Qin Hao woke up just after dawn. In an era when nightlife was extremely scarce, every household turned off their lights very early, and basically went to bed after eight o'clock.
After stretching, Qin Hao came to the yard to fetch water, brush his teeth and wash his face. He found that Wu Guihua was already lighting a fire in the kitchen and preparing breakfast.
"I woke up very early today, why don't you sleep a little longer?" Wu Guihua asked in surprise.
Qin Hao wiped his face: "If you can't sleep, just get up."
Wu Guihua didn't think much about it. When the fire started burning, she couldn't help but turn on Tang Monk mode while cooking.
"You're about to go to junior high school. Don't play around all day long. Focus on your studies. Look at Qiao Yicheng, the guy next door. He's number one in every category. He gets certificates every year. Can you let me
Save yourself some trouble..."
Qin Hao had no choice but to go back to his room and take a nap to avoid this fatal curse.
Wu Guihua sighed after seeing this: "Oh, the child's father, if you haven't been reincarnated yet, please protect our silly son and let him enlighten."
After breakfast, Qin Hao put on his schoolbag and got ready to go to school. He happened to meet Qiao Yicheng at the intersection.
Qiao Yicheng just glanced at him and continued on his way, without even saying hello. Qin Hao shook his head secretly, has this kid been so autistic since he was a child?
The life of a primary school student is simply torture for Qin Hao. A group of boring kids and even more boring primary school courses make Qin Hao feel sleepy.
The teacher has long been accustomed to "bad students" like Qin Hao. As long as he does not disrupt the order of the class, he will be left alone.
After finally getting to the end of school, Qin Hao just walked out of the class door and found Qiao Yicheng waiting for him. He still said nothing but stared at Qin Hao, as if he was afraid that he would run away.
"Let's go, what are you doing?"
After Qin Hao finished speaking, he threw away his schoolbag and walked towards the school gate. Qiao Yicheng silently followed behind him. This scene surprised many students.
After returning home, Qin Hao took the fishing gear, but Qiao Yicheng only took a bamboo pole and a small iron box. When he opened it, he found that there was only a length of fishing line and a rusty fishhook bent with an iron fixing.
"Are you going to use this for fishing?"
Qiao Yicheng looked at Qin Hao silently. Qin Hao threw the iron box aside and said impatiently.
"Get your bucket."
Qiao Yicheng hesitated for a moment, then silently picked up the iron box and returned home.
The playfulness of Qiao Erqiang and the others could be heard in the yard, as if they wanted to follow Qiao Yicheng. After being scolded by Qiao Yicheng, the little ones quickly became quiet again.
"Yicheng, Xiaohao, be careful." Wei Shufen warned at the entrance of the hospital with a big belly.
"I know Aunt Wei, don't worry, I will take good care of him." Qin Hao looked at Qiao Yicheng's silent expression and shook his head helplessly.
When he came to the street, Qin Hao spent two yuan on a set of fishing rods and fishing lines at a fishing gear store. When he left the store, he gave his fishing rods to Qiao Yicheng.
Qiao Yicheng did not answer, but looked at Qin Hao at a loss.
"Take it, this fishing rod can't bear enough weight, so it can only catch small fish of two or three kilograms. If you want to catch big fish, you have to be like this." Qin Hao said lightly.
Seeing that Qiao Yicheng still didn't answer, Qin Hao said impatiently.
"Momojiji is acting like a girl. She's just lending you a hand. What good things are you thinking about?"
After hearing this, Qiao Yicheng solemnly took the fishing rod. He looked more careful than when receiving imperial edicts in ancient times, as if he was afraid of accidentally breaking it.
All the way to the place where we fished yesterday, we didn't see the fat uncle. He must be at work.
Qin Hao found a place and started digging for earthworms, but Qiao Yicheng helped diligently.
Afterwards, Qin Hao began to teach Qiao Yicheng some fishing techniques, and Qiao Yicheng followed suit, paying more attention than he did in class.
Qin Hao couldn't help but chuckle to himself. In fact, all the skills were useless. The reason why he was able to catch fish was mainly due to a spice that he could redeem in the system mall.
Soon, a fish bit the hook, and in Qiao Yicheng's surprised and envious eyes, a three-pound grass carp struggled on the water.
"What are you doing standing still? Hurry up and copy the net!"
"oh oh."
Qiao Yicheng woke up as if from a dream, and hurriedly helped Qin Hao copy the net to catch fish.
Catching a fish so quickly made Qiao Yicheng feel refreshed and swallowed his saliva. He was a teenager after all, how could he not be greedy? He was probably already fantasizing about whether the fish should be steamed or braised.
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Just when Qiao Yicheng was immersed in the fantasy of delicious food, his hand tightened on the fishing rod.
"The fish are coming!"
Qiao Yicheng shouted in surprise, and the movements of his hands were unambiguous. He suddenly lifted the fishing rod, and a crucian carp weighing more than one kilogram struggled for a moment, but it could not escape the fate of being fished ashore.
After catching the first fish with his own hands, Qiao Yicheng was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. He hooked up the earthworm again and continued full of motivation.
Two hours passed like this, and as the sun was about to set, Qin Hao returned with Qiao Yicheng, who was still unfinished.
"Haozi, where are we going?" Qiao Yicheng followed Qin Hao with a tin bucket and asked curiously.
At the door of Yipinju, before Qin Hao could enter, the waitress stopped them.
"Children, this is not a place for you to play. Don't act nonsense."
Qin Hao stepped over her directly, walked all the way to the kitchen door, and shouted inside.
"Is Master Niu here?"
Not long after, a fat middle-aged man came out of the kitchen.
"Oh, it's really you, what? Did you catch another fish?"
Qin Hao directly put the iron bucket in his hand on the ground and motioned for Qiao Yicheng to come in.
"Hey, there are so many, did you two catch these?" Master Niu's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.
"Why, your restaurant can't accommodate us? Then I'll find another restaurant."
Seeing this, Master Niu quickly stopped him: "What do you mean, how much do we want you for, or is it the same price as yesterday?"
"Yeah." Qin Hao nodded.
"Okay, victory, collect the fish."
Not long after, a young man with a round face ran over.
"Hey, you are such an old fish. Master, you are really good at it. These fish are in short supply."
Master Niu felt proud, but he smiled and cursed: "Stop flattering, hurry up, put the points into the treasury, and calculate the money for others."
Taking advantage of this time, Master Niu rubbed his hands, walked up to Qin Hao with a smile, and asked in a low voice: "Little brother, do you have any special fishing skills?"
After Qin Hao left yesterday, Master Niu couldn't wait to occupy his fishing spot. However, the "throne fishing spot" that had been catching fish before suddenly became "out of fish". He fished for more than two hours.
I caught two small miscellaneous fish.
Qin Hao chuckled: "It's just good luck."
Master Niu smacked his lips. It could be said that he was lucky once, but what about today? But Qin Hao refused to say it, and there was nothing he could do about it. Anyway, the fish caught by Qin Hao still had to be sold by himself, as long as he caught it
, and did not continue to ask.
This time there were a total of forty-two fish, which was calculated to be twenty-one. Qiao Yicheng stared intently at the two "big unity" cards handed to Qin Hao by Master Niu.
This was the first time he saw so much money, and his eyes almost popped out of his head.
"Here it is, yours."
Facing the "Great Unity" card handed to him by Qin Hao, Qiao Yicheng seemed to be electrified, trembling and waving his hands repeatedly.
"No, I can't take it..."
Qin Hao pretended to be impatient and grabbed Qiao Yicheng's hand and put the money into his hand.
"Just take it, there's so much nonsense."
Qiao Yicheng pursed his lips: "But..."
"But what? Do you understand distribution according to work? Did we catch this fish together? Do you have any objection if I get an extra dollar?"
Qiao Yicheng shook his head repeatedly.
"That's okay." Qin Hao thought for a moment and then warned.
"Remember to put the money away and buy some nutritious supplements for your mother. She has a big belly and has been eating carrots and wild vegetables all day long. How can her body bear it? You can also buy some snacks for Er Qiang and the others with the rest. Look at them all.
How greedy are you..."
"Haozi, thank you."
On the way back, Qiao Yicheng said something with red eyes, and then ran past Qin Hao in a hurry.
"This kid..." Qin Hao smiled and shook his head. When passing by the pastry shop, he bought two mung bean cakes, which he promised his sister in the morning. This little girl is really annoying.
Qiao Yicheng ran home panting all the way, ignoring the shouts of Qiao Erqiang's three younger siblings, and went straight to the house.
Wei Shuying was sitting on the bedside sewing clothes for her unborn child. When she saw her usually calm eldest son running home sweating profusely, she couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Issei, what's wrong? You've been back from school for so long, what have you been doing?"
Qiao Yicheng didn't say anything. He carefully closed the door and the window. He walked up to Wei Shuying and tremblingly took out the "Great Unity" that had been warmed by him from his pocket.
Wei Shuying was startled, took the money and looked at it for a while, then anxiously pulled Qiao Yicheng to the bedside.
"Where did you get this money?"
"What am I asking you? You kid, you can't do that sneaky thing."
Wei Shuying was extremely anxious. If such a large amount of money was really stolen, her son would definitely be sent to a juvenile center, and his life would be ruined.
Qiao Yicheng explained dryly: "I didn't steal it, Qin Hao and I earned it."
"Earn it? How do you earn it?" Wei Shuying didn't believe it at all. This was ten yuan, equivalent to ten days' wages of a worker. How could two and a half-year-old children earn it?
Qiao Yicheng told him about fishing.
Wei Shuying stared at her son suspiciously. Seeing that he didn't look like he was lying, she was a little unsure for a moment. After all, Qin Hao did catch two big carps yesterday.
"How many fish did you catch? Can you sell them for so much money?"
"It's more than ten yuan. We sold it for twenty-one yuan in total. Haozi gave me ten yuan." Qiao said in a straight tone.
Wei Shuying was about to say something when she heard the voices of three little kids calling daddy from the yard.
Qiao Yicheng subconsciously took the money back from Wei Shufen and stuffed it into his trouser pocket. Thinking of Qin Hao's instructions, he whispered to Wei Shuying.
"My dad can't know about this, otherwise he will be interested in the money."
Wei Shuying frowned, subconsciously feeling that this was not good, but when she thought of the unborn child in her belly, she still nodded.
In the yard, Qiao Wangzu ignored the request of his three children to accompany them and drove them away impatiently. He went to the bedroom, and Qiao Yicheng happened to come out of it.
"What are you doing? Why haven't you cooked yet? I'm starving to death." Qiao Wangzu didn't notice anything strange about his eldest son and just urged his wife to cook.
Wei Shuying had no choice but to light the fire with her big belly.
At the dinner table, Qiao Wangzu complained to his wife over the pickles and rice on the table: "You haven't lost a penny in food expenses for a month. This is what you feed the rabbits all day long."
Wei Shuying explained aggrievedly: "It's only fifteen yuan a month for food, and there are so many people in the family."
Qiao Wangzu looked at his four children and slapped his chopsticks on the table: "Humph, I don't know if they are my seed."
He turned around and walked out of the yard, no need to think that he must have gone to find those poker friends.
Wei Shuying was so angry that she wiped her tears, but the children stared eagerly at Qiao Wangzu's unfinished meal. Wei Shuying felt sad and helpless, so she divided the remaining rice among the children.
Qiao Yicheng looked at his father's back and was very glad that he listened to Qin Hao and did not give the money to Qiao Wangzu.
After dinner, Qiao Yicheng came to the kitchen to help his mother wash the dishes.
"Mom, take this money and buy some supplements at noon tomorrow. Your body needs nutrition, and then buy some snacks for the top two."
Wei Shuying looked at her sensible eldest son, sighed, took the "Great Unity" card, and at the same time took out a few coins from her pocket and stuffed them into Qiao Yicheng's hand.
"You should also buy some food, don't make yourself too uncomfortable."
"Um."
After a silent night, Qin Hao was woken up early in the morning by Wu Guihua's yelling.
"Which killer stole our fish? It's such a shameless thing. Our two children are reluctant to eat it. We keep it for when we have guests at home. It's smelly and shameless, and we won't be afraid of ruining our stomachs.
, Sores on the soles of the feet..."
When Qin Hao came out and took a look, he found that the water tank that originally contained two large carps was empty.
Qin Xianglan was also woken up, and when she saw that the big carp she had longed for was gone, she also started crying.
The neighbors were basically awake at this point, and they rushed over when they heard the noise. Some were concerned, while others were just joining in the fun.
"Oh, it's just two fishes. It's useless for you to scold them here. They've probably eaten them all in their stomachs by now. You're making noise here and making everyone uncomfortable. It's annoying."
Wu Guihua angrily glared at Qiao Wangzu for making sarcastic remarks: "I'm just going to scold him. It's none of your business if you scold him in your own yard."
"You...are being unreasonable. I won't tell you anymore. Go back and take a nap before going to work."
Wei Shuying originally wanted to comfort Wu Guihua, but Qiao Wangzu glared at her and could only follow her home obediently.
Qin Hao stared at Qiao Wangzu's leaving figure suspiciously and fell into deep thought.
In the 1970s, the folk customs were relatively simple, and ordinary people could not do anything like stealing. The yard at home was closed every night, and the yard walls were relatively high, so ordinary people could not break in.
The only relatively low wall is the one near Qiao Wangzu, which can be turned over by moving a stool.
Especially Qiao Wangzu's abnormal behavior. According to the behavior of this old scoundrel, if this matter had nothing to do with him, he would only add fuel to the fire. Wu Guihua scolded him for a day, just for fun, and would not stop it at all.
"Old guy, you stole it from me. Why did you eat it? I asked you to vomit it out!"
