My 1979

Everyone in the village knows that this Li Zhaokun is an unreliable guy. The children in the family are more sensible than the others. The eldest daughter is a good helper at home and outside. She is still single. She has an unreliable father and a bunch of troubles behind her butt. , which living person dares to mess with such an in-law?

A few years ago, there was a family who, relying on their strong financial resources, liked the eldest girl of the Li family and wanted to get married.

Li Zhaokun opened his mouth and mentioned the four major items: watches, radios, sewing machines, and bicycles. I acted like a good boy and was even more mischievous than the people in the city. I was so scared that they didn't dare to pick up any more items.

Most people scolded Li Zhaokun for being nothing.

With such an incident, who would dare to propose marriage to the Li family in the future?

Li He was the best in the town and the county in studying. A few years ago, some people said that the No. 1 scholar in this corner of Li Zhuang was bound to come out.

Li Long is also a strong young man, and he is also good at work. The remaining two girls, the fourth and fifth, are also very clever and clever.

Who in the village and outside the village didn't scold Li Zhaokun for being a bastard and a bastard who didn't know what kind of luck he had in his previous life.

As soon as I got home, the happiest thing was the little girl. She held the twist candy tightly in her hands and was extremely happy.

"Hurry and put it in the cabinet. How much have you eaten? Do you still want to eat?" Li Mei snatched the twist bag and put it on the cabinet.

The little girl burst into tears!

In fact, the little girl was crying in grievance. He kept licking the twist candy in his mouth and was reluctant to take a bite!

Where can I eat too much?

Li He was taking a shower by the well. He looked at the little girl draining the water and quickly wiped his face with a towel.

"Don't cry, my brother will buy you candies tomorrow, White Rabbit, do you understand?" Seeing that the little girl had not stopped crying, he threatened, "Don't bother me, or there will be nothing."

"Aguo is the best, don't forget it tomorrow." As soon as the little girl heard that there was candy, she stopped crying immediately.

"Fourth, make me some tea in a big bowl." Li He called to Fourth. The tea leaves at home are all accumulated tea leaves, and they can only be brewed to taste.

At this time, Li Long quickly pulled the eldest sister into the back room while his mother was working on the stove, and took out a lot of money from his pocket.

But Li Meile was so happy that he looked no more excited than Li Long.

Although the fourth brother is a girl, when he saw the second brother and the third brother coming back with smiles and buying rice and meat, he knew that the two brothers must have made a profit. My mother was by my side, so I couldn't help but not ask, and she was also acting like a thief at this time. followed in.

Li Mei turned over and counted them three times, and the fourth child also held his hands and counted them several times without letting go.

"Third brother, there are still 27 yuan, 50 cents and 2 cents left, and 3 pounds of meat coupons." The fourth child said with certainty after counting for the last time.

"Brother told me to keep it with the eldest sister. The school fees are due for school fees, and we have to eat meat every meal." Li Long looked outside the room and whispered, "We can't let my mother know, because I'm afraid our father will come back."

The two sisters rolled their eyes, this still needs to be explained.

The brothers and sisters reached a unanimous opinion on "protecting against fire, theft, and parents."

"You're so cool. You eat meat all the time. Why did you buy pork belly? There's no oil or water at all." Li Mei felt a little distressed and gave Li Long a heads-up. Everyone likes thick meat when buying meat these days. Big fat.

"It's all what my brother said. He said he would go to the county every day and collect eels." Li Long was anxious. He couldn't make the decision, so he had to listen to his brother.

"How to collect eels?" Mei also felt that the second child was too tossing. It was only the third day of vacation. He had never been like this during holidays before.

"Ask yourself. "Li Long is very unjust. Who can he find to reason with?

The fragrant rice, plus a pot of braised pork and potatoes, made the family's faces so shiny that even the bottom of the pot was scraped clean.

When cooking, Wang Yulan originally wanted to leave half of the meat, but she finished it all at Li He's insistence.

Li He watched the little girl fill the bottom of the bowl cleanly. He felt extremely sad and gave the last piece of meat at the bottom of his bowl to the little girl.

Li He felt that apart from his parents, there was no one good at home.

"Sister, later use old clothes to make big shorts for me and the third child, leaving a quarter of the trouser legs." Li He misses big pants so much, and long pants are afraid of covering up prickly heat.

"I got it. I'll do it after dinner. It won't be a hassle." Li Mei is also very good at needlework, not to mention shorts.

I found a pair of old, shabby-looking trousers, cut off the trousers with scissors, and then tied up the ends with sewing, which only took about ten minutes.

After dinner, Li He's desire to go to bed was shattered. Liu Dazhuang came to the front door, and Pan Guangcai walked in the back door.

"Erhe, you can sell it tomorrow. I keep a lot of these at home, and it takes a lot of gas to eat them. I have been filling the mud cellar, and I have drilled a lot." Liu Dazhuang opened his pocket and Li He took a look and saw that the eel and loach weighed at least fifty kilograms.

Pan Guang was a good thief, so he first brought 5 kilograms to try. When he got 7 cents, he said he still had some at home, so he went back to get them.

After Li He put the scale on Liu Dazhuang and wanted to calculate the money for him, he waved his hand and said, "After you sell it, come back to me. When I came here, I saw several cellars picking up loaches. You probably won't be able to remove it from your hands."

Li He was not polite either, it was just a matter of friendship.

Obviously he only told a few people, but there were indeed more than a dozen people who sent eels and loaches. In the end, they collected about 305 kilograms, and most of them didn't give any cash.

And when I heard that there was no cash, I turned back halfway, otherwise I could have collected more.

The work was done until 3 o'clock, and the brothers had no time to go out and catch eels by themselves.

I didn’t have a cement pool or a big basin at home, so I just put it in a bag, tightened the mouth of the bag, and threw it into the ditch. I waited until I set out in the middle of the night to fish it out again.

Li Mei handed the book in her hand to Li He, "Take a look for yourself. You owe 31 yuan, 2 cents and 1 cent before you even do anything."

"It's okay. I know it well. Sister, give Lao San 1 cent and ask him to buy a pack of cigarettes for Lao Guantou and lend out the production team's cart. "The production team's things are usually placed in the cowshed. , it is in charge of the five-guarantee household, Old Guaitou. If he gets cigarettes or money, this old guy is also willing to take things from the production team as favors.

"Anyway, just have your own ideas." Li Mei didn't say much. She followed her brother in the afternoon and saw clearly that he was flawless in dealing with people and things, and he was generous and generous. He was much better than ordinary people. After all, he was still studying. , I don’t know how to be smarter than ordinary people.

Wang Yulan was listening and didn't know what to say. "Your father used rat poison back then, but he went in there several times. Now I feel panicked just thinking about it. Nothing will happen to you."

Li He also knew that he was bitten by a snake once and was afraid of the well rope for ten years. "My dear mother, it's okay. Isn't this the reform and opening up? I heard that the land will be contracted to each household soon. Don't worry about it. , you didn’t go to the county town to see, now the streets are full of small stalls and hawkers, and we are not the first ones, so it’s not our turn.”

Wang Yulan's heart skipped a beat, "Okay, I'll be mentally prepared anyway. If something happens, I'll blame your father. He doesn't have to worry about having too many lice. If your father doesn't come back, blame me. But you You have to take the exam."

Li He felt happy, "Then will our father be happy?"

"You are his son, and he has to be happy even if he doesn't like it." Wang Yulan sighed again, not knowing when her man would come back. "Your father had a dollar in his pocket when he left, and he suffered the same sin again."

Li He felt that his mother cared for her, but her last words were directed towards Li Zhaokun. She was worried about whether Li Zhaokun was doing well outside, but had Li Zhaokun ever thought about whether he could have food at home?

Li Zhaokun's habit of being lazy was partly caused by Wang Yulan.

If the trajectory did not change, he thought that his father would be back soon. He remembered his previous life only half a month after his college entrance examination.

Li He sometimes thinks about the first half of his father's life. Except for Wang Yulan, who loved him wholeheartedly, few people around him had a good impression of him.

As a father, he cannot love himself and his younger siblings more; as a husband, he cannot support the family; as a businessman, he does not have enough knowledge to cope with the ever-changing economy; as a farmer, he does not have labor skills...

Life is actually very simple. Although he is not doing his job properly and is idle, he actually has a good heart. He has no hooligan habits, and he will not bully others. He is even a little timid.

I rinsed again at the well, put on the big pants that my eldest sister had remade, and finally felt cool. I felt sleepy and fell on the bed in a daze.

When I woke up, I found a few more people standing in the yard, also bringing eels.

"I won't be polite to you either. You can find a place to sit by yourselves. The heat hasn't gone away yet." He said to Li Long again, "Someone is coming. Please wake me up."

"I didn't let him scream. You were so sleepy that you were crying." This Li Hui is Li He's boss who has not been out of the fifth server. He is about the same age as Li He. We have played together since childhood.

After putting on the scale, Li He said, "Thank you for your help, brothers. Just come over at this time tomorrow afternoon and I will calculate the money for you."

"What are you talking about? I have a bunch of it in my mud cellar. It's worthless. It's been kept for sows to nurse. It's useless if there are more. If you don't mention it, just leave it there." You can eat so much these days. There are not many decent fat people. Chen Yongqiang really doesn’t know what he ate to make him so fat.

After Li He saw the baby off, he looked at the notebook and found that he had gained more than 300 kilograms.

Now he was a little flustered. There were more than 600 kilograms in total. If he couldn't sell it tomorrow, it would be a lot of fun. In his two lifetimes, he has never done aquaculture.

Looking at Li Long's expression, the two brothers thought about it together.

If it didn't work, he divided two stalls. He went to North Street to open a stall again, and asked Li Long to go to South Street, which he was already familiar with.

Once the two brothers combined, that was all they could do.

"Brother, it's 300 pounds per stall. It shouldn't be a big problem. It will take some time at most. It's okay to sell it for a few days. But they are all regular customers in the neighborhood. They can't eat this stuff every day? Besides, it's not the first day today." How to spread the news, our family received 600 kilograms, and the others behind also got the news, and we didn’t get more than 2,000 kilograms. "Li Long is not a fool.

"Promise, don't worry about showing your depressed face to anyone," Li He calculated that he must find an aquatic product supply and marketing company. Eels and loaches are not a rare thing in rural areas, but they are a good thing in cities. The supply and marketing companies in small counties are only third-level stations. Generally speaking, if you don’t buy things, you can only go to provincial capital cities.

Li He had heard a friend from Sichuan talk about it before. Their Kawauchi production team had started raising eels and fish in the 1970s. Li He was curious and asked who they sold it to. The friend said at that time, "Of course they are selling it." It’s given to aquatic products companies. There are aquatic products supply and marketing cooperatives in every county. It’s much more convenient along the coast. The fishing team catches fish and sells them directly to the aquatic products company’s acquisition ships on the sea.”

Later, during the economic reform, Li He also heard a joke about the fishing ground. It was said that fishermen from Zhejiang Province went to the Yellow Sea to fish and had a good harvest. They rounded up more than 20,000 kilograms of large yellow croaker in several nets.

However, after searching here and there, there were only purchase ships from other provinces and state-owned aquatic products companies flying the signal flags of "Su Province" and "Pujiang" on the sea, but no purchase ships from Zhejiang Province.

They had no choice but to turn the boat around and return home with the fish.

Because according to current regulations, the fish produced by fishermen can only be sold to state-owned aquatic products companies in the county, and are not allowed to be sold across counties, let alone across provinces.

In this way, after two days and two nights of long-distance transportation, not only did a ship of shining golden yellow croaker turn into a smelly, inferior fish, but also the fishermen lost a good opportunity and affected their production.

These fish were purchased and processed by the state, resulting in a loss of more than 2,000 yuan.

As for what the current local policy is, Li He is not sure, so he can only go to the provincial capital tomorrow to check it out.

"I'll take Da Zhuang with me tomorrow, and you two will have a stall each. I'll take some time to go to the provincial capital."

"Is it far to the provincial capital?" The farthest Li Long had ever been was the county. He didn't know which direction the provincial capital was.

"It takes more than five hours to drive a donkey cart, which is two and a half times longer than going to the county." Li He didn't say much, stood up and headed to Liu Dazhuang's house. Although my eldest sister is also a capable person, I still feel uneasy about an older girl in the county who is not familiar with her life, and even bumping into her will make me nervous.

Boys are good, they are bold and thick-skinned, they can run fast and resist beatings if something happens.

Liu Dazhuang was squatting on the threshold drinking porridge. "Come in, would you like a bowl?"

"I won't go in. You have to explain to your family that you will go to the county town with me tomorrow to help me look after the stalls." Li He didn't pretend to be polite. This guy has basically been a little brother behind his back for half his life. He has no temper and no urine. , he still doesn’t know clearly.

"Zhong, how about I drive the donkey cart?" Liu Dazhuang's father is the breeder of the production team. He still has this right. Otherwise, how can he drive the donkey cart on the street with ease?

"It's not necessary for the time being. I've asked the third child to borrow a cart from Lao Guantou. Anyway, there aren't many things." Li He planned to go to the provincial capital to find a good channel, and then borrow livestock from the team through Liu Dazhuang's father. If we really want to go to the provincial capital, we will be exhausted on two legs.

As soon as Li He left, Da Zhuang's mother came over and asked, "Why did Er He come here? I heard that he is still studying in college. Isn't he here to borrow money?"

Da Zhuang snored and swallowed the last mouthful of porridge, "What are you thinking? He asked me to accompany him to the county town tomorrow to do some errands."

He didn't dare to tell my mother that he was just speculating.

The strong old woman's eyes widened, "Why do you want to go there before dawn?"

"Don't worry about it. The two brothers have taken care of me since I was beaten. You have forgotten that I was betrayed by others in the past. The two brothers often helped me fight. Erhe even had a mouth on his head. The blood was like a thunderbolt. You didn't blame us, so you just gave me a few eggs and settled the matter." After saying that, he turned his head and ignored his mother.

Da Zhuang's mother breathed in her heart, and immediately cursed, "You bastard, you don't recognize good people's hearts. I'm afraid you two are so smart. I'm afraid you don't know how much money you will get after selling you?"

Da Zhuang's father, Old Man Liu, said, "Why are you two arguing? We have watched these two brothers grow up. They are loyal people. Don't worry about it."

"You two are good people, so I am a bad person, right?"