Chapter 229 Building the floor tonight
"I know the prices are different. Miscellaneous fish like this are sold for 10 cents and 20 pounds, while threadfin and squid heads are sold for a dollar..."
Li Changle said to several people, "My squid heads are sent to Lucheng for sale. If you can do this, send them to my house and I will take them all."
"Ale, I'll sell it to you cheaper."
Li Changle said with an apologetic look: "Uncle Ah Hua, next time you dry it and send it to Brother Ah Chun's house, I will definitely accept it."
Ah Hua looked a little confused and curled his lips and said: "Forget it, forget it, they sell it to people in big cities, so you should keep it for yourself!"
Brother Li said politely: "Uncle Hua, I'm sorry!"
"It's okay, it's okay!" Seeing the two brothers being so polite, Ah Hua waved his hands in embarrassment, carrying the bag and going home.
The woman from the house next door to Li Changchun put the bag in front of him and said, "Ale, look at my bag."
Li Changle took a look and saw that the shrimp threads and tentacles of the dried shrimps had been cleaned up, and the eel blades were neatly stacked one by one and tied together with fishing lines.
"Take it, if it's like this from now on, you can send it to my house."
"Hey!" The woman agreed happily.
When he passed by Chen Yongwei's house on his way back from Li Changchun, Li Changle asked him to go back and call Grandma Chen and go to his house to talk about paying them. The three brothers took the cart home.
Li Changle saw that the lights at home were on, Zhou Ruonan was sitting at the Eight Immortals table preparing lessons, and several children were playing skipping rope in the yard.
I don’t know how they are in such good spirits when they are sweating even if they sit still.
When Mrs. Li saw that they had brought back so many dry goods, she asked the price and said sadly: "One pound of eel is two or three cents more expensive than drying it yourself. It's better to hire someone to dry it yourself."
"Sister-in-law, you can make more money by drying it yourself, but it's also more tiring. The drying of Achun's fish is no worse than ours. You can make money by bringing it back, which is much more profitable than waiting to be dried and then sold.
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"You're right. If the goods were available, they would have been sent to the school long ago."
Sister-in-law Li: "Ale, mackerel, dried shrimps, etc., you can earn 40 to 50 cents per pound, right?"
"The dry goods delivered to the school only include shipping costs. When the store is officially opened, we need to apply for a business license. Then we have to pay management fees, taxes, electricity bills, and my mother-in-law's tap. After excluding these expenses, our profit will be ours."
“What are management fees and taxes?”
"The money paid to the public is just like the poll tax and public food we pay."
Sister-in-law Li curled her lips in disgust, "It's better for them to sit there and collect money."
Li Changle shrugged, "There's nothing we can do about it. If the government doesn't collect the money, how can the army support it? Without the army, we would have to face fishing gangs and pirates every day."
Li's mother also experienced some things when she was a child. She nodded and said: "It's better to leave it to the public. Now at least I can have enough food and clothing. If it were the fishing gang and pirates, they would be cannibals."
"Auntie, all those eels should be done tomorrow, right?"
"It will be dry after another day of drying tomorrow. You have to collect the fresh goods and come back, otherwise you won't be able to pick them up."
"Go to sea tomorrow morning and go to the dock to receive the goods in the afternoon."
"Your father said that if we work for another day tomorrow, the stone house at the back of the new house can be repaired. How about you move in first and it will be convenient for boiling water and cooking."
The craftsmen will all arrive the day after tomorrow. Although the rough workers don't need to pay for their meals, there are only a dozen carpenters and masons. It takes more than half an hour to walk from Nanshan to here, and it takes time to go back and forth.
"Okay, we'll cook and eat there then, and we can also pile things here." Li Changle thought that it was close to the sea, so it would be convenient to go to the dock or go shopping in the sea.
After everyone moved the dry goods into the house, Chen Yongwei's grandfather and grandson arrived, and everyone went to Mother Li's house together.
Although Mother Li, Grandma Chen and her two sisters-in-law had known about it for a long time, Li Changle still told several people about what they discussed that day.
"We all agree."
Grandma Chen smiled and said: "The whole family also needs to be paid, but you and Nan are the only ones who have thought carefully about it."
"If you hire outsiders to do the work, you have to pay wages!" Li Changle looked at a few people, "Second brother told me today that my mother-in-law will take 10% of the profit from now on. You all know that, right?"
"I know." Grandma Chen and Sister-in-law Li responded.
Sister-in-law Li smiled and said: "Ah Le, Ah Nan, don't worry, we have agreed on giving 10% profit to my mother-in-law, and we will not argue about it in the future."
Li Changle looked at Brother Li, Second Brother Li and Chen Yongwei, "Now grandma and sister-in-law understand. In the future, after excluding expenses, the payment for goods purchased and the profit will remain the same as before.
The two of you and I will divide it among the four. If you think it is possible, I will ask Anan to sort out what we have discussed and write an agreement.
We brothers will sign and fingerprint it, and in two days I will go to Lucheng and take it to my mother-in-law to sign it too."
Brother Li and others nodded, "Satisfied. The way to make money and the buyer were found by you and your mother-in-law. If you are not satisfied with this, are we still human beings?"
Seeing that they had no objections, Li Changle went to Zhou Ruonan and asked her to take a pen and paper to her parents' place and write down an agreement they had discussed that day. The four brothers signed it, pressed their thumbprints, and each of them took a copy.
Everyone also signed one for Zhou's mother's share, and after she signed and stamped it, they took it back and took one each.
Li Changle handed the contract back to Zhou Ruonan, "I have to take a shower. My whole body is stained with sweat and I feel very uncomfortable."
"Let's go wash it off too."
Brother Li, Brother Li and Chen Yongwei also followed him away, leaving a few women talking in the room.
Grandma Chen said to Zhou Ruonan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law: "Ah Wei told me that Ah Shui wanted to buy my house. I thought about it.
We have lived in the old house for more than 30 years. If they want it, we will give them 800 yuan. When we move to the new house, we will make room for them.
It's not easy for the Ah Shui brothers. I won't talk about the interest on the money they owe, as long as they pay it to me within two years."
"Ah Nai, your house is not expensive at all at 800 yuan, and there is no interest on the money you owe. Ah Shui and the others should thank you."
Mother Li knew about the Chen family's house. Last year, Grandma Chen bought the tiles and refinished them. A few days ago, she had someone lay down the bricks just like theirs. The price really paid attention to their brother and sister.
"They are pitiful, living in such a family. Thanks to Aleti and Awei, our life is better now. If we can stretch out our hands, we will stretch out our hands to help them."
After hearing this, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law thought about the kind of people Li Asi and his parents-in-law were, and they all shook their heads in disgust, feeling that such people should not get married and have children.
The Li Xiaohai brothers who were playing in the yard saw Li Changle and others going to take a shower at the well. They all went back to the house and stripped down to just a pair of pants. They ran to the well and clamored for a cold shower.
After being slapped on the butt by several people, I went back to take a hot shower with a pout and some mumbling.
Li Changle returned to the house after taking a bath and saw Zhou Ruonan dressing his youngest son. He brushed his wet curly hair twice and took the towel to wipe him.
"I'll wipe him. You go wash up and go to bed early."
"Well!" Zhou Ruonan took the clothes and walked to the door, then turned around and said, "The ten yuan I borrowed from Xiaoyu that day was returned to me this morning."
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"You are the boss, just leave it alone."
"Abba, is the head of the family the one in charge of money?" Li Xiaohai, who was getting dressed at the side, asked.
"Yes, your grandma is the head of our family, and dad is a free long-term worker, specifically to make money for your grandma."
"When I grow up, the money I earn will also be given to my grandma."
"Give mine to grandma, too." Li Xiaozhou said, holding his hand.
"You little heartless ones." Li Changle angrily slapped each other, "When you grow up, and I am too old to pull the fishing nets or sail the boat, you will only care about your mother and not me.
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"Abba," Li Xiaozhou stroked his moist curly hair, "when we grow up, will you become a father-in-law like me?"
"Probably?" Li Changle thought for a moment about how he would look when he was sixty years old, and felt that he was much better-looking than his father, and he looked so handsome.
"Then let's ask Auntie to give you some."
"Thank you!" Li Changle patted the two brothers' buttocks, "Go out and enjoy the wind for a while, dry your hair before coming back in."
"There are a lot of mosquitoes in the yard." Li Xiaohai thought of his medicine for flies, "Dad, do you have a way to catch flies? Do you have a way to catch mosquitoes?"
"Mosquito incense can repel mosquitoes. Dad will go to Tuxiaqiao to buy some next time."
"There were a lot of people in the latrine, and I got a lot of bites on my butt." Li Xiaozhou twisted around to let him see his little butt.
"Abba, let me rub some cooling oil on you, it will be fine in a moment."
The little guy looked disgusted, "The cooling oil smells so bad, I want to apply toilet water."
"Smelly!" Li Changle smiled and applied some toilet water on him, and then the two brothers ran out together.
When Zhou Ruonan came out from the shower, Li Changle grabbed the handkerchief and wiped her hair, and told her about moving to Nanshan in two days.
"I want to buy two brown bed boards. I think that one is more comfortable than the bed boards."
"If you use brown boards, you have to measure the size of the bed and send it to the master who makes brown boards to make it custom-made."
"That's easy. I'll find out by asking my brother-in-law to take a steel tape measure to measure it." Li Changle continued, "Ah Hui said that it is cooler at night over there in Nanshan."
"It's cool in summer, but it's colder in winter than here, so I have to make two beds of thicker mattresses."
"You can make it as thick as you want." Li Changle remembered that she was afraid of the cold before, "You are weak. When the weather gets cold, go buy some mutton and stew sea cucumbers to replenish you..."
Zhou Ruonan nodded, "Mom is also afraid of the cold. Next time you find sea cucumbers, you can keep a few more of them. Marinate them and dry them in the sun. Take some with you as well."
"Yes!" Li Changle stepped forward and kissed her earlobe, "Honey, we ate sea cucumber last night, and today we had sashimi and sea cucumber at noon. When Xiaohai and the others fall asleep, we will go outside and make a bed on the floor."
Zhou Ruonan froze for a moment, and even his earlobes turned red, "The ground is too hard, it's uncomfortable."
Li Changle said with a playful smile: "Two beds of cotton padding will make it softer. You don't need to do anything. I guarantee that the bed will be soft..."
"Bah~" Zhou Ruonan's cheeks turned red immediately, she spat at him, turned around and grabbed his ears angrily, "Tell me everything, did you learn some tricks from those people outside?"
"No, you and I are boys, you know..." Li Changle hurriedly tilted his head towards her hand, "I swear..."
"You didn't know you were going to sea? Who made you swear!" Zhou Ruonan let go of his hand and glared at him, "Go and clean the outside."
Li Changle was immediately elated and sang at the top of his voice: "Madam, my husband is going to take care of it now."
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Happy New Year to all my friends! May everything go well in the new year and may your family be healthy!
Chapter completed!