Chapter 1540: Three Children

After touring the production workshop, Ye Yaodong took them to see the cleaning pool and watch the workers clean the squid.

The place wasn't actually very big; a lap inside and a lap outside, and the factory was toured.

During this period, Lin Guangyuan also recounted his glorious resume from these past few years.

He had once salvaged underwater vehicles and torpedoes at sea, had been commended in local newspapers, had appeared on television, was rated as a typical representative of individuals becoming wealthy and leading the collective to wealth, and had long-term supplied dried fish to the military logistics in his hometown, and so on.

He said everything that could add luster to Ye Yaodong's face.

Hearing such glorious deeds, the leaders felt curious, but Lin Guangyuan only knew the generalities and not the specifics.

Ye Yaodong then took the opportunity to explain those things to them in detail, one by one.

Upon hearing this, the leaders' smiles deepened, and they even gave him a thumbs up.

"Then have you joined the Party? You should have joined the Party, right?"

"Yes, I've joined the Party. I am also a glorious Party member, and I was even rated as an advanced youth during the May Fourth Youth Day, though that was a few years ago; I'm over the age now, haha."

The leader nodded, "That's very good. The young man is promising; to be so capable at just over 30, well done."

"I can't do anything else. Fortunately, I was born by the sea, so I can still manage to make a living."

"You're being modest, Little Uncle. You've led the whole village of hundreds of people to get rich. Your village is now one of the top wealthy villages in the whole county, or even the whole city."

After Lin Guangyuan finished speaking, he continued to boast, "Chief, you probably can't imagine the scene of my uncle's small fishing village, which only has four or five hundred households, but has over a hundred boats of all sizes."

"No other village can compare to this. It's only a bit worse than the town, after all, the town gathers all the fishing boats in the surrounding area."

"And half of the fishing boats in the village are his. He has thirty or forty fishing boats of his own; these are all things he has saved up over the years..."

"My uncle also has a godfather who is a naval professional..."

Lin Guangyuan babbled on, telling everything that could add luster to Ye Yaodong's face.

Actually, he had already told the leaders in the military once before, but coming out here, he told it again in front of everyone.

Ye Yaodong just smiled and was modest, letting Lin Guangyuan play out the rest.

He could also be considered to have a clean and honest background.

Everyone walked and talked, and the one who talked the most was Lin Guangyuan, after all, he was familiar with both sides and was the one who bridged the connection.

Finally, everyone visited the dormitory building, which was no different from the dormitory at his base; one room was arranged with three sets of bunk beds.

At this time, no one was living there, but it had been cleaned up neatly yesterday, looking spotless.

Ye Yaodong could see that the few leaders were very satisfied, not just with him as a person, but also with the environment.

After all, he had just built this place, and the environment could be considered quite good. Although the scale was not large, this was just the beginning of operations, wasn't it?

As they do it slowly, the scale will naturally grow larger, and they can also let the local government provide a little support. Moreover, they are only arranging for veterans who are from families that are relatively difficult and have special circumstances.

Originally, this was not a state-owned enterprise, and Ye Yaodong had no such obligation; it was purely out of that awareness, a red heart forever facing the Party.

After touring the entire factory, Ye Yaodong invited them to the office for tea. After talking for so long, Lin Guangyuan must also be thirsty.

It was just that the walls of his office were still empty, with no honors hung up; they were all kept at home. Only a letter of appointment as the president of the Fisheries Association was carried with him and placed in the office.

He had long thought about it; when he went back for the New Year, he would frame those honorary certificates and banners, or make a new copy to bring over and hang on the wall.

This way, there would be things to hang at home and things to hang here, which could also decorate his facade.

After touring for this whole day, the leaders basically had a good idea about him and the factory. It could be said that they were extremely satisfied; there was no factory director more root-red and seedling-straight than him.

Counting them up, there were a pile of plus points, and the more they talked, the closer and more connected he was to the military.

The matter of arranging for veterans could also be considered a done deal.

Sitting in the office and chatting for a while longer about the specific positions and his needs here, the leaders also had a good idea in their hearts, and at the same time, they were also pondering how to pull connections for his small factory.

Arranging for veterans is also no small matter, and it's not something that just any factory can arrange casually. Arranging a few privately is fine, but if it's a large amount, it definitely needs to be applied for.

Of course, Ye Yaodong didn't know about these calculations of the leaders; he only knew that his reception this morning was very successful.

Although they didn't stay long, only lingering for two hours, he presented everything that needed to be understood.

When sending them off, all three were smiling and very polite, and the leader also stated on the spot that he would have people arrange it and give him the list as soon as possible.

Ye Yaodong, of course, politely said there was no rush.

He was indeed not in a rush; they had to go home for the New Year anyway, right? He would arrange it after coming over after the New Year.

Lin Guangyuan also happily followed the three of them and pedaled away on his bicycle.

Ye Yaodong originally wanted to keep him to ask carefully what kind of class the engine class he mentioned was, but seeing that he had to accompany the leaders back, he didn't feel embarrassed to keep him talking.

I don't know how the naval positions were distributed at this time. Lin Guangyuan actually said he was in the engine class, and I don't know if it was the engine class he was thinking of.

If he really came from the engine class, then why would his big boat be short of chief engineers and all kinds of crew members? Wouldn't it be better to just find them from the veterans?

Isn't this better than sending the crew for training? Their four years of compulsory military service experience is also solid experience.

It still has to be the military that produces talent.

Later, whenever Lin Guangyuan calls, he will ask carefully. The number of times Lin Guangyuan has called in these years can be counted on one's fingers, and he hasn't asked much, and he hasn't always been here either.

He only knew it wasn't a cook, and he didn't pay attention to anything else; in reality, he didn't put his heart into it.

After all, he was just an uncle, not his father or mother, just because he was here, he could occasionally remember to write him a letter or make a phone call.

And he had never thought about digging people from the military. In his heart, he still had awe for the military and didn't dare to set his sights on the top; he didn't even think about it. It was just that he earned more money this year, so he had more ideas.

Lin Guangyuan's suggestion could also be considered a lucky strike.

After sending them off, Ye Yaodong returned to the office, propped up his feet, and continued to drink tea.

By the way, he recalled the process just now, replayed the scene, and pondered whether he had said anything wrong or performed poorly just now, and whether it needed improvement.

It really must be said, Lin Guangyuan is actually quite capable of speaking now, looking like he can grasp opportunities very well, and can be considered to have shown his face in front of the big leaders.

Communicating with the leaders back and forth a few times, the leaders will naturally have a deep impression of him, and there will be many benefits in the future. If he performs well, promotion and evaluation will be a matter of course.

Manager Qi also came in after a while, curiously asking Ye Yaodong about the background of the few officers who had just come.

Ye Yaodong vaguely brushed it off. Anyway, he had heard what he should have heard while standing by just now, and basically had a good idea in his heart. Now he was probably just coming to inquire about the specific situation.

"Then are the workers we need to expand after the New Year really going to be transported from the military?"

"It's just the beginning, just wait. I'll notify you when the time comes. Anyway, it will be arranged after the New Year."

"That's good."

"The workers' attire and gloves and such must be checked every day. Without rules, there is no square. If you turn a blind eye, it won't be easy to manage if you want to standardize people later. It's best to be strict from the beginning."

"Understood. Starting tomorrow, we will check every day, and those caught will be fined."

"Hmm."

"Also, if we go on holiday, do the workers have New Year gifts? They only worked for more than a month..."

"Yes. This must be there. No matter how long they work, they are working after all. During the New Year, how can we let people go home empty-handed? Just the squid shreds in the factory, everyone gets a few jin, and give a red envelope. You look at it and set a number. Whatever other factories do, we do the same. The benefits cannot be worse than others."

Make the best use of everything. Anyway, the factory now has plenty of squid shreds, so of course, we must make use of the factory's own products.

The workers have likely grown tired of eating them, but it's good to give them to relatives and friends.

"Understood. I will report to you after the regulations are determined."

Ye Yaodong nodded and let him go get busy first.

After drinking two sips of tea, he thought about calling Lin Xiuqing. His father and mother left yesterday, and he hadn't called back to tell her yet.

Lin Guangyuan's phone call yesterday made him rush to prepare for today's matter, and he also forgot to tell her to let her prepare in advance.

However, he looked at the watch on his wrist; it was almost 11 o'clock, so it would be better to wait another half hour and call after the children came back from school.

He felt like he hadn't called his daughter for a long time. Every time he called back, the time wasn't that coincidental; it was always during class time.

While waiting, he calculated the children's winter vacation time.

New Year's Day is the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, so they should be on vacation shortly after New Year's Day, which should be just right...

When the time came, he immediately dialed home.

Lin Xiuqing was cooking lunch, so she let the old lady answer the phone first. The fire in the earthen stove was always burning, and it wasn't something that could be turned off just like that.

So after the old lady finished talking on the phone, she happily went to watch the fire for Lin Xiuqing.

"Ye Yaodong said he'll be back on the 20th, you hurry up and answer the phone."

Lin Xiuqing wiped her hands on her apron before answering the phone.

"Hello..."

"Father and Mother took the boat back yesterday, they should be home in a few days. Arrange the things at home in advance, and reconcile the accounts in the city in advance. We'll be back just before the Little New Year."

"I know this. It's almost New Year's Day, so I'll go to the city to reconcile the accounts on New Year's Day, and by the way, pay the wages, and explain the things that Father needs to explain."

"Oh, by the way, I saw Lin Guangyuan again today, he brought leaders over..."

Ye Yaodong babbled on and told her about this morning's events.

"This brat... I'll tell my eldest brother and sister-in-law when I go to the city in a couple of days, and see if they want to go up with me. Regardless of whether they can see people or not, it's fine to just go and play."

"That's what I said too, but Lin Guangyuan flatly refused."

"Don't worry about him, I'll tell my eldest brother and sister-in-law and see how they discuss it. It just so happens that New Year's Day is a holiday, followed by winter vacation, and the children in their family are all back, so they can help with work, and it doesn't matter if one person is missing."

"You decide for yourself, it's just the cost of one more boat ticket. The place where I sleep is quite spacious, there are plenty of rooms."

Originally, he had also suggested this.

"Hmm, if the factory really receives veterans one after another, won't it become a semi-state-owned unit in the future?"

"Hehe, that's hard to say, let's take it one step at a time, who knows what will happen in the future."

"Lin Guangyuan is also quite capable of tossing."

"It's a good thing. After such a toss, he has also entered the eyes of the leaders, and he can be prioritized for evaluation and promotion."

"Are you really planning to stay in the military for a lifetime?"

"Ask him, I don't know."

"Then my eldest brother and sister-in-law have something to worry about..."

Ye Yaodong changed the subject, "Why haven't the children come home yet? I specifically checked the time to call."

"They must have been delayed on the road. They don't come back immediately after school every day. I don't know what they are dawdling about, where they are dawdling, it's so cold outside and they are reluctant to come back."

"Is your daughter still learning the erhu?"

"Changed to learning for half a day on Sunday. What was that called learning before? Every day was just going to play, and later she was making a fuss about wanting to learn to blow the trumpet, so I gave her a beating. She hasn't learned this yet and is already thinking about that. In the future, is she really going to take over the job and specialize in funerals?"

"Forget about funerals, just let her learn the erhu well. At least it's an instrument. Cultivate her into a lady so she doesn't run around everywhere like a wild child."

"Forget it, I don't expect her to become a lady, just be obedient and study well..."

"Mother... I'm back..."

"Mother..."

Lin Xiuqing looked at the door and said, "They're all back. School let out at 11:15, and it took them a full hour to get home. It clearly only takes 15 minutes to walk back. I don't know what they go to do every day after school."

"Mother, who are you talking to on the phone?"

Ye Xiaoxi threw her schoolbag on the chair, immediately climbed onto the table, grabbed a shrimp, and peeled the shell with her mouth.

"Didn't wash your hands, isn't it dirty?"

She wiped her hands on her chest, then spread them out, still black and shiny, and then she quickly got off the table with a smirk.

"I'll go wash them right now."

"Where are your two brothers?"

"One is teaching a female classmate how to skate, and one is hitting little people's heads. I won a lot of marbles, and no one played with me, so I came back first."

Lin Xiuqing's head hurt instantly, and she said into the phone, "Did you hear that? What your three ancestors are doing every day after school! Not one of them comes home immediately."

"Wow, it's Father's phone, give it to me, give it to me, Mother, hurry up and give it to me."

Ye Xiaoxi rushed over with wet hands, and then tugged at her clothes, leaving water stains all over her cotton-padded jacket, making Lin Xiuqing want to hit her.

"Father, why haven't you called me for so long? Don't you miss me? What are you doing? I'm almost on vacation. The teacher said there will be a final exam after New Year's Day, and then winter vacation. You said you would let me continue to play at your place, when will you let me go? You've been saying it for a year, and it's almost New Year again, you can't go back on your word..."

Ye Xiaoxi babbled a lot without waiting for his response.

"One sentence at a time, you talk so much at once, how do you expect me to answer you? You've been in class every day, I called you, and you couldn't answer."

"You could have called when you were eating."

"Then I have to have something to say at that time to call back."

"Ah? Do you have nothing to say to me? Then who do you have something to say to? What are you doing outside all day..."

"Earning money, what else? If I don't earn money, what will you eat and drink? You still want to come up and play, if I don't earn more money, how can I bring you up to play?"

"Then when will you take me to play."

Lin Xiuqing added from the side, "She asks every day recently, hundreds of times a day, asking why you haven't called, saying she's going to have winter vacation, asking me when I'll take her to find you, when I'll take her to live in a western-style house again... a bunch of questions, my head is big."

"That's right, you said it yourself, wait until vacation and take me to live in a western-style house."

"In a few days, after the exam, we can almost go. You bring the things you want to bring in advance."

"I don't want to bring things! I want to bring an empty schoolbag to pack things!"

"Alright..."

"I also want to pack a few empty sacks in my schoolbag!"

Ye Yaodong: "..."

A bit ruthless.

Lin Xiuqing slapped the back of her head, "Are you going to move the whole Shanghai there? How much money do you have to squander?"

Ye Xiaoxi touched the back of her head, "Brother has useless stationery at home, it's such a waste, and we have to buy new ones... I'll go to Shanghai and buy them all back!"

"Don't think I don't know, you took the stationery that your brother left at home and sold it at school, and kept your own well."

After Lin Xiuqing finished speaking, she took the phone from her hand and complained.

"Your daughter took Ye Chenghu's new eraser, new pencils, ballpoint pens, and new pencil cases and such a while ago and sold them at school. Ye Chenghu discovered it and originally wanted to beat her, but she told him that he could buy new ones if he went to Shanghai, the old ones didn't look good, out with the old and in with the new. If there were any at home, I would definitely stop it..."

"Damn, she has my style, it turns out the smartest one is here."

"She just coaxed Ye Chenghu into willingly taking out the stationery for her to sell, and she even took a part of the money sold."

"So I'm the sucker? Buying it for them, and then they take it to school to resell."

"So don't buy her too much when you go up this time, the dead girl is just cunning, and she even wanted Ye Chengyang to take his to sell, but Ye Chengyang wouldn't be fooled, he kept his own well, saying that if he wants to sell, he will sell it himself, and won't give it to her."

"Father, anyway, Brother has useless ones, it's such a waste, and we have to buy new ones..."

"Poor students have a lot of stationery, I won't buy it for you."

"Brother is a poor student, I am a good student!"

Ye Chenghu happened to fly back and heard it, and immediately protested, "What, where am I a poor student."

"Big Brother, Father said that after the exam, he will let Mother take us to find him, and then go to Shanghai to live in a western-style house."

"Really, that's great."

Lin Xiuqing waited for him to come over and grabbed his ear, "Didn't come back immediately after school, and even taught a female classmate how to skate, how can you be so capable?"

"Ouch ouch ouch... Mother, I have a purpose for this."

"What purpose?"

"Ye Chenhe doesn't know how to read, but he still earned a wife back. I'll find one in advance too, so even if I don't know how to read, I'll have a wife. If I know how to read, then I'll earn even more."

Lin Xiuqing almost laughed out of anger, and used more force, "Don't learn the good things, learn this..."

Ye Chenghu grimaced in pain, covering his ear with one hand, tilting his head, "Don't you adults always say that Ye Chenhe's book wasn't read in vain?"

"That's a joke, who doesn't study well and goes to school to find a partner? How old are you, don't learn the bad things, don't have puppy love, study well for me."

"Then let go first, it hurts so much..."

Lin Xiuqing let go, and then saw Ye Chengyang who was honest on the side.

"How much did you win?"

Ye Chengyang looked at Ye Xiaoxi with vigilance, then shook his head quickly, "No, I'm waiting for Brother!"

Ye Xiaoxi exposed him, "He's lying, his pockets are full of little people's heads."

Ye Chengyang covered his pockets tightly, then glared at her, "Talking nonsense, your schoolbag is full of marbles."

Lin Xiuqing said into the phone, "Did you hear that? Your three ancestors, my head hurts every day."

"It's okay, bring them over in a couple of days, I'll educate them well."

"If the final exam results aren't good, and you play like this every day, you still want to go to Shanghai? Damn it, you'll just stay at home and watch the house for me, I won't even take you if I take the dog."

The expressions on the three faces all changed.

"Did you hear that? Put away your marbles, little people's heads, and skates for me later."

"Oh..." the three answered dejectedly.

The old lady smiled and said, "Do well on the exam, and your father will buy you new ones when you go to Shanghai."

The three were happy again, and all nodded together.

Lin Xiuqing shook her head helplessly and said into the phone, "My head is big, do you have anything else to say to them? If not, I'm hanging up."

"Let the big one answer the phone. He's capable, not even graduated from primary school and preparing to find a partner early? Won't he make me a grandfather in junior high school?"

After Ye Chenghu took the phone, he continued to criticize.

After criticizing this one, he criticized the next one.

Ye Xiaoxi had already happily gone to pack rice, nothing to do with her, she had already answered the phone.

Just looking at the expressions of the two brothers, she knew they had been scolded.

After the two were scolded, they quietly glared at her, and then whispered, "Snitch."

"I'm being honest!"

"Snitch!"

"Honest good child!"

"Snitch."

"Alright, none of you need to eat, go stand in the corner."

Ye Chengyang said weakly, "I didn't say anything..."

"Go stand there too."

Ye Chenghu and Ye Xiaoxi were gloating again, and didn't feel pitiful that they had no food to eat.

Share joys and sorrows together.

After Ye Yaodong hung up the phone, the corners of his mouth kept rising.

Don't look at his criticism, but listening to the chattering, vibrant voices of the three children, he was in a very good mood.

He hadn't seen the children for half a year, and he missed them dearly in his heart. He didn't know how much the three had grown, and whether Ye Xiaoxi had lost weight.

Thinking this, he went to the dormitory building again, planning to pick a room for them, and buy new bedding and such, preparing in advance so they could move in as soon as they arrived.

In a good mood, he hummed a song as he walked.

(End of chapter)