Chapter 154 Another day of cattle and horses begins

Chapter 154 Another day of cattle and horses begins

Chapter 154 Another day of cattle and horses begins
The next day, Li Changle woke up and opened his eyes to see that Zhou Ruonan was already awake. She sat up slowly, thinking that she still had to go out to sea to collect traps, longlines and jars.

He turned his head to check the time. It was already past eight o'clock. He couldn't help but sigh and laughed at himself, "As soon as I open my eyes, another day of hard work begins!"

He slowly picked up a pair of coarse cloth trousers with two patches on the knees and had just put them on when he suddenly remembered that the conches had not yet been delivered to the restaurant.

He slapped his head, quickly put on his clothes, rushed out of the room in his slippers, and bumped into Zhou Ruonan who had just walked to the door.

"Ah~" Zhou Ruonan was almost knocked down by him and exclaimed, "What are you doing in such a panic?"

Li Changle quickly reached out to hug her to prevent her from falling backwards. "I woke up and remembered that I had to send Buddha's Hand Snail, Octopus, and Wangchao to the restaurant this morning. Why didn't you call me?"

"How dare you say that!" Zhou Ruonan slapped him in annoyance. "You were sleeping like a pig. I called you several times but you didn't respond. You even waved your hand to chase me away, saying I was a dead mosquito."

"I have no impression at all." Li Changle said, pinching her waist with a playful smile, "Which fairy transformed such a beautiful mosquito?"

Zhou Ruonan grabbed his mischievous hand and said, "You are the devil! I tell you, my eldest brother got up early in the morning and went out with Awei and the second brother.

He delivered the fish to his elder sister and uncle's house, while his second brother and Awei delivered the catch to Tuxia Bridge. The three of them had already walked for an hour or two, and they should be home soon."

"That's good. How many beads did you open this morning?" Li Changle felt that his two brothers and Awei were more reliable.

Zhou Ruonan said a little embarrassedly: "I got up a little late too. When I got there, Dad and Mom had already opened two bags of oysters."

"Four silvery white round beads appeared, and four or five shapeless ones. I took a look and found that the white ones were enough to make up three sets of beads."

Li Changle's eyes lit up when he heard this. He hugged her and gave her a kiss. "My goodness, four pills have been opened in just two bags. There are still more than 40 bags. How many pills will be opened?"

One pearl costs more than two hundred yuan, and ten pearls cost more than two thousand yuan. If you are lucky, you may even have enough money to buy a metal boat.

"That's not necessarily true. Yesterday we also had a few oysters that were opened from a bag of oysters." Zhou Ruonan pushed him away embarrassedly, "Go wash your face quickly. I'll bring you food."

"I'll go over and take a look. A few more have opened." Li Changle didn't even bother to wash his face or eat, and walked straight toward his parents.

Zhou Ruonan looked at his back, smiled and shook her head, "I already said four were opened, why do you still have to go over and ask how many more to open."

Li Changle had just walked to the door of the second room when Li Xiaomei, sitting astride a broom and shouting "Jia, Jia, Jia", came out of the house. When she saw him coming out, she dropped the broom and grabbed his hand.

"Uncle San, when will Xiaozhou come back?"

Li Changle pinched her cheek and asked, "Does our Amei miss her brother?"

"I thought about it." Li Xiaomei pouted and nodded, "Sister and brother both ran out to play, I couldn't catch up with them."

"Uncle San will go pick him up in two days." Li Changle took her to her parents' home and saw Grandma Chen and her two sisters-in-law were there. There were still only four beads in the bowl on the square stool in the middle.

When Li Xiaomei saw Li Ersao, she let go of him and ran to snuggle up to her. "Mother, my brothers and sisters don't want to play with me because they say I can't run fast enough."

Mrs. Li touched her daughter with her head and said, "Be good, I'll give you some cakes and candies later."

Li Xiaomei kissed her happily and said, "Okay, I won't give it to my brother and sister."

"Well! They are not behaving well, so I won't give them to them."

Li Changle picked up the bowl and took a look at the beads. Three of them were twice as big as peas, and one was slightly smaller than a glass marble. He thought that the big one should be worth more than two hundred and sixty.

"It's a good day today. We opened four beads early in the morning, and so many of them are useless." Mother Li said, picking up the bowl on the ground, "Ale, look, these beads are all useless."

Li Changle put down the bowl, picked up one and looked at it. It was flat, and if you scraped it with your fingernail, you could get pearl powder. "That's normal. If there were too many shaped pearls, the oyster pearls would not be valuable."

Even though a set only costs more than two hundred yuan per piece, the money nowadays is valuable. He estimated that more than two hundred yuan nowadays is more valuable than more than two thousand yuan in the future.

Grandma Chen nodded, "The fewer things there are, the more valuable they are."

Li Changle nodded, thinking that if his family had money, he would not want to sell those golden beads, because good things are valuable at any time, not to mention natural good beads.

The sea is a big treasure. As long as you can find the treasure, you will have no worries about making a fortune!
Mrs. Li smiled and said, "It's a pity that there are too few. It would be great if two could be opened from one bag."

Mother Li looked at the sacks piled there and said cheerfully, "There are still more than 40 bags of oysters. If we can open two oysters in each bag, we will be rich!"

Li Changle looked around but didn't see Father Li. "Where's Dad?"

"Xiaoyang helped him to go to your uncle's place." Mother Li curled her lips, "He's still restless with his lame leg, and he's still thinking about meddling in the affairs of the fourth room."

After hearing this, Grandma Chen smiled and said, "Atang is a good man. When your mother-in-law was alive, she often told me that among her sons, only your Atang was honest and sincere. It would be great if he was the eldest son."

"Grandma, being honest is not good, you will suffer no matter what you do!" Li's mother said she was disgusted but was happy in her heart, "My Ah Ping is just like his father, the four children below are all close to him." "I can see it."

Li Changle heard that they were talking happily, so she closed the door and came out. She saw that the courtyard was already filled with bamboo flats. The dried oyster meat in the bamboo flats gave off a light salty smell.

He went over and pinched the dried oysters, thinking that if they were dried for another day, he could pack them up and send them to his mother-in-law's home in Lucheng to sell.

"Ale, where did you find these oysters? They are so big." Mrs. A Lai asked with envy as she stood at the edge of her yard.

Li Changle suddenly had an idea. "I didn't buy it. I asked someone to help me collect the dried oyster meat and send it to Lucheng to sell."

Mrs. A Lai: "You are really smart. It has only been a short time since you started, but you have already started to make money by collecting seafood."

A Lai Niang looked at him in surprise and said, "You collect oysters too? How do you collect them? When the price is right, we will chisel them back and sell them to you."

"I have little capital, and my family has already collected a lot. I will send it over first to test the market. If it sells well, I will collect more later."

"Neighbor next door, please take care of him if the price is good!" A Lai's mother pulled her wife, turned her head, pouted and muttered softly.

"A street fisherman is a street fisherman. People say that they fish for three days and dry their nets for two days. But he is different. He only worked for one day and the fishing boat took him home, but he is already thinking about changing his career."

Brother Li came out with fishing gear and said as soon as he saw him, "Ah Le, it's already past eight o'clock. Hurry up and eat. When Lao Er and A Wei come back, we'll go out to sea to collect traps."

The sun rises early at the seaside, and it gets dark early too. I usually get up around 5 or 6 o'clock, and getting up after 8 o'clock is considered late.

Li Changle nodded, "Aren't you going to Laotangan to watch the boats today?"

"I want to go and see it. The second brother said, let me go alone and he will go out to sea with you. I will send you to the dock and come back."

"Okay!" Li Changle had just turned around and hadn't reached the steps when Chen Yongwei rode his tricycle to the front of the courtyard.

Brother Li jumped off the tricycle, came in with a backpack and said, "We finally got here after all the hassles."

"Have you collected all of them?" Brother Li asked in a low voice.

"Yes!" Brother Li took him to Li Changle's house, took out an oilcloth bag from his backpack, and took out several thick bundles of banknotes and some change.

Brother Li happily pulled Chen Yongwei to sit down, "Oh my goodness, there are so many again!"

Brother Li nodded with a smile. "The prices at the restaurant are so good. The prices of the crayfish and conch are more than double those at the seafood purchasing shop."

He rubbed his face excitedly, looked at the three people and said excitedly, "The best Wangchao sold for thirty-two, the big one sold for twenty-two, the octopus sold for seventy-eight and a half dollars, and the Buddha's hand conch sold for five hundred and seventy-nine. The total sold was seven hundred and eleven and a half dollars."

Then he handed the money and the bill to Li Changle, "Ah Le, you are the captain, you divide it."

"Okay!" Li Changle took the money, counted out two portions for each of them, and gave the rest to Zhou Ruonan to put away.

While the three of them were happily paying the money to the person in charge of the household finances, he picked up the rice noodles that Zhou Ruonan had cooked for him and started eating them in big mouthfuls.

Zhou Ruonan put the money away and looked at him with sparkling eyes, "Ah Le, the money in our house has been rising like the tide these past two days."

Li Changle glanced at her proudly, puffed up her cheeks, and said vaguely: "Your man is not only good at talking, but also good at making money, right?"

Zhou Ruonan smiled and nodded, "Yeah, you're great at everything you do!"

"Are you really good at everything?" Li Changle smiled at her in a frivolous way.

"I don't want to bother with you. I'm going to open some oysters." Zhou Ruonan rolled her eyes at him, walked to the door and turned back to say, "I fried some wheat cakes for you. Remember to take them with you. Put the bowls you used in the pot. I'll come back and wash them later."

"Okay!" Li Changle nodded, finished the rice and noodles in the bowl in a few bites, took the bowl to the kitchen, and saw a kettle on the stove and a lunch box in the pot.

He picked up the kettle and put it on his back, then opened the lunch box and took a look. There were wheat cakes inside, each with sauerkraut and a fried egg.

"Life is wonderful when I have a wife!" Li Changle happily put the lunch box into the oilcloth bag and carried it out the door.

Outside, Brother Li and his two companions had already loaded the fishing gear and cans needed for going out to sea onto the tricycle.

Li Changle stared at the popsicle refrigerator on the tricycle and asked, "Brother, do you want to sell popsicles at the dock?"

"I want to sell popsicles, but they may not be enough for my little Tao." Brother Li smiled and patted the wooden box of popsicles, "You forgot, this is what my uncle used to sell popsicles."

"He said that this would be good for storing ice on your boat, so he asked me to bring it to you. He also gave me some pork shanks, a set of pig lungs, and a set of pig intestines to bring back. My eldest cousin also worked at the meat stall with my uncle, and I heard that the business was good."

(End of this chapter)