After returning home, Lin Xiuqing said, "I think my younger sister's wedding should be coming soon. Should we buy her something as a dowry?"
Ye Yaodong pursed his lips and said nothing.
He had no objection to buying something for his younger sister as a dowry, but he felt a little uncomfortable with this friend becoming his brother-in-law, as if his cabbages were being eaten by pigs.
It was taken away so easily, I always feel unwilling.
She looked at his reaction with amusement, "If you have a daughter in the future, will you be like this too?"
Ye Yaodong's brows were furrowed even more tightly now, and he felt even more unhappy.
"A son?"
Lin Xiuqing chuckled and rolled her eyes at him, "You call a son a son, and a daughter a daughter? Having two sons is enough. They are naughty all day long, and I beat them until my hands hurt."
"Then you can also not fight!" Ye Chenghu interrupted in frustration.
Lin Xiuqing poked his forehead with her index finger and said, "If you behave yourself, don't make trouble, and don't get dirty every day, will I hit you?"
"Dad said that those who don't move are fools? I'm not a fool!"
"You still talk back!"
Seeing this, Ye Chenghu took two steps back, "Dad said so!"
Ye Chengyang also cleverly followed and retreated...
Ye Yaodong touched his nose and said nothing...
Lin Xiuqing looked at one, two, three people with a depressed heart, feeling that none of them was worry-free.
"I'll go get some water. All three of you take off your clothes and pants, wash your feet, and go to bed."
OK
The father and his two sons sat in a row beside the bed, waiting!
Lin Xiuqing brought in a basin of water and felt even more upset when she saw the three people looking at her with the same expression.
"Didn't I tell you to take off your clothes and pants?"
"Dad is so old and he still doesn't move. He has to wait for Mom to take off her clothes. So we can't take them off ourselves." The brave and fearless Ye Chenghu said as a matter of course.
Lin Xiuqing suddenly felt a little pain in her head, "Where is the whip?"
He jumped up quickly, "Huh? Don't! I'll take it off right away!"
Ye Chengyang always follows his brother's lead. He also stood up and tugged at his clothes and pants in a flurry. However, instead of taking off his clothes and pants, he pulled off a button.
His heart tightened, he held the button, looked at his mother innocently, shrank his neck, and hid himself next to his brother...
"Don't try to hide behind me." Ye Chenghu gloated and quickly dodged.
Lin Xiuqing sighed, put away the button in his hand, and helped him take off his clothes and pants. "I told my brother to take them off himself, but I didn't tell you to take them off. I'll sew them for you later."
She's just too young to fight, otherwise her hands would be itchy.
After washing the faces of the three of them from left to right and taking off their clothes and pants, she poured the water from the wash basin into the foot basin, "Two of you sit on the small stools and put your feet in the basin."
There were three pairs of feet in a basin. You stepped on me, I stepped on you, and water splashed all over the floor. Lin Xiuqing rubbed their feet and got water splashed all over her face. She almost exploded with anger.
She slapped him twice without mercy, "Behave yourself."
Ye Yaodong looked at his legs that had been slapped innocently and turned red. He suspected that his wife had done it on purpose since he had clearly been staying still.
But he didn't dare to say anything, since he had already been beaten.
Maybe it's because he doesn't move
After wiping all three pairs of feet clean, Lin Xiuqing straightened up and asked, "Why do I feel like I raised three sons?"
"Yes, that's right, just raise me as your son!"
Lin Xiuqing rolled his eyes at him and went to pour water for washing feet. He was too lazy to argue with him and said, "You three, go to sleep!"
"We can't sleep without you!"
"We can't sleep without you!"
"I can't sleep..."
The two sons also laughed and followed suit.
Lin Xiuqing had a headache and simply ignored them, not wanting to pay any attention to them...
Ye Yaodong looked at her helpless expression with a smile, then instructed his eldest son to turn off the lights, and asked the two to lie down. The two of them chattered excitedly about watching a movie in the evening.
"Dad, can you continue to take us to the movies tomorrow?"
"Didn't you see enough today?"
“Yeah, the movie is so good.”
"My hands hurt, so I can't hold you. Your mother can't hold you either. We can't go. Next time I'll take you to the cinema in town. The movies there are better and the cinema is big. It's not the open-air one we watch at night."
"Really?"
The two children's attention was immediately diverted by his coaxing, and they kept asking what the cinema looked like.
Ye Yaodong had no choice but to patiently explain to them everything about movie theaters, something he knew a little about.
The two children fell asleep while listening as if they were listening to a story, and Ye Yaodong also felt drowsy.
After Lin Xiuqing washed herself and came in, she found that everyone was asleep. She breathed a sigh of relief. It was of course good that she didn't have to coax them to sleep.
"Adong?"
"Um."
"Apply tea oil before going to sleep."
"Um."
He had no choice but to cheer himself up and sit up again.
After spending two days leisurely at home, Ye Yaodong thought that it was about time to go and collect the payment for the goods today.
This is a considerable amount of money, and he and his wife have been worried about it for several days. Of course, they will not feel at ease until the money is in their pockets.
He deliberately waited until after dinner in the evening, thinking that other families should have almost received the payment for the goods, and then went to A Guang's house to ask them whether they had received the money and how much they had paid for the goods. After finding out, he took the documents to A Cai's house to get the money.
He is a very kind person and never asks for money early in the morning to cause trouble for others.
Not only businessmen are taboo about this, but ordinary people also hate it when someone comes to their doorstep to ask for money early in the morning. It's obviously unpleasant.
It’s a good time to settle the bill after dinner and take my wife for a walk.
After dealing with each other for so long, Acai didn't dare to cheat him. As soon as he arrived, he added all the missing unit prices on the document, making them the same as A Guang's selling prices.
According to Acai, this was the purchase price for the day and it was the same price for everyone. He also said that if you are worried, you can go and ask around.
Ye Yaodong was overjoyed in his heart, but his face remained tense. He rolled his eyes, shook the receipt, and said only one sentence, "Add a little more."
Not a lot of talk, but very mixed!
Ah Cai was so depressed that his liver hurt, but he couldn't do anything about his shamelessness. This bastard! There was no time for him to be easy to talk to.
"1836.60 yuan, I'll make it 1850 for you, and you are not allowed to nag me anymore."
"Okay, don't look so hurt. With our relationship, who cares? I know you've made a lot of money, but I won't tell anyone."
"Alas, it's not easy to make some money from you."
"It's not that difficult. We should not be too stingy. You are good, I am good, and everyone is good."
"Am I being stingy? I'm a businessman..."
"So treacherous!"
Acai was speechless and glared at him. He had no choice but to shut up since he couldn't argue with him. He dipped his finger in saliva and started to count the great unity.
Lin Xiuqing became happier and happier as she listened. It turned out that being a gangster had this advantage: the price you could sell for was a little higher than others.
After he counted a stack of 100 bills, he put them on the table, then took out the money to count.
After counting the second stack, he handed it to Ye Yaodong. When he was about to take it with a smile, he deliberately hit his hand with the money.
“Is this something you can reach out for?”
Then he handed the money to Lin Xiuqing.
Ye Yaodong pursed his lips, ignored him, reached out for the money on the table and started counting it.
After he checked with his wife twice and confirmed that there was no problem, he smiled and gave him two cigarettes, then hooked his arm around his shoulder and talked to him for a while before leaving.
Lin Xiuqing smiled so hard that her teeth were showing all the way.
Ye Yaodong held her little hand and said with a smile, "Are you so happy?"
"Of course, we are almost getting back the money we spent on our new ship."
"Well, that should be enough to pay the fine, right?"
"Can't you just let me be more happy?"
"That's something to be happy about! There are still many months left, so we won't have to worry about not being able to pay. Do you want me to buy you a watch to celebrate?"
Lin Xiuqing pinched him hard, "You spend all day thinking about how to spend your money? I just bought a sewing machine, and now you want to buy a watch? You already have one, but you're still buying one."
"That's for men, and you can't wear it. Otherwise, I'll give it to you. I'm serious. Why don't you buy one? A little over a hundred dollars is enough..."
"No, I don't want it. I have a sewing machine, that's enough?"
"Then buy me a radio so you can listen to the radio at home?"
Lin Xiuqing twisted the flesh on his waist 90 degrees...
"Hiss~Okay, okay, I won't buy it, whatever you say is what I will do..."
"Go to the literacy class tomorrow, so you don't have to be an eyesore at home all day long."
"I don't know who said that before. You always hope that I'll be at home and not go anywhere, but now you think I'm an eyesore? Women are so fickle..."
"You still say?"
"Ah, no more, no more, be careful your hands hurt..."
Lin Xiuqing couldn't hold back and was tricked into laughing...
This guy…
irritating…
The literacy class in Dongqiao Village is held in the village primary school in the evening to take care of the workers, farmers, fishermen and women who have to work during the day. It is also free.
The next evening, after dinner, Ye Yaodong took a walk towards Dongqiao Village. There were slogans printed everywhere on the houses along the road, such as "Eugenics, good upbringing, boys and girls are the same."
“You can go without earning money for ten years, but you can never go without reading for a single day.”
"Don't marry an illiterate wife, and don't marry an illiterate man."
…
After arriving at the village primary school, he found that the class was quite large. Looking at the men, women, young and old of different ages inside, he did not bring any paper or pen as his hands were not convenient to use. He looked around with empty hands and a thick skin before sitting in the corner.
After a while, a young man came over and sat down next to him. He looked at his empty desk and asked him curiously.
Ye Yaodong just said that his hands were inconvenient, and the other party didn't ask any more questions.
After the beginning, Ye Yaodong also chatted with him about the literacy class. He learned that the teacher of this literacy class was an unmarried lesbian, a part-time elementary school teacher, and not a teacher in the village who knew a few words.
So this class has more men in particular...
After a while, the teacher of the literacy class also came. This teacher was also quite interesting. She wrote a bunch of words on the blackboard, and then Ye Yaodong was stunned when he heard her teaching.
"Crab, these two complicated characters are called crabs. Take a pen and paper and write them down stroke by stroke on paper. Then go back and read them several times."
"Yuyu...octopus...shrimp...squid...today's task is to learn these words."
Ye Yaodong listened to her reading every word on the blackboard one by one, and couldn't help but poke his brother who was copying seriously beside him.
"Comrade, does this female teacher teach such complicated things?"
"No, you came too late. We started by learning one, two, three, four, five... ninety, ten, human population and hands, upper, middle, lower, big, small, pound, horse, cow, sheep, and fur..."
His desk mate was kind enough to show him the words he had written down previously.
"Last week I learned about cabbage, potatoes, radishes, cucumbers..."
"Last week, I learned to recognize hoes, sickles, and kitchen knives..."
"It's getting harder little by little. This week we're going to learn how to write some common seafood. After all, we're near the sea..."
Ye Yaodong nodded as he listened. It made sense. He was the one who came late.
He read along with great interest several times, then listened to the female teacher analyzing the strokes, and then asked them to practice on paper several times.
He actually had a pretty good impression of all these words. After all, he had been dealing with seafood for most of his life, so some of the words were also very impressive to him, but they were not as clearly imprinted in his mind as they are now, and he couldn't write them.
A class is not long, only about an hour. After all, they are illiterate. If they are asked to recognize too many words at once, they will not be able to remember them. It is already very good if they can recognize five words or ten words a day.
After class, the male students in the class took the opportunity to talk to the female teacher named Zhou and tease her. Ye Yaodong was not interested and left after exchanging names with his deskmate.
After returning home, Lin Xiuqing saw that he looked very happy and asked curiously, "Did you find money?"
"No." Ye Yaodong told her about what the teacher taught in the evening, and Lin Xiuqing was also happy.
"Are you hungry? Are you craving for food?"
"Hahaha~ Big brother and second brother brought back two blue crabs during the day. Did you stew them tonight? You guys eat the meat and let me have some soup."
Lin Xiuqing laughed, "There's only soup left. The two kids have almost finished all the meat."
"I'm just talking, drink your soup."
After attending literacy classes for several days in a row, Ye Yaodong actually recognized the general characters for seafood, but he couldn't write them. After all, he had never held a pen before and the characters were too complicated.
But it doesn't matter. He just wants to be able to recognize it, so whether he can write or not is not important.
After his hand felt much better, he took the trouble to copy down all the words he had learned during this period onto paper.