After Ye Yaodong finished, he hurriedly pedaled his bicycle back to the shipyard to return it.
Running back and forth, I didn’t have time to chat with others, or stay in the factory to see how my ship was being built.
Father Ye took advantage of the waiting time and squinted for a while. It was not until the roar of the machine sounded that he realized that the ship was moving, and he quickly got up and went to the cockpit.
"Just came back? Did you explain clearly?"
"The explanation has been completed and the things have been handed in. The rest is none of our business."
"That's good! Then hurry back. It's already two o'clock in the afternoon, and you've been delayed for more than two hours."
"It always takes time to do things. I'm not going back and forth by rocket. You can go and sleep. I happen to be very energetic."
"Then what does Director Chen say?"
"What else can I say? Just say that he will report the matter first. What else can I tell you? Where can I explain everything to you clearly?"
"Oh, then you didn't say anything?"
Ye Yaodong glanced at him and suddenly realized that what his father meant was whether there would be any reward.
"You want to ask if there is any reward? Do you dare to ask for it? Aren't you afraid of being retaliated against if people find out that it was us who made the snitch?"
"Uh...no, I just want to know what benefits this can bring to Director Chen."
"Things haven't made any progress yet. Who knows what benefits it can bring to others? If you ask him, he doesn't know. Anyway, when we have something to do, we are thinking about them, and they must appreciate it."
"Then isn't it like giving away that box of goods to others for free? Isn't that canned product valuable? And didn't you say that the caviar costs several thousand yuan per pound? You should get a few pieces from that box.
If you can have a pound of caviar, that’s a lot of money..."
"You just realized it. It's like giving him a box of goods for free. No matter if he takes it to report it to see if he can get some credit, or he keeps it for himself."
Father Ye frowned, "After all, we still lost money. We worked all night and hid two boxes of goods. We had to send one box out, but we didn't get anything else."
"Didn't we also keep a box? It's really worth so much money, how dare you cash it in? You can only keep it for yourself, don't they take good care of us?"
"Give him a box and see if it is of any use to him. It will definitely benefit him. For us, we can only eat it. Isn't this better as a favor? We got a motorcycle for free before.
I haven’t even thanked them properly yet, as I had to keep going back and forth.”
His father probably thought that sending a box of goods would be beneficial to others, and if they got promoted and made a fortune, maybe a little more of the inside of their fingers would be exposed, which would give them some glory, or maybe let them get some subsidies, which would mean they didn't get it in vain.
pay.
However, the key point is that they don't dare to accept the reward for reporting this at all, so why worry about it, as long as Director Chen will accept their request.
Some favors cannot be easily bought with money and are more important than these benefits.
"Okay, whatever you want, I'll give it away, so just treat it as repaying the favor of the motorcycle."
"Don't think about it. He will definitely get promoted and make a fortune in the future. Let's maintain our relationship better. This is also a way. He is also quite conscientious and easy to talk to. He doesn't mind that we are country people. We are quite enthusiastic when we go to his house.
.”
"Isn't that enthusiasm? How often do we come home empty-handed? They always deliver sack after sack of stuff."
"Dad, we can't be too short-sighted. Many people have no way to establish friendship..."
"You don't need to tell me the truth. I'm old enough and I know better than you. I just feel uncomfortable because I worked for nothing last night. I feel that officials are not easy to deal with, and we ordinary people can do whatever they want.
In this way, if you say you want to arrest them, you will arrest them, if you say you want to button them, you will button them up. Maybe they will be released when the time comes, and each one of them will really have nothing left."
"This is really possible. Who asked them to beat the police officers? They went all the way to rescue them at night. In the end, they did not get any benefits and were even beaten. If they had sat down to negotiate compensation at that time, maybe one party would
I could keep some of it, but now that it’s all been taken away, I probably won’t be polite to you.”
Nowadays, the law is not perfect, and it is just a matter of words. In recent years, it has emphasized stern treatment. If you have the handle, it is justifiable to imprison you for a few days if you want, and make you bankrupt if you want to bankrupt.
"Let's see if we can bring some benefit to Director Chen. This way we won't waste one night in vain. It's not just one night, it's the whole day. It's already evening when we get home from the boat."
"We were able to make it in time for dinner. Fortunately, we had great luck on the first day. We made enough money in one day, and the next few days were average. But at any rate, we also made 5,000 yuan."
"I haven't asked you yet, how much did it sell for this morning?"
"Ten thousand kilograms of toad fish were left to be dried and not sold. The remaining several thousand kilograms were sold for about 300 yuan. There is no need to replenish supplies on this trip. What is sold is the real deal, and there is no need to spend any money."
"That's okay. I made almost 5,000 yuan this time. It's not a loss. If you delay it for one day, just delay it for one day. Those people have been arrested. Maybe all their wealth will be lost when they come out."
Father Ye was still a little grudgeful as usual, but thinking that he would probably have to clean himself up and get out of the situation made him feel more mentally balanced.
"My father-in-law paid more than a thousand yuan in the city."
"That's good. I went to the city after the New Year, and in just one week, I got more than a thousand yuan..."
"This is not a pure profit. How much have I invested in dried fish and fish sauce?"
Father Ye nodded, "That's enough to earn one-third and one-fourth. It's just for a few days, and the store doesn't require rent. From now on, I'll keep the goods on my own ship for drying. If I don't have enough, I'll add some from outside. This way, I'll pay the capital."
Just a little less, and you can earn a little more. In the morning, you also asked the Harvest to save the cheap toad fish for you to dry, right? When they moved ashore, they didn't see a lot of goods."
"Yes, we agreed to go back to the dock to have it weighed and give it to us based on the market wholesale price. It also saves us having to go out to collect it and make a fortune for the agency."
"Well, it's still the case that you, a big shipping company, have a lot of goods and can get money quickly. The Harvest is still 30% of what you earn."
Ye Yaodong smiled happily when he thought of this. Sure enough, rich people will become richer.
Earn money and then invest it to make money, it's like a snowball.
Working people can only work hard to save money, and it is not as simple as rich people making money.
"Mainly because I was lucky enough to catch up."
Not only is he a variable in this life, A Guang is also a variable.
A few years ago, he changed his name early and stayed in the village without leaving. Uncle Pei's connections were all around him, making use of each other and developing together.
"I'll go back and take a nap. Just watch here. This area of ​​the county is not far from our village, and you should be familiar with the roads along the way."
"I know, don't worry and go to sleep."
"Um."
When Ye Yaodong was driving the boat alone, he was also calculating the income and gains from the trip, thinking that when he docked in the evening, he would give a two-dollar start-up red envelope to each of the boatmen on the boat.
You must do what you promised.
Two yuan is almost equivalent to one day's wages. I have just started working and I have received red envelopes, which is quite a lot.
There is no need to divide the cans. Leave a few on the boat to be used as side dishes when you go to sea next time. You can just taste them together. Your family and friends can share some according to the situation when they return.
It started to get dark last night and has been delayed until now. The net has not been set for fishing. Just yesterday during the day, plus the afternoon before yesterday, I started to leave groceries. The quantity is small but not large, and the total is nearly 10,000 kilograms.
In the past, when the Harvest Cruise went back on the last day, they would pick up a few groceries and take them back, which only amounted to a few thousand kilograms. If they left them early, they were worried about the fuel consumption, and they were not so sure on which day they would return. It usually depended on the wind direction and the harvest situation.
Decide.
If there is a lot of cargo at sea, you can catch a lot, so of course you need to stay a day or two longer. If the cargo is less, there will be no profit, so stop for two days less and go home to rest early.
It's not mainly for my own needs, it's just left over, and I can't sell it for much, so I can recycle it with a little interest.
Ye Yaodong also reserved the goods early yesterday because of his own needs, and asked his father to also reserve the goods one day in advance.
Now I have brought back nearly 10,000 kilograms, which is more than any previous trip, twice as much.
Coupled with the goods from the Harvest, both workshops will be very busy after they dock.
With more than 20,000 kilograms of toad fish and more than 20,000 kilograms of groceries, many women had to be temporarily hired to work. The employment rate in the village has greatly increased.
Fortunately, it's cold now, so I can't kill all these things in one day, so I can still keep them and they won't go bad after killing them for another two days. After all, there are still ice cubes on top, and the temperature won't warm up so quickly after the new year.
When the weather gets hotter, we may need to hire more temporary workers.
The women in the village have no other skills, but they are good at killing fish and mending nets.
A person is driving and thinking quietly, and the wind outside is getting stronger and stronger. It has been cloudy all day today, with thick clouds, biting cold wind, and damp and cold weather.
Fortunately, he would be home soon. Thinking of the warmth and bustle at home, he couldn't help but increase his power and return home as fast as he could.
The closer we get to the port in the town, the more fishing boats are returning. They are all small trawlers and small wooden boats that go back and forth on the same day.
When he arrived outside the village pier, it was not dark yet.
After receiving the letter on the shore, the boy who had been waiting there immediately drove a boat to pick up the goods.
"Brother Dong, you are finally back. We have been waiting all afternoon. The Harvest arrived early in the afternoon. They only said that you had something to do and had to stop in town. I thought it wouldn't take long and you came back soon. Unexpectedly, it took a few seconds.
Hours passed before we waited.”
"What time did the Harvest arrive in the afternoon?"
"About two o'clock, I brought back tens of thousands of catties of toad fish. I also borrowed the scale from Ah Cai on the pier to weigh the goods. Now the workshop is in full swing killing fish. There are also other miscellaneous goods.
There are tens of thousands of kilograms. The ground next door has just been leveled in the past two days, and it has been put to use immediately. There is also a pile of goods at the fish sauce workshop, and everyone is busy working there."
"That's good, just make all arrangements. Come on, there are more than 20,000 kilograms of cargo on this ship. You are there to help pick up the cargo."
"Okay, okay. When Uncle Pei came back, he also said that you had the same amount of goods on your ship. He asked us to arrange manpower in advance to prepare to receive the goods. We kept coming out to see them and didn't dare to leave and go home for dinner. Until now
wait until."
"Well, things in the county have been delayed for a long time. How is my family doing lately? Is there anything big or special happening in the village?"
"There are no big things, but there are a lot of small things to watch, just like singing in a big show."
"Is that so? Then we'll wait until we get to the shore. Now we'll move the goods."
Ye Yaodong was on the side directing the boatmen to move the cargo, while Ye's father climbed onto the boat nearby to help pick up the cargo. He emptied almost all the toad fish and piled them on the deck, then brought them back to a boat to unload the cargo, and then came out again.
Keep picking up groceries.
After the second boat was moved, it got a little dark. It's still cold now, so it gets dark very quickly.
He kept five of the box of canned fish on the boat, covered the rest with straw and moved them to the connecting boat. He also took the money in the iron box under the bed board with him.
"Did you leave anything behind?" Father Ye asked.
"Nothing is left behind. All the clothes and luggage have been brought here."
"Okay, let's dock then."
The Dongsheng, like the Harvest, has a deeper draft, and the water level at the dock is not enough to support it from docking, so it can only drift in the middle of the sea, and has to rely on barges to receive cargo.
The weather was cold, so the fishing boats basically docked before dark. When they docked, the receiving points at the dock were closed, but there were many people coming and going, all coming to move and transport goods for him.
The two carts at home are being pushed back and forth.
Ye Yaodong saw that the light was no longer so bright, so he turned on the flashlight and stood outside the dock, watching everyone move, while his father followed the cart to the workshop and directed the unloading of the goods there.
A bunch of dogs were so smart that they all ran out and circled around his feet, barking wildly.
He smiled and stretched out his hand, touching the chin of the little Heizi who jumped the tallest and most cheerfully, "The hair on his body is smooth and shiny. It seems that the food has been very good during this period, and he is ready to cook."
"Woof woof woof woof~"
A little flower dog and a little yellow dog were holding him one leg at a time, standing on one foot, and he was completely surrounded by dogs.
After a while, the lights in the workshop also came on, and he could see people coming and going outside the dock.
After all the goods were moved, he also led a group of barkers to follow the last cart to the workshop.
The floor of the fish sauce workshop built at the back has been leveled and dried, and the walls are piled full of groceries that have just been unloaded from the ship.
The warehouses in the row against the wall on the inside have also been completed, with the doors and windows installed and the tiles all put up.
It only took a few days, which was very fast. A year ago, only the doors, windows and tiles were left, and the ground was not leveled.
"It looks quite open."
"It's quite spacious. Such a large open space belongs to your family." Father Ye also looked proud.
Ye Yaodong was not in a hurry to go back, and was going to walk around the workshop first. He saw that the warehouse lights in the fish sauce workshop were also on, and a bunch of people were moving around, so he asked as he walked inside.
"Have the empty barrels in the vacant lot next door been moved to the warehouse? Are the aunties there fermenting fish sauce now?"
Wang Guangliang followed and said with a smile on his face: "Yes, a large number of empty fish sauce barrels were filtered out one after another before the new year. The fermentation has not started yet after the new year. The ground happened to be dry in the past two days, so they were moved in.
"
"My aunt said that in the future, the wooden barrels can be placed inside the house for fermentation to avoid being exposed to the sun and rain and causing damage."
"After the miscellaneous fish brought back from the afternoon harvest boat were moved in, the aunts were busy. The aunt also said that when you come back, you will have to order some large tanks with wide mouths to put outside, otherwise the wooden barrels will be placed outside.
Indoor fermentation is slow, and if the quantity is so large every time, the existing ones are not enough."
"The ones we brought back in the afternoon were just poured in to finish fermentation. Just as your boat came back, some people just added it before they left, so the lights inside are still on."
Ye Yaodong nodded and stood at the door watching the people inside working, "You haven't had a break from get off work yet, auntie?"
The twins were moving goods there, and their aunt was instructing them to pour the goods into the big bucket. Then she stood on a stool and sprinkled salt into the bucket. Then she lay down and spread the salt evenly with her hands.
"No, it's all done."
"It's getting dark, so let's get off work first. You all go home for dinner and come back tomorrow morning. We just brought back more than 10,000 kilograms. Just the few of you can't finish it in a few hours."
"Is it getting dark? So soon?" The aunt glanced out the window, and she couldn't see her fingers outside. "It was still very bright in front, and it got dark just a short while ago? Okay, okay, quit, go home for dinner, tomorrow
Come back in the morning, it won’t go bad if you leave it overnight.”
"Well, you guys should all go home for dinner. Whoever's turn it is to schedule a shift in the evening can stay. We'll be very busy in the next few days."
"OK."
The aunt wiped her hands and walked up to her with a smile on her face, "You made a lot of money on this trip, right? Oh, now there is no one more promising than you in the whole village, and your two cousins ​​are all benefiting from you.
, the two of us rent your boat, and the harvest from going out to sea these days is quite good."
"Really? As long as the harvest is good, hello to you and me, hello to everyone. Let's make money and get rich together."
Ye Yaodong turned off the lights in the room as he spoke, then called the dogs out and locked the door.
"Yes, yes, we will make a fortune together. Your two cousins ​​also said that they would meet you for a drink and chat with you when you come back..."
"Dad~"
"Third uncle~"
"Dad~ you're back~"
"Third uncle~third uncle~"
"Dad~ Gotta wait for me~"
As soon as he turned around, a group of children at the entrance of the workshop were running and calling, extremely excited, as if they hadn't seen him in ten years.
"Third uncle, you are finally back!"
"Dad, you're back~"
Ye Yaodong looked at them with a smile on his face, "You have nothing to say, right? They are all saying that I am back. Of course I am back when I am standing here. What they say is all nonsense."
I was surrounded by a group of dogs just now, and now I am surrounded by a group of children. I guess I will be surrounded by a group of women again when I get home.
He is so popular, from old to young, from people to dogs, no one dislikes him.
Everyone loves you, and flowers bloom when you see them.
His narcissistic self-absorption only sounded out of place.
"Hehe~ Third uncle, the skin on your face is peeling."
He immediately grimaced, touched it, and said angrily: "It was blown by the sea breeze."
"You should say, Third Uncle, you have lost weight~"
"Hahaha~ You should leave this to Atai for a while~"
"Attai would also say to kill a chicken to replenish Uncle San~"
"Yesterday, Mrs. Tai told Third Aunt to save more eggs. She said that Third Uncle likes to eat chickens but not ducks. This year, when the hens have nested, they can lay down more chicks and let Third Aunt cook the duck eggs. Don't do that.
Boil eggs."
Ye Yaodong smiled at these noisy people and knocked on the heads of the people in front of him, "I'm going home. Everyone's noses are almost on their lips. Why are you running out?"
"My father is back, so we knew you were back too, so we ran over to take a look."
"I don't have any gifts for you. I've been going to sea these days to make money."
"Hey, I didn't ask for a gift..."
"Dad, we miss you..."
Ye Xiaoxi's short legs fell at the back, and she fell after running a few steps. Then she simply lay on the ground and shouted towards the front: "Daddy, give me a hug~ I want a hug~"
Ye Yaodong saw a dark figure on the ground in front of him, and immediately stepped forward to lift her up, patted her knees and patted the dust on her chest, and then spanked her twice.
"It's all hypocritical. If you fall down, you won't get up by yourself. You just lie there and scream."
Ye Xiaoxi hugged his neck and moved excitedly, "I want a hug, I want you to hug me."
"Don't move. I can't hold you anymore. You'll fall to the ground later."
As if she had discovered a new world, she reached out and touched the stubble on his chin. She felt a tingling sensation, and she kept touching his mouth with her little hands.
"Get it away, don't touch it, it will hurt someone."
“Fun.”
"Why do your hands smell so bad? Have you washed your hands when you pooped?"
"Haha, she just touched the chicken's butt!"
"Auntie went to touch the chicken's butt and said that it was too cold for chickens to lay eggs anymore. She wanted to see if there were any eggs on the chicken's butts at home. If they could lay eggs tomorrow, she also went to touch the chicken's butts."
"Hahaha~"
Ye Yaodong looked dumbfounded and quickly took her hand away, "Why do you know everything and learn everything? Do you have to do whatever adults do?"
She didn't say anything, and looked at a group of children laughing, and she giggled along with them.
"If you have free time, go dig some earthworms and feed them to the chickens tomorrow. The chickens will love to lay eggs."
"Third uncle, your open space is so big. Can we come here to play ball tomorrow? Third aunt kicked us out in the afternoon and stopped letting us play here."
"Let's take a look tomorrow. The newly built area is fine. The barrels have all been moved to the warehouse for fermentation. There is nothing on the construction site. There is no big water tank, so I'm not afraid of you guys kicking it."
Wang Guangliang said quickly: "No, Brother Dong, my sister-in-law said that there were too many toad fish brought back this time. There will not be enough open space over there to dry them, so they must dry them here. They just dried the fish two days ago."
I knocked over a large piece and got beaten up."
"Oh, forget it, then you can go play ball in the open space in front of the village committee. The ground over there is also flat."
The open space on his side is just a mixture of yellow mud from the mountain mixed with pebbles and sand. It is smoother and cleaner than the dirt road outside.
But it can't be compared with the cement floor, there are still particles, but there won't be a foot of mud hanging on the rainy day. It will still be easy to sweep with a bamboo broom.
What's rare is that this open space is very large, which is perfect for a group of children to run, jump and play football.
"Then can we come in and play for a while before it's dry tomorrow? If the dried fish is hung, we won't come in. The spanking we just gave two days ago still hurts."
"Looking at you smiling so happily, I don't think you are in pain."
"It will hurt when you hit him." Ye Chenghe said truthfully.
"Go home, stop hanging around me, go back to your own homes and find your own mother."
"No, I will get beaten and scolded for hanging around in front of her. I want to go to your house to play..."
"I think you're noisy, so don't come over."
"We promise not to make any noise."
"Have you done your homework? Has school started? Sign up at 16 or 17? Can you sign up if you haven't done your homework?"
Ye Xiuxiu smiled brightly and said, "No, they haven't finished all three assignments. They didn't dare to sign up today. I have already signed up."
"My mother took us to register early in the morning. They hid on purpose and couldn't find anyone. We all registered."
"After dinner in the evening, they were locked at home doing homework. When they heard the sound of grandpa coming back, they ran out quickly, and then ran to find third uncle."
Ye Yaodong looked at the people in front of him with their heads drooped, half-smiling, "It turns out that it's not that they miss me, but that they don't want to do their homework, that's why they are so happy to see me."
"No, I'm just glad that Third Uncle is back."
"Then why don't you go back and do your homework? Why are you following me to the door of your house? If you haven't finished your homework, you won't be able to register. You won't have any books to read by then."
"I'll write when I get home later..."
"That's great, I will herd sheep at home..."
"Dongzi is back..." The old lady had been sitting at the door and watching. Only when the noisy movement reached the door of her house did she laugh out loud.
"Yeah, I'm back. I just took a look inside the workshop for a while."
The old lady smiled with a smile on her face, "I've only been out for a few days and I've already lost weight and lost weight. I'll stew some eggs for you later, and I'll kill a chicken for you tomorrow to make up for it."
"Hey, let me just say..."
A group of children laughed out loud because they guessed what the old lady would say.
Ye Yaodong glared at a few kids who were as big as brats, "Why don't you go home and do your homework? Are you waiting to be whipped tomorrow?"
Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua also came out of his house, and the first words they said were the same.
"Dongzi is back~"
"Well, I'm back."
"You guys haven't gone home to do your homework, so why are you standing here looking at it? Your mother will be back from the workshop in a while." Ye Yaopeng said with eyes wide open.
"Third Aunt said she wanted to buy lambs in spring..." Ye Chenghe said in a low voice.
Ye Yaopeng raised his palms, widened his eyes, and gestured, "What for? Do you really want to stay at home and herd sheep?"
Ye Yaodong smiled and said: "It's not your turn to do this good thing. Don't think about it. Go back and do your homework."
Ye Chenghai and Ye Chenghe bitched their lips and reluctantly had to run home.
Chapter completed!