Seeing that the workers working around him were all either steamed buns or pancakes, Lin Guangyuan also took a hard bite of the bare pancakes in his hand.
It was so dry that he almost choked, so he quickly gave it another sip of water.
Now he finally understood how hard Ye Chenghai was at that time. It was strange that he had the strength to work after eating these things. He was not an adult laborer, and even an adult laborer could not withstand it.
After working for three more days, Ye Yaodong saw that Lin Guangyuan's face was getting worse day by day, and he actually became angry and stubborn and stopped talking to him.
He was also there, so he pretended not to see it. Let's see how many days he can hold on.
On the evening of the fourth day, Lin Guangyuan didn't look grim. Instead, he cried and hugged his arm, "Sister-in-law, I'm my aunt's nephew. You still need to charge me for a bite of food?"
God's law...ah...that's not right..."
Lin Guangyuan's howling stopped for an instant, and then he quickly straightened up again, "I worked outside and didn't eat from you! Why should I earn food money for you?"
"Then you didn't stay with me? Didn't you eat breakfast? Didn't you eat dinner?"
Lin Guangyuan said angrily: "I quit and go home tomorrow."
Ye Yaodong held his shoulders and sat down, "Are you discouraged so quickly? Two days ago, you followed me and promised you that you would earn enough ten yuan."
"But you can't cheat me! The food was so good on the first day, but on the second day I only had cakes and water. Who can stand the contrast? I quit, I don't want to do anything anymore!" Lin Guangyuan sat down angrily.
Kick your legs next to him.
"On the first day, the fat man started a small business for you. In the next few days, you will live a normal working life. Do you want to be like this in the future?"
"No, I would rather farm at home."
"But you can't save much money by farming all year round. Ayuan, have you ever thought about what you want to do in the future?"
Lin Guangyuan was confused for a moment, lowered his eyelids and remained silent.
When I was in school, the teacher would ask the students what they wanted to do when they grew up.
At first, everyone was very enthusiastic and said that they wanted to be a doctor, a nurse, a teacher, or a policeman. Suddenly, a classmate stood up and called the teacher a stinky old nine.
From then on, he felt that studying was not as good as farming.
"No idea?"
Ye Yaodong thought it was normal when he saw him being silent. Everyone has been confused about life.
Lin Guangyuan said honestly: "I don't know what to do."
"Then go back and study for a few more years. Now, to be a worker, you need at least a junior high school education and a high school education."
"I don't want to read it."
"Then do you feel more comfortable studying or working?"
"Of course I'm reading, but reading is so boring. Sitting there is a waste of time."
Ye Yaodong thought for a while and said to him: "Have you seen the four soldiers who live in your hometown? Do you have any ideas?"
Lin Guangyuan glanced at him and thought for a moment, "Would you like to be a soldier? That's okay. They look cool. They fight very well. They seem to be capable of fighting."
Ye Yaodong: "..."
"Now, being a soldier requires a junior high school education, so go back and study for a few more years! It's better than going out to work and farming at home."
Doing business is good, but he thinks that none of his family has such brains and they are all honest people.
After half a lifetime of being confused, he doesn't have the brains to brag and talk, but he does.
"You just want me to continue studying!" Lin Guangyuan wrinkled his face, "Why do you think you suddenly want to charge me for food? You want me to carry sandbags and go around the corner?"
"You have nothing to do anyway."
"Okay, but can you let me see their military uniforms? They look so cool!"
Ye Yaodong looked at him speechless. He would have known if he would have directly asked him if he wanted to be a soldier. If he wanted to be a soldier, he would have to have a junior high school education first.
"Go to the old house and ask them. It seems that they have recovered almost everything from the bottom of the sea. They will leave in the next two days. They probably don't have any troops..."
Before he finished speaking, Lin Guangyuan ran out like a gust of wind. He had been tired for a whole day, but he could still run so fast and his body was quite strong!
"It's time to eat soon, come back early."
Ye Yaodong twisted his neck and took the cattail leaf fan on the bench nearby to fan himself. It was so hot. Why was there no wind or rain to cool down? It was so stuffy. The sun had gone down and there was no wind at all.
If it really doesn't work, a typhoon will do, and it will keep you cool for a few days.
He raised his head and looked at the sky, thinking so in his heart and chanting in his mouth.
Lin Xiuqing came out to collect her clothes and heard it, and scolded him, "Crow's Mouth, it's not a good thing without a typhoon."
"I'm afraid that it will be bad if it doesn't sing, and it will become a blockbuster. There hasn't been a typhoon this year. If a big one suddenly comes..."
"Bah, bah, crow's mouth..."
"What's the point? Which year didn't we have a typhoon here? Which year didn't a few typhoons pass by? Anyway, it blows in the morning and in the evening. It's been so hot these two days, it's just a good time to cool down. My daughter
I’m so hot that I have prickly heat, and I can’t sleep well at night.”
"Just smear the sweet potato powder on it and it'll be fine. Let's go get the kids to eat."
"good!"
The weather was hot and porridge was easy to swallow. They ate porridge during the day and had to eat dry rice at night because Ye Yaodong came back from work.
There was a small bowl of porridge left at noon, and she deliberately put it on the stove to warm it up, intending to feed Ye Xiaoxi. She was already more than four months old and could slowly eat some rice soup.
Just as Ye Yaodong was holding the child for Lin Xiuqing to feed, Lin Guangyuan ran back excitedly like a gust of wind.
"So happy? Did you really see it?"
"What did you see?" Lin Xiuqing asked doubtfully.
"I didn't see it, but Captain Chen said that when he goes back tomorrow, he will mail me a set of his old military uniforms and give them to me." Lin Guangyuan's eyes were shining with excitement and his cheeks were red.
Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay, then you can continue studying until September 1st."
"good."
Lin Xiuqing did not expect that the cargo carrier at the dock did not persuade him to go back to school, but a military uniform made him willingly go back to school.
After dinner, Ye Yaodong gave him back the 5 yuan he had earned from carrying sandbags in the past few days, plus a 20 cent tip.
Lin Guangyuan took it happily, "I knew you wouldn't charge me for food, so you just said it."
"I'll give you two cents, so I can make up the whole for you."
"Don't think you gave me two cents, because I have to leave tomorrow. I have to play for a few more days. I was really exhausted the past few days!"
"It's up to you. Just help your sister-in-law light the fire and chop firewood at home. Oh, by the way, we're really running out of firewood. Remember to go to the mountain to collect firewood tomorrow."
"The 2 cents are really not free."
Ye Yaodong sat on a chair to enjoy the cool air, fanning himself with a cattail leaf fan to ward off mosquitoes, and listened to the old lady's radio playing storytellers. Lately, she had been listening to the Yang family generals.
A group of children were also playing in his yard, listening and reading while playing. The girls played shuttlecock and the boys played marbles.
There seems to be a new trick recently. I don’t know where the little heads come from. They have become popular again and hit the little heads.
At night, Ye Yaodong went to sea as usual. They had already pried almost all the abalone under the reef on the seabed.
Except for some that were difficult to dig out in the crevices of the reef, the surface had almost been picked up, and even some conches adsorbed on the rocks were picked up by them.
Now the amount they can harvest in the water is getting smaller and smaller. He plans to call it a day after finishing today. There will be no need to go into the water to dig abalone from tomorrow. There are some scattered ones left at the bottom, so they can be kept for reproduction.
It's just that he always feels that there is a turbulent undercurrent on the sea today, a bit like the calm before the storm. Although the sky is cloudless today and the blue sky is extremely clear, the waves are not big on the surface. The wind is only stronger when the boat is moving.
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But he always felt that the resistance of the fishing net increased significantly when the fishing net was trawling underneath. The boat was obviously traveling at the same speed as usual, but he always felt that something was a little different today.
Maybe it's a signal in the air?
He couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it. He just braced himself and paid careful attention to the surrounding sea area.
When it got bright and the sun was high in the sky, they felt that it was almost time to pull up the first net, but they found that the net hoisting machine made a heavy creaking sound when it was operating to lift the net.
Ye Yaodong and Ye's father were immediately shocked. They both exclaimed in unison, "What's going on?"
This is obviously because the net hoisting machine is under extremely heavy load and is making a very strenuous sound. Moreover, the net hoisting speed is obviously much slower than before, which can be said to be extremely slow.
You must know that although his net lifting machine is small and the machine can only bear a weight of one ton, it is enough for ordinary trawling.
Normally, if you are unlucky, it will only weigh 20 to 30 pounds, and if it is more, it will weigh more than a hundred pounds. It is not too simple to pull up the net machine, and it takes no effort at all.
This time it was so abnormal, so heavy suddenly, that the father and son felt no joy. They were almost overloaded, and they didn't know what was going on underneath.
"It looks like it's almost overweight? Did you catch something strange again? It's just been a few days of normal fishing."
Ye Yaodong was also a little depressed. He just caught a big cauldron some time ago, what did he catch now?
Why did you get him some unremarkable things? He just wanted to make money and get rich.
Father Ye also frowned, "It looks like I can still bear it. Let's slowly drag it up to see what it is."
But suddenly the speed of the net lifting machine was faster again, and there was no longer the feeling of overload just now. It was as if a burden had been lifted off, and it became extremely relaxed. It was no different from when it was lifting the net in the past.
The father and son looked at each other, not understanding what had happened. If they hadn't seen it at the same time, they would have thought they were hallucinating.
"Is this normal again?"
"It seems so?"
"What's going on?"
Just when the two of them relaxed, the fishing net began to make a rattling sound again, this time more serious than the previous one. This meant that the light had stopped making noise.
"What the hell? What's going on? Don't damage my net hoist?
Chapter completed!