Although Ye Yaodong envied A Guang and the others for being able to rest for the whole winter, and wanted to let it go, he was also afraid that if he rested, he would let go of his laziness.
This has not yet reached his ideal retirement age of 40. He has set a goal, but still has to work harder.
Moreover, there was not much time to go to sea in the winter. He spent three days fishing and two days drying nets, so he could barely continue to work. With more money, he could buy more boats, become a boat owner, and retire early.
This boat is really hard to find and buy.
His father inquired for a month but found no place to buy it. The 30-meter long one that the salvage team rented before was later bought by a few people in partnership.
But, even if it was still there, he couldn't buy it. It was too expensive and the cost was high. He would have to spend all his money to buy it, and it would be difficult to resell it if anything happened.
He didn't have that much ambition in the first place, so he still wanted to play it safe and move forward little by little. He wouldn't be able to become a big fat man after one bite.
If there is no suitable boat by the end of the year, he might ask two masters to build a boat, or go to the shipyard to order one. If he makes a new one, he can also order it in a larger size, and the cabin will be larger to make it easier to sleep, so that he can also go deep sea.
There is no need to stay offshore fishing for a few days.
Nowadays, personal financial capabilities are not strong, shipbuilding technology is limited, and there are few deep-sea ships. Some of them are official salvage teams. Moreover, the resources in the deep sea are not comparable to those in the offshore. The resources in the offshore are quite good now.
It's enough, and it's even worse in the deep sea.
He doesn't have such great ambitions to go far into the ocean, at least not yet. Ocean ships are hundreds or thousands of tons heavier, which he doesn't dare to think about, and the technology is not mature yet, but he still has some ideas in deep sea.
He goes back and forth once every few days, and does not delay his wife and children from sleeping on the bed and taking care of the house.
It's a good idea in my heart, but I still have to take care of the present first.
On the second day, when the wind picked up, he took the old lady to the town to get some reading glasses. He also bought some white thread for making a sticky net, bought it and asked someone to make it.
Just do it in the next few days, and you can go out to sea and release the net in two days after the storm passes.
The old lady took her reading glasses, put them on and took them off, breathed a sigh of relief, and then wiped them with a lens cloth.
"Don't wipe it. It's clean enough. Put it away first. It will save you from falling and trampling it due to the crowds of people coming and going. Then the money will be wasted."
"Hey, okay, I'll put it on again when I get it back." The old lady smiled and narrowed her eyes, "When I looked in the mirror just now, it looked pretty good, didn't it?"
"I'm sure. Dragons give birth to dragons, and phoenixes give birth to phoenixes. The fact that I am so handsome means that I have good genetics. I am your grandson, which means that you have good foundation."
"Are you praising yourself or me? You will make me happy. My hair is all white and my face is more wrinkled than tree bark."
"Beauty is in the bones but not in the skin. Praising me means praising you, praising you means praising me. This is called a win-win situation for us."
The old lady was so coaxed by him that she felt that he was becoming more and more educated, "If I had known that I shouldn't have followed you when you were a child and asked you to drop out of school, look at you, you have only been in literacy class for a few days, and you still talk like this
Now that you are educated, if you had studied for a few more years, you might have graduated from college and been an official for several years now."
"That is to say, why didn't you stop me at that time? Oh, maybe I won't have to work hard to fish."
The old lady shook her head, "It's not that you didn't live up to expectations. You were only ten years old at the time, and you were just like the devil incarnate. You didn't listen to anyone, and you didn't go to class all day long. Just like your friends, you could not find anyone in the mountains and seas every day.
Your mother was so angry that she went to refund the tuition fees."
Ye Yaodong touched his nose. He had long forgotten what happened when he was a child. He only remembered the vicissitudes of his middle-aged and old age. After all, it didn't take long, and the old lady's memory was quite good.
"I don't remember. Let's go. We're just at the door of the photo studio. Let's go in and take two pictures, both with and without glasses."
When it came to taking pictures, the old lady didn't object. She looked at the old photo studio door in front of her that was covered with photos. She nodded happily and followed him in.
"Just take a picture. It can be hung on the wall as a portrait. When I am gone, you can take a look at it occasionally when you offer incense to me."
"What are you talking about? The purpose of taking photos is to capture your beautiful moments. When you look them up in a few years, they will be full of memories."
"Okay, okay..."
The old lady also knew that what she said subconsciously was a bit unlucky, so she quickly said something nice, "Now that I have taken the photo, when I am 100 years old, I will take it out and look at it again to see if there is any difference. When I am 100 years old, I will see the difference.
Take me to take pictures again and keep them as souvenirs."
Only then did Ye Yaodong say with satisfaction: "Yes, you need to take a few photos to celebrate your 100th anniversary. When the New Year comes this year, our whole family will take a family photo, neatly."
"good."
The old lady was leaning on a cane, smiling brightly, her face was red, and she was in good spirits. Even the owner of the photo studio thought she was in good spirits, and said with a smile: "You can take care of the old lady when she is a hundred years old."
If you come over and take pictures, I won’t charge you and I’ll take a few pictures for free.”
"Really?" The old lady was very happy. She didn't expect that she would be able to take pictures for free when she lived to be a hundred years old.
"Then I have to work hard and work hard, and I will come to you to take pictures when the time comes."
"Okay, okay."
Ye Yaodong was also very happy that the boss was a good person and couldn't help but ask: "Can I invite you to come and take pictures?"
"Okay, it's a happy event to live to be a hundred years old."
"No, I mean, can I invite you to come and take family photos at the end of the year?"
"Okay, you just have to add some money."
"This is easy to say, it should be."
With a little extra money, you don't have to drag a whole family out to take photos, which saves you a lot of trouble.
After taking the photos and making an appointment on when to pick them up, Ye Yaodong asked the old lady to wait at the door. He was going to the fishing gear store to pick up white nylon thread for fishing nets.
If you buy it in advance, send it to the store first to avoid the inconvenience of carrying it around all the time.
He carried the two full sacks directly on a pole. Although the nylon string was relatively light, it could not hold up the large number, and a packed sack was also very heavy.
The old lady watched him coming and quickly gave him the hot pancakes she had just bought. "It's almost noon. I don't know how long I'll have to wait for the bus. Eat something to fill your stomach. I specially asked the boss to add it."
The oyster stuffing is hot and delicious.”
"Why don't you give him an extra two cents?"
So willing!
"Yes, your mother has not had time to catch oysters for the past six months, and neither has your wife. You haven't had any for a long time."
Ye Yaodong smiled and took a bite from her hand, "When I was fishing for jellyfish in Zhejiang Province in the past two months, my second sister-in-law dug them every day and we ate them every day."
"Hey, that's good."
He thought the old lady probably wanted to eat it too.
"I'm going to be doing some fishing in the next few days. I don't plan to go out to sea. Where can I go to the island to get some shells and dig out the meat to dry?"
"Making money is important. Don't wait until you are busy. Work on it when you have free time. There will be no shortage of food at home."
"Um."
As he responded, he also thought in his mind that he didn't seem to have much of these dry goods at home. Although he didn't eat them every day, he couldn't bear to consume them. Occasionally, he would fry a bowl or cook some noodles and sprinkle some on them, and he was almost at the bottom.
Autumn and winter are the perfect time to dry out dried goods, so you can eat them more slowly. The daily taste of seaside people is inseparable from fish and seafood.
The grandfather and grandson were waiting for the bus on the side of the road, chatting from time to time. Ye Yaodong kept asking her if there was anything else she wanted to buy? They happened to buy it together, and it was a rare trip to the town.
The old lady just kept shaking her head and saying no.
He doesn't force it, it's okay if he doesn't have it. Anyway, he has food and clothing now, and the old man doesn't need much else.
I just forgot to bring food to the child. Today is the weekend and I am all at home. I went back to make him so noisy that I almost beat him up with a whip.
Everyone is used to it. As soon as he goes out, he thinks about whether he has brought something back for them, so he needs to be beaten.
However, he seemed to have little authority in front of these children. When he came out with the whip, all of them had already dispersed and fled.
"You bastard, it's a good thing you run fast, otherwise my butt would have opened up and become smaller and smaller. Why do you have weekends off? Give them 28 days a month and two days off. That's right now."
It’s so comfortable.”
"I think back when I was a kid, I had to go to the mountains to work in the mountains during the day to weed pigs and create production, and I had to go to class at night. How could they be as comfortable as they are now."
Lin Xiuqing gave him a blank look, "Are you sure you have worked hard to create production? Did you go to class in the evening?"
There was a thread hooked on the little finger of her right hand, and the two long iron hairpins on her hand kept moving back and forth. The wool she rolled yesterday afternoon was already knitted for her this morning and was almost seven or eight centimeters long.
She doesn't have to lower her head to look down, and her technique is very skillful. She only occasionally glances down, or stops to take a look when she has to switch ends after knitting a row.
The busyness of her hands did not affect her chatting at all.
"Tch~ they don't have to help earn work points now anyway, they just have to play, it's so fun."
"It's half a catty, let's not talk about them. Who do you want to hire to weave this fishing net? Why don't you go next door later and ask the elder sister-in-law if the second sister-in-law wants to weave it? Anyway, they have nothing to do, and they are weaving nets all day long. If
If they don’t do it, why don’t they call others?”
While she was talking, she finished knitting another row, scratched her hair with an iron hairpin, then switched sides and continued.
"Alright."
Ye Yaodong also reached out and touched a small section of the sweater she knitted. It felt quite soft, "When are you going to knit me one too?"
"Don't you already have two pieces? What are you knitting? Don't waste it. It's such a big person, it won't grow, and it won't get damaged."
"Last year I saw something that looked like it had been bitten by a mouse."
"It's been mended and you can continue to wear it. Go and ask the elder sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law. If you finish it early, you can go to sea and set the net earlier."
Ye Yaodong reluctantly took back his hand. He had to make money and wear out his clothes.
Chapter completed!