Chapter 280 Opening the Treasure Box

Chapter 280 Opening the Treasure Box

Chapter 280 Opening the Treasure Box
"Uncles?" Li Changle curled her lips. "Some uncles are worse than outsiders. When you are doing well, they suck your blood. But when you get into trouble, they will do things like kick you when you are down, which is more cruel than anyone else."

Just as Father Li was about to speak, he heard the gate of the Jin family creak open. Old Jin walked quickly to the father and son and asked, "Accountant Chen also went to your house?"

Without waiting for Li Changle to answer, he said angrily, "Accountant Chen is honest, unlike that guy. I don't know which bastard told him that I found a TV at home, and he came to my house without asking any questions and asked me to hand it over."

Li Changle glanced at his yard and said bluntly, "My Xiaoyang heard from your Ah Fei at noon that your family had found a big TV, and he also said that my family had found a big thing. That kid even came back and asked me if I had found the TV."

Without even asking any questions, I'm afraid the whole village will know that your family found a big TV and my family found a big wooden box.

"..." Old Jintou blinked, his face red and white, "It turns out that this little bastard is talking nonsense outside."

Adults don't avoid children at all when they speak or do things, and they even blame the children for talking nonsense!

Li Changle patted him on the shoulder and said, "Uncle Jin, although we got the things, we didn't buy them with our own money after all. If the name is not right, then the words will not flow. It's better to keep it secret."

"Yes, yes, yes! I will tell my wife about this when I get back." Old Jintou said as he walked into the house.

At this time, Brother Li came back carrying two baskets of slaughtered qingzhan, and Father Li went back with him to pickle the qingzhan.

Li Changle went to the beach and saw several battery lamps placed on several rocks. Li's mother and several other people, along with ten women invited from the village, were busy squatting by a large puddle in the middle of the reef.

Chen Yongwei squatted with Jin Chan, his mouth and hands were busy.

The more people work, the faster the work. After only an hour of work, they filled twenty or thirty bamboo baskets with fish and there was not much left.

He found that Li's mother was more generous recently than before. In the past, she would definitely not be willing to hire so many people to work at home.

Li Erge came over with a basket of dried eels, and Li Changle helped to lift it onto the cart. "How are the dried eels that Ah Xiao chopped?"

"At first he was not very good at chopping. The cut was as ugly as if it had been gnawed by a dog. It took several lessons for him to get better. I asked him to practice his knife skills by killing fish first. Killing two baskets should be enough."

Li Changle nodded and helped move the killed fish onto the cart. Li Xiaotao ran towards him holding a sand crab, "Uncle San, look, I caught a crab."

"What's the use of sand crabs? They can't be sold for money!" Li Xiaoyang shouted with disgust on his face.

"Why can't we sell it? We can make crab paste and sell it!" Li Xiaotao retorted.

Li Changle saw him staggering and grabbed him by the collar, "Be careful, if you fall into the puddle you won't even have mooncakes to eat."

"Grandma has already given it to me." Li Xiaotao looked at him proudly, "Grandma bought several packages of mooncakes, kumquat cakes, and winter melon candies."

"Eat, eat, eat. All you do is eat all day." Li Xiaoyang rolled his eyes at him and squeezed in front of Li Changle. "Third Uncle, Ah Fei got beaten this afternoon. I heard his father scold him for having a dog stomach and said that his stomach couldn't hold two ounces of sesame oil."

"Uncle San," Li Xiaobo, who was carrying Amei on his back, also squeezed in, "There's no way the dog's stomach can't hold two taels of sesame oil. The dog may have eaten it. Grandma scolded Dahuang and Awang as dogs that can never be fed."

"Idiot, that's not what he meant at all!" Li Xiaoyang said disdainfully, "His father was scolding him, saying that he was telling other people about family matters!"

"That's right, his father was scolding him." Li Changle rubbed the smart little Li Xiaoyang, "Take my sister-in-law back. The tide hasn't receded much, and it's dark and we can't see clearly. It will be troublesome if they are swept into the sea by the waves."

"We're not going to the beach, we're just playing near the puddle." Li Xiaoyang showed off the bucket to him, "I caught a blue crab, grandma said I could sell it for more than a dollar!"

Li Xiaobo pulled him back and said, "Brother, I found it first, and you said you would give me half."

"I remember that. You're so stingy. Am I the kind of person who doesn't keep his word?" Li Xiaoyang walked towards the puddle with a bucket in his hand. "Let's go and look among the rocks."

Seeing that they were looking for it at the water inlet in front of the big puddle, Li Changle gave them a few instructions and then went back with Li Erge, pulling the cart.

The two brothers had just taken two steps when they heard Mrs. Li's voice from behind, "An, call the children back and let them take a shower and go to bed."

"We're not going back, and we don't have school tomorrow, so why go to bed so early?"

"Li Xiaotao, you're itching, right?"

"You only know how to use this to threaten me!"

The woman who helped joked, "Xiao Tao, tell your mother that if you dare to hit me, I won't give you food when you are old."

"I don't dare. She wants to hit me. My father even calls her a tigress."

"Hahaha!" Everyone burst into laughter.

"You little bastard, you keep talking nonsense all day long!" Mrs. Li was both amused and angry. She stood up and said to Li Xiaoqing, "Ah Qing, go tell them to go back to bed. We have to go to grandma's house tomorrow morning."

"Xiao Hui will go back too."

"Oh!" Li Xiaoqing and Li Xiaohui washed their hands, and before they even walked onto the beach, Li Xiaotao and the others followed Li Changle and his brothers back obediently. When they got home, Big Brother Li and Father Li helped to move the bamboo basket down, spread out the cuttlefish with bamboo strips, and hung it up with iron hooks to dry on the bamboo rack.

Father Li had already told eldest brother Li about Accountant Chen's visit, and the father and son decided to open the packages and boxes in the evening to take a look.

The cloth, cigarettes and other things were divided among the families. The TV and the things in the wooden box were taken apart to see if the machine could still be used.

A group of people were busy until nine o'clock, and they finally hung the killed and cleaned cuttlefish and eels on the bamboo rack to dry. Li's mother took the wages and gave them to the women who helped.

"Ah Xian, Ah Chun... Thank you for your help. I will ask you to help me next time when I have work to do."

"It's not a big deal, Auntie Hua. I wish I could do this kind of work every day!"

"Yes, remember to call me next time."

I can earn one dollar by working for more than two hours after dinner, and it doesn’t interfere with my housework. It would be great to have work like this every day!

"Don't worry, I will definitely call you next time." Mother Li happily sent them to the intersection.

Inside the house, Li Changle straightened the yellow croaker maw in the wooden basin and put it on the net to dry. Grandma Chen, who was helping, smiled and said, "Ah Le, is there really anyone who wants this kind of small yellow croaker maw glue?"

"Should there be?" Li Changle was not sure if anyone would want it in the next two years, but he believed that someone would definitely want it in two or three years, and the price would be good.

Grandma Chen picked up a piece of fish maw and said, "In the past, we only used large yellow croaker maw for drying fish maw glue. Small ones like this were just thrown away."

"Grandma, Ping and the others said that the number of yellow croakers has become less and less in the past two years. It is difficult to catch big yellow croakers even during the fishing season. I think in the future, the number of yellow croakers will become less and less." Li's mother came in with a basin of cuttlefish eggs and cuttlefish ink and said.

"Yes, I haven't seen yellow croaker weighing more than ten kilograms in the past two years!"

"We have been working for a month or two, and we have never caught anything over 10 kilograms, let alone 7 or 8 kilograms. It would be nice if we could catch a big yellow croaker someday!"

He remembered that July to October every year was the main season for catching yellow croaker. If you missed these months, you would have to wait until next year.

The number of yellow croakers is getting less and less every year. It is still unknown whether there will be any next year!
I was a fisherman for decades in my previous life, but I had never witnessed the kind of shocking scene that the older generation talked about: when the net is pulled up, everything is golden at first glance.

Don’t you think you’ll get to see it once in your lifetime?

"What's so special about yellow croaker? It's not as valuable as grouper or pomfret." Mother Li hung up the last piece of fish bladder and patted her waist. "Finally it's done!"

Li Changle carried the net rack to the bamboo frame and placed it. "Mother, grandmother, go call my brothers and bring back a power strip. We need to test the machine later."

It's not a good idea to pile all the things in his room. It's such a big pile that anyone with a discerning eye can see it. It's better to dismantle it and divide it up as soon as possible and take it back to your own home.

"Oh!" Mother Li and Grandma Chen both agreed happily. They had been thinking about it for a whole day and finally they could open the boxes and see what they had retrieved.

Li Changle washed his hands, took the key and walked towards the next house. Dahuang, who was lying at the door, saw him coming out, raised his head and wagged his tail at him.

Chen Yongwei, who had sent Jin Chan home, came over with a basket of pears and said, "Brother, Uncle Jin asked me to give these to you."

Li Changle took a look at the yellow-skinned pears that looked like cold rice balls. "Did they come from the pear tree behind his house? Are they sweet?"

"Tian, ​​when the house is built, we will plant a few trees." Chen Yongwei followed him into the house carrying a basket. Brother Li and the others also came, and they all looked very excited.

Several people moved the things piled on top of the boxes, opened the tarpaulin, and took down several packages piled on top of the boxes and piled them on the ground.

Li's mother and daughter-in-law used scissors to cut the ropes that were tied on the packages. They found that the packages were filled with blue and green polyester materials, which felt quite thick.

Grandma Chen said happily to Li's mother, "When Ah Chan, her mother and I went to Tuxia Bridge to buy the small betrothal gift, we also bought a few pieces of this kind of material. These materials are not cheap, about ten yuan per meter.

The boss said this material is called polyester serge, and it is a double-width material, one width is 2 feet 3 inches, and it saves a lot of fabric when making clothes and pants."

"Each piece of cloth is several dozen meters long, right?" Mrs. Li said happily, "We don't have to buy material in the past few years."

"It will take several years to wear them all. The seller said that this material is hard-wearing and one set can be worn for several years."

"Oh, this piece feels damp, it must have been soaked." Mother Li held the material and showed it to Li Changle and the others with a look of regret, "Ah Le, this package is soaked, check what's inside the cartons."

Chen Yongwei took a look at the carton that was almost half soaked, and said dejectedly: "It's over, the things in the package are soaked, and the inside of the carton must be soaked too."

"What are you yelling about?" Grandma Chen gave Chen Yongwei a sidelong look. "I told you not to be so hasty in doing things. You're going to start a family soon, and yet you still can't keep your cool."

(End of this chapter)