Chapter 106 Mrs. Li’s plan
Zhou Ruonan and Li's mother were busy for a while, then divided the eggs, fish and shrimp into basins and bamboo baskets, and asked Sister-in-law Li and Sister-in-law Li to take them home first and put them away. The fish and shrimp were salted, and they then sorted the bergamot snails.
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Sister-in-law Li carried her things and followed Sister-in-law Li out, thinking about it, she stopped her and said, "Afang, Ale is so lucky, why don't we wait for An and Aping to come back and ask if we can quit the job on the ship.
Buy a small boat and go fishing with A Le?"
She was really envious of what Ah Le had earned in the past two days, and she was even more eager to wait for Ah An to buy a fishing boat and do it herself!
Sister-in-law Li thought for a moment, "Of course I can resign, but I'm worried about buying a small boat to work. If I don't make a lot of money after working on a boat for a year, I want to go out to help the boat in the future. I have a record of breach of contract, and other boat bosses don't."
Willing to hire."
"I'm not high-spirited. As long as I can earn one-third of what Ah Le earns every day, I will be satisfied." Sister-in-law Li felt that as long as she could make money by fishing in the sea, who would help the boat and earn more than 100 yuan a month?
wages.
Although I can stay at home after the fishing season, I have no money to earn while I am resting. I only spend a part of the one thousand yuan salary a year on favors between relatives, and I can't save much money in a year.
"How can it be so easy? If Ah Le can earn so much, it's because he is lucky. It won't be certain if we go there. Besides, the fishing boat has been given to Ah Le. Where can we buy a boat in a short time?"
"If you want to buy one, there will always be a way. You can go back to Shaji Village and ask, and I'll go back to my parents' house and ask. There are so many ships and there will always be someone who can exchange for a bigger ship."
"They will be back in the next two days. I think we should wait until they come back to discuss it." Sister-in-law Li felt that it was not easy to make money fishing offshore, otherwise their family would not be so poor.
If you want to make a lot of money, you have to do the same as a big house, either partnering with others to buy a big boat, or saving money to buy a tin boat to go fishing in the desert sea and fishing grounds, in order to make a fortune.
Seeing that she was still hesitant, Sister-in-law Li continued to persuade: "Afang, you see Ale bought the jars for us. When they go to collect the jars, we will go to fish for octopus in the jars together.
Also, today he said he would take us to the island to go sea fishing, and I wanted to go with him. If we can earn more than ten yuan a day through sea fishing and octopus fishing, I will decide to let An resign from his job.
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Although Sister-in-law Li was a little tempted, she still felt that a small fishing boat could not make a lot of money. "Sister-in-law, I think it is better to wait for brother and Aping to return home, so that we can sit down and discuss it before making a decision."
"Okay, let's wait until they come back." Sister-in-law Li secretly decided that even if the second child's family didn't quit her job and join a partnership with his family to buy a boat, she would make An An quit his job, and even if she borrowed money to buy the boat, she would have to do it herself.
Just fishing offshore, you don't have to worry about staying up all night every time a typhoon comes, for fear that something might happen to your boss outside.
The sisters put away the fish, shrimps and eggs, and then went back to help sort the bergamot snails.
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After Li Changle rinsed briefly at the well, he went home shirtless and wearing shorts to change clothes. Chen Yongwei came with a bamboo basket and Grandma Chen.
Seeing that the bamboo basket was filled with waxy corn and melons, Mother Li said sheepishly: "Auntie, all the waxy corns and melons you planted this year got into my mouth."
Grandma Chen smiled and said: "Awei, a brat like this, doesn't know anything. How can he come to Ale's house every two days to eat? How can his little rations withstand us coming to eat every day?"
Chen Yongwei: "Grandma, no wonder you asked me to break so much corn for a long time just to give my brother rations!"
"Don't listen to your grandma, how much can your grandparents and grandchildren eat!" Mother Li said with a smile, "It's not like before, where we relied on the rations distributed by the production team all year round. This year we opened two more pieces of land and added more
I can’t finish the coarse grains.”
"Yes, now we own the land. We can grow whatever we want. Even if we can't grow it, we can still buy it and eat it."
Grandma Chen said cheerfully, "When the weather gets hot, I pick up some straw hats and knit them. I can earn thirteen or four yuan a month. I exchange them all for food. Ah Wei and I can't finish them all."
Everyone talked about their current life again, and they all felt that it was much better than before. They could eat white rice every three to five days, eat meat twice a month, and have enough money to buy a piece of cloth to make new clothes during the New Year.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei went to their parents' house to put the octopuses in their baskets. When they came back, several women had already sorted the bergamot snails and checked the scales. The large ones weighed 123 kilograms and the medium ones weighed 170 kilograms.
Ten kilograms, the small one weighs about two hundred kilograms.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei put the best ones into baskets, pointed to the mediocre ones and said to Zhou Ruonan: "Nan, save some for dinner at night, and send the rest to Chen Ji to sell."
Zhou Ruonan nodded, picked up a bamboo basket and handed it to him, "I picked some small fish and shrimps, and also packed a dozen turtle eggs. You can give them to Uncle Kun."
"I forgot, but you were so considerate." Li Changle smiled and took the basket on his back, while Chen Yongwei picked up the basket and they went out together.
After the two left, Zhou Ruonan's sister-in-law moved the remaining snails to a handcart and sent them to Chen Ji to sell, while returning their handcart.
Mother Li and Grandma Chen cleaned up the leftover mackerel at home, cut it into thick slices, marinated it with light salt water, fried the small fish until both sides were browned, and cooked the winter melon soup.
Stir-fry the shrimps with ginger and garlic, braise the conger eels, clean the bergamot snails, soak them in light salt water, and wait for the few people who went out to sell their catches to come back before adding them to the pot.
After the two of them packed up, Zhou Ruonan's three sisters-in-law also came back from the dock. The small triangle weighed 50 kilograms, which was sold for 75 yuan, the medium 50 kilograms, and the 170 kilograms sold for 85 yuan.
When Sister-in-law Li entered the house, she pulled Mother Li and said, "Mom, I've decided that when An comes back, I'll ask him to go find his uncle to resign. If he has an old fishing boat, it's best. If he doesn't, I'll ask A Le to borrow some money to buy a new one."
They earned another hundred and sixty yuan, plus four hundred and eighty, it would be six hundred and forty yuan. When they came back from the restaurant, it would be more than one hundred yuan. Ah Le had earned eight or nine hundred yuan today, plus last night's,
It is more than their annual income.
This time even Mrs. Li was moved. She thought that even if she didn't have a second-hand fishing boat, she could pool her money to buy a new one and go to the island to dig out snails, oysters, snails and other kinds of snails and sell them back. If she got lucky several times, she could earn a year's wages.
"Okay, if you two ship to the island together, you can still take care of each other..." Before Mother Li could finish her words, a woman's voice rang out from outside.
"Awei, second uncle..."
Grandma Chen walked out quickly, and when she saw the round-faced woman, she said happily: "It's Ah Xiu. Ah Wei has sent the crank and the key to your house, and the rent has also been given to his uncle Alai."
Liu Chunxiu forced a smile, hesitated for a moment and summoned the courage to say: "Second uncle, Awei only gave me the money to rent the boat. They used my fishing net to catch fish, and they haven't paid me yet!"
She was a little afraid of this seemingly kind-hearted second sister-in-law. Even her mother-in-law said that her second sister-in-law looked kind on the outside, but was actually the strongest.
Think about it, if a widow is weak and incompetent, it is impossible for a widow to stand up for the family, raise her three daughters, and raise her grandson when the man and his son have left, and the daughter-in-law has returned to her parents' family to marry.
"Huh?" Grandma Chen was stunned for a moment, looked at her with narrowed eyes, and said quietly: "Do you need to pay for the fishing nets? Why hasn't Awei paid for it before?"
Awei used to rent a fishing boat from their family and cast a net, and he caught some small fish and shrimps, but he didn't hear them say that he had to pay for using the fishing net.
I encountered a school of fish today and sold it for a large sum of money, so I rushed to the door with a red face.
Liu Chunxiu looked at her sarcastically, "Second uncle, the small fish and shrimps Awei caught cannot be sold for money, so for the sake of our relatives, we don't want them."
"It's different this time. They netted several thousand kilograms of fish and sold them for hundreds of yuan. Second Aunt, think about it. What we rented was a boat, not a fishing net. They used my fishing net to catch fish. Do they have to pay me extra?"
money?"
The more she talked, the more she felt that this was the truth. She should have wanted the money in the first place. If it weren't for his fishing net, where would they have earned the more than four hundred? Besides, they didn't want more.
Just follow the rules of the Acan family's boat rental, which is only 10%. If it's more than 400, 10% is only more than 40, which is not much at all.
Father Li, Mother Li, and Zhou Ruonan's sisters-in-law all stood there, looking at Liu Chunxiu with mocking eyes. If it weren't for Grandma Chen's relationship with her, she would have choked in response.
"A Le Niang, is there such a thing? Why haven't I heard of it?" Grandma Chen turned to look at Mother Li and asked.
This kind of thing has never happened in the village, because no boat charterer has ever encountered a large school of fish in the offshore like the two of them.
"Nothing!" Mother Li sneered, "If you rent a fishing boat without a fishing net, what are you going to do with it? How could you let someone catch the fish with your hands?"
Father Li took a step forward and said, "It's from Alai's family. My fishing boat has been rented to others, and the renters also used fishing nets to catch fish. We have never received any money."
Renting a boat for people's use is based on set rules, and you can collect whatever you want. Besides, most of the people who rent boats are from the same village. They don't keep their word, and it will be hard to behave in the village in the future.
Liu Chunxiu curled her lips, "How much is your hand-thrown net worth? Mine is a motorized seine net, which is not of the same quality at all!"
"Motorized, manual, not all nets!" Sister-in-law Li curled her lips and said: "You are obviously jealous of A Le and the others, who sold it for hundreds of yuan before you came up with this idea to share the money.
Mother Li sarcastically said: "Yes, you are just jealous. We all live in the same village. Awei still calls you Auntie. How can you wipe your face and ask for it?"
Zhou Ruonan: "Axiu, since you have to pay for the fishing nets, why didn't your family mention it when Awei rented the boat? Also, when Awei went to your house to return the handle and key, why didn't Uncle Alai show up?
carry?"
"...We didn't know at that time that you used my fishing net to catch so many fish!" Liu Chunxiu choked at her, "Teacher Zhou, you gave me 48 yuan for 10% of the rent for the boat rented by your man. Hurry up and give me the money."
Chapter completed!