Chapter 11 Sold the Blue Crabs (Please collect!)
Everyone in the Ye family also saw Ye Yaodong's harvest at this time. Ye's mother was the first to say in surprise: "You also caught two blue crabs?"
As she spoke, she squeezed it with her hand and said happily: "It's quite hard. The two of them should add up to more than a pound, and they can be sold for one or two yuan!"
"What are you selling? Take it home and eat it yourself!"
"Eat, eat, eat, you know how to eat, you prodigal son, your wife can only earn less than 1 yuan from doing Internet work for a day, but these two blue crabs can be sold for one or two yuan, and you actually want to eat them!" Ye Mu glared, and at the same time
I slapped him several more times.
Ye Yaodong took two steps back to avoid his mother's palm. His mother worked all year round and her hands were covered with calluses, so it would be quite painful to hit someone.
"Mom, I don't want to eat it myself. It's rare to catch two blue crabs. I want to stew them to feed the children at home..."
Mother Ye's face instantly looked better, and her tone softened. It was a good thing that she cared about her children, "There are so many children in the house, who can eat these two?"
"It's okay for one person to have a mouthful of soup with one foot at a time!"
"There are so many children, so there is no need to cry and fight. This thing is worth some money, so you should sell it. Yesterday, your father also left a few swimming crabs and a pound of small sword shrimps. Just eat those."
Ye Yaodong frowned. The two blue crabs together only weighed more than a pound. According to the current price, they only cost more than one yuan. Compared with later generations, they were too cheap.
Blue crabs are also called sturgeons, and they also call farmed blue crabs sturgeons.
In later generations, wild blue crabs were relatively cheap at the wharf, selling for 150 per catty. Wild crabs are not yet available in the market. They are all farmed and cost 150 per catty.
Seeing his frown, Mother Ye quickly winked at him and snatched the rope, "I'll take it to the dock purchase point and sell it for you. You wait here and dig some more clams by the way. The tide will be high soon."
This idiot, his wife worked so hard to make money, he finally caught two blue crabs, and the family is about to be separated. He doesn't want to sell some money and give it to his wife to save, but he actually wants to share it?
Ye Yaodong watched his mother walking quickly towards the shore, so he had to give up and sell a little bit for a little bit. He didn't turn around for a while. Anyway, the money now is valuable, so it's better to sell a little bit.
Lin Xiuqing felt relieved when she saw her mother-in-law carrying the blue crabs to sell them smoothly. The two blue crabs were worth the fishing net she had made for several days.
Everyone has selfish motives. Her man is inherently lazy and can't make as much money as his eldest and second brothers. Now that she can unexpectedly earn an extra one or two yuan, she doesn't want to share it with everyone.
Seeing Mother Ye's actions, Second Sister-in-law Ye's mouth dropped, but she didn't say anything. She had to take it and sell it, so she knelt down and continued digging.
Sister-in-law Ye was a little curious, "Yaodong, where did you catch blue crabs? No wonder I didn't see you just now."
"there!"
After what happened just now, he had no desire to talk to these people. He casually shook his head and gave a direction, then walked towards his wife and looked at the almost full basin next to her.
"The harvest is good, I dug a lot."
Lin Xiuqing smiled lightly and said, "It's not bad, but it's a pity that the tide is about to come in. We have to wait until the night when the tide goes out, so we can only come back tomorrow."
She glanced at his trousers rolled up high, and then looked at the rock, "Did you go outside the tide to dig these?"
After giving him a smile, Ye Yaodong nodded, "Well, there was nothing on the stone wall nearby. Sea melon seeds and snails were only as big as a butt, so I walked out a little, and I was probably blocked by those strangely shaped rocks.
You didn’t see it.”
Have you really become more diligent? Have you dug seriously for so long? No wonder I didn’t see anyone nearby and actually walked outside the tide.
"These sea melon seeds and spicy snails are a bit small." She reached out and rummaged through the basket.
"I have tried my best to dig up all the edible ones. The sea melon seeds are okay. They start to eat when they are ripe. Although they are a bit smaller, they should be quite meaty. The snails are a bit smaller. Take them home and share them.
Come out and let some children smash it with stones and steam the scallion oil."
"What? Scallion oil? Do you need oil to cook a snail? Just boil it in water and pick out the meat. Where did you get the idea of ​​using oil to eat a snail?"
Lin Xiuqing frowned and looked at him in disbelief. She really didn't know how expensive tea, rice, oil and salt were without being a master!
"Uh...heh...I heard, let's just boil it." Ye Yaodong sneered. He habitually brought over the cooking methods from later generations. He forgot for a moment that what he was eating now was lard, and he didn't want to make it like this.
Just boil the fresh seafood, and they can boil it now, so you don't have to waste money on seasonings.
Lin Xiuqing frowned and gave him a strange look, then squatted down again, "Mom hasn't come here yet, I'll dig for a while, or you can take your son to the shore and wait."
"OK!"
It just so happened that he didn't want to do it anymore! His feet felt uncomfortable after soaking in the water for too long.
Ye Chengyang's feet were buried in the sand, and he was still giggling there. He directly picked up the child who was playing so enthusiastically, stuck it under his arm, and took his harvest to the shore first.
As soon as the child was pinched under his arm, he started to cry loudly, his limbs flailing around, and he jumped out with two words: "I want to play, I want to play, I don't want to, go home!"
"The tide is coming in, everyone has to go home!"
"No, no, Yangyang, I want to play!"
"Next time I come back, there is still corn at home. Do you want to eat it? If you go back late, your brothers and sisters will eat it all."
When it came to food, the child stopped struggling and said, "I want to eat, Yangyang, I want to eat!"
After Ye Yaodong came ashore, he put him down and asked him to sit on a rock on the shore. "Sit down and wait for your mother to finish digging before we go back together."
"hungry……"
"Why didn't you say you were hungry when we were playing just now? Just wait for me!"
Ye Yaodong was used to the dissatisfaction of his two sons decades later, and they would talk back to him from time to time. He was really not used to being so young now and acting like a baby.
The contrast is too great, and I can’t feel pity...
Ye Chengyang's mouth was flat and he was a little aggrieved. He looked like he was crying or not. Ye's mother, who happened to come over, and Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua who had parked the boat saw it.
Mother Ye immediately felt distressed, "What's wrong, Yangyang? Who bullied you? Tell grandma, grandma will beat him!"
After gaining support, Ye Chengyang suddenly opened his mouth and howled loudly, "Dad, it's dad!"
Mother Ye immediately pretended to hit Ye Yaodong twice, "Grandma has already beaten your father for you. Be good and stop crying."
Ye Chengyang immediately closed his mouth and stopped howling. His tears were flowing freely. Only a little moisture on his eyelashes showed signs of crying.
Ye Yaodong couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth!
bad boy!
No wonder they are so unpleasant when they are older!
"Grandma, I'm hungry, corn!"
"Okay, we'll go home and cook soon."
After comforting her grandson, Mother Ye shouted to the daughters-in-law on the beach: "Go home, stop digging, it's getting late, it's time to go home for dinner."
The three daughters-in-law were already growling with hunger. When their mother-in-law called to them, they each took basins and buckets and went ashore. The tide was coming up anyway.
Chapter completed!