Return to the small fishing village of 1982

"Dad, melon! Melon!" Ye Chengyang hugged his father's thigh and shouted.

"What about the frog? You're still croaking, so you know how to eat it!" Ye Yaodong looked at the mud mark on his leg with disgust, and picked off the gnawed vegetable melon for him, "take it back and wash it before you eat it, otherwise there will be There are bugs.”

He counted the heads again, and when the number matched, he returned, surrounded by the children.

As soon as he walked to the door of his house, his neighbor Aunt Chen looked at him curiously, "Dongzi didn't go out to play today? Did he help your grandma pick corn?"

"Um!"

You asked knowingly, didn't you see it when you went out? Her eyes were still following his back from the door of the house, and she didn't look back until she was out of sight.

Don't ask him how he knows. He has seen it from his own experience. Women in the countryside are basically like this. It is even more exaggerated when they see strangers entering the village. Their eyes are basically glued to the strangers.

"Why are you guys back too? It's not lunch time yet, are you following them back after smelling the smell?" Mother Ye looked at the group of children with a smile. .

"We went to pick corn with our third uncle!"

Lin Xiuqing also saw her little son who was dirty and gray-faced at this time. She quickly stood up and said, "Why are you so dirty? You are covered in dirt, on your face and hands. Are you rolling in the ground?"

"Haha, mother, he ate the vegetable melon secretly and was knocked down by the vegetable melon, and then he got up and ended up like this!"

"Don't laugh at him, turn your butt over and show it to your mother." Ye Yaodong put down the sack and basket and turned his eldest son around.

Ye Chenghu hurriedly covered his buttocks, "No, dad..."

Lin Xiuqing frowned, "What did you do again? Why did you get a hole in your butt? What are you playing with? You run around all day long. Look at your knees and legs. There is a good piece of meat somewhere." "

As she said that, she spanked his butt hard several times.

He couldn't get away from his father, otherwise he wouldn't have stood still and been beaten.

"It hurts, mother, I was careless! Dad, please let me go."

"Which time did you fall down accidentally? You were jumping around all day long. There was a hole in your pants here and a hole there. Look at the holes on the knees of your pants. They were just patched and worn. Yeah, I’m worse at work than your father.”

Seeing that the child was being scolded so hard that his head dropped, Ye Yaodong let go of his hand with satisfaction. He had to teach the child a lesson if he was naughty. He didn't know how to teach the child, so he could only let the child's mother teach him.

Fortunately, decades later, the two children are quite filial. Well... they are only filial to their mother... He won't mention it...

The old lady tried to smooth things over, "Stop scolding him. It's normal for a child to fall when he's running around. If he falls, he grows up quickly. Go inside and change your pants. Come out and eat melon."

After receiving the amnesty order from the old lady, Ye Chenghu ran into the house like a gust of wind, and Lin Xiuqing led her dirt-covered youngest son inside as well. Both sons needed to change clothes.

As she walked, she muttered, "I don't know how many clothes I have to change every day. Fortunately, you have many brothers and sisters. Their short clothes can be worn by you."

Ye Mu also muttered a few words, "It's noisy all day long and disappears, so there is no quiet time."

"If you sit quietly all day without running or jumping, mother, you should worry about whether you are a fool!"

Ye Mu was choked by Ye Yaodong, glared at him, and had nothing to say.

"Come here, eat a piece of melon, and we'll continue cooking later." The old lady cut a large pot of melon and shared it with the neighbors.

Ye Yaodong took a piece of melon and said, "I'll go to my second brother's place to have a look."

You can't just ignore your own house like you did in your previous life. You have to go take a look and help, so as not to attract any attention.

As soon as he took a few steps away, he heard the women behind him muttering to him.

"Dongzi seems to have grown up in the past two days? He still goes fishing and helps Ah Hua."

"Put it down. He disappeared without a trace yesterday afternoon. I don't know what time he came back last night. Anyway, I locked the door. Ah Qing, what time did Dongzi come back yesterday?"

"It's quite early. I'll be back at around 7 o'clock."

"He is such a big man and has no sense of responsibility at all..."

Ye Yaodong quickened his pace, and his ears could hear the cocoon. He walked farther away and pretended that he didn't hear it. Anyway, he knew that he would never be like before.

When he reached the homestead, Ye Yaohua had already hoeed most of the weeds. He was sweating profusely and his cheeks were red.

He couldn't help but sigh. For country people, it is true that hard work leads to wealth. The hard-working people in their village lived quite a prosperous life in the following decades. They all knocked down their old houses and built small villas, not to mention their daily lives. How beautiful.

He didn't dare to think about anything else. As long as he lived a life like everyone else's, his family would be healthy and safe.

"Ahua!"

There is only two years difference between him and his second brother, so he never calls him second brother, only his first name, but his eldest brother knows how to call him.

When Ye Yaohua heard someone calling him, he straightened up, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and looked over, "Dongzi, why are you here?"

"Come and take a look. Will the construction start the day after tomorrow? Have the cement, sand, stones and bricks been ordered?"

"Okay, I ran around with dad for a whole day yesterday, and I have ordered everything and will deliver it tomorrow."

"It's a pity that saltwater sand cannot be used, otherwise the sand from the beach would be transported directly to build houses, which would save a lot of money."

"Haha, if the saltwater sand could build a house, it wouldn't be our turn to use it. It would have been shoveled away long ago."

"How long are you going to hoe this grass?"

"It will be enough to work for a while longer. Then we will tidy up the weeds and burn them in the open space. After burning, the ashes will be transported back to the vegetable field."

Ye Yaodong: "..."

The utilization is so thorough that even the weeds are not spared. No wonder they put all the weeds on the cart.

"Shall we burn it on the beach? Can I help you push it there?"

Ye Yaohua looked at him in surprise. For the first time, he just came to talk to him and actually asked for help?

"What's wrong? I also want to share this house. If I don't help with some work, what should I do if my father regrets it? Even if he doesn't regret it, I can't bear the scolding from him and my mother."

"Haha, yes, this cart is full, so you can help me push it to the open space on the beach. I will burn it after a while, and wait until I finish hoeing all the grass."

"Um."

Ye Yaodong pushed the trolley and walked all the way to the beach in the sun. Some women sitting at the door and weaving nets frequently cast surprised glances at him, but he pretended not to notice them at all.

When Ye Yaohua finished weeding and burning the ashes, he clapped his hands and left first. It would take a while before the burning was finished, so he could just ask his second brother to wait here, and he would not accompany him under the sun.

It's almost 10 o'clock now, the tide has receded for the most part, and I can already see people digging on the beach in front of me.

He estimated that the beach on the other side of the pier would soon be exposed, and he wanted to go back to get the hook and bucket.