Li Juan is in middle school, and the parent-teacher meeting starts early. Li Qiang is in elementary school, and the parent-teacher meeting starts late. After picking up Liang Yuemei and Li Juan, Li Long drove a jeep to the elementary school and asked Liang Yuemei to attend the parent-teacher meeting at the elementary school.
What surprised Li Long was that Li Qiang also received a certificate for outstanding young pioneer.
But when Liang Yuemei and Li Qiang came out together, Li Qiang was not very happy.
Li Long handed him the candied haws he bought in advance and asked him why he wasn't happy, but Li Qiang didn't say anything.
"He was not happy because he did not win the title of Three Excellent Students." Liang Yuemei explained, "It would be nice to have a certificate for this outstanding young pioneer. Only those in your class can win certificates. Those two or three.”
"What a great certificate for the Three Excellent Students..." Li Qiang explained as he gnawed on the candied haws and felt obviously better.
"That depends on whether you can pass." Liang Yuemei sat in the car and said, "Your teacher said you were careless in the final exam, otherwise, you might not be able to pass."
At this time, it is said that one is a "three good student", but in fact, the main thing is learning. Once the study is top-notch, the three good student certificates are basically appropriate.
Li Long knew that Li Qiang had a problem with his studies. During exams, the more difficult the questions, the higher the score. Because the questions were difficult, he paid more attention to them.
The simpler the questions, the more mistakes he made. If the questions were simpler, he would be careless. So Liang Yuemei said that as long as the exam was taken, Li Qiang would be in trouble if he came back and said the questions were too easy, and he would not be able to get the first place.
"It's okay, what grade are you in now? There are still several years. Remember not to be careless in the future, study hard, and strive to be a three-star student every semester!"
At this time, there are rewards for three-star students, one Notebook, or a pencil case.
The reward Li Juan got was a pen. She showed it to Li Long just now. It was a red hero pen with the words "Special Accounting Pen" written on it. I don't know which purchaser bought it. Yes, give this pen to students.
But to be honest, having rewards is enough to make other students envious. At this time, every family was not wealthy, and it was very good for every student to have a cheap hero pen.
This kind of special pen costs several dollars, and ordinary families are reluctant to buy it.
Li Qiang's prize is a hard-cover notebook. Hard-cover notebooks are not cheap these days. Soft-cover notebooks are cheap, but usually not many people buy them. Students use exercise books, and some children from poor families will erase the writing on the exercise books and reuse them.
Of course, most families will still take care of their children's self-esteem, and they still have to buy 10-cent homework books.
With nine years of compulsory education, tuition is free, but a few dollars of tuition, miscellaneous fees and book fees still have to be paid. You have to buy your own homework books and pencils, so this is a tough job.
The normal annual output of money in rural areas is basically the summer harvest and autumn harvest. There is usually no income. Some people borrow it, and some people think of other ways.
In his previous life, Li Jianguo farmed a lot of miscellaneous items, various seeds, raised pigs and sheep, just to meet such daily expenses.
In an emergency, you can even survive by selling a sheep. In the lean months of March and April, the cashmere scraped from the goats and the wool sheared from the sheep are also a source of income.
You can sell a bagful of various seeds harvested from the fields in an emergency.
In short, unless you are particularly honest at this time, everyone will think of various ways to make some money during the lean period. The money for a student's child's education cannot be wasted.
After picking up the people, Li Long drove the jeep back, while Li Qiang opened the window and shouted the names of his classmates.
Children don’t know how to be low-key. If they have a nice car at home, they naturally have to show it off.
Liang Yuemei gave Li Qiang a lesson in a low voice, telling him not to be so conspicuous.
Li Qiang didn’t care about his mother’s scolding, and just sat down and ate the candied haws. I usually have money, but it’s not easy to buy such things directly. One reason is the trouble of eating. I can’t finish it in ten minutes between classes and I can’t bear to throw it away.
The second one is that it is difficult to separate from classmates. Li Qiang is not stingy when he is rich. He sometimes buys a small paper cup of melon seeds during class and shares them with his classmates. But it’s hard to eat the candied haws separately.
When I was a year or two younger, it would have been okay if you took one bite and I took another bite. But now, life at home has improved and people have become more particular about hygiene habits. Li Qiang also knows that eating like this is not good, so he simply doesn’t eat. purchase.
Although greedy.
Although some people have encouraged him to buy it, Li Qiang is still very assertive.
So what he ate today was extraordinarily sweet. He also knew that this was his uncle’s reward for getting the certificate, so he was very happy when he ate it.
Driving the jeep back to Li’s yard, Li Jianguo did not go to Xiaohaizi and was cooking at home.
Usually, fathers go to parent-teacher conferences, and mothers like Liang Yuemei rarely go.
But Li Jianguo was willing to let his wife go. In the village and at home, he plays the leading role, and others come to him whenever they need help. It was he who showed off his talents.
For this kind of parent-teacher meeting, Li Juan and Li Qiang had good academic performance and it was also the time for the parents to show their faces, so Li Jianguo asked Liang Yuemei to attend.
The parent-teacher conferences at this time were not like those of later generations, and they had to protect the privacy of their children. At parent-teacher conferences these days, the teacher tells the parents openly who has good academic performance, who has won awards, who studies seriously and will have a good future, etc.
The original intention is to make parents pay attention to it.
Liang Yuemei is also willing to go. There are not many opportunities to be praised, so this is the highlight moment.
When children strive for success, their parents’ faces will naturally shine.
Because the two parent-teacher meetings lasted relatively long, Li Jianguo cooked. Li Qingxia felt that staying at home was boring, so she went to Xiaohaizi.
Li Long looked at the time. In half an hour, his father would be back, so he said he was going to pick someone up.
"What are you picking up? He will be back soon." Du Chunfang felt that Li Long must be tired when he drove the jeep to pick up people, so he asked him to take a rest.
"Nothing, I'll just go over and take a walk, so that no one will think that I don't show up and feel uneasy."
"Who can not be at ease?" Du Chunfang didn't know the twists and turns. Wandering, he asked doubtfully.
"Those who catch fish in Xiaohaizi." Li Jianguo interjected. He was rolling out noodles and eating strips of rice noodles for lunch. It's still mutton rolled in spicy skin, fried potato shreds, and fried pickles.
“What are they anxious about?”
“If the dragon doesn’t show up, they will worry about not collecting the fish.” Li Jianguo said with a smile, “Seeing the dragon is the reassurance.”
"Hey, it's really..." Du Chunfang understood, but still couldn't understand.
Li Juan and Li Qiang posted their certificates on the wall and came over to follow Li Long to Xiaohaizi. Li Long agreed and asked them to wear thicker clothes.
Li Jianguo didn't stop him either. Du Chunfang also smiled when she saw that her youngest son had a good relationship with her grandchildren. After they left, she muttered that Xiaolong doted on them too much.
"That's because Xiaolong has been pampering them since the year before last." Liang Yuemei heard this and said with a smile, "The pocket money is more generous than what we gave. I was afraid of spoiling them. "
"That's impossible." Du Chunfang was unwilling to hear Li Long's fault and denied it directly.
“It’s true, the two children have always been relatively good at studying, and they also like their uncle.” Liang Yuemei said with a smile.
Happy to see the results.
Li Long took his two children in cotton-padded clothes to Xiaohaizi. The sun was too bright, the sky was extremely blue, there were no clouds at all, and there was no wind in the slightly empty wilderness. The sunshine at this time was slightly warm, which was quite comfortable.
The two children followed Li Long jumping up and down, sometimes deliberately not taking the way out and jumping into the snow to pounce.
The cotton rubber shoes were filled with snow and they didn’t care. Fortunately, the woolen socks I wore were very thick, so I didn’t feel cold at this time.
Wool socks were knitted by Liang Yuemei using the wool she had saved after finishing her busy work in the autumn. Everyone in my family has them. Although they don’t look good, they really keep you warm when you wear them.
Rural women mastered many skills at this time. If we talk about time travel, their ability to survive is definitely better than that of many young people forty years later.
When he arrived at Xiaohaizi, Li Long saw that in this half-reservoir, which was about one square kilometer in size, there were already seven or eight "groups" digging for fish in the ice holes.
Thanks to his large-scale collection of reeds in early winter, there are no longer any reeds standing on the ice in Xiaohaizi, so people digging holes in the ice to fish can see them all at a glance.
The reason why Xiaohaizi is said to be a semi-reservoir is because before Li Jianguo and others built the village, it was a natural puddle, between a lake and a swamp.
Li Jianguo and his group built a dam on the north side of the puddle to store the water. One of the original water conservancy projects, a large canal leading from west to east to another village, was also destroyed. Contained in puddles, the water inside will first collect in the puddles, and over time, small seas will be formed.
Xiaohaizi looks a bit desolate at the moment, but in summer, the reeds here are lush and green, plus groups of waterbirds and water rats that occasionally pop up, it becomes full of life.
Much better than Dahaizi.
Li Juan and Li Qiang ran over immediately when they saw someone digging out fish. Those who were familiar with him, such as Liang Dacheng and Tao Daqiang, ran over to have a good look. Those who were unfamiliar with him passed by, and finally arrived at Li Qingxia's place.
Li Long also said hello as he walked. When he arrived at Li Qingxia's place, more than ten minutes had passed.
"Hey, Dad, we got a lot today!" Li Long looked at the old man's two piles of fish and was a little surprised.
"Hey, that's it!" Li Qingxia said in a proud tone, "Your elder brother didn't come today, so we took turns digging out fish from the ice cave, and the fish kept coming up."
Li Long could feel it, and the old man also Feeling very tired, he took the net and dug it out.
But I didn’t dig it out for a while. Seeing that it was almost time, I packed up my tools and fish and walked back.
Li Qingxia gained a lot and kept talking. After hearing that both Li Juan and Li Qiang had received certificates, they simply took out two and a half yuan from their pockets and gave each of them one piece:
"Here, this is a reward! You guys have the money." Take it for yourself and buy whatever you want as long as you don’t spend too much!”
Li Long wanted to laugh after hearing this. This is not a waste of money, but it is a bit contradictory to buy whatever you want, right?
But it doesn’t matter. Dad loves his grandchildren, which is a good thing.
Back at the settlement, Li Long was somewhat surprised to see a carriage at the door of his yard. His eldest brother Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming, who was opposite the door, were both there.
The person driving the carriage was an unknown middle-aged man. He was not tall and looked a bit honest. He grinned when he saw Li Long and others coming over.
"Tietou's father said that this man was watching in your yard, so he came over to tell me." Li Jianguo explained, "He said he wanted to sell fish to you, you see..."
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Li Long looked at the plastic sheet covering the carriage and understood a little.
It seemed that the news about collecting fish by myself had spread, so he asked:
"Where are you from?"
"From Xinhu Lake in the north."
“Where does this fish come from?”
"We also caught the fish from Baitukeng Reservoir by breaking holes in the ice. They are all good fish." The man smiled and lifted the plastic sheet.
“What a big fish!” Li Qingxia exclaimed.
On this carriage, what comes into view are several large fish that are more than one meter long.
Most of them are silver carp and silver carp, mixed with two or three grass carp.
The small ones are three to five kilograms, and there are also many one or two kilograms.
"How about it, isn't our fish good? I heard that you collect fish. My fish is sold cheaply, eight cents per kilogram. Do you want it?"
"Eight cents, that's okay." Li Qingxia I was tempted and looked at Li Long.
Li Long took a look and smiled.
Had I not been reborn, I would have been deceived by this man’s honest expression!
“Fellow, this fish didn’t come from the Baitu Pit, right?” Li Long shook his head, “You’re lying.”
Baitukeng is the name of a reservoir. From Dahaizi down to the depths of the Gurbantunggut Desert, there are several reservoirs in a series. Baitukeng is one of them, and it is also relatively famous.
In later generations, there were not only fish, but also shrimps, and snails. Like Dahaizi in later generations, crabs were raised there.
It’s just that there is only a fishing ground there now, and it is a public fishing ground. The reservoir is managed, but fish fry are not released very often. Fish are caught every year.
There is no shortage of fish in this kind of public reservoir. It is hot in summer and wild fish can reproduce by themselves.
The water area of these reservoirs is much larger than that of Xiaohaizi, at least three to five square kilometers.
However, the fish are not as delicious as Xiaohaizi's, because there is no grass in the reservoir, and those fish eat only plankton in the water.
Li Long has been a "fisherman" for decades in his last life. He knows wild fish, farmed fish, and fish in various reservoirs very well.
“How could it be otherwise?” the little man argued, “I am not from the Bai Tu Hang Reservoir fishery. This fish was caught from the canal downstream from Bai Tu Hang. It is real and not fake at all. !”
“Isn’t it fake? I think it’s fake!” Seeing that this man was still so tough-talking, Long became rude and merciless. This man was obviously here to trick him. He pointed at the fish and said:
"You fish, don't say it's not Bai Tukeng." Yes, this is not fished out of the reservoir at all.”
"Then where do you think my fish came from? If it wasn't in a reservoir, where could such a big fish be raised?" The little man was unconvinced and said stubbornly with his face raised and his neck straightened.
"Do you really think I don't know? This fish of yours came out of the sewage pit! It can only grow so big in the sewage pit put in the sand nest downstream by the county tannery factory, right? ? It’s a good thing you can go so far to catch fish in the pit!”
“What? Fish in the sewage pit?” Li Qingxia was a little surprised. , "Can fish be raised there?"
"Of course," Li Long said with a sneer, "If you don't believe me, come here and smell it. Although this fish has been washed many times and some of its scales have been washed away, the sewage water The stench in the pit cannot be washed away!"
Both Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming changed their expressions.
Previously, they also thought that this fish could be harvested, but if Li Long was right, then it would be a real loss for you to accept this fish!
This person who brought the fish is so heartless! (End of this chapter)