59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

After designing the style at home, Chen Feng carved and eroded all the other small jade pieces. He did not touch the large pieces as he had not yet decided what to do.

After Zhang Haixing came back, she became more and more bored, so she just lay on Chen Li's bed and read a novel.

The three teenagers had a rare holiday, so they wanted to encourage Chen Feng to take them out fishing.

"Okay, let's go, change into clogs, take a shovel, a fishing rod, a fish bucket, and a small stool, and let's go to the park."

This spring, the Institute of Fishery Science (more accurately called the Institute of Fishery Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences) released a batch of fish fry in various lakes and rivers in the city.

But Chen Feng had never heard of the fishing ban period. There was such a ban in his previous life (fishing banned from April 4 to August 1).

"Bring rain hats and straw raincoats." The old lady found four sets of rain hats and straw raincoats with a strong sense of ancient civilization from somewhere.

Before the large-scale promotion of modern waterproof raincoats, this thing was the most commonly used item by Chinese people. Combined with wooden-soled shoes, it was popular all over the country.

"Uh, grandma, forget about this thing. It's too heavy and uncomfortable to wear." Chen Feng took off his cloth shoes and changed into wooden slippers.

Clogs are very similar to slippers, but with two waterproof high heels at the bottom. "Master, we are going fishing, do you want to go?" Chen Hao entered the bedroom and asked Zhang Haixing who was lying on the bed.

"I won't go. You guys should catch more fish and bring back."

A few people came out and Chen Feng asked them to roll up their trouser legs.

The roads in the alleys of Nanluoguxiang have no cement, so when it rains, the roads become muddy due to the trampling of people going in and out. If you don't roll up your trouser legs, your pants will be covered in mud.

As soon as I came out of the yard, I saw that last night's heavy rain had obviously caused water accumulation, which was even worse than the congestion in the sewers in the old city in later generations.

"It stinks."

Leaving the alley, in the drizzle, a foul smell filled the air along with the sewage flowing out.

A passerby also holding a fishing rod and a bucket looked at the four of them and said with a smile: "Be content. If it were 50 years ago, we didn't even have a sewer here. Not only did it stink when it rained, but it was no different from a toilet in the summer."

"Why were there no sewers before?" Fatty Wang asked stupidly.

"The emperor sits in the palace and can't smell the bad smell, so why would he care about us ordinary people?" The passerby was very talkative and cursed as he walked.

"There were sewers before the founding of the People's Republic of China, but not many, and most of them were broken." Chen Feng had read relevant records about the Republic of China at the Beihai Library.

Before 1949, the city had a total of 314 kilometers of sewers, but most of them were in disrepair, collapsed and silted up, and only more than 20 kilometers were in normal use.

The outer city and Guanxiang working people's gathering areas basically rely on infiltration wells, infiltration pits and open ditches for drainage. On sunny days, the sewage stench is everywhere, and on rainy days, there is serious waterlogging.

It was not until the implementation of the first five-year plan that large-scale urban construction was carried out and a number of new drainage pipes were built.

The stinking city of Beijing finally became clean.

After entering Beihai Park, the talkative uncle went to find his acquaintances and separated from them.

There are quite a lot of people in the park, and all the good spots by the water with guardrails and stone bricks, such as the pier for the Beihai lotus boats, have been divided up.

The rest are lakeshores with no guardrails, or where the guardrails are some distance from the water surface, and the fishing rods are far away from the deep water areas.

"Brother, where are we going?" Fatty Wang asked, holding a shovel.

Chen Feng glanced into the distance and found that there were some places where he could go fishing.

"I'll take a spot over there. You guys find a place to dig for earthworms. When you've dug a dozen, come find me."

"Okay, big brother."

Chen Feng walked alone south along the lakeside path and found a nice open space near the old dock.

Beihai and Shichahai are the northernmost terminus and starting point of the Grand Canal. During the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the logistics and transportation of the Grand Canal, a large number of old-style small docks and cargo holds were built here to stop wooden boats and store goods, especially grain from the canal, which was related to the survival of millions of people in the city.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, modern shipping emerged and the Grand Canal, an ancient mode of transportation that could only provide small wooden boats, was quickly replaced by steamships.

The docks at Shichahai and Beihai were not maintained and gradually fell into disrepair. Most of them were converted into stone guardrails, and a few were left to disappear due to the erosion of time.

Standing on the old wooden board on the shore, watching the park scenery on a rainy day.

After watching for less than three minutes, Chen Hao and his three companions came carrying fish buckets.

"Brother, are you here?"

"kindness."

"Hello, Brother Feng!"

Chen Feng glanced at the five young men following behind them. They were all acquaintances. Most of them were unemployed youths living near their yard, and some of them had been beaten several times by the original body before.

Because they were under 16 years old, they did not have to go to the countryside as educated youth (16-25 years old).

If my family doesn't use their connections to arrange a job for me in time, I'll have no choice but to go to the countryside and farm when I reach age.

This situation is very common, as more children mean more blessings!

As for buying a job?

Do not make jokes!

When many job vacancies come out, the factory director, deputy director, etc. have to arrange for their relatives, friends, and nephews. It is difficult for the section chief to get one for his own family, so they sell it to outsiders for a few hundred dollars?

Believe it or not, there are hundreds of letters of denunciation coming at me!

"Brother Feng, we are not very good at fishing, so we would like to borrow your luck. Don't worry, we will give you half of the fish we catch."

"You can fish here. This is not my home. Why should you share it with me?" Chen Feng said unhappily.

His reputation spread, and people got used to him bringing home fish and meat, and it was normal to eat meat in public.

There is no use being jealous, if you have the ability, do it yourself.

But there are also disadvantages. For example, when people come to the park to fish, a group of middle-aged women let their children go with them to "try their luck."

Fatty Wang looked at it and said, "Brother, this place is great. There are trees to keep out the rain. This location is much better than the one before."

"Yes, brother, we can definitely catch a lot of fish today." Chen Hao flattered.

"With big brother here, I will never go back empty-handed."

"That's right, that's right!"

The five kids next door all praised him.

Hu Bayi was the one who actually did the work and had already put four small stools in place.

Chen Feng sat on the stool, took an earthworm from Chen Hao, cut it in half, and put most of it into the tin can containing bait.

Soon after the replaced fishing rod was put into the water, the fish took the bait!

Gently lifting the fishing rod, a crucian carp the size of a palm and weighing less than six taels was hanging on the hook.

"How awesome!" A group of unemployed teenagers were dying of envy!

Chen Feng did not put well water or meat in the bait, so the probability of others catching fish was much smaller. Instead, he once again proved to everyone that fishing really requires luck!

In the same location, some people can catch big fish, while others only catch small fish.