Chapter 388 Isn’t money good?
In the next few days, the weather was very good, with sunny days and gentle breezes, and Zhou Chenglei went out to sea early and returned late every day.
When he went out to sea, the sun had not yet risen. When he returned, the sun had already set. In the evening, Zhou's mother went to the dock to pick up the goods. Jiang Xia was cooking in the kitchen, and Zhou Zhou helped to light the fire. Before entering the kitchen, it was not yet dark. When he turned his head inadvertently and looked outside, it was already dark.
Zhou Chenglei and his mother haven't returned home yet.
These past two days, I’ve been going out to sea earlier and later and returning home later.
They said they were heading to more distant seas where there were more good products.
It was almost seven o'clock when Zhou Chenglei came back on his motorcycle.
Jiang Xia went to take the snakeskin bag and asked, "Why are you so late?"
Zhou Chenglei didn't give it to her: "It's a bit heavy."
Jiang Xia asked, "What's coming?"
"Some conchs and sea cucumbers. I dived to the bottom of the sea today and picked up some sea cucumbers and conchs. It took a little time to pick up the sea cucumbers, so it's late." Zhou Chenglei got off the motorcycle, put the bag of sea cucumbers aside, and planned to deal with it after dinner.
Processing sea cucumbers is a bit troublesome.
At this time, Zhou's mother and Tian Caihua also came back pushing the cart.
Jiang Xia looked at the two snakeskin bags, one large and one small, on the cart.
“Are they all sea cucumbers?”
Tian Caihua smiled and said, "Yes, they are all sea cucumbers! They are all sea cucumbers! Today, A Lei went to the sea and found a sea cucumber nest. We have poked the sea cucumber nest!"
"I've sold one bag already. I'm taking these home to dry and keep for my own consumption. A-lei always picks the biggest and best ones to keep."
At this point, Tian Caihua couldn't help but want to pry open Zhou Chenglei's head to see if there was water inside!
If it were her, she would definitely sell the best ones and keep the small and ugly ones for herself.
The whole village was like this, selling the good ones to make money and keeping the bad ones for themselves! But Zhou Chenglei was not like that, he took the best ones back home.
She really couldn't understand! Tian Caihua couldn't help but complain to Jiang Xia: "I'm impressed by your man! Please persuade him not to waste it like this! If you cook this thing and chew it in your mouth, isn't it all the same shit when you poop it out? Why don't you sell the good ones and make more money? Anyway, no matter how big or small, beautiful or ugly, they all look the same when you eat them, and they all have the same effect! Isn't money better than shit?"
Jiang Xia: “…”
Tian Caihua went on, "I also kept half a bag to give to the kids and your elder brother occasionally, but I only kept the ugliest ones, the ones that couldn't be sold or weren't very valuable if sold. The big bag that Alei kept was big and looked good, so the price could be doubled. If it was sold for at least 999 yuan, it would be worth at least 1,000 yuan. 1,000 yuan! You can buy a stall with all the money! Really? It doesn't mean that it's inedible if it's a little ugly! You'll still grow meat if you eat the ugly ones, and you'll have to chew them up if you put them in your mouth, right? It's like a man marrying a wife, it's the same even when the lights are turned off..."
Jiang Xia: “…”
Facing Tian Caihua's nonstop chatter, Jiang Xia changed the subject: "Sister-in-law, are we going out to sea tomorrow?"
"Won't Lei go out to sea tomorrow?" Tian Caihua asked.
"He will be out to sea for half a day tomorrow morning and will not be out in the afternoon. The sofa will be delivered tomorrow afternoon."
"The sofa is going to be delivered? We were only out for half a day that day."
"That's fine. My great-grandmother's store will open tomorrow morning. I plan to go take a look. I wanted to ask if you want to go."
Tian Caihua: "It's not our shop that's opening, why should I go? I won't go, I'm going out to sea!"
"Then sister-in-law, please go home early to eat, because we have to go out to sea tomorrow."
"Yes, then I'll go back first! I still have to clean the sea cucumbers and dry them tonight." Tian Caihua said this and left in a hurry.
Zhou Wenguang and Zhou Wenzon had already prepared dinner at home. The two brothers knew how to do many housework.
Sometimes when parents come back from fishing too late, they will prepare dinner first.
Jiang Xia and his friends also had dinner, and after dinner they started to kill the sea cucumbers. After killing them, they repeatedly washed the internal organs and sand with clean water.
The process of drying sea cucumbers is very troublesome. Zhou's mother usually boils and washes the sea cucumbers two or three times to dehydrate them, and then pickles them with salt once, also for the purpose of dehydrating them. After the water is salted out, desalination is required again before they can be dried.
After drying for more than ten days, if the sea cucumbers have released salt, continue to boil and wash them, and continue drying them.
Anyway, it is very cumbersome, and sea cucumbers are high in water content. Ten kilograms of sea cucumbers only yield about four ounces of dried sea cucumbers, so dried sea cucumbers are much more expensive than fresh sea cucumbers.
Jiang Xia went to take a shower and sleep after finishing the first step. He didn’t know how long Zhou’s mother and Zhou Chenglei were busy.
When he woke up the next day, Zhou Chenglei had already gone out to sea. After eating breakfast, Jiang Xia went to the town's central primary school with He Xinghuan and his great-grandmother to help.
Jiang Xia drove a motorcycle and took the two people with him.
Great grandfather was worried last night and slept in the store.
They got to school but classes hadn't started yet.
The canteen was packed with students inside and out.
These children knew that the school canteen was open today, so they asked their parents for pocket money to buy food.
The great grandfather was very busy, he had to find change and prevent children from stealing.
The three of them hurried forward to help.
Only with the addition of these three people did the great grandfather breathe a sigh of relief.
Having never done this kind of work before, he was really overwhelmed.
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The four of them were busy for more than ten minutes and only finished when the first class was about to start.
The bell rang, and the last student rushed back to the classroom with the lard candy he had bought.
The store was completely empty.
Grandma asked excitedly: "Quickly count how much money you made."
Great grandfather gave her the basket and said, "You count! I want to drink some water!"
Although he was only busy for about twenty minutes in the morning, my great-grandfather was sweating all over.
I'm too nervous.
Grandma took the money basket with a smile and began to fold the money one by one and count them.
Most of the notes are one-cent and two-cent notes, there are also quite a few ten-cent and twenty-cent notes, and fifty-cent notes are relatively rare.
Grandma asked Jiang Xia to help count.
Jiang Xia sat over and counted the money with his grandmother.
He Xinghuan helped to put the goods that the children had messed up in order, counted the quantity, and saw if anything had been stolen.
He Xinghuan also knew how much goods had been taken out of the shelves, as she had come to help yesterday.
The two of them counted together and soon all the money in the basket was counted.
Jiang Xia added up the money counted by her great-grandmother and herself, and the total was seven yuan, fifty cents and seven cents.
Great grandfather prepared two yuan in change this morning.
That means the goods were sold for five yuan, fifty cents and seven cents.
The cost of the items sold was less than half. Jiang Xia calculated and said with a smile: "I should have made about three dollars and fifty cents."
He Xinghuan had also finished counting the goods. She said to Jiang Xia, "Xiao Xia, help me calculate whether the money is right."
"Okay!" Jiang Xia responded.
He Xinghuan reported the number of units sold and the retail price one by one, and Jiang Xia counted for her.
In the end, it was discovered that the money was two cents and three cents short.
Great grandfather said in annoyance: "I watched it very carefully, but I didn't expect that I still didn't see it all."
At that time, he really wished he had ten pairs of eyes. No, ten pairs were not enough, he really wished he had eyes all over his body.
Grandma smiled and said, "Twenty cents and three cents, what's the wrong amount? It's possible that they made a mistake when giving the change! This proves that most of the children are good kids."