"The ancestors are honored!"

"It's amazing that a man from our village can become an official in another province. It's amazing that someone who catches jellyfish can become an official."

"Your father's life is too good. Now he can walk around the village with his face glowing."

"Why are you fishing? You don't need to fish anymore. You can just become an official in the city. Why do you have to work so hard?"

Ye Yaodong hurriedly stretched out his hand, "Who are you? I just have a name. I have no salary and no rights. After all, I am still a grassroots team. I can't make a living from this. If you want to make money, you have to fish.

Fish, if I don’t fish, I’ll drink the northwest wind?”

What's more, facts have long proven that he is powerful at sea. If he doesn't use such a good cheating artifact, he goes to the city to act as a mascot for others, shouting and drinking, and it is not as easy as being at ease on the sea.

I have long understood that I just have a good name, so that people who don’t know why can envy me, and it sounds good to others. In fact, who takes him seriously? He is an outsider to begin with.

If he can't see clearly and takes himself seriously, he will really have to go back to his hometown in a few days.

If you understand your status clearly and become a mascot, you may still be able to sit in the position of vice president for a few more years and brag about it for a few more years.

"Then...then he is also the vice president. This title sounds so big, just like the deputy mayor. He looks so powerful..."

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, "You really think highly of me and are really good at using metaphors."

"Well, Adong, since you have written so much on this piece of paper, do you have to speak under the national flag tomorrow? Will there have to be a large group of people watching?"

"We are going to applaud you tomorrow afternoon to increase your popularity. We can't let you be looked down upon by others. By then, our palms will be swollen."

"Yes, yes, I will tell the villagers after dinner and ask them to come together to support you tomorrow afternoon..."

"Wait a minute, where are you thinking? Giving the speech under the national flag? You really think that there is no speech at all, just a group of people in the meeting taking turns to speak. Stop thinking nonsense, nothing will happen without you.

"Ye Yaodong was a little helpless, every thought he made was exaggerated.

"Don't you need it?"

"No, you don't need to do anything. Just eat quickly. This is none of your business. You don't need to get involved. If you really want to help, just go to the water alone and replace me. Anyway, you still have two dollars in the water.

money subsidy.”

The remaining three old people looked at each other in confusion. You looked at me and I looked at you.

"Then let's take turns to go out and try. See if your father can't do it. We also think we can't."

"My dad can do it, but he's old, so I didn't let him go into the water. You are the same, you're all a little older, so I didn't think about letting you go down and try it. There's no need to force it. It's okay if there are 5 people in the water.

It’s almost enough to be so-so, and someone needs to be left at home to watch the cooking.”

This is completely true and not a polite word. The manpower called out has been planned. It is impossible to only invite a few people to go into the water. We also have to leave people to look after the house and do chores and cook. On the fishing boat at night

We also have to keep people on duty, since we are out of town after all.

"Oh, then we will still take turns on the boat at night, and during the day we will look after the house, carry water, and chop wood."

Ye Yaodong nodded and said nothing. If you want to try it, just try it. If you don't want to, forget it.

After dinner, he continued to sort out his drafts.

In the past two years, he has not stopped reading newspapers. As long as he is at home, he will catch up on the newspapers he left behind and the unread ones, but he writes less.

I can recognize most of the characters, but sometimes I am missing arms or legs when writing them. Only he can recognize them. If it is too complicated, he will sometimes write half of it and replace the remaining half with circles and crosses.

When the book was put to use, he would regret it less. When he actually started writing, he would scratch his hair a little. It was so ugly that he was too embarrassed to take out the draft paper for others to see. It looked very uneducated at first glance.

He took a pen to write and draw, added something, and then sighed.

"Looks like it's not Ye Chenghu who should practice calligraphy, it's me. Made, I'm going to buy a copybook when I go out later. I have to hold a copybook for temporary reasons. I don't know when I will be able to use it again. This calligraphy is a bit embarrassing.

.”

"I think my writing is pretty good. I can only write numbers, and then circle and draw characters."

Ye Yaodong glanced at the three curious people beside him, folded the paper again and again, and then put it in his pocket.

He didn't say anything, but someone next to him spoke for him.

"Dongzi is a boss, can he be like us rough guys? What's more, we are already very old, who knows how many years he will live. He is still a young man and will soon be an official. He will definitely write a lot in the future.

Of course, your signature must be written well for others to see."

What he said was true, it spoke to his heart.

There is no need to practice other characters first. He has to practice his signature first.

Just do it.

In the afternoon, he finished the speech and started writing his name. Although he didn't know when it would come in handy, he had to write his name first.

Full of passion, he was stimulated by the title of vice-president of the Fisheries Association, which he had never dared to think of. It was as if he had been given a shot of chicken blood, and his whole body was filled with energy.

If I had had this motivation when I was studying, why would I have worried about not being able to get into the top university?

All the strong energy in his body is now here, but he still has some heat for three minutes. After a while, the writing is full, the medicinal strength of the chicken blood has passed, and his heat has also subsided. He put down the pen and went back to the house to sleep.

go.

After the sun went down and Father Ye and the others came back, he went to the dock to help.

When Father Ye saw him, he immediately asked him why the Coast Guard called him there today.

Ye Yaodong also explained everything, and Ye's father was shocked. He had the same reaction as everyone else. The first reaction was that he had been promoted?

He had to explain it again, asking his father not to be happy so early, just in name.

"That's great honor for our ancestors. Now we have become a high official. He is even more powerful than I said before. His name sounds different."

Father Ye's old face was full of smiles, he was so happy, and he even uttered a few words of blessing from his ancestors.

"Have you called home to tell me? I also need to tell my family so that everyone can be happy in advance. This trip was not in vain. I made money and reputation."

"Why are you so anxious? Things haven't been completely settled yet, so there are still variables. Don't rush to publicize it now, lest it gets out loud and it will be embarrassing when the time comes."

"Ah, that's right. Let's wait until you finish the meeting at noon tomorrow to implement it. Don't be in a hurry. Don't be in a hurry, so as not to make people laugh."

After saying this, Father Ye couldn't help but laugh again, "Hey... I'm really promising."

"Hurry up and move the goods. We're back home after moving."

"Yes, yes, sell the goods quickly and talk about it later when you get home."

It was rare that he was not here today, so the harvest was really reduced, losing several hundred kilograms.

Originally, after the rain stopped, they were able to collect about 3,000 kilograms of goods during the intermittent salvage in the past few days. However, the amount has shrunk to only more than 2,300 kilograms, and they sold for just over 500 yuan.

Father Ye watched them settling accounts and stretched his neck to see, "Is there so much missing? Without you, we directly made more than a hundred yuan less. Looking at the receipt today, I knew there was a little missing, but I didn't expect it.

So much less.”

"Well, let's talk about it when we get back."

Ye Yaodong was also distressed about the lack of money. It was too big, but he would not be able to go to sea tomorrow.

Fortunately, it was only two days.

He consoled himself.

Anyway, the sea urchins underneath can only be salvaged by him now, and no one else can salvage them, so they belong to him only. It doesn’t matter if he can salvage less now. It’s not cheaper for others anyway. He can just salvage more in the future.

When I think about it, I don’t feel sad anymore, it’s all his after all.

After returning home, Father Ye also thought about arranging another class for the five people in turn, taking less breaks, and trying not to fail. Today there were three teams of five people, and only one person from one team went down, and one person failed.

Ye Yaodong felt there was no need to stop his father.

Fortunately, his father just followed up and mentioned it when he took the money back to the house and hid it.

He explained: "Originally, frequently going into the water hurts the body. Now they go into the water six or seven times a day, which is enough. If we don't give them a little break, the body can't bear it. You let five people take turns and don't give them byes.

Then at least each person has to make two extra trips, that would be too painful and it won’t work.”

"Isn't there nothing wrong with this?"

"It looks fine, but accidents happen all the time. Fortunately, it rained intermittently during this period, and I didn't go to sea every day. I can give everyone a break, so I can't increase the workload any more. That's it.

, no one is trying to steal our goods anyway.”

"Oh well."

"You should treat the loss as a rainy day. It rained intermittently in the past few days. If you really want to count it as a loss, then it shouldn't be a loss of several thousand yuan? Now you only lose a hundred yuan a day, so it's nothing."

"Okay, everything you said is right."

Father Ye did not retort, but changed the subject and asked: "Do you have any rights after becoming the vice president?"

"No."

"No power? Is there any benefit in that?"

"If there is any benefit, it would probably be that you have a good reputation and you can brag about it in front of people who don't know about it. When you return to your hometown, the whole village will be honored when they know about it."

"that's all?"

"That's it. I didn't just put my name on it as I said before. It's just a good reputation. Just be content. Others who want to take advantage of this have no chance. This was obtained with the help of their leaders."

Father Ye was a little disappointed, he thought he would get some glory.
To be continued...