Chapter 1454: Interview

Ye Yaodong was busy at home, happy, and miserable.

Clearly said the day before not to drink anymore, but when night came, when someone called, he went to drink again.

Lin Xiuqing didn't care about him later, hugged Ye Xiaoxi back to sleep, and drove him to another idle warehouse room on the 1st floor for storing goods.

He didn't care either, as long as there was a place to lie down and sleep when drunk.

Until May 4th, Youth Day, he went to the county for a meeting with Chen Shuji. After returning, he didn't go out to drink anymore, but honestly prepared to write and memorize the manuscript at home.

Of course, it wasn't written by himself, nor by Lin Xiuqing. Official things were of course written by Chen Shuji for him, he just had to memorize them.

It was only three days, and the county reporters were coming down to their village for recording interviews.

Their village's kelp farming had been going on for three years, and the per capita income was higher year by year. The current drying work was still in full swing.

Reporters coming for interviews could just happen to film the landscape of kelp drying, and could also put their village's kelp on the newspaper.

Ye Yaodong was now not only a celebrity in the village, but had long been famous in the county. Chen Shuji exerted a little effort, and he couldn't escape being an advanced representative, and even his application for joining the party had been approved.

Originally thought he was fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, didn't go to class much, and it would take several years to join the party, didn't expect it to pass easily.

This wasn't it, as soon as he returned home, he started to hold the Buddha's feet temporarily, writing reports when he should, and writing interview drafts when he should, more seriously than the two sons doing homework.

Three big and small men in the family, all sat at the table to do homework after meals, making Ye Xiaoxi curious and reluctant to go out to play.

She kept spinning around them, climbing onto the stool beside this one to look for a while, and moving the stool to another one to watch for a while, very busy.

And the three big and small men were all annoyed by her, not because she was literate, but because she was illiterate, taking turns asking seven questions and eight questions around them.

"Dad, can you give her a dime to send her away, so annoying."

Ye Xiaoxi's eyes lit up, looking at her dad.

"Why!"

"You're an adult, you have money."

"I don't think she's annoying, if you think she's annoying, you give it."

Ye Xiaoxi hurriedly crowded up next to Ye Chenghu again, her small hands spread out, "Big Brother……"

Ye Chenghu slapped her palm and glared at her, "Get lost, I don't have money, find your second brother, he has money."

Ye Chengyang hurriedly shook his head like a rattle, "I don't have any, Mom has money."

Ye Xiaoxi hummed, then put her hands on her hips, "Annoying you to death, annoying you to death, I'm annoying, I'm super annoying!"

The two brothers widened their eyes into fighting chicken eyes, and finally had to lower their heads and hurry to do homework.

"Brother, I'm so annoying..."

"Big brother, I'm very annoying..."

"Second brother, do you think I'm annoying..."

"Dad, I'm super annoying..."

Ye Yaodong tore a small ball of newspaper and stuffed it into his ears, and the other two small men also followed suit and blocked their ears with paper balls.

Ye Xiaoxi looked at the paper balls in their ears, moved the stool, leaned against each of them, and pulled the paper balls out of their ears.

Ye Chengyang didn't care, let her pull!

After pulling the paper balls from both ears, he directly put down the pen, stood up excitedly, and the stool fell directly to the ground.

"I'm done writing!"

He straightened the stool, neatly put the homework into the schoolbag, and rushed out.

Ye Chenghu looked at his back with envy and jealousy.

"Big brother..."

Ye Chenghu took out 5 cents from his pocket and threw it to her, "Get lost!"

She received it with joy, "Get lost immediately."

Ye Chenghu looked at his dad with resentment, why didn't you do it earlier? Wasted 5 cents for nothing!

Heartache!

"Look at a fart, hurry up and write!"

Ye Chenghu cursed in his heart, and hurriedly buried his head in hard work.

However, he didn't know if he was enlightened this time.

After finishing the homework, he opened the TV for the first time, turned the sound very loud, and then triumphantly glanced at Ye Yaodong secretly, and deliberately called wow wow in his mouth, really good-looking.

Ye Yaodong looked at the news, glared at his side face, and also saw the corner of his eye glancing over secretly.

Dead child, thought he didn't know his plan?

"Ye Xiao Jiu! Ye Xiao Jiu!"

Ye Xiaoxi heard her dad's big shout, thought something happened? Rushed in.

"Dad? What for?"

"Get him out, don't let him come back until bedtime, I'll give you two dimes."

Ye Chenghu turned his head to look at his dad in disbelief.

Ye Xiaoxi also shouted excitedly, "Ah? Good, good."

She turned her head to look at Ye Chenghu as if looking at moving little money, saliva almost flowed down, and then hurriedly went out to call little friends to come in and help.

Ye Chenghu said aggrievedly: "You give me a dime, can I go myself?"

"No!"

"Why!"

Ye Xiaoxi called a group of little brats to rush in.

"I'll go myself..."

"No, no." Ye Xiaoxi hurriedly stopped, fearing that the matter wouldn't be done, and the money in hand would fly away.

"You guys hurry up and carry my brother out."

"No, I'll go myself..."

"Carry him out, don't care about him, must carry him out."

The people she called naturally listened to her. No one cared about Ye Chenghu's willingness. Several people carried his hands and feet, and carried him out while he was screaming wow wow.

Ye Xiaoxi was extremely excited, feeling that she had found another fun thing, "Carry him out and watch my big brother, don't let him come in again."

"Okay."

She watched everyone go out lively, and also couldn't wait to follow out, but she didn't forget the reward.

"Dad~"

Ye Yaodong poked her forehead with his index finger, "Little money fan, did your money all go to buy candy to bribe those children?"

"Hehe, I still have a lot of money, Mom said a few cents can be spent, more than 1 dime cannot be spent."

"Get lost."

"Okay." She received the banknote, shouted loudly, ran back to the room to hide the money first, and then rushed out.

"Wait for me, you guys wait for me..."

As the sound went away, it was instantly quiet, but still could hear the noise outside, so he simply took it into the room to write.

At this time, the sky was just dark, and it was still early before bedtime.

Besides memorizing the manuscript written by Chen Shuji, Ye Yaodong also had to write a series of reports for joining the party.

Memorizing the manuscript was simple, many were descriptions of kelp farming, he could remember it after one look, no need to be word for word.

It was just some more official words that had to be remembered and memorized.

Tomorrow the reporters and county cadres were coming to the countryside, he had to memorize it tonight, and also had to finalize the party joining matter before leaving.

Today was already May 6th, and it had been more than ten days since he returned.

Ye Fu also called back every two or three days to report the situation to him. He left people to help, and his dad's side was all safe.

Ye Yaodong also attached great importance to the opportunity to be on the newspaper. In his previous life, he was mediocre and not looked up to by anyone. In this life, now that he had the ability to stand in front of people, he was still a bit excited.

Although it wasn't the first time, every time was worth cherishing. This was the 1980s when information was mostly circulated by newspapers.

One carelessness could let the whole country see him.

It wasn't like the future when self-media was developed, it was very difficult to become popular.

Even when sleeping, he closed his eyes and recalled the content he was asked to memorize. Fortunately, he had been sleeping alone these few days, and there was no wife beside him talking at night, and no children riding on him.

Early the next morning, he took out the Zhongshan suit he rarely wore, tidied himself up again, and then walked to the village committee.

The big girls and little wives on the road saw his eyes go straight, and the old women were even bolder to tease and greet him.

"Adong is dressed so handsomely today, where is this going?"

"They all say people rely on clothes, Buddha relies on gold, you dress like this and it's really handsome enough, I guess you can't find anyone better-looking than you in the whole county."

"Your old Ye family's ancestral grave is smoking blue smoke, so good at giving birth..."

Someone even teased, "I see the fire is already burning, what blue smoke, otherwise how could it be so prosperous..."

"What are you talking about, going to the village committee for something."

Ye Yaodong responded casually and hurriedly walked over.

The village cadres were also neatly dressed in Zhongshan suits waiting there, the difference was that they had one more fountain pen than Ye Yaodong.

During this period, these village cadres were the same as the villagers, all dressed in rags, rolled up their sleeves and worked together, drying kelp, only today they were dressed more formally.

They arrived a bit early, anyway, they were idle early in the morning, so they sat and chatted.

"Adong, when are you going up?"

"Maybe these two days, also have to wait for the boat, I didn't sail the boat back."

"What date is the boat? Sitting on a cargo ship should be decided early, right?"

He pondered, Lin Ji Shang was now doing a proper cargo business, nothing that couldn't be said.

"Taking Lin Ji Shang's cargo ship up, have to ask him when he sets off. Called before and said it was these two days, wait for him to arrange the things at hand and then leave."

"This child is doing cargo transport? I also heard, very good, transporting goods with fishing boats is much steadier than doing other things."

"Does he have many ships now? Are there more than you?"

"How would I know, his ships are for cargo transport, certainly won't all be concentrated in one place, all transporting on the sea, how can I know how many there are, you have to ask him."

"You two are really the twin stars of our village, I guess his cargo ships shouldn't be less than your fishing boats, right? Otherwise how could he transport everywhere?"

"I don't know about this."

"If his ships could also sail to the village to stop, that would be amazing, our village would be even more amazing."

"You are still steady, can also take care of the village, pulling all the villagers forward together, our village depends on you to get rid of poverty and become rich."

"Oh, don't wear high hats now, there are no outsiders, save this sentence for when the reporters come later."

Everyone laughed.

The village cadres continued to chat about the development of the village these few years, all with great emotion, and also very proud.

When the sound of the tractor sounded outside, someone ran in and shouted that people from the county had come, and everyone stood up to tidy their clothes and smiled to welcome them out.

Ye Yaodong raised his left wrist to look at the time, 9 o'clock, not late.

Everyone shook hands at the door, then welcomed people in, let them sit and rest first, drink tea, and then chatted about today's schedule.

Seven or eight people came, a bit many, looking quite important. Some were holding notebooks, some had cameras hanging around their necks, and some were holding briefcases.

During the chatting process, Ye Yaodong also let them look at the answers to the interview questions first. No problem, he put them away, and then everyone went out together.

Chen Shuji and the village head accompanied them, leading the county leaders to visit the village, and then introduced the current appearance of the village and existing production tools, as well as the development and benefits of the village these few years.

Chen Shuji talked while walking, spitting flying, talking very proudly.

Also let Ye Yaodong take out the account book of kelp quantity weighed for more than half a month to show everyone, proving that what was said was not false.

This time there was no fraud or putting up satellites, the records were all solid data.

Also said that this year was based on the collective, next year planned to be like dividing fields to households, let them produce by household, maybe they could create higher wealth.

Speaking of this, of course, must praise Ye Yaodong.

It was he who called on the villagers to farm kelp, and invited people who understood farming, and also purchased kelp from the whole village, so that the villagers had no worries about farming.

Just this point, he had already made the first contribution, and he himself was constantly working hard, leading the whole village people to get rich, the ships in his hand were bought one after another...

Chen Shuji's words praising him were endless, talking a basketful.

Worried that the county leaders wouldn't believe it, he also let Ye Yaodong bring the few important photos he took, showing them while walking.

Ye Yaodong brought the ones he took casually, photos of the fishing boats in the village stopping at the pier, dozens of large and small ships, just stopping at this small pier in the village, also quite spectacular.

Also photos taken when he led all the fishing boats in the village to set sail to Zhou City.

Dozens of ships on the sea were all following behind, all displayed in the photos, also giving everyone a great shock.

The leaders repeatedly asked if they were all from their village?

Chen Shuji swore that the fishing boats in their village were only more than in the photos.

Everyone was very curious about Ye Yaodong.

Ye Yaodong also took out the photos of catching torpedoes in the city a few years ago, and took out the photos of the whole ship being commended by the city, and the newspaper was also taken out.

Anyway, he brought out all the photos that could show how powerful he was!

These were all fought for by his own down-to-earth efforts, and he had been commended, nothing that couldn't be seen.

The leaders looked at him with admiration, and also believed that Chen Shuji really wasn't bragging. Usually heard him brag too many times, thought it was exaggerated.

"Amazing, this young man is too amazing!"

"The Yangtze River pushes the waves forward, the prosperity of the motherland depends on your new generation."

Ye Yaodong said modestly: "Just caught up with a good era, I'm also going to be old, the younger generation is definitely more amazing than me, now it's just starting to prosper, it will definitely be hundreds of times better than now in the future."

"Right, correct."

"Wait until you're busy, go to my house to sit, go to my house to eat, I've already let my wife buy vegetables, and the family has been killing chickens, ducks, and geese early in the morning."

"This is so embarrassing..."

"Then how about eating out? The restaurant in our town..."

"No, no, no, we are here for business."

"Business also has to eat. People are iron, rice is steel, hungry if you don't eat a meal. When the time comes, you have to eat, then let the family arrange it? Also let my house be brilliant, say it out and I can brag, haha, leaders have come to my house to eat."

"Hehe..."

"My house is close, just there, let's go see the kelp drying, if tired, can go to my house to rest, just on the side."

Ye Yaodong pointed at his house.

Then let Chen Shuji lead the county leaders to look at the kelp drying, while he stole home first to tell Ah Qing to arrange at least two tables at noon.

Originally didn't know how many people would come, now have to notify, so as not to be rude later.

Cigarettes and alcohol were not lacking in his house, they had been bought in advance.

After explaining these, he followed the large army to inspect everywhere.

Then the interview didn't expect to be in the kelp cluster, they said this background was more appropriate.

What he didn't expect was that it was even recorded!

Moved several tables, and then the tractor they came with was driven to his door, and a pile of equipment was moved down.

Originally, their group was already the focus of the whole village, wherever they went, the people around followed, and now the whole village was surrounded in front of his house.

Ye Mu was happy and proud, and there were a pile of compliments on the side.

"Your third son is really famous this time, leaders have come to the door."

"This is amazing? Is this going to be on the newspaper or on TV?"

"This is still recording, right? This is going to be on TV? Too amazing, right?"

"Then the whole country can see it, wow..."

"Promising, really too promising, all say your family's ancestral grave is smoking blue smoke, I see it's directly burning, ancestors bless!"

"Adong is really amazing, this looks tall and upright, being on TV is too representative of our village."

Ye Mu smiled so wide her mouth couldn't close, "Where, where, it was whiter and better-looking before, now it's all tanned."

"Can it not be black if you run to make money every day? Now it's much more handsome than before..."

Ye Yaodong was surrounded by so many people, actually quite nervous, didn't tell him he had to record!

But hearing the three children proudly shouting repeatedly, "This is my dad! This is my dad!"

He also straightened his waist and relaxed a bit.

No matter what, he couldn't be timid in front of the children.

He was now their pride and role model!

Also the role model of the whole village!

His interview actually only needed to answer a few sentences, actually had to record the situation of kelp drying, and also caught a few villagers on the spot to ask, but everyone was very nervous, stumbling and talking for two sentences.

Later, Chen Shuji introduced it, and repeated the farming situation this year, after all, it was recording.

After finishing these, it was noon, and there were other places, the pier and the Mazu Temple hadn't been visited yet, mainly moving equipment, connecting power, and debugging took more time.

Ye Yaodong invited them to eat at the time, two large tables were placed directly in their courtyard, so he wasn't afraid of the villagers watching and disturbing, and the leaders could eat comfortably.

Chicken, duck, fish, meat, and various seafood on the table were all according to the current best and highest standards. They basically ate seafood in the coastal area, which would meet their tastes.

After eating happily, Ye Yaodong originally wanted to let them rest for a while, but they all said they wanted to walk around and see, digest food.

Everyone continued to accompany the leaders to visit the village, of course, also visited his two workshops.

The old women in the workshop were also very excited, whispering and watching.

"Your village is really good, strong labor goes out to sea to fish to create income, even women have work to kill fish at home, I see your village's household income has reached 500 per year, right?"

"The average annual income can reach 500, and can stably have 40 or 50 yuan a month, this is even more stable than city people, earning more."

"Hehe, basically there are, many people in the village have bought large ships now, most families' annual income can reach several thousand, there are about 20 ten-thousand-yuan households in the village."

The leaders were stunned.

"20 ten-thousand-yuan! That's amazing, the county doesn't have that many."

"Hehe, the fishery has developed quite well these few years, the ten-thousand-yuan households in the town are also constantly increasing, and even the Wanwan people who started industries have increased a lot, the town is also becoming more and more prosperous."

"Your village is managed well..."

"It's all young people who are promising, you might not imagine, more than half of the 20 ten-thousand-yuan households in our village are all young people, not many are 40 or 50 years old."

The county leaders couldn't help nodding and giving thumbs up.

"Now is the world of young people..."

A large group of them walked through the whole village majestically, followed by a large group of tails, and jumping children.

After visiting, the group returned to the village committee.

After the matter was finished, they didn't stay long, drank tea, and sent people to the car.

At this time, it was already past 2 o'clock, and it would be past 3 o'clock when they arrived in the county.

Ye Yaodong was also tired after accompanying for a day. Turning around, he wanted to find a stool to sit, and the three children in his family and several big nieces surrounded him.

"Dad, you are too greasy! I love you, hug, hug..."

"Third Uncle, you are too amazing."

"Dad, you are my idol!"

"Dad, you are my pride, I want to write you into my composition, too amazing!"

Ye Yaodong helplessly had to pick up the little fat girl who had been pulling his clothes and asking for a hug first.

"Why did you follow here?"

"We want to welcome you home, you are our hero!"

Chen Shuji laughed loudly, "Your three can really talk."

Ye Yaodong smiled and said: "Be low-key, know? Too arrogant when going out, easy to get beaten."

"How is that possible! The whole school knows my dad is Ye Yaodong!"

Ye Chenghu was proud to death, his dad gave him face again.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1455 =====

"We are going to welcome you home; you are our hero, after all!"

Secretary Chen laughed heartily, "The three in your family really know how to talk."

Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "Keep a low profile, you know? Being too arrogant when you go out makes it easy to get beaten up."

"How is that possible! The whole school knows my dad is Ye Yaodong!"

Ye Chenghu was incredibly proud; his dad had brought him honor again.

(End of chapter)