After the Midyear Festival, the wild wharf outside Jiangjiaba has changed greatly.

The boats by the pier are still there, but they are no longer the seven or eight canopy boats they used to be, but nearly twenty fishing boats are docked here in a row.

These fishing boats are all poor fishermen in the vicinity, and they have come from other places one after another when they hear that there is work to be done here and can earn money.

On the embankment near the boat, there are about a dozen pergolas made of wooden sticks and reed mats, and there are men, women, and children sitting in the pergolas. Everyone was talking and laughing, busy cutting bamboo and weaving eel cages.

There were also several boats, carrying bundles of bamboo from afar, and stacking them neatly on the edge of the pergola.

Along the entire embankment, whether it is busy adults or children playing, everyone has a happy smile on their faces.

Unlike fishermen and farmers, all their possessions are a boat, which means that there is nothing except a boat.

If you have a field, as long as you take good care of it, you will always get a little harvest and eat a few more rations.

And the reason why they are poor is because they have to spend money on everything except fish, shrimp and crabs.

Fish, shrimp and crabs cannot be eaten as food, and food must be bought.

Now, they no longer have to look at God's face to eat, as long as they are willing to work, as long as they are capable, this craft of weaving eel cages can be done by the elderly in their fifties and sixties, and down to the children of seven or eight years old.

Some of the women in the house even knitted faster and earned more than the head of the house.

"Brother Lu, this batch of bamboo may have to be changed places after cutting." It was Li Sixi who had just given Lu Yangge a lotus pod to speak.

He is responsible for buying bamboo everywhere, seeing a suitable bamboo forest, contracting the whole thing, then cutting it back, sending it to the wild wharf, and then each family counts the money according to the number of bundles.

There are only two families in charge of this matter, Li Sixi and Zhang Sange.

Li Sixi's family has a simple population, the husband and wife are both in the prime of life, plus their son Li Tantan, who is almost an adult, and his youngest son Li Cancan, who is already able to drive a boat in the river by himself.

There were three and a half strong laborers in the family.

And Brother Zhang's family has a larger population than Li Sixi's family, in addition to Zhang Sanfeng and his wife, there are three sons who are almost average height.

They are the two with the simplest population and the most stable labor force in the Lu family.

These two companies are mainly responsible for buying bamboo, cutting and transporting it everywhere.

Aunt Li was reluctant at first, she felt that instead of going out to buy bamboo, it would be better for Li Sixi to learn to weave eel cages at home seriously.

Even if you can't sell it, you can sell it for money by yourself.

But Li Sixi knew that it was Lu Quan who took care of him. He and Lu Quan grew up together, Lu Quan has been clever since he was a child, and he can make up tricks no matter what he gets in his hands.

Others weaving reed mats are weaving reed mats, Lu Quan, he will weave various patterns in the reed mats. Although, the pattern is just a few square blocks.

But ordinary people, who have that skillful hand but no brain, are either wrong or forget here.

Li Sixi is clumsy, learning to weave reed mats, normal people can get started in two or three days, and Lu Quan can basically complete it by himself in half a day. And he, after studying for seven or eight days, the reed mat he made up was not as good as the first one that Lu Quan practiced.

Lu Quan asked Li Sixi to collect bamboo, what is it if he doesn't take care of him?

"In the end, it's love from childhood to adulthood."

Speaking of Lu Quan, Li Sixi is this sentence.

When he really started sending bamboo back one boat after another, Li Sixi really felt Lu Quan's care for his family.

He calculated that if he brought back two boatloads of bamboo a day, he would earn about 120 yuan.

If you used to fish, you could only earn fifty or sixty yuan at the best time, and it was common to have empty nets when it was bad.

What makes him happiest is that the price still fluctuates up and down. For example, when he estimates the bamboo forest, the price is lowered, and he can make more money.

Also, this is the freight and not counting the labor.

If he doesn't hire locals to cut bamboo, he can cut it himself, although it is hard, but he can also earn dozens of more money.

However, this idea was later abandoned by him.

Not to mention the hard work, no one is afraid of hard work, and the main thing is to delay time.

With the kung fu of cutting bamboo, it is better for the two of them to go out for a run, maybe they can buy one or two more bamboo forests and send back two more bamboo trips.

On the way to transport the bamboo, he can also drop a few eel cages along the way, and when he goes to transport the bamboo in the morning, he can harvest it and earn a lot.

Then again.

The business of Lujia eel cage was done in cooperation with the shopkeeper Li of Laifushun.

Just two months ago, the Lu family made up an eel cage and caught two barrels of long fish and sold them to Laifushun.

This long fish makes more money than the wild fish in Nahong Lake, and it can spoil the big guys in those days.

Unexpectedly, Brother Lu Quan is a solid person, and he also taught the big guys how to do his craft, and he also found the shopkeeper Li from Fushun.

When Shopkeeper Li went to the wild wharf where the Lu family was, drank a pot of wild artemisia tea with Lu Quan, and looked at the eel cage they had made, Shopkeeper Li made a decision on the spot, this eel cage business can be done, he can pay for it, Lu Quan made a move, and the people on the wild wharf on the Lu family's side started to compile it first.

Just like Lu Quan said, maybe one day, this eel cage will become a specialty of Jiangjiaba and can be sold everywhere.

This matter, not to mention that Li Sixi can't figure it out, no one at the wild dock can figure it out.

Shopkeeper Li, who is the big shopkeeper of Laifushun, deigned to come to the wild wharf and said that this business can be done.

Could it be that this is the difference between the brains of businessmen and their fishermen?

The days are getting better and better, and everyone is getting more and more happy.

Several households have already discussed with Lu Quan, otherwise everyone will buy the wasteland on the other side of Dongtan together, and now everyone has a little surplus money in their hands, and they can build houses by buying the wasteland.

When winter comes, they, the adrift people on the ship, will have a place to settle down.

Lu Quan is naturally willing, his family has long wanted to buy land and build a house, but they have never found a suitable one. If they can settle down in Jiangjiaba, it will be considered a stable life for the children of Xiaosi and their children.

After thinking about it, Lu Quan still asked Shopkeeper Li to inquire, not knowing how much this ownerless wasteland could be bought for.

Everyone here is still waiting for the news of Shopkeeper Li, but Third Brother Zhang, who came back one step later than Li Sixi, brought bad news.

"What? You said that the Shen family in Nanyang was also besieged by the government? ”

This sound alarmed several people on the shore and on board.

This is going to be a big deal!

In March, a fire burned down Lujiazhuang, causing countless people to sigh.

The Shen family in Nanyang is a big family in Nanyang County. In terms of financial resources, the Shen family only lost slightly more than Lujiazhuang. In terms of status, the Shen family has no family within a radius of dozens of miles that can be suppressed.

And this Shen family head and Lu Yuanshan's former father-in-law, Shen Xiucai, are still cousins of the same grandfather.

The relationship is very close.

Everyone thought that the affairs of the Lu family had passed, why did it take so long for the Shen family to have an accident?

(End of chapter)