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"Yulin, don't do stupid things, don't be brave! Wang Shixin has a lot of minions, Yang Kun and Black Panther, they are both first-class bullies, and there are many thugs around him, you will definitely not be able to beat so many of them alone. If you have three long and two short, I'm sorry for the dead fourth brother! I promised him that I would take good care of you! Yang Kaide didn't know what he saw, and repeatedly told Zhang Zhun.

"Uncle, I know, I won't." Zhang Zhun replied in the affirmative.

Yang Kaide was slightly relieved.

However, if Yang Kaide was more careful, he would definitely notice that Zhang Zhun's answer was too fast and too loud. Yes, Zhang Zhun's answer was completely perfunctory. In his previous life, the old father also had such a dissuasion, and the final result was ...... The family is ruined, and the wife is separated. With such a lesson, Zhang Zhun will certainly not repeat the mistakes of the past!

In other words, he will never be "calm" anymore and endure it again!

Preemptive, preemptive, he has to strike first!

If you don't speculate, Zhang Zhun will come to find a mouse.

The rat is preparing firewood for boiling salt with his eldest brother Yang Ruifeng.

In the past, the money and food of the military households in Fushan were still possible after being in arrears for three or four months. However, with the continuous tension of the war in Liaodong and the increasingly fierce civil unrest in Shaanxi, this money and grain has been dragging on for more and more time. The money and food for March last year have not been distributed yet!

There was no way, and the military families had to fend for themselves.

You can't starve to death, can you?

Farming for officers is the most common way to earn a living. In other words, to serve as tenants for officers. However, such a way of life is not possessed by every military household. Only those military households who are willing to shoot thousands of households, deputy thousand households, and hundreds of adult sycophants have this qualification. For example, Sui Mingyi's family in Yangjiatun farmed for Wang Shixin. There are about a dozen such military households per tun, and they do not account for the mainstream. Especially in Yangjiatun, the most remote area, there are very few military households who serve as tenants.

Moreover, the rent for the officers as tenants was also quite high. At the end of the year, basically nothing is left behind. Food and clothing are unlikely. It can only be said that if you have a field to plant, you will always have a slightly better life than others. Actually, it's not much better. Being a tenant for an officer is basically like a slave, and his life and property are basically in the hands of the officers.

Boiling salt is the most popular way for military households who have no land to make a living. Fushan is surrounded by the sea on three sides, Yangjiatun is the closest to the sea, and there is salt in the sea. The flowers and trees in Laoshan are also free, and they are pulled back hard, and they are firewood when they are dried. Set up a few cauldrons by the sea, fill them with sea water, light a firewood, and boil the water to get salt.

It takes a lot of firewood to boil salt, and the Yang family often goes out as a family to chop firewood together, barely enough for three cauldrons. However, the purchase price of the salt they boiled was only four or even three cents per catty. Every month I work hard, get up early and touch the dark, and I only cook a hundred catties of salt, and the income is only three or four hundred yuan, which is the income of the whole family of seven.

In the past, five cents could buy a pound of grain, but now it is definitely impossible to buy it, at least eight cents, or even nine cents and ten cents. The income from boiling salt every month can only buy less than 50 catties of grain. The whole family of seven, plus Zhang Zhun is eight, how can they eat? It is inevitable to eat wild vegetables for every meal, and rice is just a garnish.

Fortunately, there are a lot of things in Laoshan Mountain, there are firewood, herbs, and wild vegetables, and when Yang Ruifeng and they went to collect firewood, they got back a lot of wild vegetables, grass roots, tree roots, etc., and it would be better if they could pick mushrooms. However, because everyone is hungry and hungry, they don't know enough about mushrooms, so they often pick poisonous mushrooms. Last year alone, more than a dozen people around Yangjiatun died on poisonous mushrooms, so Yang Ruifeng and they were not very relieved, and the mushrooms they didn't know were definitely not picked.

is completely different from the mouse, Yang Ruifeng, the eldest son of the Yang family, is a very honest person, diligent and capable, wakes up early and greedy for darkness, and is in his twenties, looking as if he is already forty or fifty years old, with wrinkles and frost on his face. Because of my long-term experience with sea salt, my hands have long been cracked, like the bark of a thousand-year-old tree. Yang Kaide feels most sorry for his son, that is, he has not been able to marry a daughter-in-law for Yang Ruifeng until now.

Poor military families often change their parents. That is, you will give your daughter in marriage to my son, and I will give my daughter in marriage to your son, and neither of you will have a bride price or anything. Yang Yinghan is good-looking and understanding, and there are many military families who come to the door to propose a change of relatives, but Yang Ruifeng resolutely refused to exchange his sister for his daughter-in-law, so the matter dragged on.

For such an honest person, Zhang Zhun has always been very caring and sympathetic. If he loosens his mouth, Yang Yinghan will be someone else's woman. He helped sort out the firewood and water, stacked the bundles of dry firewood hard, and asked casually, "Brother Feng, how many catties of salt can you cook today?" ”

Yang Ruifeng replied with a smile: "Three catties." ”

Zhang Zhun nodded wordlessly.

The salt content of seawater is about 3%, and each iron pot needs to be injected with about 30 catties of seawater to boil one pound of salt, which is already a very large pot. It's not easy to evaporate such a large pot of seawater! The Yang family has three pots and cooks three catties of salt every day, which is already the limit. However, the income of three catties of salt is only ten cents, and you can only buy a little more than a catty of grain.

"Erleng, let's go fishing!"

After the firewood is ready, the rat picks up the net.

Fishing is the second choice for military households to make ends meet.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, the floating mountains are surrounded by water on three sides, so it is natural to fight the idea of the sea. The seafood around Fushan is still very abundant, and in these years, there is no industrial pollution, no overfishing, and the fish are growing hard. People who go out to sea by boat can often see a group of dense groups of big yellow croakers swimming around gracefully, and they are not afraid of people at all.

However, the fish that are caught can basically only be eaten by themselves, and if you want to sell them for money, it is unlikely. The commodity economy of Fushan is not developed, and no one buys fish. Even so, not every military household has fish to eat at home, it depends on luck. After all, he is not a professional fisherman, nor does he have professional fishing tools, and the big yellow croaker is not stupid enough to reach out and catch it.

Eating meat, pork, mutton, and beef was a luxury for the poor military families. Pork costs more than 50 yuan a catty, which is equivalent to five or six days' income from boiling salt, and the poor military families can't afford to eat it at all. Only during the New Year's holidays can you buy such a small piece, and you have to fry the oil in advance and keep it for a few months or even a year. When the oil is fried, the remaining oil residue can be divided into a few small pieces for each person. Therefore, the military households want to get oily, and in the end they still have to fight the idea of the sea.

Without professional fishing tools, military households can only come up with their own tricks and make their own fishing tools according to local conditions. Fishing nets are the most common and are generally made of rags. The mouse's net was worn out, with several large holes in the middle, and he used vines to wrap the broken places and barely make up for them. But inadvertently, the vines spread out, and the holes swayed again.

Yang Yinghan came out of the house, saw the fishing net in the hands of the two, frowned, and shouted: "Second brother, don't let Yulin go into the water, his wounds can't touch the raw water." ”

"I know, we don't go into the water," said the mouse. ”

Zhang Zhun also said: "Don't worry, I won't go into the water." How could I not cherish my own little life? The rat is responsible for fishing, and I am responsible for watching. ”

Yang Yinghan's expression was a little strange, as if he was going to say something to the mouse, but in the end he didn't say anything, turned his head to Zhang Zhun and said, "Be careful yourself...... It doesn't matter if you don't have fish. ”

Zhang Zhun nodded.

Yang Yinghan went into the house at this time.

Zhang Zhun suddenly reacted, looked sideways at the mouse, and asked curiously, "What did Xiaoya's last sentence mean?" What does it mean that it doesn't matter if you don't have fish? ”

The mouse's face suddenly became unnatural, and he said insincerely: "She said this because she saw that I had no ability to fish." I'm going to get a grouper back today, so that the little girl can see how good I am. ”

Zhang Zhun was slightly stunned, and subconsciously asked, "You...... Never caught a fish before and came back? ”

The mouse suddenly blushed, his expression became even more unnatural, and he said hesitantly: "It's not without ...... Isn't this all caught by others? ”

Zhang Zhun understood, this kid used to do everything with a silver wax gun head, he looked like a goblin, and his mouth was very slippery, but in fact, he didn't have the ability to fart, and he couldn't even catch a fish, no wonder Yang Yinghan had such a reaction. When she retracted it just now, she was: "Second brother, you better not go, it's a waste of time." ”

The mouse blushed more and more, but he couldn't lose his face to admit that his fishing level was really not good, and he was still there to hide and say: "Today, I must find a good place to lay the net...... Gotta get a fish back......"

Zhang Zhun didn't bother to pay attention to him, and asked casually, "Is there a javelin?" ”

The mouse said blankly: "What javelin?" ”

Zhang Zhun didn't bother to ask, looked around and went to find it himself.

Didn't find it outside the house, went inside.

Fushan lives in military households, and it stands to reason that they should be soldiers, but there is not a single decent weapon in the house or outside...... Well, there is a waist knife on the wall, which should be the standard waist knife of the Ming army, but the dust on it can almost glue the waist knife and the wall together, Zhang Zhun took a look, and finally gave up the idea of taking it off. It's easy to take the knife off, but if you collapse the wall, it's troublesome.

Yang Yinghan was busy in the kitchen, and when she saw him looking around, she asked in surprise, "Yulin, what are you looking for?" ”

Zhang Zhun said: "Javelin." ”

Yang Yinghan didn't quite understand either.

Zhang Zhun said: "That's it...... For fishing! ”

After that, he made a fish-piercing motion.

In the past, when they were in the Marine Corps, the soldiers never lacked seafood, and in addition to often going to the rocks to touch crabs and lobsters, they also had a good job. Friends from the north may know that in winter, a hole is dug in the frozen river, and the fish is lured with bait, and then the javelin is raised, and a shot is pierced, as long as the action is fast enough, accurate and ruthless, a fish will be stabbed to death.

There is no such facility in the South. It doesn't matter, though. Wherever there are fish, the warriors will be able to use this skill. Whether it's luring a fish with bait or a stone to get a fish out of the water, as long as a fish appears around you, the javelin is stabbed down, one by one. If you are empty, you will not be able to see anyone in the future.

Yang Yinghan thought for a while, lifted the pyre, and took out a spear that was also covered with dust from behind the firewood, "Is it this?" ”

"This ......"

Zhang Zhun was speechless.

Eldest sister, this is not a javelin, this is a spear.

If such a thick spear pierces it, the whale will be stabbed to death.

Forget it, it's going to be used.

He took the spear, went to the well, and carried water.

The mouse asked strangely, "Erleng, what are you doing?" What are you doing with your spear? Go to war! ”

Zhang Zhun said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense! Come here, help me sharpen the tip of the gun and clean all the rust on it. The barrel of the gun should also be properly washed to clean all the dust on it. ”

The mouse smiled and said, "Okay! ”

After taking the spear, he got busy.

Sharpen the tip of the spear, not because of the need to pierce the fish, but because the tip of the spear is full of rust, if it pierces into the body of the fish, leaving rusty stains, should the fish be eaten?

He carefully rubbed off all the rust on the tip of the gun, and washed the dust on the barrel of the gun, and then handed the spear to Zhang Zhun.

Zhang Zhun tried the tip of the gun with his hand, and it was okay, quite sharp.

"That's it! Let's go! ”

Zhang Zhun lifted the spear and said loudly.