Chapter 138 My Sister's Future Arrangements
Zhang Ze temporarily kept the four sea snakes in the space. There were too few of them and their added weight didn't seem very heavy. He would probably be able to catch a lot of sea snakes in the future and sell them when there were enough.
Then he drove the fishing boat back, passed by Lumen Island and asked someone to sort the longline, and then came to Wenshui City Pier.
Tong Yuanhang and his companions came back early and had already sold all the fish, and were currently cleaning the fishing boat.
When they saw him coming back, they sent all the groupers over. The total weight of the groupers from the three groups was only about 700 kilograms, which was much less than before.
But it is normal, the big flood tide has almost passed, and the next one will be a small flood tide.
If it weren't for the extra reward for catching sharks, they would probably have rested for a few days.
As usual, Zhang Qinghe looked at Zhang Ze's catch. He didn't see any king fish or sharks, but instead there were a lot of octopuses and mackerels.
"Hey, you didn't go shark fishing at night?"
"Why would I fish for sharks when I met Zhang Hong and a school of Spanish mackerel?" Zhang Ze opened the quilt. "Who of you is free? Help me push the cart from the aquatic station over here."
Other fishermen all honestly send their fish to the fishery station to sell, but these few of them would occupy the station's carts every time they come. It's good to have someone in control.
With the help of the group, all the catches except the grouper were quickly sent to the fishery station and sold for a total of more than 560 yuan.
The biggest ones are octopus weighing over a thousand kilograms and swordfish weighing more than 700 kilograms. The deep-sea fish and other miscellaneous fish together only sell for a little over a hundred kilograms.
After finishing their work, Tong Yuanhang and others left. Zhang Qinghe was nearby, so he went to notify Ou Shuxiang to come over.
The grouper plus his own nearly 900 kilograms sold for a total of 1,600 yuan, but Zhang Ze himself only made a little over 600 yuan.
The proportion of blue spots is too high, so he has no way to earn more. He can only say that it is worthy of being called blue spots. Other grouper resources in later generations are very scarce, but its number is particularly large.
And as long as you find a good fishing spot, you can catch a lot of fish weighing 7, 8 or 10 kilograms.
After deducting the cost today, Zhang Ze made a small profit of one thousand. He looked at the deposit in his small space. Adding the money from the sale of the shark two days ago, he now has more than six thousand six hundred.
Adding the 3,000 from Tong Shuyao, his cash alone is almost worth 10,000 yuan, not to mention the 5,700 he lent out.
Then he looked at his experience points again and exchanged them for 2,050 pieces of ordinary fishing bait, leaving him with only 1,400 experience points.
But now it has risen back to just over 4,000, and there are still about 1,600 pieces of ordinary fish bait.
Just as Zhang Ze had cleaned the rear deck, Ou Shuxiang appeared at the dock on a bicycle, followed by three other people on tricycles, each carrying an oversized bucket.
“How many groupers today?”
"About nine hundred pounds."
"Four ships are a bit too few!"
"There's nothing we can do about low tides. Groupers are all in reefs and coral reefs. If we catch a lot of them in one place, we have to move to another place. It's hard to find a suitable fishing spot!"
Zhang Ze was also a little helpless about this. Their grouper production was already very good, but compared with other fish, the production of grouper was indeed pitifully small.
"Alas, since the market economy was opened up, all the rich people have emerged. Before, I had to sell your 900-jin grouper everywhere, but now I guess I can only supply it to a few restaurants in Wenshui City."
Ever since Ou Shuxiang was persuaded by Zhang Ze to start a seafood business, he has broadened his horizons.
Originally, he thought that a few hundred or a thousand dollars was a lot, but what he saw during this period made him understand that even after ten years, rich people still have wealth that ordinary people would find difficult to earn in their entire lives.
He couldn't help but sigh, no wonder capitalists became targets of attack before, the gap between the rich and the poor was really too big.
"Take your time, you will become a rich man in the future." Zhang Ze patted his shoulder and said with a smile, "Let's not talk about the future, you should have made a lot of money now!"
Ou Shuxiang chuckled: "It's just so-so, not as good as you."
While the two were talking, the staff scooped up all the grouper in the live fish hold, weighed them, and put them into buckets.
"Come to my house before six o'clock in the evening, and then we'll go to Weiyou Restaurant for dinner. I'll also invite Tong Yuanhang and the others, and we'll have a drink in the evening." Zhang Ze thought about it and finally invited him.
Although they are in a cooperative relationship, the two are currently considered friends.
"Okay." Ou Shuxiang was a little surprised that he suddenly invited him to dinner, but he didn't say anything and just nodded in agreement.
After they left, Zhang Ze continued to clean the fishing boat. He used buckets to fill up buckets of sea water, then flushed them onto the boat and mopped the deck.
Many fishermen simply rinse the fish with sea water, but this may not wash away the mucus on the fish, so the fishy smell on the fishing boat will accumulate for a long time and become particularly smelly.
Zhang Ze was quite concerned about this. Not only did he mow it every time, he would also flush it again with the remaining fresh water in the tank. This also resulted in only a little fishy smell on his fishing boat.
Tong Yuanhang and others were different. They didn't clean as carefully as he did. Now the smell on the fishing boat was much stronger than on his boat.
But the fishermen have long been accustomed to the taste and they don't think there is anything wrong with it.
After finishing the work, it was almost noon. Zhang Ze closed the cabin and rode his bicycle to buy a watch ticket.
Because of the matter of two elderly people in the village, it was delayed for two days, but the watch ticket was still purchased smoothly.
I went to a department store and bought two ladies’ watches, different styles from those my wife’s.
On the way, Zhang Ze also stopped by Weiyou Restaurant and booked a private room.
After coming out, he rode his bicycle to a remote place, reached into the bamboo basket on the back seat and released a lobster and several large tiger prawns, and then returned home.
The three women gathered around the sewing machine again, and this time Tong Shuyao was making diapers.
"Brother, you're back!" Zhang Qian was sitting at the door, so she noticed him the first time.
"Well, have you had lunch?" Zhang Ze nodded and asked when he saw that the table was empty.
"Eh, it's already noon?" Tong Shuyao was stunned when she heard that, then she looked at her watch and quickly stood up, "Oh, I haven't done it yet!"
"It's okay, I'll do it. Have you bought the vegetables?" Zhang Ze stepped forward and held his wife's shoulders.
"No, no, you're too tired after working all night, let me go!"
"Yes, brother, you take a break. The three of us can cook quickly."
"Brother, let's do it. You take a rest."
Zhang Ze felt comforted by the mutual understanding of the family. In the end, he did not insist and took out the watch he bought for his sister.
"One watch for each of you two sisters."
"Wow~" Zhang Qing covered her mouth in surprise. She couldn't believe that her brother bought her such an expensive thing.
Zhang Qian had the same reaction. She looked at her watch and didn't dare to answer the call.
In the end, Tong Shuyao took the watch with a smile and put it in their hands, then took the lobster and tiger prawn from Zhang Ze and took them to the kitchen.
She didn't know how to cook originally, but after marrying Zhang Ze, she followed Zhang's mother and learned a little.
I wouldn’t say it’s delicious, but it’s not bad either.
They had already discussed what to cook for lunch today. Zhang Qian washed the pork and cut the fat into small slices.
Zhang Qing washed the onions and cabbages, and soaked the vermicelli for lunch in water.
Tong Shuyao handles seafood, which she is most familiar with.
"Hehe, finally I don't have to envy my sister-in-law's watch." After washing and cutting the vegetables, Zhang Qing dried her hands, picked up the watch, put it on, and looked at it happily.
"Your brother dotes on you two sisters very much, how could he forget you?" Tong Shuyao said with a smile.
She had no idea that her husband spent money on expensive gifts for her sister.
If the family has no money, they will definitely be dissatisfied and think that this is a man who cannot make a living.
But Zhang Ze's income far exceeded her imagination, and the relationship between the aunt and sister-in-law was good, so Tong Shuyao naturally didn't care.
Zhang Ze felt very satisfied listening to the excited voices of his sisters in the kitchen.
A gift is meaningful only if it can be responded to.
Having nothing to do for a while and not feeling sleepy since he had overslept at night, Zhang Ze curiously looked at the diapers his wife had sewed.
I touched it and it wasn't as soft as I imagined. It was very different from the diapers of later generations.
There was some cotton in the basket next to it. Zhang Ze touched it and immediately realized that this was cotton taken out from old clothes.
The family had cotton coupons, and he had been collecting these key materials. Therefore, the cotton coupons at home could not only prepare a set of cotton clothes for everyone in the family, but also make two more quilts.
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Zhang Ze sighed. They were used to being frugal. Even though the family had no shortage of money or coupons, they still had the idea and habit of mending things for another three years, and he still had to buy the things.
Because she was going to a restaurant in the evening, Tong Shuyao simply cooked a pot of vermicelli at noon.
After eating, she saw that Zhang Ze did not go to bed, and thought he was waiting for her.
So Tong Shuyao took his hand and walked upstairs.
Zhang Ze didn't quite understand what she meant, but when he saw his wife boiling water for him, he understood what she meant.
She didn't refuse. Even though she wasn't sleepy after taking a shower, he still happily hugged his wife and took a nap.
Because he couldn't sleep, Zhang Ze felt restless lying in bed.
Tong Shuyao immediately held down his mischievous hand and said with big eyes, "Go to sleep and have a good rest."
Just hold it with your hand and think he can do nothing? Zhang Ze directly stretched out his head to block her little mouth.
Tong Shuyao was a little panicked, thinking that he couldn't help it. It wasn't even three months yet, could he do it again ? Fortunately, Zhang Ze didn't go too far. After a little bullying, he calmed down and hugged her to sleep.
When you are pregnant, you need to rest more.
But he only slept for half an hour before he was awakened by Zhang Qinghe's voice downstairs.
Seeing that Tong Shuyao was still sleeping soundly in his arms, Zhang Ze quietly got up, closed the door and went downstairs.
"Keep your voice down, your sister-in-law is still taking a nap."
"What sister-in-law? Isn't that my brother's wife?" Although Zhang Qinghe refuted, his voice was still obediently lowered a lot.
It’s not that his voice was very loud, it’s mainly because the door of the room was not closed before, so there was no sound insulation.
Zhang Ze didn't care about his sister-in-law or younger brother's wife. Zhang Qinghe was indeed older than him.
"What are you doing here so early?"
"I was just bored at home, so I came to your place."
Zhang Ze looked like he knew everything but didn't say anything: "I think he was just bored and wanted to go to the next door to see someone!"
Zhang Qinghe was shocked and looked extremely panicked: "What do you mean by looking at someone? I just came to your place early because I had nothing to do."
Zhang Ze originally just thought of the speculations that Zhang Qing had mentioned before and tried it out.
Seeing his flustered expression, she was shocked: "Fuck, are you serious? Are you really interested in Comrade Ruan Yanrong?"
"What Ruan Yanrong?" Zhang Qinghe was stunned, then seemed to remember something, and suddenly didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "You said it couldn't be the salesperson who often came to your house to buy things, right? How could it be her? It must be someone else!"
He reacted and quickly covered his mouth, but it was too late.
"Tsk tsk tsk, it really exists!" Although Zhang Ze was surprised that it was not Ruan Yanrong, he was still quite satisfied with the exposure of Zhang Qinghe's little secret.
Sisters Zhang Qing and Zhang Qian listened with their ears perked up, gossip written all over their faces.
They have more contact with Wuweihe next door and know all the sales staff there.
Zhang Qing was already screening candidates in her mind. She knew from Zhang Ze that Zhang Qinghe had very high requirements for appearance, so she immediately determined who it was: "Brother Qinghe, the one you like is not Zhao Xiangxiang, right?"
"No, no, don't make random guesses, it will affect other people's reputations." Zhang Qinghe waved her hands repeatedly, but judging from his blushing face, she was undoubtedly right.
Zhang Ze was a little confused. He was not familiar with the sales staff at Wuweihe. He didn't know any of them except Ruan Yanrong.
"Ah Qing, who are you talking about?"
Zhang Qing was very clever and took the opportunity to blackmail her brother: "Brother, give me money to buy candied fruit, and I will show it to you later."
"Let's go buy some candied fruit." Zhang Ze was really curious, so he had no objection to buying some snacks.
Zhang Qinghe opened his mouth, wanting to stop her but having no reason to. He felt that he had been very secretive, so how could he be discovered? In the end, he could only follow behind dejectedly. He couldn't stop her, but it didn't stop him from taking a look at the woman he liked.
Zhang Ze came to Wuweihe out of curiosity. After buying some things, he saw the girl that Zhang Qinghe liked under the guidance of Zhang Qing.
She was a very petite girl, probably only about 1.55 meters tall, but her skin was very fair, comparable to Tong Shuyao's current skin.
His facial features are indeed good-looking, but a little immature, looking like a junior high school student.
"Ah Qing, this Zhao Xiangxiang you're talking about, is she an adult?"
"Brother, don't think she looks small, she is actually the same age as my sister-in-law!"
Zhang Ze nodded in understanding, a legal loli!
Then he looked at Zhang Qinghe with disdain, who was still grinning foolishly because of what he had said to Zhao Xiangxiang. He couldn't stand seeing Zhang Qinghe acting like a bootlicker.
"Don't smile like an idiot. She's the same age as Shuyao. She might already be married!"
These words were like a hammer, hitting Zhang Qinghe's heart hard. He covered his heart and took two steps back, with disbelief written all over his face.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Although he denied it, judging from his panicked look, he was indeed afraid of this situation.
"Brother, Zhao Xiangxiang is not married yet!" Zhang Qian felt sorry for him when she saw him like this, so she took the initiative to tell him the situation.
"Really!" Zhang Qinghe was overjoyed.
"Such a pretty city girl is definitely very popular. I would like you to put away your embarrassing look and first inquire about the girl's family situation. Then ask a matchmaker to introduce her to you. Then you may be able to marry her."
"If you keep loving me like this secretly, you'll really become someone else's wife!"
Zhang Ze was speechless with this friend. If he didn't give any advice and this situation continued, the final result would be to watch the woman he loved marry someone else.
There will be another update later.
(End of this chapter)
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