Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1161: There is a clue (please give me more monthly tickets)

A night without dreams until dawn.

After hearing the noise beside him early in the morning, Ye Yaodong also got up refreshed.

After washing up, he stood at the door, twisting his neck and waist, looking at the chickens leisurely catching insects in the yard, the dog lying on the ground wagging its tail out of boredom, and the ducks swaying towards the beach not far away. The doorstep of his home seemed quiet and peaceful in the early morning.

There were some scattered voices coming from all around, and people passing by his door carrying hoes or holding spittoons. He sighed and said something.

"People these days still have normal schedules."

Unlike later, when there are too many entertainment activities, people are reluctant to sleep. Young people don’t have mornings.

"Please move aside and stop standing at the gate. You're blocking the light. Why don't you come in and eat?"

"The little ones haven't woken up yet. Let's eat together when they wake up."

He felt that the family almost never had breakfast together?
Even if he didn't go out to sea, he would sleep until he woke up naturally at home and seldom meet his children. Breakfast was almost always cooked in their home, and whoever got up first would eat first. It was rare for everyone to sit together to eat.

At least he was barely involved.

"Then go and wake them up. They also have to get up, eat breakfast and go to school."

"You go call your son, and I'll call my daughter."

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him and said, "If you don't know, you would think we are divorced, or both of us are remarried and have children."

The old lady also glared at him, "What are you talking about? Aren't they all yours?"

Ye Yaodong touched his nose and walked straight to the room. The old lady was still mumbling behind him, "Nothing has happened yet, but now the children have been assigned to different people. What kind of words... If someone hears them, I don't know how to explain it..."

The little piglet on the bed had already fallen asleep in the corner, sleeping in a spread-eagle position, with his clothes lifted up to reveal his belly. His mouth was slightly open and moving, and he was sleeping soundly.

He couldn't help but smile as he watched her. He climbed onto the bed, grabbed her little feet, touched and kissed them, and rubbed them on his cheek.

The baby's feet are white, tender, soft, and very nice to touch. They even smell like milk...

But suddenly, the little feet in his hand became uncontrollable and kicked him hard on the nose...

"Oh……"

Ye Yaodong loosened his feet and covered his nose, tears and snot flowing down unconsciously due to the pain.

Ye Xiaoxi sat up with a confused look on his face and rubbed his eyes. "Dad? What's wrong with you?"

He reached out and tapped her head, enduring the pain, and said unhappily, "Get up."

"Ah! Why are you crying? Dad, why are you crying..."

She approached him curiously to see the tears on his face, and even stretched out her little hand to touch them twice, "Are you really crying?"

Then he coaxed her with a baby voice, "Don't cry, don't cry... Why are you crying so much..."

Ye Yaodong felt angry and amused at the same time, and wanted to beat her up. But when he heard her coaxing people like a little adult, he thought she was adorable and wanted to kiss and touch her.

At this time, Lin Xiuqing also came into the room and said, "Why are you calling me for so long? Hurry up and eat. The porridge is no longer hot."

"Mom, Dad is crying, please comfort him..."

"Crying?" She looked at Ye Yaodong in surprise.

Ye Yaodong was still sitting on the bed, covering his nose with one hand, "Your daughter kicked me in the nose."

"I do not have……"

"You kicked me when I was sleeping." He looked at Lin Xiuqing, "I just grabbed her foot and wanted to wake her up. She kicked me hard. It hurt so much. Let me see if your nose is bleeding?"

"No, a child doesn't have that much strength, there's no nosebleed."

"Children are quite powerful..."

Ye Xiaoxi was still confused and didn't believe that he did it.

Lin Xiuqing took a coat for her to wear, then picked her up and walked out, "Let's go eat. You don't have a nosebleed. It will be fine in a while."

Ye Yaodong endured the pain in his nose and went out to eat. The happiness of the family eating together disappeared in an instant.

Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang were chattering away, and it was impossible to feel the warm atmosphere of the whole family eating breakfast together. The two of them agreed to go out together, some to herd sheep while others to go to school, and then they would gather together at the school gate in the evening after school.

The two of them were making eyes at each other, and it was obvious that they would not come back obediently.

None of the adults at the table paid any attention to them, as long as they remembered to come back after dinner.

Ye Yaodong sat there for a while to relax, and only started to eat when he felt less sore.

After dinner, he sat there and chatted with his father for a while. When the sun came out completely at 8:30, he got up and walked towards the village committee.

"Where is Dong going?"

"Adong, are you really an official?"

"Adong was very busy, and I didn't see him when I came back..."

"Adong..."

Walking all the way to the village committee, people kept greeting him with a smile.

His face was frozen from smiling, and then he just kept a straight face and nodded.

"President Ye, you look so serious and impressive..."

Ye Yaodong laughed and said, "Don't laugh at me, Secretary Chen. I only have a title. I don't have the nerve to let you call me that."

"I haven't seen you in two days since I came back. Are you a busy man?"

"Didn't you come here to report today? I went to the city yesterday to take care of some urgent business."

He felt his pocket again, fortunately he had brought back some lighters yesterday, so he gave one to Secretary Chen, then he put his arm around his shoulder and walked in, and gave one to several cadres of the village committee.

"You are so generous. This thing is very expensive. But this one you brought back is quite cheap. I heard people say yesterday that you brought back a lot of them. Each one cost several dollars."

"I brought back quite a lot of them, which happened to be locally produced. I'll give them to everyone to play with."

"Thank you, this thing looks very advanced..."

"This is much more convenient than a matchbox, and it looks decent in your hand..."

Every old face was smiling brightly, they were so happy.

Ye Yaodong greeted them before asking about kelp.

They said that they would start harvesting seedlings in about 10 days, in November. The old people just asked about it and didn't know anything about it, so they asked the two hired workers to arrange it. Secretary Chen's son and two villagers also helped out.

At this time, they were all rowing out to sea in their small boats, making preparations for the sea.

He looked into it and found that it was not too different from what he knew. Some of the small details were just relatively old, so he did not mention it specifically. Anyway, the village cadres would not know even if he told them. He would just continue to communicate with the workers after they came back.

After sitting and chatting casually for a while, he called Ye Yaohai.

But it takes time to call someone, so he hung up again and sat there waiting for a long time before the phone rang.

"Comrade Ye Yaodong? You're back?"

"Yes, I called you right after I got back. Luckily I didn't miss you, otherwise I would have to go to the province to look for you."

"I'm much easier to find than you. You're a rich man with a lot of things to do, but I'm just an idle guy and I'm always available."

"No, I'm poor and can only work hard to make money, but you're different. If you have something to do, just tell me to do it."

"You're talking like I'm some kind of capitalist. Forget about that. The filling machine you asked me about two months ago has finally been developed. Do you want me to buy you a simple semi-automatic one? It's only a few thousand dollars and not expensive."

"Is it so cheap? How many yuan is that? One or two thousand is also several thousand yuan, eight or nine thousand is also several thousand yuan."

He didn't know whether the price was expensive or cheap. He was a little unsure and he hadn't seen the product, so he didn't know what it looked like.

"It seems to be a simplified version. The toll and other expenses should only be around 7,000 or 8,000 yuan. It's not very big either. I heard it's easy to make."

"How long will it take?"

"About one or two months? If you want, I'll contact someone to arrange for a ship to deliver it."

"Let me think about it. I'll call you back tomorrow. I just got back today and there's a lot to do..."

"It doesn't matter. Seven or eight thousand is not a small amount of money. I need to discuss it with my family."

Ye Yaodong asked about ancestor worship again.

"Has the ancestral hall been repaired? Two months ago you said it would take about two months, but now it's been more than two months."

"The date has been fixed and is set for half a month later. I was thinking of calling you a few days ago, but I wasn't sure if you would be at home, so I mailed it to you first. I think the invitation will arrive in a week."

"Okay, I'll call you when I receive the invitation and set a time to go over."

"Ah."

Ye Yaodong said a few polite words and hung up.

He remembered that before he went to find Ye Yaohai, he also went to find Lin Jishang, but Lin Jishang was not at home. He had left a message with his wife. When he came back yesterday, he didn't hear A Qing mention that Lin Jishang came to see him.

I don’t know if this person has come back in the past two months. He is really like a dragon that is hard to find. It is getting harder and harder to see him. I don’t know what he is doing.

He planned to go to Linji first to find out. Several thousand dollars is not a small amount of money. It would be best if there is a comparison. If not, he would just let Ye Yaohai arrange it so that he can get it earlier and put it on the market earlier.

By the end of the year, the boat that he and his elder and second brothers have partnered on will be in his possession. The family's fish sauce workshop will have to increase the amount of fermentation and expand the scale in the second half of the year. The amount that his small trawlers bring back every day can also be used for fermentation in a scattered manner.

Zhou Da and his brothers next door also partnered up to buy a big ship, which they said would be ready in the second half of the year, so they could spend money to buy back the groceries by then.

I'll get the machine back and try it out before the New Year. I'll package the existing fish sauce into bags first. It will probably be after the New Year before it can be fully put on the market.

It just so happened that a warehouse in a vacant lot in the city had been built, and all the goods could be moved to the warehouse and stacked up. That piece of land could be utilized just right. Otherwise, with the increase in production, he wouldn't even have a proper warehouse.

As soon as he hung up the phone, his mind was already turning over a thousand thoughts.

(End of this chapter)