Collecting Money
After staying in the old house for a long time, until his father, mother and younger sister came back, he told his mother about the basket of fish and shrimp to feed her chickens.
Mother Ye complained: "It's a waste of things. Even though we knew there was an earthquake, we didn't know how to take back the floor cage. How much does such a big basket cost? I only earn one or two yuan from Shopee in one day..."
Ye Yaodong thought that if he told her that it was like this last time, picking and throwing away to feed seabirds, he didn't know if his mother would hit someone?
This is also due to habit. If the fish and shrimp caught at sea are not good, everyone throws them into the sea. The seabirds can pick them up, and the ones that are not picked up sink and return to the sea. No one bothers to pick them up alone.
"Feed chickens and ducks to whoever wants it. Stop nagging, I'm leaving."
"If the neighbor wants it, let him take it. It looks like we will have more chickens next year..."
Ye Yaodong put the basket covered with rags on the cart. Even as he walked far away, he could still hear his mother's voice yelling at the neighbors.
Lin Xiuqing was already cooking at home. As soon as he entered the house carrying a basket of corals, two boys ran up to him. One held his thigh and tried to climb up, while the other stood on tiptoes to get his basket.
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"Dad, what delicious food did you buy? Show it to me...look..."
"Oil cakes... cakes... canned food... maltose..." Ye Chengyang tugged on his pants and looked up with his face bright.
Ye Chenghu's eyes lit up, "Isn't that right, dad?"
"It's your head. I've been thinking about eating it every day. Do you want to eat it during the fifth night? Go away..."
"Then what's in the basket?"
"Why are children so curious?"
Ye Yaodong lifted his feet and dragged the pendant on his leg towards the house with great effort.
Lin Xiuqing also asked him curiously, "What's in the basket?"
"Coral, I just went to pick it up from the old lady at my old house. She said it was useless to leave it at her place. She knew I wanted it so she installed it all for me."
"Have you got them all? There are so many, they take up so much space..."
"Then put it in my cabinet so it won't hinder you."
Humph... both of them feel like they are taking up space. It would be better if they don't laugh secretly after a few decades.
"Dad, what you got is not food?"
"Go, go, go... let's go..."
"Dad, when will you go to town again to buy us delicious food?"
"Do you want to eat your fart? I'll break one for you now!" As he said that, Ye Yaodong actually broke one...
"Ah...it smells so bad..."
"Ah... it stinks so much... Dad, let it go as you say!"
The two heard a loud noise and immediately pinched their noses to avoid it.
"Hmph, where does the stinky thing come from? The noisy fart doesn't stink, the stinky fart doesn't make the sound!"
"I know, I know, serial farts are smelly and loud!" Ye Chenghu said excitedly, as if connected with a couplet.
Ye Yaodong glanced sideways at this idiot son. Is this something he should be happy about?
He first took a basket of corals back to the house and killed the remaining fish. He steamed a one-pound Huangshan fish and cut two white pomfrets into slices for his wife to make hot and sour soup.
In the past few months, he has often helped kill fish, and he has become very proficient in the business. He can cook and cut the pomfret in any way. By the way, he also marinates the sliced ​​white pomfret with seasonings.
The Huangshan fish is also seasoned. Add some ginger and garlic and place it directly on top of the rice. While the rice is cooking, the fish is steamed.
The two children kept wandering around him, chasing him and asking when he would go to town again. The two children in front of him and behind him were particularly annoying.
"Stop following behind me, or I'll reward you two assholes again!"
"Cut~ let it go again, let it go again~" Ye Chenghu said while playfully slapping his father's butt.
As a result, at this moment, Ye Yaodong collapsed again. He was so frightened that his face immediately changed color and he jumped to the side.
Ye Chengyang also reacted slowly, holding his nose and ran towards his brother without realizing it.
"Ah, Dad, you're going too far. Why do you fart just when you say you're going to fart?"
"Don't let it go when you have farts, it hurts your heart, squeeze hard when you don't have farts, keep fit! I told you to go away, but who told you not to go away and even slapped my butt."
After Ye Chenghu farted twice in a row, he glared at him angrily and didn't dare to get closer for fear of another one.
Lin Xiuqing sat in front of the stove and smiled happily, "Go and play with you. I'll call you later for dinner. Don't get in the way here, otherwise your father can squeeze out two others at any time."
"Ah, it's too much, it's too much. I want to tell Brother Ahai that dad is the king of farts..."
He said and ran away.
"This brat wants to ruin my reputation again!"
"What reputation do you have among them?"
"It's too much. I buy them food every three days, and also tell small stories about me every day!"
"I am disrespectful to my elders. I like to tease them all day long, but I have the nerve to say so."
"Obviously they are all young and old."
"That's also your fault. You don't have the majesty of Third Uncle."
"What's the point of being majestic? If you pick up the whip, you'll still scare them to death."
Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes and refused to talk nonsense to him. How many times had he been whipped? She was always the bad guy, okay?
After the rice was cooked, she pretended to let others eat first, and Lin Xiuqing immediately cooked the soup.
Men and women can work together without getting tired.
After the pomfret is marinated, pour out the soup, add some sweet potato powder and stir, then add some ginger, garlic, celery, and the sour bamboo shoots pickled by Lin Mu, and add some chili and pepper, but unfortunately there is no enoki mushroom.
A bowl of hot and sour soup in winter will warm your whole body.
"You're not going to sea tomorrow, are you? Or go and collect all the radishes in the fields. Taking advantage of the good weather these two days, we can shred the radishes and dry them. The winter solstice is in more than half a month. We can dry them and make rice dumplings.
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"Okay, the old lady will also be there in the afternoon to make rice dumplings."
He originally planned to rest for two days and then take advantage of the good weather to go to sea several times, but his father's rheumatism still took its toll.
This disease cannot be cured, it is quite troublesome, and it is easy to relapse. His father will definitely not talk about it. If the old lady hadn't mentioned it in the afternoon, he wouldn't have known about it.
"I must be thinking about your love of eating."
"Are you also thinking about me? That's why you started talking about me early?"
Lin Xiuqing refused to admit it, "I was thinking that it was almost the winter solstice and I wanted to worship the stove."
The local custom is to eat rice dumplings during the Winter Solstice, and also to offer sacrifices to the stove. When offering sacrifices to the stove, glutinous rice balls are used. This is a small sacrifice, and a big sacrifice on New Year's Eve.
"You mean what you say!" Ye Yaodong grinned happily, "I'll harvest the sweet potatoes in the field tomorrow, and let's plant some vegetables."
"Okay, by the way, sprinkle some spinach and chrysanthemum seeds."
"Is my little sister's dowry ready?"
"The quilt has been sewn, but the clothes are still a little rough. It should be ready in two days."
"It's just after the winter solstice..."
Lin Xiuqing nodded. It was still too early to leave. She thought of another important thing, "Can we take the abalone money?"
She has always been concerned about this, because in the past two days, Sister-in-law Ye and Sister-in-law Ye have asked her every day whether she got the money and how much she sold it for. She always said that she didn't get the money and she didn't know.
In fact, she really didn't know.
No, when they came back from picking out the shrimps in the evening, they asked again and said they could pick them up.
She is more concerned about how much her home can be sold for than she is!
"Well, when I came back just now, I told Ah Cai to come over after dinner."
"Then eat quickly and don't go there until dark. It's cold now and everyone just lies down when it gets dark."
"I'll just go and wait at home."
Lin Xiuqing had no objection. She couldn't help him much anyway. He knew a lot of words now. When he didn't know the words, it was hard to lie to him, and it was even harder to fool him now.
Ye Yaodong took the remaining food in and went to settle the accounts and get the money.
Ah Cai, it seems quite reliable now.
The total amount of abalone was 277 kilograms and 3 taels. They were weighed uniformly at the purchase point. They were not poured out to sort out the size, because after picking one bag, most of them were seven or eight abalones, so there was no time to carefully select the rest.
But when Ah Cai was looking for buyers, he carefully selected them all. The specifications were different, and the prices were of course different.
Although most of them are seven or eight abalones, if you carefully select them, you will find that some are up to the size of five abalones, which weigh more than 10 kilograms, and the six-head abalones can also be sold for more than 20 kilograms, which can be sold for a little more money.
The term "how many abalones" comes from the weight, which means how many can be weighed per pound.
Abalones weighing two per pound are called double-headed abalone, and abalones weighing three per pound are called three-headed abalone...
A pound of 6 abalones is called a 6-head abalone... and so on.
Generally, the larger the size, the longer the growth cycle, the better the quality, and the more expensive the price.
Double-headed abalone is very precious, so there is a saying in the market that "it's hard to buy a double-headed abalone for a lot of money".
Although the ones he received were not of such high quality, they were still pretty good. Those abalones, conchs and temporary goods that day sold for a total of 1,080.
Ah Cai rounded up this number to give him an integer.
Ye Yaodong happily accepted it, "Thank you very much."
"Haha, it's my turn to thank you."
"Win-win, win-win..."
Ah Cai smiled and pulled out two cigarettes for him, "You've been very unbelievable these past few months. I heard you're almost going to have a household worth ten thousand yuan?"
"Damn it, please stop being rude to me. Do you believe the rumors in the village? Don't you still know how much money I earn? If there are households worth ten thousand yuan in our village, you must be the first!"
"Don't... I'm just making some hard-earned money. The village next door raised pigs and the households worth ten thousand yuan broke out at the beginning of the year. Now the family still has no peace."
"So, those false reputations are of no use, the only way to make a fortune is to keep silent."
It's a pity that most of his harvest has to go ashore. In full view of the public, most people know it in their hearts.
No matter what, it would be fine if he refused to admit it anyway and just said that he owed money. Fortunately, he had the boat to cover it up.
"Yes, I didn't expect you to be young, but you see it quite clearly. Generally speaking, older people can't resist that vanity, let alone young people."
Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "You're looking down on people. Brother, don't you understand? Look at your belly. It's better to give yourself a big belly than to give yourself convenience."
"Hahaha……"
"Let's go, I have to share the money. I didn't earn this alone. I really don't earn much. It's all spread by the gossipy women in the village!"
"Haha, I understand, I understand!"
Chapter completed!