Chapter 29 Good Luck
Chapter 29 Good Luck
Li Changle had no time to chat with them. He was carrying a heavy basket on his back, panting heavily, and walked back by himself. When he arrived at the door of his house, he saw Chen Yongwei striding towards him.
"You've come just in time, help me pick it up."
"You carried them all back?" Chen Yongwei said as he hurried forward to take the backpack and slowly put it on the ground.
"I've carried them all back. Anan is holding the trap." Li Changle wiped his sweat, "Fuck! I'm so tired."
Chen Yongwei smiled and helped to lift the fish from the sack and put it in the yard. "I was worried that you couldn't carry it!"
"You are a seven-foot-tall man, but you can't even carry more than 100 kilograms. Do you look down on your brother?"
"No, I'm just worried that you've been playing for so long and haven't touched any water..."
"Go to hell! You're still talking nonsense!" Li Changle hit him, "Just leave it here. We'll send the living ones over and divide them up when we come back."
"I'll carry it!" Chen Yongwei picked up the basket and carried it on his back. "Brother, are you going to use those fish to dry?"
"It's so hot, it's not worth buying ice to freeze it. If we don't kill the fish and dry it, can we boil it and feed it to the pigs?"
"Okay, if you want to dry the fish, then let's dry the fish!"
The two men arrived outside Adong's seafood store. A 100-watt light illuminated the entrance of the fish store as bright as day. The three fish shops were still guarding their stores. When Wang Mazi saw them coming, he turned around and went into the shop.
Li Changle curled his lips and saw that Chen Dong and his son had already sorted the fish sent by A Wei, "Uncle Chen, didn't you go to Changtang to catch fish?"
Chen Bucktooth shook his head. "No, I heard a typhoon was coming, so I had to stay in the store to pick up the fishing boats that were returning to shore."
Ah Dong took over and said, "Collecting seafood is a tough job. You have to get up early in the morning and stay up until midnight. Sometimes, just when you lie down, someone comes to call you. It's common to be busy until midnight!"
"That's true!" Li Changle recalled that in his previous life, when he went fishing at sea, it was common for him to only sleep for one or two hours a night.
In the summer, after finishing work, I lay down on the deck with my clothes on, and the deck was filled with snoring. In the winter, after finishing work, I was soaked and shivering with cold...
Ah Dong picked up a river eel and put it in the bamboo basket. He looked at the two and said with a smile, "You two are lucky. You can still encounter a pond flipping when you go to set up a trap!"
Li Changle rubbed his sore wrist, "It's just a coincidence. If someone else were there, they would have seen it too!"
Chen Bucktooth didn't expect him to say that. He looked at him in surprise, then smiled and handed him a cigarette. "How is your father? Is he feeling better?"
Li Changle took it, lit it and took a sip, "Much better!
Chen Bucktooth sighed, "As the saying goes, good things come after bad times. After your father was bitten by a snake, his bad luck disappeared and he started to have good luck."
"Thank you Uncle Chen for your kind words!" Li Changle helped to fish while holding a cigarette in his mouth.
陈东开始过秤，“鲈鱼35斤、3角一斤，鲻鱼25斤、2角一斤，河鳗31斤、5角一斤，金钱鱼16斤，1角5一斤、鲟鱼10斤6两，1角2一斤。”
陈龅牙一边记数，一边算账，“鲈鱼10块5角，鲻鱼5块，河鳗15块5……一共34块6角7。”
Li Changle smiled and handed over a cigarette, "Uncle Chen, make it a whole, 35 yuan!"
"People say you..." Chen Bucktooth swallowed the words "pig head" and counted out 35 yuan and handed it to him, "People say you are stupid, but you are really cunning to come to my house to sell fish!" "I used to think that we are all good friends, so I was embarrassed to say it. After this time, I understand that brothers have to settle accounts clearly, and good friends have to settle accounts clearly, so that the friendship can last long."
"That's right, you've been smart since you were young, you were just too lazy before!"
"Haha, I was stupid before but I figured it out now!" Li Changle said with a smile, "Uncle Chen, we also caught more than 100 kilograms of freshwater fish, you can collect them too!" He thought that if they could be sold, it would save An Nan the trouble of cleaning them up!
Chen Bucktooth shook his head. "Freshwater fish only sell for a few cents a pound when they're alive, and dead ones are even harder to sell. Ask your wife to clean them and dry them into dried fish. They'll taste just as good as sea fish heads!"
"Okay!" Li Changle picked up a backpack, "Then we'll go first."
Chen Bucktooth nodded and said to A Wei, "Go home early and don't let your grandma worry."
He was still somewhat worried about Li Changle. He was concerned that he would take Chen Yongwei to play cards and mahjong. He was also concerned that he was too honest and would be slaughtered like a fat pig when he went there!
"I understand." Chen Yongwei picked up the backpack, poured out the water inside, and walked back with Li Changle.
On the way, we met villagers returning from fishing, walking towards the dock in groups.
"Oh, it's Ah Le. I heard that you two caught more than a thousand kilograms of fish. How much did you sell it for?"
"Listen to their bullshit. There are only 300 to 400 kilograms in total. The live ones weigh only over 100 kilograms, and they were only sold for 20 to 30 yuan. If you don't believe me, go ask Ah Dong!"
"Twenty or thirty yuan is not a small amount? I can't earn that much even if I weave nets for a month!"
"That's right, Ah Le, you're really not nice. You saw the fish flipping over in the pond, but you didn't even yell!"
Li Changle saw that it was Lao Wai's father, Wang Laobian, and he confronted him without any politeness, "You said that as if you would go back to the village and yell if you saw it! You are so selfless, why didn't you give the fish that my eldest brother saw yesterday to him?"
Wang Laobian was choked by Li Changle's words. He thought that the fish was indeed seen by his eldest son. He was wrong to grab the fish that the child had seen. He walked away with the fish in his hand with a downcast face.
When they got home, Zhou Ruonan and Mrs. Li were cleaning the fish. The yard was filled with a strong fishy smell and a group of mosquitoes and flies were buzzing under the light. Seeing this, Li Changle thought that he had to go get two kilograms of wine to pickle the fish.
He looked around but didn't see his son. "Anan, where are Xiaohai and Xiaozhou?"
"I let them sleep." Zhou Ruonan responded without raising her head.
"A Le, how much did you sell it for?" Mrs. Li said, "I caught four or five dace, a few grass carps, and three small bighead carps. People in the village are talking about it, saying that you caught more than a thousand kilograms."
“Do you see more than a thousand here?”
"At most 300 kilograms! That's how it is in the village. Tomorrow people might say you caught thousands of kilograms of fish!"
"That's right, the price is rising!" Li Changle said with a smile, "In fact, Xiaohai saw some fish floating on the bank of the pond yesterday to breathe. We didn't see them tonight, but someone may see them tomorrow morning."
Mrs. Li: "You are lucky. Everyone else went to the beach to set traps, but you two thought of setting them at the pond. If you had gone to the beach, you wouldn't have found them."
Chen Yongwei: "It wasn't me who wanted to go to Tangkou, it was Brother Ale who wanted to go."
"Okay! It's all my credit!" Li Changle smiled and took out some money, counted out 17 yuan, and handed it to A Wei, "Take the money and the bag of fish home to your grandma, and come back quickly to set the trap."
Chen Yongwei retracted his hand, "Brother, why are you giving me so much? And those fish, how can my family eat so much? I can just take a few back!"
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