hunting in 1986

Wang Yuan's house.

Regarding Wang Yuan's question, the younger sister Wang Xiaodie originally wanted to struggle, but after thinking that she couldn't hide it from her second brother, she finally confessed frankly as discouraged:
"My father said, if I can advance one place in the next exam, he will give me 5 yuan! If I can advance five places, he will give me 10 yuan!"

When it comes to Qian Xiaodie's eyes are shining, there are too many kinds of snacks in the canteen, and there are so many kinds of small toys, she wants them all, but it's a pity that she has no money.

"Hey, so it's a monetary reward?"

Wang Yuan felt that his father still had a trick, and now he directly hit Xiaodie's seven inches.

"Come on, let me show you which questions you don't know."

Time passed, and a week passed in a blink of an eye. Wang Yuan received a call from Zheng Lian from Yanjing in the afternoon of this day. He and Ergou had negotiated to sell the farm's vegetables to Yanjing.

Unfortunately, this year will not be long before summer, when the seasonal vegetables will be ripe, the time is too short to make much money.

He suggested that Ergou build more greenhouses this year, and transport a large amount of vegetables to Yanjing in winter to make a good profit.

"As long as the matter is over, if you have time to drink together, let's put it down."

After hanging up the phone, Wang Yuan squeezed his chin, squinted and looked at the rays of sunshine outside the window, and suddenly thought of the vegetable basket project of later generations.

Time flies, after the river opened, Wang Yuan occasionally went hunting in the mountains in the morning, and at other times he would visit his children and read novels, and in the afternoon he would take the children to go fishing by the river, or take a bird for the children Play, live a very relaxed life.

Of course, Wang Yuan, who will be ten days and a half months old, will also take Li Yan and his mother to the city. Compared with the countryside, the city is indeed much more prosperous, with everything to eat, play and wear.

People—resilience is very strong, and the wave of state-owned enterprise restructuring and layoffs is surging, but this has created the prosperity of the self-employed, and various small stalls and hawkers are all over the streets and alleys.

Although they are not as respectable as state-owned enterprise workers, and their income is guaranteed in droughts and floods, some self-employed workers earn no less than state-owned enterprise workers... Of course, whether it is good or bad, they can’t go back anyway. Accept the reality and stand on your feet and move forward bravely. have a good life.

1995 5 Month 27 Day.

In another month, it will be the summer vacation. At noon on this day, the complete set of teaching materials prepared by Wang Qing and Wang Fang was finally printed out and delivered to Wang Yuan's doorstep by postman.

"Wang Yuan! Sign your package!"

"Come on!"

The weather is hot today. Wang Yuan is eating watermelon in the back room wearing a vest and shorts. The big watermelon is very attractive. He eats the flesh and the dogs eat the rind. The cooperation is quite good.

"Is there a watermelon coming down now?"

"Yes, let me give you a piece, take it and eat."

"No, no, I have to deliver the package."

Maybe it was because the watermelon was so tempting. In the end, the postman took the watermelon and ate it. The juice trickled down the corner of his mouth and soaked on the clothes on his chest.

"It's so sweet... It's okay, I'm leaving. Your watermelon is so delicious!" Throwing the watermelon rind on the ashes on the right, he glanced at Wang Yuan gratefully and then wiped his mouth. The postman rode a motorcycle The car chugs away.

A large package of supplementary materials is very heavy, Wang Yuan thought—this is probably the weight of knowledge.

Li Yan was wearing an apron and kneading dough in the house, her hands covered in flour stuck her head out of the house:
"The supplementary materials that Xiaoqing mentioned have arrived? Hey, why is it such a big package?"

"Junior high school + high school in various subjects, that's all there is."

Wang Yuan put the big package on the chair, took out a pair of large scissors from under the kang mat, and cut off the rope binding the package.

"What is it, what is it?"

Xiao Tingzi was full of curiosity about all new things, and stopped teasing the big white cat, and came over to have a look.

"It's not food, it's books." Li Yan touched Xiao Tingzi's croissant braid, and said to Wang Yuan with a smile, "Xiao Tingzi must have thought it was food, hahaha~ Xiao Tingzi likes to eat delicious food."

When the kraft paper was torn apart, brand new books were exposed. The 16-format book covers were colored pages. The pictures looked very simple to Wang Yuan, but Xiaotingzi was very interested.

wow~
Picking up a book and opening it, a strong aroma of ink hits my face.

"Hey, the price is 8 yuan for a book? It's really not cheap." Wang Yuan dug out a high school mathematics book to read, and the questions he posed were also included, and he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Fast forward to Saturday.

At ten o'clock this morning, my cousin Li Fang came back from the city in Liu Hui's father's ox cart. After chatting with her parents at her house for a while, she came to Wang Yuan's courtyard with a cloth bag.

"Xiaotingzi feed the chickens? Do you still know me when you grow up?"

"Auntie."

"Oh yes!"

The gate of the courtyard was open, and Li Fang walked in directly with a smile on her face. Her light black clothes were of very good material, and it was obvious that selling teaching aids made a lot of money.

"I came in a hurry and didn't buy you anything delicious. Let's go to the canteen to buy later... Where are your parents?"

"mom!"

Xiao Tingzi yelled, and Li Yan, who was changing the third child's diaper in the room, quickly walked out, and entered the room politely, Li Yan even brought her two big apples to eat.

"Your brother and Zhuzi went fishing and haven't come back yet. It's been two or three hours, maybe they'll be back soon."

Li Yan glanced at the wall clock on the wall. The tick-tock-tick hands were spinning very slowly, maybe it was out of battery. She quickly tiptoed to take off the watch, pulled out the battery and bit it twice before putting it back on.

tick tock~
This time it went normal.

I adjusted the clock to the correct time according to the watch, and hung up the clock again thinking about my feet.

"Sister-in-law, you are really tall. If it were me, I would definitely not be able to hang up without stepping on the stool."

"Haha~ What's the advantage of being big, it's like a telegraph pole." Li Yan made a fool of herself, and the two quickly chatted about other things.

Although Li Fang is knowledgeable, Li Yan is also different from ordinary rural women. She not only often goes to the city, but also to Yanjing, Inner Mongolia and so on.I occasionally read novels and learn characters. Although it is not easy to speak out, it is more than enough to talk to Li Fang.

It turned out that Li Fang was here to give money. After a while, he opened the small cloth bag and found three stacks of brand new hundred-yuan bills.

"It's been really hard for my brother during this time, if it wasn't for my brother, this thing wouldn't have been possible! So after collecting the money, I quickly brought my brother's share... Who's missing My brother’s money can’t be missed! The first share must be given to my brother!”

"Oh~ If you need money, don't rush to get it. Your brother and I can't spend much. We have enough money at home."

Now that Li Fang has already brought the money, she definitely won't take the money back, so Li Yan's words just sound nice.

"No, no, I live in a dormitory in the city and eat in a cafeteria, because being a teacher doesn't buy clothes or cosmetics, and it doesn't cost much... My brother is tired, of course there must be rewards .”

"Hey, he is idle when he is playing every day. Besides, why is it so tiring to move the pen... You eat apples, these apples are so sweet."

The washed big apples were brightly red with water droplets hanging on them, very attractive. The small pavilion nestled in Li Yan's arms and wanted to take an apple with open hands. Li Yan took a knife and cut the second apple into petals for the children. .

The little ones also compare each other, and those who share less will make trouble, so no one has more than one petal, and no one is good.

The sun is shining brightly outside the window, the blue sky is like washing, and the smoke from the chimney of the house on the other side of the dirt road is already wafting.

Realizing that it was getting late, Li Fang didn't stay any longer and got up to say goodbye and leave. Li Yan sent her out of the courtyard and went back to the back room, staring at the 3 yuan on the kang in a daze.

Ten minutes passed.

There was the sound of dogs running outside the yard, followed by Wang Yuan's voice, Xiao Tingzi ran out, followed by Li Yan, and it was Wang Yuan who came back with the fish.

"Meow~meow~"

The big white cat basking in the sun on the balcony smelled the smell of fish, and immediately meowed and came over, stopped Wang Yuan from leaving and rubbed his calf vigorously.

"Hey! Such a big fish!"

Li Yan was startled when she saw the big mandarin fish that Wang Yuan was carrying. The big fish probably weighed 14 to 15 catties, and the blue-black scales reflected the sunlight.

"Yes! This is the biggest one caught today, and there are a few smaller ones in the bucket... The big one is dying soon, let's stew it at noon."

"Okay, can it be stewed in such a big pot?" Li Yan took the bucket in Wang Yuan's hand, and there were indeed a few small ones in it. After entering the house, Wang Yuan called to kill the fish and fill it with water. , make a fire...

After handling the big fish, Wang Yuan originally wanted to stew the whole fish with a knife, but it was not easy to do it, and finally cut it into sections.

After the delicious fish came out of the pot, the tempting fragrance wafted gently, Wang Yuan, Li Yan, Xiao Tingzi... even the dogs began to swallow their saliva.

"It smells so good, clean the pot and let it dry."

"Don't be so troublesome, just bring my mother and the others a helmet of fish meat, and exchange for some warm bean buns, and just come back with stuffed buns."

"That's fine, you go, we'll have dinner when we come back."

"How about..." Wang Yuan thought for a while and said, "Why don't you take it, it shows how good a daughter-in-law you are, and you know how to miss the old people after stewing the fish."

Li Yan was stunned for a moment and then blushed a little. She has never been able to deal with such things, so she flinched:
"Forget it, you can just go, come back soon and we should have dinner... Is Xiaotingzi hungry? I'll grab a piece of fish for you to eat."

After dipping in the soup, put a piece of fish into Xiaotingzi's mouth, and the latter ate happily.

Wang Yuan put two large pieces of fish into the aluminum helmet, and used a waste towel to cushion the edge of the helmet to prevent scalding:
"Then I'm going, I said you asked me to send it there."

"Ah, you mention me gaha, it's none of my business if you don't mention me." Li Yan's face turned red again, she felt that she was not that good.

When Wang Yuan came back, he brought back 4 sticky bean buns and 4 meat buns. The whole family sat at the kang table and ate them directly. The soft sunlight came in from the window and sprinkled on the buns. Light.

It was already hot at noon, so I turned on the electric fan and it was spinning. After eating, Wang Yuan wanted to have a good sleep, but Li Yan took out the 3 yuan.

"Give me money Gaha?"

"Xiaofang came here just now, and left after leaving behind 3 yuan... This is the money you used to compile the book."

"So that's what's going on, so let's put it away... There are still a lot of households that don't have ten thousand yuan households. It's not bad that our family can easily earn 3 yuan."

Wang Yuan's satisfied look instantly made Li Yan angry, and her voice was raised a lot:
"Not bad, not bad, didn't you say that publishing teaching aids can earn tens of millions of dollars? They earn tens of millions of dollars, so they only give us 3 yuan? Isn't this bullying people... no day You help write, help come up with various ideas, they can come up with teaching aids..."

Li Yan felt that she was being bullied by Wang Fang and the others. Fortunately, she was still kind to her, which made her angry and her voice became louder and louder.

Wow ~
The children had never seen Li Yan angry. The second and third children were frightened and cried, and the eldest daughter, Xiao Tingzi, also pursed her mouth. She felt that her mother was so strange.

"You are Gaha, you see the children are crying from fright, come here and hug daddy."

The three children crawled or ran to Wang Yuan's side in an instant.

Li Yan stopped talking, just sat on the edge of the kang and sulked, the more she thought about it, the more she felt wronged and almost shed tears.

The air was quiet for a while before Wang Yuan sighed:
"People... It's rare to be confused, but you can get along just fine... The main reason is that all the profits of the teaching assistant don't go to Xiaoqing, Xiaofang and the others seem to have many other shareholders... She It would be nice if the two can drop one-tenth of the profit."

Li Yan still didn't speak, but lifted her buttocks and sat on the kang.

Wang Yuan continued to persuade: "Why don't you let this matter go like this, don't think about it, and our family doesn't lack that little money, so they can do whatever they want."

Wang Qing was also involved in the key teaching business, so he naturally cared a lot about his younger sister, Wang Qing, and he didn't want to haggle over it, maybe Wang Qing would despise him in the end.

Of course, Wang Yuan speculated that Wang Fang might have given him 3 yuan on his own initiative, without discussing it with Wang Qing.Although Wang Fang is a teacher, her job is decent but her salary is not high. It only costs about 2000 yuan to 3 yuan a year, which is equivalent to 15 years’ salary. In Wang Fang’s opinion, she has never seen much money. It's a small fortune.

Li Yan was silent for a while, then suddenly changed the subject and said, "There are still pears, do you eat pears?" Then she got up and went to get the pears, and it was over if neither of them talked about it.

……

After a nap, it was already 03:30. I turned off the electric fan and walked out the door. The breeze was blowing very cool.

A peddler who collects wine bottles drives by on a bicycle, dragging his voice and draws the end of the sound: "There are wine bottle sellers~ There are wine bottle sellers..."

Wang Yuan hurriedly chased him out to stop him, and sold him a hundred or so beer bottles in the corner for 2 cents a bottle.

Thoughts flashed through my head, the dogs often pee on the pile of wine bottles, I don't know... vomit~

The wine bottle sold for 21 yuan and 2 cents, Wang Yuan greeted with a smile: "Let's go to the canteen, are you going to the small kiosk?"

"Go! Go!"

Follow to the canteen to get some snacks, Xiao Tingzi happily ran behind Wang Yuan, with a lifelike little tail.