The Age of Rebirth: Struggle of the Eldest Daughter

Chapter 5 The Gift of the Sea

On November 1998th of the lunar calendar in [-], it was sunny and sunny, and the winter in the south was not freezing.

In the early morning in the countryside, the smoke from the kitchen is curling up, quiet and peaceful.

Su Yumei got up at five o'clock in the morning to carry water and cook porridge. After breakfast, the family got busy with their duties.

The three Su Yuhui brothers set off up the mountain to work in the quarry at six o'clock. Su Jinshun and his wife started to process the oysters they picked yesterday. Su Manjin followed Zeng Meiyue back to the grocery store to check the goods and prepare for the opening. Chicken and duck, pouring vegetables.

Su Manjin went to the East Wing to check on her younger brother, the little baby was still soundly asleep, covered with a blanket, her little face was flushed.

Looking at his younger brother's curled eyelashes, Su Manjin thought that he didn't have a smartphone at this time, otherwise he really wanted to take a photo of his younger brother.

Su Jinyang looked more like a girl when she was a child, with a round face and a big head, she was very cute.However, since entering junior high school, he began to grow taller, and the contours of his face gradually became angular. When he graduated from high school, he was 183 cm tall and weighed 125 catties.

In the previous life, both parents were tired of coping with life, and there was no habit of taking pictures at home.

Later, she found the only photo of her childhood, which was taken in the town when she was two years old and accompanied her parents to contract a quarry in other places.And there was no group photo of the siblings when they were two hours old.

Su Manjin put down the mosquito net and walked out of the room lightly.Anyway, it's still early, and the baby is growing up, so let him sleep for a while.

Su Manjin helped her mother take stock of the goods, and found that there were only some groceries such as rice noodles and seasonings in the store, and there were no cigarettes, alcohol, drinks, and daily necessities.

With such a single product, it is difficult to attract customers.Su Manjin discussed with her mother that they would go to his uncle's store in Shuitou Village first, to see if there were any other goods, so that they could buy some and sell them in the store.

Zeng Meiyue has a bicycle, which should be the most valuable asset of the Su family.

Because Sujia Village is some distance away from her natal home, Shuitou Village, in order to make it easier for her to go back to her natal home, her great-grandfather specially bought her a bicycle as a dowry.

Zeng Meiyue took her daughter with her on a bicycle and it took nearly half an hour to get to her eldest brother's grocery store.Zeng Huashan loved this youngest sister the most, and hurriedly greeted their mother and daughter.

He was sincerely happy for his sister after listening to his sister's plan for store promotion and improvement of product categories.Yaomei has made up her mind to manage the store well.

These days, as long as you are not afraid of being tired and are willing to do business, your monthly income will definitely not be less than that of doing manual labor as a laborer.

The brothers and sisters discussed to replenish the goods. The quantity of each product does not need to be too much. As long as they are sold, they can come to replenish the goods at any time.All kinds of goods were packed into two big boxes. Zeng Huashan made a list for his sister, marking the purchase price and the suggested selling price.

"Brother, I have caused you trouble again. I owe you 700 yuan for these goods today, plus the 1000 yuan I took before, the total is 1700 yuan. I will pay you back as soon as I sell some."

"Oh, little sister, you don't have to worry about the payment. Big brother will help you to pay for it first, so you can run the business with peace of mind and start the business. If there is anything you don't understand in the process, you can ask big brother at any time."

Zeng Huashan replied, and asked his eldest son to deliver the goods to his younger sister on a motorcycle, so as not to make the bicycle difficult to load.

Zeng Meiyue was busy going back to the store to sort out the goods, and Zeng Huashan was also going to open for business. The siblings didn't chat for too long, and Zeng Meiyue took Su Manjin home.

After helping her mother tidy up the goods and having lunch, Su Manjin quickly finished the homework assigned by the school.It is also very helpless to let her a 35-year-old mind do these first-grade homework.

Su Manjin thought about it, and the follow-up campus time also had to be planned, after all, he still had a lot of things to do.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, after taking a nap, Xiao Jinyang got dressed, and taking advantage of the warm afternoon sun, the three aunts and nephews were ready to go to the sea.Su Yumei was carrying a basket, bucket, long-handled tongs, multi-toothed rake, small shovel, and gloves. It could be said that she had all the tools.

Su Jinyang was elated, holding her sister's hand in one hand, shaking it as she walked, and holding a plastic shovel and small bucket in the other, full of anticipation for the "gift from the sea" that sister said yesterday.

The three of them walked from the new village to the old village at the end and passed through Xiaocuo Village. They saw the Mazu Palace and the continuous coastline.

The sky is high and the clouds are light, the sea and sky are the same color, and the blue sea is sparkling.The white and crystal-clear water splashed up gently, caressing the soft sandy beach, and retreating reluctantly.The waves draw strips of silver edges under the beach, as if setting a gleaming silver frame on the mighty sea, making the sea more charming and beautiful.

Su Manjin likes this sea the most.She had one of the few beautiful and carefree youthful moments in her previous life, and all her romances were related to this sea.

Dahai, I’m back~ I’m going to give me some presents this time too, thank you!

Su Yumei took her siblings to a place less than 100 meters away from the sea, letting her nephew and niece play with the sand on the beach, while she herself walked tens of meters toward the sea, squatting on the ground and turning over the sand with a multi-toothed rake. Try digging for clams.

Su Manjin took his younger brother to "treasure hunt" beside the reef.The tide had just receded at this location, and some seawater had accumulated in some low-lying places on the edge of the reef, and Xiao Jinyang was amazed again and again.

"Sister, look quickly, there are small fish in the water!"

"Sister, there are little crabs! Look."

Su Manjin helped his younger brother catch a few small fish and crabs into his small bucket, and let him play beside him.On the other hand, he took a long-handled fire tongs and lightly flipped the small stones beside the water at the junction of the reef and the puddle.

After a while, I found a swimming crab with teeth and claws, which was quite big.Su Manjin quickly grabbed it and threw it into his bucket, then turned around and continued to search.

"Xiaoyang, come and take a look, here is a big conch!" Su Manjin turned a hole under the reef, and pulled out two conchs the size of a palm.

"Wow, sister, is this snail real? It's so big!" Xiao Jinyang has always been very supportive :)
"Well, it's true, there's meat in it, it's plump, I'll let my aunt fry the snails to eat at night!" Su Manjin finished sharing, and continued to search under the reef, and fished out several flower clams and sea snails. The oysters were dropped in the bucket.

Xiao Jinyang stopped playing with the little crabs and little fishes in his bucket, and followed her sister, staring at her sister's tongs expectantly.Sister is good at treasure hunting.

Su Manjin flexibly used the long-handled tongs, turned over a few small rocks, and found another crab.Before she could pick it up, Xiao Jinyang called out: "Big crab, sister, grab it quickly."

"You can eat fried crab at night." In the last life, fried crab was Su Xusheng's best dish, and Su Manjin liked it very much.

Suddenly, Su Manjin saw something wriggling under the waves of the reef.

"Xiaoyang, move away, there is something moving under there, if you jump up, you will be frightened."

Su Manjin used the tongs to lightly pull it a few times, and the sea water became a little cloudy. After a while, the sand settled down, and he saw a thing as long as his own palm wriggling.Be careful to pinch it with tongs, but it slipped away unexpectedly.Su Manjin put down the poker, and quietly reached out to grab it with his gloved left hand.

Um?Soft, take a closer look, sea cucumber! !It was bigger than what I had eaten in my previous life!
"Brother, we sent it, the sea sent us a gift! This is a wild sea cucumber, which is rarely seen."

"Wow, great!"

"Auntie, Auntie, come and see, Elder Sister has caught a sea cucumber!" Xiao Jinyang clasped his hands into a small horn, and shouted towards Su Yumei who was not far away.

Su Yumei thought something was wrong, so she quickly picked up the basket and came over.As a result, at a glance, Su Manjin was holding a mollusc creature she had never seen before.

"Xiao Man, what is this thing? It's soft and a bit scary. Throw it away quickly."

Su Manjin smiled: "Auntie, this is a good thing. It's called sea cucumber. It can nourish the body, and it's also very expensive." Then she walked to Xiao Jinyang's bucket and put the sea cucumber into the small bucket.

Xiao Jinyang is so happy, my sister has found a baby again, and let me keep it :)
"Xiao Man, can this food really be eaten? Can it be sold for money?" Su Yumei didn't quite believe it.

"Don't worry, aunt, our teacher showed us a picture book before, and there was an introduction to this animal called sea cucumber in the picture book."

Su Manjin continued to search along the puddles at the bottom of the reef.Su Yumei saw that her niece and daughter could find good things here, so she followed suit.

After more than an hour, my aunts and nephews found four more conch shells, three big crabs, a handful of clams, a small handful of golden snails, and a large handful of spicy snails.

Although I didn't find the sea cucumber my niece mentioned, I didn't expect such a bumper harvest, and the bucket was almost full.Su Yumei was very happy. Clams and sea snails could be fried, golden snails and spicy snails could be pickled, and porridge with salted snails would go well with rice.

"Auntie, we've finished rummaging around the rocks, let's dig for clams."

　小时候 妈妈 对 我 讲
　　The sea is my hometown

　　海边 出生 海 里 成长
　　The sea, the sea is where I live
　　The sea breeze blows and the sea waves swell and drift with me in all directions
　　The sea, the sea is like mother

　　Traveling all over the world, always by my side
　　
　
(End of this chapter)