Chapter 36 I'll Just Tell You
Chapter 36 I'll Just Talk to You
Chen Yongwei thought for a moment and said, "When I talk to you and my grandma and aunt, I am not nervous at all. I can answer your questions normally."
"Then it's over!"
"Brother, how about you go with me on the next blind date? I won't be nervous with you around."
"I'll go with you. What if someone falls in love with me? When you go on blind dates with someone, you should find someone who is not as good-looking as you. That way, you can stand out..."
Li Changle instilled into him everything he had seen in the short videos in his previous life, blah blah blah. As for how much he could accept, it was up to him.
Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, feeling full of confidence for a moment, "I'll remember this. If my sister-in-law introduces me to someone, I'll treat her as you. That way I won't be nervous."
Li Changle rolled her eyes, "Don't treat her as me, just treat her as your cousin."
"They don't like talking to me, but I'm not nervous when talking to you..."
"Get lost, why are you so disgusting?"
"I just treat them as you, what's so disgusting about that?"
The two of them bickered all the way home, and saw Zhou Ruonan weaving a web in the house. His two sons were playing in the yard, and when they saw them come back, they ran towards him cheering.
Li Xiaozhou looked at the basket on his shoulder and said, "Dad, you're back! Did you catch any big fish?"
"Yes, a big snow eel and a lot of blue crabs!" Li Changle put down the backpack, "Go into the house and get the hemp rope for dad, we will tie up the blue crabs and send them to sell."
"I'll get it!" Li Xiaohai turned around and ran into the house, happily saying to Zhou Ruonan as he ran, "Mom, Dad caught a big snow eel, and there are also a lot of blue crabs!"
"I heard it!" Zhou Ruonan put down the shuttle and walked out, watching them take out the net bag from the backpack. There were big blue crabs, blackhead fish, stone fish...
When she saw the snow eel, she smiled happily, "Did you find these in the woods?"
"Well! Take out the steelyard and let's weigh it before we go."
"Oh!" Zhou Ruonan went into the room to get the scale.
Li Xiaohai came out with a bunch of hemp rope, put it aside, and squatted there with Li Xiaozhou, watching them tie up blue crabs.
After Li Changle and Chen Yongwei tied up the blue crabs, they poured out the blackhead fish and put them in a wooden basin. It looked like it weighed more than 20 kilograms. "Anan, we won't sell these blackhead fish. You can give half of them to Grandma Chen later."
Chen Yongwei hurriedly said, "Brother, just ask my sister-in-law to send two over. My grandmother said that there are too many dried fish at home, and the ones that can't be eaten have been bitten by insects."
Li Changle turned his head and said, "Why don't you send the dried fish to the town to sell for money when there are worms growing on it?"
Zhou Ruonan also said distressedly: "Yes, even if it sells for one or two dollars, it's better than having worms!"
Chen Yongwei: "My grandma once went to Panzhen to sell them. She waited all morning and only sold more than three kilograms, which only made 40 or 50 cents in total. Her legs and feet were not good, and I didn't know how to sell things, so I haven't been there since then."
"I'm telling you, it's hard to sell in Panzhen. The salted fish has to be sent to Lucheng or Tuxiaqiao to sell well!" Zhou Ruonan pointed at the blackhead fish, "The ones like this that are well dried and look bright white can be sold for 15 cents per catty, while fresh fish can be sold for 7 cents per catty at most."
Li Changle thought about how he hadn't accompanied his wife to visit his mother-in-law for a long time. "An Nan, you should dry these out first. When we get more fish back to dry, we can send them to Lucheng to sell and visit my mother-in-law at the same time."
Zhou Ruonan nodded happily, "I plan to go back to see her before school starts."
Li Changle nodded, "Okay, no matter how much dried fish there is, we will go."
Li Xiaozhou held his hand and said, "Dad, we want to go to grandma's house too." Li Xiaohai also looked at him and said, "I want to go too."
Li Changle waved his hand, "Okay, let's go!"
"Oh! We can go to grandma's house too!..." The two brothers happily hugged each other and jumped.
Chen Yongwei looked at the two happy brothers and thought of the time when he went to his grandmother's house with his mother when he was a child. He felt bitter in his heart...
Li Changle washed his hands, turned his head and saw the dried mud on Chen Yongwei's hair, "Ah Wei, go get some water and wash the mud off your head. You are so young and don't care about your image at all. You are so sloppy, do you still want to find a partner or a wife?"
"Brother, give me a piece of soap, I'll go to the well to wash." Chen Yongwei scratched his head and said embarrassedly.
Zhou Ruonan went into the room and took out a piece of soap, "Awei, use this to wash."
"Thank you, sister-in-law." Chen Yongwei took the soap nuts and carried the bucket to the well to wash his hair.
Li Changle and Zhou Ruonan put the cobia, stonefish, and swordfish into the backpack and said to her, "Anan, you weigh the snow eels and blue crabs. I'll go change my clothes and get the bucket to put the snow eels in. Then I'll go to town with Awei to sell the fish."
Zhou Ruonan looked at him, "Aren't you going to Chenji to sell it?"
"I plan to go to the Phoenix Restaurant..."
"It would be better to go and have a look!" Zhou Ruonan also felt that the price offered by the big restaurant should be higher. Even if it was only ten cents more per pound, ten pounds would be one dollar. She would have to weave the nets for a whole day to earn that much.
Li Changle changed into a shirt and pants for going out. Although they were for going out, they were just neater and had no patches.
Chen Yongwei had already washed them. Zhou Ruonan told the two that there were 29 blue crabs in total, weighing a total of 21 jin. The snow eel was larger than they expected, weighing 7 jin.
A snow eel weighing more than ten kilograms is not heavy at all. A large one can grow to over a hundred kilograms, like a giant python.
Li Changle carried the bucket of snow eels and said to Zhou Ruonan and her two children, "I sold the fish and went to the hospital to see my father before coming back."
Zhou Ruonan nodded and handed him the straw hat, "Be careful on the road."
Li Changle took it and put it on, "Let's go, be a good boy at home and don't run around."
The eldest son nodded obediently, "Dad, come back soon!"
The younger son said happily, "Dad, please sell more money to buy some meat."
"Okay, Dad will sell more to buy meat." Li Changle walked in front carrying a bucket of snow eels. Chen Yongwei followed him with a backpack on his back. "Brother, shall we go to the street to catch a minibus?"
"Well! Take the minibus and get off at Fenghuang Street, then go to Fenghuang Restaurant to ask first." Li Changle fanned himself with his hat and walked towards the street under the scorching sun. The wind brought a wave of heat, and soon he was sweating all over.
He began to miss the electric vehicles of later generations, as well as the wide and flat roads where he could ride an electric bike as fast as the wind.
As they walked to the entrance of the village, they saw Mrs. Li and her three children coming towards them. "Ah Le, how was your and Ah Wei's harvest last night?"
Li Changle looked at the miniature nephew and niece who were smiling at him, and took a handful of each of them. He smiled and said, "Not bad, about 20 kilograms of blue crabs, and a snow eel..."
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