"Today we are not going to Beihai Park, we are going to the Summer Palace today," Li Laifu finished.
"Brother, will it take a long time to go?" Jiang Tao is 13 years old after all, so he knows a little better.
"Who told you we were going to walk? Let's go! Take the bus to the side of the road?"
Even Jiang Tao, who is 13 years old, has never taken a bus, let alone Jiang Yuan.
There was a mouth under the nose and asked about it. Two people asked for the route, and three people spent 15 cents.
"Kid, keep your stick upright on the ground," said the conductor.
It made a bunch of adults smile, and this kid's stick almost reached the roof of the shed.
The conductor shouted at each station, and Li Laifu also looked outside, "What's the capital like in this era?" What everyone sees is novelty and excitement. Li Laifu, a person from later generations, feels a sense of historical significance.
After wandering around for more than half an hour, we finally arrived. As soon as we got off the bus, Jiang Yuan shouted: "Brother, should we take the bus when we go back? It's so fun to ride in the bus."
"Nonsense, don't you want to take the car and walk back?"
"That's okay, that's okay!" Jiang Yuan nodded.
In this day and age, the Summer Palace doesn’t even have a wall, and there are broken walls and tiles everywhere, but Kunming Lake is so big! That small lake in Beihai Park? Compared with him, he is the younger brother among younger brothers.
There are a lot of people fishing in this lake, but because of its size, there are still many places without people, so I found a corner with fewer people.
Jiang Yuan and Jiang Tao didn't bother him, but took the initiative to dig up earthworms under the tree with a small wooden stick.
He took out a long wooden stick and tied it with a fishing line. He didn't even have time to smoke a cigarette all morning. There were so many fish in the lake. Whenever he saw him, he would control the hook and stuff it into the fish's mouth. It's no wonder there were so many fish here. This Kunming Lake is old. It used to be an important place for the royal family. No one dared to fish, and it was too late to release the fish. Later, although the wall fell down, there were no such big fishing nets in the north.
Li Laifu was not too tired to fall down all morning, but he exhausted the two brothers Jiang Tao and Jiang Yuan. He actually caught more than 50 fish, the smallest one weighing two kilograms, and a fish close to ten kilograms almost broke his stick. Fortunately, he controlled the hook to hit the fish's head.
"Oh my god, brother, how can we get it back?" Jiang Tao looked worried at the pile of fish.
Li Laifu said nonchalantly: "You idiot, there is no buying station anywhere in the capital, do you have to sell it in front of our house?"
"Brother, are you tired? Let me fish for you for a while!" Jiang Yuan saw Li Laifu lying on the grass.
Li Laifu lay on the grass smoking a cigarette and waving his hands.
"Young man, why do you catch so many fish?" asked a gentle old man.
Li Laifu didn't get up either. He smoked and said, "Just keep fishing. I'm lucky today."
"How lucky are you? You are so lucky. Young man, can you sell me a few of your fish?"
He was polite, but Li Laifu didn't say anything to him: "Uncle, there is a policy that prohibits private business. I want to sell you fish... I made a mistake. You need to have food stamps or other bills, and we can exchange them." "
"You're a very fine boy, can you wait for me? I'll go back and get the tickets," the little old man said with a smile while wearing black-rimmed glasses.
"Okay, then you go ahead, I've been fishing here anyway."
"Brother, you catch fish after fishing for a while, how come I'm fishing without any fish biting the hook?" Jiang Yuan said dejectedly at the riverside.
"How can you compare with my eldest brother? My eldest brother is so lucky. Otherwise, our brothers can have enough to eat?"
Jiang Tao's flattery made him feel comfortable.
After smoking a cigarette, Li Laifu continued fishing. Within three minutes, another big fish weighing four or five pounds came up. The two brothers cooperated very well, one holding the fish and the other picking the hook. In just ten minutes, he Caught three more fish.
"Brother, look quickly."
Hearing Jiang Tao's voice, Li Laifu looked back and couldn't help but cursed: "Fuck!" More than a dozen old men, old ladies, women and young men trotted towards him.
Li Laifu put away the fishing rod, and the old man who had just returned said breathlessly: "Young man, I saw you had so many fish, so you called a few more people."
Li Laifu rolled his eyes and thought, how many more people did you call? There are about ten of them.
"Young man, first exchange my fish for me and take out ten kilograms of food stamps."
Li Laifu did not move, but looked at these people. The old man continued: "Young man, don't worry, we are all teachers from Peking University."
Li Laifu then put away the ten kilograms of food stamps, picked up five fish weighing about two kilograms, threw them to him and said, "That's it."
The little old man said happily: "That's a lot, that's a lot! These are enough."
"Young man, here's me. I don't have food stamps here, but I have cloth stamps, okay?"
After a while, all the fish under five kilograms were replaced, and he had more than 40 kilograms of food stamps in his pocket, more than ten feet of cloth stamps, two soap coupons, toothbrushes and toothpaste coupons, and five kilograms of pastry coupons.
"Young man, I have two kilograms of oil stamps here. How big of a fish can you give me?" asked a woman in her 40s.
Li Laifu was stunned. There are three major difficulties these days. One is cotton, the other is pork, and the third is oil. No one is willing to take out these three things these days.
Although cloth tickets are also very tight, there are several large textile factories in Beijing.
Li Laifu took two heavy fish weighing five to six kilograms: "These two fish weigh more than ten kilograms, is that okay?"
"Okay, okay!"
"You're a young man, but you're in a bad mood."
After everyone left, there were still one weighing ten kilograms and five weighing more than five kilograms. The two silly boys Jiang Tao and Jiang Yuan were dumbfounded when they looked at Lin Laifu's large roll of bills.
He couldn't keep the two silly boys in the space, but kept them in his pocket.
He took out two kilograms of pastry coupons from his pocket and handed another dollar to Jiang Tao, "Xiao Tao, go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy two kilograms of pastries and come back. We will have pastries at noon."
Jiang Yuan asked stupidly: "Brother, are we still having lunch?"
Li Laifu touched his head and said: "From now on, I will have lunch with my eldest brother. You are still growing. Are you eating less? Isn't it time to grow taller?"
Li Laifu continued fishing. About ten minutes later, Jiang Tao came back holding a yellow paper bag.
Li Laifu chewed the peach cake slowly, and the two boys enjoyed it. They had never eaten cakes before.
"After eating two pieces, it was too dry and he didn't eat it."
"Brother, I still have two cents to give you," Jiang Tao had almost eaten before he got down to business.
Go buy three more popsicles. Li Laifu continued fishing without looking back. He walked along the river with the fishing rod, so that the chance of catching fish would be faster.
Eating popsicles and cakes, Jiang Yuan almost went crazy with joy.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, he caught a lot of fish again, weighing more than 100 kilograms. Li Laifu had already thought about it and used the fishing rod as a carrying pole.
It’s not enough to fish and sell money. He only has a few cents left in his pocket.
"Oh, luckily you didn't leave," suddenly a voice came from behind the three people.
