"Mom, shouldn't you first ask me if I got my money back today and how much money I made? Why are you suddenly taking care of the Chu Xuan family's affairs?"
When Mu Chenze spoke, he stared at Qin Mahua's face, afraid of missing her facial expressions.
Qin Mahua didn't even look at Mu Chenze, "Aren't I working at Chu Xuan's house to make money? I'm the only one who's good to her!"
Mu Chenze continued to test, "She rejected my marriage proposal. Shouldn't you be angry with her? Didn't you go to work at her house to cause trouble? Are you really doing it to make money?"
Qin Mahua slapped him on the back, "Don't think I don't know. Chu Xuan refused to marry because he didn't want Feng Chunhua to suck our family's blood through her in disguise."
"How did you know?"
Mu Chenze never explained this to her at all, he only told Ji Ping.
That was something I had no choice but to say. Ji Ping refused to take on the job of delivering skinned fish without a clear explanation at the time.
Could it be that mother learned this from Ji Ping’s mouth?
Qin Mahua walked into the main room, poured herself a cup of tea, and took a few sips leisurely, "I went to see Ji Ping."
Mu Chenze, who followed the main room, almost tripped over the threshold and tried to steady his figure.
What did Ji Ping say to his mother?
He would have to ask Ji Ping's boat when it docked later.
"Mom, go find Ji Ping. Why didn't Ji Ping tell me? When did you find him?"
Add water to your mother's tea cup.
Qin Mahua grabbed the tea cup and drank it all in one gulp. "I found him after he returned home from delivering fish to Chu Xuan yesterday afternoon. I asked him about some things."
Mu Chenze pretended to be calm, "What did you ask?"
"I asked him why he supplied goods to Chu Xuan. Didn't he know that Chu Xuan rejected my second child? After he explained it to me, I realized that I had wrongly blamed Chu Xuan. Doesn't this mean that Chu Xuan is a miserable girl who can't be like me? Daughter-in-law, you can live with a relative. After all, Feng Chunhua forced her to have her first kiss with you. It will be difficult to find a partner in the future. So I found a reason to ask Gao Meijuan about things and went to Chu Xuan's house. Gao Meijuan was at her house. Killing fish to make money, I naturally sat down to help, and you will know what happened next.”
When she finished speaking and looked up, her son was nowhere to be seen.
Little did he know that as soon as she mentioned the words "first kiss", Mu Chenze blushed with embarrassment and hid in the bedroom as quickly as possible, not wanting to be spotted.
Qin Mahua glanced at her son's bedroom and sighed, "This child! I can't stop worrying about him!"
He stood up, walked to Mu Chenze's door and knocked on the door, "Why are you running into the house? I'm wondering if you can charter a car with Chu Xuan? Charge her less for the fare..."
Mu Chenze had already adjusted his mood, opened the door, and handed over a thick stack of money with a carefree smile, "Yes! You can charge her as much as you want for the fare! I'm not going back to the room to get money to pay you an account." ?"
It’s okay to let the matter of chartering a car together be clear.
If your mother takes the initiative to bring this up, you can avoid a lot of unnecessary trouble.
"Then just charge ten yuan for the fare!" Qin Mahua took the money and counted by herself for a long time, "Seven thousand eight hundred yuan, Xiaoze, you earned two thousand eight hundred yuan in one night. ! Good job! How much do you plan to buy tonight? I'll count the money."
"Three thousand yuan!"
"good."
Mu Chenze did not mention the near miss in the early morning to her.
If she knew about it, she would inevitably be frightened.
He took the three thousand yuan and put it in his pocket, "Mom, I won't be at home for dinner tonight. I will go talk to Ji Ping and eat at his house."
I don’t want to mention Chu Xuan going to cook.
Qin Mahua had no doubt that he was there, "I know! I left lunch in the pot, go and eat it quickly!"
"good."
After eating, Mu Chenze had nothing to do. He pulled the cart and went to the dock to wait to pick up his father and elder brother.
By chance, he met Ji Ping who was returning from the sea.
Ji Ping's boat is a mechanized wooden boat about ten meters long. He usually goes fishing alone.
Haven't thought about categorizing yet.
Mu Chenze helped him unload the goods and borrowed a few large pots from Li Tong to sort them.
More than four hundred kilograms of skinned fish were left behind, and the rest was sold.
A dozen relatively large bass, more than a hundred kilograms of octopus, more than sixty kilograms of Spanish mackerel, and a few kilograms of small miscellaneous fish...
It was sold for more than 220 yuan, and after deducting the cost of sailing the ship to sea, there was still more than 180 yuan left.
Ji Ping looked happy, he had a good harvest today.
I can usually earn dozens of yuan, or at most a hundred yuan.
Mu Chenze waited for him to finish settling the bill with Li Tong, and just when he was about to ask him something, his eldest brother's voice came.
"Ozawa, come over and help unload the goods."
The Mu family's boat docked.
Mu Chenze and Ji Ping went over to help.
The fish have been sorted into categories.
After unloading, just put it on the scale.
There are more than 100 kilograms of hairtail, more than 200 kilograms of Spanish mackerel, more than 200 kilograms of octopus, two sea cucumbers and two abalones each, which are not big, more than 300 kilograms of blue-scaled fish, and more than 600 kilograms of skinned fish...
On the pier, many people envied the Mu family and lamented that the Mu family's shipping volume was booming.
The Mu family's fishing products, excluding skinned fish, sold for nearly 700 yuan, which was the most they earned this year.
The skinned fish were taken away by Ji Ping and settled every month.
The other fishing boats that returned did not have that much cargo, and could not even compare to Ji Ping's harvest.
Some fishermen only sold it for thirty or forty yuan, and of course, some fishermen only sold it for five or six yuan.
Such as Chu Zhi.
Chu Zhi couldn't help but curl his lips towards the Mu family's fishing boat and murmured in a low voice, "That bitch Chu Xuan is really unlucky. If she successfully marries into the Mu family, will she not be able to enjoy the blessings? If she doesn't listen to my mother, she will have to refuse the marriage, and she won't be able to do so again in the future. Working so hard to survive? It seems like I have to listen to my mother! If I listen to my mother, I will have food to eat and money to spend."
Not at all discouraged by the lack of fishing.
Suddenly, the news that the Mu family's fishing boat could earn 700 yuan per trip spread throughout the small fishing village.
Mu Chenze reserved two large hairtail fish, greeted his father and elder brother, and prepared to go to Ji Ping's house.
Mu Chenfu suddenly stopped him, "Second brother, I want to go too. Shall we have some drinks tonight? Your sister-in-law is very strict at home and only allows two sips..."
If it were before, Mu Chenze would definitely say it was okay, but not today.
"Brother, Ji Ping and I have something private to discuss. Let's go to his house for a drink together another day!"
Mu Chenfu was thin-skinned and did not persist, "Okay, let's wait another day."
Follow Mu Qinlao home.
Ji Ping borrowed Li Tong's scale and weighed all the skinned fish, a total of one thousand two hundred and one kilograms.
Put it on the cart and go to deliver fish to Chu Xuan's family later.
Li Tong had already heard that Ji Ping also helped Chu Xuan collect fish, "Ji Ping, how much did you sell the skinned fish to Chu Xuan for a pound?"
Ji Ping scratched his head, "I haven't settled the bill yet! Once every month, she said she would charge the market price."
"Once a month? Then you have to keep track of your accounts. The price of skinned fish is different every day."
"Thank you for reminding."
Ji Ping did keep accounts every day, but he would not tell Li Tong that the skinned fish he caught were priced at the market price, but the fish he collected from the Mu family was charged at three cents per catty.
This was what Chenze had agreed with him in advance.
Mu Chenze shouted to Ji Ping to leave, and if he continued to follow Li Tong, it would delay the progress of Chu Xuan's fish killing.
Ji Ping pulled the trolley away from the dock, and Mu Chenze whispered, "Chu Xuan will go to your house to cook in a moment."
Ji Ping almost rolled over, but Mu Chenze helped to hold him on.
"Chenze, what's going on between you and her? Is this a love affair and has it come to my house?"
