Chapter 421 You Are Different

Father Li said, "What nonsense! They are not fortune tellers. How can they know in advance that there will be a school of golden pomfret? They are just lucky!"

"You never know! Maybe they have a way to lure fish schools, but they don't want us to know and are deliberately avoiding us."

Li Qingmin agreed with his wife's words in his heart. He always felt that Zhou Chenglei had a way to lure fish schools. Otherwise, why did he catch more fish than others when he went fishing at sea every day?

Mother Li: "I guess there must be a secret. You see, he didn't want to take you out to sea at the beginning, and he wouldn't wait for you for a while. Now he is late every day and lets you go out to sea by yourselves without waiting for him. I guess he is afraid that you will learn his way of fishing."

I don’t know about this Mr. Li.

But he knew that different fish had different fishing methods, and Zhou Chenglei was knowledgeable and experienced, so he might not know the same thing.

"It's their business if others have their own methods. It's normal that they don't want others to know about it."

Li Qingmin's wife pursed her lips and said with disdain: "Isn't it said that Xianmei's brother-in-law is the most capable and the most loyal, and has helped the brothers a lot over the years? We are outsiders, so it's fine if he didn't tell us! But Zhou Chengxin is not like that, right? Brother-in-law is not like that, right? They are all his brothers, but he didn't tell them how to fish! He only cares about making a fortune for his family, and they are so rich that oil is leaking!"

Mother Li: "The eldest wife is not so bad. She got a fishing boat and went out to sea with the others. We split the money in half and made a lot. Now your sister is the poorest. No wonder she is so anxious."

Li Qingmin's wife: "When they split up the family business, Ah Sen shouldn't have said that he didn't want anything after the split! Ah Xian shouldn't have agreed to it either. She still deserves a share of the boat!"

Li Qingmin: "I didn't take the boat, so I lost money."

Father Li said unhappily, "Well, the in-laws have given them a large sum of money to buy a house in town, and both Asen and Ah Xian have jobs, while Ah Xin and Ah Lei don't have jobs and have to make money by fishing at sea. Now Asen and his wife have decent and stable jobs, which is good enough."

"Besides, if we give Asen a share of the boat, Asen doesn't have time to go out to sea to fish, so how are we going to divide the money? Don't say too much about this in front of Xian, it will affect their relationship."

After Father Li said this, the three of them didn't say anything else.

Li Qingmin's wife thought, what affects the relationship between husband and wife? Poverty affects the relationship between husband and wife! Haven't you heard that poor couples are sad about everything?

Father Zhou was very happy to see his youngest son and his wife encounter the school of fish again.

Look! Look! Only where Wangcai is, there is prosperity!

Today at the beach, he only picked up a bucket of snails, half a bag of scallops, and a dozen octopuses, and that was it! He didn't want to stay on a boat without Wangcai.

He said to Zhou Chengxin, "Pull over to A-Lei's boat. I'll go over and help divide the fish."

Then he said to Jiang Xia, "Xiao Xia, stop the boat, we'll go over!"

After hearing this, Jiang Xia stopped the boat.

Zhou Chengxin moved the boat over.

Zhou's father used a long-handled iron hook to hook the two boats together. Zhou's mother supported Tian Caihua, while her great-grandmother and second aunt's wife climbed up and jumped over the boat on Jiangxia's side.

Finally, Zhou's father helped Zhou's mother jump over, and then he put away the long pole and jumped over himself.

As soon as a few people came, they started to work, taking the fish off the fishing net one by one and throwing them into the basket.

There were so many people that the seabirds didn't dare to approach, except for a few brave ones.

Father Zhou saw a seabird so boldly stealing food right under his nose, so he reached out to catch it: "If you dare to steal food again, I will catch you and bring you home to stew you!"

Of course, the seabird was very agile and Zhou's father failed to catch it.

It was already around three in the afternoon when the four fishing boats began to return.

The other three went back while trawling the net.

Jiangxia and his team's fishing boats were filled with fishing nets, but there were no trawl nets. It would be great if they could sort out all the fish before returning to the dock.

At around five o'clock, four fishing boats returned to the village dock one after another.

Tomorrow is Sunday again, and Li Xiuxian and Zhou Chengsen are back from town.

Zhou Chengsen was waiting at the dock, waiting to receive the fish.

Li Xiuxian was not there, as she was called back by Zhou Chengsen to cook.

When Zhou Chengsen returned home, he learned that Zhou's mother and Jiang Xia had gone out to sea, so he bought some seafood at the dock and asked her to go back to the old house to cook.

Li Xiuxian was not happy, but there was nothing she could do, so she had to ask Zhou Chengsen to invite her father and brother to come home for dinner.

When the fishing boat docked, Zhou Chengsen was the first to walk to the fishing boat where Zhou's father and mother were and say hello, then went to Zhou Chengxin's fishing boat to say hello, and finally returned to his own fishing boat to say hello to his father-in-law and his family.

Our fishing boat was the last to dock.

Father Li smiled and said, "Today the tide is out, so your mother and your eldest sister-in-law went out to the sea to catch fish. Because everyone was catching fish this afternoon, no one was hauling nets, so the catch today was relatively small. We only hauled two nets in the morning and one on the way back."

As he said this he carried the fish off the boat.

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Li's mother also said, "Yes, neither of your boats was trawling this afternoon. Only A-Lei's boat was trawling."

Zhou Chengsen didn't care about these, and smiled and said, "Did mom and sister-in-law pick up anything good today?"

Li Qingmin's wife pointed at the snails in the bucket and said, "We only picked up a small bag of scallops, half a bucket of snails and a few octopuses. They are not worth much if we sell them, and they are not enough for a meal. We might as well go fishing. By the way, this bucket is the fish that Dad and Qingmin caught."

This is an impatient tone.

Let Zhou Chengsen look down.

There were half a bucket of snails and a few octopuses in one bucket, and two sea bass, a mackerel, two mudskippers, and two yellowfin mullets in another bucket.

The big mackerel weighs more than ten pounds and is worth eight or nine yuan.

This bucket of fish can be sold for about ten yuan.

He glanced at the baskets of fish on the boat.

Most of them were miscellaneous fish that were not very valuable. There were a few valuable swordfish, which weighed two or three pounds each, not very big. There were also a few redwood fish and a few yellowfin croakers.

It can only be sold for about 30 yuan. After deducting the labor and gas costs for two people, they should only make 7 or 8 yuan, which is not as much as they make from fishing.

He laughed: "Brother, you are lucky to have caught such a big mackerel."

Li Qingmin said hurriedly: "Today is because mom and your sister-in-law are fishing together. Usually I am the only one fishing, but I don't have such good luck."

Zhou Chengsen nodded. "It's normal. Fishing and trawling are the same. It all depends on luck. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad."

Li Qingmin laughed and said, "That's right, it's all based on luck! Yesterday the trawling was better and we made more than 20 yuan! Today we didn't trawle in the afternoon, and A Lei was late for more than half an hour in the morning. We were waiting for him, so we were late!"

Zhou Chengsen smiled, "Really? Then don't wait next time, big brother, go out to sea at 5 o'clock every day! You are different from my fourth brother. My fourth brother drives his own boat. He can go out to sea whenever he wants. His time is more flexible than yours."

Li Qingmin: “…”

Is this a hint that he is just a worker?