Chapter 52 Go to Phoenix Tower Again

"Uncle San, can you recognize what kind of fish you found?" Li Xiaobo, the eldest son of the second brother, said, pointing at the yellow-fin fish in the bucket.

Li Xiaohai was unhappy after hearing this, "Brother, this is called yellowfin fish. My father told us."

Li Xiaozhou took over, "My father said that it is called yellow-winged fish because its lower fins are yellow and look like two wings."

Seeing that both of his sons were defending him, Li Changle felt so happy that he reached out and knocked Li Xiaobo on the forehead, "You are so rude!"

"I learned this from you. Grandma said you are the most unruly person in our family. Lululu!" The child said and made a face at him before turning and running away.

Li Changle laughed and scolded, "Little bastard, don't let me catch you!"

"A Le, why did you come back so soon? Why are you here alone? Where is A Wei?" Zhou Ruonan came out and asked after hearing the voice.

"Awei is still at the beach. I found a yellowfin fish. I'll send it to Tu under the bridge and sell it for a good price while it's still alive!"

Li Changle winked at her and said, "Go to Aqing's house quickly and borrow his bicycle. I'll go to town while the fish is still alive."

Zhou Ruonan understood immediately, "Oh, I'll go right away!"

Li Changle went into the house to get some water and wiped off his sweat, then took off his shirt when he changed, and put the fish and crabs in a bucket and put them in a backpack. Zhou Ruonan came back pushing a bicycle, followed by her two sons.

He went forward and hung the backpack on the back seat. "I also picked up a big conch. You take out the meat and give the shell to my son to play with. I'm going to Phoenix Restaurant to sell fish. I'll tell you more when I come back!"

Zhou Ruonan nodded repeatedly, "It's getting dark, be careful, we'll wait for you to come back for dinner."

"I'm not hungry. You and sister-in-law can eat first." Li Changle got on his bicycle, quickly left the yard, and rode towards Tuxia Bridge.

Half an hour later, he rode his bicycle into the alley leading to the back kitchen of Phoenix Restaurant. When he arrived, he saw that the back door was open, so he got off his bicycle, carrying the backpack, and knocked on the door a few times.

"Is anyone there? I'm Li Changle, who came here this morning to sell snow eels!"

"It's you. Uncle Kun has already given you the money. Is there anything else?" Ah Sheng, who helped him weigh the money in the morning, came out after hearing the voice.
"Little brother!" Li Changle smiled and took out a cigarette and handed it to him. "I found a yellowfin bream and two soft-shell crabs while fishing in the sea this afternoon. Can you help me call Uncle Kun?"

Ah Sheng took the cigarette and put it on his ear, then said cheerfully, "Okay, wait for me."

"Thank you! Thank you!" Li Changle took the backpack from the back seat of the car, carried it into the yard and waited for a while. Then A Kun came over alone.

As soon as I saw him, I said, "Ah Sheng said you got two soft-shell crabs. I want to see what species they are?"

"Big blue crabs!" Li Changle pointed at the bucket and said with a smile, "The male weighs more than two kilograms, and the female weighs at least one kilogram."

Ah Kun grabbed a blue crab, pressed it, and said happily, "You can do it! Snow eels in the morning and soft-shell crabs in the afternoon. Your income in one day is as much as others make in two months."

After the restaurant opened, two familiar fishermen also sent seafood to sell, but most of them were worthless fish and shrimps. Nothing like him, who could get so many good goods in one day.

Li Changle smiled and said, "Uncle Kun, such luck only comes once a year. Usually, we only find some sand scorpions, mud snails, and worthless fish and shrimps!"

"That's true!" Ah Kun put the soft-shell crabs back into the bucket. "How much do you plan to sell them for per pound?"

"Uncle Kun, soft-shell crabs are hard to catch. To be honest, I've never found one before, and I don't know how much they sell for per pound. Just give me what you think is right!"

Ah Kun smiled and said, "The seafood store doesn't send you anything as big as yours, so they charge us five dollars a pound. Yours is particularly big, so I'll give you an extra fifty cents, so it'll be five dollars and a half a pound."

It’s two dollars and a half more than the seafood store, which is still a reasonable price! “Thank you, Uncle Kun!” Li Changle said as he picked up the yellowfin fish that was not yet dead. “Do you want the yellowfin fish?”

Ah Kun took a look and said, "This is 2.8 yuan per pound!"

One pound cost one yuan more than expected, and five or six pounds cost about ten yuan. Li Changle once again felt that he had made the right decision to come to the Phoenix Restaurant to sell seafood.

He pointed happily at the sand slugs in the bucket and said, "Uncle Kun, we just dug some sand slugs today. They are very fresh. I brought them here especially for you to stew at home and have with your wine."

Seeing that the sandpipers were all big, A Kun smiled with satisfaction and said, "Okay, I won't be polite then."

"Don't hesitate to ask me what you like to eat. I'll send it to you when I find it. It's guaranteed to be fresh!"

"Okay, I'll tell you if I want to eat something in the future." A Kun looked at him with a smile, "Send some of the good mud snails over if you find them. Our boss likes to eat them."

"Yeah! If there's no typhoon, I'll go shopping when I get back. If there's a typhoon, it will only be a few days later."

The shell of the mud snail is oval, and the shell is so thin and brittle that it can't even cover the snail meat inside. The snail body is rectangular, with a large slipper-shaped head, no tentacles, and is hermaphroditic.

In some places, it is also called wheat snail, plum snail, and yellow mud snail.

It crawls on the surface of the mudflats after low tide and lives on the intertidal mudflats along the coast, mostly on muddy or soft muddy mudflats, but it can also live normally on sandy mudflats.

Mud snails are cold in nature and can clear away heat and detoxify. They are often used to improve symptoms such as heat accumulation, difficulty urinating, jaundice, and athlete's foot.

It also has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is said that eating this thing is friendly to male compatriots.
Li Changle felt that in this day and age, the boss of a restaurant that big must have seen all kinds of good things. Even if he gave two more big flower dragons to the boss, the boss might not take them seriously.

In his new life, he didn't want to be a bootlicker, counting on others to give him food. Giving mud snails as a gift would not add burden to the big boss, and he could afford it.

"We have also heard that this typhoon is not of high grade and should pass soon."

"That's good. People in the fishing village like sunny and windy weather."

"We like it too. It's dry and refreshing when we go out. When it rains, everything becomes dirty."

As A Kun took the scale from A Sheng, Li Changle picked up the soft-shell crabs and put them on the scale. The two crabs weighed a total of 3.2 jin, and were sold for 17.6 yuan.

The yellowfin croaker weighed 5.8 jin and was sold for 16.24 yuan, making a total of 33.84 yuan.

"A Sheng, go get a stool for A Le to sit on. I'm going to the finance department to get the money." After A Kun said that, he picked up the bucket and walked inside.

Li Changle hurriedly said: "Uncle Kun, there is no need to trouble Brother Asheng."

"No trouble!" Ah Sheng went to the house and brought out a stool, looking at him enviously, "Ah Le, can you earn so much every day by fishing? Seeing this makes me want to learn how to fish."

The fishermen earn more than 100 yuan a day, but he only earns 17 yuan a month as an assistant in the restaurant. He was hired because of Uncle Kun's introduction.

"It's just luck. If I could earn this much every day, I would have built a new house long ago."

"It's not bad to meet three or four times a month!"

Li Changle smiled and shook his head, "Luck like today's is rare to come across once a year."

(End of this chapter)

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