Hao Jiali temporarily gave up wandering around the snails, and instead caught loaches from the paddy fields and went to the market to sell them to support her family.

For the first time, Hao Jiali also told her uncle and grandmother about the loaches she saw shuttling in the mud.

Chen Qing and Cao Juying immediately let out a long sigh of relief.

Chen Qing was still a little sorry that Hao Jiali's method was too late, Chen Qing said in hindsight: "Lili! If you had thought of this method earlier, your family would not have lived this shabby year. ”

Cao Juying said: "It's not too late for Lili to discover and think of this way, Chen Feng's family has finally bid farewell to the hardships and hardships of the past, and the day when this family will see the dark clouds and see the sunny sky has finally come." ”

There is no need for grandma to tell her uncle, Hao Jiali herself thought of this, when she saw the loaches drilled in the mud puddles of the paddy field, and stood in the paddy field before she went ashore, Hao Jiali thought of catching these loaches home and then selling them in the market.

When selling snails in the summer, Hao Jiali occasionally saw farmers in the market with iron buckets and loaches to sell in the market, and the people who bought them were nothing more than people who received state wages.

Poor peasants are uncared for, and who is willing to eat what can be sold for money.

Even in Hao Jiali's hometown, peasant women like to fry the rice yellow and fry the rice fragrant, and then the fried yellow and fragrant rice is ground into rice flour with a stone mill, after the rice is ground into rice flour, the loach is killed with the hand, the internal organs are taken out and washed, and then the washed loach is spread one by one in these ground rice noodles and rolled a few rolls, so that these loaches can only see the rice noodles, and the color of the loaches can not be seen, so the loaches of these powder are steamed or fried, and then put some leeks or perilla, chili, green onions, ginger, garlic or something stewed, The loach that comes out of this way tastes particularly sweet in the mouth, and the people in Hao Jiali's hometown like to eat it, including Hao Jiali herself.

But this has to be eaten during the New Year's festival or marriage, and usually even if you catch a loach, you can take it to the market to exchange for money.

Hao Jiali ate such boiled loaches once when Chen Qing married her second daughter last year, but a few days ago, because there were snails for sale, she didn't remember to ignore the way of selling loaches for money.

As for the price of loaches, Hao Jiali never inquired when she started selling snails, and in the past few days, Hao Jiali deliberately drew a few surrounding markets to wait for someone selling loaches to ask the selling price, but she didn't expect this price to surprise Hao Jiali.

Hao Jiali learned that the loach was the most expensive fish in the whole market, and the snails that Hao Jiali got from the fish pond were only sold for five or six cents a catty, but the loaches were five or six times, six or seven times, or even ten times the price of the snails.

Hao Jiali pinched her fingers and calculated, if she excludes the time for class in the morning, and goes to the paddy field after lunch at noon, it is equivalent to a whole afternoon, Hao Jiali thinks about not saying that she catches a fish basket of loaches back, a pound of loaches can always be caught, if a pound of loaches is sold at the minimum standard of three yuan a pound, then Hao Jiali can earn three yuan a day for the family to come back, and Hao Jiali can earn 90 yuan for the family to use in a month:

"Wow! So much money! ”

Hao Jiali screamed happily in her heart and mouth at the same time.

After calling Hao Jiali, she immediately spread the money with the same number of heads.

How much does it cost to buy rice in a month.

How much does the mother's leg pay for?

Filial piety to uncles and grandmothers is more or less fine.

Hao Jiali's own tuition fee is about this amount every year, even if it rises year by year, it will not be much more.

There is also the younger brother Hao Jiaming who should also reach the age of going to school next semester, and Hao Jiali also has to prepare for his younger brother's tuition money.

In addition, Hao Jiaming, the younger brother Hao Jiaming, has to give a little money to buy food and eat, Hao Jiali is such a younger brother, if the family was not poor like this last time, Hao Jiali would not be willing to beat her younger brother hard, she and her younger brother themselves are children who are not loved by their fathers, Hao Jiali thinks that she must compensate her younger brother for making money this time.

In the end, Hao Jiali wanted to spare some money to buy herself two decent clothes.

As a girl, Hao Jiali hasn't made a new dress over the years.

Over the years, Hao Jiali has worn either the clothes that Chen Feng changed from old to small, or from the beginning to the end of the year, she wore some clothes that Chen Feng cut out with the shabby quilt cover at home and sewed Chen Feng with needlework and thread.

These clothes were originally quilted fabrics, they were too old to stand scrubbing, and then made clothes for Hao Jiali to wear, Hao Jiali did all the work, the physical work on the mountain sweated a lot, and the hands and feet moved a lot, just like digging the ground with a hoe to support a stretch, when chopping wood, was hooked and hung by the branches in the mountain, and the cloth of clothes and pants was torn apart and torn to see the flesh.

Later, Chen Feng patched up the left patch and the right patch in these rotten places, and the fabric of the clothes and pants was almost changed from the original single layer to a double-layer style.

Hao Jiali didn't want to wear these patched clothes and pants to school, for fear that the female classmates would laugh, but Chen Feng said: "What are you afraid of, just dress warm and can't freeze, your classmate wants to laugh and let her laugh, who told you to have a father who doesn't talk like you, I Chen Feng only has such great ability, I don't have money to make you beautiful new clothes, it's easy for you to wear beautiful new clothes, which classmate laughs at you, you say to this classmate, you smile again, laugh at me again to be your father's daughter, I have new clothes to wear like you, I still want to live in your house, I will eat your house, and use your house. ”

Hao Jiali knew that this was her mother's angry words, and she didn't care about her mother, let alone contradict her mother.

Hao Jiali thought about it, if she went to the paddy field to catch loaches and sell them for money this time, she would go to the market to buy two pieces of flower cloth with the money and the cloth tickets saved by her family, and then go to the tailor of the production team to tailor two sets of new clothes and wear them to the school to go around a few times, so that those female classmates who usually laugh at her can also see their own skills, and see if these classmates dare to laugh at her in the future.

Also, this time she made money selling loaches, and Hao Jiali also wanted to buy a pair of liberation shoes, which have rubber soles, which are not easy to rot and will not enter the water.

Last year, Cao Juying's cloth shoes for Hao Jialina wore out and rotted in one winter, and seeing that this year's cold winter has arrived, Hao Jiali can no longer walk around barefoot like in summer.

It's just that this year Cao Juying fed an extra pig and dozens of chickens and ducks too busy, and Hao Jiali saw that her grandmother's eyes were completely presbyopia, Hao Jiali's uncle who was a soldier on Hainan Island wrote a letter from the army saying that he wanted to buy a pair of reading glasses for his mother in the city, but he didn't know how presbyopia his mother's eyes were, and Cao Juying couldn't go to Hainan Island to try on glasses, Cao Juying had never been far away, even this eldest son married a Cantonese woman in the army to get married, Cao Juying didn't go to her son's wedding, So Cao Juying's glasses have never been bought.

Without reading glasses, Cao Juying has no time to do these needlework this year, Cao Juying's eyes can't even find the eye of the needle when she threads the needle, and every time she mends clothes and quilts, she has to ask Hao Jiali to thread the needle for her, and Cao Juying accidentally stabbed her own hand many times when she sewed.

Again, Cao Juyingna's cloth shoes are light and soft when they are not raining on the feet, once it rains, the countryside is a mud road, Hao Jiali's cloth shoes under the feet of the shoe soon the soles with the upper are wet and stick to the mud of a shoe home, as soon as you go home, if you don't wash the shoes immediately and dry them on the coal stove, the thick cloth soles will be blistered and soft and rotten.

When she didn't see these loaches, Hao Jiali planned to cut off the worn soles of her grandmother Cao Juyingna's shoes this year like last year, keep the good body and upper, and then cut a tree from the mountain that was as wide as the bottom of her footboard, and then cut the tree into two sections as long as her own footboard, cut off the bark, shaved the tree from a round shape to a square and thinned into a sole, and then burned a circle of nail holes around the sole with a red-hot iron nail, and finally used a thin wire to penetrate the cloth and then connect it through the needle hole around the wooden board. Connected to the last needle hole to twist the joint of the two wires, Hao Jiali made another style of shoes that her grandmother gave her to wear.

Hao Jiali realized that the soles made of wooden materials were worn, but soon the cloth on the upper was rotten again, and the soles were still intact, because the cloth on the upper could not stand the pull of the wire, and the needle hole on the cloth surface was as big as a bean without wearing two times.

It is understandable that this winter, Hao Jiali's new shoes are imminent and must be bought.