Chapter 111 The house is on fire


    Some villagers boarded the boat to help carry goods. Zhou''s mother kept looking at all sides and listening to all directions, for fear that someone would take advantage of the situation and get away with the silver cake.


    She saw Tian Caihua''s movement at first sight and said, "Ahua, come and help divide the fish and sell it. It''s getting late!"


    Tian Caihua ignored Zhou''s mother and walked to two bags of oysters and looked around, "Did you pried so many oysters today? I pried yesterday and they were quite fat. Are you fat today?"


    Zhou''s mother was afraid that she would take out the big silver cake and walked over, and stepped on the mouth of a snakeskin bag: "I''m almost done yesterday, and today''s one is not as fat as before. Do you want to take some back and eat it?"


    Tian Caihua''s eyes fell on the snakeskin bag under Zhou''s feet.


    My mother-in-law is so nervous that it seems that she has picked up pearl shells again.


    She knew that although they told their men that they had picked up pearl shells, they would really tell where they picked them up?


    They went to sea yesterday to waste a day. They only pulled two nets of fish and pried a few bags of oysters back, and only earned more than twenty yuan.


    What does it mean to make more than twenty yuan? Even Jiang Xia’s profitable amount is not as good as a fraction of it.


    Tian Caihua said with a dark face: "No need, Chengxin and I dug oysters for a day yesterday. There was nothing at home, only the most oysters. Why do we have to come here? I''m a little busy today. I haven''t cooked yet, so I''ll share the fish. I''ll go home first."


    After saying that, she left with a dark face, and the fish was in no mood to part with it.


    Zhou''s mother watched her eldest daughter-in-law leave angrily, and she knew that she felt uncomfortable when she saw the boat full of fish.


    I guess I feel that the two of them are biased.


    In fact, Zhou’s father and mother are both very loving people, and now they are indeed biased towards Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Xia.


    That''s because they felt sorry for their younger son and worked hard. They made so much money for their family for life. They took care of their second brother and elder brother, and they had to support them in the future. But in the end, there was no house or boat, and even their wife almost disappeared.


    As parents, they think that every child lives better, so they naturally become more biased.


    Moreover, the youngest son is very filial and responsible. He has been like this since he was a child. His character has made him live up to everyone. He resolutely went to the army and knew that he might die. He gave his parents to his two brothers for care. He felt that he owed his brothers, so he always took good care of his two brothers over the years.


    When he was in the army, most of the money was sent home to the two of them.


    Later, he arranged his second brother''s work and built a new house for his elder brother.


    He can be said to have taken good care of everyone in his family, but he owed Jiang Xia a little.


    After all, he gave up his job to his second son, although he had discussed it with Jiang''s father and mother, and got the consent of Jiang''s father and mother.


    But he called back in the army to ask Jiang Xia about his opinions. Jiang Xia was in school at the time and was not at home, so he asked Jiang''s father and mother to ask Jiang Xia. Later, he called again. Jiang''s mother said that Jiang Xia had no objection. Who knew that she didn''t know about this and disagreed at all. She cried, made a fuss and had to hang herself and wanted to divorce.


    Fortunately, everything has passed, and the two are loving and loving now.


    Therefore, the two old men also tried their best to help them get their lives up to date, hoping that they had a house and a boat. Although he was a little biased towards his younger son, Zhou''s mother still went to help his eldest son with housework. She just lived with her younger son and it was difficult to do a good job.


    The father and son, plus a few villagers, moved for about twenty minutes before they could get off the boat''s fish to be sold.


    It took nearly half a minute to pass the tribute.


    The three-zhang Red Fish King had a total of 306 kilograms, one pound of 30 cents per kilogram, and a total of 397 to 80 cents.


    The two devil fish were not that valuable because Zhou''s mother cut off the gills and were sold for only 29 yuan.


    The remaining Zhanghongyu, mackerel and other miscellaneous fish sold for a total of 282.8 yuan.


    Zhou Chenglei decided not to sell the fish in the last net, and took it back to dry fish.


    Balang fish is sold at 20 cents per kilogram, and after drying, it can be sold at 80 cents per kilogram.


    This time, I sold a total of 709 yuan for the fish I brought home. This is not counting last year, Zhou Chenglei also left a seven or eight kilogram of Zhanghong fish and four three kilograms of Zhanghong fish, and also a yellow-finned thorn bream, two bags of oysters, a basket of small fish and more than two hundred kilograms of Balang fish.


    Zhou Chenglei handed over a large stack of unifications to Jiang Xia, and then he carried two bags of oysters to the cart.


    Zhou''s father held the silver in his hand and his heart calmed down.


    The father and son moved the remaining fish to the cart.


    Zhou Chenglei gave Zhou Chengxin two chapters of red fish and a bucket of shellfish he had left, and asked him to take them back for several nephews to eat.


    Zhou Chengxin responded with a smile.


    The whole family went home happily.


    When he almost got home, Jiang Xia looked at the thick smoke in the distance and felt panicked: "Zhou Chenglei, see if the cigarette came out of our house?"


    The whole family saw it and their faces changed one after another!


    Zhou Chenglei put down the cart and ran away: "Mom, you push the cart, I''ll go and take a look!"


    Zhou Chengxin, Zhou’s father and Jiang Xia both ran away quickly!


    Zhou''s mother turned pale and she hurriedly ran forward with a cart, tears came out!


    Jiang Xia also tried his best to run forward.


    If the house burns, where will you live?


    Not only did Zhou Chenglei and his family run home, but other villagers ran out with buckets when they saw thick smoke.


    Someone saw Zhou’s father and asked, “What’s going on? Is the family on fire?”


    Zhou''s father was so anxious that he replied: "I don''t know, I just came back from sea! I guess it was a few children playing with fire at home."


    Zhou Chenglei was the fastest to run home. When he rushed into the house, he saw thick smoke constantly emitting the kitchen.


    The grandmother and her family were carrying buckets in and out!


    Zhou Wenguang and Zhou Zhou stood in the yard with their faces pale.


    The great grandma hurriedly comforted Zhou Chenglei: "It''s okay, it''s okay, you can put it out, don''t panic!"


    Zhou Chenglei picked up a basin of water that had just been filled with great grandma and rushed in.


    Zhou Yongguo ran out of the kitchen with a bucket and saw him, "Cough cough... It''s okay, the fire is out. It''s the fire in the kitchen that caught fire, and nothing else is burned. Cough cough..."


    The great-grandfather also rushed out: "It''s almost time to extinguish it, but the smoke is too thick."


    Zhou Chenglei was grateful, "Thank you!"


    As he said that, he rushed in and threw the water into the smoked pile of firewood.


    Zhou’s father, Zhou Chengxin and other villagers also arrived.


    The grandmother comforted her while fetching water: "Don''t worry, don''t worry, the fire is about to be extinguished and it''s not burning!"


    Jiang Xia ran back at this time, and she breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this. She panted and held the door frame without causing trouble.


    Then Zhou''s father, Zhou Chengxin, Zhou Chenglei and other villagers carried two more buckets of water in and poured it on until the pile of firewood stopped smoking.


    Zhou''s mother only pulled the cart back at this time. She felt relieved when she saw the fire extinguished, but her feet became soft and she asked, "What''s going on? Why are you on fire?"


    At this time, Pan Daidi came out of the house and looked frightened: "Yes, I don''t know what''s going on? I was shocked and I went in to see if there was any other place in the house that was on fire!"


    (This chapter ends)