Everyone in the Ye family also saw Ye Yaodong's harvest. Ye's mother was surprised and asked first: "You also caught two blue crabs?"
As she spoke, she pinched it and said happily, "It's quite hard. Two of them together should be more than a pound, so I can sell them for one or two yuan!"
"What are you selling? Take it home and eat it yourself!"
"All you do is eat, you prodigal son. Your wife earns less than a dollar a day fishing. These two blue crabs can be sold for one or two dollars, and you actually want to eat them!" Mother Ye glared at him and slapped him several times.
Ye Yaodong took two steps back to avoid his mother's palm. His mother had been working all year round and her hands were covered with calluses, so it hurt when she hit someone.
"Mom, I didn't think about eating them myself. It's a rare opportunity to catch two blue crabs. I wanted to stew them for the children at home..."
Mother Ye's face instantly brightened up, and her tone softened. It was a good thing that she was thinking about her children. "There are so many children in the family, who will eat these two?"
"Each of us can have a foot and drink some soup!"
"There are so many children, there's no need to cry or fight. This thing is worth some money, so let's sell it. Your father also left a few swimming crabs and a pound of small sword shrimp yesterday. Just eat those."
Ye Yaodong frowned. The two blue crabs weighed only a little over one pound in total. According to the current price, they would only sell for a little over one yuan. Compared with later times, they were much cheaper.
Blue crab is also called sturgeon, and they also call farmed blue crabs sturgeon.
In later generations, wild blue crabs were cheaper at the dock, selling for 150 yuan per catty. You couldn’t buy wild blue crabs on the market. The ones on the market were all farmed, and they also cost 150 yuan per catty.
Seeing that he was frowning, Ye's mother winked at him and snatched the rope. "I'll take it to the dock to sell it. You wait here and dig some more sand clams. The tide will soon rise."
This stupid guy, his wife has worked so hard to make money, and he finally caught two blue crabs. They are about to divide the family property, but instead of thinking about giving some of the money to his wife to save, he actually wants to share it
Ye Yaodong watched his mother walking quickly toward the shore and had to give up. He thought it would be better to sell whatever he could. It was also because he had not come to the point of thinking at the moment. After all, money was valuable now, so it would be good to sell whatever he could.
Lin Xiuqing felt relieved when she saw her mother-in-law carrying the blue crabs to sell sluggishly. Those two blue crabs were worth several days' worth of fishing nets.
Everyone has selfish desires. Her husband is lazy to begin with, and he can't make as much money as his older brothers. Now that he can unexpectedly earn an extra dollar or two, she doesn't want to give it to everyone to eat.
When Mrs. Ye saw what her mother did, she pursed her lips but said nothing. She had to sell it too, so she squatted down and continued digging.
Mrs. Ye was a little curious, "Yaodong, where did you catch the blue crabs? No wonder I didn't see you just now."
"there!"
After what just happened, he had no desire to talk to these people. He casually shook his head, gave a direction, and walked towards his wife, looking at the almost full washbasin next to her.
"It's a good harvest. We dug up a lot."
Lin Xiuqing smiled faintly, "It's OK, but unfortunately the tide is about to rise, and it will recede at night, so I can only come back tomorrow."
She glanced at his trouser legs, which were rolled up high, and then at the rocks. "Did you dig these outside the tide?"
At least he smiled and nodded. "Well, there's nothing on the nearby stone wall. The clams and snails are only a little bit big, so I walked out a little bit. I guess those weird-shaped rocks blocked my view, so you didn't see it."
Did he really become more diligent? He actually dug for such a long time? No wonder he was nowhere to be seen nearby. He actually walked out of the tide.
"These clams and snails are still a little small." She reached into the basket and rummaged through them.
"I have tried my best to dig up all the edible ones. Clams are okay. They will open on their own when they are ripe. Although they are a little smaller, they should be meaty. The snails are a little small. I will take them home and divide them up. Let a few children smash them with stones and steam them with scallion oil."
"What? Scallion oil? Do you need oil to cook snails? You can just boil them in water and pick out the meat to eat. Where do you get the idea to use oil to eat snails?"
Lin Xiuqing frowned and looked at him in disbelief. He really didn't know how expensive food, rice, oil and salt are unless he manages the household!
"Uh... heh... I heard about it. Then just blanch it." Ye Yaodong smiled awkwardly. He habitually brought the way of eating from his future family over and forgot for a moment that they were eating lard now, so it was not appropriate to cook it this way.
Just blanch the fresh seafood. They now blanch it whenever possible, so there’s no need to waste money on seasoning.
Lin Xiuqing frowned and gave him a strange look, then squatted down again, "Mother hasn't come yet, I'll dig for a while, you can take your son to the shore and wait."
"OK!"
It just so happened that he didn't want to do it anymore! It was uncomfortable to soak your feet in the water for too long.
Ye Chengyang had buried both of his feet in the sand, still giggling. He simply picked up the child who was playing enthusiastically, held him under his armpits, and went ashore with his harvest.
As soon as the child was clamped under the armpit, he started to cry loudly, his limbs flailing, and he kept shouting out two words at a time, "I want to play, I want to play, no, go home!"
"The tide is coming in, everyone needs to go home!"
"No, no, Yangyang, you want to play!"
"Next time you come, there's still corn at home. Do you want to eat it? If you go back too late, your brothers and sisters will eat it all."
When it comes to food, the child no longer struggles, but instead says, "I want to eat, Yangyang, I want to eat!"
After Ye Yaodong got ashore, he put him down and asked him to sit on a rock on the shore. "Sit there and wait for your mother to finish digging, and then we can go back together."
"hungry… "
"Why didn't you say you were hungry when we were playing just now? Wait for me!"
Ye Yaodong is used to seeing his two sons' dissatisfaction decades later, and they would talk back from time to time, and they would be very disappointed with him. He is not used to seeing them become so small and have such a babyish voice now. The contrast is too great, and he can't feel pity for them...
Ye Chengyang's mouth was pursed, he looked a little aggrieved, and he was about to cry. He was seen by Ye's mother who happened to be walking over, as well as Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua who had parked the boat.
Ye's mother immediately felt distressed, "What's wrong, Yangyang? Who bullied you? Tell grandma, and grandma will beat him!"
After having a backer, Ye Chengyang immediately opened his mouth and howled loudly, "Dad, it's Dad!"
Ye's mother immediately pretended to hit Ye Yaodong twice, "Grandma has already helped you beat your dad, be good, don't cry."
Ye Chengyang immediately closed his mouth and stopped howling, his tears flowing freely, only a little moisture on his eyelashes showed any signs of crying.
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but twitch his mouth!
bad boy!
No wonder he is so unpopular even when he grows up!
"Grandma, I'm hungry, corn!"
"Okay, we'll go home and cook right away."
After comforting her grandson, Ye's mother shouted to the daughters-in-law on the beach, "Go home, stop digging, it's getting late, it's time to go home for dinner."
The three daughters-in-law had been growling with hunger for a long time. When they heard their mother-in-law calling them, they each took their washbasins and buckets and went ashore, as the tide was about to rise anyway.