Chapter 1207: Break for the New Year

Driving in front was a heavy truck, and following closely behind was an engineering vehicle.

The crowd exclaimed, and the children on the beach were crazy with joy, jumping and shouting. Fortunately, there was a group of Coast Guard and Ocean Bureau personnel in green military uniforms who helped separate the crowd.

Ye Yaodong and their dozen or twenty people also followed to help, avoiding the crowd from crowding forward, especially those ignorant children, so that the two vehicles could drive close.

After the vehicles drove close, a few young men in green military uniforms also got off the vehicles to shake hands and communicate with Director Chen and the others.

Not long after, they issued instructions and began to hoist the gray whale.

The spectacular scene made more people gather on the beach.

They were all nearby villagers. Seeing the heavy truck and engineering vehicle, they knew there was a situation, so they ran out one after another, some even carrying rice bowls.

The scene was once lively and boiling, and there were reporters taking pictures around. Ye Yaodong also took two pictures, fortunately, it wasn't dark yet.

After those people were busy for a while, the mother whale's tail was slowly hoisted up, and the little gray whale also made a fierce cry at the same time, which made people feel like it was weeping.

Ye Fu sighed and shook his head. "Sigh, the big one is dead, and I don't know if the little one can live after being dragged away."

"Leave it to fate. It's just a fish." Pei Fu said.

"It's fortunate that it came in time, otherwise, when the tide rises later, don't even think about hoisting it, and we'll have to wait until the tide recedes tomorrow morning."

Ye Yaopeng stood on tiptoe, stretched his neck and watched the big whale being slowly hoisted onto the heavy truck. "Is this little whale put into that big bucket on the vehicle over there? It seems there are some instruments inside?"

Ye Yaodong responded, "Don't know, can't see. Can't get close now anyway. Anyway, they will definitely find a way to try to keep this little whale."

A dense crowd of people on the beach all watched the hoisted big gray whale, and everyone was amazed.

The hoisted big gray whale was estimated to be several stories high. A child on the side looked up with his neck stretched and fell to the ground.

"So big..."

"I knew this fish was very big, but it's even more spectacular when hoisted. This fish looks like it has tens of tons."

"Twenty or thirty tons is definitely there, but we have no way to weigh it..."

The big gray whale was slowly hoisted onto the heavy truck under the eyes of everyone, and then it was the little gray whale's turn.

Ye Yaodong took the lead to step forward to help, and Director Chen also greeted people, letting him help lift it.

After lifting it to the heavy truck, he also saw the rectangular container for the gray whale, and it was also oxygenated. It looked like it should be able to last for a few hours, so whether it can live later depends on technology and luck.

Director Chen smiled and talked to the few people in green military uniforms. After they got off the vehicle, he exchanged a few polite words, saluted, and watched the two vehicles slowly drive away.

The crowd also dispersed while discussing, each returning to their own homes, leaving only their three boats of people and Director Chen and the others standing in place.

Director Chen also turned to them and said, "It's almost dark, you should go back early too. If there is any news, I will notify Ah Dong."

Ye Yaodong nodded hurriedly. "Okay, then we'll go back first. You guys also get off work early and go back. Today was delayed for a whole day because of these two fish."

"Can't say delayed. Didn't come for nothing today. It's fortunate that I didn't just send anyone over, but came to take a look myself. Then that's it, go home, the tide is rising, your fishing boats can go out."

"Okay."

Bidding farewell to Director Chen and the others, the beach was now only left with the people from their three boats. As the tide rose, they could only walk upward first.

"What should we do now? Go straight home?" Ye Fu looked at Ye Yaodong and asked.

Lin Xiangyang said on the side, "It's dark, do you want to stay for another night? Go home and have a meal first?"

Ye Yaodong refused directly. "No, it's already delayed for a day. We'll just cook something to eat on the boat and wait for the tide to rise before we can sail out. Staying for another night, we won't be able to leave tomorrow during the day."

Ye Fu also said, "The New Year is approaching, you are all busy, we won't go over. We'll go straight home later, everyone is in a hurry to go back."

"That's good, then we won't keep you. You go back early, I'll also take Ah Yuan back early, it's dark."

"Hmm."

After sending the two away, they also returned to their respective boats to light the fire and prepare dinner, and by the way, wait for the tide to rise.

The tide hasn't risen to the highest position yet, and is still slowly rising. Although the water level is up, the fishing boat is still in a grounded state and must wait for high tide to go out.

Everyone also took advantage of the gap to cook first and solve the eating problem. Of course, there was no lack of gossip.

What was said the most was of course the reward. Not only the crew members were looking forward to it, but Ye Fu was also looking forward to it.

He didn't have a share in the newspaper and commendation certificate a few days ago, which made him regret it fiercely. This time he was looking forward to it incomparably, and had to crawl over to ask Ye Yaodong during the gap.

Ye Yaodong was annoyed by his father, and the repeated questions were asked again and again, but his father was still nagging there.

"Just wait, what should be yours won't run away, and if it's not your turn, asking won't help. And you keep asking me, what's the use of asking me? I can't write a letter and issue a reward to you if the superiors didn't issue it to you?"

He was also annoyed by his father's nagging, and his attitude wasn't very good.

Ye Fu was retorted by him, and turned around and left angrily.

Ye Yaodong was immediately quiet, and couldn't be bothered to care if his father was angry or not.

Others also heard Ye Fu being retorted, and didn't dare to ask again.

Everyone had a simple dinner, and after the tide rose and the fishing boat could move, they hurriedly sailed out and went home.

They would be home around midnight when they went back.

When their fishing boat just entered the village's sea area, they happened to run into the boat that Wang Guangliang used to collect cargo. They sailed directly over and then anchored in the middle of the sea.

"Dong Ge, back, what a coincidence."

"Looks like you sailed back a step earlier. We fell behind and only met now."

"Should be."

"Sail back directly, your boat is full, can't stack our cargo."

"Okay."

"Dong Ge, did you see the big whale when you docked in the city? Heard someone dragged back two whales, one big and one small, tens of tons, taller than a building, and even dispatched heavy trucks and engineering vehicles from the troops to transport them. Too awesome."

The crew members said with full faces of smiles, "Isn't this us?"

"We dragged it back!"

"Didn't you go see it? That's right, if you saw it, you would definitely know it was our three boats that dragged it back."

Wang Guangliang and his group all widened their eyes.

"Holy crap!"

"You dragged it back? No way? I rely on, at that time, I watched the heavy truck drive past us. We wanted to go see the excitement, but a pile of cargo had to be weighed."

"Too bad, I wanted to go see it on the spot. If I knew it was Dong Ge your boat, we would have left one person to watch, and others would have gone to see the excitement first."

Ye Yaodong was very satisfied after listening, and they were quite dedicated, didn't run away when they saw the excitement.

"I took pictures, I'll wash them out and show you later."

"That's still a pity not to see it on the spot."

"Hurry up and dock, a pile of cargo still has to be unloaded for half a day later."

Each of their boats also left a few thousand jin of cargo to bring back, and they still had to weigh it after unloading later.

Usually they docked during the day, but today was an accident, and it was midnight when they returned. They still had to call Ah Qing to weigh the cargo later.

Fortunately, they had enough manpower on their three boats, so they didn't have to worry about not having anyone to move and unload the cargo.

Lin Xiuqing was sleeping soundly when she heard the familiar sound of knocking on the window, so she had to get up and open the door.

"Why did you come back at this time today? Isn't the market closed during the day?"

Ye Yaodong only said that an accident happened, so he told her to take the account book and go to the workshop to weigh it first. He waited for her at the door, and then told her the details while walking.

Moving and lifting more than 100 baskets of cargo, everyone was sweating in the middle of the night on a cold day.

After finishing the cargo of several boats, Lin Xiuqing also learned about what happened today from their chatting.

On the way back, she also sighed repeatedly.

"Didn't expect it to be a posthumous child... don't know if it can live now."

"There will always be a way. Relying on technological means should be possible. Anyway, it's better than releasing it back into the sea. Releasing it back into the sea, it will die in less than two days."

"Then did you not bring back the turnover from the market today?"

"No time. I'll go tomorrow after a rest."

"It's already early morning, it's the 23rd of the lunar calendar, tomorrow is the Little New Year to worship the kitchen god. There are markets everywhere these days. When do we plan to close and rest?"

"This year the 30th is New Year's Eve, otherwise just work one more day and rest. The money that should be earned in a year has been earned, and ordinary people have prepared New Year goods in advance. Close early, let your parents go back to their hometown to rest, and go back to spend the Little New Year tomorrow."

Lin Xiuqing had a full face of smiles. "That's what I meant too. I haven't been back to my hometown a few times in a year, and they must be very eager to go back."

"Okay, then I don't have to go out to sea later, take a break for the New Year in advance. Calculate the wages of the crew tomorrow, and let everyone relax in advance. The weather is good this month, everyone is working hard at sea, and hasn't really rested for a few days. For other rented fishing boats, they want to continue going out to sea, then it doesn't matter to us, anyway, just wait to collect the rent."

"Hmm."

"Ah Cai has someone collecting cargo there, just let him continue to collect for a few more days, anyway, it's also hiring people to work."

"Good."

"Then I'll go to the city tomorrow, do you want to go with me? By the way, buy some New Year goods for your parents to take back."

"That's fine."

"No, it's today."

Lin Xiuqing smiled. "I know."

After Ye Yaodong walked into the house, he stretched. "Worked for a whole year, finally rested."

"I'll get you some hot water, you wipe it, and I'll cook you a bowl of ginger tea. Seeing you talking with a stuffy nose and sneezing, don't get sick during the New Year. Do you want me to cook some late-night snacks for you?"

"Cook some. Going into the water on a cold day is really too much suffering."

"Is there any reward for this trip?"

"Don't know, generally there should be, but it definitely can't compare to the last time salvaging foreign spy equipment."

"Hmm, this time three boats dragged it back together, more than a dozen people, definitely won't give too much reward, it is estimated that if there is any, it will be given to the boat boss."

"Then I don't know."

After the two entered the door, while talking, the old lady came out of the room with a cane again, looking at Ye Yaodong helplessly.

I don't know how many times I've said it, anyway, hearing the movement in the middle of the night, it must be him coming back. Let her not climb up to see, but she didn't listen to a word.

As usual, she went her own way, hearing the movement, she had to climb up to take a look, to see if he was back.

Ye Yaodong could only patiently let her ask all kinds of questions, but she didn't return to the room after asking, and had to sit there watching him.

When he went into the room to sleep, she also returned to the room.

Ye Yaodong lay down, his mind still thinking about the old lady's aged face.

Although sometimes it's annoying for the elderly to be nagging, constantly spinning around him, and talking about a lot of things, but that's also because she loves him.

"Go to the city tomorrow and buy some tonic to stew and supplement, supplement the adults in the family, haven't eaten anything good in a year, take advantage of the New Year break, everyone should take care of their bodies, money should be earned, but the body should also be taken care of."

"Hmm, okay."

It's a pity that there is no physical examination now. Which good person has nothing to do and goes to the hospital?

The old lady's legs and feet are inconvenient, and her body can't stand the toss of running around. Even if she is not sick, she has to be tossed into illness, otherwise she can go to the hospital for a physical examination.

Ah Qing also has to have a physical examination. The cancer of the previous life has been floating in his mind.

However, life has been better in the past two years. She is still very young now, only in her 20s, and there shouldn't be anything wrong yet. Wait a few years for the economy to develop, and then everything that should be checked should be checked early.

"The Angong Niuhuang Wan bought two years ago is still well preserved, right?"

"Yes, it's well preserved in the drawer. I won't open it usually. It should be better if it's sealed there. Why did you suddenly ask about this medicine?"

"Nothing, just suddenly thought that the old lady seems to be old again. Although birth, old age, sickness, and death are human nature, it's better to live longer if you can live longer. At least let the old lady enjoy the blessings she should enjoy."

"You didn't say this medicine is very useful and has miraculous effects? Then if there is anything, it can be used for emergency, and it can also make fewer regrets."

"Hmm, sleep, I was just saying it casually."

It was probably stimulated by Lin Guangyuan almost falling into the sea, and seeing the whale fall with his own eyes, and the birth of the little whale, feeling that life is sometimes so fragile and magical.

At night, the old lady was asking about his well-being as she had been for ten years, so he had a little more emotion.

God still favors him very much, giving him everything he should have. He actually had it in his previous life, but he didn't know how to cherish it. He should cherish it well in this life.

He turned to the side and hugged Ye Xiaoxi, but realized that he kept sneezing and already had a cold, so he shouldn't be too close, so as not to infect the child.

"You lie in the middle, I lie on the outside."

"Why? Don't you like lying in the middle when you come back usually, hugging your daughter."

"Have a bit of a cold, afraid of infecting her, you lie in the middle."

"Okay, sure enough, it's biological."

"Nonsense, it's carved out of the same mold as me, of course it's biological."

"Speaking of biological, a big thing happened in the village these few days. Wang Chuyun and her son were swept out of the house together. Her son was suspected of not being biological because he didn't look like her husband, and now it's making a scene."

"Oh?"

He knew about this. In his previous life, he knew her son wasn't her husband Li Dawei's, but it wasn't until the 90s that it was exposed, and then she was beaten and driven out.

At that time, the son was already eighteen years old. The mother and son left together, but it didn't cause much of a stir, and he didn't hear who the adulterer was.

She was a second marriage herself.

In this life, she actually got together with Awei. Could it be because of this that it was exposed early?

He immediately became energetic. Yellow gossip is more attractive, not to mention it's different from the previous life.

He was a bit curious whose seed her son was? He didn't know in his previous life, and he didn't know if it would be exposed in this life.

Lin Xiuqing also became energetic. Gossip about other people's families, especially this kind of explosive one, would make anyone immediately energetic.

"Then everyone is guessing whose seed her son is, and they are all secretly comparing who he looks like."

"Looks like who?"

"You definitely can't guess. At first, everyone didn't feel it, but later everyone thought more and more that her son looked like the eldest son of Chen Shuji's family, Chen Jiale, and he also looked like his grandson Abin, and the two ages were only two years apart..."

Ye Yaodong was slightly surprised, and then understood.

Sure enough, things didn't come from nowhere.

In his previous life, there were also rumors that Wang Chuyun and Chen Jiale had an affair, but at that time it was said that they were dating, but the Chen family didn't look down on the Wang family and didn't agree, and later they married their own spouses.

Thinking that Wang Chuyun's son was two years younger than Chen's little grandson.

It is estimated that after she became a widow, she rekindled her old relationship with Chen Jiale. Originally, a pretty widow is more difficult to endure loneliness.

Lin Xiuqing continued: "These two days in the workshop, those women are all saying that Wang Chuyun and Chen Jiale had dated a few years ago, but because the Wang family's reputation was bad, Chen Shuji didn't agree."

"Now everyone is saying that it's not that they had an affair before marriage, it's that they had an affair after she became a widow, and they are all scolding her as a vixen."

"But they are all in the same village, and no one went to report her for having an affair. During this period, she was beaten very miserably by her husband. I heard that she wants to escape every day, but can't."

"Now she wishes she could take her son and leave."

"It's just that Chen Shuji's family has been making a bit of an ugly scene recently. Li Dawei has been making a scene at the door, but Chen Jiale hasn't admitted it. But I don't know if they reached any agreement. Since yesterday, it has quieted down again, and I heard that Wang Chuyun divorced and took her son back to her mother's house."

Ye Yaodong felt that this big drama was very exciting, and couldn't help but admire this woman. With her own strength, she made several families restless.

Now she has an affair with Awei again, she is really restless. This kind of woman really can't be touched.

"But now I heard that Li Dawei's father is also not a thing. His son is not at home, and he wants to move Wang Chuyun. Now the father and son have turned against each other, and his father was also beaten by him."

"During this period, about their family's affairs, don't mention how lively it is, one after another."

Ye Yaodong touched his chin. "Didn't Awei come back?"

Lin Xiuqing immediately associated it. A period of time ago, Wang Chuyun and Awei also rumored to be unclear.

"No, it is estimated that he doesn't dare to come back for the New Year. How can he have the face? Last time because the 5,000 yuan became 50,000 yuan, he couldn't take it out, and he ran away overnight."

"What a pity, it would be more exciting if he came back."

"It's never so easy to quiet down. Old lover and new lover, and ex-husband, my god, just thinking about it makes me feel so chaotic, how can there be such a woman."

Ye Yaodong pulled the quilt for her and patted her. "Don't worry about others, she's a broken shoe, whoever touches her will be unlucky, sleep early, it's very late."

Lin Xiuqing turned her head to look at him. "Has she ever hooked up with you?"

"No, I'm busy every day..."

"Then Wang Lizhen was still able to find a chance to seduce you."

Ye Yaodong was speechless.

"Don't drag anything dirty or smelly onto me, isn't it disgusting? Having one Wang Lizhen is disgusting enough, and another Wang Chuyun, are you not letting people live?"

Lin Xiuqing was immediately amused by him.

"Who let you be so famous and rich now, and your face is so good, definitely many people want to throw themselves into your arms, it's just that you often go out and are not in the village..."

Ye Yaodong felt beautiful in his heart listening to this. "You know the goods, treat me better, be obedient, love your husband more, I am a fragrant bun now, definitely resting at home during the New Year..."

Lin Xiuqing pinched him fiercely. "What if you are resting at home? Is resting at home wanting to give other women a chance?"

"Hiss... how is that possible, I was just saying it, just want you to have a sense of crisis, treat me better, I am loyal, wild flowers are not as good as home flowers."

"Humph, sleep."

Ye Yaodong watched her turn her back and whispered, "A woman's heart is a needle at the bottom of the sea, this sentence is really not wrong, the heart is really smaller than the tip of a needle."

"What are you saying?"

"Ah, nothing!"

He hurriedly closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

The next morning, he slept until he woke up naturally, and the village had already started a new round of singing praises to him.

Praising his good eyesight, dragging back a big whale, and as a result, there was a little whale in its belly. They saved a little whale, and then alarmed the official, and dispatched heavy trucks and engineering vehicles.

It won't be long before he will definitely be commended and rewarded again.

As long as you follow him, you don't have to worry about not being able to make money, and you don't have to worry about not being able to become famous.

This also led to a bunch of people asking him if there were any new boats and if he needed crew members as soon as he walked out.

There were also some people from other villages who ran to his workshop to ask for work.

He smiled and refused one by one, only saying that if there was a need, he would prioritize the villagers of this village. This again fiercely absorbed a wave of reputation, and the villagers of this village spared no effort to support him.

Ye Yaodong went to the workshop and first inspected the cargo brought back yesterday, which were all being processed.

He went to the fish sauce side to look at the amount of fermentation, and by the way, looked at the quantity of bag-packed fish sauce produced.

He plans to step up production before the New Year, and then put it all into the market after the New Year.

After all, he is doing wholesale. If there is no large quantity, it will be out of stock all at once. He must first have a time buffer, prepare a large batch of stock, before he can put it into the market.

The room where the machine was originally placed is now full of baskets of fish sauce in the corner, and the quantity is at least 10,000 or 20,000.

"How many can be produced every day now?"

"No work at night, just working during the day, two or three thousand a day, now it's more skilled and there will be more."

"That's not bad."

One ton a day, 10 days is 10 tons, one month is 30 tons.

Now receiving 10 tons of cargo a day, and producing 4 tons a day, what is produced is not enough to work.

However, what is produced now is solid boutique, and later it can be repeated secondary fermentation, get some cheap ones, after that 10 tons ferment out 4 tons of goods, it can continue to be reused to produce 20 tons, that is really profiteering.

One cent for one cent of goods, let the market choose, and can't blame him for being black-hearted, making money is like this, earn less in the early stage, get the reputation, and then make big money in the later stage.

"Dong Ge, do you still need people on the boat?"

Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched. "Enough, don't need."

"Then if there is a need, can you prioritize us?"

"Don't want to do such an easy job? Still want to go out to sea."

"Mainly because going out to sea with you is too exciting, always encountering all kinds of good things, and didn't earn less, everyone is envious."

"Don't be envious, high wages are accompanied by high risks. Now the work is so easy, no wind and sun, be honest, how many people want to do your current work but can't."

"That's true, really want to give the work in hand to others, I am also reluctant."

Ye Yaodong smiled, didn't care about the two people working, and continued to go out to inspect the fish sauce.

For a whole day, he was rarely leisurely shopping around.

Unexpectedly, just after he came out of the village committee chatting, he ran into Fatty walking in front of him humming a song.

It was effortless.

Seeing an old man sitting at the door basking in the sun, by the way rubbing hemp rope, he happily borrowed one from others, and then stepped forward to take the hemp rope and bundle it in front of Fatty...

"Who? Who the hell?"

Fatty struggled to look back, Ye Yaodong tightened the rope, always hiding behind his back.

"Ate a bear heart and leopard gall, in broad daylight, dare to move your fat boss..."

"Damn it, get out... which bastard, hiding, hiding, hiding, hiding, grass your old mother..."

Ye Yaodong scolded back. "Grass your old mother! You damn it, fat boss is amazing, shaking up, even scolding brothers."

"Suzuki chicken, you want to die, bundle me for no reason and scare me, thought someone wanted to kidnap me, you wicked ghost."

"Is it an onion? Afraid of being kidnapped."

"What kind of fart are you talking about, you suddenly bundled me with a rope, I wasn't scared, took the wrong medicine, your mother."

"Isn't it because I see you are fat again? Tighten your skin for you."

Fatty was so angry that he snatched the hemp rope from his hand to whip him.

Ye Yaodong didn't notice for a while, and really got whipped.

"Holy crap, you're for real..."

"You're for real, of course I'm for real, let you be wicked, scare me."

"Stop stop stop..."

Ye Yaodong jumped up and down to hide everywhere, and also scolded anxiously.

"Don't run..."

"Hey hey hey... my hemp rope... have to return it to me..."

The two chased and made a fuss for a while, then calmed down and returned the hemp rope to the old man on the side.

"Hehehe, young man is energetic."

Ye Yaodong hooked Fatty's shoulder and panted. "I am sure you are a flexible fat man."

Fatty's elbow directly topped his chest. "When did you come back? Break for the New Year?"

"Almost, did you break for the New Year too?"

"How is that possible, business is just right during the New Year, my wife said she would work until the 29th of the year."

"Your wife is really diligent."

"Sigh..."

"Have a profitable business idea, do you want to do it?"

"Roll, don't do it, was pitted miserably by you, now even the New Year can't be spent well."