Chapter 43 What is lacking is money and confidence
Chapter 43 What is lacking is money and confidence
Li Xiaozhou looked at his cousin proudly, "Brother, sister, the fire-baked cakes are delicious, right? There's even meat inside!"
Li Xiaoqing stroked his curly hair and asked, "Have you and your brother eaten?"
"I've eaten." Li Xiaozhou felt happy when he thought about what his father said he had bought some delicious candies just for him and his brother.
"It's delicious!" Li Xiaotao took a small bite of the baked bun, "Third Uncle is really generous, I like Third Uncle the most."
"That's right!" Li Xiaoyang echoed his brother, "My mother is very stingy. She doesn't even buy us a piece of candy when she goes to town, and she orders us to do this and that every day."
Li Changle smiled and stroked him, "You dare to complain while doing some work. If your mother hears it, she will spank you until your butt is bruised."
"Hey..." Li Xiaoyang quickly shut up.
"Third Uncle, Second Aunt and Xiaohui are back too." Li Xiaoqing said to Li Changle.
"We have them all. If they want to eat, let them come and get them themselves!" He had bought food for everyone anyway, so if they didn't come to get it, they could just eat it at home. He was too lazy to ask Anan to send it to her house and be polite to her!
Compared with the second sister-in-law, he still likes the eldest sister-in-law more. Although she has her own little calculations and a sharp tongue, she treats them as a family.
Second sister-in-law is too clear in her divisions, and it makes her less humane!
Zhou Ruonan put down the ruler and stood up. "Are you hungry? The meal is ready."
"Ah, I bought some pork belly and I want you to make braised pork! It's so stuffy in this weather, will it become smelly in the afternoon?"
Zhou Ruonan smiled and said, "It's okay, it won't stink that quickly!"
"That's good. Let's eat the baked buns first!" Li Changle smiled and passed the bucket to her and Mrs. Li, "You have some too."
Mrs. Li smiled and said, "We have them too!"
Li Changle said with a smile: "You are so polite to me!"
"I'm not being polite with you!" Mrs. Li smiled, put down the shuttle thread, wiped her hands on her apron, and reached out to take one. "Did you get a good price for today's catch?"
"How bad can it be with snow eels!"
Mrs. Li also asked how the snake venom removal was going for Mr. Li.
Li Changle told the two sisters-in-law about the situation. The two sisters-in-law were very happy to know that they might be discharged from the hospital the day after tomorrow.
Li Changle walked back with the bucket, and Chen Yongwei followed him and put down the net bag and backpack. "Brother, I'll take the meat back first. I'll come and tie the plastic cans with you after I finish my meal."
"Wait, divide the money first before leaving." Li Changle put down the bucket, took out the sugar and baked buns inside, and took out his own meat for Zhou Ruonan.
"My sister-in-law helped clean up for so long last night. Call her and the kids over to eat together this afternoon."
"Okay!" Zhou Ruonan picked up a bag of baked cakes, "I'll send them to my second sister-in-law's house."
Li Changle hurriedly said, "Don't go. Xiaoqing went to call Xiaohui and her brother. It's obvious that it's the second sister-in-law who is controlling the child and not letting him come. Why are you still sending him there? Keep it for your son to eat."
"I've already bought it, why bother!" Zhou Ruonan said gently, "You know the temper of my second sister-in-law. She's better than those petty and mean-spirited ones, right?"
"Well, my wife is still virtuous!" Li Changle looked at her with a playful smile and said, "For the sake of my second brother, I won't argue with her."
"..." Zhou Ruonan glared at him and left with the fire-baked cake. Chen Yongwei gave Li Changle a sneer and said, "Brother, you have a good eye. My sister-in-law is virtuous, pretty and educated. Even Meilan from the village chief's family can't compare to her!"
"That's right, otherwise why would I be willing to go through all the hardships to marry her as my wife!"
"Don't give me that. It was obviously because you pestered my sister-in-law that she agreed to date you."
"As the saying goes, a virtuous woman is afraid of a clinging man, and an evil ghost is afraid of Zhong Kui. If you had my ability, Amei would have entered your house long ago."
"I'd better forget it!"
"Sit down and divide the money!"
Li Changle took out a stack of Great Unity notes. When they were painting down the bridge, each of them took out an advance of 12.5 yuan, leaving 100 yuan. He counted out 50 yuan and gave them to Chen Yongwei.
Chen Yongwei didn't answer, "Brother, it's too much, why are you giving me so much?"
Li Changle said, "The bait is yours, but our two families have the same ground traps and crab cages. We'll split the money from the sale this time. When you go back and talk to your grandma, we can talk about whether to form a partnership or help me."
He always remembered that in his previous life, when he was in the most difficult time, apart from his closest relatives, only Awei extended a helping hand to him like a brother, but he never had the chance to repay him in his previous life.
Now that I have a new life, I will have the chance to repay the favors I owed in my previous life.
But we can't just put them together blindly like this, otherwise it would be bad if we feel later that he got too little and it was unfair.
"I understand." Chen Yongwei took out forty yuan and pushed the remaining ten yuan in front of him, saying:
"Brother, I work alone. When I'm lucky, I can make a few or ten dollars. When I'm unlucky, I can't even make a dollar.
I didn't need so much. Together with the advance I got in town, I got more than fifty-two dollars, which was enough.
I will tell my grandma what you said this morning. I want to work with you."
Li Changle looked at this silly boy and thought that it was fortunate that the child chose him as his brother. If he had chosen someone like Wang Mazi, he would have been destined to be a farmhand for the rest of his life.
"Ah Wei, listen to me, brothers should settle accounts clearly, and friends should settle accounts even more clearly. Whether you want to work with me or I want you to help me with the wages, you have to talk to your grandmother in advance. Only with her consent can I dare to take you with me.
Also, you think now that it’s just you and your grandma, and she doesn’t have many requirements of you, so of course you don’t care about anything. But when you get married and start a family in the future, your wife may not think so.
Therefore, we must agree on this before we do anything and set the rules, so as to avoid hurting our relationship over money in the future."
Chen Yongwei looked at him frustratedly, "Brother, I'm stupid, my family only has two stone houses, and I have a grandmother to support, no girl would be willing to marry me."
"Fool!" Li Changle rolled his eyes at him, "Look at the old bachelor in the next village, he has a limp on one leg and is only a little taller than Xiaoyang, he is a complete cripple.
Since his grandfather came back from Wanwan last year, he has become a member of Wanwan's family. He is already in his thirties, and he has found a twenty-something girl to be his wife!"
Chen Yongwei nodded, "I know. I heard that his grandfather brought back a lot of money and built him a three-story Western-style house. He also has a big color TV and a motorcycle at home!"
"So, you are no worse than him in any way. What you lack is money and confidence! As long as you have a lot of money, not to mention Amei, there are many girls willing to marry you!"
Money is not everything, but without money, nothing is possible!
The situation was still better these days, as there were fewer rich people and the gap between the rich and the poor in the village was not that big. But after a few years, more people went out to do business and bought big ships to go to sea, and the gap between the rich and the poor suddenly widened.
A family so poor that they couldn't even speak a word in the village.
(End of this chapter)