After a while, another bare head appeared.
After Ye Xiaoxi heard that it was agreed, he immediately reached out and touched his bare little head, his face full of novelty.
“It’s so cold~”
Pei Yu also stood in front of her curiously, tilting her head to look around.
"Sister, do you look good?"
Pei Yu immediately shook his head.
"Hmph..."
After the barber untied the cloth around her neck, she quickly turned over on the stool, climbed down from the stool, and ran excitedly towards the group of children holding sticks.
"I'm here, I'm here, I'm naked..."
"Hahaha………"
"Stop running away, go home and wash your hair..."
Lin Xiuqing quickly settled the money and took the wild girl inside to wash her hair and take a bath, while the old lady used a broom to sweep the hair on the floor.
Ye Yaodong had nothing to do and sat on a chair at the door to enjoy the cool air. He looked at the children playing with sticks not far away, and from time to time he reached out and touched his bare head. It felt quite novel.
In his previous life, he also shaved his head in the summer in the last few years, but there was less hair at that time, and the hairline on his forehead had moved up a lot, and it was not as thick as it is now.
He was used to having hair, but now he had a bald head, and the cool sea breeze made him have to touch it several times a minute.
The children in the open space in front soon ran away with a lot of crying, but after a while a large number of them came again and continued to make noise, and then not long after, a large group of people ran into the village and gradually moved away.
, even his two children disappeared without a trace.
At this time, Ye Xiaoxi also ran out after taking a shower. When he saw that there was no one at the door, he ran to him and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Let's go play." Ye Yaodong looked at her bare little head and looked funny. He put his hand on her head and kept touching it back and forth.
Ye Xiaoxi dodged for a moment, then ran out again, "Don't wait for me... I'll find it if I can..."
"It's dark, don't go."
He quickly sat up, looked down for his slippers, then ran out to catch the person, picked him up and stuck him in his armpit, and carried him back to the room.
It's not that he likes this action of carrying the child, but if he holds her, she will struggle desperately, twisting and kicking in his arms. She is so big that no one can catch her, and she will only slide to the ground.
It's just convenient to get it stuck under the armpit, so that she can't respond to her calls every day, and can only kick her legs randomly in the air and struggle in vain.
"You have to find it... you have to find it..."
"Don't you have a sister at home? Just play with her."
"No, you have to find something..."
As soon as Lin Xiuqing finished dressing Pei Yu, she saw Ye Yaodong come in with the screaming child and threw it on the bed.
"It's dark, you can't go out so late, you know?"
Pei Yu immediately made a face and shouted to scare Ye Xiaoxi, "There is a ghost... there is a ghost..."
Ye Xiaoxi immediately panicked and started to pull up the quilt, shouting, "There's a ghost, the ghost is coming... The ghost is coming..."
Lin Xiuqing said with a straight face, "You can't talk nonsense late at night."
The two children ignored her, pulled the quilt and got into bed together, shivering, shouting that the ghost is coming...the ghost is coming...
She was so frightened that her hair stood on end.
"Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang want to beat me to death. Why don't you teach them something? Teach them this. Don't bark at me late at night, or I will eat you both."
The two girls were even more frightened under the covers.
"No, no, please help..."
"So scary, so scary..."
Lin Xiuqing stared at the two small piles under the quilt, and then glared at Ye Yaodong angrily.
Ye Yaodong didn't wait for her to speak, and raised his hands to his ears in surrender, "It's none of my business, don't look at me."
"I want you to watch the two children while I go get the bath water out and pour it out."
"Oh, that's okay."
Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him again, and then moved the two basins of water out.
Ye Yaodong took off his clothes and pants, climbed onto the bed, and hugged the two trembling little piles in his arms, "The big bad wolf is coming and wants to eat you!"
"Hahahahaha..."
"Help, help~"
There was a lot of laughter on the bed. Lin Xiuqing took the opportunity to go out to the workshop to have a look and check whether the goods brought back at noon were fermented and whether everything that should be covered was covered and sealed...
…
Only after the inspection found no problems did she let people take a look at the workshop.
But as soon as she stepped into the yard, there was a roar in the sky, and muffled thunder struck the ground one after another. She looked up at the dark sky. No wonder there were no stars at night, and even the night was darker than before.
The old lady also ran out of the house quickly and stood at the door looking at the sky, "It was thundering. The two children haven't come back yet and are still playing outside."
Lin Xiuqing pulled some pieces of nylon cloth from the yard to cover the chicken and duck cages. She said without any worry: "It's thundering, so I'll run home."
"There was still light just now, so I went into the house and took a shower, but the sky was like this...ah, there was another power outage..."
With a bang, all the lights in the surrounding residents' homes dimmed, and they heard roars from people around them while standing at the door of their homes.
"I'm going to light a candle and get a flashlight. Just stand still and don't move, lest you lose sight of the road and fall."
"Remember to turn off all the light cords and unplug the power cord of the TV, otherwise it will burn."
Lin Xiuqing responded, then moved slowly, stretched out her hand in front of her, and walked forward in the dark. It was really pitch black, and she couldn't see her fingers. It was no exaggeration at all. It was also thundering, and there was no moonlight or stars at night.
But when she reached the main room, a weak candle light also lit up in the room, temporarily dispelling the darkness, and she could barely see.
She lit all the candles in the main room and then turned off the power cords.
Ye Yaodong also walked out and took a look at them, "The two sons haven't come back yet, should I go out and look for them?"
"Take a flashlight and look around. The power is out. Get them back as soon as possible. It might rain heavily soon, but now it's just thunder."
"good."
However, before he could go out, a group of children ran over from a distance with sticks and screamed. The demons ran wildly while waving sticks and shouting, "Kill, kill, kill..."
Ye Yaodong: "..."
"There's a power outage and thunder. That's it for today. See you again in the world. See you later!"
“See you later!”
…
Ye Yaodong: "..."
Everyone is holding a stick and bowing in a formal manner. It looks funny no matter how you look at it. Where do so many middle school boys come from?
"Dad, we are back!"
"Mom, we put the sticks behind the door. Don't use them to light the fire..."
He stood there and turned his head, watching the two men rushing directly into the house one after the other.
It seems that I have never seen these two walking properly?
I was either running or jumping all day long, and I felt like I was afraid it would be too late to do anything.
He shook his head, locked the courtyard door, and then went inside.
Lin Xiuqing at home was already scolding them and making them stand in a corner.
"Day by day, you are busier than your father. Summer vacation is in half a month. Can I still see you?"
The two children stood there with eyes and noses in mind.
"It was thundering and there was a power outage. I didn't know I was coming back until now. I came back all day and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Look at the clothes you are wearing, and look at how sweaty you are..."
"How many sets of clothes do you have to change in a day? You just took a shower, and you have to dress me up again..."
The calm before the storm, the air was very stuffy. Even though their doors and windows were still open, it was still very hot. The two children had been sweating profusely since they came back from running, and now the sweat was dripping down like water.
After not standing for a while, he picked up his collar and wiped it on his face.
Lin Xiuqing became angry when she saw their random actions, and casually took the whip from the TV and slapped their calves.
However, the two of them did not dare to run. They just jumped in place and did not cry. They just bit their lower lips.
"Look at you, your faces are as red as a monkey's butt. If you can run away, you've never been good..."
"It's summer vacation soon. If you give me a score of 60 or 70, I'll see if I can't skin you..."
The old lady stood aside and watched them with tears in their eyes, holding back the pain but not daring to say a word. She felt so distressed that she quickly ran over and hugged the two children.
"Okay, okay, now that I've said it, taught you, and spanked, that's it, right? Don't spank your child this late at night. No, save it for now, and we'll spank you together next time if you misbehave."
Ye Yaodong crossed his hands on his chest and looked at their stubborn expressions, "It's rare that I didn't reply or cry today."
"We want to be heroes, we can't cry!"
"..."
Lin Xiuqing almost couldn't hold back her laughter, turned her head away, put the whip back on the TV, and then stopped the expression on her face.
Ye Yaodong laughed unceremoniously, "Are you the ones who are heroes and prawns? Little white shrimps or big prawns? No, you are little red shrimps, hahahahaha..."
Ye Chenghu said seriously: "Dad, don't laugh. When I come back from studying in the Shaolin Temple, I can become a hero."
"Hahahahaha..."
The old lady couldn't help but laugh, "Go take a bath and go to bed first. Only when you grow up can you be a hero. Only when you sleep can you grow up faster."
"Hahahaha, you guys are still heroes. If you were in a TV series, you wouldn't survive for three minutes. Do you know why? You would be laughed to death!"
Ye Chenghu was as angry as a cow, "Don't underestimate people."
After Lin Xiuqing endured the laughter, she couldn't laugh anymore. She shouted to the two children with a straight face: "Why don't you go take another shower? Why are you standing there scratching your neck? Do you still want to be beaten?"
no?"
The two of them immediately took the basin and took a bath again in despair.
"Can you take a cold shower? I'm so hot..."
Ye Chengyang didn't speak or make a sound during the whole process. Only then did he look at Lin Xiuqing eagerly.
They were so good at running that they kept playing around, sweating profusely, and their whole face was red, just like Father Ye looked like when he was drunk.
"I feel like I'm about to mature, and there's fire coming out of me."
"Who told you to run so vigorously? Wash with warm water, otherwise you will catch a cold easily. It's not really hot yet, so be honest."
"oh……"
The two of them lowered their heads and went to fetch hot water honestly. The old lady followed them and helped scoop it out.
Ye Yaodong also went back to the house to accompany the two girls.
However, when he entered the room, he found that Ye Xiaoxi had wrapped himself in the quilt and fell asleep. Pei Yu was the only one sitting there playing with dolls in boredom.
"Uncle (wine) uncle~"
One chants the 3rd tone and the other chants the 4th tone, which sounds particularly sweet.
"Sister is asleep?"
She nodded.
"Going to bed so early today? She didn't sleep at your house at noon?"
She sat blankly, as if she didn't know how to answer.
Ye Yaodong originally didn't expect her to answer. Even if she was sleeping, he didn't have to coax her or play with her. He only slept for two or three hours in the afternoon, which was not enough sleep at all.
He was also tired and lay down next to him.
After a while, I started to snore. I didn't know when the scolding outside the house, the noise next door would stop, or when the person next to me would come in to sleep.
Have a good sleep.
When he woke up, it was still raining outside, and everyone around him was still lying there fast asleep. Only Ye Xiaoxi woke up and sat up when he turned his head, rubbing his eyes, and then looking left and right.
look.
"father……"
"Shh, when you wake up, just play by yourself and keep your voice down."
Hearing the noise, Lin Xiuqing also woke up. Only Pei Yu was still curled up and sleeping.
The three of them got out of bed lightly. The first thing Ye Yaodong did when he got up was to pull the wire cord out of habit to see if there was an incoming call.
"There's still no power, it's been all night."
"It's been raining all the time, so how can we get a call so quickly? There was thunder all the time last night. There must be a power outage everywhere. They are probably repairing the circuits. If the rain doesn't stop, who knows if there will be power at night."
“The efficiency is really poor.”
People in this era have just started using electricity for a few years, and they have a high tolerance for it. Even if you stop for a day or two, everyone will be able to accept it.
If it were left to the future, not to mention if it was stopped for a day or two, if it was stopped for an hour or two and it was not repaired, someone would be scolded, and if it was stopped for a minute or two, someone would complain about unstable voltage.
People are already irritable in the summer, and being without electricity will kill them.
"It doesn't matter anyway. There's no need for electricity during the day. It's okay at night. Just light a candle and you can see. It doesn't matter if there's not a typhoon anyway. If there's no electricity, just go to bed early."
"Um."
Ye Yaodong saw that the thunderstorm outside had been falling all night, and it was still raining when he woke up in the morning. The tide on the sea outside was fuller than before.
On the porch in front of the house, there is a group of chickens hiding on the left, and a group of ducks hiding on the right. Behind the big ones are a group of newly hatched ones, all shivering in the rain, and the chicken and duck feathers are drooping.
Probably the old lady got up this morning and let them out to feed them rice bran. There were chicken and duck droppings everywhere on the ground, so he didn't know where to step.
The yard was not much better. There was a lot of puddles. Even the mud from the vegetable field was washed away into the yard. There were also fallen leaves from who knows where. It looked like they had been damaged by a thunderstorm all night.
Look.
It's still raining outside, and it's not convenient to go out and clean, so I can only let the yard be dirty.
The vegetables in the small vegetable patch are bright green and look fresh and tender.
He stood at the door and twisted his neck and waist, then went to wash up and have breakfast, put on his rain boots and took an umbrella.
"I'll go out to the workshop to take a look, and then go to the village committee to make a call first."
The rain hasn't stopped yet, everything is wet, and it's inconvenient to do anything. If the rain doesn't stop in the afternoon, don't think about harvesting any kelp. You can only wait until the weather clears. Fortunately, he is not in a hurry, and breeding is not here.
A while and a half.
He held an umbrella and went to the workshop to check. After finding that there was no problem, he walked back to the village committee.
However, he was surprised to see a familiar face.
"Captain Chen!"
It was the captain of the small team of navy who stayed at their house two years ago. At that time, he stayed in their village for a whole month to salvage bronzes, and he also stayed in his old house.
Lin Guangyuan also received a set of Haihun shirts as a gift from him. He folded them as if they were treasures every day. He put them next to his pillow every night and touched them twice when he went to sleep.
His dried fish supply unit still met him and helped pull the line.
However, the original pair has changed. Only Captain Chen is familiar with the ones we meet now, while the few soldiers beside him look quite strange.
Captain Chen looked at the bald man in front of him in surprise, and after careful identification, he discovered that it was Ye Yaodong.
"Comrade Ye Yaodong, what a coincidence. I told you that I would definitely meet you when I entered the village."
"Haha, I didn't expect to see you again in the village. It's good luck. What a coincidence. Do you have any mission here this time?"
"A lighthouse is to be built in the sea area outside the town. We have transferred a team of people to help support. It happened that there was thunder and lightning yesterday, and there was heavy rain this morning and there was a power outage. It is not suitable to start the construction. There are dozens of villages around the whole town, all of which have electricity.
There was a power outage, and some villages in the mountains that had no power were clamoring for power, so we were dispatched to support the repair of the circuit."
"The navy can also repair circuits???"
"No, only a few people will understand. I happened to know, so I was sent out. Thinking that I am familiar with your village, I came to you by name."
"Oh, I see, you really are there wherever there are difficulties."
"Haha, we are the People's Liberation Army."
"Ayuan will probably be extremely happy if he sees you in the village."
"Let's not talk about it for now. We need to go to the village committee first, and then let the village cadres take us to repair the circuit."
"Let's go together. I just have to go to the village committee to make a call."
"That's just the same road..."
Ye Yaodong walked over and walked with them, chatting while walking. He also invited a few of them to have dinner at his house together at noon.
Captain Chen was also familiar with him, so he agreed with a smile without pretending to be polite.
"I didn't come earlier. I heard that your village has been very lively during Mazu's birthday in the past two years. It was the Tianhou Temple that was built after we left. There are both big opera singers and wandering gods."
"Yes, if you don't catch it this year, you can wait until next year. It should happen every year in the future."
"That depends on the situation."
"After your lighthouse is built, you must leave people to station it, right? If you keep people stationed there, won't you be able to see it next year?"
"This depends on the arrangement, it is not something we can decide."
Ye Yaodong didn't continue this topic any further. It was not a good idea to stay here.
After arriving at the village committee, everyone divided their things. They went to the village cadre, and he went to make a phone call.
After trading for so long, he is familiar with Boss Zhou, and he also knows that they have a Jiefang, and they have a backer to sell goods from north to south, and his dried fish only accounts for a small proportion of it.
When he asked if they would collect kelp, they immediately nodded and said yes, saying that it was very popular this year, but they didn't have a large quantity to collect in the city.
Ye Yaodong immediately became energetic. The price he asked was said to be 15 cents. He quickly nodded and said that he would collect and deliver it in the next two days. The quantity might not be a lot, just a few thousand kilograms.
But others said that it would be better to have more than 10,000 jins. A few thousand jins is too little and is not enough for travel expenses.
He could only try his best.
After hanging up the phone, he immediately began to think about it. After the rain stopped, he would collect the villages first. After the villages were collected, he would look at the quantity. By then, he would spread it to ten or hundreds, covering all the neighboring villages.
Attract them here and see if you can collect a little more.
If there are other villages that are not close to the sea, there probably won't be many of them. You can only try your luck. There are probably a lot of villages that are close to the sea.
He held an umbrella and walked home while thinking.
At this time, the rain had become lighter, and there was only a drizzle. A large number of villagers had gathered around the discharge box in the village, all wearing raincoats, standing curiously in front of the electrical box.
Surrounding Captain Chen and others, watching them perform maintenance, they all asked whether they had been burned by thunder.
Everyone is still concerned about whether we can still have electricity. After all, life has become much more convenient after electricity.
Plus, being idle on a rainy day is also idle.
Ye Yaodong saw it from a distance, and walked over to take a look. After listening to the villagers' discussion for a while, he knew that it would not be repaired so quickly, so he went back first.
He had to tell Ah Qing to cook more food for the guests at noon.
Lin Xiuqing was also surprised when she heard this, "It's really fate to meet them again. I'll see if I can buy some meat. They might not be used to it. We have shelled and thorny seafood here."
The old lady also actively said that she would kill a chicken and stew it.
"Oh, by the way, didn't you call me? Do you want to collect kelp? How much?" While Lin Xiuqing was changing her rain boots, she also remembered what she wanted to ask him.
"If you want to collect it, tell your mother during lunch. When the rain stops, go to the workshop to collect it. As much as you want, as I said last night, it will cost 6 cents per pound."
"Then how much can we sell?"
"I won't tell you. It's a profit anyway. We still have to include the toll to send it to the city. Every kilogram of toll will cost an additional penny."
"Okay, just think about it. I'm going to buy meat first. I'm afraid I won't be able to buy good meat if it's too late."
"Well, let's organize it a little more. I'll see if I can invite all the village cadres over directly, have dinner at the same table, and then talk about the matter."
His hands are short when he takes people, his mouth is soft when he eats people, he talks easier at the dinner table than in the office, and when he drinks too much, we are all brothers and can handle everything easily.
"OK."
Lin Xiuqing put on her rain boots and went out, only to see a bunch of chickens and ducks hiding under the umbrella he had just casually placed at the door. She picked up the umbrella and walked out.
Ye Yaodong stayed at home and helped the old lady kill chickens and ducks. There were so many people, and one was not enough to eat.
After finishing the killing, he went to the village to take a look at the power supply box. He was still repairing it there. The village cadres were also watching with him. The number of people around him did not decrease, and everyone was very idle.
He took the village chief and talked to the village secretary for a while, and also asked them to go to his house for lunch together.
"I have already made an agreement with Captain Chen that we will all go to my place to eat together at noon to make it more lively."
The village chief smiled and said: "You are still good at doing things. Get up early and invite everyone to your home."
"Of course, we are all old acquaintances. It is a rare visit to our village, so we must greet you well."
Secretary Chen also smiled and said: "A Dong always handles things properly, we will have the shamelessness to have a meal later."
"I've wanted to invite the leaders to dinner for a long time, but I just couldn't find the time. I'm busy there every day, and it's time to take a break. Let's go to my place to have some fun together."
"Okay, I don't know when it will be repaired or when the electricity will come. After getting used to having electricity, it is really inconvenient to suddenly lose electricity. I fell down last night when I was in the dark.
My knees are swollen from the fall.”
"Yeah, it's better to have electricity..."
Ye Yaodong stood there and chatted with them for a while, and then left first after making an agreement. He had to go to his hometown to tell his father and ask him to come over early for lunch so as not to make people wait.
As soon as Father Ye heard that he was going to invite the village cadres and Captain Chen, the navy captain who used to live in their house, for dinner at noon, he immediately put down the work of weaving bamboo baskets, put on his rain boots and raincoat, and went to the power supply box.
Prepare to wait over there and invite people home when the time comes.
The whole family started working early, preparing the lunch treat in advance. The two little ones at home were left unattended and went around making trouble.
A bunch of chickens and ducks on the porch were bullied by them and they fled everywhere. They flew into the rain and took shelter all over the yard. The sound of cooing and quacking never stopped.
Forget it, Ye Yaodong also saw Ye Xiaoxi sneaking into the house and taking a spoon out. He thought she was going to do something, so he followed her out to take a look.
Pei Yu was stirring chicken and duck excrement with a branch, while she was holding a spoon, calling the dog to come over, holding the dog's head, and was about to feed the dog excrement.
"Ah~ open your mouth, be good~ eat until you are full~"
"Eat up quickly and grow taller~"
"Be good, eat...eat...eat..."
Ye Yaodong had a headache and quickly stopped them and rescued Gouzi.
These dogs are very fierce when facing outsiders, but they have no resistance to the children at home. They let them rub and squash them, and sooner or later they will break them.
"Are you disgusted? You can play with everything, and I'll feed you with this spoon later!"
Ye Xiaoxi quickly threw it away in disgust and shook his head desperately, "No."
"How about I send you to Xiaoyu's house to play?"
"Okay, okay~"
The two immediately clapped their hands happily. They were bored to death at home and it would be more fun to change their home.
Ye Huimei's belly was too big and she was already close to giving birth. She would have to give birth in the next half month. Aguang didn't dare to take it lightly, so when they sold out the goods in the city yesterday, he didn't follow them back.
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Now the busier the adults are, the more naughty they are. Ye Yaodong can't stand it and hurriedly sends them away first.
I finally developed a good habit of writing during the day. I will update it early today and try my best to update another chapter after midnight.
Chapter completed!