Chapter 64: The Protective Sister

"That's good." Li Changxi turned his head and looked at Chen Yongwei, "How is your grandma? Are you engaged?"

Chen Yongwei said honestly: "My grandma is very nice, I am not engaged yet!"

Li Changxi knew his family's situation and said gently, "Tell your grandma to ask someone to help you find one. I will also help you find a girl near my home. If there is a suitable one, I will bring you a letter."

"Thank you, sister." Chen Yongwei said.

Li Changxi smiled and said, "I haven't seen you for half a year. Ah Wei is more talkative than before. I used to blush when I talked to him."

Chen Yongwei's face turned red again, "Sister, my grandma said that Brother Ale is smart, I'll just follow him."

Li Changle patted him and said, "Why are you blushing? Praising you is a good thing. You should tell Sister to help me find a suitable girl and introduce her to me."

"You think everyone is like you, smooth-talking all the time!" Li Changxi glared at him in reproach, and said with a mixture of heartache and joy, "It's hard to fish in the sea, right? Look at you, you've become tanned."

Zhang Dejin shook his head secretly, thinking about how he went out to work, under the scorching June sun, on the roof all day long, and came home to complain to her. She said, how can a man support a family without suffering?
A Le has only been fishing for a few days and I'm already worried that he will get tired and dark. A Le has been spoiled by his mother-in-law, father-in-law and his wife.

"It's not hard. As long as I can make money, I'm not afraid of getting tanned into a coal briquettes. It also saves people from calling me a gigolo."

Li Changle looked at her distressed expression and thought of how good she was to him. He felt a little guilty. He had never thought of her since he was reborn and even forgot to send her some seafood.

Li Changxi: "Don't listen to those people. Those black-headed people are jealous of you and that's why they say that."

There are few people in the fishing village, regardless of gender, who have fair skin. Some have dark red skin like an old loach, or their faces are covered with sun spots. There are few people like Ale and his wife who are born without getting tanned or sun spots.

Chen Yongwei laughed, "Sister, my brother said that black looks better and more manly."

"Don't listen to his nonsense. As the saying goes, a fair complexion can hide three flaws. A fair complexion is so beautiful..."

Seeing that Li Changxi was about to give another long speech, Li Changle hurried to the ward and said, "Dad, my sister and brother-in-law are here to see you."

Li's mother came out happily, "Ah Xi, Ah Jin, you are here!"

Zhang Dejin smiled and nodded, "I just heard about it from my uncle yesterday, otherwise we wouldn't have known about it."

"Mom, you too. Dad didn't even let Le bring us any news when he was in the hospital." Li Changxi said as he put a basket filled with eggs, longans, lychees, and brown sugar on the table.

When Li's mother saw the things in the basket, she scolded, "Your father will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow. Why are you spending money on these? You still owe so much foreign debt, and you don't know how to save money."

"It's okay. There are many families who have built new houses starting this year. The work that Jin has taken on won't be finished until the Chinese New Year. At the latest, he will be able to pay off his debts next year."

Li Changxi said as he walked to Father Li's bedside and said distressedly, "Dad, does it still hurt? Why don't you be more careful?"

Father Li looked at his son-in-law and daughter with relief, "They are much better. Doctor Lin came to see them today and said that they can be discharged from the hospital to recuperate. I told him that I will go home after the IV drip is finished this afternoon."

Li Changle hurriedly said, "Dad, Doctor Lin said yesterday that I can't be discharged until tomorrow. Why are you in such a hurry? No, I have to go ask Doctor Lin."

He had already understood the tempers of his two elders. They would do anything to save money. If they could survive without eating, they would give up eating. "You little brat, why would I lie to you?" Father Li grabbed him and said, "Doctor Lin said it was okay. He is a doctor. He would not agree if I couldn't be discharged from the hospital."

Mother Li also said, "Ah Le, your father didn't lie to you. Doctor Lin checked and said that your father's injuries are recovering well and no other complications were found. He can be discharged from the hospital this afternoon or tomorrow morning."

Zhang Dejin said after hearing this: "A Le, let's pick them up this afternoon."

"You are busy with work, so you don't need to come." Li's mother said to Li Changle, "You and Awei can help us bring some things back later. I will go outside to call a cart this afternoon and take your father to the bus station and take the minibus back."

Li Changle shook his head, "No, we have to come pick you up."

"Dad, Mom, don't save those few dimes on the bus fare. Let Ah Le come and pick you up."

Li Changxi stuffed twenty yuan into Li's mother's hand and said, "Take this and use it. Ah Jin asked me to give it to you."

Zhang Dejin also said, "Father-in-law and mother-in-law, take it and use it. Buy whatever you like to eat. Don't be too frugal."

"We have money!" Li's mother stuffed the money back into her daughter's hands, "The money Ah Le gave us hasn't been used up yet, you can save it to pay off the debt."

My daughter and son-in-law still owe a debt of more than one thousand yuan, with an interest rate of two percent. The interest alone on one thousand yuan is more than two hundred yuan a year. Every penny must be saved to pay off the debt, so how can I take their money?

Father Li also said: "Ah Xi, De Jin, listen to your mother. Ah Le can earn money now, and he gave us 50 yuan of pocket money at a time..."

"What Ale gave was Ale's, and what I gave was mine."

Li Changxi stuffed the money back into Li's mother's hand without hesitation, and turned to look at Li Changle, "Ah Le, you can do it! My uncle also said that you are different from before. This time you must have really changed."

Li Changle's ears felt hot. "Sister, I'm already in my twenties. I just went to the sea to make money. You make it sound like you did something extraordinary."

Li Changxi felt that the third brother had really changed, and said with relief: "Okay, I won't say anything more about you. You should work hard in the future. When you earn enough money to build a new house, I will ask your brother-in-law to bring all his fellow apprentices to help you build a new house."

"I plan to buy a boat and go out to sea. It's too early to build a house!"

Ajie is not a brother-supporting demon, but she is really better to her and Ahuan than to the older brother. It may also be because she helped raise both of them!

"Okay! Of course it would be better to buy a boat. When my sister pays off her debts, I can save money and invest in your boat." Li Changxi thought of something, "Can you drive a boat?"

"Dad, my older brother and my second brother all know how to do it, so I can learn from them!" Li Changle learned from them in his previous life and even passed the exam to obtain a first mate's certificate.

Li Changxi frowned, "You also want to help on the Dafang family's boat?" If Ale also went, Dafang would be even more proud!
"No." Li Changle told her about buying Li's father's fishing boat and the partnership with Awei.

"It's good to partner with Awei. You two should take it step by step and be diligent. When you have saved up enough money, you can buy a bigger ship." Li Changxi said, looking at Awei, "If your brother Ale is lazy, just tell my father and let them deal with him."

"Brother Ale is very hardworking now and has good luck. Lao Bian is even following us secretly, hoping to take advantage of my brother's good luck and get some good stuff!"

Chen Yongwei also used gestures to tell several people how Wang Laobian was bitten by a centipede after them.

(End of this chapter)

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