Ye Yaodong didn't even look at him.
"Hey... Uncle... How can you go back on your word? I'm a guest! Guest! Do you know what a guest is?" Lin Guangyuan trotted along beside him, looking up at him.
"I know that guests should follow the host's wishes. Be honest. You are living under someone else's roof now, don't you understand?"
"What do you mean by living under someone else's roof? I'm here as a guest, you have to take good care of me."
Ye Yaodong gave him a slap on the face without any hesitation, "You just think about playing all day. Tomorrow I will take you to the dock to carry goods. You should make good money to honor your aunt and uncle."
"Ah... this is a bit too much... Let's make a deal, uncle, I'll just go there tonight, and I'll be very obedient from now on..."
"Don't walk so fast! Slow down... Uncle... Uncle... Let's just go once..."
"Maybe there are a lot of them. There are sandworms during the day, and there must be more at night... Today is the fifteenth day..."
Ye Yaodong paused for a moment and asked, "Is today the fifteenth?"
"Yeah, today is the fifteenth!"
He calculated in his mind, Ye Xiaoxi was born on the fifth day of March, so isn't today the fifteenth
Lin Guangyuan felt that there was something going on, and smiled flatteringly, "I heard that there will be a big tide on the 15th, little uncle..."
Ye Yaodong glanced at him and said, "Children need to sleep more so they can grow taller. If you sneak out in the middle of the night, be careful or you will become a dwarf in the future."
"It doesn't matter. It won't affect my future marriage."
"But it affects my chances of picking up girls and finding rich women."
"Ah? Damn, uncle, you are this kind of person..."
"Will you bribe me? Bribe me and I won't tell my aunt..."
Lin Guangyuan followed beside him and tried his best to persuade him...
Ye Yaodong spread his big palm and directly covered his face, pushing him hard, "Shut your mouth, if you keep talking nonsense, I won't take you with me tonight!"
Lin Guangyuan jumped three feet high in surprise, "Oh~ Great~"
"I won't call you. If you can get up, go. If you can't get up, don't go."
"I will definitely get up!"
Lin Guangyuan excitedly rushed to the door of his house and shouted loudly to tell others the good news.
It was too late for Ye Yaodong to stop them. He heard the children cheering happily from afar, and then they were scolded.
He stopped in his tracks instantly, unable to move forward...
If he goes back now, he will be scolded...
For example, a person in his 20s is still like a child, thinking about playing all day long, like he has not grown up, and goes to the beach late at night...
Why go to the beach at night, in the dark, can't see anything, haven't you been to the beach before...
Every day, I just love to mess around, and I also mess around with a group of children, and I eat too much...
…
He turned around and went out again, ready to stroll around the village. Anyway, with his parents at home, A Qing would not be afraid of being left unattended.
The quaint and quiet fishing village faces the sea and backs onto green mountains.
The Grain Rain season has just passed, and it is the time when hundreds of fish come ashore. Fishermen and women are busy preparing fishing nets for going out to sea, or working in groups of three or five, holding shuttles and quickly inserting them into the fishing nets.
The open spaces on both sides of the road are also filled with mottled old fishing nets and floats drying in the sun. It is a completely different scene from the drying of fish in winter, but it is also a busy and thriving scene.
The laughter of children can be heard everywhere on the surrounding paths.
Ye Yaodong was walking on a quiet path, smoking and wandering around, when he heard the sound of "dong dong dong dong" and the sound of hawking.
"Maltose, maltose~ exchange the rags for sugar~"
"Maltose, maltose~ Buy maltose~"
As soon as he walked out of the intersection of the path, he saw a group of children holding various old slippers in their hands, chasing a middle-aged man carrying a basket with a large piece of candy in it. The man was holding a rattle in his hand and shouting "Trading rags for candy"...
Maltose comes in both solid and liquid forms. The one the middle-aged man sells is the solid one.
When the middle-aged man heard a group of children calling behind him, he put down his carrying pole with a smile on his face.
There was a big sugar cake on the wooden board of the sugar exchange stall. Flour was sprinkled on the pale yellow sugar cake. The middle-aged man held a thin piece of iron sheet in his left hand and a small hammer in his right hand. He knocked it gently, and a corner of malt sugar fell off.
The children were extremely anxious, but the middle-aged man did everything slowly and steadily no matter how anxious they were, and the children were almost drooling.
After he knocked down a small pile of maltose, he exchanged the broken slippers in the children's hands one by one.
You can also use money or rice, but most adults in other families are reluctant to do so, so children go home to collect old slippers or other rags.
When Ye Yaodong approached, he also smelled a faint scent of maltose, which is one of the favorite delicacies of children nowadays.
He leisurely watched the children licking the malt sugar after they got it, with a look of great satisfaction on their faces. Thinking of his own children at home, he also waited patiently by the side.
After all the children had exchanged their candies and were licking them contentedly as they walked, he also took out the coins from his pocket, which were all one, two, and five cents.
"How much is one dollar?"
"penny."
Oh so cheap.
"Give me ten dollars." He counted out a dime and handed it to the candy seller.
The middle-aged man's face was full of smiles. It was rare to meet someone willing to spend money, and buy so much at one time. He knocked slowly and gave one extra piece to Ye Yaodong.
Ye Yaodong took the maltose wrapped in old newspaper, thanked him, opened it, picked up a small one and put it in his mouth, eating while walking.
It was hard and he rolled it in his mouth.
After warming my mouth for a while, it softened a little. It was chewy, sweet, delicious, and sticky to my teeth. The silky sweet feeling went straight to my heart.
"I haven't eaten it for decades, but the malt sugar at this time is still the most authentic," he thought to himself.
Slowly, he walked back the way he came. The gradually slanting sunset stretched his shadow long...
Before he even reached the door of his house, he heard a noisy sound from afar. A group of children were playing with sandbags and shouting that they were about to die.
Ye Yaodong approached and raised a small bag in his hand, "Would you like some maltose?"
"Ah? Maltose?"
"maltose?"
"Ah~ I have maltose to eat~"
"I want~I want~"
"I want one too~"
"Wait for me~ I want to..."
A group of children, both big and small, all gathered around excitedly. At that time, every household had limited financial resources and little food, so no child could resist maltose.
"Wow, there are so many! Uncle San is so nice!"
Ye Yaodong smiled and spread his hands, letting them take what they wanted. "One piece per person, no more."
"Mmm, it's delicious and sweet!"
The others also nodded in agreement and licked it with their tongues. When it became a little soft, they took a bite and pulled out long threads.
"I'll get the tachyon!"
"I also want… "
Ye Yaodong watched as each of them took a stick of cake, rolled it around the cake and slowly sucked it, their mouths covered with white flour. They enjoyed the sweetness and made fun of each other.
They ate and played with a small piece of candy for a long time.
He still had a piece left in his hand, but unfortunately Ye Xiaoxi had just been born and couldn't eat it yet, and A Qing was also in confinement after giving birth, so it seemed she couldn't eat it either.
One piece was not enough for them to share, otherwise they would start fighting, so he wrapped it up casually, put it back in his pocket, and went into the house.
I haven't seen Ye Xiaoxi for a while. This little kid really changes every day. He's so cute.
As soon as he entered the house, he saw his mother and the old lady coming out of the house, "You're back? Where did you go again? You disappeared after sending someone away."
Ye Yaodong laughed, "I just wandered around when I had nothing to do."
He searched his pockets again and handed the remaining piece of maltose to the old lady, "Maltose, I just bought it, you can have a sweet mouth."
The old lady smiled, revealing her gums, "I won't eat it, you eat it yourself."
"I just ate one piece, and the kids at the door have also had some. There's still one piece left, so you can keep it for your sweet mouth." He stuffed it into the old lady's pocket without saying a word.
The old lady put her hand in her pocket, felt around but didn't take anything out. She just smiled more happily, "Spend less money. It's not easy for you to earn money. You haven't been out to sea recently. Otherwise, ask your mother to come over and sleep on the floor at night while you and your father go out to sea. I heard there are a lot of goods recently."
Mother Ye also nodded. "The two children are afraid of noise, so they sleep in the same room now. You go and keep them company. Spread a straw mat on the floor. I will sleep in Aqing's room and take care of them at the same time."
Ye Yaodong thought about it and felt that this was a feasible method. Lin Guangyuan would sleep on the same bed with the two boys, and he would sleep on the floor. This would only last for a few days.
"Okay, then we'll wait until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to go out to sea."
"Taking a few kids to the beach at night?" Ye's mother frowned.
He smiled and said, "Ayuan keeps pestering me, so I'll take him to the beach tonight. The others definitely won't be able to get up, and I didn't intend to take so many people with me. Who knew he would be so talkative?"
"Why go? Can't we play during the day? We have to go at night. We're too full. We're not afraid of danger..."
"He stayed here specially to play, so I had to satisfy him, so I took him out to play for a while. He's already that old, he knows how to do it."
The old lady warned: "Be careful, watch other people's children more, don't let anything happen, you can't afford the compensation."
"Don't worry, we'll go when the tide goes out. We won't walk into the water." They're not going swimming, they're just going to the beach, so he can still keep an eye on it.
Ye's mother was too lazy to care, so she just walked out, pretending not to see anything. She had to start preparing dinner and pick some spinach.
When night fell, the children reluctantly went back to their rooms to sleep. Before leaving, they reminded each other to call out if anyone woke up at night.
As expected, they all got scolded. However, they were all thick-skinned and didn't care whether they were scolded or not. They were fine even if they were beaten. They just made faces at each other and went home.
Ye Chenghai even grabbed Lin Guangyuan and whispered to him, "Remember to call him..."
In just one day, they had established a revolutionary friendship!