Chapter 4: Hurry Up and Gather Early
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Cheng Lin no longer hesitated now, lifted the rod suddenly, saw the bamboo pole bent in the water, and could clearly hear the creaking sound.
"Hey, that's not small!" Cheng Lin skillfully manipulated the direction of the fish's escape, avoiding the surrounding stones from grinding the fishing line and causing it to cut the line: "This fishing rod is also useless for a semester, it seems that it will not work, and it is estimated that it will break next time I catch a big fish!" Luckily, I'm going to town tomorrow and buy a better carbon rod when the time comes! ”
In fact, the bamboo pole in Cheng Lin's hand is also a good pole, which is made of purple bamboo in the deep mountains, and it has also been tested with a simmer when it is fresh, it stands to reason that as long as the maintenance is good, it is not a problem to use it for two or three years.
But this pole was in the hands of Cheng Lin, since the death of his parents a year ago, he caught up with the start of school, and he was not in the mood to fish when he came back on the weekend. So this pole was thrown away by him and stayed alone behind the gate for more than half a year, it is conceivable that the ground of the rural mud house is muddy, and it will be wet when it rains or something, not to mention the bamboo, even the iron is rusted.
In addition, it was not light to be tossed by the carp during the day today, and it was no longer easy to wipe the oil for maintenance, and it was so tossed at night, so it was strange not to protest.
The head of the catfish is large and long, and the tail accounts for about half of the whole body, so it has a lot of stamina, and it is basically much more powerful and durable than the fish of the same level and weight.
Carefully slipping the fish, Cheng Lin is even more sure of his determination to change the fishing rod tomorrow.
Because it was a big night, the vision was limited, and many obstacles could not be seen, so it took Cheng Lin more than an hour to get this catfish up.
This catfish struggled more violently when he saw it, but he had no strength after struggling for so long, and was copied by Cheng Lin.
Cheng Lin looked at the catfish that kept writhing in the net with a big eyebrow: "Although it doesn't look very big, it must be as heavy as a carp during the day, haha, it's another amount of money!" ”
Now that the fish had been caught, and it was nearly eleven o'clock now, I planned to go, whether there were any fish in this nest, after all, the fish could not be caught.
So he carried the net and fishing rod in his right hand, and the bucket in his left hand, and put the flashlight into his armpit, and went home.
Fortunately, it was very close to his house, and it took about ten minutes to get home.
When I got home, I cut the wire at the corner of the turtle's mouth with scissors and let it get stuck in the bucket and leave it alone. The catfish, on the other hand, will die soon without water, so they threw it into the large tank of the kitchen and added a lid to prevent it from jumping out at night.
It was midnight after dealing with everything, so Cheng Lin immediately washed up and went to bed, and in his dream he also dreamed of fishing and made a lot of money.
I got up at five o'clock in the morning, there was no way, if he didn't get earlier, it was estimated that Cheng Jianguo would take someone to harvest rice.
When I opened the door, I saw that it was already dark outside, so I didn't eat breakfast, so I packed the turtle in a urea bag, and the bucket filled the catfish with a little bit of water, although it was a little smaller, but fortunately, the bucket in the countryside was still quite large, barely able to hold.
Carrying the turtle and catfish, facing the fog, Cheng Lin hurried to Cheng Jianguo and found that Cheng Jianguo and his group had already eaten outside the house, so he put the bucket containing the catfish outside the fence and walked in with the turtle.
There will be a vacant land at the door of every house in the countryside, which is cleaned up and leveled, which can not only dry the grain, but also set up a table as a lobby if there are more visitors.
Today, Cheng Jianguo has more than a dozen people, so he eats outside the house when he eats, which is much better than a large group of people crowded inside the house.
"Xiaolin is here, hurry, hurry, hurry, come to dinner!"
"I didn't expect Xiaolinzi that you were so early today, I just heard Jianguo say that you went turtle fishing last night, did you catch it?"
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A large group of old men saw Cheng Lin coming over so early and greeted him one after another.
"Uncle Jianjun, I won't eat it, I still have to find Uncle Jianguo to send me to the town, otherwise I'm afraid that the fish will die on the way if I go!"
"Hehe, Tugenbo, of course I caught it, it's not small!"
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As soon as I heard that Cheng Lin really caught a turtle, everyone felt incredible, now the price of turtles is so high, many people have tried to fish, and there may be only one or two that have been caught, which shows that this thing is not so easy to catch.
Now that he suddenly heard that he had caught it, he put down the dishes and chopsticks and asked him to open the bag quietly, and even Cheng Jianguo rushed out to join in the fun after hearing the noise outside the house.
The people here are all Cheng Lin's elders, he is not easy to refuse, and there is nothing to refuse, so he put down the urea bag and opened it for these elders to watch.
"Oh, it's not small!"
"Hey, it's a turtle!"
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"Xiaolin, your turtle is estimated to be five catties, right?" Cheng Jianguo lifted the bag in his hand and fell, feeling that the weight was not light: "Good guy, your turtle is worth a month of hard work and hard work for me." ”
"That...... I haven't weighed it yet! It was very late when I got home yesterday, and I woke up so early this morning that I forgot to weigh it! Cheng Lin scratched his head, a little embarrassed.
In fact, it's not that he forgot, but he was afraid that he and Cheng Jianguo would miss the time, so he put this matter to Cheng Jianguo to do, anyway, every household in the countryside will have a scale.
"Then weigh it and see how many catties it is, so that you don't have to borrow a scale in the town when you sell it later!" At this time, Cheng Jianjun on the side said.
As soon as Cheng Jianjun mentioned it, everyone said that they would weigh it now and see how many catties it was.
So Cheng Jianguo shouted into the house, and after a while, he saw Aunt Cheng come out with the scale and the scale.
"Hello Auntie, I'm really bothering you!" Cheng Lin saw that the aunt came out with the scale in person, and hurriedly stepped forward to take the scale and the scale.
"What's the trouble, I just heard that you kid caught a turtle in the house, and I wanted to come out and take a look, and it was just right to get something."
Cheng Lin originally wanted to be polite again, but it can be seen that the aunt didn't take this little thing to heart at all, and went to weigh the turtle with the scale.
The rural atmosphere is still very harmonious now, especially in a small village like Chengjia Village, where the neighbors are all relatives, so it is even more harmonious.
Today, your child will eat at my house, and tomorrow my chicken will go to your house to grab food, and everyone will not pay attention to these little things at all, let alone just take things in their hands.
Aunt Cheng skillfully hung the urea bag on the scale hook, and then hung the scale: "Yo, five catties and eight taels, it's almost six catties!" ”
At this time, everyone was watching from the side, and when they saw that this turtle was so important, everyone was talking about how much it could be sold.
In the end, Cheng Jianguo opened his mouth and said to Cheng Lin: "Xiaolinzi, I told you yesterday that if you can catch a turtle, I will send you to the town to sell it today." It just so happens that today is the market day, so it should be able to sell at a good price! ”
Speaking to Cheng Lin, he said to the old men: "I'll send Cheng Lin to the town now, go early and come back early, you wait and go to the land with the old woman, I'll come back immediately!" ”
After explaining the matter, I went to the backyard to push the motorcycle.
In the summer, the farm work is basically done in the morning, and if it is past half past nine, the sun will not be poisonous. Now that the excitement is almost over, everyone has sat back at the table of the Eight Immortals and continued to eat.
Seeing that Aunt Cheng was going to take the scale back to the house, Cheng Lin called out to her: "Auntie, can you use the scale for me again?" ”
"What? Are you still afraid that I will make the wrong scale of your turtle? Aunt Cheng glanced at Cheng Lin in surprise, but she was not unhappy: "It won't be wrong, the actual weight is six catties and nine taels, and your urea bag is a small bag, minus one tael is exactly six catties and eight taels!" ”
Cheng Lin took the scales and scales, and said to Aunt Cheng with a smile: "It's not a scaling turtle, I also caught a catbeard yesterday!" I'm going to weigh that! ”
So one by one, the big men came over with bowls again, intending to take a look.
They may not be able to afford to eat something like a turtle, but they will occasionally buy something like a dozen or dozens of dollars like a catfish.
But when everyone saw the big catfish that Cheng Lin brought in from outside the door, they didn't speak except for surprise.
What does this make them say?
It seems that a big guy of at least twenty pounds, no one will buy it in this kind of weather except for doing good deeds or people like Cheng Jianguo who ask for work.
It's not that I can't afford to eat, but I'm afraid that it's going to be bad, and the farmers cherish the money that is not easy to earn!
With the help of Aunt Cheng, Cheng Lin put the catfish into an empty woolen bag and weighed it back. Good fellow, heavier than yesterday's carp, a full twenty-five pounds and six taels.
Cheng Jianguo was also a little surprised after pulling out the motorcycle, but he was not too surprised, with yesterday's carp and the turtle just now, and now there is one more catfish, not too much, not too much, not too much.
Cheng Lin was also happy at this time, a turtle has five catties and eight taels, and if it is two hundred and sixty-one catties, it is one thousand five hundred and eight. Now this catfish has twenty-five catties and six taels, and I heard Jianguo Bo say that it is about eighteen and one catties, that is, four hundred and six.
If you calculate it carefully, there are 16 carp, 15 turtles, and 466 catfish, and in less than 24 hours, you have earned 2,001 or more than 20 yuan.
In the disturbance of everyone, Cheng Jianguo set off with Cheng Lin.
The market has existed for a long time, and Cheng Lin especially liked to catch the market when he was a child, if not for anything else, but to be lively.
But there are ten townships in a county, and Qingshan Town can only get three turns a month, which makes Cheng Lin rarely rush to the market. Being able to go to the market today instantly aroused his interest in the bottom of his heart.
The location of the market is on the street of Qingshan Town, a street that is not wide, and people are shoulder-to-shoulder and rubbing their feet from beginning to end.
On the street, you sell pants and I sell shoes; At the end of the street, you sell pork, I sell beef. You buy local chickens on the left, and I buy wild ducks on the right.
However, with the progress of the times and the improvement of everyone's living standards, although the market was still there when Cheng Lin crossed, he had lost the charm of his childhood.
Although Chengjia Village is not far from Qingshan Town, the mountain road is difficult to walk, and if you ride too fast, the potholes on the road will bring the car from the middle of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain.
After half an hour, Cheng Lin and the others finally arrived on the streets of Qingshan Town.
As soon as he arrived on the street, Cheng Lin heard all kinds of familiar voices.
"Hey, sell oilfruits! Two cents a piece, cheap! ”
"Steamed buns, wontons, let's eat!"
"Thirteen yuan a pound of pork is cheap!"
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