"Why not? Come on, I'll fill some more for you. Eat it quickly and take it back to your mother!"

"No, no, Auntie, this is enough for me." Half of the noodles in Ah Ji's bowl were untouched. This time he did not wait for Aunt Xu to come over and take his "bowl". He quickly stood up and ran away.

Xu Ning glanced at his back curiously, and then continued to eat.

"Kid, why are you running so fast?"

"Chunhua, please sit down and eat. Don't worry about anything else. Let the children worry about it themselves."

"I know, I know..."

On the other side, Ah Ji walked past the gate of the village chief's yard with a bowl in his hand, smiling carefully. Just then, Qin Xianglan walked out of the yard.

"Aji, what are you carrying?" Qin Xianglan and Aji are of the same generation. Although Aji is more than ten years older than her, Qin Xianglan never takes the initiative to call outsiders.

"Nothing." As soon as Ah Ji saw Qin Xianglan, he immediately put away his smile and quickly covered the bowl with one hand.

Because Qin Xianglan was much shorter than Aji, Aji intentionally raised the bowl, so Qin Xianglan did not see what was in Aji's hand.

Although she couldn't see it, the smell in the air told her what it was.

"You're so stingy. Do you think anyone is going to steal your things?" After saying that, Qin Xianglan turned her face away and walked into the yard.

Aji didn't know why the girl was angry again. He shook his head and quickly quickened his pace to go home.

The sun rose above the top of the mountain, and people from the village who were helping to build the house came to the Xu family one after another.

"Xu Da, why did you move here?" Qin Da didn't know that the Xu family had moved here. After he finished his work and had breakfast at home, he came to the Xu family.

"Later, materials were shipped in from the city, and my mother was worried, so she decided to build a tent here and stay for a few days."

"This shed is too flimsy, Xu Da, why don't you live in my house!" Qin Da didn't believe Xu Da's explanation. He was not stupid enough to think that the Xu family really moved here for this reason. It seemed that something happened in his uncle's house.

Now was not the time to dwell on this matter, as more and more villagers were coming over. Xu Da said a few perfunctory words and ran to help.

Xu Ning and his little friends looked at each other, rubbed their bulging bellies, and went to the beach with their bowls in hand.

Qin Da didn't know what to say. Seeing Old Lady Xu hand the bowl to Zhang, he quickly went over to her and said, "Auntie, I've counted the seafood in the village today. It's about 500 to 600 kilograms, mostly fish. Are you sure you want to take it all?"

"Yes, I accept seafood. It doesn't have to be fresh. I accept dried seafood as well. Have you asked the price in the city? I will charge you two cents more than the price you paid."

"Two cents? That's too much, Auntie! One cent! Auntie, please don't try to persuade me, one cent is a lot!" If there are a few hundred kilograms every day, and he earns one cent per kilogram, he can earn hundreds of cents every day. This is something he had never dared to think about before.

"One cent, then. You'll need to work hard and put the seafood you collect on the boat over there on the beach, and Xu Dahui will transport it to the boat."

"OK!"

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"Aji, you can't be paid today. You have to work harder, okay?" Aji brought the bowl home. After persuading his mother for a long time, his mother finally agreed to eat the noodles that Aji brought back.

Before eating, Aji's mother poured the noodles in the bowl into her own bowl, carefully cleaned the bowl, and urged Aji to go back to work.

"Mom, you must finish eating. Don't leave any for me. I've already eaten a lot!"