Chapter 52: A typhoon is coming

Ye Yaodong had no idea the old woman was acting like this; if he knew, he would definitely feel very embarrassed...

When he finished work and went home, whenever he met old men and women on the road, they would smile at him, making him feel somewhat baffled. Since when did he have such good relations with the elderly?

It wasn't until he met Xiao Xiao at his door and he asked him how much the old woman's dentures cost that he realized all the elderly in the village knew he had gotten dentures for his grandma. He was instantly petrified.

"This old woman is really... really full of it. I told her to rest at home, and she still went out to wander around and show off..."

It was truly embarrassing; his old face was about to turn red. Just like they said yesterday, "Used to being criticized, suddenly being praised one day, this feeling is very uncomfortable."

"Hey, I'm asking you, my grandma is just over 70 and has no teeth either. My father asked me to come and ask, if it's not expensive, he'll take my grandma to get some too. If it's too expensive, then forget it."

"It's not expensive, just over 12 yuan, less than 13 yuan including the round-trip bus fare. It's just that I didn't know earlier. If I had known, I would have taken my grandma to get some years ago, instead of her only being able to eat soft and mushy things."

He had indeed thought it would be very expensive, but he didn't expect it to be so cheap. If he had known it was so cheap, he would have taken her a few days ago.

"Exactly. Our countryside is very isolated, and we didn't know about this stuff. Now that we know the price isn't expensive, my father should take my grandma to get some."

"Go, go. I'm exhausted, I'm going back to take a shower and lie down."

Xiao Xiao pulled him. "Are you going to play cards at A Guang's house later?"

"Not going. I've been working for half a day, I'm already wasted. You guys play."

"Alright then."

After Ye Yaodong finished showering, he went straight back to the room and lay flat. He didn't even want to move. With his current weak body, he really couldn't handle physical labor; he was truly a waste.

After Lin Xiuqing hugged their naked little son who had finished showering into the room, she put him on the bed and turned to get his clothes. As a result, the little guy sat directly on his father's back. "Giddy-up~ Giddy-up~"

"Ouch~ My old waist~ Get away, you brat..."

"No! Giddy-up~ Giddy-up~"

Sitting down like this, each time heavier than the last, how could his waist handle it? He was still young and still needed to use it.

"Ah~ It hurts, you brat, if you don't get away, I'm going to beat you!"

Lin Xiuqing took the clothes and hugged the child off him, and gently slapped his little butt. "Don't be naughty, wait until your father beats you, I won't care about you."

"Hee hee~" Ye Chengyang hugged his mother's neck and kissed her.

"Disgusting, put your clothes on quickly and go out to find your older brothers and sisters."

After sending the little son away, Lin Xiuqing asked, "You've been working all afternoon, and I didn't have time to ask, how much did the old woman's dentures cost? Father and Mother asked you at the dinner table, and you wouldn't say. The old woman was pulling me at the back door just now, insisting on stuffing a ten-yuan bill into my hand. I didn't take it and hurried in."

"It's just because I was afraid the old woman would give money, that's why I didn't say how much it cost."

While speaking, he took a few bills from under the pillow. When he came back at noon, he had put the money in his pocket under the pillow to avoid losing it when he went to work. This money wasn't a small amount nowadays; if he lost it, not to mention his mother, his wife would beat him.

"The dentures and registration fee only cost twelve yuan and twenty-eight cents in total, plus the round-trip bus fare. And because the old woman is old, we took a rickshaw in the city. It cost less than thirteen yuan in total. You count it. Except for the bus fare, there was nothing else. After the dentures were ready, we came home immediately. The old woman couldn't bear to buy things to eat outside."

After Lin Xiuqing heard his words, she felt a bit more relaxed. She didn't expect it to be quite cheap, only thirteen yuan. She had thought it would be several tens, and she had already prepared to bleed money.

"Old people are old, how could they bear to spend money? Even if it were me, I wouldn't be happy to buy things to eat outside, I'd rather hold on until I get home to cook."

After counting it once, the money matched. He hadn't secretly hidden any private money, so she was satisfied and locked it away.

Her man was too unreliable; he absolutely couldn't have money in his hands.

"Finished counting? If you're done, come over and help me knead my shoulders, they're so sore."

"Sore after working for only a few days? I don't have time, I'm going to wash clothes."

"You..."

Not a bit of romance...

He still wanted to say a few words to her properly.

The next morning, when Ye Yaodong got up, he was surprised to see his father actually eating breakfast.

"Didn't you go out to sea today?"

Ye Yaohua said from the side, "The wind picked up in the night, and the waves on the sea were a bit big. We came back not long after we sailed out."

"A day without going out is a day's loss."

"There's no help for it, the waves are too big. I heard on the commune radio this morning that a typhoon will pass by us in the next two days. We can't go out for the next few days; we can only wait until the typhoon passes."

Ye Yaodong glanced outside the house; it was still bright and sunny, with beautiful weather. Where could he see any sign of a typhoon coming?

"That's serious, a few days without going out, a loss of over a hundred yuan."

Ye Fu rolled his eyes at him. "You're long-winded. Are you coming with me?"

"Do you want me to come?"

This counter-question blocked Ye Fu. Although the third son had looked decent these past few days, he had a long criminal record. Whether he could help if he brought him out was a question. Eldest and Second had been sailing quite decently lately, and he could also doze off intermittently.

Bringing this kid... he felt it wasn't easy to teach, and he wasn't at ease handing the boat over to him to sail. If he brought him, Ye Fu felt he would probably have to sail day and night, and he had finally managed to get a rest...

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes. When he seriously wanted to go out to sea, his father hesitated instead.

Ye Fu hesitated for a moment before saying, "We'll talk about it after the typhoon passes."

He definitely had to teach this kid, but it had to be after some time, when there was no pressure, to avoid him being unreliable. Building the house still required a large amount of money, and it couldn't be delayed for a single day.

When the time came, the three brothers would take turns going with him, and he would give each of them a bit of money. Although the third son was a bit of a failure, Ye Fu still wanted to pull him up a bit more to avoid too big a gap between the three brothers.

Ye Mu also chattered, "It's fortunate that we've dried quite a bit of dried fish and shrimp during this time, so we can take them out to hold on for a few days without needing to buy vegetables. We can save quite a bit on vegetable money. Otherwise, with so many workers, the vegetable money alone would cost several yuan a day."

Lin Xiuqing came in from outside and said, "Mother, I checked, the dried mussels we dried yesterday can also be put away."

"Then put them away, and stir-fry a bowl this afternoon."

Ye Yaodong looked at his wife. "Why bother picking out the mussels to dry, it's so troublesome?"

"No help for it, there are too many shelled seafood items, we've eaten them for two days and haven't finished them. It's better to cook them and dry them, so they can be stored for a few more days to avoid them smelling and being wasted."

"I'll go around the surrounding isolated islands again around the 15th."

Picking up a bit more and drying them into dried goods wouldn't be bad.

Thinking of this, he quickly looked at his father. "A typhoon is coming soon, should we sail our boat to the shelter?" ===== CHAPTER 53 =====