Chapter 134 Surprise

After the family enjoyed a delicious meal, Li Changle took the oyster beads and went to Jiefang Street with Zhou's mother.

He originally wanted to call two rickshaws, but the frugal old lady said that she had just eaten and wanted to take a walk, so she led the family through alleys and alleys for half of the way.

We arrived at Jiefang Street after hours.

Li Changle found that the shops facing the street were not like those of later generations. They were brightly lit in broad daylight. Looking along the way, he found that the clothing stores had the best business, and almost every store had customers.

Along the way, Zhou's mother told the two of them that the owner of Li Ji Jin Store used to live in a cowshed with Zhou's father. The family's craftsmanship was passed down from generation to generation. The family used to have a large business and suffered a lot in the past few years.

The Li family worked together and got through the hard times and got back part of the real estate. After the re-opening, Lao Li returned to his old business and opened the gold shop again. The business is now very good.

After arriving at Li Ji Gold Jewelry Store, we saw only two front rooms with ordinary decoration. When we entered, we found a lot of gold and silver jewelry on the counter.

Li Changle found that their business was really good. There were several people waiting to get jewelry at noon, and several children were running around in the store.

He asked about it and found that the price of gold was also ridiculously cheap. One penny of gold was less than 150 yuan.

One penny of gold is a little more than three grams, which is only more than forty yuan per gram. Unfortunately, money is needed everywhere now. When the family has spare money, he will buy gold and store it. It is more cost-effective than depositing it in the bank.

Zhou's mother asked the waiter selling things at the counter. The little girl asked her to wait and then went to the inner room. After a while, a gray-haired uncle came out of the inner room.

Seeing Zhou's mother coming up to her with a smile, "Sister-in-law, why are you free to go shopping today?" She then said, "Come on, go sit in my office for a while."

"No, I'm here to show you something." Mother Zhou pointed at Li Changle and said to him with a smile, "Boss Li, this is my son-in-law A Le. He wants your help to look at these oyster beads."

"Okay, bring it to me and take a look." Boss Li said, taking out a plate and motioning to Li Changle to pour the beads into the plate.

"Are all four beads made from oysters?" The beads clinked onto the plate. Looking at the oyster beads on the plate, Boss Li couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, it's all from oysters."

Boss Li looked at the beads one by one, then picked up the golden bead and looked at it for a while. He took a plate and put it in and shook it a few times. Then he replaced it with the white one and put it in and shook it a few times.

Down.

Then he took out the caliper and measured it, and then said to Li Changle: "These two are in the best condition. I will give you one hundred and sixty. The other two are worse, so I will give you eighty-one."

Mother Zhou and Zhou Ruonan showed surprised expressions and turned to look at Li Changle, "Ale, what do you think?"

Li Changle, who originally thought the beads were worth seventy or eighty yuan at most, felt happy after hearing his quotation. After pondering for a moment, he asked: "If there are still beads like this, can the price be increased?"

Boss Li glanced at him in surprise, picked up the gold and white ones, and said, "If you can get a pair of earrings and a pendant for a pair of earrings and a pendant with this appearance and color, the price can be higher."

"If you can get three, what's the highest you can give?"

"Young man, most of the oyster beads are irregular. Most of them can only be used as medicinal materials, not jewelry. The four you prescribed can be used as jewelry, which is already very rare. It is even more difficult to get three more like this.

It’s getting harder and harder.”

"I want to try it. When I go back and pick it out, it will be better if I can find two more. If I can't find them, I will send them all."

Li Changle felt that it might be difficult to get three golden beads together, but it should be no problem to get three white beads together.

"Okay, if you can find one of this quality and can get enough for a set, I will give you two hundred and one. If you can get enough for a pearl necklace, I will give you two hundred and six."

"Deal." Li Changle put away the four beads and said to Boss Li, "I will send them to you when I have collected enough."

Boss Li said politely: "I'm waiting." He found it difficult, but then he thought again, he had already found four, maybe he could get enough of them!

After reading Zhuzi, Zhou's mother exchanged a few words with Boss Li before saying goodbye to him. Boss Li sent them outside the shop before turning around.

The three of them walked a few steps with their children. When the two children saw the popsicle seller complaining that they were thirsty, Zhou's mother hurriedly led her grandson to buy some.

Li Changle smiled and said: "Anan, look how cunning your son is. He obviously wants to eat popsicles, but he says he is thirsty."

Zhou Ruonan glared at him angrily, "My son is not your son. He is so cunning like you."

"Abba, Aniang, grandma bought you popsicles." The cunning brothers ran towards the two of them holding popsicles.

Zhou Ruonan looked at his son with a smile, "We have some too?"

"Yes, grandma said they all have it." Li Xiaohai handed the popsicles to the two of them, "I picked the glutinous rice ice for you."

Mother Zhou smiled and asked, "Why don't you go for a walk on the street when you go home?"

Zhou Ruonan: "I want to buy a watch for A Le. It will be more convenient for him when he goes to sea."

Li Changle said hurriedly: "Anan, I heard them say last time I came here that there is a black market in an alley in the old street at night. Let's go there to buy at night. The price is cheaper than in the department store."

Zhou Ruonan has also heard of the black market, "Watches are big items. Where can I buy them? Is the quality guaranteed?"

"It's the same, the things there are private goods, the cost is low, and the price is cheap."

"The quality should be the same." Zhou's mother said, "Axiang Po said that his wife's fully automatic watch was bought there. It is a Shuangshi brand waterproof watch and it is forty yuan cheaper than outside!"

"It's so cheap!" Zhou Ruonan became interested after hearing this, "Then let's go there tonight and have a look."

Li Changle yawned and looked up at the scorching sun, "Do you still want to go shopping?" He went to bed too late last night and got up early this morning, so he felt a little sleepy now.

"Go home first, let the two children have a nap, and then go out for a walk in the afternoon." After saying this, Zhou's mother took her two grandchildren and walked towards the alley.

Li Changle looked at the rickshaw parked on the street waiting for customers, shook his head helplessly, strode after him, took the little son Zhou's mother was carrying, and carried it on his shoulders.

The little guy hugged his head happily and said, "Drive, drive, drive, the horse will run quickly."

"Little rascal!" Li Changle slapped his butt twice with his backhand.

Seeing that there was no one in the alley, Zhou's mother turned to look at Li Changle and asked in a low voice: "Ale, can we really get beads?"

She had wanted to ask for more than two hundred beads. Her son-in-law was lucky enough to get a few more beads to sell. She added some more to them so that they could build a new house as soon as possible so that the family would not be crowded together when the children grew older.

In a small house.

Li Changle nodded, "We got more than a hundred kilograms of oysters that day and opened four beads. Inside..."

After hearing this, Mother Zhou looked around quickly and said, "We'll talk about it when we get back. We'll talk about it when we get back."

"Uh-huh!"

The family arrived home stained with sweat. Zhou's mother hurriedly went to add hot water and asked the two of them to scrub. She was busy scrubbing the two children.

Zhou Ruonan looked at Li Changle happily, "Ale is so good. I thought it would sell for seventy or eighty yuan at most. I didn't expect that the price of four beads would be so different."

"I took a look and found that the two most valuable ones are perfectly round. The gloss and shape of the other two are worse, so the price difference is more than twice as much."

"When are you going to pick those oysters?"

"I'll go pick them when I get back. This time I picked all the oysters and opened them when I got home. If there are beads, it would be best. If not, I'll dry the oyster meat and send it to my mother-in-law to sell."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Zhou Ruonan thought about it and said, "You can get up to a hundred kilograms out at a time. You said last time that there was a lot in it. It's inconvenient to get in and out. What if someone finds out?

manage?"

"I'm also worried about this problem. There are at least two to three thousand kilograms of oysters in the cave. If we go in and out a few more times, we will definitely be discovered. By then, groups of people will follow us in, and there will be nothing wrong with us."

Li Changle paused and said, "I want to take my eldest brother and my second brother with me to collect oysters in the cave. I will give 20% of the money from selling beads to them. Do you agree?"

Zhou Ruonan glanced at him, "You've even thought about how to divide it, and why are you asking me what to do?"

Li Changle smiled and said: "Honey, you are the head of the third family of the Li family. I must ask your opinion before I do anything. If you agree, I will tell them. If you don't agree, Awei and I will do it slowly.

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"Agreed!" Zhou Ruonan glared at him angrily, "It's better to keep the money from outsiders and distribute it to them than to be discovered by those pinkeyes in the village and snatch them all away."

After hearing this, Li Changle happily shook her hand and said, "Thank you, wife! I hope we have good luck this time and can pick up more good products. We will have money to build a new house by the end of the year."

He thought that the two oysters that were close to each other could be sold for eighty-one and thousands of oysters. If he could find sixty or seventy oysters, and a few more than two hundred oysters, that would be perfect.

"I hope so!" Zhou Ruonan asked happily, thinking that she would have money to build a new house next year, "Have you thought about where to build the new house?"

"Ale, I also want to tell you about building a new house."

Mother Zhou pulled up the bamboo chair and sat down, "I heard from Anan that there are a lot of oysters and bergamot snails in there. You go get them and sell them. I'll replenish some for you here. You go to the village and get the land for the house."

, build the new house as soon as possible.”

"There are a lot of things inside..." Li Changle told her what they had just said.

Zhou's mother knew what her son-in-law was like in the past, so she nodded and said: "As the old saying goes, there are only brothers and sisters in this life, and there will be no afterlife. Your brother and sister-in-law are pretty good to you, and you should give them a hand if you have the connections."
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