hunting in 1986

Chapter 15 15 Fried Cake
In the city, at the entrance of Li Hang's community.

After talking a few words with Mrs. Li, Wang Yuan was just about to push his bicycle away, when suddenly, Li Hang said with a smile, "Wang Yuan, do you know the mandarin fish in Songhua River? If you can catch mandarin fish, you can send it to me."

They had exchanged names just now, and Wang Yuan even told them the location of the village where he lived.

"Mandarin fish? I can catch it, okay, I'll send it if I catch it."

"Okay, when you come, tell the guard, just look for Li Hang on the 16th."

"I understand." Wang Yuan showed a simple and honest smile, and then pedaled away on his bicycle.

It is already afternoon, the cool wind is blowing, and the leaves of the green trees on the roadside are rattling.

Liu Ling and Li Hang's son stood at the gate of the community, looked at the back of Wang Yuan who was going away, and then walked back with two flying dragons, talking while walking.

Li Hang said with a smile: "Mom, let's eat flying dragon stew tonight, Chili~ I haven't eaten flying dragon for a long time."

"Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat, and go fight again when you're full?" Liu Ling, who still had a charming look, gave him a blank look, but said:
"When your father comes back, stew it, remove the hair and internal organs, the two flying dragons add up to about 1 catty, and it's only enough to eat once."

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the other side.

Wang Yuan rode his bicycle leisurely, occasionally avoiding Polonaise cars driving on the street.

In this era, there are no LED lights, and there are not so many colorful signboards. The buildings on both sides of the road are mainly gray-brown and look like they are covered with a layer of dirt.

"Two flying dragons could only be sold for 2 yuan, but now they are sold for 8 yuan. I just keep 100 yuan for myself." Wang Yuan thought.

It's not that Wang Yuan is greedy for money, it's just that he has a very clear goal in mind - to buy some antiques and store them in the space, so that he can make a lot of money when their value rises in the future.

Antiques are not very valuable in this era, and many people don't pay much attention to antiques. They don't care if they drill a hole in an antique bottle or break one occasionally.

Not well protected.

Some national treasure-level antique porcelains may have been smashed in some corner, and the damage was silent, and there is no possibility of being amazed forever.

And some precious jade seals?Some post-60s and 70s use them to smash walnuts, stones, and nails for fun, and they don't know where to throw them.

On the way back, Wang Yuan saw a store selling fried cakes made with glutinous rice and red bean paste, so he stopped and bought them for 5 cents—one for 5 cents, exactly ten.

The oblate fried cake exudes bursts of aroma, and Wang Yuan swallowed involuntarily. The sauce-colored fried cake looks like a small flying saucer, very beautiful.

"I went back to eat for Xiaoqing and Xiaodie... I also took the opportunity to change the money. I bought a fried cake for 5 cents, and then I would give my parents another 7.5 yuan."

Wang Yuan carefully put the fried cake wrapped in straw paper in the basket, then pedaled his bicycle vigorously, and gradually left the urban area. Driving on the dirt road, the wind blew by his ears, and his heart soared.

Gradually the setting sun appeared in the sky, and the clouds all over the sky were reflected in red.

Hurry up slowly, and when Wang Yuan returned to the village by bicycle, the sun was still setting.

Mother Wang waited at the entrance of the village with the little girl, and she laughed instantly when she saw Wang Yuan came back, and felt a little distressed seeing the latter panting and sweating.

"You can be regarded as coming back. It's going to be dark today. The journey went smoothly, right?"

"By the way, it went well."

Wang Yuan took out a straw paper-wrapped fried cake from the basket, opened it and handed one to the little girl.

The little girl was holding a big grasshopper in her right hand. It turned out that she was catching the grasshopper just now, her eyes lit up when she saw the delicious fried cake, and she quickly caught it with her white and tender left hand.

"Wow! Fried cakes! I love them!"

After receiving the fried cake, the little girl immediately took a big bite, chewing on the delicious fried cake, her face was full of happiness, and said vaguely: "Erguoni pillow is good, and I will bury the fried cake too. "

"Okay, let's talk after eating."

"How much fried cake did you buy?"

"One for 5 cents, I bought one for 5 cents."

Wang Yuan took 7.5 yuan out of his pocket and handed it to Wang's mother. The latter was very happy, and after a few words about wasting money, she took the little girl's hand and went home with him.

There was no electricity today, and I was waiting for Wang Yuan to come back, so I didn't have dinner early. Now I can only have dinner with candles.

I lit the candle and stuffed it in the wine bottle. In order to fix the candle, some old newspapers were wrapped around the root of the candle.

Put the bottle in the center of the dining table, and the jumping flames will illuminate the surroundings.

Before the food was served, everyone ate fried cakes happily. Wang Yuan and his parents ate one and then stopped eating. The eldest sister Wang Qing ate two, and the rest belonged to the little girl.

Now the little girl is happy.

The smile on the small face seems to heal all pain, and the innocent face makes people want to pinch it.

"It's delicious, it's delicious~ the red bean paste inside is really sweet."

The little girl ate bit by bit, savoring each bit carefully, as if she was afraid that she would run out of food after eating it all at once.

It's just fried cakes that cost 5 cents each... Wang Yuan felt a little sad, touched the little girl's head, and silently decided to buy some more to eat when he had time.

There was bear meat and wild boar meat, and Wang Yuan was extremely happy after having a dinner. Because he had delicious meat to eat, the rough corn tortillas became much tastier.

Because there is no electricity, lighting candles is expensive, so everyone went to rest soon after eating.

Early the next morning.

Before breakfast, Wang Yuan asked his eldest sister Wang Qing for a sewing needle to make a fishhook, and then went to his second uncle's house to find a length of nylon rope and a relatively straight wooden stick.

After eating, his cousin Wang Meng jumped in from the short fence: "Brother, let's go fishing."

"Let's go, get your fishing rod ready."

"Get ready, I found a pole of Mandshurica mandshurica."

The two hurried out with homemade fishing rods and bamboo baskets, and cousin Wang Meng also held a short-handled iron shovel in his hand—used for digging up earthworms.

They kept walking eastward, and soon they came to the nearest river, which was 7-8 meters wide and sparkling, with weeds and wild flowers growing on both sides.

Some toads were croaking, but when people approached, the toads stopped croaking.

After digging some earthworms, the two of them threw their poles to fish. There are a lot of fish in the river these days, and many rural people don't eat fish very much, because cooking fish is very expensive, and the countryside is very short of oil.

"Oh! The big fish is hooked!"

Just over a minute later, his cousin Wang Meng yelled in surprise, and soon a big carp weighing 4 catties was pulled ashore by him.

"That's right. Let's make persistent efforts to catch a few mandarin fish in the Songhua River. There are mandarin fish in this river connected to the Songhua River."

Wang Yuan said with a smile, at this moment his fishing line suddenly tightened, and the fishing rod instantly bowed.

"I've caught fish too, I hope it's the mandarin fish from the Songhua River!"

Wang Yuan was still thinking about selling mandarin fish in the market. In fact, ordinary wild carp is also valuable, but the price must be far inferior to mandarin fish.

(End of this chapter)