In the autumn of 1979, we heard a gossip: It was said that there was a production team of contracting production to household in other places. As the days go by, it is becoming more and more realistic, with noses and eyes.
After the gossip came, the hearts of the members began to fluctuate. The first to be challenged was the production team leader. He felt that none of the members had been obedient in previous years.
Staff members with a little stingy head are often in the red market, so please go to the street during half-day work.
I was 23 or 4 years old, and I was a great laborer to catch whole points. From the year I was 18, I followed a fisherman in the production team to learn how to fish.
said that the fisherman is not the kind of fisherman who lives on the seashore to go out to fish for a living. We are called the fisherman here. The fishing equipment they use is very simple and cheap. Use two long bamboo poles, tie a crescent to the thin ends of the two bamboo poles, and separate the upper and lower mouth of the fishing net to catch shrimps. This kind of net is called picking net, and then he can go out to fish with a fish basket.
At that time, although it was a large group, even foreign workers had to work every day, but at noon for lunch and no overtime work at night, you could also take time to go out to fish with a net.
At that time, there were a lot of fish and shrimps in the ponds. As long as you go out and hit 10 8 ponds, you can catch most of the baskets of small fish, frogs and prawns and loach.
When there were too many hits, my mother would ask the captain for half a day's work leave, sell it on the street, and exchange for some kerosene and salt money to subsidize the family.
Or else, how can the folks say "fishing and prawns, feeding a family"?
By the summer of 1980, the legendary gossip about the distribution of fields to households became true here, and the production team allocated all the fields to each household member in accordance with the policy.
Since then, members no longer have to ask for leave from the captain when they go out to work.
My family is the same. My parents and my brothers and sisters are doing farm work in the field. I basically become a professional fisherman. I carry fishing nets and baskets on my back all day. I tie an old shoe sole on each side of my waist and padded the bamboo poles for the fishing net. Putting his head to stop hurt his belly.
Because of full-time fishing,Loach, fish and shrimp are also hitting more and more, and these things are not sold at our market.
Once, when I was going to the market to sell things, I heard people say that the fish, shrimp and loach in Hegang were more expensive than ours, and they sold faster.
We are separated by a sand river from Hegang, which is 2,30 miles away from us, and it is west of us.
Hegang is a one-day episode, and we are a double-day episode, which is exactly the opposite episode. I heard that the things there are expensive, so I sorted out the loach, fish and shrimp I beat, and then, the next day, will start five times Take the loach and fish and shrimp on foot and walk 2,30 miles across the river to Hegang Street to sell.
Hegang is a lot bigger than our commune, with factories and railway stations, things are indeed more expensive and faster than what we sell here.
I just arrived on the street for a while, my loach, fish and shrimp and other things were bought by a few merchants all at once. Some of them specialize in buying loach, some specializing in buying prawns, and some specializing in buying rice eels, and so on.
I sold it for dozens of dollars that day, which is equivalent to selling hundreds of catties of grain. That day, I had a big brainstorm. Why didn't I fish when I was back in the collection? When I was in Hongji, I would buy the loach, fish and shrimp and other aquatic products sold by farmers on the street.
At that time, no one in our place had eaten rice eel. It was said that rice eel would grow hairy after Futian. The rice eel that farmers dig in the cave is big, beautiful, cheap and unsellable, and some of them are picked up when the market is closed.
When I went to the street to buy these aquatic products for the first time, I was very nervous. I was afraid that those things would die and lose money. I just bought more rice loach that is easy to feed on water according to the price difference I sold yesterday. I rarely buy the easy-to-dead prawns and test them first.
So, I picked these things to Hegang again the next morning from the fifth shift.
Except for the businessman who bought the eel, I don't know, the rest are all people who bought my stuff last time.
They saw that there were many types of aquatic products I brought, and they must not have caught them by themselves, they had bought other people, and they were doing business. So,They just want to pull me as the main household.
Among them, the vendor who bought the rice eel enthusiastically said to me: As long as you don't miss the 2 pm train, our Red Back Collection will receive the goods, but you have to send the back collection to our house. In addition, you can also buy some chickens, ducks and geese on the street and bring them together, so that you can make more money.
At that time, I was the only one on the street who was doing these aquatic products purchasing business. Sometimes my payment was used up, and there were still aquatic products that had not been collected, and finally they all went home.
After more than 3 months of doing business, the fisherman saw that I was clever and calm. He knew that my business was very profitable. He asked me to take his son to learn how to do water. He only had one One girl and two children.
After I took his son to do business, not only did I not have the psychological feeling of "a peer is an enemy", but I was very happy because there was a partner who could help each other across the Shapan River on the road.
What makes me even more happy is that Yu Xingfu has a daughter named Du Xiaonan who is about the same size as me. She is not only beautiful, but also virtuous and capable. When her brother and I learned to make water together, every time she helped him buy goods for delivery, we loaded and unloaded the ship, and when we used the shelf cart Panhe Beach, she also helped me push the cart.
When the goods are sold out, I will pay for them to eat. The longer we get along, the relationship between me and Du Xiaonan has become closer.
On the 5th of February, 1982, with the help of her parents, Du Xiaonan and I were married. Her parents also gave us a piece of land near the fish shop for us as a house.
In the second year of our marriage, our eldest daughter was born. I also built 3 red brick houses and a small farmyard on the piece of land sent by my father-in-law and mother-in-law.
To be honest, this small courtyard could not be built without certain economic strength in the rural areas at that time.
By 1989, the road from our township to the county seat was built as an asphalt road, and several buses to the county seat were added.
Our business is also much more convenient. We no longer need a rack truck to cross the river to go to Hegang to sell goods. We take a shuttle bus to deliver the goods to the Xinhua Market in the county town for sale.
In 1990, Du Xiaonan’s younger brother rented a stall at Xinhua Market and became the owner of rice eel. He asked me to be a local seller to collect goods. I think there are many types of goods on the street, and they are more profitable. , Reluctant to part with the business in the house, so he and his wife have been doing these things at home to make sense.
1990 to 2000 was the most profitable 10 years for rural water production. At that time, there were a lot of people in rural areas, and there were more people catching fish and shrimps, and the market was relatively stable. In general, each episode Basically, it only makes money without losing money.
There are many types of goods that we do for aquatic production. We not only collect fish, shrimps and aquatic products, but also collect chickens, ducks, geese, dead pigs, dead dogs and other livestock and poultry.
There are more types of income, that is, if you don't make money, you can make money. Even if two things fall in price and lose money, the money earned by other things can make up for the loss.
Remember the day when my wife gave birth to my son in 1993, I bought more than 200 catties of river prawns, more than 500 snail meat, more than 300 catties of rice eel and loach and other aquatic products. In addition, I bought another 200 catties of dead fish for 150 yuan. pig.
That day, I packaged a car alone and delivered these goods to Xinhua Market. The river prawns skyrocketed that day. The average price of all the prawns I bought was about 10 yuan per catty. The second owner of the freezer warehouse received the goods. , I unwrap the film in the two large fish baskets where I hold the river prawns, pick them up a few times with my hands, and give me 26 yuan a catty. I picked the larger ice cubes and weighed them. The little Bingzhazi that was not picked out was not deducted. The light river shrimp made more than 4,000 yuan that day, the dead pig sold for 550 yuan, and the episode with other goods made a total of more than 6,000 yuan.
Let me just talk about the dead pigs, dead dogs, dead sheep and other things at that time. There is no strict control now, and the rural fishmongers bought and sold them.
In 2007, we are doing township development here. The place where I live is the main street entrance to the east. I stripped out the old house and built three two-story buildings, and bought a small truck. , Buy those aquatic products at home around the clock.
After 2008, rural water production has entered a period of decline. Most of the people in the countryside have gone to work outside, and the supply of goods on the street has naturally decreased.Although crayfish has replaced river prawns, it and rice field eels have become the two main species of rural aquatic products, but only because they are seasonal and affected by dry weather, the production has been declining. We fishmongers have been harvesting If you don't have a lot of goods, you won't be able to make much money.
In 2017, my son Xiaoliu also got married and got married. We also bought a house for them in the county. Their young couple have been working outside all year round, and my wife and I are still doing the business of buying rice eel and crayfish at home. Although the business is not as good as the previous years, it can always earn 30,000 or 20,000 yuan a year to support the family.
In the past few years, my wife and I have been working on water production while taking our grandchildren at home. All the expenses in the family have been earned by doing this water production.
Nowadays, the water production in rural areas is just like chicken ribs. It doesn't make much money to do it, and it's a pity to lose it.
Seeing that my wife and I are getting older and older, sometimes we can't lift the 100-jin lobster basket and rice eel for loading.
The May Day holiday this year, my son and daughter-in-law have returned from outside for vacation. Those few days were when a large number of aquatic products were on the market, and we were too busy, so we asked them to help me.
During dinner at night, I said to my son: "Little Liu, your mother and I are both 65 years old, so I can’t do water work anymore. You and Xiao Nan should not go out to work, just do water work at home. , You see I made more than 200 yuan today.”
Before my son could open his mouth, the wife took the conversation and said, “Dad, you earn more than 200 today, then tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the off-season of the twelfth winter and twelfth lunar month. Well, can you make so much? Do you know that Xiaoliu is a technical backbone in the factory, and his monthly salary is 10,000, mine is 7,500, you count, are you making a small amount of money? You and my mother are in Take care of your children at home. It’s enough to keep your mouth open for as much as you earn. If you can’t do it, Xiao Liu and I can feed you.”
All 4 people do this work at home, earning thirty-two thousand dollars a year, which is indeed a small amount of money compared to her and her son's salary. People have to learn how to settle accounts, which is cost-effective and not.
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