Chapter 400 Dinner
Many people know that owning a big ship is very profitable. Fishing boats have their own ways of making money, and cargo ships have their own ways of making money.
Some people know it, but few can afford it.
Li Xiuxian felt a little sad. Her family had bought the fishing boat a month ago, but it had only been out to sea once and she earned only a pittance!
This month, either no one took her parents out to sea, or a cold front came and they couldn't go out to sea.
The weather is a lot warmer today. Can we go out to sea after the winter solstice?
Otherwise, if she doesn't go out to sea in the first month of the lunar year, and doesn't go out to sea now while the weather is warmer, the machinery on her fishing boat will get rusty! "Dad, are we going out to sea the day after tomorrow? How about you drive my boat and take my dad and brother with you? You just need to help them get familiar with it!"
The whole family looked at Li Xiuxian, and Zhou Chengsen frowned: "No need!"
Father Zhou was stunned for a moment before he slowly reacted and said hurriedly, "No problem, I'll take care of my in-laws when the time comes."
They are both sons. It’s not good to help only one and not the other.
Although it is difficult to be fair.
However, now that my younger and older sons are doing well, it is only right that I help my second son more.
Is it just that my second daughter-in-law’s family still aren’t familiar with the sea area after all this time?
Is it so difficult to take care of them? Zhou Chengsen: "Dad, no, you can just rest at home for a few days. The night after tomorrow, Xiaoxian and I will take them out to sea to get familiar with it. My father-in-law and his family can't get up in the morning, so we'll go out to sea in the evening."
His father had been drifting on the sea for so many days, and he didn't need to take a rest? It was really a pity for her to say that.
Zhou Chenglei didn't want to let his father work so hard: "I'll take care of them the day after tomorrow morning, and help them get familiar with the game for two days."
Li Xiuxian pursed her lips. What should I bring now? She asked him to bring it before. If I waited a little longer, I would not be happy to go out to sea later! Otherwise, would her family's boat be abandoned for a month?
Zhou Chengsen refused: "No, I can take it at night, it won't delay your work. Anyway, there are more fish at night with lights."
Usually his father and his friends would get up around four o'clock and go out to sea at five o'clock, so they could catch the first net by seven o'clock.
His father-in-law and his men didn't show up until after 7:30, which meant they wasted the time it took to catch a whole bunch of fish.
One less net of fish means a few dozen less dollars, especially for someone like A Lei who is good at shipping, who can earn more than a hundred or even several hundred dollars per net! Can you afford the delay? Li Xiuxian and the Li family thought it was okay to be late, thinking that others would not be happy to wait a little longer!
But why didn't they compensate for the loss of waiting a little longer? Zhou Chengsen knew that Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Xia still owed the shipyard a balance of more than 600,000 yuan.
Who knows how much pressure this is? If he owes hundreds of thousands, he will be so anxious that he can't sleep!
Now Jiang Xia has three children in her belly, and it is not easy for A Lei to go to the high seas to make money, so he can only fish near the coast.
There is a huge difference between nearshore and offshore fishing!
Sometimes when dealing with people, we should not only see the good in others but also ignore their difficulties.
As a brother, if you can’t help, at least don’t be a hindrance.
After all, there aren't many days to go out to sea.
In December, we couldn't go out to sea for more than half a month because of the cold front.
January is also the month with the most cold air, and it is good enough to be able to go out to sea for ten days or half a month.
Don't go out to sea in the first month of the lunar year.
In the following months of February, March, April and May, there was a lot of rain and there were not many days to go out to sea.
Then there are many typhoons in July, August and September, and there are fewer days to go out to sea!
So it’s not that easy!
Besides, helping is a favor, not helping is a moral principle.
Zhou Chengsen looked at Li Xiuxian with a cold look in his eyes: "Since your father and elder brother can't get up in the morning, let's go out to sea in the evening. More fish will come out to feed at night."
In order to save her from constant trouble, Zhou Chengsen decided to take care of them at night.
Do you really think it's that easy to go fishing? You either leave in the morning and arrive in the evening, or leave in the evening and return in the morning.
Every penny is hard earned!
What could Li Xiuxian say: "Okay, then I will tell my dad when we have dinner tomorrow, didn't you say you would treat everyone to a meal on the winter solstice? Invite my dad and his family tomorrow! We didn't treat them to dinner last time."
"Okay." Zhou Chengsen said last time when he was looking for sofas in the city that he would go out to eat with his family on the winter solstice.
He told his mother when he came back.
It's no problem to invite my parents-in-law and their family. We can then split the table into two since one table won't be able to accommodate everyone anyway.
*This time, in addition to money, Zhou's father also brought back more than 5,000 kilograms of dried fish, which were purchased from local fishermen.
In addition to the public dried fish, the large ship also brought back 10,000 kilograms of fresh ones.
So after dinner, the whole family and my great-grandmother’s family started to dry the fish.
We were busy until midnight and only dried half of the fish. The rest is still in the cold storage on the boat.
The old house and the new house are all full of sunlight, as are the eldest son’s house and my great-grandmother’s house.
The next morning, the family got up early and continued to dry the fish.
Aunt Fen also came to help, and she brought her little daughter along to help.
Jiang Xia offered a high salary of 150 yuan a month, but there was not much work to do in a day.
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Every day I collect dried fish, dry them in the sun, and sort them. The busiest time is when I light a fire and fry small dried fish.
But it doesn’t happen every day.
She felt embarrassed to receive such a high salary.
Seeing that she was a bit busy today, she brought her daughter to help, thinking that she could do more work.
Li Xiuxian got up and saw Aunt Fen helping out in the yard early in the morning. She was surprised and asked, "Aunt Fen, is my mute sister here so early?"
Aunt Fen’s daughter is called Zhou Pan, and everyone in the village calls her the Dumb Girl.
She couldn't hear anything, but when she saw everyone looking at her, she just smiled.
Aunt Fen smiled and said, "Yes, come and help Xiao Xia and Ah Huan make dried fish."
Li Xiuxian's expression changed.
Last time I asked Jiang Xia, he said he didn’t want to hire anyone!
Li Xiuxian went to the kitchen with a stern face to get breakfast. After breakfast, she said to Zhou Chengsen who was busy drying fish, "I'll go back and tell my dad that I'll go to town for lunch today. You keep an eye on Yingying!"
After saying that, she pushed her bicycle out and was nowhere to be seen the whole morning, not coming back until eleven o'clock.
At this time, the small fish are all dried.
If there is no place to dry the crops at home, they will dry them on a large boat, in the village threshing ground, or on a purchased beach.
It happened to be Sunday and the children were on holiday, so Jiang Xia gave Zhou Wenguang ten yuan and asked him to find a few friends to help watch the house.
It's about the same time to double it.
The weather is good now and the wind is strong, so such small fish can be dried in two days under the sun.
Great-grandma and great-grandpa didn't have to go to the store today. One of them was at the beach, and the other was at the threshing ground.
The two elders are afraid that their children are unreliable.
But one dollar is a lot for kids, so they are very active.
I just hope to do a good job this time, and ask them to do such a good job next time.
At noon, Zhou Chenglei drove a tractor and took his family to the town for lunch.
There are already quite a few members of the Zhou family, and there are also quite a few members of the Li family.
We divided into two large tables.
Li Xiuxian's sister-in-law came to the Zhou family's table with a glass of wine and said with a smile: "I'd like to toast everyone and thank you for taking care of Ah Xian for so many years."
The whole family stood up, raised their glasses, smiled, said some polite words, and toasted her.
Then she came to Jiang Xia.