The Era of Hard Work

In three or four days, the results of the college entrance examination will be available. High school graduates like Lu Dong will also return to school and finish the last part of high school.

Many people will choose to repeat.

But more people want to enter the society.

These days, after all, only a small number of people can be admitted to university.

In a family like Li Wenyue's, which has an elderly person and a young child, it is not easy to provide for a high school student.

Not counting the meal tickets in exchange for food, many high school students, including Lu Dong, live on less than ten yuan a week, and there are many who spend less than ten yuan a week.

Qingzhao No. 1 Middle School where Lv Dong works has been rated as a provincial-level standardized school this year, and the tuition fee has increased from 500 to 800. Some repeat students may make another choice.

Of course, Lu Dong won't go to re-study, one year is not enough to turn a person who has not been exposed to relevant knowledge for more than 20 years from a super scumbag to a top student.

Some people may be partial to subjects, for example, they are not good at mathematics or English. This phenomenon does not exist in Lu Dong. He definitely does not favor subjects, because the grades in each subject are similar.

Hmm... English is slightly better, but it's not because I'm good at it, but because there are more multiple-choice questions.

Anyway, I don’t understand it, so I just choose the long answer.

Lu Dong rode his bicycle from the old street, and when he passed Uncle Qi's gate, many people gathered diagonally opposite, including Aunt Seven, all gathered around there, and some people were distributing things in the middle.

Don't worry, everyone has it! A slightly hoarse female voice came from the crowd.

Lu Dong was riding high enough on the bicycle that he could see a woman in her thirties handing out a plastic fan.

The kind given away by shopping malls in events more than ten years later is considered a rarity these days.

After getting the fan, the crowd gradually dispersed, and the woman inside saw Lu Dong and called to him: Dongzi, wait, hold it!

Lu Dong stopped the car and took the plastic fan: Hello, Aunt Minglan.

This is an aunt of the same family, who has long been married, and her husband's family is from the Li family in the same village.

Lu Minglan stuffed a wine opener for Lu Dong again, and said, Here, this is good for starting beer.

Lu Dong glanced at the fan and wine opener with obvious trademarks, both of which had the trademark of Pacific Insurance.

Lu Minglan said solemnly: If you and your mother want to get insurance, you must find your aunt.

Okay! Lu Dong replied straight away, If I come up, I will definitely find you.

Lu Minglan didn't tell Lu Dongduo, but joined the crowd in the old street and continued talking about insurance.

When Lu Dong returned to the orchard, seeing that it was still early, he took his fishing net and water bag and went to the river.

It's not too hot today, and there were several older generations fishing early near the Triangle Dam.

Dongzi, you're late. Someone said.

All the fishers here are elders, and Lu Dong couldn't afford to offend him. He said with a smile, Uncles, you go fishing, and I'll go downstream.

He walked north along the bank of the river, looking for a place suitable for netting, but he didn't go far when he saw Lu Jianshe coming up from the embankment, holding a straight little pig in his hand.

The piglet was not big, not even forty centimeters tall, and it was obviously dead.

Uncle Jianshe. Lu Dong's eyes fell on the little pig he was carrying: What's wrong?

Lu Jianshe shook the little pig and said, Diarrhea, it can't be cured, it's dead, throw it into the river.

For the villages along the river, Qingzhao River also plays an extremely important role—a dumping ground for garbage.

Among other things, Lu Dong had encountered a dead pig before.

Lu Dong suddenly thought of the leech: Just died? Don't throw it away, give it to me.

Lu Jianshe said seriously: Don't mess around, you can't eat those who died of illness!

Lu Dong explained: I use it to bait the river and catch things.

Really? Lu Jianshe confirmed.

Lu Dong swore: Uncle Jianshe, I'm not a kid, why did I lie to you?

Anyway, it was something thrown into the river. Lu Jianshe handed it to Lu Dong and said, Give it to you, deal with it quickly, it will stink soon.

With this dead pig, he could continue to bait, so Lu Dong hurried back to the orchard, looking at the small dead pig and thinking about it.

In the past, only chicken blood was used for other purposes. Uncle Tie and Aunt Tie could sell chicken, gizzards and even chicken intestines, so it was impossible to give them to him.

If the pig's blood is released, you can continue to use the previous method, but what about the pork and offal?

Lu Dong quickly got an idea, ran to the back of the columbarium, dug out some big-eyed net bags left over from last year's apples, and used them to hold meat later.

Then, he found a broken knife, an ax for chopping trees, and the earthen basin where the leeches had been placed before, and temporarily turned into a butcher.

Lu Dong had never killed a pig, but only saw someone kill it at a fair. If it was a live pig, he might not be able to kill it, and if it died, there would be no psychological barrier.

This is serious recycling of waste, responding to the call to work hard and get rich.

So staged an apple orchard juvenile chopping pig incident!

This job is not easy to see, the scene of Lu Dong's work is horrible, but fortunately there is only a small dead pig, before Chinese New Year Hu Chunlan went into the water, he chopped the big pig's head with an axe, it took some time, and it was done.

He went out of the woods to wash off the blood on his body, and found net bags to pack the pork and internal organs separately. Afraid of going out and scaring people, Lu Dong put them all in a woven fertilizer bag.

There were a lot of things, and it was difficult to get the straw. Lu Dong saw some rags thrown away by Hu Chunlan in the corner of the fruit forest, so he simply picked them up, stuffed them in a woven bag, and went to the back of the columbarium to find them covered with sand and mud. The construction line, go up the river again.

Lu Dong didn't go to the Triangle Dam. A group of grandparents were fishing there. Throwing things into the river was uncomfortable, so he simply left the orchard and went north and went downstream.

First make rags and pig blood, the rags are rolled into a ball, stained with pig blood in the earthen pot, stuffed into the net bag, then tied to the construction line, thrown into the river and waited for it to sink a little, and then tied to the bank tree.

Change the place and continue to use pig blood. After the pig blood is used up, use a net bag to store meat or offal. Since the dead pigs are too small, Lu Dong only makes do with a dozen or so bait nests.

After casting the bait, Lu Dong went back to wash off the bloody smell on his body, and took out the net again.

I said Dongzi! You won't be free for a while! Someone saw him.

Lu Dong deliberately joked: There's no food for dinner yet.

The little money he earns now is not enough to do anything. Before the official opening of the University City, he still wants to prepare a lot of things.

I hope that the material rewards for advanced individuals will be higher.

The elders who stayed away from fishing, Lu Dong found a good place to cast the net, dragged it up as expected, and didn't see a single fish.

I didn't have an empty net, so I dragged some stones and clams, which are called Gala here.

Lu Dong picked, not counting the size, there are seven or eight, and more can be enough for a dish.

Gala puts sesame oil to spit out the sand, picks out the meat and boils it thoroughly, then stir-fries it in oil, and throws it crunchy in the mouth.

But when you open the shell and see a pack of small leeches twisting and wriggling, don't feel sick and panic, the probability here is not low.

This thing should be cooked thoroughly before eating.

Not only gala, but everything caught in the river must be cooked before it can be eaten.

There are many parasites in the river, and nothing can be eaten raw. In the past, when the water quality was good, a daughter-in-law of the Li family was thirsty from working in the fields by the river. Seeing that the river was clean, she took a few sips of water, and after a while, her throat He vomited blood in pain, and the hospital checked that a small leech sucked on his throat, which was a serious crime.

As for liver flukes and the like, needless to say.

When it was dark, Lu Dong caught some catfish and Gaya, but there were very few other fish, and the biggest one was just a palm-sized crucian carp.

It was getting late, Lu Dong packed his things and prepared to go back to the orchard.

Climbing ashore, someone shouted, Dongzi, did you catch a crucian carp?

Lu Dong shook the water bag: Grandpa A, just one.

With a straw hat hanging on his back, Lu Zhenjia walked over with his bald head, opened the net pocket and said, Your sister-in-law is in confinement and wants crucian carp soup for milk. I'll exchange it with catfish. I heard that old iron who doesn't pluck hair say that you are raising catfish?

Lu Dong opened the water bag and fished out a palm-sized crucian carp: No, you can just hold it.

Lu Zhenjia took the crucian carp and put it away, took out the largest catfish and threw it into Lu Dong's water bag: This is not a one-shot deal, I will keep all the crucian carp I catch in the future, and I will exchange the catfish I catch with you.

Lu Dong stopped being polite: No problem.

Lu Zhenjia put away his net bag: The water quality is getting worse every year. This river is full of catfish squatting.

Catfish is still selling well, but in a few years, no one will eat it.

Even later, some catfish family food fish, various names emerged in an endless stream, in order to hide the catfish far away.

During dinner in the evening, Lu Dong asked Hu Chunlan: I heard from the third grandfather in the afternoon that the new year's withdrawal and retention plan needs to be paid, 160 per person. You just bought pesticides, and you still have money?

Hu Chunlan thought of Lu Dong's small business in recent days, and didn't hide it: It's not enough, use your money first.

Lu Dong thought for a while: Mom, I'll get you 500 later.

No need. Hu Chunlan said: I still have a little, just give me 300.

Lu Dong didn't answer, and said, A lot of people are delaying...

Hu Chunlan was very firm: We can't delay, we can't discredit your father. The government treats us well, we can't delay.

Not to mention anything else, if it weren't for Lu Jianjun's objective situation, and Lu Jianguo would risk his face to seek connections, with Lu Dong's poor grades in the high school entrance examination, Qingzhao No. 1 High School would not want to spend money.

Hu Chunlan took out a note and gave it to Lu Dong: The Forestry Station has issued a new handbook on the prevention and control of fruit forest pests. Come back from Quannan tomorrow and go to the county.

Come on.

Lu Dong took the note, went back to the old house after dinner and took 500 yuan. Hu Chunlan was only willing to ask for 300 yuan. The two talked for a while, and finally took 400 yuan.

After all, there are two living expenses.

Consumption in rural areas is low, and most of the food we eat is grown in the fields. Now that it is summer, we only buy some vegetables and meat in the market.

Frugality has long been a habit engraved in the bones. On Lujia Street, there are not one or two households who can't spend 5 yuan a month for electricity.

Some climbing vegetables such as loofah and lentils are planted in the yard, which can be eaten all summer.

Before it got dark, Lu Dong found another cigarette case and grabbed a few chili peppers for emergencies.

It's not safe in the city, you can't be a hunter without pets!

At eight o'clock, Lu Dong went to catch the cicada monkey first, and tied it to the tree with tape. This time-consuming and labor-intensive work became extremely simple.

After catching it, he carried a large black convenience bag, flashlighted and went to the river to drag the construction line next to him.

The results were quite gratifying. I don't know whether pig's blood is better than chicken blood, or net bags are better for clothes. In the first bait nest, Lu Dong caught nearly ten leeches over five centimeters.

It seems that leeches in a large area nearby have all come out of the mud to eat.

There are more or less bait nests in the back, the internal organs are okay, and the effect of blooded pork is mediocre, and hundreds of them are collected in the end.

Throw all the bait back into the river and see the effect tomorrow.

This is a big harvest, just don't encounter thieves again.

Back in the orchard, I put some water into the convenience bag. Hundreds of slippery leeches tangled together, twisted and rolled, and the scene was quite spectacular.

After resting for a while, Lu Dong continued to drill into the fruit forest.

This night, the harvest was quite fruitful.

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