Chapter 377 Still Have Face

Chapter 377 Still Have Face

Chapter 377 Still Have Face

Li Changle muttered all the way and unknowingly arrived at the restaurant's kitchen. Seeing that the kitchen door was ajar, he knocked once and A Yu opened the door.

Seeing the fish in his tricycle, I asked curiously, "Brother Ale, didn't you go back to the harbor to avoid the storm?"

"We're back at the port. We caught these fish with a net." Li Changle parked the car and carried the rubber bucket and bamboo basket in with him.

When Ayu opened the bamboo basket and saw the hairtail fish inside, she exclaimed in surprise: "This hairtail fish is fresh, and the small squid is also fresh! Uncle Kun will definitely like it when he sees it!"

"We quickly sorted and put the squids into baskets after scooping them up with a dip net last night. We covered all the squids with ice last night!"

Li Changle added, "I also brought some sea knives and sardines for you. When Uncle Kun comes back, give him some."

"Thank you, Brother Ale!" Ayu took out the scale and started weighing.

The squid, hairtail and black bass were sold for a total of two hundred and ninety-six yuan. Li Changle took the money, pushed the tricycle out of the kitchen, and went to the grain station to buy a barrel of rapeseed oil.

With grain and oil coupons, it was more than 60 cents per pound; without coupons, it was 80 cents per pound. Li Changle bought ten pounds of oil and then went to Caishi Street. He searched all the way until he found the one selling five-spice powder. He bought two bags and went to the seafood store.

When we got there, we saw Li Changxi busy weighing fish for customers, and a woman was helping to kill fish.

Seeing that there were still a lot of fish that had not been killed, Li Changle greeted Li Changxi and picked up a knife to help kill the fish. It took him half an hour to kill all the fish and hand them over to the customers.

Li Changxi happily took him to the backyard warehouse, "The mackerel and pomfret were sold out yesterday, and there are still more than 100 kilograms of hairtail. If we sell them for another day tomorrow, these fish will be gone in the warehouse."

"It looks like we'll need a few more days before we can go out to sea. After you sell these fish, you can take a two-day break, set up the shop, and open it on the day we return."

Li Changle originally thought that it would take at least five or six days to sell out the seven or eight thousand kilograms of fish, but he did not expect that they were all sold out in just three or four days. He felt that the purchasing power was still strong these days.

The brother and sister had just come out of the warehouse when someone came outside to buy fish.

Li Changxi hurriedly said, "A Le, wait for me for a moment, I will give you the money from the sale."

"I still have to go back and help with the lumber. When you sell the rest, you and my brother-in-law will come home and give us the same."

"Aren't you going to have lunch here?"

"No! The lumber delivery guy will be here soon, and I have to go back to settle the bill!"

"Okay, I'll make you something delicious someday."

"Keep busy with your business. I'm going back too."

When Li Changle returned to Nanshan'ao, Qian Acong had not yet delivered the wood. He saw Li's mother and Li's wife coming back from the ditch carrying pig intestines and lungs, and putting rapeseed oil and five-spice powder on the table.

"Mother, the children want to eat fried fish. Fry the sardines that we saved this morning and give them to them."

Mother Li saw a large pot of rapeseed oil on the table and sighed distressedly, "Alas! It's enough to buy half a pound of rapeseed oil for frying small fish. This stuff smells like raw oil. If you buy such a large bucket, how long will it take you to finish it?"

Mrs. Li hurriedly advised, "Don't talk about him. We've already bought some. Let's fry some small fish and fried fruit for the children to eat during the New Year."

"That's right. Rapeseed oil is not seafood. If you don't eat it today, it will go bad tomorrow. If you can't finish it, just leave it there and eat it slowly!"

Li's mother gave him a sidelong glance and said, "Your father and elder brother are digging clay in the mountains. Change into working clothes and go help them."

"Okay, I'll go after I go to Accountant Chen's house." Li Changle turned and left the kitchen, went back to his room, opened the cabinet beside the bed, took out a few bundles of banknotes, counted out more than two thousand yuan, put it in a bag, and went to Accountant Chen's house.

Li's mother looked back and saw the five-spice powder on the table and started to complain again, "You little bastard, you still haven't changed your extravagant habits.

When An Nan comes back from get off work, I have to talk to her and ask her to give him less money so that he won’t use it as money.”

"Okay, you can talk to Anan when she comes back later." Mrs. Li felt that Zhou Ruonan doted on Ale more than Li's mother did. Life was so difficult in the past, and she would rather suffer a little and be more tired herself, and never nagged him.

If she had just given him a little more displeasure, nagged him a little more, or even had a fight with him if that didn't work, A Le would probably have changed his lazy and unrestrained personality long ago.

After finishing her nagging, Mother Li went to the cabin and got some sardines out of the wooden box. She and Mrs. Li cleaned them up together, put them in a colander and drained the water, so that they could fry them for their grandchildren when they came back.

Li Changle handed the money to Accountant Chen, put on yellow rubber shoes and went up the mountain, and told Li's father and others that the land in front of the new house had been bought.

When Father Li heard that it cost two thousand seven hundred and fifty, his mouth twitched with pain, "It's so expensive, I think those people in the village committee are treating you like a fat pig!"

"Dad, with the drying dam and two roads, the area is more than one acre. If you wait a few more years, you can't buy it even if you pay more than 2,000."

"Ah Le, the base price for the three warehouses at the dock is 3,000 yuan. Although Uncle Chen has backed out, what if Boss Wang deliberately competes with us and raises the price too high? Then should we still buy it?"

"Of course we won't buy it if the price is too high!" Li Changle thought about it and decided not to tell anyone about Boss Wang and Wang Cui'e.

If a grown man can't even control his mouth, how can he do anything in the future!

When Li's father and his companions heard him say this, they all breathed a sigh of relief. They were afraid that he would compete with others for the position just to save face, no matter how many people shouted at him.

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It was a little after 1 p.m. when the Qian Acong brothers finally arrived at Nanshanao on a tractor. Their yellow rubber shoes were covered in mud, and the tires and chassis of the tractor were also covered in mud. It was still raining in the mountains this morning, and it was already past 9 p.m. when the rain stopped. It took them four hours to get there on the tractor.

The two brothers picked a lot of fruits, and Li Changle hurriedly asked Zhou Ruonan to prepare meals for them.

Everyone unloaded the yellow bamboo and wood from the tractor. Li's mother and Zhou Ruonan fried rice cakes and small fish for the three of them, and also fried some side dishes for them to drink.

The father and his sons also sat down and had a drink with them.

Li Changle said to the three of them, "Brother Qian, you guys stay here tonight and go back tomorrow morning."

Qian Acong smiled and said, "When I left, I told your sister-in-law that I would go back today. If I didn't go back, they would come down the mountain to look for us." "After I sell all the fruit, I will definitely come and have fun for a few days."

Li Changle had no choice but to nod when he heard him say that. "Okay, then you must come and play after you sell the fruit. I've already told my uncle and sister about putting your things away.

My sister's fresh produce will be sold out tomorrow, you can bring the fruit to Tuxia Bridge and sell it in her shop, and you can stay in the attic at night."

"Acong, Tuxiaqiao is bigger than Panzhen. The prices of everything there are better than in Panzhen. You have so many fruits, it would be more cost-effective to sell them there."

"Thank you! Thank you! We will start picking fruits tomorrow, and go down the mountain to paint the bridge the day after tomorrow."

"Okay! The day after tomorrow you go to Caishi Street. The shop opposite Chen Ji Seafood Store is owned by my sister."

After eating, Qian Acong winked at Li Changle, and the two went outside together. "Ah Le, have you asked about the watch?"

"I asked him, and he still has more than a hundred. He said that the inspection is strict now, and once this batch is sold out, it will be gone."

Qian Acong was delighted and said, "Ah Le, ask him if he can give you a higher commission. I will give him cash and sell it to my relatives in the mountains."

When they came, they looked at the watch repairman in the town, who said that these were all imported products and the prices were higher than those in the department store.

The two brothers were extremely happy, and felt that they had found a bargain. They thought that these watches would be easy to sell if they were sent to the mountains.

If the commission they gave was a little higher, for more than a hundred watches, if he raised the price a little more, the money he earned from one trip might not be earned back even if he worked for a year.

"I'll go ask him tomorrow, and get back to you when I get to town the day after tomorrow!" Li Changle thought that he would give him eight dollars for each one, and he would add ten dollars for each one, so he could make a lot of money on one trip.

Qian Acong said gratefully: "Then thank you for your help."

"You're still being polite to me!" Li Changle thought to himself, it's almost as if I'm bothering you.

The two chatted for a few more words, and then Qian Acong and the other two said goodbye and left. Li Changle and his three brothers sent them to the intersection and went up the mountain to continue working.

In the blink of an eye, it was dark. The tide would not rise until around eight o'clock today. At around seven o'clock, Li Changle and Chen Yongwei rode their bicycles to the beach.

There were nets everywhere on the beach. The tall nets were arranged like a military formation. There were also two nets laid down about four or five meters away from their two nets.

Chen Yongwei glared, "Fuck! Luckily my brother came early to grab a spot, otherwise we wouldn't even be able to find a spot to cast the net!"

"It's better to have more people. We can finish work earlier and go home."

"Suppose we catch as much as we did last night?"

"Then roll up your sleeves and get to work!" Li Changle said, glancing at the short crew cut he had just shaved in the afternoon. "Didn't I take your Ah Chan to buy a gold ring or a golden clove today?"

"No, I just bought her a red suitcase, gave her the watch I took last time, bought her two sets of clothes, a pair of leather shoes, and bought two jars of old wine for Jin Bo. My grandma cut two pieces of cloth for my mother-in-law."

Chen Yongwei pointed to the brand new thousand-layer cloth shoes on his feet and said, "Achan also bought me two sets of clothes and made two pairs of shoes for me and my grandmother."

Li Changle was happy for him after hearing this. "You don't have to help with the nets when you get back. Get a good night's sleep tonight and go deliver the engagement gift tomorrow."

Chen Yongwei chuckled when he heard this, "Brother, you forgot! The big betrothal ceremony is the same as the small betrothal ceremony. The man doesn't have to go in person, just the aunt can go."

"Oh! I forgot about it a long time ago!" Li Changle then remembered that although two ceremonies were required these days, the man only had to give gift money to buy things, and the matchmaker would take care of everything else.

"Let's go home and come back when the tide comes in!"

When the tide rose to the water entrance of the puddle, torches, lanterns, battery lamps and flashlights illuminated the beach brightly. The beach, which was deserted last night, became as lively as a vegetable market.

Chen Yongwei teased Li Changle and said, "Brother, the two nets next to ours belong to Jin Hui's two elder brothers-in-law. Ah Chan said that she originally wanted Jin Hui to put the net next to us, but Uncle Jin thought it was not a good idea and did not agree."

Old man Jin still has some dignity. If people have some dignity, they won't do anything shameless.

Li Changle glanced at the eight battery lamps in the bamboo basket and sneered, "How stingy! They only got two lamps and they put the net next to us to steal our food. It's like lighting a lantern in a toilet - lighting up your shit!"

"Awei, you are lucky. Your family member Achan is on your side." Brother Li said as he embraced him with the look of an experienced person.

Chen Yongwei smiled and scratched his head, "My grandma said the same thing!"

(End of this chapter)