Chapter 474: Going again

Lin Xiuqing watched him showering at the back door, standing by the door and muttering, "I told you to walk around to digest your food and then take a bath and sleep, but once you went out, you didn't know how to come back..."

"Knowing full well that you have to set off for the city tonight, you only came back reeking of alcohol now, it's already 9 o'clock, no need to sleep now..."

"When can't you drink? Why did you have to go out and drink at night? You could have drunk when you came back tomorrow. You haven't slept all night, let's see if you can handle it tomorrow?"

Ye Yaodong glanced at her and didn't say a word, letting her mutter. He wrung out a towel, grabbed both ends, placed it on his back, and scrubbed back and forth.

"I'll scrub it for you."

"Mm, are the children all asleep?"

"Asleep, each of them chewed a spoonful of malted milk powder before they were satisfied enough to sleep." Lin Xiuqing wrung out a towel, spread it on his back, and helped him scrub up and down, responding as she did so.

"Mm~ That's good."

Lin Xiuqing looked at his back inexplicably, continued to help him scrub, and only after finishing did she put the towel in the basin, letting him continue washing himself.

Ye Yaodong, however, suddenly hugged her from behind.

His hot, bare chest pressed against her back, his sturdy, powerful arms wrapped around her waist, imprisoning her in his embrace. This startled her.

"What are you doing?"

"Hugging you!" Ye Yaodong whispered in her ear.

"Crazy, let go quickly, don't let anyone see."

"It's the middle of the night, pitch black, who's going to see?"

"Don't mess around..."

"You wish! I just wanted to hug you... Ow..."

Lin Xiuqing stepped on his foot, broke free from his embrace, gave him a fierce glare in the dark, and then turned and went into the house, ignoring him.

So angry!

He only knows how to tease her!

Ye Yaodong chuckled behind her, the faint orange light in the room highlighting her back as she walked faster.

He quickly reached into his crotch with the towel to scrub, then lifted the basin to rinse his thighs, wiped himself off casually, and considered it washed.

He had to hurry into the house to coax her; there was still something he hadn't said.

After locking the front and back doors and pulling the electric wire, he hurried into the house and onto the bed to coax his wife.

"Angry? Wasn't it you who was afraid of being seen?"

"Shut up! If you don't speak, no one will think you're a mute." Lin Xiuqing turned around angrily, glaring at him.

Stinky man, he only knows how to misinterpret her meaning.

"Alright, alright, I won't tease you anymore. I have something to tell you." Ye Yaodong hugged her in his arms and said seriously.

"Don't get so close to me, aren't you hot? I'm hot. What are you hugging for in midsummer? It's boiling. Just say what you have to say, stop having crooked thoughts."

"No crooked thoughts, I just intended to tell you properly. I haven't even done this, this..."

Lin Xiuqing slapped his hand away. "Speak properly."

Ye Yaodong honestly let go of his hand, adopted a proper attitude, and said seriously, "I'm serious, wife, let's buy another shop."

Lin Xiuqing was startled and was about to speak when her mouth was covered by his large palm.

"Don't speak, listen to me."

"If we buy one shop, it won't be enough for two sons to divide. What will happen if they fight later? You're right, aren't you?"

"Look, we still have about 5,000 yuan on hand. If we buy another one, we'll still have over 2,000 yuan left, enough for expenses. And this money is to be paid at the end of the year; we only need to pay a 500 yuan deposit now. I can earn more in the next half year, and we can save a bit more by the end of the year..."

He talked about how everyone was scrambling to buy, and then continued to paint a big picture, talking about the prospects...

After she couldn't help but slap his hand away, he quickly added, "Even if it's the worst-case scenario, we still have so much gold and treasure. Spending another 3,000 yuan to buy a shop is nothing, right?"

Lin Xiuqing had originally wanted to say something, but after hearing this, she felt it made some sense.

Seeing that she didn't immediately refute him, Ye Yaodong was happy and pressed on, "Those gold cakes of ours are worth a lot of money, and there's the Melo pearl, a large and two small pearls, the dog-head gold, and the ambergris..."

She said unhappily, "Except for the gold cakes which can be exchanged for real money, oh... and the pearls, aren't all the other things just what you say? They'll be valuable in the future, but who knows if they'll be valuable?"

"Believe me! Look, how long has it been, and I've already gotten so many good things and earned so much money. I'll earn more in the future. Anyway, we have enough money on hand, and as long as we can handle emergencies, it's fine. So let's buy another shop?"

"Whatever you want, anyway, the money is all earned by you!"

Now it was Ye Yaodong's turn to be surprised. He had originally intended to press on and continue to persuade her, and even planned to use physical action if it really didn't work, but that was a last resort and couldn't be used every day.

If the beauty trap was used every day, it wouldn't work after a few times.

After all, there was a long road ahead, and sustainable development was the way to go. His wife hadn't reached the age of being like a wolf or a tiger yet.

"What? No reaction? Does that mean you don't want to buy it? Then forget it."

"Buy! Of course, we have to buy! I didn't expect you to be so reasonable tonight, wife. It's such a surprise to me, I have nothing to repay you with, I can only offer myself..."

Ye Yaodong happily pressed down on her, but was kicked away by her directly.

"What are you messing around for? Save some energy, hurry up and nap for a while. You can rest for a while, sleep for a while, you have to get up again later."

"What's the point of napping for this little time? I'm young and strong, I'm not afraid."

"If you don't listen, then don't buy it."

"Alright."

Ye Yaodong had no choice but to lie back down, muttering, "You made me eat so many pork kidneys at night, I originally wanted to perform well when I got back."

Lin Xiuqing felt both angry and amused. "Shut up."

"Mm, then I'll nap for half an hour, call me when the time is up."

"Good, I'll go boil two eggs for you first."

Ye Yaodong was indeed sleepy. Lin Xiuqing had only just sat up when he started snoring lightly.

He felt like he had only just fallen asleep when he heard the sound of a tractor at the door, and he was instantly startled awake again.

He opened his eyes and closed them again. After several minutes, Lin Xiuqing pushed the door open and came in, and only then did he open his eyes and sit up.

"The tractor is here?"

"It's here, big brother and second brother next door have all gotten up and come over to help lift the goods."

"Mm, I'm coming."

"The wind is quite strong at night, it feels like it's going to rain. You should bring your raincoat and bamboo hat, it won't be hard to take if you put it on the tractor."

Lin Xiuqing packed the eggs for him, counted the money again, put it in the hidden pocket of his shorts, and told him to change into them.

"Then I'll bring one."

After Ye Yaodong put them on and went in, his big brother and second brother had already lifted his goods onto the tractor, leaving only the crabs still being kept outside the pier.

"Go to the outside of the pier to get the crabs first, we have to come back later. The key to A Cai's shed is with me. After getting the crabs, I have to take the key back and give it to A Qing, so she can return it to A Cai's wife early tomorrow morning."

"Fine."

On this trip to the city, Ye Yaodong no longer had any feeling of novelty, only the drowsiness brought by the bumps. He also closed his eyes, dozing off half-asleep.

Only Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua were excited and thrilled, just like when the Zhou family and Lan family brothers went the day before yesterday, anxious and full of anticipation.

When they arrived in the city and outside the wholesale market, they had the same reaction.

Ye Yaodong, however, encountered that old man from that day again. He took out the eggs from his cloth bag and walked over.

"Grandpa, here to sell razor clams again? Where are you from? Why do you come to the wholesale market every day?"

The old man waved his hand, not wanting his eggs, and said with a smile, "Eat them yourself, I've already eaten. Are you here to sell scallops again?"

"No, selling some miscellaneous fish, shrimp, and crabs today. Are you raising razor clams? Why do you have such a large basket of razor clams again?"

"These were all dug at my doorstep. It just so happens that the typhoon passed these past few days, and there are many razor clams on our beach, so my old lady and I dug them up and came here to sell them together."

"Why didn't you let the young people come to sell them?"

"They have other work to do during the day. We old folks are older and sleep less, so it's fine for us to come. Anyway, it's not far, it only took us over an hour of walking to get here."

Ye Yaodong, having nothing to do, chatted with him, incidentally waiting for the market to open, while his two brothers curiously looked left and right.

After they went in, they were even more curious.

Moreover, the temperature in the market was slowly dropping, which was because the seafood was all laid out, and the ice blocks inside affected the temperature of the space here.

"Where should we go to buy the shop?"

"Wait until dawn to find someone at that transaction point; the supervisors aren't here now."

The two waited patiently in the market, incidentally learning about the market conditions.

After Ye Yaopeng came back from a stroll, he was pleasantly surprised. "Adong, that red-tailed bird fish is sold for 7 mao 8 fen a jin in the market, which is 1 mao 5 fen more expensive than what you collected yesterday."

"Then a 28-jin one can sell for 4 yuan more?" Ye Yaohua gasped. "The difference is this much?"

"Shh~"