That night, Su Ming's house was extremely lively. Although Ding Tian looked tall and rough, his craftsmanship was really good. He quickly built a three-meter-square and 30-centimeter-high pool against the wall in the backyard of Su Ming's house.
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A simple layer of cement was poured on the ground to prevent lobsters from burrowing and escaping.
It only took Ding Anping less than an hour to catch a bucket full of lobsters.
In order to prevent too many lobsters from being crushed to death if left overnight, Su Ming filled all the basin buckets at home that could be used to hold lobsters with a shallow layer.
Later Ge Meihua even brought over some unused washbasins at home.
Suddenly, the living room of Su Ming's house turned into a lobster stall, filled with lobsters.
After Su Xue finished her homework, she curiously looked at so many people and so many lobsters at home. She twirled the beard of a crayfish and played with it, letting it crawl around in the palm of her hand, scratching the lobster legs.
Su Xue giggled with itch.
She was truly relaxed today. She had no pressure and no need to make money. All she had to do was do her homework and play. Su Ming didn't even let her take care of the dishes.
The two families worked hard until nine o'clock, then they finished work and went home to sleep.
Early the next morning, the women washing clothes by the river began to spread rumors. The riverside in the countryside is also called Hebutou, and it is the most well-informed place in the whole village. Everyone who comes to wash clothes or wash something will come here.
Chat for a while, listen to some gossip or tell some gossip and go back.
"I heard that Su Ming borrowed more than 100 yuan from a loan shark in the county yesterday. The interest rate per day is 10 yuan!"
"What! He borrowed more than 100 yuan at usury? Isn't he afraid that he can't repay it? How dare he pay such a high interest rate!"
"It's hard to say. I used to be a big business person and I haven't taken out any kind of loan. It's possible that I have already put my own life and my daughter's life on the loan!"
"Caijuan, what's going on with your nephew? He's so courageous. Why don't you just run a small business like yours?"
Su Caijuan's family found many customers through Su Ming when Su Ming was doing well. Later, although Su Ming failed, Su Caijuan still retained a few small customers with her ability to coax rich people.
Although it is not as profitable as before, it is still better than working in a factory.
"Who says it's not the case? You said that his wife's doing this has made my family's business worse! What a sin!" Su Caijuan said angrily, patting the clothes with her hands much harder.
In fact, these rumors today were spread by Su Caijuan, just to make Su Ming disliked by the whole village and make him unable to stay any longer.
However, just when the rest of the people wanted to continue talking.
A woman was holding her own clothes. Shanshan arrived late and saw a few people chatting leisurely by the river: "Don't you know? Su Ming is collecting lobsters, saying it's fifty cents a pound. I've asked my family to take their own.
The lobsters were sent over and sold for 5 yuan!"
"Caijuan, your nephew didn't come to you first for this matter. Such a good thing is no different from picking up money!"
"What?!"
The women who had just been muttering by the river suddenly became silent.
All of them looked weird, as if they woke up late in the morning, didn't know the news, and lost 100 million in an instant.
"Who told you this news?" Su Caijuan said in disbelief.
She didn't think Su Ming would be so boring. It was already weird to have money to pay tuition for his children. How could he still accept lobsters?
"Mei Hua told me. She had been talking around the village very early in the morning. Didn't you hear it?"
"Can it really be changed?" A woman was still a little worried.
"Yes, I changed it. When I went, it was already late and there was a long queue!"
Su Caijuan still didn't believe it: "Everyone, it's better not to go. I guess he just collected a few kilograms for fun. How much money does he have, how could he take out all the money?"
"Besides, it's useless for him to take the lobster..."
But before Su Caijuan finished speaking, several women washing clothes around her who had been chatting and laughing with her just now were all gone.
"Hey, Cuizi, you didn't even wash your clothes with soap, so you left?" Su Caijuan shouted unwillingly from behind.
But after she finished speaking, she felt something was wrong.
Could this Su Ming really be able to exchange these lobsters for money?
Is Su Ming really better? Has he gotten better?
How is it possible? Kong Lian hurt him so deeply!
Most people won't recover so quickly, right?
Where can the lobster be sold? Who will want it? How much can it be sold for?
Su Caijuan's heart was filled with little thoughts and questions.
She was no longer in the mood to do laundry, so she picked up the clothes in front of her and walked home.
"Hey, Caijuan, the soap bubbles on your clothes are still there, why did you leave?" The village woman next to her, who had sold lobsters and was leisurely washing clothes, teased Su Caijuan.
Su Caijuan staggered. As soon as she finished speaking, she was hit by her own words.
But at this moment, she had no intention of quarreling with that person. Instead, she was anxious to see what was wrong with Su Ming. If he was fine, she would have to continue to pluck wool!