Chapter 80: Take him to pick up money
Chen Yongwei thought it was right, but when he looked at the oysters on the cliff, he felt that they were all worth two-cent bills.
What is the difference between this and picking up money? If it were someone else, he might have done it quietly by himself. How could he bring others to pick up money? Only his brother would treat him like this. He said to Li Changle happily and gratefully: "Brother, Thank you!"
"Fuck!" Li Changle looked at his shining eyes and felt his hairs standing on end, "Why are you looking at me like this?"
"I just want to thank you for treating me like a brother." Chen Yongwei looked at him and said seriously, "Brother, in the next life we will be reincarnated together as brothers."
When he was a child, only Brother Ale didn't despise him for being a bumbling star and helped him fight against the boys who bullied him. Now he doesn't despise him for being stupid and takes him to make money and even takes him to the cave to pick up money.
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Li Changle looked at him, with an indescribable feeling in his heart. He smiled and patted him, "Get out of here, there are brothers who have broken their heads!" "Well! We are not biological, but we are better than biological!"
Chen Yongwei smiled honestly and picked up a piece of oyster, "Brother, oysters are fresh and nourishing when eaten raw. I've been tired for a long time. Let's open one and try it. Do the ones growing in the cave taste the same as those outside?"
Li Changle was about to get one to see if there were any oyster beads in it. When he heard what he said, he smiled and said, "There are them all on the cliff. You can eat them as you want. I'm afraid you'll overdo it and won't be able to sleep at night." "
Chen Yongwei smiled naively and said, "Eat two at most. This food is too cold and will make your stomach uncomfortable if you eat too much." Li Changle nodded, took the oysters he had just pried off, and found a stone to sit down on.
Use a chisel to pry open the oysters. The oyster meat in the oyster shell under the headlight is plump and tender. It is sapphire in color and of high quality.
Just as he was about to pinch the torn oyster meat and examine it, Chen Yongwei came over with the oyster meat, pointed at the oyster meat and said to him: "Brother, look at this oyster meat, it looks better than the ones outside." Li Changle stopped. I stopped and said, "I heard that there are minerals in the cave, that may be the reason."
Chen Yongwei smiled and found a stone to sit next to him. "What are minerals?" Li Changle thought for a moment, "Minerals are just something contained in caves!"
"My brother has also become a man of culture. Did you learn from my sister-in-law?" Chen Yongwei stuffed the oyster meat into his mouth, like a cow chewing a peony. He swallowed it after two chews and picked up another piece. .
"Your brother heard what those people said in the town."
After Li Changle finished speaking, he stuffed the oyster meat into his mouth. There was a faint salty taste and the unique salty taste of seafood. After chewing carefully, after the salty taste passed, the fresh and sweet taste of the oyster meat gradually spread in his mouth. Release it.
Chen Yongwei ate two in a row and concluded: "Brother, it's better than me on the beach cliff!"
Li Changle nodded and carefully used his razor tongue. Just as he was about to speak, he made a sound as if he had bitten a pebble in his mouth, and his teeth were hurt. His heart beat faster and he thought to himself: "There is something in stock." !」
He quickly stretched out his hand to catch the oyster meat spit out from his mouth, pinched the oyster meat with two fingers, and could clearly feel the hard lumps wrapped in the unchewed oyster meat between his fingers. Li Changle was overjoyed and felt that God When it was not too thin, he excitedly pinched the oyster meat and tore it open. A bead twice as big as a pea appeared in front of his eyes.
He hurriedly pinched the oyster beads and put them in his palm, and shouted to Chen Yongwei who was busy prying the oysters: "Awei, look at the pearls, there are pearls growing inside the oysters!"
"F*ck!" Chen Yongwei turned around and rushed over. Looking at the oyster beads in his palm, he said excitedly: "Brother, there are really oyster beads. I thought my grandma was a liar!"
"Has anyone in the village obtained oyster beads?"
"My grandma said that my grandpa had eaten one before, which was a little bigger than this one. He sold it for three pieces of silver in the old days." Chen Yongwei looked at him happily and said, "Brother, you see, I ate two oysters and didn't get any beads. If you eat one, you will get one. If you are lucky, you will make a fortune sooner or later. Yin Yang is Yuan Datou. It is used in customs here for weddings, going to sea for sacrifices, exorcising evil spirits and so on. Every household has a few pieces hidden away.
Li Changle used to want to sell goods. He knew that these days, one silver ocean can be exchanged for more than 20 yuan, and three is more than 70 yuan. He looked at the oysters on the cliff with excitement, "Awei, maybe my fortune will be there." What about inside these oysters? How about we pry off all the real-looking oysters and open the pearls?"
"Ah!" Chen Yongwei was surprised and said with a smile, "Brother, it has been decades since my great-grandfather got oyster beads. You see, no one in the village has ever heard of anyone selling oyster beads." "You are also very lucky, so you eat them. Once I get one, I think there won’t be another one.”
Li Changle understood that after those people in the previous life opened oyster beads, people from the fishery department said that only one pearl could be found out of tens of thousands of oysters. These oysters may have grown like this because they grew in caves. Many pearls.
He was sure that there were still beads inside, maybe not as many as in his previous life, but the price of pearls now was more valuable than in later generations, after all, there were not many artificially cultivated ones. If he could find a dozen beads, it would be much more cost-effective than selling oysters, even if they couldn't sell them all. , you can dry oyster meat and boil oyster sauce to sell it for money.
After all, these days there is no such advanced cold chain technology as in later generations. Once the oyster meat is opened, there is no way to store it and send it out for sale. Apart from these two things, there is no other way.
"Awei, these oysters have been growing here for who knows how many years. It only costs 20 cents each to deliver them to the rooftop of the restaurant. If we pry all these oysters back, we can only sell them for two to three hundred yuan at most." "
Li Changle paused for a moment, "If one pearl is opened, it may cost dozens of yuan. I want to take a gamble. If we can open a few more pearls, we will get a bonus. If not, we will just go to trouble and get it." You can get money by drying oyster meat or boiling oyster sauce."
After hearing this, Chen Yongwei thought about it and said, "Okay, let's pry some out and open them first to see if there are any. If there are some, it's best. If not, we can boil the oyster sauce and dry the oyster meat."
"Okay, let's work harder, first pry out dozens of them, and then pry out dozens of pounds of Buddha's hand snails. Otherwise, when the tide rises, we won't even have a place to stand." "Okay!" Chen Yongwei picked it up on the ground. The chisels and small hammers started clanging.
Oysters are much easier to pry than bergamot snails. The two of them worked neatly, and a lot of oysters were piled on the ground in no time.
Then he started to pry the bergamot snail growing in the gap. Li Changle took out a flat-blade screwdriver, inserted it into the crack of the rock, and pried up the bergamot snail with the root. Because the root of the bergamot snail has the most meat, it was accidentally broken when prying it. As for the meat at the root, the whole snail will lose its edible value!
Chen Yongwei's speed was much faster than Li Changle's. Li Changle pried a few out one after another and gradually became faster.
After working for a while, he looked at the Buddha's hand snails piled on the ground and felt that it was almost done. In addition, the power of the headlamp was almost exhausted, so he hurriedly called Chen Yongwei to stop and sat on the stone to breathe heavily.
Fortunately, he only pried a few dozen kilograms at a time. Otherwise, if he added those hundred and ten oysters, he felt that his hands would not even be able to hold a job tomorrow morning. After resting for a while, Li Changle squeezed his sore arm and wrist and said, "Okay. Get up quickly and pack out."
Chen Yongwei took the net bag he handed over, "Brother, we made such a big pile, and it looks like there is not much missing on the cliff." "You don't even think about it, these things have been here for many years. It’s strange that there aren’t many!”
The two put the oysters and bergamot snails into their net bags and swam back and forth twice before sending out all the catch.
Li Changle swam ashore and collapsed on the beach to catch his breath from exhaustion. Only then did he realize that the moon had risen above his head. It was probably eleven or twelve o'clock. "It's too tiring to do this. I'll just wait until there is a boat." .”
"Yes, after the boat is repaired, we can drive directly to the rock, take the sacks out of the cave, and put them on the boat." Li Changle nodded, "Let's go back, your grandmother and Nan should be at home. I’m anxious.”
After saying that, he got up, picked up the catch in his net bag and walked towards the cave. The two of them put the catch in the bucket and walked back carrying the oysters and bergamot snails. When they reached the entrance of the cave, they looked back and saw the water on the tidal flat. The flashlight light was still on only in scattered places.
When they were almost at the bottom of the mountain, Li Changle saw that the lights in his house were still on, "Nan hasn't gone to bed yet, and your grandma may still be waiting for you!"
Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered the sentence he had seen before: After a busy day, dragging your tired body home, no matter how late you go home, there is always a light on for you, this is happiness!
"Maybe you can wait for us at your house with my sister-in-law!"
Chen Yongwei speeded up unconsciously. As soon as the two of them walked into the yard, the doors to Li's mother's house and Li Changle's house opened. "Ah Le, Ah Wei, you are back!"
Three women of different ages came out happily and took the buckets they were carrying.
They were very happy to see the tiger eels and eagle and pomfret in the bucket. Thinking of the purple sea urchins that had been sold some, the tides and the octopus, they felt that what they gained from fishing tonight was almost like picking up money.
Li Changle looked at his wife and then at me, "You know where we are, why don't you go to bed earlier?"
"Just what you said, we haven't seen it with our own eyes." Zhou Ruonan pointed to the alarm clock on the table, "Look, you guys have been gone for three or four hours. Can you not be worried?"
Grandma Chen looked at her grandson lovingly, "Yes, I woke up after a long sleep and saw that Ah Wei hadn't come back yet, so I couldn't sleep and came to your house. Ah Nan and your mother were still weaving nets, so they were waiting here. "
Chen Yongwei: "You are serious, I told you when I went out that I would come home late tonight and asked you to go to bed early. Why don't you go to bed?"
Li Changle took a look and saw that it was already past twelve o'clock and almost one o'clock. "Mom, please go back to sleep. We will just pick up the catch and then go to bed." Mother Li shook her head, "No, I have a nap and I won't sleep now." I’m sleepy, I’ll help you clean up before I go back to sleep.”
Chapter completed!