Not long after he came back, his two brothers-in-law also came back with a group of children and their abundant harvests.
As soon as Lin Xianghui entered the house, he immediately took out two pearls from his pocket and showed them to his family, and everyone was so surprised that their mouths opened wide.
"I was lucky. I didn't expect to get two pearls from a random river clam. Later, Xiangyang and I tried to get many more, but none of them worked."
His face was all smiles and his excitement was palpable.
Father and Mother Lin and Sister-in-law Lin were overjoyed. Isn't this like pie falling from the sky? They really found a treasure.
Mrs. Lin Ersao did not look disappointed at all. She had a smile on her face and looked at the harvest in the baskets and buckets surrounded by the children behind her.
"You~ there are so many wild ducks? How did you catch them? They are not easy to catch. Who caught them? Your uncle?"
Lin Guangyuan said excitedly: "My uncle taught us how to catch two at first, and we caught them all by ourselves afterwards."
"So awesome! How many do you want to catch?"
"Eight."
"Mom, shall we kill the duck and stew it tonight?"
"I want fried food! I want fried food!"
"I want to eat stew, I want to drink soup..."
"I want to eat duck fried with dried radish slices..."
A group of half-grown children, each with different opinions, were noisy.
Mother Lin had a headache and quickly scolded, "Stop arguing. I'll stew one and stir-fry the other tonight."
This way, everyone had nothing to say and was instantly satisfied.
"There are also river shrimps and a dozen fish. You can take care of them, Mom. Use the river clams to make tofu soup, stir-fry the river cockles, and have the children crack the snails."
Yesterday and the day before yesterday, half of the table was filled with seafood he brought, but today, half of the table was filled with river fish.
River fish has its own flavor, different from seafood. Ye Yaodong is not picky, he thinks river fish is also delicious and fresh.
He only ate one bowl of the wild duck soup. The energy from the old turtle soup from the previous day was still sufficient, and he was afraid of overeating.
He felt that the fried one was more to his taste. It added a lot of old ginger to remove the smell, and fried it together with freshly dried radish slices. It tasted particularly chewy.
After eating and drinking, Ye Yaodong was also half drunk and was helped back to the house. Because we had to pick oranges these two days, we had to go up the mountain at dawn, and the whole family didn't dare to drink too much, and only drank freely during dinner tonight.
The men in the family were also half drunk, but the next morning, they all got up in high spirits.
When Ye Yaodong got up, he saw them pushing the cart out and asked them what they were doing.
"Go harvest the sweet potatoes. It's time to harvest the sweet potatoes in the field."
Mother Lin said hurriedly, "Just rest at home. You've been here for two or three days and have been helping with the work, and you haven't even sat down to rest."
"It's okay. I don't have much to do at home. Dad has difficulty walking, so I can help out as much as I can."
Lin's mother has been smiling these past two days. "Don't worry about it. You can take your time to do the work and harvest the sweet potatoes. It doesn't matter. You can just play at home..."
Play? Ye Yaodong laughed awkwardly. He was unfamiliar with the place. Where could he go to play? There were only dirt roads and mud-brick houses everywhere. It was a pure and primitive countryside. There was not even any scenery. He might as well go to the fields to help with some work and improve his favorability.
He did not refute. After washing up and having a simple breakfast, he chatted for a few words and then went to the fields. The Lin family's land was also at the foot of the mountain. When he walked over and saw the brother-in-law and his wife working with hoes, he knew he had found it.
They were hoeing sweet potatoes. After hoeing a row, the two sisters-in-law picked up the potatoes one by one and put them into the basket. Then they gathered all the sweet potato vines and put them on a cart. They were to be taken back to feed the pigs.
When everyone saw Ye Yaodong coming, they all smiled and greeted him, "Why are you here too?"
"I have nothing to do after dinner, so I'm just sitting around doing nothing."
This is indeed the truth. Instead of sitting around the house chatting awkwardly with your father-in-law and mother-in-law, you might as well go out and do some work.
The two brothers and two sisters of the Lin family have a better and better impression of Ye Yaodong. They thought that all the bad things about him before were just illusions of theirs.
After Ye Yaodong helped with the moving work for half a day, he went back to the room to have lunch and discussed with Lin Xiuqing that it was time to go back the next day.
They have visited those who needed to be visited and picked the oranges that needed to be picked. There is still a lot of work to be done in the fields, but there is no rush anyway, so they can just take their time.
A short stay of three or four days would be enough, as it would be bad if they had their own home left unattended for too many days.
Lin Xiuqing thought the same thing. "I told mom this morning that we will go back tomorrow. Are you tired? You said you came back to visit my dad, but I made you work for several days."
"Then will you compensate me?"
There's nothing wrong with doing some work. A son-in-law is half a son. It would be even better if I could take the opportunity to ask for a reward and make people feel sorry for me.
Lin Xiuqing glanced at him in reproach and patted the bed board beside her, "Then sit down and I'll massage your shoulders."
"okay."
Ye Yaodong sat down beside her happily, feeling her soft and boneless little hands kneading his shoulders, and it seemed that the soreness from carrying the load in the morning was gone.
"It feels good~ Try harder~ Try harder~"
"Is that so?"
"Yeah, that's it, yeah, it's great, it's comfortable."
Ye Yaodong closed his eyes and enjoyed her rare gentle service.
"A little further down..."
Lin Xiuqing pressed down obediently, massaging and massaging his entire back, which made him feel so good that he closed his eyes.
As a result, he stopped with one hand after just a while, and he hadn't had enough fun yet.
"Wife?"
"My hands are sore."
"Then let me rub it for you?"
Ye Yaodong had just started to work, and the two of them had just come together when they heard Lin's mother calling Lin Xiuqing outside the house. She suddenly looked a little guilty and immediately stood up to go out.
His arms suddenly felt empty, and he sighed regretfully, then lay down, put his hands on his head, crossed his legs, and looked at the ceiling. This pregnancy would last ten months, which was really too hard.
He counted on his fingers. It seemed like only four months had passed? Or was it the fifth month? Damn, I didn't know how to count.
Alas, there are no VCDs or movies...
A lot of wild thoughts were running through his mind, but he didn't expect to fall asleep immediately. He didn't know when a little man appeared beside him.
It was not until he woke up at three in the afternoon that he realized that he had slept with his youngest son as a pillow behind his head. No wonder he felt quite comfortable.
My son is still somewhat useful.
He got up quietly, covered him with a quilt, and then walked out.
At this time, Lin's mother was rummaging through the boxes and cabinets.
Ye Yaodong stood at the door and stretched, watching his mother-in-law take out bags and cans of things and put them on the stove. She muttered something in her hands and then said she would take them back to them.
He looked at the bottles and jars and felt that there were too many of them. He said quickly, "Mom, why are you rummaging through the boxes and cabinets again? You don't have to bring everything back to us. We don't lack food at home. Just carry a bag of grapefruits and half a bag of bitter oranges..."
"Oh, it's a rare visit, so why not use anything? These are all things that we can't finish eating at home. Look at the dried radish. We have dried a sack of it at home, and we can't finish it until next year. And the pickled bamboo shoots were pickled a few months ago... The day lily and lettuce were also dried a few months ago... There are so many at home, we can't finish them..."
Father Lin also smiled and said, "We only have vegetables in the countryside, nothing good. We will slowly harvest sweet potatoes in the next two days. After harvesting, we will cut them into strips and dry them in the sun. We will also use them to make sweet potato starch. When you celebrate the New Year, I will bring some back to you..."
Mother Lin also agreed, "Yes, we grew them all ourselves. We dried a bunch of them and we can't finish them all. Can you guys pack a sack of sweet potatoes and take them back tomorrow?"
Before the family split up, they took less, but now that the family split up, everyone lives separately, and Lin's mother wants them to take a portion of everything back home.
"Ah, no, no, we have already planted them at home and can harvest them, no need to bring them, you can keep them for yourself..."
Ye Yaodong waved his hands repeatedly. If he had to carry even the sweet potatoes, wouldn’t he be dead
"Take a few more of those pumpkins. Have you eaten all the ones you brought back last time? We still have a bunch at home..."
As Lin's mother said this, she went to the woodshed nearby to move the pumpkins.
Pumpkin is heavier...
Lin Xiuqing also said: "We still have pumpkins at home, you don't have to pretend..."
"Bring a few more and eat them slowly..."
The couple was reluctant to refuse the kind invitation and could only watch Lin's mother busy looking through things.
The next morning, a tractor was parked in front of the Lin family's door, making a rumbling sound, attracting a group of neighbors. Everyone came out to watch the fun and say hello.
"Your son-in-law is coming home? And you're calling for a tractor?"
"You... you asked for a tractor to send it back? It came with a tractor, and it left with another tractor. Your son-in-law is so well-off? Why haven't I heard of it before?"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, how much does it cost for one trip?"
"I'm so willing to give it up..."
Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "My father-in-law and mother-in-law are so enthusiastic. Look at all the bags they prepared. They insisted that we take them back. We can't refuse them. How can we take them with two adults and two children? We didn't push a cart when we came here. It's a long way and the children can't walk. They just want to use a tractor to save trouble, right?"
He had persuaded Ah Qing last night to ask for a tractor, otherwise how could they get it? There were several sacks there, and each sack of pumpkin weighed hundreds of kilograms.
Save where you can and spend where you can.
After he said this, he went to carry things without caring what the people around him said.
They are all bored and have nothing to do, so they like to come and join in on any little news from their neighbors.
The two brothers-in-law also helped carry the sacks of things that Lin's mother had packed long ago onto the tractor. They even put two wild ducks that were caught the day before into a sack for them to take back.
Every time he came back, his father-in-law's family was so welcoming and insisted on letting them take away large and small bags of things. Ye Yaodong almost felt embarrassed. Fortunately, he brought a lot of seafood when he came, otherwise he would really be considered as a beggar.
Ye Chenghu saw that his cousins were reluctant to leave. Grandma's house was so much fun, with food and fun. He never stopped talking all day long.
"Come over to my house next time and I'll take you to the beach to dig for clams."
"Okay, you can come over and play next time."
"Well, I will definitely come again. You must protect your turtles and don't let them be eaten. I will also protect my turtles and don't let them be eaten by my father."
Ye Yaodong listened to him still chattering and directly carried him onto the tractor.
After saying a brief goodbye to the Lin family, he started the tractor off.