After Wu An put down his phone, Lao Jiang asked, "Are you planning to stay in the old house permanently?"
"Is your dad still not planning to let you come home?"
Wu An casually replied, "No."
"It's my plan to stay."
“I’m already twenty, and it’s time to start planning for my future. I’ll tidy up the old house for now and then demolish it to build a new one.”
Old Jiang gave a thumbs up: "Good, that's ambitious."
"You've really made something of yourself."
"Once you tidy up the old house and live a proper life, no one will call you a rascal anymore."
"Thank you for your kind words." Wu An smiled, genuinely happy.
Old Jiang was all smiles as he took the two packs of cigarettes, saying, "I'll wrap them up in plastic for you."
After wrapping the cigarettes in plastic and putting them in his pocket, and putting on his modified snakeskin raincoat, Lao Jiang watched Wu An run into the wind and rain.
Old Jiang muttered, "Like father, like son. He looks completely rotten, but once he takes action, he can suppress all the young people in the village."
...
Wu An returned home and immediately called A Qing.
Ah Qing was bored at home, and when she received the call, she immediately said she wanted to come over.
Wu An thought for a moment and said, "Let's meet at my house."
"Go to the dock and buy some dead fish and rotten shrimp."
"I'll go home and ask my sister-in-law to borrow a car."
"It would take us two hours to walk to the East Sluice Gate, but only about half an hour by bike."
After quickly packing up, I picked up my fishing gear and headed home.
We encountered Mao Wang on the way.
He intended to pretend he hadn't seen it, but Mao Wang reached out and stopped him again.
Wu An said irritably, "A good dog doesn't block the way."
Mao Wang said, "I heard you made a lot of money from beachcombing. Can you give me some pointers, or take me with you?"
“We’re not on the same wavelength,” Wu An said, walking around him. “Go play somewhere else.”
Mao Wang stopped him again and shouted, "I need to earn money for Shen Fang, you have to help me!"
"Get lost, get lost, get lost." Wu An shoved him impatiently. "It's your freedom to make money for whoever you want, it's none of my business."
to be honest.
Upon his rebirth, he felt somewhat out of place with Shen Fang, Mao Wang, and the others.
How do these people's brains work?
That's some really unique thought process.
Wu An was speechless and hurried home.
Mao Wang stomped his foot in anger, cursed a couple of times, and shouted, "What's so arrogant about that? It's just beachcombing. If you can make money from it, I don't believe I can't."
"If one day isn't enough, I'll do it in two."
"I'd be willing to spend every day in the sea for Shen Fang."
You'll never be as good as me!
...
When Wu An arrived home, his sister-in-law was sitting at the door picking vegetables, and their neighbor, Sister Duan, was sitting next to her, chatting idly.
When Mei Yueqin saw Wu Anlai, she quickly stopped what she was doing and said, "I left you some food, I'll go heat it up."
Wu An told her to stop busying herself after she finished eating, then looked at Sister Duan next to him, greeted her, and said, "Actually, I came to borrow the car."
"I'm planning to go to town."
Sister Duan looked at Mei Yueqin, and the two of them looked at Wu An together: "What are you doing going to town on a rainy day?"
Wu An patted the fishing gear on his back and said, "I know a fishing buddy who said the fish are biting really well near the Zhendong Sluice Gate, so I'm planning to go fishing there."
"Will this work?" Mei Yueqin asked with a worried look. "Let's not even talk about whether we can catch fish in the wind and rain. Besides, the roads are slippery and difficult to walk on when it's raining."
"Sister-in-law, don't worry, just ride slowly." Wu An smiled and said, "The rain isn't too heavy today, it's actually quite suitable for fishing."
"I made several thousand yuan fishing yesterday."
“My fishing buddy said the fish are biting better and I’ll definitely earn more. I don’t want to just sit here doing nothing.”
Mei Yueqin looked at Wu An, hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded, then walked to Old Meng's house with her umbrella.
Wu An went along too.
Old Meng is at home.
Both of his sons have settled down and started families in other places, leaving him as the only son in the family. Both sons are quite filial, and although they don't come back all year, they still give him living expenses every year.
Old Meng just tends to his small plot of land, and he lives a more comfortable life than anyone else.
After listening to Wu An's words, Lao Meng frowned and asked, "Will it work?"
Wu An repeatedly assured him.
"Alright, you can ride the tricycle." Old Meng's family has both two-wheeled and three-wheeled motorcycles, and he said, "This vehicle is more stable."
Wu An thanked him.
Old Meng waved his hand: "Alright, don't be so polite. If you learn well, you can drive this car as you please from now on."
Wu An smiled, rode his bike out, and before leaving, stuffed a pack of cigarettes into Lao Meng's hand.
Old Meng chuckled: "You're quite good at handling things."
A short while later, Aqing also ran over wearing a plastic raincoat. Wu An didn't even get off the vehicle. He told Aqing to put his equipment on the vehicle and then rode the tricycle straight to the East Sluice Gate of the town.
Old Meng, puffing on his cigarette, said cheerfully, "A'an has really made something of himself. He doesn't want to be idle even on rainy days. Not bad, not bad."
Mei Yueqin smiled and said, "Yes."
“He was saying yesterday that he was going to renovate the old house and then tear it down to build a new one.”
Old Meng nodded repeatedly as he listened.
Standing to the side, Sister Duan shook her head and said, "I think it's just a waste of time."
"I've never seen anyone get rich from fishing."
"It's raining today, and they still borrow a car to go fishing. They're really going to make a fool of themselves."
"If others find out, they'll definitely laugh at him."
In fact, Wu An was a joke in the village. Everyone envied him for getting into university, but he was expelled and returned to the village in a sorry state after only a short time.
Then Shen Fang broke up with him, gave up on herself, and became a despicable person that everyone hated.
As a result, he now has to make a living by fishing.
Are you kidding me?
Is fishing really that easy?
If fishing could make you rich, the Lin brothers, Bin and Hu, wouldn't be so disliked in the village.
In the past, Mei Yueqin would not have talked back, but today, she couldn't help but say, "What's so funny? A'an is going to make money. Even if he doesn't catch any fish or make any money, there's nothing to laugh about."
"I think it's great."
"It's better to be busy doing nothing than to just sit around and wait to die."
Old Meng nodded in agreement: "That makes sense."
"Young people should be active and try new things; they might just make it big."
Sister Duan didn't expect these two to talk back to her like that. She snorted twice and then turned to Mei Yueqin, lecturing her, "You really spoil Wu An."
"I think you're partly to blame for Wu An ending up like this."
"You should learn from your dad and be tougher on him."
Then he said to Old Meng, "Uncle Meng, both of your sons are in big cities, so it's easy for you to talk without understanding the situation. How can you make a name for yourself while messing around in the village?"
"Anyone who's truly capable would have already gone out into the world."
This is a roundabout way of saying that Wu An is incompetent.
Old Meng frowned as he listened, and the example of his son made it difficult for him to say anything or not. He could only think to himself, "Who do you think you are to lecture people like this? Do you even know how to live your own life? Just because a divorced woman lives with her parents, does that make her look good?"
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