Chapter 4
The reed pond is a good place, right next to the town.
In summer, there are fish, shrimps, crabs, and pheasants, wild ducks and water birds.
In autumn and winter, the withered yellow reed leaves everywhere can be carried home to cook.
Wu Jiangshan remembers that in more than twenty years, the reed pond became a wetland protection area, and the people in the town could no longer go in casually.
But now, you can go in and catch birds at will.
The two of them didn't have any special tools, so they took out a few iron wires from Zhongda Gu's house, found a large piece of cold cloth and sewed it into a deep pocket.
The cut was fixed with the wire ring, and three ropes were hung on the wire ring. Lifting it can ensure that the cut was stable, and then a hook was tied.
Zhong Dagu's family was poor and there was only half a bag of potatoes left. The two of them cooked a few potatoes in the pot and ate one for breakfast. The rest was put in the pocket, carrying the bag, and then went out.
On the way, when I walked outside someone else's yard, Wu Jiangshan secretly pulled out a thick bamboo pole. This thing will be useful for a fishing pole.
When rural children were young, they all went down to the river to catch fish and shrimp, so they had already developed a set of fishing skills.
The two of them had no bicycles and walked for almost two hours with their things before they walked into the reed pond.
Wu Jiangshan thought about making money, but he didn't care about rest. He quickly found a good place to tie the hook to a bamboo pole, picked up a wide leaf and tied it to a fish float.
Zhong Dagu took out a potato and crushed it and threw it in it. Then he picked up a stone and put it in a cloth bag so that the bag could sink.
After getting off the cloth bag, they had to wait a while before they could lift it. The two of them were not idle either and continued to walk deeper and look for the wild duck eggs.
"Jiangshan, what do you want to buy after you make money? The fish here are not valuable. If you want to make money, why don't we go and dig up the iron slag."
Wu Jiangshan called him up early in the morning to go down the reed pond. Zhong Dagu didn't complain at all. He thought Wu Jiangshan wanted to buy something.
The two of them had also thought of ways to make money to buy food to satisfy their cravings.
If anyone wants to eat fish and shrimp in the reed pond, he will catch them by himself, so no one will be willing to spend money to buy them.
Although picking up iron slag only costs a few cents per pound, you can earn a few cents a day if you take it.
"Hey, is that too late? I need several hundred yuan." Wu Jiangshan made up for a total of 500 yuan and added the round-trip fare, which was almost five or six hundred yuan. Let's go and have a physical examination first.
Zhong Dagu opened his mouth in surprise, hundreds of times? He didn't dare to think about it.
"My grandfather is in poor health. I want to save some money to take him to a large hospital in the provincial capital."
After hearing what Wu Jiangshan said, Zhong Dagu understood: "Jiangshan, you are so filial, but when can we save enough by selling fish?"
"It's okay, I have a way. Let's try it out first, and I won't be able to say it."
Wu Jiangshan thought about it all night last night. He had no ability, but he was first-class in eating, drinking and having fun.
I spent many years before rebirth, but later I thought that I was old and I couldn’t be idle all the time, so I set up a street stall.
At first, there was only one small stall with two or three small tables. He was the only one who was busy cooking and washing dishes, and he did the money to clean the table.
The back was expanded a little, with more than twenty tables, a store and a seafood food stall.
Therefore, his cooking skills are good, but he started too late and the competition is fierce, so it is difficult to go further.
In the future, where there are snack stalls everywhere, he can make money by relying on this skill. Could it be that in this way, the whole people can just eat a full meal and lack food varieties, they can't conquer their taste buds in 1986 years?
After thinking about it, Hushan Town is just a little treasure in the reed pond, so it doesn’t cost money, which just solves his embarrassment of being cleaner than his face.
Come here to get some small fish, shrimps and shells. Wu Jiangshan thinks that with his skills, it can be delicious no matter how you make it.
In this era, I believe no one can be better than him in a snack stall. The only thing I worry about is that no one dares to try street snacks.
For places like Hushan Town, the rapid development after the reform and opening up, it seems that the slow button has been pressed here, which is at least ten years behind big cities.
Now there should be someone driving a private car in the provincial capital, but here in Hushan Town,
Bicycles are also expensive items at home. Only those workers who work in large factories can save a few months of salary to buy a bicycle. But how many of them are willing to do so?
Like Zhong Dagu, there is no light bulb at home, and it is everywhere in the villages around the town.
The term self-employed is only heard by the people through the radio speakers hanging in the corner of the house, and they don’t know what it means.
The period when the craze for business was truly begun. After 1993, a large number of workers were laid off, and even many civil servants went to business.
But at this time, who would ordinary people think of becoming self-employed people in Hushan Town? Only those who are desperate and unable to eat, and those who are second-rate people will do it.
People with stable wages feel that they are holding the country's iron rice bowl and look down on those who set up stalls at all.
People in the surrounding rural areas do not have the awareness of doing business at all. They grow some side dishes and raise some chickens and ducks and sneak into the town to exchange for some food coupons and cloth coupons. It's over for them.
After all, the word speculation is not outdated yet...
Wujiangshan dares to be the first person to set up a street stall in Hushan Town, but he is afraid that no one will dare to be the first to taste the food he cooks.
But whether it is OK, you have to try it. It’s not enough to have ingredients at the moment. If you want something delicious, you must add more seasonings.
Why do people think these small fish and shrimps are not delicious nowadays? It is because they are reluctant to take heavy oil and heavy ingredients.
Just like snails or crayfish, it is actually just a seasoning flavor...
He and Zhong Dagu both had clean faces, so they had to earn the seasoning money first.
There are many wild ducks and pheasants in the reed pond. It is difficult to catch empty-handed without a hunting rifle. Not everyone can pick up wild duck eggs. You have to have a trick.
Zhong Dagu is an expert in this regard. He had no food to eat before and came to the reed pond to find food.
Walking twice on the dam and looking for a place where there are few reeds, Zhongdagu can find the nest hidden below.
The two of them wandered around this area for more than an hour, picked up more than a dozen wild duck eggs and couldn't find them anymore. This is the money for changing seasonings.
It's almost done after so long that the cloth bag is ready, it's time to lift it up.
This is a job that requires technology. The bag should not be too fast. If the bag is cold, the bag is full of water.
It is easy to break the bamboo pole, and the fish and shrimp inside are easily frightened and run away when lifted too slowly.
Therefore, the speed must be balanced and stable. Wu Jiangshan rolled up his sleeves, spread his legs and stood firmly, holding the bamboo pole and slowly lifted up.
The cold cloth is dense and the water comes out slowly, so it takes some effort to lift it up.
It was just a man from Wujiangshan who was tall and big, and he could only move alone. If Zhong Dagu's body was so irritating.
The two of them held their breath and lifted the cloth bag little by little. When the hole was left on the water, they would not be afraid of the fish and shrimps inside running away.
Wu Jiangshan moved a little faster and took a few steps back. Zhong Dagu had already grabbed the cloth pocket with water running outwards along the dam.
When the pocket was lifted to the dam, half of the water had flowed out, and the remaining Wu Jiangshan poured into the bucket.
It was so terrible that there were crucian carp, grass carp, shrimps and loaches, and half a bucket of them were filled with crucian carp.
Zhong Dagu looked at it and frowned: "This is too small."
"It's okay, let's go back again if you change the place. Let's get a bucket and go back."
Zhong Dagu never had any objection to Wu Jiangshan's words. He took a heavy bucket and a bag of wild duck eggs and went to find the place.
Chapter completed!