Chapter 18: Xiao Jifan is mine, Amei is yours
Chapter 18: Xiao Jifan is mine, Amei is yours
"You're lazy. I go out every day to fish in the sea to make money, but you just play cards and drink with Wang Mazi and his friends. When you see me, you act like you don't know me, and you put all the burden of your family on your sister-in-law."
Chen Yongwei felt that Li Changle was much more talkative today, so he spoke out everything that was on his mind.
"I understand, brother. I will work hard to earn money to support our family in the future." After saying this, Li Changle picked up the scoop net and ran towards the deeper puddle in front as if escaping.
Chen Yongwei was very happy, Brother Ale was the same as before.
Li Changle, who was walking in front, pointed at the snake-like conger eel in the water and exclaimed, "Fuck! Such a thick conger eel!"
"Let me see how thick it is?" Chen Yongwei came forward and smiled. "Brother, you are so lucky! It's so comfortable to go sea fishing with you. You can find big stuff!"
"That's right, your brother is famous for his good shipping!" He thought to himself, it should be good, otherwise it would take a long time to achieve his small goal!
This conger eel was about one meter long, much larger than the one he caught this morning, and probably weighed seven or eight kilograms. This thing was very ferocious and he couldn't handle it with his bare hands. Li Changle aimed the scoop net at the conger eel's head and scooped it up cleanly.
Chen Yongwei hurriedly picked up the bucket and caught it, "Brother, shall we go down to the ground traps and crab cages tonight?"
"Okay!" Li Changle suddenly thought of a place, "Instead of going to the beach, let's go to Changtangkou."
Changtangkou was his blessed land in his previous life. He could always get good stuff there. One time he got a large sea eel weighing 35- kilograms, which cost yuan per kilogram. He sold the eel for about yuan.
If it were today, a conger eel weighing thirty or forty kilograms would only cost half a kilogram. Just thinking about it makes me tired.
Fortunately, money is valuable now and has stronger purchasing power than in later generations. Otherwise, if I rely on mining to make money, I might have to wait until I’m old to achieve my small goal.
Chen Yongwei laughed and said, "There are so many mosquitoes there. I only put down four traps that day, and I was bitten all over by the time I finished collecting them. You have such delicate skin, and the big flower mosquitoes love it the most."
There are a lot of mosquitoes near the water. The most powerful one is a "flower mosquito" with white spots all over its body. It is more poisonous than other mosquitoes and will come out to bite people in broad daylight. Even if you are wearing clothes, its long sharp needles can easily pierce clothes and bite people. One bite will leave a big bump, which is painful and itchy and really uncomfortable.
Li Changle rolled her eyes at him and said, "Bring a bottle of Fengyoujing or Qingliangyou, then you won't be afraid of them."
"Okay, I'll go to the clinic to buy some cooling oil when I get back." Chen Yongwei didn't care. As long as he was with Brother Ale, he could go anywhere.
Li Changle continued to walk towards the puddle in front. He caught another white crab and took the tide-watcher out of the backpack and put it into the bucket to prevent it from stretching its long tentacles and trying to escape.
Over there, Chen Yongwei caught a green snapper and put it in the bucket. Looking at the catch in the bucket, he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth. "Hey, a few more big ones will fill the bucket."
Li Changle pointed at the tentacles under the stone and said, "Here comes the stuff. Look, there's another one hidden underneath."
"Octopus!" Chen Yongwei went up to move the stone, and an octopus weighing about one or two kilograms and covered in red appeared in front of him. He grinned and reached out to grab it. At this time, the color of the octopus's body also changed dramatically the moment the stone was lifted. The octopus's claws entangled wildly, full of vitality.
As soon as Ah Wei caught it, Hong Zhang sprayed a mouthful of ink on his face, "Pah, pah, pah! You bastard, you sprayed ink on my face again!"
Li Changle looked at Ah Wei, whose face had turned into a clown, and laughed so hard that he couldn't straighten his back. "This isn't the first time you've been sprayed with ink by it, why didn't you take precautions?"
"Every time I catch this thing, I forget about it when I'm happy." Chen Yongwei put the red seal into the bucket and scooped up the salty sea water to wash his face clean. "Let's go and do it while we're lucky!"
At this time, several women carrying buckets came over. Seeing Li Changle and the other two in the puddle, they came over, tilted their necks and stood on tiptoe to look at the catch in his basket, "Wow! What a big blue crab!"
Li Changle looked at the serious woman with a dark face and said, "Aunt San, you are here to fish in the sea too!"
"How can you get money if you don't fish in the sea?" Aunt Li looked at him with disdain. "Just now I thought I was seeing things and recognized the wrong person! Tsk tsk! Did you sleep on the millstone last night? Are you willing to come out to earn money to support your family? If you had come out earlier to help with the work, your father wouldn't have been bitten by the five-step snake."
"..." Li Changle didn't know what to say for a moment. If it were in the past, he would have retorted. But thinking that Third Aunt was also married from Xintang, and was A Niang's cousin, and had always had a good relationship with the Second House, he kept silent and let her say a few words.
Seeing that he didn't respond as before, Aunt Li softened her tone, "Don't think I'm too nosy. I only say that because you're my nephew. If it were someone else, I wouldn't even bother to say anything!"
Li Changle's mouth twitched, "It's okay, you are the elder, you are saying this for my own good!"
"..."
Aunt Li remembered going to the hospital to see her second uncle. Her cousin said happily that A Le woke up instantly after hearing that his father was bitten by a five-step snake in the morning.
He used the money he earned from Taohai to pay off his hospital bills and gave them fifty yuan. It was the first time in all these years that he had done that. Now he looked like he had really changed, so she didn't say anything more and left with a few old sisters.
"Dad, Dad..." Li Xiaozhou ran over, jumping and skipping, "Dad, did you catch any big fish?"
Li Xiaohai also looked at him, waiting for his answer.
"We found it. It's in Uncle Awei's bucket." Li Changle put down the backpack and smiled proudly at his son. "Look, a big sea eel, and big blue crabs, white crabs, and clams! We also found a sea turtle as big as a washbasin. Your father is kind-hearted and released it back to the sea."
Hearing him let a big turtle run away, Li Xiaohai looked at him with a sad face, "Why let it go? It could have been sold for four or five yuan!"
Li Changle then remembered that children nowadays are different from those in later generations. When they see wild animals, the first thing they think about is whether they are delicious or not? Can they be sold for money? Instead of whether they are cute or not, they will release them.
"Dad thought of asking it to go back and tell Lord Hailong to bless your grandfather to get better soon, so that dad can find more treasures in the sea in the future."
Li Xiaozhou clapped his hands happily, "Great! Prime Minister Turtle, go back and tell Lord Hailong, he will definitely bless Grandpa."
Chen Yongwei said with a smile: "Brother, your Xiaozhou is really smart. He remembers Prime Minister Turtle at such a young age."
"Uncle Awei," Li Xiaozhou looked at him dissatisfiedly, "I am not a child anymore. I am four years old this year, not a three-year-old child."
“Hahahaha…” A group of adults were laughing so hard that they couldn’t straighten their backs. They were all smiling at the four-year-old little adult.
"Okay, okay, you are four years old now, you are an adult." Chen Yongwei smiled and touched the two brothers, "Why do children like to be little adults? I wish I could be only five or six years old for the rest of my life, so I don't have to worry about anything. How wonderful it is!"
"Tsk!" Li Changle sneered, "I remember when you were only as old as Xiaohai, you wanted to grow up every day so that you could bring Amei from the Alai family home to be your wife."
"Haha!" Chen Yongwei smiled bitterly, "I'd better not drag her down."
"Brother, let's work hard and earn money. Xiao Jifan is mine and Amei is yours."
"Okay! Work hard and try to make the bucket burst!" Chen Yongwei carried the bucket and went to the puddle to work.
(End of this chapter)