Chapter 498 Like Being Cuckolded
Zhou's mother was also surprised to see them coming home so early.
"Why so early? Have you eaten?"
Father Zhou said cheerfully, "We ate it. As soon as we went out to sea, we encountered a school of barramundi and caught more than a hundred loads."
Mother Zhou thought she had heard wrongly: "How much?"
Father Zhou smiled and said, "You heard it right. One hundred and eleven loads of barramundi. The deck was full, so we came back early."
Zhou's mother laughed: "Haha, I'm lucky today!"
Zhou Chenglei asked his mother: "Mom, have you invited anyone?"
Zhou Chenglei decided not to go out to sea at night, so that Jiang Xia would not be able to sleep well without him by her side. There would be no one to help her go to the toilet, and she was embarrassed to ask his mother to sleep with her.
So Zhou Chenglei planned to invite four people, two of whom would go out to sea with Zhou Kangping at night, and two of whom would go out to sea with himself during the day.
In addition to hiring people to go out to sea, you also need to hire people to raise fish.
When the cages are ready, someone will have to take turns guarding them on the island.
People are also needed to feed the fish on time every day and clean the cages regularly.
However, Zhou Chenglei did not plan to hire anyone in the village to raise fish. Instead, he hired four veterans who retired last year and were his former soldiers.
They came over in a few days.
"We invited Zhou Zhenhua and Zhou Wenchao. Xu Ling knew I was inviting people and asked if I could invite her brother. I agreed. You can see if he is diligent first! Another person we invited was He Jinhua, the son of your father's classmate. Do you remember him?"
"Remember." Zhou Chenglei quickly made arrangements: "Then Zhou Zhenhua and Xu Ling's brother will go out to sea with Kang Ping at night, and Zhou Wenchao and He Jinhua will go out to sea with me in the morning. Xu Ling's brother lives quite far away, so it's not suitable for him to go out to sea in the morning. He will rush here too early."
"Yes, that's what I said. Ask her brother to arrive before six o'clock tonight."
"OK."
*In the afternoon, after Zhou Chenglei accompanied Jiang Xia to sleep, he went downstairs to plow the fields.
While they were taking a nap, Zhou's father drove the tractor to the fields.
Zhou Chenglei went to replace his father.
Taking advantage of their free time, the father and son plowed the several acres of land at home, let the green manure ferment in the fields, and then sprinkled some fertilizer before transplanting rice seedlings, so that the base fertilizer would be sufficient.
In the evening, Xu Ling's younger brother Xu Yong came.
The young man had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was tall and thin. Jiang Xia smiled and said to Xu Ling, "Your brother is quite tall and handsome, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he is sunny and handsome."
Zhou Chenglei: “…”
What's so handsome about him? How can you tell that he's handsome?
She is not as tall as me, and her facial features are not as pretty as mine. Her eyebrows are like caterpillars, how can they be as stylish as my sword-like eyebrows?
Are my eyes big? I don’t think so!
Dead fish eyes! And one look at that arm shows that it is not as strong as mine! Which eye of Jiang Xia thinks he is handsome? Zhou Chenglei doesn't think he is handsome at all! And sunny and handsome? Which young man in the village is not sunny?
Dark skin means being sunny and handsome? Then why did she want to cover his head in the summer?
1.70 meters is considered tall? Then what is he? Zhou Chenglei was indignant and said to Xu Yong with a cold face: "You should go out to sea with Kang Ping and Zhenhua tonight! If you don't understand anything, just ask Kang Ping."
Xu Yong just felt that Zhou Chenglei was too serious and too cold, as if he had made some mistake. He raised his head and chest, stood very straight and replied: "Okay!"
I dare not say a single word more.
Zhou Chenglei didn't look at him again, and said to Zhou Kangping: "Kangping, you take Xu Yong and Zhenhua out to sea tonight, I won't go."
"Okay." Zhou Kangping responded.
Xu Yong finally breathed a sigh of relief. His sister also said that the couple were very nice and kind.
Sister Jiang Xia is kind, but how can Brother Cheng Lei be kind? He has a stern face, as if someone cheated on him! Jiang Xia smiled and reminded: "Be careful when you go out to sea, safety first."
Father Zhou was worried: "I'll go with you tonight."
There were two new people coming, and he was afraid that they were not familiar with the situation and Kang Ping couldn't lead them alone.
Zhou Chenglei frowned: "Dad, you just came back from a long sea voyage, and you didn't sleep in the afternoon, aren't you tired?"
Zhou Chengsen also came back. He was also going out to sea with the ship tonight, so he said, "Dad, you take a rest. I can go to A-lei's ship."
Zhou Chengxin: "No, I'll go over."
Father Zhou waved his hand: "I'm not tired, I'll go take a look, it's the same to sleep on the boat. Let's go! Go out to sea! Otherwise it will be dark."
So they went out to sea together.
Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Xia also walked towards the beach. Jiang Xia needed to take a walk.
Zhou Chenglei held Jiang Xia's hand and couldn't help asking, "Where is he tall and handsome?"
Jiang Xia looked at the sunset in the sky and didn't react for a moment: "Who?"
"Xu Yong. He's only about 1.75 meters tall. Is this considered tall and handsome?"
Jiang Xia: “…”
Jiang Xia glared at him: "I just think Xu Yong is pretty, so I just gave him a compliment. Aren't you bored? What else can you say?"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Moreover, Jiang Xia discovered that the height of men here is generally less than 1.7 meters. Those over 1.7 meters are really considered tall. In the village, there are really not many men over 1.75 meters tall.
Women are not tall either, most are around 1.5 meters tall, and there are also many who are around 1.4 meters tall.
The Zhou family members are considered very tall in the village, all about 1.78 meters tall, with Zhou Chenglei being the tallest at 1.86 meters.
Zhou Chenglei pursed his lips: What's pleasing about her? Not at all! However, Zhou Chenglei didn't want to hear Jiang Xia talk about what was pleasing about the other person, so he didn't ask and changed the subject.
Ask her again tonight.
So that night, when Zhou Chenglei was interacting with the child, he kept asking Jiang Xia:
Honey, what do you think of having eyes like daddy?
How about my eyebrows look like my dad's? How about my nose look like my dad's? ...
A lot of questions!
The key is, if he asks, can you please stop moving your mouth so much?
Jiang Xia couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but raise his foot: "Shut up!"
The result was...
I didn't use any force, but there was a muffled sound in the quilt.
Jiang Xia wanted to ask, but as soon as he opened his mouth, his voice broke.
He lowered his head and focused.
Listen to the sound of the sea tide rising and falling inside and outside the window tonight.
*Early the next morning, Zhou Chenglei drove a tractor to the city. He was going to buy a small wooden boat and rent a house in the city for four retired fish-raising veterans to live in. He also wanted to deliver a batch of dried fish to the publishing house and the train station.
The dried fish business can make several hundred yuan every month. Now plastic factories, textile factories, and shipyards need one or two hundred kilograms every month.
Most of their dried fish are collected from villagers and then resold. It can be considered as helping the villagers sell dried fish. A few hundred yuan a month is not a lot of money, so Zhou Chenglei plans to stick with it.
Because he wanted to rent a house and buy a boat, Jiang Xia also hurried to take a look.
The two of them first delivered the dried fish and submitted the translation, and then went to see the house.
I have asked the Marquis before. After all, he is a trader and knows a lot of people.
A house has been found.
The house was in a village near the city pier, making it convenient for them to go out to sea.
It is a house that is several decades old, almost like an old house. At this time, almost all the houses in the village are old houses, except for the newly built buildings.
The landlord has the old house for rent because he built a new house.
Jiang Xia and Zhou Chenglei decided to rent it after seeing it.
The two signed the lease contract with the landlord and when they left, Jiang Xia saw two figures passing by at the entrance of the village.