Chapter 287: Blue Crab 1

Chapter 287: Blue Crab 1

Chapter 287 The Blue Crab Family

Li Changle: "I heard from my sister that it was the one who lied on the recliner and pretended to be asleep during the blind date and tricked the person into coming in, right?"

"Yes, that's his family." Li Changxi said, "His family member Li Zhixue sold the only pig in the family in the second half of last year and left with the money. The villagers said that he took the money and went to the mountains to find a son-in-law.

Who would have thought that he came back a few days ago and asked the Party Secretary to approve the land for building a new house. Those people in the village who looked down on others laughed at him and said that it was time to build a new house and it was a pity that the stones in the long pond were covered with moss.

Li Changle didn't understand what he meant. "The stones in Changtang are covered with moss. What does that have to do with his family building a new house?"

"It means his family is so poor that if they want to build a new house, they have to dig stones from the long pond to build it!"

Li Changle sneered, "These people really look down on others."

Li Changxi nodded, "Of course not. After they approved the foundation, they asked your brother-in-law to calculate the material fee. This morning, I went to the brick and tile factory with your brother-in-law to order bricks and tiles. It's a three-story building. I don't owe a penny. It's all paid in cash."

Li Changle knew in his previous life that selling glasses was a good business. Lin Changrong's uncle's family also made a fortune in this business. "Brother-in-law, did Li Zhixue tell you how they did it?"

Zhang Dejin smiled and said, "Axue said he bought the goods from Miaoqian Street, then took a bus to Hangzhou City, where he stayed at the train station for a long time to see how the spectacles were sold.

After watching, I learned to tie two ropes around my chest to hang two rows of glasses, and then hold a pair of glasses in my hand, and go to train stations, squares, and shopping malls to sell them. As long as you can endure hardships, have courage, and speak sweetly, you will definitely make money. "

Li Changxi: "Your brother-in-law said that no matter how hard it is, it is not as hard as you fishing at sea or working as a bricklayer like him. If it weren't for the three children being so young, he would have followed Ah Xue and bought some glasses to sell in big cities after saving enough money."

"Sister, I don't know how to do it, so I can't do it. Now that you know how to do it, you should do it." Li Changle said to Zhang Dejin, "Don't worry about the capital. I can lend it to you."

"Ah Xue went out with more than 100 yuan. I think it wouldn't cost much to sell like them."

Zhang Dejin blushed, "To be honest, I mentioned this to Ah Xue at the time, and told him that I would go with him after I finished the work at hand. He said he could take me with him, but I had to find a place to sell the goods myself."

Li Changle finally understood why his brother-in-law worked as a bricklayer all his life, but was still timid and inexperienced. "What's the big deal? Hangzhou is not the only city with train stations, shopping malls, and squares.

We can go to Ningbo, Nanjing, Shanghai, Suzhou, and so many other big cities nearby. Are you still worried about having no place to sell glasses?"

Zhang Dejin: "That's true, but Ah Xue said that when selling goods outside, you don't have to worry about local hooligans making trouble. If you encounter them, just give them the frog mirror.

The most hateful ones are our local fellow villagers. Several groups of people often fight for territory. When he first started selling glasses in Hangzhou, he was beaten by those people.

Fortunately, he looks like his blind father, is tall, and dares to risk his life to fight others, which scares those people, so he can stand there. "

After listening to this, Li Changle understood. It was just like those who went abroad to develop in later generations. When they arrived there, they were blackmailed and bullied by their own people more often than by the locals.

My brother-in-law is different from the boy from the Li family. Although he doesn't live a very glorious life, craftsmen like him are still very popular in the countryside at that time. It is impossible for him to risk his life to fight with others like Li Zhixue.

"Sister, why don't you set up a stall and do some small business. I heard from them that there is a small commodity wholesale market in Yiwu, and those who sell clothes, scarves, headwear and parasols in the town all get their goods there.

If you want to do it, go to the town on market days and look at the vendors setting up stalls, buy some goods, come back and try it for a while, and if you think it's worthwhile, open a shop."

Li Changxi thought this was a good idea. "It's good to set up a stall. Your brother-in-law can still take on work. When there is no work, he can go to set up a stall with me."

She looked at Zhang Dejin and said, "Go back and ask Ah Xue about it. He travels around big cities and should know the wholesale market that Ah Le mentioned."

Zhang Dejin nodded in agreement, stood up and said, "Let's go to the beach and take a look."

Li Changle had no choice but to get up and follow them towards the beach. Father Li took the three children to play by the big puddle from last night. Zhang Xiaohui sat on the beach, while Xiaoxue and Xiaoxia carried small buckets and bent over to search among the rocks.

Zhang Xiaohui saw the two men coming out, so he stood up and came over with a plastic can in his hand, "Dad, third uncle, look, these are the little crabs that grandpa helped me catch."

"Look, Dad, we picked up a lot of clams. Grandpa even taught us how to dig for green clams. We dug up three tubes of green clams."

"Uncle, it's good to live here. We can also come to the beach to pick up things. Why didn't you bring us here to play before?"

"My grandpa used to live over there, but they just moved here this year, just like our family used to live in the old house."

"Dad, I want to go over there to find clams. Can you take us there?"

"Go find your third uncle to fish in the sea. I don't know how to do anything. I'll just go down to the water with a scoop net and scoop up the fish."

"The tide hasn't receded yet, and I can't find any seafood. Let's go to the puddle and fish for fun."

Li Changle and Zhang Dejin took their three children to the puddle. The deepest part of this big puddle was only up to their chest. The two rolled up their trouser legs, took the scoop net from Li's father, and started working busy at the edge of the puddle.

When Mr. Li saw his son and son-in-law coming, he handed the child to them, gave them a few instructions, and went home to do his work.

The old man is like this. He can't sit still for a moment when he has free time. He is either mending the nets or weaving bamboo baskets. Now there are so many dried fish at home, and he will be worried if he doesn't keep an eye on them.

Li Changle found a lot of fish and shrimp in the puddle, and Li's father caught more than a dozen mantis shrimps and white shrimps. It seemed that the fish were killed by the puddle yesterday, and the internal organs left behind attracted the shrimps and crabs.

"Uncle San, come quickly, there are big pliers here!"

Zhang Xiaohui, who was playing on the edge of the reef, suddenly became anxious and excited and shouted to Li Changle, waving his hands and shouting.

"Big pliers, right?" Li Changle carried the scoop net and looked over along the crevice in the reef pointed by the little fellow, and saw that there were indeed big pliers under the reef.

I hurriedly got closer to take a look, and discovered that there was more than one pair. It seemed like a whole family was underneath. I moved the reef with force, and my face turned red, but the reef remained motionless.

"Third uncle, grandpa said that when you see a big pliers, you can't use your hands. You have to use iron pliers." Zhang Xiaoxue hurriedly handed over the iron pliers.

Li Changle took the iron clamp and fiddled with it for a few times in front of the crevice. A blue crab waved its big claws to resist the enemy. He quickly made a move and clamped it.

"Third uncle!" Zhang Xiaoxue looked nervous and excited. "Be careful, its big pincers can really hurt. My mother said that if you are caught by it, you won't let go until there is thunder."

"Don't listen to your mother's nonsense. If you are caught by a crab's claws, put your hand in the water and it will loosen up naturally."

Zhang Xiaohui came up and looked at him curiously, "Third Uncle, is this true?"

"If you don't believe me, wait for Uncle San to pick out the blue crab and let it pick it up and try it out."

Zhang Xiaohui looked at his thumb and said, "I'm not afraid. I didn't cry last time they pinched me!"

"You're just bragging. Your mother gave you some sugar water to drink, so you didn't cry."

After hearing this, Li Changle remembered the canned yellow peaches sent by Brother Zou Lao Da, "You like sweet soup. When we go back, Third Uncle will get you canned food and malted milk."

“The canned food is delicious and sweet!”

After Li Changle took out the blue crab that was desperately shrinking, he found that it was quite big and full of yellow roe. He said in surprise, "Hey, this blue crab is good. It weighs more than one kilogram. I'll wait for Third Uncle to kill them all."

"Wow!" Zhang Xiaoxia cheered, "Third uncle is so good! Grandpa just caught the sand crab and it took him several tries to catch it."

"My third uncle is still the best, even better than my father!"

"That's right, your third uncle is an old fisherman, so fishing in the sea is child's play for him!"

Li Changle enjoyed it very much. He felt in his trouser pocket and found that he didn't bring any hemp rope today. He found a piece of water grass to tie up the blue crab and put it into the plastic jar held by Zhang Xiaohui.

He continued to catch blue crabs while lying there. It didn't take him long to catch another one. This one was a little smaller, so it was a male crab.

The three children became even more excited and took the tongs to learn how to tease the crabs.

As a result, although they knew there was another crab inside, it refused to respond no matter how they teased it. Li Changle had no choice but to call Zhang Dejin, and the two of them moved the rock together and found that there was a blue crab nest inside.

Three big blue crabs and a group of small blue crabs are inside, celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival!
When the three big blue crabs saw their nest being destroyed, they ran away in all directions with their claws and fangs bared. Zhang Dejin was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and caught one of them with a scoop net.

“Hahaha!” Li Changle stepped on a blue crab weighing more than a pound with one foot, grabbed another with one hand, and laughed triumphantly, “They say nephews resemble their uncles. My Xiaohui takes after me. Shipping is super good.”

Zhang Dejin's mouth twitched a few times. Looking at his handsome brother-in-law, he thought it was not bad to look like his uncle. At least he wouldn't have to worry about not being able to find a wife in the future. "It's also good to look like you. At least you're better looking than me!"

Zhang Xiaohui and his sister were also bullies who only bullied the weak and feared the strong. When they saw the big crabs being wiped out, each of them grabbed a small one, and the other small blue crabs fled in a hurry.

"Third uncle, hurry up, the blue crab son is about to run away."

"Hurry, hurry, they've got into that crack in the rock."

"Let them run. The small ones are worthless and have no meat. We will catch them when they grow bigger."

Zhang Xiaohui looked regretful and said, "We can catch it and raise it!"

Zhang Xiaoxue glared at him, "Where to keep him? Are you going to catch him and keep him in your bed?"

Zhang Xiaoxia nodded, "Yes, if you dare to catch me and keep me in bed again, I won't play with you anymore."

Zhang Xiaohui looked at his two sisters and responded obediently, "I understand, sisters. If you say you don't want to raise the child, then don't raise him!"

Li Changle looked at Zhang Xiaohui, who looked well-behaved under the suppression of his two sisters, and asked, "Did they beat you?"

"Beat!" Zhang Xiaohui pouted and nodded pitifully, "My eldest sister beat me, and my second sister beat me too. My mother and father didn't speak up for me and even said that the beating was good!"

(End of this chapter)