Chapter 154 The cow and horse’s day begins again
The next day, Li Changle woke up and opened his eyes to see that Zhou Ruonan had already gotten up. He sat up slowly and thought of going out to sea to collect ground cages, longlines and fishing cans.
He turned to look at the time and saw that it was already past eight o'clock. He couldn't help but sigh and laughed at himself, "As soon as I open my eyes, my day begins again!"
In slow motion, I picked up a pair of coarse trousers with two patches on the knees. As soon as I put on the trousers, I suddenly remembered that the bergamot snails had not been sent to the restaurant.
He patted himself on the head, quickly put on his clothes and pants, pulled on his shoes and rushed out of the room, bumping into Zhou Ruonan who had just walked to the door.
"Ah~" Zhou Ruonan almost got knocked down by him and exclaimed, "What are you doing in such a hurry?"
Li Changle hurriedly put his arms around her to prevent her from falling backwards and falling to the ground, "I woke up and remembered that I had to send Buddha's conch, Octopus and Wangchao to the restaurant this morning. Why didn't you call me?"
"You have the nerve to say that!" Zhou Ruonan slapped him angrily, "I slept as deeply as a pig. I called you several times but you didn't answer. You even waved me away and said I was a dead mosquito."
"I have no impression at all." Li Changle said and pinched her waist with a playful smile, "Which fairy transformed such a beautiful mosquito?"
Zhou Ruonan grabbed his mischievous hand and said, "You are the monster! I tell you, the eldest brother got up early in the morning and went out with Ah Wei and the second brother.
He sent the fish to my sister and my uncle's house, and my second brother and Awei sent their catch to Tuxiaqiao. The three of them have been walking for an hour or two, and they should be home in a little while."
"That's good. How many beads did you open this morning?" Li Changle felt that it was his two older brothers who were reliable in their work with Ah Wei.
Zhou Ruonan said with some embarrassment: "I got up a little late too, and by the time I got there, my father and mother had already opened two bags of oysters."
"I found four silver-white round beads and four or five shapeless ones. I took a look and found that the white ones can make up three sets of beads."
Li Changle's eyes lit up when he heard this, he hugged her and gave her a kiss, "Honey, four pills have been opened in only two bags, and there are more than forty bags left, how many should be opened?"
One pill costs more than 200, and ten pills are over 2,000. If you are lucky, you may even have enough money to buy a tin boat.
"That's not necessarily true. Yesterday we also had a few oysters from a bag of oysters." Zhou Ruonan pushed him away embarrassedly, "Hurry up and wash your face, and I'll bring you some food."
"I'll go over and take a look first, and I'll open a few more pills." Li Changle didn't even bother to wash his face, and didn't even bother to eat. He went out and walked towards his parents.
Zhou Ruonan looked at his back, smiled and shook his head, "I told you that four pills would come out, so I have to go over and ask how many pills were opened."
As soon as Li Changle walked to the door of the second room, Li Xiaomei sat astride the broom and came out of the house shouting "drive, drive, drive". When she saw him coming out and throwing down the broom, she grabbed his hand.
"Uncle Third, when will Xiaozhou come back?"
Li Changle pinched her cheek and said, "Ami, we miss our brother?"
"I thought about it." Li Xiaomei pouted and nodded, "My sister and brother have gone out to play, and I can't catch up with them."
"Third uncle will pick him up in two days." Li Changle took her to her parents' house and saw Grandma Chen and her two sisters-in-law there. There were still only four beads in the bowl placed on the square stool in the middle.
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When Li Xiaomei saw Sister-in-law Li, she let go of him and ran to cuddle up next to her, "Mom, my brothers and sisters don't want to play with me because they say I can't run fast."
Sister-in-law Li touched her daughter with her head and said, "Be good, I'll get you some sweets later."
Li Xiaomei happily kissed her and said, "Okay, I won't give it to my brothers and sisters."
"Well! If they don't behave, don't give it to them."
Li Changle picked up the bowl, picked up the beads and looked at them. There were three beads that were twice as big as a pea, and one that was slightly smaller than a glass marble. He felt that this big one should be more than two hundred and sixty.
"It's a good day today. Four beads came out early in the morning, and there were so many useless ones." Mother Li said, picking up the bowl on the ground. "Ale, look, these beads are all useless."
Li Changle put down the bowl, picked up one and looked at it. It was flat, and you could even scrape out the pearl powder with your fingernails. "It's normal. If there are too many oyster beads, they won't be valuable."
Even though the set was only over 200 pieces, the money was valuable now. He estimated that the more than 200 pieces now would be worth more than the more than 2,000 pieces in later generations.
Grandma Chen nodded, "The less something is, the more valuable it is."
Li Changle nodded, thinking that if his family were rich, he would not want to sell those golden beads, because good things are valuable at all times, let alone good natural beads.
The sea is a great treasure. As long as you can find the treasure, you won't have to worry about making a fortune!
Sister-in-law Li smiled and said: "It's a pity that there are too few. It would be great if you could get two pills from one bag."
Mother Li looked at the sacks piled there and said cheerfully: "There are more than forty bags of oysters. If two oysters are opened in each bag, we will be rich!"
Li Changle looked around but didn't see Li's father, "Where is dad?"
"Xiaoyang helped him go to your third uncle's place." Mother Li curled her lips, "I'm still uneasy because I'm lame, and I want to meddle in the fourth room's business."
After hearing this, Grandma Chen smiled and said, "A-Tang is a nice person. When your mother-in-law was here, she often told me that of the sons in your family, A-Tang is the most honest and honest person. It would be great if he was the eldest."
"Grandma, if you are not an honest person, you will suffer losses in everything you do!" Mother Li said she was disgusted, but she was happy at the same time. "My Aping is just like his father, and all four of him are close to him."
"You can see it."
Seeing how happy they were, Li Changle went out and saw that the courtyard was filled with bamboo sticks. The dried oyster meat in the bamboo sticks exuded a faint salty smell.
He went over and pinched the dried oyster meat, thinking that after one more day of drying, he could pack it up and send it to his mother-in-law's family in Lucheng to sell it for money.
"Ale, where did you find these oysters? They are so big." Alai asked, standing by the dam of her house with an envious look on her face.
Li Changle had an idea, "I didn't buy it from the market. I asked someone to help me collect the dried oyster meat and sent it to Lucheng for sale."
Sister-in-law Alai: "You have a bright mind. How long have you been working before you started collecting overseas goods to make money?"
Alai Niang looked at him in surprise, "You also collect oysters, how do you collect them? When the price is right, we will cut them back and sell them to you."
"I have a small capital, and my family has already collected a lot. Let me send it out first to test the market. If it sells well, I will collect it later."
"Next-door neighbor, if the price is good, take care of it!" Alai Niang pulled her daughter-in-law, turned her head, curled her lips, and murmured in a low voice.
"Jieliuzi is Jieliuzi. People say that he fishes for three days and lays the nets for two days. Fortunately for him, he was taken home by a fishing boat. He only worked for one day and then decided to change his career."
Brother Li came out with fishing gear. When he saw him, he said, "Ale, it's already past eight o'clock. Let's eat quickly. When the second brother and Awei come back, we will go to sea to collect the ground cages."
It lights up early and gets dark early at the beach. I usually get up at five or six o'clock, but getting up after eight o'clock is already considered too late.
Li Changle nodded, "Aren't you going to Laotang'an to watch the boats today?"
"I want to go see it. The second son said, let me go see it alone. He will go to sea with you. I will send you to the dock and come back."
"Okay!" Li Changle had just turned around, but before he reached the eaves, Chen Yongwei pedaled to the front of the courtyard dam.
Brother Li jumped off the tricycle, came in with a basket on his back and said, "Hurry up and hurry up, we're finally here."
"Have you collected them all?" Brother Li asked in a low voice.
"Yeah!" Brother Li took him to Li Changle's house, took out an oilcloth bag from his backpack, and took out several thick bundles of banknotes and some change.
Brother Li happily pulled Chen Yongwei to sit down, "My dear, so many more!"
Brother Li smiled and nodded. "The prices in the restaurant are so good. The price of Wangchao and Buddha's hand snails is more than double the price compared to the seafood buying shop."
He rubbed his face excitedly and looked at the three of them and said excitedly, "The best Wangchao sold for thirty-two yuan, the big one for twenty-two yuan, the octopus sold for seventy-eight and a half yuan, and the Buddha's conch sold for five hundred and seventy yuan.
Nineteen, a total of seven hundred and eleven dollars were sold."
Then he handed the money and the order to Li Changle, "Ale, you are the boss of the ship, you come to share it."
"Okay!" Li Changle took the money, counted two parts each and gave them to them, and gave the rest to Zhou Ruonan to put away.
While the three of them were happily going to hand over money to the person in charge of the money, he picked up the rice noodles Zhou Ruonan cooked for him and ate them.
Zhou Ruonan put down the money and came out, looking at him with bright eyes, "Ale, the money at home has been rising like the tide in the past two days."
Li Changle glanced at her proudly, puffed out his cheeks, and said vaguely: "Not only is your man a good talker, he is also good at making money, right?"
Zhou Ruonan smiled and nodded, "Yeah, you're great at everything you do!"
"Is he really good at everything?" Li Changle smiled at her in a cowardly manner.
"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you. I went to open the oysters." Zhou Ruonan rolled her eyes at him, walked to the door and turned back and said, "I fried some wheat cakes for you. Remember to bring them with you. Put the bowl you have eaten in the pot. I
Come back later and wash it."
"Okay!" Li Changle nodded, finished the rice noodles in the bowl in a few mouthfuls, and took the bowl to the kitchen. He saw a kettle on the stove and a lunch box in the pot.
He picked up the kettle and put it on his back. He opened the lunch box and looked at it. There were pieces of wheat cakes inside, each with sauerkraut and a fried egg inside.
"Life is good when you have a wife!" Li Changle happily put the lunch box into the oilcloth bag and carried it out the door.
Outside, Brother Li and the other three have loaded the fishing gear and cans for going out to sea onto the tricycle.
Li Changle looked at the popsicle refrigerator on the tricycle, stared and asked, "Brother, do you want to go to the pier to sell popsicles?"
"I want to sell popsicles, but it may not be enough for my little Tao." Brother Li smiled and patted the wooden box of popsicles. "You forgot, this is what my uncle used to sell popsicles before."
"He said this was good for loading ice on your boat, so he asked me to bring it to you. He also gave me some tube bones, a pair of pig lungs, and a pair of pig intestines for me to bring back. My eldest cousin also worked with my uncle at the meat stall.
Chapter completed!