Chapter 19 Secret
Chu Xuan wanted to go to the county town to sell it for a good price, but unfortunately he was busy building a house at home and couldn't get away.
Such high-quality, pure wild, live sea cucumbers weigh about half a pound each. It’s a shame to sell them at the price of ordinary sea cucumbers!
Li Tong noticed Chu Xuan's hesitation and continued, "Sea bass is priced at 1.5 yuan per catty, and sea urchins are 6 yuan per catty..."
"This sea cucumber is of rare quality. I buy it for 60 yuan per pound. My friends in the city like it."
Mu Chenze put his hands in his pockets, looking relaxed.
Without waiting for Chu Xuan to speak, Li Tong enthusiastically recommended, "Why don't you sell the sea cucumber to Mu Chenze! He has connections in the city. He collected a lot of abalone and sold them to the city today, making a lot of money."
Chu Xuan coughed a few times with a little embarrassment. In her previous life, Mu Chenze had been a second-hand dealer of deep-sea goods and made a lot of money. Otherwise, it would not have been so easy for her to get money to subsidize her parents' home.
Mu Chenze's money can be kept in this life.
In the end, Li Tong accepted the sea urchin and sea bass and gave Chu Xuan 33.3 yuan.
Mu Chenze took the sea cucumber and wanted to give Chu Xuan 90 yuan, but Chu Xuan only asked for 80 yuan.
Chu Xuan pocketed more than a hundred yuan and carried half a bucket of blue-scaled fish, ready to go home.
Mu Chenze shouted behind her, "You can sell me sea cucumbers and abalone from now on."
Chu Xuan looked back and gave him a grateful smile, "Okay!"
Thinking that his fat face wouldn't look good when he smiled, he quickly put away his smile.
In fact, it was late at night and Mu Chenze couldn’t see clearly at all.
The next day at noon, Chu Xuan and his friends prepared a lunch of fried bluefish, cold cucumber salad, mixed flour buns, and seaweed egg drop soup.
Nowadays, few people are willing to fry bluefin mullet in oil. Everyone enjoys it very much. The fish bones are crispy and the internal organs are cleaned. There is no need to spit out the bones. The more you chew, the more delicious it becomes, and your mouth will be filled with oil.
At the end of the meal, people would use steamed buns to wipe the oil off their lips before eating.
Chu Xuan took great care in preparing lunch, and the people working there worked even more carefully.
After lunch, Gao Meijuan and her daughter helped clean up and were about to go home for a nap when Chu Zhi and Feng Chunhua came to their door.
Chu Xuan and Gao Meijuan looked at each other, neither of them knowing when the mother and daughter were released.
Gao Meijuan whispered to Chu Xuan, "I'll go back and ask your Grandpa Wang."
As soon as she finished speaking, Feng Chunhua put her hands on her hips and said in a domineering tone, "Chu Xuan, your second uncle and I have no food to eat. You either give us food or provide us with food! Qiu Daguang stole and squandered all our money and we haven't been able to get it back."
Everyone was a little confused. Is it so justified to beg for food?
Chu Xuan was also shocked by her shamelessness, "Whoever stole your money, you should ask them for it back!"
"There's no one among us enemies." Feng Chunhua stepped onto the foundation. "If you don't give us food, we'll just stay here!"
Chu Zhi said nothing and followed his mother's example, lying down on the ground on the other side.
When the construction team members tried to move forward to carry the man away, Feng Chunhua yelled, "Whoever dares to come over here, I'll hold him responsible! I'll be lying on your doorstep every day."
Chu Xuan didn't want to implicate others, nor did he want to delay the progress of building the house, so he whispered to Gao Meijuan.
Gao Meijuan nodded in agreement.
Gao Meijuan called the construction team leader Lin Lou aside and said in a voice that Feng Chunhua and Chu Zhi could hear, "You two should lie down on the foundation and take a nap! You can continue working after you've rested well."
He winked at Lin Lou secretly.
Lin Lou understood immediately, "Alright. Brothers, let's take a lunch break first."
Ten minutes later, Feng Chunhua and Chu Zhi's stomachs were growling with hunger.
Gao Meijuan covered her mouth and laughed, "Feng Chunhua, Chu Zhi, you two really came here hungry? Come on! Follow me to the village office. The village office will definitely provide you with a few meals. They're building an office building over there, and there's a temporary cafeteria."
When Feng Chunhua and Chu Zhi heard that there was food to eat, they got up without hesitation and left with Gao Meijuan.
He planned to come back and make trouble after eating, so he didn't say anything else.
The construction team breathed a sigh of relief and could now continue construction.
In order to avoid similar incidents from happening, Chu Xuan and Lin Lou discussed and decided to build a courtyard wall and install a gate first.
Lin Lou immediately arranged for two of his men to push a cart to his warehouse to pick up the new gate.
I usually do a job that involves both labor and materials, and I have some inventory in the warehouse at home.
As for red bricks, cement, sand, water and the like, they had all been brought over in the morning.
Lin Lou's home is in the next village, and it takes more than an hour to walk there and back.
Chu Xuan had already discussed with Gao Meijuan that Gao Meijuan would be responsible for delaying Feng Chunhua and Chu Zhi.
Wang Shasha simply stayed to help, and Chu Feng and Chu Xuan also started moving bricks.
In less than three hours, the four walls were built and the iron gate was installed.
While the cement on top of the courtyard wall is still wet, insert glass shards to prevent thieves.
When Feng Chunhua and Chu Zhi returned to Chu Xuan's house again, they found that it had changed. The courtyard wall was high and the big iron gate was closed.
The progress of building a house can no longer be hindered.
Feng Chunhua stood outside the courtyard gate and cursed at the top of her voice, "Chu Xuan, you bitch! Don't think that just because you locked me and your second uncle out, we can't do anything! Get out right here!"
Chu Zhi echoed, "Chu Xuan and Chu Feng, if you have the guts, both of you come out! You cowards! Hiding in there and not daring to come out!"
Feng Chunhua patted the courtyard wall and said, "Xiaozhi, go home and get a hammer. Let's smash this wall down!"
Chu Xuan just didn't want to delay the progress of building the house, not that he was really afraid of Feng Chunhua and Chu Zhi.
Through the courtyard gate, he said, "Smashing the wall? Aren't you two afraid of being arrested again? If I'm not mistaken, Chu Dashan took all the responsibility alone, and the Feng family helped to find connections, so you two were released, right? If you get arrested again this time, there will be no one to take the blame!"
Chu Zhi gently tugged at Feng Chunhua's sleeve and said, "Mom, we can't tear down this wall. You are Chu Xuan's grandmother. If you ask her for something to eat, no one will be able to say anything. Let's ask for food first!"
They don't rob or steal, they just want food, and no one can take them away.
Feng Chunhua was reminded of this and finally stated her conditions, "Chu Xuan, give me 40 kilograms of flour and rice each, otherwise I will come over and block the door every day to prevent the construction team from entering your house!"
Chu Xuan sneered, "We've already broken off our relationship, and you're really asking me for food? Aren't you afraid that I'll tell One-Eyed Dragon that I can go to your house and move things in exchange for money?"
The words "move things" irritated Feng Chunhua, and she banged on the door. "Damn Qiu Daguang! He stole all my money and gold and silver jewelry! Chu Xuan, if you dare to let One-Eyed Dragon move things from my house, I'll die at your doorstep! I'm telling you, it's true that I've severed my relationship with you, but not with your dead father! You have to be filial to your father! Now that I can't eat, you have to take care of my meals for your father!"
Chu Xuan was shocked by Feng Chunhua's shamelessness. Even her dead father was brought up?
"Feng Chunhua, I seriously doubt whether my father is your biological son!"
After saying this, he carefully observed Feng Chunhua through the crack in the door.
A trace of panic flashed across Feng Chunhua's eyes, but she quickly calmed down, "Of course your father is my biological son!"
Chu Xuan continued to probe, "I recently heard a secret about you? If you don't want others to know, then don't do it yourself! Feng Chunhua, you should go home and reflect on yourself!"
Feng Chunhua left in a hurry.
Chu Zhi chased after her, "Mom, why did you leave like this? We haven't even had dinner yet!"
(End of this chapter)
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