Chapter 265 Mother Li's Enlightenment

Chapter 265 Mother Li's Enlightenment

Chapter 265 Mother Li's Enlightenment

Brother Li took the money, pushed the tricycle and left Chen Ji with Li Changshui. Thinking of the things left by Li Changle, which would have to be sold for at least more than 40 yuan in total, he felt very distressed.

When Li Erge saw him coming out with a bamboo basket, he happily went to greet him and asked, "Brother, what's the price that Adong offered?"

“Sea cucumber…” Brother Li felt upset when he saw the seafood in the rubber bucket, “You little bastard, this dinner is all about money!

Ah Wei is the same, he always agrees with whatever Ah Le says, and never says anything to oppose him, so that he won't have to keep all the expensive food to eat at home."

"You know that boy Awei is willing to give him anything as long as Ale takes him out to play." Brother Li said with a smile, "Unless you tell mom and dad and let them scold him."

"Forget it. A'le has to save his face too, so let's not tell them." Brother Li gave him the money from selling the fish, carried the bucket of "money" with heartache, and walked back with Li Changshui, carrying the fish on his back.

When Brother Li was almost out of money, Li Changle and Chen Yongwei also arrived ashore, and the three brothers packed up and returned to Nanshan.

Li Changle saw the large pearl oysters in the bamboo basket and said, "Go back and open a few of these things to see if there are any pearls inside."

Brother Li nodded and said, "I've picked one up before, but I haven't seen it in the past two years." He remembered that the meat of the Pearl Oyster was tender and delicious, and the shell could be made into pearl powder for medicinal purposes, and it was also a good raw material for shell carving.

What made him even more excited was that if there were pearls in this kind of shell, not only would the grains be large and have good color, but the price would also be very high.

In a few years, this thing will still be a national protected animal. If you dig it privately, you will be rewarded with a pair of watches.

The three of them walked to a fork in the road and saw Xiang Xiaoyu chasing after them with a bucket in his hand. "Uncle A-Le, I caught some jumping fish. I'll bring them back for you to eat."

Brother Li looked at Xiang Xiaoyu, who looked like a mud monkey, and said, "Xiaoyang, that bastard, keeps asking to make money by scooping up seafood. Let him do it with Ah Yu during the holidays."

"He's looking forward to it!" Li Changle put down the bucket and said to Xiang Xiaoyu, "How's the harvest these days?"

"Good! I bought another hundred jars."

Xiang Xiaoyu poured the jumping fish in the bucket into his bucket and said, "Uncle Ale, I was very lucky today. I caught a few big blue crabs. I sold them to the restaurant. They sold for five or six yuan more than Adong's!"

Li Changle stroked his head and said, "Don't take the bus when you go to town. Keep your money safe so it won't be taken away by three hands."

Xiang Xiaoyu patted her belly and said, "Teacher Zhou helped me sew a pocket on my trousers, and I stuffed the money in it."

"It's best to put it there."

Li Changle took a few duck eggs from the tricycle, and took three sea urchins and two abalones from the bucket and gave them to him. "Take the sea urchins back and steam them with eggs. Wash the abalones, add some shredded ginger, minced garlic, and green onions and steam them."

"Thank you, Uncle Ale." Xiang Xiaoyu said as he pulled him and whispered to him, "The night before last, when I came to take down the jar, I saw the policeman who gave you the award that day."

Li Changle looked at him in surprise, "Captain Zhou?"

"Hmm! I saw them going towards the mud flats."

"You haven't told anyone else?"

"I didn't tell anyone but you."

"You don't want to die in this dark place?" Li Changle said as he kicked him on the butt. "Don't come out to play at night anymore."

Xiang Xiaoyu rubbed his butt and looked at him with a smile, "I bought a new jar and tied it up before sending it over. It has never been here before."

"Next time you go into the water at night, I'll tell your teacher Zhou." Li Changle patted him and said, "Go home quickly."

"Hey!" Xiang Xiaoyu ran away with the bucket.

Brother Li Er saw him running away and turned to Li Changle, "What did Ah Yu whisper to you?"

"He said someone went to the mud flats the night before last. I told him not to tell anyone."

Li Changle picked up the bucket and thought of Xiang Xiaoyu's words. He felt that it was Wang Laokou who led people to the mudflats that night.

"Brother, Awei, if it doesn't rain tonight, let's go try out the effect of those battery lights."

Li Erge and Chen Yongwei naturally agreed wholeheartedly. They could earn a few hundred yuan during the day and a few hundred yuan more at night. At the rate they were earning, they would be able to own a few ships and become ship owners in less than two years.

When the three of them got home, Li Changle put the money away and went to the kitchen to ask Zhou Ruonan for credit, "Wife, I got a few more large pearl oysters today..."

"I almost got stung by a poisonous jellyfish." Zhou Ruonan said, "Ah Le, life at home is pretty good now, so don't take risks and go into the water in the future, okay?"

"Don't worry, I cherish my life very much." Li Changle looked at her with a playful smile, "If I get big beads this time, I won't sell them for money. I'll keep them to make jewelry for you and dress up my wife beautifully."

"You're talking nonsense again!" Zhou Ruonan rolled her eyes at him in reproach. "I don't like wearing those things. If I have any, I'd better sell them and save them to buy a house later!"

"Houses are still more economical." Li Changle looked at the cleaned abalone and said, "Do you know how to cook it?" "I know. When we were in Lucheng, my mother would buy it and steam it for us when she saw it." Zhou Ruonan planned to use steamed eggs with sea urchin, steamed abalone, and blanched nine-segment shrimp with vinegar.

"My wife is very capable. She can cook anything delicious." Li Changle picked up the bucket again. "There is also a jumping fish here. It was given to me by the little guy Xiaoyu. I will also send it to Lucheng."

"Hmm!" Zhou Ruonan said, remembering something. "Mother said that Lin Hui ordered 80 kilograms of mantis shrimps, and sold them for 80 cents a kilogram."

Li Changle looked at her in surprise and said, "This is a good price. It's worth my while to hire someone to peel the shrimp." It takes seven or eight kilograms of mantis shrimp to produce one kilogram of dried shrimp.

Fresh shrimps weigh three cents per pound, plus the cost of firewood, which is about three cents, the net profit is fifty cents per pound!
Zhou Ruonan was also very happy. "Mother said that the star anise was still given at wholesale price. When the goods were put out on the market that day, the neighbors heard that the shrimps were only 9 cents a pound, and they all said it was cheap. They bought three pounds of this and five pounds of that. Most of them were sold in one day."

"Haha, I earn an extra dime per pound."

Li Changle squeezed her hand happily and said, "I'll kill a sea duck and make soup, and raise the others. You can go back and bring them to A Niang and the Yan family tomorrow."

"You have a precious mouth, and you only pick out the best things to eat. I also stewed sea cucumber and chicken for you, but why don't you grow any weight?"

When Li's mother entered the kitchen, she rolled her eyes at him and slapped him a few times in annoyance, "Eat, eat, eat. Xiaoyu finally caught some fish, and you dare eat it?"

Brother Li, who was helping to carry things outside, gave him a look that told him to wish him well.

I originally thought that at this time, my mother was drying some dried food in the old house, but I didn't expect that the old lady had called her children over to work there, and she came here to wait to help kill the fish, and she was caught red-handed.

He got beaten up as a result, but luckily his sister-in-law helped to persuade him and he managed to escape.

Li Changle rubbed his vest that was hurt by being slapped. He didn't want the child's things either, but the two of them had agreed in the morning that when he learned to catch jumping fish, they would send them to him to eat. He couldn't let the child down!

Zhou Ruonan hurriedly helped her husband take off his clothes, "Mother, Xiaoyu has told me several times that Ah Le likes to eat jumping fish, and when he learns to catch them, I will give them to him. I didn't mean to take the child's things."

"Mother, you see, we go out early in the morning and come back only after the sun goes down." Li Changle pointed at her sunburned arms and complained, "Look, we can't expect the horse to run without eating grass at the same time!"

When Li's mother saw his peeling arms and thought of his previous delicate and tender skin, she felt a little distressed. But then she thought of the good things in the bucket, and she felt uncomfortable if she didn't say something to him.

"Why should I care what you eat? When the new house is built, your father and I will live in the old house. You can eat abalone and sea cucumber every day, and we can't do anything about you."

"Mother, calm down first, and scold me later!" Li Changle pushed the tricycle outside in a hurry, "I still have to deliver jellyfish to Uncle Kun, you can scold me slowly after I come back."

Mother Li glared at him and went to the beach with Brother Li and the others to kill cuttlefish.

Li Changle and Chen Yongwei packed the jellyfish, and also took some sea bream heads, dried shrimps, and cuttlefish from their homes. They wrote a quotation and asked him to deliver them all to Tuxiaqiao to Uncle Kun.

After returning to Nanshan, he picked out two fat ducks and some seafood for Zhang Dejin, and also gave two fat ducks and some duck eggs to Accountant Chen.

The seahorses were washed and dried to avoid being sent by Li's mother to be sold for money.

The Li family's meal tonight was all good stuff, with all kinds of delicacies from land and sea on the table, including blanched nine-segment shrimps, steamed abalone, steamed eggs with sea urchin, and stewed sea duck with mushrooms.

Even the children who were tired of seafood found that tonight's seafood was special and much more delicious than the last time's sea cucumber stewed chicken.

Mother Li ate the tender steamed egg and looked at the children who were eating heartily. She thought about how the children had grown visibly in weight and height during this period.

In particular, the skin of the two little girls, Xiaoqing and Xiaohui, also became rosy and tender.

The old man was bitten by a poisonous five-step snake, but now he can eat and work. Old man Xiang said that he recovered so well because of his adequate nutrition.

Who is from the next village? He is still lying in bed! Fortunately, Ah Le kept nagging him to eat better, and said that as long as they took good care of their health, it would save them money.

Ping and An also said that A Le is working very hard now. Others pay to buy food for them, but the ones they catch themselves are not the best, let alone bringing them back for the whole family to eat.

Mother Li glanced at Li Changle and thought that she should pay less attention to him in the future. If A Le likes to eat, then let him eat. After eating, he can earn money to support the family. This is better than fooling around like before.

Li Changle noticed that she was looking at him, and hurriedly picked up the spoon and scooped two spoonfuls of sea urchin steamed egg into the two elders' bowls, "Mother, this is good to eat, you and father should eat it too."

Father Li glanced at his wife and said, "Eat. Being healthy will reduce the burden on them."

My children are sensible and capable, so they can just help with the preparation and leave the money-making to them.

Mother Li nodded, picked up the spoon and scooped a spoonful for her daughter-in-law, and then scooped some for her grandchildren, "Eat it. If you like it, bring it back and make it later."

Li Changle looked at her in surprise and thought to herself: Could it be that my mother has also been reborn?

Mother Li didn't even look at him and just focused on scooping steamed eggs for the children.

(End of this chapter)