Ye Yaodong put his hands behind his back and walked around the workshop in a swaggering manner, walking around behind a group of women who were killing fish and behind a group of women who were washing fish.
They all talked non-stop. When they saw him coming, they just smiled and said hello, and then continued talking. His arrival did not affect their interest in gossip at all. His eyes, nose and eyebrows were all funny.
, talking with great joy.
He was curious and stood there for a while.
"I didn't expect that I was really not afraid of death. I almost made money last time, but I lost my life. How long has it been since?"
"Yeah, it's only been 10 days, and I got out of bed in a hurry and started drying fish again..."
"You still refuse to admit it, and you say you can eat it at home. Who will believe it? I buy hundreds of kilograms from Ah Cai every day, and I think everyone else is a fool..."
"I'm not afraid of losing my entire family fortune... It's so dangerous out there... Money is so easy to make. If it was so easy to make, who wouldn't be able to make a fortune?"
"I didn't expect them to recover very quickly. They got out of bed in ten days..."
"How is it better? My face is still bruised and bruised, my eyes can only open a crack, and they are still swollen, and I am still limping when I walk. I can't wait. I really feel that my life is too long..."
What these women were discussing was that Wang Laoqi and his son, who wanted to copy his path later in the year, went to the city to sell dried fish. At that time, they said they had sold out their goods in the early morning, so they waited at the station gate to take the first train at dawn.
When I came back, my money was robbed and I was beaten half to death. I walked back miserable and fell in front of my house.
"I heard that the weather has been good recently, so I want to get more sunshine as soon as possible. Otherwise, it may rain in a few days. Then there will be spring rain from time to time, which will be difficult."
"I'm really not afraid of death. It was okay to save up for a year and then sell it, and there would be no loss. At most, I would get beaten up. Now I have to spend money to buy it. I'm not afraid of losing all my money and begging for food..."
"I'm sure they won't be able to dry it much. Now that the weather is getting hotter, the best time to dry dried fish is of course autumn and winter. It's spring now. There will be more rain later, and they won't be able to dry it for a few days. They are messing around, thinking that everyone
Can you all be A Dong?"
"Yes, whether you make money or not depends on your life. Just after one year, unfortunately, the money is gone and people are beaten. How dare you do it..."
After Ye Yaodong understood what everyone was talking about, he went in again and learned if he was willing. If he really got rich, that was because they were lucky.
After being beaten so badly, he still dared to dry the fish as soon as he could get out of bed and walk around. This shows that he already knew the oil, water and sweetness in it, and knew that the fish could make money, so he was ruthless and planned to do it again as soon as he could move.
Did it once.
He also feels that getting rich really depends on fate and luck. Although opportunities are great these days, they are accompanied by risks. It is easy to get rich, but it is also easy to be unlucky.
This morning, the old lady sat next to the group of women picking goods. There was a radio playing next to her. She happily listened to the conversations of everyone around her and helped sort the goods with her hands.
Probably because the light at night was not good, her eyesight was not working well, so she sat and chatted among the fish-killing piles in the evening. Today the sun was good and the light was sufficient, so she sat here.
Today, all the children went to school, and were driven away unwillingly before they had a chance to earn money. Only Ye Chengyang, who was not old enough to go to school, worked happily and hard.
As soon as he saw Ye Yaodong coming, he immediately shouted happily and loudly, "Dad!"
"Well, he's quite diligent. He didn't go out to play early in the morning, and he still helped out with the housework."
"Didn't you tell them it was ten cents an hour? Isn't that very positive? Ahai and the others planned to take leave this morning and not go to school. They were beaten so hard in the morning that they were driven to school in a state of panic.
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Ye Chengyang said with bright eyes: "Dad, you have to keep your word. Others pay ten cents an hour, and of course I do too."
"How much money do I have for my own workshop? When I grow old, all mine will belong to you three brothers and sisters."
Ye Chengyang tilted his head and thought for a moment, feeling that these words were quite familiar.
"But you are not old yet."
"Then it's all yours from now on. How can anyone ask for money? Be good and work hard. Ah Hai and the others are outsiders. They only have to pay when they help our family. Just like those grannies over there.
Helper. This workshop will be yours from now on, why do you need to pay me? Have you seen me giving myself money?"
Ye Chengyang was a little confused and stunned by him, not knowing what he wanted to say.
I’m also a little confused, do I get paid for drying fish here?
Father Ye rolled his eyes. Aren't these the words that the mother-in-law at home often talked about? She even used these words to fool her children.
"Why didn't you get up until now? Don't you have to go to the county town to do some business?"
"Xiaojiu slept in the kennel yesterday. The whole family was rummaging around in the middle of the night. It took a long time to find someone, so I got up late today. I just finished breakfast and came out to take a look. Now I will go to the county seat immediately.
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"Slept in the kennel? How could she sleep in the kennel? No matter how hard she fell, she couldn't fall into the kennel. Did you leave the house unlocked at night when you slept? Did she run out by herself?"
Ye Chengyang was also surprised, "My sister slept with the dog yesterday?"
Ye Yaodong glanced at his silly son and gave his father a simple explanation.
"Fortunately, I ran to the kennel instead of outside. It was already dark and pitch black. If I had to run outside, I wouldn't get frozen in any corner."
"Well, I have a long memory. I have to be more careful next time. I'm going to the county seat. Do you want to go with me?"
"Yes, of course I have to go with you. You are going to the shipyard today. Of course I have to keep an eye on it and go with you to avoid being deceived. I came here early in the morning to wait for you.
Let’s go to the county seat together.”
"Let's go then, ride a motorcycle to go faster."
Father Ye's eyes lit up, "Okay, okay, let's go on a motorcycle."
He happily wanted to wipe his hands on his clothes twice, but he remembered that what he was wearing today was not work clothes, but a Chinese New Year cotton-padded jacket, so he stopped abruptly, and then passed Ye Yaodong and walked towards the group of women washing fish.
"I'm going to wash my hands first, please wait for me."
Ye Chengyang was ready to make a move, looking at him with a troubled face, but he hesitated to speak.
Ye Yaodong smiled and raised his eyebrows, "Do you want to follow?"
"Dad, do I get paid for drying fish?"
"Well, I'll give it to you even if it's difficult. Otherwise, everyone else has it but you don't."
He smiled mischievously and posed a difficult question to Ye Chengyang: should he stay here to earn wages, or go to the county with him on a motorcycle to show off.
After Ye Chengyang knew for sure that he had wages, he was happy, but he struggled, and in the end he couldn't resist the charm of money.
"Forget it, I'll just make money here. Dad, you have to keep your word."
"Well, do it well."
He nodded happily.
Given the choice between money and publicity, I chose money quite pragmatically, so I’m not stupid at all.
After washing his hands, Father Ye saw that he was still standing there and quickly urged, "Come on, why are you still standing there? It will be noon in a while, and you are still dragging your feet. Go early and come back early..."
Lin Xiuqing had just finished her meal and brought her children over to help with the work. When she saw the father and son shouting and heading out together, she quickly asked him.
"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to the county town to do something. There's no need to cook for us at noon. Let's go on motorcycles now. Remember to take care of the boxes at home. Don't let anyone move the boxes in the yard. Let the old lady go back... Forget it, I will
Lock up a few more dogs in the house, keep two in the yard, keep two at home, and lock one in the room."
The workshop is so lively, and the old man likes crowded and lively places. There is no need to send her back to sit at the door with her neck stretched out, staring blankly at this place, so she should just let her listen to the excitement here.
If she was really being robbed, it would be more than an old lady like her could handle. She probably wouldn't even be able to scream, and the fun would be over.
The dogs at home are also quite smart and clever, and the two sides here are close to each other, so Qing can just go back and open the door to take a look from time to time.
"That's okay. I'll ask A Liang and the others to pass by the house and take a closer look while they're carrying water. We'll have to cook lunch again around 10 o'clock, so I'll go back."
"Well, then I'm leaving."
Before Ye Yaodong left, he bent down and pinched the face of the fat guy next to him.
The little fat man was so forgetful that he no longer remembered his unjust deeds, and he still smiled happily at him, showing two rows of millet teeth.
Feeling a little amused, he squatted down and brought his head to her, "Kiss me?"
Damn~
"Be good~ I'll buy you some candies when I come back."
Ye Xiaoxi nodded happily, and the two little tweets on his head also trembled.
Seeing him lazing around, Ye's father was already one step ahead of him, and then he shouted at the dogs running around, asking them to follow him home.
He followed me back to the yard obediently, but when Father Ye called them to enter the door, none of the dogs wanted to go in, they all stayed on their hind legs.
"Go in, you can go in any one of them, hurry up..."
All the dogs barked at him and then stood in the corner. Father Ye hurried over and tried to catch one, but they ended up running around in the house, and then one after another ran out.
As soon as Ye Yaodong entered the courtyard gate, he saw that the dog was about to run out, so he quickly closed the courtyard door.
"What are you doing? Why are you running? Now I have a glorious and arduous task to entrust you. Raise a dog for a thousand days and use it for a while. Come here, cooperate with me, and I will buy you pig lungs and bones to eat later."
"Why are you running, why are you hiding? Didn't you perform well last night? Keep up the good work today..."
He looked at the dogs barking and running all over the yard, and he could only catch them one by one with his father.
The little black one is the biggest, so it comes first.
Lock it in a room for safety.
After Xiao Heizi was caught, he was dragged into the house with a lifeless expression, and turned to look at the other dogs, making whimpering sounds.
"Be good, I'm just looking after my family. I'll give you extra food tonight. I'll definitely give you more than other dogs."
Ye Yaodong dragged the dog into the room and told it, "Don't dig around, don't run on the bed, don't get into the cabinet, and just move around in the open space."
"Woo~"
It screeched and lay directly on the ground behind the door, its whole head pressed to the ground, motionless, as if it were a dead dog.
Ye Yaodong couldn't see how dead it was, so he kicked it and said, "Don't pretend to be dead. Be smart and look after your home."
It immediately stood up slowly again.
Then he locked the door.
"These dogs are well-raised and very obedient. They are not in vain and they can also look after the house."
"Of course it is well raised. Judging from its smooth and shiny hair, it must have eaten a few more mouthfuls of good food than other dogs. Of course it has to work if it eats too much."
After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he continued to go to the yard, caught two more and locked them in the main room.
By the way, I took a basket from the wall of the house. It was filled with freshly dried shrimps after the New Year.
I originally kept the food for myself, but now I have to visit the county town and I can’t go empty-handed, so I happened to bring a basket of shrimps over there, which makes the noodles look better.
After he locked the door, the remaining two dogs in the yard hid in corners. One of them even went out of his way to hide in the nylon bag he used to cover the boxes, as if it could hide away from him and prevent him from discovering it.
The two locked dogs in the main room were lying on the window, their heads pressed against the glass, looking out, looking a little pitiful.
"Be good, you look after the house. I'm leaving. Don't eat the food given by strangers. If there are any other messy things suddenly in the yard, you are not allowed to eat, do you understand?"
"Woof~"
Only one dog hiding in the corner responded, while the other Dalmatian dog hiding in a nylon bag remained silent.
When he went to ride his motorcycle, he gave it a kick, and the dog succumbed to his power and barked too.
"Dad, go and open the courtyard door."
"good."
After Ye Yaodong rode out on his motorcycle, he locked the courtyard door again.
Father Ye was already excited and hurriedly climbed into the sidecar and waited.
Except when he first came back from riding a motorcycle, he touched it and rode it. After driving it back and forth twice, he never sat on it again. He had long forgotten how to drive it, but it felt quite fresh to sit in it now.
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He had never sat on this sidecar before, so he stamped his feet inside it twice, touched the seat, and looked left and right a few times.
"Sit tight, I'm going to start?"
He immediately sat upright and held the hollowed-out position on the car with his hand to prevent him from being thrown out by the bumpy road.
After Ye Yaodong saw that his father was ready, he slowly started driving and then walked slowly towards the village.
Some old men and women were sitting in the doorway basking in the sun. When they heard the sound of his motorcycle, they stretched their necks and looked toward the sound. Then they stood up. They did not withdraw their attention until the motorcycle was far away.
Ye Yaodong couldn't hear the whispers behind him. He focused on looking ahead, and didn't speed up a little until he reached the main road.
There has been a lot of delay since I got up, and it is already early 9 o'clock.
According to the speed of the motorcycle, we can reach the county by 9:30 at most. However, there are many people coming and going in the county, so the motorcycle cannot be as fast as riding on the road. It must be moving at a slow speed.
This motorcycle is quite eye-catching. There are only a few of them in the entire county. Only those who are well-dressed can ride a bicycle on the street. Generally, they carry a basket and rely on two legs.
He chose small roads to walk. At this time, most of the county town was farmland, which had not yet been expropriated. The urban area seemed very small, but only a little bit larger. After arriving in the urban area, he soon drove to the alley near Director Chen's house.
Even if he was brave enough, he would not dare to drive his motorcycle directly to the entrance of the Maritime Safety Bureau, nor would he dare to drive it under his family's building, so as not to cause trouble to others.
"Dad, you watch here while I walk over. There are only two alleys."
"Don't you need me to go with you?"
"No, it's important to keep an eye on the motorcycle. What if it gets stolen? We can't drive the motorcycle under someone's family building. What if it causes trouble for the leader? We have to be sensible."
"Okay, okay, then I'll wait here. Remember to ask more questions and ask more clearly, so as not to get yourself into trouble. If those goods are being investigated, we might as well hand them over directly. Don't take advantage of that.
, it’s not good to get into trouble, and don’t make it difficult for others.”
"I know, I'm sensible, and I'm not a money-minded person."
After Ye Yaodong finished speaking, he walked forward. He took out the watch in his pocket and looked at it. He rubbed it and found that it was only 10 o'clock and it was not yet time to get off work.
Thinking that I would have to wait for a long time downstairs in the family building, and the Maritime Safety Bureau was not far away, I simply went directly to the entrance of the Maritime Safety Bureau and squatted down.
But he was happy to squat at the door, but the guard was not happy to see him and even came to chase him away.
He had no choice but to explain his purpose, and they looked him up and down. Seeing that he was well-dressed and handsome, he took two more cigarettes and happily went in to report.
Ye Yaodong woke up this morning and tidied himself up. He shaved off all the beard he hadn't shaved in a few days, and combed his hair into the most popular slicked-back hairstyle, making him look like a successful person.
A man relies on his clothes and a horse relies on his saddle.
It makes sense to respect clothes first and then people.
Director Chen heard that a fair and energetic young man came to him, and thought it must be Ye Yaodong, so he quickly followed him out.
"Why are Comrade A Dong here again? Come into my office and sit for a while and have a sip of tea."
"Okay, thank you. I'm disturbing you again. Are you busy? If you are busy, I will wait at the door for you to get off work. Don't be in a hurry. There's nothing to do. I have official business."
"It's nothing, it's just a small matter. Let's sit in the room for a while and have a sip of tea."
"Okay, okay, why do you feel like there are so few people there?" As soon as Ye Yaodong walked into the dilapidated yard, he saw that there seemed to be a lot less people inside, and a few doors were still locked.
"Going to do some work."
After he said oh, he didn't have the nerve to ask any more questions. He didn't hand the basket of shrimps to Director Chen until he entered the office.
"I came back from my first trip to the sea after the New Year to dry them. The weather has been good these two days and they dried quickly. I brought a basket here for you to try. These shrimps are filled with calcium and are good for a long time."
"Thank you, sit down, sit down."
Ye Yaodong asked him straight to the point what he had told him when he came over a few days ago.
"Is the canned fish thing of any use to you? We were on the sea this time. We originally wanted to contact the fish harvesting boat that I used to call, but we couldn't. The group from the previous few days couldn't either.
Do you know you were released?"
Director Chen's face was extremely serious, "This matter is now confidential, and it involves a lot of things. I can't say anything, and you don't want to ask anything. This matter won't be settled within a few months, so why don't you accept it?"
We have to contact Xianchuan again, so don’t ask about the original family."
Ye Yaodong immediately sat upright. He had never seen Chen Shang look so serious before. Although he had long thought that caviar could be involved, it was definitely not a trivial matter, but his imagination was limited and he did not have a precise understanding.
Now I knew something big must have happened.
Not to mention caviar, the boat full of canned fish alone is already worth a lot of money, at least hundreds of thousands. He wouldn't believe it if there wasn't a big fish involved.
I just don’t know if it can bring any benefits to Director Chen, but since it was reported by someone else, it can have some influence and some credit, right?
"Since the involvement is serious, are they going to salvage the sunken ship at the bottom of the sea?"
"How to salvage it? It has sunk to the bottom of the sea. Who knows how many hundred meters deep it is? Where can it be salvaged? It's not like near your fishing village before, where you can go down and salvage the shallow ones."
Ye Yaodong nodded pretendingly, "That's true. If it sinks, it will definitely sink to the bottom. It may not be possible to salvage it even if the manpower and material resources are spent. Anyway, there is already a piece of physical evidence."
"Yes, it has been handed over to the province. How to solve it is beyond our control. I don't know how it will be handled. We will just wait for notification."
"When the fishing boat sank before, there were many boxes piled on the deck and they were floating in the sea. I didn't know it. I saw one floating in front of me and curiously tried to fish it out. The others were not fished out in time.
If they are all floating away, will they encounter other fishing boats at sea and be salvaged by other fishing boats? What if these are accidentally salvaged by other fishing boats and flow into the market? "
"I don't know. If no report is sent to us, our public security bureau and other local public security bureaus will definitely know nothing. What they are checking now is the background of the manufacturer... It's confidential, Comrade Ye Yaodong, it's confidential now.
stage, don’t ask anything.”
Ye Yaodong understood instantly that people who were bought in the market would just think it was a normal purchase and eat it directly. Who among ordinary people would send a canned fish to the public security bureau?
When ordinary fishermen see boxes floating in the sea and salvage them, knowing that the items are valuable and can be sold for money, they will just take them and sell them directly. How can they think about whether there is anything wrong with the goods?
It’s really embarrassing to buy caviar by mistake. People probably think they are profiteers and sell the wrong products. They will just come to your door and ask for a return. Except for foreigners who eat caviar, who among their own country eats this stuff.
Just like the few bags of goods he accidentally fished out of the sea when he came back from Zhejiang Province the year before last.
After salvaging it, would anyone be so foolish as to send it to the Public Security Bureau?
He must have handled the sale directly and privately.
Therefore, those boxes he salvaged can also be disposed of directly at Linji. If the caviar is taken out separately, it can be put aside for a few months to avoid being mixed up together.
The most eye-catching thing about this batch of goods will only be the caviar. At worst, he should keep it tight and keep it to himself.
As for the manufacturer above, what does that matter? A factory can't just make one batch of goods, it may also be goods that have been made before and sold to other people.
After Ye Yaodong thought about it clearly, he immediately felt relaxed. He probably could sell it secretly.
"Understood, I don't ask anything, I don't know anything. I just came here today to give you a basket of shrimps to give you a taste."
"Well, you are serious. Not many fishermen can be as successful as you. Moreover, you are still so young and so down-to-earth. It is much better than some young people nowadays, who only know how to mess around in the park every day.
Twisting back and forth, what does it look like?"
"It seems that you have never met Director Chen's son or daughter?"
"My two daughters have joined the army, and I have three sons. One is also in the army, one is at the city's electric power bureau, and one is in college. They are usually away from home. It is useless to have so many children if they are not around.
As usual, we are the only two old couples staying at home."
Ye Yaodong's face was full of envy, "You are already a sure winner in life. You are only in your forties. Your son and daughter are all very promising. You have nothing to worry about."
"A person lives a hundred years and worries about ninety-nine years. There are still many things to worry about. When you are old, you want your children to be around. If none of them are at home, it will be difficult to call anyone if anything happens to me and their mother. Oh, forget it.
, young people still have to work."
"As long as you make a career, you will always come home and take a look. You are not old anyway. You are still very young. You are in your prime. If it weren't for policy issues, it wouldn't be a problem to have a few more."
"Haha, that's nonsense. You're already old, and your children are already so old. You'll have to make people laugh again. How can you still have the energy to raise your children?"
"What's so funny about this? I'll just praise you for still being a man and for being a real man. But now, we have to follow the policy and respond to the country's call to have fewer and better children for a happy life. Let them send the children back when we retire.
, you can also pass the time with your grandson, and you will still have someone to accompany you."
"Haha, so right now, I'm just looking forward to retiring when I'm older in a few years, and I don't have much hope for anything else."
"It will be many years until you retire. You will surely be promoted step by step in the next few years. You can also give your children a helping hand and be their strongest backing. They say that a father's shoulders are like mountains, supporting all hopes. I
Dad’s shoulders carried the pole and carried the whole family.”
Director Chen smiled and patted him on the shoulder, with a loving expression on his face, "You are still good at talking. Each of my three sons is more serious than the other."
"Haha, the living environment is different. We are used to free-range living in the countryside..."
Ye Yaodong sat there and chatted with others for a while, soothing the empty nester's heart, making them happy, and then excused himself not to disturb his work and left.
Director Chen also happily sent him out.
Maybe he is a little lonely without his children around. He can also talk, so he has a good attitude towards him.
"You didn't come here on a bicycle?"
"Yes, at my dad's place. He is walking around the county. I will go find him after I finish my work."
"Okay, then go back early. I haven't gotten off work here yet, so I won't invite you to go home."
"No, no, you're busy, I'll go back directly to my father."
"Well, let's go slowly." Bureau Chen smiled and raised his hand at him.
Chapter completed!