When he returned home with the bucket, everyone had already sat down at the table and were ready to eat. Lin Xiuqing went up to them and was very happy to see the bucket of eels.
"So you went fishing for eels? When I asked you before, you said you didn't know. It's just right to catch up with everyone in the evening. We have to start work again tomorrow."
Father Ye looked at him with disdain, "You just like doing these things all day long. You're lazy again when I ask you to go to the fields to harvest rice."
Except when he was making money, his father rarely looked at him favorably. Ye Yaodong laughed nonchalantly, "Isn't this also a way for me to improve my diet? Yellow eel is also very nutritious!"
After a few decades, you won’t be able to fish even if you want to! You can only buy fish raised for food.
The old lady said with a smile: "Eels are good. We haven't eaten them for a while. We work so hard at work and go to sea. I was thinking of killing a chicken for you in a few days. Eating eels in the evening is just right. The chicken can be saved for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Dongzi, wash your hands and come to the table to eat. I'll cook this."
"good."
Ye Yaodong looked at his father, "You just came back from the safe harbor by boat. Are the waves on the sea still big? Can we go at night?"
"You can go. It just so happens that your second brother went there a few days ago. I'll take you there tonight to try it out. Let's go in order."
"oh!"
He has already prepared himself mentally, so let him see how lucky he is.
After the meal, he first took the receipt and went to Acai's house with Lin Xiuqing to get the money from today's fish sale. He then went to Xiaoxiao's house to get two big grass carps weighing 3 kilograms and three crucian carps to put in a bucket, which would be perfect for the workers as food tomorrow.
I haven't been out to sea for several days. There are many people at home, and most of the dried and salted fish that I stored some time ago have been consumed.
Lin Xiuqing saw him walking in and out shirtless after taking a shower. He had obviously become much darker in the past few days, so she couldn't help but said, "I'll find some time tomorrow to buy you a piece of cloth and make you another set of clothes!"
"Ah? Why did you think of making clothes for me? You can just make two sets for yourself. I don't do anything. Why do I need new clothes?"
"Haven't you been helping with chores lately? You have to change clothes twice a day, and two sets of clothes are not enough for you. I'll make you another set."
"Oh, then you decide!"
Two sets of clothes were indeed not enough for him to change. There was a typhoon two days ago, and his clothes were not dry yet, so he had no clothes to change that day. He walked around the house in only shorts.
Before, he went out early and came back late, so Lin Xiuqing didn't bother to care whether he had clothes to change into. But now it's no longer possible. He either has to work in the house or go out to sea, and she definitely can't let him be without clothes to wear.
Ye Yaodong actually didn’t care much about what he wore. She was the one who always arranged everything for him, so he would definitely wear at least two spare clothes.
"Why don't you buy yourself two sets of clothes? You just made some money recently."
"Why buy new clothes when it's not a festival? It's a waste of money. I have three sets of clothes that are enough for me to change. Grandma has stewed the eel. Come out and eat it while it's hot."
"oh."
The table was already full of bowls, and there was a yellow eel in everyone's bowl, except for his bowl, which had two, one the biggest one and a smaller one.
The old lady was still beside him, and kept telling him to eat quickly.
He nodded, picked up a small one, started from the head, peeled off the belly, picked out the internal organs, put the eel blood into the old lady's bowl and the meat into Lin Xiuqing's bowl.
"Eat it, I have a bigger one in my bowl!"
"Eat it yourself, we have it all."
"I have some, too. They're bigger than yours. Eat them. When you're done, I'll go fishing again in a few days. There are plenty in the fields."
The old lady accepted it with a smile, and Lin Xiuqing simply picked up some and fed it to the child. It was not a rare thing anyway, so there was no need to push it around. The others at the table just watched and ate without saying a word.
The blood of the eel is the essence of the whole body and is very nutritious. However, children do not like to eat blood, but they are forced to eat it by adults. Who eats eels without eating blood
After eating and drinking, except for Ye's father who went to bed early because he had to go out to sea, everyone else sat outside the door to enjoy the cool air. Ye Yaodong lay in the room for a while and couldn't fall asleep, so he also went out to the door to enjoy the cool air.
As soon as I went out, I heard a group of women chatting there.
"How much did you sell that big fish for this afternoon? Was it a hundred pounds?"
"Can it be sold for a few dozen dollars?"
"I heard from Ah Cai's wife that she bought that fish for 40 yuan!"
"My goodness, is it so valuable?"
At this time, country women didn't know how to keep their wealth private. When everyone gathered together, they either gossiped or compared things with each other. Ye's mother smiled and started shouting, "It's not that much, just over 30 yuan. I sold other goods together to get this much."
"Adong has been very successful recently. He caught a mackerel and a grouper. Now he has caught another fish called Du... He has really made a fortune."
"It's a yellowtail! This is the first time such a big fish has appeared on our beach. Adong is so lucky..."
Ye Yaodong leaned back in the chair and swayed a bit, then said lazily, "It's not that I'm lucky, it's Ah Qing who's lucky. She was the one who found it. I just helped carry it, and the money went into her pocket. I'm just an employee."
The neighbor lady laughed: "What you are saying, husband and wife, what's yours is mine, isn't it?"
"That's right, why did they ask you to work for A-Qing?"
"Alas~"
Ye Yaodong sighed, then stood up, took out a pack of Friendship cigarettes from his pocket and threw it on the chair, then turned both pockets over and shook a five-cent coin and a two-cent coin in his hand.
"See? My pocket is empty, I only have seven cents. All the money I earned from selling fish is hers. Am I not working for her?"
Lin Xiuqing smiled at him with embarrassment, "How dare you show it to me..."
Ye's mother couldn't help but laugh and scolded, "It's good enough that you have a cigarette to smoke. Why do you need to keep money in your pocket? You won't spend it all. Your wife should keep the family's money. A few cents of pocket money is enough. Friendship cigarettes are only four or five cents a pack. It's enough for you to spend for a few days."
"Alas, when I was young, my mother took care of me. When I got married, my wife took care of me. When I get old, I may have to look after my son and daughter-in-law. What a life~"
He sat back and started rocking in the recliner!
This was agreed by some uncles around him, "That makes sense, aren't we always being controlled? If we drink a little more, we will be nagged all the time."
"That's right, and I'm still disliked... Either they say I smell like cigarettes, or they say I snore a lot, which is so annoying..."
"You're a chain smoker, you cough every day and still smoke..."
Soon, the aunties were scolding me again...
After successfully changing the subject, Ye Yaodong began to stroll leisurely again. He didn't like anyone asking about his financial situation or calculating how much money he had earned recently.
Just when he was rocking peacefully in the chair, some bastard came over and bent the chair backwards, causing him to fall to the ground!
"Ah, shit~ Damn, who did this..."
“Hahahaha~”
Ye Yaodong got up in a rage and glared at the group of brats who were laughing loudly not far away. Among them were some from his family and some from his neighbors' family.
What a bastard!!!
"Uncle San, it's Ye Chenghu. He made a bet with us and lost..."
"Don't run, you bastard~"
"Ah, Dad~ It was them. They said you wouldn't get angry. Brother Hai also said you play like this with them every day. It was just a joke. You definitely wouldn't hit me...
"Ah... I was wrong, Mommy, Mommy, help me, my dad is going to beat me to death~"