Chapter 632: Ye's father bears everything

After delivering three trips of dried fish to the shop in the city and ensuring a sufficient supply, Ye Yaodong finally let out a sigh of relief upon returning.

"Finally, I can lie down at home again and have a good rest."

The old lady placed a bowl of hot chicken soup on the table and greeted him, "Get up quickly, eat while it's hot. Don't lie on the recliner. Eat and then have a good sleep. You haven't rested well these past few days, leaving early and returning late."

"Indeed, earning money is not easy!"

Ye Yaodong said as he sat up from the recliner and walked toward the table, muttering, "Actually, it's quite cool to be a waste, lying down every day without doing any work, and having everything arranged well. You don't have to do anything yourself, just eat and drink, it's simply a fairy life."

"Hehe, being diligent is not bad..."

"Then why don't you continue to live your fairy life? You live your fairy life, and let your wife and children eat chaff and vegetables. Anyway, life is the same whether you have money or not."

Lin Xiuqing interrupted the old lady directly and said unhappily. She wasn't as polite as the old lady.

It was hard to have hope for life, and he actually said such things. His skin was itchy. This person was just lacking a scolding.

"I didn't say I wanted to be a waste. I just said it, just envied it..."

Ye Yaodong saw Lin Xiuqing glaring, and hurriedly slapped his mouth twice, "This stinky mouth is talking nonsense. I just said it casually. How could I bear to let you and the children eat chaff and vegetables? I would rather drink the northwest wind every day than let you and the children follow me to eat it."

"Come, come, come, count it as me saying the wrong thing. This big chicken leg is for you to replenish. You've worked hard, having to bring three children... eat, eat, eat..."

Lin Xiuqing patted away his hand that was pulling her, and didn't make a fuss, not letting go, "You eat yours, we've all eaten."

"All eaten?"

The good meat was still in the bowl!

"Mm, Chenghu hasn't finished school yet, and Mom hasn't finished work yet. There's still some in the pot. You are the head of the household, and the whole family relies on you to earn money, so you eat more to replenish."

"Then there's no need to replenish so well, right?"

"Eat while it's hot. The chicken liver was divided between Yangyang and Little Nine. They have small stomachs and can't eat the big chicken leg, so you eat it."

Ye Yaodong took a bowl, took out a chicken leg, and prepared to leave it for his eldest son later. This guy was going to score two 100s, so he would reward him with a big chicken leg in advance.

"You treat me like a child. This good meat should definitely be given to the flowers of the motherland first. I'll just eat the chicken head, chicken neck, chicken feet, etc."

Saying that, he stood up again, prepared to pour the meat in the bowl back into the pot, and go fish for the chicken head, chicken neck, and chicken feet, but the old lady pulled him.

"Those are for your father to eat..."

"Uh..."

"You eat what's in your bowl, stop dividing it back and forth. There's only that one chicken in total."

His father was really pitiful. It was one thing to be scolded by his mother, but he could only eat chicken scraps.

At this time, Ye's mother had also just finished work and returned, habitually preparing to go to the chicken coop to see if there were any eggs to pick up, but found that one chicken was missing, and she really scolded Ye's father there, saying he couldn't even watch a few chickens.

Ye's father hung his head and fiddled with his water pipe, preparing to smoke a few puffs on his own, letting her scold him. Anyway, he was used to it, and his mother wanted to grab a chicken, could he not let her grab it?

"Just scold a few words, it's eaten anyway. It was originally raised to be eaten. How much of Dongzi's stuff have we eaten? Anyway, we can hatch chicks again in a while. This year, hatch more. If the quantity is not enough, buy a few more when going to the market, otherwise it won't be enough to kill."

"You old thing, you're also greedy for it, right?"

"Didn't we just eat a chicken and a duck during the New Year? What am I greedy for?"

Ye's father puffed out thick smoke from his mouth and nose, and also pulled out the tube on the water pipe and knocked it, wanting to knock the tobacco into the dustpan in front of him.

He was slow and didn't take his wife's words to heart at all. Anyway, he was used to listening to it. If she didn't scold him as an old thing for a day, he wouldn't be used to it.

"You also know that we just killed a chicken and a duck during the New Year. It hasn't even been a month, and you're killing again. The ones raised aren't enough to eat."

"So I told you to raise more this year, so you won't be long-winded."

Ye's mother was exhausted, "Are you all bought by him, one old, one small? It used to be only the old lady who spoiled him, now the whole family spoils him?"

Ye's father looked at her only then, "Is there?"

He thought about it, "Dongzi does look quite hard-working? He has done much more than Eldest and Second Brother. My mother feels sorry for him and wants to replenish him, so let's replenish him? Anyway, the money he earns now can let him eat for a lifetime, what's there to feel sorry for? And the money we have in hand is all saved because of him. You just raise a few more chickens and ducks for him to eat."

"You are really... and you're not afraid of spoiling him again! He was like this when he was small, spoiled by the old lady."

"Then you be stricter. You've been chasing and scolding him all day, but haven't seen him listen? Anyway, he's enlightened. Go, go, go, stop talking nonsense, go eat." Ye's father patted Ye's mother on the shoulder.

Ye's mother shook her shoulder and threw his hand away, "Stop pulling and dragging, if people see it, they'll say you're an old indecent."

"Who wants to hug you? I'm old, and I'm afraid of being laughed at. I just patted your shoulder twice and called you to eat." Where did you think?

Ye's mother gave him a fierce look and went out first.

After complaining at home, she went to Ye Yaodong's house, and Ye's mother didn't say anything. She ate the chicken soup that should be eaten and drank what should be drunk.

Ye Yaodong also felt it was rare. He thought his mother would scold him first when she came to the door, but he didn't expect her not to make a sound.

Little did he know, Ye's father, who was gnawing on a chicken neck, had borne everything.

Ye's father said while gnawing, "Did your boat say when it will start building? If it starts building, you have to go see it more."

"Don't know, it definitely won't be that fast to arrange the order. If it can start building in the middle of the year, it will be Amitabha."

"Then you have to go see it and urge them. You can't just ignore it after paying the money. It's best to let them build it early and go show your face more."

"Are there really so many ships queuing up? We haven't seen many big ships on the sea?" Ye's mother also asked curiously.

"People have to look forward. In these few years, who doesn't want to change to a bigger ship to earn more after earning money? As life gets better and better, there will only be more and bigger ships in the future."

"Then you have to be careful, don't let people cut the line. If you have nothing to do, go show your face at the factory more."

"It's been raining all the time for a while. It looks clear these few days, but I've also been busy transporting goods. I'll sleep until I wake up naturally tomorrow, and then I'll go for a stroll."

Ye's father suddenly said, "If Ahai doesn't want to go to school, it's not bad to learn shipbuilding."

"Forget it? Let's finish reading the book first. If you don't know characters, you won't have any future in learning shipbuilding. You can't even understand the characters."

Ye Yaodong also said, "If you want to learn shipbuilding and be an apprentice, we don't have a way. The people we know in this life are all in this village. Can we just take him and ask someone to accept him? Finish reading the book first."

Ye's father nodded, "Then after finishing junior high, if any of them don't want to read, just let them go to learn shipbuilding and be apprentices. With a craft on their body, they won't starve to death no matter what."

"If you go to the neighbor's house now, they will jump up and say they won't read."

Lin Xiuqing heard what Ye Yaodong said and couldn't help but aim at Ye Chenghu. It was rare that this kid didn't say he wouldn't read.

Who knew Ye Chenghu was also holding his rice bowl, listening to the adults talking with his ears pricked up. After receiving his mother's look, he immediately raised his head and shouted loudly, "I won't be an apprentice, I want to score 100!"

Ye's father and mother were both surprised by his words.

"Did this child eat the wrong medicine?"

Lin Xiuqing smiled and told them about Ye Yaodong's promise yesterday. The two had different reactions.

Ye's mother couldn't help but say, "If he goes to the city for a round and comes back, he won't be able to walk sideways in the village like a crab."

Ye's father smiled and said, "This is also good. Having a goal will make him serious. Nothing is better than reading. I'm also old, and only then do I know reading is good, and I still have to go to the literacy class. You take advantage of being young, read more books, and you can have a future later."

Ye Chenghu looked at them a few times, and lowered his head to eat the big chicken leg in his bowl, and didn't speak.

He just wanted to score two 100s and go to the city, what is his grandpa talking about???

The whole family talked and laughed, and finished the chicken quite happily.

Ye Yaodong slept sweetly at night, and didn't know until dawn that someone saw the wind and waves were not big last night, and several large and small ships went out to sea.

As soon as he got out of bed, he stood at the door and looked at the distant sea, "These people are really active. They climbed up in the middle of the night to look at the wind and waves. It looks like there is really no wind this morning, so they went out to sea in the middle of the night?"

"This depends on the sky for food. You have to look at the face of the old heaven more. If you have a chance, you have to go to earn money. The fellow villagers are focusing on the wind and waves as soon as it clears up. Isn't it that they went out to sea in the middle of the night?"

"Did Eldest and Second Brother go too?"

"I heard they went in the morning."

"That's fine, wait until I finish breakfast, call Dad to go put the sticky nets, it doesn't have to be at night to drag the nets. Now go put the sticky nets and put them all, anyway, it's tomorrow to collect, the shipyard will be left alone first."

"Then I have to prepare food for you to go out to sea."

Lin Xiuqing hurriedly prepared the lunch box for him, "I didn't say it in advance, and I didn't prepare rice. I'll stir-fry a large portion of rice cakes and put them in the lunch box. You take it on the boat, and heat it on the stove when the time comes, so you don't have to cook when you're busy."

"It's okay, take your time, I still have to eat breakfast, and I have to move the sticky nets to the flatbed truck, and I have to tell Dad. Dad didn't come over in the morning?"

If he had come over, he should have called him up to put the nets early.

"He was called away by Uncle Pei, don't know if he came back or not."

"Why did Uncle Pei call Dad?"

"Don't know, didn't say. Dad just arrived at the door, and Uncle Pei ran to the door in a hurry, and I didn't hear what they were saying, so he went out again."

Ye Yaodong was confused and didn't care. Anyway, he would know when his father came back. Now he had to move the sticky nets to the flatbed truck first. ===== CHAPTER 633 =====