Chapter 219 Pack up and leave
Chapter 219 Pack up and leave
"Okay." Xiang Xiaoyu thanked Li Changle and the others gratefully, "Thank you Uncle Ale, thank you Teacher Zhou, Uncle Awei, uncle, and aunt, thank you."
"Silly boy!" Brother Li rubbed his head and handed him a wild sea duck, "Take one of these back too."
"Thank you!" Xiang Xiaoyu thanked again gratefully.
Li Changle patted him on the shoulder and said, "Go back and rest for a while. We still have to collect cans in the evening."
"I know."
Brother Li said to Li Xiaoyang, "We still need to sort the fish. You take your sister-in-law home and ask grandma to call a few grandmas to come home and help kill the fish."
"Oh!"
After the children left, several adults began to sort the catch. There were about 60 to 70 kilograms of green mullet, water bream, mantis shrimp and some miscellaneous fish.
There were about forty or fifty kilograms of shrimp, conger eels, sea bass, and mackerel, as well as a few sea carps.
All in all, this trip was not in vain. After deducting the diesel cost for the round trip, I still made a profit of about ten yuan.
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei fished out the catch from the live tank and put it into rubber buckets. The tiger eel and two large catches took up one rubber bucket.
The giant flower dragon, lobster and sword shrimp were placed in a bucket.
Brother Li went to Chen Dong's house and pulled the cart in front of the fishing boat. Several people lifted the rubber bucket onto the cart, as well as bamboo baskets filled with sea ducks, sea duck eggs, and various snails, shells, and clams.
There were a lot of black sea bream today, so Li Changle picked out those weighing more than five or six kilograms. The small black sea bream and small sea bass were sent to Adong's home, and he also gave him a dozen sea duck eggs.
He left Chen's house with more than ten yuan, leaving Brother Li at the dock to continue receiving the goods.
Li Changle and his companions pulled the cart back home, while Li's mother was drying sea bream heads and dried cuttlefish at home.
Father Li and the villagers who were hired to help as laborers went to the new foundation to receive the bricks and tiles that were shipped by cargo ship.
Brother Li sorted out the fish catch, including sea bream heads, dried shrimps and eels, and weighed them at an average of 3.1 kilogram, for a total of 94 kilograms.
Then there were the green shrimps, water shrimps, mantis shrimps and miscellaneous fish, more than 90 kilograms, an average of 1.31 kilogram, all of which were deducted from the money earned from collecting dried fish at home.
Mother Li saw the bamboo baskets under the eaves and saw that they had caught sea ducks, picked up duck eggs and bird eggs and brought them back. "Ah Le, give some of these to your sister, and also give her some fish, shrimps and crabs."
"Okay, catch a duck, pick up twenty seabird eggs like duck eggs, and take the fish, shrimps and crabs as you like."
"Hey, hey!" Li's mother happily took out her belongings to get food for her daughter.
Li Changle said to Brother Li: "Brother, I will catch four sea ducks, pick up forty sea duck eggs, and paint the seabird eggs on the bridge to give to Uncle Kun and Boss Gu."
"Of course. How about picking some more fish and shrimp to send over?"
"No, these are enough."
"It's up to you. You're better than us at handling human relations."
"They don't lack anything. We can just send them some of the rare items. We'll also send a sea duck to Uncle Adong tonight."
"Okay, this time the land foundation is approved thanks to Uncle Dong's help."
Brother Li helped lift the rubber bucket onto the tricycle and hung two bamboo baskets on Chen Yongwei's bicycle.
Li Changle thought of the sea cucumbers in the bucket, so he carried the bucket into the house and said to Li's mother, "Mother, pick out the big ones and send them to Grandma Chen, and keep the rest for stewing with a chicken tomorrow."
Li's mother looked at the sea cucumbers in the bucket and gave him a sidelong look. "Why are you eating these? Such big sea cucumbers, it would be great to sell them for money. You have a big mouth, you want to eat everything."
Li Changle said with a bitter face, "Can't you think of me in a positive way? I was thinking that Dad's leg hasn't healed yet, and he still has to help us with the house matters, and you keep coughing at night.
And Anan has always been so thin. People would spend money to buy her to take home to replenish her skin. We picked her up ourselves, so we should keep her for the whole family to replenish their skin.”
Mother Li glared at him. "This thing has no taste. What use is it? It's better to sell it and buy two big pig's trotters to make up for it!"
"...Mother, if you want to eat pig's trotters, you can go to the street and buy them anytime." Li Changle knew that she just couldn't bear to part with them. She wanted to exchange all the valuable fish for money.
Big Brother Li, who came into the house and called Li Changle to set off, also laughed after hearing this and said, "Mother, a few sea cucumbers can't be sold for a few dollars. Just listen to Ah Le and kill a chicken and stew them for yourself. You can pick them up later when you want to sell them."
"You are all willing to give it up, so why should I be reluctant?" After saying this, Li's mother took a bowl and grabbed some sea cucumbers to send to Chen's house.
"Ah Le, everything is packed. When you come back, give the things to Ah Xi."
"Row!"
Li Changle and Chen Yongwei pedaled their tricycles and bicycles non-stop to deliver the fish to Tuxia Bridge.
About half an hour later, the two arrived at the restaurant and knocked on the kitchen door. They were surprised to see that it was Uncle Kun who opened the door.
Li Changle smiled as he pushed the tricycle into the yard. "I thought you hadn't come back from Haimen!"
"I had something to do, so I came back at noon." Ah Kun helped lift the bamboo basket off the bicycle. "Why did you come back to Hong Kong so early today?" "I took my wife and children to the island to play for a day."
“No wonder we caught so many wild sea ducks and collected so many eggs.”
Li Changle smiled and took down the bamboo basket containing four wild sea ducks, as well as the bamboo basket containing small abalone, sea duck eggs and seabird eggs from the car.
"Uncle Kun, these small abalones were pried out on the island. They look small and taste good. There are also these wild sea ducks and eggs. I sent them to you and Boss Gu to try."
"Okay, I won't be polite." A Kun took it and put it aside, looking at the rubber bucket, "Did you get any good stuff?"
Li Changle smiled and pulled open the net bag covering the rubber bucket. "Yes, there is a big flower dragon, a green robe, a big blue spot, and a tiger eel."
After seeing this, A Kun smiled and said, "You are so lucky, you make a lot of money every now and then."
"Today's big catch was caught by Awei and his brother." Li Changle smiled and told him about today's longline fishing. A Kun was also very happy after hearing it.
"Big flower dragonfish is 12 yuan, big blue grouper is 2.5 yuan per catty, big bluefish is 1.5 yuan, tiger eel is 3.5 yuan, horse friend fish is 2.3 yuan, and the other prices are still the same as before."
"Okay!" Li Changle and Chen Yongwei hurriedly took out the fish and weighed it.
The big flower dragon fish was one catty and three ounces and sold for 15 yuan, the big blue spot was twenty-one catties and sold for 6 yuan, the big blue fish was thirty-two catties and four ounces and sold for 52 yuan, the tiger eel was fourteen catties and sold for 5 yuan, and several horse friend fish were a total of twenty-five catties and seven ounces and sold for 48 yuan.
A total of 102 kilograms of yellowfin croaker and black sea bream were sold for 35 yuan, and the selected rice fish, sea bass, mackerel and conger eel also sold for yuan.
The fish was sold for a total of 361 yuan, followed by swimming crabs, red crabs, blue crabs, prawns, sword lobsters, and lobsters, which sold for a total of 8 yuan.
After weighing all the fish, Li Changle carried the large conches, Buddha's hand conches, as well as the conches picked up by Xiang Xiaoyu and his brother, the Buddha's hand conches they pried open, and the sea duck eggs and seabird eggs they picked up out of the car. He also told A Kun about the brothers' situation.
"His parents are still missing, and their bodies are nowhere to be found. The two children look really pitiful. I originally picked up the food and left it for them to eat."
"My wife thought there was a few cents difference in price, so she wanted to send them to town to sell, but she was worried that they would be blackmailed by those hooligans in town, so I sent them here."
Ah Kun nodded readily, "We also want to collect these things. If they get them again in the future, just send them back to us."
Then he sighed and said, "Alas! Death is the end of everything, but it is hard for the two children who lost their parents. It is good enough for them to do this."
"Yes, the younger one will continue to go to school tomorrow, and the village has waived his tuition fees. But the older one can't do that, he has to stay at home to earn money to support himself and his brother."
"If it's far away, let him come to the store to help."
"Too young. I taught him how to fish for octopus. If we're lucky, the two brothers should have no problem getting food."
"You are kind-hearted too." Ah Kun patted Li Changle, then said angrily, "I think Ah Sheng is quite perceptive.
I thought I would let him learn from me for two years, but I didn't expect him to be so talkative. Today, he was talking nonsense to someone in the kitchen and was caught by Manager Gu, who asked him to pack up and leave. "
Although Li Changle had long felt that Ah Sheng would not last long, he did not expect him to leave so quickly.
Seeing that A Kun was angry, he hurriedly comforted him: "Are you still worried about not having an apprentice? There are so many young men in the store. If you pay attention slowly, you will always find someone you like."
"I think so too. I have to take a closer look this time before making a decision."
After saying that, A Kun pointed at the sea duck eggs and said, "They'll be 10 cents each, and seabird eggs will be 5 cents."
"This kind of Buddha's hand conch is still priced the same as before. The big conch is two dollars each, and the big bamboo snail is also priced the same."
"Thank you, Uncle Kun!" Li Changle knew that the giant snails were obtained through backdoor trading and that A Kun had paid a good price for them.
After weighing, Xiang Xiaoyu and his brother pried out 88 kilograms of Buddha's hand snails, 5 duck eggs, seabird eggs, and large bamboo snails, and sold them for a total of yuan.
The Buddha's hand conches that Li's three sisters-in-law pried out, plus four large shells, were sold for a total of 137 yuan. The Li family had a lot of fun and work today, and all the fish they caught were sold for a total of 655 yuan.
Li Changle and his companion came out of the restaurant and rode their bikes towards Li Changxi's home.
Chen Yongwei thought about it and said happily: "Brother, if we continue like this, we will be able to earn back the money to buy a big ship by the end of the year."
Li Changle calculated that, including the money from selling Buddha's hand snails, he would be able to get more than 400 yuan today. "As long as everything goes smoothly, there should be no problem by the end of the year."
The two were happy and pedaled quickly. It took them just over ten minutes to reach the entrance of Li'ao Village. Before they entered the village, they met Zhang Dejin who was riding a bicycle.
"Ah Le, where are you from? I was planning to go to Shatou Village to look for you."
Li Changle turned his head and pointed at the bamboo basket in the truck bed, "I'm bringing some delicious food to your home."
"So many delicious foods? You're in for a treat." Zhang Dejin smiled and took out cigarettes and handed them to the two of them. "My father-in-law said you guys have booked a big ship. Is that true?"
My brother-in-law is really amazing. When he is not capable, he can make people angry to death, but when he is capable, he can be so capable that people envy him.
In just one month, he built a new house and bought a big boat, and in a blink of an eye he became a good young man praised by everyone.
"It's settled. We won't be able to get a boat until the year after next." The three of them said as they turned around and walked back to the village.
(End of this chapter)