Chapter 44: Isn’t it said that you are very cultured?

Zhou Chenglei directly carried Jiang Xia away from the beach, put her down, sent her home, and took out Yunnan Baiyao to apply medicine to her.

Jiang Xia said, "Just use the red medicine. The powder is almost used up. Don't waste it. You still need to apply medicine on your arm."

The wound on his arm was deeper.

Zhou Chenglei didn't say anything, but sprinkled the medicine powder on the wounds on her knees and ankles as if it were free.

When he was done, he stood up and said, "I'm going to the beach to sell those shrimps. You stay at home and don't walk around."

Jiang Xia couldn't help but ask, "When did I wander around?"

Zhou Chenglei didn't say anything. She didn't seem to be wandering around, but...

I don’t know how to put it, but he just felt that she was quite disobedient.

Jiang Xia didn't argue with him: "Sell the shrimp, the green fish, and the valuables in the bucket. Sell the ones you think are valuable. Don't sell the orangutan sea chrysanthemum clam."

Zhou Chenglei responded and walked out, picking up the cicada shrimps and green snails caught in Jiangxia's bucket and putting them into his bucket. Except for the orangutan sea chrysanthemum clam, he didn't plan to sell the other large conch, which was the imperial crown conch. It was so big that he didn't know if there were any pearls inside.

Jiang Xia didn't sell the crabs he picked up. She liked to eat them, so he picked up a few crabs as well. It happened that they had dinner early today, so he steamed some crabs together with the cicada lobster for her.

What's left are some white clams, blood clams, oysters, clams and the like. These are not valuable, so we won't sell them. We'll collect some seawater and keep them for our own consumption.

After Zhou Chenglei finished sorting, he carried the bucket and the big hairtail in the snakeskin bag and pushed the family’s cart out.

It was starting to get dark, and Jiang Xia estimated that they would not be back so soon.

She went out to boil some hot water so she could wash her hair and take a bath.

Jiang Xia walked out and saw the cicada lobster and several crabs in the bucket. They were obviously left for her to eat because she was the only one who liked to eat crabs.

Oysters, mussels and other shellfish were placed on the ground in a small pile. The oysters were not very big.

The big conch and the orangutan sea clam were not for sale either.

Jiang Xia felt a little hungry. He had dinner before four in the afternoon, and now it was already past seven.

There was white porridge cooking in the coal stove. It was made by Zhou's mother. I didn't know whether it was for dinner or breakfast tomorrow.

Jiang Xia thought that they would be hungry after coming back from their work, so he simply opened some oysters and made a seafood porridge with oysters, shrimps and crabs.

Mr. Jiang Xia boiled water and then opened the oysters.

After opening a small plate of oysters and dealing with the cicada lobsters and crabs, Zhou Chenglei and his father brought back two baskets of shrimps.

Jiang Xia was surprised when he saw it and asked, "Why don't you sell it?"

Zhou's mother: "Today there are many people selling shrimps. The purchasing department said it's too late and they won't be fresh tomorrow. The price they offered is too low. A Lei said he would take them back and dry them and sell them."

Jiang Xia heard this and said, "There aren't many dried fruits here, why don't we buy some from other people in the village?"

Zhou Chenglei was taking the shrimps off the cart and glanced at her.

Father Zhou smiled and said, "Xiao Xia's idea coincides with A Lei's."

Zhou's mother said with some pain: "Alei, your eldest brother, great grandmother and a few other families have asked us to buy their shrimps. We are five cents more expensive per pound than the purchasing place."

Not only did I not make any money, but I also had to pay five cents per pound more than the purchasing place.

The prodigal son is so generous that Zhou's mother feels heartbroken.

Jiang Xia said, "It doesn't matter. We can make money back after we dry them."

Zhou's mother: "You and Alei said the same thing. But after drying, you have to take it to the market in the city to sell it. It's hard to sell it in town. It's too troublesome."

Zhou's mother felt that it would be fine if she didn't sell her own shrimps, at least she wouldn't lose money. If she couldn't sell them after drying them, she could just eat them slowly and they wouldn't be wasted. However, it was not cost-effective to pay to buy other people's shrimps, as she would lose money if she couldn't sell them.

What’s more, the weather is bad. Who knows if the sun will come out tomorrow? If the shrimps can’t be dried and become smelly, it will be a big loss.

Father Zhou: "When the time comes, we can dry some more fish and sell them together when we don't have to go out to sea. Why are you worrying so much?"

Jiang Xia also thought so. She didn't say anything more and changed the subject: "The hot water is ready, Mom, go take a shower. I'll make some oyster and shrimp porridge for later."

Since the shrimps were not selling, she put a few more shrimps into the porridge to make it sweeter.

Zhou's mother: "Don't wash it yet. The hot water is ready. I'll rinse the shrimps and dry them in the sun."

Zhou's mother did what she said because she was afraid of the stink from so many shrimps.

Jiang Xia also took a pound of shrimps, washed them, blanched them in boiling water, and put them into the porridge. The porridge would be sweeter with more shrimps.

Zhou Chenglei glanced at Jiang Xia's knees, but she had already rolled up her trouser legs so he couldn't see. Without saying anything else, he carried two baskets of shrimps into the kitchen and poured them into two large iron pots in batches.

Zhou's mother had divided the water in the large iron pot into two iron pots.

They rinsed the shrimps with hot water and spread them out to dry. Jiang Xia also prepared the porridge and asked them to eat it first before doing anything else.

The family was actually hungry, so they all picked up a bowl of porridge and started eating.

Jiang Xia gave Zhou Zhou a bowl of porridge with lots of shrimp, oysters and crabs, and asked Zhou Chenglei: "Why didn't you sell the remaining conch?"

Zhou Chenglei: "That conch is the Emperor's Crown Conch. Like the Orangutan Sea Chrysanthemum Clam, it has a chance to produce pearls."

Jiang Xia didn't even eat the porridge. He immediately went out to get the big conch and the big clam back to the room.

Someone will come to sell shrimps in a while.

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Although I don't know if there are pearls inside, if someone takes them away, I will definitely feel painful as if there must be pearls inside.

At this time, Jiang's mother shouted in the yard: "Alei, someone is here to deliver shrimps! Come out quickly."

Zhou Chenglei responded, quickly finished his porridge, went back to his room, took out a stack of change from the iron box and gave it to Jiang Xia: "You will be responsible for settling accounts with the villagers later. Here is 150 yuan. If it's not enough, you can come in and take more from the box later."

"Okay." Jiang Xia took it.

Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei hurried out.

Jiang Xia first went to find a portable vegetable basket woven with plastic ribbons to hold the change and hung it on his arm, which was very convenient.

Several villagers came into the yard, each with a bucket filled with half a bucket of shrimp.

Wen Wan was standing behind a few villagers, carrying two snakeskin bags.

After she fell into the water, she went home, changed her clothes, and came back to sell shrimps.

She glanced at the bowl of porridge in Zhou's mother's hand, which contained shrimps, oysters and crabs, and swallowed unconsciously.

The Zhou family is really rich, the food is so good.

No wonder Jiang Xia refused to leave after his rebirth and even divided up the family property.

Father Zhou had already prepared the scale, and he and Zhou Chenglei were responsible for weighing the shrimps.

Pan Daidi was the first to rush out with a bucket of water: "Weigh mine first!"

Zhou Chenglei weighed it for her first. It was not even enough for half a bucket of shrimp. He weighed it and subtracted the weight of the bucket: "One pound and six ounces."

Pan Daidi: "Why is it so little? Is your scale accurate?"

Zhou Chenglei: "If you think it's not accurate, you can go to the purchasing office to sell it."

Pan Daidi: "Forget it, forget it, I'm too lazy to bother, just give me the money! How much? Who can help me calculate it?"

A gentle and sweet voice sounded: "35 cents a pound, 1 pound and 6 ounces is 56 cents."

All the villagers were still calculating, but they didn’t expect Wen Wan to figure it out so quickly.

Someone praised: "Xiao Wan is really good at calculating."

There was a girl named Zhou Min in the village who was Wen Wan's classmate and also her good friend. After hearing this, she said, "Awan is the best student in our school. She always ranks first in the exams. Of course she is good at math."

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Jiang Xia and said, "But Jiang Xia's sister-in-law should be better at math! After all, she is from the city, so she should be more educated."

Pan Daidi thought of Jiang Xia ignoring her last time, and immediately said, "Yes, Lei's wife is not from the city, isn't she said to be well-educated? She can't even calculate such a small number?"

(End of this chapter)