Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1210 I still want it after washing

Ye Yaodong has been resting at home for three days in a row and has not been able to go out to sea. It feels even colder and windier after the New Year. The spring breeze in February is like a pair of scissors, but he still feels like it is winter, so how can there be any spring breeze?

When I went out to sea a few days ago, the sun was still shining, but I could clearly feel the temperature rising. These past two days, the weather forecast has been reporting that frost has arrived, the temperature has dropped to zero degrees, and the wind speed has reached level 4.

When I got up early, I could see that the vegetable fields were covered with a thick layer of frost and the windows were covered with white mist.

If you open the window slightly, the cold wind will blow in and make you shiver.

Ye Xiaoxi woke up early. Both husband and wife felt cold and were reluctant to get up from bed, but she insisted on getting up and going out to play.

She even put on her own clothes, but the collar of the sweater was too small and her head was too big, so she put it on herself and ended up covering herself and unable to breathe.

She screamed in fear and waved her hands, "Help, it's stuck, it's stuck."

Lin Xiuqing quickly sat up and pulled her sweater down.

"Look at you. After a new year, the fat on your face is going to sag again, and your head is getting bigger."

"How can you use it like this even if you have a big head?" Ye Yaodong muttered.

Ye Xiaoxi casually wiped the messy hair off her face, then smiled again and put on her clothes and pants.

But Lin Xiuqing still needed to pull down her autumn clothes and trousers that had shrunk up.

After she was done, she climbed out of bed, stepped onto the stool beside the table, and went to play with the fog on the window.

She stretched out her index finger and drew a smiling face on the window, then a crying face, and then a sun, and then a bunch of kittens and puppies...

After finishing the painting, he reached out to wipe off the mist, put his head close to the window, and blew air from his mouth to make the white mist condense on the window again. He amused himself and had a lot of fun playing alone.

Ye Yaodong pulled the quilt up to his neck and tucked the corners tightly, "She should be allowed to sleep with the old lady. It's freezing cold, and she's up so early."

After saying that, he also asked a few questions.

It would be better if he was willing, so that he wouldn't have to be afraid to make any noise all day and night.

"No, you go sleep with A Tai, I want to sleep with Mom."

"I slept with your grandma when I was a kid, so you can go too. Your second brother also often goes to sleep with grandma, do you want to..."

"no no no……"

Lin Xiuqing said, "Forget about it. When you were beaten, you knew to hide behind your grandmother. When you are older, go sleep upstairs by yourself."

"Okay."

"It's time to get up. It's past 7 o'clock."

"It's still early. The sky is gray."

"It's been like this for the past two days. I have to get up and check on the workshop. Fortunately, I have Dongqing to help me. Now I don't have to get up so early to remember people."

"Since you've already hired someone to do the work, you should do less work yourself. In this kind of weather, you should stay home if you can."

The sky was grey and windy, and even his parents were lazy. They hadn't come over for dinner for two or three days. They just said they would cook something at home and it would be fine since there were just the two of them.

It was such a cold day, and it wasn't worth it to come here just for a meal and be blown by the cold wind all the way. The two of them didn't even want to step out of the door if they had nothing to do.

Except for those who have to go out to work for a living, people usually stay at home in this kind of weather, sitting in front of the stove to warm themselves by the fire.

The cold wind is biting. It is very cold in winter now, and the four seasons are distinct. It is not like the greenhouse effect in the future, when winter will not feel like winter at all.

He had not yet given the private seal he brought back to his parents and it was still in the drawer.

There's no rush anyway. In this kind of weather, there's nowhere to show off what I got.

Lin Xiuqing was somewhat fond of the private seal engraved with her name. She even printed it and played with it for a long time before she was willing to put it away. However, when she opened the drawer and saw it, she would take it out and take a look at it.

"Don't be lazy, get up and have breakfast, then go back to sleep."

"Yeah." Ye Yaodong responded with his mouth, but his body remained honest and motionless.

Lin Xiuqing didn't care about him. She got dressed and took the child out to wash up. She still had to go to the workshop to check. No one else could lie down as comfortably as he did.

There is a child in my family who goes to school. He can't get up every day and doesn't want to go to school every day. But when the weekend comes, he will get up earlier than the chickens no matter it is windy, rainy or hailful.

We have to go and check this out, and drag the person up and send him out to school.

She could already hear the scolding coming from next door in her room, as well as the sounds of people going up and down the stairs. No one was spared being scolded.

Ye Yaodong originally wanted to wait for two more days and then go to the city to check on the delivery status of the wooden barrels and large vats. The delivery deadline was almost here, and he had been keeping it in mind.

If the containers were delivered to the factory, he would arrange for people to take the goods there for fermentation, and his mother would also help him hire the people.

But plans cannot keep up with changes. After a few days of gloomy weather, it suddenly started to rain lightly. They couldn't even go out, and they were all in a mess.

Fortunately, this time the weather forecast was accurate. They received it one day in advance and covered the house with nylon cloth overnight.

There was not enough drying space in the workshop, so those dried in nearby open spaces were brought back and hung anywhere in the workshop as long as they could keep out the rain.

They also asked the women to deal with the goods the night before.

In other words, they now have a lot of manpower, and a lot of people will help them as soon as they open their mouths, so they don't seem so panicked.

It rained for two days and the temperature had just risen a little. It had just been sunny for two days, but before they could relax, there was another thunder. Fortunately, they did not relax and the nylon cloth was still hanging above the workshop.

Ye Yaodong thought that it was not a big deal to rely on natural drying every day, but there was no other way now. Even if he could get some electrical appliances, the voltage would not be good enough. He could only make do with it for now.

Building a simple drying room would be just a drop in the bucket for him. He had too much dried fish, so he had to make do with drying them. He could wait for two years before making a decision. Anyway, he could still make money now.

At worst, I can just compete with God for food.

The whole family breathed a sigh of relief when the rain stopped. Of course, some of the fish that were not dried became smelly due to the moisture.

Only after the rain stopped did they really start to get busy. Lin Xiuqing asked the 10 or so workers hired regularly in the workshop to help pick out the smelly dried fish.

Fortunately, their family is now wealthy and can afford such losses.

The dried fish that were picked out were not thrown away directly. They were mixed with pig grass to feed the two sisters-in-law's pigs, or chopped up to feed the geese and dogs at home.

Because they dry fish in their workshop every day, their workshop has attracted stray cats from the surrounding villages. They all gather around their workshop and meow every day.

The preliminary estimate is that there are about a dozen of them. Usually, there are people watching over them all day long, so there are no stray cats harming the animals.

Lin Xiuqing would often feed the cats some stale fish, which looked a bit like the traces of a domestic cat.

Now there is an extra batch of smelly dried fish, and the cats have a solution for their food in the near future.

Ye Xiaoxi has always been Lin Xiuqing's follower, and he has been locked up at home for several days without going out. After the rain stopped and the sky cleared, how could he stay there any longer?

Looking at a bunch of stray cats that looked like drowned rats, she asked Lin Xiuqing and after getting permission, she scooped up a handful of stinking dried fish and threw them into the basket, then squatted in the corner to feed them.

In just a moment, she was surrounded by more than a dozen stray cats of various colors, and she didn't even have time to feed them.

Each one of them made soft and anxious cat sounds, and she stroked one and another to comfort them.

Ye Yaodong also planned to go to the city when the rain stopped, but he was blocked by Fatty at home, so he had to take him with him.

As soon as he entered the workshop and wanted to drive the tractor, he saw his daughter's pockets were full of dried fish, her arms were holding a large pile, and she was surrounded by stray cats.

"What are you doing?"

"Dad, can we take the cat home?"

"Do you think your home is a zoo? Don't you see how many dogs you already have at home? You want to get a cat? They'll eat all the dried fish."

"But mom said I can feed her."

"If it's broken, you can feed it as you like. Stay away from these cats. It's unsanitary and too dirty."

Ye Xiaoxi looked down at her rain boots which were covered in mud, and at the mud on her knees, on her sleeves, and under her butt.

The cotton jacket on his body had been rubbed all over by the cats around him, and he didn't look any cleaner than these cats.

"I'm dirty too, just like a cat, so we can cuddle and get dirty together."

As she said this, she hugged the dirty cat that had been eating dried fish in her arms.

This hug made his clothes look even worse, and even his face was scratched.

Ye Yaodong immediately lost his patience and said, "Ah Qing...Ah Qing...look at your daughter..."

The fat man looked at them cheerfully and said, "Your daughter looks no different from these cats, she is also a small calico cat. Why don't you give your daughter to me as my daughter-in-law? I don't even have a daughter."

"Go wherever it's cooler. Those two little fat kids of yours are just wishful thinking."

"Isn't this a little fat boy in your family? My son won't dislike it."

"I'll kill you with one hammer, and your whole family will be fat as hell."

Lin Xiuqing saw that she hadn't seen him for a while, and Ye Xiaoxi was so angry that she was almost fed up with food, just like feeding a cat.

"Ye Xiaojiu!"

The busier the adults are, the more trouble she can cause.

Ye Xiaoxi looked at her with a gloomy face, picked up a kitten, and hid behind the fat man in fear.

She felt that her biological father would not be able to save her at this time, after all, it was her biological mother who was called by her biological father to beat her.

"Dad, help me, Mom said I can feed him..."

Ye Xiaoxi looked at her trotting over and almost cried, "You said you could feed him... You said, you said..."

The fat man quickly protected her and said with a smile: "Oh, it's no big deal, it's dirty, every child is dirty. Since you told her that she can feed stray cats, then let her play with it. Anyway, it's already dirty. When you are done, you can take it back and wash it, and it will be a clean fat baby again."

Ye Xiaoxi quickly held back the tears that were about to fall and nodded.

Because she was naughty, she was beaten many times after the Chinese New Year. She was beaten so frequently that she now knows what fear is.

Seeing how pitiful she looked, Ye Yaodong regretted reporting her.

"Why don't you just let her play with it? It's dirty anyway, and doesn't look any cleaner than those cats. When you're done, you can take it home, wash it, and keep it."

Ye Xiaoxi nodded rapidly, "Yes, it's still available. Wash the cat too."

"It's good that I didn't hit you. Don't hug me anymore. I'll deal with you when I have my hands free."

"Fatty and I are going to the city, and we're taking Wang Guangliang with us. We're not sure if we'll be back today."

"understood."

I feel so tired today. I didn’t get enough sleep and I feel groggy. My college classmates came over last night and I took them shopping and had dinner. I came back and wrote until about 2 o’clock, then went to bed. However, I woke up about 7 o’clock and took them out again about 9 o’clock.

I had my period again yesterday, and my back and waist ached all day. I took a nap after sending someone away in the afternoon. I slept for a while at night, and now I feel it’s too late to write.

I'll make up for it tomorrow, one chapter during the day, and another 7000 words at night.

There has been something strange going on lately. I always write for one day but only for two days. Sigh...