He rushed into the room and turned on the electric light, and saw that the door lock had been broken, and the room was in shambles, with books, materials, and beds in a mess, and all the food and clothes had been stolen except for the broken quilt.

His legs went limp, and he sat down on the bed in a terrible state. The cooking cakes baked by her mother, the salted soybeans fried by Aunt Yu Yueyue, the high-waisted military rubber shoes given by the second brother, a bag of barley picks and a bag of dried potatoes brought by the family, all stolen. After sitting in a daze for more than an hour, he suddenly laughed.

That's it, maybe it's the revenge of the "second generation of officials", or maybe it's a thief who is even more unlucky than himself. He remembered the place behind the kitchen stove, where someone seemed to have slept, and perhaps it was the same man who had lived in the kitchen who had looted him. Either way, it's a kind of closure.

What to do? Asking for help from home? He was quick to deny himself. The family is destitute, everything has been robbed by the Jihua birth team, even the house is a temporary low grass hut, the weather is going to be cold, and the parents and family are suffering.

Xiao Ye, Yu Yueyue and Wang Feng's three families were already very poor, and they all gave everything they could to help, how could they still reach out to the family again, how could they bear to go back to the three of them to get food! Teacher Zhang can't go there, it's troublesome enough. Zhuang Bana didn't want to go, he didn't want him to see that he would be left to the point of asking for help.

He was determined to carry everything on his own, and he had to find a way to survive on his own!

He still has one dollar and five cents on him, which is all his belongings. The next day, he first went to the commissary and bought two catties of coarse salt for two cents and nine cents, a dozen and a dozen packs of sewing needles for one and a half cents, two candles for five cents, and untied a thin nylon rope from the sack piled up at the door of the school cafeteria. Then, still go to school as usual. He carefully observed Peng Yuhui and the others, and was sure that it was not them.

For a whole week, he did not eat a single barley harvest. Every day, the lunch box is steamed with fresh green radish cubes, and he has never bought a big spoonful of cabbage tofu for five cents at noon in the school cafeteria. The staple food at noon and evening every day is steamed green rasp, or even raw large rabu, and the daily dish is salt mixed with Chinese cabbage heart.

Outside the woods, under the school vegetable patch, there were countless Chinese cabbages and large robeans, and he was not worried that he would go hungry. It's just that this thing is really not hungry, and even the urine and that are discharged every day are all bad smells of rotten rotten.

On Thursday afternoon, there were two English classes for Teacher Zhang, and Yu Songyuan was one class late. During the recess, Teacher Zhang walked up to him, he was still a little dissatisfied because he missed English class, but when he saw that his face was wrong, he touched his head, "Songyuan, are you sick, your face is so ugly?" ”

"Teacher, I'm fine, but I had a bad stomach the day before yesterday." He lied feebly. In fact, the smell of steamed radish in the lunch box at lunch made him nauseous and difficult to swallow. I suddenly felt sick to my stomach, so I went to the toilet next to the dormitory and squatted for a while, and when I got up, it was dark in front of me, and I didn't know anything.

When he woke up, he saw himself lying on the toilet floor, and he understood that he was fainting from hunger.

After self-study on Friday night, after the students had left the classroom one after another, Yu Songyuan, who was soft, stood up, and suddenly Venus danced in front of him, and he lay on the desk again.

"Yu Songyuan, Yu Songyuan ......" was a distant voice, as if someone was calling him and pushing his head, he raised his head, and saw two figures shaking in front of him.

Yu Songyuan tried to open his eyes, and it turned out to be Tian Tian, a chubby girl, and Li Yun, who was at the same table, looking at him with concern. "What are you doing back?" He asked weakly.

Tian Tian touched his head, "The two of us were on duty today, I forgot to lock the door and turn off the lights, so I came back again." What's wrong with you just now, you don't have a fever, your face is a little dark, so ugly? ”

"It doesn't matter, I may have a little low blood sugar and wake up in a hurry."

Li Yun said with concern, "Your face is very bad, it's scary, do you want to send you to the school doctor's office?" ”

Yu Songyuan said, "No. There will be no one in the school infirmary, I will rest for a while. You go back and rest first, I'll take care of the doors and windows. ”

Tian Tian said, "Then it's hard for you." However, Yu Songyuan, with your current level, there is no problem at all in taking the entrance examination to a key university, and there is no need to work so hard. The body is the capital of the revolution, don't be too desperate. ”

After the two girls left, Yu Songyuan closed his eyes and calmed down for a while before he felt a little strong on his body. He turned off the lights, locked the classroom door, and slowly walked back to the dormitory. Usually he didn't realize it, but now, he felt that the road of 1,500 or 600 meters was so far away. It was like two big sacks of grain tied to his legs, very heavy and heavy, and every step seemed to be moving.

What's going on, I couldn't swallow the steamed radish for a few days, and it became like this. The master once praised his talent in front of his father Yu Xinhe and his young master Yu Xinmin, saying, "In terms of physical strength, endurance, and explosiveness, Yu Songyuan is one of the tens of millions of people!" ”

In the later stage of the training, it was arranged in the middle of the night, and Teacher Chen asked Yu Songyuan to carry dozens of kilograms of heavy loads from the first canal in the south to the second canal in the north, a full six or seven kilometers, and completed it within the specified time. In the meantime, it is not allowed to turn, and when encountering obstacles such as ditches, rivers, and buildings, it is necessary to climb, jump, or swim across. At the end of the light training, he could carry 100 kilograms of bricks on his back and easily complete the long-distance running training.

He had always been very confident in his physical strength, and this time he was hungry for so many days, and he wondered.

After his study on Saturday night, he lit a candle, burned a sewing needle red and bent it into a fishhook, and folded the thin nylon rope to make some thinner nylon threads. Then, the fish hook is threaded with a nylon line, and the rusty stone-breaking knife in the kitchen (Northern Jiangsu dialect kitchen knife) is used to cut a few elastic vine willows more than two meters high at the back of the house to make a fishing rod.

The taste of hunger at night was really uncomfortable, and he had to get up and nibble on a large green rabu. Although he felt nauseous and difficult to swallow, he still forced himself to swallow one bite at a time.

On Sunday morning, on an empty stomach, he dug up the earthworms with a broken shovel and wrapped them in newspaper, and walked to the bank of the river in the dense forest. Then follow the ditch to the depths of the dense forest, and only stop at a place where the terrain is relatively open and the ditch is relatively wide. Then dig a small closed pond at the edge of the ditch, put it in the water, close it with the ditch, and then cover it with branches, and then thread the earthworm to the hook and start fishing.

The skills of catching fish, crabs, and many other animals that I learned in my childhood are now playing a role in breaking through desperate situations.

After living in the "haunted house", during a weekend walk, he carefully observed that this ditch is connected with the Tangxiang River, a tributary of the Guan River, with a large belly and a thin mouth, and the confluence is less than two meters, forming a relatively closed large fish pond. And the water flow is soothing, the water quality is fresh, the aquatic plants are abundant, all kinds of plankton are abundant, the reeds on the edge of the ditch are dense, there are no people around for several kilometers, few people are disturbed, it is definitely the habitat paradise of the knife fish and the red fish (note: the people of northern Jiangsu call the crucian carp the knife fish, and the carp is the red fish).

Sure enough, only a dozen minutes after the four hooks were put down, and one of the floats shook and pulled hard, dragging a knifefish out of the water with a bang. Remove the fish, put it in the pond, and put the hook on the earthworm and put it into the water. Throughout the morning, a total of eight or nine big red fish, seventeen or eight big saury, and eleven or twelve big sea bass were caught.

These saury fish are bigger than a palm, the big ones are more than half a catty, and the small ones are also three or four taels. Red fish and sea bass are both large ones, the big ones weigh two or three catties, and the small ones weigh more than one catty.

Yu Songyuan estimated that these fish were almost ten catties. So he took out a red fish, a sea bass, and a swordfish, cleaned them, lit a fire, and put on sticks and roasted them. After cooking, the blackened skin is sprinkled and thrown away, and the ground salt is sprinkled on the fish, and then it is eaten deliciously.

Of the three types of fish, sea bass in particular has a more tender and delicious taste. It was the first time in a week that he had had a decent lunch. In the middle of the grilled fish and lunch, five or six more saury and sea bass were caught. After eating, I lay down by the fire, touched my belly, and felt so comfortable that I really wanted to sleep for a while.

But after only a short rest, he jumped up, first pulled out a few handfuls of aquatic plants from the water, put them at the bottom of the bag, scooped up these lively fish from the pond, put them into a grain bag, and then picked a few handfuls of aquatic weeds and covered the fish. Then he carried the fish, swam along the embankment of the Guan River, and hurriedly walked towards Xiangxia.

When I walked to the county seat, I turned to the county seat again, and first went to the market to see the price of fish, the saury fish was four cents and two pounds, and the red fish was three cents and seven pounds. The vendor asked enthusiastically, "Do you want to buy fish?" ”

Yu Songyuan smiled and asked, is there a perch? The fishmonger looked at him as if he was buying fish, so he said half-reasonably, "There is no sea bass in this season of cold hands and feet." ”

With this in mind, he quickly left the market and came to the side of the Guanhe Hotel. Opposite here is the long-distance bus station, which is full of people and all kinds of vehicles. He spread the newspaper on the ground, took out some aquatic plants and spread them on the newspaper, and then poured out a few fish, and the fish kept jumping and writhing, and finally they were about to be arranged.

As soon as it was placed, the big fish that was jumping around attracted many people to come up and ask the price, "Live fish, it's so fresh, how much is a pound of saury?" ”

Yu Songyuan said: "The knife fish is five cents, the red fish is four cents and five, and the sea bass is one." ”

An aunt came to ask for the price, but it was too expensive, but she couldn't put it down with live fish. In that era, there was no live fish sold in the market, and freshly caught live fish was extremely rare, and you could only buy it at the fishing site. The aunt finally gritted her teeth and bought four live saury, saying that her daughter had just reached the full moon and went back to give her daughter milk.

At this time, more and more people came up to ask the price, and some people were indignant and asked Yu Songyuan, "Young man, you kill people, weishenme is so expensive than the market?" You are disrupting the market order. ”

Yu Songyuan said: "This is all just fishing, just out of the water, not even muddy water, so it is expensive." Some people were still arguing, and Yu Songyuan was a little annoyed, "If it's too expensive, you can go to the market to buy dead fish, and no one will stop you." Dead fish is indeed cheap, can it be compared to live fish? Besides, can you see sea bass in the market this season, or is it alive? ”

was pestering, at this time a well-dressed middle-aged man squeezed in, picked up a perch with both hands, looked at it, and hurriedly ordered: "Quick, put the fish away, come with me, I want it all." ”

“weishenme？ Buying fish is discussed here, with money in one hand and fish in the other, and there is no need to talk about not buying fish. Yu Songyuan was a little vigilant, and the man's face was shrewd, which made him lack a sense of trust.

The middle-aged man took out his work card and shook it in front of Yu Songyuan's eyes, and then said, "You are really brainless." I'm the manager of this big hotel, I want all these fish, hurry! ”

Yu Songyuan insisted: "Let's talk about the price first." ”

The man was angry: "If you fucking ramble for a while, the fish will all die, it's not worth a penny, and you still talk about dicks." If you want to sell it, hurry up, we can slander you in such a big hotel. ”

Yu Songyuan gritted his teeth, pretended to be a fish, and was about to follow him into the hotel.