Ye Yaodong walked and said, "Have you had a good harvest these days? You are only going to have 5 people this time. Is there enough manpower?"
"The harvest is quite good. We are trawling day and night, and everyone takes turns to rest. However, there are not enough manpower. We can't just pick the goods. There are too many goods brought up in one net. If they can rest for two days before going out,
, I have to call two more." Father Ye said with a smile on his face.
Father Pei also said: "If we work in two shifts, we don't have enough manpower, so prepare to call two or three more. We are all our own people this time, and we don't need to calculate the wages. In the evening, we will calculate the payment for the fishing in the past few days.
The money is divided.
"If you wait two days to go to sea, then you can add up the calculations and separate the two accounts. Well... the day after tomorrow is the end of the month. If you have a day off tomorrow, you can do the calculation from the end of the month."
"Check the weather forecast tonight. It will be cloudy all day today. I don't know what will happen in the next few days."
"Are you still short of people? How many are still missing?"
"Should it be calculated based on work hours, or should we directly hire people on a fixed basis?"
Some villagers nearby also walked beside them. When they heard that they still lacked boatmen, they asked, but Father Pei only said that they would confirm it after discussing it at night.
They continued to ask other questions curiously, and Father Ye, Father Pei, and Uncle Zheng all smiled and chatted with the villagers beside them.
Aguang put his shoulder on his shoulder and asked, "I'm not at home these days. How are you at home? Have you received the goods from the fishing boat today?"
"It's very good. I collected a lot of watermelons and plantains for you. My wife and children eat very well..."
"Damn", Aguang smiled and pinched his shoulder, "Did you leave some for me?"
"Of course. If you go back and look around, there should be some."
After Ye Yaodong joked, he also said seriously: "The goods from the two ships have not been confiscated today. I came back early. In recent days, I was afraid that I would not be able to make it in time. I have always docked in advance and waited on the shore to pick up the goods."
"You should be able to go home in time to take a shower and have a meal before going out to collect the goods. It has been getting dark late recently, and the fishing boats have come back late. The bills of sale have been given directly to Huimei. You can go back and check them yourself.
"
"Okay." Aguang nuzzled at Chen Shi next to him again, "How can you find such a young boatman? This one looks like he is in his teens, seventeen or eighteen?"
"At the age of eighteen, he came to my door and wanted to be my little brother..."
"ah?"
Aguang stared at Chen Shi with his eyes wide open. He couldn't believe it for a moment. He had only been away from home for a few days, and Dongzi had actually started to take in a younger brother? Is it true?
"There are more than one. Why do they come here to be my little brother, and chop wood and carry water for me every day... But this matter is a bit complicated. I can't explain it in two sentences. I'll come to your house later and I'll go back to you after settling the accounts.
Tell you."
After he was stunned for a while, he was given another appetizer.
"Don't be late. Let's talk now. Say as much as you can."
"The village has been so lively in the past few days. Let Huimei tell you about it when I get back. I will be home soon. I will tell you about it after you know the general idea, or you can relate it yourself."
"All right."
The two of them walked arm in arm and talked. Other adults were also talking there, but no one listened to what they were talking about.
When their walk forked, they saw the small workshop that had been completely built, even the gate had been installed, and the simple stone walls were covered with broken glass just like his own yard.
Full of danger.
Father Pei smiled and said, "The wall has been built so quickly?"
"It's not that fast. It's taken more than a month. Fortunately, the weather has been very good this month, otherwise we would have had to delay it again."
"Then if the weather is nice, you can move it here to dry it. It will be safer. When the fish sauce is almost fermented, you can also move it here and expose it to the sun. As long as there is one person watching, it will be fine. Your old house is still too hot.
It’s too small.”
Ye Yaodong nodded, he thought so too.
If their two big boats continue to fish, thousands of kilograms of miscellaneous fish will be brought ashore every three days, and the place in the old house will really not be able to accommodate it. This month, some earthen jars have been fermented for a while, and they can still be stored for a while.
put.
We'll see what his mother means later. Anyway, she has a lot of work to do with the several kilograms of miscellaneous fish today, so she has to hire someone to do it.
"Let's go this way. Dongzi and Ahua will go back first. Remember to come to my house after dinner later."
"OK."
We can wait to talk about anything later in the evening. Father Ye also goes with Uncle Pei and the others and can chat a few more words. Anyway, he has to go home and take a shower first, and then go to Dongzi's house for dinner.
Ye Yaodong followed the smiling Ye Yaohua and Chen Shi who was pushing the cart. The three of them walked together. The other cart had just been placed directly at the dock. His elder brother would come back later and it would be useful.
"Dongzi, let me tell you, you should be able to split five or six hundred yuan on this trip and make a lot of money."
"Seeing how happy you were when you came back, I also thought that I should make a lot of money on this trip. If I can get five or six hundred yuan, my second brother's share can also get 1,780 yuan?"
"Yeah, I still invested too little. If I had known that my eldest brother wouldn't want it at that time, I should have given you half of it." Ye Yaohua's eyes were bright.
"If I had known that money is hard to buy, if I had known it earlier, my eldest brother would not have given up investing in it."
"Yes, if I hadn't thought about your determination to invest, I wouldn't have followed you and tried to invest. It's a pity that my brother didn't take part."
After returning home, his sister-in-law was probably feeling sore again. The village had become lively in the past few days and her appearance had improved a lot. In the next few days, Ye Chenghai and the others would be living in dire straits again.
Seeing that he was almost at the door of his house, he changed the subject, "Have you been going well at sea these days?"
"It went well, the day was good, the weather was good, and there was no wind or waves in the outer sea. We also encountered several schools of fish, and the number was really large. Every time the net was cast, it was at least more than 2,000 kilograms, and sometimes more than 3,000.
…”
Ye Yaohua was talking with excitement on his face. When the children who were waiting for dinner heard the noise, they ran out one after another, and then shouted into the room, "Mom, my dad is back..."
"Mom, dad is back..."
"Okay, okay..."
Ye Yaohua smiled and touched this child's head, then the other child's head, "Let's go home first."
Ye Yaodong also walked into the yard with the two people who ran out of his house and a group of dogs.
Chen Shi followed behind and pushed the cart in for him.
Several rows of shrimps had been piled on one wall of the yard, stacked high, as high as the wall. Lin Xiuqing and Ye Mu also moved a big pot out and placed it in the yard.
Ye Mu was chattering: "Fortunately, those boys brought a cart of firewood yesterday, otherwise, how much firewood would it take to cook so many shrimps..."
"There are still two large tanks of water. If we boil without washing, the water in the two large tanks will not be enough..."
"What to wash? What does it matter? Just boil it. Anyway, you have to remove the shell after it is cooked and dried. You don't have to pour out the water later. If it's not enough, just add it..."
"No, no, no, no, not enough, I, I, I, I, I, scream, scream, A Liang, he, he, they, they..."
Mother Ye couldn't help but hold her forehead, "Speak slowly, don't be in a hurry."
He touched the back of his head in embarrassment, and Ye Yaodong reluctantly helped him to add that he knew what he meant.
"You mean to ask Wang Guangliang and the others to go to the mountain to chop some more firewood and bring some water, right?"
"Yes, yes, yes... Chai Chai Chai Chai Chai is making a fortune..."
Mother Ye was pleasantly surprised and said with a smile: "Yes, I didn't expect that firewood means getting rich. It's good to send firewood, but it's getting dark now. Let's burn the firewood in the yard first. There's still firewood in the house."
Yes, these shrimps should be enough to cook today. You can chop some more and send them over tomorrow..."
His mother was so rude, she opened her mouth and started to give orders, but he didn't respond and wanted to accept them as his little brothers. She really didn't show any concern.
However, Chen Shi nodded happily.
"Mom, over at the old house, dad also pushed back dozens of baskets of trash fish. He has just returned. Why don't you go back to the old house to take a look? By the way, I asked him what the situation is like at sea. How many nets can be hauled in a day?
How much does it cost?”
"Yes, yes, I have to go back and take a look first. Ask your father how much it will cost and see how many fish I bring back. The big tank may not be enough..."
Ye Mu ran away immediately in a rage.
Lin Xiuqing smiled and said: "My mother just kept asking Chen Shi why there are only shrimps and no fish? Chen Shi couldn't explain clearly. He only said that there were fish, but he was pushed home. My mother didn't know that he meant pushing him home.
Whose home you go to, after all, everyone has a share."
"Aguang and the others brought them back specially for my mother to make fish sauce. These shrimps are dried for me. Otherwise, it would be a waste to throw them back into the sea. These shrimps and those other fish are only for one or two days. They were caught in the first few days.
We can only pour it back into the sea, otherwise there will be no place to store it and the ice will be wasted."
"Then do we need to pay?"
"If you want, give them some amount, and you can't ask for it in vain. This is not just for our own family. It's okay to keep it and give it to us occasionally, but it won't work in the long term. It's better to give money."
"After all, ice cubes cost money, and transporting them back may also consume more fuel because of the weight. Aguang said before that he would bring them back to us by the way to avoid waste. If we go over later to settle the accounts, I will tell them how much money will be spent on them.
matter."
Lin Xiuqing responded, "That's right. After all, we also used it to sell it for money. If it's free, our own family won't say anything, and other people or people next to us will have opinions after a long time."
Ye Yaodong knew that what she said was that the other person referred to Uncle Zheng and the person beside him referred to Sister-in-law Ye, and that was indeed the case.
It's not like he just wants this product. If it were free, everyone would want it. He just needs to spend some effort to hire someone to do it.
Chen Shi stood aside for a while, waiting for them to finish speaking before interrupting, "I, I, I, I, I, first, first, back, back, back, back..."
"Wait a minute," Ye Yaodong interrupted him and turned to look at Lin Xiuqing, "Go and get Chen Shi's salary. After working for four days, it's three yuan a day, so give him 12 yuan."
"good."
"No no no no no..."
"My father and the others are back, and they won't go out with the big ship. The big ship has hired another boatman, so you won't come tonight. I won't go to sea at night. I will take a day off at home. I have other things to do. You are also at home.
Have a good rest, and I will call you if there are dried shrimps and dried fish in two days."
When Chen Shi heard what he said, he felt a little more at ease, but suddenly he felt something was wrong. He wanted to say that he didn't need to pay him.
"I, I, I, I, I am planning to help, help, help..."
While he was still talking, Lin Xiuqing had already taken out the money and stuffed it into his hand without any explanation.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no..."
"Take it, you get what you work for, that's right. I won't call you in vain. If you want to follow me, don't you also want to live a better life and let me lead you to make a fortune? Then you do things for me, and I give you money.
You should, just keep it and go back and have a rest early."
Chen Shi held the money in his hand, lowered his head and looked at it silently for a while, and then said: "Thank you, thank you, thank you..."
"Go ahead."
Lin Xiuqing also divided half of the fish and shrimps brought back today, packed them in a separate bucket, and placed them at his feet.
"Take this back with you for extra dinner in the evening."
"Okay, okay, okay, I... follow, follow, follow, follow Liang... Liang, talk, talk, talk, chop wood..."
"Don't listen to my mother. The sun is going down. Why are you cutting firewood at this time?"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no..."
"Don't waste your time, hurry up and go back to eat. It's been a tiring day, and now you can have a hot dinner when you go back."
"Okay, okay."
"Also, I suggest you pause after finishing a word and don't rush to talk about the rest. It may be better. If you are always anxious to finish a sentence, you may stutter even more. Pause one word and speak one word at a time.
, and no one is rushing you, it will sound better than if you keep repeating one word."
"well…"
He spoke with a smile on his face, nodded, and lifted the bucket at his feet.
"Wait... wait... wait... take it... take it... bring it here..."
"It's okay, you can just bring it over tomorrow."
He nodded and left.
The two brothers, Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang, had been watching from the side, both with curiosity on their faces.
"Dad, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, we are doing..."
"Crack!"
Ye Chenghu was slapped hard on the back of his head!
"You are not allowed to learn. If you try again, I will take off your pants and beat you." Lin Xiuqing glared at him and said.
Ye Chenghu covered the back of his head and hurriedly hid behind the old lady because he saw his father raising his hand to hit him.
"Learn...what's wrong with learning."
Unexpectedly, the old lady hit him several times with a cattail leaf fan in her hand, "You can't learn. If you learn, you will stutter."
"How is that possible!"
Ye Yaodong also glanced at him, "If I hear you learn it again, I will beat you too."
Ye Chengyang stood aside and winced. Fortunately, when he was learning from his brother last night, his parents were not there.
"Then Yangyang has learned the lesson, why don't you hit him!"
"I didn't, Guo Guo wronged me!"
Ye Chenghu glared, "You still lie!"
"You're the one who lied."
The two brothers' eyes were as wide as black-eyed chickens. If their adults hadn't been there, they would have started fighting right away.
Chapter completed!