Chapter 1660

Ye Fu helplessly carried his luggage back to the dormitory first.

Ye Xiaoxi carried her schoolbag and ran off to play with Pei Yu and the twins.

Ye Yaodong looked around and saw that it was empty, not a single person was around him, feeling like he had come to the entrance for nothing.

He thought the three little ones would surround him and chatter 'Dad', but he didn't expect one to run away, another to be in a hurry to report for work, and the other to ignore him completely.

The old man also went his own way.

He put his hands on his hips, shook his head, and helplessly walked toward the office.

Before long, Ye Chenghu also ran over in a rush. "Dad, when can I go to sea?"

"You just finished sitting on the boat, don't you want to rest for a while?"

"I'm not tired!"

"Fine, then you follow the fresh-fish-collecting boat tomorrow. I'll tell someone to take you tomorrow, go in the morning and return in the afternoon."

"Good, good." Ye Chenghu ran out again like a gust of wind, happy.

Before long, Ye Xiaoxi also ran in excitedly.

"Dad, I went to find Cousin to register for work, but Cousin wouldn't register me and told me to find you! Didn't we agree? My brothers help you at work, and I help you too."

Ye Yaodong looked up from the account book. "What can you help me with?"

She frowned and tried hard to think, then shook her head. "You said I just need to play with my sister."

"Then why are you registering?"

"I want a salary! Isn't it that I can only have a salary if I register?"

Ye Xiaoxi bypassed the table, ran to his side, and shook his arm back and forth.

"I said I wanted to help you, you said I just need to play with my sister, then I should also have a salary!"

"I want it too, I want it too, my brothers have it, I want it too~"

"I want to receive a salary too, Dad, I want to receive a salary too, you assign me work, I can definitely do it."

Ye Yaodong had no choice but to be shaken by her. "If you do work for me, then you can't play with your sister. Every day, just like your second brother, you have to go to work early. You can't get a salary for nothing! You have to put in the labor to get it."

"I can do it, I'll just go to work with my second brother every day, and play with my sister after I get off work."

"Fine, then you two go to the manual area in the back and help tear squid shreds."

"Good, good, I can do this, I've helped Mom do it at home before."

Ye Yaodong was dragged out by Ye Xiaoxi. "Cousin told me to come and tell you, you go and tell her, otherwise she won't register me."

"Your second brother is a child laborer, his salary is halved compared to a worker's salary, yours will be halved again compared to his."

"Why!"

"Because you're small."

Ye Xiaoxi pouted. "Then how much is it?"

"Your second brother gets 80, you get 40."

She had already learned division and knew how to calculate. "That's only a little over a yuan a day? No, I want to be the same as my second brother. Why, we do the same work, and I get less than him?"

"Because you're smaller than him, you definitely do less than him."

"But our working hours are the same! He's a child laborer, and I'm a child laborer too! This is unfair!"

She stomped her feet in anger, twisting her body and swaying in protest.

"I don't care, I want to be the same as my second brother, otherwise I'll pester you, pester you to death."

As she said this, she hugged his arm tightly and wouldn't let go.

Then she found that hugging his arm wasn't enough, so she changed to hugging his waist.

"I won't let you move, you're not allowed to go anywhere!"

"Do you think these two little arms of yours can trap me?"

Ye Xiaoxi hugged him even tighter. "I won't let you move! I want to be the same as my second brother, you can't be biased."

"Where am I biased?"

"You're biased everywhere, you give my second brother 80 yuan, and only give me 40 yuan, you're just biased toward my second brother."

"This is biased? Usually, what you get is more than your eldest and second brothers."

"That's different, that was before, now you don't even want to give me a salary, I begged you, and you were only willing to give it to me, and it's only half of my second brother's! You're just biased toward my second brother!"

"Where did you beg me? Is this the attitude you have when begging someone? You're clearly being unreasonable."

"Ah~ Dad~ please, please, I want to be the same as my second brother, okay Dad, please~"

She dragged out the last word for a long time, hugging his waist with both arms and twisting back and forth.

"Dad~ please, you're the best, okay~ I love you~ love you~ love you~ please, I want the same salary as my second brother~"

"Are you still my favorite Dad? Are you my most favorite Dad? You can't be biased toward my second brother, you can only be biased toward me! Dad~"

Ye Yaodong was shaken by her, the corners of his mouth kept curling up, and the expression on his face was almost unable to hold back.

"Fine, fine, the same is the same, so annoying, get lost quickly, go to work with your second brother tomorrow, if you are late or leave early, your salary will still be deducted."

"Yay~" Ye Xiaoxi cheered and jumped up, her little body twisting left and right, she was too happy.

"Too good, I have a salary too, I'm a worker too, I can go to work and earn money too, I'm really too awesome!"

"You're awesome my ass."

"Oh, my Dad is awesome~ My Dad is the most awesome and best~ Dad, walk faster, let's go find Cousin and tell her."

After she finished speaking, she ran to the finance office, and then hugged Lin Dongxue's arm and twisted and acted like a spoiled child.

"Cousin, Dad agreed, Dad said to let me be the same as my second brother, do the same work, and receive the same salary."

Lin Dongxue looked at her and smiled. "Really or fake? If it's fake, I'll have to pay the money."

Fang Jingfu smiled and poured him another cup of tea: "Then I have to thank you for making a fortune and not looking down on the mosquito legs here."

"I still look down on them. Although I'm making money elsewhere, I still get a lot of money divided here every year. Actually, it's mainly because I want to part on good terms. Although money is good, friends are equally important. The main thing is that I don't have that much energy to cross industries; it's better to take a sum and leave, and engage in other related products I'm familiar with. It won't necessarily be worse than clinging to this."

Fang Jingfu was moved by what he said: "Don't worry, you will always be my brother. If you have any difficulties in the future, just speak up. If I can do it, I will definitely handle it for you."

"Same here."

That evening, the two of them had a proper farewell meal. The next day, Ye Yaodong took a boat back, and he also entrusted him to help rent out the house.

The twins had been working for a few years, and their wives were locals, so they didn't plan to move. He just let Fang Jingfu help take care of them.

When he returned home and handed the shiny 6 million on the bankbook to Lin Xiuqing, she was so shocked that she covered her mouth, and her eyes widened.

"So much?"

"Yeah, his price is considered fair; it's not bad. Buying it out directly, no matter what, he's the one who earned it."

"Then we earned it too. We didn't invest much money in the first place, and we got it back dozens of times over long ago. Now we've added such a large sum, hundreds of times the return."

"Yeah, when I go back, I'll ponder what to do with this money."

"Go back?" Lin Xiuqing frowned: "Going to Zhoushi is called going back, so home is considered outside?"

"Ah, what? Nothing of the sort. Isn't it just because the boats and the factory are up there, and the center of gravity is up there, so it's just smoother to say?"

"Hehe..."

Lin Xiuqing was a bit angry that he couldn't distinguish between inside and outside. Calling going to another place 'going back'—what is home to him then?

"Don't tell me you've set up another home outside. Don't think I don't know. Many people have a home in the village and a home outside. Just among your cousins, there are several. Don't think I don't know anything."

"No, how do you know? I don't even know, and you know everything?"

Ye Yaodong really didn't know much. After all, he hadn't been living in the base camp dormitory lately; he had been living in the processing factory.

He had been busy at sea for the past few months, and he hadn't been idle at all before that; he was very busy.

"You don't know?"

"What could I know? I'm busy every day, my feet don't touch the ground, I'm floating at sea, or I'm outside chasing debts, or going to urge the shipyard. I'm busy as hell, I don't even have time to sleep. Where would I have time to pay attention to who is doing what? How do you know?"

"How else would I know? Of course, it's when couples fight, and then it gets brought out and talked about, and then everyone knows."

"I think it's unlikely. It must be you women being suspicious. People haven't even been up there, and you know everything?"

If it were really true, everyone would keep their mouths shut and help each other. Now there are no mobile phones to check on people, and there's distance. He really doesn't believe these women have eyes and ears everywhere and know everything.

Lin Xiuqing sneered: "Heh, when they're intimate, they hold their wives and call out 'Cuihong', and there are times in the middle of the night when they're groggy and call out 'Yingzi' to pour water..."

"Damn it, really damn it. One bad apple spoils the whole barrel. Shouldn't he be beaten to death? Lying next to his wife but calling another woman's name, really damn it. Working so hard at sea every day, and they still have energy? This shows they aren't tired enough. Damn it, I've never even heard of this."

Really damn it. He just said it, how could his own people betray their own people? The only ones who would show their true colors would be the individuals themselves. Otherwise, with the emperor far away, how would the women at home know?

Damn it, they even implicated him. He is clean and innocent. Every day he's so tired that when he closes his eyes, he has no thoughts, he just wants to sleep.

Seeing that she still wanted to say something, Ye Yaodong immediately interrupted her: "If you're worried, why don't you hand over the work at home to Mother and come up with me?"

"I'm dying for you to take me up there, so I don't have to be a monk every day. I'm young, only in my 30s, yet people say I'm ascetic."

"It just so happens that your two sons are thinking about going with me. No, wait, my daughter also wants to go up and keep Pei Yu company. The whole family wants to go, so let's all go together?"

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes: "This isn't wanting the whole family to go with you; it's like a divorce—sons to me, daughter to you."

"Nonsense, all three are mine. Don't even think about it."

Lin Xiuqing pinched his soft flesh and twisted it hard at 90 degrees.

Ye Yaodong's facial features scrunched into a ball, and he hissed: "Stop, it's going to bruise."

"Don't leave a single one for me!"

"Damn it, you really want to divorce me? If you want to divorce me, I won't give you a single one!"

Lin Xiuqing twisted even harder: "Don't even think about it! Even if I die, I'll die in your house."

Ye Yaodong slapped her hand away, pulled her down to lie down, and flipped over to press on top of her.

"What's dying in my house? Just die on my bed."

Lin Xiuqing hammered him a few times: "If you want to die, you die. I don't want to die; I want to be a rich widow."

"Don't even think about it. If we die, we die together."

Before long, the springs on the bed began to creak softly, and Ye Yaodong was still cursing.

"Do you want to die or not? Do you still want to die? I'll let you die! Is this kind of dying okay?"

Suddenly, with a 'pop', Ye Yaodong's knee sank, and he fell into a small hole...

The spring of the Simmons mattress had been pressed down and collapsed by him.

"Damn it, what kind of quality is this? Broken thing, it collapsed."

Lin Xiuqing also propped up her upper body to take a look, and her hand felt it too.

"Collapsed? It's all your fault. Why use so much force? A perfectly good bed collapsed by you. How are we supposed to sleep with a piece sunken in?"