Chapter 454: Not Afraid of Anything (Edited)

On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, Ye Xian did not see Jiang Dong at his high school reunion.

She waited outside for the entire afternoon, until the reunion ended at dark, but she didn't see Jiang Dong coming.

She didn't know Jiang Dong's classmates, so she just picked a male classmate to ask.

The other person glanced at her and said, "I don't know. I heard that you suddenly had to go visit relatives and were busy. Who are you? What do you want from Jiang Dong?"

Ye Xian's heart moved, and she wanted to cause some trouble for Jiang Dong, so she said, "I'm his girlfriend."

After hearing this, many classmates couldn't help but look at Ye Xian.

Of course, everyone is just curious about what Jiang Dong’s partner looks like.

After Ye Xian finished speaking, she turned and left.

Anyway, she doesn't need to care whether Jiang Dong will be angry or not if he finds out!

There is no need to worry about whether Zhang Fuyan will quarrel with Jiang Dong if she finds out.

They got angry and quarreled about it, and then broke up, that was even better! What was she afraid of now?

My studies are gone, my future is gone, everything is gone!

What else is she afraid of? She is not afraid of anything! Since she has been forced into a desperate situation, then no one can expect to have an easy life!

Let’s all go to the dead end!

If she wasn't afraid of being caught, Ye Xian would have wanted to borrow money from Jiang Dong's classmates under the name of Jiang Dong's girlfriend, and make him mad!

After Ye Xian left, she went downstairs to Jiang’s house to check the situation.

Sure enough, Jiang Dong’s jeep was not there, and neither were Jiang’s father and mother’s cars.

Jiang's father and mother should have jobs.

Jiang Dong probably went with his sister to visit relatives.

Jiang Dong is still the same Jiang Dong. As soon as his sister calls him, he rushes over to work as a rickshaw driver.

When he was dating her, he listened to his sister in everything.

Didn't know that Jiang Xia was just ordering him around and taking advantage of him! If it weren't for Jiang Xia, she and Jiang Dong wouldn't have broken up.

Ye Xian went to make a phone call.

The person on the other end of the phone didn't know that Jiang Dong would suddenly not attend the class reunion.

All subsequent plans were disrupted.

She added, "I'll try to find someone to ask Jiang Dong out. You saw Jiang Dong yesterday. What kind of relationship are the Jiang family and that family? Are they very close? Go back and see if Jiang Dong stayed there overnight."

Ye Xian: "He is not a relative of the Jiang family. He is just a poor relative of Jiang Dong's brother-in-law."

Ye Xian actually found out this.

People from several nearby villages all belong to the same production team, so anyone with a little gossip knows which family has which powerful relatives.

So it was easy for Ye Xian to find out what relatives she was looking for.

The person on the other end of the phone was very interested in the poor relative, so he asked Ye Xian, "How poor is he? Does his family have any difficulties?"

Ye Xian was speechless. Which family in the village is not poor and which family has no difficulties? But she still analyzed the reasons why the other family was poor.

Ye Xian is also a person who loves gossip, and she talks a lot.

"Her daughter is very beautiful. Many people came to her house to introduce her to potential partners, but she refused them all. I heard that she wanted to find a man with a job for her daughter. But her daughter has just graduated from junior high school and has no job. Who would be interested in a man with a job? People with jobs want to find someone who has a job and a good job!"

"You can't say that much. A girl's beauty is her greatest asset."

It seemed she had found another way.

*The Jiang Xia family returned home on the afternoon of the seventh day of the New Year.

Jiang's father and mother were not at home, and they officially started working on the eighth day of the first lunar month. Jiang Dong was alone at home, so he continued to stay in the fishing village to help with the work.

We don’t go out to sea during the first month of the lunar year, but that doesn’t mean there is no work to do.

The weather is not cold during the Chinese New Year this year, but sunny. Zhou Chenglei plans to use this time to plant the wooden stakes for raising mussels.

In the afternoon, Zhou Chenglei went to the production team and rented a small piece of beach for trial breeding.

The next morning, Zhou Chenglei took Jiang Dong to the city to buy wood. He also brought back the sugarcane, cassava, dried bamboo shoots, fresh bamboo shoots, taro, mushrooms, shrimp chips, dried sweet potatoes, camellia seed oil and other things he got from his uncle's house and grandmother to the Jiang family. Bags of things filled the small storage room.

Jiang Dong left a note and went to buy wood with Zhou Chenglei.

In the afternoon, the two of them pulled a large tractor load of wood back home.

Zhou Chengsen saw this and came out to help: "Why did you buy so much wood?"

As he said this, he stepped forward to help move the wood.

Li Xiuxian came out of the yard after hearing this and asked curiously, "Why did Lei buy so much wood?"

Zhou Chenglei: “I bought it and tried to grow mussels.”

Jiang Xia also came out at this time: "Second brother, do you want to raise one too? My eldest brother and my great grandfather's family are also planning to raise one. It's not a big deal to raise one. We can just rent a beach near the village's tidal flats to raise it."

Zhou Chengsen: "I'll think about it."

He had to see if it was really no trouble.

Last time Zhou Chenglei brought back a bucket of mussels, Li Xiuxian ate them, but she didn't like them very much. They were too fishy. She couldn't help but ask, "That stuff doesn't taste good. Will anyone buy it if we raise it? Will it be easy to sell? Will people here be unable to get used to it?"

Jiang Xia: "I don't know about that. We'll know after we raise it. We don't even know if it can survive. We're just giving it a try. After all, it's an alien species and we've never raised one before."

Li Xiuxian: “…”

She didn't even know if the fish could survive, but Li Xiuxian knew that Zhou Chenglei didn't make any money from raising fish because he had invested too much money.

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"Forget it, it sounds better to go fishing. Fish in the sea are free."

Jiang Xia ignored her.

In the next few days, Zhou Chenglei, Zhou's father, Zhou Chengxin, Zhou Yongguo, Zhou Kangping and Jiang Dong went to the beach together to plant wood piles during low tide.

Zhou Chengsen had already started working, and when he came back in the afternoon, he went to help, mainly to see if it was feasible.

That stretch of beach has more algae and plankton, and good sunshine, which is suitable for the growth of mussels.

A few people would go out to sea in the morning to set out ropes to collect mussel larvae. After coming back, they would plant wooden stakes on the beach after the tide went out, and twist grass ropes at night.

A few villagers saw them planting wood stakes on the beach and walked over to ask curiously, "Yongfu, what are you doing? Are you planning to plant some wood stakes to trap the fish?"

Father Zhou smiled and said, "Alei plans to plant some stakes to raise mussels."

"What are mussels? I've never heard of them."

Father Zhou: "It's a kind of shellfish from abroad, with a green shell. It's quite delicious."

Someone laughed and said, "Alei is really capable. He can raise fish and now he is raising mussels from abroad! You know so much! No wonder you are so rich at such a young age!"

Father Zhou: "Do you want to raise one? If you want, you can raise one with us. Just buy some wood and make stakes."

When everyone heard this, they immediately waved their hands and said, "We won't raise them. We don't have the ability to raise them."

A few people looked at it for a while and then left. After they were far away, someone said, "It's true that they have too much money to spend, so they started messing around again."

"That's not true. Didn't Lei make a lot of money from the fish he raised during the Chinese New Year? He sold them for over a thousand yuan!"

"He made a lot of money! He lost money! Look, he rented two large sea areas, built so many cages, and bought anchors to fix the cages. How much money did he invest? How much did he make? Didn't you see that Zhou Bingqiang followed their family to raise fish and lost everything? Later, he simply stopped raising fish and lost all the rent! I dare to guarantee that Zhou Chenglei will not rent again next year! He only makes more than a thousand yuan a year. It sounds a lot, but it is not enough to pay the rent for the two sea areas!"

"Raising fish is fine, at least I'm familiar with it and can keep it alive. But why raise mussels from abroad? Ha, I've never heard of them. If they come to our village, I don't know if they will not adapt to the local climate!"

"I don't know about that. After all, the fish in every sea area are not all the same. But the sea is connected, so maybe it's possible."

"Young people are bold and dare to do anything! Once they fall and get their heads broken, they will keep their feet on the ground!"

…

Because wooden stakes were planted on the beach near the village, many villagers discussed this matter.

There are all kinds of things.

In fact, the money earned from the fish raised in underwater cages this year is indeed not enough to cover the rent.

Zhou Chenglei had suffered losses from fish farming before, so many people were saying that they had a lot of money and were starting to mess around again.

Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei didn't care either.

They go about their business unaffected.

The few people worked hard for a total of seven days and only planted 200 wooden stakes.

Jiang Dong, a man with delicate skin and tender flesh, was so busy that his hands were covered with blisters.

Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival. In the afternoon, Jiang Dong will go home to celebrate the Lantern Festival with his parents.

Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Xia also went back with Jiang Dong.

Jiang Dong returned to Beijing after the Lantern Festival.

Jiang Xia was thinking about having a Lantern Festival reunion dinner with Jiang's father, Jiang's mother, and Jiang Dong at noon tomorrow, and then going home to have dinner with the Zhou family in the evening.