Chapter 8 Getting Lost and Selling Big Fish
"A popsicle, what's the flavor?" Zhang Ze stepped forward and asked.
"There are red fruits and adzuki beans, three points and one piece." The popsicle seller parked the 28 bars, opened the foam box on the back seat, and opened the insulated quilt to introduce.
"A popsicle from adzuki beans!"
"Okay!"
I paid three cents and got a small bean popsicle.
This popsicle is made of red beans, which is similar to the red beans and mung bean popsicles of later generations.
One bite directly cooled the heart, and the heat around the body was immediately reduced by a few points.
Eat popsicles to cool down and walk towards the station.
Just after taking two steps, he suddenly paused, and suddenly looked back at the popsicle seller in the distance, and the joy on his face became stronger and stronger.
Perhaps, if you get lost, you can sell the big fish?
Rebirth cannot shake the country's policies, even if he is a reborn in this era, it is difficult to make a difference, and he was an ordinary farmer in his previous life, and he has no special skills.
So if he wants to live a better life, Zhang Ze can only find other ways, and this person who sells popsicles everywhere gave him a very good inspiration.
It seems that in the next half year, he can not only slowly upgrade the fishing space, but also make his family have enough food and clothing.
Zhang Ze returned to the state-run hotel and exchanged a cigarette with the waiter for a hemp rope the thickness of a little thumb.
Then I went to the corner and took the pork wrapped in paper out of the bucket and put it in a bamboo basket with rice, and then my heart moved, and a big fish appeared that there was not enough water in a bucket.
He threaded twine through the mouth of the fish and out through the right gills of the fish. Then repeat again, but this time through the left gill through.
Tie a slipknot at both ends of the hemp rope, and the eleven-pound mandarin fish was lifted in his hand.
The mandarin fish wagged its tail a few times weakly, but there was no room for resistance.
Then, Zhang Ze, who was carrying the fish, got lost in the county seat.
Go around in a big circle, hey, where is my home?
An uncle sat at the door of his house fanning a fan, a young man walked in front of him, the uncle nodded, my young man from Dayue Bay looks like a spirit.
Yo, this fish is good!
After a while, a young man carrying a fish passed by the door again...
Hey, why do you say again?
A little longer...
"Eh, Housheng, you stop, stop!"
"What's wrong, Abel?" Zhang Ze stopped and looked at the uncle in front of him who lived in a new two-story building with a puzzled expression.
"You kid has passed by my door three times, what's the matter with you?" He Weiping pointed at him with the fan in his hand and asked directly.
"Walked three times? I said how this place looks a little familiar! Zhang Ze looked suddenly enlightened, and then showed an embarrassed smile to him, "That, I don't know the way a little, I should be lost again!" ”
How is it again?
He Weiping looked at Zhang Ze carefully, his clothes were a little shabby, and there were a few patches, and his heart suddenly realized that it was a young man from the surrounding countryside.
So he asked, "Are you visiting relatives?" ”
Zhang Ze nodded: "My uncle lives in Qiandong Street, saying that he wants to tell me about family affairs, and he likes to eat mandarin fish, so my mother asked me to catch a mandarin fish and send it to my uncle." ”
"Qiandong Street? In the future, this is West Street, and the former East Street is on the east side. He Weiping's expression was complicated, it was the first time he had seen him get lost and become like this.
"Huh?" Zhang Ze was taken aback, "It turned out that I made a mistake, I said, why is this place not like my uncle's house at all!" ”
Then he pretended to look at his fish inadvertently, and suddenly panicked: "Oh, the fish are all lost after too much delay, and my uncle doesn't like it when he dies." ”
He Weiping looked at the fish, and if there were no fish in the water on such a hot day, they would die quickly.
But the tail of this fish was still moving when it was lifted, and it was very energetic, and it could be put in the water for some more time.
His heart moved, and a thought suddenly came to him.
This mandarin fish is not small, and he and his wife can't eat it at all, so wouldn't there be an excuse for his son and daughter to come over and eat fish together?
The main thing is that I miss my grandchildren!
They are all coastal people, and the fish are from snacks to large, but his wife has the skill of cooking fish.
Compared with fishy seafood (the reason for preservation is that dead fish will have a fishy smell, and some people don't like it), mandarin fish has no fishy smell and has no fine spines.
Thinking of this, He Weiping immediately had an idea.
"Hou Sheng, it's a pity that this fish is not small and dies, I have a solution, do you want to hear it."
"Abel, you say!"
"In this way, give me your mandarin fish, and I will exchange it for you. Why don't you go and find your way to the door first, and then hurry back and get another mandarin fish for your uncle to send over? ”
"This..."Zhang Ze showed a hesitant look, "Isn't this speculation?" ”
He Weiping's eyes widened: "Your fish is dying, I kindly took something to exchange it for you, why do you say that!" ”
"My fault, my fault, we countrymen haven't read books and are stupid, don't mind, Abel. I'm willing to change the fish, you can see what to give! We countrymen don't know anything, we can't eat a bite of meat, and we haven't seen what sugar looks like..."
"Stop, stop, stop..."He Weiping couldn't cry or laugh, and the pu fan in his hand pointed at him again, "Little slippery head, give me the fish, I'll go get something for you." ”
"Okay, thank you, Uncle!" Zhang Ze handed him the fish with a 'smile', choosing to be a simple rural person with no knowledge, and stupidly believing in the other party.
If the other party doesn't think about it, then he may get a long-term customer.
Tricking his fish, he dared to sneak over at night and smash the window, and the courage of the era without monitoring is so big.
He Weiping took the fish, and his hand suddenly sank: "Yo, it's quite heavy, wait." ”
With that, he walked slowly into the house, and after a full ten minutes or so, he came out again.
didn't come to the door, but beckoned to Zhang Ze at the door: "Housheng, you come in." ”
"Okay!" Zhang Ze did not hesitate and walked into the house.
Then He Weiping took out five yuan, and handed him a lot of tickets, and said angrily: "Take it, the meat and sugar at home have been given to my grandchildren, you can buy it yourself!" ”
Zhang Ze was not polite, took the money tickets and put them into the inner pocket of his clothes and said with a smile: "Thank you, Uncle, now my younger brothers and sisters will have meat and sugar to eat." And my mother, who usually saves money, can now let her eat well. ”
He Weiping saw that the first thing he thought of was his family, and he thought of his elders, knowing that this was a filial child, and his face looked a little better.
"Go, turn left at the gate and follow the road, and you will reach the east of the city. If you can't find your way, you have to ask someone on the road. ”
"Good!" Leaving He Weiping's house, Zhang Ze thought of his behavior just now, and felt a little guilty in his heart.
Although his routine is somewhat of the other party's own initiative and willingness, he also has the kindness of taking advantage of the old man.
took out the money tickets given by the uncle just now from his clothes pocket and counted them, five yuan each, as well as food stamps, meat stamps, scattered non-staple food and other stamps.
The overall value is almost a dozen yuan, and the uncle doesn't have the intention of taking advantage of him.
Seeing this, Zhang Ze understood that he had met a good person.
"Forget it, if you encounter any good things in the future, give one to this kind old man!"
Then, he came to a no-man's corner, and once again had an extra mandarin fish of about four catties in his hand, and then went to another street to wander around, also specializing in the new building and other places.
However, compared with the situation on the uncle's side, some people in other places who feel that the conditions are good will directly ask if they can change the fish in his hand when they see the fish in his hand.
Zhang Ze wondered how someone could take the initiative at first, but soon he met a colleague who was dangling like him and selling pastries with a basket on his shoulder, and he understood the situation.