Chapter 261 Collect money
Stayed in the old house for a long time, until his father, mother and younger sister came back, he told his mother that the basket of fish and shrimp was for her to feed the chickens.
Mother Ye complained: "It's a waste of things. I know there's an earthquake, but I don't know how much to take back the ground cage. How much does such a big basket cost? I only earned one or two dollars for picking shrimp skins for a day..."
Ye Yaodong felt that if he told her that it was the same as last time, he picked and threw it to feed the seabirds, and wondered if his mother would hit someone?
This is also a matter of habit. If the fish and shrimp caught at sea are not good, everyone throws them into the sea. Seabirds can catch them, and those that don’t catch them will sink and return to the sea. No one will bother to pick them up alone.
"Whoever wants you, feed it to chickens and ducks. Stop nagging, I'm leaving."
"Whoever wants it from the neighbors, let's take it. It looks like I will raise a few more chickens next year..."
Ye Yaodong put the basket covered with rags on the cart, and when he walked far away, he could still hear his mother yelling at the neighbors.
Lin Xiuqing was already cooking at home, and as soon as he entered the house with a basket of corals, two boys ran up, one hugged his thigh and tried to climb up, and the other tiptoed to get his basket .
"Father, what delicious food do you buy? Show me... have a look..."
"Oil cake... Cake... Canned food... Maltose..." Ye Chengyang tugged on his pants, looking up with a bright face.
Ye Chenghu's eyes lit up, "Is that right, Dad?"
"It's your head, yes, I've been thinking about eating it every day, do you want to eat 'Wugengchui'? Go away..."
"Then what's in the basket?"
"Why are children so curious?"
Ye Yaodong raised his foot, dragging the pendant on his leg, struggling to go into the house.
Lin Xiuqing also asked him curiously, "What's in the basket?"
"Shu Shan, I just went to the old lady in the old house to get it. She said it was useless to let her go. If I knew I wanted it, I would just pretend it for me."
"I got them all back? So many, taking up too much space..."
"Then put it in my closet, it won't hinder you."
Hmph... One or two feel like they take up space, just wait a few decades and stop laughing.
"Father, didn't you take something to eat?"
"Go, go, go... while going..."
"Father, when will you go to the town to buy us delicious food?"
"Do you want to eat fart? I'll give you one now!" Saying that, Ye Yaodong really broke out...
"Ah...it stinks..."
"Ah... it stinks, it stinks... Dad, just let it go!"
The two heard a loud noise, and immediately pinched their noses to avoid it.
"Huh, where does it stink, loud farts don't stink, stinky farts don't make loud noises!"
"I know, I know, serial farts are stinky and loud!" Ye Chenghu said excitedly, as if connected to a couplet.
Ye Yaodong squinted at this idiot son, is this worthy of his happiness?
He first took a basket of corals back to the house, and then killed the remaining fish. He steamed a one-jin Huangshan fish, and cut two white pomfrets into slices for his wife to cook hot and sour soup.
In the past few months, he has often helped kill fish. He is already very proficient in his business. He can cook and cut it as he wants. By the way, he also marinated the sliced white pomfret with seasoning.
Huangshan fish is also seasoned, put some **** and garlic directly on the rice, and steam the fish while cooking.
The two children have been wandering around him, chasing him and asking when he will go to town again, the front and back are particularly in the way.
"Don't follow my **** anymore, or I will reward you two **** again!"
"Cut~ you put it again, you put it again~" Ye Chenghu said while naughtyly patting his father's ass.
As a result, at this moment, Ye Yaodong collapsed again, his face changed color in fright, and he jumped to the side.
Ye Chengyang was also unresponsive, holding his nose and running towards his brother belatedly.
"Ah, Dad, you are too much, you fart as you say?"
"Don't let go of farts, hold back your heart, squeeze hard without farts, keep fit! I told you to go away, who told you not to go away, and slapped my ass."
After eating two farts in a row, Ye Chenghu glared at him angrily, not daring to get closer, for fear of another one.
Lin Xiuqing sat in front of the stove and smiled happily, "Go and play with you, I will call you later for dinner, don't get in the way here, or your father will squeeze two out at any time."
"Ah, it's too much, it's too much, I want to tell Brother A Hai, Dad is the king of farting..."
He said and ran away.
"You brat, you're going to ruin my reputation again!"
"What reputation do you have among them?"
"It's too much, I buy food for them every three days, and talk small things about me every day!"
"I am disrespectful to the old, and I like to tease them all day long, so I am ashamed to say it."
"Obviously they are not big or small."
"That's your fault too, you don't have the majesty of the third uncle."
"What's majestic, majestic, pick up the whip and scare them to death."
After the rice was cooked, she pretended to let others eat first, and Lin Xiuqing immediately cooked the soup.
Men and women work together without being tired.
Pour out the soup after the pomfret is marinated, add some sweet potato powder and stir, then put some **** and garlic, celery, and sour bamboo shoots pickled by Lin Mu, and then put some chili and pepper powder, but unfortunately there is no enoki mushroom.
Drinking a bowl of hot and sour soup in winter warms up the whole body.
"You didn't go to sea tomorrow, did you? Either go and harvest all the radishes in the field, take advantage of the good weather these two days, shred them and let's dry some radish shreds, and the winter solstice is more than half a month away, so we can make some rice dumplings .”
"Okay, the old lady is also there in the afternoon to make rice dumplings."
He originally planned to rest for two days, and then took advantage of the good weather to go to sea a few times, but his father suffered from rheumatism, so he took it easy.
This disease cannot be cured, it is quite troublesome, and it is easy to relapse. His father will definitely not talk about it. If the old lady did not mention it in the afternoon, he would not know.
"It must be thinking about your favorite food."
"Are you thinking about me too? That's why you start talking about me early?"
Lin Xiuqing refused to admit it, "I was thinking that the winter solstice is coming soon, and I want to sacrifice the stove."
The local custom is to eat rice dumplings during the winter solstice, and sacrifice to the stove. If you sacrifice to the stove, use glutinous rice balls. This is a small sacrifice, a small festival and a big festival.
"Duplicity!" Ye Yaodong grinned happily, "I'll harvest the sweet potatoes from the field tomorrow, and let's plant some cabbage by the way."
"Okay, by the way, sprinkle some spinach and chrysanthemum seeds."
"Is the little sister's dowry ready?"
"The quilt has been sewn, and the clothes are still a little bit worse. It should be ready in two days."
"The winter solstice is over..."
Lin Xiuqing nodded, it was still early, and she remembered another important thing, "Can we take the money for the abalone?"
She has been thinking about this all the time, and because in the past two days, Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Ye asked her every day if she got the money and how much she sold it for. She always said that she didn't get the money, and she didn't know.
In fact, she really didn't know.
No, when they came back from picking out the shrimp skins at night, they asked again that they could go and get them.
She cares more about how much her house can sell than she does!
"Well, when I came back just now, I told Cai that I would go there after dinner."
"Then eat quickly, don't go until it's dark. It's cold now, and everyone is lying down when it's dark."
"I'll just go, you wait at home."
Lin Xiuqing has no objection, she can't help anyway, he also knows a lot of words now, when he didn't know how to read, it was not easy to deceive, and now it is even more difficult to fool.
Ye Yaodong pulled in the leftover food and went to settle accounts and get money.
Ah Cai, it looks quite reliable now.
Abalones are 277 catties and 3 taels in total. They are weighed uniformly at the purchase point, and they are not all poured out to pick the size, because after picking a bag, most of them belong to seven or eight heads of abalone, so there is no time to pick the rest.
But when Ah Cai was looking for a buyer, he carefully selected them all. The specifications are different, and the price is of course also different.
Although most of them are abalones with seven or eight heads, but after careful selection, some of them have reached the specification of five abalones. This part also weighs more than 10 catties, and the six-head abalones also have more than 20, which can be sold for a little more money.
The saying of how many heads of abalone comes from the weight, that is, how many can be weighed in a catty.
Abalones with 2 pieces per catty are called double-headed abalones, and abalones with 3 pieces per catty are called 3-headed abalones...
6 abalones per catty are called 6 abalones...and so on.
Generally, the larger the size, the longer the growth cycle, the better the quality, and the more expensive the price.
Double-headed abalone is very precious, so there is a saying in the market that "two-headed abalone is hard to buy".
Although the ones he received were not of the highest quality, they were still very good. Those abalones, conchs, and temporary goods of the day sold a total of 1080.
This number was rounded up by Ah Cai to give him an integer.
Ye Yaodong accepted it happily, "Thank you very much."
"Haha, I should thank you."
"Win-win, win-win..."
A Cai smiled and pulled out two cigarettes for him, "Your boy has been against the sky for the past few months. I heard that you are about to become a household of ten thousand yuan?"
"Damn it, don't embarrass me. Do you believe the rumors in the village? Don't you know how much I earn? If there are ten thousand households in our village, you must be the first!"
"Don't... I just earn a little hard money. The pig raising in the next village broke out at the beginning of the year, and now the family is still in peace."
"So, those false names are useless, making a fortune in silence is the kingly way."
It's a pity that his harvest basically has to go ashore. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, most people know it in their hearts.
Never mind him, anyway, as long as he refuses to admit it, he just says he owes money, and fortunately there is a boat to cover it up.
"Yes, I didn't expect you to be young, but you can see it quite clearly. Generally, older people can't resist that vanity, let alone young people."
Ye Yaodong smiled, "I underestimate people, brother, you are also a sensible person, look at your stomach. It is easier for others than for yourself."
"Hahaha…"
"Let's go, I have to share the money. I didn't earn it alone. I really don't earn much. It's all rumored by those gossips in the village!"
"Haha, I understand, I understand!"
(end of this chapter)