Chapter 378

The two children were squatting in the corner playing marbles. Seeing their father laughing like a fool, they couldn't help but glance over.

After Ye Yaodong finished laughing, he said, "You guys shouldn't show off your skills in front of the master. Stand with me; even if you comb your hair into a sky-high ponytail, it won't help."

"Damn, this friendship can't continue, let's break up, let's break up..."

"Let's go, let's go, this wine can't be drunk anymore..."

The two made a move to stand up but were held back by Ye Yaodong, "Hey, hey, hey~ sit down, sit down. Pretend I didn't say anything, you guys continue the attack."

"You're still laughing!"

"No, it's just that I laughed just now and haven't recovered."

"I don't believe it!"

"I don't believe it either! You have to be punished with three cups first."

"What for..."

The three of them laughed and joked, drinking happily until past 8 o'clock before returning with flushed faces and hiccups. They had to go out to sea at night, so they had to sleep early.

Ye Yaodong had drunk too much and felt the urge to urinate. He prepared to go out to take a leak and then come back to clean up the table. As a result, when he entered the room, A-Qing was already cleaning up.

"Didn't I say I'd clean up?"

Lin Xiuqing glanced at him, "Go to sleep, your face is all flushed."

Ye Yaodong hugged her waist from behind, buried his head in the back of her neck, sniffed deeply, kissed her, and sucked a pink strawberry mark.

"Don't mess around, go to sleep. We have to get up at night."

"Sigh~ why has it been sunny for so many days recently? It's been raining for ten-plus days; give people a break."

Lin Xiuqing slapped the big hand on her waist, "Nonsense, everyone is hoping for sunny days and calm seas, but you, you're actually hoping for rain."

"Yeah, so tired."

"If you're tired, go rest early."

"Alright, you clean up the table. Just leave the bowls for my mother to wash tomorrow."

Lin Xiuqing shook her head gently, but didn't say anything.

Washing them for his mother was nothing; it was just having to listen to her nagging. She had already finished her postpartum confinement, and after the tubal ligation, she had rested for several days. Washing a few bowls was nothing.

Ye Yaodong returned to the room and saw the well-behaved little person lying on the bed sleeping soundly. He wanted to lean in, but stopped as soon as he reached the bedside. He smelled the alcohol and seafood on himself and thought it was better not to fumigate the child, so he lay down on the other end.

Maybe he was too tired, or maybe he had drunk too much, but he fell asleep as soon as he lay down. He couldn't get up at night, and it was Lin Xiuqing who woke him up.

After two more consecutive days at sea, the weather turned from sunny to rainy.

Maybe it had been sunny for ten or twenty days, and the heavens were holding it in too long. This rain was not small. By the time Ye Yaodong's boat docked at dusk, a torrential rain started pouring down.

The fishermen on the shore couldn't help but feel lucky that they had returned a step earlier. Others were still drifting at sea, and those people were regretting being greedy and not wanting to return early.

The torrential rain obscured people's vision, but it didn't affect everyone's good mood at all. The cuttlefish season had just ended, and everyone immediately followed up by catching mullet, a seamless transition.

Fishermen are not afraid of hard work; as long as there are goods, it's worth it to work day and night.

But a heavy rain took away another living life.

The next day, when Ye Yaodong got up and was brushing his teeth at the door, he heard his sister-in-law and A-Qing talking while weaving nets under the eaves. They said a boatman in the village fell into the sea and died yesterday, and a boatman from the neighboring village also fell into the sea and died while trying to save someone.

They said the rainstorm was too heavy, much worse at sea than on the road. The boatmen were standing on the deck collecting nets when one was directly swept into the sea by a wave. Others on the boat wanted to rescue him and specifically threw down ropes and bamboo rafts.

As a result, because the wind and rain were too strong, the boat was shaking violently from the waves, and another one fell off. The others managed to survive that wave of wind and rain because they held on tight.

"That's too miserable, right? Failed to save someone and ended up losing their own life."

"Who's to say? The wind and rain at sea are terrifying. It's good that our family returned early yesterday. One shouldn't be greedy; when you see big wind and waves, you have to return quickly."

"People die at sea every year; it's really scary. I don't know if anyone fell into the sea in other places."

"There must be, we just don't know about it."

"A perfectly good family, now it's finished. I passed by that family's door when I went to buy pork this morning, and a house full of people were crying there. It's too miserable; the man is the pillar of the family."

Ye Yaodong asked vaguely with a mouthful of foam while brushing his teeth: "Whose man is gone? Gone yesterday?"

The women in the village were still the best informed.

"Dashan, who lives next door to the second uncle's house. I heard he was gone yesterday. The boat was originally planning to dock after collecting the nets. I heard the boat had been out for two or three days."

"It was perfectly fine, and then such heavy rain started. It was sunny the day before. What a sin."

"The seaside is unpredictable. It's sunny in the east and raining in the west. The weather forecast isn't accurate either. It said it was sunny yesterday and would only rain today. Who knew it would rain yesterday evening?"

Ye Yaodong was silent. Dying at sea is a common occurrence, especially in wind and rain, and especially in this era when communication is not developed.

This rain drizzled on and on, sometimes heavy, sometimes light, never stopping. The sky seemed to have a hole in it, and it actually rained intermittently for about 20 days.

A-Qing kept nagging that the clothes wouldn't dry, everything was damp, and even the quilts felt damp. For this reason, Ye Yaodong specifically bought a hair dryer to blow-dry the diapers and quilts for her.

The adults were fine, but there was still the youngest one. He couldn't wear these undried, damp diapers; it was easy to get sick. Children getting sick is the most troublesome thing, let alone one so small.

Clothes could be put on the pot lid to roast while cooking, but diapers and quilts couldn't.

"It keeps raining, and I don't know when it will end. No matter how many diapers I change in a day, they won't dry. Blowing them like this every day wastes so much electricity, and the firewood is almost gone. People are about to become damp too."

"Who knows? Isn't the plum rain season always like this?"

"I haven't seen it rain this long in previous years. It always rained intermittently, and at least it would be sunny for a day or two. This year, it's been raining continuously for so long, already 20-plus days. I heard from Mom that mushrooms are growing behind the old house door."

"Uh... mushrooms growing behind the door?"

"Isn't that so? How many years has that wooden door been there? In this kind of damp weather, it's bound to grow mushrooms."

"No way around it, the plum rain season is just like this. It should be sunny soon, right? Tonight I'll go to the old house to take the radio and listen to the weather forecast to see when it will clear up. You continue to use the hair dryer to blow the clothes. You don't need to bathe them if there's nothing to do; just wipe them down. Don't change their clothes so often."

"You say it easily. My two sons' pant legs are wet or their sleeves are wet every day. Even when it's raining, they sneak off to the beach to pick up seafood and shells. Which day don't those clothes and pants need changing?"

It keeps raining, and people are easily irritable, and they can't go anywhere. Going out means getting wet. In this kind of weather, there are no more clothes to change. Lin Xiuqing sat at home all day and felt stifled.

"I'll take a whip to beat them in a while."

"You're just saying it with your mouth. Go, go, don't be an eyesore in front of me. I hate seeing you."

"Why do you hate me for no reason?" Ye Yaodong went over to hug her ingratiatingly.

"Go away..."

"No."

Shamelessly, he just wouldn't let go.

"I still have things to do!"

Ye Yaodong thought that it had been almost two full months since she gave birth, and he was feeling a bit restless. His hands weren't behaving, "I'll do it in a while."

"Do what... in broad daylight..."

"Your body is better now, right? It's been so long..."

"The kids will run in in a while..."

"Just lock the door. It's a rainy day, and since we're idle, we're idle. Once it clears up, we'll have to work again and won't have the energy..."

Lin Xiuqing thought that he had endured for a long time, so she half-pushed and half-yielded.

After they finished, the rain outside the window had stopped at some point. Except for the raindrops falling continuously from the eaves, the sky had actually brightened, and light was even shining through the window.

"Ah! The rain has stopped and the sky has cleared. If I had known that one round would clear the sky, I should have done it earlier."

"What nonsense are you talking? It's not like it clears up just because you say so. Get up, don't keep pressing on me." Lin Xiuqing pushed his shoulder, telling him to get down quickly.

Ye Yaodong kissed her cheek before getting up, "Those two brats were actually knocking on the door and calling out at the entrance just now, waking up the daughter and making me nervous for a moment. I've already told them; I'm going to beat them in a while."

Lin Xiuqing couldn't help but roll her eyes in her heart. This is men's self-esteem.

"Hurry up and beat them, don't just talk about it."

"I'm going to get the whip right now."

Lin Xiuqing glanced at his back. The whip was still on the table, but he went out empty-handed, pulling up his pants. He was all mouth all day long.

After Ye Yaodong satisfied his body's needs, the sky cleared up, and he instantly felt refreshed.

He stood at the door and looked into the distance, feeling that the sunlight was the best filter. The clear blue sky was tinged with a faint golden light, and a warm breeze was blowing.

"Sunny days are still the best. Seeing the sunlight come out makes the whole person feel comfortable."

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua also stood at the door and said with a smile: "Yeah, sunny days are still comfortable."

"Finally cleared up. It kept raining for 20-plus days; the whole person was about to become damp and moldy."

"Dad, we were just about to enter the room to tell you it cleared up. Why didn't you and Mom open the door?"

Ye Yaodong glared at the two little brats playing marbles in the corner, "I was sleeping, why knock on the door? Do you think everyone is as energetic as you two and doesn't need a nap?"

"Hmph, you're lying. You weren't sleeping. You and Mom were talking in the room; I was lying on the door panel and heard it."

"Little brat, your skin is itching. You even know how to eavesdrop? Where is the whip..."

He looked left and right but didn't see where the whip was. He remembered seeing it somewhere?

Ye Chenghu hugged Ye Yaodong's arm happily, "You can't beat me, Dad. Actually, I didn't hear anything. Shall we go to the beach to pick up small seafood after the tide goes out?"

"The rain just stopped, the waves still look quite big, and I don't know when they'll recede. Wait and see."

"Yay~ then you agree to let us go pick up small seafood."

"If I don't agree, won't you go secretly anyway?"

"Hehe, pick them up to use as a dish. We can only eat vegetables from the vegetable plot every day; we want to eat shrimp."

"Wait for the tide to go out."

"Ah, there's a rainbow, there's a rainbow~ so beautiful~"