At 6:30 in the morning, Zhou Chengsen took some precious dried seafood and drove to the airport with Ruan Tang.
As gifts, Zhou Chengsen only brought seafood such as abalone, sea cucumber, scallops and fish maw. He would buy the rest when he arrived in Beijing.
Zhou Ying didn't go downstairs with Zhou Zhou to have breakfast until seven o'clock.
Jiang Xia was feeding the triplets rice porridge made with milk and vegetable juice. When he saw them coming downstairs, he said, "Come and have breakfast."
Zhou Ying and Zhou Zhou slept together last night.
Zhou Chengsen and Ruan Tang left too early today. It was winter, so Zhou Ying definitely wouldn't wake up so early. In order to avoid her sleeping alone at home, she came over to sleep with Zhou Zhou.
But now the two children take turns sleeping on both sides.
When Ruan Tang came, they would sleep on Jiang Xia's side. When Ruan Tang was not there, they would sleep on Zhou Chengsen's side, depending on their mood.
Zhou Chenglei placed two bowls of seafood noodle soup in front of them: "Be careful, it's hot."
The seafood noodles are made with various shellfish picked up yesterday. The soup is sweet and the noodles are chewy.
Very delicious.
Zhou Zhou saw the triplets eating green rice paste and asked, "Aunt, when can the brother and sister eat noodles?"
My younger brother and sister are so pitiful. They eat this tasteless rice porridge every day. Don’t they get tired of it?
“You can eat it when you’re one year old.”
Zhou Ying: "Isn't that still a few months away?"
Eating tasteless rice cereal and disgusting egg yolks every day, being a baby is so hard! Fortunately, she has grown up.
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Well, there are still more than four months."
"Aunt, when did my dad and Sister Ruan leave? Can my dad marry Sister Ruan after he comes back?"
Zhou Ying knew that her father was going to send Sister Ruan home and visit Sister Ruan's parents. Only after the visit could her father marry Sister Ruan.
Jiang Xia: "We have to wait for Sister Ruan's parents to agree."
Zhou Ying got anxious when she heard this: "What if they don't agree? Why don't Sister Ruan's parents agree?"
Jiang Xia: "Because our home is too far from Sister Ruan's home, Sister Ruan's parents don't want Sister Ruan to be too far away from them, so they may not agree. Don't worry, your father will take care of it! Do you really want Sister Ruan to marry us soon?"
Zhou Ying nodded: "Yes!"
Jiang Xia smiled and said, "Why? You are just a kid, why are you worrying about this? Your father and Sister Ruan will take care of it."
Zhou Ying: "I want Sister Ruan to marry me and take care of the money."
Jiang Xia: "What? Did your dad forget to give you pocket money?"
"No, it was my grandma who asked me to take good care of my dad's money."
After hearing this, Jiang Xia looked at Zhou Chenglei.
Jiang Xia asked her: "What did your grandma say? Was she wrong? How can you let a child manage money? She must have been wrong!"
"No, she repeated it several times." Zhou Ying told her what Li's mother had said to her: "Grandma asked me to record how much money the fishing boat made every day, and asked me to take the money from grandma every day and give it to dad, and then secretly take ten yuan to grandma. Grandma said she would save it for me to use when I go to college, and said that dad would not blame me if he knew, because I didn't spend it recklessly. ..."
My grandmother also said that if I didn’t save some money, when my father married a stepmother and had a younger brother, all the money would be spent on him, and she would have no money to go to college when she grew up. Not only would she not be able to go to college, she would have to pick snails to make money to support her brother’s education.
Jiang Xia: "Have you told dad?"
"Not yet. Grandma just told me yesterday, and then I forgot to tell Dad."
Jiang Xia: "Auntie thinks your grandma is wrong, what do you think, Yingying?"
"I don't think that's right either! Grandma is lying to the child!"
Although she was young, she knew that her grandmother was teaching her to steal money and giving it to her.
Grandma is obviously lying! My aunt doesn't have to pay to go to college, and she also gets living expenses every month.
So going to college is profitable! Besides, Dad and Sister Ruan often urged her to study hard, so that she could find a good job in the future after being admitted to college, and she wouldn't have to work so hard at home weaving fishing nets or picking snails on the beach to make money.
Her father often checks her homework, so how could he not let her study?
She doesn't even want to study!
Compared with reading, she prefers picking up conches.
If she hadn't been rewarded for studying well, she would really prefer to go out to sea to fish when she grows up.
My brothers don’t like to read either, they just want a game console!
Which child likes to study? No one likes it! So she hopes that Sister Ruan will marry her father as soon as possible and take good care of the money earned from the family fishing boat.
Of course Zhou Ying didn't tell Jiang Xia that she didn't want to study.
Adults want children to study hard. Even though their younger brothers and sisters cannot speak, their aunt can still read. Adults read ancient poems to them and want them to memorize them. It’s terrible!
Jiang Xia touched Zhou Ying's head and said, "Yingying is awesome. You can tell right from wrong now. This is a skill that adults have, and you have learned it. So now you understand that sometimes what adults say may not be right. No matter who says it, we must learn to analyze it ourselves and feel right from wrong with our hearts. Zhou Zhou is the same, you know?"
The two sisters nodded: "Yes."
"Yingying, when the time comes, you can tell Dad and ask him if your analysis is correct and comprehensive enough, okay?"
"Good!" Children like to be praised, and she can't wait to tell her father.
Zhou Chenglei then spoke up: "Hurry up and eat breakfast, the porridge is getting cold. From now on, you must tell your father or uncle or aunt anything that someone says to you, understand? The more others forbid you to tell the adults at home, the more you must tell them, because bad people don't dare to let others know when they do bad things. If it's not a bad thing, there's no need to hide and be afraid of being known by others. Do you understand?"
"Understood."
Zhou Chenglei didn't say much. He told Zhou Chengsen about it and asked his second brother to solve it himself.
After breakfast, Zhou Chengxin also arrived, and Zhou Chenglei called Zhou Yongguo and Zhou Guodong to go out to the sea together and dive to the bottom of the sea to touch scallops.
Jiangxia and Tian Caihua also went out to sea to help.
Five men were divided into two groups and went into the sea to catch scallops.
Everyone advised Zhou's father not to go out to sea, so he had to fish on the boat.
Even if you don't go into the sea, it's still fun to go fishing with Jiang Xia.
Jiang Xia didn't want to fish today. She wanted to go to the bottom of the sea to take a look. "Dad, I'll help you prepare the bait and you fish. I'll go to the bottom of the sea to take a look later."
"Okay! Aren't you afraid of the cold?"
"I waited until ten o'clock before going into the water." The temperature at noon these two days was over 20 degrees, which was not cold.
Now Zhou Chenglei and Zhou Chengxin are going into the sea together.
There were indeed many scallops on the seabed just as Zhou Chenglei had expected.
And it’s particularly big!
I guess I won’t be able to finish picking them up this morning.
The two brothers tried their best to pick up mussels in the net bag. In less than ten minutes, they had picked up a large net bag. Then they swam out to the surface of the sea and handed the large net bag of mussels onto the boat.
Zhou Yongguo and Zhou Guodong quickly pulled it onto the boat and poured it into the basket.
Seeing that the scallop was about the size of a bowl, Jiang Xia asked, "Are there many scallops on the seafloor?"
When Mr. Zhou saw such big scallops, he no longer had the heart to fish!
Zhou Chenglei couldn't speak, so he just nodded.
The two took the empty net bag and dived into the water again.
After about five minutes, another large net bag was picked up and floated to the surface.
Father Zhou was delighted: "Did you disturb the scallop nest?"
Tian Caihua was very excited: "This scallop is too big! Scallops of this size are much more expensive when dried." (End of this chapter)
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