Chapter 162 Looking for trouble

Chapter 162 Looking for trouble

Chapter 162 Looking for trouble
"Yes, if we get the land approved earlier, no one will come to borrow money if they know we want to build a house. If it rains again tomorrow, we will go to Uncle Dong to discuss the land foundation."

After drinking a bowl of hot ginger wine, Li Changle suddenly felt warm all over, with sweat oozing out of his body.

The humidity at the seaside is high, and drinking ginger juice and rice wine can dispel the cold, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. It is very suitable for fishermen like them who have been exposed to the sun on the sea for a day and then been drenched by the heavy rain.

Father Li looked at San'er who had become quite tanned and said, "I went to see your uncle this morning and went to Accountant Chen's house to talk to him about the land grant at Nanshan.

He said that there are also several households that have taken a fancy to that area, and let me tell you, if you decide to approve it there, you should pay the money for the homestead as soon as possible and mark out the foundation as soon as possible, so that the good location will not be taken away by others. "

"Which families? Why are they just like A Le, liking to build the foundation there?" Mrs. Li didn't expect that there were people who were just like A Le, liking to build their new houses in Nanshan Valley.

"Adong said they were the Jin brothers. Their family immigrated from the island. The brothers like to dry sea bass and boil shrimps and sell them in the town. They said they liked the spaciousness of the place."

Father Li paused for a moment and said, "The Jin brothers and Wang Daobiao brothers are both easy to get along with. Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. You can buy the house over there and be their neighbors."

Li Changle remembered that he had to pay for the approval of the foundation, "How much do I have to pay to the village for two foundations?"

"Two hundred yuan, with the same red book as the one at the entrance of the village."

"Okay, then we'll go find Uncle Adong tomorrow, pay the foundation fee, and mark out the foundation."

After the family has finished their meal, they still have to deal with the remaining green fish, yellow fish and miscellaneous fish. They have to be picked out, marinated overnight and hung up to dry.

Brother Li went out. The wind outside had weakened, the rain had also subsided, and it was so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of you. He sighed, "Oh, it looks like I have to rest for another two days."

Brother Li stepped forward to help lift the bamboo basket down. "It's good to rest for two days. Tomorrow we will go to Laotangan to buy the boat and send it to Zhangjia Pier for modification. Ah Le will go to Uncle Adong's house to pay the money for the homestead and decide on a location."

"Well! If you've decided, make it as soon as possible."

The two brothers carried the bamboo basket into the house and poured the yellow mullet, green mullet and miscellaneous fish into a large wooden basin.

Brother Li then noticed that there were still a lot of small fish below. "Why are there so many small fish?"

"There are still two rows of trap nets left to go down. The weather is not right!"

Li Changle then remembered that there were still two rows of traps that had not been put down. "Brother, there are still baits in the bait bags of the trap nets that I brought back!"

"I put the trap net in the side room." Brother Li ran towards the side room in a hurry.

Zhou Ruonan and her mother-in-law sat down in front of the big wooden basin and started to clean up. "These small fish are quite fresh today, and they are not small in size. It would be a pity to use them as bait."

"Some of these fish were caught with nets, and some were picked out from ground traps." Li Changle walked forward to take a look, "Pick out the big ones and dry their heads, and wash the small ones and fry them to go with wine."

Mrs. Li was shocked. "Deep-frying wastes a lot of oil. Besides, it's fine to eat when it's hot, but when it's cold, it's coated with a layer of oil. Not only does it taste bad, but it can also cause diarrhea."

“When fried with rapeseed oil, there will be no oil bloom.”

"We don't grow rapeseed, so where does rapeseed oil come from?" Li's mother rolled her eyes at him and said, "You're the only one who's always thinking too much."

"I didn't know there was no rapeseed oil at home." Li Changle laughed awkwardly, then he remembered that people in the fishing village these days used lard for frying or stir-frying. No one ate rapeseed oil, nor were they used to it. They thought it had a raw oil smell.

But for fried food, the one fried in rapeseed oil is the most delicious. The fish fried in lard oil is not only not crispy enough, but also tastes really bad after it cools down.

"Mom, Dad and Third Uncle went to talk to Fourth Uncle about letting Shui be the head of the family. What did they say?" Zhou Ruonan helped to change the subject.

Mother Li curled her lips and said, "Your fourth uncle said that he doesn't care who is in charge, as long as he has food to eat and wine to drink when he comes back from the sea."

"Then what does Ah Shui say?" Li Changle also admired people like his fourth uncle, who had no one in his heart or eyes but himself.

"Ah Shui said he wanted to split up the family. He would take Yufang with him, and his father and mother would live with him. In the future, the fish they caught would be divided equally between them, and they would each pay half of the money for repairing the fishing boat."

"Yo~ Ah Shui has even thought about how to divide the family. It seems like he has wanted to split the family for a long time."

"Anyone with a little bit of common sense would think so." Father Li took over the conversation, "Ah Shui told us that his mother only has eyes for his uncle's family. She has always let her mother take care of the fourth room's family. He and Ah Si can only serve his uncle's family as slaves for the rest of their lives."

"We asked Yufang, that girl wanted nothing more than to live alone with her brother. Ah Si had no objection, but Xu Xianmei refused. She cried and wailed, saying that she had worked so hard to raise two ungrateful people and that it would be better for them to die with a rope. She also said that the third brother and I had too much power and were interfering with their family."

Li Changle understood after seeing Li's father's expression, "After talking for so long, you have come here for nothing!" "Of course not!" Li's mother interrupted, "Every time she cries, makes a scene, and threatens to commit suicide. Ah Si was scared by her jumping into the well before, and now she is trying to scare Ah Shui again."

Father Li was so angry when he thought about it, "What can we do? In a short while, she jumped into the well and hanged herself from the beam. They can't just watch her hang herself, right?"

"Pah!" Li's mother spat angrily, "If Xu Xianmei really wanted to commit suicide, she would have died a hundred times already. Look at those people in the village who hanged themselves or jumped into the well every time they had a quarrel. Aren't they still alive and well?"

"Let Ah Shui hold a rope with her. Wherever she wants to be hung, the mother and daughter will be hung together. Wherever she wants to be thrown into the well, the mother and daughter will be thrown together. I believe that she is willing to leave her mother's home."

Li Changle thought of his fourth aunt who was still alive and well after he left, "Dad, what Mom said is right. If you let Ah Shui fight with her, you can definitely split the family."

Father Li felt that what the mother and son said made sense, and planned to talk to A Shui tomorrow.

After Brother Li and Brother Li No. 2 poured out all the baits in the ground trap net, Li Changle put on his raincoat and went to the well to help clean the ground trap net before going back to the house to sleep.

Lying in bed, I recalled what Brother Li said on the way back: what if Uncle Kun’s bid was not as high as others’ and he didn’t buy the fish? Thinking of the bidding scenes I had seen on TV before, I felt that I had taken it for granted.

Zhou Ruonan came into the room after taking a shower. She saw him leaning against the bed with a frown on his face. "What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"I'm not feeling uncomfortable. I'm just thinking about the bidding for fish tomorrow. I'm worried that if you bid thirty and he bids fifty, we might sell the fish at a high price but offend someone without even knowing it."

"Ah Le, I think that in the end, even if Uncle Kun gets the fish, we might still offend people, because the buyers, no matter how big or small, are all bosses, and they all want face. At that time, people will not be jealous of the person who bought the fish, but only of you, the fish seller."

"Yes, yes, that's what I was worried about. I should have asked Adong to call Uncle Kun directly and sell the fish to him. I thought the higher the price, the better. It was just greed."

"That's normal. Rice fish weighing dozens of kilograms are seldom seen in a year. Everyone wants to sell them for a good price!" Zhou Ruonan consoled gently, thinking about how to remedy the situation.

"What should we do now?" Li Changle slapped his head, thinking that he was just looking for trouble. "Now that the word has been spoken, whoever offers the highest price tomorrow will get the fish. We can't just send it directly to the restaurant, right?"

"That definitely won't work." Zhou Ruonan said after a moment's silence, "Ah Le, when our school elected its leaders, we adopted a secret voting method to prevent the teachers who voted from being hated by the new leaders. I think this method can be used."

"Look, last time we sold that big rice fish for 3.5 yuan per pound, how much do you want to sell this one for this time? Let's set a price first and ask them to write down their desired price on a small piece of paper. We'll give it to whoever offers the highest price, so as to avoid hurting the relationship."

After hearing this, Li Changle came up to her and kissed her on the face, then gave her a thumbs up and said, "My teacher Zhou is very smart, and I am just a little smart."

Zhou Ruonan patted him and said coquettishly, "All you know how to do is feed me with sweet talk every day."

Li Changle took her hand and placed it on her chest, "I didn't use any magic potion, it came from my heart!"

"I don't want to bother with you!" Zhou Ruonan pulled back her hand, pressed the mosquito net, and sat next to him. "Have you thought about how much you want to sell the fish for?"

"My eldest brother said that the bigger the fish, the better the fish maw. Our fish can produce at least 7 taels of fish maw. Even if the fish maw is 600 yuan per catty, it is worth 420 yuan. I think the price cannot be lower than this."

"Four hundred and twenty, isn't that too expensive?" Zhou Ruonan frowned and asked, "What if no one wants it?"

"Don't worry, good things will sell easily. If it doesn't sell well, just keep it and dry it in the sun. Maybe next year you can sell the fish maw for six or seven hundred yuan."

"No wonder my mother said you only think about good things every day!"

"Do you know what I'm thinking about now?" Li Changle smiled and hugged her, and the bed began to creak and shake...

The wind was howling and only died down towards dawn. The rain continued to fall intermittently until dawn.

……

Li Changle got up and found that his elder brother Li and second brother Li had already gone to Laotangan to buy a boat. He thought about going to Accountant Chen's house after dinner and then going to the beach to take a look.

Just as he picked up the bowl and took a few bites, Chen Dong came on a bicycle and asked him to go to the dock, saying that Ah Kun and three bosses had come to see the rice and fish.

Li Changle hurriedly called him into the room and told him the bidding method he and Zhou Ruonan had discussed. "What do you think of this method?"

"This is a good idea, it won't hurt the relationship." Chen Dong said, "Last year, Longji Seafood Store in the town sold a yellow croaker weighing more than 90 kilograms. I was there to watch the excitement, and the situation was similar to what you described. The price was so loud when they were bidding.

As a result, those who bought the fish felt that they were impulsive and asked for too high a price, and they felt unhappy. Those who didn’t buy were also unhappy. Long Kee was in a bad situation and was ganged up on by others several times.”

(End of this chapter)