In the middle of winter, wrapping yourself in the quilt, sleeping until you wake up naturally, and then hugging your wife and staying in bed for half a day, this should be what everyone wants most.
But, that brat is so annoying!
Ye Yaodong was sleeping soundly when he suddenly felt his body getting wet in the Mimi Lake. The water on his body was a little warm...
When he woke up, he felt something pressing on his chest, which was wet. He lifted the quilt and saw the brat's feet resting on his chest, his crotch was wet, and he was still sleeping soundly.
"Grass… "
"What's wrong?"
Lin Xiuqing, who was lying nearby, woke up when she heard the noise and saw two small feet on his chest, with a water stain on it.
"Did your son pee?"
"This brat peed on my chest!"
Ye Yaodong had a wrinkled face. If he wasn't afraid that his wife would be kicked in the stomach by the two children because of their messy sleeping positions while lying inside, he would not sleep with them.
You little bastard, you peed all over him early in the morning.
At this time, Ye Chengyang seemed to feel that he was not covered with a quilt and felt a little cold. He even turned over, stuck his butt towards the couple, and then continued to sleep. Ye Yaodong wanted to slap him when he saw this.
"This guy can still sleep? He doesn't feel uncomfortable..."
With a wrinkled face, he sat up and prepared to change his clothes, but he heard his wife say, "It's a good thing you didn't pee on the bed."
"I've become a pee pad."
"Your body is wet, just wipe it off. If the bed is wet, how are we going to sleep at night?"
As Lin Xiuqing spoke, she patted her youngest son's butt and then took off his pants. He then woke up and rubbed his eyes sleepily, calling for his mother.
"You wet the bed, you know that?"
His eyes widened and he shrank back, then he hid under the quilt, and then he said in a baby voice, "You didn't wet the bed! You can't hit me!"
"Do you want me to show you your pants? Do you think you can't be hit if you hide?"
"You can't hit me! You can't hit me!"
At this time, Ye Chenghu was also awakened, "Yangyang wet the bed? Mom, I'll help you pull him out."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, "Good brother!"
"Stinky brother~"
"Stop it… "
It was only 7 o'clock, but he had to get up. He didn't need to lie down again. He just carried a hoe to the field to turn over sweet potatoes and pull radishes.
"Young men, come to work!"
With just a shout, Ye Chenghai ran out of the house happily, with a group of people following him.
"Uncle San, what are you doing?"
"Do you want to eat baked sweet potatoes?"
"eat!"
"Then come and work for me."
"But I..."
"It's time for breakfast, you know? Where are you guys going?"
"I told you to eat, but you were not so diligent. When your uncle called you, you ran faster than a rabbit. Come back and eat. After eating, go to school quickly..."
After Mrs. Ye finished shouting at the door, Mrs. Ye II immediately started cursing.
A group of children came and ran away quickly, leaving only two from my family still squatting there.
He patted their heads and said, "You guys are really reliable. Work harder and I'll give you some roasted sweet potatoes for lunch!"
The two little chicks nodded like they were pecking at rice, "Dad, we will work hard!"
Because the children didn't go to school, Lin Xiuqing started cooking late. She put the rice into the pot just now and cooked it for a while. After it boiled, she stirred it a few times with a spatula, then left it to simmer while she went to help harvest sweet potatoes.
I saw two kids squatting there picking sweet potatoes, playing very enthusiastically, with mud all over their hands, bodies and faces. I felt a headache again.
"Go pick radishes over there. We don't need you here."
"Okay, I like pulling radishes the most."
Ye Chenghai was eating in the house, and finally brought out his rice bowl, "Uncle San, can I discuss something with you?"
"Not negotiable!"
Ye Chenghai bit his tongue and glared, "I haven't even said it yet."
"You must have asked me to bake an extra sweet potato and save it for you when you get home from school."
"Hehe, the one who knows me best is my third uncle."
"You didn't work, why should I give you food? Or you can just not go out in the morning and come with me to the fields, and I'll roast a sweet potato for you."
"No, that won't work. How can you buy me off with a sweet potato? My mother will beat me to death."
"You can't read anyway."
"Unless you tell my mother to stop beating me."
"So a sweet potato can still buy you off?"
Ye Chenghai stared at him with his eyes wide open, looking depressed. Ye Yaodong laughed, "Don't blame me for not reminding you. Turn around and see that your mother has come out with a whip."
Ye Chenghai turned his head instantly and saw his mother walking down the stairs with a whip in her hand. He quickly poured the little porridge left in the bowl into his mouth and ran away immediately.
"Mom... I've already finished eating... Ah... Don't hit me... I've really already finished eating... Really..."
Ye Yaodong shook his head, "It's true that if you don't discipline them for three days, they will tear down the roof."
"Who told you to tease him all day? You have to ask him to help you even when you're hoeing sweet potatoes."
"Isn't he running very actively? There is strength in numbers. You can't underestimate child laborers. You have to make the best use of them."
Lin Xiuqing glanced at him, thinking he was really unprofessional. She was too lazy to say anything to him. She just thought that he should do his job.
Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "Don't squat for too long, go get the porridge out and let it cool down, I'll do it."
"Just wait a while, I'll help you finish it faster. Why... it's ok to abuse child laborers, but I can't bear to abuse pregnant women."
"That's right. The child is born to collect debts, so the wife must love him dearly."
Lin Xiuqing was somewhat amused by his coaxing, but she pursed her lips and smiled secretly, not laughing. In fact, the upturned corners of her mouth and the look of trying not to laugh had already exposed her.
"Just smile if you're happy. I know you are happy."
She turned her head and raised the corners of her mouth, glaring at him with a hint of anger and smile, "I'll go get the porridge out to cool it down."
Ye Yaodong grinned and continued to swing the hoe, feeling that life was pretty good now and there was hope.
Lin Xiuqing went in for a short while and came out, just in time to see her youngest son falling backwards due to excessive force while holding a carrot.
Then he casually threw the radish aside and continued to pull out another one, but ended up sitting on the ground again...
She couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she took a few quick steps forward and pulled him aside, "You're running out of clothes to change into, did you know that?"
Ye Chengyang stared innocently.
Lin Xiuqing was in a dilemma and stared at Ye Yaodong who was not far away. "Why don't you pay attention?"
"Why are you looking at him? I'm digging sweet potatoes. Who has nothing to do but stare at him? Just take a few glances occasionally and nothing will happen. It's going to get dirty anyway. Why do you care about him? Just don't climb onto the bed." Ye Yaodong said nonchalantly.
"One, two, three of them are all so troublesome..."
"It will be clean after a few pats!"
Lin Xiuqing: “…”
So sad!
"Otherwise, I'll change it later and be in the same clothes again in the evening. Who cares?"
Seeing her little son was so dirty, she gave up and didn't want to care about him anymore. She let him play and said, "Go, go, go..."
Ye Chengyang happily ran to pull the radishes again, but he still remembered to be careful to check his mother's reaction. He didn't feel at ease to start until she didn't curse at him.
Ye Yaodong waved his hoe and asked, "What are you going to do with these sweet potatoes?"
"See if mom has made sweet potato flour this year. If she has, we won't make it. We can just shred it, dry it, and store it. It will save us the trouble. Making sweet potato flour is too laborious."
"I'll dry some sweet potatoes for you and the two kids as snacks."
"You want to eat it yourself?"
"What nonsense! How can a grown man like me like to eat these little things?"
"If you have time, you can do it."
"no problem."
The couple, one was hoeing and the other was picking up radishes. After hoeing six baskets, they stopped and planned to go eat. The two little ones were also very helpful. They pulled two rows of radishes and their faces were red from playing.
He was extremely serious while eating today and finished a whole bowl of porridge quickly. Without anyone urging him, he slid down the porridge immediately after finishing it and ran to pick radishes in the field next to him.
Ye Yaodong went up to the old house only after he finished hoeing all the sweet potatoes. When he arrived, he saw that the front door was bustling with activity. Several women in the family were washing sweet potatoes. His father was stuffing sweet potatoes into the hole on the top of a blender nearby. There were many neighbors standing around watching.
He rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to help. "We want to make sweet potato noodles. Why didn't you tell us yesterday? Go get your eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law to come over and help."
"No, we can handle it. There isn't much left. We can do half and keep the other half for drying."
Seeing that he was offering to help, Ye's father gave him the mashing job, and he carried the mashed sweet potatoes aside, added water, and stirred them with a stick.
Mother Ye also had time to prepare the filter net and filter rack, and placed them on the large water tank used to hold filtered water.
Then Ye's father scooped a few scoops of the mixed sweet potato pulp into the filter, and Ye's mother fiddled with the filter rack to filter the pulp into the large vat, and then squeezed out the water from the remaining residue with her hands.
The filtered water needs to settle for about 12 hours, then pour out the water the next day, add water again and soak it to settle.
Repeat this process three or four times to remove the impurities inside, then take out the sediment and dry it to make sweet potato flour.
Sweet potatoes with red flesh do not produce as much starch as those with white flesh, but those with red flesh taste better.
The process is a bit laborious, but it is authentic farm-made sweet potato flour, and it is also very convenient to use to make vermicelli.
Ye Yaodong was busy working, while the women who were washing sweet potato noodles nearby couldn't stop praising him.
"I didn't expect that Adong would change so quickly..."
"Who says it's not true? He has grown up in the past few months and has become very capable. He bought a big ship and caught so many good things..."
"He suddenly became diligent and helped with housework. He is promising. Everyone said he would become the first millionaire in our village. Lixiang would wake up laughing in her dreams..."
"He used to scold me every day, three times a day, but suddenly he got better. How did he become so smart?"
As they were talking, they asked the person involved without any hesitation, "Ah Dong, why did you suddenly come to your senses?"
"It's not that sudden. It's not just helping out at home. It feels like going out to sea is pretty fun."
"It's interesting... We seaside residents have no choice but to go out to sea to make a living..."
Another nosy woman asked, "I heard you're going to be a millionaire. Is that true?"
"Nonsense, I'm probably still 9,900 yuan away from being a ten thousand yuan household." He wiped the sweat from his forehead. These women were really not polite.
"You're kidding, how is that possible? It's okay to tell us..."
"Aunt Chunhua, can you lend me 9,000 yuan so I can get on the newspaper and become famous all over the country?"
"Shh...are you kidding..."
"You are joking with me, so I have to joke with you a little, right?"
"Slippery..."
Mother Ye smiled and said, "It's all nonsense. I've only heard of people becoming millionaires by raising pigs, but I've never heard of any village becoming millionaires by fishing..."
Ye Yaodong poured the remaining half basket of washed sweet potatoes into the top opening of the blender, then patted his butt and left. These women were too talkative, and he turned a blind eye to what they saw.