Chapter 286: Coming out so soon
Chapter 286: Coming out so soon
"Now that we have no money, I asked my father to build a rack to dry the bream heads! If someone buys them, the rack will be useless."
"One of the immigrant families also looked at that piece of land last time, but they ended up approving the land next to the road. People like to build their houses outside, but you like to build in the valley."
"The valley is great, with a mountain behind it! If I buy it, how much would it cost?"
Accountant Chen pondered for a moment and said, "Buying is different from buying in bulk. If you want to buy that piece of land, it might cost five or six hundred yuan."
Li Changle's eyes widened, "Is it five hundred or six hundred? Six hundred is too expensive. It's not as good as mine, and the price is three times higher. It's too expensive! Damn expensive!"
"Stop pretending to be stupid!" Accountant Chen slapped him in the face. "You've made a lot of money recently, so stop crying poor in front of me."
Li Changle said with a bitter face, "Uncle Dong, I have made some money these days, but ordering a big ship and building a house both cost money!
I'm in a lot of debt now, and I wish I could use one to pay off my debts as soon as possible. When I pay off my debts and save enough money to buy the land, will you give me a discount? "
He has some money now, but he worked hard to earn that money. Only a jerk and an idiot would treat the money he worked so hard to earn as if it were not worth spending!
Having lived two lifetimes, he is no longer the stupid, idiotic, and boastful Li Changle.
I have learned how to be a human being a long time ago. I know that I should be low-key when I should be low-key, and I should cry poor when I should cry poor.
"Okay! Come back to me when you have enough money to buy it." Accountant Chen then asked, "I heard from Ah Qing that your family's dried food business is doing well. You've even sold it to Lucheng Normal School?"
Li Changle nodded honestly, "Business is good. The school has connections with my mother-in-law. After seeing the goods, they were satisfied and made the order."
"Alas, other people's boys are disobedient and useless, but in my family, Ping is spoiled by your aunt." Accountant Chen sighed and said:
"Ah Qing goes out every day to transport goods in his car, while Ah Ping stays at her little network and imitates a few gossipy old women in the alleys.
I wanted her to collect some fresh produce and dry some fish jerky, so I talked to the eldest brother and asked him to help Ping find a school and get some seafood to supply them.
The boss asked, saying that the school needs both fresh and dried goods, but the hygiene standards must be met. Can you tell me, what should be paid attention to when drying? "
"Uncle Dong, to put it bluntly, when it comes to hygiene standards, we should treat those things as if they were our own food."
Li Changle thought of the canteens in later generations that fed children rotten food, "Also, the fish and shrimp you buy and dry have to be fresh.
At this time of year, you can just send over the fish and shrimps you harvested in the morning. For the fish and shrimps you harvested in the afternoon, go to Adong’s house and buy two yuan worth of ice cubes to keep them fresh. They will look good when you send them over.
After all, it is food for children. If something goes wrong, not only will people criticize them, but it will also have a bad impact on Principal Chen."
"That's for sure." Accountant Chen looked at him with satisfaction and smiled, "We're not far from the dock, so we should be diligent in waiting for the returning fishing boats to collect the fish. It will be as fresh as you want. When Ping makes some money, let them treat you to a drink."
Li Changle smiled and stood up, "Uncle Dong, I'll go back and wait for Ah Qing to treat me to a drink!"
"Go! Your eyes are bloodshot, take a good rest for a day."
After Li Changle came out of Chen's house, he just wanted to go home to take a shower and have a good sleep. His wife and children would be back tomorrow, and he would wait for the tide to go out and take them to the beach to play in the sea and enjoy the leisurely and happy time together as a family.
When he saw Wang Mazi and his father looking at him with gloomy faces, he thought to himself: "Damn it, why did this pair of Yuanbao come out so soon? It's so damn unlucky! I should have gone back through the small road earlier."
Wang Mazi looked at Li Changle, who walked away with a slutty smile on his face. He felt as if his heart was being gnawed by countless ants. Suddenly, he remembered the time when they had a falling out and he said those words about his family with such confidence on his face.
"Dad, that bastard Li Changle must have cursed our family, otherwise why would he say those words with such certainty?"
"What did he say?"
"He said, if you live three times rich and three times poor, who knows what will happen in the next ten years? Are you sure you can be rich all your life? I will be poor all my life."
"Isn't that how you curse when you quarrel?"
"No, he looked at me like a beggar on the street."
"Go back and ask your mother to find a fortune teller to take a look!" Wang Laokou also felt that ever since he had a falling out with Li Changle, Awang had never been able to do anything smoothly. Could it be that there really is a curse in this world?
"Well! You went to ask Sister for money, what did she say?" Wang Mazi regretted it so much that his intestines turned green.
If he had known that the man surnamed Zhao was targeted by the anti-smuggling team, he would not have helped others to carry goods. Even if the man surnamed Zhao was put in jail, he still had several thousand dollars left. He could buy a boat for rent and still sit back, play cards and drink wine.
Wang Laokou thought of his daughter's expression when she said this, and he was so angry that he trembled, "The damn girl told me not to go to her, saying that she had no money to give us.
He even asked me to ask your wife for money, calling us pimps. Zhao Ming and Zhao Hui, those two bastards, told us not to go to their house anymore, saying they had already treated us as outsiders.
"Sister has definitely saved some private money. Let's go back and ask Mom to find her and get some money out of her."
"Let your mother go when you get home."
The father and son pushed open the door with gloomy faces and entered the house. When Zou Annu saw them, she cried out, "Awang, that bitch Zheng Caihua took the child back to her parents' home and took Abao away with her."
Wang Mazi thought about his wife and Zhao Jincai, and said unhappily, "Just take him away, who knows whose child it is?" Zou Annu looked at him, "Abao looks exactly like you when you were a child, so he must be yours."
Wang Mazi complained, "It's all your fault. Now it's over, isn't it? I was blatantly cuckolded, and in the end I ended up with nothing, and nothing at all!"
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When Li Changle got home, he saw his parents and Li Daxiao turning over and drying dried fish in the dam. The eldest and second brothers Li had taken their wives and children to their mother-in-law's house to give holiday gifts.
Then he remembered that he didn't see Li Changxi's family when he came back today, "Sister isn't coming back today?"
"Your sister sent a letter saying that you should come later today, stay here for one night, and go back tomorrow morning."
"Oh!"
Li Changle returned to the house, took a towel and went to the ditch behind the house to take a bath. He stepped into the clear ditch, and two scoops of water washed away the heat from his body.
Suddenly I thought that the weather is getting colder, and it will not be so convenient to take a shower.
There were no bathroom heaters or water heaters these days. Taking a bath in the cold winter was like fighting a war. I was shivering with cold!
Next time I go to Lucheng, I will see if there is a water heater. If there is, I will buy one to save my two children from having to take a bath only once a winter before the New Year.
If you use a water heater, you can't use the fancy wire that everyone uses these days. You have to buy a few turns of copper core wire.
When he came out from behind the house, all wet, and saw the bicycle parked in the dam, he knew that his sister and her family had arrived, so he hurried back to the house, changed his clothes, and went to the kitchen.
"Sister, brother-in-law!"
"Uncle, I want to go to the beach to catch fish!" Zhang Xiaohui rushed over like a little cannonball and hugged his legs.
Li Changle checked the time and said, "The tide has risen now. We won't be able to catch any fish if we go."
"Uncle, you can use a fishing net." Zhang Xiaoxue said softly, "When the village was scouring the long pond, they used fishing nets to catch fish."
Li Changxi pulled Zhang Xiaohui over and said, "Xiaoxue, don't be naughty. Wait until mother talks to uncle before taking you there."
"Come!" Father Li stretched out his hands to his grandson and granddaughter, "Grandpa will take you to the beach to cast nets."
"Oh! Grandpa is taking us there!" Zhang Xiaohui grabbed Li's father's hand, and the four generations of grandparents and grandchildren went out.
Li Changle saw a lot of rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes piled on the table, "Sister, are you just making it?"
"Hmm!" Li Changxi handed him a rice cake. "I thought there was some polished rice and late rice left at home, so I made some. It was just finished when you came, and it's still hot. Have one."
"One is too many. One section will do." Li Changle took it and twisted off a section with force. He took a bite of the soft and delicate rice cake. "Cut a few and let them air dry. We can take them on board to eat."
Li Changxi looked at him happily, "It's still warm. When it cools down, I'll ask your brother-in-law to cut it for you."
Before Zhang Dejin could respond, Li's mother glared at Li Changxi in annoyance, "Don't order Ah Jin around all the time. He's tired of climbing up and down every day. Let me cut it for him later!"
"My mother-in-law still loves me." Zhang Dejin looked at Li Changxi proudly and began to complain, "Mother, you don't know that after I finish my work here, I still have to do farm work when I get home."
"I don't want to wait for you to come back to work in the fields!" Li Changxi glanced at him, "If I wasn't worried that my hands would be roughened and the silk would be frayed when I was embroidering clothes, who would wait for you to come back?"
Zhang Dejin nodded good-temperedly, "Yes, I know, I also know you have no choice, you see, every time I go back, I rush to finish the work in the fields!"
Li Changle thought of the watches at home, "Brother-in-law, did you tell my sister about what I told you that day?"
"Your brother-in-law told me." Li Changxi sat down next to him and rolled up his sleeves. "My aunt and uncle wanted to buy my brand. I plan to bring a few back this time."
"I'll give it to you when you go back!" Li Changle thought about how she only earned one or two dollars a day from embroidering clothes. This was a good time to do business, and it would be a pity to miss it.
"Sister, do you want to do business?"
"Yes! Of course I do. Business makes a lot of money! Li Zhixue from our village went to Hangzhou to sell glasses. He was there for less than a year and he returned home to build a new house."
Zhang Dejin took over and said, "It's the Li family next to my old house. His father is blind and his brother has eye problems.
Before the division of households, his family relied on him to earn work points, and his mother helped the village cut grass and feed pigs. The mother and son only had about ten points of work to support four people, and the family was so poor that they almost had to carry a vegetable basket to beg for food. "
(End of this chapter)