Chapter 81 Take him to pick up money

Chapter 81 Take him to pick up money

Chapter 81 Take him to pick up money

Chen Yongwei thought it was correct, but when he looked at the oysters on the cliff, he felt that they were all one-cent and two-cent bills.

What's the difference between this and picking up money? If it were someone else, they might just do it quietly by themselves. Why would they bring others to pick up money? Only his brother would treat him like this.

He said to Li Changle happily and gratefully: "Brother, thank you!"

"Fuck!" Li Changle looked at his sparkling eyes and felt his hair stand on end. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"I just want to thank you for treating me like your own brother." Chen Yongwei looked at him seriously and said, "Brother, let's be reincarnated as brothers in the next life."

When he was a child, only Alege did not despise him for being a jinx and helped him fight against the boys who bullied him. Now he does not despise him for being stupid and helps him make money and even brings him to the cave to pick up money.

Li Changle looked at him, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart. He smiled and patted him, "Get lost, brothers can still break their heads!"

"Well! We are not biological children, but we are better than biological children!"

Chen Yongwei smiled naively and picked up an oyster. "Brother, oysters are fresh and nutritious when eaten raw. I've been tired for a long time. Let's open one and try it. Do the ones grown in the cave taste the same as those grown outside?"

Li Changle was just about to get one to see if there were any oyster pearls inside. When he heard what he said, he smiled and said, "The cliffs are full of them. You can eat whatever you want. I'm just afraid that you'll take too much and won't be able to sleep at night."

Chen Yongwei smiled innocently and said, "Eat no more than two. This thing is too cold. If you eat too much, your stomach will feel uncomfortable."

Li Changle nodded, took the oysters he had just pried off, and found a rock to sit on.

Use a chisel to pry open the oysters. The oyster meat in the shell under the headlight is plump and tender, jade green in color, and of excellent quality.

Just as he was about to pinch the oyster meat to check it out, Chen Yongwei came over with the oyster meat, pointed at it and said to him: "Brother, look at this oyster meat, it looks better than the ones outside."

Li Changle paused and said, "I heard that there are minerals in the cave. This may be the reason."

Chen Yongwei smiled and found a rock to sit on next to him. "What are minerals?"

Li Changle thought about it and found that he didn't understand it either. "Minerals are something contained in the cave!"

"My brother has become an educated man. You learned this from my sister-in-law, right?" Chen Yongwei stuffed the oyster meat into his mouth and swallowed it in two slurps like a cow chewing a peony, then picked up another piece.

"Your brother heard it from those people in town."

After saying this, Li Changle stuffed the oyster meat into his mouth. It had a light salty taste and the unique salty and fishy smell of seafood. After chewing it carefully, after the salty taste, the sweet taste of the oyster meat was gradually released in the mouth.

Chen Yongwei ate two in a row and concluded, "Brother, these are better than the ones I pried off the cliffs on the beach!"

Li Changle nodded, and just as he was about to speak carefully with his teeth and tongue, his mouth felt like he was biting on a stone, making a clicking sound, and his teeth were hurt.

His heartbeat quickened, and he thought to himself, "We got the goods!"

He quickly reached out to catch the oyster meat that was spit out from his mouth, pinched the oyster meat with two fingers, and between his fingers he could clearly feel the hard lumps wrapped in the oyster meat that had not been chewed yet.

Li Changle was overjoyed, thinking that God had been kind to him. He excitedly pinched the oyster meat and tore it open, revealing a bead that was twice the size of a pea.

He quickly pinched the oyster pearl in his palm and shouted to Chen Yongwei who was busy prying the oyster: "Awei, look, there is a pearl inside the oyster!"

"Fuck!" Chen Yongwei turned around and rushed over, looking at the oyster bead in his palm, and said excitedly: "Brother, there really is an oyster bead, I thought my grandma was lying!"

"Has anyone in the village ever gotten an oyster pearl?"

"My grandma said that my grandfather had eaten one before. It was a little bigger than this one and was sold for three silver dollars." Chen Yongwei looked at him happily and said:
"Brother, you see, I ate two oysters but didn't get any pearls, but you ate one and got one. You are so lucky. You will get rich sooner or later.

The silver dollar is the Yuan Datou, which is used in the local customs of weddings, sea sacrifices, and exorcism, so every household has a few of them.

Li Changle wanted to smuggle the goods before, and he knew that in this day and age, one silver dollar could be exchanged for more than 20 yuan, and three would be more than 70 yuan. He looked at the oysters on the cliff with some excitement.

"Awei, maybe my fortune lies in these oysters. What do you say we should pry off all these oysters and open the pearls?"

"Ah!" Chen Yongwei was surprised and laughed, "Brother, it has been several decades since my great-grandfather got the oyster pearl. You see, I have never heard of anyone in the village getting an oyster pearl."

"You are very lucky to have only had one. I don't think there will be another one."

Li Changle understood, because after those people opened oyster pearls in the previous life, people from the fishery department said that there might only be one pearl in tens of thousands of oysters.

These oysters may grow in caves, which is why they produce so many pearls.

He was sure that there were still pearls inside, maybe not as many as in his previous life, but pearls were more valuable now than in the future, after all, not many were artificially cultivated.

If you can find a dozen pearls, it is much more profitable than selling oysters. Even if you can't sell them all, you can dry the oyster meat and make oyster sauce to sell. After all, there is no advanced cold chain technology in those days. There is no way to store and sell the oyster meat after it is opened. There is no other way except these two things.

"Ah Wei, these oysters have been growing here for who knows how many years. If we send them to the restaurant, they would only cost 20 cents each. If we pry all these oysters back, we can only sell them for 200 to 300 yuan at most."

Li Changle paused and said, "If we open a pearl, it may be worth dozens of dollars. I want to take a gamble. If we can open a few more pearls, we can make a fortune.

If not, we just need to take some trouble and dry it into oyster jerky or make oyster sauce, which can be exchanged for money. "

Chen Yongwei thought about it and said, "Okay, then let's pry some out and see if we can find some. If there is any, that would be great. If not, we can make oyster sauce and dry the oyster meat."

"Okay, then we'll work harder. First, pry out a few dozen of them, and then pry out a few dozen kilograms of Buddha's hand snails. Otherwise, when the tide comes up, we won't even have a place to stand."

"Okay!" Chen Yongwei picked up the chisel and hammer on the ground and started hammering them.

Oysters are much easier to pry open than conches. The two men worked efficiently and before long a lot of oysters were piled on the ground.

Then he began to pry up the Buddha's hand snail stuck in the crevice. Li Changle took out a flat-blade screwdriver, inserted it into the crevice of the rock, and pried up the Buddha's hand snail along with its root.

Because the root of the Buddha's hand snail has the most meat, if you accidentally break the meat at the root when prying it, the entire snail will lose its edible value!
Chen Yongwei's speed was much faster than Li Changle's. Li Changle pried out several of them in succession and gradually became faster.

After working for a while, he looked at the pile of conches on the ground and felt that it was enough. In addition, the battery of his headlamp was almost exhausted, so he quickly stopped Chen Yongwei and sat on a rock, breathing heavily.

Fortunately, he only pried a few dozen pounds at a time, otherwise, with the hundred or so oysters, he felt that his hands would not be able to hold even the bowl of rice by the next morning.

After resting for a while, Li Changle pinched his sore arms and wrists, "Okay, hurry up and pack up and get out."

Chen Yongwei took the net bag he handed over and said, "Brother, we got such a big pile. It looks like there is not much missing on the cliff."

"Don't you think about it? These things have been here for who knows how many years. It would be strange if there weren't many!"

The two men put the oysters and conches into the net bag and swam back and forth twice before they delivered all the catch.

As soon as Li Changle swam ashore, he fell down on the beach gasping for breath. Only then did he realize that the moon had risen above his head. He estimated that it was already eleven or twelve o'clock.

"It's too tiring to do this. I'll just have to wait until I have a boat."

"Yes, once the boat is repaired, we can drive directly to the rock, take the sacks out of the cave, and put them on the boat."

Li Changle nodded and said, "Let's go back. Your grandma and An Nan must be worried at home."

After he said that, he stood up, picked up the catch in the net bag and walked towards the cave. The two of them put the catch into buckets and walked back with oysters and conches on their backs.

When I reached the entrance of the cave and looked back down, I saw a few flashlights flickering on the mudflat.

When they were almost at the foot of the mountain, Li Changle saw that the lights in the house were still on, "Anan hasn't slept yet, your grandma might still be waiting for you!"

At this point, he suddenly remembered a sentence he had seen before: After a busy day, dragging your tired body home, no matter how late you get home, there is always a light on for you, this is happiness!

"Maybe he's waiting for us at your house with his sister-in-law!"

Chen Yongwei unconsciously quickened his pace. As soon as they walked into the yard, the doors of Li's mother's house and Li Changle's house opened.

"Ah Le, Ah Wei, you guys are back!"

Three women of different ages came out happily and took the buckets that the two men were carrying.

They were very happy to see the tiger eels and eagle pomfret in the bucket. Thinking of the purple sea urchins, sea urchins and octopuses that they had already sold, they felt that what they had gained from sea fishing tonight was almost like picking up money.

Li Changle looked at his wife and then at his mother, "You know where we went, why don't you go to bed early?"

"Just listen to what you say. We haven't seen it in person." Zhou Ruonan pointed at the alarm clock on the table. "Look, you've been gone for three or four hours. How can I not be worried?"

Grandma Chen looked at her grandson lovingly, "Yes, I slept for a while and woke up to see that Awei hadn't come back yet. I couldn't sleep so I came to your house. A'nan and your mother were still weaving the web, so I waited here."

Chen Yongwei: "You are so stupid. I told you when I went out that I would be home late tonight and asked you to go to bed early. Why didn't you go to bed?"

Li Changle took a look and saw that it was already past twelve o'clock and almost one o'clock. "Mother, go back to sleep. We will just clean up the catch and go to sleep."

Mother Li shook her head. "No, I'm not sleepy now after a good sleep. I'll go back to sleep after I help you clean up."

Zhou Ruonan looked at the tired Li Changle and felt a little distressed. "Ah Le, I cooked some corns. You can eat some first to fill your stomach. Leave this to us."

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