Section Chief Su was very puzzled by Lin Donglai's request for shoe tickets. These days, most people can't even take care of their stomachs, so few people want this.

After finding out the reason, I knew that he wanted the ticket for his own sister, so I couldn't help but ask, "Xiao Lin, where are your parents?"

It's no wonder he asked this. After all, Lin Donglai looked only seventeen or eighteen years old. Young people of this age are either unemployed at home or have just started working.

"My parents are both dead." Lin Donglai didn't expect him to ask this. Thinking of his deceased father and mother, he fell silent.

Then he thought that he could still make a living and that he had helped the original owner take good care of his sister, and he quickly felt relieved.

He sighed and slowly told the story of how both his parents had passed away and how he and his sister had to depend on each other for survival.

After listening to Lin Donglai's words, Section Chief Su couldn't help but look at the young man in front of him with admiration, and there was more appreciation in his eyes when he looked at Lin Donglai.

According to his request, I took him back to the purchasing office to get the ticket, and personally sent him to the factory gate and said, "Xiao Lin, I will take you here, and we will see each other in a week.

I still say that, no matter when, if you have something edible to sell, I will take it all."

"Thank you, Chief Su. See you in a few days. I'm leaving now."

Lin Donglai carried the big fish that he had specially left behind and left the steel rolling mill and hurried back to the courtyard. He went back in time to cook the fish so that his sister could eat it when she got home from school.

When I returned to the courtyard, I happened to see people returning to the courtyard after get off work, but the strange thing was that I didn't see Yan Bugui and his wife in the front yard at noon.

After the previous incident with the candied haws, Lin Donglai finally came to his senses. Instead of hiding and eating the fish obtained through legitimate means as before, it would be better to eat it openly.

After returning home, he took a bucket and a kitchen knife and went to the pond in the middle courtyard to clean up the big fish. It was a grass carp weighing more than five kilograms, perfect for braising.

Tasks like gutting and descaling a fish were not difficult for him at all, and he performed these steps smoothly. Just as he was holding the fish with a knife to remove the gills, the grass carp seemed to feel the breath of death.

He somersaulted to the ground, hopping up, and in a blink of an eye he was covered in dust and looked dirty. Lin Dong was very annoyed when he saw this.

He picked up the fish, gritted his teeth and hit it hard several times with the back of the knife. Only then did the fish calm down and never moved again.

This scene was seen by the second uncle Liu Haizhong who had just returned to the yard after get off work. He was secretly surprised by the ferocious look on his face. This was not the Lin Donglai he had in mind at all.

Liu Haizhong always leaves work later than others. After all, if he works overtime too much, it will be easy for his boss to notice him, which will make it easier for him to be selected in the year-end performance evaluation.

Although he wanted to be an official the most in his life, the factory leaders knew that he was not very capable, so he had been working as a blacksmith for many years.

Looking up and seeing Liu Haizhong, Lin Donglai took the initiative to greet him: "Second Uncle, are you off work?"

Unexpectedly, Liu Haizhong just nodded, walked quickly with his hands behind his back, and went to the backyard with his belly sticking out.

Seeing this, Lin Donglai secretly cursed himself, thinking that people cannot be enthusiastic and proactive. Look, now he has gotten himself into trouble.

Just as he cleaned the grass carp and was about to take it home and cut it into pieces, Qin Huairu came out with a basin full of cabbage, obviously preparing lunch for the whole family.

Seeing the big fish in Lin Donglai's hand, he asked in surprise: "Wow! What a big fish! Lin Donglai, where did you get this fish? It looks like a grass carp, right?"

As usual, Jia Zhang sat by the window sewing shoe soles. On the one hand, she seemed very busy and had no time to do housework, and on the other hand, she could keep an eye on her daughter-in-law Qin Huairu at any time.

When he heard his daughter-in-law talking to someone in the yard, he immediately leaned out of the window to look, first looking for his daughter-in-law's figure, and then looking in the direction her gaze went.

When he saw Lin Donglai, he rolled his eyes at first, but then he saw that he was holding a big fish in his hand, and he was shocked.

She had seen fish in the yard before, but the most common ones she had seen were the small whitebait caught by Yan Bugui, each weighing only about two taels.

Yan Bugui had just entered the courtyard when he heard some noise coming from the middle courtyard, which was related to fish, so he immediately rushed over.

"Oh my goodness, such a big grass carp, I haven't seen one in a long time!" Yan Bugui exclaimed after adjusting his glasses to see clearly.

There was no shortage of people watching the fun in the courtyard. The noise immediately attracted many people to the central courtyard. When they saw the fish in Lin Donglai's hand, they all exclaimed in amazement and applauded.

Lin Donglai was well aware that most of the people in the courtyard had their own agenda. He didn't know what these people were thinking as they praised him.

In order to avoid excessive entanglement, Lin Donglai planned to walk back home towards the front yard after answering Qin Huairu that he had caught the fish himself.

When Yan Bugui heard that the big fish was caught, he immediately became interested and stopped Lin Donglai and said, "Dongla, you said you caught this fish. I want to ask you, where did you catch it?"

"Uncle, it's okay for me to tell you. I caught this fish in Shichahai. I caught more than just this fish, but I caught a lot more. But they were all taken by the steel mill."

Lin Donglai spoke out loudly.

Xu Damao appeared out of nowhere and said with a smile: "Lin Donglai, you have this ability, are you kidding us?"

Hearing this, the onlookers immediately started talking about it. Some thought he didn't have the ability, some thought he was exaggerating, and some even thought he was just imagining things.

After all, in everyone's impression, the eldest son of the Lin family is the kind of person who can't even fart even if you hit him with three sticks. To put it bluntly, such a person is a loser.

Lin Donglai was unwilling to accept these people's speculations, and said to the mocking Xu Damao: "Xu Damao, if you don't believe it, you can go to your factory cafeteria to ask, or you can ask Brother Zhuzi.

But he probably hasn't gone home yet, he's probably working overtime to process the fish."

When Xu Damao heard that he was asked to find Sha Zhu to confirm the matter, his interest immediately disappeared. In his eyes, Sha Zhu was a fool who would hit people at any time without knowing the truth.

Asking him to go find Sha Zhu is tantamount to walking into a trap. He is not stupid and would not do such a thing.

Xu Damao smiled awkwardly: "Well, I just said it casually, you don't take it seriously, you are too easy to be teased."

Hearing that Sha Zhu had not finished get off work, Xu Damao was afraid of meeting him in the yard later, so he quickly pushed his bicycle and headed towards the backyard towards home.

Lin Donglai wanted to spit two mouthfuls of thick phlegm in his face: Don’t tease me, sir. Don’t tease me.

With Xu Damao's foul mouth, it's no wonder that he has been beaten by Sha Zhu since he was a child. As soon as he opens his mouth, others will talk about him. Now even Lin Donglai can't blame him for beating him up.

There was no point in staying in the middle courtyard any longer, so he carried the fish and the knife bucket back to his home.

At this time, Liu Haizhong arrived at the middle courtyard without knowing when. Seeing that Yi Zhonghai was not there, he quickly stepped forward and said, "Let's go, don't you all need to cook?"

When people looked back and saw that these words came from the second uncle in the yard, they knew they couldn't afford to offend this man, so no one dared to talk about it anymore and they all went back home.

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