A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 349: Stockpiling Food and Fishing

After selling the small yellow croaker, Lu Cheng made 900 yuan more. He turned around and went back to the black market. He bought more than 40 kilograms of rice and flour each. He carried them on his shoulders and left the black market. Then he put them into the storage space.

After buying things, I returned to the city, found a breakfast shop, filled my stomach, and then went to the grain and oil store and the grocery store, bought dozens of kilograms of grain, some cooking oil, four kilograms of salt, and one and a half kilograms of brown sugar. I basically spent all the grain coupons, salt coupons, oil coupons, and sugar coupons I bought in the morning and exchanged them for supplies and stored them.

After buying these supplies, Lu Cheng went to a Chinese medicine shop and bought some medicinal materials for nourishing qi and blood, as well as a casserole for stewing medicine. He did not return to the courtyard until noon.

It was a rare occasion that Li Kuiyong and his brothers were all at home and not making trouble on the streets.

Lu Cheng went straight back to his room, turned on the coal stove, replaced it with a new piece of honeycomb coal, and then put the casserole for stewing medicine on it.

Medicinal materials and water had already been added to the casserole, and Lu Cheng also put a primary tonic pill into it.

The health-enhancing pills made by Lu Cheng are all highly extracted essences of rare Chinese medicinal herbs. They can significantly repair the body's losses and enhance the body's physical fitness. They are extremely effective for people with weak constitutions.

Li Kuiyong's mother was suffering from physical loss of vitality and was too weak, so she was suitable for primary tonic pills, plus some auxiliary medicinal herbs, which would allow her to recover her health quickly.

In a family, turning a frail and sickly child into a normal person can not only reduce most of the expenses, but also provide more labor and increase income, greatly improving the situation of the entire family.

Soon, the neighbors in the yard smelled the smell of Chinese medicine coming from Lu Cheng's house. The auntie next door to the west wing walked directly to the door of Lu Cheng's house curiously, looked inside, and asked again: "Lu Cheng, who are you cooking Chinese medicine for?"

"Give it to my Third Aunt. Sorry, Aunt Sun, did I make you feel uncomfortable?"

"It's okay. The smell of Chinese medicine isn't bad. Your father used to be a doctor, and he could cure headaches and fevers. Did you inherit your father's skills?"

"I did learn a little bit. I also consulted an old Chinese doctor, who prescribed a tonic medicine for my third aunt."

"I see. Then you should learn more skills. Maybe you can become a doctor in a hospital in the future."

"Lend your blessings."

Soon, Li Kuiyong also ran over: "Brother Cheng, are you making medicine for my mother?"

"Of course, it needs to be cooked for a while longer. Wait until your mother has finished her meal so she can drink the medicine."

"Okay, my mom stewed cabbage and potatoes today. I'll bring it to you later."

"That's fine. I'll watch the fire. By the way, Kuiyong, do you know anyone who fishes at home? I want to buy a casting net."

"Let me think about it, there really is one. There was a classmate in my junior high school class who lived in the south of the city. His family was originally a fisherman and they would go fishing every autumn, so they must have fishing nets."

"Then go and ask for me. The fishing nets in the store require tickets, and I don't have any tickets, so I can only buy a second-hand one." After saying that, Lu Cheng took out some money and handed it to Li Kuiyong.

"No problem. I'll negotiate the price and bring the fishing net back to you."

"Okay."

After lunch, Lu Cheng waited for Li Kuiyong's mother to drink the medicine, then returned to his room, fiddled with it for a while, and then went out.

After wandering around, I came to a scrap collection station and bargained with the owner for a while. I bought a somewhat shabby second-hand bicycle for 60 yuan.

A brand new bicycle would cost at least 120 yuan, and a bicycle ticket was also required. Lu Cheng was too lazy to go to the black market to exchange for a bicycle ticket, since a second-hand one would work just as well.

In fact, these days, as long as the bicycle is still rideable, it is rare to see it in the scrap collection station. Basically, it is sold to the scrap collection station only when it has a serious problem or is completely scrapped. Or some hooligans will dismantle the stolen goods into parts and sell them. If the whole bicycle is sold, it will be easily detected with a steel stamp on it.

The scrap collection station will then dismantle the broken bicycles, pick up usable parts and piece them together, or buy some more parts, and eventually assemble a bicycle that can still be ridden.

There was a similar plot in the TV series "Under the Zhengyang Gate". The protagonist Han Chunming made his first pot of gold by purchasing scrapped bicycles, reassembling them and selling them.

Of course, even if it is a second-hand bicycle, you still need to take the time to register it at the police station and stamp it with a number or something to avoid any accidents later.

The weather was pretty good today. Lu Cheng rode his bike south and soon arrived at a fishing spot he had chosen earlier.

He turned on the underwater sonar life detection module, observed the fish situation underwater nearby, and found a place where big fish gathered. Lu Cheng took out a bamboo fishing rod, tied the fishing line, hung the float and fish hook, and took out a piece of homemade bait made of a mixture of flour, cornmeal, brown sugar, white wine, egg white, etc., and hung a little on the fish hook.

Then he cast the rod accurately and the hook landed right in the school of fish.

Soon, a hungry fish took the hook. Lu Cheng lifted the fishing rod, felt the force, and easily pulled a large crucian carp weighing five or six taels ashore.

Although the material conditions in that era were not rich, there were plenty of fish and shrimp in the rivers, lakes and seas.

In the countryside, although people's lives were difficult, they rarely caught fish and shrimp for food. On the one hand, people ate from a large pot at that time, and it was not allowed for private individuals to catch fish and shrimp in large quantities.

On the other hand, ordinary people do not have much money to buy various seasonings, and are unable to remove the fishy smell from fish and shrimp. The fish and shrimp cooked directly have too strong a fishy smell and are really difficult to swallow.

Moreover, ordinary people do not have many fishing tools at home, so it is not easy to catch fish.

Therefore, there are quite a few fish in rivers, lakes and seas.

In this era, people generally use earthworms for fishing. Few people are willing to use flour, brown sugar, white wine, etc. to make bait like Lu Cheng.

It was winter at that time and there were not many aquatic plants underwater. The fish were quite hungry and when they saw fresh bait, they all rushed to take the bait.

Silver mullet, crucian carp, and carp were hooked one after another and were thrown into the storage space by Lu Cheng.

After fishing for a while, there were fewer fish underwater, so Lu Cheng immediately changed to a new place and continued fishing.

There were not many pedestrians passing by the river, and few people would pay attention to Lu Cheng who was sitting by the river fishing.

Thanks to his almost super-effective underwater fish finding system, Lu Cheng is very efficient in fishing.

After fishing for more than an hour, a relatively large grass carp suddenly took the hook and broke the fishing line.

Lu Cheng had to change a new set of fishing lines and hooks and continue fishing.

In order to prevent the fishing line from breaking again, Lu Cheng had to avoid some larger fish.

There is no other way. The fishing tools on hand are a bit simple. I can still catch fish weighing less than five kilograms, but it is difficult to catch fish weighing more than five kilograms.

After a busy afternoon, Lu Cheng caught a total of 17 carps, two grass carps, and dozens of crucian carp, which weighed about 70 to 80 kilograms in total.

As for some whitebait, minnow, creeping grass carp and the like, Lu Cheng simply threw them away.

Carp, grass carp and other fish sold in stores are basically 5 cents per pound, and crucian carp is 4 cents per pound.

What Lu Cheng gained this afternoon was worth twenty or thirty yuan.

Of course, Lu Cheng had no plan to sell these fish.

Towards evening, Lu Cheng tied two carps weighing about three pounds with a straw rope, hung them on his bicycle, and returned to the courtyard leisurely.

After handing the fish to Li Kuiyong's mother to deal with, Lu Cheng turned back to the house to check the fishing net that Li Kuiyong brought back.

Li Kuiyong was very efficient. He went out in the afternoon and brought the fishing net back to Lu Cheng directly...