Chapter 32 Awkward 1
Chapter 32: Awkward
The little guy came back from peeing, pulled open the mosquito net and climbed up, lying beside him and hugging his neck, "Dad, pee!"
"Yeah, sleep!" Li Changle looked at Zhou Ruonan with a raised corner of her lips and said angrily, "Sleep."
Zhou Ruonan took a pillow and said, "I'll sleep over there, and your brother will sleep with you."
"Yeah! I'll sleep with my dad!" Li Xiaozhou grabbed Li Changle's hand, yawned and closed his eyes.
Li Changle waited patiently for him to fall asleep, stretched out his legs and kicked Zhou Ruonan, and heard her murmur a little, and then there was no movement. He had no choice but to crawl to the other side and whispered in her ear, "Wife, don't sleep..."
Zhou Ruonan patted him, "Are you annoying? It's so annoying to wake up the children. It will be terrible if they hear it! Go to sleep!"
"I..." Li Changle saw her turning over and lying on the edge of the bed, so he reached out and hugged her...
Zhou Ruonan was so angry that she pinched him and said, "I told you Xiaozhou is..."
"Hiss~" Li Changle groaned in pain, but his hands did not stop moving for a moment...
"Hate it, be gentle, you woke up my son..."
"I see..." Li Changle felt that Sha Tong might really be a good thing. He hadn't been here for more than 20 years, but he was still so powerful...
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The next day, when Li Changle woke up, Zhou Ruonan and the two children were no longer in bed. He turned his head to look at the alarm clock on the stool and found that it was already past six o'clock. He hurriedly put on his clothes, got out of bed and went out.
Zhou Ruonan was seen drying the salted fish she had pickled last night in the yard. Her two sons were sitting on small stools, gnawing on corn cobs with all their might. They saw him stand up and point at the corn cobs in the rice washing basket.
"Dad, eat!"
"Dad hasn't washed his face yet!" Li Changle took a towel and asked Zhou Ruonan, "Anan, has Awei been here?"
Zhou Ruonan broke the fish in his hand, put it on the net with its back facing up, and replied, "He just came here, and he said he was going to set up the trap by himself, and asked me not to call you! There's rice in the pot, as well as dried fish and cabbage. Eat it when you're hungry."
I have always been a person who sleeps until noon before getting up. Including yesterday, today is the second time I got up early. I remembered what he said in my ear last night, that he would work hard in the future and shoulder the burden of the family...
Thinking of this, her hands moved faster.
"Yeah!" Li Changle took a towel and went to the back door to get some water to wash and brush his teeth. After brushing his teeth, he felt the urge to pee again, so he went out and walked towards the toilet at the foot of the mountain across the stream.
In those days, every household had no bathroom. The pit toilet was just a big vat with a wooden frame on top, and then separated by a broken wooden board. Those who were more particular would cover the door with a burlap bag, but those who were not would not even use a cover.
There are two or three rows of toilets, and people squat on them to relieve themselves. Pedestrians pass by and say hello. It's so embarrassing.
He vaguely remembered that his own toilet was the one on the outside with a torn sack hanging on it. He rushed in holding his breath, stepped on the latrine at full speed to relieve himself quickly, and then rushed out quickly, almost bumping into Agen's wife next door.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Li Changle apologized repeatedly.
"It's you, Ale. You got up so early too?"
"Go to the toilet!"
Li Changle nodded awkwardly, and walked back as if escaping, thinking: From today on, I must work harder to make money. Not only do I have to build a house for my son to sleep in, but I also have to build the house into a suite with a bathroom and toilet like in later times. Damn it! Everything costs money!
He walked to the stream and scooped up some water to wash his face. When he got to the door of his house, his eldest son, who was sitting at the table, asked him as soon as he saw him, "Dad, are you going to fish in the sea again today?"
"Go!" Li Changle saw pickled cabbage and three-finger-wide dried yellow croaker in the dish on the table. Such large pickled yellow croaker is the best dish to eat with rice.
Seeing that he agreed without hesitation, Li Xiaohai was as happy as a kitten that had stolen fish.
Just as Li Changle was about to go to the kitchen to help Zhou Ruonan serve the meal, Li Xiaozhou stopped him and said sweetly, "Dad, you bought some big fish and crabs today. Sell them and buy some meat for us!"
Li Changle thought about what happened last night, "Then don't come and squeeze with me and your mother tonight, or I'll buy you some big fish and crabs and some meat to eat!"
Zhou Ruonan came out with the rice in soup, glanced at Li Changle, and thought to herself: "What a stinky man, thinking about nonsense in broad daylight!"
"Okay! I won't squeeze with you tonight." Li Xiaozhou frowned and tilted his head to look at him, "Dad, I remember when I woke up in the morning, I saw your feet. I didn't squeeze with you, did I?"
"..." Li Changle suddenly had an idea, "You crawled over there while you were half asleep. You don't even know how ugly you look when you sleep."
"Dad, my little brother would somersault in his sleep. Sometimes he would run over my head and put his legs on my stomach. Once he kicked me so hard that my nose bled." Li Xiaohai said with a look of resentment.
Li Xiaozhou didn't look at him with a guilty conscience. "Grandma said that I was like my father when he was a child. I looked very ugly when I slept. I might have dreamed of fighting with someone after I fell asleep. I didn't mean to kick you!"
Li Changle looked at his two precious sons with a smile, and acted as a peacemaker, "Brother has apologized, so please be generous and forgive him!"
Li Xiaohai nodded, "I know. My mother said that my brother didn't fall asleep on purpose. I forgave him that day."
Li Changle thought of the past and gave his eldest son a thumbs up. "My eldest son is the most sensible child. My younger brother should learn from his brother in the future."
"Got it!" the youngest son responded obediently.
Zhou Ruonan smiled and put the prepared rice porridge on the table, "It's time to eat."
Li Changle picked up a piece of dried fish with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. He looked at the drying rack in the yard and thought that the seafood was still delicious these days. "An Nan, when was it dried?"
"Brother brought back more than ten kilograms of fish last time. The ones that we couldn't finish were washed and dried into fish jerky." Zhou Ruonan said as she thought of something. "You said you had something to discuss with me last night. What was it?"
"I want to save money to repair my family's fishing boat and buy some crab traps. Then I can go to nearby islands to catch fish and set crab traps, and make money while catching fish."
Li Changle hesitated for a moment, and thinking about the current situation at home, he still didn't say that he wanted to take Awei to the cave.
Because there were several decades between the time he found the pearls in his previous life and now, he was not sure whether there were pearls in the oysters in the cave these days.
I have to pry some down and take a look. If there are really beads, I will sell them first and use the money to repair the boat and build a house. I have to settle my family first before I can think of anything else.
Zhou Ruonan thought for a moment and said, "The boat was not taken out when the family was divided. We saved money to repair the boat. Whose boat will it be in the future?"
"What are you thinking?" Li Changle really hadn't thought of this. He only remembered that the small fishing boat in his family's previous life was sold to fishermen from the neighboring village.
(End of this chapter)