Chapter 1352: Earnest Expectation

"Did you put on your reading glasses?"

"I didn't put on my reading glasses, but I'm not blind. It's just that Dongzi is back. This time it definitely can't be wrong."

"How many times is this? You said he was back yesterday, and you said he was back the day before yesterday. You sit at the door every day saying he's back."

Lin Xiuqing was washing dishes at home and was too lazy to pop her head out to look.

The old lady said "Aqing, Aqing, Dongzi is back..." at least once every day.

Every time she was as excited as the first time, the tone was no different, and she could keep it up for several days in a row.

The "Wolf is Coming" times were too many, and she already didn't believe this old lady, who made her have empty joy every time.

So she was very calm now, didn't even look, and was already used to listening, and could even accompany her to chat a few sentences about "Wolf is Coming".

"He's really back, this time it can't be wrong..."

"You said the same thing yesterday and the day before yesterday."

"It really can't be wrong, you hurry out and see if it is, I didn't lie to you..." The old lady was anxious to death.

Lin Xiuqing couldn't help but roll her eyes.

So it was still her nonsense just now, just seeing a boat sailing back from the sea, and as soon as there was a little bit of movement, she started shouting "Wolf is Coming".

It rained the past two days, and she shouted even more vigorously, also like this now, saying with certainty that it couldn't be wrong, that Dongzi was back.

As a result, the past two days, the Dongsheng boat and a few others came back, and once she heard thunder and lightning at sea, she couldn't sleep even more. As soon as the sky brightened, she sat at the door until she went to sleep.

Yesterday and the day before yesterday, she shouted "Wolf is Coming" no less than three times a day.

Now this sentence was started again without seeing clearly, and it was to make people identify it for her...

Sigh, this ancestor.

"This time it's definitely it, you come out and look, it must be true." The old lady was anxious to death.

Lin Xiuqing heard her anxious and urging, and it happened that the dishes were finished, so she resigned herself to wiping her hands with an apron, and came out from the room to identify it for her, and by the way, say a few words to her.

"Don't shout as soon as there is movement. If he's really back, you can see it. What's the hurry? Where is the difference of this moment..."

"Who has the time to stare at the sea surface for you all day long? Next time, wait until you see clearly before shouting..."

She grumbled while squinting at a small dot on the distant sea surface, looking at the boat shadow that was gradually enlarging. She walked a few steps faster, walked out of the courtyard, and looked closer before she was somewhat sure.

The old lady also followed her with a cane. "Is it? Is it this time? Is it Dongzi?"

Lin Xiuqing said with surprise, "This time it might really be..."

The old lady slapped her thigh fiercely. "I said it was, right? You didn't believe me, I shouted at you several times, hurry, hurry, hurry, you hurry to the harbor to pick him up..."

"You say it every day, who knows if you saw it wrong again today."

Lin Xiuqing was full of smiles, untying her apron while walking towards the house.

She came out and looked for a while, and only dared to be sure after the fishing boat enlarged a little bit. The old lady must have just seen a shadow and started guessing again.

This time, she happened to guess right.

"I didn't see it wrong, I told you this time it must be Dongzi back, you didn't believe me."

"You've been saying it for a week, of course, one day you'll guess right."

"You hurry to the harbor, what are you still dawdling for? I'm at home, I'll go light the fire to cook something for him to eat."

"I have to change into rain boots, otherwise, how can I go to the harbor on this road?"

"Young people are still so dawdling. If this were in the past, the day lily would have been cold..."

Under the urging of the old lady who followed closely, Lin Xiuqing also nimbly changed into rain boots and hurried to the harbor.

"Remember to tell him to come back early for dinner..."

"Got it..."

Ye Yaodong looked at the sky that had cleared up and the village right in front of him, his face full of relaxed smiles. He stood on the wheelhouse and shouted to everyone.

"Home at last. Except for the squid, bring everything else off the boat, everyone take your own things..."

His own things were already packed.

He planned to unload part of the squid on the boat tomorrow, so the boat wouldn't stop at the town's shelter harbor today.

By the time they docked and packed their things, Lin Xiuqing had already called someone to drive a boat out to pick them up.

At the harbor, looking at the boat in the middle of the sea from afar was very clear. At home, one could only see a rough outline. If it weren't for this big boat, one wouldn't even be able to see the rough outline.

It was also because the sky suddenly turned red and bright in the afternoon, not as gloomy as in the morning, otherwise it wouldn't have been clear.

After waiting for a while, Ye Yaodong and the others sat on their own small boat and docked. Lin Xiuqing was the first to greet them with a full face of smiles.

"Finally back. These few days I was about to be nagged to death by the old lady..."

"Why didn't you bring any cargo back? Have you already docked in the city and moved it ashore?"

"The weather was bad these few days, and we didn't dry any fish at home. A sudden rain also soaked a part of it, and today it smelled a bit, so it was cheaper for those stray cats..."

She chattered while taking the sack from his hand, and one look at it, she knew it was dirty clothes.

Ye Yaodong looked at everyone moving fish and responded, "Originally, it wasn't certain which day we would be back. Suddenly the weather was bad, so we came back temporarily, and didn't leave any sundries back."

"We docked in the city the day before yesterday morning, weighed the cargo for Acai, then slept in the city, and then were busy in the city for a whole day yesterday, and only came back today..."

She asked curiously, "What were you busy with in the city?"

"I'll tell you in detail when we go back."

"What fish is this? Why is it only the fish head and tail and half a piece of fish meat? And so big..."

"Tuna kept specifically for you to have a taste, to make sashimi."

After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he told them to help lift it home. However, seeing the tractor waiting there, he simply had them put it on the tractor and pull it directly to the door.

As soon as they saw his boat return, they consciously drove the tractor over to prepare to pull the cargo, not expecting that there was nothing on his boat today.

He also instructed the workers to come to work at 8:30 tomorrow, and let them go back separately.

Lin Xiuqing followed by his side, and was pulled by him to sit on the tractor.

"You want to take a car for these few steps..."

"Why not? It's all going to the door anyway, why should I bother walking myself?"

"Why did you ask them to work in the workshop tomorrow? It's been bad weather these few days, no cargo collected, and no fish dried tomorrow, where is there work to do? Besides, the workshop already has workers."

"I definitely didn't come back to go out to sea again in two or three days. There are many things to be busy with. These people were invited over, definitely not to sit at home and play while collecting wages. Of course, they have to go to the workshop to work. When it's time to go out to sea, they will follow me."

"Calling them all over, sitting there idle, they will definitely play cards."

"Won't..."

Ye Yaodong explained to her that there were still 100,000 jin of squid on the boat, and told them to move it tomorrow, and also asked her to call a few old aunts to help kill it.

Lin Xiuqing was stunned, and only understood after he explained it.

As for the others, there was no way to talk about it while sitting on the tractor, so he had to wait until he got home to tell her slowly.

As soon as the tractor stopped at the door, his eldest brother, second brother, and nearby neighbors all ran over to greet him.

Ye Yaodong was surrounded by everyone again.

He showed everyone the fish that was moved down from the boat, and said that once it thawed, he would cut a piece for every household to send over.

He also took the opportunity to say what kind of fish it was, which made everyone very curious.

"Don't surround Dongzi, let him eat first, talk later... he's starving, not at home for over half a month, look how thin he is, hurry and eat first..."

The old lady pulled him distressedly, urging him to walk towards the house.

The neighbors all sensibly retreated, and then gathered together to talk.

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua, the two brothers, followed him into the house and kept asking him about the situation at sea during this period.

The old lady glared at the two brothers angrily. "What's so important that it can't wait until he finishes eating? What's the hurry? Asking this and that as soon as he returns, how can people eat?"

"Hehe..."

The two brothers both laughed and sat on the side waiting.

After a while, Ye's father also came over, and as soon as he entered the door, he said.

"You're finally back. If you didn't come back, I would have been kicked out of the house."

Ye Yaodong was eating noodles and looked at his father suspiciously.

Why would he be kicked out of the house?

"The old one kept complaining that I didn't go with you, saying I was enjoying happiness at home, scolding me for having no conscience, not even caring about my son, and was about to be angered to death."

Ye's father said while glancing at the old lady, speaking through gritted teeth.

Ye Yaodong understood.

It's normal.

Lin Xiuqing also joked, "It's not just scolding Dad every day, she also orders the little ones around every day. As soon as she sees them, she orders them to go to the harbor to see if your boat is back. It makes these little ones hide from the old lady every day, or pretend they didn't hear."

Ye's father said unhappily, "Sitting at the door all day long sighing, just staring at the sea, her neck stretched out almost catching up with the big goose at home."

Lin Xiuqing also followed up with a complaint, "This time she didn't take the black and white photo, she knew to take the color photo."

The old lady laughed at what they said, didn't refute, and looked in a very good mood.

Ye Xiaoxi also walked into the house with her short legs at this time and threw herself on Ye Yaodong's leg. "Dad, you're back..."

She even turned her head to look at the old lady. "Great-grandma, my dad is back, you don't have to ask."

Lin Xiuqing laughed and said, "Look, even she knows the old lady asks every day."

"Not just asking every day, asking hundreds of times a day. As soon as she sees the shadow of a boat on the sea, she immediately says you're back."

Ye's father and Lin Xiuqing complained one after another, and the old lady laughed and argued, righteous and confident.

"That's because my eyes were blurred. I didn't see it clearly and shouted at you. The dog at home can't recognize it, but I can point out Dongzi's boat with my eyes closed."

"Isn't it, I was the first to discover it today, and then shouted to Aqing, but Aqing didn't believe it. You guys are too careless."

Lin Xiuqing shook her head with a smile, "Wolf is Coming, heard it too many times, who would believe you."

"It's not a loss, what's wrong with coming out to look?"

"Fine, fine, fine, my fault."

The old lady looked at Ye Yaodong drinking even the soup with a full face of smiles. "Is it not enough to eat? I'll cook some more for you..."

"No, enough, hiccup, full."

The old lady heard him hiccup and was convinced he was full.

After Ye Yaodong was full, he also talked to others about his experience at sea these few days, and took the opportunity to take out the dried squid silk for everyone to eat.

Ye Xiaoxi's eyes lit up. "Delicious."

Lin Xiuqing filled her pocket and sent her out to play first, saving the trouble of her drilling around when there were only adults here.

Then she poured a cup of hot tea for Ye Yaodong and let him talk slowly.

The old lady listened halfway and pulled him worriedly. "Don't go next time, okay? It makes my heart go up and down. Let your father go next time. You and your father swap."

"Is the son so worthless?" Ye's father said depressedly.

"You are the father, what's wrong with helping a little more?"

Ye Yaodong was also pondering the old lady's suggestion.

Perhaps he could let his father go next time in a few days, and he would open the fresh-catch boat at home, go out to collect cargo every few days, and also be able to look after the family and handle family matters.

After all, he still wanted to set up a drying factory to make squid silk, and also wanted to partner with Hong Wenle to set up a canned fish factory. There were quite a few of these things.

Swapping with his father was an idea, neither delaying the other, allowing him to take care of both the sea and the family.

But he had to ponder it first, and there was no hurry.

However, because of the old lady's interruption, he didn't have to talk about the things behind.

The mother and son disliked each other and talked back to each other.

Ye Yaodong went to fetch water to take a bath and tidy himself up.

He only wiped it casually when he arrived in the city the day before yesterday, washed off the rainwater, and went to sleep first.

A golden nest and a silver nest are not as good as one's own dog nest.

Only after returning home did he relax. He hadn't taken a bath for over half a month, and it was quite uncomfortable.

Lin Xiuqing also followed him into the room, intending to help him scrub, and by the way, there were private words to say.

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua, the two brothers, also took the opportunity to go back first.

Ye Yaodong returned to the room and first handed the cargo list and money that should be handed over to Lin Xiuqing for safekeeping.

Then he talked to her about the second half of the words that hadn't been finished, and by the way, talked about his own opportunities in the future.

"It's a bit busy to move all the tools and containers of fish sauce at home to the city. It's okay, it wasn't fermented in the village later. It was fermented at the beginning of last year, and it's almost time to filter."

"It doesn't matter if there's a little left. Once filtered, it will be put into vats. Some shops need vats, and the leftovers at home will be supplied to the surrounding area."

"Hmm, you want to make squid silk so well..."

"Is it delicious?"

"I don't know if it can be done..."

"Is it delicious?"

"The sky looked red in the afternoon, I don't know if there will be good weather tomorrow..."

"Is it delicious?"

Lin Xiuqing glared at him. "Delicious, delicious, too delicious, satisfied?"

Ye Yaodong was satisfied. "As long as it's delicious, it won't be hard to sell. I'll clear out the space that should be cleared first. I'll plan it in these few days and see, and by the way, after I'm busy at home, I'll go to my godfather to see the path."

"Will it work?"

"I don't know, I'll know after trying. Anyway, I won't suffer a loss or be deceived. Those cadres always have more paths than us." ===== CHAPTER 1353 =====