Chapter 91 The troublesome child

Chapter 91 The troublesome child

Chapter 91 The troublesome child

Li Changle watched for a while, and thought of his eldest son who had grown up to be by his side. "He acts like a little adult every day. I'm worried that he thinks too much and won't grow tall in the future."

Chen Yongwei smiled and said, "Why worry? My grandma said I'm taller than my dad. I guarantee Xiaohai will be taller than you when he grows up."

Ge Changfa: "Exactly. I think you have nothing to worry about. You're just worried about the lack of sunshine in June. Xiaohai's leg bones are so long. He will definitely be taller than you in the future."

Li Changle couldn't tell them that she saw it with her own eyes in her previous life and that he was not as tall as herself, so she thought about buying more things for the eldest child to eat to help the children grow taller.

A few children were fishing in the front, and the three adults gave them instructions from time to time. They were guarding the bamboo poles for fishing crayfish, and they were busy and happy as they picked up the bait from here and there.

The three men didn't stop until the two buckets they brought were filled to the brim and the crayfish in the buckets kept crawling out of the buckets with their claws and teeth bared.

Li Changle took out a net bag and covered the crawling crayfish. He and Chen Yongwei carried the bucket over and placed it in the reed marsh to prevent the crayfish from being sun-dried to death.

Ge Changfa put away the bamboo pole and said with a smile, "It's still more fun to fish for crayfish. You can catch 10 to 20 kilograms in just over an hour."

Li Changle thought so too. "Go back and pick out a few pounds of fat ones, add more ginger and garlic, pick a few chilies, add more oil and stir-fry. It tastes pretty good."

"Pick as many as you want."

"Brother, please pick more. My grandma doesn't like to use oil, so the fried crayfish is not tasty at all."

"Okay, I'll pick some more. Ah Fa, you can come and eat with us."

"What's the point of eating crayfish? If you want to eat something, eat the big lobsters in the sea."

"You're quite good at talking!"

"That's right. People living by the sea eat seafood!" Ge Changfa said as he took out the fishing rod for catching yellow eels and gave it to the two of them. "I'll come to collect the eels tomorrow morning and send some to you then."

"Row!"

The hook for catching eels is a large fishing hook, tied with a fishing line and tied to a small wooden stick at one end. Put an earthworm on the hook, find eel holes in ditches and rice fields, and insert a rod at the entrance of the hole. The next day you just need to collect the eels.

Li Changle and the other two put all the fishing hooks in place and returned to the ditch. They looked at the children in the ditch, who looked like mud monkeys, with a feeling of neither laughter nor tears.

Li Xiaozhou dragged a net bag filled with small fish and shrimps to show him off, "Dad, look how many fish we caught!"

Li Changle wiped the mud off his face and said to Li Xiaoyang and the others, "Okay, one or two people can't bear the sun."

Li Xiaobo held two crucian carps three fingers wide in his hands and said, "Uncle San, look, these are the small crucian carps we caught!"

"Dad (Uncle San), we also caught a few field crabs with roe." Li Xiaohai and Li Xiaotao climbed out of the ditch, holding two field crabs tied with straw ropes in each hand.

Li Changle took it and squeezed it, "Not bad, I can have a good meal when I get home."

"Uncle San, there are a lot of crab holes in the ditch. Take us there to catch crabs at night." Li Xiaoyang, whose head and face were covered with mud, also climbed up.

Li Changle thought of the mosquitoes that covered the pond ditch at night, "Is it almost the same as if I'm bored to death?"

Li Xiaoyang curled his lips, "Then why are you here now?"

"I'm happy with it!" Li Changle pointed at the mud on his face and head, as well as the dirt on his clothes, "If you don't get beaten when you go back like this, I'll take your last name!"

"Oh my god, it's so dirty!" Li Xiaoyang hurried to the ditch to wash it, and didn't care that the mud made his clothes black.

Li Changle looked at him and shook his head, "Let's go! Let's go back."

The group returned with a few mud monkeys in a mighty procession. When they entered the village, smoke was already rising from the chimneys. They first went to Ge Changfa's house, put down the buckets, and squatted down to start picking lobsters.

Li Xiaoyang and the others asked clearly and said that they had to go home to get money to buy them prizes. Impatient to wait for them there, he left Li Xiaozhou and went home with the small fish and shrimp in the bucket.

Ge Changfa took out a wooden basin and said, "Ah Le, the ones left behind are all for feeding the ducks. You can pick some and take them back to fry and eat with wine."

Li Changle pushed away Li Xiaozhou who was trying to catch lobsters, "Didn't you also say that if you want to eat, eat the big lobsters in the sea? I just picked some at random, enough for one meal."

"I love what you said. Go find some big lobsters and treat me to a drink."

"You provide the old wine, and we provide the lobster."

"Old wine is not simple. I still have a jar of it brewed last year!"

After hearing this, Li Changle looked at him with shining eyes, "Hurry up, find a wine jug and fill it for me."

"Then you wait." Ge Changfa stood up and walked into the house.

After Li Changle and Chen Yongwei picked out the lobsters, Ge Changfa came out with a pot of old wine, "Just come back for more after you finish drinking."

"I'm still being polite to you!"

Li Changle took the wine jug, took his youngest son's hand, and walked back with Chen Yongwei.

When I walked to the alley outside his house, I happened to run into Accountant Chen.

"Hey, Ale, where did you go to play games with that mud monkey?"

Li Changle smiled and said, "We went lobster fishing. Where are you going, Uncle Dong?"

Accountant Chen glanced at the three of them, laughed, and said to Li Changle, "Wang Mazi's family has leased 400 acres of tidal flats, and they also brought Ah Biao to lease 200 acres." Li Changle smiled and said, "Uncle Dong, how many acres does your family lease?"

Accountant Chen raised a finger and said, "One hundred acres! It's not easy to make money. I'd better learn the technology first and then think about the future."

Li Changle understood what he meant and said with a smile: "When I make some money, I will also try to lease a few acres. Then I will come to you to learn the technology. Don't keep it to yourself!"

Accountant Chen nodded at him a few times and said with a smile, "You sneaky guy!"

"I am a good comrade and a good member." Li Changle said, thinking about the reward, "Uncle Dong, when will our brothers' prizes arrive?"

Accountant Chen smiled and said, "Captain Zhou will report it back, but we still have to wait for the higher-ups to verify and approve it, which will take another ten days or half a month. It's already fast enough that it can be issued."

Li Changle shook his head in disdain. "The efficiency is really slow. In my opinion, they should strike while the iron is hot and stimulate everyone's enthusiasm."

"You guys, you talk in a very complicated way." Accountant Chen smiled and patted his shoulder. "I'll notify you after I notify you."

"Thank you for your hard work, old man."

After Li Changle and Chen Yongwei broke up, she took her youngest son home. Seeing the two brothers Li Xiaoyang and Li Xiaotao standing upright under the eaves, she smiled unkindly.

"Hey, you're eating stir-fried pork with bamboo shoots before you even have your soda?"

Mrs. Li came out of the house when she heard the noise. "I just washed a big basin of water this morning, and it's not even dark yet and I'm covered in mud again. I'm a teenager, but I'm worse than a child."

Li Xiaoyang said unconvincedly: "Xiaobo and Xiaohai also made a mess, why didn't Auntie say anything to them? You are the one who always asks for more!"

"Still being stubborn!" Mrs. Li was so angry that she picked up a bamboo stick and slapped the brothers on the buttocks twice, "Eat firewood, little ones, who is not more obedient than you..."

"Oh~ Grandma, my mother is going to beat someone to death, oh... oh..." Li Xiaotao covered his butt and ran towards the room of Li's father and mother.

"No beating, no success. Your mother is busy all day long and has to wash your clothes. Look at what you are wearing. I think you need to be beaten a few more times before you remember." Father Li scolded in the house.

Li's mother came out and grabbed him, raising her hand high and then lowering it gently, "Hurry up and change your clothes, and wash the mud off your head."

Among several children in the family, the two eldest ones are the most naughty and get beaten the most.

Li Xiaotao hid behind his grandmother and looked at his elder brother who turned around and hid behind Li Changle. He was glad that he had escaped. "I won't go. My mother is holding the bamboo slips!"

Mother Li looked at her grandson being beaten outside, and her mouth twitched with distress. "Just hit him twice..."

"Alright!" Father Li said to Mother Li, "Afang taught the children to stop talking nonsense. The children have been spoiled. Will you help them raise them in the future?"

"I..." Mother Li sighed, turned and went into the house, out of sight, out of heart.

"My brother got beaten again." Li Xiaohai and several others ran out of the house and crowded at the door to watch their boss get beaten.

Li Xiaoqing shook his head, "Why is my brother so stupid that he always provokes my mother to beat him?"

Li Xiaobo: "Brother, why don't you run away?"

Li Xiaohai nodded, "That's right, run away and hide behind my father, then my aunt won't beat him."

"Uncle San, help me..." After hearing the instructions, Li Xiaoyang hurriedly ran behind Li Changle and moved left and right to avoid Li Dasao's stir-fried pork with bamboo slices.

Mrs. Li pointed at him with a bamboo stick and said, "Speak out honestly, I won't beat you. Let me catch you..."

"Lululu, I'm not that stupid!" Seeing that she really didn't come to chase him and fight him, Li Xiaoyang made a suicidal face at her.

"Do you think that I can't hit you if you hide behind your third uncle?" Mrs. Li raised a bamboo stick and hit him with it.

"Damn it~" Li Xiaoyang ducked to avoid it and smiled triumphantly at her, "Hehe, I didn't hit you!"

"..."

Mrs. Li took a deep breath and tried her best to suppress the anger that was surging out. "I wonder how long you can hide?"

Zhou Ruonan: "Xiaoyang, be obedient and come out and apologize to your mother!"

Li Xiaoyang: "I'm not wrong. Xiaohai and Xiaotao were there too. Auntie, why didn't you beat them up?"

Li Xiaohai: "Brother, we all admit our mistakes. It's because you always talk back that auntie beats you."

"Look, he still has the nerve to say that. Every time he says that I hit him, why doesn't he think about how irritating his words are?" Mrs. Li's eyes turned red as she spoke.

I have to take care of the fields alone at home, and also have to fish in the sea and make nets to earn money for the family. The older the child gets, the more disobedient he becomes... Sometimes I really want to find a place where no one is around and have a good cry.

"Xiaoyang, you've made your mother cry..."

Li Xiaoyang turned his head and took a look, stiffening his neck, "I'm not mad at her..."

"Shut up!" Li Changle looked at Li Xiaoyang angrily and said, "If you dare to talk back again, I won't need your mother to beat you, I will deal with you first!"

"..." Seeing that Li Changle was angry, Li Xiaoyang lowered his head and dared not to retort.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Li Changle turned around and tried to persuade Sister Li, "Sister, beating people is so tiring, and you still feel bad after beating them. Ask them to change their clothes and wash them yourself. There's no need to be angry with them!"

(End of this chapter)