Chapter 1221: It can still be used after washing

Ye Yaodong had been resting at home for three days in a row and couldn't go out to sea. After the New Year, it felt even colder, the wind was stronger. The spring breeze in February was like scissors; he felt like he was still in the cold winter, where was there any spring breeze?

When he went out to sea a few days ago, there was still sun, and he could clearly feel the temperature rising. For the past two days, the weather forecast had been broadcasting that there was frost, the temperature had dropped to zero, and the wind force was also at level 4.

When he got up early, he could see the vegetable field covered with a thick layer of frost, and the windows were covered with white mist.

As soon as the window was opened a little, the cold wind could pour in and make people shiver.

Ye Xiaoxi woke up very early. Both husband and wife felt cold and were still lying in the quilt reluctant to get up, but she insisted on getting up to go out and play.

She even put on her clothes by herself, but the neckline of the sweater was too small, and her head was too big. She put it on, but ended up covering herself, unable to breathe.

She was so scared that she wailed, waving her hands, "Help, I'm stuck, I'm stuck."

Lin Xiuqing hurriedly sat up and pulled the sweater down for her.

"Look at you, after one New Year, the meat on your face is going to hang down again, and your head has grown bigger."

"Can 'head grown bigger' be used like that?" Ye Yaodong muttered.

Ye Xiaoxi wiped the messy hair on her face casually, then revealed a smiling face again, putting on her clothes and pants by herself.

But she still needed Lin Xiuqing to pull down the long johns that had shrunk up.

After getting it done, she climbed off the bed, stepped on the stool by the table, and went to play with the mist on the window.

She stretched out her index finger to draw a smiley face on the window, then drew a crying face, and casually drew a sun, and drew a bunch of kittens and puppies...

After drawing, she reached out to wipe them off, put her head up, exhaled, let the window condense white mist again, and entertained herself, playing very happily alone.

Ye Yaodong pulled the quilt up to his neck, tucking the corners tightly, "Should have let her sleep with the old lady, it's freezing, and she's up so early."

After speaking, he also inquired about it.

If she was willing, it would be better, saving him from not daring to make any noise at night all day long.

"No, you go sleep with Great-Grandma, I want to sleep with Mommy."

"I slept with Great-Grandma when I was little, you go too, your second brother often runs to sleep with Great-Grandma, do you want to..."

"No, no, no..."

Lin Xiuqing said, "If you don't want to, then forget it. You know how to hide behind Great-Grandma when you get beaten. When you get a little older, go sleep upstairs by yourself."

"Okay."

"Time to get up, it's past 7 o'clock."

"It's still early, the sky is gray."

"It's been this kind of weather for the past two days. I have to get up and check the workshop side. Fortunately, Dongqing is helping, I don't have to get up so early to record people now."

"Since you've already hired someone to do it, do less yourself. In this kind of weather, stay at home if you can."

The sky was gray and the cold wind was blowing. Even his father and mother were lazy. They hadn't come over for meals for two or three days, just saying they would cook for themselves at home, just make something to eat, anyway, there were only two of them.

In the cold weather, it wasn't worth it to run over just for a meal, blowing the cold wind all the way. The two of them didn't even want to step out of the door if they had nothing to do.

Except for those who had to come out to work for a living, people generally stayed at home in this kind of weather, sitting in front of the stove to roast fire and keep warm.

The cold wind was biting. It was very cold in winter now, and the four seasons were distinct, unlike the greenhouse effect later, where winter didn't really look like winter.

He hadn't taken the private seals he brought back to his father and mother yet, they were still lying in the drawer.

Anyway, there was no rush. In this kind of weather, even if they got them, they had nowhere to show them off.

Lin Xiuqing was quite fond of the private seal with her name carved on it. She even specially stamped it to play with for a long time before she was willing to put it away, but when she opened the drawer and saw it, she would still take it out to look at it.

"Don't be lazy either, get up and have breakfast, and continue sleeping after eating."

"Hmm." Ye Yaodong responded with his mouth, but his body was very honest and didn't move.

Lin Xiuqing didn't care about him. She got dressed and took the child out to wash up first. She still had to check the workshop side; she couldn't be as comfortable as him and keep lying down.

There was still one at home who went to school, couldn't get up every day, didn't want to go every day, but when it was the weekend, no matter if it was windy, rainy, or hailing, he could get up earlier than a chicken.

This one also had to be checked, even if he had to be dragged, he had to be dragged up and rushed to school.

She had already heard the scolding coming from next door in the room, and the sound of going up and down the stairs; there wasn't one who didn't get scolded.

Ye Yaodong originally wanted to wait two more days before going to the city to check the delivery situation of the wooden barrels and big vats. It was almost the delivery date, and he had been keeping it in mind.

If the containers were all delivered to the factory, he would just arrange for people to move the goods there for fermentation. It just so happened that his mother had also helped him hire people.

But plans couldn't keep up with changes. It had been overcast for a few days, and suddenly it started to rain. This time, they couldn't even go out, and it made them all turn upside down.

Fortunately, the weather forecast was accurate this time. They received it a day in advance, so they covered it with nylon cloth overnight.

There wasn't enough space to dry in the workshop, so they collected everything that was drying in the nearby open space and just hung it in the workshop, as long as it could block the rain.

And they also let the women process the goods a night in advance.

It was because they had many hands now, and a bunch of people helped just by opening their mouths, so it didn't seem so chaotic.

This rain lasted for two days, and the temperature rose a little. It had only been clear for two days, and they hadn't felt relieved yet, when there was another clap of thunder. Fortunately, they didn't slack off, and the nylon cloth was still hanging on the workshop.

Ye Yaodong felt in his heart that relying on pure natural drying every day wasn't a solution, but there was no way now. Even if he could get electrical appliances, the voltage wouldn't work. Now he could only make do for the time being.

Setting up a simple drying room was just a drop in the bucket for him. The amount of his dried fish was too large, so he still had to make do with drying, and talk about it in two years. Anyway, he could still make money now.

At worst, he would fight with God for food.

Until the rain stopped, the whole family breathed a sigh of relief. Of course, there were inevitably some dried fish that hadn't dried, which became smelly because of the humidity.

After the rain stopped, it was when they really started to get busy. Lin Xiuqing asked the 10 or so workers fixedly hired in the workshop to help pick out the smelly dried fish.

Fortunately, their family was now big and wealthy, and could afford such losses.

The picked-out dried fish weren't thrown away directly; they could be mixed with pig grass to feed the pigs for the two sisters-in-law, or chopped up to feed the geese and dogs at home.

Also, because their workshop dried fish every day without stopping, the stray cats from ten miles and eight villages were attracted to their workshop, all surrounding their workshop, meowing every day.

It was estimated that there were more than a dozen of them. Someone was guarding and watching day and night, so they didn't let the stray cats harm those goods.

Lin Xiuqing would also often throw some non-fresh fish goods to feed them, which looked like they were leaning towards becoming house cats.

Now there was an extra batch of smelly dried fish, and the recent rations for these cats were also settled.

Ye Xiaoxi had always been Lin Xiuqing's follower, not to mention that she had been locked at home for a few days without going out. After the rain stopped and it cleared up, how could she stay still?

Looking at a pile of stray cats that looked like drowned rats, she asked Lin Xiuqing, and after getting permission, she hugged a big handful of smelly dried fish thrown into the basket and squatted in the corner to feed them.

In just an instant, she was surrounded by more than a dozen stray cats of different colors, and she couldn't feed them in time.

One by one, they made urgent, soft meows. She touched this one and that one to soothe them.

Ye Yaodong also planned to go to the city while the rain stopped, but he was blocked at home by the Fatty, so he had to take him along.

As soon as he entered the workshop and wanted to start the tractor, he saw his daughter with her pockets full of dried fish, holding a big pile in her arms, surrounded by stray cats.

"What are you doing?"

"Daddy, can we take the cats home to raise?"

"Do you think home is a zoo? Don't look at how many dogs are already at home, you still want to raise cats, that's enough? The dried fish will be ruined by them."

"But Mommy said I could feed them."

"You can feed them casually if they are spoiled, stay away from these cats, it's not hygienic, it's too dirty."

Ye Xiaoxi lowered her head to look at her muddy rain boots, the mud on her knees, the mud on her sleeves, and the mud under her butt.

The cotton-padded jacket on her body had also been rubbed by the cats around her, looking no cleaner than these cats.

"I'm also dirty, I'm the same as the cats, so we can hug, let's be dirty together."

Saying that, she hugged a dirty cat that was arching into her arms to eat dried fish.

With this hug, the clothes on her body were even more unbearable, and even her face was rubbed.

Ye Yaodong instantly couldn't bear to look, "Aqing... Aqing... look at your daughter..."

The Fatty watched happily, "Your daughter doesn't look any different from these cats, she's also a little calico cat. Give your daughter to me as a daughter-in-law in the future? I don't have a daughter."

"Stay wherever it's cool, those two little fatties in your family are just dreaming."

"Isn't yours also a little fatty? My son won't mind."

"I'll hammer you to death, your whole family are damn fatties."

Lin Xiuqing saw that she hadn't seen her for a while, and Ye Xiaoxi could get herself covered in dirt just by feeding cats. She was also so angry that her nameless fire shot up.

"Ye Xiaojiu!"

The busier the adults were, the more things she could cause.

Ye Xiaoxi saw her face sinking, picked up a kitten, and was so scared that she hurriedly hid behind the Fatty.

She felt that at this time, her own father probably couldn't save her, after all, her own mother was also called by her own father to beat her.

"Daddy, help, Mommy said I could feed them..."

Ye Xiaoxi watched her trot over, almost crying, "You said I could feed them... you said it, you said it..."

The Fatty hurriedly protected her and said with a smile, "Hey, what's the big deal, if it's dirty, it's dirty, what child isn't dirty? Since you told her she could feed stray cats, let her play, anyway, she's already dirty, wait until you're busy and then take her back to wash, and she'll be a clean fat baby again."

Ye Xiaoxi hurriedly took back the tears that were about to fall and nodded straight.

Because she was naughty, she hadn't been beaten less after the New Year, so much so that she was beaten too frequently, and now she knew what fear was.

Ye Yaodong looked at her pitiful appearance and regretted complaining.

"Then how about letting her play? Anyway, she's already dirty, she doesn't look any cleaner than those cats. When you're busy, take her back to wash, and she can still be used."

Ye Xiaoxi nodded like a garlic bulb, "Yes, she can still be used, wash the cats too."

"It's already good that I didn't beat you, don't hug them anymore, wait until I have time to deal with you."

"I'm going to the city with the Fatty, take Wang Guangliang along, not sure if I'll be back today."

"Got it." ===== CHAPTER 1222 =====