Chapter 8 Harvest
Among the four major fresh foods in the Northeast, the most famous is Kaijiang fish. During a long winter that lasts for half a year, the river is frozen, and the fish lack oxygen and food. In addition, the low temperature reduces activity and slows down the growth of the meat.
Extraordinarily delicious. The lack of food and the pure water quality after the closure of the river made the fresh and clean Kaijiang fish a top delicacy on the tables of Northeastern people.
There are many kinds of fish in the Songhua River, the most famous of which are Sanhua, Wuluo and Shibazi.
The three flowers refer to the Ao flower, the bream flower and the crucian carp flower.
The five Luo are Zheluo, Faro, Yaluo, Huluo, and Tongluo. The five Luo are all very expensive.
So far, there is no unified and precise term for Shibazi. There are many kinds of fish with "zi", such as boat dingzi, willow root seeds, gourd seeds, wheat ears, white drifters, loach hooks, Huangguzi, red-eyed starers, and Qiaozui Island.
Zi, seven-grain float, silver carp, crucian carp and melon seeds, catfish balls, gaya seeds, ox tail seeds, seven-star seeds, shoulder pole hook, sand dune seeds, purple mud belly, Diao Zi, flower lamb...
Li Zhongxin, Wang Bo and Dong Zhiguo caught many kinds of fish from the river. Although Li Zhongxin in later generations always ate river fish when he was hanging out by the river, he did not recognize all the fish he caught.
These fish were to be taken to the city for sale, and it was unrealistic for people to carry them on their backs, so Li Zhongxin asked Dong Zhiguo if he could get a large vehicle such as a carriage or a handcart.
Dong Zhiguo was the cousin of village party secretary Dong Guozhong, and he was doing well in Zhuban Village at this time. When he heard Li Zhongxin said he wanted to borrow a car, he ran to Zhuban Village to get one without saying a word.
Li Zhongxin looked at Dong Zhiguo's back and remembered one thing in his mind, that is, during the crackdown in 1983, Dong Zhiguo committed a crime for stealing from a friend. When he confessed, he said that he gave him ten kilograms of food stamps, because he was blamed for it.
Branded and sentenced to three years.
After he came out, he had a quarrel with Dong Guozhong and went directly to the south to join Wang Bo. Although he didn't do well in the south, he rarely came back to Zhubantun.
Li Zhongxin thought that Dong Zhiguo, like Wang Bo, was a good person, and even when he was at the end of his rope, he never did anything illegal.
A stone cannot be turned into gold, and a person cannot be turned into a man without being enlightened. This time he was reborn in 1982, and he wanted to change the fate of two people.
Sitting on the trolley pushed by Dong Zhiguo, Li Zhongxin thought depressingly that it would be really difficult to do anything he wanted to do when he was reborn in this era, not to mention material poverty and rudimentary tools!
When I go to Jiangcheng to sell fish, I have to borrow a pushcart from everywhere, which is really troublesome.
After loading two and a half large sacks of fish into the truck, Wang Bo, at Li Zhongxin's reminder, took Li Zhongxin to the old Zhang's house next door to borrow a steelyard that Li Zhongxin had forgotten about for many years.
Li Zhongxin saw that the borrowed steelyard was the same as the steelyard that had been in his previous life. It was a steelyard with a wooden pole with star points and a slight taper as the main body. The end of the scale also had a round head wrapped in copper leather, but that
The thickness of the copper skin is very thin, and it has a greenish appearance on it.
The scale weight (which has the same effect as the weight) is an old-fashioned ten-jin weight. You can carry the leather handle on the front part of the scale head (the cowhide buckle fixed on the scale beam) to weigh the weight of ten kilograms or less. You can carry the leather handle on the back part.
, then it can weigh things within twenty kilograms.
There is also a hook at the front of the leather bag. If the weighing thing is tied with a rope, it can also be hung on the hook to weigh. Li Zhongxin thinks that this kind of scale is suitable for them to sell fish.
The weight rope is just an ordinary hemp rope, and the scale pan is full of rust. In Li Zhongxin's mind, such a broken scale is a bit terrible, but when he thinks about it carefully, in the early 1980s, having a steel scale at home was already quite good.
Already.
It was precisely because of this that when he saw his third uncle Wang Bo borrowing the steelyard, he kept whispering to Uncle Zhang, fearing that if Uncle Zhang was unhappy, the steelyard would not be lent to him.
After Wang Bo arrived, he did not make any delay and walked quickly to the village with Li Zhongxin, preparing to go to Jiangcheng to sell fish.
Dong Zhiguo, according to what Li Zhongxin said, gave the biggest fish to his cousin, village party secretary Dong Guozhong, and asked Dong Guozhong to go to Dong Zhiguo to eat fish in the evening. The other few fish were found in the big water.
The tank is raised and Li Zhongxin will bring it home when he returns home tomorrow morning.
Li Zhongxin knew that neither Dong Zhiguo nor Wang Bo had much money, so he directly took out a small scalper (the name for five yuan in the 1960 version at that time) and handed it to Dong Zhiguo, telling Dong Zhiguo to get some food at home.
Li Zhongxin originally wanted to take out a big unity card, but considering his purchasing power at this time, he finally chose the small scalper.
Even so, Wang Bo and Dong Zhiguo were petrified at the same time.
In the 1980s, there was no urban management, and river fish was a rare thing. Wang ** led Li Zhongxin all the way, and before he got to where Li Zhongxin wanted to go, most of the fish had been sold.
Not to mention that most of the Kaijiang fish have been sold, some people have begun to place reservations for the Kaijiang fish that can be bought without meat tickets.
Near the Jiangcheng vegetable market, before Li Zhongxin and Wang Bo could shout, a group of people surrounded the pushcart and began to rush to buy. From the time they entered the city until all the fish were sold, it didn't even take an hour, which made Li Zhongxin understand.
The purchasing power of people in this era.
As long as you don’t need food stamps or meat stamps, even if you sell good things at a higher price, some people will still want them. People in this era are almost all employees of the state, and they are all funded by the state. When they encounter good things, they are afraid that the money in their hands will be spent.
If you don't go out, you won't be able to buy good things.
The river fish Li Zhongxin sells is not expensive, a bit lower than the price of fish in Li Zhongxin’s memory, and they are all fresh river fish, which is more convincing.
The most important thing is that buying fish in state-owned stores also requires meat stamps. In an era when meat stamps were worth more than money, most people would not be willing to use meat stamps to buy fish.
In less than an hour, all the fish that Li Zhongxin and Wang ** arrived in Jiangcheng were wiped out, which made Wang Bo so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.
Li Zhongxin watched his third uncle Wang Bo carefully lock the door with the door latch, as if he were a thief, and crept up to the corner of the fire bed that was not visible from the window. He looked around for a while, and then he took the torn canvas satchel
He carefully took out the change in the bag one by one. Seeing Wang Bo's thief-like behavior, Li Zhongxin felt angry and funny.
Wang Bo sat down in the kang and put the money in several categories: one dime, two dimes, five cents, one yuan... He counted the piles one by one seven or eight times, even the coins were not missed, and he checked them one by one.
Four or five times.
Wang Bo has never closed his mouth since counting money. His posture and attitude of counting money are just like Master Bai in the movie Avanti.
All I have to say when counting money is that my money is ninety-nine...
Seeing Li Zhongxin lying lazily on the bed and looking at the sky, Wang Bo carefully put the money into the torn canvas satchel, moved his big face to Li Zhongxin's face eagerly, and said mysteriously: "Nephew, you
Guess how much the two of us sold this time?"
Seeing Li Zhongxin's stunned look, Wang Bo couldn't close his mouth and whispered: "Grand nephew, we have made a fortune. Today we sold a total of thirty-nine yuan and two cents, as well as fourteen kilograms of food stamps and three kilograms of meat stamps."
Li Zhongxin glanced at Wang Bo with slight disdain. He had already calculated the approximate amount of money in his mind.
There are more than a hundred catties of fish in total, big fish, good fish and small fish, on average, it is about four cents per catty, and it would be good to earn thirty or forty yuan.
Li Zhongxin still felt a little disappointed about the income he earned from fishing with a net hung under a kite board for the first time.
According to Li Zhongxin's original idea, he could catch a hundred catties of fish in one net. However, he led Wang Bo to release two nets before he could catch a hundred catties of fish, which made Li Zhongxin feel a certain gap.
This gap is only a temporary psychological gap. Li Zhong is confident that because he does not know enough about this section of the river, he and his third uncle flew kites very close to each other this time. It is normal that there are not many fish. Furthermore, it is not an emergency right now.
Best time to fish.
What's more, the net he used was a fifty-meter-long one-inch net. If you remove the head and tail and don't catch any big fish, it would be a pretty good harvest.
What's more, Li Zhongxin left behind five or six big fish. Calculated based on an average weight of five kilograms each, it is more than thirty kilograms. If these fish are sold, the income will be almost fifty or sixty yuan.
Wang Bo did not notice the displeasure of his nephew Li Zhongxin, and even regarded Li Zhongxin's displeasure as a sign of being scared.
In Wang Bo's heart, what his nephew did was already a blessing.
Now in 1982, my sister, who is a people's teacher, only earns 38 yuan a month, and my brother-in-law, a senior carpenter with a sixth-level technical title, only earns 38.6 yuan a month. This is a salary that has just been raised.
It only took one morning to fish with Li Zhongxin, plus selling fish in the market, which only lasted most of the day. It was not even evening yet, and the two of them had already earned thirty-nine and seven yuan.
Two cents per cent and fourteen catties of food stamps.
This thirty-nine yuan, seventy-two cents belonged entirely to him and his nephew. In other words, he and his nephew earned more in one day than his brother-in-law earned from working hard in a month.
In Wang Bo's mind, his nephew is nothing more than a little child. At such a time, he should be frightened by the astonishing numbers.
Wang Bo thought smugly that after getting so much money this time, he gave three yuan and two yuan to his nephew, bought a pack of good cigarettes for his good friend Zhiguo who was helping, and in the evening, bought some meat to eat in Zhiguo's house.
Fish, drink some wine, this is simply a lucky day!
Just when Wang Bo was thinking about it alone, Li Zhongxin said slightly melancholy: "When you return the car later, give your friend Dong Zhiguo five yuan, which will be used to make the cart and his salary today, and then go back to the car."
I'll buy a steelyard on the street, buy some good meat, and buy a Hongtashan package for Lao Zhang's family. The remaining money will be put in my hands first, and will be temporarily used as follow-up start-up capital."
What, give Zhiguo five yuan! Buy a pack of Hongtashan for Lao Zhangtou?!!!!
Wang Bo's eyes immediately bulged out like goldfish eyes.
What is the concept of five yuan? A worker can only earn five yuan after working for several days. It is nothing more than Zhiguo borrowing a handcart and asking Zhiguo to help with the work for two hours and giving him five yuan. This is also...
Although Wang Bo couldn't accept giving Dong Zhiguo five yuan, after all, Dong Zhiguo was also his good friend, so he gave it to him.
However, borrowing a scale from Lao Zhang's house and buying a box of Hongtashan is a bit much.
In the early 1980s, you needed cigarette coupons to buy cigarettes, and most of the cigarette coupons Wang Bo got for smoking came from Li Zhongxin’s house. Note: (The types of old coupons issued can be roughly divided into food (including non-staple food) categories such as grain
Tickets, meat tickets, sugar tickets, etc.; daily necessities such as thread tickets, soap tickets, coal tickets, etc.; textile products such as cloth tickets, cotton tickets, shoe tickets, etc. The issuance channels include government departments, companies, supply and marketing cooperatives, etc.
, but they are all used in commercial or supply and marketing departments. The method of use is generally to match the number with the month. There are generally two methods for numbering old tickets: one is to number the tickets by month, and use the tickets for which month. This kind of ticket is similar to a comprehensive ticket.
Purchase coupons are often called "monthly coupons". The supply department will announce the name and quantity of the materials purchased with the coupon in the month; the other is numbered with Arabic numerals, and the supply department will also announce the XX number at the corresponding time.
If you buy a certain product on the 1st, 11th, etc., this kind of ticket is called a "number ticket"; there is also a special ticket that specifies the product and quantity.)
After arriving in Jiangcheng for two or three years, Wang Bo smoked the most from Dazhuang and Daqianmen. Even in Chuncheng, he only smoked a few pills with his brother-in-law Li Shangyong. Now suddenly his eldest nephew asked him to buy a box for Lao Zhang's family for 12 cents.
Qian's Hongta Mountain simply blinded Wang Bo's eyes.
Thinking again about what Li Zhongxin said he would put the remaining money into as start-up capital, Wang Bo's face suddenly fell to his feet. He glanced at Li Zhongxin with disdain and said angrily: "Children, every family
What do you understand? I will give you two yuan to buy delicious food later, and I will arrange the remaining money. What are you going to do if you give them so much money? If you don’t understand, don’t get involved with adults."
At this time, Wang Bo was also blinded by the more than thirty yuan, and he wanted to exercise his privileges as an elder.
Li Zhongxin saw that his third uncle Wang Bo was a little angry. He said to himself without raising his head or eyes: "It's only thirty yuan in total. If I make three hundred and five hundred yuan, I won't even give it to my nephew."
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When Wang Bo heard Li Zhongxin's gossip, he immediately became anxious. Just as he was about to curse, he heard Li Zhongxin mutter again: "A fishing net like this costs dozens of yuan, a kite board costs dozens of yuan, and the ones that hang fish on
I taught you the technique, alas! Forget it, just think that I can see a person clearly after spending ten pieces of it. When I see my grandma and grandpa in the future, I really have to ask..."
Chapter completed!