Sixty years with spring

CHAPTER XV

Gifted Economic Mind (1)

Gu Mingyuan's gang is famous for fighting, although it is not a good thing, it is not a bad thing, and no one dares to bully them anymore. The teachers also think that they are reasonable people, so they can be said to be proud of the spring breeze at school.

Time flies very quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it is time for winter vacation.

Like every day, Che Hongxuan and Wang Xiuyou talked and laughed happily from school to go home together.

"Tomorrow is a holiday, a godsend, to start trading with your brother in the city." Che Hongxuan looked at Wang Xiu with a delicate face and said, "I don't know if you still want to go?" ”

Wang Xiu was happy, flashed his beautiful eyes like almonds and said, "Knowingly, why don't you want to go?" I just don't know if this park is fun this winter, but the big fruit will still be delicious, and the bath will be warmer. It's just that you have to spend money again, and I'm a little embarrassed. ”

"Aren't we going to make money, what's so embarrassing? Now that it's a holiday, there is time before the Spring Festival, and your brother and I have to go many times to earn the money for the New Year. You can arrange your time and go whenever you want. ”

"It's a lot of ambition, I don't know if it can go so well. My brother has been there twice recently, and today he went again. He said that business is not good these days, rice bran is not selling, and the price is low. He often arrives home in the middle of the night, and I don't know if he will come back today, but if he does, I will let him go to you. ”

"Don't be afraid, the veteran will make a top move, I will be able to do it. After a while, I settled the rice bran, and went to Li Siyu's house by the way, and asked him to find his father to go through the back door to buy a bus ticket. You go by bus tomorrow, and I'll pick you up at the station. ”

Wang Xiu clapped his hands happily, picked it up and asked, "Really?" You're not going to lie to me, are you? ”

Che Hongxuan smiled: "How dare I lie to you?" I have already thought about it, and in the future, you will go to the city and take all the buses, so as not to be exposed to the wind and rain. ”

"Okay, thank you so much, so happy! Everyone is talking behind their backs, how did such a big guy run on his own, and run so fast and far. I got a sneak peek and really should thank you. It's just that there's no way now, there's nothing to thank you, let's write it down first, maybe I'll get your debt in the future. ”

"Don't say that, my mother told me that it's a virtue to help people, and besides, we're good neighbors. In the early years, my family was in difficulty, and I didn't go to your house every day to eat and drink. ”

"After eating and drinking, I beat people, I'm embarrassed to say it!"

"Won't you give me a heel too? We flattened out. Don't talk about it, tomorrow you can experience it in a big car, how it feels, and tell me. ”

"Okay, I'll tell you."

"You can write a narrative."

"If you're in charge of making changes, I can write it, but I don't have the same amount of work as you."

Wang Xiu said this because Che Hongxuan's Xiaokai and narrative essays were often shown to his classmates by Teacher Zhang, and he became a writer in the class.

"Don't worry, do my best."

Wang Xiu looked at Che Hongxuan affectionately, and when he saw that he was also looking at himself, his nose tightened, and he turned his head and ran away like a naughty "hum".

The next day, Che Hongxuan and Wang Pang each carried 100 catties of rice bran, set off at four o'clock, and came to the market at seven o'clock. As Wang Pang said, the situation is very bad, and the rice bran cannot be sold. The reason is that there are more than a dozen sellers, and it is inevitable that there will be those who secretly lower the price, so the goods are not easy to sell.

Che Hongxuan looked around, and then went to other vendors to pretend to be buyers to inquire about the situation, and knew the reason here. Due to the long-distance buses between Mengxiang and the ancient city, many people have brought rice bran to the city to sell along the way, and the new rice has been put on the market, the supply of rice bran is abundant, the supply exceeds demand, and the price has also fallen, and there is not much profit margin.

Che Hongxuan heard that there was a market in Tiexi, which was far away from the station and relatively remote, so he told Wang Pang to try a different place, and if the situation was good, he would come back to pick him up.

Che Hongxuan packed up the goods, rode on the car and inquired all the way to the small market in Tiexi, but he didn't expect that there were already several rice bran sellers here.

He looked at the time and knew that Wang Xiu was almost there, and it would be a mistake to sell it again, so he found a seller, cashed out the original price of his goods, and then ran to the bus station to pick up Wang Xiu, and took Wang Xiu to the small market to find Wang Fat.

"Sold out?" Wang Pang asked in surprise.

"No," Che Hongxuan waved his hand and said, "I can't sell it, let me redeem it." ”

"Isn't that for nothing?"

"The rice bran business can't go any further, and we should look into other trades."

"What's the best deal?"

"I see that the shrimp and small fish sell very well, and it is only a dime in our place, and it sells more than three triangles here, and it will be snatched up when it comes, next time we will do this."

"Where are there so many shrimp and fish?"

"When you go to the rice field production area to harvest, you have to have it in the drainage ditch, and you have to have as much as you want. I don't think I'll get it for a dime, so it's going to be easy. ”

"Okay, I'll do it with you!"

"Redeem the current rice bran for someone else, and we can accompany your sister to play."

"No, no, you two go play, there's not much left, when people come to the market after work, they will sell, you come to pick me up at five o'clock in the evening."

Che Hongxuan understood him, because the Wang family still counted on the money to support the family, so he asked Wang Xiu's opinion: "I have to accompany you to play, and I will come to pick him up for dinner in the evening." ”

Wang Xiu saw that his brother was pitiful, and said disheartenedly: "It doesn't matter if you play or not, let's wait for my brother." ”

Che Hongxuan didn't want to say anything, he didn't know if Wang Xiu was inconvenient to consider,

He nodded in agreement and was there to help sell the goods.

It also has a point, and there are a few regular customers coming to the market. Che Hongxuan went to pick up people from afar, and pretended to be pitiful and said that he was in a hurry to go home, hoping to take care of him and buy some. Under his flickering, he sold all the remaining bit of rice bran in less than an hour.

Wang Xiu said happily: "Brother, it seems that there are many places where you have to learn from Hongxuan. Selling goods also requires a good relationship with others and establishes your own circle. ”

Che Hongxuan said: "There are two key points here, one is that the price must not be expensive, and the other is that there must be no shortage of catties or two. ”

Wang Pang said: "These two are not next to me. ”

Che Hongxuan nodded: "That's good." ”

Wang Pang hurriedly closed the stall.

Che Hongxuan led the brother and sister to a small restaurant in the market to eat, and then went to the park for a walk. There was nothing to see in the park, so I went to the mall, bought a beautiful cotton suit for Wang Xiu, and finally went to take a bath.

After that, Che Hongxuan took Wang Pang and started a shrimp and fish business. Every morning, take two straw cages behind the bicycle to receive the goods, and the straw cages are tightly covered with quilts to avoid freezing the shrimp and small fish to death. After receiving the goods, you should immediately rush to the city and walk the streets and alleys to buy them.

This thing is not like rice bran that can be put down, and it can't be sold after a long time when it dies, only the vigorous and vigorous energy that can be sold. There is an old saying that fish eat fresh meat and eat fat, and this is the secret of this business.

The two of them went every two or three days, and they really made a lot of money.

As the Spring Festival approaches, most of the ditches and ponds in the paddy field area have dried up, and there are not many small shrimp and fish. Even if some goods are shipped from the depths of the water, because the farmers have sold out of grain and have money in their hands, there will be no fish and shrimp left.

Che Hongxuan and Wang Pang have already harvested a lot, and the two stopped their business and prepared to have a happy New Year.

Che Hongxuan was fine, pondering everywhere to catch fish and touch shrimp, carrying an ice hammer, carrying a bucket, putting a stirring fish in the bucket, from the south river to the north paozi, from Meng Village to the neighboring villages, he walked a lot of places, and he didn't have much to gain. I was also drunk by my father when I played some fish, and I couldn't pay for it.

At first, Wang Pang followed him for two days, but when he saw no results, it was cold, so Wang Pang was reluctant to come out.

Since there was no gain, Che Hongxuan was not good at calling Wang Pang again.

One day, Che Hongxuan said to his mother: "Mom, you may catch a fish today." I remembered that there was a place where there might be fish, and when I walked on the side in the summer, I could always see a big fish stirring up a ball of black water and running into the deep water, and there were many small fish, and I guess there shouldn't be much water now. I'll go with the third child to have a look, and if the water can't catch me, I'll come back immediately. ”

Mom laughed and said, "That's not a joke? Who doesn't know if there is a fish, and can I keep it for you? ”

"That place was a ditch dug by digging soil during the construction of a canal in the rice fields, and this year when the water was high, it was washed by the flood, and the fish were washed by the flood. There's a pretty big bunker next to this ditch, and that's what I'm talking about. Because this place was originally a mass grave, and there were snakes, no one usually went there, and I found it when I was herding pigs. ”

"Then you go check it out and come back early. Today should be the day your dad comes back, come back early to get some groceries, don't wait for the shops to close. ”

"Okay mom."

Che Hongxuan carried a shovel and a pickaxe and a bucket on his back, and took Che Laosan to fish in the roaring north wind and heavy snow.

When he arrived at the place, Che Hongxuan first cleaned up the snow on the ice, and then opened the ice hole, which was already empty under the ice.

Che Hongxuan didn't care about the ice and snow, lay on the ice, and poked his head under the thick ice. Oh, it turns out that there is a space more than half a meter high under the ice, which is like a fantasy world, and a lot of dead grass is frozen between the bottom of the river and the ice, which is confusing and reverie.

He saw that there was not much water at the bottom of the pit not far away, and he could see the waves of fish dancing, which excited him.

Che Laosan shouted to him: "Brother, I'm cold." ”

"I'll enlarge this ice hole a little bit, and I'll cut some grass mats for you, and you'll sit here, and you'll be warm, and you'll be able to see the fish under the ice."

Che Hongxuan quickly settled Che Laosan, and then went to fight another ice cave. After the ice hole was built, he began to carry water to the shore with buckets.

After waiting for his brother to carry it for more than half an hour, Che Laosan shouted under the ice: "Brother, I saw it, a big black fish ran to the shore." ”

"Don't worry, it can't escape!"

Che Hongxuan also saw it, he was not in a hurry, and he fished with all his might. It's a pity that just caught such a black fish, which weighed three catties.

Che Laosan asked strangely: "Brother, didn't you say that there are still many small fish, why is there such an unlucky light pole commander?" ”

"It should have eaten all the fish."

"Will it?"

"Yes, this fish is very ferocious, and it eats not only small fish, but also frogs. Haven't you heard that big fish eat small fish, small fish eat dried shrimp, dried shrimp gnaw the earth, everything in the world is like this, the weak eat the strong. ”

"Understood."

"The normal situation should be two. I've seen people catch blackfish in the river, tie frogs to hooks and swing back and forth on their nests, and they get hooked. Generally, two of them will be fished, probably because the water has washed it away, and it is single. ”

"It's pitiful enough. Brother, why aren't you too cold? ”

"Haven't you heard of it, fish heads have fire!"

This incident is simply incredible, and in the rest of my life, the two brothers often mentioned it when they met, and they were very happy.

From that day on, Che Hongxuan felt that fishing was profitable, so he found Wang Pang again, and the two fished everywhere and touched shrimp, and sometimes even hit more than a dozen catties.

At the beginning of the spring of the second year, Che Hongxuan, as usual, passed by the market every day when he went to school, and as long as he had enough time, he had to go around here to see if there was any situation.

In the past few days, he has seen a person who is always selling catfish, and he feels strange, where did this person get it?

Later, Che Hongxuan finally inquired and understood, and it turned out that the fish was caught from the upper reaches of the Nanhe River.

He had an idea, since there is something upstream, there will definitely be one downstream. The south river is lined with flowing water, and no one can catch all the fish. He had heard the old saying that a fish goes over a mille-feuille net, and there are fish in the net.

Without further ado, in order to find out, it was dark that night, and he quietly walked upstream along the bridge along the South River. The so-called learning art is better than stealing art, because the angler will not give him the method anyway, and the truth of teaching the apprentice to starve the master to death is still clear.

He walked a long way, he didn't know how far the river was in the village upstream, and he couldn't see the lights, he only knew that the river flowed out of the eastern mountains, and he couldn't go to the end anyway.

It had been a long way from Meng's village, and the top of the dam was already full of wild grass, and there were no people, not only snakes, but also weasels, and so on, and he didn't expect that the fisherman would come so far.

Frightened, he walked back, and stopped not far from the bridge along the South River, ready to wait for the rabbit, for this was the only way upstream.

That night he ended up in vain, and the next morning when it was dawn he came running again. Just after crossing the Nanhe River along the bridge, he saw a light by the river, and he suddenly realized that this was the case.

He watched for a while, went home quietly, went to school after eating, and when he passed by the market, he saw the fish seller again.

After dark at night, he and Wang Pang went to "steal art" again. This time they saw that there was a flashlight shaking in the river all the time.

After the lamp in the river walked back to the village, Che Hongxuan led Wang Pang to the river in the dark, pulled out the fish hook inserted in the river, and saw the truth. It really paid off, he finally figured everything out, and he was very happy.

There was no fish hook sold in Meng Village, he and Wang Pang went to the city to inquire everywhere, and finally bought fish hooks and nylon thread, and when he returned home, he asked Wang Pang to buy half a catty of small loaches in the market, and went to the south river to check the situation.

After buying loaches, Wang Pang went to the south river to find Che Hongxuan, saw that Che Hongxuan was cutting cotton slivers, and asked, "Can this work?" ”

"You listen to me."

"People use very thick sticks, which are longer than this."

"Let's use this first, and if it doesn't work, we'll chop the elm sticks."

"I'm afraid that the big fish will pull this little rod away."

"So when you plug it in, you must plug it in firmly."

"I see."

Che Hongxuan cut a bundle of cotton locust slivers, cut them into about one meter long, took a nylon thread more than half a meter long and tied it to a fish hook, and hooked it with a loach. He drew a gourd in the same way, and took Wang Pang to stick the hook on the shore, so that the loaches on the hook could go down to the water, but they must not fall to the bottom of the river, so that the loaches could attract the catfish by swinging back and forth. Every 10 meters or so, a fish hook is inserted to find a place where there is grass to hook.

In the middle of the night, the two of them laid dozens of hooks, then stayed on the shore for a while, saw that it was not early, and then went home to sleep.

In order to catch up with the hook before no one came to the riverbank, and Che Hongxuan still had to go to school, the two of them got up and went to the south river as soon as it was dawn, and before they reached the river, they heard the fluttering sound of the fish on the hook.

The two were so excited that they went down barefoot, taking the hooked fish one by one with a stirrger.

This is the first time I caught more than a dozen of them, the big ones are more than a catty, and the small ones are more than half a catty.

Although it was close to summer and the weather was completely warm, the water in the river and the remaining peach blossom water in the east mountain were very cold, but none of them felt cold.

The two put the hooks in sacks, tied them to the back of their bicycles, and prepared to continue the fight at night.

Che Hongxuan said: "This fish has seven or eight catties, if you don't sell it, it will die, and once it dies, it will be worthless." ”

"What then?"

"If you go to the commune in the south to sell it, it's only more than 20 miles, and it costs three yuan a catty. This is a very fat river fish, and the family must buy it if there is a confinement child, and it can be milked. ”

"How do you know everything?"

"Listen to what other people say."

"Why don't you go to the street to sell it?"

"You must not go, once everyone knows that they are coming to fish, then what are we going to do, can we still catch it? Besides, you sell your fish during the day and tie fifty hooks, and at night you go down to the other side of the river. ”

"It's not too deep, is it?"

"It's okay, I came to catch clams for the first two days, and the deepest is no more than ass balls. If you're afraid of me going over, I'm familiar with this place. ”

"I'd better go."

After studying for a while, the two returned home for dinner unconsciously.

After the meal, Che Hongxuan happily went to school with Wang Xiu, and there was no exaggeration to show off fishing on the way.

Wang Xiu did a lot of favors to his family because Che Hongxuan did a lot of work, and he usually held him and chatted. But he didn't know the depths, and he blew and whistled more and more, showing off his abilities.

With the help of his parents, Wang Pang mysteriously put the catfish in a bucket, put it in a grass cage that sells shrimp and small fish in winter, and tied it to the back of a bicycle, for fear that the fish would die, so he hurriedly went to the foreign commune to sell fish.

In fact, whether it is Che Hongxuan or Wang Fat, I don't know, this kind of catfish has a very tenacious vitality, and it is no problem to raise it for ten days and half a month.