Chapter 22 Much More Pleasant
Mu Chenze felt like he was being disliked again, and his mood suddenly became bad. "Can you please stop talking about this all the time? Isn't this just bringing up something that has nothing to do with the topic?"
Chu Xuan smiled and apologized, "I was wrong! I promise not to say that again. Don't be angry! Don't punish yourself for my mistakes. Be happy every day, and you will live a long life."
Mu Chenze felt much more comfortable hearing these words.
"That's more like it."
Chu Xuan urged softly, "Can you tell me what you want me to agree to now?"
Mu Chenze's tone was filled with warning, "From now on, you can only come here to catch seafood during the day, and not at night. If I find out, I will find another partner."
Chu Xuan knew he was doing this for her own good. "Okay! I promise! By the way, how often should we divide the money from the seafood we sell? Daily or monthly?"
"Every day is too much trouble, and every month takes too long. How about every five days? From now on, every day with a 5 and a 0 on the calendar will be the day we settle accounts."
"Okay, no problem."
At this moment, Chu Xuan regarded Mu Chenze as his boss.
Whatever the boss says is the final word. What's more, the boss only wants 30%, and she, as a worker, can get 70%. Just thinking about it makes her excited.
When they reached the dock, Mu Chenze handed the bucket of fish to Chu Xuan and said, "Go by yourself!"
Chu Xuan jokingly asked, "Aren't you afraid that I'll sell it at a low price?"
Mu Chenze replied seriously, "I'm not afraid."
With her money-loving personality, she will never suffer any loss.
Turn around and leave.
Chu Xuan laboriously carried two buckets of fish to Li Tong's stall, "Boss Li, can I borrow your basin to sort them?"
Then weigh again.
Li Tong immediately handed over a basin and said, "Divide and weigh them equally, and I guarantee you a high price."
"Okay."
Chu Xuan classified the fish skillfully.
There are more sea bass, so weigh them first.
Li Tong wrote down the weights in his notebook and said, "Forty-nine pounds and six ounces, I'll give you fifty pounds. I'll charge you one dollar and fifty cents per pound, so 75 yuan."
Soon, Chu Xuan separated the skinned fish.
Li Tong was in charge of weighing. "Twenty-nine pounds, I'll give you thirty pounds. I'll charge you seven cents a pound, which works out to two dollars and ten cents."
Hearing this price, Chu Xuan smiled helplessly. This ugly fish is really worthless now! The price will be different in a few decades.
I don’t have time to make grilled fish fillets now, so I’ll just sell them.
She decided not to pick up skinned fish until she had her own small fish filleting workshop.
Li Yong picked out six octopuses and six fist-sized swimming crabs. He shook them in his hand and didn't weigh them again. "I'll give you four yuan and ninety cents for these two. Together with the other two, the total is 82 yuan."
There was still a mullet in the bucket, but Chu Xuan didn't sell it anymore, planning to keep it as a snack for the construction team at noon tomorrow.
Eat well to be efficient.
After a while, he returned home with 82 yuan in his pocket, carrying the sea-hunting tools and a blackfish.
After arriving home, Chu Xuan took out 82 yuan, put it in his younger brother's hand, and reminded him, "Keep a good account. 30% of it is for the partners."
Chu Feng was about to ask who the partner was, but Chu Xuan stopped him, "Don't ask who the partner is. Otherwise, they won't cooperate with me."
Chu Feng chuckled, "Then I won't ask any more questions. I'll just take care of the money."
Now life is getting better and better. I am building a new house. I eat well and sleep well every day. I have books to read. I don’t have to go out to sea and suffer from hunger. I am happier than a god.
Chu Feng absolutely obeys his sister at home.
If his sister says go east, he will definitely not go west.
Chu Feng left hot water in the kitchen, and Chu Xuan walked into the kitchen with some clean clothes.
Chu Feng returned to his bedroom, counted the money, hid it, and kept a record.
At night, after Chu Xuan lay down, he couldn't help but think that his younger brother was performing well now and becoming more sensible. He hoped that he would not make the same mistake again in the future.
The next morning, a tofu vendor happened to pass by. Chu Xuan bought two pounds of tofu and made blackfish tofu soup for lunch. It looked delicious just thinking about it.
70 cents per pound, two pounds cost one dollar and fourteen cents.
If he had food coupons, it would be cheaper, less than 50 cents per pound. The problem was that Chu Xuan no longer had any food coupons.
The last time I bought food, I exchanged the food coupons with someone else.
Fortunately, I have money now and can buy grain at a high price.
At around 9:30 in the morning, Chu Xuan went out carrying a bucket with sea-hunting tools in it.
I stopped by Liu Zhaodi's house and bought a big backpack for three cents.
The backpack was woven by Liu Zhaodi using willow branches. She would usually sell it at the big market in town for money. It was half a meter high and sturdy and durable.
More than half an hour later, Liu Zhaodi took her second brother to go fishing. She looked around the beach but didn't see Chu Xuan.
I was wondering in my heart, looking at the tools Chu Xuan brought with him, he should be going there for fishing, why didn't he come?
At this moment, Chu Xuan had already taken a detour along the mountain road and arrived at the place where he had gone to the sea last night.
The pace was fast today and the tide had not yet receded in this area. Chu Xuan waited patiently for about ten minutes.
The wet sand was exposed, as were clams, small conches and the like.
Those tide pools are covered by sea water and have not yet been exposed.
Since he was free anyway, Chu Xuan put the backpack and bucket aside and squatted down to pick up clams and small conchs.
There are more snails today.
The conch is not big in size, but its meat is very tender, fragrant, smooth and elastic when eaten.
Some people complain that the snail meat is difficult to scoop out, which is because they are cooking it incorrectly.
This must be put into the pot with cold water, then simmer on low heat. After the water boils, cook for another 3 minutes, and finally turn off the heat and simmer for 5 minutes.
The snail meat cooked in this way will not be tightly compressed in the shell, and you can eat it by gently prying it with a toothpick.
After more than twenty minutes, Chu Xuan picked up one-third of the backpack, stood up, and gently patted his aching body with his hands.
Leaving the backpack there, I picked up the bucket and tools and headed towards the tide pools where I caught so many fish last night.
On the way, I picked up six stranded bluefin bream and three swimming crabs as big as fists and threw them into the bucket.
When we got to the tide pool, we checked each one. Although there were not as many fish as last night, there were two bass weighing about six pounds.
A bucket was filled with seawater and placed next to the tide pool.
After a while, Chu Xuan scooped up a sea bass with a hand net and put it into the bucket.
When she went to catch the second one, she suddenly heard a sound coming from a distance, like the sound of a fish's tail hitting the beach.
She stopped what she was doing and looked up.
Wow, on the distant beach, a big bass weighing more than 20 kilograms is trying to return to the sea.
She didn't bother to catch the fish in the tide pool, and ran towards the big bass with her hand net.
When I got closer, I found that it was very similar to the one I didn't catch that night.
Could it be that one?
It seems that the fish belongs to whoever it belongs to.
Chu Xuan happily used a hand net to catch the fish head and most of the body, and dragged it towards the backpack.
The hand net was a little small for this fish, but hauling it in was not a problem.
The fish is still alive and tries to break free from the restraints from time to time.
Chu Xuan will not let it go as it wishes.
The man and the fish walked to the backpack.
Easily put fish into the basket.
Chu Xuan returned to the tide pool and caught another bass, and it started to rain.
She knew when to quit.
Carrying a bucket, a backpack and fishing tools, he walked around the mountain road to the dock to sell fish.
Just when I was halfway along the mountain road, a man's voice sounded behind me.
"What are you doing? If you want to pass through here, leave some money for the passage!"
(End of this chapter)
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