Chapter 137: The Zhang Family

Chapter 137: The Zhang Family

Chapter 137: Back Home with Bags
After buying the watch, Li Changle asked the watch seller if he had sewing machines for sale.

As a result, people told him that he had not only sewing machines, but also televisions, refrigerators and motorcycles.

The whole family followed him to a small courtyard not far from the black market, and spent 120 yuan to buy a Butterfly brand sewing machine. The watch seller taught him how to read the instruction manual and install it, then helped carry it to the black market and went back to work.

The next day after breakfast, Zhou Ruonan said to her two sons, "Grandma wants you to stay with her for a while. Dad will pick you up when school starts, okay?"

Li Xiaozhou nodded immediately, "Okay, I like staying at my grandma's house."

Li Xiaohai looked at his grandmother, wanting to stay but reluctant to leave his parents, "Mother, how long is left before school starts?"

Li Changle said hurriedly, "There are still two weeks left. It will be over soon. Dad will come back to visit you in a few days after returning home."

"Then you should come earlier." Li Xiaohai reminded.

"Don't worry, Dad will come back after he gets the dried oysters ready." Li Changle rubbed his son's head, "Go watch TV."

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After lunch, the two were ready to go home. Zhou's mother took out the clothes she had made for them and put them in the backpack, followed by a large bag of rice cakes that had been cut into thin strips and dried.

Then there was another full net bag of duck eggs, a big bag of brown sugar, and longans and lychees. "I didn't even know your father was in the hospital. Take these back to nourish your father."

"You put all the things the Yan family sent you into our backpacks. Keep these for yourself."

"We have some more at home. I bought some when I saw they were cheap and are waiting for you to come and take them back!" Mother Zhou stuffed all the things into the backpack without saying a word and turned back into the house.

Li Changle said to Zhou Ruonan: "Anything else?"

"Every time we come back, we always bring a lot of stuff with us." Zhou Ruonan's eyes were a little hot. "It's always like this every time we come. They want to bring back everything edible for us!"

Before she finished speaking, Zhou's mother came out with two large bags of things. It turned out to be a bag of bean flour and a bag of rice flour. Zhou Ruonan hurried forward and continued, "Mother, why did you buy bean flour? We can make it when we dig sweet potatoes at home."

Zhou's mother neatly placed the oilcloth bag horizontally on the backpack. "This bean flour is soft, sticky and easy to cook. It's what the mountain people didn't sell out on the street. Ah Xiang and I bought all of it. It's very cheap!"

"Mother, please stop taking it. We can't carry it if you take more." Li Changle felt that she had almost emptied the old cellar in her home.

"That's all we have." Zhou's mother tied the rope and said, "Be careful on the road. When the dried oysters and sea bream are dried, bring them here and we will help you sell them."

Zhou Ruonan said reluctantly, "I know. Don't get too tired and buy less snacks for Xiaohai and Xiaozhou."

"Go ahead, the rickshaw is waiting!"

Li Changle put the large and small bags of luggage on the rickshaw. After arriving at the station, the driver helped to carry the things to the roof of the rickshaw and put them away. The couple took the things given by Zhou's mother and most of the gifts sent by the Yan family and boarded the bus to go home.

The bus arrived at Pan Town. Li Changle woke up Zhou Ruonan, who was sleeping on his shoulder and drooling, and got off the bus and climbed onto the roof to take the backpack on it.

Li Changle was carrying a backpack with the sewing machine tied to it, and two large bags in his hands. Zhou Ruonan was the same. He was so tired and sweating that he walked to the post office to pick up the packages. He walked out of Pan Town under the scorching sun and finally stopped a minibus to go to Shatou Village.

Before reaching the village entrance, I saw Chen Yongwei standing at the intersection from afar.

"Is this guy coming to pick us up?"

"It's probably true. Ah Wei knows we will be back in the afternoon."

The car stopped at the intersection, and Li Changle shouted at him through the car window, "Awei, hurry up and help me get the things."

"Oh!" Chen Yongwei hurriedly got on the car and saw the things piled up in the aisle. "Are they all yours? Where are Xiaohai and Xiaozhou?"

"Leave it at my mother-in-law's house. All these things are there. Move them all down."

"So many?" Chen Yongwei picked up the backpack. "So heavy?"

"There are duck eggs in there, be careful not to break them." Li Changle proudly picked up the sewing machine, "My mother-in-law wants to bring all the edible things in the house back to me."

Everyone in the car laughed and said, "Yes, there are quite a lot, and they are all good stuff."

Chen Yongwei rolled his eyes, "...Look at how proud you are!"

"Young man, you can't be jealous unless you find a mother-in-law as soon as possible."

"Wait until I put my things away before I deal with you." Chen Yongwei put down the backpack, got into the car and took over the oilcloth bag carried by Zhou Ruonan.

With Chen Yongwei's help, Zhou Ruonan saved much more effort. The three of them went into the village under the scorching sun. Li's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who were weaving a net on the steps, saw them coming back and hurried over to help.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had long been accustomed to the two of them moving large and small bags home every time they returned to their parents' home. They calmly took the bags that Li Changle was carrying and put them in his house.

Mother Li looked around but didn't see her grandson. "Xiao Hai and Xiao Zhou are staying at grandma's house?"

"Leave him there with his grandmother for two weeks, and we'll pick them up later."

"It's so lonely for my mother-in-law to be alone. It will be more lively if the children stay there!"

Mrs. Li saw the picture of a sewing machine on the cardboard box and exclaimed, "Wow! It looks like a sewing machine?"

Li Changle nodded proudly, "It's a sewing machine. You can use it after you disassemble and reassemble it." Mrs. Li asked enviously, "Anan, was it given to you by your mother, or did you buy it?" It's good to have a wealthy mother's family!

Zhou Ruonan smiled and said, "I bought it. It's cheaper on the black market and doesn't require a ticket."

Mrs. Li sighed, "Lucheng is great. There is a black market and things are so cheap."

I never dreamed that the first to buy a big item would be the third family. After they bought the boat and earned money, they would also buy one.

"Things on the black market are really much cheaper!" Li Changle raised his hand proudly, showing the Citizen on his wrist, "I bought it for 75, and it's an automatic waterproof watch."

"Brother, why don't you buy me one?" Chen Yongwei liked it at first sight. "Take it down and let me try it."

Li Changle took it off and handed it to him, "I bought the cheapest one. Next time you can come with me and buy something slightly better."

Young men are different from old men like him. They should be more particular.

Mrs. Li looked at Li Changle, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Ah Le, how much did the earth dragon sell for that day?"

Li Changle: "The four earth dragons weighed a total of 12.6 jin, and I sold them for 189 yuan. I gave A Kun a kickback of 5 yuan. I used the money to buy a sewing machine and a watch. I will ask An Nan to give you the money later."

Mrs. Li Er showed a pleasant smile, and Mrs. Li Da said with a smile: "Don't worry, I'm just asking."

Both of them felt that the younger brother-in-law was really capable, as he could earn the price of two or three kilograms for one kilogram.

Mother Li looked at Li Changle and said, "I have prepared the incense and candles for the sacrifice, and I have also ordered the tofu. Your uncle will deliver the meat this afternoon. When the tide starts to rise tomorrow morning, you should go to Shuilu Zhang to pick up the boat, and then come back to the Laoye Temple to worship the gods."

No matter people here are picking up a ship, moving into a new home or installing beams on their houses, they will always choose high tide as the time of the day, implying that their lives will be prosperous and flourishing.

Li Changle nodded, "Okay, I still have to go to Shuilu Zhang to ride a tricycle, and by the way, I'll go to Zhang's Boat Shop to have a look."

"Your brother and his friends have also gone to Zhang's Shipping Company to check on the boats. I wonder if there is any news?"

"Take your time and ask more people."

Seeing that the mother and son had reached an agreement, Zhou Ruonan put the things for Li's mother into the backpack and said, "Mother, these things were bought by my mother for my father."

"Mother-in-law is so polite. Your father is already well, yet you still bought so many things for me."

Mother Li looked down and saw the malted milk and cakes in the backpack. She looked at the two of them in disapproval, "Why did you buy such expensive things? Why didn't you stop your mother?"

"My mother didn't buy the malted milk and cakes. They were given to me by the Yan family because Ah Le saved their child..."

"It's good to save people. We are all from the same village, so we should help if we can." Mother Li said with a smile, "A Le's time in town was not in vain. He also learned the skill of saving people."

Li Changle was speechless. "Mother, if you want to praise me, just praise me. Why bring up the past?"

"I'm not talking nonsense. You used to hang out outside every day!" Li's mother gave him a sidelong glance and happily went home carrying the backpack.

"It's all my fault!" Li Changle shrugged, went into the house to get the receipt issued by the Zhang family, took the pastries that Zhou Ruonan gave to Grandma Chen, and left with Chen Yongwei.

"Brother, yesterday my eldest brother, second brother and I went to the rocks to look for earth dragons, but we didn't even find an earth dragon cave. We were busy all morning and only caught some small fish smaller than a palm and a dozen stone crabs. We were too lazy to sell them, so we just took them home to eat."

Chen Yongwei looked at him with a smile, "Brother, I'd better go fishing with you."

"Did you go to collect the jars this morning?" Li Changle was also a little surprised. Could it be that he still had the koi physique after his rebirth?
"Yes, we collected more than 70 octopuses in total, more than 60 kilograms of octopus. Uncle Kun picked 54 octopuses and collected 30 kilograms of octopus."

"How's the jar harvest of the eldest and second brothers?"

"Uncle Kun picked more than 20 tilapia from them, and we sent the remaining octopuses and tilapia to the fish market. Octopus is sold at 35 yuan per pound, and tilapia is sold at 5 cents each. The price is better than selling it in the restaurant, but it takes a little more effort."

"Not bad, you even knew to send it to the fish market to sell."

"My second brother heard that it was more profitable to sell fish at the fish market, so he took us there." Chen Yongwei paused, "I almost forgot, Uncle Kun asked you to come back and visit him, saying that he had something good to say to you."

"Good things come to me?"

"Yes! That's what he said."

Li Changle thought about it for a while, but couldn't guess what good news it was. "Take the boat back and go again.

As they were talking, they arrived at the entrance of Chenjia Lane. Li Changle handed him the basket and said, "Take it back to grandma quickly. I'll wait for you here."

"Okay, I'll be there quickly." Chen Yongwei didn't act pretentiously. He took the basket and ran home.

Li Changle took out a cigarette, lit it, leaned against the wall and took a few puffs. He felt someone was looking at him, so he turned around and saw a young woman in a light pink dress, who was quite pretty, walking towards him with a child.

The woman walked closer and smiled at him, "Ah Le, what are you doing here?"

Li Changle was stunned for a moment after hearing this. When he saw the black mole at the corner of her eye, he remembered that this woman was Wang Mazi's wife. He was too lazy to even respond and turned around and walked towards Chen Yongwei's house.

(End of this chapter)