Ye Yaodong threw the sack on his back and walked on a small path. When no one was watching, he walked out with a step that he didn't recognize, humming a tuneless song.
He could only walk arrogantly when no one was around. It would be embarrassing if others saw him.
But what are you afraid of? What will happen?
As he was walking, he felt a reflection behind him, and he could see that his head was elongated. In an instant, he quickly moved his hands and feet in embarrassment, changing into a normal walking posture, and his expression became more upright.
We no longer look like the boss of heaven, the second boss of earth, and the third boss of me.
"Here I go, I thought who was the monkey in front of me, but it turned out to be you!"
"Why?"
Ye Yaodong heard the familiar voice behind him and immediately turned around in surprise, "Hey, it turns out it's you, the fat guy. I thought it was you, and I was embarrassed."
"Wait a minute, how did you walk just now? Demonstrate it to me again? Look at the way you walk, it's even worse than a devil. Just looking at it makes me want to kick you up and kill you."
The fat man pressed his shoulder and wanted to ask him to demonstrate again. He didn't know it was him just now, and he was still wondering who could walk so badly that he deserved a beating.
"No, do you want to demonstrate again and let you kick me to death?"
"You shouldn't die if you die. It can cause your lumbar disc to rupture."
"Go away~"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I didn't expect our brother Dong to walk like this behind his back. We really should let the whole village take a look and see how the richest man walks."
As he spoke, the fat man also started to imitate with his head held high.
Not to mention, with his huge body and arrogant walk, he really looks more like a gangster boss than he does. At most, he only lacks a gold chain around his neck and another one on his hand, and he looks more like a big brother.
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"Fat man, don't tell me. Before you get rich, you have already learned how to walk properly after you get rich."
"Tch, who said I haven't gotten rich yet? I've already gotten rich. You don't even know how good my business has been recently. No! I've been fooled by you."
"How good is the business? How much money can you make in a day?"
Ye Yaodong held the sack in one hand and put it on his back, hooked his shoulder with the other, and walked forward together.
We had met him once before and knew that Fatty’s wife was afraid of getting into trouble with someone else. They had no manpower and no experience. I heard that his brother-in-law could make money by opening a breakfast shop, so he just followed suit and opened a breakfast shop.
But they are open in town.
It's very convenient to go back and forth. You can stay in the store or come back, so he wasn't too surprised when he met Fatty tonight.
"Don't change the subject. I just listened to your lie and opened a breakfast shop. As a result, I lost several pounds and had to get up at 3 o'clock in the morning to steam buns. Is this done by humans? This is
Did someone do it? Damn it!"
The fat man complained all over, and pinched the meat on his belly. He felt that the meat on his belly had become thinner.
It's not easy to gain weight these days. It took a lot of effort for him to gain a lot of fat. No one doesn't envy him.
Ye Yaodong said innocently: "I didn't ask you to open a breakfast shop. If you opened another shop, you might be free. How can you blame me?"
"It's not like the mother-in-law at home said she didn't know what to do. Anyway, your eldest brother can make money by opening a breakfast shop, so let's try opening a breakfast shop first. If it doesn't make money, then change it."
"Seeing as you are complaining so much, does that mean you haven't made any money?"
"Hey, you make money. You make a lot of money now. One day can equal my monthly salary. But I'm so damn tired. I get up at 3 o'clock in the morning. Is this what humans do?"
"One day can equal your salary for a month, why are you nagging? We all go to sea at two o'clock in the night and work until the afternoon, but we are much more tired than you. We have made a lot of money, so why are you afraid of hard work?
?How many people want this kind of hard work, but they don’t have the brains to do it. Don’t tell others, otherwise, everyone will follow your example and run to the town to open a breakfast shop.”
"I didn't tell anyone. My wife also told me that no one was allowed to tell. When my parents asked, they just asked me to deal with it casually. I just need to keep the money I earned in my arms. There is no need to shout around.
, otherwise she is afraid that it will be too late to sharpen her knife."
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, "If you dare to complain to your wife now that you don't want to open a breakfast shop, the knife she sharpened can be used on you."
"Isn't it? The price of making money is that if she pats me twice every day, I have to get up. I really get up earlier than a chicken and work later than a dog."
"You probably haven't worked too late at all. At most, you can go back to sleep after lunch, so that's okay."
"Don't mention going back to sleep. My wife told me last night that she would sell some marinated ingredients when there was no business during the free time from noon to afternoon. Then after I woke up in the afternoon, she sent me back to find my father-in-law and asked him to kill him later.
After the pig is finished, leave some pig ears, pig tails, pig feet, pig tongues, etc., as well as small intestines, pig belly, etc., and braise them for us to sell."
"There's nothing wrong with it. Your wife has tasted the benefits and wants to earn more."
"But my life is important, I have to sleep."
"Then why don't you go to bed early at night? Are you running out now and preparing to be a thief?"
"I was riding to buy angelica. I took a small road back and happened to see you walking like that. If you weren't in the village and I knew you were from the same village, I would have just put a sack on you and beat you up without even looking who it was.
Walk like this."
The fat man has a lot of resentment. He is very happy to make money, but he is too tired.
However, his wife was very positive, counting money every day with her eyes shining, and she kept saying that it was a good thing that Dongzi reminded them to open the store, which was much better than them going to work, and she also told him to thank Dongzi properly.
At the beginning, I thought that if I opened a store, I would have free time, so I could open as much as I wanted and rest as much as I wanted. But now I want to rest, it’s even more difficult.
In the past, he only needed to schedule a break, and when the time came, he could just take it without asking. But now, don't even think about it. If he gets up late, he will be scolded a few times, let alone if he wants to take a rest.
Ye Yaodong patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "Think better. Look, you can earn someone else's salary in one day, but you can't earn someone else's salary in one month...um...how many years? How many years?"
"Oh, no matter what, you can earn a worker's salary for several years in one month, and earn a lifetime's salary in one year. Doesn't it make you full of strength when you think about it?"
"You only have a handful of strength, and you only earn a few days, so you want to give up your whole life's money?"
"What's wrong with calculating in advance? It's called taking one step, seeing ten steps, earning one day, thinking one year. Think about it, after you have money in your pocket, everyone has to look high at you, and everyone has to fawn over you.
Then I want to buy a watch, buy a watch, and buy a TV. The charm of a man lies in money!"
"I know everything you said. If it wasn't for the sake of money, I would still be able to work hard without complaining. That means I'm so tired that I have nothing to say. I thought it was too beautiful at first, but ended up being exhausted. I just happened to meet you.
Just a few words. I am actually so happy that I can make so much money. Fortunately, you encouraged me to open a store and work as an individual."
"Actually, if you think better, when you make a lot of money, why don't you just hire someone else? Or you can do something else, open a fast food restaurant or a small restaurant, and just expand the scale little by little.
The hard work is only in the early stage, and when you make money later, you can hire others to do it.”
The fat man clapped his hands excitedly, "You and I have the same idea of ​​riding a horse. I just thought that when I make more money, I will hire someone to do it."
Ye Yaodong shook his head helplessly. Fortunately, his wife was watching and urging him. Fatty couldn't do it even if he wanted to. He had only been working for a few days and wanted to hire someone to do it.
"Don't even think about having a breakfast shop. If the person you hired knows you make so much money, and they just turn around and open it themselves, who will work for you?"
"Then work on it first, wait until you earn more, and then do something else."
"Yes, you are right to think so."
"Actually, as long as I don't have to get up so early and I don't make money, I'm happy to do it. Just call me boss~"
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but laugh, "It doesn't matter whether you make money or not, I just want to hear people call you boss, right?"
The fat man nodded happily, "Yes, yes, that's what it means. It sounds quite comfortable. When I was at work, I only heard people call me chubby. How can I feel comfortable calling my boss?"
"Haha, then you work hard and strive to be the big boss, with all your authority, and then you can walk like you just did."
"Tch, I just learned from you. Who walks like that? You get beaten when you walk on the road. Oh, by the way, why do you suddenly walk like that? What good thing is worth being so proud of?"
"It's nothing. Suddenly I feel that my life is quite successful and I am reaching the top step by step."
"How can I reach my peak so quickly?"
"It's just a metaphor. I have just started, and it will become more and more prosperous in the future."
"Well, what is the sack on his back? Huh? It's hard and long. What is it?" The fat man said as he touched the sack on his back.
"A few!"
"Fuck! Just die."
He rubbed Ye Yaodong twice in disgust, and then pushed him aside.
Ye Yaodong staggered, but luckily he held on to the wall beside him to steady his body, "Nah, isn't that what you said? It's hard, long, what is it if it's not a few handfuls?"
"Go, go, no one has seen that thing of yours. Don't take it out and tell me, what's that thing on your back? It's so long? Where did you come back from so late at night?"
"I'm telling you, don't tell anyone else. I went to the village committee in the evening to prepare two native guns, and I'm going to take them to the boat if the flood season comes in a while, just in case."
The fat man nodded, "You have to bring two. After all, going to someone else's territory is no less than robbing money."
"Well, that's what I said."
"When are you going to go?"
"I don't know, I'm not sure yet. Anyway, prepare in advance and prepare the things that need to be prepared, so as not to be blinded temporarily."
"Thinking about it this way, it seems that if I open a breakfast shop, it will be a little harder, but it will be quite comfortable."
"That's right. We are risking our lives to make money. You are happy and you are making less money at home."
The fat man regained his balance as soon as he told him. He didn't feel that it was hard or tiring to visit the breakfast shop anymore. Compared to the people in the village who begged for sea work, getting up early was nothing, not to mention he didn't earn less.
Most of the seafarers in the village, apart from Dongzi and Aguang, there were a few who owned big boats. Who could earn as much as him now? Thinking about it made him feel happy.
Now he is more successful than his father and earns more than his father.
"Then when you come back tonight, will your wife come back too?"
"No, I'm going to come back and deal with those pig bits and pieces. It's not easy to get these things in the store. You have to make them at home. You can marinate them in the evening and soak them overnight to get the flavor. Then you can take them out together when you get up in the early morning."
"Okay, I'll go back first."
"Go, go."
Just as they reached the fork in the road, the two of them parted ways. The fat man was in a good mood, humming a song, and slowly walked home.
Ye Yaodong greeted some people sitting at the door enjoying the cool air, and responded with a smile without stopping.
When he got home, he immediately went back to his room and hid the sack under the bed, while Lin Xiuqing watched from the side.
"I thought you were going there."
"We agreed to pick up the gun tonight, but I was in a hurry and forgot to bring the money. I told the village chief that I would take it back to him tomorrow. Remember to send it over."
"knew."
"How are Dad and Uncle Zhou repairing their motorcycles? What time did they return from repairs?"
"It looks almost the same from the outside. Apart from the bumps and bumps, it looks like the original one. I just don't know if it can be opened. During dinner, my father said that two screws suddenly came out. I don't know where they are. He said
Let Uncle Zhou come over tomorrow to study how to screw it back."
"ah???"
Ye Yaodong's expression froze for a moment, and he didn't pick up the vegetables properly with his chopsticks, so he made a cross.
If they really asked them to fix it, would he dare to drive it?
He shuddered, but fortunately he got a phone number from Hong Wenle in the evening. Professional things must be done by professionals, and charlatans are unreliable.
Touching the note in his pocket, it seemed that he had to take another day off tomorrow and just let his father and Chen Shi go to sea. He stayed at home first and called to ask about the motorcycle.
"Ah, repairing a motorcycle is not something that can be done in a day or two. Anyway, let Uncle Zhou come over to study it when he has free time. If it is repaired, we will calculate the repair cost for him. Anyway, he is very interested, so let me
He slowly studied it."
"If he really repairs it, I wouldn't dare to drive it. Who knows if there will be any hidden dangers? After all, it's just a half-baked job, but you can't risk your life."
His life is very valuable now, so he must cherish his life.
"Then what should I do? I can't find two motorcycles in the entire county, and there's no one who knows how to repair them."
"I asked for the phone number of a motorcycle factory in the evening. I won't go to sea at night. I will call and ask tomorrow."
"Where did it come from? You don't go to sea anymore? You didn't go yesterday, you didn't go today, and you don't plan to go at night?"
Ye Yaodong glared at her, turned around and went out to wash his hands and eat. His voice came from the back of his head, "I'm telling you, it seems like I've been at home all the time and haven't done any work."
Lin Xiuqing followed him, "It's true that you rested for a lot of days. There were consecutive typhoons before, and it took half a month to pass. A few days ago, we only went there for one day, and you rested at home for two more days.
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"I have a legitimate reason to take a break when I'm doing serious things, and I don't take a break either. I'm out all day long, and I don't lie in bed."
"I didn't say you were idle and not working. I just think it's a pity. You make more money every day."
"Just let dad and Chen Shi go there tonight."
She nodded and brought the warm rice out of the pot for him. On a hot day, the food didn't need to be heated, but the rice still couldn't be eaten cold.
"Then you figure it out. I didn't ask Acai Liuyu today, will it be available tomorrow? The army called me in the evening and asked for two thousand kilograms. I called dad and asked him to send it to me early tomorrow morning. He said to send it to the warehouse.
There is probably not much left over the past two thousand kilograms, maybe only a few hundred kilograms, so let’s get more sunshine in the next few days.”
"The troops want it again? This is intermittent and not fixed..."
Ye Yaodong plucked at the rice, said something vaguely, and then spoke again after swallowing it.
"I don't know when the Harvest will come back. I originally wanted to free up the space, so let's forget it for now. Tomorrow I will ask Ah Cai Liuyu to dry it first. If there is no space to dry it, I will just use the black braided one above my head in the yard.
The sunshade net can be untied and spread on the floor of the workshop to dry."
"That's okay. We can't stop selling dried fish anyway. This is what we sell in the store. My father said that shrimps are also very popular. The hundreds of kilograms you sent a few days ago have been sold out. He originally wanted to send them tomorrow.
A basket that went to the army is no longer available."
"There is no other way. There is only one boat fishing there. The typhoon has stopped again. I sell whatever I can and it should be back in the next two days."
"Um."
"Where did you put my fishing rod?"
Lin Xiuqing glanced at him with disgust, "It's hanging behind the door. You've just returned from a busy day with a fishing rod."
"What do you know? Where are my fish?"
"In the bucket next to the stove, you told me not to move, so I didn't kill him."
"Kill those two sea catfish for me after I finish eating. You can kill the other fish first. You can do whatever you like. I'll get the sea catfish."
"If you hadn't told me earlier, I thought you wanted to keep it and give it away, so you told me not to move it."
"That catfish has fish roe in its belly. I'm afraid you won't be able to kill it well and will break the roe, so I told you not to move. The rest doesn't matter. Just look at who you want to give it to. You can just give it away as you like.
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Lin Xiuqing took out the two sea catfish he wanted from the bucket and put them in the basin. She carried the rest to the back door to kill them.
Ye Yaodong has never eaten caviar, nor has he ever eaten golden catfish roe. This stuff will be very valuable in the future and is not something he can afford.
While he can still afford it, he might as well catch it for free, and of course he has to taste it.
In his previous life, he died unjustly without eating anything good. In this life, he wanted to taste all the delicious food he could eat. After all, there are only two mouths in this world.
After the meal, he went to kill the catfish with his own knife, disembowelled the catfish, and cut out the roe. It was really golden and weighed two or three kilograms in his hand. It was also because of its large size that the fish
The seeds are also large.
This sea catfish can be said to be the Rolls Royce of catfishes. I gave Hong Wenle a big one as a gift, but he only had this big one and another smaller one.
The other belly was cut open, and it was not that big. A bunch of fish roe weighed just over a pound, which was actually quite big. It was a full circle bigger than two hot dogs, and it was also longer.
After the roes of the two fishes were cut out, he ignored the fish meat, chopped it up and put it in the basin. He could do whatever Ah Qing wanted to do with it later.
He first put the fish roe into a clean basin, got some water, washed it a little, and then carefully placed it on a plate to avoid breaking it.
There is no refrigerator, so he can only steam it and eat it at night. He is afraid that it will not be fresh tomorrow if he leaves it. If he steams it and eats it tomorrow, the taste will not be good.
For example, Ah Qing would boil the fish he brought back in the evening and put it there. If the cooked fish is left there without stirring, it will not go bad.
Ye Yaodong went to the yard to pick a small handful of coriander, chopped some minced ginger and garlic and put it on top of the coriander, and then put his two strings of fish roe on top.
Without coriander, there is no soul.
Lin Xiuqing watched him playing tricks on his two strings of fish roe, and also occupied the pot and asked her to light the fire.
I don’t know if she can do it. She said she would do it for him, but he still refused. It’s really because he hasn’t done anything in the past two days, so he is in a hurry, right?
Ye Yaodong took two more pairs of chopsticks and placed them in the pot in a "well" shape, then put the plate on top to steam.
"Okay, perfect, just remember to steam it for three minutes."
"If you do it seven times, if you can cook it in three minutes, you will definitely get it one by one..."
"What you eat is the smooth texture."
She shook her head, "Where did you learn such a messy way of eating?"
"I heard that."
I heard that medium rare can sterilize and preserve the original flavor of fish roe. If you come across it, try it. Anyway, you can't sell it for much now.
"What about the fish? How do you want to eat it?"
"Whatever, I'll eat whatever you want, I don't choose."
Lin Xiuqing murmured in a low voice, "Why don't you choose? What will it look like if you choose?"
Ye Yaodong not only has good eyesight, but also good hearing. He also heard her muttering, "I'm really not picky, so I was a little picky when I married my wife."
Lin Xiuqing couldn't hold back for a moment and was amused by him.
"You're talking nonsense, you're already doing a great job in getting a wife."
"Who said that? I just happened to meet you, otherwise I would definitely not get married. Even if my mother beat me to death, I would not get married. However, if I had not gotten married at that time, after a few years, people from all over the country would want to get married now.
The girl who wants to marry me has to wait in line to go to the city."
She couldn't hide the smile on her face, but she still pretended to be angry, "You still want girls from all over the country and the city?"
"No, I only care about this family. Don't misunderstand me. What I mean is, without you, I will be a bachelor for the rest of my life, you know? So shut up and don't talk. Three minutes are up. You have to get up.
The pot is over, keep your mouth open to eat, and stop mumbling."
Lin Xiuqing rolled her lips and rolled her eyes at him, but didn't care about it.
Watch him lift the lid of the pot and take out the plate.
It seemed to her that it was not cooked at all, and she didn't know how to eat it. She liked these weird things all day long and refused to eat serious fish.
When conditions are good, I like to mess around.
Ye Yaodong picked up the kitchen knife and made a few gestures, but it didn't feel right. He should have used a slender fruit knife. This kitchen knife... forget it, just make do with cutting.
He used a knife to cut open the skin wrapping the fish roe, and the jelly-like amber fish roe slowly flowed out.
I don't know if it tastes good or not, but it looks pretty and a bit pleasing to the eye.
"It looks quite beautiful."
"Are you lucky or not? Don't be blind."
"You'll know after you try it."
Ye Yaodong took a spoon, took a spoonful and handed it to her mouth, but she turned her head away in disgust, "I won't eat it. If you want to eat it, you can eat it yourself."
"If I eat, I will eat."
He put the spoon into his mouth, feeling the fish roe rolling on the tip of his tongue, and then swallowed it several times.
"Just like that, it doesn't seem to be as delicious as the legend says."
Lin Xiuqing had an expression that I knew, "Let you mess around."
"It's okay, so-so. It's not a bad thing anyway. It's okay to just eat it as sashimi. It's been steamed with ginger and coriander, and there's no fishy smell. Do you want to try it?"
"No, you can enjoy it yourself."
"Don't pull me down."
Ye Yaodong tasted it slowly by himself. It is true that the texture is elastic and smooth. It is true that it is delicate and crispy when you take a bite. It is also true that it is soft, glutinous and dense. It is false if it is delicious.
I can only say that it is just so-so, not suitable for the picky tongues of Chinese babies.
In the future, I heard that it would take three months' salary to buy such a bunch of catfish roe. Inflation was so bad that they were all fired. The appraisal was completed.
However, he did not waste it and ate all the fish roe. Although the name is not worthy of the name, it is a saying passed down from our ancestors!
Eat bullets to replenish bullets!
As for whether it has any effect, you will know after taking it at night.
Anyway, psychologically it feels effective and can get twice the result with half the effort.
"If you don't go out at night, let Chen Shi go with dad. Do you want to go and tell dad? Otherwise he can't wait for you at night and comes to call you, and you won't be able to sleep well."
"Well, I'll go talk to him later."
However, when he came back from talking to his father, he slumped in the armchair and felt depressed.
Lin Xiuqing saw his unhappy expression and asked in confusion why.
"Dad asked me to go with him. He thought it was troublesome to bring Chen Shi, who didn't understand anything, and couldn't listen to what he said. He asked me to go with him. I just want to come back early before the village committee gets off work."
"That's okay. Anyway, you stayed at home just to make a phone call and ask: Can it be repaired? How to repair it? How to transport it? Where is the factory? You have to make a call after that."
"Alas~"
"Then have you asked where the store is?"
"It's in the provincial capital. I'll ask tomorrow where it is in the provincial capital? Can it be repaired? Ask for the address first, and then we'll think about how to send it there."
"Are you sure you don't want to fix it for Uncle Zhou?"
"After repairing it, give me two screws. If you say there are too many, do I dare to open them?"
Lin Xiuqing laughed, this is what she just told him.
"Then if you don't fix it for him, I'll give him some hard work as wages tomorrow."
"Let him study and check again tomorrow. You ask him to check whether the wiring is broken and whether the engine is broken. If it is not broken, ask him not to touch it. We will talk about it after I come back from the sea and make the phone call. Anyway, then
Give him two days' wages."
"oh."
"Anyway, just let him check what's wrong. Xiu won't need him anymore. He should be able to check it out."
"Okay, I understand."
Chapter completed!