Chapter 22: Instant Noodles for Crabs Incident (Part 2)
Looking back, she was the only one riding the bicycle.
The person who called her was a thin young man with a dark face and a row of big white teeth that were particularly noticeable when he smiled.
He was holding a basket next to him: "Excuse me, sister, this is my brother. He took your instant noodles."
Shi Qingqing immediately gave him the crab with the broken claw and the other two: "I heard him say that he took them from his brother's boat, so I didn't agree to exchange them. In the end, he just left the crabs behind and left."
She didn't want to say it didn't matter because the child was still young.
Stealing and replacing are two different concepts.
Even if she didn't want to go so far as to send the child to the police station, she didn't want to force herself to say something against her will.
The young man scratched his head in embarrassment. "I have asked you everything that happened. I apologize to you. This is my way of making amends."
A bag of crabs was handed over, and Haihuo Mall immediately identified that they were all medium-standard swimming crabs.
Shi Qingqing didn't understand. Just to apologize, he gave her a dozen big crabs?
"I don't need so much, but since he has taken the instant noodles, I will accept the crab with a broken leg." Shi Qingqing was about to leave, but was stopped by the man.
Shi Qingqing's heart was filled with alarm. What was he doing? "My husband is waiting for me out front. If you have nothing else to do, go home."
"Oh, then I'll talk to Big Brother."
Shi Qingqing choked.
Is this not over yet?
"Sister, don't get me wrong. I just thought that since you are willing to trade instant noodles for crabs, that means a crab is worth 80 cents to you, right?
I don’t mean anything else, I just mean…if you need crabs, I’ll sell them to you at 50 cents a piece today. If you buy a lot, I’ll sell them at a lower price.”
Shi Qingqing was surprised: "Are all crabs this big?"
"Yes, if you only want crabs this big, then I'll pick crabs this big. But I don't think these crabs will last long, so..."
"Is it alive now?"
"Yes, they were just out of the water less than three hours ago. I have a special crab pond at home, and the ones I pulled out are all alive. Even if you buy them from me, they can only be kept for more than twenty hours at most."
But I still think it's very cheap. This is probably the price that seafood vendors pay for it.
In the dream, only twenty or thirty years later would crabs on the beach cost about twenty-one. The price is far from that now.
Shi Qingqing was excited, but she pretended to be calm. "Several of my relatives run food stalls and night markets, and they really need seafood. How about I go home and drive over to get it?"
The naughty brother insisted on giving her the crab in his hand, insisting that it was an apology.
"Then we'll wait here for you to drive over." The young man was very happy, and the naughty kid who had been silent beside him also clapped his hands: "Great, we won't let Zhao the bad guy take it!"
The young man covered his mouth and walked back.
Shi Qingqing didn't ask any further questions and rode her bike home quickly. Only one of the twenty crabs was inferior, so she exchanged them all for points.
She wants to do this deal!
Half of it can be exchanged for points to guarantee food.
I exchanged half of it for some money to cover my expenses.
As for why she dared to take on so many responsibilities when she had no money, it was because she wanted to make money! She would find a way to solve this problem!
Shi Qingqing managed to save nearly twenty minutes in an hour's riding. As soon as she got home, she pushed the bike and dragged Zhao Fengnian from the yard to ask him to go out and borrow money.
"You are always so generous in lending money, and I won't ask you for more. Lend me 300 yuan and a car within an hour. The more money the better. I need it urgently."
"Wife, what do you want so much money for?"
Shi Qingqing had already gone next door, and soon came back with fifty yuan in her hand.
They were not related or friends, and even though they had gotten along well over the past two days, the fact that Shi Qingqing was able to borrow fifty yuan already showed that she was a decent person.
She did not stop but went to a few friends she knew from school and borrowed thirty or fifty yuan from each of them. Finally, she passed by her uncle's house and was pulled into the house by her uncle and directly took out two hundred yuan.
"No need for an IOU. I know you're short of money. Just use these first and we'll come back later if you have more."
My aunt looked a little unhappy, but she did not stop my uncle's decision.
Shi Qingqing only felt that the money in her hands was getting hot.
She gritted her teeth and said, "Uncle, I will pay you back in two days!"
After saying that, he ran away in a hurry.
After returning home, Shi Qingqing quickly counted the money and found that with the two hundred yuan from her uncle, the total amount in her hands reached four hundred and seventy yuan.
Zhao Fengnian hasn't come back yet. Shi Qingqing is still thinking about what she said about asking her husband to drive over to pick up the car, so she can't just leave on her own.
After waiting for a while, Sister Xu saw that she was getting anxious and said that she should just let her husband go with her.
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Fengnian came driving an electric tricycle.
He was anxious, and his embarrassment didn't seem to fade away. "Wife, I borrowed the car, but the money is only 130 yuan..."
Shi Qingqing thanked Sister Xu, locked the door and got in the car: "Then let's pay 130 yuan and drive to the beach we went to before."
Zhao Fengnian nodded, drove at full speed and sped away.
Electric vehicles are much more labor-saving than bicycles.
After driving for a while, Zhao Fengnian asked what was going on.
Shi Qingqing racked her brains and came up with a trick.
"A friend of mine asked me to help buy some seafood. As long as it's wild, I'll get 10 yuan for every 100 kilograms I buy."
"Wow! That's quite generous. Let's buy him 1,000 kilograms or 10,000 kilograms."
"Hold on, can this car carry 10,000 jin?"
Zhao Fengnian chuckled and said, "That’s not possible."
"But he's buying goods, why do you want to borrow money?"
Zhao Fengnian's brain was so quick, Shi Qingqing also had an excuse. "I'll pay for it first, so won't you give me priority in the long-term cooperation in the future?"
Seeing that Zhao Fengnian wanted to ask more questions, Shi Qingqing simply asked him, "Who lent you this hundred and thirteen? It was just a coincidence that it was exactly the same amount as the money I borrowed."
"My eldest brother borrowed fifty, my second sister borrowed fifty, and my youngest sister borrowed thirty."
"I only borrowed from one store, why did it take so long? I even went to the village and came back, and it didn't take that long."
Zhao Fengnian didn't want to talk about the painful process of borrowing money.
He always felt that his wife had quarreled with him before because she was too worried about their livelihood and always thought of the worst of things. He didn't want to add to his wife's psychological burden.
"We chatted for a while, and they asked me what I wanted to borrow the money for, fearing that I was being scammed."
"You didn't tell me I wanted to borrow it?"
"without."
Shi Qingqing looked at the road ahead. After staring for a long time, she felt that the road surface was only a palm-width away from her face, as if it was very close.
If you watch it for a little longer, you will see snow in front of your eyes, which is only seen when the TV is broken.
"Well, if they ask again, just say I told you to do it, and let them ask me."
"good."
At this time, the National Highway of Fulong Village.
Young man Chen Qinglong paced back and forth on the side of the road.
It's been almost three hours, why hasn't he arrived yet?
Could it be that this is just a housewife making fun of herself?
The brick-shaped cell phone on his waist rang loudly several times.
His younger brother also ran over and said that his father was urging him to go back and that Boss Zhao had come to their house.
Chen Qinglong looked at the empty road and began to lose confidence.
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