Mrs. Ye also frowned, "This is simply inhumane. Now they don't allow us to have more children. It will be so heartbreaking to lose this child."
"That is to say, if the previous generation gave birth to eight, nine or more children, and couldn't support one or two, they would feel sad. Only the cruel ones would not care. Fortunately, there are no children lost in our village."
"It was almost lost. Fortunately, during the New Year, everyone in our village kept a close eye on it. When the peddler came into the village with his load on his shoulders, everyone would stare at him from beginning to end..."
"I heard that our village was praised for its contribution in catching human traffickers, and they said there will be rewards..."
The topic was immediately changed and they no longer bothered about asking Ye's mother for help.
Lin Xiuqing had heard about it at home a long time ago, but did not express any opinion. Instead, she patted her two sons' heads and told them not to make trouble and to work hard.
Mother Ye also stood there for a while, then called her two sisters to go back and continue killing the fish. The two daughters-in-law were reluctant to spend money to hire someone, so they had to do it themselves. If she could spare some time, she would help, but if she couldn't, there was nothing she could do.
She looked at Mr. Ye who was squatting there, "Have you finished moving all these shells? Why don't you go in and eat first?"
Father Ye nodded.
However, as soon as he entered, he poured the vegetables on the rice, put it in a large bowl and brought it over. He squatted beside the pile of shells and watched the children eat while working.
The same went for Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua. The three of them, father and son, each held a large bowl and either sat on the steps or squatted there while watching everyone work and eating.
By the way, let's discuss how much these can be sold for? Can they be sold
"We have as much of these things here as rice, but no one likes to eat them anymore and is too lazy to dig them up. Will people outside like them?"
"Since we were able to trade in the past few years, we have more food. Will people outside like to eat food from the countryside and the seaside? These are all in shells and don't have much meat. No one wants them even if we give them away."
As soon as the two brothers said this, both Mrs. Ye Dasao and Mrs. Ye Ersao stopped working.
"No one wants it? Then A-dong still wants it. There are quite a lot of them today..."
"Hey? Where's Adong? I saw him standing here just now."
"He rode his bike and left, saying he was going to the old house to get a large basin. Don't worry, Dongzi will definitely not play tricks on you. If he says he wants it, he will definitely not let you get it. Just relax and dry it out."
"We have as much dried fish as rice, don't we? There are people who want it. If you can, you can go out to sea at night and dig as much as you can. You never know when the weather will be fine again."
Father Ye swallowed the food in his mouth and comforted them to avoid worrying and thinking too much.
"It's a pity that we can't find anyone to go to the city to look after the shops. Otherwise, we would try to sell it ourselves. The shops are empty and can't be rented out."
"Isn't it? I don't know why I bought it. I spent thousands of dollars and it's just sitting there. I can't even earn any rent."
"We don't have time to go to the city to take a look, we don't even know what it looks like..."
"Are there a few shops open over there in the city now?"
"Who knows..."
Ye Yaodong happened to be riding his bicycle back. When he heard it, he didn't say anything or come over. He just went straight home.
What is there to say? It's not his responsibility, it's not his fault. He just acted on his own initiative. Besides, how can he lose anything if he just leaves it alone
Alas, it’s hard to be a good person!
"I've already bought it, why are you still talking about this? I don't even want to order something good."
Father Ye was too lazy to listen. After he finished speaking, he went back to the next room with his empty bowl. Let them do whatever they want.
Ye Yaodong put the black-backed ray into a large basin, sprinkled it with crushed ice, and covered it with two layers of rags. After settling it down, he went to look for the stonefish he had caught today.
Who knew that after looking for several buckets, I couldn’t find it, and Long Legs ran away
"Mom, have you seen my stone fish?"
"What stonefish? Where is there a stonefish? Didn't I tell you to throw it away when we were on the boat?" Ye's father stood aside and asked puzzledly, watching him turning around, it turned out that he was looking for a stonefish.
"That thing is ugly and poisonous. Why would I use it? I just put it together with the fish entrails and threw it into the bucket. I will take it to the beach and dump it back into the sea later."
"What? You're a spendthrift, and you keep calling me a spendthrift. I saved it for you, but you threw it away."
Ye Yaodong took the bucket beside her. It was full of fish scales, fish gills, and fish bellies. The stonefish was covered with only a little bit of its body exposed. If he hadn't looked closely, he would have thought it was also garbage.
When he stretched out his hand to take it out, his mother slapped him with the back of a knife, "What are you doing? Just throw it away, why are you taking it out? You dare to reach out, or I'll kill you."
"I saved it on purpose. It'll be fine as long as you don't get pricked by the thorns on its back." Ye Yaodong snatched the kitchen knife from his mother's hand, reached into the bucket and fiddled with it, then picked out the stonefish.
"What do you want fish for? You don't want to eat it, do you?"
"That's right, you don't know how tender this fish is..."
"You're going to die, this fish is poisonous..."
"Only the spines on the back are poisonous, but the flesh is not. It's a bit like a manta ray, except that only the spines are poisonous, not the flesh."
"What are you doing? What if? It's not like we haven't eaten before. We have so much fish at home. Why would we eat this? It's ugly and looks like a stone. How can it taste good?"
"What do you know?"
In life, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating are the four things, but eating comes first!
For men, apart from vagina, the only thing left is mouth.
Can the things in the sea be eaten? He knows more than them. He must try all the delicious food in his life.
Ye Yaodong skillfully used scissors to remove the entire row of poisonous spines on its back, and then used a knife to peel off its skin.
Ye's mother's knife was taken away by him, so she could only sit and watch, muttering, "You eat everything, you're so greedy, the little ones are not as greedy as you."
I don’t want to listen, I don’t want to listen, you bastard!
Ye Yaodong peeled the fish and chopped it into small pieces in no time. Father Ye didn't complain, but just watched from the side, "How come you can eat anything once it's in your mouth?"
"You used to lead us to catch grasshoppers to eat. How dare you criticize me?"
“That one tastes delicious when roasted.”
"Wait until I show you how to do it, and then you'll know. Go get me a bowl to hold it."
Lin Xiuqing had been altering clothes for several children in the house. In another month or two, the weather would become warmer, and their clothes would become too long or too short, and would have to be altered before they could continue to wear them.
After she finished revising one piece, she wanted to go out and make a cup of malted milk for her two sons, call them back to drink it and go to sleep, but she saw Ye Yaodong standing by the stove, scooping something with a spatula.
"Didn't you have enough for dinner?"
"No, I caught a stone fish today and wanted to bring it back to make fish soup for you to replenish your milk. This fish is very tender and super delicious."
Lin Xiuqing looked up at him and said in surprise: "Are you trying to poison me and find another wife?"
"What nonsense?"
“Aren’t stonefish poisonous?”
"That's because the thorns are poisonous. What does that have to do with the meat?"
"you sure?"
"If I'm not sure, how dare I ask you to eat it? I can poison myself, but I can't poison you to death."
Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes. She didn't believe it and turned around to go into the house.
"Don't worry, the fish meat is not poisonous. It's just like the manta ray, only the spines are poisonous. It's just that this fish is ugly and hard to catch, so no one eats it."
Ye Yaodong couldn't stop her, so he planned to eat it himself. Unexpectedly, she rushed out immediately and stopped him from eating.
"Wait a minute..."
"What? I'm going to try the poison on you first, to see how much I love you."
Lin Xiuqing glared at him, took out a small silver bracelet of Ye Xiaoxi's and put it into the spoon in his hand to get some fish soup.
Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "You are still testing poison?"
"I'm afraid of dying, and I'm also afraid of becoming a widow."
"Look, I told you you could eat it, but I don't know if this is edible or not?"
He swallowed the fish soup in the spoon in one gulp, then scooped another spoonful and fed it to her mouth.
Lin Xiuqing was relieved when she saw that the bracelet did not change color.
"I won't eat it. I have too much milk every day and it will come out. You eat it yourself. I called the two children back to sleep so that they don't have to stay up all day."
Just then, they heard exclamations and sounds of joy at the door.
The couple looked at each other.
"What's wrong?"
"Did you find a pearl?" Ye Yaodong guessed. Otherwise, why would he be so happy
"I'll go take a look. I was just planning to go over there."
Ye Yaodong also put down his soup bowl and followed him out.
Once outside, the sound became clearer, and a pearl actually appeared.
I’m really lucky!
This also shows that there are really not many people visiting the surrounding islands, and no one knows how long these shellfish on them have been growing.
"This one is quite round, and a bit as big as a bean. It will definitely sell for a good price."
"This is enough for us. If no one wants these things, we won't lose anything."
"What did you lose? Dongzi has already agreed, and we showed it to him, and you still say it's a loss?" Father Ye couldn't help but ask, because he was the one who opened the bead.
The two women were killing fish there and had no time to spare. Father Ye thought that his wife was helping the third child kill fish, and he had nothing to do for the time being, so he came to help them with the work.
"Ah, yes, yes..."
Ye Yaodong looked at them holding a bead high up, shining it back and forth under the light, and said, "Dad's luck is pretty good today..."
Father Ye was very proud, and everyone was so excited that they just focused on looking at Zhenzhu. It was rare that Dongzi even knew how to say something nice.
"I think so too. It feels like my mouth has been blessed today. Everything I say comes true. Just now I was saying that I have dug so many bags and wondered if I could get one or two beads out. I didn't expect that there really was one."
Lin Xiuqing also laughed and said, "We talked about this before. There are still so many bags, maybe we can open more!"
"Yes, yes, keep digging..."
"Hey, there are so many baskets of dried fish here, I don't know how long it will take to kill them all?"
They were a little reluctant to kill the fish, and were thinking about asking the two people's family members to come over and help kill the fish, so that the benefits would not be wasted. Otherwise, they would have to go out to sea with them at night, and they would not be able to handle it.
However, when they kept opening it on the second, third, and fourth nights, it never happened again.
The neighbors around heard about it and were also inspired to go out to sea to dig up these shells. They followed the trend two years ago, but after not getting much, they gave up. However, in the past two days, the trend has revived.
However, Ye Yaodong did not promise his neighbors that he would buy their shell meat, dried vegetable meat, etc.
His second brother hasn't even displayed it, he hasn't even taken it to the market to sell, and he doesn't know if anyone wants it. How can he dare to make a promise to others
He had to try it first. He didn't have that much money to lose, so he could try it a little bit.