Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1398 You'll be happy

Those who go out to sea are so busy that they have no time to rest, and those who stay at home are so busy that they are nowhere to be seen.

Basically, they were sent out by Ye Yaodong to run errands, do chores, or inquire about information. He would stay at home waiting for news and supervising the construction of the house.

He makes the best use of everything. He does less work if possible and asks others to do the work that can be done.

Just a few days after the beginning of the month, there was another strong wind and all the fishing boats returned. His father also came back reluctantly.

All in all, Ocean No. 1 has been at sea for nearly a month, and the other ships have only returned sporadically over the past month, and basically never stayed at sea for more than a week.

Everybody is cursing and talking about the horrible weather. It rains or has strong winds every few days.

Everyone's income has been cut in half this month.

Some people start sighing when they rest at night.

"Is it possible that even the money here has become hard to make?"

"How is that possible? This is a fishing ground. If it's hard to make money here, where else can you make money?"

"Bad weather is common. We rely on the weather for our livelihood. There is nothing we can do when it happens. Who can we blame? Let's see if the weather will be better later."

"If you ask me, Adong's big ship is still the best. Uncle Ye has been out to sea for a month and only came back on this trip. He has been making a lot of money on the sea!"

Father Ye agreed, "Isn't it good? This boat cost more than 100,000 yuan, and it's still a bargain. Otherwise, we might not be able to buy it even if we paid twice as much."

"It's been almost a year since I bought it. Have you made back the money you invested?"

Father Ye laughed and said, "I don't know whether he made any money or not. The money didn't fall into my hands. Dongzi either owed it to the bank or deposited it in the bank, and I didn't see it."

"Haha, don't you still have gold? Your hard work wasn't in vain..."

"I'm the one doing all the work for that bastard, right? All he has to do is stay on the shore and let him have his fun."

Ye Yaodong had just come back from selling goods, and before he even had time to sit down, he retorted, "Didn't I always tell you not to work so hard? Teach the workers on the boat more, teach two, and when they are able to do the job, I will hand over the boat to them, and you can just stay on the shore and help enjoy the good life. Anyway, you don't have to pay for it."

"It's easy, but you have to be at ease. This trip took about a month, so let's rest for a few days. Let them go by themselves. We have already arranged a captain and a second captain, and one more on the deck."

"Then let them send the boat out for a test drive in a couple of days. Don't be gone for too many days. Let them come back in about a week."

"Well, they are the ones who basically drove this year. I was mostly on the deck, and I took turns occasionally. They also took turns driving for a few months. Our place is simple, we don't go far, and the work we do is the same every day, so it's almost okay."

If his father said yes, then it should be okay. They are now near the coast, and the fishing grounds are in Hangzhou Bay and the Yangtze River estuary, not very far.

Those selected for training all have sailing experience, can pick up the skills quickly, and can handle emergencies. His father has also been with the ship for a few months, so he is not that worried. He always has to give it a try.

There are also communication equipment with other ships, so they can be contacted in case of emergency.

"Okay, let's take a break for a few days. When the sea waves are not so strong, we can go out to sea again."

Ye Yaodong was not in a hurry to find someone to discuss the salary. He had to go a few times and try it out. He would wait until the end of the month and discuss the situation.

Anyway, everyone knows that he can't do any harm.

Father Ye came over to him and asked, "I haven't been home for a month, and the construction of the house here is progressing very slowly. When will it be finished?"

"That's because it's been raining intermittently, and we can't work on rainy days. We've already started the carpentry work, and it should be ready in about a month."

"Then it would be better to do it in December. It would be convenient if someone wants to live in a separate room. It would just be a bed..."

"I have already ordered iron bed frames, with bunk beds, three in one room, and asked the factory to give me an iron washbasin stand as a gift, which was delivered about a month later."

"So many rooms, how many thousand dollars will that cost?"

"It's more than 3000 yuan, which is not bad. It can be used for a long time, and the rent can also subsidize it."

"That little bit of rent is not enough to cover the cost of this place, and I don't know how long it will take to make back the money. You have 60 rooms here, plus the land and the fence, and all you have to add up is 10 yuan."

Ye Yaodong estimated in his mind that if the 2 yuan for the land was added, it would be about the same.

"almost."

"How long will it take to get my money back..."

"It doesn't matter. This house is built here and can be rented out for decades. It will pay for itself sooner or later, and the land will become more and more valuable."

"Forget it, you can look at it yourself. I won't say more. Anyway, you have a lot of money on hand, so you can use it to buy land. At least you can keep collecting rent."

"That's right, do more and talk less."

Father Ye glared at him and said, "Haven't I done enough?"

"You are doing very well now, so I will give you a year-end bonus at the end of the year."

Father Ye's serious expression almost broke out, and he coughed before he calmed down. "You decide. I'm going to sleep first. I'm so tired."

"Ah."

Father Ye had been running back and forth on the sea all the time, and he only rested for a few days. When he rested, Ye Yaodong also rested, and the hundreds of people basically rested at the same time.

So he had no idea that while he was working hard at sea, Dongzi was having a great time at home on shore!
They only rested for three days and then went out to sea at night. He had to wait until daytime to feel how great Dongzi was!
I slept until I woke up naturally, then leisurely went out to have breakfast, watched the workers building the house at work, and then rode my bike to play cards!
Play! Cards! Now!
He wandered around the whole morning, and after visiting the dock, he had nothing better to do so he decided to go to his Chamber of Commerce to see what he was doing, only to see that he was playing cards.

Suddenly I couldn't believe it.

Ye Yaodong heard his father calling him, so he let his father in. He still had some face.

"No, didn't you say that you would come to the Chamber of Commerce to confirm the quantity you want tomorrow?"

"Yes, I'm here to confirm the quantity of fish we need for tomorrow."

"Then what are you doing?"

"Playing cards is not a conflict. It is also a way for me to build relationships. If I don't get into their inner circle, how can I treat them as brothers and sisters? How can I build a good relationship with them and get them to place more orders with me?"

Father Ye thought about it and it seemed to make some sense.

"That's great, you can make money and play cards at the same time."

"Do you want to call home? You've been at sea for a month. It's rare for you to come back. Why don't you call home? I used to call home regularly."

"Yes, I'll make a phone call first."

After Ye Yaodong sent his father away, he happily played cards again.

But he didn't expect that his father would complain about him on the phone, saying that he was playing cards!
He said he had worked hard at sea for a whole month and finally got two days off, but he ended up playing cards on the shore every day and said he was building relationships with the bosses...blah blah blah...

Ye Yaodong was speechless after hearing this. He ignored him and continued playing.

After Ye's father made the call, no one came back. Ye Yaodong stayed here as long as he wanted, waiting.

Originally, Ye Yaodong wanted to have lunch with everyone, and then continue after lunch, and then go back when it was almost dark. Anyway, he didn’t have to receive any goods today.

However, seeing his father always staying nearby, he felt it was an eyesore, so he simply had lunch and went back.

"Is this how you spend your time on the shore every day?"

"Do you really think I'm killing time? I'm there mainly to wait for people coming in and out to place orders, and also to build better relationships and get to know everyone better. The distance between people is just a matter of playing cards and drinking a few glasses of wine..." A few massages...

He didn't wait until after dinner to go back because he was afraid that everyone would drag him to get a massage again and take his father along.

If his mother finds out, it will be a disaster.

Even though his father had just reported him for playing cards, he couldn't drag his father into the water to wash his feet and have a foot massage with him.

"You are always right. You are the coolest."

Ye Yaodong said nothing.

Two days later, Ye's father found out that there was something even more exciting.

It was clear that the freshwater ship would dock after collecting the goods that afternoon, so he had to wait at the dock to receive the goods.

But he just sat at home motionless, with his feet crossed, peeling oranges, and only asked the remaining workers to send two to the dock to inform him if the fishing boat returned.

Then he threw away the orange peel, clapped his hands, and got on his bike.

Father Ye felt even more depressed sitting on the back of the bicycle.

It turns out that he is just a beast of burden.

"I'm working so hard, and you're having a great time."

He has said this countless times in the past few days, but he really wants to complain.

Ye Yaodong responded: "I told you a long time ago, train a few more people and let them do the work, and you just rest on the shore and collect the goods."

"Who am I doing this for? Aren't I doing this for you? I don't feel comfortable letting someone else drive such a big ship. It's so expensive..."

"What are you afraid of? We are all from the same village. We all know our ancestors. The monk can escape but the temple cannot. Are you really worried that my boat will run away? There are so many people on the boat..."

"I'm worried that people won't take good care of the boat, or that accidents may happen to beginners."

"I pay them a lot, so they will definitely do their best. Their share of the profits is tied to the amount of fish caught. Who would complain about too much money?"

"You haven't even started to drive such a big boat yet, but you're handing it over to someone else. Don't you feel bad about it and want to keep it in your hands?"

"No, as long as the money is in my hands, it's fine. Isn't the purpose of buying ships to make money? I have so many ships. If I hold all of them, can I sail them all?"

Father Ye was speechless.

"You have earned money and enjoyed it."

"We're just getting started." Ye Yaodong said confidently, then quickened his pace on the bicycle.

Father Ye didn't go out to sea this time, and after only two days, he was still thinking about the boat.

As soon as I climbed onto the fresh catch boat, I asked my cousin Dongzi how the catch was going and how much catch they had.
"How much cargo did they salvage? I don't know. I didn't go there. Today we collected cargo from the Dongsheng ships. We will go to collect cargo from that ship tomorrow. Adong just told me to contact them this morning and find out the situation."

"So what's the situation?"

"It's pretty good. They all said it's going well. We can get about 30 bags a day. Even if we throw away half of them, we still have about 10 to 20 bags."

Father Ye was relieved after hearing this, "That's good."

Ye Yaodong said, "If you are worried, they can go to pick up the goods tomorrow and you can go with them. Anyway, they will go in the morning and be back in the afternoon."

"That's okay too."

It was exactly what he wanted.

"I am destined to be a hard worker. If the emperor is not anxious, the eunuchs will be anxious to death."

Everyone laughed.

"You said that, not me." Ye Yaodong glanced at his father and continued to look at the goods they recorded.

Only after Ye's father finished speaking did he realize what he had said.

Realizing that he had made a slip of the tongue, he stopped talking and helped to sort the goods.

Ye Yaodong asked them to carry out the goods he needed and weigh them first, and then arrange the delivery one by one according to the corresponding demand list.

He also brought his father along, so when he goes home, the delivery job will have to be left to his father.

The father and son can take turns to rest, or if both of them are here at the same time, they can deliver the goods at the same time.

In the past few years, he has been truly grateful to his father from the bottom of his heart. Without his father's help, nothing he could do would be easy, and things might not be as smooth as they are now.

On the way, he also introduced to his father whose goods were being delivered and how much they cost. He even kept a separate notebook.

The one given to his cousin to check the cargo on the ship was just a draft of the quantity recorded.

Ye's father followed him and watched him put handfuls of money into the big bag he carried inside his sweater.

He looked at the people around him moving away and couldn't help but whispered, "This job really can't be handed over to others. You can only do it yourself or I will do it for you."

"Of course, otherwise why would I keep asking you to train more people on board and hand over the work to others, and really let you stay on shore and enjoy yourself?"

Father Ye said angrily: "I was wondering how you could possibly let me enjoy happiness."

"You will have a time to enjoy your life, but now is not the time yet. Wait, you are only in your 50s."

"Then how old do I have to be?"

"Just work until you are 60, and then I will give you a good show and hold a 60th birthday party for you? I will set up a few tables."

"This is acceptable."

This touched Ye's father's heart. If you talk about giving him money or buying gold now, he may not be so happy or care so much, but he is still looking forward to celebrating his birthday.

The next day, Ye's father took the initiative to follow the fresh-food collection ship to Ocean No. 2 to collect the goods. He would not feel at ease unless he saw it with his own eyes, and he was still thinking about the ship when he went to bed at night.

He is not as close to his wife as she is to him. He thinks she is more important than his wife.

When he came back in the evening, Ye Yaodong knew without asking that his father was relieved.

Ye Yaodong took his father to deliver the goods as usual, and his father naturally explained it to him in detail on the way.

In fact, if there is no accident at sea, what can happen? Smooth fishing would only be boring.

After collecting goods for several days in a row, about a week later, when the Ocean No. 1 and the Dongsheng returned together, Ye's father was finally relieved.

They were not so worried about going out to sea later, and Ye Yaodong did not ask them to come back in a week or so. He let them stay at sea as long as they could, and they came back about once every half a month.

If you think the wind and waves are strong, then don't stay too long. Safety comes first. You have to come back when you need to. It won't cause any loss to them anyway, and he will be the one who suffers the loss.

The house he had was also completed ahead of schedule in the middle to late part of the month, instead of being delayed until the end of the month.

The weather is very good this month. At most it’s windy, but as long as it doesn’t rain, the progress won’t be delayed.

However, the iron bed will not be delivered until the end of the month, and there is no time left now, so they are not in a hurry.

Wait until the end of the month, when it’s the day to install the bed and the day to move. Then we’ll install the iron bed and set off firecrackers to complete the moving ceremony.

When the house was completed, they went to the Chamber of Commerce together to call home to report that they were safe and to report that the house was completed.

But when asked how much money he had spent, Ye Yaodong had told his father in advance to say that he hadn't calculated it yet and would tell him later after he had figured it out.

This saves him from having to think that he is going through so much trouble and spending money that may not be recouped quickly.

However, he didn't have much chance to talk to his father on the phone. His father only said two lines, and the rest was asking him to give the phone to Dongzi.

Ye's father had no choice but to go and watch people play cards in a depressed mood.

But he didn't expect that in the time it took him to make the phone call, his father had become familiar with the boss, who even invited him not to leave in such a hurry in the evening and to go for a massage together.

Father Ye looked surprised, "Massage?"

"I can tell at a glance that Adong didn't take you to enjoy yourself. He just made you work every day. You don't even know how to respect your own father."

"What? Does Dongzi go there often?"

"Haha, it was he who taught us how to buy a house..."

"Ahem..." Ye Yaodong hung up the phone and rushed over, "Dad, don't agree to their nonsense. They are so shameless."

Jin Laixi laughed and joked, "Why? You are the only one allowed to enjoy it, but not Dad?"

Ye Yaodong was so embarrassed that he could only laugh.

How can you go for a foot bath and massage and bring your own father with you?

Father Ye turned to look at him curiously, "You go for foot massage every day, how come I don't know? Don't you deliver goods every day?"

Jin Laixi put his arm around Ye's father's shoulder and said, "Don't worry about him. After dinner, we'll take you there. He's a very incompetent son."

“No, no, no, I… I won’t go. I can’t go to that kind of place…” Father Ye waved his hands awkwardly. He didn’t even know where the place was. He just heard the workers mention it.

"What are you afraid of? The first time is strange, the second time is familiar. It's not a big deal. You are comfortable as a son. There is no reason for you to suffer as a father."

"Don't worry about him. Wait until night time and we'll take you there. He's such an incompetent son."

They all put their hands on his father's shoulders and talked to him in a few words. Ye Yaodong didn't know what to say.

He had been hiding with his father for half a month, leaving early every day, but still couldn't escape.

Mr. Ye spoke poor Mandarin, and the other party was so enthusiastic that he didn't know how to refuse, so he could only look at Ye Yaodong for help.

"Don't lead my father astray. My father is an honest man, and I am also an honest man..."

"I know you're an honest man, but how does that conflict with massage? You, an honest man, also get a massage? Why can't your father go?"

The number of words is not enough, I will add another one around 2 o'clock