All day long, the whole village sat at the door, and there was no house without a mountain of shells at the door.
In the afternoon, people started pushing carts to deliver goods to the dock. Sitting at the door, they could see the carts in the distance.
As time went on, there were more and more cars, and some people who didn't have carts used poles to carry them. No, the queue got longer and longer, and it stretched for more than a hundred meters from the pier.
This has never been done before and the team continues to grow.
They were all speechless.
"There are... so many people? How can we sell this? It won't be sold today." Mother Ye stretched her neck and kept paying attention to the direction of the dock.
Ye Yaodong looked at the corner and saw that there were still two bags left to choose from. The efficiency was really low.
His father and mother were busy repairing the roof of the old house and settling the pig. They came to help at two o'clock. The old lady helped to look after the children. When they were hungry, they called Ah Qing to feed them. The two of them could only count half of the labor.
The two children had nowhere to sit, so they ran away to play after eating. Only Lin Guangyuan and he kept picking, but Lin Guangyuan couldn't choose whether it was meat or not, so he could only sort and sort various kinds of shells, and scallops were too much for him.
Pick your own.
He and Lin Guangyuan worked too slowly, and they bought more shells than others, two bags more than his eldest brother and his second brother's.
There were more goods than others, and fewer workers than others. The queues at the dock were very long, and they could only sit at the door and stretch their necks to watch.
His eldest brother and second brother had just finished picking and went to line up first.
"When the sorting is finished, we will pile it into the yard first and sell it tomorrow. We will save the time of queuing. It won't be bad if we leave it for a day." Ye Yaodong stretched his neck and looked at the long queue.
"It would be nice to collect half of it today."
Father Ye looked at it worriedly, "I'm afraid tomorrow the price won't be the same as today. Suddenly there are so many scallops, disrupting the market."
"There's nothing we can do about it. We have to collect them from the dock. Let's sort them out first. Fortunately, we've already sent some over in the morning."
"Dad, Adong, come here and help carry these shells to the corner over there and pile them up."
After Mrs. Ye cleaned the door, she packed all the empty shells in sacks and tied them up. She quickly called the two remaining men in the family to help carry them.
Sister-in-law Ye was also dressed in a similar way and was tying up the mouth of the bag. She also said, "Help me lift it later."
The father and son quickly got up and went to help carry the shells.
Some people also come to collect these empty shells. Although they are not very valuable, they are better than throwing them back into the sea directly. They can be sold for some money.
In the future, oyster farmers will need to tie these scallop shells with strings, but no one has done so yet.
However, feed factories will grind shells into powder and add it to duck or chicken feed to supplement nutrition for poultry.
Or you can burn the shells into powder yourself and sprinkle it into the fields to sterilize, which will help the growth of crops.
Nowadays, scallop shells are used to pave roads in many places. Scallop shells can harden the road surface and make it very strong.
After Sister-in-law Ye packed up, Sister-in-law Ye also brought a small bench over to help them pick and chat together. Three or four older children were also sent over to help them work together.
Ye Chenghe's butt was twisting and turning like it was greased, and his eyes were always looking at the four little ones gathered together at the door. He really wanted to go there and play!
"What are you looking at? Pick it up quickly and call it a day." When Sister-in-law Ye saw that he was lingering and still holding a clam in her hand for a while, she quickly kicked him with her foot.
"I don't want to do it anymore, okay? I've been sitting here all afternoon, and I still have to do it, and my butt hurts." His heart had already flown to an unknown place.
Ye Chengjiang also turned his head to look at other people playing from time to time, and said unbalanced in his heart: "Why are they allowed to play, but we still have to sit here?"
"Why do you have so many opinions? Who told you that you are older, thinking about playing all day long, asking you to do a few things, and talk so much."
"No matter how long you sit, you will get tired and your butt will hurt. I don't want to do it anymore."
Sister-in-law Ye raised her hand and wanted to hit someone, but the old lady quickly stopped her, "If you don't want to do it, just go and play. There are so many adults who don't need you anymore. There aren't many left anyway, so go and play!"
Normally, the old lady would not stop them from teaching their children, but would coax them after they were spanked. Today, they seemed to be very well-behaved. They had been helping the children for a long time, and they would ignore them if they spanked them again.
When the old lady spoke, several people glanced at their respective mothers' faces and immediately ran away with "miserable beibei".
They kept busy until it was almost time for dinner before they sorted all the shells.
At this time, the queue outside the pier had already lined up 300 meters along the shore. Some people were still standing at the intersection, watching and talking.
The neighbors of several households next to them, because they were the first to pull out more than others, had also been sorted until this moment, and they all stood hesitating at the door.
"How long will this long queue for horse riding last?"
"I guess we'll have to wait in line all night, right?"
"There's no need to sleep. I guess we have to queue up? The whole village has lined up here, and the next village has also come, right?"
"I guess so."
"I guess there are still people who haven't queued up yet? It's scary to see such a long queue."
"Hey, hey, there are three tractors coming here, they should be here to pick up the goods..."
People who were queuing up and chatting together in twos and threes when they had nothing to do, saw the tractor coming and gave way to the tractor. Fortunately, everyone usually pushed the cart back and forth to the dock, and the road was quite wide.
Ye Yaodong pushed all the shellfish back to his yard, and after stacking them, he said to his father: "Let's go outside the pier and take a look? It feels like the speed of receiving goods is very slow."
"Well, that's what I was thinking. I don't know when I will receive it."
The father and son didn't stop for a moment, and then headed outside the pier.
Unable to tolerate their indifference, they sorted out a total of two large bags, one half bag of smaller ones, and three bags of empty shells.
Several baskets of other shellfish were sorted, but they were not full. The quantity was quite large, and he estimated that it took up about two or three bags.
The sorting was very careful, so they spent a little more time, because when they went to sell goods outside the dock in the morning, they also had to sort them, big ones, big prices, small ones, small prices.
When the father and son hurriedly walked outside the pier, they saw the chaos outside, with everyone yelling and cursing.
"Isn't this quite big? What's wrong with putting it in a big one?"
"We have sorted everything well and you still have to pour it out and sort it out. What a waste of time. They didn't have to do it before..."
"That's right, the time has been delayed by you, so it's so slow. The queue behind me is so long."
Ah Cai jumped angrily there, spitting and scolding: "You are all bastards. I thought there were too many people at first, so I wanted to stop them quickly. The folks from the province have been waiting in line for too long, and I am so embarrassed. Who can I say?"
I know that you are all so cunning, mixing the small ones into the big ones, and mixing in the empty shells as well."
Agui from another purchasing point was also scolding, "Every grandson, I believe you, are all fooling us. Selinmu, give me at least ten pounds of 100 pounds of wood..."
People from other purchasing points were also scolding, "What a fool. We should have picked it up quickly, but now we have to take a long time to pick it. For the Selin wood, you need to pick it out for me first, and then weigh it after you have finished picking it."
"I even invited three or four people to come over and choose for you..."
The group of villagers also retorted, "How can there be any confusion? We all sorted the big ones and the small ones separately..."
"That's right. Occasionally, old people get confused. They don't distinguish between big and small, and it's normal to not distinguish between the fleshy ones and the empty shells. How can they be so clean?"
"Yes, everyone picked well. It's normal to pick the wrong ones occasionally..."
Ah Cai scolded again: "Did you make a few mistakes? Look at the shells all over the ground, are you feeling guilty? You are being asked to sort them properly? If we just made a few mistakes, we won't talk about it. Who is he?
Mom is wasting her time here arguing with you about those shells..."
"They are all so treacherous, Serinliang, don't you think you can count how many times you have been mixed up?"
"If you hadn't cooperated, wouldn't you have been able to pass a few titles for a long time?"
"I'm so angry. The tractor master just came back and said that as soon as it was poured out at the market, he said it wasn't as beautiful as the ones delivered this morning. I picked a bag at random, but I didn't expect to pick a bunch of empty shells."
"Then... just because others are like this doesn't mean that I am like this too. I chose well..." Some people said confidently, holding back their necks.
Ah Cai raised his eyebrows and said, "There are honest people, but there are also treacherous and deceitful people!"
Suddenly, Agui said angrily: "Whose product is this? This horse is almost mixed with 30%. Do you think we will be blind when it gets dark? Is it because you said the old man has poor eyesight and picked the wrong ones?
"
"Do you think we are all blind or stupid?"
"We need to discuss the price of receiving the goods."
"ah?"
"Yes, we need to discuss it. Because the goods sent away earlier were not up to standard, they were directly discounted. Now all the goods in the future will also be reduced in price."
Suddenly the crowd was boiling, and everyone was talking and making noises...
"There's nothing we can do. The market has lowered prices and just picked a few people. Did you see what happened? Especially that person, who actually mixed in almost 30% of the price. The small ones are even mixed in with the big ones. This is treating us as blind people.
, being a fool..."
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Ye Yaodong and Ye's father looked at each other. No wonder the team didn't move for a long time. It turned out that the problem was here.
This...these sneaky, sneaky, petty gain-seeking people can be found everywhere, and there is really no way to avoid them.
Just because you didn't adulterate doesn't mean that others honestly didn't adulterate either.
"It's over now... When can we pick each one?" Ye Yaodong suddenly felt that it was tricky, there were so many quantities.
Father Ye also frowned, "I'm sure I can't pick them one by one? If I pick them one by one, I won't be able to collect a few by tomorrow morning."
"Isn't this too ruthless?"
"How can this be done? We have all chosen well."
"Let's see what they say when they discuss it. They are not discussing it."
Chapter completed!