Ye Yaodong had a full meal and took a nap since he had nothing to do.
In the cold winter, the only thing that is most comfortable is bed.
It was around four o'clock in the afternoon when he woke up. He was woken up by A Qing.
"The Zhou family next door had saved a lot of fish the day before. They just came to me and said they had dried them. They wanted to weigh the dried fish first."
"Ah? What's the hurry?" Ye Yaodong sat up with sleepy eyes, "I'll collect them from every household tomorrow."
"Maybe there are too many, and I'm unsure and uneasy, so I want to sell the ones that can be sold to us first."
She basically knew the little thoughts of these women, who all wanted to sell the products early and get the money as soon as possible.
When we have nothing to do, we like to go to the homes of our two sisters-in-law next door to chat, but she has a dog, so it is not convenient to visit.
Otherwise, I would have to sit in her house every day, chatting and listening to the radio, because there are too few entertainment activities in the countryside.
She would occasionally go over to chat when she had nothing to do, but apart from gossiping, all she heard was indirect talk about whether they would still accept the fees after the New Year and whether they would accept more fees in the future.
Some even asked her if she would move to the city after her shop was sold, or if she would sell her boat and move her whole family to the city to enjoy a better life.
These questions almost made her laugh to death, but luckily their house was fenced off and there was a dog there.
Otherwise, with their recent model of collecting dried fish in a big way and stealing the spotlight, everyone can come over every day to chat, flatter, and build good relationships.
"Get up, don't lie down. It's time for dinner. If you sleep too much during the day, you won't be able to sleep at night."
"Is there any difference between selling today and tomorrow? You are so anxious, really. Are you afraid that I will run away?" Ye Yaodong frowned, muttered a few words, and got up to put on his clothes.
"Maybe they're afraid we won't keep our word, since there are so many of us."
There weren't many of them. It was just a boat owned by two brothers from the Zhou family. They had reserved it a day in advance. Now they had carried three sacks and were waiting in the yard.
As soon as Ye Yaodong put on his clothes and walked out, he greeted them with a smile, and then without any nonsense, he poured it out and checked it. After the inspection, he picked out those that were not dry enough before weighing them.
Lin Xiuqing came out of the house only after she got the money. After weighing the money, she gave it to them directly on the spot to avoid making them feel worried.
Zhou Da took the money and said with a smile: "You should have asked for it before the New Year, right?"
"Of course you want it. As long as the weather is good and we can go out to sea, you can sunbathe as much as you want before the New Year."
"Okay, okay, then we can sunbathe more without worry."
"Put away the dry stuff tomorrow afternoon. It doesn't matter if you're late. Just get some work done."
"Okay, okay, I didn't touch it carefully just now, and some of it is not dry enough. Then we will send it over at this time tomorrow evening."
"Can."
Anyway, he wants to deliver it at dawn the day after tomorrow, so it would be perfect to collect it tomorrow night.
After three days of fishing, we should be able to catch about four or five thousand kilograms of fish, but some of the fish are big and some are small.
The small ones dry quickly, so it’s hard to say how many kilograms we can harvest tomorrow, but the quantity should be enough. If not, we can make up for it with some dried fish.
When he wanted the goods, he specifically asked not to have too many small fish, in order to prevent someone from cheating and collecting all the small fish from all his relatives and selling them to him. That would be too shameless.
Anyway, they have plenty of miscellaneous fish drying in the sun on their boats. If they are not enough, they can just take a little bit and it will be more than enough.
The next day, he originally thought that everyone would be anxious and collect all the dried fish and send them over early in the morning, but surprisingly, no one did.
This was beyond his expectations. After all, the Zhou family next door was so anxious yesterday that they couldn't even wait until today and hurriedly sent it yesterday evening.
He waited for half the morning but no one came, so he rode his bike out for a spin, intending to take a look and ask everyone to deliver the goods in the evening.
If he did more of it, he would also be able to spare some time to go to the shipyard and have a chat.
When he arrived at A Guang's house, A Guang heard that he was going again and quickly offered to go with him.
"You still want to follow?"
"I'll go with you to check it out, so you don't get cheated alone. At least I can have someone to talk to."
"Well, there's always someone to brag about on the road."
This time, the two of them rode on the road, each riding a bicycle. It was a rare occasion that they did not quarrel or play around. Instead, they had a serious conversation.
"Dongzi, are you really planning to buy a 20-meter-long boat?"
"Yeah, why else would I go there? If I want to go sightseeing and learn about it, one trip is enough."
"But a boat that big can't be bought with just two or three thousand dollars. Aren't you going to pay the balance for the store soon? Even though the boat doesn't need to be paid in full right away, the deposit alone will cost several thousand dollars! A few thousand dollars here and there is not a small amount!"
"I know. I've calculated it."
"Good fellow, it seems you really made a lot of money this year. The rumors in the village are true!"
Ye Yaodong glanced at him and said, "Didn't your father tell you how much money I made from catching jellyfish? I can make some money from selling dried fish recently."
"Aren't you going to keep some of it? You're just going to throw all that money away? I thought you would take your time and wait for a while to make more money. I also thought that Third Sister-in-law would stop you."
A Guang really didn't expect that Lin Xiuqing would actually support him in investing all his family assets
He thought that with his father-in-law's dissuasion and his wife's obstruction, Dongzi's hope of changing to a bigger ship would be aborted.
I didn’t expect that just one night had passed and I have to go there again today.
"Tsk~ Your third sister-in-law is very open-minded. When I said it, she supported me without hesitation. She also said that I am her heaven and the head of the family, and I can make the decision. She also said that if you marry a chicken, you follow the chicken; if you marry a dog, you follow the dog; if you marry a person, you carry a carrying pole with you. If I become poor in the future, she will accompany me to beg for food, or even earn money to support me."
A Guang was riding a bicycle and got goosebumps and shuddered when he heard what he said. It was so corny, who would believe it
"Stop talking like that. You're exaggerating. I'm getting goosebumps all over the floor. If you say that if she hands you a bowl when you go begging, I would believe it."
"I know you are envious, but you can't envy me for that. My sister is also very good..."
"No, no, no..." Ah Guang quickly interrupted his boasting, "I don't envy you at all for begging. Just go ahead! I can give you a nickel or a dime when the time comes."
"Huh? No, you can't come to my house to beg for food. It's embarrassing. Bah, I'll kick you out with a broom when the time comes."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes at him.
"Oh, by the way, I forgot to ask you, um... Haozi... Yes, Haozi, did your father tell you about the incident where he stole and hid the fish a few days ago?"
"I told you, damn it, I didn't know about it at first. It was only when I went to pick up the goods the next day that my dad asked me to check carefully, and then I found out."
When talking about this, A Guang got angry. Two days had passed and he had kind of forgotten about it.
"My dad said that since he is my friend, for my sake, he should just let it go for the first time and then check it more carefully later."
"What the hell, when I went to receive the goods that day, I told him directly that I asked him to come to my house after dinner to settle the bill. I paid him the money for the goods in the past few days, and then I took the ship back directly and didn't give him any more."
"I have good intentions. I think that after all, we are friends. If I take care of him, I can also earn a little more money. Although I can't make him rich, it will be better than his original life."
"I didn't expect that he would keep it to himself. His wife is even less of a person. Since we were at the dock with so many people around, she was yelling and saying that we had already agreed to be partners until March next year, and she still accused me of being untrustworthy."
"Fuck you, I was so pissed that I told Haozi, 'Don't you know how many fish you hid yesterday? If there's one, there'll be another. If we don't even have trust in each other, what's the point of cooperating with each other?'"
"What time was it the day before yesterday? Oh, what a pity, I wasn't there to see it. What happened later?" Ye Yaodong lost interest.
"What happened next? What can he do next? That's my boat. I said I would take it back, and they were the ones who were rude to me in the first place. The mouse hummed twice and didn't say anything. It's just that his wife is really disgusting."
"They even said that we took the fish back to dry, so we should give them half of the price we got from drying them, not half of the price if they were fresh."
"Oh my god, his wife is really good at calculating! The fish is originally under my control, I can ask for the price as I like, it's the same price as the purchase point, I gave her a lot."
"Guess what happened to her?"
Ye Yaodong's eyes instantly lit up with the blazing fire of gossip, "What's going on?"
"Oh my god, she even shouted and asked her brothers to come to my house to settle the accounts. She said that we must not give them a penny less, saying that they caught the fish and dried it, so of course they should also have half, and she also said that they would go to my house and take half directly."
"This guy is a bit confused! He doesn't even know what kind of wife he married? He thinks that because he has many brothers, he can act unreasonably? He thinks that the whole village belongs to him? Who doesn't have some relatives and friends? Only his family can have them?"
Ye Yaodong was filled with black lines on his face!
I feel like he is quite… Ugh! They can’t be compared. That’s an insult to his mother. His mother is a reasonable person with clear ideas.
"And then? What happened next?"
"Later? There is no later. He didn't come to my house to settle the bill yesterday. If he didn't settle the bill, I wouldn't send it to him. The money is with me, and I'm not the one who is anxious."
"No matter how you tell them, they are unreasonable. They even dare to make such a fuss! So the old saying is quite true. Marry a virtuous wife. Otherwise, a bad wife can bring disaster to your descendants for three generations!"
"Not only will I be cheated, but my son and grandson will also be implicated, and my entire family will be ruined."
Ye Yaodong agreed very much. Marrying a good wife is the foundation of a family's prosperity.
"Then you haven't even come to claim the money yet, I guess this matter isn't over yet, there will be more trouble."
"Oh, I thought so too. It's so annoying. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have been embarrassed by my appearance. I should have firmly said I wouldn't rent it."