Li Changle smiled and said: "Ah Wei found some sea urchins and sold them for dozens of yuan. Last time he got a snow eel, and he continued to earn more than a hundred."
My dad can't work now, so Awei and I pooled our money to jack up the boat. After the boat was repaired, we went out to sea to lay cages, fish, and go fishing on the islands and reefs.
"You two used to fool around, but now you have found a way." Ge Chang said and sighed, "To tell you the truth, there are more and more bamboo craftsmen nowadays, but more and more people hire people to weave bamboo utensils. few."
"Since last year, work has only been available in the mountains. Sometimes I've been away for two or three months. I can't even take care of my family, and I don't even know my children are sick.
Alas, I don’t want to go into the mountains anymore. I want to find another way out. My mother-in-law and Axiu both said that you two are doing well in fishing. My brother and the others have moved to move boats and are not at home, so I wanted to ask you two. !」
When he met Li Changle a few days ago, he didn't realize how much he had changed. This time when he came back, he listened to A Niang and A Xiu talk about him every day, and they even advised him not to go looking for him in the mountains in the future. After the work is done, I can make a living at home.
He also felt that the two of them were exaggerating. After we went out to play together for a while today, he felt that Ah Le was indeed different from before. He spoke much more calmly, unlike before, where he wanted to take shortcuts and make a fortune all day long, which made him feel uncomfortable every time he came home. I don't even dare to go and play with him.
Li Changle thought for a moment, "How should I put it? I think if you work harder, you will have no problem making a living. You also grew up by the sea. You should know that if you want to find good goods, you have to look at your luck."
Ge Changfa nodded, "I understand this. Since you two have pooled money to buy a boat together, if you two can work together for a while, if the income is okay, I have also saved some money in the past few years, and then I will bring my eldest brother into partnership." Buy a second-hand boat and go fishing with him."
He has been learning to be a bamboo craftsman from his uncle. As a person from a fishing village, it is okay to go to the tidal flats to fish in the sea, but it is not okay to go to the sea to fish on deserted islands. He can only drag his eldest brother to work together. After hearing this, Li Changle said honestly: "Ah Fa, going out to sea for fishing and panning are the same thing. If you have good luck, you will catch more fish, but if you have bad luck, you may come back with a short position.
As for you talking about changing your career, I think you made the right choice. If nothing else, just say that the plastic pots on the street now are beautiful and easy to use. I think that if you go further, the skills of the bamboo craftsmen and coopers will only be limited. It's getting harder and harder to do.
Ge Changfa didn't expect him to say such words. He glanced at him in surprise, thought about the grocery store he saw in the town, and said:
"Ale, your brain is really good. Look at you. When I saw that there are more types of plastic products, I thought that it would become more and more difficult to be a bamboo craftsman. I didn't expect it. I want to change my career because of the current work. There are fewer and fewer people, and the salary pressure is also very high. I am away from home all year round and can't take care of the house, so I came up with this plan."
"My brother is just smarter than us." Chen Yongwei was happier when others praised Li Changle than when he praised himself.
Li Changle, whose face was thicker than the city walls, felt a little embarrassed by him, and casually made up a reason, "You don't go to the town very often. I also found it when I was wandering around the town before."
He didn't expect that Ah Fa would change his career at this time. He was also a little bit curious as to why he had been working as a rickshaw puller and helping people carry goods in his previous life until 1989. Could it be because he had taken up the responsibility in advance in this life?
Is it because of the burden of supporting the family?
"Ale, you often wander around town. Are the quality of the sewing machines you get from stolen goods the same as those in department stores?" "What's wrong? Do you want to buy one?"
"Brother Axiu is getting engaged in mid-August. The woman wants a sewing machine. The price of the goods is cheap and no ticket is required. "I don't know about the quality. I heard it's thirty or forty yuan cheaper than in department stores!"
He has remembered in the past few days that the time Wang Mazi's brother-in-law was inspected by the Maritime Safety Administration was in early August. A ship full of large items such as sewing machines and televisions sank to the bottom of the water.
But there were still many ships that salvaged yarn, cigarettes, watches, clothes, cloth... This time he had to prepare early. "Then Wang Mazi and Guisun said, no tickets are needed, the price is twenty yuan cheaper than in the town.
"You have forgotten, as the old saying goes, it is the price you bid and the money you pay back." "This makes sense!"
"Abba, Uncle Awei, we also want to catch lobsters." Suddenly, the shouts of Li Xiaoyang and Li Xiaohai came from the other side. Li Changle turned around and saw several children running towards this direction with bamboo poles.
Come on, "How did you find these guys? It's not far, why can't you find it?" Ge Changfa said, lifting a lobster.
Li Changle looked at the sweaty little guys running away, "How did you find us?" Li Xiaohai looked at him happily, "My grandpa said you must be here, so we found us." Li Xiaoyang
He lifted up his net bag triumphantly and said, "Look, we also caught a frog."
The younger son pouted, "Abba, you didn't even call us when you were fishing!"
"If I didn't call you, you wouldn't have come here." Li Changle slapped him, "Do you know how to fish for lobsters?"
Li Xiaohai hurriedly said: "Yes, we have come here before to pick up fish and shrimps with a dustpan and feed them to the chickens and ducks.
"Uncle Third, you don't believe it?" Li Xiaoyang grabbed a frog from his net bag, beat it to death and flattened it with his feet, then tied it with a hemp rope and looked at Li Changle proudly, "Let's compete with you, look.
Who caught more lobsters?"
Li Changle smiled and said, "Come on, come on, stand in a row, today the three of us old guys will compete with you and the little kids." There are five of us and there are only three of you. You will definitely lose." Li Xiaobo was confident.
Said fully.
"Good boy, these little kids still want to beat us!" Ge Changfa rolled up his sleeves, "Come on, come on, I will play with you today."
"Come on, come on!" Li Xiaoyang rolled up his sleeves, picked up the bamboo pole and started to work.
"Brother Xiaoyang, don't let go yet, we haven't decided what we will get as a competition reward yet!" Li Xiaohai quickly stopped him and said.
After hearing this, Li Xiaoyang hurriedly picked up the bamboo pole and said to Li Changle and the others: "Xiaohai is right, let's first decide what the reward will be if we win, and then we start."
"As expected of my son, he is cunning and cunning!" Li Changle proudly gave his eldest son a hand and looked at the children with a smile.!!
"If you win, I will buy you fire cakes? If you lose, you will cover the home shuttle thread."
Li Xiaoyang shook his head, "We don't want fire cakes, we want to drink a bottle of soda."
"Yes, we would like to drink a bottle of soda. The canteen at Grandpa Dong's house sells it."
Party secretary Awei shows off in front of them every day, making them angry. If he wins today, he can taste how delicious that food is?
"What the hell! What's the point of soda?" Li Changle never dreamed that these little guys would actually value a bottle of soda. "I'll fry crayfish for you when I get back."
Li Xiaohai: "Our prizes should be decided by us."
"Yes! If we lose, we'll keep the shuttle, if we win, we'll get soda!" Li Xiaoyang said to the others.
Ge Changfa felt that the children of the Li family were very playful, "Okay, Uncle Afa promises you that as long as you win, we will buy it for you."
Then he said to Li Changle, "You don't know, the little ones nowadays like to eat that thing. My family likes to put the condiment wine inside on the dough, and it makes a crunching sound."
Li Changle smiled and nodded, "Okay! I won a bottle for each person."
"Stand in line, let's call 1, 2, 3 and let's put down the bait together." Li Xiaoyang said and pulled him to stand next to him.
Li Changle waved his hand generously, "Little thing, I want you to let go first."
"Okay!" Li Xiaoyang hurriedly pulled several younger brothers to stand in a row beside the ditch, lifted the bamboo pole, and lowered the hemp rope holding the frog.
I don't know whether it was because there were too many lobsters or because the frogs were too attracted to the lobsters, so they sank into the water as soon as I put down the twine.
Except for Li Xiaozhou, whose little moves were not very agile and the lobster took off the bait and ran away, the big ones quickly and neatly pulled up the lobster that had bitten the frog meat.
After taking it off, quickly put it into the bucket, turn around and put the bamboo pole into the water, all at once.
I asked them seriously to help me with something, but no one was willing. They came to the ditch to fish and catch shrimps on the beach. These children were more active than anyone else.
Chen Yongwei smiled and said: "Brother, you can see they are veterans. We will definitely lose today."
Li Changle didn't expect the children to move so fast, "Brothers, keep working hard. If you lose to a few younger guys, you will be laughed at when you go back."
"I tried my best." Ge Changfa looked at Chen Yongwei with a smile, "Young man, what are you doing so slowly? You should be more agile with your hands and feet!" Hee
"I tried my best." Chen Yongwei slowly lifted the bamboo pole. It looked like he was catching not a crayfish, but a big fish weighing seventy or eighty kilograms.
"..." Li Changle silently glared at the two guys who were obviously letting off steam.
Li Xiaohai and others kept throwing crayfish into the bucket, and the number of lobsters in the bucket increased visibly. The three adults still only had half a bucket, which was not much different from before the competition.
"Quack! Third uncle, we will definitely win today's soda." Li Xiaoyang laughed proudly and put down the bait.
"Okay, no more competition, you win." Chen Yongwei said in a good temper.
Li Xiaozhou looked at their buckets and then at the buckets of several adults. He happily hugged his brother and jumped three feet high, "Oh...we won."
"Oh! We have soda to drink...
Li Changle looked at the children who were jumping up and down with joy, and their smiles did not look like those who had just lost a few bags of soda.
"Abba," Li Xiaohai stopped him and concluded seriously, "you were too careless when you competed with Uncle Ah Wei and Uncle Ah Fa. Grandma said that if you don't take things seriously, you will lose no matter what you do."
Ge Changfa stroked Li Xiaohai and said, "Oh! This little guy, a little bit bigger, talks like a little adult."
"Uncle Afa, that's what my mother-in-law said."
"Xiao Hai, come here quickly, there are many small fish here." Li Xiaoyang took the net and went to a water shortage. Several children ran over, rolled up their trousers and went into the water to fish.
Chapter completed!