Hao Jiali went to school the next day to learn that she had fallen behind in a lot of classes in the past few days.

At the end of the seventies, there was no sixth grade of primary school in the countryside, let alone preschool, kindergarten, Hao Jiali began to go to the first grade of primary school at the age of six, and after this semester, in the second half of next year, Hao Jiali will be in the fourth grade, so the difficulty of the textbook will increase, mathematics has addition, subtraction, multiplication and division mixed operation problems, decimal point application problems, and Chinese has classical Chinese.

The head teacher emphasized that Hao Jiali could no longer skip class, even if Hao Jiali's self-learning ability was strong, it would affect the knowledge she had learned.

If the foundation of the fourth grade is not good, the further difficulty of the fifth grade of simple equation application problems and the area of the figure will be even more confusing, and then it will directly affect the junior high school exam after the fifth grade.

The head teacher instructed Hao Jiali to find time to take the two main subjects of Chinese and mathematics no matter what.

"Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, and you won't be afraid to go all over the world." This is the mantra of Hao Jiali's homeroom teacher.

Hao Jiali herself also understands the importance of these two courses, and after listening to the words of the head teacher, Hao Jiali no longer thinks about ways to make money, but after taking the courses of these two subjects, Hao Jiali still has to ask for leave in the afternoon.

Because Chen Feng's leg disease and his younger brother Hao Jiaming, who has not yet gone to school, have to take care of it, and the other is that there are mountains of housework to wait for Hao Jiali to do, such as chopping wood, planting vegetables, carrying water, feeding pigs, going to the coal kiln in Yongxing area, which is more than ten miles away, to buy coal and pick it back, going to the rice milling machine room of the production team to grind the millet given by Chen Qing and Cao Juying into rice for two cents, and going to the village stream to wash the family's change of clothes, etc.

Speaking of laundry, by this season, the water in the village stream has begun to freeze your fingers.

Hao Jiali is reluctant to go to the well to wash, the well water in the countryside is spring water, although it is bitterly cold in summer, but in winter there is a trace of heat at the mouth of the well, and the hand of the water person who has just come up from the well reaches in to feel warm.

Hao Jiali didn't want to use well water, Hao Jiali was afraid that one day after coming up with a way to go down to the fish pond to pick snails, she was afraid that she would not be able to adapt to the freezing of the fish pond and even a layer of thin ice water.

Hao Jiali has not given up the fantasy of going to the fish pond, no matter who the new captain of the production team chooses, Hao Jiali has already figured out a way to decide to win over the relationship between herself and the new team production captain.

Hao Jiali decided to give the new production team captain a promise, that is, how much money he got from selling snails to the production team, or how much he got behind the back to the new production team leader, Hao Jiali believes that the new production team captain will be moved and will agree to his request, because he himself has a share.

Chen Qing and Cao Juying said that Hao Jiali's idea was good, and asked Hao Jiali how she came up with it, Hao Jiali said that she remembered that her family's uncle helped her sell snails and then paid Uncle Gui, and Uncle Gui agreed to get the inspiration every time he didn't say a word.

Hao Jiali also told her uncle that no one would do what she said to her grandmother, Chen Qing gave Hao Jiali a thumbs up and said, "Lili! You're still so young, your little head turns so fast, and you'll grow up in the future. ”

Cao Juying sighed and scolded her son: "Hao Guang, this thing that doesn't grow!" has such a smart and sensible daughter, who doesn't go home yet, and has to find other women outside, he doesn't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings. ”

Hao Jiali just smiled, not proud and complacent because of the praise of these two relatives, Hao Jiali learned to be humble this time.

Hao Jiali thinks that the money is earned, the way is to come up with it, the money has not been earned for a day, and her own method is still an empty word, if she is too excited early, the method will not work when the time comes, and these relatives will laugh at her and brag, Hao Jiali herself is also empty and happy.

However, there is a way to get the new captain of the production team, Hao Jiali is not so anxious, Hao Jiali patiently waits for the day when the members of the production team vote for the election.

Then, these afternoons, Hao Jiali is no longer busy running around, and the millet and rice given by Chen Qing and Cao Juying can also withstand these days for the time being, and in the afternoon, Hao Jiali is still doing all kinds of farm work to be done by a rural family in an orderly manner as before.

Among them, going to the stream to wash clothes is as essential as Hao Jiali's class every day.

Hao Jiali took the family's change of clothes to the place where the gravel was exposed the most by the stream, and then squatted down and scrubbed them with her hands one by one.

Beat thick pieces of clothing with a wooden stick that beats the clothes.

Or spread out your clothes on a wide stone slab and brush them with a brush.

After rubbing, pounding, and brushing these clothes, Hao Jiali threw these clothes away one by one in the direction of the stream, and let the force of the stream wash the soap on the clothes.

When the laundry is wrung out of water, no more soap bubbles burst out, and the laundry is cleaned.

After washing the clothes, Hao Jiali will go along the embankment to see if there are some newly grown stone snails in the place where she has picked up stone snails in the past few months.

However, it is a pity that Hao Jiali walked a long way on the embankment road several times and still did not see any newly grown stone snails, or those small stone snails lying on the gravel by the stream a few months ago.

Hao Jiali shook her head in disappointment, and then she went back to the stone slab where she had started to wash her clothes and sat listening to the flow of the stream and thinking about the problem.

Hao Jiali thought, even if the new production team leader agreed to give her a fish pond after taking office, how would she go to the fish pond in this winter? How did this snail get ashore? Hao Jiali has to think about it.

Hao Jiali remembered that there was an article in the text she had studied, "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world", and there was a picture of a fisherman and cormorant fishing on a bamboo raft on the Li River, and there was also an ancient poem in the Chinese textbook that wrote, 'The window contains a thousand autumn snows in Xiling, Hao Jiali thought that it would be good if she had a boat, so that she could take the boat to the water, after getting into the water, Hao Jiali had thought of splitting a round bamboo deep through the depth of the fish pond into half, one end of the round bamboo was opened, and the other end was closed and nailed, and the end of the opening sank into the mud surface of the bottom of the fish pond, and then the snail on the mud surface of the bottom of the fish pond was clamped up like a clamp for briquettes, so that the snail could be picked up without going into the water.

If this method works, the fish pond of the thirteen production teams of the entire brigade, Hao Jiali can simply kill it.

It's a pity that Hao Jiali's hometown makes a living from farming, not fishing, and no one knows how to build ships.

In addition, Hao Jiali will not paddle to support the bamboo artemisia, even if she draws a scoop with a few pieces of wood or bamboo nailed in a row and floats on the water surface of the fish pond for Hao Jiali to step on, but with Hao Jiali, a landlubber, she does not have the skills and experience to balance the center of gravity of the raft or bamboo raft, and Hao Jiali will also fall into the fish pond.

Hao Jiali had no choice but to give up this method.

This method didn't work, Hao Jiali opened her mind and thought of other ways.

But Hao Jiali couldn't think of other ways for a while.

Hao Jiali took a break for a while, and then found a thin and wide gravel under her feet and played with drifting rocks on the water in the direction of the stream.

Hao Jiali has reached the level where a stone can jump off the water for more than ten points in a row, which she has practiced by playing after washing clothes every time.

Hao Jiali likes to watch a series of small waves of stones splashing on the surface of the stream.

It's that this thin stone is a little difficult to find, and the thick and narrow one can't float, Hao Jiali is looking for this kind of stone under her feet.

Just when Hao Jiali lowered her head to look for this kind of stone.

Hao Jiali accidentally saw another small stone slab under her feet with a big stone snail attached to it at some point, Hao Jiali thought that it probably floated over with the current, and Hao Jiali didn't see it when she was washing clothes just now.

Hao Jiali immediately reached out to grab the stone snail, her fingers just touched the snail shell, at this time the snail meat was lifted out of the shell, there were two tentacles on the snail meat, the tentacles were swinging in the water, Hao Jiali picked so many stone snails to sell, she had never seen a stone snail with tentacles, Hao Jiali knew that what she saw was not a stone snail but a snail.

This snail has a shell like a snail, Hao Jiali playfully broke a thatch from the river embankment, and then used the thatch rod to tease the snail's tentacles to play, and soon the snail shrunk the tentacles and body into the shell, and then Hao Jiali saw one after another small blisters coming out of the snail's shell, as if the snail was breathing and drinking water.

In an instant, Hao Jiali's new method came.

Hao Jiali ignored the simplest discovery, that is, whether it is a snail, a snail, or a snail, they all live in the water and cannot do without water, which means that where there is water, there must be these snails.

Hao Jiali didn't know if the water depth of the canal was deep, but this more than 100 acres of farmland was within reach of Hao Jiali's side, and it was endless.

After the late rice harvest, the farmland was planted with rape flowers, and the rest was bare with straw stubble.

These farmlands with exposed straw stubble are at most a finger's deep water, Hao Jiali's excitement is simply indescribable, Hao Jiali is almost crazy and shouts in her heart: "There is a way!" Finally, there's a good idea! Father! The three people of this family will never starve to death again! We're waiting for you to come home! ”