Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1058 Turtle (1 words, monthly ticket +31)

Ye Yaodong stood there for a while, didn't hear anything new, then shook the cloth bag in his hand and walked home.

There were still large water stains on his body, and he ran out in a hurry without even changing his clothes.

The door was not closed, and the two children's childish chatter and their laughter like silver bells came out. Lin Xiuqing was still counting money there as usual.

He smiled and said to the two children, "You two are probably the only ones who can understand what you two are saying. You are just talking in a jumbled mess and I don't know what you are talking about."

Lin Xiuqing paused for a moment with the money in her hand, then turned to ask him, "Who is looking for you?"

"At the forest gathering."

He lifted the cloth bag in his hand and showed it to her. "He brought me the telescope. He also ordered another 5000 kilograms of dried fish. He will come back to pack it in a few days."

Lin Xiuqing's eyes followed his shaking hand, "How much does this cost?"

"It's free. He gave it to me as a gift. Didn't I sell him all the caviar last month? I bargained with him and asked him to give me one, but he said it was hard to get. I waited for a month and only got it now."

As he spoke he was sitting on the bed and unpacking it. He had no idea where he got it from at Linji, and it didn't look brand new. It was a bit dusty, as if it was only about 80% new. However, it looked intact, with no marks on it, and he could just wipe it with a rag.

Or maybe, it is possible that it cannot be sold and has been left there gathering dust for a long time.

This thing is too niche now, and few normal people need to use a telescope. It’s free anyway, so he doesn’t mind it.

"So good? I'm giving you one of these. I guess it's not expensive. I'm just giving it to you as a gift. You said it would cost several hundred yuan before, but it might be thousands of yuan."

"It costs that much money. Maybe I helped him earn a lot, so he agreed to give me this as a gift."

"Then are we losing money? If he gave us such an expensive item, he would have made a lot of money."

"It's not a loss. It's a loss if you lose it. It was fished out of the sea in the first place, so it's a profit no matter how much it is sold. He has the ability to make this money, that's of course his ability, and you can't think you've lost money just because others have made more money."

Lin Xiuqing thought about it and felt that what he said made sense.

"Well, it's free anyway, so just keep it. And since you've been talking about it, when the Harvest is repaired, you can take it to the sea together."

"know."

"Take a shower and change your clothes first. Your chest, knees and trouser legs are all wet."

Ye Yaodong looked down at his body and put the telescope aside.

But when he was taking a bath with his bare chest, the two little girls came up to him laughing and lay on his back, saying "shame on you".

He was extremely helpless and had to push the two girls to the corner, then took the quilt and covered them completely, causing them to scream.

He took the opportunity to bring the water out of the house and prepared to wash in the main room. He didn't dare to sit by the bed anymore.

Those two tormenting little girls.

After quickly wiping his body, he poured out the water and went into the house to change into his shorts.

The weather was getting hot, and he only wore shorts when sleeping now. There was no need to put on clothes late at night, so he just bare his arms and legs, took the telescope that he had just put aside, sat on the edge of the bed, looked left and right to study it.

The two little girls behind him came over and hung on him with a grin on their faces, but he ignored their laughter and let them shake him.

He didn't know anything about telescopes, nor did he know what models they were. He had never come into contact with one seriously in his previous life. Fortunately, there was a simple instruction manual in the cloth bag that had just been given to him. He could study it during the day when the light was good.

After flipping through it again, he took out his handkerchief, wiped the dust from the corners and crevices, and blew it a few times.

After that, I saw Lin Xiuqing still counting money.

"You haven't finished counting yet?"

Lin Xiuqing nodded without saying anything and continued counting silently.

Ye Yaodong pulled the two children hanging on him away and put away the telescope. He saw that the table was full of coins and banknotes of a few cents. The large denominations had been counted in stacks and placed in the corner.

"Why are you counting so slowly?"

"There are accounts from Harvest and the city. How can they be counted so quickly? Harvest accounts are easy to count because they are all large amounts. It's quick to count a few of them. As for the city accounts, small change accounts for a small part. How can I count these cents so quickly?"

"Then don't count them. You have several malted milk jars to hold your coins. Just throw in any one-cent, two-cent, or five-cent coins you want."

"Then you have to count the money first and write it down in a notebook. Next time you ask me how much money there is at home, I can just flip through the notebook and know. Otherwise, I won't know how much money there is at home. You can't just take out all the money and count it one by one? I might not be able to count it even if I count for a whole day and a whole night, because it will all be change."

"Hey, stop making noise. Look, you're interrupting me again. How much have I counted? Go away, go away, don't stop me from counting money."

After being pushed, Ye Yaodong no longer hated him and climbed onto the bed to play with the two children.

It took her ten minutes to finish counting.

Seeing her take out a jar to collect the coins, Ye Yaodong spoke up, "Have you finished counting them? Why are you so slow?"

"You guys keep arguing and interrupting me."

He now had two little ones on his back, stepping on him and playing with him.

"How much money did we get from the shops in the city? How much money do we have at home now?"

"The city sold a lot of dried squid this month, so I took home 22 yuan. Add the income from the Harvest and the earnings from our boats this month, and minus the labor costs, the total is more than 355 yuan."

Ye Yaodong thought about it in confusion. It turned out that he had overestimated the store's revenue yesterday, and also overlooked some of the revenue of the fishing boat this month.

"Oh, then if we round it up, we have 13."

"You are really good at calculating. I calculated 3000 yuan more for your property without any evidence."

"I can earn this little money by just sailing a few times, right?"

"Yes, yes, you are really amazing. Our family is grateful to you."

Lin Xiuqing just said it perfunctorily, but she didn't expect him to take it seriously.

Ye Yaodong grinned, "It's good that you know."

She glanced at him helplessly and said, "You put the two to sleep first. I'm going to take a shower too."

The next day is Children’s Day on June 6.1st, which is a happy holiday for today’s children.

At noon, everyone was coming home from school like butterflies, chattering non-stop, all talking about the 6.1 event this morning.

"And candies, egg cakes..."

"We have White Rabbit milk candies, five per person, but I've already eaten them all, but I still have the candy coating..."

"We also read books and tell stories in our class..."

"We also watched the videotape, it was just like watching a movie, super lively and fun..."

Ye Chengyang suddenly felt a little envious of those who were studying. Seeing them chattering, he couldn't help but go over to ask them some questions.

Ye Yaodong sat in the yard, feet up, waiting for his meal, and listening to their excited conversations, separated by a wall.

"The tallest student in our school held the national flag, and another student held the flag of the vanguard team. Then we followed behind them, beating gongs and drums, and walked around the school first, and then walked around the village. Everyone was very happy, and the whole village was very lively..."

"It's so fun..." Ye Chengyang's face was full of envy.

"Yes, yes, it's fun for us all to wear red scarves..."

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but speak up, "Then is there anyone among you who is honored enough to participate in the drumming? Beat the gong, be the flag bearer, or blow the horn?"

Just one sentence silenced them.

"Uncle San, this requires good grades..."

"Oh~"

One word was interpreted in three different ways, destroying all their excitement.

Ye Chenghai said depressedly: "Third uncle, please stop talking. I was considered very tall and could be a flag bearer, but the teacher said I was too dark. Wearing a white shirt, my face looked like charcoal, so they replaced me."

“Doesn’t this require grades?”

Ye Chengjiang added, "No, this high one is enough!"

"That's a pity. Next time, I'll let you exchange three dollars for a flag bearer to lead the way. Do you want one?"

"No, I don't care if it's darker. I don't want to be a flag bearer."

"Brother, a few days ago you started thinking that you would not pick up squids next year and would be a flag bearer..."

"If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb. The past few days were the past few days, and now is now. Shut up and go eat."

The children at the door also went back to their homes. Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang also ran back to the yard excitedly, followed by two little followers.

"Come here, let me take a look. This is the first time I see you so clean."

It was a rare occasion for Ye Yaodong to see Ye Chenghu wearing a white shirt, and it was so rare and clean, it was simply unprecedented.

Except for the morning when he just goes out, his clothes and body look a little cleaner. When he comes back at noon, he looks like a madman. There is no clean place on his body, and his hands are all black when he stretches out his hands.

Ye Chenghu was also very happy, swaying around in place, spinning in circles, and proudly stretched out his ten fingers, "Mom even cut a clean nail for me yesterday."

"How dare you say that? You can dig out ten kilograms of dirt from between your fingernails."

"No."

"Brother, isn't reading fun?"

"I think it's more fun for you to herd sheep."

"But it's so boring. No one wants to herd sheep with me."

Ye Chenghu put his arm around his shoulder and walked into the house, "Then come and study. Studying is fun. We can also take physical education classes, play games, and sing in music classes..."

"Really? But I see you scratching your head every day while doing homework. It looks like you have lice?"

"Then... then occasionally..."

"It's Tiantian..."

"You have to study anyway, huh."

Seeing that Ye Chenghu's attempt to coax him failed, Ye Yaodong waved to the two little girls who were chasing chickens and dogs in the yard, and told them to go wash their hands and eat.

While eating, Ye's mother couldn't wait to ask.

"When will your in-laws' boat be repaired? You've been waiting at home for a week..."

"I'm not sitting around waiting, we're busy too. Didn't the eldest and second brothers' ships just come back these days? It's just the right time to deal with the ship's affairs and settle the accounts. I left early and came back late yesterday, not until the evening. How could I just sit there and do nothing?"

"Now that we are done with the work, we have to ask my in-laws to urge the factory. We can't just sit and wait at home without being anxious."

Father Ye also said: "How can we rush it? It's no use rushing it if the parts haven't arrived yet."

"So you just sit at home and do nothing?"

"There is nothing to do there. There is a lot of work to do at home. I have been busy there these days. I am either farming at home or going to the mountains to watch the tombs being repaired. I also cut bamboo and weave bamboo baskets. There is no time to relax."

The old lady asked with concern: "How is the cemetery being repaired?"

"It's almost done. It will be finished in the next two days. It's just a little hard to carve out the stone, and have people carry it to the cemetery. The sand and gravel all need to be carried up from the foot of the mountain step by step. It's a bit troublesome, otherwise it would have been repaired long ago."

"Then wait until the cemetery is built before going out to work. Otherwise, you will be gone for several days. When the cemetery is built, we will have to go up the mountain together to worship. We also have to choose a day for your father to lie in state."

"Then I'll find time to look for a date in advance, so that they don't get caught out by chance."

"Dad, have you arranged to rent out the two boats we retrieved?" Ye Yaodong looked at his father and asked.

"The old boat has been rented, but yours is still there. Didn't you say the day before yesterday that you would go longline fishing after you finished your work and the Harvest hasn't been repaired yet?"

"Oh, that's fine too. I'll send a few baskets of longline fish over to have them sorted out later."

"So are you going to longline tonight? Then take back all the worthless groceries from your boats tonight. Don't take them back to your cousins. Keep them as bait for the night trip out to sea."

"Then I'll tell Wang Guangliang and the others. Your ship also went out to sea at night, right? Let them collect the goods together in the evening."

"After checking the old ship last night, there was nothing wrong with it. They went out to sea last night. We can settle the accounts at the end of this month. I have nothing to do today. I will go to the dock with them in the evening and let them identify the people."

Mother Ye couldn't help but interrupt, "Then you should talk to your in-laws about it, otherwise just leave it there..."

"I know, long-winded..."

"Last time your boat broke down and you sent it to the factory for repairs, he didn't even wait for you and went out to sea directly. This time he wants you to wait too..."

"You must be mistaken, mom. We are waiting voluntarily. Otherwise, we can just go out to sea normally. Didn't a few things happen and everyone felt that it was not so safe? We waited because we wanted two boats together. Otherwise, they didn't ask us to wait. He left his boat there to repair. What does it have to do with him whether we go or not?"

Mother Ye was speechless for a moment.

Father Ye glanced at her and said, "We will take care of it ourselves. You don't need to worry about it. We just came back from the factory yesterday. Why are you rushing us now?"

After dinner, everyone went about their own business.

As soon as June arrived, the sun became scorching. After Ye Yaodong sent the longline fishing line to the village elders to sort it out, he came back sweating profusely. The sweat flowed down like water, and he had to drink half a pot of tea to quench his thirst.

It feels like spring didn’t last very long, just a month or so, and it’s already summer, a season where even wearing a vest is too hot.

When he got home, he took off his clothes and went shirtless.

While he was guzzling tea, the old lady handed him a towel and wiped his back.

"It gets hot so fast. Don't wear that suffocating hat. You're getting so hot..."

"Okay, I'm fine. I just pushed the cart back and forth to get some sun. You can go watch TV. I'll lie down by the door to cool off for a while."

"There are cooked corns in the pot. Take two and eat them. I will make you some green bean soup. You can have it as a snack in the afternoon and take it to the sea at night."

He nodded without saying anything, and went straight to the door to lie down on the recliner to cool off.

Lin Xiuqing sat in front of the TV and watched the old lady busying herself around him for no reason, and ignored her.

There have been no fishing boats out to sea recently, and there was nothing going on at the workshop. She seemed to have a lot of free time and could even sit there and watch TV.

The two little girls were able to sit still and eat melon seeds, sitting next to Lin Xiuqing, watching TV in a rare and well-behaved manner.

When he was sleeping soundly in the recliner, he heard several female voices coming from the room. He got up curiously and looked around in a daze, then lay down again.

It was A Guang's younger sister. His two younger sisters would often take turns to come over and bring something, sometimes vegetables, sometimes fruits, and sometimes snacks bought from the town. I just took a look and it seemed that what was brought over this time was bananas. There was a whole sack on the ground with part of the banana stalks sticking out.

There is a large mountain area behind their house. Taking advantage of the convenience of living nearby, they planted everything there and the land was directly occupied.

But I haven’t seen his eldest sister come to visit recently, so she’s probably too embarrassed to go out.

Sin ah.

But fortunately he has a stepmother now and someone is taking care of things, so he doesn't have to trouble his mother anymore.

After the second marriage was called off, his mother felt very embarrassed, as if she had cheated the girl out and was being treated like a nobody. Fortunately, the two families were relatives and no one thought of the old woman's reasons. If they had gotten married earlier, there would have been no problem.

He took the clothes from his chest and continued to cover his body and face with it. The sun was still very bright, but it was setting a little, so it was probably not that early for it to set.

Feeling at ease, he continued to lie down. After a long while, when the children came back from school and everyone left, he finally sat up.

He, a grown man, felt embarrassed in front of the young girl. He had nothing to say and might as well lie down and pretend to be dead.

After A-Qing and the old lady and others left the room, she began to mutter that they were already 20 years old and the two sisters had to get married quickly.

"Call my brothers over to help the two sisters pick out the best. It will save a lot of trouble."

“Stop selling them.”

"Tsk, if you keep complaining about it now, you may not be able to reach her in the future."

"Come on, help me take all the bananas out of the sack, chop off the stems with a knife, wrap them in newspaper and put them in a basket. Take it to the room where the dried fish are kept and you can eat them in a few days."

"Wouldn't it all smell like fish? Why not just put it in the firewood pile here?"

"Does it make a difference? Doesn't our whole house smell like fish?"

That's true.

Dried fish are piled up in the house all year round, and the whole house is filled with the smell of fish. He even feels like he has been pickled and smells fishy.

From the beginning of the Chinese New Year until last month, a huge amount of dried fish was produced, filling up workshops, homes and the city.

"It doesn't matter. In a few days, if Linji pulls 5000 kilograms of goods away, our house will be vacant immediately."

He was just talking casually last night. If 2 kilograms were really needed, even with the ones in the market, it might not be enough. In the past one or two months, they have basically been drying squid and very little dried fish, which are all stocks before March.

If another 5000 kilograms is produced in this wave, the two warehouses in the city may only have more than 1 kilograms in total, and there is another warehouse with tanks of fish sauce piled up.

The dried fish stored from winter to the New Year, plus the ones dried in the past few months, may only be sold until October depending on the weather.

It should be just about time to sell out all the stock. When the weather turns cooler in November, we can dry the goods in large quantities again.

"Then don't pile them up at home next time. There's still some space in the small workshop. We won't be drying them in large quantities anyway, so this will help get rid of the odor in the house."

Ye Chenghu also interrupted and said, "My classmates call me Salted Fish Boy, which means I smell like salted fish all day long."

Lin Xiuqing said casually: "It's quite appropriate. It matches your father's nickname very well."

"What's Dad's nickname?" Ye Chengyang asked curiously.

Ye Chenghu said excitedly: "Xianyudong, you are stupid. You don't even know this."

Ye Yaodong glared at him and said unhappily, "What's there to be proud of? Just watch your TV. You have to interrupt when adults are talking."

Ye Chenghu lowered his head, then turned around and winked at Ye Chengyang and whispered, "Xianyu Dong, Xianyu Dong..."

The sound was so low that it was almost inaudible, but no one was talking at the moment, and the plot on TV happened to be silent, so it seemed particularly clear.

Ye Yaodong's face turned black.

If the kid hadn't been sitting far away from him, he wouldn't have rushed up and hit him just because he called out a few nicknames, otherwise, he would have at least beaten his butt.

Lin Xiuqing coughed dryly a few times, and Ye Chenghu realized it belatedly and turned to look at his father's face which was almost as black as the bottom of a pot. Then he quickly retracted his head, turned around and ran upstairs.

When Ye Chengyang saw his brother running away, he looked at his father and ran away too.

"Why are you running around? Come downstairs to do your homework. Every day when you come home, you either watch TV or run around and play. You never think about doing your homework first. You only remember that you haven't done your homework when it's dark, and then you cram for it at the last minute."

"How can you get 100 points in the exam? The sun is about to rise in the west. I don't know where these bad habits come from. You don't worry until the situation is critical."

"Don't come down here!"

He roared sternly, and the two people upstairs crept to the stairs, then lowered their butts to the next step, moving slowly down one step at a time.

Ye Chenghu moved his butt aside and glanced at him.

Ye Chengyang moved his little butt down behind him. After moving two steps, he remembered, "I don't have to do my homework?"

After saying that, he turned around and climbed up swiftly again.

"Fortunately I didn't listen to my brother's lies at noon..."

Ye Yaodong originally thought that the second brother was quite smart, but now he felt that he was so stupid.
Why doesn't their family produce someone smarter?

"Come down quickly. Go upstairs like a rabbit and go downstairs like a turtle. If you keep dawdling, I'll stew your turtle tomorrow."

"No."

After he shouted, he immediately hurried down.

Ye Yaodong was displeased with him at the moment, so he took his schoolbag to the table, ready to watch him write, otherwise after half an hour, he might still be sitting there with empty eyes.

Ye Chenghu slowly moved over, then sat at the table and asked weakly, "Can't I write after dinner?"

"Do you have anything urgent to do right now?"

"My stomach hurts, something's wrong... I'm hungry..."

Thinking of the consequences of being punished by standing without food for pretending to have a stomachache, he quickly changed his words.

"Believe it or not, I'll give you a pain in the ass? What homework?"

"There is an outline in the Chinese textbook..."

Ye Yaodong took out his Chinese textbook, which was filled with a lot of outlines, all folded in a mess and randomly stuck in the pages. He pulled out all the ones he disliked, and ended up pulling out a bunch of little human heads on cards.

Ye Chenghu quickly rushed to the table, then swept the money into his arms and put it into his pocket. His movements were agile and quick. Only afterwards did he look at his father with vigilance and fear.

"I think you can go out to sea with me earlier." Ye Yaodong looked at his eldest son hopelessly.

Ye Chenghu nodded quickly.

His expression suddenly fell again, "Write quickly, and find the one you want yourself."

Ye Chenghu hurriedly flipped through the pile of outlines on the table. The papers were so thin that he could clearly see both sides.

All those outlines were handwritten by the teacher and then copied down with ink. He folded them in a mess, and when they were spread out, some ink stained the blank areas, and some of the handwriting looked blurred.

“This one, I’ve written the others.”

Ye Yaodong felt that the current educational conditions were really bad, and children in the future would be so lucky. The paper was so transparent that the patterns on the pages of the book could be copied, and a hole could be easily poked through with a little force using a pencil.

Thinking of this, his voice softened a little, not so serious anymore, "Write quickly."

"Oh."

He continued to feel around in his schoolbag and pulled out a pencil that was only half the length of a chopstick. The other end of the pencil tip was covered with sawdust and tooth marks from his bites, and the eraser he pulled out looked like it had been torn apart.

Then, under his father's watchful eyes, he gritted his teeth and slowly started writing.

Seeing him sitting there writing in an earnest manner, Ye Yaodong felt relieved, then he stood up and walked towards Lin Xiuqing.

"See, if you force him to do it like this, won't he start doing his homework right away? Normally you don't watch him or urge him to do it, so he procrastinates every day and doesn't do his homework until dark."

"Can I keep pushing him every day until he's old?"

"Good habits must be developed from childhood. Just watch him a few more times. Once he gets used to it, he won't need anyone to watch him anymore."

"That's easy for you to say. I don't have to work all day, so why should I keep an eye on him every day? I have a lot of things to do, and now I have to cook. How can you keep an eye on him?"

"I'm just staring at him. Don't you see that he is quite self-aware now?"

"Haha~ Turn around and see what he is doing now."

Ye Chenghu was lowering his head and secretly glancing at the TV. Upon hearing this, he immediately sat up straight and pretended to write seriously.

Ye Yaodong turned off the TV and urged him to do his homework quickly.

Lin Xiuqing also stood up and prepared to make a fire and cook.

The old lady just watched happily. If there was no TV to watch, she still had a radio.

She cheerfully called the two little girls to follow her to the door to listen to the radio.

Ye Yaodong had nothing to do anyway, so he sat next to Ye Chenghu and watched him do his homework. Normally, the adults didn't care about them, so they were allowed to cram at the last minute every day.

However, when he finished his bowl of mung bean soup, he saw Ye Chenghu staring at him.

"Write."

He leaned over to take a look and saw an outline with only the name written on it, with nothing else changed.

No, there is also a turtle drawn on the paper.

"what is this?"

"Little Eight!"

Ye Yaodong clenched his empty fists, wanting to hit him on the head but all he could do was write it down for me, or I’ll cook you up.

He quickly added another class next to his name, and then stopped again.

"What are you looking at me for? Write!"

Ye Yaodong stared at him fiercely.

He began to flip through the book again and said weakly, "Let me look for it..."

Lin Xiuqing looked at the father and son with amusement, "Your father probably knows about the same number of words as you do."

"Nonsense, I'm much better than him."

As he spoke, he took the pile of newspapers stacked on the table against the wall, randomly pulled out one from the top, shook it open, and pretended to read it.

But this time, he was more serious. He delivered newspapers twice a week, so he might not have read all of them.

Unexpectedly, there was a separate section in today's newspaper about building a lighthouse, which made him take it seriously.

However, he did not forget to watch his son doing his homework. He would look up from time to time, and would only feel relieved when he saw his pen moving.

The family of three were busy with their own things in the main room, and they looked quite harmonious.

The harmony in the room was not broken until Ye's father and mother came over for dinner.

"The sun comes out in the west?"

"You've made progress. You've done your homework so early."

Ye Yaodong closed the newspaper. "No one usually watches him. He runs around all day. When he comes back, he leaves his schoolbag behind. He either watches TV or goes out to play. He doesn't do his homework until dark. I have to supervise him and keep an eye on him so that he can do it seriously."

"Watch it for two days, and then he'll be self-aware. It's been so long, so he should be almost done. Let me take a look..."

Ye Chenghu quickly put his hands on the outline to prevent him from looking at it.

"What are you blocking? Take your hands away and eat. You can finish what you haven't finished until after dinner. Once you're done, you can finish it quickly without having to cram at the last minute."

Ye Yaodong grabbed his hand and couldn't move it away for a long time. He frowned and looked at him suspiciously.

"Take it away, go wash your hands and eat, your hands are so dirty."

Ye Chenghu immediately dropped his pen and ran towards the back door.

Ye Yaodong also saw that the outline was empty. It remained the same as it was originally.

No, there are several more turtles.

Moreover, the handwriting was made even more blurred by his hands, with black patches here and there, except for the title, where every line was empty, without a single word written on it.

No wonder he had to put both hands on it to block it from being seen. It turned out that he hadn't written a single word. He was just holding the pen and pretending to draw a turtle.

"Ye Chenghu! Get over here!"

Ye Chenghu hid behind the back door, sticking his head out, and said tremblingly, "I'll write after I finish my meal..."

"You wrote a cuckold!"

Seeing that he was shouting so loudly, Lin Xiuqing also leaned over to take a look, and it was indeed written as a turtle.

"You've been sitting there for so long, and this is all you've drawn? I saw your pen moving, so I thought you were writing seriously. Come here."

"I will definitely write it later..."

"Write it later. So what were you doing sitting there just now?"

Father Ye added, "Isn't this a painting of a turtle?"

"I...I'm hungry...I'll write after I'm full..."

"You still want to eat? Eat your turtle. I'll stew it tomorrow. And you've drawn turtles everywhere. If the teacher doesn't know, he might think you're calling him a turtle."

"That's what you said, I didn't..."

Ye Yaodong was so excited that he held the test paper in one hand and poked there with the other hand, "Come here, more than an hour has passed, and you just drew these turtles for me? I thought you were doing your homework seriously, and I was thinking of rewarding you tomorrow, come here, I will beat you to death..."

Wow, the fragile outline actually poked a hole in it.

Ye Yaodong angrily threw it directly on the table, then found a whip, picked up the weapon and chased to the back door to beat the person.

Ye Chenghu shouted before he even ran over, "No, I'll write it later, I'll write it later..."

"Don't run away, come back here..."

Ye Yaodong ran to the back door and saw that the ground was covered with duck and sheep droppings. He was reluctant to step on it, so he tiptoed out to chase after him.

Ye Chenghu ran from the back door to the front door screaming, and then circled the house.

As an adult, he might not be able to outrun the child. The child runs all over the mountain all day long. He is so small and slippery that it is really hard to catch him.

The father and son were playing like a cat playing with a mouse, which attracted everyone around to come out and watch.

Ye Chenghe watched Ye Chenghu about to be beaten, and said excitedly, "Uncle San, I'll help you catch him..."

"Ahhh, I'm going to tell my aunt..."

Before he could finish his words, he was caught. Ye Yaodong grabbed him by the clothes and whipped him several times.

The weather was getting hot, and they all wore extra thin pants. A whip left a red mark. Ye Chenghu immediately became like an ant on the hot pan, jumping around on the spot.

"Don't hit me, don't hit me. I was wrong. I won't draw turtles anymore..."

"Is it a question of drawing a turtle?"

"I'll write it right away. I'll write it now..."

Even after being hit several times despite his thick skin, he didn't cry and was even able to scream and jump around.

Ye Yaodong carried the boy home while beating him. It was rare for him to chase and beat a child like this. Today he was really depressed because he was fooled. He really thought that the boy was doing his homework seriously.

The other children watched with great interest.

"Finally I got beaten..." Ye Chenghai was also relieved.

Ye Chengjiang gloated, "He didn't even cry, which means Uncle San didn't try too hard..."

Ye Chenghe also said: "Uncle San didn't cry, which means he is not in pain..."

Ye Chenghu was so angry that he could even turn around and curse, "You are disloyal and not righteous at all, and you are still instigating me. I will never play with you again, and don't come to my house..."

Ye Yaodong felt that what they said made sense, so he hit him hard a few more times. After all, his skin was thick and tough, and it looked like he could not be hurt.

"You are quite capable. You don't allow others to come to your house..."

"They can't play with my car, they can't play with my ball, woo woo woo, they're not allowed to come to my house..."

"Don't buy food for them anymore. You are not allowed to eat food from my house...waaaaaaaa, I hate you..."

Finally cried.

Everyone was satisfied.

Ye Yaodong dragged the man into the house, made him stand in the corner, and didn't allow him to eat.

Lin Xiuqing was also there shouting that he deserved it.

"He sat there for a long time, and his pen was still moving. I really thought he was doing his homework seriously."

"I sat there for a long time, didn't write a single word, just drew a turtle..."

"It's not a turtle, it's a tortoise." Ye Chenghu, who was standing in the corner crying, paused for a moment to refute.

"Look at what you can do. After dinner, I'll take off your pants and beat you up."

Ye Chenghu started crying again out of fear.

Only then did Ye Yaodong feel satisfied and dropped the whip again.

Of course, when you beat a child, you have to make him cry. Otherwise, can it be called beating? If the child doesn't cry, how can the adult achieve anything?
How can I remember if the child doesn’t cry or feel pain?
There was one who was crying, and the rest were very well behaved.

Ye Xiaoxi, who usually stood up and twisted around instead of sitting properly when eating, was particularly serious today and looked extremely honest.

Mother Ye looked at the crying Ye Chenghu with disdain, "Everyone is staring at you right under your nose, and you can draw a turtle on a whole page. Can you study well? Ah Hai and the others are probably in the same situation."

Father Ye rarely agreed, "They are all the same. It's better to learn a skill as soon as possible so that you won't starve to death in the future."

"With so many boats at home, it would be strange if they starved to death. Now that everyone knows how to read, it's better for them to go out to sea and work. It'll be easier to hire fewer people and pay less."

Ye Yaodong changed the subject and asked, "Have all the fishing boats returned at this time?"

"Two have returned, and there are still three that haven't returned. Anyway, they have been handed over to the guys in the workshop. One has been waiting outside the dock and will probably be back soon."

"Have you gone out to check? Have the groceries been moved to the workshop?"

"Yes, I also asked them to cut the larger fish into small pieces when they have nothing else to do, so that we can take them out and hook them directly tomorrow morning without having to cut them ourselves for a long time."

"Well, I'll go and pull the longline back after dinner."

Ye's father responded and told him the important matter. He was going to tell him when he came here just now, but who knew that he ran into him beating the child, so he didn't have time to say it. He could only say it now at the dinner table.

"The cemetery is almost finished. Just fix the corners and it will be ready tomorrow. After dinner, come with me to your eldest uncle or your second uncle to settle the accounts. Your eldest brother and second brother must also go. By the way, we can discuss the date for the reburial. Your mother has already checked the date this afternoon."

"Okay, let's get this done soon, so we don't have to worry about unfinished business when we go out to sea."

"This big thing is finally done. From now on, I can just do some repairs and wipes on it myself."

The old lady also sighed, "It's good that it's repaired. After dinner, I will burn incense for your father and tell him that his grandchildren are all successful now. It's all because of his blessing."

　My jet lag is pretty bad right now, I'll have to adjust over the next month.

　　I haven’t even had dinner yet, and I’m finally done! Writing a book is so hard!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)