Chapter 703

These green beans don't look very pretty; every single one has wormholes, and if you break them open, you can still see white worms wriggling inside.

Ye Yaodong only broke off the good small sections and threw away the parts with wormholes.

Before he had broken off many, the old lady came out, saw him, and took the basket on the ground away, along with the piece of green bean remaining in his hand.

"I'll do it, I'll do it. You're a grown man, don't do this. Go out for a stroll, find some friends to play with, and come back when it's time to eat."

He looked at his empty hands, rotated his wrists, and saw it was only ten o'clock. "Alright then, I'll go out for a turn and come back later to eat."

Lin Xiuqing watched from inside the room and shook her head; there is a reason why a person gets spoiled.

Ye Yaodong had nothing to do, so he strolled around the village with his hands in his pockets. At this time of day, the village women were also starting to get busy preparing meals.

The men, however, were leisurely and carefree, either playing cards at their doorways or sitting there chatting and bragging. The more diligent ones would even grab a handful of straw while bragging, twisting hemp ropes as they talked.

However, when they saw him, everyone had a smile on their face and took the initiative to greet him, asking why the catch from his trawler had been less lately, and why it was all miscellaneous fish instead of a single variety—was it because dried fish wasn't selling well, and so on...

"It's alright, just barely enough to have a bite to eat."

Indeed, the fish catch had been low lately, and it was all miscellaneous fish, which didn't sell as well as a single variety. Moreover, spring had arrived, and the air was humid, not as dry as in autumn and winter, with occasional thunder, lightning, rain, and fog.

When his father-in-law and mother-in-law went to the shop a few days ago, they both said it was selling too fast and told him to keep up the quantity, otherwise, there wouldn't be enough to sell, but he was helpless too.

The weather hadn't been very good lately, and the dried fish Azheng was drying wasn't drying well either. It rained from time to time, and it didn't look like the quality was that good. He just collected them haphazardly and left them to sell slowly in small quantities. When Boss Zhou asked him for dried fish, he even told him he couldn't dry any.

If only he could set up a drying plant~

Sigh~ He could only think about it in his heart. The main thing was that he had the idea, but where could he get the machinery?

As a layman, he didn't understand anything he hadn't been exposed to, and he was very bewildered; he only knew how to sail a boat and catch fish.

After all, his experience from his past life only taught him how to sail and catch fish. If he were asked to do something new, he wouldn't know where to start.

"You call this barely having a bite to eat? Then what we eat is just chaff and vegetables."

"Exactly, I can only eat sand."

"If there's no dried fish, aren't you selling those dried mussels and dried sea clams there now? That makes money too, how is that barely enough?"

"The feng shui of your family is getting better and better~"

"I heard Old You is also thinking about building a few new houses over there. His eldest son has been married for several years, his second son is getting married soon, and the house isn't big enough to live in. The third son isn't much younger..."

"Hey, don't say, those families by the seaside all have boats, and their lives look very prosperous..."

Ye Yaodong chuckled a few times in his heart and didn't bother with these people's wild guesses. When they didn't see him, they talked about the weather and the sea; when they saw him, they just surrounded him and talked. He clearly had smoke rising from his ancestral grave.

"Where are you going?"

He was stopped again.

"Nowhere in particular, just preparing to walk around."

"You received the invitation, right? Ade was handing them out everywhere this morning."

"Which table are you sitting at? I heard they are setting up six tables in the middle of the stage. Is there a spot for you?"

Before he could answer, others started talking all at once.

"There should be. Adong is a celebrity in our village now. None of the young people in the surrounding ten miles and eight villages are as capable as him. He bought two shops in the city, has a boat at home, and the dried fish business is doing so well. Who is as capable as him?"

"And also... that bronze tripod was salvaged by him, which is why our village's Mazu Temple could be rebuilt so grandly. With such great merit, he must have a seat, right?"

"You guys are stupid, of course he has one. I heard he even knows the leaders in the city, and they even went to his house to eat. Is that right, Adong?"

Ye Yaodong chuckled twice, "I've only met them once or twice, the leaders were just being polite."

How long ago was that, and they were still bringing it up?

After he finished speaking, he smiled and walked away again, leaving the people behind him to discuss it again.

Sometimes men are very gossipy when they are idle.

He had originally planned to just walk around, but since everyone was talking about dried fish, he thought he would stop by Azheng's house to see how his dried fish was drying.

Now he was counting on him to help get rich together.

Strolling with a purpose, his pace naturally quickened. When he met people greeting him on the road, he didn't stop, just smiled and responded casually.

Azheng was also idle at home chasing flies.

Logically speaking, since it was foggy today and he couldn't go out to sea, he should have gone to the city to haul back a few thousand jin of fish to dry.

But unfortunately, there was no more room to hang them at home, and because it was foggy and overcast today, the air was a bit damp. The pile of dried fish hanging at the door attracted a lot of flies, buzzing and looking very annoying.

Ye Yaodong was still some distance from his door when he saw him waving a fly swatter back and forth.

"Looks like this dried fish is hard to dry; there's no good weather."

"Yeah, next time I won't dare to buy it just because there's a gap. I don't know how many days it will take to dry. I hope it doesn't rot. These damn flies..."

Azheng waved a few more times to drive them away, then couldn't be bothered to care and threw the fly swatter aside.

"What wind blew our Boss Ye here? You came just in time, I haven't settled the score with you yet. Everything was fine, why did you sign me up for the militia? Are you too full? I'm not too full!"

"If you want to sign up, sign up yourself, you had to drag me into it. Do you think I'm very idle? I'm so busy I'm about to become a spinning top. Don't you see I'm still busy swatting flies?"

"Besides, the opera starts early on Mazu's birthday, how lively it is. Who would be willing to patrol and wander around outside? Only you are stupid. Who doesn't push it off if they can?"

"Damn, I'm so pissed off. I want to watch the opera too. I just wanted to kick Ade out. I can't even quit, he said you already signed me up, it's already recorded, and it can't be changed. Damn you, you delivered yourself to the door..."

Azheng got angrier as he spoke, picked up the fly swatter he had thrown on the ground, and swatted it at Ye Yaodong.

Ye Yaodong was caught off guard, his butt got swatted twice, and he jumped up like an ant on a hot pan, dodging his swatting.

"Hey hey hey... I was thinking of you, as brothers, shouldn't we share the blessings..."

"Share your ghost, you enjoy it yourself. I want to watch the opera, hurry up and go cancel it for me. You have a bigger face, he will definitely listen to you."

Ye Yaodong said with a cheeky smile: "That won't work, how boring it is for one person, it's better to have company."

At that time, the village will definitely be chaotic, and pickpockets and idlers from the surrounding ten miles and eight villages will definitely sneak into their village.

If every household goes to watch the opera and no one is at home to watch, wouldn't it become someone else's backyard?

Although he has a dog at home, the dog isn't omnipotent. If someone uses the same old trick again, and no one is watching, they could succeed in an instant, and poison the whole litter without anyone knowing.

He has a lot of money and treasures at home, he must keep a close watch and not let anyone steal them.

By becoming a militiaman, he can also ask the team to patrol around their house more often. He can't possibly guard the house from morning till night by himself.

Besides, I heard he is a celebrity now, so he might be a key target for visits!

"Damn you, I want to watch the fun and the opera, I don't want to wander around. Anyway, I'm not going, if you want to go, go yourself."

"It's not like you have to patrol outside all day and night, there will definitely be shifts. When it's not your turn, you can still watch the fun."

"No."

"Grass! Wait, I'll go tell Director Ade right now that every household must send at least one male to form a militia. If you don't go, you have to go."

Protecting the village is everyone's responsibility, and every household sending a male to form a militia is also as it should be. It really avoids some people pushing back and forth, and then not even being able to form a team.

Although five days is not short, if they rotate day and night, their village of hundreds of households will only rotate two or three times, which won't delay watching the opera.

"Damn, you really have your ways..."

Too sleepy, too busy, there's another sheet to make up tomorrow during the day.