Chapter 877: Returning

Ye Yaodong wasn't in a hurry to eat. Aqing and his parents hadn't come over yet, so he let the three children eat first.

The three guys played wildly all day, over-exercising, and had long been hungry enough to swallow a cow, but their desire to play was too heavy, and they were reluctant to go home.

Only now, holding the rice bowl, did they start frantically devouring it. Even Ye Xiaoxi stood on the stool, holding a spoon and scooping it into her mouth in large mouthfuls, also extremely hungry.

The old lady sat by Ye Xiaoxi's side, preventing her from falling, and smiled as she picked vegetables for the three of them in turn.

"Played all afternoon and were starving. Called you to come back to eat corn and drink mung bean soup, but you wouldn't listen."

The three of them buried their heads in the bowls, didn't raise their heads to respond, and only cared about eating.

"Eating so well, there are snacks, boiled corn, and mung bean soup. Why is it so cool?"

"Your eldest brother-in-law brought half a bag of mung beans yesterday. I sprouted some, thinking of cooking some and adding some sugar. Sweet and refreshing, let them relieve the heat. Who knew they were so busy, running outside all the time, and had no time to eat."

"I even cooked an extra pot, poured it into a bucket separately, and put it in the corner. It won't go bad if I don't stir it. I'll bring it to the boat for you to drink tonight."

Ye Yaodong was satisfied. As long as he wasn't left out.

The three children started competing while eating, seeing who could eat faster. Rice grains fell all over the table. However, after eating, they didn't forget to pick up the rice grains on the table and eat them clean.

Because the old lady kept chanting that if the rice wasn't eaten clean, the Thunder God would get angry and thunder.

Lin Xiuqing also entered the door one after another with her parents after the three children finished eating.

"Why so long? Called for so long. What are my parents busy with? Don't know to come over when eating, and still need people to urge them three times."

"Chatted a few more words. My sister-in-law was too excited, and couldn't stop talking once she started," she said with a full face of smiles, her eyebrows and eyes carrying smiles, "You can't guess how much money she sold today!"

This sentence aroused his curiosity.

His parents also heard it as soon as they entered the door, and were also curious. Everyone asked in unison: "How much money sold?"

"32 yuan and 13 cents! It excited my sister-in-law. This day almost earned back a month's rent. If she works for another half a month, the rent for a year will be earned back, and everything after that will be profit."

Ye Mu was also stunned, "So profitable? This day earned my month's salary! Then aren't the buns and steamed buns only three to five cents? How can they sell so much money?"

"There are too many people. My sister-in-law said it's fortunate that the children at home were brought over to help, otherwise they wouldn't be able to handle it. From two o'clock in the morning, people came to buy buns and steamed buns, and until eight or nine o'clock, they didn't stop at all. They temporarily steamed one cage after another. It's fortunate that there was more dough that had risen well."

"Even a basket of eggs brought from home was sold more than half in the morning. They were boiled and sold at the same time. Originally, they thought they could use them for several days, and then in the afternoon, they went to the village to temporarily collect two large baskets, otherwise, it wouldn't be enough to sell tomorrow."

Ye Yaodong also understood. It turned out there were eggs for sale, no wonder they could sell thirty-something yuan in the morning.

"Originally, they thought about cooking some noodle soup to sell at noon. Later, they didn't even need to cook noodle soup, they couldn't handle it at all. Several children were exhausted. They got up in the middle of the night, worked all morning, and fell asleep on the table at noon."

"They left the prepared noodles for themselves to eat. In the afternoon, they had to prepare more buns and steamed buns in advance, and cook more eggs to put there, saying that tea eggs are easier to sell than boiled eggs. They soaked two large basins in advance in the afternoon."

Lin Xiuqing also said with a full face of smiles. Originally, she was still a bit uneasy in her heart. Her eldest brother paid more than 500 in rent at once, which was equivalent to what their family saved in a year. She didn't know how much they could earn, but now her heart also fell back.

"Then your parents will be convenient to eat in the future, just go to your eldest brother and sister-in-law's side to eat, saving them from having to open the fire themselves." Ye Fu said.

"Right, they are also much easier, don't need to make three meals a day themselves."

The old lady put their rice on the table, smiled, and called them to sit down and talk, "Talk while eating, it's so late."

"Just selling some buns and steamed buns is so profitable? No wonder there are so many vendors on the streets. I guess those who carry things over to sell are also very profitable."

"Mom, don't spread it. My sister-in-law told me not to spread it, otherwise, a bunch of people will follow suit, and it might not be easy to earn."

"Good, good, good, I won't say it, I'll let it rot in my stomach. We know it ourselves. I just think this is so profitable, it's too wasteful for your second brother's shop to be empty there." Ye Mu was also a bit tempted in her heart.

"It will definitely be rented out. Whether the business is good or not, people who come and go can see it."

"I just think if our own family opens a shop, I guess we can earn quite a lot, and save the rent..."

Ye Fu was also very tempted, but still shook his head, "Earning money is earning money, but who in the family will open it? There are boats there, where can they walk away? What's more, Dongzi's brother-in-law is opening a breakfast shop over there. You can't open the same one next to it. If it's said out, I'm afraid people will talk."

"What are you thinking? Second brother has a boat here, and shares there, where can he walk away? Now there are many industries that earn money, but the family must be able to spare manpower."

Don't count on relatives and friends. It's not that everyone is willing to take out 540 to pay the rent.

So much money is equivalent to the annual income of most families. Where would they be willing? How much money is earned depends on someone else's mouth. Who knows if it's true or false. And earning money by doing this, who knows if they can earn money by doing other things.

Ye Mu looked regretful, "I just think since it's so profitable, it's too wasteful for the shop to be empty there."

"Wait and see, how long has it been."

"Eat first. Anyway, it's a good thing Big Brother can rent it out, and it's a good thing my brother-in-law can earn money."

Ye Fu changed the subject, "Today, the village is talking everywhere about you ordering another big boat. I see many people are quite tempted. Quite a few people came to ask me, wanting us to take them to the shipyard to take a look."

"Talk about it when free. We are not free either."

"Hmm, I said the same thing, and also told them the address. They can go see it themselves if they want to take time in advance, they don't have to ask us to take them. Your eldest brother can also go take a look with them."

Ye Yaodong nodded. He mentioned his eldest brother's visit yesterday to his father when he went out to sea during the day, but his mother didn't know.

"What? Does your eldest brother also want to buy? Didn't he say he had no money before."

Ye Fu took the conversation, "Now seeing that big boat can earn quite a lot in one trip, and Dongzi even bought one alone, isn't everyone tempted? It's normal for the eldest to have his mind active again. If the money is not enough, everyone can partner to buy, it doesn't have to be like Dongzi, buy one alone. How can one person afford to buy it? They all have to partner."

"Then who is he going to partner with? The Zhou brothers next door have 4 brothers themselves, why would they call an outsider to get involved? Even if they call, it's not easy for us to respond."

"Now there's not even a stroke of the eight characters. They are just chatting and talking about it there. It's nothing to go take a look. It's too early to talk about this now."

"Then when will you take him to take a look?"

"Know, know, also have to have a free time. Where is it said to go, and the work at home doesn't need to be done?"

Others also had the same idea as Ye Fu.

The village discussed it lively for two days. Many people were tempted, but unfortunately, no one took action. Each of them was reluctant to put down the work in their hands.

Ye Yaopeng was the same. Saying is saying, tempted is tempted, but his footsteps hadn't stepped out either.

Ye's eldest sister-in-law came out to walk around these two days, and there was a shallow smile on her face, unlike the expressionless face of the past few days.

It wasn't until A Guang's big boat returned a day earlier than the last time that they had some happy and some sad again.

Their fishing boat returned when it was dark. Ye Yaodong was cooling off at the door after eating, when Chen Qishui, who had been sent by him to work on the boat, suddenly ran to their door and shouted at him, and only then did he sit up in surprise.

"Why are you back?"

"The boat is back. I and others first rowed a small boat to shore, and came to call you to go to the pier to open the boat to pick up the goods. Another person went to Guang Ge's house to notify."

"Ah, then I'll come."

Ye Yaodong hurriedly went to the side open space to call the few children who were playing wildly, let them send one to call Ye Fu to the pier. He himself also pushed the flatbed cart and hurriedly went.

While walking, he also asked Chen Qishui, "Last time it took 5 days, why did it only take 4 days this time? I thought that since it earned money last time, Pei Shu would stay at sea for a few more days."

"The wind and waves on the outer sea are a bit big. Pei Shu said that a typhoon might come in a few days. To be safe, we came back today to rest."

"Is that so? I said why it's a bit cool tonight, and there is wind. There was no wind at all a few days ago. I was also wondering if a typhoon was coming."

"We also heard it from the fresh-receiving boat. The fresh-receiving boat said yesterday that it also needs to prepare to return to port these two days."

"When returning in the afternoon, the sea was still okay."

"I don't know if we will be affected here? When we just returned, there were already some waves. Pei Shu was muttering there that the typhoon shouldn't arrive that fast, saying that if we stayed for one more day, it would also be okay."

"Since a typhoon is coming, it's better to come back early."

"Pei Shu said it's not that fast, it might take a few days to be affected."

After Ye Yaodong responded, he changed the subject and asked him if there were many goods these few days?

Chen Qishui was instantly excited and said: "Dong Ge, you don't know, at first when I saw a net come up with more than 2,000 jin, I already thought it was enough, and was almost stunned."

"I didn't expect that none of the nets that came up during the day today were lower than 3,000 jin. The most one had actually had 4,000 jin. The mast was bent severely. My eyes were straight. I didn't expect that one net would have so much, enough for two nets normally."

"Pei Shu said it should be because the wind and waves rose, so there were more goods today. After that bag of goods was released, the whole boat and the whole deck were covered. We picked the goods for almost two hours."

Chen Qishui's eyes were shining, his face was beaming, and he was spraying saliva while talking, extremely excited.

"So many? Big wind and big waves have big goods!"

"And big fish! That 4,000 jin is also Pei Shu's rough estimate. This net has a lot of big fish. We threw away a lot of useless small crabs, and various jellyfish and useless sea goods, but there were still a lot of small miscellaneous fish and small shrimp."

"Then there are more brought back today than the previous few days?"

"Much more, about half more. There was no place to put them. They were piled up in the miscellaneous warehouse and on the deck. After the goods were sold ashore, those miscellaneous goods were moved to the fish warehouse."

Ye Yaodong nodded. Then it should be quite busy at night. After transporting these goods home later, he would go call Wang Guangliang and that group of people to come over to help work.

These past few days, every time he came back, he heard Aqing say that they sent a flatbed cart of firewood from time to time. Tonight, the workshop starts working, but it's not short of firewood.

These few are also smart. From the beginning, they knew to send firewood, and they haven't fallen behind until now.

When they arrived at the pier, just after parking the flatbed cart, he saw his father calling him from behind, and the sound of bicycle bells in the distance. It should be A Guang.

He waited on the side. After his father and A Guang both came over, he called them to board the boat.

Ye Fu didn't know that it might be a typhoon, so the fishing boat returned early. As soon as he boarded the boat, he asked: "This trip returned quite fast..."

Others explained it to him, and only then did he know. His first reaction was, "Then tomorrow can be a rest. It just so happens to take your eldest brother and the others to the shipyard to take a look."

Ye Fu didn't say it on his lips, but he was still quite concerned about Ye Yaopeng.

"Does Big Brother also want to buy a boat?" A Guang asked.

Ye Fu was suddenly a bit embarrassed. At that time, Ye Yaopeng disliked this boat and said he wouldn't partner. Now turning around and being tempted to buy a boat, isn't this a slap in the face?

He chuckled awkwardly, "The Zhou brothers next door are a bit tempted. A few days ago, they pulled him to chat and mentioned the boat matter, so they thought about asking Dongzi to take them to the shipyard to take a look."

"Oh, oh, quite a few people in the village have also been asking our family these days. I guess they will all have to go with you when the time comes. Dongzi just happens to go see how the boat is being built."

Although he felt in his heart that his brother-in-law was slapped in the face, he didn't show it in front of his father-in-law. If only Dongzi was there, he would have to mock him well.

Ye Yaodong echoed, "Hmm, if there's no going out to sea tomorrow, then let's go together."

Ye Fu also said: "If there's going tomorrow, I'll go too."

"When will the new wooden buckets be delivered, Dad? Those miscellaneous goods left today are said to be half more than the previous few days. Must urge them, otherwise there's nothing to hold them."

"More? Then I'll run a trip later to see. If there are ready-made ones, take a few first. The ones bought a few days ago can hold quite a lot."

While they were talking, the big and small boats were also side by side.

The people on the boat were all sitting there, just waiting for them. All the goods in the fish warehouse had been moved out and were all on the deck.

Seeing the boat arrive, they started moving. Ye Yaodong and Ye Fu and the others couldn't care about exchanging pleasantries, and started working first. ===== CHAPTER 878 =====