Chapter 227 Mud is mud
When Li Changle got home, he saw several children gathered around the Eight Immortals table. There were a bunch of new textbooks on the table and some calendar pictures, "School is over."
Li Xiaozhou turned around and saw him, and quickly climbed down from the bench, "Abba, I'm at the same table as Amei."
"Okay, no quarreling." Li Changle slapped him and looked at Li Xiaohai and others, "You have to wrap up all the new books?"
He remembered that his eldest son cherished textbooks very much. After Li Xiaoyang graduated from elementary school, all the textbooks became paper for wiping his butt.
As for him, everything was packed neatly. Later, when a child in the village dropped his textbook, he came to his house to borrow it.
Li Xiaohai nodded vigorously, "Yes! Sister taught me how to wrap book cases."
"Do you still have to go to class this afternoon?"
"There will be no classes in the afternoon, we have to clean up."
"Every time school starts, there must be a general cleaning." Li Xiaoyang looked depressed, "Our group was sent to clean the toilets. On a hot day, the smell is terrible."
"Alas!" Li Xiaohui lamented, "Our group was also sent to clean the women's restroom."
Li Changle recalled that when he was in school, he also felt a chill in the school toilet. He shook his head and went to his parents' place.
Ge Changfa and Zhang Dejin were packing away the poker cards, and the smell of jumping fish stewed with tofu filled the room.
"Why don't you fight?"
Ge Changfa smiled and pointed to the kitchen, "My aunt called for dinner. It's so delicious that my mouth is watering."
"Can the stewed tofu with jumping fish be delicious?" Mother Li came out with a bowl. "When I arrived at the pier, I happened to meet someone who caught jumping fish on the shore. I bought a few kilograms and some shabu and brought it back to stew the beans.
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"There is also sea cucumber stewed chicken." Brother Li came out of the kitchen with a porcelain bowl and looked at the people with a smile, "This lunch meal is all supplementary!"
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Ruonan came out with another pot of shabu stewed bean noodles and placed it on the table.
Li Changle smiled and said: "We have to unload several ships of prefabricated panels in the afternoon. If we don't organize them well, how can we have the strength to work?"
Old Man Jin said with a smile: "Master, you are too polite."
Father Li greeted him with a few polite words, and everyone sat down to have a banquet. In the afternoon, they had to carry the prefabricated boards. The family drank two glasses of old wine and started eating.
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After Li Changle had lunch, he asked Li Xiaoyang to go to Xiang's house to call Xiang Xiaoyu, give him the money from selling the octopus, and then take him to the reef beach to put the jars.
"Xiaoyu, next time I go to Tuxiaqiao to sell fish, I will take you with me. From now on, when Uncle Awei and I are not at home, you can take the fish to sell there yourself."
"If the octopus harvest is good, you can go to the place where you bought the cans last time, buy more cans, and buy a few more groups."
Xiang Xiaoyu nodded, thought about it and asked, "Uncle Ale, is it okay if I go?"
He remembered that his father had said that every family had its own channels for selling goods, and generally they would not lead others to snatch their own buyers.
"Why not?" Li Changle looked at him with a smile, "If you catch any good stuff, just sell it yourself."
"But never go to places with deep water and mudflats. If you sink, you will know the consequences."
"I won't go." Xiang Xiaoyu stopped and looked at him, and said seriously: "Thank you, Uncle Ale!"
"Xiaoyu, no one else can help you for the rest of your life. Only by learning your own skills can you be forever supported." Li Changle rubbed his head and walked towards the entrance of the cave.
"Yeah!" Xiang Xiaoyu responded to him, lowered his head and wiped his eyes sideways with the back of his hand, then strode with him out of the cave, down the mountain to the reef beach, and saw that the tide had completely receded.
Li Changle took the jar out of the sack, "Do you still remember how I taught you how to remove the jar that day?"
"Remember, I'll show you." Xiang Xiaoyu dragged the fishing rope into the water until it was waist deep before stopping. He tied both ends of the fishing rope to the bamboo pole, straightened it, and inserted it into the sand with force.
Li Changle was sitting on the rock. When he saw him looking back at him, he nodded to him and signaled that he had done nothing wrong. After he had lowered both sets of jars, he stood up, patted his butt, rolled up the sack and waited for him to come back.
"I have to go back to work, do you want to go fishing?"
Xiang Xiaoyu nodded, "Grandpa said he wanted to teach me how to scoop out blue crabs, and I want to learn from him."
Li Changle thought for a moment and then remembered that it was Old Man Xiang, "Study well, the price of blue crabs is good, and if you can get soft-shell crabs, the price will be even higher."
Xiang Xiaoyu remembered that Li Xiaoyang said he liked to eat jumping fish, "Uncle Ale, I can also catch jumping fish. I will catch them later and bring them to you to eat."
Li Changle was not polite to him, "Uncle, I just had lunch today. If you have some in the next few days, you can bring some to me."
"Hey!" Xiang Xiaoyu happily carried the bucket, waved to him, and walked towards the tidal flat.
Li Changle walked to the top of the hill and looked at the tidal flats below. He saw that many of the tidal flats had been dug into crab ponds.
Field ridges have been set up between the crab ponds, and a green gauze net has been erected in the middle of each field ridge to prevent blue crabs from "escaping" to other houses.
He remembered that after the blue crab farming failed, some returned the contracted tidal flats to the village, while others went to other places to learn skills and came back to raise seaweed, green crabs, scallops, and clams. Those who persisted also made money.
By the time he got home, Father Li and the others had already gone to the construction site. As soon as they were about to go there, Brother Li pedaled his bicycle into the yard.
"Ale, I saw my aunt's house was demolishing a wall, and my uncle was there too. It seems like the two of them worked together."
"Whatever, just don't come to us." Li Changle looked at him, "What did you do?"
"As soon as you and Xiaoyu left, Uncle A Dong came with the wire transfer form, and A Huan wired five hundred yuan to his family." Brother Li said with a smile, "I don't know how long that kid saved up.
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"I'll save it for him so that he can buy a house when he changes his job. If that doesn't work, we have to buy land for him to build a house near his workplace!"
Brother Li looked at him funny, "Do you really think you, Yuan Tiangang, have been reincarnated? Just count with your fingers and you will know where he will work when he comes back."
"Anyway, it's either the border police station or the Maritime Safety Administration. I think he is probably in these two places."
"It's ridiculous." Brother Li continued, "When I came back, I heard them say that Shaji Village started putting on a show on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, and it lasted seven days in a row."
"I heard that it was two big families in their village who pooled money with their village committee to hire a big theatrical troupe, not the village's grass-stage troupe."
"Damn it! I've been doing it for seven days in a row, who is so awesome?" Li Changle followed him towards the house.
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"Maybe it's the Zhou brothers? I heard that the first performance was "Five Daughters' Birthday Wishes" and "He Wenxiu"."
When Mother Li heard that there was a play going on, she hurriedly came out of the back room and said, "Aping, did Shaji Village really invite a big theater troupe to sing?"
"Yes! I heard that their village has started to set up a theater." Brother Li happily handed her the money, "You all go to the theater on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, and I will watch over you at home."
"I'm blessed with ears. Let's go to the theater on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year." Mrs. Li happily took the money and walked towards the back room. After thinking about it, she said, "You can give this money to your father and give it to the money to buy the prefabricated panels. It will save you money."
You go and get the money."
"Okay, when we're done, we'll get it and return it to you." Brother Li took the money, packed it up, and went to Nanshan with Li Changle.
More people came to help in the afternoon, including Li Changqing and Li Changshui.
Several of Zhang Dejin's brothers also came. Father Li, Old Man Jin, Sister-in-law Li, and Sister-in-law Li stayed in front of the construction site to help with the mortar and send it to them to build the wall.
Among the ten dilapidated houses, only the walls of the middle ones are still intact, especially the two gables at Cantou where most of them have collapsed.
They had to build the gables, put the beams back on, nail the purlins and cover them with tiles.
Li Changqing looked at the spacious foundation and said with envy: "Ale, is your place good? I knew I would have approved this place."
"Is my vision wrong?" Li Changle also thought it was very good, especially the front and back yards, which they were the only ones in the whole village.
"Ale, let me ask you something." Uncle Li pulled him and walked towards the seaside. "Awei's new house has been built. What are he going to do with his old house? Have I ever mentioned it to you?"
"He didn't say, and I didn't ask. Third uncle, do you want to buy it?"
"What did I buy it for?" Uncle Li whispered, "I asked Ah Shui for it."
"Did you think of it, or did Ah Shui think of it himself?"
"It was Ah Shui's idea. They wanted to move out from there."
Uncle Li said with a complicated expression, "That night you and Ah Shui brought your fourth uncle back. After you left, the two parents-in-law beat each other at home, crying for father and mother.
Ah Si became hardened after having a fight with that crazy woman Xu Xianmei. After going to sea and returning to Hong Kong, he went directly to Tuxiaqiao Pier to sell goods.
I won’t give the money from selling the fish to your fourth aunt. When I get home, I have to settle the accounts with her and ask her to get all the money back.”
"Fourth uncle is looking for a concubine in Tuxiaqiao?"
Li Changle felt that men like Fourth Uncle Li were born to be soft-hearted slaves. Unless he found another woman who could seduce him, he would be so tough on Xu Xianmei.
"I heard from some boat bosses in the village that he seems to be in love with a widow who works in a hotel." Uncle Li clicked his tongue twice, "I went to Tuxiaqiao Pier yesterday to have a look, and now he's looking like a human being."
"He went out and had a good time with others. Xu Xianmei couldn't get the money and cursed at home like a crazy woman every day. Ah Shui and Yufang were in such misery that they wanted to move out."
"Third Uncle, as you know about Fourth Aunt, I can't come forward to buy a house. You can ask Ah Shui to find out about Grandma Chen."
Uncle Li also felt a headache when he thought about Xu Xianmei's character, "Okay, I'll talk to Ah Shui later."
While the uncle and nephew were talking, they went to the beach. When the cargo ship arrived, more than a dozen people shouted slogans and loaded the prefabricated boards onto trucks and pulled them to the construction site, followed by oyster ash, stones, and stone strips.
One cargo ship after another docked, and construction materials were continuously delivered to the construction site. It was busy until dusk, when the cargo ship disappeared and all the materials were ready.
Zhang Dejin and his three fellow apprentices worked very quickly. They repaired all the collapsed areas in one afternoon, the beams were erected, and the carpenters had already ordered the rafters and purlins for the two rooms.
The stove and chimney of the house in Cantou have also been repaired, so that there will be no need to boil water from the old house and send it here.
Chapter completed!