Chapter 68: Every Family Has Its Own Rascal

When he returned home carrying the bucket, everyone was already at the table preparing to eat. Lin Xiuqing greeted him and was also very happy to see a bucket of swamp eels.

"So you went to fish for swamp eels? I asked you before, and you said you didn't know. Just right to nourish everyone tonight, we have to start work again tomorrow."

Ye Fu looked at him with disdain, "You like to do these things all day, but when I seriously tell you to go to the fields to harvest rice, you want to be lazy again."

Except when he was making money, his father rarely looked at him favorably. Ye Yaodong laughed without caring, "Can't I improve the food? Swamp eels are also very nourishing!"

Wait a few decades, and you won't even be able to fish for them if you want to! You'll only be able to buy farmed ones to eat.

The old lady said happily: "Swamp eels are good, we haven't eaten them for a while. Working and going out to sea is so hard, I was originally thinking of killing a chicken in a few days to nourish you guys, eating swamp eels tonight is just right, keep the chicken until the Mid-Autumn Festival to kill. Dongzi, hurry and wash your hands and sit at the table to eat, I'll cook this."

"Alright."

Ye Yaodong looked at his father, "You just came back from the shelter by boat, were the waves still big at sea? Can we go tonight?"

"We can go, just right, your second brother went a few days ago, I'll take you to try it tonight, let's take turns in order."

"Oh!"

He had already prepared himself mentally anyway, so let him see how prosperous his luck was.

After the meal, he first took the receipt and went with Lin Xiuqing to A-Cai's house to get the money for the fish sold today, and on the way, he went to Xiao Xiao's house to get two big grass carp weighing 3 jin, and 3 crucian carp to keep in the bucket, just right to be used as dishes for the workers tomorrow.

They hadn't been out to sea for several days, and there were many people at home. The dried fish and salted fish stored in the previous period had been consumed seven or eight out of ten.

Lin Xiuqing saw that he was bare-chested again after taking a shower and had no clothes to wear, going in and out. Seeing that he had clearly tanned a lot in these few days, she couldn't help but say: "I'll find time tomorrow to buy you a piece of cloth and make another set of clothes!"

"Ah? Everything is fine, why did you think of making clothes for me? Just make two sets for yourself, what am I doing? Why wear new clothes?"

"Aren't you helping with things recently? You have to change and wash twice a day, and two pieces of clothes aren't enough for you to change. I'll make you another set."

"Oh, then you decide!"

Two pieces of clothes were indeed not enough to change. Two days ago during the typhoon, the clothes didn't dry and he had no clothes to change into that day, only wearing shorts and walking back and forth at home.

Before, he was out early and back late, and Lin Xiuqing was too lazy to care if he had clothes to change and wash. Now it was different, either working at the house or going out to sea, she definitely couldn't let him have no clothes to wear.

Ye Yaodong actually didn't care much about what he wore, it was always her organizing it, anyway, he wouldn't be without two pieces to change.

"You should also get two sets for yourself, just right, we earned some money recently."

"Why make new clothes when it's not a holiday? Wasting money, I have three pieces, enough to change. Grandma has stewed the swamp eels, you come out and eat while it's hot."

"Oh."

The table was already full of bowls and chopsticks, and everyone had a swamp eel in their bowl, only his bowl had two, one biggest one, and one smaller one.

The old lady was still beside him, kept telling him to eat quickly.

He nodded, picked up a small one, started from the head, peeled off the stomach, picked out the internal organs, put the swamp eel blood into the old lady's bowl, and put the meat into Lin Xiuqing's bowl.

"Eat, I have a bigger one in my bowl!"

"You eat yours, we all have some."

"I have some too, bigger than yours. Eat, after eating, I'll go fish again in a few days, there are plenty in the fields."

The old lady smiled and accepted it, and Lin Xiuqing also simply picked some to feed the children first. Anyway, it wasn't a rare item, no need to push back and forth. Others at the table watched, eating on their own without speaking.

Swamp eel blood is the essence of its whole body, very nourishing. But the children didn't like eating blood, yet they were all forcibly fed by the adults. Who eats swamp eels without eating the blood?

After eating and drinking well, except for Ye Fu who went to sleep early because he had to go out to sea, everyone else sat at the door to cool off. Ye Yaodong lay in the room for a while but couldn't sleep, so he also went out to the door to cool off.

As a result, as soon as he went out, he heard a bunch of women chatting there.

"How much money did you sell that big fish for this afternoon? Was it a hundred jin?"

"Could sell for a few dozen yuan, right?"

"I heard A-Cai's wife say that fish was bought for 40 yuan!"

"My goodness, so valuable?"

At this time, rural women wouldn't know about not showing off wealth. Everyone gathered together, either gossiping or comparing. Ye Mu directly beamed with joy and shouted, "Not that much, just 30-something yuan, there were other goods sold together, that's why there was so much."

"A-Dong has become promising recently, first Spanish mackerel, then grouper, and now he picked up that what-do-you-call-it Du... really made a fortune."

"It's a yellowtail kingfish! It's the first time such a big fish has appeared on our beach, A-Dong's luck is really good..."

Ye Yaodong leaned on the recliner, rocking back and forth, and said lazily: "It's not that my luck is good, it's A-Qing's luck that's good, she was the one who discovered it, I just helped lift it, the money all went into her pocket, I'm just a worker."

The neighbor aunt nearby laughed: "That's a way of putting it, husband and wife, isn't yours mine?"

"Exactly, why do you call yourself working for A-Qing?"

"Sigh~"

Ye Yaodong sighed, then stood up, took out a pack of Friendship cigarettes from his pocket and threw it on the chair, then turned both pockets inside out, and shook a five-cent coin and a two-cent coin in his hand.

"See? My pockets are empty, only seven cents, the money earned from selling fish is all hers, aren't I just working for her?"

Lin Xiuqing smiled at him embarrassedly, "You have the nerve to show it..."

Ye Mu also couldn't help but laugh and scold: "It's enough for you to have a cigarette to smoke, what money do you need to put in your pocket? Don't let you squander it all. The money at home should be kept by your wife, a few cents of pocket money is enough, Friendship cigarettes are only four or five cents a pack, enough for you to spend for a few days."

"Sigh, when I was young, Mom managed me, after marriage, my wife manages me, when I'm old, maybe I'll have to look at my son and daughter-in-law's faces, life~"

He sat back down and started rocking the recliner!

This remark was agreed upon by some uncles around, "Makes sense, isn't it always being managed? Even drinking a bit more wine has to be nagged about."

"Exactly, still have to be disliked... either saying the smell of smoke is big, or saying I snore, annoying to death..."

"You old smoker, coughing every day, still want to smoke..."

After a while, the surroundings were full of the aunts' scolding again...

After successfully changing the topic, Ye Yaodong started rocking leisurely again. He didn't like people asking about his family's assets, calculating how much money he had earned recently.

Just as he was rocking well on the recliner, he didn't know which rascal came over and pushed his recliner backward, causing him to fall to the ground!

"Ah, fuck~ damn it, who did this..."

"Hahahaha~"

Ye Yaodong climbed up in a rage and glared at the group of stinky brats laughing loudly not far away. Among them were those from his own family and those from the neighbors'.

Really a rascal!!!

"Third Uncle, it's Ye Chenghu, he lost a bet with us..."

"You little bastard, don't run~"

"Ah, Dad~ it's them, it's them who said you wouldn't be angry, Brother Ahai also said you usually play with them like this every day, just a joke, you definitely wouldn't hit me..."

"Ah... I was wrong, Mom~ Mom~ help~ my dad is going to beat me to death~"