With anticipation, the two children ate faster than anyone else. After quickly finishing their meal, they stood by and waited, staring at their father with burning eyes.
Ye Yaodong felt two fiery gazes and couldn't eat his meal in peace.
"You two go wait outside and find the wire first. There seems to be some in the yard. If it's not enough, go to the old house and ask your grandfather for some."
"okay."
Ye Chenghu ran out excitedly, and Ye Chengyang followed closely with his short legs.
Lin Xiuqing was eating, and urged him in a somewhat ambiguous tone, "Eat faster, or else she'll come in and start nagging again. I don't know who she's like..."
"My mother! Who else could she be like?"
She couldn't help laughing.
Ye Yaodong ate the remaining few mouthfuls of rice in the bowl before walking out the door. The two children were not in the yard either, they had run away.
He looked everywhere but could only find a small ball of copper wire.
At this time, the two men came back from nowhere and brought back an abandoned iron bucket and a small ball of iron sheet.
"Dad, my grandfather gave me the bucket and said it was rusty and leaky and useless. He told you to just use the wide iron ring under the bucket and not to go around in circles."
Ye Yaodong took the discarded iron bucket from his hand, lifted it up, turned it around, and looked at it. "How do I get it? He said it was so convenient? I don't even know how to get the iron ring on the broken wooden bucket?"
"You can't do it again?"
Ye Chenghu was so worried, how come his father didn’t know anything
Ye Yaodong glanced at him indifferently, "You are, right?"
"I can't. If I could, I wouldn't call you."
Ye Yaodong’s brows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a fly to death. What a disgusting brat!
"You've already gone to the old house, why don't you just ask your grandfather to do it?"
"Ah? Didn't you say you would do it for me?"
"You're not flexible at all, you idiot!"
Ye Yaodong turned the iron bucket around twice, then thought about it and decided to give up. It would be very difficult to take it down, so he decided to just make one out of the iron sheet.
You can also make another one using the wire you just found.
After throwing the bucket into the corner, he took the iron sheet brought back by the two children, stretched it to see the length, and then wrapped it into a circle to try, and it was indeed only enough to make one.
This rolling iron ring is composed of two parts: one is a circle made of iron sheet, and the other is a long handle that pushes the iron ring forward.
The iron ring is very simple to make. Just use pliers to bend the iron sheet into a ring and fix it. The size of the ring should be the same as the mouth of a wooden barrel.
The same goes for the iron wire, just bend it into a circle and wrap it tightly. Make it as round as possible so that it will be easier to roll.
As the children are small and need to be controlled more easily, Ye Yaodong made the toys one big and one small according to their heights.
While he was sitting and working, the two of them squatted in front of him, staring at him without blinking.
"Is it done, Dad? Is the circle done? I told you it was easy!"
Ye Chenghu looked at the circle that had already taken shape and couldn't wait to reach out and take it. "The big one must be mine."
"What's the hurry? There's still a controller."
"Then hurry up."
Ye Yaodong slowly put the circle on the ground and lit a cigarette for himself first.
He took two puffs and flicked the cigarette butt twice before pinching it between his middle and index fingers. He then used the remaining wire to make another long-handled iron hook.
"Okay, okay, it's finally done." Ye Chenghu couldn't wait to reach out again.
Ye Yaodong rudely slapped it away and said, "Why are you in such a hurry? Wait a minute, I'll give you something else."
He continued to tinker with the remaining bit of wire and made a very small iron ring, which he put on the iron ring.
"See? This little circle, when you're not pushing, you can hook it with the hook and carry it on your shoulders, just like Lin Chong holding the gourd with his iron spear. This way it won't fall."
"Ah? Who is Lin Chong?"
"It's from the Water Margin. That's why I tell you to study hard. If you chat with people in the future and they talk a lot and you just keep saying 'huh? huh? huh?', you'll seem uncultured and ignorant."
Ye Chengyang tilted his head and asked curiously: "Did Dad read a lot of books?"
Critical hit!
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"Uh... ahem... this one is ready, you can play with it now. The next one will be ready soon."
Ye Yaodong was stumped by the child's honest questions, so he simply put the iron ring on him and slung it across his shoulder, just like Nezha carrying the Qiankun Ring.
Ye Chengyang stood up excitedly, "Ah, I also have a hoop~ I'm looking for Brother Hai~"
Ye Chenghu saw that Ye Chengyang had already run away with the iron ring on his body, and he was very anxious, "Dad, hurry up, Yangyang has run away..."
"More haste less speed."
Ye Yaodong held the cigarette that was about to burn out in his hand and took two more puffs before flicking it away. "I forgot that I was at home, not at sea. It was too easy. Go over and step on it to put out the flame."
"Oh, why do adults always smoke?"
Ye Yaodong also put an iron ring on the iron ring he gave him. He was happy and satisfied. He put it around his neck and ran out.
"Hey? Wait, didn't you say you wanted to lend it to me to play with?"
"Wait until I've had enough fun..."
Before he could finish his words, the man had already run a long way away.
"You can't trust a man's words. You can't trust a boy's words! You can't trust a boy's words!"
Lin Xiu finished washing the dishes and cleaning the stove when she came out and heard this. She just thought it was funny, "Where does this deep feeling come from?"
"I just said it casually, just for fun."
"I thought you were cheated by some man."
"Nonsense, I'm not a little girl."
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After sending both of them away, Ye Yaodong thought that the world was quiet now. He planned to go into the house to take a nap so that he could go out to sea at night. However, he didn't expect that the excitement had just begun.
He had just taken off his cotton jacket and lay down on the bed. Before he even closed his eyes, he heard laughter and joy outside the house. The noise was getting louder and louder, and it was all the sound of children playing.
A group of children were playing the hoop rolling game at the door, and he knew how they were playing just by listening to the sound.
Fortunately, they rolled away after a while, otherwise I would have to get up and chase them away.
After getting enough sleep during the day, Ye Yaodong would wake up naturally at night feeling full of energy.
No one was hired today, just him and his father. There was no need to hire anyone to trawle the net. In case there was no catch, there would not be a need for three people to set up the sticky net. Two people could do it.
The dock was deserted for a while because there had been no going out to sea for many days, but it started to get busy again in the evening. People who knew each other would say hello when they met.
However, there are quite a lot of people who come to greet him today
Everyone's face was filled with smiles, making him seem like a popular person. He had never felt such enthusiasm from the villagers before.
I haven’t been around the village for a few days. Has there been such a big change
Only after he got on board did he ask his father, "Are there any more rumors about me in the village recently?"
The smile on Ye's father's face was still there. He nodded and said, "I don't know who spread the news, but everyone knows that you bought two shops in the city and paid for them a few days ago. Everyone in the village has been praising you these days."
"Oh, then let it spread. It doesn't matter. I've just emptied my family's savings. But what are you praising me for?"
"Go walk around the village tomorrow and listen and you'll know."
"Can't you just tell me?"
"What are you talking about? Your tail is sticking up in the sky. Hurry up and start the boat."
"Well, even if you don't tell me, I can guess what it is. It's nothing more than saying that I have made it, that I have turned over a new leaf. I have earned such a large fortune in just one year. No other child has made it as far as I have. You and my mother will enjoy great fortune in the future..."
Father Ye was speechless for a moment, "You already know everything, why are you asking?"
"Ah? Really? I was just saying it casually. These people are really boring. They only praise me with a few sentences. They don't praise me for being an official or a boss in the future, or starting a company and making a fortune..."
"Don't dream. Don't take my compliments seriously. You still have to do your job."
"Can't you say a few more words to make me happy?" Ye Yaodong muttered a few words and went to drive the boat obediently.
Who wouldn’t be happy when being praised
He stood at the bow, facing the wind, with a high spirit. In just over a year, everything was different and his life became more and more promising.
In fact, what he wants most now is the health and safety of his whole family. The money he earns is enough to spend. As long as he stays away from pornography, gambling and drugs, his family assets will slowly increase anyway.
On the sea, the sea breeze was blowing and the boat was swaying with the sea breeze. Although there was little wind on the shore and there were no waves on the shore.
But it's different on the sea. There is open space all around, and the whistling wind and the sound of the waves in his ears can almost cover up the sound of the diesel engine, ringing in his ears, but as long as the fishing boat can still bear it, it's fine.
The boat quickly sailed towards the sea area where they usually trawled. They had not been out to sea for ten days, and he thought they had come out early enough today.
Unexpectedly, after arriving at the destination, we saw some boats fishing in the nearby sea.
Is there anyone more hardworking than him
Looking at the boat moving at a constant speed over there, I knew it was operating, but I didn't know how it suddenly broke into its territory.
But the sea area is not his. Others are towing their own waters, and he should do his own thing. They should just not interfere with each other.
Before long, other people noticed him, and they all kept in sync and did their own thing. They were all good citizens, and as long as no one deliberately made trouble, everyone was relatively peaceful.
The trawling operation was going on normally. Seeing that the first net had a decent catch, Ye Yaodong decided not to put out the sticky net yet, as this was indeed a bit troublesome.
But maybe you can wait until the trawling is finished, and if there is still time, you can put out a dozen or twenty of them at the right time, so that if the weather is good tomorrow, you can collect and release them again.
Even if the weather is not good, the dozen or so nets will be quickly collected and will not stay for long.
Ye Yaodong was calculating very quickly, trying to make full use of everything. After all, he could be considered in debt now, even though his fixed assets had increased.
After collecting two nets, there were five or six more baskets of frogfish and other kinds of fish on the boat. He originally thought that these were the only fish he would get today and there would be no more good stuff.
But he didn't expect that his father had been keeping an eye on the other boat.
"Dongzi, there's something wrong with that boat. It hasn't moved for a long time."