would bully Li Mo.
Li Mo tried his best to get four cents from his grandmother.
As for the father, don't think about it, not only will it cost less than four cents, but nine times out of ten he will be fried with shredded pork on slats.
He took four cents, and put them in his pocket very carefully, more solemnly than he did in his later life, and forty thousand dollars.
Then come to Cao Zhen Street.
Li Mo didn't know about other places, but Cao Zhen was generally located along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and people's ideas changed relatively early.
In 1978, Cao Zhen began to have a slightly commercial atmosphere, and if I remember correctly, by next year, there were already bell bottoms, and the year after that, there would be a large group of young people wearing bell bottoms and perming their hair, which made everyone tremble.
However, most of them still need tickets, food stamps and cloth stamps, which are for towns and villages, and there will be more tickets in the city, such as food stamps, cloth stamps, meat stamps, oil stamps, and bicycle stamps...... There are many things that cannot be bought with money.
But in Cao Town, the two things Li Mo bought today didn't need bills.
The first is a pack of embroidery needles, which must be No. 5 rust needles, No. 1 is too long for the soft-shelled turtle to eat, and No. 9 is too short to jam the throat of the soft-shelled turtle.
The second is a bundle of nylon thread, the thread should not be too thin, too thin it will not be strong, nor too thick, too thick will allow the soft-shelled turtle teeth to bite off the thread.
Li Mo's idea was to fish for soft-shelled turtles.
Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draft the water.
Because no one has paid attention to it at this time, there are a lot of good things in the ditch pond in Caozhen Wei, including soft-shelled turtles, large river shrimp like base tail shrimp, as for the kind of river shrimp that bought thirty or forty yuan a pound later, it may not be sold as a cabbage price now, and yellow cockroach, mandarin fish, not the kind of crucian carp sold in the farmers' market later, but big-eyed mandarin fish, the whole body is yellow, and the big one can reach five or six catties in weight, this kind of mandarin fish is the peach blossom flowing water mandarin fish fat written in Zhang Zhihe's poem, and its taste is more delicious than sea bass.
Later, all kinds of means of fishing, serious and directly drained the ditch with a pump, all the big and small, old and young were caught, and then these good things gradually disappeared.
Li Mo took these two things and ran to Ji Village again.
Li Zhuang's production team is composed of four small villages, Tangwan Village is the largest, with less than 20 households, and Li Zhuang, Ji Village, and Yu Village have only a few households.
There was a carpenter in Ji Village, and Li Mo picked up a bamboo at the door of his house and ran.
It's not that you can't ask for it, a bamboo is worthless, what is valuable is craftsmanship, and the key is that the explanation is not clear.
It's not a big problem to catch it, I'm a child, I don't know anything, what's wrong.
Carrying this bamboo, Li Mo returned home, used an axe to split it into slices, and used a kitchen knife to trim it into a tree, which was used to make fishing piles.
In fact, there is a better way to get rich.
Caozhen aquatic products are rich and worthless, as long as these aquatic products are transported to the provincial capital, you can earn a large amount of price difference.
The problem is that a few years later, there will be another crackdown, and one of the crimes is called opportunism. It is not clear whether this kind of trafficking can be regarded as speculation, and it is not clear whether the legal system is not perfect, and whether it is still under the condition that the number of criminals is allocated in various localities.
In case someone reports that Li Mo's family does not have many powerful relatives here, if he can't get his father right, he may be sent to a labor camp, and he may also be sent to a juvenile detention center.
Li Mo was doing fishing stakes, and the two children next door called him out to play, one was called Xiao Qingzi and the other was Xiao Mingzi, who was the same age as him, that is, a little older.
It just so happened that Li Mo fooled the two children and made fishing piles for him.
For his age, making fishing piles is still a hard job.
After the stake is done, the next step is to go up, and the soft-shelled turtle generally stays in the middle of the ditch, so the fishing line must be ten meters long. At the other end of the fishing line is rusty money, the rust needle is threaded with pig liver, held with mud, thrown out at once, and then waited for the soft-shelled turtle to eat, and as soon as it was eaten, it was caught.
Li Mo asked Xiaoqing to go home and bring a vice, and it hadn't been long since the Li family moved in, they were poor, so poor that they didn't even have a decent set of tools.
Use a vice to remove the nose of the needle, tie the nylon money, and the soft-shelled turtle fishing is ready.
"Xiao Mozi, what are you doing all this?" Xiao Qing asked curiously.
"You'll find out in a few days. ā
In his previous life, his father learned this method from Hedong, and saw that Li Mo's father had some income every day, and as a result, many people in the entire production team followed, even the teenage children, including Li Mo himself, used blue to fish and run around, but now Li Mo has advanced it by three or four years.
looked at the sun, and after a while, his parents were coming back, and Li Mo immediately hid them under the bed, and he couldn't let his father notice it for the time being, otherwise his father would be angry and throw them away together.
Now that the policy is unclear, this kind of behavior is a bit of a sideshow.
To convince his father that he had to show "difference", that was why he rushed to take the exam.
Li Mo took over the little sister.
The little sister is three years old, and according to the rural algorithm, it is four years old.
Generally, children are three or four years old, and rural people don't care. However, Li Mo fell into the water in Hegang Village and was almost drowned, the family was scared, and thought that Li Mo was young, so when he was working, he took his little sister to the field, they were working, and let his little sister play with him alone. Fortunately, now there is a large collective, and the amount of labor is not large. But let's not say it's bitter, think of a way to let you tie it to the field all year round, sow seeds and plant seedlings in spring, plow grass in summer, harvest in autumn, and build water conservancy in winter.
So Lu Xun said that Chinese are the easiest to become slaves.
This is a bit extreme, but from the perspective of later generations, Li Mo looks at all kinds of strange things now and feels very mad.