Chapter 54 Someone is following
Chapter 54 Someone is following
Li Changle looked at her with a smile, "People spend money to buy it. This thing nourishes Yin, replenishes Yang, and replenishes blood. You are too thin, so I'll keep it for you to replenish yourself!"
She is so skinny that I'm afraid her waist will be broken if I use too much force.
He doesn't like the White Bone Demon. He thinks that slightly plump women are good. They have good blood circulation, look healthy, and are comfortable to hug.
"Then keep one pound for eating, and sell the rest." Zhou Ruonan thought about it and added, "Blood clams are more expensive than other shellfish, they can be sold for 15 cents per pound! It would be a waste if we can't finish eating so many."
"How much meat can something with a shell have!" Li Changle saw her frowning and said hurriedly, "Leave two kilograms and sell the rest, okay?"
Then he squeezed her hand again and said, "Wife, I was ignorant before and put the burden of the family on you. I will be at home from now on, so don't be too frugal."
"Hmm!" Zhou Ruonan felt sweet in her heart. She carried the porcelain basin to the kitchen and brought the warm food in the pot to the table.
"Anan, there are still some mud snails. Bring me a basin to put them in."
"Are you saving the mud snails to eat as well?"
"It's only half a pound. Awei said he was too lazy to sell it, so he asked you to pickle it and eat it yourself."
"Hmm!" Zhou Ruonan handed him a basin and said, "Don't put water in it yet. Sprinkle some salt on it and let it marinate for a while. Just a little bit. Too much salt will make it too salty."
"I know, that's how my mother pickled it, she taught you!"
"Awei is here. You take the dishes and chopsticks, I'll go clean up." Zhou Ruonan said as she took the basin from his hand and went to clean up the mud snails.
Li Changle took the bowl and chopsticks out and said to Chen Yongwei, "Come in and eat!"
"Oh!" Chen Yongwei took the bowl and chopsticks, sat down and started eating.
A stack of dried salted fish, braised pork, seaweed soup, fried conch meat with celery, and a cut red pepper in it. The red and white color combination looks very appetizing.
"Brother, shall we go to the grove and set up the trap?"
"Going there!" Li Changle said, "Let your sister-in-law take those things to the dock to sell. The soft-shell crabs and yellowfin croakers sold for more than ten yuan. We'll divide the money after your sister-in-law sells the catch."
"Do you have enough money to buy the boat and modify it?"
"I'm not buying from someone else, so if it's not enough, I'll owe you the money first."
"Brother, I have left some money. Why don't you ask sister-in-law to keep it in mind first, and then give it to me after the shares are settled."
"also!"
"Ah Le," Mrs. Li came in from outside, "I heard that the village has started to measure the tidal flats and is planning to contract the land to individuals to raise blue crabs and dragonflies. Several families are already looking at which tidal flats to contract."
Li Changle said with a smile: "Let them do farming! Let them do it. People like me who have no money and no skills will not join in the fun."
He actually knew something about the village's contracting of tidal flats for aquaculture. The family that contracted the most tidal flats was the village secretary's family, followed by Aqing's father-in-law's family and his uncle. He couldn't remember the other small households.
What he remembered most clearly were these big farmers. None of them made any money. The breeding technology was one thing, but the most unfortunate thing was that a typhoon blew away everything.
The family of the branch secretary suffered the most losses. I heard that they even owed foreign debts. When the villagers found out, they gloated over their misfortune for a long time.
Mrs. Li thought what he said made sense. "Yes, it's just like planting rice. If you know how to take care of it, the rice ears will grow long and full, but if you don't, the rice ears will be like bald heads."
Li Changle said self-deprecatingly: "If I plant them, there is an 80% chance that they will turn out to be bald."
Mrs. Li couldn't help but laugh when she thought of how he worked in the fields. "Ah Le, you know what? Those who have been gossiping about you in the village have changed their minds these past two days.
Everyone is saying how lucky you are and that you got something good. You have suddenly gone from being a despised idiot to being the object of others' envy. " "Fuck, everyone can't stand seeing the poor have enough food. I haven't even escaped poverty yet, and they are already jealous!"
"The villagers are just like this. If someone's chicken lays a double-yolked egg, the news will spread from one end of the village to the other."
Zhou Ruonan walked into the house carrying a basin and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, which families want to contract? Which tidal flat land does the village plan to lease out?"
Mrs. Li shook her head. "I don't know either. I just heard from my aunt that the eldest wife wanted to contract the blue crab farming."
Chen Yongwei said: "I heard that raising blue crabs requires a lot of capital!"
Zhou Ruonan nodded, "Yeah! A crab seedling costs a few cents!"
"Don't worry about them. We just work hard to make money." Li Changle put down the bowl, "An Nan, let's go set up the traps. You take the catch to the dock and sell it."
"Mom, we'll go with you." Li Xiaohai said hurriedly.
Zhou Ruonan nodded and looked at her son who was sweating from playing. "Little Haidai, go wash your face. Mommy, pack up your catch."
"Oh oh!" The two brothers ran towards the kitchen.
After packing up, everyone went out separately. As usual, Li Changle walked out of the village empty-handed with Chen Yongwei.
When he was about to reach the salt marsh, he always felt that someone was following him.
Li Changle turned his head to look, but saw nothing. He shook his head and walked forward for a while, and that feeling came back.
He turned his head suddenly and shone the headlamp behind him, but found no one. He then shone the headlamp towards the other side, but still found no one. Looking at the orange trees on the other side, he suspected that the person was probably hiding behind the trees.
"Awei, do you feel that someone is following us?"
"No! There is no one there. Why didn't I see anyone?" Chen Yongwei turned on the flashlight and shone it towards the opposite side. He looked around but didn't see a single person. "No one. It might be the leaves moving in the wind."
Seeing that he didn't see it either, Li Changle looked at the orange tree opposite, wondering if she was being too sensitive.
After doing this, he no longer felt like he was being followed, so he turned off his headlights and walked towards the gate under the light of Awei's flashlight.
After walking through the woods and reaching the water, Chen Yongwei put down his backpack and took out the crab cage and the crab cage. "Brother, I'll put down the crab cage and you put down the crab cage."
"Okay!" Li Changle took off his sandals, picked up the trap and bamboo pole and went into the water. Suddenly, there was a "gulp" sound in front of him. He quickly turned his head and saw a water snake as thick as his wrist swimming quickly towards the front.
"Awei, I encountered a very thick water snake. Remember to use the bamboo pole to hit the water surface, especially the bushes in front."
Chen Yongwei, who was carrying a crab cage, turned and walked towards him, "Where is it? Why didn't I see it? I haven't eaten snake soup for a long time."
"...You are awesome!" Li Changle waved at him, "There are so many mosquitoes, hurry up and go home."
"Didn't you say you would bring mothballs? Why didn't you bring them?"
"We don't have any mothballs at home. We'll have to go to Tuxiaqiao to buy some tomorrow."
Li Changle put the trap in place and walked towards the shore pulling the rope. When he turned around, he saw a dark shadow flashing through the woods on the shore and shouted sternly:
"Who's there? Come out, I see you, stop playing tricks!"
(End of this chapter)