After deciding what to wear during the Mid-Autumn Festival, she smiled a little more and asked him to hold one end of the cloth. She pulled it open to check and found that it was a little long.
"How much rice did you buy?"
"2 meters? Didn't you ask me to buy two meters?"
"You are so tall, but you only need two meters. Why do I need two meters?"
"It's okay, you can make another pair of pants to match."
"Then I can't make long pants. At most I can make five-centimeter ones." Lin Xiuqing muttered to herself for a while and then put it away. Since she had already bought it, she could only do whatever she wanted and make it.
After putting the things away, she turned around and thought about the sea chicken feet again, "Is your sea chicken feet still digable? This thing is too valuable!"
Ye Yaodong was lying on the bed, shaking his feet. "I don't know if there are any on other islands. It's hard to go there without a high tide. This thing grows on the reefs in the intertidal zone that are hit by waves all year round. If you go there normally, the tide won't go down too low, and you'll easily be hit by the waves and thrown into the sea. It's quite dangerous."
"Forget it, let's wait until the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month to see. If I come across any, I'll dig some. If not, forget it. It's already pretty good to be able to earn so much, and it's a good thing someone recognized it."
"Um."
"Why do you think there are foreigners coming to our little place?"
"Isn't it normal? I guess he was someone I met when the prince of Hongsheng was studying abroad, and he came here to play with us. Don't care what they do, just take care of me." He gave an ambiguous smirk.
Lin Xiuqing understood what he meant instantly. She looked at the two children who were playing with some embarrassment and whispered, "You don't feel tired either. You work so hard during the day..."
"Why are you tired? It's a different matter. I ate five turtle eggs yesterday and two more today. It's a good opportunity to see the effect. You should coax those two to sleep!"
It turns out that turtle eggs are quite effective.
The next day he woke up refreshed, and remembering that there seemed to be 5 or 6 left from last night, he went to the stove to look for them, and found that there was only soup left.
"The turtle eggs are gone?"
"You got up late, I ate the last two." Ye Yaopeng laughed.
"You know the effect is good, right? Why didn't you leave one for me?"
There were probably four others who were taken out to sea by his father to be eaten at night. Originally it was his turn to go out to sea yesterday, but he had to go to town, so his father called him "big brother", and it was Ahua's turn again at night, giving him a chance to take a break.
"Hehe~" Ye Yaopeng was too embarrassed to respond.
Ye's mother urged, "Hurry up and eat breakfast. After that, you can work. They are just a few eggs. These turtle eggs smell very fishy. What's so delicious about them?"
"knew."
I’ll go to A Guang’s place tonight and bring some back. He’s a bachelor, and it wouldn’t be good if he gave him too much!
But he didn't expect that before he could go home to look for him, A Guang actually came running back to work happily.
"Did you take the wrong medicine? You came here to work so early in the morning? Have you never been exposed to the sun, or have you never worked before? You are so diligent for no pay?"
"I came here to work for you out of kindness, but you actually said something like this."
"Okay, you are ready to work hard, right? Then work hard, and tell my mother later so I can pay you."
"Tsk~" A Guang said disdainfully, "Do I still need your wages?"
"Aren't you trying to save up money for a wife? A little bit adds up to a lot!"
"Then you might as well take me out to sea a few more times so we can get here faster."
"I don't have time to go myself. I have a lot of work to do at home, and it's not safe to go to the isolated island on a daily basis. Don't you want to buy a boat? Go to Ah Cai's house tonight to see if you can get the money. The sooner you get it, the sooner you can buy the boat."
"That's true. We went together to ask for the money at night. It's been a day, and we don't have a fixed delivery schedule for him."
A Guang worked hard for two days and it was not without results. Ye's mother's impression of him changed immediately. When he finished work in the evening, she smiled and warmly invited him to go home for dinner.
Ye Yaodong did not allow him to refuse. He put his arm around his shoulders and walked towards home without saying anything.
In fact, A Guang did not think of refusing. He followed them to eat with a smile. After the meal, he helped collect dried Chinese mustard and dried clams. He did not follow Ye Yaodong until he asked him to get the money.
He worked like this as a free laborer for several days. Even when Ye Yaodong was away at sea with his father, he still came as usual and brought watermelons from time to time. Ye's mother felt a little ashamed and offered to pay him wages.
Ah Guang refused repeatedly. He didn't work for the money, but Ye's mother insisted on giving it to him. He didn't want to argue with her, so he had to accept it temporarily with a thick face and throw it back on the table when he left later.
Mother Ye was satisfied and said, "That's right, otherwise I wouldn't dare let you come to work. I didn't meet you before, so I didn't know you. I think you've been doing well these past few days. You're a good young man."
He scratched the back of his head awkwardly and smiled foolishly.
"You seem to be getting quite old, so ask your aunt to find you a partner as soon as possible. It's not nice to have no woman at home. Only by marrying a wife can the family be in order. Your two sisters are getting older, so you can have someone to find a partner for them in two years."
"Haha, if you have a suitable partner, you can introduce him to me." As he said this, his eyes looked around a little.
"I'm busy building the house all day, so how can I be a matchmaker? If you're not in a hurry, I'll keep an eye on it for you when the house is finished."
"Haha, sure. I'm not in a hurry. I'm still one year younger than Dongzi."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes and said, "Why are you competing with me? I already have two sons, and you don't even have a wife."
"Yes, you should ask your aunt to find one for you. If it's suitable, you can hold the wedding this year!"
"Oh, well..."
He thought the same thing in his heart, but hey... it's not easy to say it out loud, he has to proceed step by step, otherwise he will not only get beaten but also fail.
He changed the subject and said, "Dongzi, how many cages have you made?"
"Not many. I had to build houses during the day, so I could only work for a while after dinner. My speed was considered fast, but I only made 5."
"Hire someone to do it! The sooner it's done, the sooner it can be released into the sea, and the sooner we can see the benefits."
"Don't worry, there are so many things to do at home, I will finish them slowly."
After making ten, he would put them in a row into the sea. Otherwise, if he just threw five or six into the sea, he would have to row the boat to collect them if there was nothing there, which was very time-consuming.
Ten are too few, but at least they can be put in a row, so I'll just put them there.
"Your traps are just sitting there at home, so why don't you put them in the river pond at night and see if you can make some loaches for stew? You can also test the water at the same time?"
Ye Yaodong's eyes lit up when he heard this. This is indeed possible!