Li Changle exchanged pleasantries with Qian Acong and followed him into the yard. Qian Acong shouted happily into the room: "Ayue, Afa and his friends are here."
"Hey!" Ma Qiuyue walked out with a smile on her face, happily exchanged greetings with the two of them, took the fish and cakes they brought, and went into the house to prepare lunch.
Qian Ah Cong brought out bamboo chairs for the two of them to sit down, and poured two bowls of herbal tea for them. He asked Ah Fa about his situation after returning home, and was happy for him when he learned that the boat had been bought.
The three of them chatted for a while, and Qian Acong took them to the backyard. They saw that the hay shed was filled with wood.
Qian Acong pointed to the wood and said: "Chestnut, fir, cypress, eucalyptus, and peach are all available. Cypress, chestnut, fir, pine, and eucalyptus can be used to build houses."
"There are a total of twenty rooms, all of which require beams, rafters, purlins and floor slabs." Li Changle gave him the material list given by Zhang Dejin, "Do you think you can get enough wood for this?"
Qian Acong looked at the bill of materials and saw that there were twenty or thirty beams and columns, and there were even more fir trees used for the floor slabs and purlins.
He smiled and said: "This is just a part of it. There are three rooms in my old house that are all piled with wood. They are all big trees that are more than 20 or 30 years old. The thickness and price are different. I guarantee that I will pick a tree with a straight trunk for you."
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As he spoke, he took the two of them to the old house next door. Sure enough, they had piled wood for three rooms, and they were all of good quality.
Qian Acong patted a piece of wood and said: "Take this kind of wood as an example, eucalyptus only costs twenty-five, pine only thirty-five, cypress at least eighty, fir..."
"You are Afa's friend, and you are my friend. Don't worry about the price. I, Qian Acong, will never do that kind of thing to defraud my friends."
Ge Chang laughed and said, "You guy, if I didn't believe you, I wouldn't have brought A Le to your home."
Li Changle nodded repeatedly, "Yes, we are all friends. If we can't trust you, we won't come to your place.
Brother Acong, please help me pick out the wood according to the material list. There will be a typhoon in the next two days. When the weather clears, please help me deliver it to Shatou Village."
He had already compared the price mentioned by Qian Acong with what Zhang Dejin said in his mind. Compared with the lumber market, pine and eucalyptus were four or five yuan cheaper, and cypress and fir were about ten yuan cheaper.
"Okay, I'll pick the best ones for you." Qian Acong was also very happy. After selling this batch of wood, his family's wood was almost sold.
The three of them came back from the old house. Qian Acong took them to have lunch at home. They had fried ground ears with bacon, fried cabbage, stewed chicken with mushrooms, and boiled peanuts. The wine was green apricot wine brewed by the people in the mountains themselves.
Qian Acong was two years older than Li Changle. He got married and started a family at the age of sixteen. The couple gave birth to four children, the eldest was 12 years old, the third was 20 years old, the third was eight years old, and the youngest was the same age as Xiao Hai.
Li Changle looked at the dogs squirming under the table, "Are your dogs for sale? I want to buy two and take them back to look after the house."
Qian Acong said with a smile: "There's no need to buy them. Just pick two that look promising and take them back. Everyone in the mountains has dogs. If they are bigger and no one wants them, we should drive them into the mountains and find them ourselves."
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"Thank you! Thank you very much!" Li Changle pointed to the two yellow-haired and white-faced ones, "Those two are the only ones I liked at first sight."
Ge Changfa smiled and took a bone to Gouzi, "Ah Wang, don't bite him next time. You really want to abduct your son."
After the two of them had eaten and drank enough, Qian Acong tied up the female dogs, grabbed the two that Li Changle had chosen, and put them in a small bamboo chicken coop and gave them to him.
Ma Qiuyue also prepared some mountain products, mushrooms, bamboo fungus, and chestnuts to put in a basket on her back, and then sent the two of them away.
The two of them walked to the middle of the mountain, and it started to rain again. They quickly put on their raincoats and pushed the bicycle down the mountain.
When we reached the foot of the mountain, the bicycle tires were already filled with yellow mud, and a thick layer of yellow mud stuck under the yellow rubber shoes scraped off.
The rain stopped after leaving Panzhen.
When she got home, Mother Li's face turned dark when she saw him bringing two dogs back, "No one has food to eat, what are you doing with a dog?"
"There are so many big tanks outside and two dogs. I can be alerted if there is any movement at night."
After hearing this, Li's father said: "They are going to sell dry goods in the future. It would be nice to have a dog to help look after the house."
The children who were most happy to see the dog were the children. Li Xiaoyang and the others fought to name the dog. The children also held grudges. The older one was named Awang, and the younger one was named Dahuang.
Li Xiaomei hugged the puppy and refused to let go. The three sisters even found dried shrimps to feed the puppy, which made Mother Li very distressed.
Zhou Ruonan found some pine hair and put it in a broken bamboo basket to make a nest for the dog. Awang and Dahuang settled down at the foot of the mountain.
It started to rain again when it was getting dark, and it continued like this for two days in a row, sometimes sunny, sometimes rainy, but no typhoon made landfall.
When the time came for the pickled jellyfish to be treated with two alum and one salt, the family took out the pickled jellyfish from the large vat and mixed alum, a layer of jellyfish skin and a layer of sea salt in proportion. This time, three more water vats were emptied.
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After the jellyfish skin was pickled, I dug tree stumps, leveled the homestead, and dug clay from the mountain to pile it in the dilapidated house for later use.
The Li Changle brothers were also worried. They went to the beach several times to see the waves, but they saw that the waves were getting bigger and bigger, and the tide never receded.
I was thinking about building a house at home, but there was still a gap of one to two thousand yuan that had not been filled. I couldn't go fishing at sea, and I couldn't get out the bergamot snails in the cave. I didn't earn a penny from sitting at home.
There are still forty cages at sea, and the fish and shrimp inside must have died long ago. Now we are worried that the buoys will be swept away by the typhoon, and we will have to spend money by then.
Everyone is talking that the typhoon took a detour and landed somewhere else.
Some impatient ones ran to the brigade headquarters to ask if the typhoon was coming. If not, they would go out to sea to fish.
Accountant Chen and Party Secretary Wang were so angry that they told them to go immediately if they wanted to die without anyone stopping them.
Having said that, everyone on the beach knows how powerful typhoons are, and no one would really risk going out to sea just to make money, even risking their lives, knowing that there is a typhoon.
That afternoon, Li Changle and Chen Yongwei were digging clay on the mountain. Suddenly, they saw high clouds appear in the sky. Large plume-like clouds continued to thicken, and the originally gloomy sky suddenly turned dark.
In my ears I could faintly hear the roar of waves hitting the cliffs on the coast.
Li Changle hurriedly poured the clay from the dustpan into the bamboo basket, "Awei, the typhoon is coming, hurry up and leave."
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei looked up at the sky, quickly collected the hemp rope and walked away.
Brother Li and Brother Li, who were halfway there, saw this and walked down the mountain carrying bamboo baskets. They put their belongings on the tricycle and waited for the two of them to ride home on the tricycle and bicycles against the wind.
When passing by Old Man Jin's house, a clear exclamation came from the yard, "Mom, my clothes are blown away!"
A floral shirt flew out and hit Chen Yongwei's head with a clang, and the bicycle fell to the ground.
Li Changle said happily: "Holy crap~ Could it be that God is helping toss the embroidered balls!"
Brother Li smiled and said, "It's okay if it belongs to Jin Hui, but it would be fun if it belongs to his wife."
"It looks like it's what a girl is wearing." Brother Li said firmly.
Chen Yongwei quickly grabbed the shirt off his head and looked at the Jin girl running out of the house, her face redder than a cooked red crab.
"My clothes!" Jin Chanman said with a red face.
Chen Yongwei looked at her at a loss, his heart was beating hard, his legs were weak, his feet seemed to be stuck with glue, and he couldn't move forward no matter what.
The three Li Changle brothers couldn't help laughing as they looked at the two big red shrimps, "Awei, what are you doing standing still? Hurry up and give your clothes back to Jin Chan!"
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei stepped forward with hands and feet, put the flowered shirt into Jin Chan's hand, turned around, picked up the bicycle and ran away, faster than a dog chasing him behind.
Jin Chan took the clothes and ran into the yard with a blushing face. The three brothers Li Changle looked at each other and hurried back while holding back their laughter.
When I reached the intersection, I heard Wang Daobiao's wife shouting at the top of her voice, "Agou, where did the little bastard die? The typhoon is coming, why don't you come back to me quickly!"
Before he finished speaking, a gust of wind blew up the fine sand and fallen leaves and scattered them. Li Changle squinted his eyes while pedaling, and the tricycle was also shaken by the wind. The strong wind made the person's face hurt like a knife.
"Damn~ It's really a strong typhoon!"
Brother Li and Brother Li hurriedly got out of the car and helped push them forward, "The one last time was only level eight or nine, and this one is at least level fourteen or five."
As soon as the words came out of his mouth, they were blown away by the wind and a lot of sand was poured into his mouth.
On the mountain road in front of the Laoye Temple, the larger trees were bent over by the typhoon, and the smaller trees were directly broken at the waist level.
As we approached the entrance of the alley, there were deep thunderous sounds from the clouds, and bright lightning cracked through the black and gray clouds, illuminating the earth brightly.
"Rumble~Crack~" The deafening thunder seemed to explode above the head, which suddenly made people feel horrified.
Strong winds and heavy rain poured down, and the sky turned dark instantly.
A few sparks flashed past, and the loudspeaker at the entrance of the alley suddenly became mute.
The three brothers Li Changle rushed home, pushed the tricycle to the side room and put it away. They closed the door, pushed it open, went over and knocked on their parents' door.
Zhou Ruonan, who opened the door, waited for them to enter, then hurriedly closed the door, shutting Feng Yu out.
The three of them entered the room and saw Chen Yongwei sitting there blankly, his face still a little red. Thinking of what he had just looked like, the three of them were extremely happy.
"Awei, God has chosen a good wife for you. She has a round face, like a red apple!"
"Uncle San, are you making up a sentence?" Li Xiaotao asked curiously.
"Hahaha..." Li Changle laughed loudly.
Chen Yongwei glared at him and said, "I won't tell you anymore." Then he opened the door and got into the rain.
Zhou Ruonan and the others were feeling strange just now, and now they couldn't help but feel even more strange when they saw the appearance of the three of them.
She closed the door and turned around, "What's going on? Who did God help Ah Wei find as his wife?"
"When we came back..." Li Changle smiled and recounted what happened.
Several people who were weaving nets in the room burst out laughing after hearing this.
Chapter completed!