Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1064 Invite to dinner

After a while, another bald head came out.

When Ye Xiaoxi heard that it was agreed, he immediately reached out and touched his bald little head, his face full of curiosity.

“It’s so cool~”

Pei Yu also stood in front of her curiously, tilting his head to look from side to side.

"Sister, does it look good?"

Pei Yu immediately shook his head.

"Hum..."

After the barber untied the cloth around her neck, she quickly turned over by holding on to the stool, climbed down, and excitedly ran towards the group of children with sticks.

"I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm naked too..."

"Hahaha………"

"Don't run away, go home and wash your hair..."

Lin Xiuqing quickly paid the money and took the wild girl into the house to wash her hair and take a bath, while the old lady used a broom to sweep the hair on the floor.

Ye Yaodong had nothing to do so he sat on a chair at the door to enjoy the cool air, looking at the children playing and laughing with sticks not far away. From time to time he reached out and touched their bald heads, which felt quite novel.

In his previous life, he also shaved his head every summer in the last few years, but he had less hair then, and the hairline on his forehead had moved up a lot, not as thick as it is now.

He was used to having hair, and now he was bald, plus the cool sea breeze made him touch his hair several times a minute.

After a while, some of the children in the open space in front ran away crying, but after a while a large group of them came again and continued to make noise. Soon, another large group of people ran towards the village, getting farther and farther away. Even his two children didn't know when they disappeared.

At this time, Ye Xiaoxi also ran out after taking a shower. Seeing that there was no one at the door, she ran to his side and asked, "Where is Dede?"

"Let's go play." Ye Yaodong looked at her bald little head, which looked so funny no matter how he looked at it. He put his hand on her head and kept stroking it back and forth.

Ye Xiaoxi dodged for a moment, then ran out again, "Don't wait for me... I want to find Dede..."

"It's dark now, don't go."

He quickly sat up, lowered his head to look for his slippers, then ran out to grab the person, picked him up, held him under his armpits, and carried him back to the room.

It's not that he likes to carry the child in this way, but if he holds her, she will struggle desperately, moving, twisting and kicking in his arms. With her current weight, no one can catch her and she will just slide to the ground.

It was convenient to get it stuck under her armpit, so that she could not get any help from heaven or earth and could only kick her legs in the air and struggle in vain.

"You can find it...you can find it..."

"Don't you have a younger sister at home? Just play with her."

"No, I have to find it..."

Lin Xiuqing had just finished dressing Pei Yu when she saw Ye Yaodong coming in with a screaming child and throwing him on the bed.

"It's dark now. You can't go out this late, okay?"

Pei Yu immediately made faces and shouted to scare Ye Xiaoxi, "There's a ghost... There's a ghost..."

Ye Xiaoxi panicked immediately and started to pull the quilt while shouting, "There is a ghost, a ghost is coming... a ghost is coming..."

Lin Xiuqing said sternly, "Don't talk nonsense at this time of night."

The two children ignored her, and pulled the quilt to crawl into the bed together, shivering and shouting that ghosts were coming... ghosts were coming...

She was so frightened that her hair stood on end.

"Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang want to be beaten to death. Why teach them this when there are so many other things to teach them? Don't yell at me in the middle of the night, or I will eat you all."

The two girls were even more frightened in their bed.

"No, no, help me..."

"So scary, so scary..."

Lin Xiuqing stared at the two small piles in the quilt, and then glared at Ye Yaodong angrily.

Ye Yaodong didn't wait for her to speak, he raised his hands to his ears in surrender, "It's none of my business, don't look at me."

"I want you to watch the kids while I get the bath water out."

"Oh, that's okay."

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him again before moving the two basins of water out.

Ye Yaodong took off his clothes and pants, climbed onto the bed, and hugged the two shivering little ones in his arms, "The big bad wolf is here, and it wants to eat you!"

"Hahahahaha..."

"Help! Help! Help!"

The two children on the bed were laughing and making a mess. Lin Xiuqing took the opportunity to go out to the workshop to check whether the goods brought back at noon were fermented. Whether the covers that needed to be covered were covered, and whether the seals that needed to be sealed were sealed...

Only after the inspection found no problems did she ask someone to keep an eye on the workshop.

But as soon as she stepped into the yard, the sky rumbled and muffled thunders fell one after another. She looked up at the inky black sky. No wonder there was no starlight at night and the night was darker than usual.

The old lady also ran out of the house and stood at the door looking at the sky, "It's thundering, the two children haven't come back yet, they are still playing outside."

Lin Xiuqing pulled a few pieces of nylon cloth from the yard to cover the chicken and duck coops. She said without worry, "It's thundering, so we should run back home."

"It was still light just now, and I went into the room to take a shower, and then the sky suddenly... ah, the power went out again..."

With a snap, the lights in the surrounding residents' homes all dimmed, and they could hear the screams coming from the people around them even when they were standing at the doorstep.

"I'll go light a candle and get a flashlight. You stay where you are, don't move, or you won't be able to see the road clearly and fall."

"Remember to pull all the light cords to turn them off, and unplug the TV's power cord, otherwise it will burn out."

Lin Xiuqing responded, then slowly moved her feet, stretched out her hand in front of her and walked forward in the dark. It was really pitch black, and she couldn't see her hand in front of her face. It was not an exaggeration at all. There was also thunder, and there was no moonlight or starlight at all at night.

However, when she reached the main room, the faint light of candles was lit in the room, temporarily dispelling the darkness and allowing her to see just barely.

She lit all the candles in the main room and then turned off the power cords.

Ye Yaodong also walked out and took a look at them. "My two sons haven't come back yet. Should I go out and look for them?"

"Use a flashlight and look for them. The power is out. Find them quickly. It might rain heavily soon. Now it's just thunder."

"it is good."

However, before he could walk out, a group of children holding sticks and screaming came running over from a distance. They ran wildly, waving sticks and shouting "kill, kill, kill..."

Ye Yaodong: "..."

"The power is out and there's thunder. That's all for today. See you later!"

"See you later!"

……

Ye Yaodong: "..."

They are holding sticks and bowing in a very formal manner. It looks so funny no matter how you look at it. Where do so many middle school boys come from?

"Dad, we are back!"

"Mom, our sticks are behind the door, don't use them to make fire..."

He stood there, turning his head, watching the two men rushing into the house one after the other.

It seems like I've never seen these two walking properly?
I'm either running or jumping, rushing around all day long, feeling like I'm too late to do anything.

He shook his head, locked the gate, and then went into the house.

Lin Xiuqing at home was already there scolding them and making them stand in the corner as punishment.

"Day after day, you are busier than your father. Summer vacation is only half a month away. Can I still see you?"

The two children stood there with their eyes on their noses and their noses on their hearts.

"There was a thunderstorm and the power went out. You just came back now. You disappeared in the blink of an eye. Look at the clothes you are wearing and how sweaty you are..."

"How many changes of clothes do you have to make in a day? I just took a shower and you put another set of clothes on me..."

It was the calm before the storm, and the air was stuffy. Even though their doors and windows were open, it was still very hot. The two children were sweating profusely since they came back from running, and now the sweat was pouring down like water.

After standing for a while, he lifted up his collar and wiped his face.

Lin Xiuqing became angry when she saw their casual movements, so she picked up the whip on the TV and whipped their calves.

The two did not dare to run, but just jumped on the spot. They did not cry, but bit their lower lips.

"Look at your faces, they are as red as monkeys' bottoms. You can run so fast and you have never been good..."

"Summer vacation is coming soon. If you get 60 or 70 points on the test, I will skin you alive..."

The old lady stood aside and watched them with tears in her eyes but dared not say a word. She felt so distressed that she quickly ran over and hugged the two children.

"Okay, okay, now that I've said it, taught it, and spanked it, then it's all right, right? Don't spank the child this late at night. It's not good. Save it up for now, and spank them together next time if they don't behave."

Ye Yaodong crossed his arms over his chest and looked at their stubborn expressions. "It's rare that you didn't talk back or cry today."

"We want to be heroes, we can't cry!"

"..."

Lin Xiuqing almost couldn't hold back her laughter. She turned her head away, put the whip back on the TV, and then calmed down her expression.

Ye Yaodong laughed without any hesitation, "You are the only ones who call yourself heroes, big shrimps, right? Small white shrimps or big prawns? No, you are small red shrimps, hahahahahahaha..."

Ye Chenghu said seriously: "Dad, don't laugh. When I return from studying at Shaolin Temple, I can become a hero."

"Hahahahaha..."

The old lady couldn't help laughing, "Go take a bath and sleep first. Only when you grow up can you become a hero. Sleeping will help you grow faster."

"Hahahaha, you guys call yourself heroes, but if you were in that TV show, you wouldn't survive more than three minutes. Do you know why? You'd be laughed to death!"

Ye Chenghu was as angry as a bull, "Don't underestimate me."

After Lin Xiuqing had held back her laughter, she could no longer laugh. She looked stern and shouted at the two children, "Why don't you take another shower? Why are you standing there with your neck stiff? Do you still want to be beaten?"

The two of them immediately took the basin and went to take a shower dejectedly.

"Can I take a cold shower? I'm so hot..."

Ye Chengyang didn't say a word the whole time. Only at this moment did he look at Lin Xiuqing eagerly.

They were running so fast and playing there all the time. Not only were they sweating profusely, but their faces were also red, just like what Ye's father looked like when he was drunk.

"I feel like I'm almost cooked, and there's fire coming out of my body."

"Who told you to run so hard? Wash with warm water, or you'll catch a cold easily. It's not really hot yet, so be quiet."

"Oh……"

The two men lowered their heads and obediently went to get hot water, and the old lady followed them to help scoop it.

Ye Yaodong also went back to the room to accompany the two girls.

However, when he entered the room, he found that Ye Xiaoxi had wrapped herself in the quilt and fell asleep, and only Pei Yu was sitting there, playing with the doll boredly.

"Uncle (wine) uncle~"

One pronounces the 3rd tone, the other pronounces the 4th tone, and they sound particularly sweet.

"Sister is asleep?"

She nodded.

"Going to bed so early today? Did she not sleep at your house at noon?"

She sat there blankly, as if she didn't know how to answer.

Ye Yaodong didn't expect her to answer at first. It was better for her to sleep so that he wouldn't have to coax her or play with her. She only slept for two or three hours in the afternoon and wasn't enough sleep at all.

He was tired too, so he lay down beside him.

After a while, I started snoring. I had no idea when the fighting and scolding outside and the noise next door would stop, or when the person next to me would come in to sleep.

I had a good sleep.

When he woke up, the rain was still dripping outside and the people around him were still lying there sleeping soundly. Only Ye Xiaoxi woke up and sat up when he turned his head, rubbing her eyes and looking left and right.

"father……"

"Shh, play by yourself when you wake up, and keep your voice down."

Hearing the noise, Lin Xiuqing also woke up, only Pei Yu was still curled up and sleeping.

The three of them got out of bed quietly. The first thing Ye Yaodong did when he got up was to pull the electric cord out of habit to see if there was a call.

"There's still no electricity. It's been a whole night."

"It's been raining non-stop, how can the electricity come back so quickly? There were thunders last night, there must be power outages everywhere. I guess they're repairing the circuits. If the rain doesn't stop, who knows if there will be electricity tonight."

“It’s really inefficient.”

People of this generation have only been using electricity for a few years, so they have a high tolerance and can accept a one or two-day power outage.

If it is left for a later time, let alone one or two days, even if it is stopped for an hour or two without being repaired, you will be criticized. If it is stopped for one or two minutes, people will complain about the unstable voltage.

It's already irritating in the hot summer, and being out of electricity can be fatal.

"It doesn't matter anyway. There's no electricity in the daytime. It's fine at night. I can just light a candle and be able to see. It doesn't matter if there's no typhoon. I can just go to bed early if there's no electricity."

"Ah."

Ye Yaodong saw that the thunderstorm outside had been going on all night and was still there early in the morning. The tide on the sea outside was higher than ever.

Under the porch at the doorstep of my house, a group of chickens were hiding on the left, and a group of ducks were hiding on the right. Behind the big ones were a group of small ones that had just hatched. They were all shivering in the rain, with their feathers drooping.

Maybe the old lady let them out and fed them rice bran this morning, and the ground was covered with chicken and duck shit, so he didn't know where to step.

The yard was not much better, with a lot of puddles of water and even a lot of mud from the vegetable field washed into the yard. There were also fallen leaves from nowhere, and it looked like the yard had been damaged by a night of thunder and rain.

It's still raining outside now, and it's not convenient to go out to clean, so I can only leave the yard dirty.

The vegetables in the small vegetable garden are green and lush, and look fresh and tender.

He stood at the door, twisting his neck and waist, then went to wash up, have breakfast, put on rain boots and take an umbrella.

"I'll go check out the workshop, then make a phone call to the village committee."

The rain hasn't stopped yet, and everything is wet, making it inconvenient to do anything. If the rain doesn't stop in the afternoon, don't think about harvesting kelp and can only wait until the weather clears up. Fortunately, he is not in a hurry, and breeding will not be done in a short time.

He went to the workshop holding an umbrella and checked it out. When he found nothing wrong, he went back to the village committee.

However, he unexpectedly saw a familiar face.

"Captain Chen!"

He was the captain of a small naval team that had lived in their house two years ago. At that time, they stayed in their village for a whole month to salvage bronze artifacts, and they lived in his old house.

Lin Guangyuan even received a set of sailor shirts from him as a gift, which he folded carefully every day as if it were a treasure, put it next to his pillow every night, and touched it twice before going to sleep.

His dried fish supply unit met him and helped to connect the dots.

However, the small pair of people from the past have been replaced. Among the ones encountered now, only Captain Chen is familiar with them, and the soldiers around him look quite unfamiliar.

Captain Chen looked at the bald man in front of him in surprise, and after careful identification, he found that it was Ye Yaodong.

"Comrade Ye Yaodong, what a coincidence! I said I would definitely run into you when I came into the village."

"Haha, I didn't expect to see you in the village. What a luck. What a coincidence. Do you have any mission this time?"

"A lighthouse is being built in the sea outside the town, and we have dispatched a team to help support it. It happened that there was thunder and lightning yesterday, and it rained heavily this morning, so the power went out, making it unsuitable to start the work. All the dozens of villages around the town that had electricity have lost power, and some villages in the mountains that don't have electricity are also clamoring for electricity, so we were dispatched to help repair the circuit."

"The Navy can also repair circuits???"

"No, no, only a few people would understand. I happened to know it, so I was sent out. Thinking of my familiarity with your village, I specifically asked to come to your place."

"Oh, I see. You guys are really there wherever there are difficulties."

"Haha, we are the People's Liberation Army."

"If Ayuan saw you in the village, he would be very happy."

"Let's not talk about it for now. We have to go to the village committee first and then ask the village cadres to take us to repair the circuit."

"Let's go together. I also need to go to the village committee to make a phone call."

"Then we happen to be on the same road..."

Ye Yaodong walked over and joined them, chatting as they walked. He also invited them to have lunch at his house.

Captain Chen was also very familiar with him, so he agreed with a smile without pretending to be polite.

"I didn't come earlier. I heard that your village was very lively during the birthday of Mazu in the past two years. The Tianhou Temple was built after we left. There were operas and parades."

"Yes, if you can't catch it this year, you can wait until next year. It should be available every year in the future."

"That depends on the situation."

"After you finish building that lighthouse, you must leave people stationed there, right? If people stay, won't we be able to see it next year?"

"This is subject to arrangement. It is not something we can decide."

Ye Yaodong did not continue the topic. Staying here to camp was not a good idea.

After arriving at the village committee, everyone divided their things. Some went to find the village cadres, while he made phone calls.

After doing business for so long, he was familiar with Boss Zhou and knew that they had a big Liberation truck and that they had a backer to sell goods all over the country, and his dried fish only accounted for a very small proportion of it.

As soon as he asked if they were buying kelp, the people immediately nodded and said yes, saying that it was selling very well this year, but they didn't have large quantities to buy in the city.

Ye Yaodong immediately became alert and asked about the price. When he was told that the price could be 1.5 cents, he nodded quickly and said that he would collect a batch of goods and send them over in the next two days. The quantity might not be large, just a few thousand kilograms.

But they said that more than 10,000 kilograms would be best, as a few thousand kilograms would be too little and not even enough for the travel expenses.

He could only try his best.

After hanging up the phone, he immediately started thinking about it. After the rain stops, he will collect the crops in the village first. After that, he will check the quantity. By then, word will spread like wildfire, and he will attract the surrounding villages to come and see if he can collect more.

If other villages are not by the sea, there will probably not be many of them, and you can only take your chances. There will probably be quite a few villages by the sea.

He walked home holding an umbrella, thinking about it.

At this time, the rain had become lighter, with only a drizzle. A large group of villagers had gathered around the location of the electricity box in the village. They were all wearing straw raincoats and standing in front of the box curiously. They surrounded Captain Chen and his men, watching them inspect the box and asking if it had been burned by thunder.

Everyone is still concerned about whether electricity can still be available. After all, life becomes much more convenient with electricity.

Besides, it’s raining days and you’re just sitting around doing nothing.

Ye Yaodong saw it from a distance, so he walked over to take a look. After listening to the villagers' discussions for a while, he realized that it would not be repaired so quickly, so he went back.

He had to ask Ah Qing to cook more food to entertain the guests at noon.

Lin Xiuqing was also surprised when she heard this. "It's fate that I can meet them. I'll go see if I can buy some meat. They may not be used to eating the seafood with shells and thorns here."

The old lady also actively suggested killing a chicken and stewing it.

"Oh, by the way, didn't you make the phone call? Do you want to buy the kelp? How much?" Lin Xiuqing remembered what he wanted to ask him while changing into her rain boots.

"If you want to collect them, tell mom at lunch time. When the rain stops, go to the workshop and collect them. I'll take as many as you can get. It's still like what I said last night, 6 cents per pound."

"So how much can we sell?"

"I won't tell you yet. It's profitable anyway. We still have to add the road expenses to deliver it to the city. We have to add one cent to every pound of road expenses."

"Okay, then just think it over. I'll go buy the meat first. I'm afraid I won't be able to buy good meat if I'm late."

"Well, let's do more. I'll see if we can just invite all the village cadres over, have a meal together, and then talk about the matter."

People who take from others are grateful, and people who eat from others are soft-hearted. It is easier to talk at the dinner table than in the office. When people are drunk, everyone is a brother and is willing to agree to anything.

"Ok."

Lin Xiuqing put on her rain boots and went out, but saw a bunch of chickens and ducks hiding under the umbrella he had just put at the door. She picked up the umbrella and walked out.

Ye Yaodong stayed at home to help the old lady kill chickens and ducks. With so many people, one was not enough to feed them.

After killing them all, he went to check the power supply box in the village. It was still being repaired. The village cadres were also watching there. The number of people around did not decrease. Everyone was very idle.

He talked to the village chief and the village secretary for a while, and invited them to have lunch at his house.

"I've already made an appointment with Captain Chen. Let's all go to my place for lunch at noon. It will be more lively."

The village chief smiled and said, "You are really good at doing things. You have already arranged everything and invited everyone to your home."

"Of course, we are all old acquaintances. It's a rare occasion for us to come to our village, so we must greet them well."

Secretary Chen also smiled and said, "Adong has always been very efficient in his work. We will shamelessly go and get a free meal from him later."

"I've wanted to invite you all to dinner for a long time, but I just haven't been able to find the time. I'm busy every day, so it's a good time to take a break. Let's all go to my place and have some fun together."

"Okay, I don't know when it can be repaired or when the electricity will be restored. I'm used to having electricity, and suddenly there's no electricity. It's really inconvenient. I fell down in the dark last night and my knee is swollen."

"Yeah, it's better to have electricity..."

Ye Yaodong stood there and chatted with them for a while, then left after the decision was made. He still had to go back to his hometown to tell his father to come early for lunch so as not to keep them waiting.

When Father Ye heard that the village cadres and Captain Chen of the Navy who had previously lived in their house were going to be invited to have lunch at noon, he immediately put down the work of weaving bamboo baskets, put on his rain boots and raincoat, and went to the power box.

Prepare to wait over there, and ask the person to go home when the time comes.

The whole family started to get busy early, preparing the food for the lunch dinner in advance. The two little ones at home were left unattended and were making trouble everywhere.

A bunch of chickens and ducks under the porch at the door were bullied by them and fled everywhere, flying into the rain and hiding all over the yard, and the clucking and quacking sounds never stopped.

That would not have been enough. Ye Yaodong also saw Ye Xiaoxi secretly run into the house and take out a spoon. He thought she was going to do something, so he followed her out to take a look.

Pei Yu was stirring chicken and duck shit with a branch, and she held a spoon, called the dog over, held the dog's head, and was about to feed the dog shit.

"Ah~ open your mouth, be good~ eat your fill~"

"Eat your fill quickly and grow taller~"

"Be good, eat...eat...eat..."

Ye Yaodong, with a headache, quickly stopped them and rescued the dog.

These dogs are very ferocious towards outsiders, but they have no resistance to children at home. They allow themselves to be rubbed and squeezed by them, and sooner or later they will be broken by them.

"Are you disgusting? You can play with anything. This spoon will be used to feed you later!"

Ye Xiaoxi threw it away in disgust and shook her head desperately, "No."

"How about sending you to Xiaoyu's house to play?"

"Okay, okay~"

The two immediately clapped their hands happily. They were so bored at home and it would be more fun to change homes.

Ye Huimei's belly is too big, and she is about to give birth. She will give birth in about half a month. A Guang doesn't dare to take it lightly, so when they finished selling goods in the city yesterday, he didn't come back with them.

The busier the adults are, the more naughty they become. Ye Yaodong couldn't stand it and quickly sent them away.

　I finally developed a good habit of writing during the day. I will update early today and try to update another chapter after midnight.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)