"When do you plan to take the appointment letter from home and report to the city?"

"Let's take these two days. Take a break tomorrow and go the day after tomorrow. Once it's finalized, I'll take the time to engrave a private seal."

"You also want to engrave a private seal?"

Ye Yaodong said confidently, "He is also President Ye after all. What's wrong with engraving a private seal? There may be more places to sign documents in the future. How good would it be to have a private seal and print it directly?"

In fact, I saw the private seal Director Chen took out a few days ago, and on a whim, I wanted to engrave one.

He felt that it would be reasonable for him to engrave a private seal now.

"Okay, what does my President Ye say? If you want to engrave it, I can engrave one when I go to the city in two days."

"Well, is there any mention of me in the newspapers these two days?"

"Oh, yes, it was too many days apart. I was busy all the time and almost forgot. It arrived with the envelope. It was delivered together at the time. But I was busy in the workshop and only read the letter. I was happy with it. The newspaper

I didn’t read it. When I had some free time in the evening, I flipped through the newspaper of the day and discovered that you were in the newspaper again."

"Let me just say, it all happened years ago. Even if we have a holiday during the Chinese New Year, we should start making arrangements after the New Year. It's already the 22nd day of the lunar calendar, how could it not be published yet?"

"You've been away for too many days, so you haven't seen it. I've put it away for you, so you can see it when you get home."

"Well, when the goods here are unloaded, everyone will still be waiting here. I won't miss this for a while. Anyway, it will be faster to weigh two or three baskets stacked on top of each other."

Lin Xiuqing also walked to Pei Dongqing and looked at the overweight data she recorded.

There are several manifests corresponding to those ships.

Each truck of goods is followed by their own people. After the cargo of one ship is weighed, it will move on to the next one. Their own people also gathered around Pei Dongqing and stood beside Pei Dongqing. They looked at the recorded data and there was no mistake.

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If there were any mistakes, their own people would point them out first.

So Lin Xiuqing waited for everyone to go through the scales, and after the results were calculated, she just looked at them briefly, tore up a piece of the receipt and gave it to them. She took the original receipt and followed Ye Yaodong home first.

"Finally the weighing is over, let's go, go home quickly. There are too many goods on this trip, and it will take a long time to weigh the goods. I see you have a runny nose, but don't catch a cold."

Mother Ye added on the side, "The old lady seemed to have gone home to make ginger tea just now. You and your father should go back and drink a bowl first to get rid of the cold. I'm watching here. Everyone is already done. No one needs to tell you what to do.

Ah Qing will also go back first."

"Um."

Ye Yaodong smiled and greeted the others, asking them to go back and have a rest. He would send the money to them later. These words were mainly addressed to Zhou Da and his brothers.

After all, this was the first time I followed him, and it was also the first time I left goods for him.

He also told the boatmen to go back and rest first, and would notify them in advance of the next trip to sea.

"Are you tired? It takes a long time to go out this time. It happens to be very windy and rough these days. Let's rest at home for a few days." Lin Xiuqing said with concern.

"How many days have the boats at home not been at sea?"

"It's been six or seven days, and the wind has been blowing every day. In addition, the tide was 15 in the past few days, and the waves were also big."

"Oh, it looks like the fishing boats in the village haven't been out to sea for a few days."

"Yes, the wind and waves are strong, so only your fishing boat can withstand it. It happened to be the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the year, and many people in the village went to the town to watch the fun. There were dragon and lion dances, and a bunch of children carrying lanterns.

Parading the streets. I heard people say that in some places people have begun to wander."

Ye Yaodong nodded. The customs around them were quite old. If they hadn't dared to do anything in those years, they wouldn't have to pick it up again.

"If you start to wander around this year, you will definitely have it next year. I will take you to see it on the 15th day of the first lunar month next year."

"Okay, the children at home have been reciting there a few days ago, saying that others have gone to see Wandering God, why can't they go. I have been reciting for many days, and I am annoying them."

"Well, go back and tell them that next year will be hotter than this year, and let them wait for next year. I will definitely take them to see the excitement next year."

Ye Yaodong liked to listen to her talking about family affairs and interesting things that happened to her children around him.

This allows him to indirectly participate in the growth of his children even when he is not at home.

"Is school starting for the older one?"

"School has started, and it's rare this year that I don't have to improvise. I force him to write copybooks every day, and he also takes advantage of the situation to complete a little homework every day."

"The sun is coming out in the west?" Ye Yaodong also looked up and saw that the sun was indeed setting in the west.

It was past one o'clock when they arrived home. They moved around again and weighed the goods. It was now past three o'clock.

"Haha, forcing me to explain is still useful. I didn't know how good I was during the few days I signed up. I went to hang out next door every day, annoying people, and even got into a fight with Cheng Ha."

"Deserved it."

Lin Xiuqing smiled brightly.

"Where are Yangyang and Xiaojiu?"

"Yangyang just came back and went to play. Xiaojiu is playing at Huimei's place. Aguang is back. She will probably run back in a hurry later."

Ye Yaodong drank a bowl of ginger tea after entering the house. There was no wind, so he felt a little warmer.

After taking a hot bath and lying on the bed, I felt extremely comfortable.

In winter, there is no more comfortable place than the bed.

He gave all the money he brought back to Lin Xiuqing to count. He only talked about the profit of the store. In the past half month, he took part of it to pay the deposit for the large vat and wooden barrel.

He deliberately did not bring back all the money from the store today because he had to pay the final payment in a few days, so the money he brought back today was only what he had earned in the past 10 days at sea.

He lay comfortably, only moving his lips and not wanting to do anything. And after he finished speaking, he became drowsy. He listened to her fragmentary words in his ears, closed his eyes and went to sleep without having any dinner.

stand up.

He didn't know how long Lin Xiuqing had counted the money. He didn't sit up until he was woken up by hunger in the middle of the night.

Lin Xiuqing was also awakened by his movements, so she could only sit up and cook supper for him.

"I didn't have time to tell you during the day. Fatty came to see you two days ago. I told you that you hadn't come back from going to sea. He told me that he wanted to rent a store in our city. Our stores are all scattered. Here

There is one room there. He asked you to come back and tell him, and he will go to the city with you."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"You were busy as soon as you came back. You only asked a few children. When you got home, you took a bath and lay down directly to sleep. You didn't even get up to eat. I had to explain the things at home first."

"I will most likely not go out today. I will go to his house after daybreak to leave a message, and I will go to the city the day after tomorrow and take him with me. I will take him to see the shops and let him choose one. By the way, he should also want to pick up his side.

The ones on the top are also plated down and opened up."

"I don't know. He didn't tell me much. He just said he wanted to rent our shop and when you come back, we can go to the city and have a look."

"Um."

"Can he be busy? I heard that the store in town is doing very well."

"Just hire someone. Doesn't his family have several brothers? You don't have to do everything by yourself. You can just drag your brothers into the gang and work together."

"It seems that he has made a lot of money in the past two years. By the way, all of your friends seem to have become more presentable in the past two years."

"It's true that I played a good role in taking the lead. I pulled them one by one and brought them all together. Look, my personal prosperity is also driving collective prosperity. No, I will have to go to the village committee to say it when the sun comes up.

He told them to apply for me to join the party and they would approve a quota for me."

Ye Yaodong was sitting at the table waiting for his meal, tapping his fingers on the table.

He is already a celebrity and has been in the newspapers several times, but the village did not specifically reserve a place for him to join the party. This is too much.

"I'll go get it tomorrow! It's too much. You didn't take the initiative to give it to me, so I have to go get it."

Lin Xiuqing asked curiously: "What is the use of joining the party?"

"It's glorious."

"What else?"

"Can I be rated as advanced in my work? Can I be prioritized for promotion? Promotion and salary increase?"

"Can you still get promoted? You don't need to be rated as advanced, and you don't need to be promoted or get a salary increase."

"Then I don't care. I'll ask for a spot tomorrow. Then I'll ask and see what the benefits are. Anyway, it's an honor to always listen to party members. Even if you break the law or commit a crime, you have to emphasize expulsion from the party when announcing it.

.”

Ye Yaodong really doesn't know much about these political things.

I'm old and illiterate.

"I'm just messing around, asking for everything. I didn't ask clearly what it's for. You have to engrave a private seal if someone else does it, and you have to join the party if you want to join the party."

"Well, I went to my godfather's place for dinner on the Lantern Festival and met several of his neighbors, and then I realized what class crossing is. Some people are really beyond your reach in your life. Sometimes, ordinary people

Even if you work hard all your life, you won’t be able to reach someone else.”

"Who is it?"

Ye Yaodong mentioned a few words and sighed.

Lin Xiuqing didn't understand what he was lamenting, "That has nothing to do with us, right? We don't have to rush to please others, and we don't ask for anything from others."

"Some things cannot be said too fully. Now does not mean in the future. Just like my godmother said, some relationships are not useful just by improvising. Moreover, it is good to know a doctor when you are born, old, sick or dead."
To be continued...