The Era of Hard Work

   Chapter 27 Can't hold back

   There are still three or four days before the results of the college entrance examination can be found. High school graduates like Lu Dong will also go back to school and finish the last part of high school.

   Many people will choose to repeat.

   But more people have to enter the society.

   These days, there are only a few who can go to university.

   For a family like Li Wenyue’s family, with old people on top and small ones below, it’s not easy to support a high school student.

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

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

   Of course, Lu Dong will not go to repeat reading, one year is not enough for people who have not been exposed to relevant knowledge for more than 20 years, from super scumbags to academic masters.

  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 is definitely not partial to subjects, because the grades in each subject are similar.

   Hmm... I'm a little better at English, but I'm not relatively good at it, but I have more multiple choice questions.

   I can’t understand it anyway, so just choose the long answer.

   Lu Dong rode his bicycle from the old street. When he passed in front of Qishu's gate, a lot of people gathered diagonally across the street, including Aunt Qi, who were all around, and there were people in the middle sending things.

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

   Lu Dong rode high enough on the bicycle to see a woman in her thirties making a plastic fan.

   It's the kind that was given away in shopping malls more than ten years later. It's a rarity these days.

   got the fan, the crowd gradually dispersed, the woman inside saw Lv Dong and called to him: "Dongzi, wait, take it!"

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

   This is an aunt from the family, who is already married, and her husband's family belongs to the Li family in the same village.

   Lu Minglan stuffed Lu Dong with a wine starter and said, "Here, this beer is easy to use."

   Lu Dong glanced at it, and the trademarks of the fan and wine starter were obvious, with the trademark of Pacific Insurance on them.

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

   "Okay!" Lu Dong responded with one mouthful: "If you go up, I'll definitely find you."

   Lv Minglan didn't tell Lv Dong much, but joined the crowd in the old street and continued to talk about insurance.

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

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

   "Fujiko, you're late." Someone said.

   The people fishing here are all elders, and Lu Dong couldn't afford it. He smiled and said, "Uncles, you fish, I'll go downstream."

   He walked north along the river bank, looking for a suitable place to drop the net. He didn't go very far when he saw Lu Jianshe came up from the river bank with a straight pig in his hand.

   The little pig was not even forty centimeters, and 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, "Diarrhoea, if it can't be cured, it's dead and thrown into the river."

   For the villages along the river, the Qingzhao River also plays an extremely important role - a garbage dump.

   Not to mention, Lu Dong has encountered dead pigs before.

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

  Lu Jianshe said in a serious tone: "Don't make a fool of yourself, you can't eat it if you die of illness!"

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

   "Really?" Lu Jianshe confirmed.

   Lu Dong vowed: "Uncle Jianshe, I'm not a little boy, why lie to you."

   Anyway, it was something thrown into the river. Lu Jianshe handed it to Lu Dong and said, "Give it to you. Hurry up and deal with it, this day will soon be smelly."

   With this dead pig, you can continue to bait. Lu Dong hurried back to the orchard, watching the small dead pig think about it.

  I used to only use chicken blood for no other purpose. Chicken, chicken gizzards and even chicken intestines could be sold by Uncle Tie and Auntie Tie. It was impossible for him to give it to him, but this little pig was different. Besides blood, there was also a whole body of meat that could be used.

  The pig blood is released, you can continue to use the previous method, what about pork and internal organs?

   Lu Dong quickly came up with an idea, ran to the back of the columbarium, and pulled out some big-eye mesh pockets left over from last year's apples, which will be used for meat later.

   Then, he found a broken knife, an axe for chopping trees, and a pot with leeches before, and temporarily transformed himself into a butcher.

   Lu Dong has never killed a pig, but only saw someone kill it at the festival. If it is a live pig, he may not be able to kill it, and the dead will have no psychological barriers.

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

   Then staged a pig chopping incident in the apple orchard!

   This job is not easy to see. The scene that Lu Dong did was terrible. Fortunately, there was a small dead pig. Hu Chunlan used an axe to chop the head of a big pig. It took some time to get it done.

   went out of the woods to wash off the blood from his body, and found a net bag to put pork and internal organs separately. Lu Dong was afraid to go out and scare people, so he put all of them in a woven fertilizer bag.

There was a lot of stuff, and it was difficult to take the straw. Lu Dong saw that there were some scraps of rags thrown by Hu Chunlan in the corner of the fruit forest. The construction line goes to the river again.

   Lu Dong didn’t go to the Triangle Dam. A group of grandfathers were fishing there. It was uncomfortable to throw things into the river.

First get rags and pig blood, the rags are rolled into a ball, stained with the pig blood in the pot, stuffed into the net pocket, then tied with the construction line, thrown into the river and waited to sink a little, and then tied to the bank on the tree.

   Change the place and continue to use pig blood. After the pig blood is used up, use net pockets to pack meat or internal organs. Because the little dead pig is too small, Lu Dong can only make do with a dozen bait nests.

After    finished baiting, Lu Dong went back to wash off the smell of blood, and took out the net again.

   "I said Fuyuko! You won't be idle for a while!" Someone saw him.

   Lu Dong deliberately joked: "I don't have dinner yet."

   The money he earns now is not enough for anything. Before the official opening of the university town, he still thinks about preparing a lot of things.

   Hope that the material reward for advanced individuals is higher.

  The elders who were far away from fishing, Lu Dong found a good place to set the net, and as expected, he did not see a single fish.

   There is no empty net, so I dragged some rocks and clams, and it's called galla here.

   Lu Dong picked them up, the size didn't count, there were seven or eight.

   Gala put sesame oil and spit out sand, pick out the meat and boil it in boiling water, then fry it in oil, throw it in the mouth and make it crispy.

   But pick Gala to open the shell and see a pack of small leeches twisting and squirming, don't be disgusted and panic, the probability here is not low.

  This thing should be cooked thoroughly before eating.

   Not only galla, but the things caught in the river must be cooked before eating.

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 while working in the fields by the river. Seeing that the water was very clean, she took two sips of water, and after a while, her throat became thirsty. He vomited blood in pain, and the hospital checked that a small leech was sucking in his throat, and he suffered the biggest crime.

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

  When it got dark, Lu Dong fished up some catfish and gar-ya. There were very few other fish, and the biggest one was just a palm-sized crucian carp.

   It was getting late, Lu Dong packed up and prepared to return to the orchard.

   climbed ashore, and someone shouted, "Fuuji, did you hit a crucian carp?"

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

Lu Zhenjia had a straw hat hanging behind his back, walked over with his bald head on, opened his net pocket and said, "Your sister-in-law is confinement, and she wants crucian carp soup for milk. I will exchange catfish for you. I heard that old Tie who doesn't pluck your hair said that you are raising catfish? "

   Lu Dong opened the water bag and fished out the palm-sized crucian carp: "No, you can just take 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-off deal. I will keep the crucian carp I catch in the future, and I will exchange the catfish I caught with you."

   Lu Dong is no longer polite: "No problem."

  Lu Zhenjia put away his net pocket: "The water quality is getting worse every year, and the river is full of catfish."

  Catfish is still popular now, and in a few years, no one will eat it.

   Even later, some edible fish of the catfish family came up with various names to hide the catfish far away.

  During dinner, Lu Dong asked Hu Chunlan: "In the afternoon, I heard the third grandfather say that I have to pay for the new year's retention coordinator, 160 per person, you just bought pesticides, do you still have money?"

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

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

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

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

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

   Not to mention anything else, if it weren't for the objective situation of Lv Jiangjun, Lv Jianguo would go out of his way to find a relationship, and with Lu Dong's bad grades in the middle school entrance examination, he would not have spent money on Qingzhao No. 1 High School.

  Hu Chunlan took out a note and gave it to Lu Dong: "The forest station has issued a new fruit forest pest control manual. I will return from Quannan tomorrow and go to the county."

   "Okay."

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

   After all, there are living expenses for two people.

   The rural consumption is low, and the food is basically grown in the ground. Now that it is summer, I will buy some vegetables and meat.

  Frugality has long been a habit engraved in the bones. On the old street of Lujiajie, there are not two households who cannot use 5 yuan a month for electricity.

   Plant some loofah and lentils and other climbing vegetables in the yard, and you can eat them all summer.

  Before it got dark, Lu Dong found another cigarette case and grabbed a few tickling hot peppers in case of emergency.

  The city is not safe, you can't be a hunter without pets!

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

   After grabbing it, he carried a large black convenient bag and went to the river with a flashlight, dragging the construction line next to him.

   The results are quite gratifying. I don’t know whether pig blood is easier to use than chicken blood, or whether it is better to put clothes in a net pocket. In the first bait nest, Lu Dong caught nearly ten leeches that were over five centimeters in size.

  It seems that the leeches in a large area nearby are all burrowing out of the mud to enjoy their food.

   There are as many bait nests as possible, and the internal organs are okay. The effect of the blooded pork is average. In the end, hundreds of pieces were collected.

The   bait is all thrown back into the river, and we will see the effect tomorrow.

   This is a great harvest, just don’t encounter thieves again.

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

   After a short rest, Lu Dong continued to drill into the fruit forest.

   This night has been fruitful.

   Ask for a recommendation ticket! Ask for support!

   (end of this chapter)