Chapter 174 Everyone was dumbfounded

Chapter 174 Everyone was dumbfounded

Chapter 174 Everyone was dumbfounded
"Studying is very expensive!" Li Changle said as he kissed her excitedly, "We will be able to move into a new house by the end of the year. We won't have to worry about disturbing the two little ones, or my second brother and his family anymore."

Zhou Ruonan slapped his dishonest hand and said, "I thought you saved up money and wanted to buy a tin boat first! After all this time, you are in a hurry to build a new house just for this!"

"What else could the couple be fighting for if not this?" Li Changle said as she moved closer.

"Be honest, it's not convenient today!" Zhou Ruonan smiled and slapped his hand away.

"No way!" Li Changle wailed with a bitter face, "Today we're eating sand bean noodles stewed with beans..."

"You crazy fellow." Zhou Ruonan pinched him awkwardly, "Keep your voice down, or my second brother and the others might hear you. You are shameless. You know that this old house is not soundproof, but you still howl so loudly."

"Okay, okay, I have nothing to do, go to bed early."

"Hmm!" Zhou Ruonan reached out to turn off the light. Li Changle reached out to embrace her. They lay there side by side, listening to the whistling wind and the sound of fine raindrops outside, and fell asleep unknowingly.

Li Changle and the other person fell asleep. Next door, Brother Li and Sister Li were still awake. They were counting their bills. There was a pile of banknotes of varying denominations on the bed.

No matter how they managed to get the money together, there was still a gap of nearly two thousand in the end. Brother Li was not too worried because he had his brother-in-law to help him buy bricks and tiles on credit, and there were so many Buddha's hand snails in the cave that could be sold. However, Sister-in-law Li was worried.

"My eldest sister-in-law came into the family two years earlier than me, and they have saved 800 to 900 yuan, while I have only saved 400 to 500 yuan. It seems that I have to live frugally to save money."

Brother Li glanced at the crib opposite and said, "The children are at the age of growing up. Don't be too frugal. It's not good for their health."

"How can I not save some money? I have been working day and night to weave nets and fish for seafood for so many years, and I have only saved a little over 400 yuan. It is not even as much as Ah Le can earn from selling seafood in one trip."

Brother Li said softly, "How can you compare with Alec? You make less than one dollar a day weaving nets at home. You have three children to support and relatives to deal with. It's good enough to save four or five hundred."

"Ah Le is smart and has connections with the Phoenix Restaurant, so he can sell it at a good price. Just think about it, when we sold the seafood we bought to the cooperative, we couldn't even get half the price of the seafood store, let alone the restaurant."

Mrs. Li nodded. "Yes, two years ago, sea bass was only 45 cents a pound, and big crabs were only 10 cents or 20 cents. If I found a grouper weighing 7 or 8 pounds and sold it for 4 or 5 yuan, I would be happy for several days."

Brother Li was also happy after thinking about it. "Ah Le said that seafood will only become more and more expensive in the future. I will work hard to buy a big ship as soon as possible and go to the big fishing grounds to fish in the ocean. If I'm lucky, I'll get rich with a big shipload of goods."

Mrs. Li looked at him and said, "I don't want to get rich either. I just want to build the house, pay off the debts, and keep my family safe and sound."

Brother Li said gently, "Don't worry. We got back safely from the last big storm. The days ahead will only get better and better."

"Yeah!" Li Ersao listened to her husband's gentle voice of comfort, and felt in her heart that she had married the right person in this life. She put the money away sweetly, took off her shoes, and went to bed to sleep.

Brother Li turned his head to look at the three children who were sleeping in the small bed, then looked at his watch. It was only half past eight, so it was still early. He had eaten a lot of satay stewed with bean noodles in the evening, so he was still full of energy.

"Azhen!" He reached out and pulled Li Ersao, and scratched her palm. The couple smiled knowingly, and Li Erge then took down a bamboo mat from the top of the tent.

Holding the bamboo mat in one hand and pulling his wife to the outer room with the other, he spread the mat in the dark and then heard a low gasp.

Next to them, Mrs. Li was looking at her passbook and a pile of banknotes of varying denominations with a sad face, and she couldn't help but sigh.

"You didn't want to spend money on food or clothes, and you only saved up three thousand yuan with your salary for the past two years. Now you've spent it all on the house, and now you're still in debt!"

"The lives of ordinary people are like this. Look at the families in the village who built new houses. When my younger sister's family built their new house, they also owed a lot of debt. She and Ajin worked hard for two years and are almost done with it."

Mrs. Li took the bag and packed up the money. "I know, but I feel a little anxious when I think about the fact that there is no extra money left at home and we still owe so much debt."

"Don't worry, we are still young. Once the house is built, there will be no place to spend a lot of money except for buying a boat. You are good at saving money, and you will have saved it in two years."

Mrs. Li felt a little proud when she thought about the amount of money Ah Zhen and Ah Nan had saved. "Ah Zhen told me that she had only saved a little over 400 yuan, and Ah Nan only saved a few dozen yuan from his salary!"

"Don't be too frugal. Children are growing up and need to eat well to grow up well. Our family was so poor before. When I started to grow up, my mother would stew crabs and kill a little rooster for me to nourish me."

"I know. I'm not the fourth aunt. I feel more sorry for the flesh that fell from my body than you do."

Mrs. Li hid the money carefully and looked at her daughter who had to stay with her brother in a small bed because of her younger aunt's family. She felt that she had to build the house no matter how hard it was.

"Alas, Fourth Uncle is also unlucky. How could he marry a woman like Fourth Aunt? Ah Shui went home and told Fourth Uncle about the division of the family, but I don't know how Fourth Aunt would make a fuss."

"They are making trouble because Fourth Uncle is still young and can still work. She can earn a few bucks a day by weaving and mending nets. When he gets old and can't work anymore, the children will be like enemies to her. Hard times are still ahead!"

"That makes sense!" Brother Li felt that he was lucky to have found a good wife who cared about the family.

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The next morning, Li Changle heard the sound of footsteps on the roof. He opened his eyes dazedly and pricked up his ears to listen. Sure enough, there was someone. He turned around and saw Zhou Ruonan had already gotten up. Thinking of the leaking roof, he thought it might be his brother-in-law helping to pick up tiles.

After I put on my clothes and went out, I heard the loud speaker at the entrance of the alley shouting that the third strong typhoon from the neighboring province was about to arrive.

Everyone should reinforce their roofs as soon as possible, and fishing boats docked in temporary shelters should be driven to Haimen Port as soon as possible. Prepare for flood prevention and do not risk going to the beach or going out to sea to fish.

"Why are you here again?"

Li Changle racked his brains and thought about the big typhoons he remembered from his previous life, but he couldn't remember any typhoons that came at the end of July. He was so angry that he slapped his head and said, "My brain is a mess, I can't remember anything!"

I walked to the steps somewhat depressed. The sky was gloomy and the wind was howling. Brother Li was scooping soil in the yard. There was a bamboo basket filled with oyster ash next to him.

Li Changle walked into the yard and turned to look at the roof. Zhang Dejin and Li Erge were indeed fixing the tiles on it.

"Brother, when did the loud speaker start shouting? Why didn't you call me?"

"The loud speaker started yelling before I even got up. It's probably been an hour or so." Brother Li laughed, "It's easy for the three of us to do this. Why are we yelling at you?"

Li Changle checked the time. It was just past six o'clock. "They started shouting early in the morning. It looks like this typhoon is quite high. Please don't let it land near us!"

"No one can tell what God is going to do. We can only take precautions in advance." Brother Li said as he shoveled up the clay and put it into a bamboo basket.

"Ajin said that we should help reinforce it while he is here, to prevent the typhoon from blowing the tiles loose and causing more leaks."

"It would be great to have a professional master to help reinforce it." Li Changle picked up the bamboo basket and climbed up the bamboo ladder, then handed it to his second brother Li who was waiting above.

He also climbed to the top of the bamboo ladder and saw Zhang Dejin on the roof. At regular intervals, he would use a brick covered with clay to press down on the tiles horizontally.

"Brother, where did the brick come from?"

"It was borrowed from Ah Qing's family. I bought it and returned it to him when we built the house." Brother Li handed him the empty bamboo basket and said, "Reinforce the new house in the same way. We won't have to worry about typhoons."

"okay!"

Li Changle threw down the empty bamboo basket, took the bamboo basket handed to him by Brother Li, and handed it up again. The few of them were working hard when suddenly the rhythmic crying of Xu Xianmei came from the alley.

"Wu... I won't live any longer. Li Guitang, you are so cruel and ruthless that you instigated the child to separate from his parents. I will hang myself in your house today..."

It turned out that Li Changshui and his sister arrived home last night, and Xu Xianmei and her husband had already gone to bed. Early this morning, Li Asi asked Asui to go to Zhangjiabu to see if the diesel engine had been repaired.

Li Changshui told him that the diesel engine had been repaired and that he would not go out to sea with him in the future. He decided to separate from the family and live on his own with his sister.

Li Asi said he couldn't make the decision and asked them to come and talk to her.

She heard everything the brother and sister said outside, and determined that it was Li Laoer's family who instigated the two children. She got up, took the rope, and went to the second room, cursing all the way.

I plan to teach them a lesson, and then extend my claws to their home and meddle in their affairs.

"A Le, big brother, hurry up, Fourth Aunt came to our house and hanged herself." Second Brother Li shouted from the roof.

"Fuck! They're looking for trouble so early in the morning!" Li Changle walked down in a hurry. As soon as he landed, he turned around and saw Xu Xianmei rushing up with a rope in her hand like a crazy woman.

She kept cursing, "Li Guitang, Wang Xiaohua, the clam seller, the old bitch with red eyes and black heart, instigated my Ah Shui to separate from us. I will not live today and will hang myself in your house..."

"Horse riding!"

Li Changle was so angry that she snatched the bamboo basket from Brother Li's hand and put it over her head, "You damn bitch, you want to hang yourself in my house, right?
Come on, I have prepared the bamboo ladder for you. Just hang it on the beam and I will help you pull out the ladder."

The two people on the roof, Brother Li in the yard, and the few people who ran out of the house were all dumbfounded when they saw Xu Xianmei holding a bamboo basket on her head. They stood there blankly for a long time without reacting.

Xu Xianmei hurriedly overturned the bamboo basket on her head to the ground, wiped the clay off her head and face, burped a few times, then slapped her thigh and burst into tears.

"Someone come, someone has been beaten to death, what a sin! The second room's idiot beat my aunt, God will punish him to death..."

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