"How long does it take for you to choose alone? We can all choose together in a while."

Zhou Ruonan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law went to get the porcelain basin, wooden basin, and rubber bucket. Li Changle and Chen Yongwei pulled up the small bench, and everyone sat down and started working.

Pinch the male crab directly. The harder the crab cover, the fatter it will be. The cream crab is also easy to distinguish. The main thing is to look at the position of the belly button. If it is redder, it is almost gone.

Two rubber buckets, two large wooden basins, one place for large and fat blue crabs, one for small and fat crabs, and one for cream crabs.

Sister-in-law Li tied one up, looked at the crabs in the big wooden basin and rubber bucket, and said with envy: "Ale, why did you catch so many crabs? I think they weigh seventy or eighty kilograms, right?"

Mother Li smiled and said: "There is still more in the bucket here. It adds up to more but not less."

Li Changle was also happy. "At that time, Ah Wei and I wished we could be like an octopus, with eight hands, so hard that our hands would cramp and we couldn't catch them all." Chen Yongwei thought of the cream crabs sold for three yuan a pound last time. , these crabs alone cost 200 yuan, plus the dozens of kilograms of blue crabs, I really made a fortune.

"My brother has just paid his respects to the Lord's Palace, and the God of Wealth has come to send us wealth." "We will also pay our respects someday."

Zhou Ruonan smiled and picked up a butter crab, "Mom, do you know how much a pound of butter crab costs?"

"Oh! You also caught butter crab!" Mother Li happily took it, "The price of this thing was the same as that of butter crab the year before last. Last year, it sold for more than three yuan a pound."

Zhou Ruonan felt that the price in the restaurant should be higher, and said happily: "We caught seven butter crabs, two smaller ones, and the others were all good in size. They may weigh four or five kilograms in total."

Li Changle curled his lips and said: "The butter is only more than three yuan, and the butter I sold to the restaurant is already three yuan. It's really not worthwhile to sell such good things to the seafood store. After hearing this, Sister-in-law Li and Sister-in-law Li both looked at him in surprise, "Ale, If you send crabs to a restaurant and sell them, can you really sell them for three yuan a pound?"

Li Changle nodded, "I sent them to sell last time. You pick out the crabs tomorrow morning and I will bring them to help you sell them."

"That's a good relationship. If you sell a pound for one pound, it will be worth a pound." Sister-in-law Li said happily, "Why didn't we think of selling it to a restaurant before? Ah Le is still smart."

"What are you praising him for? When you praise him, you raise your tail." Mother Li rolled her eyes at Li Changle as she said, "You wander around town every day and don't even know to come back and tell us."

"Auntie, I really didn't expect it. Otherwise, I would have given the rice fish and big flower dragon to the restaurant to sell." Li Changle still feels a little distressed when he thinks about it now. "The Adong family took mine and gave it to their family." For sale."

Sister-in-law Li said: "Ale, if you give it to Adong's family, it will be quite good. If you give it to Wang Mazi's family, you will lose 100% of your blood." "That's right, that family is no different from Zhou Bapi."

Mother Li and the others talked about the good things Wang Laozha had done, and they laughed and laughed without feeling tired at all.

These people were all veterans at work and worked very quickly. It took less than half an hour to sort out all the crabs.

The skinny crabs we picked out, as well as crabs with big turtles and claws broken off, weighed more than ten kilograms. These were not worth much. I will sell them back to a restaurant tomorrow morning, and also send a few to my sister's uncle's house by the way.

Sister-in-law Li and Sister-in-law Li also divided the contents in the bucket.

Li Changle looked at the time, it was already four o'clock, and said hurriedly: "Auntie, sister-in-law, please go home and rest." I didn't feel sleepy just now when I was dividing the crabs, but now I feel sleepy because the excitement has passed. no.

It's past four o'clock. If you wait a little longer, it will be daylight. You can still sleep for an hour or two if you take the time. Sister-in-law Li nodded, "Okay, A-Zhen and I will bring the crabs here tomorrow morning."

Li Changle nodded cheerfully, "You can weigh yourself on the scale tomorrow morning and bring it to me." "Oh!" Sister-in-law Li and Sister-in-law Li happily carried the buckets and went out.

Li Changle took another net bag, picked up some crippled crabs and a giant fish, and handed it to the energetic Chen Yongwei, "You should go back to bed quickly." "That will be so useful!" Chen Yongwei took the net bag and added another After picking up some crippled crabs, I said goodbye and left.

"I boiled hot water for you, go and scrub it quickly, go back to the house and go to bed early." Mother Li said and went out. Li Changle and Zhou Ruonan closed the door, went to get hot water, scrubbed it casually, and then returned. House.

Before Zhou Ruonan went to bed, he said happily: "It would be great if I could catch crabs like this every day." "I think so too, but where can so many good things come from?"

The couple was so tired and sleepy that they almost fell asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.

Li Changle felt that not long after he fell asleep, he heard his eldest son calling him to get up. He opened his eyes and looked at the child lying on the edge of the bed looking at him, rubbed his face, and finally woke up completely.

"What are you doing up so early? You will grow taller if you sleep a little longer."

"My grandma said I'm not short." Li Xiaohai looked at him happily, "Dad, there are a lot of crabs in our house. Grandma said you broke the crab nests last night. With so many crabs, how big are their nests?"

"It's as big as a rubber bucket at home." Li Changle patted his head in a funny way, "Go out and pick out which one you like. Let your mother-in-law cook it for you." "My mother-in-law said she would cook it for lunch." Li Xiaohai pulled him to get up, "Hurry up and eat."

"Okay! Our family keeps yelling at me. No matter how sleepy my dad is, he still has to get up and eat with my boss."

"Then I will get up and call you tomorrow." Li Xiaohai smiled and narrowed his eyes, happily picked up the shirt on the square stool and handed it to him, "My mother has put it away." "Good son!" Li Changle came forward and kissed him. I gave him a look and laughed when I saw him touching his cheek awkwardly.

"The saliva stinks." Li Xiaohai rubbed his cheeks and ran away.

Li Changle grinned, took his shirt and put it on, put on his trousers, pulled on his shoes and went out. He saw that the food had been laid out, and the breakfast was quite sumptuous, including braised squid, eggs, and a bowl of seaweed and shrimp soup.

It turned out that Li's mother saw that the two of them were tired after a long night, so she came over to help cook when the time came. When Zhou Ruonan got up, she had already prepared the dishes and the rice was simmered.

"Ale, I weighed the crabs at seventy-six pounds and the blue crabs at sixty-two pounds. The crabs will be sent to the restaurant. Are you going to send the blue crabs to Adong's house or to the town?"

Li Changle felt that the purchase prices of the seafood shops in the town were all about the same, "Aniang, you pick out the big ones and I'll sell them in restaurants, and let Nan send the rest to the dock to be sold to Adong's family."

"Okay, go and wash your face, Ah Wei was here just now."

"Hmm!" Li Changle said, taking the toothbrush and the toothbrush to the back door to wash up. Sister-in-law Li and Sister-in-law Li came over with crabs, one weighing six kilograms and the other five kilograms and seven taels. When Chen Yongwei came, Li Changle had already After eating, "Brother, do you want to put the crabs in a net bag or just pick them out and sell them?"

Li Changle saw that Mother Li had picked out all the crabs and put them in a rubber bucket. "You don't need to use a net bag to put them in. Just pick them over to avoid being crushed to death." "Yes, it will be a big loss if they are crushed to death."

Li Changle asked Zhou Ruonan to find two more net bags, picked up a dozen disabled crabs, packed them up, and planned to send them to the eldest sister and brother-in-law's house when he came back.

Sister-in-law Li came over with a bucket, "Ale, the blue crabs you sold to Adong's family last time were one yuan and three pounds. You said that this time we would negotiate with him on the price and ask him to charge you the same price last time. He Will you agree?"

Li Changle thought for a moment, "You go and tell him directly that the blue crabs this time will cost at least one dollar and three. If you don't want us, we can go to the town and sell them ourselves."

Sister-in-law Li: "If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten that someone in the village went to the market two days ago to sell blue crabs. I heard that a crab of six to seven ounces can be sold for one to seventy-eight yuan, or two yuan to a catty!"

Zhou Ruonan saw that the difference between a pound and a pound was several cents, so he hurriedly said: "Then why should we send it to Adong's family? Let's go to Tuxiaqiao with A Le. They sell it for two yuan, so we sell it for eighty-nine yuan for one yuan, which is more than ten kilograms of blue crabs. No matter what, I can sell it for a few more bucks."

Thinking about it, Sister-in-law Li really said, "Just wait for me, I'll call A-Zhen to go sell it on the bridge."

Li Changle thought this was fine, "Nan, you can rest at home for a while, Ah Wei and I will deliver the goods to the restaurant, and then go to the vegetable market to find the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law."

After hearing this, Mother Li said: "Ale, the crab sauce and crab sauce made by your second sister-in-law are delicious. Let Ah Nan come with you. Your second sister-in-law stays at home to help me make crab sauce." After hearing this, Zhou Ruonan nodded and said: " Okay, I'll go get the steel scale and go with my sister-in-law."

When the two sisters-in-law came over, Mother Li told the second sister-in-law and she agreed.

Li Changle and others picked up the blue crabs from the wooden basin and put them in net bags and buckets. They picked up the rubber buckets and the four of them went out.

As soon as I walked into the alley, I met Alai's house next door. I saw the rubber bucket that Chen Yongwei was carrying. He looked over and said, "Mom, have you stabbed the blue crab's nest?" He turned around and saw Li Changle. Each one was carrying blue crabs, and his eyes nearly popped out of his sockets, "Oh my god, there are so many blue crabs, did you commit thieves last night?"

"You just turned out to be a thief! Li Changle scolded him angrily.

Chen Yongwei didn't help angrily, "It's just that you are already dozens of years old and you haven't learned to speak yet?" The Alai family said sarcastically: "I was just joking, what about you?"

"Sister-in-law Alai, it's not right for you to talk like that. You can say that you are lucky or lucky, but you said that we are thieves. A Le and Awei said a few words to you, which is already polite."

After Zhou Ruonan said that, he glanced at her lightly and walked straight over with the bucket in hand.

The Alai family was stunned. They didn’t expect the silent ones from the Li family to be so loud. No wonder people say dogs that don’t bark bite people. Sister-in-law Li from the back glanced at her and thought of how she had dug out the blue crab nest last night. It was almost done, and he smiled proudly at her and said:

"It's good luck. I went to Xiadilong and encountered blue crabs moving there. Didn't you see that on the tidal flat past the gate, there are as many crabs as sun-dried millet. If you bring a rake, you can catch even more crabs."

"God, is there such a good thing?" The Alai family's eyes turned red after hearing this. They looked at the green crabs they were carrying and complained that God didn't have the eyesight to allow such a good thing to happen to a fool. On the head.

Thinking of Mrs. Li saying that they caught the fish on the tidal flat past the gate, she hurriedly went home, grabbed her belongings, and ran that way.
Chapter completed!