Chapter 203 A lot of money
At around nine o'clock, everyone killed and cleaned the cuttlefish, packed them up, and sent them to Chen Yongwei's house. They spread the cuttlefish with bamboo strips and hung them on a bamboo frame.
Sister-in-law Li smiled and said, "Fortunately, my father got up early in the morning and asked a few uncles to help make the shelves and weave a lot of bamboo flats. Otherwise, he would be blinded right now."
Li Changle said proudly: "So, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared."
The sister-in-law in the next room smiled and said, "Ale has learned a lot from Teacher Zhou, and he speaks politely now."
“Of course it’s different if you have a teacher at home!”
With more people and greater strength, it didn't take much effort to hang all the cuttlefish. Mrs. Li took the helper woman home to collect her wages.
Grandma Chen asked Chen Yongwei and Li Changle to move the unused small bed in the attic to the eaves, install it and hang up the mosquito net, planning to sleep outside and keep vigil tonight.
Although her yard is fenced, there are cuttlefish worth hundreds of dollars hanging in it, as well as dried shrimps and silver pomfret heads.
It's fine during the day, but at night I'm afraid three hands will climb over the wall and come in to steal things.
Chen Yongwei originally thought that he was keeping watch outside. After hearing this, he hurriedly said: "Grandma, you don't feel much at all, so it's better for me to keep watch outside."
"What's your job in guarding?" Grandma Chen looked at him with a smile, "You can't even hear the thunder when you're asleep, and you don't even know when thieves come in and remove all the dried fish."
Chen Yongwei: "I brought Rhubarb home, and someone barked twice, and I woke up."
"It's good to bring the dog, so that I don't have bad ears and can't hear clearly."
Grandma Chen looked at her grandson lovingly, "Grandma can squint for a while during the day. You are going to sea early tomorrow morning. Dozing off on the boat is no joke."
"Ah Wei, just listen to Grandma." Li Changle said, "Let's go back and help peel out the remaining Pippi shrimps, and later we will share the money from today's sale!"
Chen Yongwei smiled and nodded, and the two brothers walked out.
"Brother, I heard from my sister-in-law that how many beads were sold for two hundred and eighty-one?"
"Nine beads worth two hundred and eighty cents! Before leaving, I asked your sister-in-law to pick out three small ones and keep them. I also picked some interesting ones among the shapeless beads to keep when I have some spare money later.
Let them get some jewelry."
"Why don't you let your sister-in-law keep a few good ones?"
"She said she doesn't like the big ones, but likes the small ones. What can I do?"
"Obviously the bigger one looks better. I think my sister-in-law is just like my grandma. She doesn't want to spend money to say that the small one is better."
"Yeah, why didn't I think of that?" After hearing this, Li Changle suddenly felt that what Silly Ah Wei said made sense. Ah Nan was probably reluctant to spend money, so he said he liked Xiaozhu.
Now that they are all sold, they won’t be worth the same price when they are bought back. There are many shellfish in the sea that produce beads. I will find other better beads for her in the future.
When the two of them got home, they almost finished peeling the last pot of Pipi shrimps.
Xiang Xiaoyu is not as reserved as he just arrived, and Xiang Xiaoxing is also much more lively, talking and laughing with the children of the Li family.
"Go wash your hands and eat snacks before going back to bed, so as not to wake up hungry and unable to sleep in the middle of the night." Zhou Ruonan and Li's mother came out with rice and noodles and said to the children.
Li Xiaohai hurriedly said: "Mom, I ate a lot of shrimps. I want a small bowl."
"Okay!" Zhou Ruonan put the small bowl in front of him and said to Xiang Xiaoyu who stood up to leave: "Xiaoyu, Xiaoxing, don't leave yet. Eat at Grandma's house before going back."
Xiang Xiaoyu pulled his brother, "Teacher Zhou, let's eat..."
Mother Li smiled and said: "Xiaoyu, I'm hungry now after dinner. Grandma's cooking is not delicious, so I'll just have a bowl."
Li Xiaoqing put the noodles in front of brother Xiang Xiaoyu, "Sit down and eat. Boys should be more cheerful and behave like little grandmas."
Li Xiaoyang nodded, "That's right, you also treated us to rice krispie treats before."
"Thank you Grandma Li, Teacher Zhou!"
Xiang Xiaoyu thanked him and took his younger brother to sit down, thinking about their life since their parents left...
As the brothers ate, tears fell involuntarily. They hurriedly wiped away the tears and started eating.
The Li Changle brothers finished eating and went to his house to share the money and talk.
Brother Li closed the door, took out the 8,240 yuan sent by Chen Dong from the sack and put it on the table, "These are the money sent by A Dong, and there are more than 80 yuan sold today."
piece.
Let me tell you, your sister-in-law said that ever since she got the money, she felt uneasy wherever she put it. When she went to work on the new foundation, she asked her father and mother to watch from outside, for fear that someone would get into the house and steal it.
Gone."
"I wouldn't be worried if it cost so much money."
Chen Yongwei said, taking out the money from today's sale of octopus and bulk goods, "I still have five hundred yuan here!"
"I have some too." Li Changle went back to the house and took out the order and money, then took out the bundles and put them on the table.
Several people looked at the large bundles of money on the table, their eyes widened. It was more than 10,000 yuan! It was all earned by them.
Brothers Li and Chen Yongwei never dared to dream that they would one day earn tens of thousands of yuan, or several thousand yuan just by opening oysters.
Li Changle looked at the three of them with a smile, and took out another two hundred and four from his trouser pocket, "This is the money for the three beads that Anan took.
Including the 5,800 sold by the gold shop and the 130 sold by the drugstore, the total sold was 6,170 yuan.
We took away five hundred and seventy-five kilograms of dried oysters, which were sold at a price of twenty-one kilograms each, for a total of six hundred and ninety-nine yuan. Eels and mackerel heads, a total of one hundred and twenty-four kilograms, were sold for one hundred and eighty-six yuan.
Twenty-five kilograms of dried shrimps, two yuan a kilogram, were sold for fifty yuan, and one hundred and sixteen kilograms of green turtle heads, two cents a kilogram, were sold for twenty-three yuan.
Thirty kilograms of dried fish were sold for nine yuan per kilogram. To buy cigarettes and friendship, plus the transportation fee, it cost a total of ninety yuan to build the container.
Collecting fish and shrimp in the afternoon, plus the wages of hiring people, cost a total of 767 yuan, and there is still a total of 6,270 yuan here."
Brother Li and the others looked at the money on the table and were so happy that they didn't know what to say, "Now it's good. After the house is built, there is still money left at home."
Chen Yongwei only knows how to laugh naively.
Brother Li rubbed his hands happily, "I thought that if I was lucky, I would have to work until the end of the year to repay the money I owed for building the house. Who knew I would have enough money in a blink of an eye."
Li Changle was also very happy, "My family also has enough money. After I receive the reward tomorrow afternoon, I plan to go to the port and the shipyard to inquire about the price of the iron boat. If it suits me, I will order the boat."
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After hearing this, Chen Yongwei laughed naively and said: "Brother, don't share my money with me. Use it to buy a tin boat. Don't think of leaving me alone to do it alone."
Brother Li and Brother Li immediately picked it up, "And we, if you want to order this time, order a bigger one. When the boat is ready, the money we have saved should be almost the same."
Li Changle smiled and said: "As the old saying goes, we are brothers who fight tigers. Even if you don't mention it, I will still pull you to do it together.
Now, unlike before, you can make money by going to sea, and you can also make money by doing dry goods. I have calculated, not counting labor, Shui Gong and Qing Zhan Qian have half of the profit.
Mackerel and eel account for nearly half of the profit, while dried shrimp only accounts for 40% of the profit. The school has to send hundreds of kilograms of dry goods in two weeks. In January, the school earns several hundred yuan."
Brother Li and the three of them did the calculations, and found out that if Shui Jing and Qing accounted for half of the profit, they would get 1 jiao, 40% of the dried shrimp would be 8 jiao, and 70 jiao for mackerel and eel.
She looked at him in surprise, "If you don't tell me, we haven't discovered that selling dry goods is much better than selling fresh goods."
"Not so much if you include labor." Li Changle looked at a few people and said, "School is about to start and Anan has to go to work. The three elders and sister-in-law have to help with all the household chores.
As a result, they don’t have time to weave nets or knit hats to earn wages, so I think we should give them some wages.”
Brother Li smiled and said: "Grandma Chen and grandma and daddy should be paid for their work. Your sister-in-law and the others should be helping with the work. Why don't all the money we earn go to them?"
Brother Li nodded, "That's right, how can you make sense of working for your own family and getting paid for it?"
Li Changle shook his head and said: "Brother, you can't settle the accounts like this. You also know that after the dry goods business is started, the work of washing and drying is not a matter of January or two. I decided to do it one piece a day from September on.
Give them wages."
When we went there, Anan said that their family took the majority of the dry goods business, and the three old men helped with it. No matter how long they worked, there would be no complaints.
But the two sisters-in-law are different. They can work for a month or two, but as time goes by, they will inevitably have complaints.
It's not that they are careless, because people's hearts are like this, and it would be the same if it were her.
Seeing that he had made up his mind, the three of them could only nod.
"This is how the family affairs are settled." Li Changle looked at the three of them, "Let's talk about the store in Lucheng.
My mother-in-law said that after we have enough goods ready to be put on the shelves, she will charge us 30 yuan a month for rent, and then it will be a matter of giving her money. Can you please discuss how much we can give her for a pound of dry goods? "
Chen Yongwei said simply, "Brother, I don't know how much is appropriate. Just give me as much as you want."
After hearing this, Brother Li thought for a while, but he didn't come up with an idea, "That's right, we don't understand this, you can just figure it out!"
Brother Li also said: "We have never sold anything, so how do we know how much to give? Why don't you ask your in-laws and grandma how the people in the city give, and we will give how to give!"
Li Changle: "My mother-in-law said that everyone in the city does business by herself and doesn't sell for others, so she doesn't care how much.
I just want everyone to start out in a harmonious way, and then when we no longer work together, we can break up the team in a harmonious way.
But I don’t think this is okay, because once you start doing it, it won’t be something that happens every year or two. Set the rules first to avoid any estrangement in everyone’s mind later.
You go back and discuss it with your sister-in-law and grandma. Just tell me before the dried fish ordered by the school is dried."
Chen Yongwei felt that such a thing was impossible.
Brother Li and Brother Li thought for a while and felt that what he said made sense, but they really didn't know how much to give.
"Okay, let's go back and discuss it with your sister-in-law, and then we'll talk to you."
Li Changle picked up the money and said, "Tomorrow we have to collect fish and shrimp for drying. Let's keep a thousand yuan as capital and divide the rest. When I finish the boat, how much is the down payment? I'll ask you to get it.
money."
Chapter completed!