Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 5

Everyone in the family saw the farce just now. From the beginning to the end, Ye Yaopeng told Ye Yaohua that it was a lie that he was not envious. Even their little sister Ye Huimei was also very envious.

Although the old lady was very kind to their juniors, she couldn't compare to Ye Yaodong. The old lady had him in her heart.

They are four brothers and sisters, and more than a dozen cousins. I heard that only he was delivered by grandma himself, and he was born on the beach almost too late.

Then as soon as he was born, he smiled at her while holding her in his hand, and immediately got her eyes, which hurt from childhood to adulthood.

As soon as he entered the room, Father Ye was still angry, smoking a hookah and glaring at him!
To be honest, he didn't understand until now, which sentence was wrong?Let his parents explode together!
manner?

Or do you hate iron but not steel over time?

He thought about it in his heart, let's just have these two, otherwise why would his parents be angry?

"Caigua, I told you to keep one for Dongzi, did you keep it?"

As soon as the old lady sat down, she saw a group of children gnawing on a piece of vegetable melon, and asked hurriedly, lest Ye Yaodong didn't eat it.

Ye Yaodong's younger sister, Ye Huimei, ate and said, "Keep it, it's on the stove, third brother takes it by himself."

Everyone cut up and ate, only him, alone!
Moreover, everyone is not surprised, even the children don't have any opinions, the third uncle is special!
Ye Yaodong looked at the vegetable melons with green flowers on the stove. They were oval and only a little longer than an adult's palm. He just saw a few that were very long and big, like a mallet. They were probably cut up and eaten. Leave him the youngest.

This is his favorite melon. At that time, many people grew it, and it was very cheap. In later generations, few people grow this variety. They are all white-skinned and round melons. He has not eaten them for many years.

He walked over to the earthen stove. The vegetables and melons had been washed clean, and there were still drops of water on them.

Looking at the cutting board and kitchen knife on the stove, the juice and seeds were still left, he also put the vegetable melon on it and cut it into large pieces, took a vegetable plate at random, and walked towards his grandma.

"Grandma, you eat one too!"

The old lady waved her hand with a smile, "I have no teeth, I can't bite, you eat it, why do you still cut it..."

Although he really wanted to eat it, he didn't want to enjoy it to himself, there were not many of them in total, and the family had a large population.

Seeing that the old lady really had no teeth to chew on, he gave another piece to each of his two children, and another piece to his wife.

This behavior made Lin Xiuqing look sideways again.

Judging from the past, shouldn't he just pick it up and eat it? Why did he cut it up and share it with everyone?

After Lin Xiuqing took it, he took one piece by himself, and put the rest on the table for everyone to pick up.

"Third brother, have you changed your gender?"

"Can't stop your mouth after eating?"

Ye Huimei pursed her mouth, not daring to say anything more.

Ye Yaodong looked at the old lady again, and said with a smile: "Now there is a kind of removable dentures, you can wear them when you eat, you can bite any meat, you can wash them after eating, and you can use them again next time. When I go to the city sometime, I go to the hospital to ask for a pair of them for you, grandma, so that you can eat meat, and you can eat anything!"

"Oh, don't waste that money, half of my body is about to fall into the ground, and porridge with tofu and bean curd is enough, and I have to eat fast for half a month..."

"You can eat meat on the days when you don't eat fast, that's it!"

"I'm so old, what meat do I still eat? Fish is not as delicious as meat. We seaside people just eat fish." The old lady smiled brightly, but she was actually very happy and very useful!

"Fish is better than fish, and meat is better. We all eat."

Everyone in the room watched their interaction, thinking to themselves, the third child has a bit of conscience towards the old lady, and it is not in vain that the old lady loves him so much.

Mother Ye also came in after peeling the corn husks, and Aunt Ye greeted her, "Mother, let me cook."

"It's okay, I'll come, you go and watch the children."

The old lady looked at Father Ye and said, "I saw that the silk of the corn is turning black, and it's almost ripe. In two days, you can break the cobs with me, so that they don't grow in the ground for too long, and they won't taste good when they're too old."

Father Ye stared at him with the hookah, "I don't have time, the boat has just been repaired, and taking advantage of the abundance of newcomers, I have to take the boss and the second to go out to sea a few more times to see if I can get another big one! Riyou is idle, you ask him to bring a few small ones, and just pick them up after breaking them."

"It's no wonder he can move. He doesn't see anyone all day long. I'll take the children to accompany the mother to break it." Mother Ye grabbed a handful of straw, took a match to ignite the fire, and threw it into the stove. over the phone.

As soon as he said that the third child couldn't move, Father Ye thought of the fact that the brigade had arranged for him to pick the millet a few years ago, but he ended up picking the ditch, and he was so angry!

"What's the use? Such a big man can't even pick up millet and corn, but he can also pick it into the ditch, making people laugh..."

Ye Yaodong: "..."

It's all about the rotten millet, and his father can remember it so well, although...although he was indeed a little useless when he was young...

However, when he was reborn, he planned to change his mind and be a good man...

Lin Xiuqing felt that it was not good for her own man to be rejected by her own father in front of so many people, so she quickly changed the topic to save Ye Yaodong.

"Mom, the first day of junior high school will be in two days, and the tide has receded a lot recently, don't we have to go to the sea?"

"It's okay, don't delay, there are such a large group of children, let the third child take them to break the corn cobs, tell me when they are broken, and I will pick them."

Ye Yaodong didn't say a word, and the matter was already arranged for him. In fact, he wanted to say that he could...

But he swallowed it back again, and he couldn't be in a hurry to express it, lest it was too abnormal, he just picked it back when the time came.

Because their family was poor and couldn't afford to build a house, they never separated, and the whole family ate and drank together.

It’s just that each house collects the money earned by doing casual labor and fishing nets by itself, and because it relies on the sea to eat the sea, and the seaside products are rich, and it doesn’t need to spend much money to eat and drink. There is no big contradiction.

And all his father's earnings were used to repair the boat, and it was left by his father anyway. Repairing a boat is more cost-effective than building or buying one.

Seaside people, who doesn't want to have a boat at home, can sail to go fishing, and improve their life at home.

Father Ye is also eager, so he has been making money to repair the boat for the past two years.

Now that the boat is repaired and ready to go to sea, of course he has to be more diligent and take the two boys in the family to go fishing. Anyway, the third child is not cured, and when the family conditions improve, he can be pulled out at that time.

The old lady saw that the whole family was busy, and even the third child was sent to work, so she hurriedly said: "There is no rush to break the corn, and there is nothing wrong with a few days later, just breaking a basket every day to satisfy everyone's hunger, and breaking it all at once is not new." gone."

Mother Ye didn't even turn her head, she just stared at the fire in the stove, "Just don't worry, it's not worth a lot anyway, so don't set up a stall to sell it, just eat a little bit every day, if you are too old, you can eat it." Keep it as a seed, and we'll turn it over for you when it's empty."

(End of this chapter)