Chapter 173 Settlement of Accounts
Seeing that his second brother, who was in a much more difficult situation than his own, said this, Uncle Li nodded cheerfully, "Okay, once it's done tomorrow, we'll go find the boss."
Li Changshui couldn't help but wiped away his tears, "Second uncle, third uncle, thank you very much. When my little sister and I make money, we will buy food to repay you."
"There's no need to pay it back. As long as you live a good life, your two uncles will be relieved." Mother Li came out with the bean noodles stewed in the sand and said with a smile.
The children at home are getting better, and she doesn't mind helping their siblings.
Father Li breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. He was also afraid that the old lady would be unhappy, but he couldn't bear to see his nephew suffer.
"It's time to eat, everything is delicious!"
Aunt Zhou Ruonan and Grandma Chen also served old duck soup, bacon glutinous rice, boiled blood clams, prawns, clams with fried celery, cold jellyfish skin, braised black snapper, steamed sea bass, and pan-fried oyster cakes.
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Today's Li family is more lively than the Chinese New Year. There is a table for children, a table for women, and a table for men.
"Wow! Bacon and glutinous rice are my favorite." Li Xiaotao looked at the food on the table with shining eyes and swallowed, "Today's food is even better than during the Chinese New Year."
"Look at how slanderous you are!" Li Xiaoyang picked up the chopsticks and hit him. "Tuck your head back and your saliva is dripping into the bowl."
Li Xiaoqing also reached out and knocked him, "That's right, look at Xiaobo and Xiaohui, they don't look like you." She still remembered what he just said about boys being worthless!
Zhang Xiaohui shrank his neck, "Cousin Xiaoyang, cousin Xiaoqing is so fierce!"
Li Xiaotao rubbed his forehead and shouted to Sister-in-law Li, "Look, my sister and my brother have joined forces to bully me."
"You deserve it!" Sister-in-law Li said without even turning her head, "Who made you owe it to yourself?"
Li Xiaotao was so aggrieved that tears welled up in his eyes, "I didn't owe anything, so I just said that what I ate today was better than the Chinese New Year, and they said I drooled into the bowl."
"Okay, don't cry." Li Xiaoqing put the rice bowl filled with bacon and glutinous rice in front of him, "Sister, I put two eggs for you, and I'll give you mine too."
"Oh, I like eggs in glutinous rice the most." Li Xiaotao immediately laughed.
The adults looked at the two siblings in a funny way. Sister-in-law Li said with a smile: "You're a glutton, you've been like this since you were a child. When I go shopping for sea food and I'm not at home, and I get hungry, my sister can coax him with some sweet water."
"He's the best person to coax." Mother Li smiled and scooped some shabu stewed bean noodles for Li Yufang, "Girl Yufang, eat more."
"Thank you, third aunt!" Li Yufang looked at the delicious food in the bowl and thought of her own family. Except for her father who could eat eggs and meat, all the delicious food was sent to her uncle's house.
He turned to look at his thin, dark brother, and his determination to separate became even stronger.
Li Changshui turned to look at her and said with a smile: "Watch what I do, eat well."
Li Yufang said distressedly: "Look, you haven't arrived at Ale Gorgen yet, you are much shorter than him."
Li Changshui: "..."
Li Changle saw him blushing and said with a smile: "Ah Shui is not short, mainly because I am taller than several brothers in the family."
Mother Li: "Your brother Ale only grew so tall when he was in his twenties. As the old saying goes, men grow older in their thirties and women grow older in their eighteenths. From now on, you can make your own fire. Don't be reluctant to eat. The food is good.
He’s grown taller every year.”
"We remember."
The adults were drinking and talking at the same time, while the children were eating without raising their heads, talking about when, if they could have another meal like this, they would be fine.
After drinking for three rounds, Li's father talked about the row of dilapidated houses at the back, and Accountant Chen also told them all about it, meaning that as long as the top management didn't care about the excess area, the village wouldn't have anything to do with it.
But in the past two years, more and more families are building new houses. If you want to get value for money, you have to spend some money to buy the land in advance. When the house is completed and you get the red book, the black words are written on the white paper.
, don’t be afraid of anyone checking in the future.
Uncle Li picked up the jug and filled up the wine for Accountant Chen, "My dear, please tell me how much that piece of land costs. If your nephews have money, they can buy it and put it into their accounts to save themselves from wrangling later."
Father Li also nodded repeatedly, "A-Dong, you also know the situation of my family. It is not easy for several children to build a house at once. Please help me to finish it at once, so as to avoid uneasiness in the future."
Accountant Chen thought of the friendship between the two families and the things Li Changle sent home, and felt that the brothers were also sensible, "A-Tang, A-Ming, I know, we are not outsiders, so of course we should help if we can!"
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"The row of houses is shallow, and the total area is the same as two houses. One house costs 100 yuan, which is 200 yuan. Each of the four of you plus the fine will pay me 100 yuan, and I will find someone to get the rest for you."
"Thank you, Uncle A Dong!" The three Li brothers and Chen Yongwei toasted gratefully after hearing this.
After drinking and eating, Li Guiming and Accountant Chen left drunkenly. Brother and sister Li Changshui also left, leaving the Li family and the Chen family sitting and talking.
Brother Li and Brother Li told their daughter-in-law the amount Zhang Dejin had budgeted, "If it is built as A Le said, it might be more than five thousand."
Brother Li said to Sister-in-law Li: "Ale said, it's just the difference between owing one thousand and owing one thousand and five. As the old saying goes, if you have too many lice, you won't be itchy, but if you have too many debts, you won't have to worry about it. I thought about it, I might as well just owe it all at once, and then I'll pay it all at once.
Pay it back slowly."
Sister-in-law Li and Grandma Chen both looked at the drawing curiously, "Ajin, how much more will it cost to build something like this?"
"It's not much more. It only uses more red bricks, oyster ash, and cement than ordinary houses." Zhang Dejin said.
After hearing this, Sister-in-law Li said calmly: "It looks like this kind of comfortable living. I only build a house once in my life. How can I not owe debts? Just pay it back slowly."
"I also think this kind of house is good." Zhou Ruonan has long wanted a house with a bathroom and a shower room, so he has no objection.
The Li Xiaoqing siblings looked at Sister-in-law Li and said, "Mom, we also like a house with a bath at home."
Seeing that they all agreed, Sister-in-law Li could only nod in agreement even though she had a headache.
Seeing that they had unanimously agreed, Zhang Dejin began to arrange tasks and asked them to clear out the homestead and prepare the clay in the next few days.
He went back to calculate the required steel bars and cement, and Li Changle and the others went to the brigade to approve the notes and buy these things back.
He would ask a boss he knew well to bring over the stones, strips, bricks, tiles, sand and gravel for building the foundation of the house, as well as the bamboo for the bamboo frame.
There are very few steel bars used in building houses these days, and not even much cement is used. Most of them are clay dug from the mountains and mortar made from oyster ash.
As the name suggests, oyster ash is a building material made by firing oyster shells, clam shells, snail shells, clam shells and other marine shells.
In the old coastal areas, this material was used to build city walls and bridges, as well as to build houses and build ditches.
After the discussion, the Chen family's grandparents said goodbye and went home. When they opened the door, they found that the wind and rain had picked up again, so they sent them off. The whole family sat together and talked for a while before going back to their houses to rest.
After Li Changle and Zhou Ruonan returned to the house, they hurriedly checked the location of the leak. Seeing that water had seeped down, they hurriedly took a porcelain basin to catch the water.
After washing, I entered the room and saw Zhou Ruonan sitting on the bed with a pile of banknotes in front of him.
"Honey, how much money do you have at home?"
"Not counting the three hundred and six from my uncle, there are still a total of two thousand six hundred and three in the family." Zhou Ruonan said and handed him the account book, "This is because we have been getting big goods one after another in the past few days, and we have made hundreds of dollars every day.
, I just saved it.”
"A lot has been spent during this period. It cost 200 yuan to buy the foundation. Today, it cost nearly 200 yuan to install the trawl starter and slide."
"Yeah!" Zhou Ruonan hid the money and said to him softly: "The gap is a bit big. I'll go back and ask my grandma to borrow two thousand, plus the money from selling beads and Buddha's hand snails, it should be enough."
Li Changle thought for a moment, shook his head and said: "No need to borrow, there are still thirty-five beads, and there are only four or five of the eighty-one beads.
For the remaining thirty or so pills, let’s calculate them as one hundred and sixty pills, which is nearly five thousand yuan. We will earn more than two thousand yuan, and with these, it will be nearly five thousand yuan.”
"My brother-in-law said that the style of painting you painted is more expensive than the ordinary ones. I have to give the village 100 yuan to buy a dilapidated house. Prepare enough money to avoid panic."
"When the wind stops and the tide recedes, we go to the cave to collect all the bergamot snails we can and sell them. The total difference is only a few hundred yuan at most. I work harder and earn back quickly.
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Zhou Ruonan looked at Li Changle, who had lost a lot of weight, and said distressedly: "Ale, my mother-in-law told me to give us the money to build a house. I don't want you to be too tired and your body will collapse."
Li Changle put his arms around Zhou Ruonan and said, "If we really can't make ends meet, we'll definitely have to borrow it from her. Now that we can make ends meet, just hold on tight. If you find anything useful in the future, we'll borrow it from her."
"Okay!" Zhou Ruonan reached out from under the bamboo mat and took out another account book, "There are still two to three hundred kilograms of dried oyster meat at home, and seventy or eighty kilograms of green turtle heads.
There are about thirty kilograms of mackerel heads, about ten kilograms of dried shrimps, and more than a dozen kilograms of eels and flounder. When we go to Lucheng, we can give them to my mother-in-law and sell them in exchange for some money."
"How much does dried oyster meat cost per pound?" Li Changle knew that Qingzhan squid head was only 2 cents per pound, dried mackerel and eel were only 1.21 pounds, and dried shrimps were more expensive, selling for 1.5 dollars per pound.
Zhou Ruonan thought about it for a moment, "I remember that last time I went to buy better dried oysters with my mother-in-law. I bought them one piece per pound."
Li Changle did the math and said in surprise: "Oh, you can do business in drying dried oyster meat. With more than four kilograms of oyster meat, you can dry one kilogram of dried oyster meat. You can earn almost half of the profit from one kilogram."
"Ma Ju and Qing Zhan are also very profitable, especially Qing Zhan. You can earn about two and a half kilograms per kilogram, and you can make a dime and a dozen per kilogram!"
"That's right. When we move to the new house, we will collect the fish and shrimp and dry them for sale."
"If you can do it, I also want you to do this. Even if you make less money, the whole family can be together in peace, which is better than anything else."
"It's not possible now. I'll catch more fish in the past few years and earn more money so that I can spend time with you when you retire."
Chapter completed!