Chapter 1453: Wife

Ye Yaodong was surrounded and walked forward a few steps before remembering that there were three others who came back with him.

He turned his head and waved at them, "Go back to your own homes."

The fatty was somewhat indignant, "Arrived home in the middle of the night, didn't even see a ghost, wasted me dressing up so nicely."

"Fatty Brother... isn't there people in front?"

"None of them can see us, does that count?"

Another person pointed at the wrinkled clothes and pants with holes everywhere on his body, "It doesn't look good either, it's broken everywhere."

The fatty was even angrier.

These newly bought clothes, just worn out of the house and they were cut everywhere by a knife, and still had to be sewn and mended, isn't that the same as their clothes with patches everywhere?

These were still new clothes.

If he had known, he might as well have learned from Dongzi, dressed in rags. Anyway, arriving home in the middle of the night, who would see?

Wasted his new clothes, also lost a fountain pen, and the money in his pocket, and still owed Dongzi a briefcase.

Damn!

Lost big!

The fatty clenched his empty fist and hammered his palm!

"Go home, I'll give you the money for the berth tomorrow."

"No need to give, it was Adong who bought the boat ticket, we didn't pay, just squeezed in, and gave you a spot."

"Yeah, said no need to give, we didn't pay, but instead we gained money, what does this look like? If you want to give, you have to give it to Adong, he bought all the boat tickets."

"Then we'll talk after we go up. It's the middle of the night, hurry home to eat a bowl of hot food and sleep. Eating dry rations every day, my throat hurts."

The air was filled with a rich smell of kelp, usually it was fishy. Under the light of his house, one could barely see patches of pitch-black kelp hanging on the beach not far away.

Ye Yaodong was surrounded by a group of people and went back. On the way, he could see scattered kelp fragments and muddy footprints.

Even Ye's eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law heard the movement and got up, coming to their house to sit and chat, asking about their respective men's affairs.

After he finished his midnight snack, he went back only when he wanted to rest.

Besides telling everyone's situation, Ye Yaodong also talked about the process of tossing and turning on the way back.

His trip back was considered convenient, only transferred three times, and it took 4 days to get home.

Lin Xiuqing looked at his stubbly appearance with heartache, "It's still more convenient to sail your own boat, don't have to keep transferring. Clearly it could be home in one or two days, now it takes 4 days."

"This trip is the fastest. Other boats take 7-15 days. Some stop at ports halfway, and some stay for two or three days every time they stop, loading new cargo and new people."

"That's even more exhausting, even more miserable."

"Who says it isn't."

That's why he thought about Lin Ji Shang quickly going up to open the shipping route. His own hometown always had to arrange a more convenient fishing boat, right?

Ye Yaodong dragged the sack he brought back, first took out the children's toys, and sent the two brothers who were staring eagerly upstairs.

At the same time, he also sent Ye Xiaoxi upstairs together.

He had just returned, and several children were in a state of excitement. Sending them back to the room without giving them anything, how could they be willing.

It was different with toys. Dad had to be ranked behind.

Getting the toys, they didn't crowd in front of him anymore, and all excitedly went to play first.

Only then did Ye Yaodong take out the clothes from the bottom one by one.

Lin Xiuqing said in a low voice: "How much did you earn this month or two? There must be hundreds of thousands in here, right?"

He took out a tightly wrapped cotton-padded jacket and put it on the table.

"You'll know if you count it yourself."

Once the tied sleeve was opened, inside were neatly bundled 50-yuan and 10-yuan denomination banknotes, and they were bundled in stacks. Only the top few were curled at the edges.

Lin Xiuqing asked in surprise: "Specially went to exchange them?"

"Exchanged them occasionally when I had time, exchanged them at several different banks, all took small change to exchange for 50-yuan integers, didn't dare to exchange too much."

After all, his amount was a bit large. If he really wanted to exchange more than 100,000 in a month, spreading it to two or three banks was not a small amount, a bit conspicuous. Ordinary people wouldn't exchange big money for small money, they would all hold it in their arms.

"How much is in here? Just tell me a number directly, I'll record it, no need to count. Anyway, you hired an accountant, these accountants should have calculated it all."

Ye Yaodong nodded, "There's 160,000 in here. Besides leaving a few thousand on hand, I also bought another 3 mu of land and two tractors."

Lin Xiuqing only felt that he was making money too fast now, and didn't say anything about spending money.

"Is our money-making too stable? It's only been a month, and it's another 100,000 or 200,000..."

"Stable?"

He remembered he hadn't told Ah Qing about Chen Jianian's matter, and immediately told about Chen Jianian's encounter.

Lin Xiuqing sighed after hearing it, "Things in the world are impermanent. It looks like he didn't earn little these years, but as a result, he had bad luck, encountered a natural disaster, returned to before liberation in one morning, and still owed a debt."

"Then do you still think it's stable? We have always been floating on the sea, others just made one trip of cargo."

"Then this bad luck, nothing to say."

Lin Xiuqing fiddled with the dozens of stacks of money, and then wrapped them up with clothes again, so that the children running around upstairs wouldn't run down and see them later.

"So, I also have good luck to be able to save the family foundation now. Opportunity and luck are indispensable."

Besides caring about a few sentences at the beginning, the old lady couldn't get a word in later.

Opening her mouth and closing her mouth was 100,000, hundreds of thousands, hearing it made her heart tremble, and she didn't dare to speak, fearing to disturb their topic of hundreds of thousands.

She only listened carefully, and only urged him to hurry back to the room to sleep after they were almost done talking.

"Save whatever you have to say for tomorrow. You must have eaten poorly and slept poorly on the boat. Look at the dark circles under your eyes, hurry back to the room to sleep first."

"And those hundreds of thousands, millions, hundreds of millions, wait until you wake up to talk about them. Otherwise, it will hurt your body. It's already very hard to earn money outside."

Ye Yaodong responded, "You sleep your sleep, we'll go back to the room."

"I'll call my daughter down to sleep, and then hit a basin of hot water for you to wash your feet."

"I'll carry this into the room first, I'll close the doors, windows, and lights for you."

The old lady stood up immediately, "I'll just do it, let Ah Qing be busy with yours, the little one will sleep with me. This child sleeps too badly, always kicks the quilt, if you sleep with her, you won't sleep well."

Ye Yaodong didn't care.

After returning to the room, Lin Xiuqing told him about the kelp harvest situation recently.

Basically, weighing the goods every afternoon took two or three hours, and then a boat had to be sent away every other day, otherwise there was no place in the warehouse.

She had been so busy these past few days that her feet didn't touch the ground, and she had lost a whole circle.

Ye Yaodong touched the soft flesh on her waist, feeling that her stomach was even smaller, and he could even touch her ribs, feeling some heartache in his heart.

Two people, one busy outside, one busy at home, really couldn't say who was more tired than whom.

After all, Lin Xiuqing did much more miscellaneous work at home than him. Not only did she have to manage the work in the city, but also the factory in the town, and the workshop at home for shipping and receiving goods. These two days, she also added a large amount of kelp collection.

There were old people at home, and children.

And he was much simpler, just receiving goods, sending goods, and collecting money.

Counting it up, maybe he was even more relaxed, just not as good as home outside.

Ye Yaodong touched her ribs and stomach, listening to her talk attentively. Listening and listening, there was no movement, and even the sound of snoring started.

Tired and fell asleep.

It was night when he arrived home, but the whole village knew the next morning.

He hadn't gotten up yet, and Chen Shuji came, but the old lady said he was still sleeping, so he left again.

One wave after another came in the morning, and they were all blocked by the old lady.

Although the people were blocked, the sound wasn't. He was still woken up by the noise around him, just too lazy to get up, so he lay there brewing.

After all, kelp was drying on the nearby beach, people were coming and going to transport it, and they all knew he was back, so they liked to gather at his door.

The village was harvesting kelp on a large scale recently, even harvesting at sea at night, 24 hours in rotation without interruption, just worrying about rain.

This year was a collective project again, and it was done three or four times more than last year. The villagers were looking forward to dividing a large sum again this time.

In total, they hadn't worked for a few months, and there were many people, so the work was not much when divided, but at least they could divide 400 or 500 yuan.

The cargo hadn't been finished yet, and everyone had already guessed the minimum amount they could get. Everyone was full of energy, and the work was exceptionally promising.

He got up after lying enough.

The old lady pointed to Chen Shuji who was directing not far away, "He ran over several times early in the morning just as the sky was bright."

"I'll go out and see."

Ye Yaodong picked up a large bowl of porridge, stirred a little of the dishes on the table into the bowl, and went out.

Chen Shuji was staring at his door. Seeing him come out, he immediately walked towards him.

"Get rich, get rich this year, and still step up step by step."

Chen Shuji heard this just as he walked in, his face blossomed with a smile, "You're talking about yourself, right? So many ships, all earned for you."

Ye Yaodong pointed at the patches of kelp in front of him with chopsticks, "This is your performance, promotion and wealth depend on it."

"I plan to let the villagers farm it themselves next year, divide the sea base to those who participated in these two years, and distribute it to households? Others who want to farm, or everyone who wants to farm more, just divide another sea base. Let them pay the retention fee to the village themselves, I won't deduct it uniformly from the income."

The full name of the retention fee is "overall retention fee". They don't pay taxes, they pay retention fees.

Three retentions and five overall planning, this is two parts of money.

This is a fee system implemented in rural China in the 1980s, "three retentions and five overall planning".

The three retentions are: public accumulation fund, public welfare fund, management fee, collected by village-level organizations.

The public accumulation fund here belongs to the internal accumulation funds of the rural collective economy, which is different from the housing provident fund in cities.

It is not a system for individual employee housing provident funds, but an accumulation method of funds within rural collective economic organizations, used to support various construction and career development of rural collectives.

The five overall planning are: education surcharge, family planning fee, militia training fee, rural road construction fee, preferential treatment fee, collected by township-level governments.

Retention fees are mainly used for public welfare undertakings, expanding reproduction, and daily management expenses in the village.

As part of the rural area, their coastal fishing villages also need to pay retention fees regularly.

There is almost no land that can be cultivated in their village, it is entirely based on the number of people and the number of livestock in the family to pay.

There were not many large ships in the village before, and everyone's living standard was about the same, so they didn't pay according to the income level.

It's different these few years. The standard of retention fees paid by people with ships is higher.

So their village committee has also become much richer these few years, and can even invest and advance kelp costs, leading the villagers to farm together.

Ye Yaodong scooped the porridge and responded casually, "Very good, let them toss it themselves after they learn it, bear the risk themselves. Some families with more labor naturally want to do more."

"That's right, after the living standard in the village has improved these few years, everyone has spare money in their hands, spending a little more capital to gamble on receiving goods, and can also bear it."

Ye Yaodong raised his chin again and pointed at the kelp in front, "When can it be finished?"

"The one on the sea is fast, it will be finished by the end of the month. It's just that drying is not that fast, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, it's all harvested, and estimating a rough output is about the same."

"Oh, this village has become rich again. When you go to the city for a meeting, your waist can be straight again."

"It all depends on you young people to save face for our village. I also have light on my face when I go out."

"Then I will pay less retention fee this year?"

Chen Shuji's eyes widened, "How is that possible? You are a big household, and you have 5 more ships. Your standard has to be raised by several levels, how can you pay less."

"Then you have to work harder for me and strive for some good welfare policies for me."

"It's good enough, the factory you have in the town is exempted, and the policies in the town are all supporting."

Ye Yaodong didn't care about this little money, just said it casually.

He changed the subject and chatted casually for a while, then went back with an empty bowl.

Before he reached the door, he watched a group of children playing games there, shouting something, "New bride, sitting in a sedan chair?"

Two boys crossed their hands to act as a manual sedan chair for Ye Xiaoxi to sit on.

And Ye Xiaoxi had sweet potato vines hanging on her ears, a necklace made of sweet potato vines around her neck, a forehead ornament made of sweet potato vines on her forehead, and her 10 fingers were full of rings made of sweet potato vines.

"My eldest lady..." Ye Yaodong looked at them, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

After they carried Ye Xiaoxi to another pile of children, they were already playing house, preparing to eat.

"The new bride is here, time to eat..."

Ye Yaodong walked over and looked. Their meal was various grass leaves on a pile of broken tiles, some had small stones, small sand, unripe wild fruits, and there were more than a dozen bowls...

"Your meal is quite rich? How many tables are you setting for the wedding?"

"Dad! We are playing house, everyone eating together!"

After Ye Xiaoxi finished speaking, she took out colorful candies from her pocket and put them on a broken vat fragment, "Extra meal!"

"Wow... extra meal!"

The surrounding children scrambled, but they were also quite disciplined. Each person only grabbed one, and Ye Xiaoxi was also shouting with her hands on her hips.

"One person can only eat one, otherwise I won't let you play."

Ye Yaodong was dumbfounded, "You've become a big sister boss?"

"Hehe, Dad, give you one, it's delicious."

Ye Xiaoxi peeled off a candy wrapper and stuffed the candy into his mouth.

Ye Yaodong looked at her black and green fingers, the fingernails were also black, his brows were tightly wrinkled, but he still opened his mouth and ate the candy.

Not clean, not sick.

"Hurry up and wash your hands, you can't eat without washing your hands. Look at your hands, and your fingernails, I'll let your mother cut your nails later."

She looked down at her two fingers, then wiped them twice on her body, "Clean!"

Ye Yaodong: "..."

She stood on tiptoe, glanced at the empty bowl in Ye Yaodong's hand, took the homemade branch chopsticks on the side, and put a large handful of grass into Ye Yaodong's bowl.

"Dad, please eat vegetables."

"You eat."

"Don't be polite, you eat, eat, just treat it like your own home, don't be polite, eat more."

Ye Yaodong: "..."

Where did this girl learn this?

"I'll give you a little more." As she said, she took the whole tile in her hand, wanting to pour the sand and stones inside into his bowl.

Ye Yaodong hurriedly stood up and poured out the weeds in the bowl.

"Dad, don't be polite? Eat more, it's not an outsider."

Ye Yaodong poked her forehead with the end of his chopsticks, "You'd better keep it for yourself to eat, no need to be filial to me, I have no blessing to enjoy it."

"You brought the rice bowl over..."

"Play by yourself."

Looking at her dirty appearance, Ye Yaodong didn't care about her anymore. It was only morning, and even if he washed her clean now, she wouldn't be able to keep it for a few minutes.

After he walked two steps, he retreated again.

"Where are the sheep?"

"I told Awei to go graze them."

His mouth twitched, "You really know how to order people around."

Ye Xiaoxi opened her innocent eyes, "He said he had to graze the sheep at home anyway, as long as I gave him 5 candies, he would help me graze."

The surrounding children immediately said, "Xiao Jiu, I'll help you graze, I only want 4 candies..."

"I only want three..."

"I only need two..."

Ye Xiaoxi was full of surprise, "Really? If the sheep are lost, you have to compensate, you know."

"Don't worry, I'll lose myself before the sheep are lost..."

"Then don't let Awei graze, I'll graze for you tomorrow, he's too expensive..."

Ye Yaodong was ashamed.

This also has to roll.

Which child can withstand her sugar-coated cannonballs?

For a candy, these children can do anything.

After Ye Yaodong took the empty bowl home, he walked to the telephone and prepared to call his godfather. He had to let him know since he was back and say hello.

Said that after finishing the kelp harvest work at home these two days, he would go to the city at the beginning of the month, and then go to the house to sit for a while.

After visiting the workshop later, he still had to go to the factory in the town to turn around.

Don't think that he was relaxed after returning home. Just returned, he had to look at everything everywhere. There were a pile of things at home, and he had to share some for Lin Xiuqing.

And after knowing he was back, Hong Wenle in the town didn't have a day without calling him to eat and drink.

He also realized now that sometimes eating and drinking could be more tiring than working, returning drunk every day.

These few days, he woke up when the sun was already high, not far from lunch. After eating and strolling, he harvested kelp in the afternoon, and after finishing, he went to the factory, and in the evening, he was in the restaurant, returning home in the middle of the night.

If it weren't for being able to see people during the day, even if he was drunk in the middle of the night, he knew how to go home, and Lin Xiuqing would have to scold him a few times.

Returning in the middle of the night, she had to serve him.

And had to endure his chatter, calling wife, wife, one sentence after another.

"Wife, wife, you are so good, hurry up and hit a basin of foot washing water for me..."

"Wife, wife, I'm thirsty..."

"Wife, I want to pee..."

"Wife, I want to vomit a little, wife, my head is so dizzy..."

"No drinking tomorrow, wife, you stop me a little tomorrow..."

"Going to quit drinking, damn it keeps pulling me to go, I don't want to go, wife, head is so dizzy..."

Lin Xiuqing usually heard him calling wife, happy and sweet, but at this time, hearing it was simply annoying, wishing she could block his mouth with stinky socks.

She did the same, but not with stinky socks, but with a clean handkerchief.

It was really annoying, helping him wash his feet could still splash water on her face, and even rubbed her face with his feet.

"Wife, why are you eating my toes..."

Lin Xiuqing was so angry that her teeth itched. Clearly, he rubbed his feet to her mouth, and she pinched him angrily.

"Shut your mouth."

"Wife, you are so fierce, you have to be gentle, woo woo..."

Ye Yaodong bit the handkerchief in his mouth, was stunned for a moment, and reached out to take it out.

"Soft, thought you gave me a big steamed bun to eat."

"Eat your big ghost head, shut your mouth, hurry up and sleep."

Lin Xiuqing wiped his feet, lifted them up and threw them onto the bed, and then took the foot washing water out to pour.

When she entered the room again, he had already occupied most of the bed lying on his stomach, and was lying on the quilt.

Lin Xiuqing sighed, "You came back, I'm busier than anything."

Ye Yaodong patted the bed board beside him, "Come quickly, left a spot for you."

Just that little bit in the corner, also called leaving a spot, she didn't want to sleep with him.

Just when she finished taking off her clothes and wanted to lie down, Ye Yaodong suddenly sat up again.

"Want to pee..."

Lin Xiuqing supported her forehead, "I raised another son! Go yourself!"

She shouted, Ye Yaodong looked at her dimly, somewhat aggrieved, "So fierce."

He swayed and got off the ground barefoot, then didn't walk out the door, but directly opened the wardrobe, took off his pants...

"Wait! What are you doing"

"Peeing."

Lin Xiuqing hurriedly pulled up his pants, "What have you become after drinking? This is a wardrobe, the wardrobe is not a toilet, hold it for me."

"Going to pee out."

"Hold it."

She hurriedly led Ye Yaodong to the latrine, and had to wait at the door, otherwise she was really afraid he would sleep directly in the sheep shed.

"Wife, you are so good." Ye Yaodong finished peeing, pouted his mouth and wanted to kiss her.

Lin Xiuqing slapped his pig mouth directly, "This is in the latrine! Shut your mouth, hurry into the room and sleep."

The old lady was also woken up by his movement, walked out and looked, then muttered, "Drinking so much every day... where do so many friends come from..."

She complained, "I'll watch him tomorrow, don't let him go out."

The old lady hesitated, "Then I have to lie down, so he can't go out, right?"

"Forget it..."

Ye Yaodong suddenly said: "I heard it!"

Lin Xiuqing slapped him hard, "Hurry into the room and sleep."

Ye Yaodong stretched out his hand, hugged her shoulder, and shouted, "Go, sleep! Have a beautiful dream!"

Lin Xiuqing was really shy and angry.

"Convinced by you."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1454 =====