Chapter 246 The men of the Li family are amazing

Chapter 246 The men of the Li family are amazing

Chapter 246 The men of the Li family are amazing
After the things were divided, Li's mother told Li Changle that Li Changqing said he would go to Lucheng early the next morning. If he went at noon, it would take several hours to go back and forth, and he also had to deliver goods and do some work, so he was worried that it would be unsafe on the road if he went too late.

Li Changle agreed, thinking it would be a good idea to come back early so that he could go to the police station to apply for a gun license.

After Chen Yongwei took Li's father and others away, Li Changle and his two brothers put the watches into jars again, dug a hole under the bed to store them, and planned to look for Qian Acong when they had time.

After finishing the work and bringing the child back from next door, it was already past twelve o'clock. Li Changle washed up and went back to her room. She thought she would be too excited to sleep, but she fell asleep after lying down without saying a few words.

The next morning, Zhou Ruonan woke up as soon as the alarm rang. She opened her eyes and saw Li Changle turned over and fell asleep again. She quickly turned off the alarm and got out of bed quietly.

After washing up, I went to the kitchen and saw that Mrs. Li and Mrs. Li were already busy. "Brother, have they left?"

"We've been walking for a while." Mrs. Li picked up the rice steamer and said to her proudly, "This morning we went back to the old house to pick vegetables, and everyone we met said that the men in our family are powerful. Four of them dared to fight pirates.

Even the two gossipy women in the back row didn’t say anything sarcastic. They even asked Ah Zhen if she had managed to get the watch. They also wanted to ask her to buy it.

Zhou Ruonan looked at the two in surprise, "Didn't they ask how much stuff our family got?"

"I asked!" Mrs. Li curled her lips. "I told them what Ale taught me. Anyway, no one said much in front of me."

Zhou Ruonan thought this was a good idea and said with a smile, "Let him say whatever he wants behind our backs, as long as he doesn't say it in front of us."

"Yes, it has nothing to do with us. Even the emperor gets talked about behind his back!"

Mrs. Li handed her a bowl and said, "The chef will be here soon. Go get a bowl of blown shrimp and mix it. I'll fry the potato chips."

"Yes!" Zhou Ruonan agreed, took the bowl and opened the jar next to the water tank, grabbed a few shrimps, and poured the red vinegar into the bowl.

Blown shrimps are made from small shrimps that are steamed and then dried in the sun. When eaten, pour sour and sweet red vinegar on them, which is very appetizing.

There is also a kind of shrimp skin, which is the same species of small shrimp as the blown shrimp. This kind of shrimp is lightly dried raw and can be fried, soaked, boiled, stir-fried, and used as filling.

"Yes!" Zhou Ruonan helped bring the food to the table, and the carpenter and bricklayer arrived.

Zhang Dejin took down the backpack hanging from the back seat of his bicycle, went to the kitchen and said, "Sister-in-law, Ah Xi asked me to bring some vegetables over."

"Okay, I'm just worried that there won't be enough vegetables to eat!" Mrs. Li agreed happily. She saw that the backpack was filled with white lentils, cowpeas, potatoes and two large winter melons.

With dozens of people eating every day, the vegetables in their and Chen’s vegetable gardens are consumed very quickly, and there is almost no supply left in the garden.

The sisters-in-law set the table and Zhou Ruonan hurried into the house to call Li Changle and the two children to get up and eat.

The Li Xiaohai brothers opened their eyes and saw Li Changle, then turned over and climbed onto his bed. The two brothers lay on top of him, looking at him with admiration.

"Dad, Brother Xiaoyang said that you, Uncle Da, Uncle Er, and Uncle Awei captured seven pirates. You are awesome!"

Li Changle looked at his son's admiring expression and was very proud, "Four against seven, of course it's amazing!"

Li Xiaozhou hugged his neck and said, "Dad, I want to be a member of the People's Liberation Army in the future, and I will also fight pirates."

Li Xiaohai rubbed his curly hair a few times and said, "Only the navy fights pirates, just like my uncle."

"The navy is also the People's Liberation Army." Li Xiaozhou said, stroking his hair in dissatisfaction, "I'm not a puppy. Brother always rubs my head."

"Brother rubs you because he likes you." Li Changle also stroked his younger son's furry head and felt it was much more comfortable than stroking Awang.

"I like my brother too, I rub him too." After saying that, Li Xiaozhou hugged Li Xiaohai, and the two brothers started arguing.

"Hurry up, A-Qing is already waiting at the old house." Zhou Ruonan handed him the clothes and patted the two children's buttocks, "You'll be late for school."

"Oh oh! I want to go to the toilet." Li Xiaozhou squeezed his buttocks and ran outside.

"I want one too." Li Xiaohai also ran out.

"Ah Le, my sister-in-law said she went to the vegetable field over at the old house to pick vegetables. The villagers didn't ask us about what we got. Instead, they were more polite than before."

"Maybe he saw the miserable plight of the robbers on the ship and thought we were tough guys too!" Li Changle thought this was a good idea as it would save him a lot of trouble.

The three of them got dressed and went out. They had already started eating outside. When Zhang Dejin saw him come out, he smiled and teased him a few words.

When he came back after having rest, washed up and had his meal, Li Xiaoqing and her sister also returned from the old house.

"Uncle San, Grandpa asked you to finish your meal and come over. Uncle Qing is already here and is helping to move the dry goods!"

"Okay!" Li Changle quickly ate the rice in his bowl and hurried to the old house. Along the way, the villagers he met were all asking him about how he caught the robber yesterday.

As expected, everyone was very polite, and some even praised their brothers for doing a great thing, saying that they would not have to be so worried when going out to sea in the future.

The women who used to gossip about him said that they had seen that he was capable and courageous. Listening to those nice words, Li Changle laughed and remembered an old saying: People have two lips, and whatever they say is reasonable.

When they got home, they saw a tractor parked in the yard with a large water tank in the truck bed. Father and Mother Li were catching jellyfish and putting them into the water tank.

The light brown jellyfish skin is stacked flat on the bottom of the tank, sprinkled with a layer of insulating salt, then the jellyfish head is put in, and then the brine at the bottom of the tank is scooped out and poured on top.

There are more than 10,000 kilograms of dehydrated jellyfish. After three times of pickling, there are still about 7,000 kilograms. The amount of shrinkage of this thing is really extraordinary.

Thinking that the capital had already been earned back and all these jellyfish were profitable, Li Changle was looking forward to the day when he would encounter another jellyfish tide.

When Father Li saw him coming, he said cheerfully, "Ah Le, I put half a tank of jellyfish skins and jellyfish heads in it. Go to Lucheng and buy a small tank to share."

"Okay!" Li Changle responded and went down to the eaves. She picked up a cuttlefish from the pile of bamboo baskets and took a look at it.

A light layer of white frost has grown on the back of the dried cuttlefish after it bloomed. The time is still a bit short, and it should be better if it is kept for another two days.

It is already August, and the last few months after autumn are the best time to dry snapper heads and dried fish. He needs to prepare more dry goods and stockpile them to cope with the rainy weather after the spring.

Li Changle put the dried cuttlefish back into the bamboo basket, closed the lid, picked up a basket of dried fish and put it into the truck bed.

Xiang Xiang said to Li's mother, "Mother, take out two more buckets of jellyfish skins and jellyfish heads. I'll take them to Uncle Kun when I pass by the restaurant."

"Okay, I'll go get the bucket." Li's mother agreed and walked into the house.

Father Li also came to help with the packing. The square baskets didn’t take up much space and they were squeezed tightly together. “Fortunately I listened to you and asked your uncles to make the square baskets.”

"This is the best way to load it." Li Changle picked up a basket of dried shrimps and asked, "Have you weighed it? How many pounds does a basket weigh?"

"There are more than 100 kilograms of dried shrimp in one basket, and there are 365 kilograms of dried cuttlefish in three baskets. There are 413 kilograms of dried cuttlefish, and there are still a few tanks drying in the back that have not yet bloomed.

There were 532 catties of eel, 130 catties of shrimp, 700 catties of Spanish mackerel, 45 catties of bighead carp, 73 catties of small yellow croaker, and more fish, including green croaker, yellow croaker, and other miscellaneous fish, which added up to 3,450 catties.

Ah Qing asked to load half of the dried fish, worried that it would not be able to be pulled uphill. "Father Li became happier as he spoke, "There are still a lot of good stuff among the dried fish, so we picked them out and put them in a bamboo basket."

Seeing that he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth, Li Changle smiled and said, "There are a lot of dried fish. Changchun's family collected nearly a thousand kilograms."

At this time, Li Changqing also came after dinner and helped to carry a basket and put it on the bamboo basket. Looking at the bamboo baskets stacked in the truck bed, he felt a little jealous.

There are so many dried goods in the truck bed, and there are still a lot of undried fish and shrimps in the yard. If they are all dried, they can be sold for a lot of money.

I heard that even my uncle and aunt have learned from him to dry goods and sell them. It seems that the profit from dried goods should be good.

If this business can last long, Second Uncle's family will be well on their way!
"Ah Le, we can make a lot of money by selling this batch of goods, right?"

Li Changle took out a cigarette and handed it to him, then took out a match to light it for him, "You can't make much. Last time I received nearly a thousand yuan worth of goods from Changchun's family!"

Li Changqing took a sip and nodded, saying, "The receivers will make a lot of money. If we do it for a long time, it's more cost-effective to dry it ourselves."

"There are only so many people in the family, and we won't be able to handle more." Li Changle thought of the personalities of his third uncle and aunt, "When your third aunt and uncle are free, you can also send them over."

Father Li also said, "Ah Qing, although you don't make much money from selling dried goods, it's still more profitable than weaving nets."

Li Changqing nodded happily after hearing this, "Okay, I'll tell them when I come back this afternoon." Then he moved closer and said to him, "I heard that you got a lot of good stuff yesterday, is that true?"

"It was snowing in June!" Li Changle said with a bitter face, "I was so scared that I almost lost two of my souls. I was so busy rushing back that I didn't even think about looking for anything.

When those people started looting, my son Anan was holding me to check if I was injured. When my second brother ran down from the boat and said there was something on top, even the cotton wool in the cabin had been taken away.

"You guys are the same. You didn't even mention looking for it. I heard someone got a diesel engine."

"The family's fortune."

Li Changqing winked at him, "Fourth uncle's luck with women has turned into a disaster."

Father Li glared at him in disapproval, "Why are you talking about that person who ruined the reputation of his ancestors?"

"You're still talking about your ancestors?" Li's mother curled her lips. "It's all over the village. Xu Xianmei said that Ah Si had a mistress outside, which is why his leg was broken. She's clamoring to divorce him to divide up the property!"

Father Li said angrily, "What the hell, people back then didn't get married, so they didn't worry about people laughing when they told others about it.

The fourth room has only a few children, the old house and a boat. Which one belongs to her Xu family? They are already half buried in the earth. If they want to die, let them do it. "

(End of this chapter)