Li Changle and Chen Yongwei lifted the rubber bucket off the tricycle and saw several sacks inside, "What are you doing with the sacks?"

"Uncle Tang gave it to me!" Chen Yongwei said, taking out the overlapping rubber buckets and placing them on the ground.

"Ale, you dig out the jellyfish skins and heads that were pressed first and put them into sacks. The others are piled together. They will have to be weighed later!"

Mother Li pointed to the pile of jellyfish skins next to the reef and said.

"Okay!" Li Changle carried the sack and walked towards the reef. Chen Yongwei thought about it and followed him, "Brother, Xu Xianmei stopped Ah Shui and Yufang at the bridge head, as if she was asking them for money."

"The family has been divided. They have to stand up and claim it as their own home." Li Changle opened it and put down the rubber bucket. "You take the last bit back and boil it and freeze it."

"Oh!" Chen Yongwei responded and left.

Li Changle opened up the pile of sand, dug out the jellyfish skin and jellyfish heads that were buried under the sand, shook off the sand above and put them into a sack.

The jellyfish that was originally watery and chewy now looks like a wilted cucumber.

After a while, brother and sister Li Changshui hurried over, "Brother, we are late."

Li Changle looked at the two people whose eyes were still a little red, "It's okay, have you eaten?"

"It's been eaten!" Li Changshui said and squatted down to help dig through the sand pile and collect the jellyfish skins.

Li Changle saw that he didn't say anything or ask, and just went about his work.

"Brother, she asked me to borrow money, but I didn't lend it to her." Li Changshui said, as if explaining, but also venting, "When she gets old and can no longer move, I will give her food, but I won't

She’s a dime a dozen.”

"What can I do for her? No matter how much money I have, I will give it to Xu Jianguo." Li Yufang said angrily.

Mother Li frowned and looked at her, "What's wrong? We just separated our families, and your mother-in-law is asking you for money?"

"Yeah! She said that we shared the food and they didn't have enough to eat. She asked us to borrow twenty yuan to buy food. If we didn't borrow it, she would chase us and scold us."

When Li Yufang thought of what Xu Xianmei said, she felt extremely angry and uncomfortable, "She just asked us to borrow money after she saw how you, your third uncle, and your brother and sister-in-law collected money for us after the family separation."

"Second aunt, brother, sister-in-law, you collect the money you give us, and we will pay it back to you when we earn it." Li Changshui said angrily.

Mother Li shook her head pitifully, "No need, it's yours to give to you. Give yourself a chance and make a name for yourself."

Li Changle patted him and said, "That is, if she treats you well from now on, you should also be polite to her. If not, just take care of yourself, take care of your own home and live your own life. What do you want to do with so many things?"

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"I remember." Li Changshui nodded heavily and got down to work.

Sister-in-law Li dug up the sand pile, picked up a piece of jellyfish skin, and shook her head sadly, "This thing has shrunk so much, it has lost more than half its weight. It's not worth it."

"Is this distressing? After two days of pickling with alum, the fresh stings will shrink and release more water. After pickling, you will see that the skin of the jellyfish is shriveled, even shriveled than my old face."

Grandma Chen said and pointed to her wrinkled face.

Sister-in-law Li glanced at her and couldn't help but think of how she would look when she got old, "Oh! Why do people get old?"

Grandma Chen and Mother Li laughed, "What do you think? When the time comes, I will kill you!"

Sister-in-law Li nodded after hearing this, then thought about it and asked, "Grandma Chen, when I was at my parents' house, I heard my grandma say that one night, in the middle of the night, I heard someone on the roof asking, "Wang He is going to be taken away."

What?"

"Another person said that the Wang He family still has two years left, and the Chen Wang family in the back should leave. As expected, my eldest grandma left the next day. Is there really an underworld and some ulterior motives?"

"Why not? After a person dies, he is tied up with iron chains by the underworld and goes to the underworld to be judged by King Yama. Those who have done bad things and committed bad debts... will go to the eighteenth level of hell after having done all their evil deeds!"

After hearing this, Li Changle thought about himself. He didn't understand that he had never even been to the underworld. What kind of person did he die and live again?

The group of people were chatting and laughing, and started working very quickly. It didn't take long for them to dig out several piles.

While everyone was working in full swing, Brother Li and Brother Li came pulling a cart with a bag of alum and a large scale on it.

The two brothers carried the rubber bucket to the reef pit. The four of them filled the rubber bucket with sea water and carried it to the beach. They put it on the cart and put it away. Chen Yongwei and Li Erge pulled the cart back.

Brother Li tied the sack containing the jellyfish with a rope around the waist. Li Changle took a wooden stick and passed it through the rope buckle of the large scale, and then hooked the rope with a scale hook. The two of them lifted the jellyfish skin and began to weigh it.

Zhou Ruonan stepped forward and moved the fishing line hanging the weight to the appropriate position, "Two hundred and sixteen pounds."

Brother Li nodded, "Take a note of it in your notebook. After all the jellyfish are weighed, I will mix them with alum and pickle them."

Pickling jellyfish skin requires three processes: primary alum, two alums and one salt, and three alums and two salts.

Among them, the initial alum treatment is to prepare the fresh jellyfish with alum according to the proportion by weight, dissolve it in water and then pickle it to make the fresh jellyfish converge and drain out the water.

Two alum and one salt treatment, add an appropriate amount of coarse sea salt and alum according to the weight of the jellyfish skin that was first alum-infused, and then pickle for 7 to 10 days to further eliminate moisture.

Three-alum and two-salt treatment: Add coarse-grained sea salt according to the weight of the two-alum sting skin, and then marinate in alum for about ten days.

After three processes, the jellyfish skin can be completely dehydrated and gradually turn from transparent to light brown. The jellyfish skin is then put into concentrated brine diluted with sea salt and stored.

Zhou Ruonan nodded, took out the account book from his bag and recorded it, then passed the second bag, "Two hundred and eighteen pounds."

Li Changshui and Mrs. Li pulled the jellyfish in the bamboo basket over and continued to weigh them. After the weighing, Brother Li and Chen Yongwei took the jellyfish home to wait for pickling.

A group of people worked on the beach for more than half an hour before weighing all the jellyfish. Fortunately, it never rained.

The recovered jellyfish, including the jellyfish they caught themselves, the jellyfish skin and jellyfish heads after being taken out of the water, weighed 12,685 kilograms.

Several people put the remaining jellyfish into bamboo baskets and sacks, moved them to carts and tricycles, and pulled them back.

Li Changle pedaled three wheels and walked back panting. Only halfway did he meet Ge Changfa, who was panting and running towards this side.

"Ale, are you moving so fast?"

"Get out!" Li Changle raised his leg and kicked him, "If I don't hurry up, why don't I wait for you to help?"

Ge Changfa said sarcastically: "I went home and changed my clothes and had dinner. My brother asked me to go to the waterway to watch the boats, so I forgot about your matter."

Mother Li patted Li Changle and said with a smile: "Ah Fa, don't listen to Ah Le. Ah Shui and Yufang are also helping. There are about ten people working and it will be done in a while."

Li Changle waved his hand at him, "There's not much else in my house, but there are a lot of people. A few kids at home are also helping. You're not needed, so hurry up and do your thing."

Ge Changfa saw that he didn't look angry, so he smiled and said: "Then you come and ask me to go to the mountain to look at wood tomorrow morning!"

Li Changle smiled and nodded, "If you let me go tomorrow morning, you can wait for me!"

"Don't worry, it won't happen!" Brother and sister Ge Changfa and Li Changshui followed them to the intersection, said goodbye and walked towards their homes.

When Li Changle and his party arrived home, they saw more than a dozen water tanks in the yard. Li Xiaotao ran out and pointed at the water tanks, "Abba, Aniang, Third Uncle, we helped wash them!"

"Grandpa said he bought you sour plum powder, so you washed it." Li Xiaobo exposed him mercilessly.

"Traitor, you also ate the sour plum powder I bought!" Li Xiaotao looked at him sideways, his eyes so white that he couldn't even see the black ones.

Li Xiaomei ran to Sister-in-law Li and said, "Mom, I also helped to wipe it, and I also ate some sour plum powder."

"Be good!" Sister-in-law Li rubbed her head and helped carry the sack.

Li Changle gave Li Xiaotao a hand and said, "Be good, wait until your third uncle goes to Tuxiaqiao and sells the jellyfish brains, and I will buy you cooking cakes when he comes back."

Li Xiaotao immediately became energetic and said, "Keep what you say?"

"You bastard, you have your word!" Li Changle's children these days are like bricks. As long as they can do the work, they will be moved wherever they can.

If you do a good job, your parents will praise you when they are in a good mood. If you do a bad job, if your parents are in a bad mood, you may have to suffer a meal of stir-fried pork with bamboo slices.

"Oh, there are cooking cakes to eat!" Several children cheered in unison.

Sister-in-law Li smiled and patted Li Xiaoqing, "You are a big girl, but you still feel like you have been hungry for three days without eating!"

"You are reluctant to buy it for us!" Li Xiaoqing helped move the basket into the house.

After everyone removed all the jellyfish, Li Changle slumped down on the chair, squinting and not wanting to move.

When I opened my eyes, I saw Chen Yongwei and Brother Li. Brother Li, as if he didn't know he was tired, picked up the bucket and scooped the seawater from the rubber bucket into the large tank, and dragged his sore legs to help scoop the water.

After filling the water in the rubber bucket into a large tank, Brother Li calculated the alum needed, weighed the alum, poured it into the rubber bucket and diluted it with sea water.

Li Changle turned to look at Mother Li, "Mom, after completing the three steps, how many kilograms of pickled jellyfish are there?"

Mother Li thought for a moment and said, "After one hundred kilograms of fresh jellyfish are marinated, it will weigh less than ten kilograms. These ones that have been initially dehydrated can produce up to one thousand three hundred to fourteen hundred kilograms of jellyfish after marinating."

Now Li Changle began to feel distressed, "Jellyfish are just like a sponge that has been filled with water and then squeezed dry."

After Mother Li and Brother Li mixed the alum water, everyone pulled apart the jellyfish skins and arranged them in a single layer. When the jellyfish heads were seven to eighty percent full, they pressed them with cross-tied bamboo pieces, and then

Put a stone on top.

Brother Li and Chen Yongwei dragged the bamboo basket over, "Ale, when you go to the restaurant to sell jellyfish brains, buy a few meters of tarpaulin to cover it."

Brother Li looked at the time and said, "It's already past three o'clock. How about you and Ah Wei go now?"

"Okay, let me weigh it first and see if the shipment is large?"

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