Rebirth 1984 Wife and children are on the hot bed

Xu Youcheng’s price for harvesting fish is 2 cents per catty.

And only those weighing more than 1 kilogram are not allowed, and those weighing less than 1 kilogram are not required.

The cold wind whimpered outside the window, the children set off firecrackers, and the sound of crackling could be heard.

Mom’s courtyard.

The parents who had just returned from the big market gave the corn buckets, candy cubes, fruit peels and other things they bought to several little girls.

The little girls were very happy, and even Sanxi, who was playing here, also got some.

“It costs 2 cents per pound to collect fish, which is much cheaper than in the summer.”

Father Xu Houtian sat down on the stool and talked about Xu Youcheng collecting fish.

Mom was hurriedly kneading the noodles, preparing to let them wake up and steam the buns at night.

While talking to each other, he said:

"The fish in summer are alive, so of course they are more expensive. The fish in winter will freeze to death in the blink of an eye if they leave the water. Dead fish are much cheaper."

After a slight hesitation, my mother stopped kneading the dough and then said in the main room:

"2 cents per pound, the price is not low. Dad, do you know where there is a scam? If there is one, just go and smash one.

It’s 2 cents per catty, and 100 catties is 20 yuan. If you can harvest hundreds of catties of fish, it’s worth over a hundred yuan.

With more than 100 yuan, what can't you do? "

"Dry pit? There is a puddle in the southwest, near Laosongtun.

I've seen it in the summer, and there must be a lot of fish in it, but I don't know if the water has dried up. "

"Then go and have a look. Anyway, you have nothing to do at home." Mom encouraged.

She found that her men could make money, but sometimes they were too lazy and would rather rest than work.

"If you try..."

Just when dad hesitated.

Shen Feng, who was sitting on the right side of Xu Dahai, asked curiously: "Are there really fish??"

"there must be."

Shen Feng was a guest. Seeing that Shen Feng was also curious about the dry pit, his father decided to smash the dry pit to see how many fish there were.

the next morning.

Armed with hammers, chisels, pickaxes, shovels, baskets and other items prepared yesterday afternoon, several people were ready to set off.

The cold wind in the early morning blew slowly, blowing away the smoke from some chimneys, and the air was filled with a light fragrance of burning pine wood.

Sudden.

Grandpa was carrying a cloth bag and walking on the crunching snow from the east.

"Father!"

Several dogs jumped up to meet him first, wagging their tails, and Xu Dahai also shouted.

"Hmm, are you going to smash the hole? How many hammers did you bring?"

"Two handfuls, one big and one small."

"Then just take this one with you. The three of you will each have one when the time comes."

Grandpa smiled and put the cloth bag in the tractor bed, and said: "There are two chisels on both sides. Use whichever one is convenient."

At this moment.

My cousin Xu Hu came running from the south again, wheezing and saying, "Uncle, wait for me!"

He knew that several people were going to destroy the dry pit, so he also followed them.He also has a very adventurous temperament. He doesn't want to fish, he just wants to go have fun, but he is really tired of staying at home.

Xu Dahai glanced at his father, turned around and asked, "Does Liu Hong know about this?"

"I know! I told her when I came out."

"Okay, do you want to ride a big bar or a tractor?"

"It's better... to ride a bike."

Xu Hu saw Xu Houtian and Shen Feng both riding the [-]-meter bar. He turned his head slightly and immediately understood that it would be better to ride a bicycle.

Although it will be tiring, it shouldn't be that cold.

Xu Dahai drove the tractor, while Xu Hu, Shen Feng, and his father Xu Houtian rode on a large [-]-bar, followed by four dogs, and they set off quickly.

After leaving the village.

Looking far into the distance, the earth is pure white, and the occasional willow trees on the roadside are covered with thick snow.

Many withered and yellow weeds grew tall and were not completely buried by the snow. Instead, they swayed in the biting cold wind, causing a sense of desolation.

In autumn, naughty children would go to the wild with matches, light dry weeds and let the fire spread. However, all traces of burning are now covered by thick snow.

Da da da ~ da da da ~

The tractor's chimney puffed out bursts of black smoke.

Xu Dahai looked at the white earth, a sense of heroism rose in his chest, and he was full of expectations for this trip to the dry pit.

After about an hour, everyone finally arrived at their destination after turning several corners.

"This is it. In the summer, it was surrounded by bean fields, and they used water from here to water the fields. Now it's become a field of heavy snow."

Dad threw the [-] big stick directly on the snow by the river, lit a cigarette, and said while smoking.

Xu Dahai also parked the tractor on the side of the road, looked around, and found that it was an oval pit more than 30 meters long and about 20 meters wide.

The pit is covered with a lot of ice.

Moreover, the east and west sides of the pit are connected to the creek. However, in winter, the river recedes and the water level drops. There has been a gap of several centimeters between the ice in the pit and the ice in the creek.

"Is the fish in this pit?"

Shen Feng went down into the pit and kicked hard with his feet, but the ice surface did not move at all.

"There should be fish, but I'm not sure how many there are." Xu Hu also went down into the pit and said:

"The area of ​​​​this pit is not small, almost an acre, right?"

"It's almost done... let's get started!

I just smashed a hole in the middle and I could tell if there was any water at a glance. Anyway, I felt like it was probably freezing. "

Xu Dahai held the chisel in his left hand and the hammer in his right hand, and started hammering directly.

bang bang bang

Cracks appeared on the ice surface, and a large amount of ice fragments flew everywhere. Silly dogs jumped and screamed at the splashing ice fragments.

He turned around and knocked out a circle with a diameter of [-] centimeters, and then used a pickaxe, hammer, and chisel to hit the ice in the circle in turn.

When you get tired, change people!

It's really hard work.

The harder it went down, the harder it got, and my tired hands became sore, but after a while, the half-meter-thick ice layer was still completely broken open.

咵咚～

When the broken ice fell, Xu Dahai, who was half-kneeling on the ice and smashing the ice with a hammer and chisel, shouted excitedly: "It's broken! It's broken!!"

"How's it going? Is there any water in there?"

"Wang~"

A silly dog ​​also joined in the fun.

Because Xu Dahai was half-kneeling on the ice, the silly dog ​​jumped up and pressed his back with its paws.

Xu Dahai's head almost hit the ice.

"Silly dog! He deserves a beating!"

"Wang!"

The dog was just being mean and jumped away again.

Xu Dahai didn't pay attention to him, but used the faint light coming from the hole in the ice to see what was going on under the ice.

There is more than 30 centimeters of empty space below.

Below the empty hall are ice and fish frozen together. At a glance, the frozen fish are densely packed, including many big fish weighing more than ten kilograms.

"There are fish! So many fish!"

Xu Dahai's excited voice instantly echoed around him.