Reborn to be rich

Chapter 7
My father went to the brigade for a meeting again, probably because of road repairs again.

Wen Bin’s cousin came to him to catch fish in the ditch, but Guodong might have to go out in two days, he didn’t want to go to the ditch again, besides, the small fish had enough, and everything in the ditch was growing naturally to catch more Less at a time.

If you want to make money by buying small yellow croakers, let alone no one buys them, even if someone sells you, you can't catch too much. It turns out that in the novel, you can get rich by catching some loaches and eels in the river, but it really doesn't work in the northern region.

"How about I take you to catch hares! I heard that hares have harmed crops recently. Many people set their own wheat on fire to burn rabbit holes." In the 80s, hares and wild boars were the greatest enemies of mountain people.Now every house still has guns, wild boars dare not enter the village easily, but hares don't care so much, he went home last night and saw a lot of traces of hares running through the field.People in the village can only find ways to find their nests and block them to deal with the "rabbit disaster". Don't they know that the three nests of cunning rabbits are useless at all.

"Is it possible to catch it? The hare is very fast. We can't catch it with a lot of people." Wen Bin said uncertainly.

"Do you want to do it?"

"Do it, why not!"

Zhang Wenbin and Zhang Guotao are now obedient to their eldest brother.

"Guo Tao, go and cut some prongs, not too big. Wen Bin, go get some softer branches."

When the two heard Guodong's words, they ran to work without thinking, Xiaoyue followed her elder brother and wanted to get involved.

"Okay, today Pingping, Xiaoyue, and younger brother, we will all participate together. Pingping, go and cut the mother's rope into 1-meter-long sections. The more the better, Xiaoyue will bring the thin wire. Let’s go.” Zhang Guodong became the hands-off shopkeeper, entrusting all the tasks to his younger brothers and sisters.

"I can't cut too much rope, and my mother will scold me if I know it." Zhang Ping has always been a good boy, and she is very happy to go out to play with her brother, but it is not good to waste the rope at home.

"It's useful for me to cut the rope. I'll tell my mother when she comes back." Zhang Ping hesitated for a while and finally listened to her elder brother's advice, while Zhang Xiaoyue didn't care whether her father would be angry or not, she picked up all the wires and threw them to her elder brother.

Zhang Guodong cut out a 30 cm long thin iron wire, pulled it into a circle with the jaws, then pinched it into a back hole on one side, passed the other side of the wire through and then pinched the back hole, a stretchable circle The ring is done.

"Brother, you are amazing! Is this a toy? The ring can be made bigger and smaller!" Xiaoyue saw her brother quickly make a stretching ring and played with it happily.

"Don't move, big brother is useful!" Zhang Ping took the stretch ring from her sister's hand and put it beside her brother.

"Hmph!" Zhang Xiaoyue turned her head away.

"This is a small trap. I'll show you when the two of them make the branches and wooden prongs."

Guodong and Wenbin were also curious about what his brother was doing, so they handed over the finished product to Guodong, and Zhang Guodong simply made a trap on the ground.

"Is this okay? What if the rabbit doesn't pass through the circle you made?" Guo Tao looked at his brother's trap, although it was exquisite, but he didn't think the rabbit was so stupid that he couldn't see the trap.

"Whether it's okay or not, I'll know later. Both of you will make me 20 sets of traps now, and I will let you open your eyes at noon."

The reason why Zhang Guodong thought of using this trap to catch hares is because hares have a habit of not taking new paths.

When a hare wants to walk a road that it has not walked, it will be very careful. When it encounters danger, it will always run away along the most familiar road, which makes all the hares in the field walk by. The traces are very clear.

With the well-made traps, 20 sets are really a lot. The three brothers carried two large firewood cages to put all the traps in.

When I came to the field of Zhang Guodong's house, I saw a few traces of wild rabbits running by the side of the road at a glance, and there were many holes in the terrace, which were basically rabbit nests.

Zhang Guodong carefully observed the traces of the hare, and nailed a wooden prong near the intersection of the two obvious traces, and then fixed one end of the branch to the wooden prong with a rope, and tied the end of the branch with a wire ring, and the wire ring was reused. A short rope is tied to the root of the straw. As long as a rabbit’s head enters the hoop, the hoop will tighten automatically. When the straw breaks, the soft branches will straighten automatically, and the hare will be thrown into the air. The binding is tight, the more the hare struggles, the tighter the iron is, there is no possibility of escape.

"Brother, let me tie it for you! I have learned everything you need to do." Zhang Guodong said impatiently when he saw that his brother had only played 10 sets in half an hour.

"Come on, watch me teach you how to set a trap. It's not as simple as you think." Guodong pulled his younger brother and told him how to see the traces of rabbits, how to know that this hare will often walk, What terrain and what height under the hoop.

"Look, Hare!"

Zhang Guodong was still playing tricks. A hare ran from afar and burrowed into the wheat field. Before anyone could react, he saw a tree branch jumping up from the ground. But the wooden prongs were firmly nailed to the ground, and the more they struggled, the tighter they tightened.

"Tie it up...it can really catch a hare!"

"so amazing!"

"Brother, you are awesome!"

Wen Bin was the first to run over and hold down the hare on the ground. This guy, who often eats wheat, grows really fat, at least 6 catties to start.

"We didn't take the bag, Sanmei, you go back and get the bag!" Zhang Guotao started ordering Sanmei.

"Why don't you go! Just now you said you can't get caught!" Zhang Ping muttered dissatisfied.

"I... Who said I can't get caught. I'm going to play tricks with my elder brother! What if I catch another one later and let it run away." Zhang Guodong was a little bit annoyed by his sister's shame.

"There is no need to carry the bag. The hares usually come out in the morning and afternoon. We will raise the wire circle first, and come back to guard after 4 p.m. Otherwise, if we catch the hare, others will see it and take it away." Guodong stopped him before running The idea of ​​a trip home to pick up the bag.

Hearing his brother's words, everyone agreed with him.All the wooden prongs were quickly set in reasonable positions, and the branches and iron rings were also ready to be completed. Once the positions were determined, the traps would be completed soon. The 20 sets of traps have basically sealed off more than 20 mu of land. All hares must pass through the road.

When I got home at noon, the neighbors were all chatting under the shade of the tree at the door. Seeing Zhang Guodong brothers and sisters coming back with a rabbit, they couldn't help but come forward to see it.

"Hey, it's still alive! Guodong is not bad. It seems that there is a lot of ink in his stomach. It's not the same. The small fish he cooks are delicious, and he is also good at catching hares." Aunt Jiu was pulling the soles of her shoes, and she couldn't help but praise when she saw several people arrive.

"This hare has caused a lot of damage to the crops recently, how many can be caught! The autumn harvest will be in less than a month, and the food is almost ruined by these guys!"

"Yes! You said that these people are poor and have no food to eat. Why are there so many wild rabbits? It's hard to shoot them with a gun. If we can buy some rabbit medicine and eat them all to death, we farmers will be fine. !"

"Who said no!"

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Back home, Zhang Guodong was even more determined to build a set of hare traps, but the placement of the traps required skill, otherwise it would only be a waste of materials and energy.

"Why did you catch such a big hare and put it in a cage in the firewood house! Live hares can be sold for a lot of money in the village!" Hu Yue'e was very concerned when she saw the children returning home happily. The brothers and sisters of Guodong said all the way She is very happy that Youxiao has such a good relationship.

"Well, get some grass to feed it when you come back in the afternoon." If the hare can become a source of income for the family, that is a good idea.

"Brother, wild rabbits can't be raised. They won't eat the grass that people put in until they starve to death." Zhang Guotao said.

Zhang Guodong slapped his head and he almost forgot about it. Is it because some people in the village want hares because there are few live hares?If it can be sold to the county seat, the price will be even higher.

"Let's make another 60 sets in the afternoon! Just put them in the field of our second team. If we catch more this afternoon and tomorrow morning, I will ride to the county town once and sell them all."

In 86, pork in Yongkang County cost only RMB [-] per catty, and live rabbits could be sold for RMB [-] per catty, which must be sent to big restaurants.There is only one sickle at home. If Guodong, his father, and his second brother want to go out to cut wheat together, he must buy two more sickles. He also wants to buy this seasoning. Otherwise, the seasoning at home is too simple, even if he has good skills, it will be difficult to make delicious ones. For things, Zhang Guodong has always attached great importance to food.

With Harvest, the parents also agreed with Guodong's method of trapping rabbits. The two of them helped together for less than two hours, not to mention 60 traps, and more than a dozen more.

After lunch, the sun had already begun to slant westward. Zhang Guodong took his brothers and sisters and began to set up all the traps in the second team's few places where the hares were most likely to come and go. At this time, the hares began to return to their caves.

"A hare ran into the trap and was not caught. When you saw it, you shouted loudly. The hare was trapped and quickly put it into a bag and continued to make as little noise as possible. Before putting it into the bag, all the front legs must be tied together. Don't let the hare Bite!"

Zhang Guodong separated his four younger brothers and sisters and hid in the field to observe the situation. He was mainly responsible for restoring the trap after the hare was trapped.

Not long after, a trap close to Zhang Xiaoyue was triggered, and a rabbit about two catties was bounced more than one meter high, Zhang Xiaoyue yelled happily.

After removing the trapped rabbit, another hare entered their trap area after Zhang Guodong restored the trap, but no matter how everyone yelled, the hare still missed all the traps and jumped past the trap area.

"elder brother……"

"It's okay, this is more than 50 acres of land! We will definitely not be able to stop all the hares with just a few covers. But this is enough."

Just as Zhang Guodong expected, the closer it was to dark, the higher the chance of the hares being trapped, and after a while the 4 hares were put into the bag.

"It's already dark, and this cover will not be restored! No one comes to this place except ourselves. Let's come early tomorrow." With Zhang Guorui and Zhang Xiaoyue, Zhang Guodong couldn't go home too late.

"Brother, take Third Sister and bring them back! We want to wait a little longer!" The sky had just entered darkness, and this was the time when the hares were most active. Guo Tao and Wen Bin didn't want to go home.

"Okay, I'll send the hare back first, and you two will watch here." Seeing that they were getting excited, Guodong didn't stop him. The four hares harvested this afternoon were three out of three and one in one, weighing about ten catties. About ten dollars worth.

At this time, the monthly salary of workers is less than 100 yuan, and farmers may not even be able to save 100 yuan after a year of hard work. 10 yuan is a lot of income for a family.

Back home, my father was discussing with Uncle Jiu and the others about going to Chang'an to harvest wheat.

"A lot of hares have been caught! Guodong, you came back just in time. We are discussing about going to Chang'an." Uncle Jiu and Second Brother are looking forward to this trip. Dare to fight the age.

"Uncle Jiu, that's my plan. The wheat in Hu County is about 20 days earlier than ours, and it is the first place to harvest in our large area. There are still about 4 or 5 days before their wheat can be harvested. We will It only takes 4 hours to go from the county to Chang'an, and there is also a shuttle bus from Chang'an to Huxian, which can be reached in one day."

Everyone listened carefully to Zhang Guodong's narration. Most of their cognition of the outside world was imaginary, but Zhang Guodong made them truly realize that the outside world is not far away, and it is easy to earn money as long as they work hard.

"Then we will have to pay more than 20 bucks for the round trip, and I need to buy two new scythe blades. My family doesn't have that much money!" Li Ping's father said in embarrassment.

"Go to the first team to borrow! Ten quick money is still easy to borrow. Didn't you hear Guodong say that an acre of land is at least three yuan! You can earn it back as long as you cut it for five days.... Guodong, when are we going to leave?" ?" Uncle Jiu heard his blood surging, wishing he could leave now.

"Hu County needs at least 3 or 4 days for the wheat to turn yellow. We will leave the day after tomorrow. Tomorrow I will go to the county to sell this beetle. In addition, these rabbits can be sold for some money. When the time comes, second brother, you Let me use my bicycle, if anyone of you wants to bring something, tell me, and I will bring it back together.”

There is a car in Jiaocun Township that goes to Chang'an, and the distance from there is about the same as that of going to the county by car, and it can save one yuan.In Ganjing Township, there are not many farmers who can afford bicycles. My second brother got married a few years ago and his grandfather bought a bicycle for him. This is more enviable than buying a car in later generations.

"Okay, come and ride if you want, I'll tell your sister-in-law." Those who can borrow bikes are all brothers, and Guodong has always had a good relationship with several cousins.

After discussing with everyone what to bring for harvesting wheat, it was completely dark.When he went to look for his younger brother with the bag, he found that two people were chasing and shouting at a long-tailed creature in the darkness in the distance. He thought Guodong and Wenbin had encountered a wild beast and ran over. It turned out that a hare pulled it away. Wooden Prong escaped.

"Look at you still running! Haha, where are you going to block your hole! Brother... Come and see, you caught a big guy!" Zhang Guotao mentioned a huge hare, which seemed to have lived for a long time.

"This must weigh at least seven or eight catties! It's fat enough! You've caught three of them in a short while." This is the time when the wild rabbits are most active, and within an hour, three rabbits were harvested.

"Brother, you said that if we could catch so many wild rabbits every day, it would be a shame!" Zhang Guotao was whimsical.

"How can it be so easy! The rabbits will learn to be smart in a week at most, just a little more than a month before the wheat is harvested, and when the wheat is harvested, they will all run away! You catch rabbits like this all day long and others will see it. Learn? Just two days, as much as you can catch, we will go to Chang'an to harvest wheat the day after tomorrow!"

(End of this chapter)