Chapter 194 He Was Working for Nothing

Chapter 194 He Was Working for Nothing

Chapter 194 He Was Working for Nothing

After chatting with his nephew, Li Changle felt from the bottom of his heart that the current environment is good and the children can have fun. If they are unhappy, they can go out for a run, play with their friends, fish, climb trees, and play, and all the unhappiness will disappear.

He went into the house and changed his wet pants, then took a dry towel and tried to wipe his hair. However, just when he raised his hand halfway, his arm felt terribly sore. He went out with the towel, intending to ask Zhou Ruonan to help him wipe his hair. As he went out, he saw Brother Li walk in.

"Ale, here's some Huoluo Oil for you!" Li Changping handed him a dark brown medicine bottle. "Apply it on your arms, shoulders, and calves. Rub it in vigorously. You'll be fine after a day's rest tomorrow."

Thinking that he couldn't even raise his hands high, he added, "Sit down and I'll help you wipe it. If it's not rubbed open, you won't be able to hold chopsticks tomorrow."

"Okay!" Li Changle handed him the medicine bottle and sat back. "Where is the wood that Brother Qian sent?"

"The house is full of water tanks, so where is the space for wood? All the wood is piled up at Awei's house."

Brother Li poured some activating oil into his palm, grabbed his arm and rubbed it, then rubbed it vigorously.

"It hurts so much, can you be gentler?" Li Changle grimaced in pain.

"It will only hurt for a short while now. You will feel better now but you will have to suffer for at least two or three days." Brother Li laughed, "Dad said that my brother-in-law and the carpenter came to check out the wood and said that Ah Fa's friend is a good person and the wood he sent is all good material."

"I heard that these are all woods that were saved up in the past!" Li Changle thought that there was not even a decent piece of furniture in the house except for the bunk bed used for the wedding and the wooden box and octagonal table that An Nan brought as a dowry.

"Brother, the money from selling fish today is enough to build a new house. How about asking Brother Qian to buy some wood and make some furniture? What do you think?"

"Your sister-in-law said she wants to make two beds, cabinets and other things. We'll hire someone to do it when we have more money."

"It's the same at my house. Xiaohai and Xiaozhou still sleep on a bed made of wooden boards. We have to make one for them this time."

Brother Li was happy again when he thought about what he had earned today. "An just told me that he never dreamed that there would be a day when the new house would be built without any debts."

Seeing his happy look, Li Changle also laughed, "Brother, are you still selling those beads at home?"

Brother Li nodded and said, "Including the money from selling the beads, we still need two thousand. If we don't sell them, we won't have enough."

"With what I earned this time, my family has enough money to build a house. I want to keep three golden beads and make a set of jewelry for Anan."

"It's my duty. An Nan doesn't mind that our family is poor, and doesn't mind that you are useless. She follows you peacefully. Now that you have money, you should buy me one or two pieces of jewelry."

Brother Li thought of his own Ah Fang as he spoke, "Your sister-in-law likes gold chains. When I make some money, I'll make her one too."

"It should!"

"You and Awei will take a rest at home tomorrow. A'an and I will go to the sea area where we caught silver pomfret today and collect the traps."

"I will go to Lucheng to pick up my son tomorrow. I will take the pearls with me to sell, and give the oysters and dried shrimps to my mother-in-law to sell."

"Okay." Brother Li patted his calf. "Okay. Dad is cooking mantis shrimps. I'll go help peel the shrimp shells."

"Brother, if we want to dry goods at home, we need to go to the fishing line factory to buy some fishing lines, weave some nets and put them on the bamboo racks. After the hygiene is done, the dried goods can be sold."

"Not only do we need to buy fishing lines, but we also need to hire someone to weave long bamboo strips and cut bamboo to build the racks." Brother Li thought for a moment and said, "Aan and I will come back early tomorrow to cut bamboo in the mountains."

"Brother, it's better to hire someone to do it than to do it yourself. Hiring someone only pays three dollars a day. If we go out and are lucky, the money from the sales is enough to hire a craftsman for a month."

Brother Li thought about the catch of the past few days and said, "You are right. If we hire a few more people, we can set up the rig in two days. We can also free up our hands to do our own work."

Li Changle smiled and nodded, "That's right!"

"I'll go tell my father and ask him to hire someone tomorrow."

Brother Li had strong hands. After applying the activating oil, Li Changle felt his sore shoulders and arms were warm and he felt a lot more comfortable.

I went into the house, found a cotton shirt and pants to put on, and went out to see that the killed fish had already been put into three baskets. I don't know when Li Yufang came to help.

"Xiaofang, has your fourth uncle returned home?"

"He hadn't returned when I came. My mother asked my brother to go to Tuxiaqiao Pier to look for him."

Li's mother took over and said, "It's so late, there's not even a car, how long will it take to walk there?"

"What can I do? If I don't go, she will scold me in the yard." Li Yufang paused, "My brother is also worried that after he sells fish, three hands on the street will see it and steal the money."

Thinking of Li Ah Si's personality, Li's mother felt that it was possible. "Ah Si also caught 1,000 to 2,000 kilograms of fish. If there were a lot of big fish, he could earn several hundred yuan!"

Li Changle thought about the honey traps these days and felt that it would be fine if Li Asi just went there for a massage to relax, but if he ran into a honey trap, not only would he lose his money but he would also get a beating.

Li Yufang gnashed her teeth and said, "It's better to steal it with three hands than to give it to the Xu family's nest of blood-sucking worms!"

"You stupid girl, do you still want to keep your reputation?" Mother Li glanced at Li Yufang, then turned to look at Li Changle, "Ah Le, can you ask Ah Wei to go to the town to pick them up?"

"Okay." Li Changle pedaled the tricycle out of the house with sore body all over, and suddenly he felt like he was lifting a rock and dropping it on his foot.

When he arrived outside the Chen family's courtyard, he saw that the lights were still on. He walked into the yard and shouted, and Chen Yongwei ran out in his shorts.

"Brother, why haven't you slept yet?" "Stop talking and go to town with me."

"Oh!" Chen Yongwei turned around and went back into the house. He put on his clothes and came out pushing his bicycle. When he learned that he was going to look for Li Ah Si, he stared in surprise, "Uncle Li Si hasn't come back yet? Did he really go to the hair salon to ask the girl for a massage?"

"Massage is a small matter. If he is blackmailed, all his work today will be in vain."

"He was working for nothing."

"..." Li Changle was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but laugh, "That makes sense, it's all for nothing anyway, I might as well spend some money and gain some experience!"

"Wrong idea!" Chen Yongwei got on his bicycle and asked, "Where should we find it?"

"A Shui didn't walk for long. If he follows the main road, we should be able to catch up with him if we ride faster."

The two of them rode their bikes out of the village. The alley was quiet as everyone in the village had gone to bed at this time.

They chased after him all the way out of the village to Pan Town, where they saw a flashlight flickering ahead. The two of them sped up and rushed forward. Li Changle tentatively called out, "A Shui?"

Li Ashui turned his head and saw two people wearing headlamps, "Brother, why are you here?"

Li Changle didn't respond, "Where are you going to look for it?"

"Go to Tuxiaqiao Wharf and if there's no one there, go to a barber shop called White Rose. He and a few other uncles in the village have been there to get their hair cut."

"..." Li Changle didn't expect that these uncles would be more playful than a second-rate guy like him, and asked in surprise: "Which ones go there often?"

"Uncle Agen, Uncle Agui..." Li Changshui named seven or eight people in one breath. "My father went there with them once, and told me that it was too expensive to get a haircut there, so he never went there again."

"It's already this late, there's no need to go to the pier, just go to the small hair salon to find him." Li Changle felt that Li Asi, who thought the hair was too expensive, would become a regular customer there in the future.

"The White Rose is in the street near the dock."

Li Changle nodded, "Can you ride a tricycle?" He was so tired from pedaling an empty tricycle that he might not be able to pedal with Ah Shui.

"No!" Li Changshui pointed at the bicycle, "I can pedal a bicycle."

"I'll bring Brother Ale to you, I'm going to ride a tricycle." Chen Yongwei got off the car and gave it to him.

More than half an hour later, the three arrived at Tuxiaqiao Pier and found that there were still many boats docked. After walking around the pier, they saw Li Asi's boat docked in the corner.

Li A Shui led the two of them towards the street ahead. The dim street lights illuminated the storefronts on both sides of the road. At this time, many shops were still open.

Li Changle noticed that the restaurant at the entrance of the street was doing good business. There were many shirtless fishermen with shiny black bodies sitting inside, eating heartily.

Walking in, two hairdressers in short skirts holding cigarettes saw them looking over and smiled and blew smoke rings at them, "Ada, do you want a haircut?"

Chen Yongwei was so scared that he staggered and nearly hit Li Changshui who suddenly stopped in front of him, making the two girls laugh.

"Why don't you leave?" Chen Yongwei asked with a flushed face.

"My dad!" Li Changshui said while looking at the hair salon in front of him.

Li Changle looked at Li Ah Si, who came out of the barber shop in a crooked manner and kept turning his head to wave at the woman standing at the door. "Why are you still standing there? Hurry and bring him over."

Li Changshui nodded, took a few steps forward, and grabbed Li Asi, "Dad, come back with me?"

"You bastard, what are you doing here?" Li Ah Si was tongue-tied and drunkenly looked at Li Ah Shui, "Get lost, I don't want you to care about me!"

Li Changshui frowned and looked at the drunken Li Ah Si, "If she hadn't been scolding me at home, I wouldn't bother with you!"

Li Ah Si broke free and waved his hands, "Get out... old man, don't... mind... "

"If you want to make trouble, go home and make trouble!" Li Changshui and Chen Yongwei, who came to help, grabbed the drunk Li Asi and pulled him to the front of the tricycle.

Seeing that he was still quite drunk, Li Changle hurried forward to help stuff the man into the tricycle, and pushed the cursing Li Asi back.

Walking out of the streets, Li Asi, who was blown by the wind, was completely drunk. He collapsed in the tricycle and snored loudly.

When they reached a secluded place, Li Changle looked at the drunk Li Ah Si on the tricycle, stopped Chen Yongwei who was riding the tricycle, and said to Li Changshui:
"Ah Shui, look around, is the money your father got from selling fish still there?"

"Oh!" Li Changshui stopped his bicycle, walked up to Li Asi and started to feel around. He took out a handful of change from his trouser pocket, about three or four yuan.

Seeing that there was nothing in his trouser pocket, he hurriedly reached towards his waistline.

Nowadays, pants have a secret pocket at the waist. When going out, people would roll up their money and hide it in it to prevent thieves.

"No!" Li Changshui felt around and was so angry that his face turned blue. "How can there be no money for a catch of one or two thousand kilograms of fish? It must have been stolen by the people in the barber shop."

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