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Chapter 805

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The old lady was also extremely curious, and she stretched her neck, "Oh my, oh my, there really is sound, is there really someone inside?"

Ye Fu also ran in hurriedly from outside, "Is it working? Let me see, let me see... oh my, this is the Central Channel, I know, this is the Central Channel broadcasting the news..."

Ye Chengyang's whole head was almost buried in front of the television, blocking everyone's view. A group of adults, like children, hurriedly moved his head away.

"Don't block it, why are you kids crowding so close? Go play on the side, don't get in the way here..."

"I want to watch television too..."

"Dongzi, hurry and see, is the button on the side for changing channels? I see other people's are changed by turning it. Is the one above for volume? Can you turn the volume up a bit?"

Ye Fu pulled Ye Chengyang, telling him not to block the front, and then said eagerly.

With a face full of excitement, he was like a child.

"I heard that you can only receive the Central Channel during the day, and you can only receive the local channel at night, so there are only two channels."

"That should be it, I just tried it, and now only this Central Channel can be received."

"Try again, try again, the signal is all adjusted, let me try..." Ye Fu rubbed his hands, wanting to get his hands on it. Even though he knew he couldn't receive other channels during the day, he still wanted to touch it and turn it a few times.

"Fine, then you try turning it and see."

"Is it this one? Just twist it, right? Let me try..."

The corners of Ye Fu's mouth couldn't stop smiling, his face full of joy, looking more excited than anyone else.

And at this moment, Ye Mu's shouting voice also rang out at the door, "Hurry up and come out, someone help move a table."

"Damn, my mother finally decided to come back!"

In the whole house, only Ye Yaodong was the most calm. It was really because this black-and-white television wasn't very good, and could only receive one Central Channel. As someone who had seen the world, watching this television was boring.

Hearing his mother's shouting outside, he hurriedly went out.

Only he was left, and only he was still clear-headed. Everyone else in the house was already fascinated, staring at the television with bright eyes. How could they move their eyes away, and how could they hear the shouting outside?

Even his wife was looking at the television with glowing eyes; it was a lie that she wanted to sell it, humph.

"Hurry up, why did it take you so long to come out? Is the television set up?"

"By the time you came back, the flowers would have withered. Mom, I'm impressed by you; you've been out for two hours."

"How can you blame me? When I went to the village committee, because everyone was off work, there wasn't a single person. I don't know where the old man who usually opens the door died. I waited for a long time before I saw him come back and say he went to the latrine, his legs were numb from squatting, and he found a rock nearby to sit and rest for a while. All of that was wasted time."

Ye Yaodong pouted; only a fool would believe his mother. How much time could that waste? Half an hour at most, right?

Ye Mu rolled her eyes at him, looking unconvinced, and complained righteously, "That old man is old, his memory is bad, and he looked for the warehouse key for a long time..."

"Right," Ye Yaodong replied in a devil-may-care manner, "And on the way back, you also ran into a few acquaintances, stopping and going, bragging, and chatting for a while, and that's how it got to this point..."

Ye Mu rolled her eyes at him and slapped him, "Hurry up and move it, stop nagging here. People asked me where I was going and what I was moving a table for, I had to stop and talk to them for a few words, otherwise people would think you got rich and turned your back on everyone."

"I was wishing I could come back early to watch television. Hehe, is it set up? Can we watch it right away? It's quite fast..."

"My father and I set it up for over an hour, and you call that fast? Do you think you came back quite early too?"

"What are you saying? You're bringing that up again, hurry up and see where the table should be put?"

"Put it here..."

The people in the house were still sitting motionless around the television; how could they notice that they had moved a table back?

As soon as Ye Mu put the table down, she hurriedly crowded in front of the television to take a few careful looks.

"It can be watched so fast, oh my, why hasn't the person speaking the news inside changed at all..."

She was excited, but not as agitated as the others, because she often ran to other people's houses to watch television, and had seen it more times than she could count, so it wasn't that rare.

But Ye Yaodong called several times, asking his mother to wipe the table first. His mother was also fascinated like the others, and excitedly discussed with Ye Fu about why there were no changes in costumes...

He shook his head helplessly, and could only wring out a rag himself, wipe the table first, and after wiping it, he said, "Move aside, come back to your senses, come back to your senses, everyone move aside, I'm going to move the television and put it on the table."

He patted his mother's shoulder twice, "Move aside first, wait until I move the television to the table, then you can watch it slowly, okay?"

"Oh, then you move it, then you move it, be careful, don't break it, handle with care... let your father do it, your father has more strength..."

"Right, right, right, I'll do it, I'll do it..." Ye Fu responded very actively.

Ye Yaodong helplessly spread his hands and let his father do it.

After his father moved the television from the dining table to the desk, the moment he put it down, the television turned into a screen full of static again.

"Oh my, why is it gone?"

"Ah? It's gone?"

"Is it broken somewhere?" The old lady hurriedly patted Ye Fu twice, "Look at how clumsy you are, it was just bought and you broke it. If you didn't want to show off, you should have let Dongzi move it. This is several hundred yuan..."

Ye Yaodong didn't wait for Ye Fu to talk back, and patted the television a few times...

This scared the others, who hurriedly pounced to stop him.

"Ah! Don't hit it, don't hit it... it'll break, don't hit it..."

"Eh? It's okay? It's okay again? There's someone again? The television is okay again..."

"This... this works by just patting it twice?"

Everyone looked at the television curiously, then looked at him...

Ye Yaodong was extremely helpless, "Just patted it a few times, such a big iron gadget, how could it break from patting? Isn't it watchable again?"

Lin Xiuqing didn't know what to say either, "You can't just pat it randomly, right? If the signal is bad, go outside and move the bamboo pole, and receive it again. If you pat it so randomly, what if you really break it? It was just bought, so we have to take better care of it, right?"

The others also hurriedly agreed with her, "That's right, how can you pat it so casually."

"How could it break so easily from patting it twice? Alright, as long as it's watchable, you guys watch it slowly, I'm going to the beach to check on the boat."

If he stayed any longer, watching their silly expressions, he wouldn't be able to hold it in.

The old lady held his hand, "Aren't you watching television? It was just bought, don't you want to watch it for a while? You haven't even taken a look and you're going to work."

"I don't like watching television, I'm not interested in this. It was bought for you guys to watch anyway, as long as you like it. I'm not working, just going to check on the boat, I don't know how the painting is going."

He would just watch the news broadcast at 7 PM.

Ye Fu spoke up, "Then go check it. I bought the paint at the small shop in the village this morning, it's not as good as the paint you bought in town before. It was only finished around noon, it hasn't been long, it shouldn't have dried that fast, and there was no sun today."

"Did Aqing give you the money for the paint? If not, let Aqing remember to give it to you in a while."

"She gave it, she gave it."

"Then that's fine, you guys sit and watch for a while, I'll go to the beach and check first."

The people in the house didn't care about him anymore, their attention was all in front of the television, each moved a stool, sat in a row, and didn't even blink their eyes.

Although it was just the Central Channel broadcasting the news, it was enough to make them curious.

This was their own television!

Before Ye Yaodong stepped out of the house, he turned back to remind, "Mom, aren't you going to work again?"

"Ah!" Ye Mu suddenly realized, patted her thigh, and hurriedly stood up.

"Going to work again? This is such a waste, my butt just touched the stool, I haven't even eaten, and I have to go to work again? I just went back and forth, how did time pass so fast?"

Ye Yaodong: Not mentioning how long you wasted on the road?

Lin Xiuqing was holding Ye Xiaoxi in her arms, to prevent her from running to the television and mischievously shaking the table legs, so she didn't stand up, just said, "Mom, take that lunch box and pack some food to eat, so you don't go hungry."

"Got it."

She responded with her mouth, but she couldn't bear to move her feet, her eyes still fixed on the television.

Ye Yaodong didn't care about her, it was her own job anyway.

He walked straight toward the beach.

When he came back, he was only thinking about how to explain and how to muddle through, so he didn't notice the two boats parked on the open ground by the shore.

Now he walked up to take a look, and found that the bottoms of both boats were scraped clean. Taking advantage of the Mazu parade in the next few days, he would maintain the boats and paint them, killing two birds with one stone.

It was just how to arrange the two boats next? He had to ponder it.

He still had to occasionally go into the water to find if there were any good things. It wouldn't be convenient to bring others, only his father was the most reliable.

Then the other boat would inevitably have to be handed over to Brother Asheng and the eldest cousin to operate.

Just hire them to drag nets for a wage. Without supervising them on the boat, he didn't know if they would do their best.

Anyway, it was just a fixed wage, they would get the same wage regardless of how much work they did. It would be fine in the short term, but it was hard to say in the long term.

But, it wouldn't be long before he ran to Zhejiang Province. If he took the boat out and partnered with others, it would be hard to take it back, and the difference in money would be large.

He circled the two boats, pondering in his heart, or just let them drag nets in the nearby waters.

This way he could see if the fishing boats were working. Anyway, when he went into the water, it was in the afternoon when he was collecting the ground cages and shrimp cages, and he would go down two or three times.

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