Return to the small fishing village of 1982

When he returned home with the bucket, everyone was already on the table and ready to eat. Lin Xiuqing went up to welcome him and was very happy to see a bucket of eels.

"So you went fishing for eels? I asked you before, but you said I didn't know. I'll catch up on everyone tonight, and I'll start working again tomorrow."

Father Ye gave him a disgusted look, "I like to do these things all day long. If I ask you to go to the fields to cut rice, you will be lazy again."

Except when he was making money, his father rarely liked him. Ye Yaodong laughed nonchalantly, "Can't I also improve the food? Eel is also very nourishing!"

After a few decades, you won’t be able to catch anything even if you want to! I can only buy food that is raised to eat.

The old lady said with a smile: "The eel is good. I haven't eaten it for a while. Working is as hard as going to sea. I originally thought of killing a chicken to supplement your food in a few days. It's just right to eat the eel at night. Keep the chicken." Waiting for the Mid-Autumn Festival to kill again, Dongzi, wash your hands and have dinner on the table, I will cook this."

"good."

Ye Yaodong looked at his father, "You just returned from the safe haven. Are the waves still big? Can you go at night?"

"You can go. Your second brother happened to be there a few days ago. I will take you to try it out tonight. Let's arrange it in order."

"oh!"

He is mentally prepared anyway, so let him see how lucky he is.

After the meal, he first took the receipt with Lin Xiuqing to A Cai's house to collect today's fish sales money, and then went to Xiao Xiao's house to pick up two large grass carps weighing 3 kilograms, and put them in buckets with three crucian carps. It will be a good meal for the workers tomorrow.

I haven't been out to sea for several days, and there are many people at home. The dried and salted fish I saved some time ago have been used up.

Lin Xiuqing saw him going in and out with no clothes on after taking a shower. She saw that he had obviously tanned a lot in the past few days and couldn't help but said: "I will take some time tomorrow to buy you a piece of cloth. Let’s make another suit!”

"Ah? Okay, why did you remember to make clothes for me? You can just make them yourself. Why don't I do it? What new clothes should I wear?"

"Aren't you helping with things lately? You have to change and wash twice a day. You only have two clothes and it's not enough. I'll make another set for you."

"Oh, then you have to figure it out!"

Just two pieces of clothing were indeed not enough to change into. During the typhoon two days ago, his clothes were not dry and he had no clothes to change that day. He walked around the house in only shorts.

In the past, he would leave early and come back late, so Lin Xiuqing didn't bother to care if he had a change of clothes, but now he couldn't. He was either working in the house or going to sea, so he couldn't be left without clothes.

Ye Yaodong actually doesn't care what he wears. She has always been the one who takes care of it. Anyway, she won't even have two changes of clothes.

"You should also buy yourself two outfits. I happened to have made some money recently."

"Why are you making new clothes out of season? It's a waste of money. I have three that can be replaced. Grandma has stewed the eels. Come out and eat them while they are hot."

"oh."

The table was already covered with bowls and chopsticks, and each person had an eel in his bowl. Only his bowl had two, the largest one and a smaller one.

The old lady was still there, telling him to eat quickly.

He nodded, picked up a small one, started from the beginning, peeled off the belly, picked out the internal organs, put the eel blood into the old lady's bowl, and put the meat into Lin Xiuqing's bowl.

"Eat, there's a bigger one in my bowl!"

"Eat it yourself, we all have it."

"I have one too. I'm older than you. Eat it. When you're done, I'll go fishing in a few days. There are plenty of them in the fields."

The old lady accepted it with a smile, and Lin Xiuqing simply picked it up and fed it to the child. It was not a rare thing anyway, so there was no need to push it around. The others on the table just watched and ate alone without saying anything.

Eel blood is the essence of its whole body and is a great tonic. But the children don't like to eat blood, but they are all forced to eat it by the adults. How can anyone eat eels without eating blood?

After eating and drinking, except for Ye's father who went to bed early because he was going to sea, everyone else sat at the door to enjoy the cool air. Ye Yaodong lay in the room for a while and couldn't sleep, so he also went out to enjoy the cool air.

As soon as I went out, I heard a bunch of women chatting there.

"How much did you sell that big fish this afternoon? Did it weigh a hundred catties?"

"Can it be sold for dozens of yuan?"

"I heard from Ah Cai's wife that the fish cost 40 yuan!"

"My dear, is it so valuable?"

At this time, how could a country woman know that wealth should not be exposed? Everyone gathered together, chatting or comparing. Mother Ye just started shouting with a smile on her face, "It's not that much, just more than 30 yuan, and other goods were sold together." , there are so many.”

"A Dong has been very successful recently. He has caught mackerel and grouper, and now he has picked up another one called Dudu... He has really made a fortune."

"It's Du's amberjack! This is the first time such a big fish has appeared on our beach. Adong is so lucky..."

Ye Yaodong leaned on the armchair and swayed a little, then said lazily: "It's not me who is lucky, it's Ah Qing who is lucky. She discovered it. I just helped lift it, and all the money went into her pocket. I just A part-time worker."

The neighbor's aunt next to her laughed: "That's what I said, husband and wife, isn't what's yours mine?"

"That's right, why did you get asked to work for Ah Qing?"

"Alas~"

Ye Yaodong sighed, then stood up, took out a pack of Friendship cigarettes from his pocket and threw it on the chair. Then he turned both pockets over and shook a five-cent coin and a two-cent coin in his hand.

"Did you see that? My pocket is empty, only seven cents, and all the money I make from selling the fish belongs to her. Isn't it that I work for her?"

Lin Xiuqing glanced at him with an embarrassed smile, "You have the nerve to show off..."

Mother Ye couldn't help laughing and scolding: "As long as you have a cigarette to smoke, what kind of money should you put in your pocket? I don't have to lose it all to you. Your daughter-in-law should keep the money at home. How can I keep it?" Pocket money is enough, Friendship cigarettes are only 45 cents a pack, enough for you to spend for a few days."

"Well, when I was young, my mother took care of me. When I got married, my wife took care of me. When I get older, I might have to look at the faces of my son and daughter-in-law. Life is like that~"

He sat back down and started rocking the armchair!

This was agreed by some of the uncles around him, "That makes sense, isn't it? I'm being controlled all the time. If I drink more, I'll be nagged all the time."

"That's right, I still have to be disliked... It's not that the smell of cigarette smoke is strong, it's that I snore a lot and it's annoying..."

"You're a chain smoker. You cough there every day and still smoke..."

After a while, the surrounding people were scolding again...

After successfully changing the topic, Ye Yaodong began to wander leisurely again. He didn't like people asking about his family background and how much money he had earned recently.

Just as he was rocking his chair, some bastard came over and pushed his chair back, causing him to fall to the ground!

"Ah, shit~ Who did this?"

"Hahahaha~"

Ye Yaodong got up angrily and stared at the group of brats who were laughing not far away, including those from his own family and those from his neighbors.

What a bastard! ! !

"Third uncle, it's Ye Chenghu. He lost a bet with us..."

"You bastard, don't run away~"

"Ah, dad~ It's them. They said you won't be angry. Brother Ahai also said you play with them like this every day. Just kidding, you definitely won't hit me...

"Ah... I was wrong, mother~ mother~ help me~ my father is going to beat me to death~"