Chapter 378 Decision

Chapter 378 Decision

Chapter 378 Decision
When they were almost in front of the big puddle, Brother Li looked at it for a while, frowned and said, "Brother, look, the net under the poplar mountain and the poplar tree is too close to our net, isn't it?"

Chen Yongwei nodded and said, "Other families cast their nets more than ten meters away, but they only cast them five or six meters away from our nets. When they lift the nets to scoop up fish, the handles will touch them!"

"It's already been laid. It's inappropriate for anyone to move now. Let's stagger the time of pulling the net with them, so we won't run into them when we use the net."

Brother Li patted Chen Yongwei and said, "Two grown men are so cunning. No wonder your Ah Chan said that her sister-in-law is cunning!"

Li Changle rolled his eyes, "It's no use being so cunning, he'll know how powerful we are soon."

"Ale, you guys are here!"

The villagers who were setting up nets on the beach saw Li Changle and his brothers coming over, and they all came forward with a smile to greet them and offer them cigarettes. Those who had bought battery lamps even pulled a few people aside to ask how they should turn on the lights to lure more fish.

"Ah Le, tell everyone, let's go over and hang up the lights!"

"Okay!" Li Changle walked to a family's net and gave on-site instructions, "Aim the light at the center of the net and wait for the fish to enter the net..."

Seeing that he was not shy about his work, several older people began to praise him, "Ah Le is such a thoughtful boy!"

"Ale is a good person. When he was hanging around in the past, he was not like the other hooligans in the village who stole and did all kinds of bad things."

"His father is honest and kind, and his children are just as kind as them..."

Li Changle didn't expect that he would receive so many compliments just by doing some work. His face couldn't help but get hot. "Okay, just do what I said just now to light the room."

"Thank you! Thank you!" After expressing gratitude, everyone went back to adjust their own battery lights.

Li Changle took two steps with the cigarette in his mouth when he was stopped by Ge Changfa.

"You are really smart! Last time you told me about fishing with lights, I went to buy a battery light, and I didn't even think of using the seashore to fish with a net."

"How can your tofu pudding compare to mine!"

"Oh my god! You really shine brightly when there's a little sunshine, and overflow with a little saliva!"

"Isn't that disgusting?" Li Changle kicked him back, "Where did you put the net?"

"When Ah Shui and I arrived, there was no room left, so we put the net in front of the reef."

Li Changle looked in the direction he pointed and saw Li Xiu and Li Yufang had also arrived. The two were standing guard there obediently. "Great, the whole family is on the battlefield!"

"Your family is still the best, full of strong laborers!"

"Brother, we thought everyone went to the dock to cast their nets, but we didn't expect most of them to come here." Li Changshui also came over.

"Everyone in the village knows that Ah Le's family caught over a thousand kilograms of fish last night. Everyone thinks there are more fish here!"

"Those who don't have a good catch tonight will disperse to other beaches to set their nets tomorrow night."

"Alas! I wonder when the wind will stop?"

"Monsoons are even more annoying than typhoons. Typhoons only last two or three days at most, but when monsoons come, it's good to have three or four days of good weather in a month."

"It's going to be longer this time. I heard it'll take another four or five days!"

"We cannot control what God does, so we just need to do the things in front of us well."

"Yes, we'll go over first, you go and do your thing." The two of them ran to guard their own nets.

Li Changle turned around and saw that Brother Li and his men had already placed the wooden frame. He walked to the puddle and saw that Yang Shan and Yang Shu were also following Brother Li's lead and fixing the battery lamp with a hemp rope.

Seeing Li Changle coming over, Yang Shan said awkwardly, "Ah Le, I didn't consider the landing net when I cast the net. Let's move it over there tomorrow."

The old fisherman would never have thought of this, he was trying to fool the devil!
Li Changle smiled faintly and waved his hand, "It's okay, everyone just stagger the nets."

The two Yang brothers saw Li Changle and others hanging the battery lamps on the wooden rack one by one, and then looked at the pair of battery lamps on their own wooden rack, their faces became more and more ugly.

Lights are used to attract fish. It is easy to tell that whoever has brighter lights will attract more fish.

Damn it, there were only three lamps last night, and there is one more today. How many lamps did the damn guy buy?

Yang Shu couldn't help asking, "Ah Le, why do you need so many battery lights when you are setting up a network?"

Seeing that Li Changle was too lazy to respond, Chen Yongwei took over and said, "Is that too much? I still have a few at home that I haven't taken out yet! My brother said that if you want to catch more fish than others, you have to be willing to invest more than others."

"..." Yang Shu was choked to death by him. He turned back to his own net and muttered in a low voice, "My brother, my brother, you are more affectionate than my own brother!"

After Li Changle and his companions fixed the eight lamps with hemp ropes, they turned on the lamps one by one, and the room in front of Li's net suddenly became bright.

The light emitted by the two battery lamps in front of Yangshan and Yangshu's nets was as weak as two fireflies under the reflection of Li's eight lights.

The brothers' faces were darker than the clouds in the sky. They never dreamed that the good position they had taken first would become the worst. As the tide rose higher and higher, the net was submerged by the sea water, and schools of fish came towards the light.

Seeing that the fish were all swimming towards Li Changle and the others, Yang Shu anxiously ran to Yang Shan's net, pulled him aside and whispered:
"Brother, go find Ah Hui and ask him to come and talk to that brat Ah Wei and ask the Li family to hang fewer lanterns!"

"It's no use going. Ah Hui said that Chen Yongwei listens to Li Changle in everything. His brother-in-law has been talking to him for a long time, but even a glance from Li Changle is not enough to make him do anything."

"It's all Ah Hui's fault. If he hadn't told us to put the net next to Li's house, we would have put it next to his house."

"The Li family has so many lights, they are as bright as the sun, but ours are like two fireflies, and it's not even raining!"

Li Changle and his companions did not even bother to look at the Yang brothers who were muttering to themselves with gloomy faces. They adjusted the lights and stood in front of the net to pay attention to the fish in their own fishing net.

"Brother, the effect of adding a light seems to be much better than yesterday!" Chen Yongwei looked at the schools of fish with his mouth almost stretching to the back of his head.

"It's more than last night!"

"I'm going to be exhausted again tonight!"

Brother Li pulled the two of them, turned his head to look at the Yang brothers, and whispered, "Keep your voices down, he hasn't caught any fish yet!"

"……Oh!"

When the fish gathered in the center of the fishing net, Li Changle and Li Erge stood in front of the battery light and shouted, "Get ready, we're turning off the lights!"

"Okay!" Brother Li and Awei grabbed the fishing rope. After Li Changle and the other man turned off the two lights nearby, they quickly pulled up the net, tied the fishing rope to the reef, and picked up the scoop net to start fishing.

After the Li family turned down the lights, they dispersed towards the school of fish that had gathered. When the Yang brothers saw that there were fish on, their faces brightened.

But before the fish gathered, the lights on Li's side were turned on again, so they had to pull the net quickly to prevent the fish that had already been in the net from escaping.

Seeing that the Li family pulled up the net every ten to twenty minutes, they caught more fish in one go than what they could get by pulling the net five or six times.

The two listened to the laughter of Li Changle and others, as well as the cheers of other villagers when they were casting nets. The two Yang brothers made up their minds not to come to the Li family's house to cast nets tomorrow night.

By the time Zhou Ruonan and her sister-in-law had finished their housework and sent the children to bed, the fish caught by Li Changle and his friends had already filled a rubber bucket.

……

Early in the morning on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Li's mother, dressed in new clothes, went to Chen's house. Together with Chen's grandmother, they tied up 888.8 yuan in brand new banknotes with bright red ribbons and put them into a bright red leather suitcase.

Finally, she wrapped the two silver dollars in red paper and put them in a box. Li's mother carried the red suitcase and took a tricycle to Jin Chan's house.

Old Man Jin and his mother welcomed her in. After some polite greetings, his mother brought out longan, lychee and egg tea for Li's mother, and then they began to discuss the wedding date, and finally decided to hold the wedding in February next year!

Jin's mother put five red eggs, five longans, five lychees, five raw peanuts and five red dates into a red bag and gave it to Li's mother as a return gift to the man.

After the engagement ceremony, if the man breaks the contract, the woman does not have to return the small betrothal gift and the large betrothal gift. If the woman breaks the contract, the betrothal gift and all expenses will be returned to the man, and the woman will have to compensate the man for his losses at the current highest interest rate.

Li's mother went to Chen's house with the return gift, and Grandma Chen happily took it and said, "Ale's mother, thank you for your hard work!"

"It's not that hard to just say a few words!" Mother Li said with a smile, "By this time next year, you will have a great-grandson to hold in arms!"

Grandma Chen smiled brightly when she heard this, "I bought a lot of food and wine. The whole family can come to my house tonight and have fun together!"

"Okay, I'll ask Afang to come over and help you in the afternoon!" Mother Li responded readily.

Grandma Chen sent Li's mother away, went back to the house, took some incense and candles, and went to the shrine. She lit the incense and candles while muttering, "I'm burning incense for you to tell you that Awei has passed the betrothal ceremony today.

The master compared their horoscopes and said that Ah Wei and Ah Chan were a match made in heaven...

I heard from Awei that they have bought the land in front of the new house and paid money to the village to buy the three warehouses at the dock. Please bless them to travel safely..."

In the evening, the whole Li family went to the Chen family, and it was a lively scene when the two families got together.

Grandma Chen wiped away her tears of joy and expressed her gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Li and Li Changle's two brothers. The elders also said a lot of polite words to each other.

After Grandma Chen finished speaking, she looked at Chen Yongwei who was laughing foolishly at the side and said, "Silly boy, fill up the glasses for your uncle, aunt, brother and sister-in-law, and toast them."

"Hey!" Chen Yongwei raised his glass and toasted Li's father and mother first. Li Changle and his brothers laughed and said, "It's a little early to toast now. Let's drink well on the day you become the groom!"

"Brother, drink this cup first. When I become the groom, I will toast you properly!"

Grandma Chen happily pulled Li's mother and said, "Awei is more talkative when he is with Ale than before. In the past, I could say ten sentences to him and he wouldn't say a single word in reply. Now that he has come back from the sea, he still knows how to say words to comfort me."

"Ah Le has always been sweet-talking since he was young. When his grandpa and grandma were around, they were the most partial to him."

"Old people like sweet-talking children."

(End of this chapter)