Chapter 200 His name is Xiang Xiaoyu

Chapter 200 His name is Xiang Xiaoyu

Chapter 200 His name is Xiang Xiaoyu

Ge Changfa squinted at him and asked, "Are you really planning to dry the dried goods and sell them?"

"Yes, my mother-in-law sells side dishes on the street. I dried some and gave them to her to sell together."

Brother Ge said enviously, "Ah Le, you are so smart. You found someone as good as Teacher Zhou to be your wife. Even your mother-in-law treats you so well."

This guy is really lucky. When he is not working, his wife earns a salary to support him. When he starts working, he is lucky and all good things happen to him.

Damn! The taste of the aged vinegar almost overwhelms the fishy smell of the sea.

Li Changle smiled and glanced at Brother Ge, "That's right, someone like my An Nan is hard to find even with a lantern!"

He used to be supported by his wife, and now he relies on his mother-in-law for help. They are not talking nonsense, so there is nothing wrong with admitting it!
"Brother, hurry up and send the conger eels to Adong's house to sell. I'll help Ale to weigh the goods!" Seeing that Brother Ge wanted to say something, Ge Changfa hurriedly stuffed the bucket into his hands.

He felt that it was okay for him and Ale's friend to say such things when they were joking, but it was wrong for his brother to bring it up as well.

"Oh!" Brother Ge walked away carrying the bucket.

Ge Changfa poured the water into the net bag and said, "A Le, my brother is just like that, don't take it to heart!"

Li Changle smiled and said, "Am I such a stingy person?" It's a good thing that someone is jealous, as it proves that your family is getting prosperous.

Ge Changfa patted him on the shoulder and took the fish out of the rubber bucket and put it into the net bag.

Li Changle began to weigh them. Three cuttlefish weighed five catties, four cents a catty; eels and swordfish weighed forty-five catties, three cents a catty; and large shrimps weighed seven catties, four cents a catty.

There were 79 pounds of green shrimp and mantis shrimp, each weighing three cents per pound. The price of miscellaneous fish was even lower, at only one cent per pound. Ge Changfa kept them for bait.

Li Changle did the math and said, "The total is twenty yuan, sixty-seven cents. I'll give you twenty yuan and seventy cents."

Ge Changfa took it with a smile, thinking that there was still a big eel, "Not bad, in addition to the diesel money, my brother and I can make about 20 yuan a day."

"As long as you do it, you will earn money."

Ge Changfa glanced at him and said, "You are becoming more and more sensible!"

"No matter how ignorant you are, my eldest brother is more sensible than me!"

"Haha! Your eldest brother is really a little guy, just like an old man!"

"Get lost, your family is the old man."

Li Changle sorted the fish and shrimp into bamboo baskets and buckets. Looking at the three cuttlefish and thinking of the hundreds of kilograms of dried goods, he felt anxious. "I won't waste my time talking to you anymore. I have to go collect the goods."

"Okay, I'll come find you when you get home!"

Li Changle nodded, waved his hands at the returning fishing boats, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Boss, if you pass by, don't miss it. We buy a lot of seafood here, including cuttlefish, eels, mackerel, prawns..."

"A Le, you're so good at dancing, have you changed your job to collecting seafood?" Old Chen shouted at him while pulling the cart.

Li Changle pointed at the cuttlefish and eels in his bamboo basket and said, "Uncle Chen, give me all these baskets. I will go home right away and not fight with you for them."

"Just twist it slowly here!" Old Chen smiled and walked away.

The captains of the boats that were docked all looked at him and smiled, "Ah Le, twist harder, I won't send all my catch today to Old Chen's family, I'll give it all to you."

Li Changle waved at him, "Come on, come on, I'll teach you how to dance together!"

"Fuck! I was wondering which girl was twisting her body so coquettishly at the dock, and it turns out it's you!" The dark-skinned captain of the ship said to him with a smile while standing in the driving seat.

Li Changle recognized at a glance that this person was the one who taught Li Asi how to live a god-like life yesterday.

"Hey~ It's you, Boss Chen. How's the catch today? I bought a lot of cuttlefish, mackerel, and eels..."

Chen Amao's face was smiling like a black chrysanthemum. "Today is not bad. I have two baskets of cuttlefish, more than 200 kilograms of Spanish mackerel and eel, more than 50 kilograms of prawns, and dozens of kilograms of small yellow croaker. Can you take them all?"

Li Changle nodded excitedly after hearing this, "If you can get them all, I'll give you the same price as the seafood store!"

"Okay, I'll give you these today." The captain steered the fishing boat towards the shore.

As soon as the ship docked, Li Changle jumped on board, took out a cigarette and lit it for him, "Boss Chen, shipping is good. There are large shipments every day."

"It's been fine these past two days. I couldn't even earn enough to pay for the diesel fuel after a day out a few days ago." Boss Chen walked towards the shore with a bamboo basket. "You're not going out to sea anymore? Are you going to collect seafood instead?"

"Yes, but it's not a career change..." Li Changle repeated to him what she had said to brother Ge Changfa.

"Sure! What species do you want to buy? If there are any fish that the seafood store doesn't buy, I'll come to you!"

"Jellyfish, capelin, mullet, mantis shrimp, water bream, green snapper... As long as the fresh food is less than 40 cents a pound, I will buy it."

Chen Amao said happily, "It's just right. We still have 20 to 30 kilograms of mantis shrimp, and dozens of kilograms of capelin and mullet. I'll give them all to you."

I originally wanted to take the shrimp back home to give as a gift, or to sell it for a few dimes to buy candy for my children.

"Okay, give them all to me!" Li Changle happily hung the bamboo basket on the scale hook and weighed it together with Chen Amao.

Two baskets of cuttlefish weighed 195 kilograms, mackerel and eel weighed 260 kilograms, plus other fresh goods. Li Changle paid Chen Amao 200 yuan in total. After sending Chen Amao away, two more fish sellers came. Li Changle was busy sorting and weighing, while the two boat captains were busy picking out the large goods and sending them to the seafood store.

"Fuck~ Where did this short-lived kid come from?"

Suddenly, there was a curse. Li Changle looked up and saw Boss Xu, who was selling fish. He was scolding a half-grown boy with dry yellow hair and a dirty face, and snatched the grouper from his hand.

"You little bastard, you come to steal my things again, I will beat you to death!"

The boy glanced at Li Changle, then quickly lowered his head. Without saying a word, he waved his hands, kicked his legs, and struggled hard, trying to break free from his shackles.

"You still want to run? Call your mom and dad. Last time you stole a few Spanish mackerels from me, but this time you're even better, you got a giant grouper."

Boss Xu became angrier as he spoke, and he opened his large palm like a palm-leaf fan and slapped him in the face.

"Forget it, Boss Xu!" Li Changle hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed him, "I'll ask who the family is from and ask his parents to compensate you for the stolen fish."

"This kid is more slippery than a jumping fish. If we let him go, we won't be able to catch him again." Boss Xu retracted his hand and pointed at the child angrily, "You little bastard, where are you from? Call your parents and give me the money to compensate me."

After Li Changle was reborn, he couldn't remember at all, to which families did those half-grown children in the village belong?

Looking at him, I felt that he looked familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him.

Seeing that he kept his head down and didn't say anything, he threatened: "You won't tell me, right? I'll go ask Ah Dong and I'll know who you are."

"A Le, this child is Xiao Yu from Xiang Zhong's family. Don't you recognize him?" Lao Chen and Asan stopped in front of the few people with a cart.

"You said he was Xiaoyu from Xiang Zhong's family?"

Li Changle looked at the skinny child and didn't expect that he was the Xiang Xiaoyu of Uncle A Le, who worked on the same boat with him in his previous life and was always smiling.

He only knew that the brothers' parents had passed away long ago, and never knew how the children spent their childhood.

"Yes!" Old Chen said to Boss Xu, "Old Xu, forget it! The child's parents encountered a storm when they went out to sea two years ago, and they haven't been found yet."

"So you are Xiang Zhong's child. If you had told me earlier, Uncle Xu would have given you a few." Boss Xu said as he let go of his hand and was about to take the fish.

He knew about the storm two years before. Several boats in their village were overturned that time, and his friend also died in that accident.

Xiang Xiaoyu turned around and ran away, as slippery as a jumping fish.

"Alas!" Old Chen sighed and said to Li Changle and the others, "Xiang Zhong and his wife are nowhere to be found alive, and their bodies have not been found either. The most pitiful ones are their two children.

This child is the eldest, only about ten years old, and has a younger brother who is only seven or eight years old. His grandparents are gone, and his uncles have their own children, so how can he take care of them all? "

"Oh!" Everyone sighed in unison, and the wailing and crying of those who lost their loved ones after every accident seemed to ring in their ears again.

The sea nurtures the people of the fishing village, but it is also their nightmare...

With heavy hearts, several people weighed the sorted shrimps, eels, and mackerels.

After Li Changle paid the two people, he counted the fresh goods he had received. There were enough dried shrimps, 340 kilograms of eels, 400 kilograms of swordfish, and only 290 kilograms of cuttlefish.

There are also mullet, small yellow croaker, capelin, and water mullet, which together weigh more than a thousand kilograms.

Thinking that they had been busy until eleven or twelve o'clock last night to kill the fish, Li Changle planned to send a batch back first and ask Li's mother to ask a few women to help kill the fish, so as to save the family from being tired until midnight.

There were more than a thousand kilograms of fish and shrimp, which could not be pulled back in one trip. He moved part of the bamboo baskets to Adong's house and moved the rest to the tricycle.

After pedaling the tricycle for a few steps, I saw Brother Li, Old Man Jin, and Old Man Lai driving a fishing boat towards the dock.

Li Changle stopped the tricycle and watched the fishing boat slowly approach the shore. "Brother, how was the catch today? Did you retrieve the traps?"

"The catch is not bad!" Brother Li jumped onto the shore holding the cable and said with some distress: "We only got four groups of traps back, and there is one group left!"

The fish that went into the fish bag first died and became bait for the fish that went in later.

Seeing that he looked exhausted, Li Changle hurried forward to take the rope and help tie it up. "It's good that there are still four groups. I thought they were all swept away!"

Brother Li rolled his eyes at him and said, "You are so optimistic. All ten traps are new. It will cost dozens of dollars to make them again."

"It's better to be open-minded. There's a saying that goes, 'Money goes away, but life is safe!'" Li Changle stepped forward and nudged him, whispering, "I'll tell you good news later, and you won't feel sad anymore."

"He's so mysterious all day long." Brother Li pointed at the fresh produce on the tricycle curiously, "Where did it come from?"

"I caught it. Do you think I caught it at sea?"

"You little brat!" Brother Li jumped onto the bow with a smile, "We went to the same sea area as yesterday today. We had a pretty good catch and caught a few big fish."

Li Changle jumped onto the fishing boat and asked, "Let me see what the big cargo is."

Brother Li looked at him happily, "Two blue sharks and a swordfish. The three fish probably weigh more than 300 kilograms!"

　Thanks to my friend Zifeiyu for the support! Thank you!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)