Chapter 17: Down the Fishpond

Hao Jiali never dared to think that she would be able to take the university entrance examination in the future and become a talent.

The problem of hunger can't be solved, even if Hao Jiali has such an ideal, it is a fantasy, it is an unattainable dream, and the difficulties of life make Hao Jiali very realistic early on.

Hao Jiali thinks that going to school is a kind of foil for her at present, she carries her schoolbag to school with her peers every day, no matter how hard she studies, it is all for her.

Sitting in the classroom, Hao Jiali felt like watching the troupe from the village acting on the stage, the teacher standing on the podium was an actor, Hao Jiali was the audience, and now the family has no money and no food, and this book can't be read, which means that the stage will be demolished after the play, and the people watching the play will be over, Hao Jiali will be equal to zero even if she does well in the exam, and she will read this book for a day.

Sometimes Hao Jiali really blames her father from the bottom of her heart.

Hao Jiali is such a studious person, she has no books to read, and the discomfort in her heart is really indescribable.

Therefore, Hao Jiali, who has now joined the work, was torn up by her mother Chen Feng, not to mention how disgusted she was with her mother's approach.

Moreover, Hao Jiali often remembers that back then, if the family was not like this at that time, she was now admitted to the county key high school like her younger brother Hao Jiaming, and her future and future will be bright.

If she had been admitted to high school like her younger brother Hao Jiaming, and then admitted to university after graduating from high school, and accepted the national compulsory education curriculum, Hao Jiali would have really become a literate person.

But now, she has only graduated from junior high school, and this bit of cultural knowledge is pitifully poor, she doesn't even know that she is in high school, and she doesn't even know that the gate of the university is facing east and west, and she has no chance to step in, which is the pain of Hao Jiali's life.

"I can't figure out calculus, college, moderation, and the Analects in my life." Hao Jiali was in pain when she thought of this.

And this kind of pain Chen Feng not only did not understand, but Chen Feng tore up Hao Jiali's book, but there was no guilt in his heart.

Chen Feng has been poor and scared all these years, Chen Feng is looking at money in his eyes, reading money in his mouth, and listening to money in his ears, except for money, Chen Feng is not interested in anything.

Chen Feng didn't care what Hao Jiali felt, she was afraid that Hao Jiali would delay going to work and deduct her wages from the unit, and then hurt Hao Jiali's curiosity again and again.

And Chen Feng has become accustomed to this practice.

Hao Jiali was extremely troubled by this, and Hao Jiali wanted to change her mother's approach, but in the end it was to no avail.

Chen Feng had already started to do this to Hao Jiali when her family was in a desperate situation repeatedly.

Hao Jiali still remembers very well that when the family was in a desperate situation again and again, Chen Feng asked her to drop out of school again and again, and threw Hao Jiali's textbooks into the firewood stove used to cook pigs at home without saying a word and lit a fire.

Then, Hao Jiali couldn't go to school without books, and the homeroom teacher saw that Hao Jiali hadn't come to class for a few days, so the homeroom teacher visited her home and scolded Chen Feng fiercely, and then Hao Jiali was brought back to school, and the homeroom teacher gave Hao Jiali a set of old textbooks from last year again, and Hao Jiali had to sit in the classroom and have books to read.

Over the years, Hao Jiali has never figured out what her mother thought at that time.

Originally, Hao Jiali's school tuition was not expensive, and the cost of the book was only five cents a piece, plus a pen, and the book stationery supplies were only two or three yuan a year to read a book, but Chen Feng just didn't let Hao Jiali go to school, and asked Hao Jiali to work the production team.

Fortunately, Hao Jiali got money from the team's fish pond and the village stream, and Hao Jiali gave herself a way.

This is how Hao Jiali got the money for food and study.

In the SJ Commune in Leiyang City, Hunan Province, Hao Jiali's hometown, there are 13 production teams in one brigade, and more than a dozen brigades in each commune, and the commune holds a market every half month.

When the market is opened, more than a dozen brigades of peasants in the commune will go to the market.

Some of these peasants sell their own agricultural and sideline products, and the money from the sale goes to the commune cooperatives to buy daily necessities, fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, etc.

The most buyers of agricultural and sideline products are the staff of communes, teachers of private primary and secondary schools, and employees of agricultural machinery stations.

At that time, everyone who ate the national grain had to pay for it themselves, because they had no land, and Hao Jiali's money was earned from these people.

When Chen Feng's leg was good, Hao Jiali followed her to the commune market more than ten miles away to catch up with the market, and saw all kinds of agricultural and sideline products sold in the market, among which snails were one of these agricultural and sideline products.

But speaking of which, although the money was earned, it was also earned by Hao Jiali by all odds.

Because although the fish pond of the production team is not as deep as the reservoir, the shallowest place like Hao Jiali can also soak Hao Jiali's body to the position of her waist.

When Hao Jiali jumped off the fish pond for the first time, she didn't know the depth of the water, thinking that the middle of the fish pond was the same shallow as the side, and she picked the snail in the water, and unconsciously Hao Jiali's feet went to the middle of the fish pond, until the water passed her shoulder, she found that the mud under her feet was getting deeper and deeper, and her body kept sinking down, and the water level suddenly reached Hao Jiali's neck.

At this time, the buoyancy of the water held up Hao Jiali's small body, and Hao Jiali couldn't stand firmly, and Hao Jiali's body staggered in the water, fluttering and choking several mouthfuls of water, the water choked Hao Jiali's nasal cavity was sour, and tears flowed in her eyes, Hao Jiali thought that she would be drowned, so scared that she walked to the shore of the fish pond as if she had no soul, walked to the shore and then grabbed the long thatch on the shore, it was really like grabbing a life-saving grass and inhaled, and her face was pale with fright.

Hao Jiaming, who was sitting on the dry earthen ram on the shore, thought that his sister had met a water snake in the water, and he called Hao Jiali vigorously: "Sister! Did you see a snake, go ashore, hurry up! ”

Hao Jiali shook her head.

How could Hao Jiali give up like this.

Hao Jiali wants to get money and support her family.

Leaning against the dirt slope of the fish pond, Hao Jiali racked her brains to think of a way after relieving herself.

In the end, Hao Jiali thought of connecting all the ropes at home, and then tied these ropes to the tree pole on the shore of the fish pond at one end, and tied the other end to her waist, so that when the water of the fish pond overflowed Hao Jiali's neck, Hao Jiali was not so frightened, so afraid, as soon as something happened, Hao Jiali pulled the rope to stabilize her body first, and then stabilized her heart.

In addition, when it comes to the deep water of the fish pond, even if Hao Jiali can't bend down and pick the snails on the surface of the pond mud with her hands at this time, Hao Jiali can pull the rope with her hands, land on the ground with one foot, lift up with one foot and grope the snails on the mud surface with her toes, and when she finds it, Hao Jiali clips these snails with her toes.

It's really in order to get more snails and sell more money, Hao Jiali can't wait to turn a fish pond upside down.

Not only that, but in the end, Hao Jiali also practiced a way to pick out snails in the fish pond when the water overflowed her head.

In addition to tying a rope around her waist, Hao Jiali also held a thick long wooden stick in her hand.

When the water was deep, Hao Jiali first stuck the wooden stick in the mud of the fish pond and tightened the wooden stick with the arm of one hand, then took a deep breath, and then pinched her nose with the other hand to prevent her from breathing, and dived her whole person to the bottom.

After reaching the bottom of the water, Hao Jiali switched to the fingers of the hand that tightened the wooden stick and continued to pinch the nostrils, and the other hand leaned on the wooden stick without exceeding the scope of the wooden stick inserted in the water.

After climbing out of the water, Hao Jiali washed the snails of the fish basket and selected the stones.

After repeating it countless times, Hao Jiali only went ashore after picking out a basket of snails in the fish basket.

went ashore and looked at the snails full of baskets, not to mention how excited Hao Jiali was, Hao Jiaming jumped up with joy, and shouted with bright eyes: "Sister!" That's a lot! This week we won't be hungry, and when we go to the market and sell the money, we can buy rice, vegetables, and delicious food. ”

The production team members who fed the fish grass on the shore of the fish pond were stunned, and every time they saw Hao Jiali's performance, they jokingly called Hao Jiali a water monkey.

Hao Jiali had no choice, Hao Jiali couldn't swim, and no one taught her, so she could only take her own unique way to get into the water.