Hao Jiali sat in the field, crying, and grabbed the soil and grass in the field.

After all, Hao Jiali is still a child, and she is only more than eight years old, in addition to being afraid of being dizzy from hunger and trying to eat and live desperately trying to get money, Hao Jiali can't do or understand some things in this world, including not knowing how to go to the city to find her father, not knowing if she can think of a way to get money, not knowing how to go in the future, and not knowing if she, her mother and younger brother will really starve to death penniless.

If that day comes, will there be anyone who cares about the lives of a few of them.

Also, if his father hadn't died, and his father would have come home one day and not see the three people in the family in this world, would his father regret it, would he be in pain, and so on.

The more Hao Jiali thought about it, the more sad she became, the more sad she became, and finally she was so sad that Hao Jiali buried her head in her knees and lowered herself, stopped and got up, and stopped sobbing.

Crying until it was almost dark, Hao Jiali got up from the ground and restrained herself, Hao Jiali understood that it was not a difficult time to be uncomfortable, and it was useless to be uncomfortable, what she wanted to solve in a hurry was to find a way to get money home, and find a way to survive this winter to next spring, and she still had more than a month of medicine expenses in these eight months, and the family needed money for firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, where to start with the money? Where is the solution? Hao Jiali has to think about it.

There is no hope for the fish pond and the poultry at home, and Hao Jiali, who is looking for pigweed to earn work in the pig farm of the production team, has retired again, and Hao Jiali thinks of the vegetables in the field.

But the selling price of green vegetables is too cheap, and Hao Jiali asked about the price of green vegetables by the way when she was selling snails in the market.

Cucumbers or peas are sold for three or five cents a pound at most in the market, and a basket of cucumbers and peas can be sold for more than three yuan.

Hao Jiali felt that it was better to keep these vegetables for her own family to eat, and after picking a basket of large strips of these vegetables, the sprouts were sprouting, and the small strips that could be eaten would take a week to grow bigger, if these vegetables were picked and sold for the three yuan, the family would not even be able to eat the vegetables for a week.

Hao Jiali thinks it's not cost-effective, these greens are taught to be planted by Chen Feng in the field when her legs are not broken, Hao Jiali knows that every kind of greens has its seasonality, and after its flowering and fruiting season, these greens will slowly wither and dry up, and there will be no picking, so if you want to eat it in the season, you have to dry it or put it in a tile jar to pickle it for the next season, so you can save a lot of money to buy vegetables.

The countryside is like this, relying on the sky, relying on the fields, and relying on the land for food, and these three things will not work without one of them, and the peasants will not be able to live without one.

The vegetables in the field can't get much money, Hao Jiali gave up, Hao Jiali really can't wait to be the cucumbers, beans, pumpkins, and sweet potato seedlings planted in the vegetable field, and the vines will grow taller than people with firewood sticks in a month or two.

But there is a difference between people and plants, plants are watered once a few days and grow bubbling to the ground, people eat three meals a day at most a year to grow so little, Hao Jiali has no illusions, Hao Jiali only has to face the reality and think of a way to work.

During this time, the water was cold and I couldn't sell the snails in the fish pond, and the remaining ten yuan after being discharged from the hospital was temporarily covered by the daily expenses of life, and Hao Jiali went to school again in the morning.

During the 10-minute recess and physical education class at school, Hao Jiali and her classmates played an activity called "treasure hunting".

Here's how this event works.

Hao Jiali's classmates found some stone snails in the stream, removed the meat from the snail shells, gently pierced a small hole in the empty snail shells with nails, and used nylon ropes to string these empty snail shells with holes together, and then used them to draw squares and lattices in the village or the school's playground to throw the snail shells and jump and play.

This kind of play book is called picking up treasures, the colloquial language is called jumping house, the grid drawn in the field or playground is just a pair of feet a little wider for a person, a field can draw dozens of hundreds of such grids, the person who jumps the grid every time he stands outside the line of the first grid and throws the snail shell string in front of the grid, if he exceeds or does not lose that grid, he is dead, and it is the turn of another person to lose. If another person loses it, he has to jump to the grid of the snail shell string and pick up the snail shell string, and this grid is the person who loses it, that is, this room is this person's, and then whoever loses more will win.

Originally, the classmates in the school before were using small stones to throw the lattice, but the stone was not accurate, and the snail shell that was used later would jump up and roll if it was thrown too far, because the snail shell was slippery, especially if it was thrown far away, it would slip away, and all the children in Hao Jiali's hometown would play this, and they all had such a treasure in their pockets, Hao Jiali would see the figure of the little friend looking for the snail and a bunch of snail meat that was hollowed out by these people every time she went to wash her clothes, Hao Jiali turned her head and finally thought of a way.

Hao Jiali also learned from her classmates to use Sundays to go to the village creek to find stone snails.

Cook the snails.

Then use a needle to mend the clothes to pick out the meat in the snail shell.

Remove the shell lid that is attached to the meat.

Then wash the snail meat and sprinkle a little melted sugar water to achieve the taste of the snail.

Then Hao Jiali picked a handful of fresh perilla leaves from Cao Juying's vegetable field, and picked some late autumn peppers from her vegetable field that were about to die.

Hao Jiali plans to give these chili peppers and perilla to these people who come to buy snail meat, because it is the first time to try, Hao Jiali doesn't know if anyone will buy such a snail meat that only sells, so Hao Jiali wants to give some small favors to these people.

As a result, Hao Jiali spent a Sunday with her younger brother Hao Jiaming to find the stone snails, Chen Feng cooked the snails at home, and the half pot of snail meat that was picked out was sold out in the market in less than an hour, and it was still double the price of the snails without shelling.

Looking at the ten or so yuan in exchange for snail meat in her hand, Hao Jiali breathed a long sigh of relief, and the money at home was finally connected.

The money was connected, and the method was also thought of, Hao Jiali thought that she could continue to make money according to this method, but what Hao Jiali didn't expect was that although the stream in the village was shallower than the water of the fish pond, the snails were less than the fish pond, because the stream was flowing, and these snails also followed the water.

After Hao Jiali found it once or twice in the water, there were very few stone snails, and if she continued to look for it, Hao Jiali gave up the time when she didn't go to class, and the snail meat she got couldn't be sold for two cents, so Hao Jiali completely delayed her study.

And even if Hao Jiali followed this creek all the way down, in the end, the end of this creek was a big river behind Hao Jiali's hometown commune, the river water poured into the head of the stream from time to time more than a hundred meters away, the slim riverbed and rolling waves, Hao Jiali looked stunned, Hao Jiali thought that if she was accidentally swept into the river by the water of the riverbed in order to get this money, she would be drowned so that there was no slag, and she couldn't even find the body when she died, Hao Jiali could only give up and didn't dare to follow the stream to find the snail.

There is no stone snail, and there is no source for money.

The nerves in Hao Jiali's brain tensed again.

Hao Jiali was sitting in the classroom and doing classwork when she was doing her homework, unconsciously not doing the topic, but wrote a lot of money, methods, what to do These words are handed in, and when the homeroom teacher corrects her homework, she called Hao Jiali to the office to lecture Hao Jiali, saying that Hao Jiali is like a martial arts master practicing kung fu as if she has gone crazy, but Hao Jiali herself understands what is going on with herself, the family needs money, these people want to live, but there is no way, Hao Jiali is in a hurry.