Chapter 247 Sold for Money

Chapter 247 Sold for Money

Chapter 247 Sold for Money

Li Changle had to leave at the last minute and remembered that she had not caught the sea ducks she had originally planned to catch for the Yan family and her mother-in-law. So she took dozens of preserved eggs and salted duck eggs with her as well.

After all the bamboo baskets were loaded, Li Changqing took out the car tarpaulin and covered the bamboo baskets. One purpose was to prevent the bamboo baskets from slipping due to the bumpy road, and the other was to prevent someone from breaking into the car and stealing things.

After hearing this, Li's mother looked at him in surprise and asked, "Is there someone stealing something on the road?"

"Of course not. The speed of cars on mountain roads is slow. I can catch up with them if I walk a few steps faster."

Li Changqing laughed and said, "Hijacking cars and stealing things is nothing. Last year, there were even people who blocked cars on the road and robbed them. When there was no strict crackdown, I didn't dare to drive long distances."

After hearing this, Li Changle said, "I'll go back to Nanshan and take the stuff with me just in case."

"No need, I have it under my car seat cushion." Li Changqing said as he went over to flip over the car cushion and took out a gun from it. "Take it with you when we get to the mountain road. Those people won't dare to steal my car if they see it."

"Fuck!" Li Changle took the gun and looked at it. "It's a rifle. When are we going to go hunting in the mountains?"

"Let's talk about it in the spring." Li Changqing said with a smile, "The second half of the year is busy, so there's no time for that!"

"Yes, we still have to make money for the New Year."

Li Changqing started the tractor. Li's mother brought over the bucket full of jellyfish and hung it on the frame. The tractor then wobbled towards the village entrance.

When they arrived at Tuxia Bridge, Li Changqing parked the tractor outside the Phoenix Restaurant, and Li Changle went to the kitchen carrying the jellyfish head.

When they arrived, they found out that A Kun had gone to the vegetable market to buy something and had not returned yet. A Yu did not know the purchase price of jellyfish, so Li Changle asked him to take the jellyfish skin to the back kitchen and wait for him to come back in the afternoon to weigh it.

The tractor was fine on the asphalt road. After passing the Tuxia Bridge, the tractor drove for more than an hour. There were fewer and fewer villages, and only occasionally a house could be seen on the roadside.

When the tractor reached the foot of a shallow hill, Li Changqing asked him to sit on a bamboo basket with a gun to prevent villagers on the roadside from breaking into the tractor and stealing things.

After going up the mountain, Li Changle finally understood why he said that. A few hundred meters up the mountain was a bumpy yellow mud road. The tractor was swaying on the road, and the speed was so slow that even people could catch up with it.

Li Changle sat on a bamboo basket, holding the gun and leaning against the railing of the carriage. As he went along, people came out from the houses on the roadside and looked into the car. When they saw the weapon in his hand, they retreated as if nothing had happened.

They set off at around eight o'clock and arrived in Lucheng at almost one o'clock. Li Changle felt dizzy from sitting on the bus. When getting off the bus, he decided to take a bus the next time and take one group at a time to save trouble.

Zhou's mother came out upon hearing the noise, looked at her son-in-law and Li Changqing, whose faces were covered in dust, and said hurriedly, "Hurry up and go into the house to wash up. I'll go cook something for you."

"Mother, you cook first, we'll move the things in and wash them."

"I'll go call a few rickshaw drivers over, give them two dollars, and ask them to help unload the goods." After saying this, Zhou's mother waved at the street corner, and two rickshaw drivers quickly came over.

With two people helping, the unloading process was much faster. It was also thanks to the help of two people that the big jar was carried into the shop.

If Li Changle and the other person were to carry hundreds of kilograms of stuff, they would have to repack it.

After they washed their faces, Zhou's mother came out with some wheat noodles and said cheerfully, "I thought you were going to wait until Anan had the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday before coming!"

"The dry goods that the Yan family requested have been gathered, so I hurried over." Li Changle pointed at the duck eggs in the bamboo basket and said, "One basket is salted duck eggs, and the other is preserved eggs. You can keep half for yourself.

Bring a few pounds of jellyfish heads, mantis shrimps and duck eggs to the Yan family."

"They have a large family, so I can just keep a small portion."

As Zhou's mother spoke, she picked up a dozen or so, took out a bowl, put some jellyfish heads in it, and walked towards Yan's house opposite with the bamboo basket.

Li Changle didn't object, thinking of sending it to her next time.

When Li Changqing saw her leaving, he said to Li Changle, "After all this time, your mother-in-law's family really has a shop. When I get back, I'll ask my mother and the others to dry it and send it to your family to sell."

Li Changle rolled his eyes at him, "You cunning fellow, are you afraid that I won't pay for the goods?"

"No, I thought you were supplying some vendor in Lucheng." Li Changqing swallowed the noodles in his mouth. "You don't know, there are several households in our village that send dry goods to vendors in town, and some of them can't get paid for a month or two."

"My mother asked my uncle, and the dry goods business in town is pretty good. Some shameless vendors deliberately deduct money."

Li Changle smiled and said, "My family is different. Some of the dry goods are sold in my mother-in-law's shop, and the rest are ordered by my mother-in-law's relatives from the Normal School."

"So that's what's going on." Li Changqing finally understood why his family dared to get so many goods, and said enviously, "You are still good at finding a wife. Your sister-in-law is from the city, she is well educated and doesn't look down on us from the fishing village."

"Your Ping is pretty good too. Uncle Dong and his family are so nice to you."

"A Ping is not a bad person, but she was spoiled by my mother-in-law." Li Changqing said and then asked, "Did you know that my aunt and uncle opened a dry goods store together?"

"I know, my aunt came to my house..." Li Changle told him about Aunt Li, who came to their house to collect dry goods. "Tsk tsk, the abacus beads are about to jump on my face."

Li Changqing curled his lips and said, "My father said that the big one has two long claws, and the two of them can't work together for half a year. Let's just wait and see."

Li Changle gave him a thumbs up, "Great idea!"

After the two brothers finished their meal, Zhou's mother came back happily carrying a bamboo basket, "A Le, Teacher Lin asked you to pack 100 kilograms of jellyfish skins and jellyfish heads. She will take you there on her bike after she finishes her meal." "Okay!" Li Changle didn't expect that a bowl of jellyfish would bring him another business. He happily agreed, said something to Li Changqing, put away the dishes and chopsticks, and went into the house to find tools to pack the jellyfish.

Li Changqing didn't expect that Zhou's mother would sell 200 kilograms of jellyfish after coming back from a trip. He was envious and happy.

Second uncle has a good relationship with his family, and his family is well off, so if he wants to do business in the future, he will have more options.

Zhou's mother followed him to the backyard and said, "Both the jellyfish heads and the jellyfish skins are priced at one yuan per pound."

"The price has gone up?" Li Changle remembered Zhou Ruonan saying that the jellyfish head was one yuan, and the jellyfish skin was only sold for a little more than an octagon.

"It has gone up a bit. Jellyfish skin is 95 cents a pound, and jellyfish head is 1.2 yuan." Zhou's mother said, "Two hundred pounds, I have to copy the big bucket to put it in."

Li Changle nodded, "Mother, do you have a small water tank at home? If not, I'll go buy two."

Zhou's mother laughed and said, "It doesn't look good in a water tank. We have two white porcelain tanks at home. We put the jellyfish skin in them and cover them with glass lids. It looks good and is hygienic.

The neighbors who bought the dry goods you delivered last time all said they were good. When selling food, reputation is the most important thing. It is difficult to earn a good reputation, but easy to lose it.

I tell you, we would rather sell less but make the products better. As long as you do a good job, I think this business should be booming."

"Don't worry, our business is all fresh produce that has just come off the ship."

"That's right. Although we sell dried goods, freshly dried goods and goods left over from a day of selling taste different."

"Yes!" Li Changle thought about the agreement, told her what they had discussed that day, and gave her the agreement to sign. "We will send the goods back to school and then help you display the goods."

"No need." Zhou's mother took the agreement and said, "I'll sign and stamp it and then give it to you. You can send it to school and then go back quickly. The tractor will take four or five hours. It's not safe to go on the road too late."

Li Changle thought of the situation when they came here, nodded and said, "Spend two dollars and ask two old sisters to help you set up the place."

"I know." Zhou's mother handed him the bucket, filled their kettles, and went to get some cakes and pastries and put them in a paper bag, "Take these with you on the road."

Li Changle took the money and put it in the bamboo basket. "During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Anan will bring the children back to spend the festival with you."

Mother Zhou laughed happily, "Okay, okay, I'll prepare delicious food early."

After they had packed up, Lin Hui waited outside with her bicycle. "Follow me, we'll be there in about half an hour."

"Thank you for your help, Teacher Lin." Li Changle thanked him gratefully.

Lin Hui smiled and nodded, riding her bicycle to lead the way.

Li Changqing started the tractor and followed her. Half an hour later, they arrived outside the gate of the Normal School.

Lin Hui greeted the old man guarding the gate and asked him not to stop Li Changle in the future.

The tractor followed her outside the cafeteria. Lin Hui said to him, "You guys move the things in. I'll go call Sister Liu to weigh them."

"Okay, thank you, Teacher Lin." Li Changle and Li Changqing had just moved their things in when Lin Hui and a woman in her forties wearing an apron came over carrying bamboo baskets and buckets.

"After weighing, pour it into this to remove the skin."

"Okay!" Li Changle and Li Changqing lifted the dried cuttlefish onto the scale, and after weighing it, they took out the dried cuttlefish and put it into the bamboo basket.

Sister Liu picked up a piece of dried cuttlefish and looked at it, then said to Lin Hui, "Teacher Lin, the dried cuttlefish we bought this time feels better than the last time."

Lin Hui also felt proud after hearing this and nodded happily, "Yes, it's good, and the color is brighter than before. I ordered it from them just because I saw that the dry goods in their shop are good."

Although I placed an order with Li Changle out of gratitude for saving Abao, I also hoped that the goods they delivered would be the same as those in the shop, clean, colorful and tasty.

This would avoid some old-timers in the cafeteria muttering behind her back, saying that she was using backdoors to favor her relatives and making it difficult for her to do her job.

Li Changle smiled and said, "Teacher Lin, our cuttlefish are all freshly killed and dried at the dock. We use sea water to wash the cuttlefish. You see, the color of each cuttlefish is the same bright color.

There are also dried shrimps, and the shrimp whiskers, shrimp bones, and shrimp threads are all cleaned up, so you don’t have to worry about pricking your hands when you wash them.”

Sister Liu picked up a few dried shrimps and looked at them. "Really? They are all clean."

Li Changle showed her the dried eels and sea bream heads, and Lin Hui nodded with satisfaction after seeing them.

200 kilograms of jellyfish, 1 yuan per kilogram, exactly 200 yuan; 205 kilograms of dried shrimp, 410 yuan per kilogram, sold for 315 yuan; 472 kilograms of dried eel, 5 yuan per kilogram, sold for yuan.

300 jin of dried cuttlefish were sold for 2 yuan at 5 yuan per jin, and 750 jin of green snapper were sold for 150 yuan, totaling 30 yuan.

　Thanks to my friend, You Ran, who has no money to spend, for his support! Thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)