Chapter 62 Full of Confidence
Chapter 62 Full of Confidence
"We've had a falling out." Li Changle said with a playful smile, "Brother, I've decided to turn over a new leaf and start a new life. I won't play mahjong with you anymore!"
Ge Changfa saw his expression and thought he was telling the truth. "Damn it, if you don't go, I'm worried that if I go alone, they will gang up on me and kill me like a flying pig."
"What are you afraid of? Bring your bamboo knife and it will be easy to kill them." Li Changle said, then waved at him with a smile, "Let's go, we'll meet again in the afternoon!"
"Come to my house for a drink!" Ge Changfa also waved at him and strode towards the beach.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei arrived home. When Zhou Ruonan saw them coming back, she hurried forward to help put the backpack down. When she saw that it was full of octopuses, she smiled with joy.
“You caught so many?”
"Yes! More than 80% of those tanks have been occupied. We have collected more than 40 tide-watchers and dozens of kilograms of octopus."
Zhou Ruonan opened the sack and said happily, "A live octopus costs three cents, and I can sell it for two cents. Don't sell it cheaply."
"Oh!" Li Changle nodded happily, "Luckily you reminded me, otherwise I would have sold it for 10 cents and 20 cents per pound."
Zhou Ruonan said with a smile: "You don't know, but Awei knows it too."
Chen Yongwei on the side nodded repeatedly, "Auntie, don't worry, my brother is smarter than a monkey, he won't suffer any loss!"
"Go!" Li Changle knocked him, "Are you belittling me or praising me?"
Chen Yongwei smiled innocently and said, "Praise you, praise you!"
Zhou Ruonan looked at the two people playing around and smiled, "I have already sent the selected catch to the dock to sell to Adong's family. The small green crabs were sold at one yuan per catty, and I sold them for a total of sixteen yuan.
Flower crabs and white crabs were sold for 4.6 yuan, and herring, red snapper, and green snapper... all of these weighed a total of 79 kilograms and were sold for 12.5 yuan."
"This is already more than 29 yuan, and we still have river eels, tide-watchers, octopuses... that we haven't sold yet," Chen Yongwei looked at Li Changle excitedly, "Brother, it looks like we're going to make another 100 yuan today."
Li Changle nodded confidently, "Earning a hundred is nothing. Once we repair the boat, earning hundreds a day won't be a dream."
"You're bragging again. No wonder Auntie told you to brag!"
"Wife, please stop exposing my past!"
"What I said is true. If fishing at sea can really earn hundreds of dollars a day, why do most people in the village who go out to sea with small boats not go out to sea to fish and cast traps except when there is a typhoon? How come most of them still don't even have money to build houses?"
"Teacher Zhou is right. Luck can be good or bad. I just took it for granted."
Chen Yongwei, who was fed dog food, didn't feel anything at all. He was happily thinking, work hard to make money, build a house and get a wife!
From now on, we will live our lives in a coordinated manner like Ale Ge and A'sao.
"I don't want to bother with you." Zhou Ruonan glanced at him, went into the house and took out the fish and crabs she had picked out, "I kept all the two crabs, the river eel, the white crab, and the sea bass.
I weighed the blue crabs and they still weigh 13 pounds and 6 ounces. Oh, I'll keep the two octopuses for my dad to fry with celery when he comes back tonight."
"I'll clean it up!" Chen Yongwei happily stepped forward to take it and began to sort it into the bamboo basket.
"Today's catch is really good. At this rate, we'll have enough money to buy a boat and modify it in less than two days." Li Changle became happier the more he thought about it. "Once we have finished making the traps and crab nets, we'll make more every day."
Zhou Ruonan nodded happily, "Yes! The eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law have gone to the sea to fish. After you leave, I want to go and have a look too."
Li Changle hurriedly said, "Don't go. The village loudspeaker didn't say the typhoon was gone. You should weave the nets at home. We will put down more nets and everything will be back."
"That's fine. I'll just weave a web at home."
"Where are Xiaohai and Xiaozhou? Did they go to the beach with my sister-in-law and the others?" "No, Laowai asked them to go play with spinning tops."
"That's good!" Li Changle carried the basket on his back. "We'll sell the catch, go to the hospital to see Dad, and then come back."
Zhou Ruonan: "Yeah, be careful on the road."
Chen Yongwei grabbed the cat shark and held it, "Auntie, look, my brother said cat shark skin is a traditional Chinese medicine, and he also said he would ask the restaurant if they would keep it."
Zhou Ruonan took a look and said, "The pattern is really beautiful. If I want to buy it and keep it, I'll have to see who it belongs to."
"Send it and try. If it can be sold, then sell it. If it can't, forget it." Li Changle picked up the kettle and said, "Let's go."
Chen Yongwei hurriedly followed him, "Brother, shall we go to the restaurant first?"
"Well! Let's go to the restaurant first. If they can't finish the octopus, we can go to Chen's to sell it."
The two men left the village and waited on the road for a few minutes, but no minibus came. Worried that the octopus was dead, they turned and headed towards the pier to take a boat to paint the bridge. After walking for a few minutes, they met a tractor going to paint the bridge, and got on the boat.
"Brother, it would be nice to have a bicycle."
"Yeah, when I save up some money, I'll buy one."
"The other day at the scrapyard, I saw an old bicycle there. Do you think it can be used after repairing it?"
"As long as the parts are all there, it's fine." Li Changle sat down against the carriage board and stretched out his legs. "I'll take a nap. Call me when we get there."
"Okay!" Chen Yongwei held the wobbly backpack and looked at the rice fields on both sides of the road. He felt that life was getting more and more promising.
The tractor wobbled to the Tuxia Bridge. Seeing that they were almost at the Phoenix Restaurant, Chen Yongwei shouted at the driver to stop.
Li Changle yawned, stood up and gave three cents to the master. Chen Yongwei had already taken the backpack and bucket off the tractor.
When he walked outside the Phoenix Restaurant, he saw several brand new cars parked outside. He felt that the rich these days were extremely wealthy, while the poor, like him, did not even have the money to buy a bicycle.
The two brothers went from the alley to the back kitchen and saw A Kun standing at the door, watching two vegetable vendors move the vegetables from the cart into the kitchen.
Li Changle stepped forward with a smile, "Uncle Kun, are you busy?"
"I bought some side dishes!" Seeing that both of them were carrying baskets, A-Kun asked with a smile, "What good things did you get today?"
Li Changle said with a smile: "The blue crab, river eel... the tide watcher and the octopus are all alive."
"Well done, come in and take a look." A Kun led the two into the backyard. "They said the snow eels you sent last time were good. Can you get them again?"
Li Changle thought for a moment and said, "Snow eels are hard to catch. We have to try our luck. Let's go to the stream and cast a few nets one day to try."
"Okay, just send it to me next time you get it." A Kun saw the cat shark that Chen Yongwei was carrying and said, "No one eats this. Don't send it to me next time."
"Okay!" Li Changle took out two crabs. "Uncle Kun, look how fat these two crabs are. They weigh more than one pound each. I picked out the best ones to send to you."
Ah Kun took one and squeezed it, "Yes, it's good. I'll give you these two at three dollars a pound."
"Thank you, Uncle Kun." Li Changle took out the net bag of tide-fish from the backpack, "There are still forty-three tide-fish here. The others are all octopuses. They were all caught this morning and are still alive."
(End of this chapter)