Chapter 46 Happy Old Lady
Chapter 46 Happy Old Lady
"Brother, I want to work with you!"
Chen Yongwei responded without hesitation, then took out a small cloth bag from under the basket, opened it, took out a roll of banknotes and put it in his hand, "Here is one hundred and fifty yuan, take it and repair the boat first."
"Okay! You can take it first. When my dad comes back, we'll decide the price of the fishing boat and buy all the fishing gear. Then we'll calculate how much the 10% share is and then we'll divide the shares."
Li Changle thought that the small fishing boat at home would cost about three hundred yuan, and then there were his father's fishing gear, repairing the fishing boat, and installing a diesel-powered propeller. All added up, it might cost more than six hundred yuan to buy it.
The family now has more than 100 yuan. After Dad is discharged from the hospital and the bills are settled, they will give him a portion. The total is more than 200 yuan, plus the 150 yuan given by Wei...
No matter how I calculate, I'm still short of about two hundred yuan. I feel a lack of confidence just thinking about it. I have to take advantage of my good luck these days and earn back my confidence.
Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, "Okay, we'll do whatever you say!"
Li Changle smiled and said, "Don't agree so quickly. Go back and talk to your grandma first. If she agrees, I'll ask Teacher Zhou to write a contract, and we brothers will officially start our cooperation."
Chen Yongwei looked at him, "Why bother?"
Li Changle was not worried about Chen Yongwei, but he was worried about the old lady and his future wife thinking too much. "Brothers should settle accounts clearly. A good memory is not as good as a bad pen. Let's write one down, so that when we get rich in the future, those gossipers will not be jealous and say that I didn't give you enough."
"You're right! My grandma said that the wife of Agen next door to your house and the wife of Baogen behind my house always listen to what's going on in other houses when they have nothing to do. Most of the gossip between our two families was spread by them."
"I think you are a chatterbox. You know everything that happens in the village."
Chen Yongwei smiled and said, "My grandma told me."
"Hurry up and make some money to marry a wife and listen to her nagging!"
Li Changle felt that he had a good temper. If he were to listen to the old lady complaining about the shit going on in the village every day, he would definitely not be able to bear it.
Chen Yongwei smiled and said, "I'll be happy if I can get my wife back and they stop quarreling."
"That's true!" Li Changle took out the melon and corn cobs, "Hurry back and tell your grandma that when you come back, Xiaohai will be back from buying fishing ropes soon. Let's tie up the jars and we can set off to the beach!"
"Okay!" Chen Yongwei took the basket and left.
Li Changle put the money away, stood up and went out, and saw Zhou Ruonan holding a bundle of fishing ropes, followed by two children. Seeing them sweating profusely, he hurried forward to take the money.
"When did you go? Come in, there are melons on the table."
Li Xiaozhou jumped up happily, "Wow! There are melons to eat!" The two brothers ran into the house happily.
Zhou Ruonan wiped the sweat off her face with a handkerchief and said, "I saw that the plastic jar had no ears, so I went to buy steel wire."
"If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have thought of it." Li Changle put down the fishing rope, went into the house, took out a pair of pliers, and started tying the jars.
Zhou Ruonan ate half a melon, waited for her two sons to finish eating and go for a nap, then went out, pulled a bench and sat down to help tie the jars.
"What does Awei say?"
"Grandma Chen agreed, and I told Wei..."
"This is better, so I don't have to explain it unclearly later." Li Changle wrapped the steel wire around the wire mouth of the plastic can twice, and then fixed the fishing rope on it. One can was tied, and the second one was tied about one meter apart.
Zhou Ruonan also worked efficiently, and the couple had tied up more than a dozen people in a short time.
"Ale, Anan, you are busy!"
Li Changle turned around and saw the gray-haired Grandma Chen coming with Chen Yongwei, "Grandma Chen, come in and sit down!"
The couple smiled, put down their work, and welcomed the old lady into the house.
The old lady also had a miserable life. Her husband passed away early, and her son died at a young age. Her daughter-in-law couldn't stand the hardship, so she returned to her parents' home and got married the next year.
It was fine in the past few years, as Aunt Awei was at home. After her two aunts got married, she and Awei depended on each other. Because of her bound feet, she didn't like to go out, so she stayed at home to tend to the vegetable garden in front of the door, weaving nets and making sun hats to earn some money for oil.
People living by the sea have no shortage of salt. There is a salt field near Shaji Village. Villagers draw seawater into the river and build ponds to dry the salt.
Salt farmers, like fishermen, depend on the weather for their livelihood. If it is sunny for several days, every family is happy; if it rains for three days, every family complains; if it rains for several days in a row, they go hungry; if there is a thunderstorm or a typhoon, they suffer.
If the weather is slightly wrong, the salt farmers cannot even sleep well. Once they find signs of rain, they put on their straw raincoats and rush out of their homes to the salt ponds to harvest the salt.
Especially in summer, thunder and lightning are always followed by heavy rain, and typhoons and rainstorms will sweep away all the salt ponds. People can only watch the almost dried salt mixed with seawater flowing into the sea.
After the old lady sat down, she said seriously, "Ale, grandma is here to tell you something. I'm confident that Awei will work with you. He's not very smart and has a stubborn temper, so you need to be more patient with him."
Li Changle glanced at Chen Yongwei who was grinning foolishly, "Grandma Chen, Awei is not stupid at all, he just doesn't like to interact with people and gets nervous when talking to people he's not familiar with.
Don't worry, Awei is a filial man. When he makes money and gets married, you can just wait to have a great-grandson and enjoy his blessings."
"That's what grandma loves to hear!" The old lady looked at Zhou Ruonan happily, "They say men grow up late, but once Ah Le grows up, even his way of speaking changes."
"Thank you, Grandma Chen!" Zhou Ruonan said politely with a smile.
"Grandma Chen..." Li Changle repeated to the old lady what he had just said to Chen Yongwei. Seeing that she had no objection, Zhou Ruonan wrote the contract and the two signed it.
The old lady took the contract, glared at her grandson who was so happy, and said to Li Changle, "Ah Le, if Ah Wei gets angry, just tell me and I'll take care of him!"
Chen Yongwei said dissatisfiedly: "Grandma, I am already 22 years old, I know the seriousness of the matter. Ask my brother if I have a stubborn temper when I am with him?
"It's like that at home. It's because you're too good at chanting. It's even more powerful than Tang Sanzang's Tightening Curse. Who can stand it?"
"You little bastard!" The old lady scolded with a smile, then turned to Li Changle and said, "You guys should work hard in the future and show some examples to those people in the village who flatter the powerful and look down on the weak."
Li Changle nodded and said, "Don't worry, grandma. For our own sake, we will do our best."
"Okay, I feel relieved when you say that." The old lady stood up happily, "I'm going back, Awei will help me here."
"Okay!" Chen Yongwei happily sent the old lady out.
With Chen Yongwei's help, Zhou Ruonan went to weave the nets. After the mesh was woven, it had to be fixed with a steel wire frame to form a foldable ground trap and crab net.
(End of this chapter)