Siheyuan: I have traveled through time and space and still can’t eat enough?

Time goes by day by day, and the New Year is coming soon.

The incident of the third uncle losing his car had long been forgotten, and Yan Jiekuang was almost going crazy during the winter vacation.

I had to write winter vacation homework for four people by myself, and try my best to imitate different notes. Even if the questions were answers that I knew at a glance, I would have gotten tired of it.

Just today, he finally finished all his homework and was about to go to the restaurant to improve his life, but when he looked at his space, he almost cried.

Current assets:

Money: 12 yuan

Food coupons: 0

Meat Ticket: 0

Maotai liquor: two bottles

3 silly roe deer/3 pieces of candy/ meat buns

Ever since he got Minglu's money, Yan Jiekuang can be said to have completely let himself go. He not only exchanged the wine tickets for wine.

He would go there every now and then to improve their lives, and sometimes he would bring his sister with him, which led to a rapid development in the relationship between the two siblings.

This made the other people in the family very envious, and they asked Yan Jiekuang to take them along as well.

But how could Yan Jiekuang agree? He said directly: We are the youngest in the family, and our sister has not earned any money yet. I can take her with me, but you, the brothers, have started to earn money. Do you have the nerve to snatch food from us?

After this was said, everyone felt embarrassed and never made a similar request again.

Looking at his meager assets, he simply couldn't afford to go out to eat.

Just as Yan Jiekuang was thinking hard about what to do next, he suddenly saw his father's fishing equipment placed in the corner.

I thought: Since I don’t have a ticket to improve my life, I might as well go fishing. There’s a saying that goes, if you work hard, you’ll have enough food and clothing.

Then he brought his equipment to Qianhai and spent a lot of effort to smash a hole in the ice.

Qianhai is part of Shichahai. My dad always comes here to go fishing. He says there are more fish here than in Houhai.

There are quite a lot of people fishing at this time. Yan Jiekuang guessed that it is New Year's Day and everyone wants to catch a few fish to improve their lives.

And even if your family doesn't eat it, it would be nice to exchange some meat and grain coupons from others.

This kind of small-scale exchange of items between individuals is not considered speculation.

Besides, the fish caught in the wild can be sold to recycling stations, but the price will be much lower than the market price.

Of course, if you know someone in the factory kitchen, you can also sell it to them, and the price will be a little higher.

Every time Yan Bugui caught a fish, he would sell it to the kitchen of the steel rolling mill through Sha Zhu.

However, after the last conflict between the two families, Sha Zhu no longer cared about the matter.

Winter is actually the best time for fishing, because the water surface is frozen and the fish in the water lack oxygen.

As long as a hole is made, the fish will involuntarily move towards places with high oxygen content.

Yan Jiekuang took out the small stool he brought with him, and secretly took out a piece of steamed bread that he had been reluctant to eat before as bait. He put down the hook and waited for the fish to come.

But he was not the kind of person who could sit idle, and soon he started chatting with the old man next to him.

We learned from the other party that the old man’s name was Wang Mingshuan, and he used to be a worker at the Third Steel Rolling Mill, and a seventh-level worker at that.

His son took over his job last year. When he retired and had nothing to do at home, he would go fishing to kill time.

The two were chatting happily, but Yan Jiekuang said something mean: "Uncle Wang, you come here to fish so often, but your skills are not good enough!"

What retired old men generally care about are two things: one is that they can't beat their chess friends, and the other is that they can't beat their fishing friends.

This touched the sore spot of Uncle Wang, who responded directly: "That's better than you, kid. You haven't opened the shop in such a long time!"

Yes, in Uncle Wang’s fish bucket, there was at least a small fish weighing half a pound and two two-inch long small fish fry.

Looking at Yan Jiekuang's bucket, there was nothing but water. He had been sitting there for more than an hour and had not caught a single fish.

Of course, this is just a joke between the two of them, and no one cares.

But they all felt as if they had been insulted, so they fished more seriously and stopped talking.

After a while, Yan Jiekuang's fishing line moved. He hurriedly pulled up the rope and saw a small fish weighing about half a pound hanging on the hook.

This made him so happy that he almost jumped up with excitement.

He even deliberately brought the fish to Uncle Wang and said arrogantly: "See, uncle, you have never caught such a big fish!"

Seeing Yan Jiekuang's smug look, Uncle Wang pointed at his fish bucket unhappily and said, "What's the big deal? Don't you see there are fish in my bucket too?"

The two began an invisible competition, but until the sun was about to set, no one caught a fish.

After Uncle Wang left, Yan Jiekuang looked at the lonely little fish swimming and cursed in his heart: "Damn God, did you steal all my fish? I heard that the fellow Taoist next door who traveled through time and space is either catching fish weighing tens or hundreds of pounds, or can use the space to catch thousands or tens of thousands of pounds of various fish every day!"

Looking at his only child again, Yan Jiekuang felt the deep malice coming from this world.

But he did not give up the fish. After all, it was meat. He went home and asked the third aunt to make a soup with it, which would be a dish for everyone.

Seeing that it was getting late, Yan Jiekuang didn't waste any more time. He packed up his things and walked towards the courtyard.

As soon as I walked to the door, I found my father standing by the gate, constantly looking at the neighbors coming in and out.

"Dad, look! This is the fish I caught today. Let's have a dinner with it!"

Yan Bugui looked at the fish in Yan Jiekuang's hand. Although it was not big, he still smiled.

For Yan Bugui, any free gift would never be too little.

"Hey, Third Brother! We have a harvest, but we won't eat it today, your mother has already prepared the meal. Besides, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so let's wait until the Chinese New Year to eat it. I'll go pickle the fish first."

Yan Bugui took the fish and went into the house without giving Yan Jiekuang time to react.

But he didn't care. Such a small fish was not even enough to fill the gaps between teeth, let alone feed a whole family.

He brought the fish back originally for his family, he didn't plan to eat it himself.

The small fish has a lot of bones and is not tasty. If it were just him, I would have let it go.

Yan Jiekuang walked out of the door, found a hidden corner, and took out the only three remaining large meat buns from the space. They were hot and fragrant. After eating them all in one go, he returned to the courtyard.

Yan Jiekuang said to the third aunt: "Mom, I won't eat today. Give my meal to my younger sister."

Ever since everyone knew that Yan Jiekuang had cheated Sha Zhu out of money, this kind of thing has happened several times, so people are no longer surprised.

Only the younger sister came forward and said, "Brother, do you have any more candy? Give me two more!"

Yan Jiedi also knew that among all the people in the Yan family, only Yan Jiekuang loved her the most, so sometimes she would ask for some snacks like candy.

Children nowadays are sensible and don't make any big demands. Yan Jiekuang did take her to a restaurant twice and gave her meat buns a few times, but she always ate sparingly, which made Yan Jiekuang feel distressed.

But now Yan Jiekuang is limited in his ability, and he often has to eat steamed corn bread, so he can't take care of his younger sister too much.

He took out three candies from his pocket and handed them to his little sister: "Here! Ask me for more after you finish eating them."

This made Yan Jiecheng and Yan Jiefang, who were eating nearby, very envious, but they were too embarrassed to ask their younger brother for anything.

Yan Bugui looked at the two warm siblings, then at his eldest son and second son. He was silent for a long time and finally just sighed deeply!