Rebirth 1983

Chapter 38 The Lobster Competition

"What, that kid rejected you?" The sister-in-law looked at Chen Mo, and the anger on her face couldn't be concealed any more: "You bastard, you are his big brother. You were raised by hugging you when you were young, but now you would rather help a widow or a fool than help you?"

After Chen Mo returned home, he told his mother-in-law what Chen Song had said, but was interrupted by his mother-in-law before he finished speaking.

"No, listen to me..."

"What are you talking about? What else is there to say? If you go to the door to help him in person, it's fine if he doesn't like it, and you still defend those two outsiders. What do you think your big brother failed in doing?"

The sister-in-law was furious, and her voice started to fight, waking up her son who was sleeping on the bed, and the child was crying.

"What's the matter, what's the matter, why is my eldest grandson crying?"

Hearing the sound of his eldest grandson crying, Huang Qin, who loved his grandson next door, rushed into the main house. Seeing Chen Mo and his mother-in-law standing there, he thought they had quarreled.

"Mom, you came at a good time. You come to judge. I asked Chen Mo to find his younger brother to do the lobster business together. It is because my family can not only help, but also guard against outsiders. Unexpectedly, I didn't expect that the third brother not only refused, but also defended the two outsiders."

The sister-in-law told Huang Qin about this matter, and added more details, and said it vividly.

While coaxing his eldest grandson, Huang Qin's expression darkened immediately after hearing what his daughter-in-law said.

"What's the matter with this son-in-law, he doesn't think about his own people. Isn't this letting others see our old Chen family's joke?" Huang Qin was also indiscriminate, and he didn't like his third son very much. Now when he heard his daughter-in-law's words, he frowned even more: "I'll go and talk to him right away, what's the matter!"

"Wait a minute, mom, wife." Chen Mo had been interrupted by his wife and old lady's words all the time, and had no chance to speak, and now he was finally able to speak, and quickly stopped them both.

"Don't go, although the third brother didn't agree to let me sell lobsters together, but he also gave me an idea to make money."

Fearing that the two of them really didn't care, Chen Mo went to find trouble with the third brother, hurriedly dissuaded them, and told the follow-up that was interrupted by their conversation.

"Huh? The idea of ​​making money?" The sister-in-law paused, and hurriedly grabbed her mother-in-law, her face changed instantly, from cloudy to sunny: "I said how our third brother would forget us, isn't this an idea? Why don't you talk about the idea of ​​making money!"

"Son, just tell me, what did Songwazi tell you, that you can also make money like him?" After putting the eldest grandson to sleep again, the old lady Huangqin also relaxed.

"The third brother said that when they bought lobsters, they found that people in the county also like snails, so I suggested that I buy some snails and sell them in the county, preferably next to their stalls. The third brother said that it would be profitable."

Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that they seemed to have given up trying to trouble Chen Song, so he said this.

"Selling snails? It seems to be good." The sister-in-law frowned, thought for a moment, and looked at Huang Qin: "Grandma, what do you think? Are people in the county willing to buy our snails?"

"This……"

How could Huangqin know this, he hesitated a few times, but didn't answer the words.

"If you want me to tell you, since the third brother said it, it must be okay. You see, people in the county even eat crayfish, and snails must also like it. Let's do this."

Chen Mo's confidence had been strengthened by Chen Song long ago, and he wanted to start this matter.

After hearing Chen Mo's words, the sister-in-law still nodded suspiciously: "Okay, let's touch the snails later, and then spit out the sand overnight, and we can get them out tomorrow, and then sell them at night to try the water."

Huang Qin saw that the husband and wife had already made a decision, so he didn't care, put the child back on the bed, and quietly left the room, heading towards the firewood house.Chen Aiguo was about to return home from work in the field, and his youngest son was about to go to school. The family hadn't made dinner yet, so it might be a bit late.

……

Chen Zhiguo.

With a straight face, Chen Zhiguo taught his naughty son Xiaohu a lesson.

While Chen Zhiguo was busy, this kid killed most of the lobsters he brought in this morning.After all, children are naughty, and they will never let go of something interesting. This crayfish is a toy for boys.

He gave Xiaohu a meal of fried meat with bamboo shoots, and asked him to go to the hut to touch his little butt and cry, but Chen Zhiguo ignored him, looking at the dead lobsters all over the place, his heart was full of anger.

Chen Zhiguo was the first person to know that Chen Song sold lobsters to make money, so he was the first to catch lobsters this morning. He had at least a dozen catties of lobsters, and even according to Chen Song's purchase price, they were worth a few dollars. Now that they are all dead, they must not be able to sell for so much money.

"They're all dead. It seems that there's no hope for those who sell their jobs. Otherwise, let's wash it and make it into that brat Chen Song's spicy lobster and sell it for money." Chen Zhiguo thought for a while, but he couldn't let his hard work all morning go to waste, so he made up his mind, gathered up a pile of dead lobsters on the ground, washed them, boiled them with a lot of pepper, and made them into spicy lobsters.

He couldn't bear to pour so much oil into the crayfish. After all, the price of oil at this time was not low. Chen Zhiguo didn't even know that Chen Song didn't use oil, and the method was quite different from his. The spicy crayfish he made was not the kind that can be produced by just adding some chili peppers in today's cooking skills.

Feeling that the crayfish he cooks look pretty good, Chen Zhiguo smiled: "It's not that Zhang Fei eats bean sprouts, it's a piece of cake! This brat Chen Song still wants to monopolize this business. Didn't I also make this thing? I'll grab your business at night."

Thinking of this, Chen Zhiguo took the bucket of lobsters, borrowed a cow from the cattle breeder in the village, put it in a cart, and drove towards the county.

Chen Zhiguo already knew the place where Chen Song sold lobsters, so he couldn't go wrong.

When he arrived, he found that Chen Song had already opened for sale. People in front of the small stall were queuing up, drooling and waiting, and there were three buckets of lobster on the board, even one bucket bottomed out, and Chen Song was selling the second bucket of lobster.

"Come and see, come and buy! The best crayfish in Chenjia'ao, the price is cheap and delicious, come and buy!" Chen Zhiguo saw that there were more and more people at Chen Song's side, and after he lifted the lid of the lobster bucket, no one cared, he immediately shouted.

Needless to say, there were really a few people walking out of Chen Song's queue, and they couldn't wait for that long, so they walked towards Chen Zhiguo's stall.

"Boss, is it three yuan a catty to hold a lobster?"

The person who asked the question was a middle-aged man who had eaten Chen Song's crayfish yesterday and never forgot about it.He was originally in line behind Chen Song's booth, but he was attracted by the shouts, thinking that they were all lobsters, so the taste should not be much different.

"Three yuan a catty?" Chen Zhiguo rolled his eyes and secretly smiled in his heart: "Yes, it's also three yuan a catty. It's absolutely delicious. Would you like a portion?"

"Then have one." The middle-aged man paid immediately.

Seeing the newly received ten-cent notes, Chen Zhiguo's body was trembling with excitement.

That's three dollars? ? ?

Chen Zhiguo quickly handed a plate of lobsters to the middle-aged man, and after Du Fu took it, he didn't leave, just grabbed the top one and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Nonsence!"

The man spit out the lobster directly and retched a few times.

"Why is your lobster so unpalatable? What business do you do? How do you do this?" The man felt better after retching a few times, and immediately stepped forward to scold Chen Zhiguo angrily.

"How could it be unpalatable? Don't talk nonsense!"

How could Chen Zhiguo admit that his lobster was unpalatable, and the two immediately quarreled.

(End of this chapter)