Chapter 177 Floating Little Money

Chapter 177 Floating Little Money

Chapter 177 Floating Little Money
After hearing this, Mrs. Li's eyes lit up and they all turned to look at Mr. Li and his wife, "What do you think?"

The construction of the house is about to start, and there is still a big gap in the family's money. We couldn't go out to sea to earn money due to the typhoon. Now there is another opportunity to make money, and everyone is thinking about making more money.

"The profit from a jellyfish is so different, what else is there to say!" Li Ersao said without hesitation, "Pickle them all and send them to Lucheng to ask my mother-in-law to sell them. Then we will give her a commission."

Li Changle smiled and said, "That's what I was planning too. After all, I still need to use her shop."

"What's there to worry about when we have a shop? Let's go into the water and fish. When the tide rises, we will go to Uncle Azhen's house to buy sea salt." After saying this, Brother Li picked up the bamboo basket and went into the water to continue working.

Fresh jellyfish tastes bitter, so coarse sea salt and a certain proportion of edible alum are used to pickle jellyfish skin. Li Ersao and her uncle sell salt by drying it, and a load of salt only costs four or five yuan.

"Brother, I'm here." Chen Yongwei ran over carrying a bunch of stuff, followed by Grandma Chen, Mother Li, Li Changshui's brother and sister, the Jin brothers and old man Jin and his father.

It turned out that when Chen Yongwei went back to get his belongings, Grandma Chen went to Li's house to help weave the trawl net. She and Li's mother learned that Li Changle and others had gone to the beach to catch jellyfish, and they felt worried, so they followed them.

Halfway through the journey, they met Li Changshui and his sister, so they simply called them along. When they arrived at Nanshan, the Jin family saw a group of them carrying their belongings and walking towards the beach, so they followed them.

"Oh my~" Grandma Chen looked at the pile of jellyfish and shouted in surprise, "These jellyfish are quite big."

"Yeah! Maybe a typhoon is coming and they were blown to the shore."

When Old Man Jin saw the pile of jellyfish, his mustache curled up. "Oh my God, you caught so many jellyfish?"

When he came to the beach in the morning, he picked up a few hairtails and some shellfish, but didn't see even a jellyfish.

He saw it when he came, no wonder everyone in the village said that Ale Shipping is good!
"Uncle San, what are you still standing there for? Go back and get your belongings to fish out the garbage!" Before Boss Jin could finish his words, he had already run a long way away.

The treasures in the sea belong to everyone. As long as they are not caught in the net or put into the basket, anyone who sees them can catch them.

"Hurry up, point at the big ones and scoop them up!" Big Brother Li and Second Brother Li picked up the scoop net and ran quickly into the sea.

Are you kidding? Can you not run faster? The Jin family is here, and other families will be here soon.

Those jellyfish, the small one-corner, the middle two-corner, and the large three-corner, are more valuable after being pickled. Now, what are floating on the sea are small coins.

Whatever you take home is yours. The quicker you are, the more you earn; the slower you are, the less you earn!

Li Changle made arrangements loudly, "Ah Wei, Ah Shui, hurry up and get out of the water to fish it out. Be careful not to get swept away by the waves. Ah Niang and Grandma Chen will take Ah Nan and my sister-in-law to kill and dehydrate the jellyfish."

Jellyfish contain a lot of water, so after killing them, they are buried in sea sand to remove the water.

After hearing this, Li Changshui said to Li Yufang, "Little sister, don't go into the water. Go help my second aunt kill the jellyfish."

"Brother, be careful!" Li Yufang looked at the surging waves and realized that he couldn't even stand steadily in the water, let alone catch jellyfish.

"Don't worry!" Li Changshui strode away with the scoop net.

Mother Li looked at Li Changle who was walking away with big strides, frowned and looked at Zhou Ruonan and the others, "We pickle the jellyfish skin ourselves?"

"Yes, we'll pickle it ourselves!" Li Changle agreed and turned to leave.

Seeing Li's mother frowning, Zhou Ruonan quickly explained in a low voice, "Mother, we have already discussed it. We will pickle it and send it to Lucheng to sell!"

"Yeah! We have discussed it. A Le said it is cost-effective to pickle them and sell them." Mrs. Li Da and Mrs. Li Er also chimed in.

"Row!"

Li's mother responded briefly, picked up the backpack and went to the beach where jellyfish were piled. She took out rubber gloves from the backpack and put them on, took out a bamboo knife and a scraper that was a bit similar to a pig-slaughtering knife and distributed them to several people.

The tools for killing jellyfish were purchased when I was working in the fishery cooperative and earning work points.

Mrs. Li handed the bamboo knife to Zhou Ruonan, "Anan, be careful to avoid the tentacles of the jellyfish. They sting and make people itch."

"The sting is not very toxic, so don't be afraid if you get stung. If your hands itch badly, an old fisherman will teach you a good way. Go home and get some alum and mix it with water to rinse for a while, and it will heal soon."

Brother Li was behind her, holding a scoop net and speaking with a smile.

"Of course you'll be fine since you have thick skin. Anan was stung by a sand sting last time and her head and face are all swollen." Mrs. Li felt a little scared when she thought of Zhou Ruonan's face that was swollen like jellyfish skin and shiny.

Mother Li nodded with lingering fear, "We were all scared that time!"

"The doctor said that my skin is particularly sensitive to jellyfish toxins."

Zhou Ruonan pulled a jellyfish apart, thought about it, and then moved closer to Li's mother, whispering, "Mother, pack the jellyfish brain, jellyfish lining, and jellyfish blood separately. Ah Le will send them to the restaurant to sell later."

"Oh!" Li's mother and Chen's grandmother nodded repeatedly, and the two of them pulled a jellyfish and started to eat it, their movements were more neat than Zhou Ruonan's. The light transparent reddish-brown ones are the noodle stings, and the white and light-colored sand stings. The noodle stings taste better and are more nutritious, while the sand stings are relatively worse.

Jellyfish can be divided into two parts, the umbrella part above and the tentacle part below. The tentacle part has many tentacles, and the jellyfish toxins are concentrated in this position. After being cut off, they cannot sting people and secrete toxins.

Everyone first cut off the jellyfish tentacles with a bamboo knife, and then use the bamboo knife to cut off the neck root connecting the jellyfish skin to the jellyfish tentacles.

Carefully pick out the jellyfish brain from the jellyfish head, then use a scraper to scrape out the jellyfish lining and blood and put them in a bucket.

Scrape off the inedible paste, then scrape off the black paste on the neck where the tentacles are connected, until the entire jellyfish skin becomes transparent and smooth.

Finally, use a knife to cut the thick jellyfish claws and bury them together with the jellyfish skin in sea sand to dehydrate them.

The meat of the jellyfish tentacle is the thickest. Fishermen call it "jellyfish claw" and the pickled jellyfish claw is called "jellyfish head".

The jellyfish head has thicker texture and a crispier taste. The jellyfish skin is slightly softer than the jellyfish head and is also chewy.

Jellyfish has the effects of moistening the throat and relieving dryness, eliminating accumulation and stagnation, and moistening the intestines and promoting bowel movements, but people with weak spleen and stomach should eat less.

Among the people working, Li Dasao and Li Yufang were the most efficient. They were both strong and quick. While the others were killing one, they had already started killing the second one.

Li Changle and Li Changshui dragged the jellyfish ashore and let him lie down next to the pile of jellyfish at Li's house. They would count the money and give him the money when they finished work so that he wouldn't have to send it to the cooperative to sell.

Li Changle looked at Li Yufang, thought for a moment and said, "Xiaofang, you did a good job. I'll give you two yuan as wages."

"I don't want it. If you give me money, I won't help you kill it!" After saying that, Li Yufang compacted the processed jellyfish skin with sand, picked up one and started working.

Mother Li gave her a sideways glance and said, "Xiaofang, listen to your brother Ale. We kill and pickle jellyfish and sell them for money. It's profitable. You can't work for free."

"Yes, Xiaofang, you and your brother have just separated from the family. Look at your house. If your brother doesn't save more money, how will he build a new house and marry a wife in the future?"

"Then give me a little less. They only get two dollars for a day's work!" She knew in her heart that Brother Ale wanted to help them, but they had already helped them a lot, so one should not be too greedy.

Grandma Chen laughed and said, "There is also a silly girl who thinks the wages are too high!"

"Yes, both brother and sister are good at work. If they work hard for a few years, they can save enough money to build a new house."

Jin Hui, the son of Jin Laoer and Jin Laotou, didn't even use any tools. He went into the water, grabbed a jellyfish and dragged it to the shore.

When Jin Lao Er saw Li's mother and the others killing jellyfish, he asked curiously, "Hey, aren't you sending them to the cooperative to sell?"

"We plan to pickle the jellyfish and sell it!" Zhou Ruonan looked up and said, "Second Brother Jin, you can also sell us the ones you catch. The price will be determined by the cooperative."

"Great! It saves a lot of effort!" Jin Lao Er readily agreed, "I'll put this in a pile and settle the bill when we're done."

"Mine is over here, we'll count it later!" Jin Hui put the jellyfish down and turned to leave, fearing that he would be a step slower and miss a jellyfish.

After a while, Old Man Jin and Boss Jin came with their belongings. When they learned that the Li family wanted to collect jellyfish, they were very happy and ran towards the sea happily.

A group of men were working hard in the sea, and on the beach, the women were working hard. After a while, Jin's daughter-in-law came with a few men.

These people all came from the immigrant village. They are all related to each other from the same village. If there is money to be made at sea, how could they not come and pick it up?
Li Changle wished that there were as many people as possible, and it would be best if he could collect tens of thousands of kilograms of jellyfish so that the pickled jellyfish skin could be sold for a year!

Seeing that the piles of jellyfish on the beach were increasing and the jellyfish on the sea were decreasing, Zhou Ruonan stood up and wiped her hands on her apron, "Mother, I'm going home to get the money and account books to collect the jellyfish."

"Anan, ride the tricycle back and bring the rubber bucket with you." Li Changle came ashore with the scoop net and handed her the tricycle key.

Mother Li pulled him aside and whispered, "Ah Le, there aren't enough water jars at home. Why don't you go back and get some? And by the way, ask Accountant Chen if the big jars that the village used to run side businesses are still there?"

"I understand. I'll go back then!" Li Changle took the key handed to him by Zhou Ruonan, took out a net bag, grabbed some jellyfish brains and jellyfish linings, and strode towards Nanshan.

Twenty minutes later, he rode his tricycle to Accountant Chen's store, got off and walked to the window, where he saw Accountant Chen lying in a rocking chair, listening to the radio leisurely.

"Uncle Dong, your life is so beautiful that even gods wouldn't change it."

Accountant Chen opened his eyes and saw that it was him. "You little brat, why didn't you stay at home during the typhoon? Where have you been running around now?"

"Does coming here count as running around?" Li Changle walked into the store with a smile, "When I went to work in Nanshan, I went to the beach for a walk and happened to encounter a jellyfish tide. I plan to pickle the jellyfish skins and sell them."

Accountant Chen sat up from his rocking chair. "Good boy, you can encounter jellyfish tides even when you are walking around. Could you be the son of Lord Hailong in your previous life?"

(End of this chapter)