You must know that hair can be sold for money, especially hair as long as Fangyuan's, and it's not cheap.

Fangyuan didn't say anything. Even if the barber didn't wash his hair, he had no intention of asking for the hair because he had no place to sell it.

After getting his hair cut, Fangyuan came to the street again. He had stayed in the imperial capital for more than ten years in his previous life, and Fangyuan's Mandarin was quite good, so no one felt that he had fled from other places.

What Fangyuan wants to do most now is to get some meat, but he also knows that this is basically impossible.

This is not because he has no money, but because he has no tickets, meat tickets. In this era, only with tickets can you buy things. Without tickets, no matter how much money you have, it will be useless.

Moreover, this is a three-year difficult period, and it is also the period when supplies are most scarce, especially food, not to mention meat.

It was impossible to buy meat, so Fangyuan could only find a way elsewhere. In fact, it was not that he had never thought about it before, because he lived next to the reed swamp.

You should know that there are fish in the reed marsh, but in the end he rejected it because he didn't know what was going on in the reed marsh.

After all, he is only an eight-year-old child now. If he enters the reed marsh rashly, whether he can come out is a question.

It wasn't like he hadn't thought about catching a few fish on the shore, but after observing for several days, he couldn't find any fish near the water.

But this is normal, because not far from the reed marsh is Qinghe Commune. If there were fish in the reed marsh, it would probably not be his turn to catch them, and they would have been caught long ago.

You must know that in this era, he is not the only one who does not have meat to eat. Everyone does not use meat to eat. At least he still has food to eat. Many people don't even have food to eat.

So this road is not feasible, but Fangyuan really wants to eat meat now! He hasn't smelled meat for more than half a month, which was unimaginable in his previous life.

In the previous life, we didn’t have to eat meat every meal! But there was at least one meal of meat every day, and this was an ordinary family. People who did business like Fangyuan basically couldn’t live without it.

While Fangyuan was walking aimlessly, a car repair shop appeared in front of him. Of course, this was not a car repair shop, but a bicycle repair shop.

Although there may not necessarily be a few bicycles in the entire Qinghe Commune, there must be a bicycle repair shop, otherwise what will happen if the bicycle breaks down.

Ordinary people do not have bicycles, but commune secretaries and those who work in communes do have bicycles. Even for their own convenience, they will open a repair shop.

You must know that car repair shops in this era are publicly owned, and private individuals cannot do business. As for paying wages to the workers in the car repair shop, it does not cost them their own money.

Fangyuan didn’t have a bicycle, so he took a quick look and was about to leave, but at this moment, Fangyuan saw a few scrap bike strips on the ground in front of the car repair shop.

Fangyuan stopped and walked over. The car repairman was a middle-aged man in his forties. When he saw Fangyuan walking over, he asked, "Kid, please stay away."

Maybe it's because he's afraid that Fangyuan will steal things from the car repair shop, or maybe it's because of the service attitude of public employees.

Fangyuan was not angry, but smiled and said: "Hello, uncle! Do you still want the scrap car strips on the ground?"

The middle-aged man glanced at Fang Yuan, then at the three scrap car strips on the ground, and said to Fang Yuan, "No, take them and leave quickly."

"Okay, you're busy." Fangyuan picked up three scrap car bars on the ground and ran away.

This thing is worthless at all. To put it bluntly, not to mention three sticks, even a handful would probably not be sold for a penny.

The reason why Fangyuan wants this scrap car rod is because it is useful. In his previous life, Fangyuan was also a rural child. When he was a child, he followed the adults to fish for eels in ditches and canals.

Of course, the tools used there are much better than this scrap car strip, but wherever Fangyuan can find it now, he can only use this scrap car strip, which is better than nothing.

Taking three scrap car bars, Fangyuan went back. In fact, one was enough. The reason why he picked up all three was because he didn't want the middle-aged man to become suspicious and thought he was just after the three scrap car bars.

After going back, Fangyuan picked a longer one and threw the other two shorter ones on the ground. Then he found a stone and started grinding it beside the reeds.

One end was quickly sharpened, and it looked very sharp. After sharpening, the sharp end was bent into a hook.

Just like a fishhook, Fangyuan had no tools, and the bicycle strip was relatively hard. Fangyuan thought about it and prepared to put the bicycle strip in the fire when cooking at night. That would make it easier.

After dark, Fangyuan went into the vegetable cellar. Before entering the vegetable cellar, he picked up two relatively thin pieces of stone.

After coming down, Fangyuan first lit the lantern, then cooked the porridge. After the fire started, he put the bicycle strips inside.

Although the fire was not big, the bicycle strips burned red after burning for a while. Fangyuan used two branches to take out the bicycle strips.

The pointed end was burned, but the other end was not burned, just a little hot. Fang Yuan picked up a sack piece next to it, wrapped the unburned end, and held it in his hand.

Picked up the two pieces of stone from the ground, clamped them on the red-hot end, and easily bent them, thus creating an extra-large fishhook.

Fangyuan poured some water on it, and when it stung, white eyes appeared, and the red hooks turned black.

At this time, the porridge had been cooked. Fangyuan lowered the hook and took the porridge off the stove. He did not put out the fire, but let it burn by itself.

This not only increases the temperature of the vegetable cellar, but also eliminates smoke.

Putting the porridge down, Fang Yuan pinched a grain of salt from a cloth bag, put it directly into the porridge, and stirred it with chopsticks.

People can't do it without eating salt. Without salt, they have no strength. As for this salt, Fangyuan got it from the canteen of the woolen mill. It's the kind of large-grained salt.

Eating too much of this kind of salt is not good because it is not added. If you eat this kind of salt for a long time, you may get big neck disease.

But in this era, there is only this kind of salt. Besides, it has been this kind of salt since ancient times, and not many people have suffered from big neck disease. It is only a possibility, not an absolute.

Putting salt in the polenta, to be honest, it didn't taste very good, but Fangyuan still ate it without leaving a drop.

After eating, I filled another lunch box with water and put it on the stove.

Before, there was no condition, so he drank the water directly from the reed marsh. Now that he has the conditions, of course he has to boil the water before drinking.

He can't get sick now. It's best to be healthy. In that case, he has a greater chance of surviving.

He also put some firewood into the stove, and Fangyuan put out the horse lantern. Fangyuan was reluctant to light it. This was not to say that the horse lantern was expensive, but mainly because the foreign oil inside was precious.

He didn't have oil coupons, so he had no place to buy them. Fortunately, when he got them back, the oil inside was full, so he could use it sparingly, as it would be enough for him to use for a long time.

So when I usually use it, Fangyuan adjusts the heat to very low, as long as there is bright light, and puts it out immediately after eating.

The water was boiling on the stove. I didn't want to drink it now anyway, so Fangyuan fell asleep. I drank this water at night when I was thirsty.

The next morning, Fangyuan got himself some food, took the hook and went out after eating. First, he found a relatively humid place near him, pulled it with a stick a few times, and he pulled out an earthworm.

Next, he picked up a few more reeds, and Fang Yuan picked them up. He went over and broke off a reed, breaking it off and leaving a section.

The reeds were hollow, so Fangyuan put the earthworms in and started looking for them on the bank of the reeds, of course to see if there was a hole.

eels will dig holes in relatively hidden places on the shore. As long as you see a hole, there is basically something inside.

Of course, eels are not the only ones digging holes on the shore. They may also be snakes. No one knows what is in the hole until they are fished out.

The reed marsh is very large, at least several square kilometers in area. It took a long time to find the area, but it was only a short distance away.

This is not to say that there are no holes in this distance, but there is no response at all when Fang Yuan puts the hook in. Needless to say, it is probably a hole.

At noon, Fangyuan took out two boiled potatoes from his pocket, ate them three times, five divided by two, and then continued to look for them. If it had been anyone else who hadn't caught anything all morning, he would probably have stopped fishing. It was just a waste of time.

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But Fangyuan won't, because he has plenty of time and has nothing to do anyway, so he just treats it as passing time.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Fangyuan found a hole under a tree on the bank of the reed marsh and put the hook in.

This hole is relatively hidden. If Fangyuan hadn't looked for it carefully, he wouldn't have discovered it at all.

Fang Yuan gently lifted and lowered it, back and forth more than a dozen times. Just when he thought it was another hole, he felt the hook sink.

Fangyuan quickly grabbed the hook and pulled it out. A yellow eel that was more than a foot long was pulled out.

This eel was very big, weighing almost half a catty. To be honest, it was already quite big. Fangyuan grabbed the hook and quickly left the reed swamp.

He was afraid that the eel would fall off and then run into the reed marsh. If it was farther away from the reed marsh, it would be fine. Even if it fell off, he could still catch it.

Fangyuan is very excited now because he will be able to eat meat soon. Although an eel doesn't have much meat, it is meat anyway.

Seeing that the eel had no intention of falling off, Fangyuan grabbed the hook and ran towards the vegetable cellar. The eel was slippery, and it would be troublesome to take it back from the hook. After all, he was only eight years old and his hands were not that big.

of strength.

After returning to the vegetable cellar, Fangyuan used a large stone to press the hook, picked up a relatively short bicycle strip from the ground, and polished it on the stone next to it.
Chapter completed!