The old lady smiled and showed her toothless gums. After handing the child to Ah Qing, she stood by the bed and watched Ye Yaodong count the money.
"You haven't had lunch yet. I thought you were talking about something, so I didn't dare to knock on the door to disturb you. I'll go cook something for you first."
"Not hungry," Ye Yaodong took a moment to reply, "Finish counting first."
Lin Xiuqing held the child and sat on the stool next to her to nurse the child, but her attention was always on them. She was a little embarrassed when she heard the old lady's words.
"Then let me help you count the coins, hurry up." The old lady also sat beside the bed and helped sort out the banknotes.
"Didn't my father count enough to tell you?"
Ye Yaodong nodded and shook his head.
He counted silently, where would he find time to answer her question? Isn't it a little late to ask now?
"Nodding and shaking your head, what do you mean?"
"Don't make any noise! ​​Just now you told me not to make a sound while counting, but now I'm sitting there without counting and starting to babble."
Lin Xiuqing was speechless.
The old lady smiled, took the money in her hand, and patted him, "Answer it, it won't take you long? And I didn't keep asking you?"
Ye Yaodong happened to count to an integer, so he stopped mercifully, "Our dad only knows the approximate total. He remembers how much he takes in every day, but he doesn't add it up every day. He thinks it's troublesome to add it up, and it's easy to forget, so he only remembers how much he takes in.
of."
After Lin Xiuqing got the answer, she stopped quarreling with him.
After Ye Yaodong counted 100 cards, he took one out and clamped it to avoid making a mess, and then piled it up in small piles.
By the time A-Qing finished feeding, he and the old lady had almost finished counting, and only the coins were left.
There were not many large-denomination banknotes, and they were mostly dime notes. I really experienced what it meant to count money until my hands cramped.
"I'll also take the change and give it to settle tomorrow. There's almost no place to put the saved pile. I'll have to put it in a box next time."
The old lady nodded matter-of-factly, "We have to pack a box and lock it."
"Then when the thief comes, just take the box away..."
"What are you talking about?" the old lady said with a smile.
"It's a joke, even if I buy a box, I'll have to nail it to the closet. It'll be nailed shut."
"Shh, you can't tell anyone."
"That's for sure. It's just for you."
Ye Yaodong continued to count the piles of banknotes covering the bed. After he had a rough idea of ​​the count, he handed the coins to Ah Qing to count and went out for a while.
Just come back and ask for the numbers.
The old lady was still calling behind her, "Shall we go out after dinner?"
"You cook first, I'll come back when I'm gone."
Lin Xiuqing added for him, "He went to Uncle Pei's friend's house and promised to collect their dried dragon head fish. But we have no place to put it in our house. We will make room tomorrow. He went over and told them."
"Oh, I need to tell them so that they can feel at ease."
Ye Yaodong rode his bicycle and returned quickly, and it didn't take long. But when he came back, he happened to run into his elder sister-in-law and his second sister-in-law.
It turned out that the wind had picked up, so I came back early. The eldest brother and the second brother were still selling goods at the dock, and the two sisters-in-law went back first with a cart of goods.
"Today's delivery looks good."
Sister-in-law Ye smiled and said, "Fortunately, I dug some kelp by the way. It doesn't grow very well. It will probably take another two months to grow very big. I will ask Ah Qing to take two pieces back for frying later."
Sister-in-law Ye couldn't wait to carry a bucket off the cart and ran to him, "Ah Dong, look at the small bucket we dug today. Is this the same bucket you took to town to sell a few days ago?
Chicken feet?"
"oh?"
"I think its legs are very long, longer than the usual Buddha's hand." She looked at Ye Yaodong expectantly.
Sister-in-law Ye also quickly stopped the trolley and walked over. She still wanted to wait until she got home before asking.
Ye Yaodong quickly stopped his bicycle, put his feet on the brakes, and reached into the bucket to grab a few.
Huh? It really is!
"You are very lucky."
"real?"
The two sisters-in-law were immediately happy. This one had a little longer legs, but it was quite expensive.
They went fishing in the sea these days and the harvest was good~
Either you catch some stranded fish, you dig up razor clams, and you can occasionally pick up one or two blue crabs. Not to mention the shelled ones that are dug up and dried, just trying your luck to pick them up on the island is better than sitting there.
Weaving a net for a day at home made me feel better.
Although it was mostly luck, it was obvious that they had been pretty lucky these past two days. They all had an unexpected surprise today. They found some sea chicken feet that Adong mentioned in the cracks in the rocks.
Ye Yaodong nodded affirmatively, "Well, when I went to sell it the day before yesterday, I sold a dozen kilograms for 200 yuan. You should also have five or six kilograms here, and you should be able to sell it for dozens, right?"
The two of them were even happier.
"Then A Dong, can you please help us sell it while it's fresh this afternoon?"
"Ah? Me? I just came back and I may not be free. You can go by yourself."
He has several rooms of goods piled up in his house, waiting for him to weigh them. How can he have time to help them send them to the town to sell them?
The two of them looked at each other and laughed. Second Sister-in-law Ye said bluntly: "We haven't been there either, and we are so scared. How dare we send them to other people's hotels? The same goes for your eldest and second brothers. What if we are kicked out?
?You have been there a few times, you must be familiar with it..."
Sister-in-law Ye quickly nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes, you have sold it twice, so you are more familiar with it... It won't take long for you to ride a bicycle. You can ask your two brothers to help with the work at home. It doesn't matter at all."
It will be delayed.”
Ye Yaodong frowned.
The two sisters-in-law continued: "I won't waste too much time on you. You are already familiar with it anyway. You can come back after a while."
"It's only 1 o'clock. It won't take long to weigh the dried fish. It's all afternoon and night. It's still a long time. Just think of it as a favor to your brother and sister-in-law..."
Alas, I have to go if I don’t want to.
Ye Yaodong nodded, "Okay, when the eldest and second brothers come back later, let one of them come with me. If you dig it next time, you can send it there yourself."
"Hey, okay, when your eldest and second brother come back, we'll tell them."
"Well, I'm going back first."
"well."
Ye Yaodong pushed the bicycle and walked first, stopping to ride only a small step to save himself from bumping his butt.
The old lady in the house had already fried the rice cakes and made him a shrimp skin soup to go with it. They covered it with a plate to prevent it from getting cold in the cold weather.
Seeing him coming back, I quickly waved to him, took off the plate covering it, and handed the chopsticks to his hand.
"Come over and eat it quickly so it doesn't get cold. I don't know when you will come back. I'm afraid the noodles will burn when I cook them, so I made some fried rice cakes for you and soaked them in shrimp skin and soy sauce soup."
"OK."
It was crab fried rice cake with shrimps and oysters that my two sisters-in-law had cooked yesterday, as well as eggs and cabbage. The tops were still steaming, which greatly increased his appetite.
The shrimp skin soup on the side is dripping with soy sauce. Last week, there were green scallions and white shrimp skin floating in the soup, as well as a little bit of oil. It looked like a little onion oil was added, and it smelled like meat oil, which was very fragrant.
The old lady loves him!
He first stirred the shrimp skin soup twice with a spoon, and after taking two sips to warm his stomach, he picked up his chopsticks and started eating.
"Well, it's delicious, so fragrant!"
The old lady smiled kindly and said, "You are very hungry. What did you eat in the city this morning?"
"Meat buns and porridge. My father-in-law made porridge, so I bought a few meat buns and ate them together."
"It's okay if you have something to eat, but I'm afraid you haven't."
"How is that possible? I am a person who wants to take a bite of everything I see. How could I let myself go hungry?"
"Okay, okay, eat quickly and ladle out the soup to go with it. Where did this basket of dried shrimps come from? I brought a basket back two days ago, and I brought it again today. I'll hang it up for you."
The old lady picked up the basket of shrimps that he had just taken off the bicycle and put on the table, intending to put it away for him and hang it on the wall.
"No need to hang up!" Ye Yaodong said vaguely with his mouth full, then bit into pieces and swallowed.
"This was just given to me by someone. I planned to give it to Uncle Zhou. I trouble him to come and go every day. Although I calculated the fare, it didn't fall into his hands, so I thought of giving this basket of shrimp skin to him.
.”
The old lady nodded, "That's right. We don't have anything else at home except dried fish."
"Um."
Lin Xiuqing also finished counting the money and came out of the house at this time, "Do you want me to send it to you later? You still have to weigh the goods."
"No, let's weigh the goods later. Sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law dug up some sea chicken feet and asked me to help her take them to the town to sell. I'll send them over later, just in time."
"Ah? Are they so lucky?"
"Well, it's really good."
Everyone was thinking very well at this moment, but little did they know that the unexpected event would come unexpectedly.
"Then hurry up and eat. The 3,000 kilograms of goods will take a while to weigh and move around. I'll ask dad to move the goods to the yard later so that you can weigh them directly when you come back."
"Okay."
The old lady didn't know that they had sold another 3,000 kilograms today. She asked in surprise: "I want to weigh 3,000 kilograms at once. Does anyone want it?"
"yes."
Ye Yaodong repeated it to the old lady again, and the old lady was happy.
She heard them say that they would be able to free up space today and collect the several thousand kilograms of dried dragon head fish tomorrow. She thought that Dongzi was going to send another truck to the city at night to free up her home. She didn't expect to sell such a big one again.
Pen, no wonder he excitedly pulled Ah Qing into the house as soon as he came back.
"Then you have to thank me properly for buying so much right now," the old lady said, feeling worried for him. "We don't seem to have anything to give away...except dried fish, just dried fish...
"
"It's okay. The shell meat that the two sisters-in-law dried must have been dried. I'll weigh them later and take some as a gift tomorrow. By the way, we can promote it and maybe expand our business."
"Hey, yes, yes, you are still smart and can think. Eat quickly, eat quickly, don't just talk..."
Chapter completed!