Chapter 441 of 1032
Chapter 441: Irresponsible lazy man (5)
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It was getting dark, and there were fewer people on the dock. The remaining
fish Jihuai simply stopped selling and packed up their things and went home.
Yin Cai and his daughter walked in front, and he followed behind with his
fishing net. He took off his water shoes, his trousers were wet a lot, curled
up high and low, with a straw hat on his head. When he met an acquaintance, he
still greeted him warmly.
"Are you going to sea?" The other side looked at him like this and asked.
"Isn't it." Ji Huai was still a little stunned.
"What good stuff did you catch?"
"As soon as I got out of the horse, of course I caught a lot of good goods,
and they were all sold out. There are also a few mullet. Take them back and
fry them." Ji Huai took the fish out of the bucket and stuffed them hard.
Poor is poor, lazy is lazy, but he is good-looking and generous to outsiders.
The other party happily thanked him and walked away with two mullets.
Yin Cai naturally listened in front of him, and was accustomed to his
appearance.
Walking home all the way, Yin Cai went to the kitchen to cook, took out the
cutting board, and placed it on the ground while processing the salmon, ready
to be braised.
The crab is still fresh, so she doesn't plan to put too much condiment, try to
keep the taste delicious, steamed with sauce is also good.
Outside the kitchen.
With a cigarette in his mouth, Ji Huai was handling his fishing net and
packing his props. When he saw that Ji Ziqing was about to boil water, he
helped her lift the boiling pot of water.
When Ji Ziqing went to pick vegetables, he pointed to the beans, "Pick some of
that, and fry them."
She walked to the bean stand and began to pick the beans. This season is
cowpea, also known as carob, a long one. The vine grows on a carob frame, and
the beans hang down one by one, and you have to pick them long and full.
Cowpeas grow fast, and if they are not picked in time, they will become "old",
soft and tasteless.
After Ji Huai packed his things, his body was slimy, and he went to take a
shower. In the cities in the south by the sea, there is no winter at all, and
he takes cold showers all year round.
After receiving a bucket of water, I went in for a bath, took a two-and-a-
half-dollar old brand soap, washed from head to toe, and poured from top to
bottom, usually in less than ten minutes.
When he came out, he helped Ji Ziqing pour out the hot water and carried it to
the shed, "Go take a bath."
"Yeah." She returned quietly.
Before Ji Ziqing entered the bun, she took a peek at Ji Huai. In the past, my
father seldom went home. She and mother needed to do everything. Mom was too
hard, and she did everything she could to help her.
Dad has been at home in the past few days. As long as Dad is there, she can do
a lot of things. She doesn’t want Dad to go out and drink every day. Isn’t it
good to be at home all the time?
Ji Huai took a shower and wandered in the yard comfortably, looking at the
tall buildings around him, without any thoughts. The reason why a lazy person
is lazy is that there is no need or desire. Hope, if there is a pursuit, he
will not be lazy.
He feels that living in a tall building is the same, he doesn't care at all.
Yin Cai cooked the meal, and the family of three was eating.
The crab was placed in front of Ji Ziqing, with a pot of braised salmon in the
middle. Because Ji Huai had a big appetite, Yin Cai made a whole fish.
In the meantime, when talking about Ji Ziqing's test results this time, her
language has been a bit regressive, and Yin Cai asked her to be more careful
next time.
Ji Huai gnawed at the fish's head and said, "Well, read, you can read, and you
can't read it. Your dad didn't read much, didn't he still live well?"
"Don't study like you?" Yin Cai couldn't help but mock him.
"What's wrong with me? I can eat and sleep, and the days are not bad." He was
confident with a hint of honey.
Yin Caiqi didn't fight at all. "The teacher said that Ziqing is a material for
reading. What are you trying to mix with? It's okay if you don't encourage
her. Can you stop mixing with it?"
"I don't mean anything else, I mean don't be stressed..." Ji Huai said that
with a guilty conscience at the end, he quickly changed the subject and picked
up a crab for his daughter. "How fresh is this crab meat, eat more." Point.
Dad will keep it for you next time I go to sea."
"Thank you Dad." Ji Ziqing buried her head in eating crabs.
Yin Cai also didn't bother to care about him. Compared with Ji Huai's previous
ignorance, now willing to leave crabs for his daughter is an improvement.
In the past, Jihuai had to go for a walk around the village after eating. Even
if there were only twenty yuan in his pocket, he would have to go to the small
shop in the village to buy a few bottles of beer and find a place to sit with
them. If you drink it, a pack of peanuts can be used as a side dish.
I haven't gone for a stroll lately. Yin Cai came out of the bath and saw him
sitting on the floor in the house sorting out the banknotes he received today.
It was stuffed into his pocket and crumpled into a ball, and he was spreading
it out one by one.
Ji Ziqing sat next to him, lying on the bed doing homework.
The room was so small that she had to go around him in order to get to the
bed, and Yin Cai asked him to move away.
Ji Huai leaned against the cabinet, leaving her a way, Yin Cai walked over and
climbed onto the bed.
She sat on the bed and looked down, seeing clearly. Ji Huai already has a few
red banknotes in his hand, and it seems that the income is good today.
They live by the sea, and the local economy is relatively good compared to the
entire province. Even if they work hard, there are at least two hundred a day.
If there is only one reason for being poor, that is laziness. Ji Huai is not
only lazy, but also lazy.
Ji Huai sorted out the banknotes and quickly counted them in his hand, "One,
two, three, four, four hundred, five, five hundred, five hundred two..."
When Ji Ziqing heard her father's thoughts behind her, she stopped the hand of
homework, turned and turned to look at him.
Ji Huai just finished counting, a total of five hundred and ninety-seven, plus
the money collected online, it was about a thousand or so. Excluding the oil
money, you can make a net profit of hundreds.
He counted it again, saw his daughter looking at her, looked at her, then
looked down at the money in his hand, and drew out two red bills to her,
"Here."
Yin Cai was wiping hand cream, seeing his movements, she also looked over.
Ji Ziqing didn't pick it up immediately, but instead looked at her mother.
"Don't the school have to pay for the food? I will pay it tomorrow." Yin Cai
reminded her daughter.
Ji Huai was in a good mood, so he had to accept it immediately, or he would
say that he had no money when he finished spending it. He has to let him take
it when he has money. If he doesn't take the initiative to give it today, she
will also force him to give it.
Ji Ziqing stretched out his hand next.
"I'll give you another thirty. Go buy some snacks." Ji Huai put thirty yuan in
front of her again, stood up, and put the remaining money in his pocket.
There is no good part.
She also got used to it and went to bed with a quilt. He gave two hundred, and
he saved two hundred, which was enough.
Ji Ziqing looked at the thirty yuan on the bed, picked it up gently, put the
twenty yuan in the piggy bank beside the bed, and put the remaining ten yuan
in the bag and closed the zipper.
The next day.
Ji Huai went to sea before dawn, and Yin Cai sent her daughter to school.
Sending Ji Ziqing to the school gate, she told her daughter, "Dad will give
you the money in the future, you have to keep it, or your dad will spend it
all. When you see him have money, you have to ask him to take it, you know?"
Ji Ziqing didn't speak.
Seeing this, Yin Cai sighed again and asked her daughter to ask Ji Huai to get
the money. She was afraid that it would be more difficult than going to the
sky, so she said again, "Forget it, he will just continue."
"Yeah." This time, Ji Ziqing nodded and said goodbye to her mother.
Yin Cai watched her daughter walk to a certain distance, checked the time, and
drove forward quickly.
When Ji Ziqing stood at the gate, she looked back at her, clutching the
schoolbag belt in both hands, and walked to the classroom.
The elementary school in the small town has only two classes for each grade,
namely Class One and Class Two.
When Ji Ziqing walked into a class, the class bell rang, and the study
committee member walked to the podium and took the lead to lead the reading.
"The little rooster and the little duck."
"The little ** and the little duck go out to play together..."
....
Reading aloud came one after another in the class, Ji Ziqing took out the
textbook and read aloud together.
When class was about to end, the head teacher came in to collect the food and
said to the students, "From tomorrow, we will take turns to let the students
take the school, starting with the student number, tomorrow will be Chen Xun,
the day after tomorrow will be Ji Ziqing... ."
After finishing talking, the head teacher walked to Ji Ziqing's side and
arranged the text for her to read. She was so nervous that she was gripping
the corner of her school uniform with timid eyes.
"Don't be afraid, read more to get used to it." The head teacher smiled and
comforted her.
Ji Ziqing didn't dare to refuse the teacher, her eyes kept fluttering, and she
was panicked and afraid.
The head teacher naturally felt it. When I returned to the office, he said
this. The math teacher drank tea and said, "Ji Ziqing is a good student. He is
too timid to do a problem, even if he doesn’t understand it. Won't come to
ask."
"Yeah, it's too introverted, she must read more." The head teacher sighed.
"Her brain turns faster than Yang Hui and has a strong absorptive capacity,
but Yang Hui is easy to ask, and she can catch up with a little harder. This
child maintains such a personality, it is inevitable that she suffers." The
math teacher commented.
Yang Hui is Ji Ziqing's tablemate, lively, and the head teacher arranged for
the two to sit together, also wanting to bring Ji Ziqing to the other side.
In the classroom.
Yang Huizheng came over and asked Ji Ziqing, "Why don't you go to the dance
audition? Everyone goes, but you are the only one."
The dance institution in the town happened to be in the same class.
"I don't want to go." Ji Ziqing lowered her head to read the book, her voice
whispered.
"Why don't you? It's so fun. I heard that there are performances. My parents
still want to see them. They are held in a middle school in the city. Let's
go, let's go and play together." Yang Hui pestered her. Keep talking.
"I don't want to go." Ji Ziqing grasped the pen tightly, and wrote the words
harder and harder.
"but...."
Yang Hui wanted to say something, a little fat man squeezed over and said with
a throat, "Ji Ziqing's family has no money. She lives in a dilapidated house,
so she has no money to go."
He is the son of Brother Ji. The house has several floors in front of Ji
Huai's house. He often stands on the window and scolds Ji Ziqing for being
stupid.
"You are talking nonsense!" Ji Ziqing suddenly raised her head, clenched her
small fist, her neck flushed, and retorted him.
"I'm not talking nonsense. Your family has no money. Your father is a drunkard
and a lazy person. Your house is going to fall. My mother and grandma said
your father is poor and lazy." Xiao Pangdun was also not convinced, "You Mom
still does useless things. If you have no money, she will send you to dance
and paint. Your family is poor. If you are poor, you have to go to dance and
paint. It is to love face and deserve to be poor!"
The language of childhood Wuji carries the greatest malice.
weekend.
The painting teacher is not going to class this week and is going to study in
the city. Yin Cai doesn't know what's wrong with her daughter, and she doesn't
want to take dance lessons.
She was going to send her daughter, she said she didn't want to go, and she
was extremely stubborn.
Part of Ji Ziqing's stubbornness followed Ji Huai, and what others didn't want
to do was useless.
"Mom is going to work. If you don't go, go to the store with your mom.
Otherwise, who will cook for you?" Yin Cai packed her things for her daughter
and wanted to take her out.
Ji Ziqing was lying on the bed, still not moving.
She doesn't want to go to the store, but also eats other people's food, and
will be talked about. Everyone knows that she has a struggling mother and a
lazy drunkard father.
"What's wrong with your child today? Mom is going to be late for work, get up
quickly." Yin Cai couldn't move her, thinking she was lazy, she stretched out
her hand to get her out of bed.
Ji Ziqing cried with a "wow", tears falling down, crying out of breath, "I
don't want to go, I don't want to go..."
Yin Cai was taken aback and squatted down to coax her, "What's wrong? Tell mom
what's wrong?"
Ji Ziqing has been crying.
Ji Huai was here today, and when he heard his daughter's cry, he rushed in,
"What's the matter? Why are you still crying?"
Ji Ziqing lay on the bed crying, no matter what the two said, she didn't say
anything.
The lady boss called and urged Yin Cai to hurriedly open the door. The truck
has arrived, and the master wants to unload the goods. She coaxed her daughter
for a long time, with nothing to do, and anxious.
"You go first, the big deal is that I won't go out to sea today, and I will
take her out for dinner later." Ji Huai said.
"Look at her and call me if you have something to do. I'll see if I can come
back at noon." When Yin Cai received the call from the boss again, she hurried
out.
After Yin Cai left, Ji Huai sat by the bed and watched her daughter.
When Ji Ziqing was a child, she would still talk to Yin Cai. When she grew up,
her temperament became more and more introverted, and she liked to hold it in
her heart. However, he can probably guess the reason.
He didn't speak either, just stayed with her in silence. After his daughter
calmed down, he said, "Dad is going to sea to fish. Do you want to go with
Dad?"
The weather is very good today, there is no wind, it is still very safe.
Ji Ziqing's head buried in the quilt shook vigorously.
"You haven't been to the sea yet. Would you like to see it? The sea is
beautiful. Go catch a crab and come back and let your mother cook it for you."
Ji Huai slowly tempted her.
Ji Ziqing did not refuse this time, but did not agree.
"Your dad went to sea when he was a few years old. If it is safe, he is safe.
A few days ago, my dad discovered that there are many mussels on an
uninhabited island. After we put the net, we will go to dig the mussels and
sell them back, okay?" Ji Huai Coax her.
Ji Ziqing sat up and looked at her father, her eyes all red, she kept looking
at him, her mouth narrowed, "Dad, don't be so lazy in the future."
"Why is Dad lazy? Dad got up very early today and has to go out to sea. Isn't
this worrying about you, so I didn't go?" Ji Huai quibbled, and saw that his
daughter was watching him all the time, and his heart was guilty, "Go and go.
, We went to sea, went fishing and digging for mussels."
In the end, Ji Ziqing was fooled by Ji Huai to go out to sea.
She is also very curious about the sea. Because her family is poor and she
didn't go anywhere to play, Ji Huai would go out to sea with Hupengou friends
from time to time, and would not bring their wives. Relatives don't have much
contact with their homes, and feel unlucky.
Ji Huai first found a straw hat for Ji Ziqing, and then went to the town to
buy her a pair of small water shoes and a pair of small water pants.
"We ate lunch on the boat. What do you want to eat? Dad will buy it for you."
Ji Huai took his daughter around the town and went to the small restaurant.
Ji Ziqing always looks at the price when buying things. Ji Huai didn’t let her
choose in the end. He said to the aunt who sells meat, “Here are three big
rice balls, a bowl of dried fish, and two chicken drumsticks and two chicken
wings. In the refrigerator. What kind of drink? A bottle of beer and a bottle
of lactic acid bacteria."
"Dad, don't drink." Ji Ziqing frowned, very angry, "I still want to drink when
I go to sea!"
Ji Huai looked at him, "I don't want the beer. Change to Coke."
After paying the money, one big and one small walked to the pier carrying
things.
Ji Ziqing sat on the small broken boat, looked at her father, and then at the
shore. She was still a little scared, "Does my mother know? I'll be worried if
my mother comes back and can't see it."
Ji Huai called Yin Cai in front of her, emphatically saying that he would not
go too far and would be sent back safely.
Although Yin Cai was worried, she finally agreed, and Ji Huai would still take
care of her daughter even if she was a bastard. He has been out to sea since
he was a child, and he still has common sense.
As the boat gradually left the coast, Ji Ziqing was frightened at first, but
she was attracted by the sea behind her. She lay on the bed and looked at the
sea, bright light streaming out of her eyes.
The sea I saw on the beach was different from the sea I see now. She stretched
out her hand to play in the water, and a little smile appeared on her face.
Ji Huai’s broken phone was still holding a dirty love song on the side. Ji
Ziqing was taking photos with his phone. The screen was too broken and it was
difficult to see the true face of the photos, but she never tired of it.
"Let's go and put the crab cages first." Ji Huai drove the boat to a place not
far from the coast and set down the three crab cages.
The crab cage is a cylinder supported by an iron rod and a fishing net. A box
is placed in the middle, and the bait is placed inside. The fishing net will
leave a hole. The fish, crabs and shrimps are attracted by the fishy bait into
the crab cage and cannot escape. .
After Ji Huai released the crab cages, he said to her, "There will be crabs in
it for a while. If you catch the big crabs, I will leave them all for you to
eat."
Ji Ziqing looked at the crab cage that was put down, and continued to watch
while lying on the boat.
Ji Huai turned around and drove a long way away before putting the sticky net
down.
Today, there are still three rows of sticky nets. Ji Ziqing still stepped
forward to help. She is not very good at it. Ji Huai also slowed down to let
her participate.
After putting out the three rows of sticky nets, Ji Huai looked at her.
The little face under the straw hat also looked at him. The sun was shining on
the boat. She moved a little bit, sweating on her forehead and nose, and her
little face was flushed.
Usually there is no communication, and the father and daughter start to stare
at each other.
"Let's go, go to dig mussels." Ji Huai said while standing at the stern
holding the engine in hand.
Mussels: "Mom likes to eat mussels."
"Then dig more and go back."
"Ok."
....
Mussels are scientifically named mussels. The shells are large and emerald
green. They live on shallow seabeds or rocky areas all year round. The meat is
delicious and delicious.
The most important thing is that this shellfish does not contain sand and
tastes good.
Jihuai passed this uninhabited island a few days ago and found densely packed
mussels growing on it on the rocky ground. Row after row, a small uninhabited
island was everywhere.
Mussels are also cultivated artificially, and when the price is high, they can
reach more than 30 kilograms. This thing is very heavy. Large mussels are as
long as half of his palm.
Ji Huai stopped the boat, told Ji Ziqing to wear gloves, and gave her a bucket
and an iron hook.
Standing on the rock, he lowered his head to point to a row of emerald green
mussels growing on the rock, "Do you know how to dig it? Hold the tip of the
iron hook and lift it up. Dig one out and it's easy to dig. ."
"Be careful, don't fall."
The uninhabited island is small and the rock is steep, he told his daughter.
Ji Ziqing's small figure was moving, and Ji Huai took her to a slightly flat
area, under which there was also a row of mussels growing closely together.
As far as I can see, there are rows after rows, horizontally long, vertically
long, interlaced and long, and there are huge piles of rocks underground.
Ji Ziqing squatted on the rock, awkwardly digging the mussels with an iron
hook, and as Ji Huai said, he could lift it up with a hard knock.
Sometimes there were still a few attached, she reached out and picked them up,
separated one by one, and threw them in the bucket.
For her, this experience is novel. Although she lives by the sea, her mother
is not free and she leaves work late every day. To her, rushing to the sea is
a luxury.
She digs while wiping sweat, working hard.
Ji Huai's hands and feet were much more flexible than her. He kept tilting the
iron hook and threw handfuls into the bucket. After digging this place, he
carried the bucket to the next place.
He keeps all the places that are easy to dig, specially digging hidden in the
rock underground or slightly steep places.
After filling a bucket, he returned to the boat with the bucket, poured out
the mussels in the bucket, and came back to dig with the empty bucket.
After he dug two buckets, Ji Ziqing dug a small half bucket, sweating a lot,
he asked his daughter to stop, "It's time to eat, and then dig after eating."
Ji Ziqing was actually hungry too. Ji Huai helped her carry the bucket back to
the boat, poured out the mussels, and put the bucket aside.
The uninhabited island is very small, the waves have been beating against the
rocks, and there is no dry place. The two returned to the boat to sit down and
take out the food they bought in the morning.
He could wash his hands with sea water by leaning over, Ji Huai gave a rice
ball to his daughter and laid out the food.
Ji Ziqing has been busy all morning, too hungry, eating faster than usual, Ji
Huai gave her chicken wings, and when she finished eating, she would give her
a chicken drumstick.
"I can't finish it," she said.
Ji Huai put the chicken drumstick on his end, and gave her the remaining
chicken wing.
Ji Ziqing ate two chicken wings and ate a large rice ball.
He bought three rice balls, one for each person, and one left. He looked at
his daughter and took out the remaining big rice balls, "Eating half more?"
She shook her head.
"Eat more and go to collect the net in the afternoon." Ji Huai broke a small
and a half rice ball to her and asked her to eat more dried fish.
Ji Ziqing didn't refuse any more, and had eaten a lot of food, and her stomach
was full.
After eating, take a rest, and then continue to dig the mussels, but not long
after digging, Ji Huai asked Ji Ziqing to get on the boat to collect the nets,
and to go back, otherwise it was too late to sell.
She looked at a lot of mussels left, reluctantly.
The author has something to say: in the previous chapter, because of Mi'er's
negligence, there was a small mistake, so I am really sorry.
Because the hairtail is a deep-sea fish, it will die soon after leaving the
water. The reason is that the deeper the water, the stronger the air pressure.
The hairtail cannot adjust the high and low pressure difference when leaving
the water. The rapid expansion of the internal pressure will cause fatal
damage to it. Finally, The hairtail there is changed to salmon.