Chapter 1133 Bitter in the Mouth, Sweet in the Heart

We bought everything we needed. Ye Yaodong and A Guang were both satisfied. This trip was fruitful. Things were accomplished and a lot of things were bought.

The twins were also satisfied. Although they went to the Friendship Store just to look around, they had seen it all. In the past, they didn't even dare to walk in.

The display of those high-end goods and the people in suits walking back and forth made people stay away from it.

"Brother Dong, what is this chocolate?"

"Chocolate is chocolate. It's foreign. What else can it be?"

"Is it delicious? What does it taste like? You bought so much. Just a few small pieces cost 20 foreign exchange coupons. It's really expensive. How much is a pound of pork? With this money, you can buy half a pig."

"Foreigners' things are damn expensive, but there's nothing we can do. Who told us that we haven't eaten them before? Things that we haven't eaten before are always more fresh and mysterious. Of course, we will want to try them if we have the chance. I'll tell you what it tastes like when I go back and eat it, but I heard it's sweet and bitter."

"That's so strange. Are foreigners' tastes so different?"

" Foreigners have different tastes. Have you ever heard of cat poop coffee? It's cat poop, used to make coffee. "

"Fuck, is this okay? Do they have nothing to eat? They actually eat cat poop, so disgusting, do they have no cats there? Oh my god, if it can really make money, I will immediately pick up cat poop on the street."

"Hahaha... I heard that cat poop coffee is special, but I don't know why it's special. Anyway, it's definitely not the poop of ordinary cats at home. I just don't know what kind of cat poops, so special."

He has only heard of it, and didn't go out of his way to understand it, because he is not interested, so he really can't explain it.

"No matter how special the cat is, it's still a cat, and its poop is also cat poop... Just like no matter how high the status of a person is, the poop is also poop, it's really disgusting, no matter how poor we are, we are not to the point of eating poop..." A Guang also looked disgusted.

"Every place has its own regional culture. Foreign cultures are different from ours, which is normal. Our local specialties are also different."

"That's disgusting. I really want to pick up cat feces and sell them to them."

Ye Yaodong laughed and ignored them. He closed his mouth and stopped talking. There was flying dust in front of him. He wore a hat to prevent dust, so it was better to talk less.

After shopping for a while, he took a car and waited until 12 noon when he got home.

The whole family had been waiting anxiously. They thought that if he didn't come back last night, he would be able to get home early this morning. Unexpectedly, he didn't come back until noon.

Lin Xiuqing had been waiting at home. When she heard the sound of the tractor, she hurried out and walked to the workshop.

"What did you do? Why didn't you come back earlier?"

"I went shopping, so I'm late. Cook me something to eat. I'm starving."

"What's there to shop for? We don't need anything at home. Why did you go shopping? You didn't even know to come back earlier. If you need something, can't we buy it here?"

"That's different. After all, you brought it back from the provincial capital or the city. It's different with a label. It sounds classy and adds points."

"What did you buy? And it sounds classy. How classy is it?"

"You'll know when you get home." Ye Yaodong put his arm around Lin Xiuqing's shoulder and walked home.

A Guang behind him suddenly shouted, "Third sister-in-law, Dongzi said it's your birthday today. Happy birthday."

Lin Xiuqing stopped, frowned, and looked at Ye Yaodong strangely.

Ye Yaodong also frowned and glared at A Guang viciously.

Lin Xiuqing said in confusion: "Today is not my birthday. Listen to his nonsense. It's strange that he knows when my birthday is. The sun has to rise from the west."

"Hahaha~ I'm going home first." Ah Guang laughed and shook the cloth bag in his hand, and walked to the fork in the road.

Ye Yaodong stared, as if he wanted to shoot a few knives out and poke his back into a sieve.

Lin Xiuqing patted him, "What are you looking at? Go home, two strange people, I don't know what to do."

"When is your birthday? I remember it seems to be recently?"

"You remember, there is still more than half a month, July 27th, by then you have already gone to Zhejiang Province."

"Oh, I said, I always remember a few sevens, I thought it was seventeen."

"Okay, what are you guys talking about? Why are you asking me about my birthday all of a sudden?"

Lin Xiuqing looked at him puzzledly, and he seemed to be wrong, "Did you do something behind my back? Or are you making a bet?"

"What can I do behind your back? Who is so bored to bet with him, betting on your birthday? What's there to bet on? , I thought too much, I just suddenly remembered it, and mentioned it to him during the chat, but I didn't expect him to do this, so I left, it was so hot, and they were still talking outside in such a hot sun, and went home. "

"Mysterious..."

"Where's my daughter?"

"She's eating watermelon and watching TV at home."

"It's so comfortable, where's your son?"

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him, but couldn't help laughing, "You can tell them apart so clearly, your daughter and my son. One is doing homework, and the other is playing next to him. They just had a fight, and I don't know if they are together again now."

"Why are they fighting?"

"Cheng Hu is doing homework, and he thinks Yang Yang is playing with toys next to him and disturbs him, so he is very angry."

"Why doesn't he go to herd the sheep? Is Chenghu jealous? It must be uncomfortable to see him not having to do his homework."

"There's no one to accompany him. Don't you want to go alone? Everyone is there to catch up on their homework. It will be September 1st in two days, and they have to register. They are all here cramming. I don't see that there are fewer children running on the road. "

"No one can read. At least there is a Dongxue in your natal family. I'm looking at you here."

"It doesn't matter whether you study or not. Anyway, there are so many things at home, so they have to do most of the work."

"That's true."

If you can't study, then go home and inherit the family business.

The sun's rays in the middle of the day melted people away, and all the dogs in the family huddled lazily in their kennels. No one wanted to stay in the sidecar and be exposed to the sun.

When I first stepped into the gate of the yard, all the dog heads popped out of the kennel, filling the hole of the kennel. There were also puppies that couldn't squeeze out. It took a long time to squeeze their heads out from the side. come out.

He pointed at the dogs with a smile and said to Ah Qing: "Look, they are all dog heads, stuffed in the mouth, and you are not afraid that the heads will get stuck and cannot be retracted later."

Lin Xiuqing stopped and smiled, "These dogs are really cute sometimes."

"If you have a machete at this time, you can cut off a bunch of dog heads neatly from top to bottom..."

"Woof woof woof woof..."

"Woof woof woof woof..."

All the big dogs were barking, and the little puppies turned their heads and barked too.

"You're swearing so dirty, shut up!"

Lin Xiuqing turned her head and said, "Do you understand this?"

"Guess."

She smiled and shook her head, "I thought you and dogs were the same species."

"Dog men are the same as dogs. I am not."

"How can there be so many words? The dog man is right, it's you."

The old lady came out of the house and stood at the door waving to them, "Come in quickly, it's sunny outside, why are you talking in the yard? The noodles are almost ready, come in and eat."

The two walked quickly into the house.

Sitting at the table doing homework, Ye Chenghu's eyes shone brightly, "Dad, you are back."

"Write your homework."

Ye Yaodong threw the cloth bag he was carrying on the table, and his brother wanted to immediately pounce on it and grab the bag.

"Let go..."

"Let me see first..."

"I'm the elder brother, let me see first..."

"I am the younger brother, and the elder brother wants to take care of the younger brother..."

"Go away, my parents just said that I should leave my sister alone..."

"I told you to give in to your younger brothers and sisters!"

Ye Yaodong pulled the bag over again, "What are you arguing about? Everyone has a share, I will share it with you."

He rummaged through the things in his bag, then pushed the copybook to Ye Chenghu, "This is for you. Write a page of big words every day. If you don't write enough, I'll beat you to death."

Ye Chenghu was picking up the copybook with a happy face, thinking it was something good. When he heard this, he opened the copybook and looked at it in shock.

Ye Yaodong also handed him two pencils, two erasers, and a new pencil sharpener, "Hey, the equipment is complete."

I deliberately didn't take out the harmonium and only brought him school supplies.

"Why this? I don't want it."

Ye Chengyang laughed loudly, "I don't have to go to school, Dad, are mine just toys?"

"Well, yours is an illustrated book, take it."

Ye Xiaoxi also ran over with short legs, stood on tiptoes and grabbed his hand, "Show me, I want to see..."

"Yours is a bunch of little dolls. I give them to you. If the dolls don't come out, dad will buy them for you."

She clapped her hands happily and jumped twice with joy, "Okay, okay~"

Ye Chenghu stared at this one with wide eyes, and looked at the one holding a copybook and yelling angrily, "Why is mine like this? I don't want to write."

"I brought them back from the province~ There is also a pencil case for you to hold pencils and erasers. They are all bought by the province. If you don't want the copybooks, then I will take them all back and give them all to Yangyang for him to go to school next year. use."

Ye Chenghu immediately lay down on the table, swept all the things that belonged to him in front of him, and protected them under his chest, "No!"

"Then just keep it. It's a page of big words every day. It doesn't matter if you're a bad student. The handwriting should look better."

"Ah~~" Ye Chenghu screamed while lying on the table, waving his hands randomly across the table to vent his emotions.

Lin Xiuqing kicked him while holding the freshly served noodles, "Sit down and do your homework quickly."

"I haven't even finished my homework, and dad has arranged it for me again."

"If you don't want these things, you don't have to write what he assigned you."

He sat up straight and looked at the brand new stationery in front of him, with cartoon characters printed on it. Not to mention how novel it was. Where could they buy these in the countryside? They could only buy the most common stationery, so how could he afford it.

Still reaching out and circling the pile of stationery, he said aggrievedly: "But I want it, brought back from the provincial capital."

"Then just be honest and do your homework."

Ye Chengyang smiled evilly and waved the illustration in his hand in front of his eyes several times, "Brother, this illustration is of Sun Wukong. It looks good..."

Ye Chenghu looked at him eagerly but shouted at him angrily, "Go away."

In fact, my eyes kept following his illustration, reluctant to let go.

Ye Yaodong was slurping the noodles, and Lin Xiuqing took the bag away from him. She was a little confused when she saw that it was still bulging with a lot of things.

"What else? Is it still so heavy?"

"There are also several pieces of stationery, one for each of the children next door, and a few children from your second brother's family. You take them out and give them to each other. You don't know if they are enough, so you make do with them. A little less, as long as everyone has a share. I originally bought a lot, but a thief scratched the bag while he was riding in the car, and a lot of it was gone, so I gave him a little more."

"You are so thoughtful that you even prepared my second brother's children."

"Your second brother's family is going to have a college student, why don't I care about it? Not to mention buying stationery. School is about to start, so it makes sense to send stationery, so of course they will have a share. Your eldest brother and his children will also have a share. Come back I gave them to Lin Guangyuan and the others when I was in the city."

Ye Chenghu looked better at this time and asked, "Are Brother Ahai, Brother Ajiang, and my sisters all there? Do they also have to write copybooks every day?"

"Um."

He was happy, "That's good."

"Your cousins ​​should write too."

He nodded happily, "Okay, okay."

Lin Xiuqing took out everything in the bag for him and sorted it out, only to find several boxes of things written in English letters.

"What is this? Why are there still English letters?"

"This is chocolate. I bought it at the Friendship Store with my foreign exchange coupons. It's very expensive. A box costs several yuan. I gave it to you."

She was surprised, "Are these for me? So 5 boxes here don't cost more than 20 yuan?"

"A 20-yuan foreign exchange coupon costs about twenty or thirty yuan."

"Is anything so expensive? How much is a pound of pork, and these few things cost more than 20 yuan?"

"Foreign products are expensive to begin with. Just take them apart and eat them to see."

Lin Xiuqing took a few boxes of chocolates and flipped them through, and suddenly realized, "Ah, did you buy these expensive things for me? A Guang thought it was my birthday, so he asked like that just now?"

Ye Yaodong was a little embarrassed and hesitated for a while, but he still said frankly: "Yes, I haven't remembered your birthday for so many years. I only remembered that it was probably recently, so I went to the Friendship Store and wanted to buy something for you, but It’s just a 20 yuan foreign exchange coupon, so I just bought chocolates.”

She looked at him in surprise and laughed. She opened her mouth to say something, but she didn't. She just kept looking at him and laughing.

Ye Chenghu suddenly stuck out his tongue and pretended to vomit a few times, "Nutty."

The couple both stared.

Lin Xiuqing also put away her sweet smile and hit him on the head with the chocolate box in her hand.

"Hurry up and do your homework for me. Put these stationery away first and use them when school starts. Use the old ones now."

After speaking, he took out the copybook from his arms and said, "I'll start writing on the copybook today. I'll check it during dinner. If you don't finish it, I'll beat you to death and you won't even be able to step out of this door at night."

"I haven't finished my summer homework yet."

"Does it make sense that you haven't finished your summer homework?"

Ye Chenghu flattened his mouth, but then looked at the chocolate in her hand, smiling flatteringly, "Mom, we have never eaten any chocolate like this, can you open it for me to taste?"

Ye Chengyang also pulled Ye Xiaoxi, who was sitting on the ground playing with a baby, "Mom, my sister wants to eat too."

Ye Xiaoxi was pulled to stand up and looked at everyone with a blank expression.

Lin Xiuqing took the box of chocolates and hit him on the head with a smile, "I think you want to eat it, and you even asked her to talk about it."

"My sister really wants to eat it."

After Ye Chengyang finished speaking, he coaxed Ye Xiaoxi, "The chocolate on my mother's hand is delicious. Do you want to eat it?"

"I want to!" Ye Xiaoxi immediately dropped the doll, hugged Lin Xiuqing's calf, and sat on her instep, "Mom, I want to eat... I want to eat..."

Lin Xiuqing raised her feet, but she didn't move at all, "You are really good at holding my legs and sitting on my insteps. When you get up, I will open a box and share it with you."

"Great."

All three pairs of eyes were fixed on Lin Xiuqing's hands, watching her open the package, eager to taste something.

The old lady was watching from beginning to end, smiling at their fuss. She was surprised when she saw that Lin Xiuqing had opened the box and there were 12 individually wrapped chocolates lying inside.

"Just a few of them cost four or five yuan? Isn't this small piece worth half a catty of pork?"

She patted Ye Yaodong with the Cattail Fan in her hand, "You bought 5 boxes of just this? You're a prodigal."

Lin Xiuqing also said: "This is too expensive. I thought it was a full box like biscuits."

"Well, it's expensive. Eat it. Most people can't afford it anyway. We don't buy it every day. We only buy it once every few decades."

"I've been deceived the first time. Even if I die, I won't even think about buying it a second time."

As he said this, he also gave one of the chocolates in the box to each of the three children, and also gave one to the old lady.

The old lady immediately shook her head and took a step back, "I don't want it. I don't want foreign things. I don't like them."

The three children couldn't wait to tear open the outer paper. It was a small piece of milk chocolate that was suitable for eating in one bite and was shaped like water drops.

"Ah, so it's brown?"

"Can it be eaten? It doesn't look delicious."

Ye Xiaoxi put it directly on the stool, "No, it's like dog poop."

She has always had enough food and clothing, and she is not like other children who stuff everything they see into their mouths.

Ye Chenghu had already taken a bite, his facial features wrinkled up, and he stuck out his tongue, revealing the chocolate that had not completely melted on it.

"Yue~ not delicious, a little bitter."

"It's also a little sweet, a very strange taste."

Lin Xiuqing saw that they had different expressions, so she also picked up the one that Ye Xiaoxi had thrown on the stool, peeled it open, and took a small bite.

"It's really weird, but it's not bad. Foreigners eat weird things."

She handed it to Ye Xiaoxi's mouth again.

"No." Ye Xiaoxi turned her head away and lowered her head to play with her doll again.

Ye Yaodong drank all the soup in the bowl, then put down the bowl and chopsticks and said, "It tastes like this, bitter, but a little sweet."

Lin Xiuqing watched her two sons stuff the chocolate in their hands into their mouths, chewed and swallowed it, and said with disdain, "What a waste."

She put the rest in her mouth, too expensive, so she couldn't bear to chew and swallow it, and then went to clean up the bowl and chopsticks, but was snatched away by the old lady.

"Dongzi just came back, you two still have some work to do, I'll take this, you go back to your room."

"Okay, there's still some money in the cloth bag, it should be from the city store, let's go back to the room to settle the bill."

Lin Xiuqing took all the stationery to the room, intending to distribute it after settling the bill.

Ye Yaodong brought back so many things, and his children must have kept the most, and the others could just take two items.

He followed her into the house and locked the door secretly. Then he took two quick steps, hugged her from behind, and whispered in her ear: "Is the chocolate delicious?"

"No."

"It's not bitter in the mouth, sweet in the heart."

Lin Xiuqing was amused by him, patted him, and then turned around and said: "Yes, indeed, you are right."

"Let me tell you, chocolate is linked to love in foreign countries."

"You are already an old couple, what's the point of love? Stop it, let me settle the accounts first. It's hot, I just walked a short distance and I'm sweating all over. You're still hugging each other, it's so hot, sticky, go away."

Ye Yaodong let go of her and complained: "You settle the accounts every day."

"What else?"

"Why don't you ask me about my experience in the city?"

"I plan to ask you after I settle the accounts. I need to deal with the things at hand first, so I can talk properly. Then you can talk first."

He was bored, so he sat on the bed and told her about his trip to the city. During the time, Lin Xiuqing also gave some reactions.

"So, you really have overseas Chinese relatives? Then don't you have to hold a family reunion meeting later in the ancestral worship?"

"I imagined that it should be like this, yes."

"Then the filling machine you want should not be a problem, right?"

"It should be. We also need to see what these overseas Chinese do and which country they are from. Anyway, they should be able to give news at the latest in two months when they worship their ancestors. I heard that there are quite a lot of overseas Chinese, and they are quite rich. They also want to give back to their hometowns, so it should be no problem to help their own family members, right?"

"Where do you want to put the machine after it is shipped back? In the city or at home?"

"What do you think?"

"Let's put it in the workshop at home first. We can't reach it in the city, and it's not convenient because of the distance. How can we feel at ease if we entrust everything to outsiders?"

"And now fermentation is also done in the workshop. After fermentation, it is directly filled with the machine and then transported to the city. It is also more convenient, saving you from having to transport the liquid to the city for bottling. If so, what is the difference from now? There are bottling machines, and it is redundant to transport them to the city in large vats? "

Ye Yaodong nodded, "You are right. If we can get the machine, we can transport it to the workshop here. At that time, we can also provide employment for the village by hiring people from the village to work. Besides, there is a village committee to help us in the village, so it is not easy to have trouble. "

"After it is bagged, we have our own tractors to transport it back and forth to the city. The city will build a large warehouse for storage. After the wall is enclosed, we will build two large warehouses, one for dried fish and one for fish sauce. "

He thought that if it gets bigger and bigger, the remaining land can be used to expand the warehouse. At that time, the city will only need to use it for shipment, and the one at home will be used for production.

After all, the city is an urban area, and the transportation will be well connected in the future, and the logistics and other things there will be more convenient.

Let's do it this way first, and we will talk about whether to expand it later.

If the workshop area here at the seaside is not enough or too small, he can also buy a piece of land in the town, so that the production work can be done nearby.

But this can only be considered in the future, and it is too early to talk about machines now.

"Oh, by the way, Ah Hai came back yesterday and told me that you urged the factory to bring the boat. The factory has already repainted your boat and marked the numbers. You can come back anytime you want."

"Then I'll come back tomorrow. Let me rest today."

"Don't you want to pick a date?"

"It's too late. I'll leave after I finish all the things at home in the next two days. I'll just have to pick a good time to come back. Just make do with the days. This is not the first boat. There are so many."

"Okay, then just wait until the Ghost Festival is over before leaving. You brought back a lot of food last time. You can bring back more this time. Just add some fruits and vegetables. You don't need to prepare anything else. Many things are ready. I haven't been out to sea recently, and I didn't bring them to the sea."

"When is the Ghost Festival?"

"30th, tomorrow."

"Fuck, aren't you trying to drive me away? You want me to leave the day after tomorrow? I'll leave on September 2nd after Ye Chenghu signs up."

Lin Xiuqing smiled, "I just said we'll leave after the Ghost Festival, I didn't say we'll leave the day after tomorrow."

"You do your homework."

"Then you can divide the stationery by number of people. If there's not enough, give each person a few less. Not everyone needs to have all of them. Just show your appreciation. These stationery look novel and are completely different from what we have here. We don't have such pretty cartoon patterns here. If you give them one or two, they'll be so happy that they won't have to go to class and will just play."

"Okay, there will definitely be enough copybooks. I bought 20 copies. There's only more, no less. If there's any left, leave more for Ye Chenghu."

"He'll be so mad. Haha. He has to write more than others for no reason. "

"For his own good, these are all bought with money. Let him write more. If reading is not enough, it is also okay to learn something from the side door. It is also good to have a good handwriting. If conditions permit, let him learn to write with a brush. In this way, he will not need to buy couplets in the future."

"You think so far ahead. Why don't you give them these harmonicas? There are still a lot of them inside."

"Give them all together in the evening, otherwise they will be howling like ghosts and wolves, and I won't have a nap."

"No wonder I said you have so much in your bag, why didn't you take it out to share, it was all covered by the banknotes and pressed down tightly, no wonder it is so heavy."

The bed was full of things poured out of the cloth bag. The couple looked at each other, picking up and sorting them out.

"Tomorrow you will take a tractor back to your mother's house? Bring these stationery back to your nephews and nieces, and also give them some fish sauce and dried fish? Haven't you been back for a long time?"

"Yes, since my father and my eldest brother moved to the city, I rarely go back, but in the past, I didn't go back except for the New Year and festivals. Then I will go there tomorrow when your boat comes back, and bring back some fruits, vegetables and dried vegetables from his place, just in time for you to take them away in a few days. I turned over all the land at home before, and the vegetables have been hoed up, and they haven't grown yet."

"Daughter thief is talking about you."

Lin Xiuqing also laughed, "There is nothing else at home, but a lot of fruits and vegetables. Now my second brother's family can't eat them all. Our family has a big demand now, and there is not enough for you to bring Let's go, it's just right to go back and get it."

"Then bring more things back. I should have bought more things from the city and brought them back for you. I'll bring more things back from Zhejiang Province next time I come back, so you can bring them back to show off. Give them more stationery. Anyway, none of the people at home can read, and I usually buy them things."

"Okay. It's a pity for the second brother. It would be good if he could find some work or business in the city. The eldest brother is making a lot of money now, and the second brother is looking after the fields and forests in the hometown."

"Let's take a look at it later. You have to think about what you want to do. You can only earn what you can afford. Otherwise, let him learn to drive a tractor first."

"Let's talk about it later."

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