Chapter 274 I also want to make money
Chapter 274 I also want to make money
Father Lin glanced at Lin Changrong, who looked like a headless fly, and said to Accountant Chen and Secretary Wang: "My family did give Mr. Wang the money to buy two TV sets. If he dares to embezzle the money, my Lin family will not be a pushover."
Lin Changrong also reacted, pointing at Wang Mazi viciously, "Yes, I personally gave you the money for the two TVs. If you dare to pay me less, don't blame me for being rude to you."
Wang Laokou pulled Wang Mazi and said, "Secretary Wang, you see, how can I give you money without a receipt? If I give you money, then anyone can come to me and ask for money in the future, right?"
Secretary Wang said, "Lao Lin, what Wang said is true. A few hundred yuan is not just a few dimes or a few dollars. I don't think your Rong would give him the money without even asking for proof, right?"
"That's right. You're in your twenties, not a three-year-old child."
The onlookers all spoke up for the Wang family, fearing that Lin Changrong and his son would continue to make trouble and they would not be able to get the money.
"You are such a pockmarked bastard!" Lin Changrong suddenly remembered something and stepped forward to grab him. "Let's go find Ah Le to testify!"
Wang Mazi sneered, "Everyone knows that he has a grudge against me, so of course he will help you!"
"Okay, you don't want to go, right? Let's go to the Lord's Palace and swear in front of the gods that if I don't give you the money for two TVs, my Lin family's grandson will not die a good death."
Lin Changrong pointed at his nose and said word by word, "If you, Wang Jiawang, take my money and refuse to pay it back, your Wang family will be extinct and die miserably."
Wang Mazi didn't expect that he would swear with Li Jiaxue, and it was such a poisonous oath. He opened and closed his mouth several times but didn't dare to respond.
"They even dare to swear such a poisonous oath. It seems that the Lin family really gave the Wang family the money for two TV sets."
"They are not good people to begin with. They probably took the money and are trying to deny it."
Accountant Chen understood everything when he saw this. "Secretary Wang, tell them to give Lin Changrong's money and the villagers' money as soon as possible, so as to avoid any trouble and trouble from the higher-ups."
"Did you hear that?" Secretary Wang kicked Wang Mazi, "Go get the money!"
After Wang Mazi left with Secretary Wang, Lin Changrong looked at Lin's father with pride, "That day, Ale's family asked him to swear, but they didn't dare."
Father Lin nodded, "Of course not, the gods are watching us from heaven!"
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Li Changle had already returned to Nanshan. Seeing Li Xiaotao and Li Xiaobo sitting on the prefabricated board with their chins propped up, he stepped forward and kicked them, "Didn't you go to make money with your brother?"
Li Xiaotao shook his head. "My brother said that if we went, we would be a burden to him, so he wouldn't let us go."
"Where did he and Xiaoyu go to fish in the sea?"
"Let's go to the grove. Xiaoyu said he caught a big blue crab weighing more than three pounds there yesterday. He made six or seven dollars yesterday!"
"Uncle San, we don't want to study. We want to join my brothers in fishing and earn money." Li Xiaobo said with envy, "I've calculated that we can earn six or seven yuan a day, which means more than a hundred yuan a month!"
"Yes, even if it's five dollars a day, you can still earn one hundred and fifty dollars a month. After deducting the money for buying fishing gear, you can still earn seventy or eighty dollars, which is much higher than your third aunt's salary."
"Yeah, I think it's worth it." Li Xiaobo said, "Uncle San, can you talk to my mom and dad for me? I really don't want to study anymore. It's meaningless."
Li Changle glanced at him and said, "Have you decided not to study anymore? Are you going to go fishing every day?"
The two nodded, "That's what we thought. We're just afraid that our parents will beat us."
"I can help you with that, but you have to think it through. Now that the weather is warm, it's fun to go fishing. But when winter comes, will you continue to do it?"
Li Xiaotao blinked a few times and asked, "Are there still fish in winter?"
Li Changle raised his eyebrows, "Of course there is. Don't your father and his family go fishing in the winter? Otherwise, how can they feed you?"
"It's so cold in winter." Li Xiaobo shook his head. "My ears get frostbite even in the classroom. My ears will freeze off if I go to the beach. I won't go."
Li Xiaotao looked at his hands and feet, which had frostbite last year, and said, "I'm going to get frostbite on my hands and feet too, so I won't go."
"Then how do you make money?" Li Changle looked at the two of them. "It's too cold in winter to go, and it's even colder in spring because of the late spring cold snap, so we still don't go. We can't go out to sea on rainy, windy, or typhoon days.
You can't catch big crabs every day, and you can only sell a bucket of clams or oysters for a few dimes. How do you support yourself?"
"Aunt San only makes 10-20 yuan a month, and we only make 150 yuan a month, which is enough for a year."
"Your Third Aunt has to weave nets after class. She can earn more than one yuan a day!" Li Changle looked at the two of them with a smile, "How about I buy some fishing line and bring it back. When you are not fishing in the sea, you can weave nets at home to earn money?"
Li Xiaotao and the others looked at him guiltily, "It's better to go to school than to sit at home and weave a web!"
"We have many businesses. If you don't want to weave nets, you can help kill fish and dry fish at home." Li Changle pointed at Li Daxiao who was building a bamboo frame, "Ah Xiao helps with housework. He gets two yuan a day, and a meal is included.
You are my nephews, I provide you with three meals, two more than Xiao, you don’t work as much as he does, but you still get 60 yuan a month, which is several hundred yuan a year.”
Li Xiaotao and the others couldn't sit still when they saw Ah Xiao carrying a big bamboo. "Uncle San, we haven't made up our mind yet. We'll tell you when we have." "Okay, I'll tell your parents when you have made up your mind." Li Changle got up, patted his butt, and went to the open space next to the house. "Dad, I'll help you."
"No need!" Father Li waved his hand at him, "It will be done soon, go get some sleep, you still have to go out to sea after lunch."
Li Changle took a look and saw that only one set of racks was not tied up, so he did not insist, "Where are the big brothers?"
"They just went to bed, you should go too."
"Okay!" Li Changle gave a cigarette to each of the uncles who helped, and went back to the house to sleep.
Father Ge looked at Father Li with envy, "Ah Tang, you are so lucky. Ah Le is becoming more and more successful, your sons are all capable, and your son-in-law is a master chef. Your family is getting more and more prosperous!"
Li Guibing from the family also agreed with a smile, "Yes, yes, the Atang family is getting more and more prosperous now. I heard that they even ordered a big ship. It must have cost a lot of money, right?"
"Ale is such a careless kid, he messes around a lot." The fine lines around Father Li's eyes squeezed together, "How can you be so lucky? They mess around a lot every day, and his mother and I are so busy following them that we're stomping our heels."
Father Ge smiled and said, "We want to be busy but there is no time to be busy! When we went fishing, the two of us never encountered a school of fish even once.
Look at your family, Ah Le and his friends. They are either turning over fish in the pond or moving crabs. And that time, they caught a school of silver pomfret. Who wouldn’t envy your family? "
"Now you're starting to dry dried fish and sell them for money. Your family is going to get rich!"
"We are so exhausted from all the fighting and nonsense." Father Li said with disdain but was delighted in his heart. Who could have thought that his unruly third son would become the leader of the second branch.
The watches at home have not been sold yet, and now they have brought back so many good things. Even Old Jintou praised them, saying that they know how to stop while they are ahead at such a young age.
The old men kept talking without stopping their hands, fixing the mesh pieces firmly on the bamboo frames.
Li Daxiao set up the bamboo frame, then pulled the cart to the beach and brought back the killed fish to dry in the sun.
The bamboo basket on the cart was still leaking water, and it was filled with cleanly washed squids and various miscellaneous fish.
Li's mother and daughter-in-law came back, gave the money to the women who helped, called Li Xiaoqing and her sister, and spread the washed seafood on the net.
He also told Li Xiaoqing and her sister to turn the fish over every two hours so that the fish would be bright white when dried in the sun.
This place is much more spacious than the old house. Since the dam can’t provide enough sun for us, we can go to the hillside where the wind is strong and there is no shade.
Small fish like sardines and herring can be dried in a day by turning them over every two hours.
Seafood with thick meat such as squid, green croaker, yellow croaker and yellow croaker can be dried in two days, which really saves a lot of trouble.
Mrs. Li looked at the time and said, "Mother, it's already a quarter past ten. Let's prepare lunch early. Ping and the others still need to go out to sea to collect jars and traps."
"I brought radishes. Cut the hairtail into two pieces and boil the radish shreds. Steam a few sea breams. Fry a few green snappers. Boil a boiled squid. Stir-fry clams with celery. You can make two of the other dishes as you see fit."
Mrs. Li agreed and took Li Xiaoqing and Li Xiaohui to the kitchen to get busy.
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Li Changle was woken up by her mother at around eleven o'clock. When she opened the door, she saw that the open space in the new house was already full of squids and various fishes drying in the sun. There was also a light salty smell in the air.
Zhang Dejin and a few craftsmen with their trouser legs rolled up came back from the back of the house, "A Le, we are not coming to work tomorrow. We are going to my mother-in-law's house."
Li Changle smiled and nodded, "Brother-in-law, we brothers have prepared some seafood for the masters. Remember to take it with you when you finish work this afternoon."
Brother Zhang Dejin smiled and said, "Thank you, Ale. I came to work for your family this time and ate a lot of fresh food."
"We are all relatives, it would be unkind to be polite." Li Changle thought of what Jin Shunfu's brother said, "When we finish this, there will be a few families at the intersection who will ask you to build houses."
Zhang Dejin: "Uncle Jin brought four families to see it that day. He said that when this place is ready, we will see how it looks and then build it according to your style."
"I also think that Ah Le's way of building is better. Although it consumes a little more materials, the layout is more reasonable. I will also build in the same style as his house in the future."
Li Changle chatted with them for a few words, went to the toilet and came out. Just as he turned to walk towards the ditch, he saw Li Xiaoyang rushing towards him from behind the house.
He looked around with a cunning look on his face, "Uncle San, did our family salvage any supplies from the sunken ship?"
"What..." Li Changle was stunned for a moment before reacting, "Little brat, where did you get the sunken supplies?"
Li Xiaoyang pointed in the direction of the brigade headquarters and said, "The loud speakers in the village are shouting mobilization slogans."
Li Changle didn't expect the anti-smuggling team to act so quickly. "What did they shout?"
There was no radio installed in Nanshanao, so they couldn't hear any noise from here.
(End of this chapter)