Chapter 151 Matchmaker Cannot Be Trusted

Chapter 151 Matchmaker Cannot Be Trusted

Chapter 151 Matchmaker Cannot Be Trusted
"Put it away." Li Changle handed the beads to Zhou Ruonan, sat down at the table, picked up a bundle of banknotes, and knocked on the table, "Brother, Awei, let's divide the money first."

"Okay!" The three of them sat down happily, rubbing their hands. Each of them got ninety-six. Together with the hundred or so earned in the morning, they earned more than two hundred in a day.

Chen Yongwei grinned and handed the money to Grandma Chen, "Grandma, look, if you follow my brother, you will make a lot of money every day!"

Grandma Chen smiled so hard that her teeth were showing. "I know your brother Ale is a good person. You are not smart. You should listen to your brother and follow him to work hard."

Li Changle was speechless. How could he say that about his grandson? That brat Awei even nodded in agreement.

"Grandma, Ah Wei is just dumb in words, but not in brains. Don't say that about him in the future. If people hear him, they will really think he is dumb!"

Grandma Chen felt uncomfortable when she thought of what the matchmaker Acai said. The bitch actually said that my son Awei was able to marry a widow because of the blessing of the Chen family's ancestors.

She also said that he was tall but had no brains, and had to follow A Le around as a laborer every day. If I told others about the money that A Le gave him, the strong men in the village would rather line up to be chosen by A Le to do the hard labor for him.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but slap her lips, "It's all my fault. I used to say that Awei was stupid every day, and now even outsiders say that."

Li Changle: "What's going on? Did my cousin go to your house to introduce a date to A Wei?"

Nowadays, most elders like to point out the shortcomings of their own children. In fact, they are just saying it. They just don’t know how to praise their children. But if others say that their children are not good, they will immediately get angry.

Grandma Chen nodded. "That bitch Acai introduced my son Awei to a widow who was three years older than him and whose husband had died. I was so angry that I picked up a broom and chased her out."

Chen Yongwei: "Grandma, there's nothing to be angry about. Just ignore it. I'm fine the way I am now."

Li Changle: "Grandma, don't pay attention to her. As the old saying goes, it's better to believe in ghosts than to believe the matchmaker's words."

Grandma Chen laughed when she heard this, "Ah Le is still good at persuading people."

Father Li also advised: "Aunt Chen, Ah Le is right. Once Ah Wei finishes building the new house, there will naturally be girls willing to marry into it."

Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, "Grandma, we earn one or two hundred yuan a day. If we are lucky, we will save enough money to build a house in two or three months. You can just wait to become a great grandmother."

Grandma Chen thought about it and it was true. With an income of one or two hundred yuan a day, if she was lucky, she could approve the foundation and prepare the bricks, stones and earthwork in less than two or three months.

"Are you really planning to approve the residential land in Nanshan?"

Father Li also looked up at Li Changle and the others, "Yes, are you really planning to approve the homestead in Nanshan?"

Li Changle knew that he wanted to build the foundation at the entrance of the village. Thinking that he would have to be hit a few times anyway, it would be better to be hit sooner rather than later, he nodded without hesitation.

"Dad, I'm not planning to approve it there, but I've already decided to approve it there. I think it's a good place. It's spacious, close to the pier, and I don't have to climb mountains or go through caves."

"Yes, Dad. Ah Le said at the time that he wanted to approve it there, and we also felt it was not a good idea. I went to ask Dao Biao today, and he said it was a good place to live."

Brother Li also nodded, "Dad, that place is spacious and will be convenient for everything in the future."

"..." Father Li looked at his three sons for a moment, feeling a little disappointed, but also a little relieved, and said, "Okay, you can earn your own money and build your own house wherever you like."

"Dad, do you agree?" Li Changle, who was waiting to be beaten, did not get the cane and felt a little uncomfortable.

"So what if you disagree? I didn't earn the money, and I can't control you all your life." Father Li picked up his walking stick and tapped him lightly in annoyance.

"Your father is right. We are old and will die sooner or later. You still have to live your life on your own."

Grandma Chen paused and said to Father Li, "They have decided to allocate the housing land in Nanshan. When we have time, we can go there and pick a good location. We can ask Adong to help us lay the foundation."

Father Li nodded and said, "Let Xiaohua go with you to have a look tomorrow."

Li Changle and his brothers said happily: "With you helping to steer the ship, we can just focus on making money and building a new house."

Grandma Chen said with a smile: "Young people have their own ideas. We are old and can only help you."

"Hurry up and help serve the meal. After eating, you still have to clean up the catch, otherwise it will go bad." Father Li smiled and kicked Li Changle.

Chen Yongwei looked at Grandma Chen and said, "Grandma, are we eating here too?"

"Let's eat together. Your grandma brought some rations." Father Li said with a smile.

"okay!"

As soon as Li Changle and his companions went out, they saw Zhou Ruonan's sisters-in-law coming in with food. They called the children who were playing in the yard after drinking malted milk, and everyone sat down to eat.

Stir-fried small Chinese cabbage, steamed dried fish, braised green onion, cold-mixed pig ears, and seaweed and shrimp soup were soon served on the table.

Li Changle felt that the cold-mixed pig ears in the evening were much more delicious than the cold-mixed pig mouth in the afternoon. "Which chef mixed this cold dish in the evening? It tasted really good."

"I mixed it all." Zhou Ruonan said with a smile, "It might be because of the oyster sauce."

"The oyster sauce is done. I'll go get some to dip the dried fish in." "I'll get it for you." Zhou Ruonan got up and went to her parents' side, bringing over the jar of oyster sauce. "Look, you only have this much of the oysters from half a bucket."

Li Changle wanted to eat the oyster sauce he made himself last time, so he took it and dipped a little with the tip of his chopsticks. He tasted it and felt that the genuine oyster sauce was really fresh and sweet. He felt that this stuff could be used to fry stones, and it would be so delicious that it would make your tongue fall off.

"The island we visited today has Buddha's hands, oysters, conches, clams, and general's caps. I'll take you with me next time."

After hearing this, Li Xiaoyang hurriedly said, "Uncle San, we want to go too."

"Okay, let's go together next time."

Li Changle's straightforward attitude made the children very happy. The older ones immediately said that they would help wash the oysters and dry the oyster meat tomorrow.

The younger ones said that they would definitely drive away the flies tomorrow to prevent them from laying eggs in the dried oyster meat.

After the family had finished their meal, Li's mother and Li's eldest and second wives went to clean up the catch.

Grandma Chen helped Zhou Ruonan clean up the dishes. After Li Changle and the others finished eating, they went to get a flashlight and carried buckets to the well to help kill the fish.

I took out the internal organs from the fish's belly, cleaned it, filtered out excess water, and marinated it with light salt. The next day, after sending some to Li Changxi and Uncle Wang, Uncle Da, and Uncle San, there was not much left.

Those big fish weighing four or five pounds each had a lot of fish intestines and fish oil, and the porcelain basin was quickly filled up.

Li Changle suddenly remembered that stir-fried fish intestines tasted pretty good. "An Nan, take out the fish intestines, add some ginger, garlic, bean paste, and chili and stir-fry them. They taste better than pig intestines."

"Then I'll prepare a bowl and try it tomorrow." Zhou Ruonan said as she went to get the fish intestines.

"Fish intestines have a strong fishy smell, what's so delicious about them?" Grandma Chen said with a smile, "Ah Le always thinks of weird ways to eat them."

"Anan has a good temper, and we let him do whatever he wants." Mother Li smiled and stepped forward to help, then thought about it and asked again, "Anan, you said you saw your fourth aunt asking your third aunt for money at Aqing's house. Did you lend it to her?"

Zhou Ruonan shook her head. "I saw Third Aunt was also wiping tears. She gave the fish to A-Qing and left."

After hearing this, Li's mother felt that there was an 80% chance that she had not borrowed the money, because Xu Xianmei would never expect to get the money back once he lent it to her.

If you ask for money, she will cry for three days and three nights, saying that her family has no money and can't even afford to eat, and that her brother and sister-in-law look down on her family for being poor...

She began to worry that Aunt Li Si would come to her house to borrow money if she failed to borrow money.

"I know why Fourth Aunt borrowed money." Mrs. Li said, "I heard from Ah Xiu that Fourth Uncle's diesel engine burned down, and Fourth Aunt said Yufang is a jinx, and she will bring bad luck to them if she returns home."

"Yesterday, she was chased after with a broom and beaten. Several newly married young wives in the village thought Yufang was not her biological daughter, but her stepmother's."

Mother Li curled her lips in disgust. "Why are you saying that? I have never seen such a person in my life. She treats her brothers' children as treasures and her own children as weeds. She drags the whole family to help her support her family."

"Mother, why doesn't Fourth Uncle care about Fourth Aunt and let her empty his own house to support her parents' family?" When Li Changle thought of Fourth Aunt Li, she remembered what people in later generations called the "brother-supporting demon."

This fourth aunt is even more supportive of her brother than a brother-supporting demon. She would rather empty her own house, mistreat her own children, and let her whole family starve, than she can subsidize her younger brother from her natal family to eat, drink, defecate, and marry and have children.

My fourth uncle has four children, three daughters and one son. The two older daughters are married.

A Shui is the third child, about eighteen or nineteen years old this year. Li Yufang is the youngest daughter. She was originally a pretty girl, but she stole a piece of the peppermint ointment that she was going to give to her younger brother from her natal family.

She grabbed her and pinched her until her mouth and face were full of nail marks. She also hit her on the head with the back of a kitchen knife more than ten times. She didn't care about the injuries on her head and took the things back to her parents' home.

After grandma found out, she took Yufang to the village clinic to apply medicine and iodine.

Fourth uncle is also a weirdo. When he comes back, he seems to be blind and deaf. He can’t see or hear anything. As long as he comes back from the sea and has some wine to drink, he won’t care about anything else.

From then on, whenever Fourth Aunt was unhappy with something, she would take it out on Yufang. The old wounds on her head had not healed yet, and new wounds appeared. The wounds on her head became infected and turned into sores, and she developed into a bald head.

When her grandmother was alive, she couldn't bear to see her granddaughter suffer, so she simply took Li Yufang to live with her and raised her until she was fifteen or sixteen years old.

After grandma left, my uncle's family demolished the small house, and only then did Yufang return home.

She was twenty-six or twenty-seven years old when she married a mute man from Shaki Village who had been unable to find a wife. After the marriage, she cut off all ties with her natal family and only interacted with her uncles and aunts.

Fortunately, the mute treated her very well and gave birth to a well-behaved and clever son. Unfortunately, Yufang was in poor health and died of a serious illness in her forties.

"How do we manage it?" Li's mother pouted and said, "It was better before the family split up. After the split up, all the good things were sent to honor the Xu family.

Your fourth uncle beat and scolded her, but she didn't argue or make a fuss with you. She just stood there and tears fell like crazy.

After crying, she jumped into the well, slashed her throat and cried out for injustice, and in the end she had to lie on the bed and serve her food and drink. "

(End of this chapter)