Chapter 5 Carts and Eels

You must know that hair can be sold for money, especially hair as long as Fang Yuan, and it is not cheap.

Fang Yuan didn't say anything, even if the barber didn't wash his hair, he didn't plan to ask for these hairs, because he had nowhere to sell them at all.

After cutting his head, Fang Yuan came to the street again, he had been in the imperial capital for more than ten years in his previous life, and Fang Yuan's Mandarin was still very good, so no one felt that he had fled from other places.

What Fang Yuan wanted to do most now was to get some meat, but he also knew that this was basically impossible.

It's not because he doesn't have money, it's because he doesn't have tickets, meat tickets, in this day and age, you can only buy things with tickets, and without tickets, it's useless how much money you have.

And now is a three-year difficult period, and it is also the most scarce period of materials, especially food, not to mention meat.

It was impossible to buy meat, so Fang Yuan could only find a way from somewhere else, in fact, he hadn't thought about it before, because the place where he lived was next to the reeds.

You must know that there are fish in the reeds, but in the end he let him veto it himself, because he doesn't know what is going on in the reeds.

After all, he is only an eight-year-old child now, and if he rushes into the reeds, it is a question of whether he can get out.

It wasn't without his thoughts that he would catch a few fish on the shore, but he didn't find them at the water's edge for several days.

However, this is also normal, because not far from the reed swing is the Qinghe commune, if there is a fish in the reed, it is estimated that it will not be his turn to catch it at all, and he will have been caught a long time ago.

You must know that in this era, he is not the only one who has no meat to eat, everyone does not use meat to eat, at least he still has food to eat, and many people don't even have food to eat.

So this path didn't work, but Fang Yuan really wanted to eat meat now! he hadn't smelled meat for more than half a month, which was unimaginable in his previous life.

In the previous life, let's not say that there was meat to eat, but at least one meal of meat to eat every day, and this is still an ordinary family, a person like Fang Yuan who has a business like Fang Yuan basically can't leave a meal.

Just as Fang Yuan was walking aimlessly, a car repair shop appeared in front of him, which was of course not a car repair shop, but a car repair shop that repaired bicycles.

Although there are not necessarily a few bicycles in the entire Qinghe Commune, there must be a car repair shop, otherwise what if the bicycle breaks.

Ordinary people don't have bicycles, but the commune secretary, and those who work in the commune, they do have bicycles, and even if it's for their own convenience, they will get a garage.

You must know that in this era, car repair shops were public, and private individuals were not allowed to do business, and as for paying wages to the workers of car repair shops, it was not their own money.

Fang Yuan didn't have a bicycle again, so he took a look and was about to leave, but at this moment, Fang Yuan saw a few scrap car strips on the ground at the door of the car repair shop.

Fang Yuan stopped, and walked over, the car mechanic was a middle-aged man in his forties, saw Fang Yuan coming over, and asked, "Child, go farther." ”

It may be because he is afraid that Fang Yuan will steal the things in the car repair shop, or it may be because of the service attitude of public employees.

Fang Yuan didn't get angry, but said with a smile: "Hello uncle, do you still want the scrap car strips on the ground?"

The middle-aged man glanced at Fang Yuan, then at the three waste car strips on the ground, and said to Fang Yuan: "Don't do it, take it and leave quickly." ”

"Okay, you're busy. Fang Yuan picked up the three waste car strips on the ground and ran away.

This thing is not worth anything at all, to put it mildly, don't say three, even if it is one, it is estimated that it will not sell for a penny.

The reason why Fang Yuan wanted this scrap car strip was because he was useful, Fang Yuan was also a rural child in his previous life, and when he was a child, he followed adults to the ditch and ditch to fish for yellow eels.

Of course, the tools used were much better than this scrap car strip, but where Fang Yuan went to find it now, he could only use this scrap car strip, it was better than nothing.

Holding three waste car strips, Fang Yuan went back, in fact, one was enough, the reason why he picked up all three was because he didn't want the middle-aged man to be suspicious, and thought that he was just for the three waste car strips.

After going back, Fang Yuan picked a relatively long one, threw the other two short ones on the ground, and then found a stone and grinded it on the side of the reed.

Soon the end was sharpened, and it looked particularly sharp, and after grinding, the sharp end was bent and hooked.

Just like a fish hook, Fang Yuan didn't have any tools, and the bicycle strip was still relatively hard, Fang Yuan thought about it, and prepared to put the bicycle strip in the fire when cooking at night, so that it would be easier.

After dark, Fang Yuan entered the vegetable cellar, and before entering the vegetable cellar, he picked up two relatively thin stone chips.

After coming down, Fang Yuan first lit the lantern, then boiled the porridge, and when the fire was burned, he put the bicycle strip inside.

Although the fire was not big, it still burned the bicycle strip red after burning for a while, and Fang Yuan took out the bicycle strip with two branches.

The one that burned was the one with the point, the other end was not burned, just a little hot, Fang Yuan picked up a sack piece next to him, wrapped the unburned end, and held it in his hand.

He picked up the two stones from the ground, clamped them on the red-hot end, and bent them easily, and a king-sized hook was made.

Fang Yuan poured some water on it, and with a stinging sound, a stream of white eyes appeared, and the red hook also turned black.

At this time, the porridge had also been cooked, Fang Yuan put down the hook and brought the porridge down from the stove, he did not extinguish the fire, but let it finish by itself.

This not only increases the temperature of the cellar, but also eliminates the need for smoke.

Putting the porridge down, Fang Yuan pinched a grain of salt from a cloth bag, put it directly into the porridge, and stirred it with chopsticks.

It is not good for people not to eat salt, and they have no strength if they don't eat salt, and as for this salt, it is also from the canteen of the woolen mill, which is the kind of salt with large grains.

It's not good to eat too much of this salt, because there is no canon, and if you eat this salt for a long time, you are likely to get big neck disease.

But in this era, there is only this kind of salt, besides, it has been this kind of salt from ancient times to the present, and I have not seen many people get big neck disease, it is only possible, not absolute.

Put salt in the polenta, to be honest, it really didn't taste very good, but Fang Yuan still ate it, and there was not a drop left.

After eating, I filled a lunch box with water and put it on the stove.

Before, there were no conditions, so he drank the water directly in the reeds, but now that he has the conditions, of course, he must boil the water before drinking.

He can't get sick now, and it's better to be healthy, in that case, he has a better chance of surviving.

Put some firewood in the stove again, Fang Yuan extinguished the lantern, this thing Fang Yuan was not willing to order, this is not to say how expensive the lantern is, mainly the foreign oil in it is expensive.

He didn't have a foreign oil ticket, so there was no place to buy it, but fortunately, when he got it back, the foreign oil in it was full, saving a little money, enough for him to use for a long time.

Therefore, when he usually used it, Fang Yuan adjusted the fire to a very small level, as long as there was a bright light, and extinguished it immediately after eating.

The water was boiling on the stove, anyway, he didn't drink it now, Fang Yuan went to sleep, this water was drunk when he was thirsty at night.

The next morning, Fang Yuan got himself a little food and went out with the hook after eating, first found a relatively humid place near him, pulled a few times with a stick, and an earthworm was pulled out by him.

Next, Fang Yuan picked up a few more, and went over to break a reed, leaving a section after it was broken.

The reeds were hollow, Fang Yuan put the earthworm in it, and looked for it on the shore of the reeds, of course, to find out if there was a hole.

Yellow eels will make holes in relatively private places on the shore, and as long as they see holes, there are basically things inside.

Of course, it's not just the eels that make holes in the shore, there may also be snakes, and no one knows what's in the hole until it's fished out.

The reeds are very large, with an area of at least several square kilometers, and after looking for a long time, it is only a short distance.

This is not to say that there is no hole in this distance, but Fang Yuan put the hook in it and there is no reaction at all, needless to say, it is estimated that it is empty.

At noon, Fang Yuan took out two boiled potatoes from his pocket, ate them by dividing them by two, and then continued to look for them, if he changed to someone else and didn't catch them in the morning, it was estimated that he would not fish anymore, it was a pure waste of time.

But Fang Yuan wouldn't, because he had time, and there was nothing to do anyway, so he would pass the time.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Fang Yuan found a hole under a tree on the shore of the reeds, and put the hook into it.

This hole is relatively hidden, if Fang Yuan hadn't looked for it more carefully, he wouldn't have found it at all.

Fang Yuan lightly lifted and put it down, back and forth a dozen times, and just when he thought it was another hollow, he felt the hook sink.

Fang Yuan hurriedly grabbed the hook, and then pulled it outside, and a yellow eel more than a foot long with a yellowed body was pulled out.

This yellow eel was very large, almost half a catty, to be honest, this was not small, Fang Yuan grabbed the hook and hurriedly left the reeds.

He was afraid that after the yellow eel fell off, he would run into the reeds, and it would be fine if he stayed away from the reeds, even if it fell off, he could catch it.

Fang Yuan was very excited now, because soon he would be able to eat meat, although a yellow eel didn't have much meat, it was also meat anyway.

Seeing that the yellow eel had no intention of falling off, Fang Yuan grabbed the hook and ran towards the vegetable cellar, the yellow eel was relatively slippery, if it was taken off the hook, it would be more troublesome to take it back, after all, he was only eight years old, and he didn't have so much strength in his hands.

After returning to the vegetable cellar, Fang Yuan pressed the hook with a large stone, picked up a relatively short bicycle strip from the ground, and grinded it on the stone next to it.

But this time it wasn't sharpened, but the side of the bicycle strip was sharpened, and he was going to sharpen a knife out, which didn't need to be sharp, as long as it could be used to clean up the yellow eel.