Although the two were quiet, they were still staring with their eyes wide open, unwilling to sleep.
Ye Yaodong patted both heads and said, "Go to sleep quickly!"
"Oh? Looks like I forgot to deal with the snake."
Suddenly he remembered that he should talk about the ship as soon as he came back. The bucket of sea snakes was still there. He sat up, got out of bed and put on his clothes.
"Want to deal with it tonight? Can't tomorrow be used?"
"Hurry up and process it tonight while it's fresh. Otherwise it won't be fresh tomorrow. I forgot to give it to my eldest and second brothers."
"Let me help you..."
"No, this is too disgusting. Don't touch it. Put them to sleep first. Oh... and give me some more money. I'll go to the village pharmacy to buy some tonic medicine and a few dozen kilograms of liquor."
"So anxious?"
"Well, it's dead after all, so soak it while it's fresh. Leave one for later and blanch it in the pot. Then make soup tomorrow."
I'll go over to A Guang and get one later.
"Okay, fine then. I haven't counted the money you gave me before. I put it all in the drawer. You can take it as you wish."
"good."
Ye Yaodong always kept only a few cents for cigarettes in his pocket. Now he didn't play cards or do anything else. It was enough for him to get by. If he ran out of money, he could just ask his wife for it. It was not shameful! He was not a gigolo now.
After going out, he shook the bucket and counted them. There were still 8 left. At that moment, he just kept them as he saw fit and did not specially count them.
He went next door and caught one for each of his elder and second brothers, leaving one for Guang, and then he went to deal with the remaining five first.
One was stewed in clear water, and the other four were soaked in two jars of wine, one for his father-in-law and one for himself.
He cut open the snake's belly, peeled off the skin, removed the internal organs, coiled it into a round disc, put the snake gallbladder in it, and put two snakes in one jar.
Then I went to the drugstore and bought a big bag of medicinal herbs, including black tiger root, dinggong vine, half maple lotus, Sichuan cyperus, Millettia reticulata, Rehmannia root, Polygonum multiflorum, Morinda officinalis, Saposhnikovia divaricata, Angelica dahurica, Longganglionicus, etc. I also poured half of the 35 kilograms of white wine I had just bought into the bag and sealed it for at least one month.
Both jars of wine are prepared in the same way. If conditions permit, you can add deer antlers and seahorses to them to make them more effective in nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang!
They also use dried sea snakes to make wine locally, and dried sea snakes are quite easy to buy.
"Have you finished your work?"
Ye Yaodong looked up and said, "Both children are asleep? Go in and put on an extra piece of clothing. I'm almost done."
All he had to do was seal the jar.
"This chopped piece of meat on the stove should be blanched, right? Let me do it." After saying that, she sat in front of the stove and started to make a fire.
Ye Yaodong thought that if she sat by the stove, the fire would not get cold, so he did not urge her to go into the house and put on her clothes.
"Then I'll blanch this one for you, and I'll give the remaining one to Guang."
"Okay, go quickly and come back soon. Be careful on the road and bring a flashlight. Wait... It seems a bit cold outside. I just heard the sound of the wind. I'll go get you a coat. Don't catch a cold."
"good."
Ye Yaodong looked at her back with a smile on his face. Such caring and thoughtfulness made him feel warm in his heart. Who doesn't like to be cared for by others
As usual, he twisted a rope out of straw, tied up the snake, and held it in his hand. After putting on his coat, he told his wife not to wait for him, and after blanching the snake meat, he went back to the house and lay down, then walked out.
As a result, as soon as he walked out of the house, a gust of wind made his hair stand up. He didn't expect that the wind would blow in a short while, and the waves were rolling and splashing. He took a look and wrapped himself in his coat, turned on the flashlight, and quickened his pace.
But I didn't expect to run into the same group of people from Linji again. It was really a coincidence. I don't know how often they unload the goods, but it feels very frequent. It may also be that he lives by the beach, so I am lucky enough to run into him every time.
"What a coincidence! There's more cargo arriving at the port?"
Lin Jishang smiled and gave him two cigarettes, but didn't answer directly, "It's so late, where are you going with a flashlight?"
Ye Yaodong took the cigarette and held it in his hand, but he didn't put it behind his ear like everyone else did. He felt that this was a bit silly.
"I caught a few blue-ringed sea snakes today, and I was so busy that I only had time to send one to my friend now."
Lin Ji took a look at the limp snake in his hand and said with a smile, "What a good thing! If you can catch it again next time, leave two for me."
"Okay, no problem. I won't delay your work. I'll be leaving first."
"Okay, see you later."
They were not of the same kind, and he had no intention of making close friends with them, but they were from the same village and they often ran into each other. For the sake of the watch on his hand, it was inevitable for him to say hello.
Ye Yaodong continued walking towards A Guang's house. The lights in his house were off and it was pitch dark. He looked for his window and knocked.
"Who is it? It's late at night... I'm not a grown-up girl, and someone is knocking on my window..." He muttered a few words, then stood up...
However, he didn't know that his muttering was heard by Ye Yaodong outside the window. He immediately thought of this guy knocking on his sister's window after dark, and he felt unhappy again.
When he turned on the light and opened the window, he hid himself, untied the rope in his hands, and threw the snake towards him.
"What the hell... Ahhh ~ Shit ~" Ah Guang was startled by the unknown object hitting him. After he pinched it in his hand, he realized that it was a snake. He instinctively wanted to pinch its head, but found that it would not move.
He grabbed the slippery snake in his hand in frustration, "It's just a snake, and it's dead, headless. Don't you know I'm a professional snake catcher? Which bastard teased me in the middle of the night? Get out here!"
As he spoke, he leaned his head out of the window. Ye Yaodong took advantage of his unpreparedness and punched him in the face again to relieve his depressed mood.
"Fuck, you are the bastard."
I originally wanted to scare him, but I forgot that catching snakes is his strong point and he is not afraid. I was depressed.
"Oh~ you bastard, the wound on my face hasn't healed yet, and you come again!"
"I sent you a sea snake. Don't be ungrateful."
"Is this a sea snake?" A Guang took a closer look and found that the snake in his hand was indeed different from the usual ones on the mountain. It had black rings on its body.
He asked in surprise: "Blue-ringed sea snake?"
"right!"
"You are wasting natural resources! Why didn't you catch it alive? Instead of removing its head, you can use the whole fish to soak in wine."
"I'm afraid of death! This is a poisonous snake, more poisonous than a cobra. I can't handle it alive, and I dare not touch it. What if it doesn't die in the wine jar, and it bites me when I open it, then I will be the one to die. It's better not to be greedy and don't make this money. Saving your life is more important."
It was so hard to get a chance to start over, so of course he had to cherish his life.
Ah Guang rolled his eyes at him, "What a waste! It would be great if I could come across this."
"Forget it. This snake is very venomous. No one can guarantee that they will not get into trouble. It is better to avoid taking risks. Even if you kill snakes all day, you may get pecked in the eye by an eagle..."
"Fuck, I was hunting geese all day and finally got my eyes pecked blind by geese. You can't tell me, can you please not tell me? It makes people feel uncomfortable listening to you." A Guang looked at him with a constipated and uncomfortable expression, which made him feel embarrassed.
"Ah? Is that so?"
"I suggest you take a literacy class, or listen to your nephews and nieces read more."
"Humph, so what's the big deal about studying till fifth grade? I didn't want to study at that time." Although he said this stubbornly, he actually had the idea of attending a literacy class in his heart. Apart from anything else, just not being able to understand the newspaper made him very uncomfortable.
"Come on, if you have nothing else to do, go back to bed early. I'll go kill this snake and scald it. I'll make some pork rib soup tomorrow night. Finish it early and go to bed early. We have to go out to sea at night."
"You probably don't need to go at night. It's windy and the waves are big."
"Are the waves big? I thought there was just a little wind." A Guang stuck his head and hands out of the window to try, and found that there seemed to be no wind either.
"Land is different from the sea. The wind is probably very strong on the sea. Anyway, when I came out, I saw the waves rolling up. You can do whatever you want."
"Well, we'll see what the situation is at night. If the waves are too big, we'll come back and rest for a day."
Ye Yaodong nodded without saying anything more. It was too late. The things had been delivered, so he said goodbye and walked back.
When he reached the intersection leading to the dock, he looked towards the dock on purpose. There were headlights flashing constantly over there, and he didn't know how much cargo had been unloaded.
He turned and walked to the right. The direction of his home was exactly to the right and to the left of the pier. As for the house and land they bought in Linji, it was located just above the Chinese character "品", a little bit towards the direction of his house.
From a distance he saw that the light was still on in the house, so he quickened his pace.
The orange light illuminated the empty main room. He locked the door and turned off the lights before walking into the room.
The room was completely silent. He took off all his clothes, climbed onto the bed, and gently pressed on his wife, "Ah Qing? Are you asleep?"
"about to sleep."
"That means you haven't slept yet."
He carefully put the two children in the corner, squeezed next to his wife, hugged her and explored her.
Lin Xiuqing slapped his dirty hands away and lowered her voice, "Stop making trouble and go to bed quickly. It's getting late. Didn't you drink a lot of wine earlier?"
"Who said you'll fall asleep after drinking? I'm not drunk. I've been busy for a while, and then I went out for some fresh air. I'm sober now, and the effects of the alcohol have long worn off. Let me touch you, I'm not doing anything else."
"Don't bother me!"
"You are such a woman that you can turn hostile so easily. You were quite fond of me before, weren't you? You were so gentle and reluctant to let me go when you sent me out."
Lin Xiuqing's face instantly turned red again, "Don't talk nonsense, you know it won't work in the first three months, right?"
"Everyone has needs. If you can't do it in the first three months, and you can't do it in the second three months, how can you survive? Hiss~"
Lin Xiuqing listened to his nonsense again, pinched his flesh fiercely, and then rotated 90 degrees...
Ye Yaodong took a breath of cold air, "Oh~ I was wrong, I was wrong, it's me who can't live, not you... not you... be gentle... let go..."
"Sleep!"
"Yes Yes Yes… "
Only then did Lin Xiuqing stop.
Now that he was holding her, he didn't dare move for the time being, and planned to talk seriously in a low voice for a while.
"The boat has been negotiated for 2,200. You can pay in advance tomorrow. Although the boat has been used for many years, I heard it is in perfect condition. The engine is also new, just replaced last year. Let's check it tomorrow. If there are no problems, we can just repaint it a few times."
"okay."
"After buying this boat, our family will have more than 1,000 yuan left, which is enough for emergencies. I will work hard in the next few months and save some. I estimate that even if the child is born safely, the fine will be several thousand yuan."
When talking about this, Lin Xiuqing felt distressed and worried. "Well, I heard that many lucky people who gave birth to children this year were fined several thousand yuan. I don't know if it will be stricter and the fines will be more severe next year."
"If you want a child, there's nothing you can do about it. If the child can be born safely, then let him be fined. You can earn money again if you lose it."
Ye Yaodong placed his hand on her still flat belly. He had not paid much attention to the first two children from conception to birth. Apart from contributing seeds, he had no sense of participation. But he had been worried about this one from the very beginning.
This is his little ancestor!
"How about you build a pig pen in the open space next to you when you have free time? We can catch two piglets in the spring. I have nothing to do at home, so raising pigs can also help supplement the family income."
He frowned and said, "Forget it. The pigs are smelly. It's not easy to clean the pigsty. And we have to go to the mountains or fields to collect grass for the pigs. By next spring, your belly will be big. Do you dare to wander around? You can't send your two sons to do it, right?"
"Yeah, let's forget it for now." Her hopes were dashed and she no longer wanted to talk about sex.
Ye Yaodong's belly was moving upwards as he touched it. "It's good enough for you to do some web surfing when you have nothing to do. You don't have to think about making money all the time. Take good care of the baby. I will make money for you."
"okay."
"Just buy whatever you want to eat. You can't let yourself and your baby suffer. Food and drink don't cost much. If someone sells fruit, just buy more..."
"You're crazy!" Lin Xiuqing glared at him and patted his dirty hands. "My mother's hometown is full of fruit trees. Do you still need to go out to buy fruit?"
"Then when the ship is confirmed, I'll go to your house and bring two sacks of grapefruits?"
"I just went there last month. Isn't that too often? There are still a lot of pickled persimmons at home. I'm not greedy. This one in my stomach is very good and won't bother me. I'd better go back later, when the oranges are ripe next month, to get the bitter oranges."
"Okay, I'll listen to whatever you say."
As he was talking, his hands moved upwards involuntarily...
Lin Xiuqing had a headache, "Can you please stop playing?"
"Make a lot of money!"
Lin Xiuqing: “…”