Liu Gen'er has a disability since childhood, is a bit of a leg, he can not do heavy work. Besides, Liu Gen'er is not willing to work, and he is tired when he does some work. Liu Gen'er is still lazy and lazy, does not sleep at night, and does not get up in the morning. Liu Gen'er is a mouthful of people, two acres of land, all say a big male laborer, two acres of grass in the field, one by one, not called grass to grow up, but Liu Gen'er every year wasteland. When the grass is not big, he does not put his ears aside, until the grass grows up, even as tall as the small seedlings, he only carries a sprayer to kill the herbicide, he does not fight the herbicide carefully, even the grass with the seedlings sprayed together, the grass is extinguished, the small seedlings are also burned, and then the long can only re-drill the leaves, he this family planted, can be high yield is strange.
So what does Liu Gen'er eat, and what does he mean to live? Rain has rain roads, ghosts have ghost roads, and Liu Gen'er has his own way of making money. As mentioned earlier, Liu Gen'er does not sleep at night, he does not sleep at night, not to play mahjong and poker, nor to watch TV addictively, Liu Gen has a charging lamp to wear on his head, every night when it gets dark, he puts on the charging lamp, puts a snakeskin bag on his shoulder, and specially walks around the edge of the bay by the river. He came to the edge of the river bay, as soon as the switch of the charging lamp was turned on, in an instant, the thief's bright light was like a dazzling silver pillar, piercing straight into the grass in the puddle in front of him, when the thief's bright light collided with a pair of green eyes on the opposite side, Liu Gen'er quickly slumped, grabbed the green eyes that were too late to react, casually threw it into the snakeskin bag, and then searched for the next target.
Liu Gen'er caught toads every night, and every night he was caught a lot, into half a bag. Every night before dawn, Liu Gen sent out the caught toads, saying that he had a set point to buy, and it was a high price, and he could sell dozens of pieces a night. One night Liu Gen'er caught a lot of toads and sold two hundred pieces.
Liu Gen caught the toad addicted, he changed the wattage of the charging lamp, and when he caught the toad, Liu Gen'er found another good livelihood of selling money, catching eels. Liu Gen'er found that the eels were willing to spend the night at the water's edge. Liu Gen'er got a long bamboo pole, and one end of the bamboo rod was tied with a clip, which was specially used to catch the clip of eels, and from then on, Liu Gen'er also caught toads and eels, and met what to catch. Liu Gen'er didn't sleep at night. Eels are more valuable than toads, Liu Gen'er caught eels and caught red eyes, this night, Liu Gen'er just turned on the light, a glance at the water there is a roll of bread shaft thick eel, Liu Gen'er's eyes are red and not anxious to look carefully, a clip down, a wave of the hand clipped up, the result of the clip mouth is too small, the eel is too big, not stable, the eel that was clipped to the edge of the water threw itself away, tightly wrapped around Liu Gen'er's body, wrapped around Liu Gen'er's body, wrapped around Liu Gen'er frightened, he leaned over to see, it turned out not to be an eel, it was a long worm. Liu Gen'er shook his hands, closed his eyes and dragged the long worm down, ran home with his legs, his face was scorched yellow, and he fell on the kang, and did not get up for half a month. Since then, Liu Gen'er has no longer dared to catch toads and catch eels.
But soon, Liu Gen'er came up with a way to make money, he bought a large net, ten meters long, three or four meters wide, he propped up the net with a bamboo pole, propped up on the head of the village or on the side of the road, the net also hung rice residue rice grains, and then crouched far to the side, while smoking a cigarette, while staring at the net. After a while on the net, there were sparrows flying in, just pounced on the net, they were firmly netted, they were hung on the net, small sparrows, let the big skill, only fluttering, and then there are wings that are difficult to fly. At this time, Liu Gen'er was still crouching there and not moving. Suddenly, a few more or even a group of sparrows flew in and flew to the net and were caught. Liu Gen'er then pressed the cigarette in his hand to the ground, got up and ran to the net, grabbed the sparrows one by one, plucked them from the net, and put them back into the cardboard box prepared in advance. Liu Gen'er can catch dozens of them a day, and one can only sell eight blocks.
Sometimes, Liu Gen'er couldn't go home to eat when he caught sparrows, and it was still noon, and he was still squatting next to the road or under the wall. Several elementary school students came home from school and walked by Liu Gen'er's net, scaring away a group of sparrows, and Liu Gen'er was so anxious that he cracked his mouth. A child was curious and wanted to see how many sparrows Liu Gen'er had caught, and as soon as he lifted the cardboard box, more than a dozen sparrows flew all at once. Liu Gen'er was so angry that while cursing the bear to play with the art, he caught up and twisted the child's ears and lost my family bird! The child was frightened and scared and cried when he was screwed. The child's mother heard the crying, ran over to see and Liu Gen'er was anxious, isn't it just a few sparrows, you are very worried about the child, it is really interesting. Liu Gen said, if I don't pay my family's finch, I will still beat him, saying that I kicked the child very much. The child's mother was annoyed, went up and grabbed Liu Gen'er's net and tore a large piece, and scolded Liu Gen'er, saying, you are a person who damages yin morality and mutilates spirituality, you are not good. Liu Gen'er saw that his net was torn, and did not let it go, chasing the child's mother and son and rolling around, saying that they also blackmailed him to pay him net money. The child's father came back to take a look and said that it was over, Liu Gen'er, the family, and he was angry, what could he put out, give him 100 yuan, send him away, go.
Liu Gen'er spent money to repair the net, and from then on he did not go to the net in his personal village, went out of the village, sometimes with dry food, and went out for a day, and only returned home in the dark.
On this day, Liu Gen'er had just arrived home in the dark, and the branch secretary suddenly found Liu Gen'er and said, Liu Gen'er, I have found you a light job, and I can earn money without exerting my strength. Liu Gen'er said, my culture, can I make money without exerting myself? Don't tease me. The branch secretary said, I am not talking to you about playing, really, everywhere in our village are pressed on the garbage bin, arrange a cleaning, not every day cleaning, just every day in time to pick up the plastic bags on the street plastic sheet waste paper scraps, you don't do it? Liu Gen'er said, how much money to give? The branch secretary said that in January 800, there was a prize for doing a good job. Liu Gen'er said, OK, yes, if you can let me do this work, I will ask you today, just caught dozens of domestic finches, I will give you fried chicken to eat. The branch secretary said, look, talking and talking about the lack of energy to come up again, you must promise me a condition to do this work. Liu Gen'er said, what conditions? The branch secretary said, put away your broken net, and stop harming living beings. This, Liu Gen'er looked up at the newly repaired net, and said, I consider thinking about it again. The branch secretary said, you think about it, I will only give you one day, after a day, I will arrange someone else, you don't regret it.
The next day, before the sun had risen, people saw a flock of sparrows "booming" and flying up from Liu Gen'er's courtyard, chirping and flying high into the air. Then, a scorched smell of smoke emanated from Liu Gen'er's courtyard.
About author:Qin Yuhe, pen name Qin Yuhe, member of Shandong Writers Association, member of Shandong Prose Literature Society, member of Beijing Miniature Novel Research Society. In April 2021, he won the "Lifetime Achievement Award for 100 Writers in 100 Years". He is the author of the novella "Hometown", the novella "Father", "Dream Back to the Former King", "Wang Dadao", "Eagle", and the novel collection "Country Road". Essay collection "Full of Tears to Remember Parents" and so on. He has won eight national awards and more than 10 provincial awards. Some of his works have been selected into "Selected Chinese Small Novels", "Selected Chinese Short Novels", "Selected Small Novels", "Selected Miniature Novels", "Chinese Pioneer Writers", "300 Selected Essays in China", "Looking Back in a Hundred Years - Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China National Poetry Works Award Collection", "Qilu Writers' Works Annual Selection", etc.
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