Chapter 26 You must think of another way (for the leader of the cucumber
Shortly after dinner, Xu Tonglin came to play with Xu Tongdao. In fact, there was nothing interesting, just chatting. Xu Tongdao didn't have fruits or melon seeds to entertain him, so he could only invite Xu Tonglin to watch "Xinwen Lianbo", because at this time, turning on the TV,
Every TV station is showing this.
"Xinwen Lianbo" was talking about recent major international events. Xu Tonglin was asking Xu Tongdao, "Hey, you said you wanted to learn to be a chef. Have you decided where to go? Hehe, after I heard you said you wanted to learn to be a chef,
I thought about it when I got home, and I also want to learn it with you. I think you can definitely get a lot of good things by learning this, and it will definitely be much better than learning to be a bricklayer. What do you think?"
He didn't know that Xu Tongdao had changed his mind and planned to start his own kebab business.
So Comrade Xu laughed when he heard him ask this question, "In a few days! I'll make something for you to try in a few days, and we'll discuss it then."
Xu Tonglin was stunned, "Make something for me to try? What? What do you want to discuss with me? Just tell me where you plan to go to learn cooking, and if you agree, let me go with you!"
Comrade Xu didn't want to say it now, so he smiled and shook his head, "Don't worry! It will be very soon, at most two days, and you will know then!"
"Hey! You're still cheating on me... what kind of riddles..."
Xu Tonglin was a little despised.
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There was really a lot of rain during the rainy season this year, and it started to rain again in the middle of the night.
Comrade Xu was sleeping in bed, listening to the sound of rain outside, and felt sleepy for a long time.
He thought a lot about the people and things before his rebirth. The past was like smoke and had no trace, but it still existed in his memory. He didn't want to repeat those days again.
But he has always been a small person before he was reborn. Even if he is reborn now, he cannot make a fortune immediately. If he wants to make money, he still has to work hard and accumulate bit by bit.
He had read several rebirth novels before. In those novels, the male protagonist who was reborn in the past always had a woman in his heart that he couldn't let go of and wanted to get back.
But Comrade Xu felt empty in his heart.
He has no woman he wants to win back, and he doesn't think there is any woman from the past that he can't let go of.
He doesn't know if this is a good thing or should it be sad?
He doesn't know.
He knew very well that what he wanted to do most in the past two days... was to make money, to support his brother and sister in studying, to improve the living conditions of the family; to make money to be filial to his mother.
As for the rest?
He didn't want to think about it, and he didn't have the heart to think about it.
Maybe, when he gets rich in the future, there will naturally be a woman who can live with him, maybe!
Love has always been a luxury for the poor.
Before rebirth, he was not eligible to own it.
Today, he still doesn't.
In a daze, not knowing how long he had slept, he suddenly woke up.
Opening his eyes, he saw that the sky outside the window was still dark. Xu Tongdao got up and picked up the alarm clock on his desk and looked at it closely for a while. He could barely see that it was about 4 o'clock in the morning.
Now that he's awake, he doesn't want to sleep again.
Seeing that his brother was still sleeping soundly in the bed, he gently opened the door and walked out.
Just like yesterday morning, I took my fish basket and shrimp rake and headed towards the village. It was very dark outside, but after my eyes got used to it for a while, I could barely see.
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"Wow..."
The shrimp rake was thrown into the water at the drainage outlet. Amidst the splashing sound of the water, Comrade Xu quickly dragged the shrimp rake up. Several fish, large and small, were jumping around in the net pocket of the shrimp rake. It was gratifying to watch.
Comrade Xu squatted down quickly, grabbed these fish and put them into the fish basket on his waist.
Then throw out the shrimp rake again…
When it was daylight, Comrade Xu had already walked more than a mile further than yesterday morning.
The harvest was more than yesterday, and the fish basket was more than half full.
But today I didn’t get any snakeheaded fish, nor did I get any old turtles.
The biggest catch was two catfish about one foot long.
In addition, there are two crabs and a dozen large river shrimps.
That's all.
If you sell it for money, you can only sell it for a few dozen yuan at most, which is incomparable to yesterday.
He felt a little disappointed, but he also knew that this was normal. His biggest harvest yesterday morning was the old turtle, and wild old turtles are rare things and cannot be obtained every day.
On the way back, Comrade Xu saw a thin old man in the village, also holding a shrimp rake and a fish basket tied to his waist, rake fish at a drainage outlet.
The old man obviously came out later than him today.
When Xu Tongdao saw him, the old man naturally also saw Xu Tongdao.
We are all from the same village and naturally know each other.
This old man is an old bachelor in the village. He is usually taciturn and doesn't pay much attention to others talking to him, but he also likes to fish.
No, I met Comrade Xu today.
Tongdao Xu knew the old man's temperament, so he didn't say hello to him.
The old man said nothing as usual, but glanced twice at Tongdao Xu's fish basket. When he saw that Tongdao Xu's fish basket was mostly full, the old man snorted in displeasure.
He probably finally understood why he had gained so little today.
Xu Tongdao raked the drains in front of him. He followed behind and did it again. Naturally, the harvest was dismal.
The old man's mood obviously worsened.
In fact, Comrade Xu's mood became worse when he saw the old man also rake fish.
Because he estimated that with this old man’s character, he would probably get up earlier tomorrow morning and come here to rake fish.
In this case, unless Comrade Xu gets up earlier than this old man tomorrow, otherwise... I am afraid that it will be him, Xu, who will have a dismal harvest tomorrow.
This can't go on like this!
A morning's harvest can't be sold for much, and we still have to compete with this old man to see who got up earlier. No! We have to find some other way.
On the way back, Xu Tongdao had various thoughts in his mind. Finally, he suddenly thought of the dozen or so river shrimps in his fish basket.
If you just do river shrimp, then there is no need to compete with the old man who got up early.
The elderly sleep less and it is easy to get up early.
Whoever got up earlier, Xu Tongdao had no confidence that he could beat the old man.
Fortunately, these days, ground traps for catching river shrimps have not spread to them, so the West River next to Xujia Village does not prohibit others from catching river shrimps in it, because the people who contracted the West River do not have the ability to collect shrimps in the river themselves.
Get some river shrimp.
Who made the West River so deep and long that even if you want to drain the water from the river, you can't do it!
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Comrade Xu thought about it all the way. After returning home, he handed the fish basket to his sister Ge Yuzhu, who had already gotten up, and asked her to pick out the bigger fish and sell them for money later.
He strode to the kitchen to search, and found twenty or thirty bamboo poles that had been used to build vegetable shelves. They were not thick, and were about the same thickness as a thumb.
They are not long either, only about one and a half meters.