Chapter 5 Cabbage melon with green flower peel
The whole family saw the farce just now. From the beginning to the end, Ye Yaopeng told Ye Yaohua that it was a lie that he was not envious. Even their little sister Ye Huimei was also very envious.
Although the old lady was very kind to their juniors, she couldn't compare to Ye Yaodong. The old lady had him in her heart.
There are four brothers and sisters, and more than a dozen cousins. I heard that only he was delivered by grandma himself, and he was born on the beach almost too late.
Then as soon as she was born, she smiled at her while holding her in her arms, and immediately got her eyelids, which hurt from childhood to adulthood.
As soon as he entered the room, Father Ye was still angry, smoking a hookah and glaring at him!
To be honest, he still doesn't understand what he said wrong? Let his parents explode together!
manner?
Or the accumulated hatred of iron but not steel?
He thought about it in his heart, let's just have these two, otherwise why would his parents be angry?
"Caigua, I told you to keep one for Dongzi, did you keep it?"
As soon as the old lady sat down, she saw a group of children gnawing on a piece of vegetable melon, and asked hurriedly, lest Ye Yaodong didn't eat it.
Ye Yaodong's younger sister, Ye Huimei, ate and said, "Keep it on the stove, third brother can take it by himself."
Everyone cut up and ate, only him, alone!
Moreover, everyone is not surprised, even the children don't have any opinions, the third uncle is special!
Ye Yaodong looked at the vegetable melons with green flowers on the stove. They were oval and only a little longer than an adult's palm. He just saw a few that were very long and big, like a mallet. They were probably cut up and eaten. Leave him the youngest.
This is his favorite melon. At this time, many people grow it, and it is very cheap. In later generations, few people grow this variety. They are all white-skinned and round melons. He has not eaten them for many years.
He walked towards the earthen stove. The vegetables and melons had been washed clean, and there were still drops of water on them.
Looking at the cutting board and kitchen knife on the stove, the juice and seeds were still left, he also put the vegetable melon on it and cut it into large pieces, took a vegetable plate at random, and walked towards his grandma.
"Grandma, you eat one too!"
The old lady waved her hand with a smile, "I have no teeth, I can't bite, why do you still cut it..."
Although he really wanted to eat it, he wouldn’t enjoy it to himself. There were not many of them in total, and the family had a large population.
Seeing that the old lady really had no teeth to chew on, he gave another piece to each of his two children, and another piece to his wife.
This behavior made Lin Xiuqing look sideways again.
Judging from the past, shouldn't he just pick it up and eat it? Why did he cut it up and share it with everyone?
After Lin Xiuqing took it, he took one piece by himself, and put the rest on the table for everyone to pick up.
"Third brother, have you changed your gender?"
"Can't stop your mouth after eating?"
Ye Huimei pursed her mouth, not daring to speak anymore.
"Oh, don't waste that money, half of my body is about to fall into the ground, and porridge with tofu and fermented milk is enough, and I have to eat fast for half a month..."
"You can eat meat on the days when you are not fasting, that's it!"
"I'm already at this age, why do I still eat meat? Fish is not as delicious as meat. We seaside people just eat fish." The old lady had a smile on her old face, but she was actually very happy and very useful!
"Fish is better than fish, and meat is better. Let's eat both."
Everyone in the room watched their interaction, thinking to themselves, the youngest has a bit of conscience towards the old lady, and it is not in vain that the old lady loves him so much.
Mother Ye came in after peeling the corn husks, and Mrs. Ye greeted her, "Mother, let me cook."
"It's okay, I'll come, you go and watch the children."
The old lady looked at Father Ye and said: "I saw that the silk of the corn is black and it is almost ripe. In two days, you can break the corn cob with me, so as not to let it grow in the ground for too long. It is too old and it is not good to eat."
Father Ye stared at him with the hookah, "I don't have time, the boat has just been repaired, and taking advantage of the abundance of newcomers, I have to take the boss and the second to go out to sea a few more times to see if I can get another big one! Riyou is idle, you ask him to bring a few small ones, and just pick them up after breaking them."
"It's no wonder he can move. He doesn't see anyone all day long. I'll take the children to accompany the mother to break it." Mother Ye grabbed a handful of straw, took a match to ignite the fire, and threw it into the stove. over the phone.
As soon as he said that the third child could not pick, Father Ye thought of the fact that the brigade had arranged for him to pick millet a few years ago, but he ended up picking the ditch, and was half-dead in anger!
"What's the use, such a big person can't even pick up millet and corn, but he can also pick it into the ditch, making people laugh..."
Ye Yaodong: "..."
It’s all about the rotten millet, and his father can remember it so well, although...although he was indeed a little useless when he was young...
However, when he was reborn, he planned to change his mind and behave himself...
Lin Xiuqing felt that it was not good for him to be her own man, being rejected by her own father in front of so many people, so she quickly changed the topic to save Ye Yaodong.
"Mom, the first day of junior high school will be in two days. The tide has receded a lot recently. Don't we have to go to the sea?"
"It's okay, don't delay, there are such a large group of children, let the third child take them to break the corn cobs, tell me when they are broken, and I will pick them."
Ye Yaodong didn’t say a word, and the matter was already arranged for him. In fact, he wanted to say that he could…
But he swallowed it back again, and he couldn't be in a hurry to express it, lest it be too abnormal, just pick it back when the time comes.
Because they were poor and couldn't afford to build a house, they never separated, and the whole family ate and drank together.
It’s just that each house collects the money earned by doing casual labor and fishing nets by itself, and because it relies on the sea to eat the sea, and the seaside products are rich, and it doesn’t need to spend much money to eat and drink. There is no big contradiction.
And his father used all his earnings to repair the boat, so it was left by his father. Repairing a boat is more cost-effective than building or buying one.
Seaside people, who doesn't want to have a boat at home, can sail to go fishing, and improve their family life.
Father Ye is also eager, so he has been making money to repair the boat for the past two years.
Now that the boat is repaired and ready to go to sea, of course he has to work hard to take the two boys in the family to go fishing. Anyway, the third child is not cured, and when the family conditions improve, he can be pulled out at that time.
The old lady saw that the whole family was busy, and even the third child was sent to work, so she hurriedly said: "There is no rush to break the corn, and there is nothing wrong with a few days later, just breaking a basket every day to satisfy everyone's hunger, and breaking it all at once is not new." gone."
Mother Ye didn't even turn her head, she just stared at the fire in the stove, "Just don't worry, it's not worth a lot anyway, so don't set up a stall to sell it, just eat a little bit every day, if you are too old, you can eat it." Keep it as a seed, and we'll turn it over for you when it's empty."
(end of this chapter)