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The people in the enlightenment area like to make fish nests with straw in the paddy fields in winter, raise mature old female carp, and give fresh millet to eat every day. The old female carp are all fat, and the seeds will be scattered in the spring, and a large area of the field is full of fish flowers.

At this time, those who are active and able to speak well from near and far will come with a shallow but very wide wooden barrel specially for fish flowers, and the barrel can be filled with seven or eight points for three or five yuan. Then, he picked up the villages and villages to sell everywhere.

People who come to Wendouzhai to sell fish flowers, people call them "fish flower customers".

In March, the weather gradually warms up.

After the cuckoo calls, the rain begins to be abundant, and most people rush to plow a mound of seedlings to use as a seed for lower grains.

The grain seeds are sown and the fish flowers are placed. When the seedlings are full of seedlings and ready to be transplanted to other fields, the fish flowers will grow to the size of a finger. Divide them into the hills and fields, and they can grow to the size of three or four fingers in the early autumn of that year.

"Sell fish flowers! Sell fish flowers! At that time, I could hear this kind of cries almost every day.

Once someone wants to buy it, the fish flower customer will put down the burden and let others see the color of the fish flower first. The two people squatted, watched for a long time, and gestured for a long time, and then the fish flower guest took out half of the shell, and when he retreated, many fish flowers poured into the shell along the water. Estimating that the amount was about the same, he poured it into a wooden barrel or a large bowl prepared by the fish buyer.

Those who buy fish flowers must shout "send a few more, send a few more", and the fish flower customers are also happy to be a favor, and scoop a few more and pour them over.

Sometimes it's almost dark, and the fish flower guests will casually find someone to eat and spend the night in the village, and then scoop a bowl of fish flower to the host's house the next day. One trip down, you can earn one or twenty yuan.

Of course, there are surprises.

That year, a young fishflower guest was carrying the fishflower to the middle of the ridge of a seedling field, and two strong men rushed from the ridge with a curse, shouting and scolding, waving the wooden stick in his hand, looking desperate. Scared a fish flower to stand there, and there was nowhere to dodge, and it was too late to dodge. As a result, the fish flower customers were squeezed into the field, and all the fish flowers were poured into the field.

As soon as the fish flowers hit the paddy fields, they scattered in all directions.

When the two strong men chased them to a flat ground, they threw wooden sticks and scuffled together, looking very desperate.

Yuhuake got up from the paddy field, and before anything was going on, the two strong men broke free and ran in front, and the other chased closely. Soon, both of them were gone.

The fish flower guest looked like he was seventeen or eighteen years old, and he didn't have any hair on the side of his mouth, probably the first time he was a fish flower guest. A foreigner naturally didn't dare to pick up the hill field, so he had to think that he was unlucky, and left with a wooden barrel in frustration.

This business is destined to be in vain.

It's a pity that I picked up a good fish flower, and I pity the fish flower customer who just debuted.

The two brothers on the village, the lazy man Chaotian and Chaodi, had no money to buy fish flowers and put them in the seedling field, and they bullied the young fish flower guest, so they came up with such a bad idea. is too lacking in morality, and the two of them have been scolded by the villagers for a long time.

At that time, there were no roads within a radius of dozens of miles, from enlightenment to Wendou Village, from this village to that village, all on a pair of feet. A pick-up of fish flowers of dozens of catties often takes a few days. Although Yuhuake makes money, it is also the money that is ground out of the skin of the body and the bottom of the foot.

Sometimes, walking on the road, there is no shop in front of the village, the weather is too hot, and there is no place to change the water, and the fish flowers will die in a large area. If you choose to be a fish shopper, you must be mentally prepared to make money or lose all your money.

However, there is only one season a year. Once the season is over, why should I go back to what I should do?