Chapter 1064: Turtle (10,000 words, +31 monthly votes)

Ye Yaodong stood for a while, didn't hear anything fresh, and walked home swinging the cloth bag in his hand.

He still had large water stains on him, and he hadn't even changed his clothes before rushing out.

The room door wasn't closed, and the two children's childish words accompanied by silver bell-like laughter were transmitted out in bursts. Lin Xiuqing was still counting money there as usual.

He smiled and said to the two children, "What you two are saying, probably only you can understand. Gibberish, don't know what you're saying."

Lin Xiuqing paused with the money in her hand and turned to ask him, "Who came to look for you?"

"Lin Jishang."

He also lifted the cloth bag in his hand to show her. "Sent the telescope back to me, and incidentally ordered 5000 jin of dried fish, will come to load it in a few days."

Lin Xiuqing's gaze swayed with his hand. "How much money is this?"

"No money, he gave it as a gift. Didn't sell those caviar to him last month? Bargained with him, let him give me one, and he said this thing is hard to get. I also waited for a month, and now it's brought over."

While talking, he also sat on the edge of the bed and dismantled it. He didn't know where Lin Jishang got it from. It didn't look brand new, a bit gray, looking like it was only eight-tenths new, but it looked intact, without any traces. Just wipe it with a rag.

Perhaps, it was also possible that it couldn't be sold, and it had been left there for a long time gathering dust.

This thing was too niche now. Normal people rarely needed to use a telescope. Anyway, it was free, so he didn't dislike it.

"So good? Even gave you this thing as a gift. Then it probably isn't expensive, directly used as a filler to give to you. It's a pity you said before it would cost several hundred, maybe over a thousand yuan."

"It costs that much money. It's just that I probably let him earn a lot, so he promised to give one of these."

"Then are we at a loss? Such an expensive thing, he said give it, then it must have earned a lot of money."

"Not at a loss. It's a loss if it's smashed in the hand. Originally it was salvaged from the sea, how much it sells is earned. He has the ability to earn this money, then of course it's his ability, and you can't just think you're at a loss because others earned more."

Lin Xiuqing thought about it and felt his logic was reasonable.

"Then anyway it's obtained for free, then you just keep it well. Just right you've been muttering, wait for the Fengshou boat to be repaired, and take it to sea together."

"Know."

"You go bathe and change clothes first, the chest and knees and pant legs are all wet."

Ye Yaodong looked down at himself and put the telescope aside first.

But when he was bathing shirtless, the two little girls gathered around again, hanging on his back and calling him shameful.

He was extremely helpless, had to push the two girls to the corner of the wall, and then took the quilt to cover them completely, causing them to scream wildly.

Taking the opportunity to carry the water out of the house, he prepared to bathe in the main hall, not daring to sit by the bed anymore.

Those two tormenting little girls.

After quickly wiping his body, he poured out the water and entered the room to change into shorts.

The weather was getting hot. He now only wore a pair of shorts when sleeping. He didn't need to wear clothes at night, just shirtless and thighs, took the telescope he had just put aside, sat on the edge of the bed and studied it left and right.

The two little girls behind him gathered around and hung on him again. He didn't care about the two's laughter and noise, letting them shake him casually.

He didn't understand this telescope thing, nor did he know the model or anything. He hadn't seriously contacted it until he was old in his previous life. Fortunately, there was a simple instruction manual in the cloth bag given to him, which could be studied when the light was good during the day.

After flipping through it casually, he took out a handkerchief, wiped the dust in the corners and gaps, and incidentally blew a few times.

After finishing, he saw Lin Xiuqing still counting money there.

"You haven't finished counting?"

Lin Xiuqing nodded, didn't speak, and continued counting silently.

Ye Yaodong pulled the two little ones hanging on him, put the telescope away first, and saw that the whole table was full of coins and paper money of a few cents and a few dimes, and the large amounts had been counted and placed in the corner.

"Why counting so slowly?"

"There are the accounts of the Fengshou boat, and the accounts of the city. How can counting be so fast? The accounts of the Fengshou boat are still easy to say, they are all large amounts, counting a few sheets is fast. The accounts of the city, small change accounts for half, counting these few cents and few dimes is not so fast."

"Then don't count it. Didn't you take a few malted milk cans to collect coins? Just throw the 1-cent, 2-cent, 5-cent ones in casually."

"That also has to count the money first, record it in the book, so next time you ask how much money is in the family, I'll flip through the book and know. Otherwise, it's muddled and I don't know how much money is in the family. Can't turn out all the money again and count it one by one? That won't necessarily be able to count in a day and a night, they are all small change."

"Oh, don't be noisy. Look at you, you interrupted me again. How much did I count to? Go away, go away, don't hinder me from counting money."

After being pushed, Ye Yaodong didn't bother people anymore, climbed onto the bed and played with the two children.

After she finished counting and tidying up, it was ten minutes later.

Seeing her take out the cans to collect coins, Ye Yaodong then spoke, "Finished counting, so slow?"

"You guys have been noisy, always interrupting me."

He was still pressed by two small ones on his back, stepping on him and playing.

"How much money did the city shop bring back? How much money does our family have now?"

"The cuttlefish dried fish sold well in the city this month, brought back 22,355 yuan, plus the income of the Fengshou boat, plus the money earned by our family's few boats this month, then deduct labor expenses, a total of more than 126,000."

Ye Yaodong thought confusedly, it turned out that the income of the shop he imagined yesterday was thought too much, and he also missed some of the income of the fishing boat this month.

"Oh, then round it up, our family also has 130,000."

"You really know how to calculate, the family property of empty words was hard-calculated by you to have 3000 more."

"This little money, can't I earn it back by sailing a few trips casually?"

"Yes, yes, yes, you are really amazing, our family owes a lot to you."

Lin Xiuqing perfunctorily responded casually, not expecting him to take it seriously.

Ye Yaodong grinned. "As long as you know."

She rolled her eyes at him helplessly. "You coax the two to sleep first, I also have to go bathe."

The next day was June 1st Children's Day. For children now, it was a happy big festival.

At noon, one by one, they returned home from school like butterflies, and were chattering non-stop, all talking about the June 1st activity this morning.

"Also have candies, chicken cakes..."

"We have white rabbit milk candies, five per person, but I've already finished eating them, but I still have the candy wrapper..."

"Our class also read books and told stories..."

"We also watched videotapes, just like watching a movie, super lively, super fun..."

Ye Chengyang suddenly felt envious of reading. Seeing them chattering, he couldn't help but lean over to ask about this and that.

Ye Yaodong sat in the courtyard propped up his legs waiting for food across a wall, also listening to them talking excitedly.

"We have the tallest students in the higher grades holding the national flag, and another student holding the vanguard team's flag, and then we followed behind beating gongs and drums, first walking around the school, and then walking around the village. Everyone was especially happy, and the whole village was also very lively..."

"So fun..." Ye Chengyang was full of envy.

"Right, right, we all wore red scarves, it was so fun..."

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but speak, "Then do you have anyone who can gloriously participate in beating drums? Beating gongs, being a flag bearer, or blowing a horn?"

One sentence directly silenced them.

"Third Uncle, this requires good grades..."

"Oh~"

One word turned three tones, ruining their excited mood.

Ye Chenghai said depressedly, "Third Uncle, don't talk anymore. Originally I was considered very tall, and could be a flag bearer, but the teacher said I was too dark, wearing a white shirt, and my face was like black charcoal, so I was replaced."

"Does this not require grades?"

Ye Chengjiang added, "No need, just tall is enough!"

"Then it's a pity. Then next time let you exchange three yuan for the opening flag bearer, do you want it?"

"Then don't want it. Dark is dark, I don't care about being a flag bearer."

"Brother, you started muttering a few days ago about not picking cuttlefish next year, wanting to be a flag bearer..."

"If you don't speak, no one will treat you as a mute. A few days ago is a few days ago, now is now. Shut up, go eat."

The children at the door also returned to their homes together. Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang also ran back to the courtyard excitedly, followed by two little followers.

"Come, let me take a look. First time seeing you so clean."

Ye Yaodong was also rarely seeing Ye Chenghu wearing a white shirt, rarely so clean, simply unprecedented.

Every day except for the morning when he just went out, looking clean, he was like a madman when he returned at noon, and there was no place on his body that was clean, and his hands were black when stretched out.

Ye Chenghu was also very happy, shaking back and forth in place, turning in circles, and very proudly stretched out his ten fingers. "Mother also cut clean nails for me yesterday."

"You still have the nerve to say, you could dig ten jin of dirt from your nail gaps."

"Not at all."

"Brother, is reading books very fun?"

"I think herding sheep is more fun."

"But it's so boring, no one herds sheep with me."

Ye Chenghu draped his arm over his shoulder like a good brother and walked toward the room. "Then you should come to study. Studying is also a lot of fun. We can also have PE class, play games, and have music class where we can sing..."

"Really... but I see you scratching your head every day doing homework, looking like you have lice?"

"That... that's occasionally..."

"It's every day..."

"Anyway, you also have to read books, hum."

Ye Yaodong watched Ye Chenghu's failed temptation, and also beckoned to the two little followers chasing chickens and dogs in the courtyard, calling them to wash their hands and eat.

At mealtime, Ye's mother couldn't wait to inquire.

"When will the in-laws' boat be repaired? You guys have been waiting at home for a week..."

"We haven't been waiting idly either. Aren't the eldest brother's and second brother's boats just returned these days? Just right, we handled the boat affairs during this period, and the accounts that should be calculated were also calculated once. I went out early and returned late yesterday, and only returned in the evening. Where did I sit idly?"

"Then now that everything is busy, you have to let the in-laws urge the factory more. You can't be anxious and just sit at home and wait."

Ye's father also said, "How to urge this? If the parts haven't arrived, urging is useless."

"Then just sit at home and don't have to do anything?"

"Where is there nothing to do? The work at home is also a lot. Just right, I've been busy there these few days. At home, I'm either farming or going to the mountain to look at repairing the tomb, and incidentally cutting bamboo to weave bamboo baskets. Where is there a time when I'm idle?"

The old lady asked with concern, "How is the tomb repairing?"

"Almost there. It should be almost good in these two days. It was just that chiseling stones was a bit strenuous, and they had to be carried to the tomb. Those sand and stones and such all had to be carried up from the foot of the mountain step by step, which was a bit troublesome, otherwise it would have been repaired long ago."

"Then wait until the tomb is repaired before going out to sea to work. Otherwise, you go for a few days again. The tomb is repaired, and at that time you have to go up the mountain to worship together, and you have to choose a day to let your father lie in."

"Then I'll take time to look at a day in advance, so as not to be coincidental and block them from going out to sea."

"Those two boats collected back, did Dad arrange to rent them out?" Ye Yaodong looked at his father and asked.

"The old boat was rented, yours is still left. Didn't you also say there the day before yesterday that after the things in hand are busy, and the Fengshou boat hasn't been repaired, you'll go set longlines?"

"Oh, that's fine too. Then I'll send a few baskets of longlines to call someone to tidy up later."

"Then go set longlines tonight? Then take back the worthless miscellaneous goods of your few boats tonight, don't bring them to your cousin and them, leave them to be bait when going out to sea at night."

"Then I'll explain to Wang Guangliang and them later. Your boat also went out to sea at night, right? Let them collect goods together in the evening."

"The old boat was checked last night and there was no problem. They went out to sea last night. By the end of this month, it will be calculated together. I didn't do anything today, I'll go to the pier in the evening, and incidentally let them recognize people."

Ye's mother couldn't help but interject, "Then the in-laws should go and talk, they have to go and talk, otherwise just put it there..."

"Know, nagging..."

"Last time your boat broke, put it in the factory to repair, he didn't wait for you and went out to sea directly, this time still want you to wait..."

"Got it wrong, Mother. It was us who volunteered to wait. Otherwise, we could just go out to sea normally. It wasn't that a few things happened, everyone felt it wasn't that safe and secure? Wanted two boats together, that's why we waited. Otherwise, they didn't call us to wait either. His boat was put there to repair, what does it have to do with us going or not?"

Ye's mother was speechless for a while.

Ye's father glanced at her. "We will look at it ourselves, don't worry blindly. Yesterday we returned from the factory, now go to urge what?"

After the meal, everyone went to be busy with their own things.

Once June arrived, the sun became scorching hot. Ye Yaodong sent the longlines to be tidied up by the old people in the village. After returning, he was sweating profusely, sweat flowing down like water, and he drank half a pot of tea to quench his thirst.

Feeling that spring didn't have much time, before and after it was only a month, and it immediately arrived in summer, a season where wearing a vest was too hot.

After he got home, he also took off his clothes for the first time, shirtless.

When he was gulping down tea, the old lady also brought a towel to him, wiping his back behind him.

"This weather says hot and it's hot. Don't wear that stuffy hat, look at how hot you are..."

"Alright, I'm fine. Just pushed the cart and got a bit tanned. Go watch your TV, I'll go to the door and lie on the reclining chair to cool off for a while."

"There is boiled corn in the pot, go take two to eat. I'll go boil a pot of mung bean soup for you, when it's mid-afternoon, use it as a snack, and you can also bring it to the sea at night."

He nodded and didn't say anything, directly went to the door and lay on the reclining chair to cool off.

Lin Xiuqing sat in front of the TV watching the old lady busy around him for no reason, and didn't care about her.

Recently, the fishing boat hadn't gone out to sea, and there was nothing in the workshop, so she also felt that the whole person was leisurely, and could sit there and watch TV.

The two little girls could also sit still with melon seeds to eat, and also leaned close to Lin Xiuqing, watching TV rarely well-behaved.

When he was sleeping soundly on the reclining chair, he heard a few female voices coming from the room. Dazed, he curiously got up and looked, then lay back down again.

It was A-Guang's younger sister. His two sisters would often take turns coming over to send things, sometimes vegetables, sometimes melons and fruits, sometimes small snacks bought in town. Just glanced at it, it seemed this time what was sent over was bananas, there was a whole sack on the ground, revealing part of the banana stalk.

Their family had a large piece of mountain land behind, just borrowing the convenience of living nearby, everything was planted by their family, and the land was directly occupied.

However, he hadn't seen his eldest sister come to the door recently, probably she was too embarrassed to go out.

Sinful.

But fortunately, there was a stepmother now, and there was someone to organize, so no need to trouble his mother anymore.

After the second marriage was rejected, his mother also felt very embarrassed, having a feeling of pitting someone else's girl, being a person inside and outside. Fortunately, the two families were in-laws, and no one expected the reason of the old woman. If they had married earlier, there would be no problem.

He took the clothes on his chest and continued to cover his body and face, looking at the sun still very big, but the sun was slanting west a bit, and it probably wasn't that early until the sun set.

Peace of mind, he continued to lie down. After a long time, the children came back from school, and people left, so he sat up.

He was very embarrassed facing a little girl as a big man, and had nothing to say, so it was better to lie down and pretend to be dead.

After the people left, Aqing and the old lady in the room also started muttering that the two sisters were 20 years old and had to get married quickly.

"Call my little brothers over to pick and choose for the two sisters, how simple."

"Don't keep pushing them."

"Pfft, looking down on this and that now, maybe you won't be able to climb high enough to reach them in the future."

"Forget it, you. Help take the bananas out of the sack, take a knife to cut the stalk, wrap them with newspaper and put them in a basket, put them in the room where dried fish is placed, and they can be eaten in a few days."

"Then won't it all be fishy? Just put them in the firewood pile here, wouldn't it be fine."

"Is there a difference? Isn't our whole family fishy?"

That's true.

Dried fish were piled up all year round in the room, and the whole family was shrouded in fishy smell inside and out. He felt that his whole person had also been pickled.

From the New Year to last month, the base of dried fish produced was huge, and the workshop, home, and city were all piled up.

"It doesn't matter. In a few days, Lin Jishang will pull 5000 jin away, and our family will be empty immediately."

He was really just saying it casually last night. If it was really 20,000 jin, plus the city's, it might not be enough. In these one or two months, basically all cuttlefish dried fish were dried, and dried fish were dried very little, all were inventory before March.

This wave will produce another 5000 jin, the two warehouses in the city added together might only have 10,000-something jin, and there was another warehouse piled with jars of fish sauce.

Dried fish stored during the winter to the New Year, plus these few months, looking at the weather and drying a little bit, it might only be able to be sold until October.

Calculating, it should be almost just right to sell all the inventory. After the weather turns cool in November, it can be dried in large quantities again.

"Then don't pile it at home next time. There is still a little position in the workshop small room. Anyway, we won't dry in large quantities next, let the room eliminate the taste."

Ye Chenghu also interjected, "My classmates all call me Salted Fish Boy, just saying I smell like salted fish all day."

Lin Xiuqing said casually, "It's quite appropriate, it matches your father's nickname very well."

"What is Dad's nickname?" Ye Chengyang asked curiously.

Ye Chenghu said excitedly, "Salted Fish Dong, stupid, don't even know this."

Ye Yaodong glared at him and said unpleasantly, "What's there to be proud of? Watch your TV, adults are talking and you have to interject."

Ye Chenghu lowered his head, and then turned his head to wink at Ye Chengyang and whispered, "Salted Fish Dong, Salted Fish Dong..."

The voice was so small it was almost inaudible, but at this time no one was talking, and the plot in the TV happened to have no sound, so it was exceptionally clear.

Ye Yaodong's face turned black.

If this kid wasn't sitting far away from him, he wouldn't be easy to rush up and hit people just because he called two nicknames, otherwise, he would have to make his butt bloom.

Lin Xiuqing coughed a few times, and Ye Chenghu turned his head to see his father's face turning black like the bottom of a pot, and then hurriedly shrank his head and ran to the upstairs with a bang, bang, bang.

Ye Chengyang saw his brother run, looked at his father, and also followed and ran.

"What are you all running for? Come down and do homework for me. Every day when you return, you don't think about doing homework first, either watching TV or running wild, and don't think about doing homework until it's dark, and then temporarily hold Buddha's feet there."

"Just like this, you can still get 100 points? The sun is going to rise from the west. I don't know where you got the bad habit, don't know to be anxious until the fire burns the eyebrows."

"Still not coming down for me!"

He roared seriously, and the two upstairs quietly touched the stairs, and then their butts moved down one step by one step, moving down slowly.

Ye Chenghu aimed his little eyes at him while moving his butt.

Ye Chengyang moved his little butt downward behind him, only after moving two steps did he remember, "I don't have to do homework?"

After saying that, he turned his head and climbed up nimbly.

"Fortunately, I didn't listen to brother's lie at noon..."

Ye Yaodong originally felt that the second one still had a bit of cleverness, but now he felt why was he so stupid?

How come their family didn't produce a smarter one?

"Come down for me quickly. Running upstairs is as fast as a rabbit, going downstairs is as slow as a turtle. If you grind and grind again, I'll stew that turtle of yours tomorrow."

"Don't."

After he shouted, he hurriedly came down.

Ye Yaodong didn't like him now, took his schoolbag to the table, and prepared to stare at him to write, otherwise half an hour would pass, and he might still be sitting there with empty eyes.

Ye Chenghu moved slowly to the table, and then sat at the table, weakly asking, "Is it okay to write after eating?"

"Do you have any important business right now?"

"I have a stomachache, I don't... I'm hungry..."

Thinking of the consequence of not having a meal because of pretending to have a stomachache before, he hurriedly changed his words.

"Believe it or not, I'll make your butt hurt? What homework?"

"There is an outline in the language book..."

Ye Yaodong took out his language textbook, inside were mixed with quite a few outlines, all folded messily, casually clipped in the book pages. He pulled them out disdainfully, and even pulled out a pile of card little heads.

Ye Chenghu hurriedly pounced on the table, then swept them into his arms, put them in his pocket, his movements agile and fast, and only after the fact did he look at his father vigilantly and fearfully.

"I think you can go out to sea to work earlier." Ye Yaodong looked at his eldest son with a hopeless look.

Ye Chenghu nodded hurriedly.

His face sank again. "Write quickly, find which one yourself."

Ye Chenghu was panicked and hurriedly flipped through the pile of outlines on the table. That paper was so thin that it could see the front and back clearly.

And those outlines were all handwritten by the teacher, and then rubbed with ink. He folded them messily, and after spreading them out, some ink stains were also stained on the blank places, looking at some handwriting that was blurred.

"This one, others have all been written."

Ye Yaodong felt that the current educational conditions were really poor. Future children were really happy. This paper was so transparent that it could rub the patterns on the book pages, and the pencil would break a hole if it was slightly forced.

Thinking like this, his voice also softened a bit, not so serious. "Write quickly."

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He continued to feel around in his schoolbag, pulling out a pencil that was only half the length of a chopstick. The other end of the pencil tip was bitten full of wood shavings and tooth marks, and the eraser he pulled out looked like it had been picked to pieces.

Only then, under his father's watchful eyes, did he bite the bullet and start writing slowly.

Seeing him sitting there writing in a proper manner, Ye Yaodong felt quite relieved, then got up and walked toward Lin Xiuqing.

"See? Forcing him to write like this, didn't he start doing his homework as soon as he got back? Usually, you just don't watch him or urge him to write, so he drags it out every day and doesn't do his homework until dark."

"Can I force him every day, force him until I'm old?"

"Good habits must be cultivated from a young age. If you watch him a few more times, once he gets used to it, you won't need to watch him anymore."

"That's easy to say. Do I not have to work all day and just watch him every day? I still have a pile of things to do, and now I have to cook again. Since you're so good at it, you watch him."

"I'll watch him, then. Don't you see he's quite self-conscious now?"

"Hehe~ turn your head and look at what he's doing now."

Ye Chenghu was lowering his head and secretly aiming at the TV. Upon hearing this, he immediately sat up straight and hurriedly pretended to write seriously.

Ye Yaodong reached out to turn off the TV and urged him to do his homework quickly.

Lin Xiuqing also stood up, preparing to light the fire to cook.

The old lady just watched happily. Without TV to watch, she still had the radio.

She happily greeted the two little girls to go with her to the doorway to listen to the radio.

Ye Yaodong, being idle anyway, sat on the side to guard Ye Chenghu doing his homework. Usually, it was because the adults didn't manage them that they were spoiled into doing things at the last minute every day.

However, by the time he finished a bowl of mung bean soup, he saw Ye Chenghu just staring at him.

"Write."

He leaned his head over to take a look. On the outline sheet, only the name was written, and nothing else had been touched.

No, he had also drawn a turtle on the paper.

"What is this?"

"Little Eight!"

Ye Yaodong made a fist, wanting to knock him on the head, but it only landed on the outline. "Hurry up and write for me, or I'll stew your Little Eight."

He hurriedly added the class next to the name, then stopped again.

"What are you looking at me for? Write!"

Ye Yaodong glared at him with a tiger's gaze.

He then started flipping through the books again, saying weakly, "I'm looking for it..."

Lin Xiuqing, lighting the fire, looked at the father and son amusedly. "The characters your father knows are probably about the same as yours."

"Nonsense, I'm much better than him."

Saying this, he took a large pile of newspapers stacked against the wall on the table, pulled out the one on top at random, shook it open, and pretended to read it.

However, looking at this, he became a bit serious. Newspapers were delivered twice a week, and he didn't necessarily read them all.

On today's newspaper, he didn't expect that a separate section had been opened, writing about the construction of the lighthouse, which made him read it seriously.

However, he didn't forget to watch his son do his homework, looking up from time to time, and only felt relieved when he saw his pen moving there.

The family of three was busy with their own things in the main hall, which was quite harmonious.

It wasn't until Ye's father and mother came over to eat that the harmony in the room was broken.

"Did the sun rise from the west?"

"You've made progress, doing your homework so early."

Ye Yaodong folded the newspaper. "Usually, there's no one watching him, so he runs around blindly all day. As soon as he comes back, he throws his schoolbag down and either watches TV or plays wildly outside, not doing his homework until dark. You have to manage him and watch him so he can do it seriously."

"Watch him for two days, and he'll be self-conscious by then. It's been so long, he should be almost done, let me see..."

Ye Chenghu hurriedly pressed both hands on the outline, not allowing him to see.

"What are you blocking? Take your hands off and go eat. If you haven't finished, write it after the meal. Once you're done, you can have fun, and you won't have to do things at the last minute anymore."

Ye Yaodong grabbed his hand, but couldn't move it for a long time. He frowned and gave him a suspicious look.

"Take it off, go wash your hands and eat. Look at how black your hands are."

Ye Chenghu immediately dropped the pen and ran toward the back door.

And Ye Yaodong also saw that the outline was empty. It was the same as it was before.

No, there were several more turtles.

And the handwriting was even more blurred from his hand rubbing it; there was a black patch here and a black patch there, but the lines for the questions were all empty, and not a single word had been written.

No wonder he had to press both hands on it to block him from seeing; it turned out he hadn't written a single word and was just pretending to hold a pen while drawing turtles.

"Ye Chenghu! Get over here!"

Ye Chenghu hid behind the back door, only sticking out his head, and said tremblingly, "I'll write after I finish eating..."

"Write a turtle!"

Lin Xiuqing saw him shouting so loudly and also leaned over to take a look. It really was a turtle.

"You sat there for a long time, and you just drew these? I thought you were writing seriously because I saw your pen tip moving. Get over here."

"I'll definitely write in a while..."

"Write in a while, then what were you doing sitting there just now?"

Ye's father added, "Isn't this drawing a turtle?"

"I... I'm hungry... I'll write after I'm full..."

"You still want to eat? Eat your turtle, I'll stew it tomorrow. And you're drawing turtles everywhere; the teacher might think you're cursing him as a turtle."

"That's what you said, I didn't..."

Ye Yaodong excitedly held the test paper in one hand and poked it with the other. "Get over here! An hour has passed, and you just drew these few turtles for me? I thought you were doing your homework seriously and even thought about rewarding you tomorrow. Get over here, let's see if I don't beat you to death..."

Rip, the fragile outline was actually poked with a hole by him.

Ye Yaodong angrily threw it directly onto the table, then went to find a whip, and was about to chase him to the back door to beat him.

Ye Chenghu shouted before he even ran. "No, I'll write in a while, I'll write in a while..."

"Don't run, get back here..."

Ye Yaodong ran to the back door and saw that the ground was full of duck poop and sheep poop, so he didn't want to step on it, and chased him out on tiptoe.

Ye Chenghu wailed as he ran from the back door to the front door, then circled around the house.

An adult might not necessarily be able to outrun a child. This child ran all over the mountains and plains all day, and being small and slippery, he was really hard to catch.

The father and son wailed like a cat chasing a mouse, attracting everyone around to run out and watch.

Ye Chenghe watched Ye Chenghu about to be beaten and was very excited. "Third Uncle, Third Uncle, I'll help you catch him..."

"Ah ah ah, I'm going to tell the aunt..."

Before he finished speaking, he was caught, and was instantly grabbed by the clothes by Ye Yaodong, then whipped hard a few times.

As the weather warmed up, their pants were exceptionally thin, and one whip left a red mark. Ye Chenghu immediately turned into an ant on a hot pan, spinning around in place.

"Don't hit, don't hit, I was wrong, I won't draw turtles anymore..."

"Is it a problem of drawing turtles?"

"I'll write immediately, I'll write now..."

Thick-skinned and fleshy, he took a few hits and didn't even cry, still able to scream and jump around.

Ye Yaodong dragged him toward the house while hitting him. He rarely chased and beat his children like this; today he was really frustrated by being fooled, truly thinking he was doing his homework seriously.

The other children watched with great relish.

"Finally beaten..." Ye Chenghai was also relieved.

Ye Chengjiang gloated, "He didn't even cry, which means Third Uncle didn't use force..."

Ye Chenghe also followed up, "Third Uncle didn't even cry, which means it doesn't hurt..."

Ye Chenghu was so angry that he could turn around and curse, "You guys are not loyal, not righteous at all, and still inciting there. I won't play with you anymore, don't come to my house..."

Ye Yaodong felt that what they said made sense and hit him a few more times heavily. Anyway, he was thick-skinned and fleshy, and it didn't look like he could be beaten badly.

"You're quite capable, not allowing others to come to your house..."

"They shouldn't even think about playing with my toy cars, don't think about playing with my ball, woo woo woo, not allowed to come to my house..."

"Don't buy them anything to eat anymore, you are not allowed to eat the things in my house... wa woo woo woo, hate you..."

Finally crying.

Everyone was satisfied.

Ye Yaodong dragged him into the house and made him stand in the corner, not letting him eat.

Lin Xiuqing was also there calling it deserved.

"Sitting there for a long time, the pen kept moving, and I really thought he was doing his homework seriously."

"Sitting there for a long time, not writing a single word, just drawing turtles..."

"Not turtles, it's a turtle." Ye Chenghu stood in the corner crying and paused to refute.

"Look at how capable you are. After eating, I'll take your pants off and beat you."

Ye Chenghu continued to cry in fear.

Ye Yaodong was satisfied and dropped the whip.

Beating a child, of course, you have to make the child cry; otherwise, can that be called beating? If the child doesn't cry, where does the adult's sense of achievement come from?

If the child doesn't cry and doesn't hurt, how can they remember?

With one crying there, the remaining few were exceptionally honest.

Even Ye Xiaoxi, who usually stood up and twisted around while eating and didn't sit properly, was exceptionally serious today, looking incomparably honest.

Ye's mother looked at the wailing Ye Chenghu with disdain. "Watching right under your nose, and he can still draw a whole sheet of turtles. Can he study well usually? Ah Hai and the others are probably about the same."

Ye's father rarely agreed. "They're all half a catty and eight taels. It's better to learn a craft early, so they won't starve in the future."

"There are so many boats in the family, it's strange if they starve. Tomorrow, once they recognize all the characters, they should all follow and work at sea. Hiring fewer people can also save some wages."

Ye Yaodong changed the subject and asked, "Have the fishing boats returned at this time?"

"Two have returned, and three haven't. Anyway, I left it to the boys in the workshop, and there's one waiting outside the pier, so it should be back soon."

"Did you go out and look? Have the sundries been moved to the workshop?"

"Yes, I also told them that if there's nothing to do, they should cut the larger fish into small pieces so it's convenient for us to take them out and hang them on the hooks tomorrow morning, so we don't have to cut them for half a day ourselves."

"Yeah, I'll pull the longlines back after the meal."

Ye's father responded and also mentioned the urgent matter. He originally wanted to say it when he came over just now, but who knew he would run into him beating the child, so he didn't have time to say it and could only say it at the dinner table now.

"The cemetery is almost finished. Repair the edges and corners, and it will be done tomorrow. After eating, follow me to your eldest uncle's or second uncle's place to calculate the accounts first. Your eldest brother and second brother also have to go. By the way, let's discuss the date for the reburial; your mother already looked at the date this afternoon."

"Okay, let's get this done early, so we don't have to worry about things not being done when we go out to sea."

"This big event is finally done. In the future, at most, we can just repair and wipe it ourselves."

The old lady also sighed. "It's good that it's repaired. After the meal, I'll also offer incense to your father and tell him that his grandsons are all promising now, and it's all his blessing."