Chapter 204: Literacy class

After returning home, Lin Xiuqing said: "I think the younger sister's marriage should be soon, should we buy her something as a dowry?"

Ye Yaodong pursed his lips and said nothing.

He had no opinion on buying something for the younger sister as a dowry, it was just that this friend becoming a brother-in-law made him feel a bit awkward, always feeling that his own cabbage was arched by a pig.

So easily carried away, always feeling a bit unwilling.

She looked at his reaction with a smile, "You say if you have a daughter in the future, you will be like this?"

Ye Yaodong frowned even tighter, feeling even more unhappy in his heart.

"Give birth to a son?"

Lin Xiuqing laughed and rolled her eyes at him, "You say son is son, say daughter is daughter? Two sons are enough, naughty and mischievous all day long, my hands hurt from beating."

"Then you can also not beat!" Ye Chenghu inserted a sentence depressedly.

Lin Xiuqing poked his forehead with her index finger, "If you are obedient, don't make trouble, don't get dirty every day, will I beat you?"

"Dad said, the one who doesn't move is a fool? I'm not a fool!"

"You still talk back!"

Ye Chenghu stepped back two steps when he saw this, "It's Dad who said it!"

Ye Chengyang also followed his brother cleverly and stepped back...

Ye Yaodong touched his nose and didn't speak...

Lin Xiuqing looked at one, two, three, feeling that none of them were worry-free.

"I'll go get water, all three of you take off your clothes and pants, wash your feet and sleep."

Okay.

The father and two sons sat on the edge of the bed in a row, waiting!

Lin Xiuqing brought a basin of water in, seeing the three looking at her with the same expression, feeling even more distressed.

"Didn't I tell you to take off your clothes and pants?"

"Dad, a big person, still doesn't move, waiting for Mom to take it off, then we can't take it off ourselves." The brave and fearless Ye Chenghu said as a matter of course.

Lin Xiuqing suddenly felt a headache, "Where is the whip?"

He jumped up quickly, "Ah? Don't! I'll take it off immediately!"

Ye Chengyang always followed his brother, also stood up and pulled his clothes, pulled his pants, in a hurry, and then the clothes and pants were not taken off, but a button was pulled off.

His heart tightened, holding the button, looking at his mother innocently, his neck shrank, his body hid beside his brother...

"Don't want to hide behind me." Ye Chenghu hid away gloatingly.

Lin Xiuqing sighed, collected the button in his hand, and helped him take off his clothes and pants, "I told brother to take it off himself, I didn't tell you to take it off? I'll sew it for you later."

It was this one who was young and couldn't be beaten, otherwise her hands would be itchy too.

From left to right, after washing their faces, the clothes and pants were taken off, and she poured the water in the face basin into the foot basin, "Two sit on the small stool, put your feet into the basin."

Three pairs of feet in one basin, you step on me, I step on you, water splashed all over the floor, Lin Xiuqing splashed all over her face when rubbing their feet, almost angry.

She slapped twice without mercy, "All be honest with me."

Ye Yaodong looked at his leg that was slapped red innocently, he suspected his wife was intentional, he was clearly honest and didn't move.

But, he didn't dare to make a sound, it was beaten.

Maybe it was because he didn't move?

After wiping the three pairs of feet clean, Lin Xiuqing straightened her waist, "Why do I feel like I raised three sons?"

"Yes, that's right, just treat me as a son!"

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him, went to pour the foot washing water, too lazy to argue with him, "All three of you hurry up and sleep!"

"Without you, we can't sleep!"

"Without you, we can't sleep!"

"Can't sleep..."

The two sons also followed and echoed happily.

Lin Xiuqing had a headache, directly ignored it, didn't even want to pay attention to them...

Ye Yaodong looked at her helpless appearance happily, then pointed to the eldest son to turn off the lights, and greeted the two to lie down. Both were excited and chattered about watching the movie at night.

"Dad, will you continue to take us to watch the movie tomorrow?"

"Didn't see enough today?"

"Hmm, the movie is too good."

"My hands hurt, can't hold you, your mother can't hold you either, can't go, next time I'll take you to the cinema in town to watch, the movie there is better, the cinema is very big, not the open-air one we watch at night."

"Really?"

The two children were coaxed by him, their attention immediately shifted, and they kept asking what the cinema looked like.

Ye Yaodong had to patiently popularize the cinema to them, he still knew this.

The two children listened like stories, and fell asleep while listening, Ye Yaodong was also drowsy.

After Lin Xiuqing washed herself clean and came in, she found that they were all asleep, and breathed a sigh of relief. Of course it's good not to coax them to sleep.

"Adong?"

"Hmm."

"Wipe tea oil before sleeping."

"Hmm."

He had to cheer up and sit up again.

After spending two days leisurely at home, Ye Yaodong figured it was almost time to get the payment today.

This money is not small, he and his wife have been hanging on their hearts for several days, money of course must enter their own pockets to be at ease.

He specially waited until after dinner in the evening, thinking that other families should have almost received the payment, before going to Ah Guang's house to ask if they got the money, how much they collected, and after understanding, he took the documents to Ah Cai's house to get the money.

He is very kind, never goes to ask for money early in the morning to add blockage to people.

Not only businessmen taboo, ordinary families also hate people coming to the door to ask for money early in the morning, this is clearly making people unhappy.

Going to settle accounts after dinner is just right, take his wife for a walk.

After dealing with each other for so long, Ah Cai didn't dare to pit him. After he went over, he filled in the missing unit prices on the documents, the same as the selling price of Ah Guang's family.

According to Ah Cai, this is the purchase price of the day, the price is the same for every family, and he said if he is not at ease, he can go and inquire.

Ye Yaodong was happy in his heart, but his face was still tight, rolled his eyes, shook the documents, and only said one sentence, "Add a little more."

Not many words, but very rogue!

Ah Cai was depressed and liver hurt, but he couldn't do anything about his rogue, this rogue! There was never a time when he was easy to talk to.

"1836 yuan 60 cents, I'll make it 1850 for you, you are not allowed to nag me anymore."

"Okay, don't have this meat-pain expression, based on the relationship between us, who is with whom? I know you didn't earn less, I won't say it out."

"Sigh, it's really not easy to earn your money."

"Where is it not easy, can't be too stingy, you are good, I am good, everyone is good."

"Am I stingy? I am a businessman..."

"So treacherous!"

Ah Cai was speechless, glared at him, couldn't beat him, so he had to shut up, dipped his finger in saliva, and began to count the big unity.

Lin Xiuqing was happier the more she listened on the side, it turned out that rogues still have this benefit, the selling price can be higher than others.

He put the 100-sheet stack on the table after counting, and then took out money to count.

After the second stack was counted, he handed it to Ye Yaodong. When he was smiling and preparing to reach out to take it, he actually deliberately hit his hand with the money.

"Is this something you can reach out for?"

Then he handed the money to Lin Xiuqing.

Ye Yaodong pursed his lips, ignored him, reached out to take the money on the table, and counted it.

After counting the items twice with his wife and confirming there were no issues, he smiled and handed him two cigarettes, draped an arm over his shoulder to build rapport for a while, and then left.

Lin Xiuqing was smiling from ear to ear all the way.

Ye Yaodong held her small hand and said happily: "So happy?"

"Of course, the cost of our new boat is almost back."

"Hmm, should be enough to pay the fine, right?"

"Can't you let me be happy for a while?"

"Quite worth being happy! There are still several months, we don't worry about not being able to pay, do you want to buy a watch to celebrate?"

Lin Xiuqing pinched him fiercely, "Thinking about how to spend money all day? Just bought a sewing machine, you want to buy a watch again? Already have one and still buy."

"That one is for men, you can't wear it, otherwise give it to you, I'm telling you the truth, buy one? A hundred yuan is enough..."

"Not allowed, I don't want it, I have a sewing machine, is that enough?"

"Then buy a radio, let you listen to the broadcast at home?"

Lin Xiuqing twisted the meat on his waist 90 degrees...

"Hiss～ okay okay, don't buy don't buy, whatever you say..."

"Go to the literacy class tomorrow, so as not to look at it and be an eyesore at home all day."

"This is what you said, who was it before? Hoping I stay at home every day, best not to go anywhere, now you feel I'm an eyesore. Women are really fickle..."

"You still say?"

"Ah, don't say, don't say, be careful of your hands hurting..."

Lin Xiuqing couldn't hold back, and was made to laugh by him...

This guy...

So annoying...

The literacy class in Dongqiao Village is in the village primary school, and classes are held at night, just to take care of workers, farmers, fishermen, and women who have to work during the day, and it is also free.

Ye Yaodong walked towards Dongqiao Village like a walk after dinner the next day. The houses on the roadside were printed with various slogans everywhere, such as "Better birth and better upbringing, boys and girls are the same."

"Money can not be earned for ten years, books cannot be read for one day."

"Don't marry an illiterate wife, don't marry an illiterate man."

After walking to the village primary school, there were quite a lot of people in the class. Looking at the men, women, old and young of different ages inside, because his hands were inconvenient, he didn't bring paper and pen, empty-handed, looked around with thick skin before walking to the corner and sitting down.

Not long after, a young man also sat down beside him, looking at his empty desk, nothing, and asked him curiously.

Ye Yaodong only said that his hands were inconvenient, and the other party didn't ask any more questions.

After the beginning, Ye Yaodong also chatted with him about the literacy class, knowing that the teacher of this literacy class is an unmarried female comrade, and also a part-time primary school teacher, not the instructor who knew a few characters in the village before.

So there are especially many men in this class...

Not long after, the teacher of the literacy class also came. This teacher is also interesting. She wrote a bunch of characters on the blackboard, and then Ye Yaodong was dumbfounded when he heard her teaching.

"Crab, these two complex characters are called crab, you take paper and pen and copy them stroke by stroke on the paper, read them a few more times when you go back."

"Squid... octopus... white shrimp... cuttlefish... today's task is to recognize these characters."

Ye Yaodong listened to her finish reading the words one by one on the blackboard, and couldn't help poking the brother beside him who was copying seriously.

"Comrade, does this female teacher teach such complex things?"

"No, you came late. We started by learning one, two, three, four, five... nine, ten, population, hand, up, middle, down, big, small, how many, jin, liang, horse, cow, sheep, hair, skin..."

The deskmate also kindly showed him the characters he recorded before.

"Last week recognized cabbage, potato, radish, cucumber..."

"The week before last recognized hoe, sickle, kitchen knife..."

"It's getting harder little by little. This week it is said that we should recognize how to write some common seafood, after all, we are by the sea..."

Ye Yaodong nodded repeatedly, it makes sense, he came late.

He read it several times with great interest, and then listened to the female teacher analyzing the strokes, and then let them practice more on paper.

He actually had an impression of these characters, after all, he had been dealing with seafood for most of his life, and some characters also had a deep impression, just not as clearly printed in his mind as now, and he wouldn't write them.

The time of a class is not long, just one hour. After all, they are all illiterate, and if they recognize too many characters at once, they can't remember them. It is already very good to recognize five words and ten characters a day.

After class, the male comrades in the class took the opportunity to find the female teacher surnamed Zhou to talk and tease. Ye Yaodong was not interested, and after exchanging names with his deskmate, he left.

After returning home, Lin Xiuqing saw his happy appearance and asked curiously, "Picked up money?"

"No." Ye Yaodong told her about the content taught by the teacher at night, and Lin Xiuqing was also happy.

"Then are you hungry? Greedy?"

"Hahaha～ Big brother and second brother collected the ground cage back during the day, didn't they have two green crabs, did you stew them at night? You eat meat, let me drink a sip of soup."

Lin Xiuqing laughed, "Only soup is left, the two children ate almost all the meat."

"I just said it, you drink the soup."

After attending the literacy class for several days in a row, Ye Yaodong really recognized the characters of general seafood, but he couldn't write them. After all, he hadn't held a pen, and those characters were too complex.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, he only asks to recognize them, whether he can write them is not very important.

After his hands were much better, he painstakingly copied all the characters he recognized during this period on paper. ===== CHAPTER 205 =====