Chapter 131 Earning Performance
Zhou Ruonan helped Li Changle ask for credit, "Ale found them all by searching the sea. He said you like to eat mackerel heads and dried oysters, so he asked me to pick out the good ones and dry them for you."
Mother Zhou glanced at Li Changle in surprise, saw the fresh goods in the basket, and said distressedly: "Why are you giving me such good seafood? Why don't you sell it for money?"
"It's not much. I picked up some of what you like to eat and brought it here." Li Changle said with a smile.
After hearing this, the grandmother on the side also stretched her neck to look, "Oh! Your son-in-law is so polite. The conger eels and blue crabs are so fat, and he has taken so much dry goods."
"This dried oyster meat is really good. I have never seen such good quality in the market. It would be great if you could bring some to sell to us."
"Look at how good these dried shrimps are! The shrimp whiskers and threads are all clean. It's good if you live by the sea. You can get such good seafood by searching the sea."
"Then the son-in-law must be filial to be willing to bring so many things to see his mother-in-law."
"My son-in-law is very generous." Zhou's mother smiled and picked up her net bag, "Ah Xiangpo, please help me look after the vegetable stalls. If anyone buys them, I can sell them as I please."
Her son-in-law was filial, but he was too unmotivated, and Nan suffered.
"Okay, okay! Hurry up and make snacks for your son-in-law and grandson." said the gray-haired Axiangpo.
Li Changle and Zhou Ruonan moved their things into the house and saw their eldest son and younger son already sitting in front of the TV, watching TV.
The Zhou family's house is an old-fashioned brick and wood house, with a rectangular front room facing the street. There is a wooden single sofa in it and a TV in the middle. Usually when guests come, they are entertained here.
After entering, there is a small square patio with two rooms on each side and the kitchen opposite. There is a well in the corner of the patio next to the kitchen and some flowers and plants are planted.
The couple moved their things into the kitchen, which had a briquette stove and a single-burner stove.
Zhou Ruonan opened the back door and the room suddenly became bright.
Outside is Zhou's mother's vegetable garden, which is about an inch of land. There are chives, leeks, celery, and some melons and vegetables growing in it.
Zhou Ruonan brought out a porcelain basin for him, and then went to pack up the cakes, sugar and dry goods he had brought. After putting them away, he went to the vegetable market to buy meat.
The son-in-law had to bring a knife of pork with him to his mother-in-law's house. Logically speaking, he should have bought it when he came. The two of them thought that the weather was too hot and the vegetable market was near the mother-in-law's house, so they agreed to buy fresh meat when they arrived.
Li Changle kept the conger eels, blue crabs, etc. in separate basins, and took out the sea fish with ice cubes. These had to be killed and eaten quickly, as they would become stale after being left for a long time.
He had never helped clean up before. Whenever he came, he would lie down in the lounge chair in the living room and watch TV leisurely, like an old man, waiting for Zhou's mother and Nan to call him when they were ready to eat.
Zhou's mother also came in with a net bag, "Ale, everyone said that the seafood you sell is good, and there are still people who want to buy it!"
She put down her things and opened the cupboard, taking out dried lychees, dried longans and eggs. She thought the coal stove was too slow, so she was busy lighting a fire to cook snacks for them.
After hearing this, Li Changle had an idea, "This is not simple. From now on, I will go pick the oysters, dry them and bring them to you to sell at the vegetable stall."
"Okay, just bring it here." Mother Zhou said, "Has your father's fishing boat been repaired? Ah Nan said you got these from the sea. Did you go to sea with your father?"
She knew in her heart what kind of virtue her son-in-law was. He was not a bad person, and he was not stupid. He was just lazy and suffered from laziness.
"Ah Wei and I jointly bought our family's fishing boat... and we will take it home the day after tomorrow." Li Changle told Zhou's mother everything that happened during this period.
Mother Zhou thought of her daughter's happy look, looked at her son-in-law who had become much more stable, and felt that he was not making this up, and she felt relieved.
"This is a good thing. When you take the boat home, you and Anan will definitely be busier than before. Why don't you leave Xiaohai and Xiaozhou behind when we get there, and I'll take them back when school starts?"
After hearing this, Li Changle said without hesitation: "Okay, let them stay with you here, and I will pick you up before school starts."
"You're busy with your business, I don't need you to pick it up." Seeing the water boiling, Zhou's mother put the peeled longan and lychee into the pot, "You have your own boat too.
From now on, the fish fillets, dried shrimps, dried oysters and other things that are dried at home will be sent to me to help you sell them. The old neighbors nearby often buy these things, and as long as the goods are good, there is no need to worry about selling them."
"Why don't you worry about selling it?" Zhou Ruonan came in with a piece of meat and looked at the two of them with a smile.
"You girl, you have so many fresh goods, why are you buying meat?" Mother Zhou glared at her angrily and poured the beaten eggs into the pot.
"Fish meat, fish meat, what can we do with fish but no meat?" Zhou Ruonan smiled and put the meat in a bamboo basket, carried it to the well and hung it in the well to keep it fresh.
These days, very few people have refrigerators. Those who have wells at home like to put meat, fruits and vegetables in the wells to keep them fresh.
She returned to the kitchen and looked at the half pot of lychees, longan and boiled poached eggs. "Auntie, we had breakfast. You cooked so much and you couldn't finish it and it was wasted."
"There are not many eggs, it's all soup." Zhou's mother said, scooping three more spoonfuls of brown sugar into the pot, and asked Zhou Ruonan to call the two children to eat.
Zhou Ruonan and the two children each had two eggs. Li Changle's bowl had the most, five eggs, and a lot of longans and dried lychees.
"Ale, I'm going to check out the vegetable stalls. Eat them while they're hot. The eggs will smell fishy when they're cold." She said to Li Changle who was killing fish on the stone slab outside the house, and then went outside to look at the vegetable stalls.
Zhou Ruonan brought her children over, and the family sat down around the small square table, spooning the lychees and longans in their bowls to the children, "Your favorite lychees, longan and egg soup."
"Mommy, the TV at grandma's house is so good." Li Xiaozhou's cheeks were bulging, and the sweet juice flowed out whenever he spoke.
Zhou Ruonan took out a handkerchief and wiped it for him, "Eat and then go and see." Then he said to his eldest son, "Don't let your brother run around in the street. I heard that there are some child thieves in the city these days."
Li Xiaohai nodded, "Grandma told me, and she also said that a child was stolen by human traffickers a few days ago."
Li Xiaozhou asked curiously: "Abba, what are they doing stealing children?"
Li Changle looked at the two men and said, "They stole children home, broke their legs, and put them on the street as beggars to ask for money."
The two children were frightened after hearing this, "We don't want to run around, and we don't want to have our legs broken and become beggars."
Zhou Ruonan was worried about scaring the child, so he said softly: "My son is the most well-behaved. After eating snacks, he went to watch TV. Dad and grandma will take you to play in the afternoon."
Li Changle thought it was too sweet, so he scooped out lychees and longans and shared them with his three mothers. However, they didn't want any of them, so he ate them with all his strength and burped twice in succession.
While Zhou Ruonan was packing up the pots and pans, he went to the vegetable garden at the back. He saw that the vegetable field was divided into several square pieces, all of which were planted with seasonal vegetables. Orange and jujube trees were planted here and there on the edge of the vegetable field.
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He remembered that the area behind the house used to be a vegetable garden. In the past two years, many households with a large population have expanded, and there are not many households growing vegetables.
A few years later, the land behind the house was occupied by Zhou Ruonan's eldest brother to build a house. Zhou's mother resolutely blocked the back door with bricks. No matter how others tried to persuade her, she refused to reconcile with her son.
What my uncle and his wife did back then was a huge blow to the old lady, and the old lady didn't forgive them until she was sent back by the slag truck.
Li Changle felt that Anan and his mother-in-law were both the kind of women who looked weak but were extremely strong on the inside.
Zhou's mother went to the vegetable stall outside and came back. She saw Li Changle helping with the work in the vegetable garden. She hurriedly went out and said, "Ale, stop doing it. It's such a bright sun. Go sit inside and watch TV and drink tea."
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"It's okay. You're too full. Move around to make yourself comfortable. Just do a little work and I'll be fine in a moment." Li Changle said with a smile.
"Auntie, it's rare for him to do a job for you. Let him do it and let's talk." Zhou Ruonan took Zhou's mother back to the house and sat down, and the mother and daughter talked about what was on their mind.
Zhou's mother looked at her with relief and said, "I heard from A Le that you bought the family boat. Is the money enough? If it's not enough, I'll give it to you."
"It's enough. We have saved a few hundred yuan. During this period of time, Ah Le..."
After hearing what her daughter had said about what Li Changle had done during this period, Zhou's mother was completely relieved and said, "Ale is not bad in nature, but he is a bit lazy. Now that you have woken up, your life will be easier. I won't worry about you in the future."
Already."
"Don't worry, Ah Le is really doing well now." Zhou Ruonan looked at her, hesitated and asked, "Are they coming again and clamoring to move in?"
"I just came here last week and was driven away by me." Mother Zhou was silent for a while and said quietly, "It's not that they don't have a house to live in, but they are worried that I will give the house to you."
"White-eyed wolf, if it weren't for them, your father wouldn't have committed suicide. I will never forgive them even if I die. It's useless for you to try to persuade me."
"I won't advise you. As long as you are well, I will be relieved. When our new house is built, I will take you to live with me and help me take care of Xiaohai and Xiaozhou."
"Aniang knows that you and your son-in-law are filial, but there is no reason to live in your house."
Zhou's mother held her daughter's hand and said, "A'nan, listen to my mother-in-law. The quality of teaching in the city is completely different from that in the countryside. You can transfer the household registrations of Xiaohai and Xiaozhou and let them study in the city.
Way out.”
"Auntie, let's wait until they are older." Zhou Ruonan smiled and changed the subject, "What did you say just now that you don't have to worry about selling?"
She knew how selfish her brother and sister-in-law were. They didn't make a big fuss now because they thought that even if Aniang didn't let them live in it, after all, the house still belonged to the Zhou family.
As long as she transfers her children's household registration to her grandma's, they will definitely come out and look for trouble. She has never thought about asking for her parents' house, nor does she want to fight against them.
Zhou's mother smiled and said: "The neighbor said he wanted to buy your dry goods, and A Le said he would dry them and bring them to me to sell. One sheep is herded, and a group of sheep are herded. You get more varieties, and I will take care of that front room.
Chapter completed!