There was also a lot of drying in the open space around the door, but they couldn't be dried inside and were dried outside.
Fearing that someone would steal the kelp, there were old people from the village cadres' families holding stools at the entrance of the old primary school.
This is to make use of everyone who can use it.
When Ye Yaodong saw him outside, he smiled and said hello to the old man, handed out a cigarette and went in.
Who is he, Ye Yaodong, who is famous in the village.
Everyone knew that he was the one who mentioned farming kelp, and the kelp was sold to him, so of course the old people would not stop him.
He didn't stay long either.
I walked in for a while and then left again, then walked around to my own workshop.
When it was almost time for dinner, he walked out, but a dirty clay figure ran towards him and hugged his thigh tightly.
"Dad, help, help."
"What's going on?"
Ye Yaodong looked down at the little one at his feet and was startled.
"Why are you so dirty? What did you do?"
He was covered in mud and soaked. He wanted to take his feet out, but was hugged tightly.
"I..." Ye Xiaoxi looked at the busy adults around him warily, then hugged his legs and dodged.
"I caught loaches, dad... I don't want to go home... Give me a bath, don't tell mom, don't go home..."
Ye Yaodong frowned so hard that he could kill a fly, and reached out to grab the two wet little Jiujiu on her head.
"Who are you going to catch loaches with? Isn't it afraid that you will be drowned?"
"Follow Doudou, Bao, Xue, Ayue, Qingqing and Xiaohong..."
She sputtered out a long list of names that were both familiar and unfamiliar to Ye Yaodong. They were all children who had not yet reached school age, or who had reached school age but had not yet been sent to school.
"Dad, don't tell mom, you will be beaten to death...help me..."
"You also know that you will be beaten to death if you do this?"
"But I caught a lot of loaches. Look, look, outside..."
Ye Yaodong was dragged out by her trousers. He was already worried to death. What should he do with his lively nature?
Ye Xiaoxi, who was scared just now, was now a little excited. He was eager to offer the treasure and trotted ahead excitedly.
As soon as I ran outside, I saw the loaches I had worked so hard to catch jumping all over the ground.
There were several stray cats that were stealing food. She let out a fierce scream and ran away excitedly.
"Ah! My loach...stinky cat...stinky cat..."
She waved her little fists and drove away the stray cats. She also fell down and sat on the ground, crying loudly. While shedding tears, she scratched the loaches all over the ground, looking so miserable.
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but looked at her, as if she was even dirtier and more embarrassed.
Where has his fragrant, soft and well-behaved daughter gone?
He just doesn't have that much time at home, so why is the gap between what he imagined becoming bigger and bigger?
"Dad, come and catch them... They're all running away, come here..."
"well……"
He sighed, walked in and squatted down, helping to catch them too. At any rate, so many loaches were enough to feed them for two or three days, and they were considered an extra meal.
"Why did you catch so many?"
Ye Xiaoxi wiped away her tears with her dirty little hands, and there were a few more gray marks on her face, making it even dirtier.
She pointed to a wet schoolbag and said, "I scratched it here, and the cat got it out."
At this time, it was all empty, and everything jumped out. She still held a straw in her hand, which was probably used to tie the opening of the schoolbag.
"This was exchanged for candy."
There was another basket on the ground, which had also been knocked over, but there were still a lot of loaches still jumping around inside.
"Isn't this Yangyang's new schoolbag?"
"Ah! I'll borrow it and return it to my brother."
"You're really going to be beaten to death."
Tears were about to fall from Ye Xiaoxi's eyes again, "I...I will clean it and return it to my brother."
"You can't even ask for it after you wash it. Just return your schoolbag and wash it."
At the beginning of spring, Lin Xiuqing sewed a new satchel for Ye Chenghu to use as a schoolbag. She also sewed one for Ye Chengyang for him to use in the second half of the year. Unexpectedly, he used it for her to hold loaches.
"Don't tell mom, can you give me a bath secretly? Okay? Okay... okay... dad... okay, okay?"
"You know you're afraid now? Why did you go there so early?"
She wiped her tears while catching the loach, her voice choked with sobs, "Everyone is equally dirty, it's not just me..."
"Others will definitely get beaten when they go home, so don't try to escape."
"I'm afraid, how about we take a shower secretly and don't tell mother."
"Don't think about it, it's dinner time, she's already cooking at home."
"Woooooooo... It's so fun, I won't dare to do it next time."
"It doesn't matter, it's so fun, it's worth a beating."
Ye Xiaoxi raised his head, his eyes were filled with tears, and his eyelashes were still wet. He looked at him with flickering eyes, his face was confused, and he stopped crying for a while.
"I'm just talking nonsense, I need to go home and get beaten."
Ye Yaodong caught the loaches for a while. His hands were covered with mud, and some were so slippery that it was difficult to catch them.
He simply stood up and went to the workshop to get a broom, swept it directly into the dustpan, and then poured it into the basket on his back.
Anyway, it has rolled around on the ground, and it is full of mud. It is very dirty. Take it home, wash it, and raise it in clean water, otherwise it will die later.
He took the broom and swept Ye Xiaoxi twice, "Go away and stay out of the way."
"oh."
She quickly stood up and took a few steps back, but she stopped crying.
After Ye Yaodong finished sweeping the loaches and returned the broom to its original position, he pulled her and walked home with the basket on his back.
"Look away and stop crying?"
She nodded, "Everyone was beaten."
However, she was still afraid. When she reached the door of her house, she hesitated to go in. When she heard the cries of familiar friends nearby, she flinched again.
Ye Yaodong grabbed her clothes and shouted into the room: "Lin Xiuqing, Lin Xiuqing, come out and see your daughter!"
Lin Xiuqing was cooking in the house. She was a little panicked when she heard him shouting, including her first and last names. But when she heard the words "your daughter", she was no longer so panicked.
The dead girl must have done something else, so she called her "your daughter" again.
"what?"
She walked to the door of the courtyard, still wiping her hands on her apron. She took a closer look and saw that the dirty child in the courtyard who looked like a drowned rat was actually her daughter.
"Ye Xiaoxi, what are you doing again? Get out of here."
Ye Xiaoxi's neck shrank, and then he immediately hid behind Ye Yaodong.
Ye Yaodong was also afraid that she would run away, so he carried her into the house.
"She and other children went to the river to catch loaches. They had to be beaten hard. Who knows how deep the river was? What if they drowned? A group of underage children dared to run to the river to play. They had to be beaten to death.
Already."
He also considered this and had to teach her a lesson not to go to the river all the time, so he didn't protect her.
Children have to be beaten until it hurts before they remember it.
Ye Xiaoxi raised her head and stared at him, "Dad, aren't you going to save me?"
"To save you is to harm you."
"Hate you!"
Lin Xiuqing carried her and dragged her into the house, "You just don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin. Forget about chasing chickens and dogs every day, and you still follow her to the river. Are you willing to die? How old are you, and how old are you?
He is no taller than a table, and his courage is as high as the sky..."
Ye Xiaoxi stood there with her mouth closed and said nothing, her eyes habitually looking everywhere, but this time the old lady didn't help her.
If you go to the river to play, you have to fight.
Otherwise, if there is no adult watching, such a small child will drown if he says it is drowned.
Ye Yaodong took the basket to clean the loach, and was thinking about when he would have to teach her how to swim.
He can still teach now when he is young, otherwise he will be embarrassed to teach when he is older.
Although those who drown are those who know how to use water, at least one more skill can sometimes save their lives. The two sons also learned how to flutter in the past few years.
The old lady also helped him fetch water, pretending not to hear Lin Xiuqing's beating and scolding, and murmuring.
"This thing can just be fed to ducks and dogs. It's only so big..."
"No, no, I don't want to feed dogs or ducks..."
When Ye Xiaoxi heard this, he thought the old lady was talking about her, and his guard instantly broke.
Originally, he didn't cry when he was beaten and scolded. He still thought about what his father said. Anyway, he had fun and the beating was worth it.
She was so frightened that she quickly hugged Lin Xiuqing's legs and cried with snot and tears, "Don't feed me to dogs. I will never dare to feed me to dogs again... I will never dare to go to the river again... wuwu..."
Lin Xiuqing couldn't pull her away even if she wanted to. She hugged her so tightly that her fingernails and knuckles turned white.
"Are you afraid too? I thought you weren't afraid."
"Dad said, if you have fun, it's worth a beating."
"Don't blame me."
He just blurts out whatever he wants!
"That's what you said! That's what you said!"
Lin Xiuqing glared at Ye Yaodong fiercely, "You are just a troublemaker, teaching children indiscriminately."
The old lady immediately said: "It's okay if you know how to be afraid. You must be obedient and not naughty. You can't go to the river or the sea to play in the water."
"knew……"
Lin Xiuqing focused on the child again, "It's too late now that I know it. Look at what you look like. Who is as dirty as you..."
"Dou A Bao A Xue A Yue Qing Qing Xiao Hong..."
"How dare you talk back."
The whip in her hand struck hard, her fearful eyelashes kept blinking, and then she closed her eyes and cried.
No one rescued her.
Lin Xiuqing waited until the beating was over and she had been scolded enough, then took her to take a bath, and then made her stand still.
After Ye Yaodong and the old lady cleaned the loaches, they took a big bucket and raised them.
"I'll get some stew wine later. I haven't eaten it for a long time. I wonder if I can catch some eels sometime. I haven't stewed it for a long time."
When the little one is beaten, the father benefits.
The old lady smiled and said, "If you like eating earthy food, pour more rice wine later."
"Stop talking. Later, other children will hear about it and they will catch eels again. You will find something to do for me for nothing, and you will have to chase after me with a whip."
Ye Xiaoxi stood close to the corner, with tears on his face, sobbing constantly, and his shoulders trembled.
When Ye Chenghu came back and saw her like this, she was even made to stand, and he was very happy.
"Haha, you also have today...Dad, what did my sister do? Why is she forced to stand?"
She was so angry that she closed her eyes and cried again.
Ye Chenghu became even happier when he saw her crying.
Ye Yaodong slapped him in the face, so he stopped gloating about his misfortune and hurriedly avoided it.
However, he still ran to Ye Xiaoxi and started twisting and provoking him.
"I made you laugh, I made you laugh, and you were made to stand, and you were also beaten..."
"Go away, I hate you."
Ye Chenghu turned his back, twisted his butt towards her twice, looked at his father and mother's unkind eyes, and hurriedly ran out again.
Ye Xiaoxi angrily kicked his legs from behind, "I hate you!"
Lin Xiuqing said helplessly: "All of them are here to collect debts, and none of them are worry-free, just like you."
"Don't rely on me for everything bad."
"It's not your fault, but who?"
The old lady glared at both of them, and quickly pushed Ye Yaodong out, "Everyone is drying kelp outside, and there are so many people there. Go and take a look. I'll call you when it's time to eat."
Ye Yaodong passively walked out, turned around and glanced at the adults and children staring at him, and decided to leave.
Everyone, big and small, hates him now.
Yesterday, he said he would stay at home to catch squid, and everyone was very happy. They kissed him every night when he went to bed, crawled into his arms, and affectionately called one daddy and the other husband.
I'm not happy today, really!
It’s really hard to be a man, it’s even harder to be a father and a husband.
Ye Yaodong walked to the open space next to it, where several men were still busy drying kelp and did not go back after dinner.
He went to Secretary Chen and asked about it, but he just said that he had to hurry up and work on it, and he would just take turns to go home for dinner later.
Everyone was working so hard, and they were all full of expectations, with smiles on their faces. No one felt forced. Thinking that he would be fine now, he rolled up his sleeves and helped.
"A Dong is also here to help? You have a lot of work in your own workshop, and you come here to help?"
"A Dongdu is a big boss, why do you still help with the exposure?"
Ye Yaodong smiled and said: "What a big boss? If I were a big boss, I wouldn't have to go to sea. I could just lie at home and count money. I haven't eaten yet, so I came over to take a look and just happened to lend a hand."
"Haha, you have a big business now, what are you if you're not the boss?"
"It's President Ye, haha." Secretary Chen said jokingly.
"Don't make fun of me. If you have the time, you might as well go and apply for a report, visit the research unit, and apply for species suitable for our breeding here."
"Haha, I applied last month, but it hasn't been approved yet. Now I'll wait until I've been busy for a while before filing a report and applying."
The topic immediately changed, and the villagers were also interested in asking the village cadres about the types of plants to grow.
Ye Yaodong only worked for a while, and when he was called to eat, he went home.
Ye Xiaoxi still stood there as usual, but he kept looking down at his feet a little bored, playing with his feet inside and out.
After I finished reading, I played with my fingers, played with the hem of my clothes, and a lot of little tricks.
Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang didn't know if they had just been scolded or beaten. Ye Chenghu was obviously very outspoken before, but now they are both extremely honest, sitting and eating obediently, without gloating about her misfortune.
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Ye Yaodong just glanced at them and then talked to Ye's father about business, talking about their night trip to the sea, and also told his father to pay attention to safety.
He also planned to temporarily move the diving equipment on the Dongsheng to the small boat.
He spent at least the next half month offshore, thinking that he hadn't been to the reef near Oarfish Island in two years. He was still thinking about the abalones and small green dragons underneath, as well as the nearby Jiang Yao (strips).
They all grew again.
It just so happened that he was going to be near there next time. He moved to the boat so that he could go into the water and harvest a wave. After all, it was getting hotter all day and he was probably going to Zhejiang Province again.
The people on the ship also need to change their jobs, and Father Ye will listen to his arrangements.
The two fathers and sons were talking about business, and this meal was a bit more normal. They basically talked about family matters at the dinner table, and they were used to holding family meetings during meals.
After finishing the meal, the two of them had no time to arrange the things at hand.
Ye Yaodong was busy all afternoon, running back and forth without even touching the floor.
Near dusk, the village cadres used a cart to pull three cartloads of dried kelp over, and a bunch of villagers gathered around to watch.
After he saw it, he quickly asked someone to bring out a bundle of nylon bags and spread them on the open space at the door of the warehouse next door.
In the past two days, Lin Xiuqing had people take dried fish to the market every day and vacated the warehouse in advance. At this time, they were being weighed at the entrance of the warehouse.
After a large package is filled, it can be wrapped in nylon bags, tied with straw ropes, carried to the warehouse, stacked, and sent to the factory in the city for stacking early tomorrow morning.
It is difficult to pack such a large amount in gunny bags, so these nylon bags are easier to pack and bundle.
Fortunately, the land in the city has been put into use. There is more space there and is more conducive to warehousing.
Otherwise, these dozens of tons of kelp would take up a lot of space.
After the floor was padded with nylon bags, workers also pushed the scale over.
Ye Yaodong also asked Lin Xiuqing to get two more large wooden scales. There were a lot of them. A few more large scales would weigh them faster, not to mention that these dry goods could be tied up with ropes and weighed quickly by hooking the wooden scales.
After all the goods on the three-cart were dumped on the ground, they continued to push and pull the goods back, and they also began to weigh the goods in full swing.
Normally, villagers who are not working are not allowed in or out of the workshop to prevent any accidents.
But now everyone was curious, so he let people in, but asked a few workers to keep an eye on it and not let anyone fish in troubled waters and damage his fish sauce.
The village chief smiled and said to him: "You will be at home for the next few days, right? Can you bring me over to be weighed?"
Secretary Chen also said: "There are too many of them, and we don't have room to store them. The old elementary school is in tatters and will be destroyed if it rains."
"It's okay. You can send it here for weighing at this time every day. I will arrange to take it away the next day and put it in the city for storage. Such a large quantity requires a lot of storage space."
Everyone is relieved.
"That's good. I've been drying it there one after another these past few days, and it's been drying out one after another. I can only collect the dried ones and send them over every day."
Ye Yaodong nodded, picked up some dried kelp and checked the quality.
After collecting these kelps, everyone piled them up randomly without rolling them into rolls. After they were poured on the ground, they looked like dried pickles, scattered in large handfuls on the ground.
However, basically every piece on it is covered with white frost, and the thin, yellowish parts at the end have also been cut off, and they were indeed tidied up when harvested.
In the first year of doing it, everyone dealt with it carefully. He casually looked through it and immediately asked people to start weighing it.
Nowadays, we can't expect high-quality products. It's already good to be tanned like this.
After he stabilizes in the future, he can open a kelp factory and produce high-quality kelp rolls, kelp silk, kelp knots, and kelp heads.
I won’t be particular about it now, it’s too laborious, and there are no drying conditions, not to mention the dryer, and the electricity is unstable.
If he really had the conditions, he would definitely arrange for a fish dryer first, after all, he is already good at it.
The surrounding villagers were watching the fun and talking a lot.
Someone also shouted to Ye Yaodong: "Ah Dong, can we bring over the scattered drying stuff later?"
"Let's wait until daytime tomorrow. The goods will not be weighed so quickly today. Later, Ah Cai will deliver dried fish, which will also have to be weighed. It will be busy. You can bring it over after 2 o'clock tomorrow and tell others about it.
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It just so happens that we will collect bulk goods in advance tomorrow, and then collect a large amount of goods from the village committee. I don't know how much goods the village committee has at the moment, and I guess I will be busy until dark.
"Okay, then we'll bring it over tomorrow so you won't be too busy."
"The yield of the kelp we are trying to cultivate this year is amazing, isn't it? It has taken many days to harvest and it has not been collected yet. I heard that when the tide rises, we will have to harvest it overnight."
"There's no other way, I have to take advantage of the sunny weather to get some sun."
"Fortunately, it doesn't happen every day, otherwise people wouldn't be able to bear it."
"Everyone has calculated that kelp farming only requires half a year of work and half a year of rest. The busiest time is harvest time. It is much easier than doing other things."
"Indeed, you can do anything for half a year and half a year off, and you can still make a lot of money..."
"We'll check it out later. We're already weighing it. Let's see how much it weighs today and how much it can sell for."
"So much kelp is money... The village cadres only sent a few people to work, and they were able to harvest so much..."
Everyone was pointing and talking lively and excitedly, and people kept joining in to watch.
At this time, there were many people who had just returned from the sea. They came over immediately after hearing the news, and they didn't even have time to go home.
Ye Yaodong watched people keep coming in, and thought it would be better to go directly to the door to weigh them, and at most, it would take a little effort to carry them in.
The open space around his place is full of large tanks. There is not enough space for people to stand and watch, and they are afraid that everyone will squeeze in and smash the water tanks.
"After these are weighed, move to the door and do the weighing. There are too many people to fit in, and the car can't get in."
The village chief also said: "I wanted to say this just now. The three carts can't come in now because they are full of people. They should park them at the door now."
Ye Yaodong immediately asked someone to take a roll of nylon bags and lay them out at the door.
Apart from dried fish and fish sauce, nylon bags take up the most space in his workshop. Because he was worried about rain, he prepared a lot of nylon bags intermittently in the past two or three years.
It took three carts several trips to bring in all the dried kelp.
They also weighed from dawn to dusk. None of the villagers who cared about this matter left. They all watched with hungry stomachs. A total of five tons and 620 kilograms were weighed out.
Ye Yaodong immediately made the settlement on the spot, which could be regarded as sending a good signal to the village committee.
The 10,620 kilograms were sold for 743.4 yuan, and he asked Ah Qing to give the money to the village chief on the spot.
The villagers' eyes lit up and they were all excited.
This is only a part, and there are still confiscated ones in the sea. So much was sold on the first day, and there will be more after that.
Everyone has been waiting here for a long time without even going home to eat, just waiting for the moment to collect money.
The crowd was excited and chattering.
"Can't this be sold for several thousand yuan?"
"30 acres can be sold for several thousand yuan? How many people can do it?"
"Then if our family has four or five laborers, can we do it? If we can't do it, we can only hire a few people for a few days and it won't cost much..."
"Isn't this too much?"
"Sold for so much money~"
"A Dong said this morning that if there is a good harvest next year, everyone will be able to afford a TV and a washing machine..."
"Do it! Do it! In the second half of the year, we will follow the village committee to cultivate kelp..."
"Yes, yes, I also want to learn how to grow kelp..."
The village cadres were also a little excited when they saw the money in the village chief's hand. Only when they hold real money in their hands can they feel real.
This is the best proof of success.
The village chief looked so happy that he was smiling from ear to ear, but after listening to the excited discussions of the villagers, he was worried that it would not exceed their expectations and they would be disappointed.
It's better to lower expectations now.
"Don't be too happy too early. We sold a lot today, but there may not be so much tomorrow. Some of them were done this morning, but they were accumulated and sold at night, and the quantity will be less tomorrow."
The village party secretary also reassured, "Yes, we have to dry everything. We can all calculate the total to calculate the total output. We will definitely post it on the bulletin board and announce it to everyone."
"There will be no shortage of them. There are still them in the sea, and there is such a large area of ​​them on the construction site. There must be two or three thousand."
"Don't talk about two or three thousand yuan. If a family can earn a thousand yuan, they will work hard for their lives."
"Yes, these can be sold for more than 700 today, which is already a lot. It is better than what we have been doing for a year."
Ye Yaodong was also worried that their expectations were too high, so he said seriously and honestly: "Don't think too much, everyone. There are risks in everything you do. After all, you rely on the sky for food. Even if the food is planted in the ground, there will be a failure, not to mention the harvest."
Raised in the sea.”
"No one can guarantee what the coming year will be like. I can only say that this year's harvest will indeed be a bumper harvest, which will give everyone a good start and increase the confidence of the whole village."
"The cultivation of kelp is also suitable for long-term cultivation. A lack of harvest one year does not mean a failure of harvest every year. This can be regarded as a way out for our village, and it can also be regarded as a hope."
"Folks don't have to dig in the fields to make ends meet. Farming kelp is better than doing other things."
Secretary Chen also nodded in agreement, "A Dong is right. A good harvest one year does not mean that there will be such a harvest every year. This is also the first time for our village. If everyone is optimistic about it, we can make a family out of it in the second half of the year."
One laborer, and another year of collective farming."
"We can work together according to the previous work point system, and learn breeding techniques at the same time. Then the results will be distributed according to work. This can also reduce the risks that everyone takes."
Someone seconded the idea and cheered, "That's great!"
"This is good, you can learn, and everyone can share the risk equally."
The village chief raised his hand to suppress everyone's opinions.
"We have also discussed in advance that the money earned this year, after deducting expenses, will be used for costs in the next half of the year."
Chapter completed!