Back to the small fishing village in 1982

Chapter 1431 Wife
Ye Yaodong walked forward a few steps while being surrounded by the crowd before he remembered that there were three other people coming back with him.

He turned around and waved at them, "Go home."

The fat man was a little indignant. "I got home in the middle of the night and didn't see a single ghost. I wasted my time wearing such nice clothes."

"Fat brother...isn't there a person in front?"

"One by one they can't see us anymore, does that count?"

Another person pointed at his wrinkled and torn clothes and pants, "They don't look good either. They're torn everywhere."

The fat man became even angrier.

This new clothes I just bought were cut all over by a knife as soon as I wore it out. I have to sew and mend them. Isn't it the same as their other clothes that are all patched up?

This is still new clothes.

I should have learned from Dongzi and dressed in rags. After all, who would see me when I got home in the middle of the night?

Not only did he waste his new clothes, he also lost a pen and the money in his pocket, and he even owed Dongzi a safe.

Mudd!

Losing big!
The fat man pounded his palm with his empty fist!
"Go home. I'll give you the money for the sleeper berth tomorrow."

"No need to give. It was Adong who bought the ticket. We didn't pay for it. We just squeezed together to make room for you."

"Yeah, I told you not to give us anything. We didn't pay anything, but we got paid. What kind of nonsense is that? If I'm going to give you money, I'll give it to Adong. He bought the boat tickets."

"Then we'll talk about it after we get up there. It's the middle of the night now, so I'll go home and have a hot bowl of food and go to sleep. My throat hurts from eating dry food every day."

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The air was filled with a strong smell of kelp, which used to be a fishy smell. Even with the light on in his house, he could barely see patches of black kelp hanging on the beach not far away.

Ye Yaodong was surrounded by a group of people and was led back home. On the road, one could see scattered pieces of kelp and mud.

Even Mrs. Ye's elder and second sisters heard the commotion and came over to their house to chat and ask about their respective husbands.

Wait until he finishes his midnight snack and wants to rest before going back.

In addition to talking about everyone's situation, Ye Yaodong also talked about the process of coming back.

His trip back was relatively convenient this time. He only made three trips and it took him four days to get home.

Lin Xiuqing looked at his scruffy beard with concern, "It's more convenient to drive the boat by yourself. You don't have to keep changing trains. It should only take one or two days to get home, but now it takes four days."

"This is the fastest trip. Other ships take 7-15 days. Some ships stop at ports more often, and some stay for two or three days each time to pick up new goods and passengers."

"That's more laborious and painful."

"Who says it isn't?"

That's why I wanted to quickly open a shipping route in Linji. I have to arrange a more convenient fishing boat in my hometown, right?

Ye Yaodong dragged the sack he had brought back over, took out the children's toys first, and sent the two brothers, who were staring at him eagerly, upstairs.

At the same time, Ye Xiaoxi was also rushed upstairs.

He had just returned and the children were in an excited state. How could they be happy if he sent them back to their rooms without giving them anything?

It’s different when there are toys, dad has to sit in the back row.

After getting the toys, they didn't come close to him, but went to play with them excitedly first.

Only then did Ye Yaodong take out his clothes one by one.

Lin Xiuqing whispered, "How much did you earn in the past one or two months? There must be hundreds of thousands of dollars here, right?"

He took out a tightly packed cotton jacket and put it on the table.

"Just count it yourself and you'll know."

When he opened the knotted sleeves, he saw neatly wrapped 50-yuan and 10-yuan bills in bundles, with only a few curled edges.

Lin Xiuqing asked in surprise: "Did you go to change it on purpose?"

"I went to exchange it occasionally when I had time, and I changed it at several banks. I always exchanged small change for 50 yuan, and I didn't dare to change more than that."

After all, the amount he had was a bit large. He really had to exchange more than 100,000 yuan a month, which was quite a lot if spread across two or three banks. It was a bit conspicuous. Most people would not exchange large or small notes and would just hold them in their arms.

"How much is in here? Just tell me a number and I'll write it down. I won't count it. You've hired an accountant anyway, so he should have calculated it."

Ye Yaodong nodded, "There is 16 yuan here. In addition to the few thousand yuan I kept on hand, I also bought another 3 mu of land and two tractors."

Lin Xiuqing just felt that he was making money too fast now, but didn't say anything about how he spent money.

"Our income is too stable. It's only been over a month, and we've already made hundreds of thousands..."

"stable?"

He remembered that he had not yet told Aqing about Chen Jianian's experience, so he immediately told him about Chen Jianian's experience.

Lin Xiuqing sighed after hearing this, "The world is unpredictable. It seems that he made a lot of money in the past few years, but he was unlucky and encountered a natural disaster. He is now back to the time before liberation and is in debt."

"Do you still think it's stable? We have been floating on the sea, while they are just carrying goods once."

"That's bad luck, no doubt about it."

Lin Xiuqing fiddled with dozens of stacks of money and then wrapped them up in her clothes to prevent the noise of running around upstairs and others from seeing them when they came downstairs.

"So, I am lucky to have accumulated my current wealth. Opportunities and luck are both indispensable."

Apart from a few words of concern at the beginning, the old lady couldn't get a word in afterwards.

He kept talking about hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, which made her heart tremble. She didn't dare to speak, for fear of disturbing their topic of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

She just listened carefully, and when he had almost finished speaking, she urged him to go back to his room and sleep.

"Let's talk tomorrow if you have anything to say. You will not eat or sleep well on the boat. Look at the dark circles under your eyes. Go back to your room and go to bed."

"What about hundreds of thousands, millions, or even hundreds of millions? You have to wait until you wake up before you can talk about it. Otherwise, it will hurt your body. It's hard enough to make money outside."

Ye Yaodong responded, "You go to sleep, we will go back to the house."

"I'll call my daughter down to bed, and then I'll get you a basin of hot water to wash your feet."

"Let me take this into the house first and turn off the doors, windows and lights for you."

The old lady stood up immediately and said, "I'll do it. Let Ah Qing do your thing. The little one will sleep with me. This child is so bad when she sleeps. She always kicks the quilt. You won't sleep well if you sleep with her."

Ye Yaodong doesn't care.

After returning to the house, Lin Xiuqing told him about the recent kelp harvest.

Basically we have to weigh the goods for two or three hours every afternoon, and then load them onto a ship and send them away the next day, otherwise there will be no room in the warehouse to store them.

She has been very busy these days and has lost a lot of weight.

Ye Yaodong touched the soft flesh around her waist and felt that her belly had become smaller. He could even feel her ribs, and he felt a little distressed.

One of them is busy outside, and the other is busy at home. It's hard to say who works harder than the other.

After all, Lin Xiuqing did much more work at home than him. Not only did she have to take care of the work in the city, but she also had to take care of the work in the factory in the town, as well as the shipping and receiving of goods in the workshop at home. In the past two days, she had to collect a large amount of kelp as well.

There are both elderly and children in the family.

But his life was much simpler, he just had to receive the goods, deliver the goods and collect the money.

All in all, he might have it easier, it's just that it's different outside than at home.

Ye Yaodong touched her ribs and stomach and listened to her attentively. As he listened, there was no movement and even snoring sounds.

Fell asleep due to tiredness.

We got home at night, but everyone in the village knew about it by the next morning.

Secretary Chen came before he got up, but the old lady said he was still sleeping and left again.

Waves of people came in the morning, but were all blocked by the old lady.

Although the person was blocked, the sound was not. He was still woken up by the noise around him, but he was too lazy to get up, so he just lay there and brewed.

After all, kelp was drying on the nearby beaches, and people were coming and going to transport it. They all knew he was back, so they liked to gather at his door.

The village has been harvesting kelp on a large scale recently. There are people harvesting it on the sea even at night, taking turns 24 hours a day, just to worry about rain.

This year it is another collective project, and three or four times more has been done than last year. The villagers are looking forward to getting another big share this time.

It wasn't a few months in total, and there were a lot of people, so there wasn't much work to share, but at least we could get four or five hundred yuan.

Before all the goods were delivered, everyone had already guessed how much money they could get at least. They were full of energy and busy, and seemed particularly hopeful.

He waited until he had laid down enough before getting up.

The old lady pointed at Secretary Chen who was directing something not far away and said, "He came here several times early in the morning just after daybreak."

"I'll go out and see."

Ye Yaodong picked up a large bowl of porridge, put some of the dishes on the table into the bowl and went out.

Secretary Chen was staring at his door, and when he saw him come out, he immediately walked towards him.

"Get rich, make a fortune this year, and move up the career ladder."

Secretary Chen just walked in and heard this, his face was full of smiles, "You are talking about yourself, right? So many ships, all earned by you."

Ye Yaodong pointed at the kelp in front of him with his chopsticks and said, "This is your achievement. Your promotion and wealth depend on it."

"I plan to let the villagers raise fish on their own next year, and allocate the offshore base to those who have participated in the past two years. If others want to raise fish, or if everyone wants to raise more fish, they can allocate another offshore base for themselves. I will also let them pay the retention money to the village, and I will not deduct it from the income."

The full name of the retention fund is 'comprehensive retention fund'. They do not pay taxes, but pay retention funds.

Three retentions and five poolings, these are two parts of money.

This is a fee system implemented in rural China in the 80s, "three increases and five unifications".

The three levies are: provident fund, public welfare fund, and management fee, which are collected by village organizations.

The provident fund here belongs to the internal accumulation funds of the rural collective economy, which is different from the housing provident fund in the city.

It is not a system for employees' personal housing savings, but a way of accumulating funds within rural collective economic organizations to support various construction and business development of rural collectives.

The five coordinated funds are: education surcharge, family planning fee, militia training fee, rural road construction fee, and preferential treatment fee, which are collected by township-level governments.

The reserved funds are mainly used for the village’s public welfare undertakings, expanded reproduction and daily management expenses.

As part of the rural area, their seaside fishing village also needs to pay contributions regularly.

There is almost no arable land in their village, and payment is made based entirely on the number of people and livestock in the home.

There weren’t many big boats in the village before, and everyone’s living standards were similar, so taxes were not paid according to income levels.

Things have been different in recent years, with people who own boats paying higher standards for retention payments.

Therefore, in recent years, their village committee has become much wealthier and can invest to cover the cost of kelp and lead the villagers to engage in breeding.

Ye Yaodong ate his porridge and replied casually, "That's good. Once they learn how to do it, let them do it on their own. They bear their own risks. Some families with more laborers will of course want to do more."

"It's like this. As the living standards in the village have improved in recent years, everyone has extra money and can afford to spend a little more to gamble and get the goods."

Ye Yaodong raised his chin again and pointed at the kelp in front of him, "When can we finish harvesting it?"

"The harvest from the sea is fast, and we will be able to finish harvesting by the end of the month. It just won't be dried that fast, but it doesn't matter. We have harvested them all, so we can give an approximate estimate of the yield."

"Oh, now the village is getting rich again. When you go to the city for a meeting, you can stand up straight again."

"It's all thanks to you young people that our village has been honored. I will also be proud when I go out."

"Then I should pay less in reserve this year?"

Secretary Chen's eyes widened. "How is that possible? You are a big customer, and you have five more boats. Your standards have to be raised several levels. How can you pay less?"

"Then you have to work harder for me and get me some good welfare policies."

"That's good enough. The factory in your town is exempted from paying taxes, and the town's policies are supportive."

Ye Yaodong didn't care about the money, he was just saying it casually.

He changed the subject and chatted for a while, then went back with the empty bowl.

Before he even reached the door of his house, he saw a group of children playing games and shouting something, "Bride, sitting in a sedan chair?"

The two boys crossed their arms and served as a sedan chair for Ye Xiaoxi to sit on.

Ye Xiaoxi had sweet potato vines hanging on her ears, a necklace made of sweet potato vines around her neck, a headband made of sweet potato vines on her forehead, and her ten fingers were full of rings made of sweet potato vines.

"My eldest lady..." Ye Yaodong looked at them, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

By the time they carried Ye Xiaoxi to another group of children, they had already been playing house and were preparing to eat.

"The bride is here, let's have dinner..."

Ye Yaodong walked over and took a look. Their meal was a pile of various grass leaves on broken tiles, some with small stones, small sand, and unripe wild fruits. There were more than a dozen bowls...

"Your meal is quite sumptuous. How many tables are you setting up for the wedding?"

"Dad! We are playing house, let's eat together!"

Ye Xiaoxi took out the colorful candies from her pocket and put them on a broken jar fragment, "Snack!"

"Ah...it's time for a snack!"

The kids around were scrambling for the tickets, but they were also very disciplined. Each kid only grabbed one. Ye Xiaoxi was also shouting with her hands on her hips.

"You can only eat one per person, otherwise you won't be allowed to play."

Ye Yaodong was both amused and confused, "You have become the big sister?"

"Hey, Dad, let me give you one. It's delicious."

Ye Xiaoxi peeled off a candy wrapper and stuffed the candy into his mouth.

Ye Yaodong looked at her dark green fingers, and the black gaps between her nails. His brows were furrowed, but he still opened his mouth and ate the candy.

It's not clean, you won't get sick after eating it.

"Go wash your hands quickly. You can't eat without washing your hands. Look at your hands and the gaps between your nails. Ask your mother to cut your nails for you later."

She looked down at her two fingers, then rubbed them on her body twice, "Clean!"

Ye Yaodong: "..."

She stood on tiptoe, glanced at the empty bowl in Ye Yaodong's hand, picked up the homemade tree branch chopsticks, and picked up a handful of grass and put it in the bowl for Ye Yaodong.

"Dad, please eat some food."

"you eat."

"You're welcome, eat, eat, just treat it like your own home, don't be polite, eat more."

Ye Yaodong: "..."

Where did this girl learn this?
"I'll give you some more." As she said this, she took the entire tile in her hand and wanted to pour all the sand and stones inside into his bowl.

Ye Yaodong quickly stood up and poured out the weeds in the bowl.

"Dad, don't be polite. Eat more. You are not a stranger."

Ye Yaodong poked her forehead with the end of his chopsticks and said, "You should keep it for yourself. Don't be filial to me. I am not worthy of it."

"You came here with your bowl of rice..."

"Play by yourself."

Seeing how dirty she was, Ye Yaodong didn't care about her anymore. It was only morning and even if he washed her now, she wouldn't last for a few minutes.

After he took two steps, he stepped back.

"Where are the sheep?"

"I asked Wei to let him go."

The corner of his mouth twitched, "You are good at ordering people around."

Ye Xiaoxi opened her eyes innocently and said, "He said he had to herd the sheep at home anyway, and as long as I gave him 5 candies, he would help me herd them."

When the children around heard this, they immediately said, "Xiaojiu, I'll help you put it in, I only want 4 candies..."

"I only want three..."

"Two is enough for me..."

Ye Xiaoxi's face was full of surprise. "Really? If the sheep is lost, you have to pay for it."

"Don't worry, I won't lose my sheep even if I lose myself..."

"Then I won't give it to Awei. I'll give it to you tomorrow. He's too expensive..."

Ye Yaodong was ashamed.

All of this needs to be rolled up.

Which child can withstand her sugar-coated bullets?

These kids will do anything for a piece of candy.

After Ye Yaodong brought the empty bowl home, he walked to the phone and prepared to call his godfather. He also wanted to let him know that he had returned and say hello.

We agreed that after I finish collecting kelp at home in the next two days, I will go to the city at the beginning of the month, and I will come to your house to visit you then.

After visiting the workshop, he will have to go to the factory in town.

Don't think that he will feel relaxed when he returns home. He has to check everything when he first gets home. There are a lot of things to do at home and he has to share some of them for Lin Xiuqing.

And after knowing that he had returned, Hong Wenle in the town would invite him to dinner and drinks every day.

Only now did he realize that eating and drinking could sometimes be more tiring than working, and he came back drunk every day.

These days, he would wake up when the sun was already high in the sky, not far from lunchtime. He would take a walk after lunch, collect kelp in the afternoon, go to the factory after work, and stay in a restaurant in the evening, and only return home in the middle of the night.

If he could see people during the day, even if he was drunk at night, he would know to go home and Lin Xiuqing would scold him.

She had to serve him even if he came back in the middle of the night.

I also have to endure his chattering, calling him "wife, wife" over and over again.

"Wife, wife, you are so kind, hurry up and get me some water to wash my feet..."

"Wife, wife, I'm thirsty..."

"Honey, I want to pee..."

"Honey, I feel like vomiting. Honey, I feel dizzy..."

"I won't drink tomorrow, wife, if you can stop me tomorrow..."

"I need to stop drinking. Damn, you keep dragging me to go. I don't want to go. Honey, I feel dizzy..."

Lin Xiuqing usually felt happy and sweet when she heard him call her wife, but now she felt so annoyed that she wanted to stuff his mouth with a stinky sock.

She did the same thing, but instead of taking the smelly socks, she took a clean handkerchief.

It was really annoying. When she washed his feet, he would splash water on her face and rub his feet against her face.

"Wife, why are you eating my toes..."

Lin Xiuqing was so angry that her teeth were itching. It was clearly him who rubbed his foot against her mouth, and she pinched him angrily.

"shut your mouth."

"Wife, you are so fierce, you need to be gentler, mmm..."

Ye Yaodong had the handkerchief in his mouth and was dazed for a moment. Then he reached out and took it out again.

"It's so soft, I thought you gave me a big steamed bun."

"Eat your big head, shut your mouth and go to sleep."

Lin Xiuqing wiped his feet, casually lifted them up and threw them on the bed, then took the foot washing water out and poured it out.

When I entered the room again, he was already lying on the bed, taking up most of the bed, and lying on top of the quilt.

Lin Xiuqing sighed, "Now that you're back, I'm busier than ever."

Ye Yaodong patted the bed beside him and said, "Come on, I've saved a seat for you."

It was just a tiny space in the corner, and she didn't even want to sleep with him.

Just when she took off her clothes and wanted to lie down, Ye Yaodong suddenly sat up again.

"I need to pee..."

Lin Xiuqing held his forehead with his hand, "I have raised another son! Go by yourself!"

She shouted, and Ye Yaodong looked at her hazily, a little aggrieved, "So fierce."

He staggered down barefoot, and instead of going out the door, he opened the closet and took off his pants...

"Wait! What are you doing?"

"To pee."

Lin Xiuqing quickly pulled up his pants and said, "How drunk have you been? This is a closet, not a toilet. Hold it in."

"I have to pee."

"Hold it in."

She quickly took Ye Yaodong to the toilet and had to wait at the door, otherwise she was afraid that he would sleep directly in the sheep shed.

"My wife, you are so nice." After Ye Yaodong finished peeing, he pouted and was about to kiss her.

Lin Xiuqing slapped his pig mouth directly, "This is in the toilet! Shut your mouth and go to bed quickly."

The old lady was also awakened by his noise. She came out to take a look and then muttered, "You drink so much every day... Where do you get so many friends..."

She complained, "You'll be watching tomorrow, don't let him go out."

The old lady hesitated, "Then I have to lie down so that he won't go out, right?"

"never mind……"

Ye Yaodong suddenly said: "I heard it!"

Lin Xiuqing slapped him hard and said, "Hurry up and go to sleep."

Ye Yaodong stretched out his hand, put his arm around her shoulders, and shouted, "Let's go to sleep! Have a sweet dream!"

Lin Xiuqing was really embarrassed and angry.

"I've convinced you."

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