Chapter 98 My damn little red hands
"Stop talking, there's no ice on the boat, so it's hard to keep it fresh. I'm going to paddle back quickly while this sea pig is still fresh. It looks like it weighs thirty or forty pounds, and it can be sold for a few yuan. You guys just be slow.
Slowly leave the Internet cafe here."
"Ah? Don't you want to go to the isolated island?" Ah Zheng was determined to be evil.
"I can't go. I visited several small islands and the tide hasn't gone down. It's quite steep. It's not easy to get to the island. The rocks are also slippery and not very safe. Let's wait until the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month."
The three of them had no choice but to give up after hearing this.
"I'm leaving, do your best!"
"Fine."
When he went to Ah Cai with two buckets, Ah Cai also praised him for his good luck, because he was able to catch a sea pig even with just one bucket.
Sea pigs, whose scientific name is finless porpoises, are round, chubby creatures with strange tentacles. They can grow up to about 150 centimeters in length and weigh two to three hundred kilograms. Their bodies are lead-grey or off-white.
The one he caught was quite small, estimated to only weigh about 70 to 80 pounds.
When Ah Cai was weighed, it turned out that he only weighed 72 pounds.
"That's 30.3 cents per pound. Do you have any objection? This is already the highest price I can give you. Don't bargain with me..."
Every time he sold private goods, as long as there was good stuff, Ye Yaodong would negotiate the price, and Ah Cai was used to asking.
Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "Okay, no bargaining this time, you can get whatever you say."
Anyway, he picked it up for free, and he felt very happy.
Ah Cai then calmly calculated the price, "The total is 23 yuan, 7.6 cents, don't say I'm stingy, I'll just give you 23 yuan, 8 cents."
"Okay, Brother Cai is indeed generous." Ye Yaodong happily put his arm on his shoulder and watched him count.
"Should you sell it, Silly? It costs 2 cents a pound."
"I'm not selling this, take it home and pickle the salted fish."
"It's up to you, get the receipt."
He happily took the receipt. After seeing that the number was correct, he folded it and put it in his breast pocket. He patted it casually and said, "Let's go."
After carrying the fish home, Ye Mu happened to be cooking. She didn't say anything when she saw the three dumb fish he brought back, and just killed them.
"Mom, how long will it take to build the house?"
"Depending on the progress, it should take about seven or eight days. If we hadn't moved to another location and laid the foundation again, our house would have been completed."
"Well, when I came back, I saw that the land had been reduced in size and had been covered up."
"Ignore it, it has nothing to do with us anyway. I estimate that your three rooms will be completed around the Mid-Autumn Festival."
"How much does it cost to build three rooms? It has been windy for several days in the past month or so, and the machine has been repaired twice, so we have lost more than ten days."
"It's more than a thousand, it's a great savings. We don't have to spend money on vegetables. We only have to spend money on rice. The materials are all transported back to the mountains and rivers by workers. It only costs a little money to buy sand. We only build one floor."
You don’t need to buy red bricks, just use rocks dug from the mountain. The workers’ wages are great. Menial work costs 1 yuan and 50 cents a day. The master who cuts the stones costs 2 yuan and 3 yuan. Let’s wait until it is completed. We haven’t finished it yet.
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Ye Yaodong nodded. During this period, the money from trawling and selling large yellow croakers was almost enough to build a house.
"Then I'll go."
"Well, by the way, take this bucket of cold tea over."
"knew."
Ye's mother felt a little distressed when she saw her third son's sunburned face. He had looked fair and clean in the past month or two. During this time, he had indeed worked a lot.
"If you feel tired, just take a rest at home and come with me to bring food later."
"It's okay. I didn't do anything in the morning. I just went to put up a cage." He said and walked out.
After such a long time, he has already adjusted his mentality after his rebirth. From the beginning, he was a little uncomfortable and needed to slowly change his personality. Now, his family is used to seeing him wield a hoe.
He should be down-to-earth, work hard to make money, and live a good life.
When they arrived at the homestead, Lin Xiuqing happened to be drinking tea to quench her thirst. He secretly told her that he picked up a sea pig on the sea that morning and sold it for 23 yuan and 8 cents. Her eyes lit up instantly.
"real?"
"Why are you lying to me? The list is in my pocket. I just forgot to take it back to the house. It probably won't fall out. I'll show it to you in the evening."
Lin Xiuqing held the tea bowl and nodded happily. Ye Yaodong held her hand and drank the tea she had not finished. Then she scooped up another bowl and drank. Then the two of them chatted and laughed and went to work together.
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Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the relationship between the couple had improved a lot early on. They even had to work together and still laughed so happily.
That night it was Ye Yaodong's turn to go to sea with his father again.
It happens every three days, and sometimes he can't go because of wind or the machine is broken. He has only gone there a few times in the past month.
If he continued to follow his father after the family separation, he really might as well go it alone. Although he made a lot of money from trawling, it would have to be divided among four people, and his parents also provided him with a small boat, which was enough.
As usual, I got up at around 1 o'clock at night and had a full meal before going out to sea.
When we went out, because it was dark, it was Ye's father who sailed the boat, and he was the one who set the first net. It was not until daybreak that he asked Ye Yaodong to set up the net.
After this period of time, Father Ye also understood that among several people, the third son had the best luck. Every time he dragged up the net, there would be one or two good fish, or a whole net of fish.
Ye Yaodong collected the winch and dragged it from the chute to the deck, "Ah, it's a whole net of white pomfret. My damn little red hands are really good at pulling it."
Father Ye glanced at him. He seemed to be at ease, but his mouth was still indifferent. "Keep setting the net."
"Dad, I have a hunch that our next catch will definitely be white pomfret!"
"You think the fish are nothing but cabbage?"
"Would you like to take a gamble?"
"What's the bet?"
Ye Yaodong chuckled: "Bet on two packs of friendship cigarettes, I saw exactly two packs in your pocket."
Father Ye covered his pockets and stared, "If I don't gamble, I finally managed to hide some private money, and it's only enough to buy these two bags."
"It's okay. Maybe you can win two packs. If you lose, don't you still have water pipes at home that you can smoke? Or you can roll a piece of paper and light tobacco."
"No, stop worrying about my cigarettes and work quickly!"
"All right."
After his hope failed, he could only sail the boat honestly.
In fact, Father Ye also thinks that the second network may still have white pomfret. There are indeed many white pomfrets recently. Yesterday, there were many white pomfrets piled up at the purchasing point.
As expected, the second net was still white pomfret, but mixed with a lot of orchid crabs and stone crabs.
Many white pomfrets have been pinched off by orchid crabs, or their appearance is unsightly, which is a pity.
Ah Cai wouldn't accept these white pomfrets that didn't look good or were broken. They could only take them back and eat them themselves.
"Let me choose here, and you go sail the boat and set the net."
On the second trip, he also dragged it around, and on the third trip, he simply did what he wanted and drove out. Anyway, there was a compass, so as long as he didn't run too far, it would be fine.
Chapter completed!