It took me two days to go to sea and work diligently. I didn’t expect the cold air to come and cool down on the third day.
When sleeping at night, Ye Yaodong could hear the doors and windows being slammed by the wind, and the outside wind whistling.
He tightened the quilt, and pulled the quilt over the wife and daughter next to him, but he didn't touch the child for a while.
He stretched out his hands and touched the inside of the bed several times, only to find it was empty. He sat up quickly, but the room was pitch black and he couldn’t see anything, so he could only touch the bed with his hands.
"What are you doing? It's late at night, you're not tired, it's already midnight..."
Ye Yaodong: "???"
"I touch the baby!"
"Huh? Child?" Lin Xiuqing was stunned for a moment, and reached out to touch the side, but without touching it, she also sat up.
"Where did he get off? This child is not honest in his sleep. Ever since he was able to turn over, he is just like her two elder brothers. He keeps rolling and looking around at night."
"She rolls around during the day and looks around in the middle of the night. Those two look around during the day and roll around in the middle of the night."
"Where did you sleep..."
The couple groped around on the bed, thinking about it. They almost searched the whole bed before finding the child at the opening in the railing at the end of the bed.
One of her feet has come out, hanging from the edge of the bed, her upper body and the other foot are still curled up on the bed.
"Why do you sleep like this?" After Ye Yaodong touched the child, he picked her up and put her in the deepest part of the bed, dumbfounded.
"I slept so badly that my hands and feet were cold."
"Going to bed, it sounds like it's windy outside, I probably won't be able to go out to sea tomorrow."
After covering the child with the quilt, he also returned to his position and lay down.
Lin Xiuqing also lay down, "It's very cold, it's good to rest for two days, the yard is full of sun, and there is almost no place to dry it."
"I'm afraid that there will be no weather in the future."
"Just wait and see. If you let it dry out today, you should be able to get four to five thousand catties. It's enough to deliver a few times, otherwise it's too much and there's no place to pile it up."
"It's okay, as long as it doesn't rain."
"Crow mouth! Sleeping."
"What are you sleeping for? You're already awake, anyway, you probably won't be able to go to sea tomorrow."
Ye Yaodong is extremely sober at the moment, and it is quite difficult for him to fall asleep immediately. If he can't fall asleep, he has to do something else.
Lin Xiuqing clapped his hands twice, "Stop making trouble, it's late, go to bed quickly."
"Can't sleep."
"Close your eyes for a while and fall asleep."
"It's closed, I can't sleep."
"You keep moving your hands, it's no wonder you can sleep."
"Exercise to sleep well." Ye Yaodong turned over and pressed on after finishing speaking.
Lin Xiuqing quickly pulled up the quilt to cover him, so as not to get cold.
"Why do you still have so much milk..." Ye Yaodong mumbled.
"What would a child eat without milk? Just lighten up..."
The cold wind outside the house whizzed and howled, but inside the bed was full of heat, and the breath was rotten.
In the early morning of the second day, the wind outside the house was still whistling, but Ye Yaodong woke up early because of his biological clock, and Lin Xiuqing beside him had already disappeared, only Ye Xiaoxi was still huddled in a corner and sleeping soundly.
He lay down for a while but found that he couldn't lie down, so he simply got up and went out to have a look.
The old lady was wearing presbyopic glasses, sitting on an armchair and holding a crochet woolen slippers. She had been crocheting for a few days, and the woolen slippers in her hand seemed to be taking shape.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, she looked up and saw Ye Yaodong coming out, and hurriedly said: "The temperature has dropped today, the frost is heavy, the roof is all white, and the wind and waves outside are also strong, so you can't go out to the sea, you should sleep a little longer."
"I know, when I heard the movement at night, I knew I couldn't go to sea today, and I just couldn't sleep, so I just got up."
"Then you put on an extra layer of clothes and wrap it around with a scarf, and you will sit in front of the stove to warm up later. There are rice dumplings hot in the pot. They were made with the squid you caught yesterday. They are very fresh. You haven't eaten them yet. I will eat two more later."
When he came back last night, he saw many baskets hanging on the porch. In this kind of cold weather, putting them outside and covering them with a cloth is equivalent to a natural refrigerator.
"Understood, where is Ah Qing?"
"I went to do laundry, but I haven't come back yet."
"It's cold and windy, what kind of clothes do you wash?"
"If you don't wash it, what do you wear for work? And the child's diaper stinks, it's so convenient to tell you. Don't look at Ah Qing staying at home all day, there are many things to be busy with, take a little time, and take care of yourself." They are all knitting with sweaters." The old lady also said something to him on a rare occasion.
Ye Yaodong rubbed his nose, and silently went to wash his face and brush his teeth.
As soon as he opened the back door, the cold wind blew into his face, causing him to shiver instantly.
The sky also looks gloomy. This kind of weather is suitable for sleeping in bed. Why does he wake up so early?
While brushing his teeth, he thought, since he can't go to sea today, he might as well choose another day to hit the sun, and go directly to his father later, and the two of them will go to the shipyard to have a look.
Going to see it early, he can also make plans early, otherwise he will be afraid that he will not be free in two days.
Father Ye was plucking radishes by the back door early in the morning. It was so windy today that he didn't have to work and it didn't rain.
Recently, the whole family is busy drying dried fish, and the radishes, cabbage, and sweet potatoes in the field are all empty. At this time in previous years, they would take advantage of the free weather to dry dried radishes, shredded sweet potatoes or make sweet potato powder.
He was bending over and had just pulled out a basket of radishes when Ye Yaodong came.
"Father."
"It's just in time, help me wash all the radishes, and slice them to dry later."
"It's okay, I can do it even if I blow it, maybe the sun will come out at noon."
"Come on, don't worry about this, let's take advantage of today's free time and go to the shipyard."
"Today?" Father Ye straightened his back in surprise, and looked at him, "So anxious, didn't you say you'd wait until the deliveries come back?"
"Isn't this thinking that you are idle today, and you get up early, so let's go and have a look together? Go early and return early, so you can save yourself from thinking about it all the time."
"Then you didn't say it earlier, I pulled out half of the carrot."
"Who knows that you have nothing to do and are too full to eat, and you get up early in the morning to pull carrots. Wouldn't you wait for a few boys to come to work after school in the evening? Go wash your hands, go, don't be busy."
"Then...then leave it here." Father Ye was a bit reluctant to do half of the work, and this trip would take a long time, which was too much time.
"Let's go, if you don't go, I will go by myself."
"Ah? That's fine, I'll go with you." Father Ye didn't hesitate anymore, "You help me lift this basket of radishes out of the house first."
"trouble."
After Ye Yaodong muttered something, he and his father pushed a basket of radishes into the house, and then the two of them pushed the bicycle out.
"Why didn't you call the tractor today, but also pushed the bicycle, which is rare."
"No money! Money must be spent wisely!"
"you know too?"
Father Ye looked at him in surprise and suspicion, isn't he guilty of saying this so confidently?
Ye Yaodong returned to his true colors in an instant, and said with a playful smile: "The tractor went to the west to pull stones today, and I don't have time."
Father Ye rolled his eyes at him, and said angrily: "I thought you had a **** change, so Jingui's feet must not be exhausted from riding a bicycle?"
"Occasionally you want to exercise. Cycling is great, and you can also exercise. It's just that there is no place to borrow bicycles. They are like family heirlooms. Otherwise, I will lend you one to ride and let you exercise."
"You can pull it down! It must be more tiring to carry people, so you want to borrow a car for me to ride."
Ye Yaodong laughed straight and didn't refute.
"Oh, by the way, you can borrow it from Ah Guang. His house has one. Let's go to his house first. We dare not refuse to borrow it even if we measure it."
"Don't bother him. After all, it is a bicycle, and it is a big one. It is a long way, so don't ride it badly. One is fine. Let's take turns to carry it."
"What's the matter, a half son-in-law, let alone my brother, not an outsider, what's wrong with borrowing a bicycle? Why are you so cautious?"
As Ye Yaodong said, he pushed his bicycle around and went to A Guang first, and Father Ye had no choice but to follow.
It’s just that I didn’t expect that when Ah Guang heard that they were going to the shipyard, he quickly said that he would go too. Anyway, he was idle at home.
Just like that, two people were going together, but suddenly there were three people, and Ye Yaodong was destined to have to carry one.
"Why is your horse so heavy? I'm going to step on the chain of my bicycle."
Ye Yaodong pedaled his bicycle vigorously, and the north wind howled, his hair stood up at the back, his voice broke when he opened his mouth, and he ate his mouth full of dirt.
He poohed a few times, but covered his face with saliva.
"Fuck~"
"Ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
He wiped his face, and then quickly stabilized the front of the car, "Get out! I've been eating and drinking at home all day, and my face has grown bigger, like a plate of vegetables. Do you know how much you weigh now?"
"Where is it? I just ate some soup left over from my wife."
"It's almost like a pig! I'm exhausted, and you can ride it instead."
He put on the mask by the way, because the wind was blowing in front of him because of cycling, the mask was tightly blocked, and he felt a little difficult to breathe, so he pulled the mask off.
Ah Guang muttered dissatisfiedly, "I'll be here, I'll let you share so many opinions. Why do you wear a mask? A big man wears a mask all day, he has no face to face people!"
"What do you know? After 30 years, I will still look like this, but you will have to suffer the same vicissitudes as my father."
"Pull you down, don't put gold on your face, sooner or later you will be wrinkled like old bark..."
"What are you doing?"
Father Ye rode out for a while, only to see that they didn't keep up behind him, and they were still standing there muttering and bickering. He was speechless.
"It's important to get down to business. What are you still talking about? You can't finish talking so much, and you still have to stop and talk in the middle of the road."
Ah Guang hurriedly complained, "Father, Dongzi said that you look like a vicissitudes of life, and he must be more handsome than you when he is old."
"Nonsense, I obviously mean that you look old and vicissitudes. Dad, he said that you are as wrinkled as old bark."
"I say you!"
"Go back, go back, I won't take you..."
Father Ye couldn't help but twitched his mouth when he heard this. Why was he so overwhelmed, he listened to Dongzi's words and went to borrow a bicycle so that these two ancestors could get together?
"What are you talking about, don't go if you don't want to go, go home."
"Go, go!" Ye Yaodong glared at Ah Guang, "It's all your fault! Hurry up and ride."
Ah Guang also glared at him before stepping up.
Father Ye saw that they had stopped, so he turned around and continued riding, but in case the two stopped bickering again, he rode beside them.
Although he didn't stop halfway, his ears didn't stop along the way.
"Fuck, my mother is heavier than me, you have the nerve to say that I am heavier, I can't even pedal..."
"Fart, I'm useless, but I'm ashamed to say, hurry up, pedal faster, don't pedal until it's dark, I didn't bring your share of food."
"If you want the donkey to run, why don't you feed the donkey?"
"Are you a donkey?"
"roll…"