When Jin Hui's wife saw that she still got cash, she excitedly took Zhou Ruonan's sister-in-law to count her pile.
"Hey, Uncle Jin is really smart. The big one has twenty, which is six yuan, the middle one has thirty, which is also six yuan, and the small one, which has twenty, is two yuan, a total of fourteen yuan."
"Thank you, Teacher Zhou, you are so quick to settle accounts!" Jin Hui, envious of Youpo, excitedly took the money and carefully put it in his pocket, then carried the bamboo basket to the beach to collect the jellyfish.
The other families in the immigrant village arrived later and were much fewer than them. The six families only caught fifty-three jellyfish in total, sixty-five in the medium size and forty or fifty in the small size.
There are even fewer other villagers who came late. There are about ten good ones and only seven or eight or three or five bad ones.
The women were very happy to get the money. Weaving a net for a day at home only cost a few cents.
The man has nothing to do at home, but he still has to lose a few dollars at the poker table!
Mrs. Li quickly scraped off the thin layer of brown blood under the jellyfish umbrella with a scraper and put it into the bucket.
He turned around and whispered to Mother Li: "Uncle Jin's jellyfish are good, and several of them have jellyfish blood."
Mother Li turned around and took a look, nodding happily, "Just a little more, we can sell it for more than ten yuan per pound!"
Sister-in-law Li looked at the mountains of jellyfish and felt a little unsure, "Mom, do you think we can sell them if we make them?"
"Didn't Ah Le say that the restaurant will collect the jellyfish brains, jellyfish linings and jellyfish blood?" Mother Li looked at the pile of jellyfish that had just been collected, feeling a little worried, "It would be great if the restaurant would also collect the jellyfish skins.
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Sister-in-law Li nodded, "Yes, I'm also worried that the jellyfish won't be sold. You see, after a while, I have collected dozens of dollars. I still need to buy a big tank, sea salt, and alum. If I can't sell it, I'll just throw it away.
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"I'll talk to Ale!"
Mother Li pulled the shaved jellyfish skin to Li Changle who was digging the sea sand to bury the jellyfish.
"Ale, when you go to a restaurant selling jellyfish brains, ask them if they accept jellyfish skins and heads?"
Li Changle thought it would take two or three weeks to marinate it, "Don't worry, send it to them to taste once it's marinated. If it tastes better, we'll talk about other things."
Seeing him questioning his skills, Mother Li gave him a dissatisfied look, "It's not like you haven't eaten the jellyfish skin pickled at home."
Li Changle smiled apologetically and said, "Auntie, I'm not doubting your skills. The main reason is that we only marinate a lot of jellyfish at home. One hundred kilograms of jellyfish is as big as the sky. This time, it will be at least ten thousand kilograms."
"Both the one hundred kilograms and the ten thousand kilograms are pickled in the same way, but one is more and the other is less!" Mother Li whispered again, "I'm afraid that I won't be able to sell it and you will have to spend money."
"Don't worry, as long as the quality and presentation of the pickled jellyfish are good, even if the restaurant doesn't accept them, you won't have to worry about selling them if you send them to Lucheng."
"That's good!" Mother Li saw his confident look and went to work with confidence.
Li Changle buried the jellyfish. When he saw Chen Yongwei coming back, he poured the jellyfish brains, jellyfish linings and jellyfish blood from the bucket into oilcloth bags.
"Awei, you take these back and let my dad sort them and cook them. You take the refrigerator to the pier and ask A Dong to buy one yuan of ice cubes to keep them fresh."
"Okay!" Chen Yongwei put the oilcloth bag into his backpack and walked towards Nanshan.
One after another, villagers came to sell jellyfish with bamboo baskets.
More than an hour later, Chen Yongwei came back with his lunch on his tricycle, "Brother, my uncle has already cooked the jellyfish brains, and I put them in the refrigerator."
"Have you eaten? If you eat, you can send these back?" Li Changle took the jellyfish brains in the bucket and asked him to send them back to cook and put them in ice cubes to keep them fresh.
"I ate it!" Chen Yongwei took out the sand jar from the tricycle and brought out a stack of bowls. "You scoop out the rice and noodles in there."
Grandma Chen glanced at her grandson and said, "Hey! Who cooked the rice and noodles at home?"
"Xiaoqing and Xiaohui cooked rice and noodles, Xiaoyang and Xiaotao were at home watching the drying of oyster meat and dried fish, and the younger two helped Uncle Atang with the thread."
"Even the younger ones didn't have time to spare, the whole family went into battle together."
Chen Yongwei smiled and nodded, "I'm leaving. Bring the rubber bucket when I come back."
Li Changle waved his hand and worked nonstop for more than two hours. He was already hungry and hurriedly took a bowl and chopsticks to fish for rice and noodles.
Opening the clay jar, the aroma is fragrant and whet your appetite. Inside, you see a clay jar full of rice noodles cooked with oyster meat, dried shrimps, Chinese cabbage, and eggs.
One person scooped out a big bowl, found a rock and sat down to eat, slurping and sweating profusely.
After filling their stomachs, the group moved much faster, and the beach was filled with piles of sand containing jellyfish skins.
At this time, the wind and waves on the sea were getting bigger and bigger, and fewer and fewer jellyfish could be caught. Many people closed their nets and sent the jellyfish they caught to the place where Li Changle's family killed the jellyfish.
This batch of jellyfish was much smaller, with more than a dozen and only five or six. A group of people surrounded the Li family's stall, chattering like a lot of ducks.
The Jin brothers and Jin Hui and his son brought the jellyfish over. Seeing that it was surrounded by people, they placed the jellyfish where the Li family killed the jellyfish, and then went back to change clothes.
The man who used the Li family to copy the net also helped to press the jellyfish skin with sea sand to dehydrate it, and Li Changle hurriedly asked him to go back.
He lived in the front and back alleys, but he couldn't do anything but use the nets and get people wet to help with the work.
The villagers who took the money looked at the mountains of jellyfish with envy, "Ah Le, you have collected more than 10,000 kilograms, right?"
Li Changle didn't hide anything from him, "I collected eight or nine thousand catties, plus what my family caught, it's ten thousand three to four, right?"
"Sea salt and alum cost more than 100 yuan, and jellyfish costs at least 100 yuan. If your family charges so much, it will be in trouble if you can't sell it!"
"There are sellers of jellyfish skin everywhere in the town, and they can't sell more than two kilograms a day!"
"Abba, so do you. The jellyfish has been pickled and soaked in salt. It won't go bad after being sold for a year." Jin Hui felt that his old man was meddling in other people's business.
Li Changle smiled and said, "I think so too. The main reason is that my mother-in-law has a shop in Lucheng, and there is a vegetable market right outside. Once it is marinated, I will send it over and ask her to help sell it."
"Oh, it turns out it was sent to Lucheng for sale. There are many people earning wages in big cities, so it should be no problem to sell it for more than ten kilograms a day."
"Aunt Xiaohua, it's better that your A Lefu is lucky. In our village, those who seek wives from the city will stop coming after they return to the city."
"That's right, look at Mr. Zhou, a well-educated person who is also good-looking. He doesn't mind the hard life in our fishing village. Even my mother-in-law is so kind to your family."
Jin Hui's wife glanced enviously at Zhou Ruonan, who was keeping accounts at the side, and felt a little sad when she thought that she didn't know a lot of Chinese characters.
"My Ah Nan and my mother-in-law have good consciences and don't mind my family being poor. The eldest son and the second daughter-in-law are also good at running the house. I owe it to them to take care of the house."
After Mrs. Li praised Zhou Ruonan, she didn't forget to praise the two older ones.
Ge Changfa, dripping wet, dragged the bamboo basket over and threw it in front of Li Changle, "You check it, I'll go back and change clothes to help you!"
"Okay, let's make jellyfish brains, stir-fry eggs and drink with wine tonight." Li Changle pulled the bamboo basket, "It's not bad, I caught about ten of them in a while."
"Thanks Awei for sending me your net to use. I went to the rocks to catch it." Ge Changfa said and left.
"What a panic, there are only about ten of them in total. I'll give you the money before we go." Li Changle grabbed the jellyfish out of the bamboo basket, counted them and asked Zhou Ruonan to give him the money.
Ge Changfa took two dollars and left happily.
Brother and sister Li Changshui also gave up fishing for jellyfish and returned to the beach to busy sorting jellyfish and selling them for money.
Li Yufang excitedly pulled out a 30 to 40 kilogram jellyfish and put it in the big pile, "Brother, how many big ones are there?"
"Including you, there are already fifteen." Li Changshui put aside a medium-sized one. "There are twenty in the medium-sized ones, and fifteen in the small ones."
"The big one is fifteen yuan, three cents each, the small one is two cents, how much is twenty yuan?"
Li Yufang couldn't calculate clearly and was angry that she had never gone to school and couldn't even do arithmetic. She went to Li Changle who was counting money for the villagers and said, "Brother A Le, go and do the math for us. See how many jellyfish my brother has caught?"
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Li Changle turned around and saw that the three sparse hairs on her head were still dripping with water, and said hurriedly: "My whole body is soaked. I will suffer from you when I grow old."
"It's okay, I have little hair. It will be dry in a moment." Li Yufang took him back and helped them calculate the first pot of gold for the brother and sister after they separated.
"Brother, let me help you figure it out. You go back and change your clothes first, otherwise you will suffer from rheumatism and bone pain when you get old!"
Li Changle thought that the brother and sister had separated early in their lives, and that Yufang girl would no longer be like her previous life. She was only thirty or forty years old, and she would die without even watching her son grow up.
Mother Li turned her head when she heard the sound, stepped forward and pinched her, "Damn girl, look at you, you are all soaked. Go back and change into dry clothes. Your brother and sister-in-law know how to do it here, and they won't miss you."
money."
Then he pointed to Ah Shui, "You also go back and ask your second uncle to bring some ginger back, cook it and eat it before you come back."
Li Yufang's clothes were dripping before, and her mother never cared about her. Her eyes were a little red, "Second Aunt, this is not what we are doing. You are so busy..."
"It's not too late to be busy. Let's go quickly." Mother Li waved to the brother and sister as if chasing ducks.
Zhou Ruonan took the account book and came forward, "Ah Shui, Yufang, go back and change your clothes quickly. My sister-in-law promises to help you do the calculations."
The brother and sister have almost sorted them, and the remaining ones can be seen at a glance.
"Okay sister-in-law." Li Changshui pulled his sister and said, "Second aunt, we are going back right now."
After the brothers and sisters left, Li Changle helped count them. There were eighteen large stings, worth five yuan and four cents, twenty-one medium ones, four yuan and two cents, and sixteen small ones, worth one yuan and sixty cents. A total of ten were earned.
One piece and two.
Zhou Ruonan took a look at the accounts and found that Ah Shui was almost catching up with the Jin brothers. He couldn't help but sigh: "Ah Shui and Yufang work harder than those adults!"
Mother Li shook her head, "We only have so much food at home, and the house is an old house that has been lived in for generations. If we don't work harder, we won't even be able to get a wife."
After harvesting the jellyfish, Zhou Ruonan continued to kill the jellyfish, while Li Changle dug a hole on the beach alone, and piles of sand were built along the spot where his family killed the jellyfish.
Mother-in-law Li and Grandma Chen were busy for more than half an hour, killing the jellyfish that had just been collected, and then Chen Yongwei came on three wheels.
Chapter completed!