Chapter 12 Small Goals

Chapter 12 Small Goals

Chapter 12 Small Goals

Li Changle said seriously: "I have two sons now, and I am busy making money. Who would want to play mahjong, cards and watch TV every day? I have made up my mind. With such good shipping, it would be a waste of resources if I don't go fishing.

I should break up with Wang Mazi first, so that he won't come to seduce me to mess around, and so that I won't find a big catch and cry and beg me to sell the fish to him!"

"You're talking just like what happens on stage!" Mrs. Li looked at her unreliable brother-in-law with amusement, "If it were so easy to find big-ticket items, we would have built a new house a long time ago. Luck like yours today only happens once a year."

"I'm good at shipping, maybe I can meet them often!" Li Changle paused, "There's an old saying, debts are as numerous as cow hairs, and the sea is always a tide! As long as you are lucky, you can go out to sea and catch good and large goods, and you can have a house and money."

"If you want to have that kind of luck, you need a big fishing boat like the people on the south coast, and go to the big fishing grounds to fish when the fishing season comes." Mrs. Zhou thought of the 20-30 meter long boats on the sea and sighed, "Our family can't even afford a small motor sail, so when will we be able to afford a big boat?"

Li Changle thought of his father's tattered little wooden boat and said, "First set a small goal, work hard, and earn money to buy a small motor sail."

Mrs. Li said happily: "Small sail and small target? I really don't know how high the sky is..."

"I know how high the sky is!" Li Xiaozhou ran up to her and said, "Aunt, the sky is as high as two buttocks!"

Li Changle and the other two stared, "Yeah~?"

Li Xiaozhou turned around and raised his butt up to the sky, then patted his butt with his backhand, "One butt is half a sky high, so two butts added together are as high as the sky!"

"Hahaha..." Several adults burst into laughter.

Li Xiaozhou was dissatisfied after seeing this and pouted: "I'm not talking nonsense, grandma said so!"

"Haha!" Li Changle stepped forward, picked up his son and lifted him up, "My son is so smart!"

Li Xiaohai looked at his younger brother who was hugging his father's neck and laughing, and showed an envious look.

"The eldest is the smartest and most sensible."

Li Xiaohai felt his feet hanging in the air, and in an instant he was picked up by Li Changle, holding one child in each hand. The child stiffened for a moment before holding onto his shoulders.

Li Changle looked at the boss who had an awkward look on his face, "Let's eat. After we have a rest, we will go fishing. If we find any big catches, we will send them to town. Let's go and see your grandfather!"

"Oh! Look, grandpa is going!" Li Xiaozhou shouted happily along with him.

Li Xiaohai raised the corners of his lips, and his handsome eyes curved into beans.

Zhou Ruonan stared blankly at Li Changle who was walking into the house holding a baby in each hand, and suddenly remembered that he had held a baby like this when his eldest son was just born.

Mrs. Li also looked at Li Changle, "Ah Le seems to be a different person today. It would be great if he could be like this every day!"

"Yeah!" Zhou Ruonan looked at her, "We are having dinner, would you like to eat together?"

"I've eaten, and my internet connection is broken. I'll go tell Ah Mei that I'll come back and go shopping with you guys." Mrs. Li said with a smile, "I also want to see where Ah Le found his big stuff."

"I wonder if he is going to go?" Zhou Ruonan thought of what Li Changle had just said to lie to the villagers, and felt that they would definitely not be able to go to the cave he mentioned today.

Li Changle walked into the room and saw her still standing there. He raised his voice and said, "An Nan, why don't you come in and eat? What are you standing there for? The food is cold!"

"I'm going to eat first." Zhou Ruonan said to Mrs. Li, then went back to the room and glanced at Li Changle, "Are you really going to go fishing in the sea this afternoon?"

"You don't want me to go?" Li Changle suddenly worried that she had changed so quickly that her family would start to get suspicious. "If you want to go, go!" Zhou Ruonan looked out the window, "But I may not be able to go this afternoon. You went to the same place this morning."

Li Changle was stunned for a moment before he understood what she meant. "If someone is really following us, let's go to the rocky beach at the east end to take a look."

Li Xiaohai hurriedly said: "Mother, let's go too."

"Yes!" Zhou Ruonan picked up the bowl and finished the remaining few mouthfuls of rice. "There are still three hours before the tide goes low. After you eat, play outside for a while and then go back to the house to lie down for a while. When mother finishes weaving the net, she will ask you to go fishing."

"Oh oh!" The two little guys quickly took two mouthfuls of rice, their bulging cheeks like two little hamsters.

Li Changle looked at his wife who was busy cleaning up the dishes after dinner. He wanted to help clean up, but he was worried that they would get suspicious. He thought about it and decided to lie down for a while and recall when Wang Mazi's brother-in-law was arrested by the Maritime Administration.

With so many things, you can sell a few bags for a lot of money.

"Third cousin!" Before he finished speaking, his honest-looking cousin and his tall uncle Wang walked in together.

Uncle Wang is a butcher. His arms, which are exposed outside his coarse cloth coat, are full of tendons. His voice is as fast and loud as a machine gun. "You bastard! Why didn't you send us a message when your father was hospitalized? If we hadn't met someone from your village, we wouldn't have known about it."

"I was so busy that I forgot!" Li Changle hurriedly stood up and said, "I'll take you to the hospital now."

"Humph!" Uncle Wang snorted coldly and glanced at him, "We just came back from the hospital. Your father and mother..."

"Uncle! Cousin!" Li Xiaohai and Li Xiaozhou ran over from the backyard.

"Oh my!" Uncle Wang rubbed Li Xiaohai's head, then rubbed Li Xiaozhou's, "My dearest baby has grown taller again!"

"Third cousin, you really found big flower dragon and big rice fish?" Wang Maolin said innocently, "Don't you look down on the little money you can make from fishing? Don't you want to make big money with your friends?"

It turned out that even my uncle's family knew about my desire to get rich and make a lot of money.

Li Changle glanced at his uncle whose face darkened, "I had a falling out with Wang Mazi. If you don't believe me, ask your sister-in-law!"

Uncle Wang slapped him in the face and said, "Eat firewood! Your father is injured like that. If you don't work hard, I will beat you to death!"

Such a smart child when he was young, but he was spoiled like this by his elder sister and brother-in-law. It's really a sin!
"Uncle, have some water." Zhou Ruonan hurriedly brought out some tea to help him out, then turned around and wanted to go back to the kitchen to cook for them.

She addressed her son according to his generation. The old custom is still preserved here, and the daughter-in-law who marries into the family follows the children in the family and calls them elders.

"Anan, don't bother!" Uncle Wang called her cheerfully, "We've already had dinner at home."

According to the custom here, when friends and relatives come, we have to cook snacks for the guests. If we are well-off, we can cook egg, longan and lychee tea, while if we are not so well-off, we can just cook a bowl of egg rice noodles.

"Auntie, we really ate it." Wang Maolin said.

"Look, I didn't lie to you!" Uncle Wang said as he picked up a net bag from the vegetable basket. Inside was a piece of fat meat and a few large bones. "The weather is too hot, so there is only a piece of meat and a few bones left, so Uncle brought them to you."

"Wow!" Li Xiaozhou cheered, "My uncle is here, we can have some meat to eat!"

(End of this chapter)