Chapter 123 New Weapons
"Hey!" Chen Yongwei took out a parcel slip from his pocket, "And this, Uncle A Dong gave it to me. He said A Huan had a parcel sent to you and asked you to pick it up at the post office."
Li Changle opened it and said happily: "There is another new weapon."
"What new weapon?" Chen Yongwei stepped forward and took a look, "You're not asking A Huan to help you get a gun to deal with Wang Mazi's hozen, are you?"
"I think so!" Li Changle said with a smile, "It's a diving suit. I asked Ah Huan to help me get it. The brat didn't even write a letter, and I don't know how much he spent on it?"
He thought that guns were not banned these days, and he felt that he really should find someone to find out about the gun that Chen Yongwei mentioned. If he could get one and take it to sea, he would not be afraid of encountering robbers on sea ships.
"Diving suit!" Chen Yongwei's eyes lit up with excitement, "Brother, hurry up to the post office and take it out to see what it looks like."
He had seen people from the Maritime Safety Administration wearing diving suits for diving at the beach. He heard that the water tanks made of big fish skins and shark skins were better than those used in the past.
"It's already past four o'clock. When we get to the post office, it will be closed. I will come back from Lucheng the day after tomorrow and pick it up."
"oh!"
Seeing his disappointed look, Li Changle smiled and handed him the parcel slip, "How about you go get it back for me tomorrow morning?"
Chen Yongwei shook his head repeatedly, "Forget it, I'm afraid I'll break such a valuable thing, so I'd better wait until you come back."
"Take it, no matter how expensive it is, it's just for wearing it. What are you doing coquettishly like a girl?"
"If I don't go, I won't be able to stick out my tongue if I talk to those people."
"Come on!" Li Changle rolled his eyes at him and put the package in his trouser pocket. "You go back and prepare the jars. We will put half of the jars at the fishing hole tonight and send the rest to the reef beach."
He felt that the beach he visited this morning was pretty good, and he should be rewarded by going there.
Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, "Are you going to take the new cages with you? How about we take the next batch while Brother Afa is guarding them?"
Li Changle thought for a moment and said, "Take half of it tonight to try. When you collect it, call the eldest brother and the second brother will help you."
Big brother, he really didn't dare to let Chen Yongwei go to the ground cage before the second brother came back. The ground cage and the jar must be able to take care of one end but not the other.
"Yeah!" Chen Yongwei thought about it and said, "Brother, you can pick up the ship when you come back. It's time to choose a day to prepare the sacrifice."
"I know that your grandma has trouble with her legs and feet. It's better not to bother her. I'll ask my grandma to help prepare it."
The two agreed that Chen Yongwei would go home and pack away the jars, and Li Changle would go home and see Zhou Ruonan folding the new clothes he had just made.
"Is everything done?"
"The children said they wanted navy uniforms, so I borrowed Lao Wuyou's and asked Axiang to cut a suit for them. Xiaozhou's pants were not ready yet, so Axiang cooked and ate them.
"
Zhou Ruonan said, lifting up his clothes, "Do you think they look good?"
Li Changle looked at her clothes and pants, which included a white floral shirt and slightly flared bell-bottom pants. They were not pretty, but that was the style these days.
Seeing her smiling face, he touched her cheek and said, "She is good-looking and looks good no matter what she wears."
Zhou Ruonan slapped him, "You're a smooth-tongued guy."
"Where is the oil? Where is the oil?" Li Changle squeezed her to the bedside and came in front of her, "Try and see, where is the oil?"
"Disgusting!" Zhou Ruonan pinched the soft flesh around his waist and twisted until he grinned before letting go, pushing him to sit on the small bed, "Be honest, I'm going to help my sister-in-law cook."
"Okay, be honest." Li Changle sat upright and said, "After dinner, we are going to put out the jars. You can also pick up some of the dried oyster meat and fish fillets and pack them, and take the children to bed early.
Set off early tomorrow morning."
"Okay, let's make porridge with oyster meat for my mother. She also likes to use oil. Next time we get the oysters, we will boil some oil and send them to her."
"It's not easy to burn out gas. There are so many in the caves, you can boil as much as you want."
"If you don't want to sell it, why do you have to endure so much?" Zhou Ruonan glared at him angrily and walked towards the door. Before he arrived, he turned back, looked at him and said:
"Ale, I thought about it and gave them the fabrics I bought for my parents. We will buy them for the holidays."
"You are the head of the family, you make the decision." Li Changle looked at her with a playful smile, "You can send it to them later to make them happy."
Zhou Ruonan knew that he was doing it for her own good, and felt sweet in her heart, "I understand, I'm going out first."
Li Changle followed her out and saw that she had prepared all the tools for fishing in the evening. He pulled up a chair and sat on the eaves, watching a few children playing skipping rope.
After sitting for a while, Brother Li and Brother Li came back with gloomy faces. When they saw him, they said: "Li Changgui said that we broke the contract midway and will not refund a penny."
"I told him that we won't quit now, we will wait until they find people. He said that just give him a shout, and people who want to help the ship will line up and beg to go, and the wages are lower than what is offered to us.
"
Li Changping never dreamed that Li Changgui would not care about his uncle's affection at all. Thinking of the disdain and contempt he showed when he looked at his brother, he felt uncomfortable in his heart.
Brother Li took it over and said, "I had a quarrel with him, and the uncle came out of the house. He said something nice, but in the end he still refused to give us all his wages.
He also said that he cannot make the final decision if he joins a partnership with someone else. We were supposed to deduct one month's wages for breaking the contract midway, but for the sake of our family, we will deduct half of it."
"That's it, you don't need to go!" Li Changle felt that the family could give them half a month's wages, which was beyond his expectation. Even if they didn't give them a penny, he wouldn't be surprised.
"The problem is, not only have we deducted half a month's wages, but also asked us to finish August. I want to agree, but the second brother said we will discuss it when we come back." Brother Li said distressedly, "Half a month is more than 40 yuan.
I can buy three to four hundred kilograms of rice."
"I have long said that there is no good person in Dafang's family!" Li Changle said angrily, "If you do it or not, you will be deducted money, so why do you do it? I'm all torn apart, and you still go to sea with them, you hate your life.
It’s almost the same length.”
Brother Li looked at him in surprise, "It can't be that bad, right? After all, he is a grandfather, right?"
Brother Li sneered: "You have a grandfather? They don't kiss anyone in their family, they only kiss each other with money. It's useless to have a father."
"I won't go anyway. If Dafang refuses to pay me, I will go to the village committee and use a loudspeaker to publicize what they have done."
Li Changle felt that the eldest brother was too meek, but the second brother was more passionate, "Brother, I think the second brother is right, a person's heart can be exchanged for a person's heart, and four taels can be exchanged for half a catty.
I have never treated you as a family member, and if you stick your face out for someone to beat you, people will say you are a jerk behind your back."
Going forward, life will be difficult for good people. No wonder the eldest brother in his previous life did not start as quickly as the second brother.
The two brothers were talking. Uncle Li was carrying two large yellow croakers weighing at least two kilograms each. He stepped onto the courtyard dam and shouted loudly before he saw anyone, "Tang, your sister-in-law said your leg is injured."
, let me see you."
"Yo~" Li Changle stepped forward with a playful smile and took the big yellow croaker in his hand, "A big shipowner has his own feet on the ground. What kind of wind blew today that brought you to my house?"
If you don't eat it, you won't eat it. Go back, such a big yellow croaker is something that most people can't afford.
Li Guigao's face darkened, "If I don't tell you, you bastard, call your dad out."
You bastard, you think you'll be proud of yourself for the rest of your life if you get lucky a few times and sell a few coins?
Brother Li and Brother Li hurriedly went to their parents' house to call Father Li out.
"Tch~" Li Changle sneered, "Didn't you shout when you came in, my father's leg is injured? Why, you want him to come out in person to greet you, Captain Li?"
"Brother, my legs are not good, so I won't come out to greet you."
Li Changle turned around and saw Li's father and two brothers standing behind him, leaning on a cane.
In the eldest brother's room, Mother Li, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law looked around. As if they didn't see Uncle Li, they turned back to weaving the net. The cook was still cooking.
Li Guigao bypassed Li Changle and walked over, showing a distressed look, "Atang, are your legs feeling better?"
Father Li looked at him calmly, "I can't be lame yet."
He was standing at the door just now when he heard the three brothers yelling about not getting their wages. The eldest brother was probably here for this matter.
He is the eldest brother who has always liked to say nice things and do face-saving things all his life. He has suffered a lot in the past, but now he ignores family ties and deducts the money from my son's life, and wants to hurt my son again. There is no way!
"I haven't come to see you since I haven't been at home. Your sister-in-law also brought me a letter." Li Guigao said, "I went to Haimen to do some business, and I just came back with Agui today. After I finished my work, I came to see you.
"
"Oh! Come and sit in the house." Father Li took him into the house and sat down, and said to Li Guigao, "Brother, my leg is injured and I want to keep the eldest and second child at home. Have they told you?"
"I said it!" Li Guigao said in a pretentious manner, "Atang, you know the rules on the ship. Originally, one month's wages were deducted, but now they are only deducted half a month. I have to sacrifice my dignity to help plead for mercy.
"
Li’s father: “How come I heard that other boat workers sign one-year contracts? The annual salary is also subject to the market? Haimen hires more than 100 boat workers for a month?”
Li Guigao hesitated and said, "It's a one-year contract. As for the wages, you know, the wages over there on the North Shore are already higher than here."
Li's father said quietly: "Since it's one year, my eldest and second son have been working on your ship for more than a year. Even if they don't work now, it won't be considered a breach of contract. You must replenish their wages..."
Li Guigao frowned and interrupted him, "Atang, aren't you making things difficult for me?"
The fire in Father Li's heart suddenly surged up, and he sarcastically said: "Is this embarrassing for you? I don't need to tell you how hard it is to go fishing at sea, right? You can't even save your life if you are unlucky."
Chapter completed!