Return To 1998

Soon after dinner, Xu Tonglin came to see Xu Tongdao to play, but there was nothing fun, just chatting. Xu Tongdao didn't have any fruit or melon seeds to entertain, so he could only invite Xu Tonglin to watch News Network, because at this time, turn on the TV, Every TV station is putting this on.

News Network is talking about the recent major events in the world, Xu Tonglin is asking Xu Tongdao, Hey, you said you want to learn to cook, have you decided where to go? Hey, after I heard you say that you want to learn to cook, I thought about it when I got home, and I also wanted to go to school with you. I think if you learn this, you will definitely be able to eat a lot of good things, and it must be much better than learning as a bricklayer, what do you think?

He didn't know that Xu Tongdao had changed his mind and planned to start his own skewer business.

So hearing him ask, Xu Tongdao laughed, Let's do it in a few days! I'll make something for you to try in a few days, and then we can discuss it.

Xu Tonglin was stunned, Make me something to taste? What? What do you want to discuss with me? Just say where you plan to go to learn cooking, and let me go with you if you agree or not!

Tongdao Xu didn't want to say it now, so he smiled and shook his head, Don't worry! Soon, at most two days, you'll know by then!

Hey! You're cheating on me... What kind of nonsense...

Xu Tonglin was a little despised.

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There is really a lot of rain in this rainy season this year, and it started to rain again in the middle of the night.

Tongdao Xu, who was sleeping on the bed, listened to the sound of the rain outside the house, and did not feel sleepy for a long time.

He thought about a lot of people and things before his rebirth. The past was like smoke, and there was no trace of it, but they were all stored in his memory. He didn't want to repeat those days again.

But he was a small person before his rebirth. Even if he is reborn now, he can't make a fortune right away. If he wants to make money, he still has to work hard and accumulate it bit by bit.

He has also read several rebirth novels before. In those novels, the male protagonist who was reborn into the past always has a woman he can't let go of and wants to save it.

But Xu Tongdao's heart was empty.

He didn't have any woman he wanted to save, and he didn't feel that any woman from the past was something he couldn't give up.

He doesn't know if this is a good thing, or should it be sad?

he does not know.

He is very clear that what he wants to do most these two days... is to make money, make money for his younger brother and sister to study, make money to improve the living conditions of this family; make money to be filial to his mother.

As for the others?

He didn't want to think about it, and he didn't have the heart to think about it.

Perhaps, when he becomes 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 have it.

Today, he still doesn't.

In a daze, and he didn't know how long he had slept, he suddenly woke up.

Opening his eyes, he saw that it was still dark outside the window. Tongdao Xu got up and picked up the alarm clock on the desk and looked at it for a while, barely seeing that it was after 4 am.

Now that he's awake, he doesn't want to sleep anymore.

Seeing that the younger brother in the bed was still sound asleep, he gently opened the door and walked out.

Just like yesterday morning, I grabbed the fish basket and shrimp rake and walked towards the head of the village. It was dark outside, but after a while, my eyes could barely see.

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Wow...

The shrimp rake was thrown into the water surface of the drainage outlet, and with the sound of the water, Tongdao Xu quickly dragged the shrimp rake up, and several fish, big and small, were jumping around in the shrimp rake's net pocket, which was delightful to watch.

Tongdao Xu quickly squatted down, picked up the fish and put them into the fish basket around his waist.

And then throw out the shrimp rake again...

By the time the sky was bright, Tongdao Xu had already walked more than a mile farther than yesterday morning.

The harvest is also more than yesterday, and the fish basket is more than half full.

But today I didn't get the black fish, nor did I get the old turtle.

The biggest harvest is two catfish about a foot.

In addition, there are two crabs and a dozen big river prawns.

That's all.

If you sell for money, you can only sell a few dozen yuan at most, which is incomparable with yesterday.

He was a little disappointed in his heart, but he also knew that it was normal. His biggest harvest yesterday morning was the old turtle, and wild turtles were originally rare, and it was impossible to get them every day.

On the way back, Tongdao Xu saw a thin old man in the village, also holding a shrimp rake, with a fish basket tied around his waist, raking fish at a drain.

The old man came out today obviously later than him.

When Tongdao Xu saw him, the old man naturally saw Tongdao Xu.

They are all from the same village, and they naturally know each other.

This old man is an old bachelor in the village. He is usually taciturn. When other people talk to him, he doesn't take much care of him, but he also likes to fish.

No, I met Xu Tongdao today.

Tongdao Xu knew the old man's temperament, so he didn't say hello to him.

And the old man, as always, didn't say a word, just glanced at Xu Tongdao's fish basket with his old eyes, and when he saw that Xu Tongdao's fish basket was half full, the old man snorted unpleasantly.

He probably finally understands why he still has so few harvests today.

Tongdao Xu first raked the drains in front of him, and he followed behind to do it again. Naturally, the harvest was bleak.

The old man's mood has obviously changed.

In fact, seeing the old man also raking fish, Xu Tongdao's mood became a little worse.

Because he estimates that with the old man's character, tomorrow morning, the old man will probably get up earlier and come here to rak the fish.

In this case, unless he gets up earlier than this old man tomorrow, Tongdao Xu, I am afraid that he will be the one who will have a dismal harvest tomorrow.

It can't go on like this!

The harvest in the morning can't sell for much money, and we have to compete with this old man who gets up earlier, no! Have to think of something else.

On the way back, Tongdao Xu had various thoughts in his mind, and finally, he suddenly thought of the dozen or so shrimps in his fish basket.

If it's just river prawns, then you don't have to get up earlier than that old man.

The elderly have less sleep, and it is easy to get up early.

Getting up earlier than anyone else, Xu Tongdao is not confident that he can match the old man.

Fortunately, the ground cages for catching river prawns have not yet spread to them, so the Xihe River next to Xujia Village does not prohibit others from catching river prawns in it, because the people who contracted this Xihe River have no ability to put them in the river themselves. The river prawns came up.

Who made the West River so deep and long that it is impossible to drain the water in the river!

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Xu Tongdao thought about it all the way, and after returning home, he handed the fish basket to his sister Ge Yuzhu, who had already woken up, and asked her to pick out the bigger fish and sell them for money later.

He strode into the kitchen to look for it, and found twenty or thirty bamboo poles that he used to build a vegetable shelf.

Not too long, only about one meter five.

But he still laughed.

For him, that's enough.