Chapter 598: There Are Unscrupulous Merchants in Every Era (Something happened tonight, just one chapter)

In middle school, the parent-teacher meeting was held early, and in elementary school, the parent-teacher meeting was held late. After picking up Liang Yuemei and Li Juan, Li Long drove the jeep to the elementary school again, and then let Liang Yuemei attend the elementary school's parent-teacher meeting.

What surprised Li Long a bit was that Li Qiang actually got an award certificate, Excellent Young Pioneer.

However, when Liang Yuemei and Li Qiang came out together, Li Qiang wasn't 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.

"He didn't get Three-Good Student, that's why he's unhappy," Liang Yuemei explained. "This Excellent Young Pioneer is also good, it's not bad to have an award certificate. There are only those two or three who can get award certificates in your class."

"That Three-Good Student award certificate is so good..." Li Qiang gnawed on the candied haws, his mood obviously improved a bit, explaining.

"That also depends on whether you can get it," Liang Yuemei sat in the car and said. "Your teacher said you were careless in the final exam, otherwise, you might have gotten it."

At this time, it was said to be "Three-Good Student," but actually, it was mainly about learning. Once learning was top-notch, the Three-Good Student award certificate was basically secure.

Li Long knew that Li Qiang had a problem in learning; in exams, the harder the questions, the higher the score he could get, because when the questions were hard, he took them seriously.

The simpler the questions, the more mistakes he made; when they were simple, he became careless. So Liang Yuemei said, as long as there was an exam, and Li Qiang came back saying the questions were too simple, then there was trouble, and he definitely couldn't get first place.

"It's okay, what grade is this? There are still several years left. Remember not to be careless later, study solidly, and strive to get Three-Good Student every semester later!"

At this time, Three-Good Students had rewards, a notebook, or a pencil box.

Li Juan's reward was a fountain pen; just now she showed it to Li Long, it was a red Hero fountain pen, and there were words on it "Special Fine Accounting Pen," and I don't know which purchaser bought it, giving this kind of pen to students to use.

But to tell the truth, having a reward was enough to make other students envious. At this time, every family wasn't rich, and it was already very good for every student to have a cheap Hero fountain pen.

This kind of special pen cost several yuan, and ordinary families couldn't bear to buy it.

Li Qiang's prize was a hard-cover notebook. At this time, hard-cover notebooks weren't cheap either; soft-cover ones were cheap, but usually, no one bought them. Students used exercise books, and children from poor families would even erase the handwriting on the exercise books and reuse them.

Of course, most families would still take care of the child's self-esteem, and a one-mao exercise book still had to be bought.

Nine-year compulsory education, what was exempted was tuition, but several yuan of miscellaneous fees and book fees still had to be paid. Exercise books and pencils had to be bought by oneself, and this could be squeezed out by gritting one's teeth.

In the countryside, the normal output money every year was basically in the summer harvest and autumn harvest, and there was no income at ordinary times, some people borrowed, and some people thought of other ways.

In his previous life, Li Jianguo would have many miscellaneous items when farming, various seeds, raising pigs and sheep, all for the sake of dealing with such daily expenses.

When there was an emergency, selling a sheep could also get through it. In March or April, it was considered the gap between the old and the new, and scraping the sheep wool from the raised sheep and shearing the wool from the sheep was also an income.

Various seeds collected from miscellaneous planting in the land, selling a bag when there was an emergency was also possible.

In short, at this time, unless one was particularly honest, otherwise, everyone would think of various ways to get some money during the gap between the old and the new. The money for students to go to school couldn't be delayed.

Picking up the people, Li Long drove the jeep back, and Li Qiang was still leaning on the window shouting the names of his classmates.

Children didn't know how to be low-key, and having a good car at home naturally meant showing off.

Liang Yuemei scolded Li Qiang in a low voice, telling him not to be so conspicuous.

Li Qiang didn't care about his mother's scolding and sat down to eat the candied haws. Usually, he had money on him, but it wasn't easy to buy such things directly. Because one was that it was troublesome to eat, and the ten-minute break between classes wasn't enough to finish eating, and he couldn't bear to throw it away.

The second was that it wasn't easy to share with classmates. Li Qiang wasn't stingy when he had money, and sometimes he would buy a small paper cup of melon seeds during the break and share them with his classmates. But it wasn't easy to share candied haws.

A year or two younger, it was fine to take a bite and I take a bite, but now, the family life was better, and they were also particular about hygiene habits, and Li Qiang also knew that eating like this wasn't good, so he simply didn't buy it.

Although he craved it.

Although someone had urged him to buy it, Li Qiang still had his own opinions.

So eating it today was exceptionally fragrant and sweet, and he also knew that this was his little uncle's reward for him getting an award certificate, so he was very happy eating it.

Driving the jeep back to the Li family courtyard, Li Jianguo didn't go to Little Haizi and was cooking at home.

Usually, the father went to parent-teacher meetings, and mothers like Liang Yuemei went less.

But Li Jianguo was willing to let his wife go. In the village, at home, he was the backbone, and if there was anything, others would look for him. He was also the one who showed off his style.

This kind of child's parent-teacher meeting, Li Juan and Li Qiang's learning grades were good, which was also the time for parents to show their faces, so Li Jianguo let Liang Yuemei go.

At this time, parent-teacher meetings weren't like the future, where one had to protect the child's privacy. In this day and age, the teacher would openly tell the parents whose learning grades were good, who won an award, who studied seriously, and who would have a good future later, etc.

The original intention was to let parents pay attention.

Liang Yuemei was also willing to go. There weren't many opportunities to be praised, and this could be considered a highlight moment.

The child was promising, and the parents naturally had face.

Because the two parent-teacher meetings lasted for a long time, Li Jianguo cooked. Li Qing Xia felt that staying at home was boring, so he went to Little Haizi.

Li Long looked at the time, and in another half an hour, his father would be back, so he said he was going to pick someone up.

"Pick up what? He'll be back by himself in a while," Du Chunfang felt that Li Long driving the jeep to pick up people must be tired, so she let him rest for a while.

"It's nothing, I'll just go over and stroll, and it also avoids someone feeling uneasy because I don't appear."

"Who could be uneasy?" Du Chunfang didn't know the twists and turns in it, and asked suspiciously.

"Those catching fish at Little Haizi," Li Jianguo interjected, he was rolling noodles, eating pulled noodles at noon. It was still mutton with spicy skin, stir-fried potato shreds, and stir-fried salted vegetables.

"Why are they anxious?"

"If Xiao Long doesn't appear, they worry that he won't collect fish anymore," Li Jianguo said with a smile. "Seeing Xiao Long is like taking a reassurance pill."

"Hey, truly..." Du Chunfang understood, but still couldn't understand.

Li Juan and Li Qiang pasted the award certificates on the wall, and at this time came over to follow Li Long to Little Haizi, Li Long agreed, and let them wear thicker clothes.

Li Jianguo didn't stop them either, Du Chunfang watched her youngest son and grandchildren having a good relationship, and also smiled, and after they left, she muttered that Li Long spoiled them too much.

"That's right, since the year before last, Xiao Long has been spoiling them," Liang Yuemei heard it and said with a smile. "The pocket money given is more generous than what we give. I'm afraid they'll be spoiled."

"That's impossible," Du Chunfang didn't want to hear Li Long's faults, and directly denied it.

"It's true, the two children's learning has always been good, and they are also attached to their little uncle," Liang Yuemei said with a smile.

Happy to see it happen.

Li Long took the two children wearing cotton-padded clothes to Little Haizi. The sunshine was a bit excessive, the sky was very blue, there wasn't a single cloud, the slightly empty wild outside, and there was no wind. The sunshine at this time was slightly warm, and it was quite comfortable.

The two children jumped and jumped behind Li Long, sometimes deliberately not walking on the road that was stepped out, and insisted on jumping into the snow to pounce.

The cotton-padded rubber shoes were filled with snow, but they didn't care. Fortunately, the wool socks worn were very thick, and they didn't feel cold at this time.

The wool socks were woven by Liang Yuemei after she was busy in the autumn, using the accumulated sheep wool. Everyone in the family had them, and although they didn't look good, they were truly warm to wear.

At this time, the skills mastered by rural women were truly not few. If it were time travel, their survival ability would definitely be stronger than many young people forty years later.

When arriving at Little Haizi, Li Long saw this semi-reservoir of about one square kilometer, and there were already seven or eight "groups" scooping fish in the ice holes.

Thanks to his large-scale collection of reed bundles in early winter, there were no longer reeds standing in large areas on the ice surface of Little Haizi, so people who broke ice holes to scoop fish could see everything at a glance.

The reason why Little Haizi was a semi-reservoir was that before Li Jianguo and the others built the village, this place was a natural water depression, between a lake and a swamp.

Li Jianguo and his group built a dam on the north side of the water depression to store the water, and a large canal that originally went from west to east to another village in the water conservancy project was also included in the water depression, and the water here would first gather in the water depression, and over time, Little Haizi was formed.

Looking at Little Haizi now, it was still a bit desolate, but in the summer, the reeds here were lush, plus flocks of water birds, and occasionally water rats that popped out, it was full of vitality.

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Stronger than Dahaiizi.

Li Juan and Li Qiang saw someone scooping fish and immediately ran over. Liang Dacheng, Tao Daqiang, and others who were relatively familiar, they ran over to take a good look, and they just passed by those they weren't familiar with, and finally arrived at Li Qing Xia's place.

Li Long also greeted while walking, and when he arrived at Li Qing Xia's place, ten or more minutes had passed.

"Yo, Father, the harvest is quite good today!" Li Long looked at the old man's two piles of fish, a bit surprised.

"Hey, that's right!" Li Qing Xia's tone was not without pride. "Your big brother didn't come today, I scooped fish in these two ice holes in turns, and the fish just kept coming up."

Li Long could feel that the old man was also exhausted, so he took the scoop net and started scooping there.

But he didn't scoop for long, seeing the time was about right, he packed up the tools and fish, and walked back.

Li Qing Xia's harvest was not small, and he kept talking about it. Hearing that Li Juan and Li Qiang both won award certificates, he very simply took out two five-yuan notes from his pocket and gave one to each:

"Here, this is a reward! Keep the money yourselves, as long as you don't spend it indiscriminately, you can buy whatever you want!"

Li Long wanted to laugh when he heard it; this "don't spend indiscriminately" and "buy whatever you want" were a bit contradictory.

But it didn't matter. The father loved his grandchildren, which was a good thing.

Returning to the residential area, Li Long was a bit surprised to see a horse-drawn carriage at the gate of his courtyard, with big brother Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming from opposite the door there.

The person pulling the horse-drawn carriage was a middle-aged man he didn't know, not tall, looking a bit honest, and seeing Li Long and them coming over, he grinned.

"Tie Tou's dad said this person was watching at your courtyard, so he came to tell me," Li Jianguo explained. "He said he was looking for you to sell fish, look..."

Li Long looked at the plastic sheet covering the horse-drawn carriage and understood a bit.

It was probably that the news of him collecting fish had spread, so he asked:

"Where are you from?"

"From Xinhu in the north."

"Where is this fish from?"

"From the Baitu Pit Reservoir, we also broke ice holes to catch fish, they are all good fish," the man smiled and lifted the plastic sheet.

"Such big fish!" Li Qing Xia exclaimed in admiration.

On this horse-drawn carriage, what came into view were several big fish more than a meter long.

Most were silver carp and bighead carp, mixed with two or three grass carp.

There were also many small ones weighing three or five kilograms, and one or two kilograms.

"How about it, our fish are not bad, right? I heard you collect fish, I sell this fish cheaply, eight mao per kilogram, look, do you want it?"

"Eight mao, that's okay," Li Qing Xia was tempted and looked at Li Long.

Li Long took a look and chuckled.

If he hadn't lived a second life, he would have really been deceived by this man's honest expression!

"Old fellow, this fish of yours, it's not from the Baitu Pit Reservoir, right?" Li Long shook his head. "Lying."

Baitu Pit was the name of a reservoir. From Dahaiizi downwards, all the way to the depths of the Gurbantunggut Desert, there were several reservoirs in a row, and Baitu Pit was one of them, and also quite famous.

In the future, there were not only fish there, but also shrimp, and snails, and like the Dahaiizi of the future, they raised crabs.

It was just that at this time, there was only a fishery there, and it was a public fishery. That is, the reservoir was managed, but fish fry weren't released much, and people caught fish every year.

This kind of public reservoir wasn't lacking fish; in the summer, when the weather was hot, the wild fish's own reproduction was enough.

The water area of these reservoirs was much larger than Little Haizi, at least three or five square kilometers or more.

However, the fish weren't as delicious as Little Haizi's, because there was no grass in the reservoir, and those fish completely ate the plankton in the water.

Li Long had been a "fisherman" for decades in his previous life, and he was very clear about wild fish, farmed fish, and the fish in each reservoir.

"How could it not be?" The little man defended, "I'm not from the Baitu Pit Reservoir fishery, this fish was caught in the canal downstream of Baitu Pit, truly, not fake at all!"

"Not fake? I think it's fake without boundaries!" Li Long saw that this person was still so stubborn, so he wasn't polite and didn't leave any face, he pointed to the fish and said:

"This fish of yours, let alone not from Baitu Pit, this is simply not scooped out of the reservoir."

"Then you say where this fish of mine came from? If not from the reservoir, where can such big fish be raised?" The little man was unconvinced, raised his face, straightened his neck, and said stubbornly.

"You really think I don't know? This fish of yours came out of a sewage pit! Only the sewage pit where the county leather factory discharges downstream into the sand nest can raise such big ones, right? And you were able to run so far to catch fish in the pit!"

"What? Fish from a sewage pit?" Li Qing Xia was a bit surprised. "Can fish be raised there?"

"Of course," Li Long sneered. "If you don't believe it, come closer and smell it. Although this fish has been washed many times, and some scales have been washed off, the smell of the sewage pit can't be washed away!"

Whether it was Li Jianguo or Lu Yingming, their faces changed.

Previously, they also felt that this fish could be collected, but if what Li Long said was correct, then if they collected this fish, they would truly suffer a big loss!

This person who brought the fish was truly conscience-less! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 599 =====