It was pitch black outside and I couldn't see what was going on.
But you can smell the fishy smell of the sea.
This smell can often be smelled here, and it is especially strong today.
Then there was another burst of crackling and clanging sounds.
The door panel shook from time to time.
The wind and rain poured in through the crack in the door, but Chu Xuan did not use the cotton he had prepared in advance to block it.
After all, there were candles lit in the room and the windows were closed. If the gap in the door was blocked, the room would soon be short of oxygen.
Chu Xuan suddenly remembered this day in her previous life. A lot of fish were swept to the old house by the typhoon, and many villagers came to pick up the fish. When the wind and rain subsided, she and Feng Chunhua arrived, most of the fish had been picked up.
Could it be that the sound just now was fish hitting the windows and doors?
Chu Xuan really wanted to take the risk of opening the door to take a look, but another gust of wind and rain came, and the noise hitting the doors and windows was even louder, reminding her to stay rational. People are very small in the face of natural disasters, and safety is the most important thing.
Chu Feng was so scared that he hid behind Chu Xuan, "Sister, I'm scared."
Chu Xuan comforted him softly, "Don't be afraid. Maybe God wants our family to get rich. Have you heard of the story of a typhoon delivering fish?"
Chu Feng became excited when he heard the word "get rich". "I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it."
"If I'm not mistaken, there should be quite a few fish in our yard right now."
"Shall we go out and take a look?"
"Aren't you scared now? Wait until tomorrow when the wind and rain subside a bit before going out to have a look. Don't worry, all the fish in the yard belong to us, no one can take them away."
Chu Feng muttered to himself that opening the door on a typhoon day was indeed extremely risky.
Say yes.
They waited patiently.
Having nothing to do, he blew out the candle, blocked most of the gap in the door, and lay down to rest across the kang table.
Chu Xuan had lived a lifetime before, so he naturally knew that even after the typhoon passed, there would still be heavy rain or even rainstorms.
And there will be another typhoon coming, and this weather will last for more than ten days.
When picking up fish and selling them, you have to seize the opportunity.
The next morning, just after dawn, Chu Xuan got off the kang.
I heard that the wind outside had died down a lot, but the rain was still heavy.
When I opened the door, I saw the yard full of seafood, some alive and some dead.
Spanish mackerel, hairtail, sea bass, mullet, bluefin mullet, noodle fish, sea cucumber, abalone, starfish, octopus, mantis shrimp, prawns...
"Xiao Feng, get up quickly! We're rich!"
Chu Feng woke up immediately, jumped off the kang, and ran to the yard, "So many seafood, I'm really rich!"
"I'll go check outside the gate. If there are any, pick up the ones outside first. No one in the yard can take them away."
"Okay. I'll get the backpack and the basket..."
The brother and sister have a clear division of labor.
Chu Xuan, wearing a raincoat and rain boots, walked to the gate of the courtyard.
The moment I opened the gate, I was stunned.
There are more seafood outside the wall than inside the yard.
"Xiao Feng, hurry up! Take out everything in our house that can hold seafood!"
Chu Xuan gave the order while throwing the seafood near the gate into the yard.
She had to get all the seafood into the yard before the villagers came.
When the time comes, borrow a cart and take it to Li Tong's house to sell it.
When Chu Feng, wearing a raincoat and carrying a basket and a wooden basin, went out of the yard, he was a little dumbfounded. Seeing the seafood all over the ground, he didn't know where to start.
It was Chu Xuan who reminded him, "Throw these things at the door into the yard first. I'll go to the side wall to load the fish."
"Okay."
Chu Feng began to act.
Chu Xuan didn't bother to sort them. He filled one basket after another, carried them into the yard, and dumped them there.
Continue to pick up outside the yard.
Even though I was wearing a raincoat and rain boots, I was still soaked.
They worked for more than two hours and finally moved all the fish outside the yard into the yard, locked the door, and prepared to sort them.
Some people walked towards the beach in the rain and did not notice the seafood in Chu Xuan's yard.
Chu Xuan and her brother looked at the yard where only one aisle was left and the seafood was piled more than one meter high. They held each other's hands and were very excited.
"Sister, is this a gift from God to us? I looked carefully, and other places only have scattered fish, not as much as we have here."
"It's probably because of our good location and the newly renovated and raised courtyard wall that we were able to keep most of the fish brought in by the typhoon. After breakfast, let's sort the fish first. When we have enough for a cart, I'll go to Li Tong's house and ask if they're accepting fish today. I'll also borrow a cart."
Li Tong is definitely not at the dock today.
"good."
The brother and sister ate a few mouthfuls of breakfast and started to work.
There are quite a few wooden basins, backpacks and other things at home, all of which are used to hold sorted and classified seafood.
After more than an hour, they sorted out a large basin of Spanish mackerel, two large basins of hairtail, a bucket of sea cucumbers, two buckets of abalone, a backpack of octopus, two large basins of prawns, and two baskets of mullet...
Chu Feng stayed at home to continue sorting, while Chu Xuan went out in the rain.
The rain was still heavy, but Chu Xuan was full of energy.
I went to Li Tong's house first to ask and learned that Li Tong was eager to collect a whole carriage of fish to sell in the city.
A large amount of seafood is needed from other places every day, so there must be many fishmongers from other places waiting anxiously in the city.
There are so many storms here that no ship dares to go out to sea.
Today's catch will definitely sell for a high price.
In order to save time, Li Tong called his son Li Lin to move the scale onto the cart, take the things used to store the fish, and go directly to Chu Xuan's house to help sort the fish. He also rented Lin Yong's truck and waited at the door of Chu Xuan's house.
More than two hours later, after sorting and weighing, and recording the accounts, a truck was taken away and Li Tong followed the truck.
More than half of the fish were still left in the yard.
Li Lin hired another truck. Chu Xuan and the others just had a quick lunch and continued sorting.
At around 3:00 p.m., the fish were weighed again, and Li Lin followed the truck and took away a truckload of fish.
Lin Yong's truck returned and Li Tong got off.
On the way back, they met Li Lin. The father and son got off the car and chatted for a while. When they learned that Chu Xuan's fish could fill most of the car, they came straight over.
After collecting Chu Xuan’s fish, he went home to continue collecting, because many villagers who had picked up fish were waiting at his door.
As for the money for Chu Xuan’s fishing, we agreed to pay it tonight.
Not long after, the villagers also learned that the typhoon had brought a lot of fish to Chu Xuan's family.
After selling their fish, the villagers went straight to Wang Depin's house.
They discussed that the land for building a new house must be approved near Chu Xuan's home.
Due to the large number of people, Wang Depin did not agree to all of them. He just said that he would make the arrangements after the typhoon and rainy season was over.
But the crowd refused to give in and insisted on finalizing it within three days.
Wang Depin had promised Chu Xuan that he would arrange for good people to be neighbors, but among the people who came today, there were those who had bad reputations and liked to take advantage of others.
In the end, everyone was persuaded to withdraw on the grounds that the land allocation required approval from higher authorities and the process would take more than a month.
He also added a few words, saying that the reason Chu Xuan's family was able to get the land approved quickly was because it was originally her home. No one else had a house there, so they had to wait for the land to be approved, especially the popular land.
At this moment, Chu Xuan had already changed into clean clothes and was drying the wet clothes in the kitchen.
It is inconvenient to fetch water during heavy rain, so the water at home has to be used sparingly. She washes clothes directly with rainwater, dries them, and keeps them for wearing when picking seafood.
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
Could it be Li Tong coming to pay for the fish? He shouldn't be here so early, right?
Chu Xuan hung the wet clothes on the rope in the kitchen, then went to open the door with an umbrella...
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