There was also a lot of drying in the open space around the door, but they couldn't be dried inside and were dried outside.

Fearing that someone would steal the kelp, there were old people from the village cadres' families holding stools at the entrance of the old primary school.

This is to make use of everyone who can use it.

When Ye Yaodong saw him outside, he smiled and said hello to the old man, handed out a cigarette and went in.

Who is he, Ye Yaodong, who is famous in the village.

Everyone knew that he was the one who mentioned farming kelp, and the kelp was sold to him, so of course the old people would not stop him.

He didn't stay long either.

I walked in for a while and then left again, then walked around to my own workshop.

When it was almost time for dinner, he walked out, but a dirty clay figure ran towards him and hugged his thigh tightly.

"Dad, help, help."

"What's going on?"

Ye Yaodong looked down at the little one at his feet and was startled.

"Why are you so dirty? What did you do?"

He was covered in mud and soaked. He wanted to take his feet out, but was hugged tightly.

"I..." Ye Xiaoxi looked at the busy adults around him warily, then hugged his legs and dodged.

"I caught loaches, dad... I don't want to go home... Give me a bath, don't tell mom, don't go home..."

Ye Yaodong frowned so hard that he could kill a fly, and reached out to grab the two wet little Jiujiu on her head.

"Who are you going to catch loaches with? Isn't it afraid that you will be drowned?"

"Follow Doudou, Bao, Xue, Ayue, Qingqing and Xiaohong..."

She sputtered out a long list of names that were both familiar and unfamiliar to Ye Yaodong. They were all children who had not yet reached school age, or who had reached school age but had not yet been sent to school.

"Dad, don't tell mom, you will be beaten to death...help me..."

"You also know that you will be beaten to death if you do this?"

"But I caught a lot of loaches. Look, look, outside..."

Ye Yaodong was dragged out by her trousers. He was already worried to death. What should he do with his lively nature?

Ye Xiaoxi, who was scared just now, was now a little excited. He was eager to offer the treasure and trotted ahead excitedly.

As soon as I ran outside, I saw the loaches I had worked so hard to catch jumping all over the ground.

There were several stray cats that were stealing food. She let out a fierce scream and ran away excitedly.

"Ah! My loach...stinky cat...stinky cat..."

She waved her little fists and drove away the stray cats. She also fell down and sat on the ground, crying loudly. While shedding tears, she scratched the loaches all over the ground, looking so miserable.

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but looked at her, as if she was even dirtier and more embarrassed.

Where has his fragrant, soft and well-behaved daughter gone?

He just doesn't have that much time at home, so why is the gap between what he imagined becoming bigger and bigger?

"Dad, come and catch them... They're all running away, come here..."

"well……"

He sighed, walked in and squatted down, helping to catch them too. At any rate, so many loaches were enough to feed them for two or three days, and they were considered an extra meal.

"Why did you catch so many?"

Ye Xiaoxi wiped away her tears with her dirty little hands, and there were a few more gray marks on her face, making it even dirtier.

She pointed to a wet schoolbag and said, "I scratched it here, and the cat got it out."

At this time, it was all empty, and everything jumped out. She still held a straw in her hand, which was probably used to tie the opening of the schoolbag.

"This was exchanged for candy."

There was another basket on the ground, which had also been knocked over, but there were still a lot of loaches still jumping around inside.

"Isn't this Yangyang's new schoolbag?"

"Ah! I'll borrow it and return it to my brother."

"You're really going to be beaten to death."

Tears were about to fall from Ye Xiaoxi's eyes again, "I...I will clean it and return it to my brother."

"You can't even ask for it after you wash it. Just return your schoolbag and wash it."

At the beginning of spring, Lin Xiuqing sewed a new satchel for Ye Chenghu to use as a schoolbag. She also sewed one for Ye Chengyang for him to use in the second half of the year. Unexpectedly, he used it for her to hold loaches.

"Don't tell mom, can you give me a bath secretly? Okay? Okay... okay... dad... okay, okay?"

"You know you're afraid now? Why did you go there so early?"

She wiped her tears while catching the loach, her voice choked with sobs, "Everyone is equally dirty, it's not just me..."

"Others will definitely get beaten when they go home, so don't try to escape."

"I'm afraid, how about we take a shower secretly and don't tell mother."

"Don't think about it, it's dinner time, she's already cooking at home."

"Woooooooo... It's so fun, I won't dare to do it next time."

"It doesn't matter, it's so fun, it's worth a beating."

Ye Xiaoxi raised his head, his eyes were filled with tears, and his eyelashes were still wet. He looked at him with flickering eyes, his face was confused, and he stopped crying for a while.

"I'm just talking nonsense, I need to go home and get beaten."

Ye Yaodong caught the loaches for a while. His hands were covered with mud, and some were so slippery that it was difficult to catch them.

He simply stood up and went to the workshop to get a broom, swept it directly into the dustpan, and then poured it into the basket on his back.

Anyway, it has rolled around on the ground, and it is full of mud. It is very dirty. Take it home, wash it, and raise it in clean water, otherwise it will die later.

He took the broom and swept Ye Xiaoxi twice, "Go away and stay out of the way."

"oh."

She quickly stood up and took a few steps back, but she stopped crying.

After Ye Yaodong finished sweeping the loaches and returned the broom to its original position, he pulled her and walked home with the basket on his back.

"Look away and stop crying?"

She nodded, "Everyone was beaten."

However, she was still afraid. When she reached the door of her house, she hesitated to go in. When she heard the cries of familiar friends nearby, she flinched again.

Ye Yaodong grabbed her clothes and shouted into the room: "Lin Xiuqing, Lin Xiuqing, come out and see your daughter!"

Lin Xiuqing was cooking in the house. She was a little panicked when she heard him shouting, including her first and last names. But when she heard the words "your daughter", she was no longer so panicked.

The dead girl must have done something else, so she called her "your daughter" again.

"what?"

She walked to the door of the courtyard, still wiping her hands on her apron. She took a closer look and saw that the dirty child in the courtyard who looked like a drowned rat was actually her daughter.

"Ye Xiaoxi, what are you doing again? Get out of here."

Ye Xiaoxi's neck shrank, and then he immediately hid behind Ye Yaodong.

Ye Yaodong was also afraid that she would run away, so he carried her into the house.

"She and other children went to the river to catch loaches. They had to be beaten hard. Who knows how deep the river was? What if they drowned? A group of underage children dared to run to the river to play. They had to be beaten to death.

Already."

He also considered this and had to teach her a lesson not to go to the river all the time, so he didn't protect her.

Children have to be beaten until it hurts before they remember it.

Ye Xiaoxi raised her head and stared at him, "Dad, aren't you going to save me?"

"To save you is to harm you."

"Hate you!"

Lin Xiuqing carried her and dragged her into the house, "You just don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin. Forget about chasing chickens and dogs every day, and you still follow her to the river. Are you willing to die? How old are you, and how old are you?

He is no taller than a table, and his courage is as high as the sky..."

Ye Xiaoxi stood there with her mouth closed and said nothing, her eyes habitually looking everywhere, but this time the old lady didn't help her.

If you go to the river to play, you have to fight.

Otherwise, if there is no adult watching, such a small child will drown if he says it is drowned.

Ye Yaodong took the basket to clean the loach, and was thinking about when he would have to teach her how to swim.
To be continued...