Chapter 16: The Work of Pulling Fish Grass
However, a few days later, Hao Jiali didn't come up with any way to support her family.
Hao Jiali pieced together all the methods used by adults over the years in her mind, extracted, screened, and found that none of these methods worked.
If these past methods are repeated to this family trick now, there is no doubt that it will definitely hit a wall, including whether it is borrowing from the villagers, or Hao Jiali asking for money and food from her uncle, grandmother, and aunt.
The former is already afraid that Hao Jiali's family will not be able to pay it back, so they will turn Hao Jiali away from afar, and the latter relatives have their own difficulties, and every family has a pair of hands to raise a mouth to earn work in the production team.
So since her mother's leg was broken and her father was no longer heard from, Hao Jiali was no longer embarrassed to carry a basket to these relatives' houses, frequently asking for this and that.
However, without the help of these relatives, Chen Feng's family would have no harvest, and poverty and hunger would sweep away the lives of the three members of this family like drought, drought and flooded crops.
Hao Jiali is out of line.
Hao Jiali swore that if she promised her mother and grandmother, she would not be able to do it at all.
Also, seeing that the rice bowl at home has been left with sparse rice spread out at a glance, you can see the bottom of the tank at a glance, there is no need to measure the spoon of rice to scoop the amount of each meal, Hao Jiali estimates that the rice at the bottom of the rice tank at home is to grab three or two times with your hands to catch it cleanly and take it to the pot, if it is according to the usual amount of cooking rice, it is equivalent to the last meal and two meals of rice left in these days, after eating these days, the whole family will immediately have to tighten their belts and be hungry.
Hao Jiali knows that without rice, the whole family will be hungry and lightheaded in a few days, and the symptoms of stumbling before walking will come again.
Hao Jiali has suffered from this symptom too many times.
Hao Jiali couldn't be more aware of the discomfort of this symptom.
Even more serious than this, Hao Jiali has had the experience of fainting from hunger.
Hao Jiali was afraid of this moment coming, and Hao Jiali fidgeted like an ant on a hot pot at the thought that such a moment would come.
And Chen Feng also couldn't think of a way at this time.
Chen Feng would only sit at the door of the house without saying a word, and scolded her husband in a high voice and in a low voice: "Hao Guange! You have no conscience! You're a hell of a cutter! Sooner or later, the king of Hades will accept your ....... ”
Chen Feng's words scolding her husband became more and more unpleasant, so bad that Hao Jiali had to cover her ears when she heard it.
Hao Jiali couldn't figure out what else her mother had to scold, what was the use of scolding at this time, and what problems could be solved, at this time, her mother should be like her and then think about how to make a few people in this family not starve to death, instead of scolding the initiators.
But Chen Feng just didn't listen to Hao Jiali's advice, Hao Jiali understood that her mother was anxious, panicked, and powerless to vent herself like this, but as long as the rice jar in this house is full, the barn is full, there is rice in the rice bowl, there is porridge in the pot, and there are vegetables in the plate, her mother Chen Feng's mouth will be as quiet as sealing with adhesive tape, sewing needlework and thread and unable to speak.
In the current situation at home these days, it is impossible for her mother Chen Feng not to scold, even when Cao Juying comes back from work at night, or when Hao Jiali's two sisters and brothers sit under the kerosene lamp and read, Chen Feng will chatter endlessly.
Cao Juying herself couldn't think of a way, and she was very annoyed, and she couldn't stand Chen Feng's words, so Cao Juying scolded Chen Feng.
Cao Juying couldn't bear it anymore and said, "Chen Feng! Don't rely on your own reasonableness, relying on my son to owe you, you will endlessly scold my son, I tell you, a good wife will have a good husband, a bad wife will have an incompetent husband, what vines are wrapped around what trees, for so many years, you also look for your own reasons, to see what is wrong with yourself. ”
"What do you say? Am I wrong? I, Chen Feng, live a life of tension and bitterness, am I still wrong? Scold! That's right, I'm wrong, over the years, I've made a mistake in this family, giving birth to children for your Hao family, and working hard for your Hao family! Cao Juying's words made Chen Feng even more angry.
"This is your own volition, and no one tied you with a rope and forced you to marry my son, since you are married to my son, whether it is to have children, whether it is to be a cow or a horse, it is all within your Chen Feng's business, if you don't do these things, my family Hao Guang will do these things if he doesn't look for you and find another woman as his wife." Cao Juying added fuel to the fire and Chen Feng.
"Yes, this is what you said as a mother, okay! Then ask the woman your short-lived ghost son is looking for in the city to give you a grandson, my Lili and Ming Ming will change their surnames from now on, change their surnames to Chen, and I will take these two sisters and brothers back to my Chen family tomorrow, and the three of us will have nothing to do with your Hao family from now on. Chen Feng also picked Cao Juying uncomfortable and said.
"You dare! If you want to go, you Chen Feng will go, and you don't want to take my two precious grandchildren. "Cao Juying is willing to give up Hao Jiali's sister and brother.
"Do you think I dare? Your son has a bad conscience and abandons our mother and son, and I want your Hao family to have offspring, which is equal to no offspring. ”
Chen Feng and Cao Juying had a yin sentence and a yang sentence, and they quarreled like this for several nights.
In the last two nights, Chen Feng and Cao Juying quarreled so much that Hao Jiali's sister and brother couldn't read books at home, and they couldn't do the homework assigned by the teacher during the day. If you continue to scold your father like this, and quarrel with your grandmother, I can't stand it, so I will drown my brother in the reservoir to learn the ball ball in our village, anyway, this family has no food, and my brother and I will be starved to death soon.
Hao Jiali's little friend Qiuqiu couldn't stand the abuse of her stepmother, jumped into the reservoir and drowned.
Chen Feng listened to Hao Jiali's words, and since then he has relented.
And it was this sentence that inspired Hao Jiali.
As soon as Hao Jiali finished saying this, she immediately thought that the water in the reservoir was too deep, and she couldn't get into the water for such a small person.
Hao Jiali thought of the fish pond of the production team and a stream in front of her house, and Hao Jiali wanted to get money to buy rice to support her family in the fish pond and the creek.
About these two places, Hao Jiali learned from her uncle Chen Qing where the fish pond of the production team is also collective, every year the production team has to divide several batches of raised fish to each family, of course, Hao Jiali's family Chen Feng's work is not enough, this family has never divided into large fish and has never been divided into grass carp, at most it is a pound of heavy silver carp, such a small silver carp has no meat, there are a lot of fish bones, after cooking, let Chen Feng's family in the pot simply use a magnifying glass to choose fish and meat to eat, otherwise, if you are not careful, you will be stuck in the throat by fish bones.
Whether it is grass carp or silver carp, the members of the production team pull the grass and feed it.
Hao Jiali thought of pulling fish grass from the fish pond to earn work and support her family.
Subsequently, Hao Jiali made her request to her uncle. But it was rejected by Chen Qing.
Chen Qing told Hao Jiali that the production team has four or five fish ponds, but these fish ponds are not natural, they are all dug by the team members and then go door to door to draw the families with labor to find fish and grass to feed the fish, and the weight of the fish grass paid by the production team members every day is the same as the pigweed in the pig farm of the production team.
And even if it is arranged, Hao Jiali can't earn this job.
This is due to the fact that the fish in the fish pond are eaten fresh every day.
The dried or yellowed grass floats on the surface of the water, and the fish's mouths will not come to bite.
In addition, Hao Jiali has to go to school every day, and the pigweed can be found in the mountains after school or before school, but the fishgrass must get up and go down to the ridge of the field to find it as soon as the sky is bright.
In addition, this grass grows like the seedlings that grow after the millet is sown, and also like the wheat seedlings after the wheat sprouts, this grass is green and tender and has a faint sweet taste, the fish love to eat, if you get up late and wait for the sun to come out, the sun will dry these grasses wilted and wilted and then pull them out to the fish to eat, and the fish does not like to eat.
Hao Jiali couldn't get up so early.
Since Chen Feng's leg was broken, the housework at home has to be served, lifted, and moved, except for the hand-held Chen Feng can do a little, go to the well to fetch water, go to the creek to wash clothes, go to the field to drive ducks home, go to the field to pick vegetables, etc., Chen Feng can't go out to accumulate a day's things to wait until Hao Jiali comes back from school to do, and when Hao Jiali finishes these things and finishes the homework assigned by the teacher, Hao Jiali herself is already eleven or twelve o'clock in the evening after washing.
If Hao Jiali got up before dawn the next day to pull fish grass, Hao Jiali would definitely doze off in class and be scolded by the teacher, and then fail the exam.
So this is the reason why Hao Jiali can't take care of it.
And now, Hao Jiali's grades have always been among the best in the whole grade.
Hao Jiali is an excellent student in school, because of this, so that the people in the village family say that it would be good if a smart child like Hao Jiali changed his family, such a family is too wronged Hao Jiali, and it is too bitter Hao Jiali, if Hao Jiali is so good at learning, if there is a good family environment, adults are optimistic that Hao Jiali will be a piece of material for the university entrance examination in the future.
But now Hao Jiali's family is so poor that they can't even eat, how can they have money to study, let alone go to college.
The villagers all shook their heads and sighed, saying that it was a pity that Hao Jiali was such a positive seedling, there was no fertilizer, no water, no sunlight, and finally this seedling could not grow into a towering tree with lush foliage.