Chapter 260

After staying at the old house for a long time, until his father, mother, and younger sister all returned, he told his mother that the basket of fish and shrimp was for her to feed the chickens.

Ye Mu complained, "Wasting things. Knowing there was an earthquake, you didn't know how to collect the ground cages. How much money is such a big basket? I only earned one or two yuan picking dried shrimp for a day..."

Ye Yaodong thought if he told her that it was like this last time, throwing them to feed the seagulls while picking, he didn't know if his mother would hit him?

This is also a habit. When catching fish and shrimp at sea that aren't good, everyone throws them into the sea. Seagulls can peck what they can, and what they don't peck sinks back to return to the sea. Who would bother to pick them back separately?

"Whoever wants them, give them to feed the chickens and ducks, stop nagging, I'm leaving."

"Whoever among the neighbors wants them, let them come and take them. It looks like we have to raise more chickens next year..."

Ye Yaodong put the basket covered with a rag on the flatbed cart. After walking far away, he could still hear his mother shouting to the neighbors.

At home, Lin Xiuqing was already burning fire to cook. Just as he carried a basket of coral into the house, the two boys ran up. One hugged his thigh and tried to climb up, while the other stood on tiptoe and wanted to take his basket.

"Dad, what good food did you buy? Let me see... see..."

"Oil cakes... cakes... canned food... maltose..." Ye Chengyang tugged at his pants, looking up with bright eyes.

Ye Chenghu's eyes lit up, "Is it, Dad?"

"Is it your head, yes. Thinking about eating all day long, do you want to eat 'five-watch droop'? Go away..."

"Then what's in your basket?"

"Why are children so curious?"

Ye Yaodong lifted his feet, dragging the attachment on his legs and struggling to go into the house.

Lin Xiuqing also asked him curiously, "What's in the basket?"

"Coral, just got it from the old lady at the old house. She said it was useless there, and knowing I wanted it, she just packed it all for me."

"Took it all back? So much, how much space it takes up..."

"Then put it in my cabinet, it won't bother you."

Hmph... one or two both think it takes up space. Don't laugh secretly in a few decades.

"Dad, what you took isn't food?"

"Go, go... go to the side..."

"Dad, when are you going to town to buy us good food again."

"Do you want to eat farts? I'll let one go for you now!" As he spoke, Ye Yaodong actually let one go...

"Ah... so smelly..."

"Ah... so smelly, so smelly... Dad, why did you let it go just like that!"

Hearing a loud noise, the two immediately pinched their noses and hid.

"Hmph, where is it smelly? Loud farts aren't smelly, smelly farts aren't loud!"

"I know, I know, continuous farts are both smelly and loud!" Ye Chenghu said excitedly, as if he had matched a couplet.

Ye Yaodong glanced at this straw-bag son, is this worth him being happy?

He first took the basket of coral back to the room, then killed the fish he kept. He took a one-jin Huangshan fish to steam, and cut the two white pomfrets into slices, planning to let his wife cook hot and sour soup.

Helping to kill fish and be an assistant for the past few months, he was already very skilled. How to cook, how to cut, and by the way, he also marinated the sliced white pomfret with seasonings.

The Huangshan fish was also seasoned, added with ginger and garlic, and placed directly on the rice. When cooking rice, he steamed the fish by the way.

The two children kept circling around him, chasing and asking when he would go to town again, following him around, which was particularly annoying.

"Don't follow behind my butt anymore, otherwise I'll reward you with two more farts!"

"Cut~ you let it go again, you let it go again~" Ye Chenghu said while naughtily patting his father's butt.

As a result, just at this moment, Ye Yaodong let another one go, which scared him so much that his face changed color and he jumped to the side.

Ye Chengyang also reacted slowly, pinching his nose and running toward his brother after realizing it.

"Ah, Dad, you're too much, why do you fart as soon as you say so?"

"If you have a fart, don't hold it, it will ruin your heart; if you don't have a fart, squeeze it hard, it will strengthen your body! I told you all to go away, who told you not to go away and pat my butt."

After Ye Chenghu ate two farts in a row, he glared at him angrily, not daring to get close again, for fear of another one.

Lin Xiuqing sat in front of the stove and laughed happily, "Go play with yours, I'll call you when it's time to eat, don't be annoying here, otherwise your father can squeeze two out at any time."

"Ah, too much, too much, I'm going to tell Brother Ahai, Dad is the fart king..."

He said and ran away.

"This brat, ruining my reputation again!"

"What reputation do you have among them?"

"Too much, I buy them things to eat every three days, and they still talk about me every day!"

"You don't respect yourself, you love to tease them all day long, and you have the nerve to say it."

"It's clearly them who don't know big from small."

"That's also your fault, you don't have the dignity of a third uncle."

"What dignity, what dignity, pick up the whip, it will still scare them to death."

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes and didn't argue with him. How many times had he picked up the whip? Was it always her who played the bad guy?

After the rice was cooked, she served it for others to eat first, and Lin Xiuqing immediately cooked the soup.

Men and women working together don't get tired.

After the pomfret was marinated, pour out the soup, add sweet potato starch and stir, then put it in the pot with ginger, garlic, celery, and the sour bamboo shoots marinated by Lin Mu, then add some chili and pepper powder. It's a pity there are no golden mushrooms.

In winter, a bowl of hot and sour soup goes down, and the whole body is warm.

"You're not going out to sea tomorrow, right? Why don't you go and harvest all the radishes in the field? Take advantage of the good weather these two days, push them into shreds and we'll dry some radish shreds. It's more than half a month until Winter Solstice, dry some to wrap rice dumplings."

"Fine, the old lady was also talking about wrapping rice dumplings in the afternoon."

He originally thought about resting for two days and then taking advantage of the good weather to go out to sea a few more times, but his father's rheumatism was acting up, so he should slow down.

This disease can't be cured, it's quite troublesome, and it's easy to recur. His father definitely wouldn't say it. If the old lady hadn't mentioned it in the afternoon, he wouldn't have known.

"It must be because she's thinking about you loving to eat them."

"Are you also thinking about me? So you're nagging early too?"

Lin Xiuqing didn't admit it, "I was thinking it's almost Winter Solstice, we need to worship the stove."

The local custom is to eat rice dumplings on Winter Solstice and worship the stove. For worshipping the stove, you need glutinous rice balls. This is a small sacrifice, and the small New Year's Eve is a big sacrifice.

"Saying one thing but meaning another!" Ye Yaodong grinned and beamed with joy, "I'll harvest the sweet potatoes in the field tomorrow, and we'll plant some cabbage by the way."

"Alright, sprinkle some spinach and crown daisy seeds by the way."

"Is the younger sister's dowry ready?"

"The quilt has been sewn, the clothes are still a little short, and they should be ready in two days."

"After Winter Solstice, it will arrive..."

Lin Xiuqing nodded. This is still early. She remembered another important thing, "Can we get the money for the abalone?"

She had been hanging this in her heart, and because Ye's eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law had been asking her every day for the past two days whether the money had been received and how much it sold for, she always said the money hadn't been received and she didn't know.

In fact, she really didn't know.

Isn't this it, when she came back after picking dried shrimp at night, they asked again if she could go and get it.

They were more concerned than her about how much her family could sell!

"Mm, I told A Cai when I came back just now that I would go over after dinner."

"Then eat quickly, don't go after dark. It's cold now, everyone lies down directly after dark."

"I'll just go, you wait at home."

Lin Xiuqing had no opinion. Anyway, she couldn't help much. He knew quite a lot of characters now. When he didn't know characters, he was easy to cheat, but now he was even harder to fool.

Ye Yaodong shoveled the remaining rice and dishes in and went to settle the accounts and get the money.

A Cai, he looks quite reliable now.

The abalone totaled 277 jin 3 liang. It was weighed uniformly at the collection point. It wasn't all poured out to pick through sizes, because after picking through one bag, most belonged to seven or eight-head abalone, so the rest weren't picked through in detail.

But when A Cai was looking for buyers, he had picked through them in detail. The specifications were different, and the prices were of course different.

Although most belonged to seven or eight-head abalone, after careful picking, some reached the five-head abalone specification. This part also had 10-plus jin, and there were 20-plus six-head abalone, which could sell for a little more money.

The saying of how many heads of abalone originates from weight, which means how many can be weighed in one jin.

Abalone with 2 per jin is called double-head abalone, abalone with 3 per jin is called 3-head abalone...

Abalone with 6 per jin is called 6-head abalone... and so on.

Generally, the larger the size, the longer the growth cycle, the better the quality, and the more expensive the price.

Double-head abalone is very precious, so there is a saying in the market that "a thousand gold is hard to buy double-head abalone."

Although there were no such top-tier ones among the goods he collected, they were also very good. Those abalones, sea snails, and the temporary goods of the day sold for a total of 1080.

This number was rounded up by A Cai to give him an integer.

Ye Yaodong accepted it beautifully, "Many thanks."

"Haha, I should thank you."

"Win-win, win-win..."

A Cai smiled and pulled two cigarettes for him, "You kid has been defying the heavens these few months. I heard you're almost a ten-thousand-yuan household?"

"Holy shit, don't mock me. It's just rumors in the village, and you believe it? Don't you have a count in your heart of how much money I earn? If there's a ten-thousand-yuan household in our village, you must be the first!"

"Don't... I'm just earning a little hard-earned money. The ten-thousand-yuan household that broke out at the beginning of the year raising pigs in the next village, now the family still can't be at peace."

"So, those empty names are useless, making a fortune in silence is the kingly way."

It's a pity that his harvest basically has to go ashore. Under the eyes of everyone, most people have a count in their hearts.

Whatever, anyway, he just refuses to admit it, just saying he owes money, and fortunately, there is that boat to cover it up.

"Right, didn't expect you to be young, but you see it quite clearly. Generally, those who are older can't resist that vanity, let alone young people."

Ye Yaodong smiled, "Underestimated, brother, aren't you also a clear person? Look at your belly. Giving convenience to others is not as good as eating yourself until you're fat and strong."

"Hahaha..."

"Leaving, I still have to share the money. This isn't earned by me alone. I really didn't earn much, it's all rumors spread by those long-tongued women in the village!"

"Haha, I understand, I understand!"