Chapter 131 Earning Performance

Chapter 131 Earning Performance

Chapter 131 Earning Performance

Zhou Ruonan helped Li Changle to take credit for the food. "All of these were bought by Ah Le Tao. He said you like to eat mackerel heads and dried oysters, so he asked me to pick out the best ones, dry them in the sun and send them to you."

Mother Zhou looked at Li Changle in surprise, and when she saw the fresh seafood in the basket, she said distressedly, "Why did you send me such good seafood? Why don't you sell it for money?"

"Not much. I picked up some of the food you like and brought it here." Li Changle said with a smile.

After hearing this, the old lady beside him also stretched her neck to look, "Wow! Your son-in-law is so polite. The sea eels and blue crabs are so fat, and he also took so many dried goods."

"This dried oyster meat is really good. I have never seen such good ones in the market. It would be great if you could bring some to sell to us."

"Look at this dried shrimp! The shrimp whiskers and shrimp threads are all clean. Living by the sea is great. You can get such good seafood by fishing in the sea."

"That also requires the son-in-law to be filial, so he is willing to bring so many things to visit his mother-in-law."

"My son-in-law is very generous." Zhou's mother smiled and picked up the net bag. "A Xiang Po, please help me watch the vegetable stall. If anyone wants to buy, just sell it."

Her son-in-law is filial, but he is not ambitious enough, so An Nan suffers.

"Okay, okay! Hurry up and make some snacks for your son-in-law and grandson." said the gray-haired A Xiang Po.

Li Changle and Zhou Ruonan moved the things into the house and saw that their eldest son and youngest son were already sitting in front of the TV, watching TV.

The Zhou family's house is an old-style brick and wood house with a rectangular front room facing the street. There is a wooden single sofa inside and a TV in the middle. Usually, they entertain guests here.

After entering, there is a small square patio with two rooms on each side and a kitchen opposite. There is a well in the corner of the patio near the kitchen, and some flowers and plants are planted.

The couple moved their things into the kitchen, which had a honeycomb coal stove and a single-burner stove.

Zhou Ruonan opened the back door and the room suddenly became bright.

Outside is Zhou's mother's vegetable garden, which is about one mu in size and is planted with chives, leeks, celery, and some melons and vegetables.

Zhou Ruonan took out a porcelain basin and gave it to him, then went to pack up the cakes, candies and dried goods she had brought with her. After putting them away, she went to the market to buy meat.

The son-in-law has to bring a piece of pork when he goes to his mother-in-law's house. Normally, he should have bought it and brought it with him when he arrived. However, the two men thought that the weather was too hot and the vegetable market was near his mother-in-law's house, so they agreed to buy fresh pork when they arrived.

Li Changle kept conger eels, blue crabs and other animals in basins respectively, and took out the sea fish on ice. These had to be killed and eaten quickly, otherwise they would not be fresh if left for too long.

He never helped with the cleanup before. Every time he came, he would just lie in the recliner in the living room, watching TV leisurely, like an old grandfather, waiting for Zhou's mother and An Nan to call him after cooking something delicious.

Zhou's mother also came in with a net bag, "Ah Le, everyone says that the seafood you dry is good, and someone wants to buy some!"

As she put down her things, she opened the cupboard, took out dried lychees, dried longans and eggs. She thought the coal stove was too slow, so she was busy making a fire to cook snacks for them.

After hearing this, Li Changle had an idea, "This is not difficult. I will go out to collect mussels and oysters, dry them and send them to you for you to sell at the vegetable stall."

"Okay, just bring it over." Zhou's mother said, "Has your father's fishing boat been repaired? Anan said you found all these when you were fishing in the sea. Did you go out to sea with your father?"

She knew very well what kind of person her son-in-law was. He was not a bad person, nor was he stupid. He was just a lazy person and had a lot of laziness problems.

"Awei and I teamed up to buy the family's fishing boat... We'll take the boat home the day after tomorrow." Li Changle told Zhou's mother everything that had happened during this period.

When Zhou's mother thought of her daughter's happy expression and looked at her son-in-law who had become much more stable, she felt relieved, thinking that he had not made up these stories.

"That's a good thing. When you take the boat home, you and Anan will definitely be busier than before. How about leaving Xiaohai and Xiaozhou behind when you leave? I'll take them back when school starts?"

After hearing this, Li Changle said without hesitation: "Okay, let them stay here with you, and I will pick you up before school starts."

"You go about your business. You don't have to come to pick it up." Seeing the water boiling, Zhou's mother put the peeled longans and lychees into the pot. "You have your own boat now.

In the future, bring the dried fish, shrimp, oysters, etc. that you have dried at home to me and I will help you sell them. The old neighbors nearby often buy these things. As long as the products are good, there is no problem selling them. "

"What's not hard to sell?" Zhou Ruonan came in carrying a piece of meat and looked at the two of them with a smile.

"Girl, why do you go buy meat when there are so many fresh food?" Mother Zhou glared at her in reproach and poured the beaten eggs into the pot.

"Fish, fish, how can we have fish without meat?" Zhou Ruonan smiled and put the meat in a bamboo basket, carried it to the well and hung it in the well to keep it fresh.

Few families have refrigerators these days. Those who have wells at home like to put meat, fruits and vegetables in the wells to keep them fresh.

She returned to the kitchen and looked at the small pot of lychees and longans cooked with poached eggs. "Mom, we came here after breakfast. You cooked so much. It will be a waste if we can't finish it." "There are not many eggs, it's all soup." Mother Zhou said as she scooped three more spoonfuls of brown sugar into the pot and asked Zhou Ruonan to call the two children to eat.

Zhou Ruonan and the two children each had two eggs. Li Changle had the most, with five eggs, and a lot of dried longans and lychees.

"A Le, I'm going to check out the vegetable stall. You should eat them while they're hot. Eggs will have a strong fishy smell if they're cold." She said to Li Chang Le who was killing fish on the stone slab outside the house, and went outside to check out the vegetable stall.

Zhou Ruonan brought the children over, and the family sat around the small square table. She scooped the lychee and longan soup from her bowl to the children, "Your favorite lychee, longan and egg soup."

"Mom, the TV at grandma's house is so good." Li Xiaozhou's cheeks were puffed up and sweet juice flowed out as he spoke.

Zhou Ruonan took out a handkerchief and wiped him, "Eat it first, then go and see." Then he said to his eldest son, "Watch your brother and don't let him run around on the street. I heard that there have been child thefts in the city these days."

Li Xiaohai nodded, "Grandma said so, and also said that a child was stolen by human traffickers a few days ago."

Li Xiaozhou asked curiously: "Dad, why did they steal the children and bring them home?"

Li Changle looked at the two men and said, "They steal children home, break their legs, and put them on the street to beg for money."

The two children were horrified after hearing this, "We won't run around, we don't want to break our legs and become beggars."

Zhou Ruonan was worried about scaring the child, so she quickly said softly, "My son is the best. Eat some snacks and go watch TV. Dad and mom will take you out to play this afternoon."

Li Changle found it too sweet, so she scooped up some lychees and longans to share with her mother and her two daughters. In the end, they didn't want any of them and just ate them all, burping twice in succession.

While Zhou Ruonan was cleaning up the pots and pans, he went to the vegetable garden at the back and saw that the vegetable garden was divided into several square plots, all of which were planted with seasonal vegetables. Orange trees and jujube trees were also planted in the gaps around the vegetable plots.

He remembered that the area behind the house used to be a vegetable garden, but in the past two years, families with larger populations have expanded their gardens, and there are only a few households growing vegetables left.

A few years later, the land behind the house was occupied by Zhou Ruonan's eldest brother and a house was built. Zhou's mother resolutely blocked the back door with bricks and refused to reconcile with her son no matter how others persuaded her.

What my eldest brother-in-law and his wife did back then was a great blow to the old lady. She never forgave them until she was sent back by a dump truck.

Li Changle felt that An Nan and her mother-in-law were both women who seemed weak but were actually very strong inside.

Zhou's mother went to the vegetable stall outside and came back to see Li Changle helping with work in the vegetable garden. She hurried out and said, "Ah Le, stop working. The sun is so hot. Go sit inside and watch TV and drink tea."

"It's okay. I ate too much, so move around a bit. It's just a little work, and I'll be fine in a while." Li Changle said with a smile.

"Mom, it's a rare opportunity for him to help you with some work, so let him do it and we can talk." Zhou Ruonan pulled her mother back into the house and sat down, and the mother and daughter began to talk about their true feelings.

Zhou's mother looked at her with satisfaction and said, "I heard from Ah Le that you bought the family boat. Is the money enough? If not, I can give it to you."

"That's enough. We've saved a few hundred dollars. Ah Le has been..."

After hearing her daughter's story about what Li Changle had done during this period, Zhou's mother was completely relieved. "Ah Le is not a bad person by nature, he was just a little lazy. Now that he has come to his senses, your life will be better. Mother won't worry about you anymore."

"Don't worry, Ah Le is really doing well now." Zhou Ruonan looked at her, hesitated for a moment and asked, "Are they clamoring to move in again?"

"They came here last week, but I drove them away." Mother Zhou was silent for a while, then said quietly, "It's not that they don't have a house to live in, but they're worried that I'll give it to you."

"You ungrateful bastards! If it weren't for them, your father wouldn't have committed suicide. I will never forgive them even if I die. It's useless for you to persuade me."

"I won't advise you. As long as you are fine, I will be relieved. When our new house is built, I will take you to live with me and help me take care of Xiaohai and Xiaozhou."

"Mother knows that you and your son-in-law are filial, but there is no reason for me to live in your house."

Zhou's mother held her daughter's hand and said, "Anan, listen to your mother. The quality of education in the city is completely different from that in the countryside. You should transfer Xiaohai and Xiaozhou's household registration here and let them study in the city. Only then will they have a future."

"Mother, let's talk about it when they grow up." Zhou Ruonan smiled and changed the subject, "What did you say just now that you won't have trouble selling them?"

She knew how selfish her brother and sister-in-law were. They didn't make a big fuss now because they thought that even if their mother didn't let them live there, the house still belonged to the Zhou family after all.

As long as she transferred the child's household registration to her mother's account, they would definitely jump out to cause trouble. She had never thought about taking her mother's house, nor did she want to confront them.

Zhou's mother smiled and said, "The neighbors said they wanted to buy your dried goods. Ah Le said he would send them to me after drying them. It's the same with one sheep or a flock of sheep. You can get more varieties. I will use the storefront to display the dried goods you send."

(End of this chapter)