Chapter 151 The matchmaker can’t be trusted

"Take it and put it away." Li Changle handed the beads to Zhou Ruonan, sat down at the table, picked up a bunch of banknotes, and knocked on the table, "Brother, Ah Wei, let's divide the money first."

"Okay!" The three of them sat down happily while rubbing their hands. Each person divided ninety-six points, plus the more than one hundred in the morning, they earned more than two hundred in one day.

Chen Yongwei grinned and handed the money to Grandma Chen, "Look, Grandma, if you follow my brother, you will make a lot of money every day!"

Grandma Chen smiled so hard that she couldn't see her teeth, "I know your brother A Le is good, but you are stupid. Listen to your brother more and follow him and work hard."

Li Changle was speechless, how could he talk about his grandson like this? That brat Awei even nodded in agreement.

"Grandma, Ah Wei is just a stupid person, not a stupid person at all. Don't talk about him like that in the future. People will really think he is stupid after hearing this!"

Grandma Chen felt uncomfortable when she thought about what Ah Cai, the matchmaker, said. The stinky old woman actually said that my Ah Wei was able to get a widow into the house because the ancestors of the Chen family had blessed her.

He also said that he grew tall in vain and had no brains. He followed A Le every day as a coolie. If I told him about the money A Le gave him, the strong men in the village would rather line up and let A Le choose them for him.

Do hard work.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but slap her mouth, "You all blame me. I used to say Ah Wei was stupid every day, but now even outsiders say the same thing."

Li Changle: "What's going on? My cousin went to your house to introduce Awei to a partner?"

These days, most elders like to say that their children are not good. In fact, they are just talking. They just don't know how to praise their children, but if others say that their children are not good, they will immediately get angry.

Grandma Chen nodded, "That stinky bitch Ah Cai introduced my Ah Wei to a dead man who was a widow three years older than him. I was so angry that I picked up the broom and kicked her out."

Chen Yongwei: "Grandma, what's the point of being angry? Just look down on me and don't ask for it. I'm pretty good like this now."

Li Changle: "Grandma, don't pay attention to her. As the old saying goes, you would rather believe that there are ghosts in the world than believe the matchmaker's mouth."

Grandma Chen laughed and said, "Ah Le is still good at persuading people."

Father Li also tried to persuade him: "Aunt Chen, what A Le said is right. When A Wei builds the new house, there will naturally be older girls willing to marry in."

Chen Yongwei nodded repeatedly, "Grandma, we earn one or two hundred dollars a day. We are lucky. In two or three months, we will have enough money to build a house. Just wait until you become a great-grandmother."

Thinking about it, Grandma Chen really thought that with an income of one to two hundred a day, if she was lucky, she would be able to lay the foundation and prepare the masonry and earthwork in less than two or three months.

"Are you really planning to grant the homestead in Nanshan?"

Father Li also raised his head and looked at Li Changle and others, "Yes, are you really planning to grant the homestead in Nanshan?"

Li Changle knew that he wanted to build the foundation at the entrance of the village, and thought that he would be hit a few times anyway, so he might as well hit it early, so he nodded without hesitation.

"Abba, I'm not planning to approve it there, but I've already decided where to approve it. I think it's a good place, it's spacious, it's close to the pier, and you don't have to dig through mountains and drill holes."

"Yes, Dad, Ah Le said he wanted to live there, and we didn't feel good about it. I went to ask about the road sign today, and he said it's good to live there."

Brother Li also nodded, "Abba, it's spacious over there. It will be convenient for everything you do in the future."

"..." Father Li looked at his three sons for a moment, a little disappointed, but also a little relieved and said, "Okay, you can earn your own money and build your own house. You can build it wherever you like."

"Abba, do you agree?" Li Changle, who was waiting to be beaten, didn't get the cane and was still a little uncomfortable.

"So what if you don't agree? I didn't earn the money, and I can't control you for the rest of your life." Father Li picked up the cane and tapped him lightly.

"Your father is right. We are getting old and we have to leave sooner or later. You have to live your life on your own."

Grandma Chen paused and said to Father Li, "They have decided to grant the homestead site in Nanshan. We will go there to have a look when we have time, pick a better location, and ask A Dong for help to lay the foundation."

Come down."

Father Li nodded, "Let Xiaohua accompany you to see it tomorrow."

Brother Li Changle and others said happily: "With you helping to steer the ship, we will just make money and build new houses."

Granny Chen said with a smile: "Young people have young people's ideas. We are old, so we can only help you."

"If you don't hurry up and help serve the food, you have to clean up the catch after you eat it. It will stink later." Father Li smiled and kicked Li Changle.

Chen Yongwei looked at Grandma Chen, "Grandma, are we eating here too?"

"Let's eat together, your grandma brought us the rations." Father Li said with a smile.

"Okay!"

As soon as Li Changle and others went out, they saw Zhou Ruonan's sisters-in-law and several others coming with food. They greeted the children who were playing in the yard after drinking malted milk. They all sat down and started eating.

Vegetarian stir-fried Chinese cabbage, steamed dried fish, braised green zhan, cold pig ears, and seaweed and shrimp soup were quickly served on the table.

Li Changle felt that the cold pig ears at night were much fresher than the pig mouth at noon, "Which chef made the cold dish at night? It tasted really good."

"I mixed it all." Zhou Ruonan said with a smile, "Maybe it's because I added oyster sauce."

"It's a waste of fuel after cooking. I'll pour some for dipping in the dried fish."

"I'll get it for you." Zhou Ruonan got up and went to his parents' place, bringing over the can containing the fuel consumption. "Look, most of the bucket of oysters has only been boiled for so long."

Li Changle wanted to eat his own homemade oyster sauce last time, so he took it and dipped it in with the tip of his chopsticks. After tasting it, he felt that the genuine oyster sauce was really sweet and fresh.

Tongue.

"The island we went to today has Buddha's hands, oysters, oyster snails, clams, and general hats. I will take you with me next time I go there."

After hearing this, Li Xiaoyang hurriedly said: "Uncle Third, we are going too."

"Okay, let's go together next time."

Li Changle's cheerful attitude made the children very happy. The older ones immediately said that they would help wash the oysters and dry the dried oyster meat tomorrow.

The younger ones said they would drive away the flies tomorrow to prevent them from laying their eggs in the dried oysters.

After the family had eaten, Mother Li, Sister-in-law Li, and Sister-in-law Li were busy collecting the catch.

Grandma Chen helped Zhou Ruonan clean up the dishes. After Li Changle and others finished eating, they also went to get a flashlight and carried a bucket to the well to help kill the fish.

Take out the internal organs from the belly of the fish, clean them, filter out the excess water, and pickle them with light salt. After sending some to Li Changxi, uncle Wang, uncle Wang, and third uncle the next day, not much is left.

Those big fish weighing four to five kilograms each have a lot of fish intestines and a lot of fish oil, so the porcelain basin is filled quickly.

Li Changle suddenly remembered that the fried fish intestines tasted pretty good, "Anan, take out the fish intestines and stir-fry some ginger, garlic, bean paste, and chili peppers. It's even more delicious than pig intestines."

"Then I'll pack up a bowl and try it tomorrow." Zhou Ruonan said and went to get the fish intestines.

"The fish intestines have a strong fishy smell, what's so delicious?" Grandma Chen said with a smile, "Ale thinks of some weird ways to eat it every day."

"A Nan has a good temper, and he does everything he wants." Mother Li smiled and stepped forward to help. After thinking about it, she asked, "A Nan, you said you saw your fourth aunt at A Qing's house and asked your third aunt to borrow money. Did you lend it to her?

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Zhou Ruonan shook his head, "I saw that the third aunt was also wiping away tears. She gave the fish to Ah Qing and left."

After hearing this, Mother Li felt that she probably didn't get the loan, because as long as Xu Xianmei lent her the money, she would never get it back.

If you go to ask for money, she will cry for three days and three nights. She will go back and forth and say that her family has no money and she can't even open the door. Her brother and sister-in-law look down on their family's poverty and so on...

She began to worry that Aunt Li had not borrowed the money and would come to her house to borrow it.

"I know why the fourth aunt borrowed the money." Sister-in-law Li said, "I heard from Axiu that the fourth uncle's diesel engine burned out. The fourth aunt said that Yufang is a broom star and will defeat them when she comes home."

"Yesterday, I chased her with a broom and beat her. Several newly married young wives in the village thought that Yufang was not her biological daughter, but an old stepmother."

Mother Li curled her lips in disgust, "What did she do? I have never seen such a person in my whole life. She treated her brothers' children as treasures and her own children as straw. She dragged the whole family to help her raise her mother's children.

A nest.”

"Auntie, how come the fourth uncle doesn't care about the fourth aunt, and he lets her empty his own house to support her mother's family?" Li Changle thought of the fourth aunt of the Li family, and thought of what later generations would say about the devil who helps his younger brother.

This fourth aunt is more willing to help her younger brother than to help her younger brother. She would rather hollow out her own family, treat her children poorly, and make the whole family hungry, but she also wants to subsidize her mother's younger brother to eat, drink, sleep, marry, and have children.

The fourth uncle's family has four children, three daughters and one son. The two eldest daughters are both married.

Ah Shui is the third child, 17 or 18 years old this year, and Li Yufang is the youngest daughter. She was a pretty girl, but because she secretly ate a piece of mint ointment, she planned to give it to her natal brother.

She grabbed her and pinched her so hard that her mouth and face were covered with fingernail marks, and she hit her head with the back of a kitchen knife more than a dozen times. She didn't care about the injuries on her head, and took her things back to her parents' house.

When grandma found out, she took Yufang to the village health center for medicine and iodophor.

The fourth uncle is also a strange person. He seems to be blind and deaf when he comes back. He can't see or hear. As long as he comes back from the sea and has a small drink, he doesn't care about anything.

From then on, whenever the fourth aunt had something unhappy, she would take it out on Yufang. The old wounds on her head did not heal, and new ones appeared. The wounds on her head became infected and turned into sores, which turned into leprosy.

When Grandma was here, she couldn't bear the suffering of her granddaughter, so she took Li Yufang to live with her and raised her until she was fifteen or sixteen years old.

After grandma left, the uncle's family demolished the small house, and Yufang went home.

When I was twenty-six or seven, I married a mute from Shaji Village who couldn't get a wife. After marrying me, I severed all ties with my parents' family and only interacted with my uncle.

Fortunately, the mute was very kind to her and gave birth to a well-behaved and smart son. Unfortunately, Yufang was in poor health and died of a serious illness when she was only in her forties.

"How to care?" Mother Li curled her lips and said, "It was better before the family was separated. After the family separation, any good things were given to honor the Xu family.

Your fourth uncle beat and scolded her, but they didn't quarrel or make trouble with you. She stood there with tears falling down her face as if she didn't want any money.
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