Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1228 Weighing
There are also a lot of things drying in the open space around the entrance, because there is too little space inside to dry them, so they are hung outside.

For fear that someone would steal kelp, elderly people from the village cadres' families moved stools and stood guard at the entrance of the old primary school.

This is to make use of everyone who can be used.

When Ye Yaodong saw him outside, he greeted the old man with a smile, handed him a cigarette and went in.

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

Everyone knew that it was he who brought up the cultivation of kelp, and the kelp was going to be sold to him, so of course the old people would not stop him.

He didn't stay long.

He went in and took a look around, then left and walked back to his own workshop.

It was almost time for dinner when he walked out. However, a dirty mud man ran towards him and hugged his thighs tightly.

"Dad, help, help."

"What's going on?"

Ye Yaodong looked down at the little thing at his feet and was shocked.

"Why are you so dirty? What happened?"

He was covered in mud and soaked all over. He tried to pull his feet out, but was held tightly.

"I..." Ye Xiaoxi looked at the busy adults around vigilantly, 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, I don't want to go home..."

Ye Yaodong's brows were furrowed so tightly that they could pinch a fly to death. He reached out and grabbed the two wet little bumps on her head.

"Who are you going to catch loaches with? Aren't you afraid that you will drown?"

"With Doudou, Abao, Axue, Ayue, Qingqing, and Xiaohong..."

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

"Dad, don't tell Mom, she will be beaten to death...save 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 by his trouser legs, and he was very worried about what to do with his lively nature.

Ye Xiaoxi, who was just scared, was now excited again. She was eager to present her 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 a few stray cats stealing food. She let out a fierce scream and ran over excitedly.

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

She waved her little fists to drive away the stray cats, then she fell down and sat on the ground crying loudly. She picked up loaches from the ground while crying, and looked so miserable.

Ye Yaodong looked at her with a speechless look, she seemed even dirtier and more embarrassed.

Where is his sweet, soft and well-behaved daughter?
He just doesn't spend that much time at home, so why is the gap between what I imagined becoming bigger and bigger?

"Dad, come and catch them... They are all running away, come quickly..."

"Ugh……"

He sighed, walked over, squatted down, and helped catch some. After all, so many loaches were enough to eat for two or three days, so it could be considered a snack.

"How did you catch so many?"

Ye Xiaoxi wiped away her tears with her dirty little hands. A few more gray marks appeared on her face, making it even dirtier.

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

At this time, the bag was empty and everything jumped out. She was still holding a piece of straw in her hand, which she had probably used to tie the opening of her schoolbag.

“This one is exchanged for candy.”

There was also a backpack on the ground, which had also been overturned, but there were still quite a few loaches jumping around inside.

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

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

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

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

"You can't keep it even if you wash it clean, let alone wash your schoolbag."

At the beginning of spring, Lin Xiuqing sewed a new shoulder bag for Ye Chenghu to use as a school bag, and also sewed one for Ye Chengyang for his use in the second half of the year. Unexpectedly, she used it to carry loaches.

"Don't tell Mom, just give me a bath secretly, okay? Okay... okay... Dad... okay okay?"

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

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

"The others will definitely be beaten when they return home, so don't even think about getting away with it."

"I'm scared. Can we take a bath secretly without telling Mom?"

"Don't think about it. It's time for dinner. She's already at home cooking."

"Woo woo woo... that was too much fun. I won't dare to do it again next time."

"It's okay, it's so much fun, it's worth the beating."

Ye Xiaoxi raised her head, her eyes were full of tears, her eyelashes were still wet, and she looked at him with blinking eyes, with a confused look on her face, and suddenly stopped crying.

"I'm just talking nonsense. Go home and get beaten."

Ye Yaodong caught loaches for a while and his hands were covered with mud. Some of the loaches were so slippery that they were difficult to catch.

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 backpack.

Anyway, it has already rolled on the ground and is covered in mud and very dirty. Take it home quickly, wash it, and keep it in clean water, otherwise it will die soon.

He took the broom and swept Ye Xiaoxi twice, "Go away, don't get in 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 put the broom back in its place, he took her and walked home with the basket on his back.

"You've let it go, and you're not crying anymore?"

She nodded, "Everyone got beaten."

However, she was still afraid. When she reached the door of her house, she hesitated and didn't dare to go in. When she heard the crying of a familiar friend nearby, she retreated again.

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

Lin Xiuqing was cooking in the house. When she heard him shouting, calling her full name, she got a little panicked. But when she heard the words "your daughter", she was not so panicked anymore.

That damn girl must have done something again, that’s why she called her “your daughter” again.

"what?"

She walked to the gate of the yard, still wiping her hands on her apron. She looked carefully and saw that the child in the yard, who was like a drowned rat and covered in dirt, was actually her daughter.

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

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

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

"She went to the river with other kids to catch loaches. She should be severely punished. Who knows how deep the river is? What if she drowns? A group of underage kids actually dared to play by the river. They should be beaten to death."

He also took this into consideration and wanted to teach her a lesson and not let her go to the river all the time, so he did not cover up for her.

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

Ye Xiaoxi raised her head and glared at him, "Dad, didn't you want to save me?"

"Saving you means harming you."

"Hate you!"

Lin Xiuqing dragged her into the house and said, "You won't cry until you see the coffin. It's fine if you chase chickens and dogs every day, but you also follow them to the river. Don't you want to die? How old are you? You are so small, you are not even as tall as the table, but you are more courageous than the sky..."

Ye Xiaoxi stood there with her mouth closed, not saying a word, her eyes looking around as usual, 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 over a young child, he or she might drown at any time.

Ye Yaodong took the backpack and went to clean the loaches, thinking in his heart when he should teach her to swim.

He can still teach now while the child is young, otherwise he will be embarrassed to teach when the child grows up.

Although those who drowned were all good swimmers, at least they had an extra skill which could sometimes save their lives. My two sons also learned how to swim through hard work in the past few years.

The old lady also helped him fetch water, pretending not to hear Lin Xiuqing's beating and scolding, and muttered to herself.

"This thing can just be fed to ducks and dogs. It's only this small..."

"No, no, I don't want to feed the dogs and ducks..."

When Ye Xiaoxi heard this loudly, she thought the old lady was talking about her and her defenses were instantly broken.

He didn't cry when he was beaten and scolded. He was still thinking about what his father said, that since he was having fun, the beating was worth it.

She was so scared that she quickly hugged Lin Xiuqing's legs and cried, "Don't feed me to the dogs, I won't dare to do it again... I won't dare to go to the river again... wuwu..."

Lin Xiuqing wanted to pull her away but couldn't. She hugged her so tightly that the joints of her nails turned white.

"You're afraid too? I thought you weren't."

"Dad said, if you have fun, it's worth a beating."

"Don't put the blame on me."

He just blurted it out, speaking casually!
"That's what you said! That's what you said!"

Lin Xiuqing glared at Ye Yaodong fiercely, "You are just a troublemaker, teaching the children in a messy way."

The old lady immediately said, "It's good that you know to be afraid. You must be obedient, don't be naughty, and don't go to the river or the beach to play in the water."

"understood……"

Lin Xiuqing turned her attention back to the child. "It's too late to know. Look at yourself. What do you look like? Who is as dirty as you..."

"Dou, Bao, Xue, Yue, Qingqing, Xiaohong..."

"You dare to talk back."

The whip in his hand hit her hard, her eyelashes blinked in fear, and then she closed her eyes and cried.

No one rescued her.

Lin Xiuqing waited until she had beaten and scolded her enough before taking her to take a shower and then made her stand in the corner as punishment.

After Ye Yaodong and the old lady cleaned the loaches, they put them in a big bucket and raised them.

"I'll get some stewed wine later. I haven't had it for a long time. I'm craving it. When can I go catch some eels? I haven't stewed it for a long time."

When the younger one gets beaten, the father benefits.

The old lady smiled and said, "You are the only one who likes to eat this earthy smell. I'll pour more rice wine later."

"Don't say that. If the other kids hear it, they will go catch eels again, giving me something to do for nothing and I will have to chase them with a whip."

Ye Xiaoxi stood against the wall, tears still on her face. She kept sobbing and her shoulders shook.

When Ye Chenghu came back and saw her like this, and even being punished to stand, he was so happy.

"Haha, you have come to this day... Dad, what did my sister do? Why is she standing in the corner as punishment?"

She was so angry that she closed her eyes and cried again.

Ye Chenghu was even happier when he saw her crying.

Ye Yaodong slapped him in the face, and he stopped gloating and quickly dodged.

However, he still ran up to Ye Xiaoxi and twisted around to provoke her.

"I made you laugh, I made you laugh, but you were punished by standing in the corner, and you were beaten..."

"Go away, I hate you."

Ye Chenghu turned his back, twisted his butt towards her twice, looked at his parents' unfriendly eyes, and quickly ran out again.

Ye Xiaoxi was so angry that she kept kicking from behind, "I hate you!"

Lin Xiuqing said helplessly: "Everyone is here to collect debts. None of them is worry-free. They are all like you."

"Don't blame me for all the bad things."

"If it's not your fault, who should I blame?"

The old lady looked at the two of them with glares in her eyes, and quickly pushed Ye Yaodong out, "They're drying kelp outside, it's full of people, go and take a look, I'll call you when it's time for dinner."

Ye Yaodong walked out passively, turned around and saw that both the big and the small were staring at him, so he decided to leave.

Everyone, big and small, hates him now.

Yesterday he said he would stay home to catch squids, and everyone was very happy. Before going to bed at night, they kissed him, snuggled into his arms, and kissed him affectionately, one calling him daddy and the other calling him husband.

I'm not happy today, really!

Being a man is really hard. Being a father and being a husband is even harder.

Ye Yaodong walked to the open space at the side, where several men were still busy drying kelp. They didn't go back even though it was time for dinner.

He found Secretary Chen and asked about it, but he just said that they had to work hard and take turns to go home for dinner later.

Everyone was working so hard, and they were all full of hope and smiles. No one felt forced. Thinking that he had nothing to do now, he rolled up his sleeves and helped.

"Adong is here to help too? You already have a lot of work to do in your own workshop, why are you here to help?"

"Adong is already a big boss, why are you still helping me to sunbathe?"

Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "What big boss? If I were a big boss, I wouldn't have to go out to sea. I could just lie at home and count money. I haven't eaten yet, so I came to see you and give you a hand."

"Haha, you have a big family and a big business now, so if you're not a boss, then what are you?"

"It's President Ye, haha." Secretary Chen said jokingly.

"Don't tease me. If you have the time, you might as well go and write a report and apply, visit a research institute, and apply for species that are suitable for breeding here."

"Haha, I applied last month, but it hasn't been approved yet. Now I'm going to file a report and apply after I'm done with this busy period."

The topic immediately shifted, and the villagers also asked the village cadres with interest about what kinds of plants to grow.

Ye Yaodong only worked for a while, and when he heard someone calling him to eat, he went home.

Ye Xiaoxi stood there as usual, but she looked down at her feet out of boredom, with her feet turned inward.

After turning the pages, he played with his fingers, the hem of his clothes, and a bunch of other little movements.

Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang didn't know if they had just been scolded or beaten. Ye Chenghu was obviously very active before, but now both of them were extremely honest. They sat down and ate quietly, and didn't provoke her with the intention of gloating over her misfortune.

Ye Yaodong just glanced at them and then talked about business with Ye's father, chatting about their night trip to the sea, and also reminded his father to be careful.

He also planned to temporarily move the diving equipment on the Dongsheng to the small boat.

He would be staying near the coast for at least the next half month. He hadn't been to the reefs near Oarfish Island for two years. He was also wondering if the abalone and small blue dragonfish below, as well as the nearby clams, had grown back.

It just so happened that they were all nearby, so he moved to the boat so that he could go into the water to harvest some more. After all, when the weather got a little warmer, he would probably head to Zhejiang Province again.

The crew on the ship also needed to change their jobs, and Ye's father followed his arrangements.

The father and son were talking about serious matters, so the meal was a little more normal. In their family, anything that happened was basically discussed at the dinner table, and they were used to holding family meetings during meals.

After finishing their meal, the two were not idle and took time to arrange the things at hand.

Ye Yaodong was busy all afternoon, running back and forth.

Near dusk, the village cadres pulled over three large carts of dried kelp on a cart, and a group of villagers gathered around to watch.

When he saw this, he quickly asked someone to bring out a bundle of nylon bags and spread them on the open space in front of the warehouse next door.

In the past two days, Lin Xiuqing had people haul dried fish to the city every day and emptied the warehouse in advance. At this time, the fish were being weighed at the door of the warehouse.

In this way, when a large bag is full, it can be wrapped in a nylon bag, tied with straw rope, carried to the warehouse for stacking, and sent to the factory in the city early tomorrow morning for stacking.

It is difficult to pack such a large quantity in sacks, so these nylon bags are easier to pack and bundle.

Fortunately, the land in the city has been utilized. There is more space there and is more conducive to warehousing.

Otherwise, these dozens of tons of kelp would take up a lot of space.

After the ground was padded with nylon bags, workers pushed the scale over.

Ye Yaodong also asked Lin Xiuqing to get two more large wooden scales. There were quite a few of them, so the weighing would be faster with more large scales. Moreover, these dry goods could be tied up with ropes and weighed faster with a hook on the wooden scale.

After all the goods on the three-cart were dumped on the ground, they continued to push the cart back to pull the goods, and they also began to weigh the goods in full swing.

Normally, villagers who are not working are not allowed to enter or leave the workshop to prevent any accidents.

But since everyone was curious at the moment, he let the person in and just asked a few workers to keep an eye on him so that no one could take advantage of the situation and ruin his fish sauce.

The village chief smiled and said to him, "You will be at home for the next few days, right? Can you bring them over for weighing?"

Secretary Chen also said: "There are too many of them, and we have no place to store them. The old primary school is in tatters and will be destroyed if it rains."

"It's okay. You can send them here every day at this time for weighing. I will arrange for them to be taken away the next day and stored in the city. Such a large quantity will require a lot of storage space."

Everyone is relieved.

"That's good. They've been drying there over the past few days, and they come out one after another. We can only collect the dry ones and send them over every day."

Ye Yaodong nodded and picked up some dried kelp to check the quality.

After collecting these kelps, people just piled them up randomly without rolling them up. When they were poured on the ground, they looked like dried pickles, with large handfuls scattered on the ground.

However, almost every piece was covered with white frost, and the thin yellow part at the tail had been cut off. It was indeed trimmed when it was collected.

In the first year, everyone handled it seriously, but he just glanced at it casually and asked people to start weighing it.

We can’t expect high-quality goods now, it’s already good enough to be able to get tanned like this.

After things stabilize in the future, he can set up a kelp factory and produce high-quality kelp rolls, kelp shreds, kelp knots, and kelp heads.

I don't care about it now. It's too troublesome. There are no conditions for drying. Not to mention the dryer, the electricity is unstable.

If conditions really allowed, he would definitely arrange for a fish drying machine first, after all, it is his expertise.

The surrounding villagers were watching the fun and talking about it.

Someone also called out to Ye Yaodong, "Ah Dong, can we also bring the scattered dried ones over later?"

"Wait until tomorrow morning. It won't be that fast to weigh these goods today. Acai will deliver some dried fish later, which also needs to be weighed. I'm too busy. Bring them over after 2 o'clock tomorrow, and tell the others."

It’s a good opportunity to collect the bulk goods in advance tomorrow, and then collect the large quantities of goods from the village committee. I don’t know how much goods the village committee has at the moment, so I guess I’ll be busy until dark.

"Okay, then we'll bring it over tomorrow so you don't get too busy."

"The yield of kelp we tried to cultivate this year is too amazing, isn't it? We have been harvesting for many days and we still haven't finished it. I heard that when the tide comes in, we will have to harvest it overnight."

"There's no other way. We have to collect and dry them while the weather is sunny."

"Fortunately it's not like this every day, otherwise it would be unbearable."

"We've calculated that kelp farming only requires six months of work and six months of rest. The harvest time is the busiest, so it's much easier than doing other things."

"That's true. Why can you work for half a year and take a break for half a year? And you can still make a lot of money..."

"Wait and see, they are already weighing it, let's see how much it weighs today and how much it can be sold for."

"So much kelp is all money... The village cadres only sent a few people to do it, and they were able to harvest so much..."

Everyone was pointing and talking excitedly, and more and more people were joining in the watching.

At this time, many people had just returned from the sea. They came here as soon as they heard the news and had no time to go home.

Ye Yaodong watched as people continued to come in and thought it would be better to go directly to the door to weigh the items. At most it would take some effort to carry them in.

The open space around him was filled with large water tanks, leaving insufficient space for people to stand and watch. He was also afraid that people would crowd around and smash the water tanks.

"After these are weighed, move them to the door to weigh them. There are too many people and there is no room for them. It is difficult for the car to enter."

The village chief also said: "I was just about to say that. The three carts can't come in right now because they are full of people. They should be parked at the door for now."

Ye Yaodong immediately asked someone to bring a roll of nylon bags and lay them out at the door.

In addition to dried fish and fish sauce, nylon bags take up the most space in his workshop. Because he was worried about rain, he prepared a lot of nylon bags on and off in the past two or three years.

It took three carts several trips to pull all the dried kelp over.

They also weighed from dawn to dusk. None of the villagers who cared about this matter left. They all watched with empty stomachs. A total of five tons and 620 kilograms were weighed.

Ye Yaodong settled the bill immediately on the spot, which sent a good signal to the village committee members.

10620 kilograms was sold for 743.4 yuan, and he asked Aqing to give the money to the village chief on the spot.

The villagers' eyes lit up and they were all excited.

This is only a part of it. There is still some that have not been harvested in the sea. We can sell so much on the first day, and there will be more to come.

We have been waiting here for a long time and haven't even gone home to eat, just waiting for the moment to collect the money.

The crowd was in an uproar and talking a lot.

"This won't cost several thousand dollars, right?"

"30 acres can be sold for thousands of yuan? Only a few people are doing it?"

"If our family has four or five laborers, can we handle it? If not, we can just hire someone for a few days and it won't cost much..."

"Isn't this too much?"

"Selling for so much money~"

"Adong said this morning that if there is a good harvest next year, everyone will be able to afford a TV and a washing machine..."

"Let's do it! Let's do it! In the second half of the year, we will follow the village committee to cultivate kelp..."

"Yes, yes, yes, I also want to learn how to grow kelp..."

The village cadres were also a little excited when they saw the money in the village chief's hands. Only when they held real money in their hands could they feel it was real.

This is the best proof of success.

The village chief had a look of joy on his face and was grinning from ear to ear, but listening to the excited discussions of the villagers, he was also worried that if the results did not exceed their expectations, they would be disappointed.

It’s better to lower your expectations now.

"Don't be happy too soon. We sold a lot today, but there may not be as many tomorrow. Some of them have already been sold this morning, but they are accumulated and sold in the evening, so there will be less tomorrow."

The village party secretary also comforted him, "Yes, we have to dry all of them. We can calculate the total number and then we can calculate the total output. When the time comes, we will definitely post it on the bulletin board and announce it to everyone."

"That's not a small amount. There's still some in the sea, and there's a large area of ​​it dried up on the construction site. There must be two or three thousand."

"Don't even mention two or three thousand. If a family can earn a thousand dollars, they will work hard for it."

"Yeah, we can sell more than 700 of these today, which is a lot, more than we can make in a year."

Ye Yaodong was also worried that they had too high expectations, so he said seriously and honestly: "Don't expect too much. There are risks in everything you do. After all, we depend on the weather for our livelihood. Even crops planted in the fields can have bad harvests, let alone those grown in the sea."

"No one can guarantee what will happen next year, but we can only say that this year we had a good harvest, which is a good start for everyone and has increased the confidence of all the villagers."

"And kelp farming is also suitable for long-term work. A poor harvest in one year does not mean poor harvests every year. This is a way out for our village and a hope."

"Folks don't have to rely on digging for food in the fields or doing odd jobs at the docks to make a living. Cultivating kelp is better than doing other things."

Secretary Chen also nodded in agreement. "Adong is right. One year's bumper harvest doesn't mean we can have such a good harvest every year. This is the first time for our village to do this. If everyone is optimistic, each family can provide a laborer in the second half of the year and plant collectively for another year."

"We can work together first according to the previous work point system and learn breeding techniques at the same time. Then we can distribute the results according to the work, which can also reduce the risks that everyone bears."

Someone seconded the proposal and cheered, "That's great!"

"This is good. We can learn and share the risk."

The village chief raised his hand to suppress everyone's opinions.

"We have also discussed in advance that the money earned this year, minus the expenses, will be used as the cost for the second half of the year."

"Of course, if it's not enough, everyone can chip in a little bit, and then we'll divide the harvest according to our share of expenditure. But we'll talk about the details later."