Chapter 10 I really want to repair the ship!
Zhao Dahai returned home in the dark, and his grandma Zhong Cuihua sat in the hall weaving nets. As long as people in the village are not lazy, they have endless work to do every day.
Zhao Dahai walked into the kitchen and started cooking. The oyster meat that had just been pried off the rocks had to be washed clean. Otherwise, when you eat it, your mouth will be full of small gravel or oyster shell residue. I fetched water and washed it carefully several times. After washing the oyster meat, I put it in the basket and drained the water for a while. I heated the oil in the pot and poured it down. Under the dim light, the dark gray oyster meat was sticky and slippery. The oyster meat turned white and swelled suddenly, and a fresh taste rushed up. I couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva. The fire burned fiercely, and it was cooked in less than five minutes. I didn't sprinkle any salt. I poured some soy sauce wine and smoked it. He put out the firewood, put out two large bowls of rice, and topped the rice with the juicy oysters. He walked to the main room with his grandma Zhong Cuihua and took a bowl each.
Yummy!
It’s so delicious.
fragrant!
It smells so good!
Zhao Dahai burped when he was full. He felt hungry if he didn’t eat even one meal. He was really happy after eating and drinking.
Eight p.m.
The sun rises and the sun sets.
The fishing village slowly became quiet.
Zhao Dahai walked out of the yard and looked up at the sky. The clouds were very thick tonight and the moon was hiding somewhere. There was no light. It was dark all around. The wind was a little strong and it was blowing the treetops. sound.
Zhao Dahai took a flashlight and walked along the village path, and unknowingly reached the small pier by the seaside. There is no moonlight, the sea is as black as ink, and the small fishing boats parked are swaying and rising and falling with the waves.
Zhao Dahai patted his head. In the past few days, he had been thinking about repairing the fishing boat left by his father and mother and going out to sea to make money. He turned and walked behind the beach, passing through a small forest. There are seven or eight fishing boats parked on the ground. This is where some old and unused fishing boats are parked in the village. I scanned it with a flashlight and found it immediately. I strode over and touched the board of the boat. Tears welled up in my eyes. It took me a while to calm down, but the facts cannot be changed. Living a good life is what my parents want to see most in heaven.
Zhao Dahai turned on the flashlight and looked at the fishing boat carefully. Just as he had thought before, when the accident happened, it was submerged in the sea for half a year and exposed to the wind and sun for two years on the beach. The boat's boards were damaged a lot. However, the fishing boat's main beam and most of the ship's planks were fine. I was relieved. It was not complicated to repair.
"Haidai baby."
"What are you doing here?"
Zhao Dahai looked back and saw someone walking towards him with a flashlight in his hand. He thought about it carefully. The familiar voice I heard reminded me of someone.
“Second Grandpa?”
Zhao Dahai shouted.
"Hey!"
"It's me!"
Zhao Dahai waited for a while, and an old man with white beard and hair, bowing his waist, walked up to him. It was his grandfather's younger brother Zhao Shi. However, the families were separated early and each lived his own life. My grandfather became seriously ill and left before he was sixty.
“Third Grandpa!”
“Are you here for the first time?”
Zhao Dahai stretched out his hand to help Zhao Shi.
"Haha!"
"After dinner, I had nothing to do. I walked to the pier for a while, and I happened to see you. Come and have a look."
Zhao Shi looked He looked at the upside down fishing boat and sighed.
“Second Grandpa.”
"I plan to repair this ship."
Zhao Dahai knew that Zhao Shi was worried when he saw him walking behind the forest. He was worried that he would do something stupid, so he followed him, but he didn't say anything about it and pretended. Zuo didn't understand what Zhao Shi was thinking, so he illuminated the fishing boat with his flashlight and told him his plan.
“Are you going out to sea to fish?”
“That requires a boat.”
“My father and mother kept this boat, but some boards were broken. , Xiuxiu can use it.”
"However, no matter what happens, it will take ten thousand or eight thousand."
Zhao Shi was silent for a moment and nodded.
“Earn slowly.”
“Sooner or later, I will make up enough.”
Zhao Dahai knows that it costs a lot of money to repair a fishing boat. It is difficult for a place like a fishing village to make money. In a home without a backbone, it's a problem whether it can have enough food, let alone save money. Life has been tight in the past two years, and Zhong Cuihua definitely doesn't have much money on hand. She has to find ways to pay for ship repairs. Wan'erba One thousand is not a small amount, and I only have a few hundred yuan from the last time I sold crab and tiger fish. However, don't worry, as long as you work hard, you will be able to save enough money sooner or later.
Zhao Shichen nodded and said nothing.
Zhao Dahai and Zhao Shi walked back together. When they arrived at the entrance of the village, they went home respectively.
Five o'clock in the morning.
It dawns early in the fishing village in summer, and a hint of fish belly white is already visible on the horizon. The chickens were out looking for food, and the dogs were running around the whole village.
Zhao Dahai walked to the back of the house carrying a full bucket of water. The wind at the beach was strong and the water dissipated quickly. The land planted yesterday had to be watered before the sun rose.
After Zhao Dahai finished watering and carrying the empty bucket, he entered the yard and saw Zhao Shi and his grandma Zhong Cuihua talking.
“Second Grandpa.”
“Are you here so early?”
“Let’s have breakfast together later.”
Zhao Dahai was a little strange. He didn't know what Zhao Shi was doing here. In the village, families are divided, and they live their own lives. Although the blood relationship is broken and the bones are connected to the tendons, life is hard. Haha, every day is busy. Generally speaking, there is no need to come to the door.
Zhao Shi shook his head and said he had already eaten.
“The sea.”
“Second Grandpa said you want to repair that ship?”
Zhong Cuihua waved to Zhao Dahai.
Zhao Dahai nodded, put down the bucket in his hand, walked to Zhong Cuihua and sat directly on the ground. Last night, he told Zhao Shi that he wanted to repair the boat and go fishing.
“Old sister-in-law.”
“What do you think?”
“Life in the sea is not easy!”
Zhao Shi He clapped his hands on his knees and sighed.
"The sea."
"Is this what you thought at first?"
Zhong Cuihua did not immediately reply to Zhao Shi's words but turned to look at Zhao Shi.
“Grandma.”
“Life in the sea is really not easy.”
"It's very hard to be exposed to the wind and the sun."
"Maybe something happened like my father and mother."
"Second Grandpa."
"Who is called Why did our ancestors choose such a place? ”
“We can only eat the sea if we are close to the mountains.”
"Going fishing is the best way to make money."
"I'm afraid it's useless."
"You have to eat, right? You can't go hungry, right? This will also kill people."
Zhao Dahai sighed inwardly. Zhao Shi did not agree to go fishing on his own and was worried that what happened to his father and mother would happen again. Grandma Zhong Cuihua was also worried.
Go out to work?
This is a way.
However, my grandma Zhong Cuihua is over seventy, and I don’t trust her to stay alone in the village.
Not to mention, how much money can you make by working part-time.
In recent years, it’s not like no one has gone out to work in the village, there are quite a lot of them.
I have no knowledge or culture, so all I do is hard work such as moving bricks or working in an electronics factory.
Which one has come back with a lot of money?
I have seen the village twenty years later, and I can clearly see the consequences of going out to work. The elderly in the family cannot support them, and the children they have are neglected. When they get older, when they return to the village, they find that they have become the same. Problem, is it to build a small western-style building?
Is it really worth it?
What’s wrong with staying in the village?
Making money by fishing in a down-to-earth manner, accumulating a little makes a lot, and the small western-style building is only a few years old. Waiting for grandma, marrying Hu Ding Xiaoxiang, marrying a good wife and having a group of children, isn't this a pleasant life? Do you have to leave your hometown?
(End of this chapter)