Chapter 549: Raising Dogs But Not Raising Old Age

For two consecutive days, they were killing fish there, and their entrance was already covered with dried fish, whether in mid-air or on the ground.

In mid-air, they were hung with ropes, arranged neatly in strings, while on the ground, they were placed on bamboo mats leaning against the wall, or placed on stools, and even the neighbor's entrance was basically full of them.

In the corner, there were still baskets of toadfish covered with rags, these would have to be moved out to continue killing later.

Ye Yaodong pushed open the door early in the morning and smelled the thick fishy smell outside, even richer than the smell of the sea, with the sun drying them, it felt particularly salty and fragrant.

The dogs in the family were also very greedy, except for the big Da Heizi who was caught halfway and raised, and was tied up for fear of biting people, the other four or five little ones were walking with their leisurely steps, sniffing this bamboo mat on the ground, and sniffing that bamboo mat.

Like leaders inspecting, they sniffed one by one in a row, arranged neatly and orderly, making people couldn't help but show a knowing smile.

These few local dogs had been raised since they were small and were quite obedient, they weren't allowed to eat, so they would only watch and drool, and sniff a few times by the way.

However, when they saw Ye Yaodong halfway through their inspection, they all rushed over and all clawed at his legs.

Ye Yaodong hurriedly pulled up his waistband, fearing they would pull it down, he didn't know when they developed this habit, anyway, as soon as they saw him, they liked to hang on his legs, and then kept rubbing and rubbing, or circling around his legs.

Before, only Ye Chengyang liked to hang on his feet, now this position had been occupied by several dogs.

"Go, go, go, walk away, I still have work to do, don't get in the way here."

The dogs circled around his feet, whimpering and calling there, and as he took big steps forward, they also trotted behind, and even followed out of the courtyard gate.

Because Ye Yaodong had to wash the fishing nets, he was wearing slippers on his feet, with his pant legs rolled up, he had really worn rain boots for many days, and his feet were really too smelly, it was rare not to go out to sea, he just wanted to wear slippers, be comfortable, and let them breathe, otherwise he couldn't stand his own athlete's foot.

As a result, these dogs followed too closely and directly stepped on his slippers...

When he stepped out with his left foot, his foot was already empty, and the slipper was still in place dozens of centimeters away.

He looked at his bare foot and glared at these dogs, and they extremely dog-leggedly scrambled to bite his slipper with their mouths, for this, they even had a collective fight to see who could deliver the slipper to the master.

Finally, a little yellow dog wagged its tail and delivered it to him, then stuck out its long tongue, sat there, raised its head and made a 'ha~ ha~' sound, and its tail kept wagging, as if asking for praise.

Ye Yaodong looked speechlessly, took the slipper and put it on his foot, and also gave face by patting its head, "Hmm, very powerful, won the fight, good boy, go play on the side, I have work to do."

That group of dogs stuck out their tongues and continued to follow behind him, he couldn't drive them away, so he could only let them follow.

To make washing the fishing nets convenient, they directly pulled the fishing nets to the old house yesterday, because there was a well at the back door of the old house, so he didn't have to keep carrying water, otherwise he would have to carry it until he was exhausted.

He planned to do some work before breakfast, and the few dogs followed him all the way to the old house.

The villagers he met on the road greeted him one after another, he didn't know when he became so popular, along the way, the corners of his mouth never flattened, and could only keep being forced to lift up.

"Adong, heard you dried a lot of fish jerky, when are you planning to take it to the city to sell?"

"Don't know, not dried yet, take a look later, have to have free time to go to the city."

There are no secrets in the village, not to mention he hung so much fish jerky at his door, it had already spread throughout the village, everyone knew he was going to get rich by drying fish jerky again.

Don't know where everyone got the confidence, he himself wasn't sure, but everyone had already spread it very outrageously, as if he had already earned a large sum of money in his hands.

Rumors are terrible.

These women like to chat while working, any fresh thing in the village can't escape their mouths.

"Heard toadfish jerky can sell for several cents? Much more expensive than fresh ones."

Ye Yaodong listened and laughed twice in his heart, "If it weren't more expensive than fresh ones, who would dry them? Might as well sell fresh ones, did the aunt forget, these fish shrink severely after being dried, ten catties only dry into two or three?"

It's a pity there's no refrigerator, if there were a refrigerator, there would be no need to dry them so dry, half-dry and half-wet, not that hard kind, put them in the refrigerator to freeze, and then take them out to stir-fry would be better, with more meat.

"Right, but how can you earn a little? Just don't know if they're easy to sell, we seaside people have nothing to eat, so we eat fish jerky, don't know if city people are used to eating it."

"Heard you dried a lot, several thousand catties, aren't you worried they won't sell?"

Ye Yaodong shrugged, "Try it, sell a little if I can, if I can't sell, I'll lose one or two hundred yuan, want to earn this money, always have to try, if they really can't sell, no one wants them, then give some to relatives and friends, not afraid of wasting."

"Hehe, so generous, you should have earned a lot of money now, right?"

"Should be, heard a while ago you went to Zhejiang province and earned several thousand, and now you say you'll take one or two hundred yuan worth of things to give to relatives and friends..."

Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched, and he didn't chat with these aunts and aunties at the door anymore.

"I'm in a hurry to work, aunts, you guys slowly weave nets, sweep the floor."

After speaking, he hurriedly slipped away, but could still hear the faint conversation coming from behind.

"Adong looks very capable now..."

"Who says not? Heard he has earned a lot of money now, more powerful than his eldest brother and second brother."

"Heard Lixiang can enter the Women's Federation because of Adong, she walks with wind now..."

"Women's Federation, very powerful... during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they even distributed mooncakes, distributed rice, pork..."

"Ouch, envious to death... why don't I have a capable son..."

By the well at the back door, Ye Fu got up early and was already there carrying water to wash the fishing nets, without a water gun, it would be more troublesome to wash.

After Ye Yaodong arrived, he divided the work with his father, one carrying water, one washing.

Fortunately, when they collected the fishing nets, they had already tied them well, and each net was bundled up, very neatly. Only one person needed to pour water, one person to scrub, and in two or three strokes, a net was washed clean, and fifty nets only took half a morning.

And the baskets of toadfish piled at the door were harder to kill.

Toadfish are different from other fish, the mucus on their bodies is particularly slippery, and particularly disgusting, if you don't wear gloves, it's hard to grab, and it's also very easy to be pricked by their thorns.

Their bellies are particularly soft, when killing, you have to start from their mouths, then use scissors to cut to the bottom of the abdomen, scissors and knives have to be used in turns.

After he washed the fishing nets, he also joined in, killing together, there was no habit of men not doing housework at that time.

At that time, most men held the view that men are in charge of the outside, women are in charge of the inside, regardless of whether they worked outside or not, anyway, once they returned home, they were the masters.

When killing fish, his sisters-in-law and the neighbors who came to watch the fun couldn't help but discuss him and these dried fish again.

He was too lazy to say much, just 'hmm, hmm, ah, ah' and responded casually.

However, after his eldest brother and second brother knew that his harvest these few days was quite good, they also stopped going out to sea for a day today, and ran to buy fishing net lines, planning to make some sticky nets to put out and see.

However, they didn't have rolling wheels, and they were reluctant to spend a lot of money, it seemed they only planned to put out 20 nets, just to be better than the worst and worse than the best.

The number of fishing boats going out to sea in the village recently had decreased, most people saw few goods and gradually finished work to do other things, only some small wooden boats were still stubbornly putting out ground cages there.

Originally Ye Yaodong was still worried that the courtyard was already full of fish jerky, if he went out to sea again, the toadfish caught would have no place to hang, and putting them at the old house wouldn't be appropriate, his mother was at work, his father was out at sea, and there was no one at home to watch.

Who knew they only rested for one day, and the next day the wind started.

Coming over early in the morning to help cook breakfast, he saw the waves rolling and the north wind blowing, this time not only Ye Mu regretted it, even Ye Fu slapped his thigh in annoyance.

"If I had known it would be windy today, I would have put out the nets for another day yesterday, collect them today to wash and dry, just in time to earn another day's money."

"Money can't buy 'if I had known', nothing to be conflicted about, it's good to rest for two more days."

Saving him from having to be conflicted about whether to kill or sell the toadfish caught if he continued to go out to sea?

Like now, just 100+ yuan worth of goods, if sold, earn it, if not sold, won't lose much, just try the water with these first, if they sell well, it won't be too late to continue drying.

Ye Mu also said painfully, "Isn't it because it's a pity? It's windy now, don't know how many days to rest at home."

"Do you want me and my father to work to death, rest for a few more days, rest for a few more days, some people are even prepared to rest for the whole winter."

"Then you rest for the whole winter!" Ye Mu said unhappily.

"Then don't nag, tell me to rest, I definitely have no problem, can't wait to rest for the whole winter, and raise some fat."

"Earned a little money and don't want to do anything, only 26 years old, and don't want to do anything now, what about later? Who are you counting on to support you? Your own son is still so small..."

Ye Mu kept nagging, "You are so lazy, don't want to work all day, buy two boats and put them there to collect rent, let others work for you, this way you can at least mix a mouthful to eat, and won't starve to death when you are old, or have no money and be disliked..."

"Humph, when I'm old, my son will definitely fight to support me."

Ye Yaodong looked at Ye Chengyang confidently, "Right, son?"

"No, I want to raise a puppy!"

"......"

Lin Xiuqing couldn't hold it, laughing until she was leaning back and forth.

Ye Mu was also amused, "Hear that, your son doesn't even want to raise you, let alone raise a dog."

"Stinky brat, cook a dog meat hot pot tonight to nourish in advance, no need to kill chickens and ducks tomorrow for the beginning of winter."

Ye Chengyang immediately cried sadly, "Don't~ don't eat the puppy."

After he howled a few times with his eyes closed, he quickly ran to the courtyard gate, hugging the heads of the dogs in his arms, crying as sadly as he could.

Watching the adults in the room couldn't stop laughing.

Children are easy to fool, adults just say a few words and they take it seriously.

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but curse, "This idiot! How did I give birth to such a stupid son."

"Who told you to tease him." ===== CHAPTER 550 =====