Chapter 119 Discussion
A room away from Brother Li's house, the couple was lying on the bed side by side with their breathing a little rapid.
After a while, Sister-in-law Li heard Brother Li's snoring. She patted Brother Li sideways, stood up and looked at him and said, "Aping, guess how much Ale has earned during this time?"
"There's no need to guess!" Li Changping said sleepily, "I've earned at least several hundred by fishing for rice fish, giant flower dragons, crabs, and small sharks!"
"It's endless!" Sister-in-law Li clapped her fingers, "When I went to the underground cage, I encountered fish overturning the pond. After the typhoon, I went fishing and picked up sea urchins. When I went to the underground cage, I caught cod again."
"Ale also bought hundreds of plastic jars to catch octopus. We also bought some. You can go with him in the evening."
"Ale has been smart since he was a child. If my father and the others had controlled him more strictly before, they wouldn't have fooled around until now and become sensible." Brother Li became more energetic as he spoke, sat up, lit a cigarette and started smoking.
"That's not all! He also developed a relationship with Uncle Kun, the steward of the Phoenix Restaurant in Tuxiaqiao. The two of them sold the Buddha's hand snails they got back from the desert island for more than a hundred."
"Didn't the third child earn thousands of dollars during this period?"
"Why not!" Sister-in-law Li said enviously, "That silly boy Awei is still clever. The third child went to find him on the first day he went fishing and followed him to help."
"Ah Le's temperament is the same as yours. He is very generous and even fights with him. These days, Ah Wei has also shared a lot of money. Later, when he bought the fishing boat at home, Ah Wei paid more than 100 and set two
into shares.”
Anan said that Ale was afraid that he would suffer a loss and asked Awei to add a share. The boy refused, saying that he had already taken advantage and would wait until they made money to buy a big ship."
"Ah Wei has been Ah Le's little follower since he was a child. The boy is really good to Ah Le. He always helps plow the rice fields where the two families are next to each other, helps put rice seedlings, and helps take it home."
Brother Li sighed as he spoke, "If Ah Le keeps playing with Ah Wei, he won't become like a bastard."
Sister-in-law Li saw that she had been talking for a long time, but he still didn't understand what she meant, so she turned him around and said: "A Le has such a good income from sea fishing at home, don't you have any ideas?"
"Why don't I know!" Brother Li turned to look at her, "I know you are excited to see Ah Le earn so much, but we still have a two-year contract with the ship, and the boss will not agree to quit the ship midway."
Sister-in-law Li stared, and her voice couldn't help but speak two points higher, "We just signed a long-term contract with him, we didn't sell it to him. If you don't want to go, how can he tie us up with a rope?"
Brother Li hurriedly said: "That's not a problem, but it's really not possible to quit midway. It's the end of the year and they can't recruit people."
"You think about others, why don't you think about me!" Sister-in-law Li thought of the days when he was not at home, her nose became sore and she wiped tears, and said with a choked voice:
"I don't trust you at all when you are outside. As long as there is wind, I can't sleep all night long. Xiaoyang is getting older day by day. That kid is not easy to control at all. He has sneaked to the beach several times to go fishing.
Already."
"Especially during this period, I saw that his third uncle could make money by going to the sea. I kept saying in my ears every day that he didn't want to study. He wanted to make money with his third uncle by going to the sea, and he also wanted to buy a big ship and become the boss of the ship."
When my son was a little older, he knew how to earn money to buy a boat and work on his own, and I knew how to help others. He was really an honest man.
Brother Li sighed, "You brat is not good at studying. You can study until you graduate from elementary school at most, and don't even think about junior high school."
"I also want him to finish junior high school, join the navy like his uncle, and then come back and work on a big ship. The monthly salary will be two hundred."
Sister-in-law Li curled her lips in disdain, "What's so weird about two hundred dollars? Aletao Shipping Road has never been better than once!"
"It won't stop when Xiaoyang joins the army and comes back. Now the wages are rising every year. The higher the rank on the ship, the higher the wages."
Sister-in-law Li saw that the topic was getting further and further, and she said angrily: "The higher the level, the higher the salary. Is it possible that you miss Xiaoyang and Xiaotao and help others when they grow up?"
"I have discussed it with A-Zhen. Let's buy a small boat together and go fishing offshore. If we find good goods, we can ask A-Le to help sell them. No matter what, it's better than helping others."
"I know you want to buy a boat and work on your own. Think about it, the Chinese New Year is coming in less than five months. Even if you want to quit and work on your own, you have to work until the end of this year before quitting. Otherwise, someone will poke you in the back."
"It's up to you!" Sister-in-law Li said angrily when she saw that he was still accepting death, "Do you think I am willing to let people gossip?
Why don't you think about it, the children are getting older day by day, Xiaoyang and Xiaotao are boys, no matter what, Xiaoqing is a girl, and the family is only so big, where do you want her to live?"
"I don't know why. You originally went to help the boats because you wanted to save money to build a new house. Now that you see Ale making money from the sea, you want to buy a boat and do it yourself." Brother Li scratched his hair in worry, "Wait for the second brother
Get up and let me discuss it with him."
"It's up to you!" Sister-in-law Li got up, put on her clothes and pants, and went out to weave nets.
Brother Li couldn't sleep when he saw her leaving. He was thinking about his children who were getting older day by day. The house was only so big. He wanted to build a new house and buy a boat to make money. Which one should he focus on first?
He simply sat up and leaned on the bedside, smoking one cigarette after another. Soon the small room was filled with smoke.
When Sister-in-law Li heard the coughing in the room, she was so angry that she rushed over and said to him: "I'm coughing like this and I'm still squirming. Why don't you squirt less?"
"Okay, I won't smoke anymore!" Brother Li put out the cigarette and lay back holding his head.
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When Li Changle woke up, he saw his two sons still sleeping soundly with swollen bellies. When he went out, he saw that Zhou Ruonan was not there, so he thought she should go to Axiang's house to make clothes.
I took a few sips of the tea on the table, smashed it a few times, and found out that it was the wild tea that my mother picked in the mountains. I felt that the taste was much better than the fake Longjing tea of ​​later generations.
Then I saw Mother Li wearing a bamboo hat and carrying a vegetable basket, and her elder brother came out carrying a hoe and a bamboo pole, "Mom, what are you doing in the fields under such a bright sun?"
Brother Li smiled and said: "My mother said that the big winter melons tied on the mountain melon trellis are a bit heavy, and she is worried that the melon trellis will collapse, so she asked me to carry some bamboo poles up there to strengthen them, and pick some beans, eggplants and celestials when I come back."
Li Changle remembered that his eldest brother helped my grandma with the chores at home in the past, "Brother, you helped grandma do things as soon as you came back. No wonder grandma always talks about you when you leave."
Mother Li glared at him angrily, "I have the nerve to say, if you are willing to help me, I don't have to wait for your elder brother to come back."
"I'll help you today!" Li Changle ran back to get the bamboo hat, said hello to Li's father, came out and took the hoe from Brother Li's hand, and followed the two of them towards the foot of the mountain.
Brother Li looked back at him and waited for him to arrive, "Ale, your sister-in-law wants to... I want to wait until this year is completed. Your sister-in-law can't wait. In the final analysis, should you buy a boat and do it yourself first, or do you want to do it yourself first?"
How about making money to build a new house?”
He never thought that one day he would have to seek advice from his third brother.
"Brother," Li Changle said bluntly: "In my opinion, making money is of course the most important thing. As the old saying goes, if you owe as much debt as a cow's hair, the sea will flood with tides!
With good luck, we can earn a year's wages in just a few trips. As long as we have money, we can build a new house in three to five months."
After hearing this, Li Changping felt that what he said was right, "We were at the Zhoushan fishery this time. There was a fishing boat with a particularly good transport. They caught twenty or thirty tons of large yellow croakers of more than 200 tons per quintal."
"The fishing boats behind him are also better than ours. Changgui secretly said that the boss of the boat was not following the right route, and was scolded by his uncle's son in front of everyone."
Mother Li curled her lips and said: "You are so pig-brained that you dare to offend the boss of the ship. After making some money, you even forgot your last name."
She said and looked at Li Changping again, "A Ping, I think you might as well just listen to A Fang and join forces with the second brother to buy a small boat and start working on it first. You brothers will go to sea together. If something happens, there will be someone there."
Take care of.”
Li Changle nodded and said: "Yes, big brother, we have someone to take care of us when we go to sea together."
The sea is different from the land. In recent years, people on the south coast often compete with the north coast for territory due to their large fishing boats. Big boats often collide with small boats.
Brother Li: "The second brother hasn't gotten up yet. When he wakes up, I'll ask him and see what he thinks. Also, whether you buy a second-hand fishing boat or a new one, it will take a while. Even if you do it yourself, you still have to wait.
I can only quit my job when I find the manpower."
It's not easy to recruit people this year, so it's good to have one less person. If both brothers are gone, they will definitely not let them go.
Mother Li: "You guys can discuss it. If you don't want to go, just tell people clearly as soon as possible."
The Li family's mountainous land is halfway up the mountain, and it only takes ten minutes to walk there. The land on the mountain is not a single piece, but is scattered here and there.
From a distance, he could see a few tall castanopsis trees on the mountainside. Li Changle looked up at the big trees and remembered that he and his brother often came to the mountain to pick and eat castanopsis fruits.
"Mommy, whose family did the castanopsis tree go to?"
"It doesn't matter which family, they are still from the brigade." Mother Li smiled and said, "When your grandfather was here, he said that this mountain area used to be full of castanopsis trees. Such trees were valuable in the old days. Later, they were cut down with nylon threads.
of."
"I heard grandma talk about it before."
In the old days, fishermen used ramie to weave fishing nets because they were easy to break. Later, they discovered that when castanopsis bark was boiled in a pot, the juice contained colloids could enhance the toughness of fishing nets and improve their resistance to seawater corrosion.
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After the new fishing net is woven, it must be soaked and reinforced with castanopsis juice boiled from castanopsis bark. Fishermen call this a "castanopsis net."
The juice produced by boiling castanopsis bark is reddish-brown and has a rather unpleasant stench. The fishing nets are passed through the "castanopsis net" and then fished out to be dried in the sun. Finally, they are soaked in a pool filled with pig blood.
, fishermen call it the “blood net.”
In order to increase the firmness of the fishing net, every time you return from the sea, you have to "blood net" again and then dry it in the sun. In the old days, fishing in the sea usually took 7-15 days to return.
Chapter completed!