Chapter 225 What is the hardest thing to do?
Li Xiaotao looked at her gratefully, "Third Aunt said it, I really didn't mean it."
"Why don't you hurry up and do your homework!" Sister-in-law Li glared at Li Xiaotao, "Debt collector, it seems that you are reading for me. If you don't want to read, just stop reading and go to the mountains to break stones."
They didn't want to go to break stones. If they could go fishing with their uncle and uncle, it would be much more comfortable than going to school.
Li Xiaotao sobbed and went into the house to make up for his homework. Sister-in-law Li came in and scolded the older two before letting Li Xiaoyang go to Nanshan to call Brother Li back for dinner.
Li Changle saw that most of the fish caught last night had been killed and came out. He looked at the gloomy sky and said, "You guys got up before dawn?"
"The sky is bright and it's cool on a rainy day, so it's comfortable to work." Mother Li smiled and said, "Your elder brother did the weighing when he got up in the morning. The fat-eye herring caught last night weighed 670 kilograms. You can deduct it yourself."
For three cents per catty, I got about twenty yuan, which was considered an unexpected windfall.
"Has Awei been here this morning?"
"Ah Wei got up early to help sell octopus." Mother Li glanced at him and said, "You are just lazy. Your eldest brother and the second brother got up and saw it was raining, so they went to work at the new house in Nanshan.
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"..." Li Changle thought about how he woke up and heard rain, then lay down to sleep again. Compared with his eldest brother, second brother and Ah Wei, he was indeed the laziest.
The sky was so gloomy that they did not dare to move the catheads and eels to the yard to dry, so they spread them out under the eaves and inside the house. After these fat-eyed herrings were killed and pickled, they could only be threaded with fishing lines.
, hung under the eaves to dry.
Li Changle thought that after the new house was built and moved in, he would buy some tarpaulins and put up bamboo frames. Only on rainy days like this would he have a place to dry the fish. When it rained, he would cover it with a tarpaulin and not worry about not being able to put it in in time.
In the house.
Zhou Ruonan came over and said, "Ale, it looks like it's going to rain. Why don't we go out to sea today?"
"I won't go. My brother-in-law said that a cargo ship will bring rocks today. I will help unload the rocks. It may be noon. If it clears up in the afternoon, I will go fishing in the sea."
Zhou Ruonan nodded and said to Li's mother: "Aniang, eat first, and then continue to kill after eating."
"Okay." Mother Li washed her hands in the basin and followed the two of them back to the house. Each of them had a big bowl of rice noodles before Father Li and his two sons arrived home.
"Abba, sit down and I'll bring you some rice and noodles." Zhou Ruonan hurriedly brought the warm rice and noodles out of the pot to Father Li.
After Li's father sat down, he said to Li's mother: "You can go to the dock to cut some meat and come back later, and let Ah Jin have lunch here."
"Auntie, kill a chicken and stew those sea cucumbers to eat."
"With so many people in the family, if one is not enough, I have to kill at least two."
"Then kill two." Li Changle said and took out five yuan and handed it over. "This money will be used to buy meat for you. There is a tofu and jumping fish seller and I will buy some back. My brother-in-law likes to eat."
"You keep the money yourself. The money Anan gave me that day hasn't been used up yet. You can give it to me when it is used up." Mother Li pushed the money in front of him, picked up the vegetable basket and left.
Father Li took two mouthfuls of noodles and remembered something, "Ah Le, I met Ah Chun when I came back. He asked you if you would collect the dried eels, mackerels, and water-swept catheads? If you want to collect them, go ahead and collect them."
Take a look at his house."
"Then it depends on the quality of his catfish and eels. If I want to buy them, the price will definitely not be as high as retail stores in the town."
"Your second brother told Ah Chun. He said they would send it to the town to sell to vendors, and the price would be cheaper. If you want it, they won't have to send it to the town."
"Okay, when I get back from work, my second brother and I will go take a look."
Zhou Ruonan took out the textbook and said, "Ale, I'm going to school."
"Grandpa, daddy, we have gone to school." Li Xiaohai and his brother said to them carrying small schoolbags.
Father Li looked at his grandson lovingly and said, "Be good and listen to the teacher in school."
"Remember."
"Xiaozhou, look how pretty my little schoolbag is." Two little Li Xiaomei, with big red bows tied on their wrists, ran in with their short legs up and down.
"I also have a small schoolbag." Li Xiaozhou hurriedly asked Li Xiaohai to get his schoolbag and took out the contents to show off, "Look, mine looks like this. There is also a small bag inside."
Li Xiaomei opened her schoolbag and said, "I have the notebook that my sister gave me, and the pencil stub that my brother gave me."
"I have one too. Mine is new. My grandma bought it for me."
The two siblings gathered together and muttered.
Sister-in-law Li took the money into the house and handed it to Zhou Ruonan, asking her to help register the child. After saying a few polite words, she went to kill the fish.
Li Xiaoqing and others also arrived at the door. After a hard work, Li Xiaotao finished the homework he had left behind, and now he was joking with his brother and sister again.
Li Changle rubbed the heads of his two sons and said to the children: "Listen carefully to the teacher and don't be naughty."
"I understand." Several children followed Zhou Ruonan towards school.
On the road, there are also children walking toward school one after another with schoolbags on their backs. Shatou Village Primary School is about 60 to 70 meters away from the brigade headquarters.
Except for the first grade registration day when an adult will accompany them, from now on, even the children in the kindergarten class will not need an adult to pick them up.
Li Changle waited for Li's father and his two brothers to have a good meal. Chen Yongwei also came and gave him the money from selling the octopus. The five of them walked towards Nanshan together. As soon as they got there, Zhang Dejin followed A Guang to the construction site.
"Ah Jin, you are here so early!"
"A Guang prepared the materials yesterday afternoon." Zhang Dejin said and looked at Li Changle, "A Guang has collected the kind of slate you want for you. The big rock that just happened to be chiseled out is all made of steel.
Seaweed pattern.”
"Also, I also brought you a mosaic stone. Guang said that you bought so many, so I will give it to you."
"Thank you, Brother Aguang, for causing you trouble." Li Changle thanked Aguang.
Aguang smiled and said: "It's not a valuable thing, why bother!"
After some pleasantries, everyone pulled the cart to the beach.
Li Changle saw that they docked the cargo ship at the same place where they last fished for jellyfish. Two long wooden boards were connected with claw nails to form a springboard, one end on the ship and the other on the beach.
There were stone slabs placed on both sides of the ship's side, and stones and strips piled in the middle. The Li Changle brothers lifted bamboo baskets made of wide bamboo strips onto the ship, moved the stones on the deck into the bamboo baskets, and then put them back on the ship.
The baskets were carried onto the cart.
There are two bamboo baskets at the back of the car and five and seven bamboo baskets at the front. The amount of stones in the bamboo baskets is more than a thousand kilograms.
Zhang Dejin got off the boat and looked at it and said hurriedly: "Ale, why do you put the cart here to load stones? The wheels are stuck in the sand and it is not easy to pull out at all."
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"It's already installed. Let the next car go to the intersection."
Brother Li put the fiber rope on the rafter on his shoulder, grasped the handle of the cart tightly, and pushed forward with force. The fiber rope on his shoulder was also tightened, and he worked hard with him.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei stepped forward and pushed the cart shafts on both sides. The wheels sank into the sand, making it harder to pull than on a dirt road.
Father Li and others quickly went to help and pushed the cart away from the beach.
They learned the lesson the second time and put the cart at the intersection and carried the bamboo basket over, which was much less laborious than pulling it on the beach.
After a while, the villagers hired by the village to help came. They shouted "Hey Zuo Hei Zuo" and put the cables on the stone slabs or strips. After lifting them off the boat, they lifted them onto the carts and pushed and pulled them.
Go to the construction site.
After the stone materials on the ship were unloaded, Li's father paid A Guang the money, and he took his people back to transport the goods. The second trip was made by the ship's boss himself.
These days, as long as villages have waterways, they use cargo ships to transport building materials, and the freight is cheaper than tractors.
It was the eighth day of the Lunar New Year in two days, so the building materials were quickly prepared. Zhang Dejin kept bringing the cargo ship to pull the building materials to the shore.
From the moment they started buying building materials, the three Li Changle brothers and Chen Yongwei gave money to Li's father to pay for materials, rough labor, shipping charges, etc.
Father Li, who had been recuperating at home for more than a month and had gained weight and gray, became dark and thin again in just a few days.
Old Man Jin and Jin Hui did not go fishing on the rainy day, but when they saw several companies starting to move stones, they came to help with the work.
Li Changle and his son, together with the Jin family and his son who were helping, and the villagers who helped, pulled oyster ash, steel bars, prefabricated panels and other building materials that had been brought to the beach one after another to the construction site.
The three brothers Li Changle pulled the cart onto the main road. When they saw Ge Changfa coming, they asked, "Why haven't you gone to sea yet?"
Ge Changfa smiled and stepped forward to help push the cart, "My brother said that if the weather is bad, I will be worried about encountering strong winds when I go out. I will go find you. My sister-in-law said that you are here, so I came."
"It's rare for you to have a day off, and you've all come to my place to do hard work. I'll have sea cucumber stewed chicken for lunch to replenish your energy."
"Sea cucumbers cost several yuan a piece, right? You're willing to keep such an expensive thing for yourself? You have such a mouth, you know how to eat it."
"You money addict! People spend money to buy food. It's not like we don't have mouths. Why can't we eat?"
Ge Chang rolled his eyes at him and said, "As expected of him, he is famous for his many lies."
Brother Li and Chen Yongwei both laughed.
After a while, Sister-in-law Li pushed a tricycle and pulled tea to the construction site. Seeing that the Jin family and his son and Ge Changfa had also come to help, she quickly put down the tea bucket and went home to let Mrs. Li add vegetables.
With the addition of three new troops, the work speed was much faster. Truckloads of stone materials kept being pulled to the construction site. Fortunately, the gloomy sky finally cleared up before noon.
At half past eleven, everyone stopped working and went back. After working all morning, everyone who worked was sweating profusely, and their hair and undershirts were also wet.
Zhang Dejin said with a smile: "The seaside is much cooler than the town. When I work there on cloudy days, there is no wind when I stand on the roof, and the sweat falls down like falling rain."
Father Li nodded, "There is no hard work among masons. They are either on the wall or on the roof. It is better to be a carpenter, at least not in the sun."
An uncle who was doing rough work wiped his sweat and said, "Atang, the skilled masters are much better than us rough workers. We are the coolies who put in the effort."
People these days don't know how to cheat when working. They are so tired that they are sweating profusely. They only earn three yuan a day and a snack.
Because there are few work opportunities, there is not work every day. Once someone is caught cheating and cheating, and the reputation spreads, no one will ask other people to work next time.
The wages of masons and carpenters are higher. After the official start of work, masters with good skills will earn four yuan a day, three meals, and a pack of cigarettes, while those with poor skills will not earn as much.
Chapter completed!