1959Siheyuan, a Turnaround

Now that he had tickets and money in his pocket, and had exchanged them for the candy he had promised his sister, Li Weiguo hurried home contentedly.

Because it was inconvenient to hold it, he put the half pound of sugar into the space.

He knew that the person from the supply and marketing cooperative would definitely not lose out by exchanging this little money and stuff with him for fish, but he would not care too much about it, as he still had a lot of fish in his space anyway.

When he was almost home, he found a secluded corner and took out several fish of different sizes from the space.

A grass carp weighing about three pounds, two crucian carps weighing about two pounds, and the first small fish weighing more than half a pound that was caught.

The big fish must be eaten by the family, and the fish must be given to Yan Bugui, otherwise how can we deal with others in the future!

"Hey! Weiguo has a great harvest!"

As soon as he entered the alley, Li Weiguo was seen by an old lady. She stretched her neck to take a look and then started shouting loudly.

Li Weiguo did it on purpose. He didn't want to let them know that he could fish. Maybe in the future when he had something delicious to eat at home, someone would report him.

"It's not that we have no food at home, so we have no choice but to go fishing!"

"Weiguo, where did you go to catch the fish?" someone asked immediately.

"Shichahai!"

"Wow, there are fish this big in Shichahai!"

Li Weiguo was in a hurry to go home, and he walked in with the bucket while talking to them.

As soon as they entered the courtyard, the third uncle Yan Bugui came over immediately. When he saw the fish in Li Weiguo's bucket, his eyes suddenly lit up with golden light.

"Weiguo, your fishing skills are pretty good! You even caught a big grass carp. This fish must weigh at least three kilograms!"

"I'm lucky today, thanks to the third uncle for lending me the fishing rod. Third uncle, you can eat this carp weighing more than two kilograms!"

Li Weiguo handed over the fishing rod and said with a smile.

"Okay! Weiguo really keeps his word. Wait for me to get the pots and pans." Yan Bugui turned around and ran back home with the fishing rod.

Li Weiguo was waiting there guarding the fish barrel. When Li's father heard the noise outside, he slowly moved out.

"Weiguo, did you really catch a fish?" His tone was full of excitement.

"Well! Dad, come and take a look. There are four fish in total. I borrowed the fishing rod from the third uncle and promised to give him one fish as a reward!"

"That's what I should do. Weiguo, you did the right thing!"

At this time, all the children in the compound heard the news and ran over to surround Li Weiguo's fish barrel to see what was new.

"Brother! You're back!"

The third brother Li Weihua ran the fastest. He rushed to Li Weiguo at great speed, squatted down, looked at the fish in the bucket, and swallowed his saliva.

The second brother Li Weimin was also running out of breath while holding his sister. When he rushed to the front, Li Weiguo was afraid that he would lose his strength and throw his sister out.

"Big pot..."

His sister looked at him with burning eyes, and he opened his arms and hugged the little girl.

"Brother, did you catch all these?"

"Of course, we can really eat fish today!"

"Great! Let's eat fish!" The two younger brothers jumped up with joy, and the other children around them all looked envious.

Especially a chubby little boy inside, saliva kept flowing out of the corners of his mouth when he heard the word "eat fish".

Yan Bugui was very fast and ran out with a wooden basin in a short while.

Father Li took out a crucian carp weighing about two kilograms from the bucket and gave it to him. Yan Bugui was so happy that he was brimming with joy.

"Otherwise it has to be Wei Guo! He is really capable! This child has been very smart since he was young!"

While Yan Bugui was praising Li Weiguo, he was staring at the small crucian carp in the bucket.

It was not enough for the Li family to keep the two big fish, so they gave this small one to their family. He calculated that they could eat it for another day.

How could Father Li not understand Yan Bugui's thoughts? He immediately smiled and said, "I'll give you this little crucian carp from his uncle, too!"

"Hey! Dajiang! Uncle San was right about you. You are the most powerful person in this compound!"

After getting the two fish, Yan Bugui excitedly carried the basin back to the house.

It wasn't long before cheers were heard from the Yan family.

Li Weimin pouted and carried the remaining two fish back home.

That was the fish his eldest brother had caught with great difficulty, and he couldn't understand why it was given to the Yan family across the street.

When his family had nothing to eat before, the Yan family never gave them even a single bit of food.

"Okay, that fish was your eldest brother's reward for using Third Uncle's fishing rod. You thought it was given for free!"

"Dad, one is not enough, give me two!" Li Weimin pouted and tears were about to fall.

His family had a hard time. They could only eat half full every day. His eldest brother finally caught a few fish, but he had to give away two of them.

Li Weimin felt sad when he thought of this.

Li Weiguo saw what his second brother was thinking, so he put his sister on the ground and took money out of his pocket.

"Wei Min, come here and see what big brother has here!"

Li Weiguo felt sad when he saw his second brother like this. It was all because of the hard life. The child was so young but had to worry about household affairs.

He took out the money from his pocket just to reassure his family and make them believe that with him in the Li family, they would never be short of food again.

Li Weimin raised his eyes with tears in his eyes and looked over: "Brother! This... was all exchanged for fish?"

The small pile of money in front of me looks like a lot.

"Yes! These are all exchanged for fish. Just now, I was wondering why I didn't bring you two with me today! Don't you know that I caught several big fish and they sank!"

After saying this, he couldn't help but move his arms.

"Weiguo, all this money was exchanged for fish?"

Father Li also moved over and saw the money on the table. He looked at his son in disbelief, his body trembling slightly.

"Well, I bought these from Dongcheng District in exchange for fish. I even walked three miles carrying the fish!"

"Great! Great! Now we can exchange for more food to help your grandparents and your second uncle's family!"

"Dad, don't worry from now on! Leave this matter to me, I'll find a way to exchange for food!"

"Okay, don't worry, Dad! My Weiguo has grown up, Dad believes in you!"

Father Li patted him on the shoulder, and his face finally regained its composure and smiled again.

Li Weiguo gave the eight dollars and fifty cents to his father. His father took five dollars and left the rest to Li Weiguo.

"Dad, let's have a dry meal today!" Li Weiguo looked at his father pleadingly, hoping that his father would agree.

He really couldn't bear to see his family members not having enough food to eat every day.

Father Li thought for a moment and replied, "Okay, let's have pancakes and fish stew today! Let's have a good meal!"

"Really! Eat the pancake!"

The two younger brothers no longer felt aggrieved and shouted happily.

"Keep your voices down, aren't you afraid of attracting others?"

"Got it! We won't yell anymore, big brother!"

He found that these two younger brothers were really easy to satisfy. As long as they had a full meal, they would be very happy.

"Xiaohong, come here, look at what else big brother has here!"

Li Weiguo pretended to rummage in his other pocket, but he actually took out six White Rabbit milk candies from the space.

"Candy! It's White Rabbit Milk Candy!"