Chapter 236 So expensive
Chapter 236 So expensive
The next morning, Li's mother and daughter-in-law got up and prepared all the dishes and everything.
Before five o'clock, the entire Li family went to the new foundation, set up the eight-immortal table, and put incense, candles, paper money, bowls of old wine and so on on the table.
When the tide was high, after paying homage to the land god, Li Changle and his brothers dug the first hoe amid the sound of firecrackers. Then, Zhang Dejin, together with the craftsmen and laborers, officially started work.
Father Li turned his head to look at Mother Li, and she also turned her head to look at him. The old couple looked at each other, and both of their eyes were filled with joy.
Grandma Chen looked at Chen Yongwei talking to Jin Chan, and the joy in her eyes almost overflowed.
Li Changle looked at the time and saw that it was almost eight o'clock. He said to Zhou Ruonan and the child, "It's time for class. You should go first."
Zhou Ruonan agreed, held Li Xiaozhou and Li Xiaomei's hands, and said to the older ones, "Let's go, hurry up and follow me to school."
"Aunt San, let's go through the small path next to the master's palace, and we will reach the Changtang Bridge." Li Xiaoyang and his brothers hurriedly led the way.
Seeing that the students had left for school, Li's mother said to Li Changle, "Let's go back to dry the goods, you go to the dock.
Yesterday your uncle sent me a letter saying that he asked the butcher, Afan, to bring some large bones, pig lungs, and intestines this morning. You rode your bike over and brought them back."
After saying this, she called her two daughters-in-law and left in a hurry with Grandma Chen.
Li Changle pushed his bicycle and thought about going to the mountains. He called Big Brother Li, Second Brother Li and Chen Yongwei to the side and told them about buying a gun.
After hearing this, the three of them supported his idea without hesitation and told him to go ahead and buy it. They would share the cost among themselves.
Brother Li was worried that it was not safe for him to go into the mountains alone with the money, so he asked Chen Yongwei to go with him. They would look after the construction site.
"Okay, I'll go after I bring the meat and vegetables back."
Li Changle rode his bicycle towards the dock. The road here was not as easy to walk on as the road from the village to the dock. It was bumpy. It was no problem to ride a bicycle, but it was a little more difficult to pull a cart or a tricycle.
When we were almost at the dock, we saw Xiang Xiaoyu walking towards us with a backpack and a bucket in his hand, and his hair was covered in mud.
Li Changle thought that this was the first time he collected cans by himself today, and wanted to see what the harvest was like, so he stepped on the brakes and stopped.
Xiang Xiaoyu saw him and walked a few steps quickly with joy, "Uncle Ale, you didn't go out to sea today?" Then he said, "Everyone in the village is talking about the Alai family. You should be careful when you go out to sea."
"Little brat, you won't grow tall if you worry so much." Li Changle said as he reached out to take his backpack and hung it on the back seat. It was estimated to weigh more than ten pounds.
"I have longer ones. My pants and clothes are too short." Xiang Xiaoyu pulled up his trouser legs. "Yesterday, I went to town with Grandma Chen and bought cotton and cloth. Teacher Zhou helped us make jackets."
"I have a sewing machine at home, you can just send it over." Li Changle patted the back seat, "Climb up by yourself, I'll take you to the dock."
"Yeah!" Xiang Xiaoyu climbed up and sat down. "Uncle A-Le, I counted them when I collected the cans. There are more than 20 empty cans. I caught 17 tide-watchers, and the rest are octopuses."
"Not bad. The fish here are much better than over there."
"I also caught two blue crabs and three sand crabs, but they were a little small."
"We don't want a restaurant that's too small. We'll just take it to the dock and sell it to Adong's family." Li Changle turned his head and looked at the mud on his head.
"Go back and wash your hair and change into clean clothes. I'll go to the dock to get some meat and vegetables, then pick you up at your house and take you to the restaurant to get familiar with it. From now on, you'll go by yourself."
Xiang Xiaoyu nodded, "Uncle Ale, are you going to the town to sell your catch too?"
"I didn't go fishing last night." Li Changle paused, "I have something to do in the mountains, so I'll take you to town on the way. It won't take much time to go back and forth."
"sorry to bother you."
Li Changle stopped the car and took the bucket he was carrying. "I'll go get the meat. Go sell the blue crabs and sand crabs."
"Oh!" Xiang Xiaoyu got out of the car, took the bucket and ran towards Chen Ji.
Li Changle looked around and saw that the meat and tofu sellers were all at the entrance of the store. He pushed his cart over, took out a cigarette and handed one to the greasy and skinny pork seller.
"Boss Afan, I'm here to get the things my uncle brought."
"I'll get it for you!" Ah Fan took the cigarette and put it behind his ear, then handed him a net bag. "Here you go."
"Thank you!" Li Changle took the heavy and bulging net bag, quickly hung it on the handlebars, turned the car around and headed back to Nanshan.
He gave the meat and vegetables to Li's father, asked Zhang Dejin for the bicycle keys, called Chen Yongwei, and rode the bicycle back to the old house.
The bedding at home has been packed up, and we are waiting for the carpenter to help dismantle the bunk bed, which will be pulled to Nanshan on a cart, where we will stay at night.
Li Changle went to his parents' house and took four or five hundred yuan, some snappers and a few steamed buns, then rode his bike to Xiang Xiaoyu's house.
Half an hour later, the three of them arrived at the restaurant's kitchen. Li Changle knocked on the door and saw that it was A Yu. He smiled and said, "Is Uncle Kun here?"
A Yu smiled and shook his head, "Uncle Kun went to Haimen. He told me that your fish will be sold at the same old price."
"No other catch today, just some octopus and tide watchers."
Li Changle took Xiang Xiaoyu in his arms and said, "I told Uncle Kun last time that this child will send fish to sell in the future." Then he introduced Ayu to him.
"Okay, I'll tell Uncle Kun when he comes back."
Li Changle thanked him politely and helped to pour the octopus into the bamboo basket and weigh it, while Ayu counted and watched the tide.
There were seventeen Wangchao, nine of which were priced at RMB 9 each, and the rest were priced at RMB each. The total cost of the octopus was exactly RMB . Li Changle asked Xiang Xiaoyu to take the money and took him to the intersection of Panzhen Road. Then they turned the car around and headed towards Liyu Mountain.
When passing by the vegetable market, Li Changle thought of what Uncle Wang brought today, and turned to go to his meat stall.
I saw Uncle Wang wearing a homespun jacket and busy cutting meat for someone with his bare chest. Just as he was about to turn around, he was stopped by him.
"You little bastard, now that you're here, you want to run away without even saying hello?"
"Little uncle!" Li Changle hurriedly took out a cigarette and walked forward, handing him one. "I just came to see you and thank you for the gifts. Seeing that your business is so busy, I thought I would talk to you one day when you are free."
Uncle Wang rolled his eyes at him and said, "It's just some pig's internal organs, which are not worth much money. Why would you make a trip like this?"
"Then you'd better deliver it every day, so we don't have to buy meat and vegetables."
"You wish!" Uncle Wang smiled and tied the weighed meat with a hemp rope and gave it to the customer.
After receiving the money, the uncle and nephew exchanged a few words when someone else came to buy meat, so Li Changle hurriedly said goodbye and left.
The two men left Pan Town and soon entered the mountain road. They could still see people working in the shallow mountains, but the higher they went, the fewer people there were. The two men hunched over and pushed the cart to halfway up the mountain, their stomachs growling with hunger.
"Awei, eat something before you leave."
"Okay!" They parked the car, found a rock to sit on, took out the steamed buns and started eating with boiled water.
"Brother, is the gun expensive?"
Li Changle thought of the captain of the ship he helped in his previous life. He spent more than 20,000 yuan to buy a hunting rifle. "It shouldn't be expensive to make a homemade gun. If it is made by a regular manufacturer, it should be possible to buy it for two or three hundred yuan, right?"
Chen Yongwei smacked his lips, "It's so expensive, more expensive than a bicycle!" Then he asked, "Can a shotgun kill someone?"
"As long as you don't hit a fatal part, no one should die."
Li Changle felt that those who robbed with real guns and knives openly were not scary, but those who robbed in secret were scary.
Chen Yongwei breathed a sigh of relief. "It's good that he didn't die. I was afraid that I would feel guilty if I beat him to death."
"It depends on the situation. As long as we do things in a way that is true to our conscience, that's fine."
Chen Yongwei nodded, "Yes."
The two rested for a while and continued on their journey. It was already past one o'clock when they arrived at Qian Acong's house.
As soon as he got down the mountain, he saw two dogs on the ridge of the field. This time they didn't bite him, but kept barking at Chen Yongwei.
Qian Acong, who was digging a ditch in the sweet potato field behind the house, heard the noise and saw them coming. "How come you have time to come home today?"
Li Changle smiled and said, "I'm here to ask you for help."
"As long as I can do it, just ask." Qian Acong smiled and welcomed the two into the house. "Have you started construction on the new house?"
"We'll start work today." Li Changle handed him the net bag, "I brought some sea bass from drying at home for you."
Qian Acong was not polite and took it happily, "The dried abalones in your house are delicious, unlike the ones bought in town, which taste like free salt."
Li Changle laughed and said, "Don't tell me, some families on the beach don't charge for salt!"
"I know that people who own salt fields also sell salt!" Qian Acong pulled a bamboo chair for them to sit on. "You haven't eaten yet? I'll make you something to eat!"
"I brought a few steamed buns to fill me up on the road."
"How can a few steamed buns fill your stomach? I'll get you some food."
"I'm being polite to you!" Li Changle smiled and pulled him, "Really, no need. I ate three big steamed buns and drank half a pot of water. I'm so full that I can't be any fuller."
When Qian Acong heard him say this, he also sat down and asked, "You came to me because you don't have enough wood?"
"No, our village..." Li Changle told him what happened and got straight to the point, "We wanted to buy a gun for self-defense. Ah Fa said you had one, so I came to find you."
"Yes, there are many families with guns in the mountains. I have two at home. If you want one, I can give you one." Qian Acong stood up and said, "I'll show it to you."
"Okay!" Li Changle nodded in agreement.
Chen Yongwei looked around and said, "Brother, I think the mountains are not bad either. They are cooler than where we are."
"Everything about your place is good, except that the wind is too strong." Qian Acong came out with a gun in one hand, "But it's really convenient for you to eat fresh food."
Li Changle said with a smile: "Live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the sea, eat by the sea; the land and water support the people."
"That's right." Qian Acong put the gun on the table. "This is a homemade gun made by my father. This is a double-barreled shotgun I bought in Lucheng five or six years ago. I bought it to hunt wild boars and black bears."
In the past two years, most of the nearby forests have been opened up into mountainous areas, and there are not many places for hunting. After selling one rifle, I still have two at home, which is enough.
(End of this chapter)