Ye Yaodong's current reputation in the village is not comparable to that of ordinary people. Even the village chief and village cadres cannot compare with him.
Money is the courage of the poor. If you have money, you can speak loudly. What a rich person says is taken very seriously. As soon as he finished speaking, the crowd spontaneously made way for him to pass.
Some good people were still following him, wanting to ask a few more questions, but he climbed directly onto the boat and moved there.
Seeing them busy at work, the villagers spontaneously reached out to help pick up the goods and asked a few more questions.
"I won't have time right now. Let's talk later..."
But when he pushed the cart to the purchasing point, he found that several people were queuing up to be weighed, and the open space next to them was filled with baskets of squid. This shows that everyone's harvest was pretty good.
Everyone was busy there, so it was a bit out of character for him to ask for help at this time.
After Ye Yaodong stretched his neck and took a look, he placed the cart in the open space and asked the villagers to help him take a look. Then he returned to the shore and spoke to his father.
"There are quite a few people queuing up there to be weighed. Let's transport it home directly and use a wooden scale ourselves. The eldest brother and the second brother haven't come back yet. Their carts are still parked at the dock. We will push them over too, and we will push two carts back together."
Go home."
"That's fine. If they're busy there, don't bother them. We'll push it home and we'll do the same thing ourselves."
I don’t have any money to earn from others, so it’s okay to help with weighing when I’m free, but forget about it when I’m busy. Father Ye thought the same way.
They piled the two carts full, sent them back first, and then transported them back and forth three times before transporting 24 baskets of squid in two boats home. In addition, there was a sack of squid picked up by Lin Guangyuan and two sacks of squid.
Shelled.
Ye Yaodong planned to count the money he picked up alone and then give it to his brother-in-law.
"Are all the catches today here?" Ye Mu asked after counting them.
"Well, they are all here. There will be a little more than yesterday. I will weigh them later to see how many pounds there are before you kill them."
It must be weighed before being dried in the sun, so that he can calculate how many kilograms there are per kilogram.
"I know, I didn't move on purpose, just waiting for you to weigh it first. We just finished killing the more than 2,000 kilograms of fish we brought back from the market at noon. There are still six or seven baskets that haven't been dried yet. They have just been marinated and washed.
Waiting for drying."
"I was too busy and had no place to dry them. Yesterday, 2,000 kilograms of squid were dried. The door of your eldest and second brother's side and your yard were all full. At noon, more than 2,000 kilograms of dried fish were pickled here, and they have all been dried.
It’s sunbathing in the open space over there.”
"Fortunately, you bought the open space over there. Your uncle and the others are also very handy. They went to cut bamboo and weed the open space early in the morning at dawn. In the middle of the afternoon, they could already pull the rope over there.
Let it dry first, and then just put a net around the outside..."
"Your aunts and the others are still drying there right now, and there are still several baskets that haven't been carried over here. Thousands of kilograms of squid and thousands of kilograms of dried fish have to be dried at once. How can there be so much space?"
"If we want to dry the fish, we don't dry it a few days early. We just rush together. I think the more than an acre of open space can only be hung for a while. You can take it back today."
"If you dry another batch of dried fish tomorrow, I guess you won't be able to hang the squid tomorrow night. They are all hanging to dry, and the ground is covered with bamboo flats. I borrowed them everywhere today, and the whole village asked for them.
Borrowed all over…”
"Okay, squeeze them all into one piece... Either don't dry them all, or dry them all together, or take your time... They were too busy killing fish today, and they didn't even take a sip of water all day long...
"
"With such a large amount, I'm not afraid of being stolen at night. Fortunately, I invited your two brothers-in-law to come over and take turns to look at them at night. Otherwise, someone might be jealous, do something bad, splash some feces or something disgusting.
people……"
Ye Mu seemed to have opened up a conversation, and a large number of bald words came out.
I've wanted to say it since he came back. Seeing him moving back and forth all the time, I just found the opportunity to say it now.
"Isn't this what the boss wants, and we just happened to be together? I'll kill today's ones first. I'll call my father-in-law later and ask him not to transport them tomorrow morning, and then deliver them the next day."
"This way, there should be room for the squid to dry tomorrow night. Let him haul a cart back the day after tomorrow. After drying one last night, the space should be almost free the day after tomorrow. It will just fill up the gap."
When he just came over, he also passed by the open space next to him and saw his aunt and uncle, as well as Ah Qing's elder sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, all drying themselves there.
The open space was filled with bamboo poles, and small pieces of broken fishing nets were hung. They were covered with dried fish. The two brothers-in-law were still busy there.
"Also, the broken fishing nets are not enough. I have collected all the useless broken fishing nets left at your home, your eldest and second brother's home, and our relatives' homes. I will give them to you in the afternoon.
Wash and dry the fish."
"What you originally planned was to surround the open space with a circle of fishing nets. You have to see who has some useless broken fishing nets left in the village. You can buy them with a few bucks to make enough for the circle."
"It's not bad. It's just over an acre of land. What would you do if it were bigger? I haven't even earned the money yet, but I've already spent it. Fortunately, I didn't build a wall right away. Otherwise, how much would it cost..."
"The stall is getting bigger and bigger. I see that all the money you earned has been spent. You don't want to take your time and save more money. Then you bought a boat, bought land, and then built a wall.
…”
"What kind of small workshop should I build? I don't know how much money I will have left, and how much money I have to spend. If I just build a small workshop and hire people to lay bricks, it will cost more than building a house on such a large open space, right?"
Having said this, Ye Mu slapped her thigh fiercely and suddenly realized that she was happy to patronize her before.
"Yes, this is more expensive than building a house. No, we can't occupy such a large area... The area is too big and we have to build a wall to surround it. How much will it cost?"
"Food, drink and wages are all money, and land also costs money... You make money on the front foot and spend it on the back. What kind of money do you earn? There is no money left in your hands at all?"
Ye Yaodong's head was spinning as he listened to his mother's murmurings. Why did she talk so much?
"You know what? Stop being wordy and just do your job."
"No, we can't build such a large area. I spent 3,000 yuan on labor and materials for your three brothers' house."
"What's more, you said yesterday that you would measure more than an acre of land. This morning they measured it as you said. It's one and a half acres, and the area is larger. How about enclosing it? There are also warehouses and warehouses built inside.
Build a house and also build a workshop? No, you can’t do this..."
"This workshop was built to make more money. Otherwise, where would you put the things to dry in the future? Just throw them on the open ground and let people make trouble? We didn't build it right away. Didn't we surround it with broken fishing nets first and earn money first?"
Money, earn some and build more, the main thing is to enclose the outer wall first, whether to build a house inside or not, we can wait until next year."
Father Ye nodded, "What Dongzi said is that you can't let things have no place to dry. He has so many people at once. Anyway, just buy the land first and surround it to have a place to dry. It's not like we don't have a place to live."
, what’s the hurry about building a house inside?”
"Aren't I worried that all the money will be spent and I will have no money? Isn't that what I earned in vain?"
The old lady also spoke up, "Then why do we call it free money? The land belongs to our family and the money has been spent. We have land, boats, shops, and workshops. Aren't they all earned?
?”
"These things can be earned and kept there without being lost. Boats can make money, shops can make money, and workshops can make money. From now on, the land will belong to our family from generation to generation and can be passed down from generation to generation."
It was rare for Mother Ye to be able to speak out against the whole family, mainly because she also felt that what they said was quite reasonable.
It's just that I have to spend so much money to go out all of a sudden. I feel like my family is emptying out, and I'm a little reluctant to part with it. I feel that all the money has been made in vain, and I don't see it.
Ye Yaodong came out from the yard with a rope and a wooden scale, put the rope on the bamboo basket, and said: "Don't worry about it, the small workshop has been bought anyway, let's surround it with fishing nets and hire people.
Let’s wait for a month or two to earn the squid money first.”
"After we have been busy for a while, we have accumulated some inventory. It is estimated that we will not be so busy by then. We will first fence the outer wall to prevent some evil-minded people from causing mischief. We will just leave the inside empty for drying. When the time comes,
Improve it step by step.”
Ye's father also waved to Ye's mother, motioning for her to step aside, "Don't get in the way. Let's weigh them first. Once they're weighed, we'll kill them as soon as possible. Ah Qing will take note of the count."
Lin Xiuqing nodded.
As a daughter-in-law, she shouldn't talk back or choke, so she could just watch from the sidelines.
In fact, she also felt that Ye's mother was reasonably worried, but she could do it slowly.
"Keep a count, this basket weighs 55 kilograms..."
"Why……"
Ah Qing withdrew his attention and quickly wrote it down.
Mother Ye saw that they had finished weighing a basket, so she stopped talking and directly pulled the weighed ones to the side to separate them.
Because the yard is full of sun, and the door of the boss's house is also full. The goods they brought back today are all piled up at the door of the yard. They are full. Not to mention that there is no place to set foot in the yard, and they have to go in at the door.
Not going.
She hurriedly moved the baskets of fish that had been pickled and washed and were waiting to be dried on the cart, and pushed them to the open space over there first to save space.
He started mumbling again, "There are so many. When your eldest and second brothers come back, they will probably have another twenty baskets. Fortunately, the space here is a little free. If this were in the old house, where do you think they could be piled?"
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"I'll have to call two more people to come and kill them later. Yesterday, I killed 2,000 kilograms until midnight, and today there are several hundred more kilograms. I can kill them until dawn tomorrow, and I don't have to sleep anymore..."
"Then just go and call two more people and go right away."
There is work to be done and words to be said...
Ye Yaodong didn't say this last sentence, otherwise, his mother would probably nag her again, so he had to give her something to do and send her away.
Chapter completed!