A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 350 Where to Go in the Future

The next day, Lu Cheng rushed to the black market early again and met the man he had traded with before. He sold twenty small yellow croakers and earned three thousand six hundred yuan in cash.

Just from the fact that the other party can easily take out so much cash, we can see the financial strength of the person behind him.

After getting this money, Lu Cheng bought two or three different sets of clothes in the next few days, dressed up in different ways, bought tickets and supplies from the black market, and spent the tickets and money in exchange for supplies at the grain and oil store.

Rice, white flour, cornmeal, lard, soybean oil, peanut oil, salt, MSG, seasonings, brown sugar, white sugar, fruit candy, pork, mutton, chicken, duck, fish, all kinds of supplies were stockpiled.

Fourteen cubic meters of space is equivalent to a small room of seven square meters with a height of two meters, which is enough to hold a lot of things.

Not only that, Lu Cheng also took the time to buy some sesame cakes, fried dough sticks, and hot buns, and stored them in the storage space in case of emergency.

With money, food and guns in hand, you will naturally not be panicked.

A few days later, Lu Cheng went to Xinhua Bookstore again and directly bought ten sets of "Self-study Series of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry". Five of them were put into the storage space, and the other five were given to the Li family.

While the whole Li family was having dinner, Lu Cheng placed five sets of "Self-study Series of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry" on the table.

"Aunt, Kuiyong, Kuiyuan, Kuiwei... these books are for you. Aren't you guys idle at home? It's a good time to read and study."

Li Kuiyong looked at the nearly 100 brand new books on the table and was a little surprised: "Brother Cheng, this set of books costs more than ten yuan, and five sets of books cost sixty or seventy yuan. How can you bear to spend so much money on these books?"

"Isn't it so that you can learn more knowledge? Even though those young men from the big courtyards are just like you, wandering around the streets all day long, when they return home, they are asked by their parents to study. Because their parents know that only by studying and learning knowledge can they change their destiny in the future."

Li Kuiyuan still didn't understand: "Aren't classes suspended now? Do we still need to study?"

"Haven't you heard that saying? If you learn math, physics and chemistry, you won't be afraid to travel the world. If you learn knowledge in your brain, you can use it wherever you go. Moreover, without knowledge and culture, you can only rely on physical labor for the rest of your life. Look at those who work in offices, those who are engaged in technology, and those who make a lot of money. Which one of them is not educated?

Two of the old friends who came to the city with my third uncle went to school and became educated, and later found jobs in factories. My third uncle and his friends suffered from their lack of education, and spent their entire lives as hard laborers, working themselves to death.

After hearing this, the third aunt nodded immediately and said, "Your cousin is right. We should listen to him. What can you achieve by running around all day? You should stay at home honestly, read some books, learn some culture, and become a useful person in the future."

Li Kuiyong and his brothers nodded: "We will listen to Brother Cheng."

The two little girls also nodded: "Cousin is right."

In fact, classes are not completely suspended at this time. Some primary and secondary schools are still in session. After November of next year, primary and secondary schools in various places will resume classes one after another.

Among the six children in the Li family, Li Kuiyong, Li Kuiwei, and Li Kuiyuan are all junior and senior high school students, and the remaining three are still elementary school students.

By the time the two youngest children finish high school, that will be after 78, they can directly take the college entrance examination.

The children are of different ages and of course their learning levels are different.

Lu Cheng checked their learning situation separately. The eldest son Li Kuiyong and the second son Li Kuiwei were basically real poor students and had already returned all the knowledge they had learned to the teacher.

The third brother, Li Kuiyuan, was better. He had a good memory and had not forgotten much knowledge.

As for the other three, they are all average, not too smart, but not too dumb either. If they study hard, they can get into a junior college. If they work harder, they can get better scores.

In the 1970s and 1980s, as long as you could get into school, your destiny would basically change.

After checking their learning situation, Lu Cheng asked them to put their textbooks together, made a study plan for each person, and asked Li Kuiyong to supervise their studies.

Given the current situation of the Li family, at least two or three children will go to the countryside in the future. At that time, each of them will take a set of "Self-study Books on Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry" with them, and they will not stop studying even when they arrive in the countryside.

Of course, it is impossible for Lu Cheng to chase after everyone and force them to study. Even if he could, he would not do that.

The destiny is in everyone's own hands. The opportunity and direction are given to them. If they don't seize it, there is nothing to say.

After supervising their studies and arranging learning tasks for them, Lu Cheng returned home, put the fishing net into the storage space, and rode the cobbled-together second-hand bicycle out.

As winter progresses, the weather becomes colder and colder. After a while, most rivers will begin to freeze, making it difficult to fish.

After riding for dozens of miles out of the city and heading south, Lu Cheng arrived at a deserted river. He turned on the detection system and began searching for fish on the bottom of the water.

This river is relatively large, about thirty to forty meters wide in some places, and there are more fish in the water.

It was around one or two o'clock in the afternoon, which was basically the time of the day when the temperature was the highest, and the fish at the bottom of the water were also slightly active.

Lu Cheng searched around and soon found a group of relatively large fish. He cast his net and it landed precisely above the group of fish.

Lu Cheng had played the game of casting nets many times in his previous life, so his skills were fine. With the help of the cheat system, he had a rich harvest in the first net. There were more than a dozen silver carp weighing five or six kilograms, bighead carp weighing two or three kilograms, and carp weighing two or three kilograms, which added up to about forty or fifty kilograms.

This efficiency is much better than fishing.

Fold up the fishing nets, store all the fish, and immediately choose the next place to cast the net.

One net after another, the harvest was at least 10 to 20 kilograms each time, it was just like picking fish.

In the afternoon, Lu Cheng couldn't remember how many times he cast the net or how far he ran along the river, but he caught at least more than 2,000 kilograms of fish.

In addition to the common silver carp, grass carp, carp, black carp, crucian carp, catfish, etc., there are also some black fish, tilapia, and even soft-shelled turtles. There are many varieties and sizes.

After working for a whole afternoon and smelling like fish, Lu Cheng packed up and went home.

Afterwards, Lu Cheng borrowed a scale from his neighbor’s house, and the next day he went to the black market and became “Gao Qiqiang”, starting his career as a fish seller.

You need tickets to buy everything these days. To buy fish, you need fish tickets or aquatic product tickets, and you even need manure tickets.

Moreover, there were not many fish available in the market on ordinary days, and fish tickets were also a relatively scarce ticket type. Ordinary people would only be allocated fish tickets during the Spring Festival and be able to buy fish to eat.

Lu Cheng sells directly at the market price and does not require invoices. He adheres to the principle of small profits but quick turnover and ships the goods quickly. Anyway, there is basically no cost.

In order to avoid selling too many fish and attracting other people's attention, Lu Cheng even sold the fish in batches at low prices to some merchants on the black market and started a wholesale business.

A pound of fish is sold for 100 or cents, pounds of fish is or yuan, the income is coming in very quickly...

By exchanging the money from selling fish for food and supplies, Lu Cheng's savings not only did not decrease, but gradually increased.

After having sufficient savings and supplies, Lu Cheng also considered future plans.

There are three options before Lu Cheng:

First, find a job and stay in the city. When you pass the college entrance examination in the future, you can join a company, become an official, or do business in the 1980s.

Second, sign up to join the army.

Third, if you go to the countryside to work as a sent-down youth, you can also find a way to go to college in the future, or you can choose not to go to college and start a business directly after the reform and opening up.

Lu Cheng first ruled out joining the army. He had already been a soldier for so many years and didn't want to start over again. He would be subject to restrictions and would not have much freedom.

As for whether to stay in the city or go to the countryside, it may make a big difference to other young people, but to Lu Cheng it doesn’t make much difference. No matter where he goes, he can get along well.

Moreover, in the next ten years or so, even if we stay in the city, we will be subject to great restrictions and will not be able to develop freely...