Early days, various childhood joys. Bird hunting, fishing, catching toads. Mid-phase, uplifting the small mountain village. Later phase, rolling in wealth, mastering technology, eliminating enemies...
Qian Manman, like a shrewd woman, quickly took Wei Mo from the old man's arms.
"Uncle Yu, how did it go? What was the result of the meeting?"
Seeing the expectant looks on everyone's faces, the old village chief shook his head and sighed.
"Zhao Haixia was beaten beyond recognition, and Wang Guihua was heartbroken. Sigh, I guess there will be more trouble in the future. Alright, everyone disperse. Many of the people who went today have made enemies. You all go back to work."
Seeing that Old Sun clearly didn't want to go into details and had a stern face, everyone quietly went to weave fish baskets.
Wei Mo was slacking off again, checking his traps. The harvest wasn't great; after all, the willow grove was newly planted and hadn't attracted many birds.
But it can also provide a treat for the family.
"Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo."
As a child's cry was heard, Li Fu ran into the yard, and Wei Mo, who was in the yard, ran towards him.
Several little kids followed behind Li Fu.
"Wei Mo, I'll call you brother too, can you lend me your spear?"
Wei Mo was a little confused when he heard what the little brat Li Fu said, and then Li Fu continued to speak.
"Shan Zhenhai and Shan Zhenjiang wouldn't let me play. They said they borrowed it because they wanted to call you their brother. Wei Mo, from now on you're my brother, so you can play with me too, okay? Waaah."
Upon hearing Li Fu's words, Wei Mo couldn't help but laugh. It turned out that the two brothers had caused the trouble.
But that's fine, since I originally planned to unify the children in the village anyway!
"You have to listen to me from now on, and I'll lend it to you."
Upon hearing Wei Mo's words, Li Fu stopped crying, turned from tears to laughter, and nodded frantically.
"Okay, okay, I'll do whatever you say, Brother Wei Mo."
That's how kids are. Wei Mo is so amazing, what's wrong with calling him "brother"? He gets to play with good stuff and eat good food.
"You wait here."
After Wei Mo finished speaking, he ran back into the house and took out the spear he had made for his eldest sister.
"Take it and play with it! Remember to return it when you're done."
Li Fu happily accepted the spear, his face beaming with joy, much to the envy of the three Tian siblings who had just arrived.
"Thank you, Brother Wei Mo. I'll be going now."
Li Fu took the spear and ran off happily.
Although a gun is a dangerous thing, it's not a problem to lend it out in this day and age, since there's no joint liability now.
Whoever struck the blow, whose fault it was, has nothing to do with the gun.
Wei Mo sighed as he looked at the many children behind Tian Boguang. It seemed that unifying the children's world was not an easy task.
"Go find suitable wooden sticks yourselves. I'll make you a spear with a skewer, but you're not allowed to use it for fighting or hurt anyone, understand?"
"I heard you, thank you, Brother Wei Mo."
A large group of children ran off noisily, all looking for handy sticks, while Wei Mo went back into the house to get out iron skewers, waiting for their return.
While Wei Mo was gathering his underlings, the rest of the family was weaving fish baskets nearby, watching the excitement.
What's so fun about holding big meetings? It's not as interesting as watching little kids.
Time flies, and several days have passed in the blink of an eye.
Wei Mo has lost all sense of time. He's only five years old. All he does besides play is play.
The family's speed in weaving fish baskets also increased significantly, with about 30 baskets being woven each day, which translates to an income of over 90 work points per day.
These past few days, Grandpa Yu has been quite busy, because with more fish baskets, his catch has naturally increased as well.
At the beginning, there were relatively few, so the brigade couldn't collect them or deliver them to the supply and marketing cooperative.
However, as the catch increased, many people started raising larger fish.
Today, the brigade is preparing to supply fish to the supply and marketing cooperative!
Li Dazhuang and Shan Chao each drove an oxcart, which was loaded with several large vats.
The old man also brought his beloved eldest grandson along.
First, they had to go to each household to collect the fish catch, carrying a scale. Wei Mo also joined in the fun.
Every household was filled with joy, and many people came to help, and also to see how much fish everyone had caught.
Wei Mo's family was the last to be served, since they raised the most fish. After collecting their fish, the truck could depart.
A few days ago, after the old man said he was going to start collecting the fish, Li Xiuxiu dug a large water pit in the yard to raise the fish.
Wei Mo even wove an enormous basket for this purpose. He placed the entire basket in the pool, and as long as several people worked together to lift the basket, all the fish would float to the surface and appear at the bottom of the basket.
Li Dazhuang and Shan Chao's eyes lit up when they saw it, and they wanted to arrange one for their own families too!
This thing is so convenient; you can quickly put the fish into a basket, weigh them, and then put them into a large vat on the oxcart.
"Wow, you have so much! It weighs a total of 115 jin (52.5 catties)."
"How much grain could this be exchanged for!"
"It's ten times the size of ours, so it looks like we'll need to prepare more fish baskets."
"Our family only has 7 jin (3.5 catties), which is not even a fraction of what they have!"
The villagers were all talking about it, full of envy.
After all the fish were loaded onto the oxcart, the team leader waved his hand.
"Everyone, make way. I need to get there quickly, otherwise the fish will die and I won't be able to exchange them for food."
Upon hearing the captain's words, everyone quickly made way.
The old man carried Wei Mo onto the oxcart, and Li Dazhuang naturally had no objections.
If we're talking about who contributed the most to the village's aquatic products department, it really is this little kid in front of me.
When Wei's mother saw her son being carried into the car by his godfather, she quickly ran into the house, then ran out and took out a handful of small bills and a few receipts for her son.
Li Xiuxiu also came over and secretly slipped a 10-yuan note and several receipts into Wei Mo's trouser pocket.
"Don't spend your grandpa's money. Buy whatever you want yourself, okay? It's not easy for your grandpa to save up this money."
Wang Zhenhua's instructions, however, were met with a furious scolding from the old man.
"Get out of here! Go back to work! Can't I even buy something for my grandson?"
Wang Zhenhua was pushed aside by the old man, and Wei Mo also jumped out of the car. Looking at Li Xiuxiu in front of him, he grabbed her clothes.
"Aunt Xiuxiu, come with me too. I'm afraid someone will kidnap me."
Wei Mo's words made the people around him roll their eyes. You? You think you can run away with someone? You're smarter than a monkey when you're tangled up with hair.
You're lucky you didn't kidnap the human traffickers!
Li Xiuxiu hesitated a bit, after all, it wouldn't be right to go to town instead of working.
The old village chief was not one to speak easily, but after glancing at the brigade leader Li Dazhuang, Li Dazhuang understood immediately.
"Let's go together! It'll be good to keep an eye on our hero."
With the brigade leader's words, Li Xiuxiu stopped worrying. After all, there weren't many opportunities to go out. As for not helping her family with knitting, she would bring them some gifts instead.
Li Xiuxiu nodded and agreed to the little brat's request. She quickly ran back into the house to get the money and tickets, and then got on the oxcart with the old man and the little brat.
"Aunt Xiuxiu, you must protect me in time."
Hearing Wei Mo's words, Li Xiuxiu felt a sudden tremor in her heart, wondering what kind of trick Wei Mo was up to now.