Reborn to be rich

Chapter 8 Yongkang County
The three waited until 10 o'clock at night, and it was over when no more hares were seen passing by.The harvest at night is much richer than that during the day. After Zhang Guodong arrived, 5 hares were put into the nest. There are too many hares in the field.

"There are at least a few rabbits in that hole. I saw some hares just came out and ran in." Wen Bin said, pointing to some wild rabbit holes.

"Don't worry, go back tonight and make some more covers. We'll come early tomorrow morning and clear up these rabbit nests." Guodong said to his brothers as he saw a hare wandering around the entrance of the hole in the distance.If these rabbit nests are completely solved, the crops will be less harmed.

When they got home, the hares in the chicken coop were already a little crowded. They were scared to jump around when they saw people. They harvested 13 hares in one day, which was much better than that of some specialized rabbit hunters.

Making iron rings from the remaining iron wire at home, Zhang Guodong tirelessly made matching wooden prongs and tree branch accessories under the kerosene lamp.A total of 51 pairs of brothers counted twice happily before falling asleep.

Early the next morning, before the rooster crowed, Zhang Guotao dragged his brother to go to the field to see the harvest. If the hares were taken away too late, they would not be able to keep the secret of the hares.

Zhang Guodong took two firewood cages, filled them with wheat straw and sprinkled them with water several times, and carried them heavily on his shoulders with a shoulder pole.

"Brother, what are you doing with this? Are you burning rabbit nests? Rabbit nests are not afraid of burning. Some of them dig holes that are 7 or 8 meters deep, and there are several exits." Zhang Guotao asked puzzled.

"You'll know when you go!" Zhang Guodong picked a few dried peppers at the door of the room and put them in his pocket when he went out.

He and his second brother set up all the new traps, and at this time Wen Bin also followed.

"Brother Guodong, Brother Guotao, you two came so early in the morning. You also brought wheat straw. Is this going to burn the rabbit nest?" Many people fill the rabbit nest in their fields with soil and stones, as long as it doesn't work After a while, the hare can dig it up for you again.

"Go find a fan, and we'll clean up all these rabbit holes when the sun rises."

Hearing what his cousin said, Zhang Wenbin climbed up a tung tree on the ground, and quickly picked a lot of big tung tree leaves.

The three brothers spread out and waited in the field, and soon there was a harvest, a fat hare weighing more than 5 catties.

"Brother, we are here to help you!" Xiaoyue's voice came from afar, and she, her elder sister and her younger brother also came.

"Don't shout, you'll scare the hares away!" Zhang Ping pulled her sister away, but how could Zhang Xiaoyue listen to her.

"Brother, how is the harvest? The second brother pushed his precious bicycle to our house just now, and he said you are going to the county town." Zhang Xiaoyue felt that she liked her elder brother more and more. Not only could she cook meat for herself, but she could also teach Singing by himself, he feels that as long as the elder brother is there, he will be fine.

"Hehe, you little greedy cat wants something good." Guodong patted the little girl's head.

"I want to eat mahua. You can't tell our mother that I asked you to buy it, or she will say me again."

Zhang Guodong thinks that his fourth younger sister is the kind of smart and unexpected person. She didn't study hard since she was a child, but in the end she lived much better than the third younger sister. The third younger sister was the most obedient and never worried her family. In the end, after entering the system, life can only be described as stable.

"Okay, I'll write it down! Do you want a notebook and pen for study?"

When Zhang Xiaoyue heard her eldest brother talk about studying, her complexion turned bad: "Brother, I don't like going to school, can you tell our mother not to let me go to school, and I will catch rabbits with you in the future."

Zhang Guodong chuckled, this little guy!

"If you don't study, what do you want to do when you grow up? Don't you want to be a singer? You don't even know how to be a singer. You don't even know if someone sells you in the city." Zhang Guodong hopes to change the thinking of the fourth sister. , if she can put a little more focus on her studies, get into college and add her wit, she won't have to work so hard in the future.

"Brother!" Zhang Xiaoyue hugged her brother's arm, he was the first person who was willing to listen to his thoughts.

Children's thinking is so simple, especially smart children, as long as you can get into their hearts, they will especially like and be patient with you.

"Tomorrow is Monday and it's time for school! I will accompany you to do your homework in the afternoon, and I will write some simple tunes when I leave. You study hard, and I will check your practice results when you come back from the wheat harvest."

"Brother, you are so kind!" Zhang Xiaoyue leaned her head on her brother's arm.

In this life, if I have the opportunity and the ability to take care of my younger siblings, I must let them improve and enrich themselves as much as possible, instead of wasting their days year after year. The slow rhythm in the countryside is just because there are too many idle people. How about the society when they are not busy? Take a closer look at how the country is rich and strong.

"It's already past 9 o'clock, and the hares that should go out are probably already out. Guo Tao, Wen Bin, you two set fire to the entrance of the rabbit hole, don't let the fire be too hot. Pingping, Xiao Xiao and brother fan the wind together. "Zhang Guotao and Zhang Wenbin lit a pile of wheat straw. The wheat straw was soaked by Guodong's water in the morning, so it was difficult to ignite it, and it was also difficult to burn after it was lit. The fire was not full of smoke.

"Don't let the wheat grass burn out, cover it with soil!" He said and threw two dried chilies into the fire, and immediately the surrounding area was full of the sour smell of peppers.

"Cough...cough..."

"Fan!"

Everyone was left in tears by the chili pepper. After a while, a hare ran out from another exit not far away. After running more than ten meters, it was tied up by a wire ring. After jumping more than one meter high, it was tied there and flopped. .

"One came out, I'll catch it..." Wen Bin was about to get up to catch a hare, but Guodong stopped him.

"Don't worry, there must be more in this hole..." Before Guodong finished speaking, a little hare ran out from another hole.

Seeing the effect, everyone didn't think it was a big deal. Everyone desperately fanned the hole with tung leaves. After a while, a hare ran out of the hole where the first hare escaped.

A litter of five, three big and two high, two escaped the interception of the trap and escaped, and three were caught and romped in the wheat field.

"Let's go! There are too many people in Shangdi, let's go back!" Another 6 harvests. To be honest, the activity of the hares in the morning is not as good as in the evening, but 6 of the 4 hares are big hares weighing more than 4 catties. The harvest is already very good .

"Brother, you go back! I will guard here, if a hare falls into a trap and is taken away by others, we will lose a lot! I'm not hungry, Pingping, just send me a steamed bun after you finish eating later." Zhang Guotao He was reluctant to leave, mainly because he was afraid that others would discover their method of trapping rabbits. A wild rabbit can make the whole family have a good meal, and it can be sold for many things.

"I'll replace you after dinner soon!" Wen Bin also fell in love with this activity.

"Okay, you two can see for yourself! Hares usually don't go back to their nests at noon." After speaking, Guodong went home with 6 hares on his back.

After a hasty breakfast, Zhang Guodong tied the chicken coop to the rear rack of the bicycle. There were 19 wild rabbits in the small chicken coop. All the rabbits were so crowded that they couldn't move, but every rabbit seemed to be alive.

"Be careful on the road! Ride slowly, and go home as soon as possible in the afternoon, no matter if it is sold out or not. Don't fight with others!" Hu Yue'e told her son while pulling the bicycle.

"Mom, don't worry! I know the severity!" Said and set off on the bike.

Needless to say, at this time, the [-] big shoulders are really strong, and Zhang Guodong doesn't have the light and light feeling of the shared bicycles of later generations after riding them.At this time, there were no cars on the main road, and there were not many bicycles in Ganjing Township. Although Zhang Guodong was not fast all the way, he did not push when he was strong enough to go uphill. He soon reached the streets of Ganjing Township.

I saw the streets of Ganjing Township again. There were only two rows of simple brick houses on both sides of the street. The post office, supply and marketing cooperatives, grain stations, township government, cattle and sheep market, middle school, etc. could be seen at a glance.The streets and pavements are pitted and muddy, and they are not as good as the general countryside in later generations.

After passing Ganjing Township, the road began to turn into a yellow stone pavement. This is because the road from the township government to the county must be better than the township road. Zhang Guodong started to speed up a lot when he got on the county road.

It is 15 kilometers from Ganjing Township to Yongkang County, and a deep ditch has to be crossed in the middle. Even though Zhang Guodong is very confident in his strength, he can't hold on when he goes down to the bottom of the ditch and goes uphill. He got off the car and pushed up the slope.

There were quite a lot of people going to the county seat in the morning, and many people walked in small groups talking and walking, occasionally someone pushing a bicycle and people on the side also cast envious eyes.

After turning over the ditch and going up the slope, the road turned into an asphalt road. The speed of cycling on the asphalt road is naturally much faster than that on the stone road, and I arrived at the county town in a short time.

In 1986, Yongkang County was only as big as the old county town. On both sides of the street were mostly government agencies and communities. Self-employed businesses were no longer banned at this time, but most people dared not do business. At most, they set up a street stall by the street. Sell ​​snacks, fruits, vegetables.

The people in the county town can be easily distinguished from the people in the country. Those who are neatly dressed and not patched are mostly county people who eat commercial food, while those who are patched up and look cautious are mostly farmers who have gone to the city to sell agricultural products like Zhang Guodong.

"Young man, this hare is still alive, how can you sell it!"

As soon as he entered North Street, Zhang Guodong saw a chubby middle-aged man in his 40s stopping him. He was staring at the hare in the cage behind the bicycle. Hares are not uncommon in the county, but few are sold alive.

"One piece is alive, and one piece is dead. These are just dead. When I came here, I was riding too fast and probably tripped." Guodong found that several hares were lying dead at the bottom of the cage. The hares were very timid. The cage is so crowded, it is normal to die.

"Cheaper! I just brought one home from get off work. If it's worth 1 yuan, buy it for me. I'll buy the biggest one." The middle-aged man's clothes are clean and tidy, and his voice and speech speed are very good. This is usually only for big people. People around you will be like this.

"You are the first buyer today, and the biggest one is for you. The seller will not stand in the way!" Zhang Guodong said skillfully.

"Okay! One piece is one piece! You weigh the biggest one for me."

Only then did Zhang Guodong realize that he didn't have a scale, but it didn't bother him, so he came to a man selling cabbage, and he had a scale to borrow.

"Master, can you lend me your scale? I'm so anxious to leave today that I forgot to bring the scale." Zhang Guodong showed a natural and kind smile, which made the uncle feel good about him.

"Take it! Return it to me when you're done."

The biggest hare was weighed at 9 catties and 6 taels, nearly ten catties, and a total of 10.56 yuan. The fat middle-aged man directly handed over a Da Tuan Tuan, and took another one for 1 yuan.

"You'll be charged 10 yuan, 5 cents and 6 is fine! Our hare was caught in the field last night and this morning, and there are no wounds or broken skin on its body." He tied the rabbit's front and rear legs and handed it to him. gave it to the other party.

"Young man is good at doing business... What kind of meat is this in front of your car?" the middle-aged civil servant asked when he saw the meat on the front beam of the bicycle.

"This is the meat that was hunted the day before yesterday."

"how much is it?"

"This one costs at least 3 yuan!"

"Give me two catties!"

Seeing that Zhang Guodong was able to speak well, the civil servant talked to him a few more words, and charged him an additional 6 yuan and 6 cents for the two catties of boiled meat.

拿出自己的储蓄金找了3块5，国栋把钱收好。今天他把自己全部的私房钱1块2毛9分钱全部带来了，作为一名成年人这点钱还都是以前爸妈给的生活费一点点积累起来的。

Farewell to the middle-aged civil servants, Zhang Guodong came to the egg market.

This was originally a place where rural people sold eggs. Later, more and more meat and vegetables were sold here, and it became the largest farmers' market in the county.

The egg market was very crowded at noon, Guodong walked around and found that there was only half a vacant stall, and an uncle selling cooked meat occupied one and a half places, so Zhang Guodong had to stop here in the end.

"New here, pay for the booth fee!" Just as the bicycle was finished, a young man in his 20s came over and skillfully tore up a ticket and handed it to Zhang Guodong.

"Business management fee... fifty cents? I'll give it to you!"

Seeing that Zhang Guodong paid the money quickly, the young man's face suddenly blossomed. Just now, his companions were unwilling to come over to collect Zhang Guodong's money, because boys at this age are the most difficult to speak, and if they fail, they will fight with each other. There are often paid fights on the Internet.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Zhang Guodong said goodbye politely. The young man was a little confused, but he still politely said goodbye.

"Hey!" A sudden clear laughter caught Zhang Guodong's attention. It turned out that there was a girl laughing at the booth on his left.

Turning his head, Guodong's eyes froze for a moment.The girl is wearing a red patchwork blouse and a pair of coarse cloth shoes with black sides and white edges. They have been worn for some years but they have been washed very clean. Her fair face is rare in this Loess Plateau, and her big watery eyes are clean and pure. , the eyelashes are very long.

"You, you give people money and thank others. You are happy to give money!" The girl's voice was crisp and clear. She was about 16 or 7 years old. She looked very thin all over, and her height was at least 1.6 meters five.

"They are all responsible, and they are very hardworking." Zhang Guodong was talking, and saw a group of people coming from the north of the market cursing. There were more than 10 of them, and every time they passed by a stall, there was a flutter.

"Beauty, let me borrow your scale later. I forgot to bring the scale when I went out in the morning." The uncle selling cooked meat on the right looked awkward, so Guodong set his sights on the little beauty on the left.

(End of this chapter)