Chapter 11 Aunt
Li Deyou looked at Li Wen blankly for a while, then nodded, OK, you go with us and let the air behind us, and you will learn to be a bird's chirping when someone passes by.
After arranging everyone, they caught six large carp and two five or six kilograms of grass carp, almost one hundred kilograms. With the expectation of the women at home, several people climbed over the wall and left.
The family is more than twenty miles away from the county town and has been walking for more than an hour. The eldest brother and the second uncle have already walked in front. The father and the second brother carried forty or fifty kilograms and were also moving forward with steep steps. Li Wen followed behind him. In the dark night, everyone was about fifty meters away from each other, and they could not see each other but could hear the sound.
People who secretly went to the black market of the county town to buy and sell things from time to time along the way, and everyone hid and it was already past one o'clock in the morning when they arrived at the county town.
My uncle's family is a native county town. The family lives in a separate yard, so it is safer.
Uncle Er turned around from the backyard and gently tapped the window with a branch. He saw a sound from inside, "Who is that?" Then the lights lit up.
My brother-in-law is me, Decai, please open the door, and the second uncle said quietly.
"Oh! It's the second child, wait a moment."
The wooden door was gently opened, and the eldest uncle Zhao Hongjun was wearing slippers, while the eldest aunt Li Xiulan followed behind.
Looking at Li Wu and his second uncle at the door, the eldest aunt Li Xiulan hurriedly said, "Come in quickly," and said, letting the two in.
"Auntie, don't rush to close the door. My second uncle and I are looking forward to the wind. My dad and Aquan and Awen are still behind. We will arrive later." Okay, you and your second uncle come in first, and I'll wait for your dad and the others here.
After a while, Li Wen and the other two entered the yard one after another.
Everyone walked into the living room and sat down. My aunt Li Xiulan asked in confusion, "Why are you all running out tonight? What are you talking about? Is there anything wrong?"
My father took out the two five or six pounds of grass carp from the sack and handed it to his eldest uncle, and said with a smile, "I caught some fish last night and give some for you to taste."
At this time, the rest of my aunt's family woke up, walked into the living room to greet everyone, and was very happy to see two big fish on the table.
The big cousin standing beside him smiled and said, "Uncle, are you fish from the net? I think the ones in your sack should be all fish, right?"
Everyone in the aunt's family looked at the sack in shock. My father pulled open the sack, and six large silver carp weighing more than ten pounds appeared in front of everyone.
"Wow! This fish is so big, my uncle said in surprise!"
"Awen got some fishing lines and hooks from his classmates. This kid can actually fish. He is so skillful. These fish were all caught by him last night. Li Deyou said with a smile on his face."
"Oh! Our Awen is so powerful, he actually caught so many big fish by himself, and my aunt said happily."
"Sister, brother-in-law, we haven't come to the county's black market for a long time, and we are not very familiar with it. Brother-in-law, do you know any of you who knows the black market? We want to exchange these fish for some food. My father looked at my eldest uncle and said."
My eldest uncle thought for a while and nodded, "I don't go to this black market often, but there is a friend in our village who often buys and sells some things, and they usually introduce them to each other by acquaintances. Jianjun, go and ask your Uncle Peng to come to your house, be careful on the way."
"Uncle, let's go with my second cousin, too. It's also a way to take care of it. Li Wen smiled when he saw the opportunity."
"Okay, you can go together too. Jianjun takes care of Li Wen, and his uncle reminded him."
"Cousin, how is your family life recently? Do you usually have enough food? Li Wen asked."
"What are you enough to eat? There are two meals a day, and one is also very thin. I'm hungry all day and I'm useless to do anything. Now I'm walking and my eyes turn black, Zhao Jianjun complained."
Li Wen took out a few candies from his pocket and stuffed them into Zhao Jianjun's hand, "My cousin eats candy, your blood sugar is a little low, so it's okay to eat two candies."
"You guy still has money to buy candy, he is richer than me. My cousin is almost eighteen years old. I often can't even get a penny in my pocket. Zhao Jianjun opened the packaging and stuffed two into his mouth."
"Your fruit candy is so sweet and has a scent of milk, Zhao Jianjun said in surprise."
"Where do I have money? This is the extra money I earned when I was in school to help my classmates do homework. This candy is a high-end product brought back from Shanghai by my classmate's father. I saved some to entertain friends. I can, your cousin, Li Wen said with his head up."
"No, not bad. I'll find my cousin if you have any trouble in the county town. I'm very familiar with every corner of the county town."
Li Wen nodded with a smile and said, "Is Uncle Peng big in size? Don't you have to collect these fish by then? Now the fish will not last long in the summer, Li Wen inquired."
"You said Uncle Peng, he is quite big. I often go to his house and see him exchange things with people with a stack of money tickets. The things he sells are also very rich, ranging from tea, rice, oil and salt to bicycle tickets. My dad said that he has a lot of energy in our county and eats very well."
After getting the answer he wanted to know, Li Wen nodded and began to think about the next plan.
Here, my aunt's family is also telling each other about what happened recently
The second uncle sat on the stool, patted his knees with his hands and said sadly, "The family is about to lose food, and the harvest this year is not good. I guess it will be difficult again this year!"
"Yes, since this year, the city has also provided a lot less grain. It turned out that cornmeal was coarse grain, but now it has been changed to fine grain. Potatoes and sweet potatoes have become coarse grains. There have even been substitute food (substitute food refers to some powder ground from straw leaves and bran, which are mixed together to replace food). The eldest uncle nodded and said."
"That's it. Every time I buy grain with a grain bank, I often can't buy it. My father is a formal worker, a temporary worker at home. His salary is low and the benefits are low. In recent years, a large part of my income has been used to buy grain from the black market. This year, the liberation is 21st, and I don't have the money to get a wife," sighed at the eldest aunt Li Xiulan, and everyone sighed.
"Uncle, my name is Li Wen. What do you call me? Li Wen looked at the slightly fat middle-aged man in front of him and said with a smile!"
My name is Peng Yuyan, everyone calls me Lao Peng, you kid just call me Uncle Peng!
"What, Peng Yuyan?" Li Wen staggered!
Why are there any problems? The middle-aged man looked at Li Wen and said in confusion.
No, it just sounds like a celebrity, Li Wen smiled.
Haha, I love listening to your child, I like it, and the man laughed.
Old Peng is here, please sit down quickly. When the eldest uncle saw the three of them walking in, he hurriedly got up to greet him.
"You are polite to the Red Army, you are polite to what we have to do. We have been playing since we were young, Peng Yuyan waved his hand!" Everyone sat down one after another.
"Old Peng, look at the fish on the ground, can you eat them? This is my brother. You see, you are still alive. As he said that, he kicked the bag on the ground, and the fish flipped its tail violently. Zhao Hongjun said with a smile."
Lao Peng was also happy when he looked at the big fish jumping on the ground. Recently, several big customers contacted him and asked him to make some meat and say he was going to give gifts. He was worried about what to do. This was really a sleepy encounter with handing the pillow.
"This fish is really big. Now everyone is short of food, let alone this meat. Although the fish is less oily and watery, it is also meat. These big fish are good and very fat. Peng Yuyan checked the fish on the ground and said with a smile."
After looking at his father, Lao Peng smiled and said, "The Red Army and I are friends, so I call you brothers. I think you are still alive, the meat is fresh, but I don't know if I can still live if I take it back. I will give you one pound, two pounds and three yuan per black market half-living fish. What do you think, brother?"
"Now I eat expensive. The price of a pound of flour in the black market is 1,200 pounds. The price is ridiculously expensive. The price of fish is about the same. My uncle Zhao Hongjun nodded and smiled."
My father and the second uncle nodded, "Okay, we are very satisfied with this price, so we will sell it to Brother Peng. We will have a happy cooperation."
My aunt hurriedly took out the scale, and the six big fish weighed a total of 82 kilograms.
"On average, one is more than thirteen pounds. This one is so big, everyone sighed!"
"Eighty-two pounds are a total of 188.6 yuan. Do you want money or exchange it for something? Peng Yuyan happily patted the bag."
Brother, just 188 yuan, just give me 88 yuan in cash, and the remaining 100 yuan, please help me exchange 70 yuan grain coupons, just ask for corn flour, and help me change some oil coupons and cloth coupons for the remaining thirty yuan.
"I just happened to have five kilograms of oil tickets in my hand, one kilogram and three dollars. I'll give them all to you. The food is relatively high now, and the bills are not cheap either. I hope you can understand,"
As he said that, he took out eight big black ten and eight pieces and handed them to his father one dollar, and handed them over ten and half a kilogram of oil tickets and more than a dozen cloth tickets. "Brother, look, right?" Lao Peng said with a smile.
His father Li Deyou took the money and counted it, nodded and said, "Brother, there is no problem."
"Then you all sit first. It's getting late, so I have to take the fish back and deal with it. Lao Peng weighed the sack and said, "And brother, if you have good things in the future, you will find me directly, and the price will definitely satisfy you."
Li's father looked at Li Wen and nodded.
"Boss, I'll send you Uncle Peng. It's hard to get so many fish, my uncle Zhao Hongjun stood up and said."
"Okay, please Jiefang, haha, Lao Peng smiled and patted Zhao Jiefang on the shoulder. Then you guys are here, I'll leave."
After sending Lao Peng out, everyone sat down again. Everyone looked happy. Unexpectedly, more than 80 kilograms of fish are so valuable.
"A pound of cornmeal ticket costs 80 cents now, which is a full eight times more. It turns out that only one cent is enough. The food is really expensive now, my aunt sighed."
"Dad, my uncle helped us so much tonight. You gave my aunt twenty kilograms of cornmeal and oil tickets. On the way, my cousin said that they only ate two meals a day, and they were all dry and thin. They were hungry every day. My aunt's family must not have much food, Li Wendao."
When my uncle heard this, he said excitedly, "How can this work? We are relatives. How can you, a child, treat us as an outsider?" My aunt hurriedly got up and refused.
"Okay, listen to you, these fish are all caught by Xiaowen. You have the final say. When you grow up, you know how to respect your elders. You won't be fooled by your aunt! My father Li Deyou nodded with a smile.
Li Deyou took out the bill and handed it to Li Xiulan and said, "Sister, take it. You and your brother-in-law have helped our mother and family a lot over the years."
Li Xiulan refused but then took it, smiled and touched Li Wen's head and said, "You are so sensible, and my aunt's family is in trouble now, so let's go ahead, thank you!"
"Auntie, aren't you slapping me in the face? Li Wen blushed and said, "It's just a little food coupon. I'm all thanking me for my family. These fish are all caught in the reservoir anyway. There's not much cost, so don't thank me."
Chapter completed!