Chapter 153 The jar was stolen
Li Changle almost laughed out loud when he saw this, "Auntie, don't be afraid of everything, you'll have good luck, everything will be fine."
Mother Li glared at him, "What are you still doing standing there? Go and sleep for two or three hours while it's still early. We have to work when the tide goes out!"
"Got it." Li Changle took the basin and walked toward the house.
Mother Li entered the room angrily and said to Father Li, who was sitting there with a sullen expression: "Did you just hear what that vicious woman Xu Xianmei said? If you ever lend money to the Asi family again, I will break up with you.
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Father Li said sarcastically: "I borrowed five yuan to buy diesel for her at the dock last time. Ah Si was waiting for the diesel on the boat. I can't watch them not even having the money to go out to sea to buy oil, right?"
Mother Li became angry when she heard this, "I lent more than 30 yuan to a four-bedroom apartment and never paid it back once. The children are about to get the land to build a house. It's time to use money. If you dare again
Lend money to Sifang, and you will go with Sifang."
"You keep all the money, I don't even know where you keep it." Father Li turned his trouser pockets upside down as he said, "Look, I don't even have a penny on me, where did the money come from?"
Lend it to them."
"I don't care. As long as I find out about it, I will go to the fourth room and ask for the more than thirty dollars they borrowed. Otherwise, I will have someone get something to pay off the bill."
Children and grandchildren are Mother Li's bottom line. Xu Xianmei's curse on her children completely touched Mother Li's bottom line.
Father Li sat there and sighed again when he thought that the old lady had asked the elders to help take care of the girl Yufang before she left.
After thinking about it, I got up and went to Brother Li's house. When he saw Li Xiaoqing at home, he said to her: "Aqing went to the fourth grandpa's house to see if the fourth grandma hit Aunt Yufang?"
Li Xiaoqing didn't want to go and sat there without moving, "Grandma Si chased Aunt Yufang and beat her yesterday. We saw her hiding in the master's palace. Grandpa Qin even gave her rice cakes to eat."
Grandpa Qin is a lonely old man. The village asks him to guard the master's palace and clean the ancestral hall. The old man likes children and often brings offerings to the children in the village.
Father Li said warmly: "Be obedient and ask Xiaoyang to go and have a look together!"
"Oh!" Li Xiaoqing put down the shuttle in his hand, walked a few steps, then turned around and asked, "Master, if Aunt Yufang gets beaten, should we come back and call you?"
"Xiaoqing, don't go." Li's mother came out and stopped her, then turned to Li's father and said, "My biological mother and I don't feel sorry for her, so what's the use of calling us?
If you don't want Xu Xianmei to be a good friend, unless you have money in your pocket at any time to lend it to Xu Xianmei's cheating fool.
Damn you old man, you have been soft-hearted all your life, people are cursing your son, and you are still worried about their daughter. The old lady is gone. You can protect her for a while, but you cannot protect her for the rest of her life.
Either you take her home and raise her, or you ask the old lady to appear and take Xu Xianmei down, and the fourth house will be peaceful without her."
Father Li stood there stunned for a long time after being scolded by Mother Li, and then whispered: "Xiaohua, my mother-in-law said before she left, let us help take care of Yufang, otherwise she will not feel at ease down there."
"How are you going to take care of it? Why don't you think about why the big house demolished the small house as soon as the old lady passed by Qiqi? It's not that you don't want Yufang to live there." Mother Li asked angrily.
After hearing this, Father Li thought of his family's conditions and waved listlessly to Li Xiaoqing, "Aqing, there's no need to go."
Mother Li also felt sorry for her niece, but with the conditions at home, she could only take care of her children first. Seeing Father Li's listless look, she felt a little distressed.
Help him back to the house and sit down, "Don't worry about Yufang, she is fifteen or sixteen years old, not a child of several years old, and she doesn't know how to resist. Yesterday Xu Xianmei chased her with a broom and beat her. That girl ran away from the master.
The palace hid for a long time, but Xu Xianmei couldn't do anything to her."
"If you want Yufang to have a better life in the future, unless you and the third child go to Ah Shui and ask him to pawn off the four-bedroom house, you won't even have the money to beg a wife in the future."
Father Li thought for a while and sighed: "Ah Shui is only eighteen this year. Can we let him be the head of the house?"
"Ah Si doesn't care. The only person the fourth room can count on is Ah Shui. If you don't let him try, how do you know he can't do it?"
"Okay, I'll go find the third child tomorrow." Father Li said and went back to the house on crutches.
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Li Changle was woken up by Zhou Ruonan in a daze, and hurriedly got up and went out. He saw that she had packed away the tools, cooked a few turtle eggs, and cooked a few bags of corn cobs.
The cooked turtle eggs are only half the size of an egg, and some are like flattened ping pong balls.
After peeling off the shell, the egg white inside is still liquid. People who have never seen it think it is undercooked, but in fact it is already cooked.
Because the protein content of turtle eggs is much higher than that of chicken eggs or duck eggs, even when cooked, the egg white is still liquid, while the yolk will gradually solidify.
Li Changle saw the turtle eggs in the bowl, smiled and walked up to her, taking a sip on her face while she wasn't paying attention, "Honey, why do you think of cooking this for me? I'm worried that I'm tired and won't be able to pay for the public food.
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"You're talking nonsense and you don't know anything, so you can't think of something good?" Looking at his look, Zhou Ruonan knew that what he said was not good. She glared at him angrily, wrapped up the corn cobs and turtle eggs, and pretended to be a snake.
Inside the leather bag.
She also saw that her husband worked day and night to earn money when he came back, and she didn't even get a full night's sleep. She felt sorry for him, so she boiled several turtle eggs for him to take with him.
Li Changle smiled and picked up the snakeskin bag, raised his hand and pinched her cheek, "I'm leaving, you go to bed quickly, and you will pick us up with your elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law when the tide comes in."
"I got it, be careful." Zhou Ruonan sent him outside. The older two and Chen Yongwei were already waiting outside. When they saw him coming out, they took the lead to walk up the mountain.
Zhou Ruonan stood at the door and watched Li Changle walk away before turning back and closing the door.
Li Changle and the four of them went up the mountain carefully one after another, passed through the cave, and when they arrived at the beach, the four of them split into two groups. He and Awei went to the reef beach to collect the jars, while Brother Li and Brother Li went into the cave to dig oysters and bergamot.
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After the two brothers entered the cave, they searched the three waterholes first. This time, the harvest was not very good. After searching the three waterholes, they found two moray eels, a few Shijiugong, and a few more.
There are two miscellaneous fish.
The two brothers tied the net bag to the rock, picked up the chisel and started digging.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei first went farther away, to the tidal flat, to collect the cans.
The jars were kept on the reef beach for a period of time, but the harvest was not very good, so a few people lowered most of the jars to the rocks.
After looking at it, the harvest was pretty good. There were 70 or 80 top-quality Wangchao animals weighing one, two, and two, and each one cost 40 and 50 yuan, which was an income of more than 30 yuan.
There are about a hundred of them that cost more than two taels, and they cost about twenty yuan. There are two baskets full of octopuses, at least more than two hundred, and three cents cost 50 to 70 yuan.
Six hundred jars, collected every other night, was an income of more than one hundred. The two of them grinned so much that they couldn't even see their teeth.
The two of them excitedly carried their backpacks and oilskin bags and returned to the rocky beach. They put away their backpacks and put the snakeskin bags into the water. They picked up the cans and looked at twenty or thirty cans, all of which were empty.
Li Changle felt that something was wrong. Even if the octopus here was smart, it would not be empty and someone would definitely find out and take it away.
"Awei, do you have any goods over there?"
"I've collected about thirty of them, but they're still empty. Someone stole our octopus." Chen Yongwei shouted at the top of his lungs.
Li Changle was sure that someone had stolen the jars, "Collect all the jars and don't put them away."
This is how it is when cages and jars are placed on the ground. Thefts often occur. The gangsters in the village will exchange news and exchange information to steal from each other's villages.
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei thought about it and asked, "Brother, do you think it was Wang Mazi's hozen that did it?"
"I don't know. Let's take these jars back and go to the dock to find out about them from Adong tomorrow morning."
There are only a few unclean people in the village. As long as one of them has sold octopus or watched the tide, that person is probably responsible.
Chen Yongwei pulled the jars along the fishing rope until he had finished all the jars in the series. He only caught four or five octopuses in total. Li Changle's side was worse than his, only three.
Chen Yongwei angrily put the jar into a sack, "If you catch these three hands, you should chop off their claws."
Li Changle raised the sack, "If you want to open it a little, it's good that you didn't steal the jar."
Although the can is not valuable, the fishing rope and steel wire cost about ten yuan, and tying it up is also very labor-intensive.
The two of them arrived at the cave out of breath. They put their backpacks, snakeskin bags and cans in the cave and hid them. They took off their clothes and pants and entered the cave.
After entering the cave, I realized that the harvest in the cave today was not good either.
Brother Li learned that the jars on the reef beach had been stolen. He even thought that Fourth Aunt Li's visit tonight had brought bad luck. He also said that before going to sea early in the morning, he would go to the Master's Palace to pray and get rid of the bad luck.
Li Changle comforted him, picked up the thing and started working. After a lot of work, he finally cut off all the oysters he could reach and put them in sacks before the tide came in.
The four of them only felt that their hands were sore, their waists were sore, and their legs were swollen. They were so tired that they leaned against the cliff and lost the mood to joke. They ate turtle eggs and corn cobs, and then continued to carve out Buddha's hand snails.
Seeing that the tide was beginning to rise, I hurriedly carried the sacks out. Before I could carry all the sacks outside, Zhou Ruonan's sister-in-law and Mother Li came to help.
Seeing the two brothers carrying sacks all wet, they hurriedly stepped forward to help pick them up, "How many more have not been shipped out?"
Li Changle wiped the water on his face and said, "There are still more than twenty bags. You go first and we will come later."
"Okay, be careful." Mother Li warned worriedly.
"Don't worry, you can swim back and forth with your eyes closed." Li Changle waved his hand and followed Brother Li towards the seaside.
Zhou Ruonan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law lifted up the wet sack, placed it horizontally on the backpack, tied it with hemp rope, carried it on their back and walked up the mountain.
Seven or eight people made seven or eight trips back and forth, and they were busy until the rooster crowed for the first time before transporting all the catch home.
Li Changle dragged his legs back home, washed them briefly, fell on the bed and fell asleep.
Chapter completed!