Chapter 1227 Weighing

There was also a lot of drying in the open space around the door, but it couldn't be dried inside and was left outside.

Fearing that someone would steal the kelp, there were old people from the village cadres' families holding stools at the entrance of the old primary school.

This is using everyone who can be used.

When Ye Yaodong saw it outside, he smiled and said hello to the old man, handed out a cigarette and went in.

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

Everyone knew that he was the one who mentioned cultivating kelp, and the kelp was sold to him. Of course, the old people would not stop him.

He didn't stay long.

I went in and walked around for a while, then left again, and then walked around to my own workshop.

When it was almost time for dinner, he walked out, but a dirty clay figure ran towards him and hugged his thigh tightly.

"Dad, help, help."

"What's going on?"

Ye Yaodong looked down at the little one at his feet and was startled.

"Why are you so dirty? What did you do?"

He was covered in mud and soaked. He wanted to pull his feet out, but was hugged tightly.

"I..." Ye Xiaoxi looked at the busy adults around him warily, 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, don't go home..."

Ye Yaodong frowned so hard that he could kill a fly, and reached out to grab the two wet little Jiujiu on her head.

"Who are you going to catch loaches with? I'm not afraid of drowning you?"

"Follow Doudou, Bao, Xue, Ayue, Qingqing and Xiaohong..."

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

"Dad, don't tell mom, you will be beaten to death...help 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 trousers. He was already worried to death. What should he do with his lively nature?

Ye Xiaoxi, who was still scared just now, was now a little excited. He was eager to present the treasure and trotted ahead excitedly.

Just when I ran outside, I saw the loaches I had worked so hard to catch jumping all over the ground.

There were several stray cats stealing food. She let out a fierce scream and ran away excitedly.

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

She waved her little fists and drove away the stray cats. She also fell down and sat on the ground crying. While shedding tears, she scratched the loaches all over the ground, looking so miserable.

Ye Yaodong couldn't say anything and looked at her as if she was even dirtier and more embarrassed.

Where has his fragrant, soft and well-behaved daughter gone?

He just doesn't have that much time at home. Why is the gap between what he imagined getting bigger and bigger?

"Dad, come and catch them... They're all running away, come here..."

"well……"

He sighed, walked in and squatted down, helping to catch them as well. At any rate, so many loaches were enough to feed them for two or three days, and they were considered a snack.

"Why did you catch so many?"

Ye Xiaoxi wiped away her tears with her dirty little hands, and there were a few more gray marks on her face, making it even dirtier.

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

At this time, it was all empty, and it all jumped out. She still held a piece of straw in her hand, which was probably used to tie the opening of the schoolbag.

"This was exchanged for Tangtang."

There was another basket on the ground, which had also been knocked over, but there were still a lot of loaches still jumping around inside.

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

"Ah! I'll borrow it and return it to my 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 even ask for it after you wash it. Just return your schoolbag and wash it."

At the beginning of spring, Lin Xiuqing sewed a new satchel for Ye Chenghu to use as a schoolbag. She also sewed one for Ye Chengyang for him to use in the second half of the year. She didn't expect to use it for her to hold loaches.

"Don't tell mom, can you 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 the loach, her voice choked with sobs, "Everyone is equally dirty, it's not just me..."

"Others will definitely get beaten when they go home, so don't try to hide away."

"I'm afraid, how about we take a shower secretly without telling mother."

"Don't think about it, it's dinner time, she's already cooking at home."

"Woooooooo... It's so fun, I won't dare to do it next time."

"It doesn't matter, it's so fun, it's worth a beating."

Ye Xiaoxi raised his head, his eyes were filled with tears, and his eyelashes were still wet. He looked at him with flickering eyes, his face was confused, and he stopped crying for a while.

"I'm talking nonsense, go home and get beaten."

Ye Yaodong caught the loaches for a while. His hands were covered with mud, and some were so slippery that it was difficult to catch them.

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 basket on his back.

Anyway, it has rolled around on the ground, it is full of mud, and it is very dirty. Take it home quickly, wash it, and raise it in clean water, otherwise it will die later.

He took the broom and swept Ye Xiaoxi twice, "Go away, stay out of the way."

"oh."

She quickly stood up and took a few steps back, but she stopped crying.

After Ye Yaodong finished sweeping the loach and put the broom back in its place, he pulled her and walked home with the basket on his back.

"Look away and stop crying?"

She nodded, "Everyone was beaten."

However, she was still afraid. When she reached the door of her house, she hesitated to go in. When she heard the cries of familiar friends nearby, she flinched again.

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

Lin Xiuqing was cooking in the house. She was a little panicked when she heard him shouting, including her first and last names. But when she heard the words "your daughter", she was no longer so panicked.

The dead girl must have done something else, so she called her "your daughter" again.

"what?"

She walked to the door of the courtyard, still wiping her hands on her apron. When she took a closer look, she saw that the dirty child in the courtyard who looked like a drowned rat was actually her daughter.

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

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

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

"She went to the river with other children to catch loaches. She needs a good beating. Who knows if the river is deep? What if she drowns? A group of underage children dare to run to the river to play. They need to be beaten to death. ”

He also considered this and had to teach her a lesson not to go to the river all the time, so he didn't protect her.

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

Ye Xiaoxi raised his head and stared at him, "Dad, aren't you going to save me?"

"To save you is to harm you."

"I hate you!"

Lin Xiuqing carried her and dragged her into the house, "You just don't shed tears when you see the coffin. Even if you chase chickens and dogs every day, you still follow him to the river. Do you want to die? How old are you and how old are you? He is no taller than a table, and his courage is as high as the sky..."

Ye Xiaoxi stood there with her mouth closed and said nothing, her eyes habitually looking everywhere, 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, such a small child will drown if he says he is drowning.

Ye Yaodong took the basket on his back to clean the loach, and was thinking about when he would have to teach her how to swim.

He can still teach while he is young, otherwise he will be embarrassed to teach when he is older.

Although those who drown are those who know how to swim, at least one more skill can sometimes save their lives. The two sons also learned how to flutter in the past few years.

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

"You can just feed this thing to ducks and dogs. It's only so big..."

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

When Ye Xiaoxi heard this, he thought the old lady was talking about her, and his guard instantly broke.

He didn't cry when he was beaten and scolded, but he still thought about what his father said. Anyway, he had fun and the beating was worth it.

She was so frightened that she quickly hugged Lin Xiuqing's legs and cried with snot and tears. "Don't feed me to the dogs. I won't dare to feed me to the dogs again... I will never dare to go to the river again... Wuwu..."

Lin Xiuqing couldn't pull her away even if she wanted to. She hugged her so tightly that her fingernails and knuckles turned white.

"Are you afraid too? I thought you weren't afraid."

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

"Don't blame me."

He just blurts out whatever he wants!

"That's what you said! That's what you said!"

Lin Xiuqing glared at Ye Yaodong fiercely, "You are just a troublemaker, teaching children indiscriminately."

The old lady immediately said: "It's okay to know how to be afraid. You have to be obedient and not naughty. You can't go to the river or the sea to play in the water."

"knew……"

Lin Xiuqing focused on the child again, "It's too late now that I know it. Look at what you look like? Who is as dirty as you..."

"Dou A Bao A Xue A Yue Qing Qing Xiao Hong..."

"How dare you talk back."

The whip in her hand struck hard, her fearful eyelashes kept blinking, and then she closed her eyes and cried.

No one rescued her.

Lin Xiuqing waited until the beating was over and she had scolded her enough, then took her to take a shower, and then made her stand.

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

"I'll get some stew wine later. I haven't eaten it for a long time. I wonder if I can catch some eels sometime. I haven't stewed it for a long time."

When the little one gets beaten, his own father benefits.

The old lady smiled and said, "If you like eating earthy food, pour more rice wine later."

"Stop talking, other children will hear it later, and they will go catch eels again. You will find something to do for me for nothing, and you will have to chase after me with a whip."

Ye Xiaoxi stood close to the corner, with tears on his face, sobbing constantly, and his shoulders trembled.

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

"Haha, you also have today...Dad, what did my sister do? Why is she forced to stand?"

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

Ye Chenghu became even happier when he saw her crying.

Ye Yaodong slapped him in the face, and he stopped gloating about his misfortune and hurriedly avoided it.

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

"I made you laugh, I made you laugh, you were made to stand, you were beaten too..."

"Go away, I hate you."

Ye Chenghu turned his back, twisted his butt towards her twice, looked at his father and mother's unkind eyes, and hurriedly ran out again.

Ye Xiaoxi kicked her legs in frustration, "I hate you!"

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

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

"If it's not you, who else can I blame?"

The old lady saw that both of them were glaring, and hurriedly pushed Ye Yaodong out, "Everyone is drying kelp outside, and there are people busy. Go and have a look, and I'll call you when it's time for dinner."

Ye Yaodong walked out passively, turned his head and saw that both the big and the small were glaring at him, so he decided to go.

The big and the small, now they all hate him.

Yesterday, when he said he would stay at home to catch squid, everyone was very happy, and they kissed him when they went to bed at night, and burrowed into his arms, kissing him affectionately, one calling him dad, and the other calling him husband.

Today, they are all unhappy, really!

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

Ye Yaodong walked to the open space on the side, and several men were still busy drying kelp there, and they didn't go back even when it was time for dinner.

He found Secretary Chen and asked him about it, but he just said that they should hurry up and go home for dinner later.

Everyone worked so hard, and they were 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 have a lot of work in your own workshop, why are you here to help?"

"Adong is a big boss, why are you helping to dry the sun?"

Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "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 just haven't eaten yet, so I came to see you and help you."

"Haha, you have a big family and a big business now, what else can you be if not a boss?"

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

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

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

The topic immediately changed, and the villagers were interested in asking the village cadres what kinds of plants to raise.

Ye Yaodong worked for a while, and when he heard him being called to eat, he went home.

Ye Xiaoxi stood there as usual, but he was a little bored and kept looking down at his feet, playing with his feet turned inward.

After turning them over, he played with his fingers and the hem of his clothes, a bunch of small movements.

Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang didn't know if they had just been scolded or beaten. Ye Chenghu was obviously very jumpy before, but now they were both very honest, sitting down to eat, and didn't gloat over her misfortune to provoke her.

Ye Yaodong just glanced at them, and then talked to Ye's father about business, talking about their night out to sea, and also reminded his father to pay attention to safety.

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

He would be in the coastal waters for at least half a month. He hadn't been to the reef near the Oarfish Island for two years. He was also thinking about whether the abalone and small blue dragon below, as well as the nearby clams (scallops), had grown again.

It happened that they would be near there in the future. It would be convenient to move to the boat to harvest a wave. After all, it would be a little hotter all day, and he would probably go to Zhejiang Province again.

The people on the boat also needed to change their jobs, and Ye's father listened to his arrangements.

The father and son were talking about business, and the meal was a little more normal. They basically talked about things at the dinner table, and they were used to holding family meetings during meals.

After dinner, the two of them were not idle, and they arranged more things at hand.

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

Near dusk, the village cadres pulled three carts of dried kelp over with a flatbed cart, and a bunch of villagers gathered around to watch.

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

In the past two days, Lin Xiuqing had people take dried fish to the city every day to empty the warehouse in advance, and it was just at the door of the warehouse that the scale was weighed.

In this way, after a large bag is full, it can be wrapped in nylon bags, tied with straw ropes, carried to the warehouse to stack, and sent to the factory in the city to be stacked tomorrow morning.

It is difficult to pack such a large amount in sacks, so it is easier to pack and tie these nylon bags.

Fortunately, the land in the city has been used, and the space there is larger and more conducive to storage.

Otherwise, these dozens of tons of kelp will also take up space.

After the ground was padded with nylon bags, some workers also pushed the scales over.

Ye Yaodong also asked Lin Xiuqing to get two more large wooden scales. There were a lot of them, and the scales would be faster if they were tied with ropes. Moreover, the wooden scales would be faster to weigh.

After the three-cart cargo was dumped on the ground, they continued to push the cargo back, and they began to weigh the cargo in full swing.

Usually, the workshop does not allow villagers who are not working to enter or leave to prevent any accidents.

But now everyone is curious, so he let people in, but asked a few workers to watch out for them, so that no one can take advantage of the situation and destroy his fish sauce.

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

Secretary Chen also said: "There are too many of them that have been dried, and we have no place to pile them. The old primary school is in tatters everywhere. If it rains, they will all be destroyed."

"It's okay. You can send it here every day at this time. I will arrange to take it away the next day and store it in the city. Such a large quantity requires a lot of storage space."

Everyone was relieved.

"That's good. They have been drying there in the past few days. They are also coming out in batches. We can only collect the dried ones every day and send them here."

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

After collecting these kelp, they were randomly piled up without rolling them up. When they fell to the ground, they looked like dried pickles, scattered on the ground.

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

In the first year, everyone handled it seriously. He just flipped through it and asked people to start weighing it.

Now we can't expect fine products. It's good enough to be dried like this.

When he gets stable in the future, he can set up a kelp factory and make exquisite kelp rolls, kelp shreds, kelp knots, and kelp heads.

Now I don't care about it, it's too laborious, and there are no drying conditions, not to mention the dryer, the electricity is not stable.

If there are conditions, he will definitely arrange a dried fish dryer first, after all, it's his old business.

The villagers around were watching the excitement and talking about it.

Someone also shouted to Ye Yaodong: "Adong, can we also bring the scattered dried goods later?"

"Wait until tomorrow daytime, these goods will not be weighed so quickly today, and Acai will send dried fish later, and they will also have to be weighed, so I'm too busy. You can bring it after 2 o'clock tomorrow, and tell others."

It's just right to collect the bulk goods in advance tomorrow, and then collect the large amount of goods from the village committee. I don't know how much goods the village committee has now, and 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 haven't harvested it all after many days. I heard that when the tide rises, we have to harvest it overnight."

"There's no other way. We have to harvest and dry it quickly when it's sunny."

"Fortunately it's not like this every day, otherwise people can't stand it."

"Everyone has calculated that this kelp cultivation only takes half a year to work and half a year to rest. It's the busiest when it's harvesting. It's much easier than doing other things."

"Indeed, what can you do to work half a year and rest half a year, and you can still make a lot of money..."

"Wait a minute, we're already weighing it. Let's see how much weight it is today and how much it can be sold for."

"So much kelp, it's all money... The village cadres only sent a few people to work, and they can harvest so much..."

Everyone pointed and talked excitedly, and more and more people joined in the crowd.

At this time, there were quite a few people who had just returned from the sea. They came here immediately after hearing the news, and they didn't have time to go home.

Ye Yaodong watched people coming in continuously, thinking that it would be better to weigh them directly at the door, at most it would take some effort to carry them in.

The open space around him was full of large vats, so there was not enough space for people to stand and watch, and he was also afraid that everyone would squeeze and smash the water vats.

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

The village chief also said: "I just wanted to say that. The three carts can't come in now. They are all full of people. Now park them at the door."

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

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 in.

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

Ye Yaodong settled the bill immediately, which was a good signal to the village committee.

10,620 kilograms was sold for 743.4 yuan, and he asked A Qing to give the money to the village chief on the spot.

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

This was only part of it, and there was still some that had not been collected in the sea. They could sell so much on the first day, and there would be more in the future.

Everyone waited here for a long time and didn't even go home to eat, just waiting for the moment to collect the money.

The crowd was boiling and talking a lot.

"It will sell for several thousand yuan?"

"30 mu can sell for several thousand yuan? Only a few people can do it?"

"If our family has four or five laborers, can we do it? If not, we can hire people for a few days without wasting much money..."

"Isn't this too much?"

"Selling for so much money~"

"Adong said this morning that if there is a good harvest next year, everyone can 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, I also want to learn to grow kelp..."

The village cadres were also a little excited when they saw the money in the village head's hand. Only when you hold real money in your hands can you feel real.

This is the best proof of success.

The village head was full of joy and smiled from ear to ear, but listening to the excited discussions of the villagers, he was also worried that it would not exceed their expectations and they would be disappointed.

It would be better to lower expectations now.

"Don't be too happy too early. We sold a lot today, but there may not be so much tomorrow. Some of them were done this morning, and they just accumulated and were sold together at night, and the quantity will be less tomorrow."

The village party secretary also reassured, "Yes, we have to dry everything. Only by counting the total can we calculate the total output. We will definitely post it on the bulletin board and announce it to everyone."

"There will be no shortage of them. There are still them in the sea, and there is such a large area of ​​​​the sun on the construction site. There must be two to three thousand."

"Don't talk about two or three thousand yuan. If a family can earn a thousand yuan, they will work hard for their lives."

"Yes, these can be sold for more than 700 today, which is already a lot. It is better than what we have been doing for a year."

Ye Yaodong was also worried that their expectations were too high, so he said seriously and honestly: "Don't think too much, everyone. There are risks in everything you do. After all, you rely on the sky for food. Even if the food is planted in the ground, there will be a harvest, not to mention Raised in the sea.”

"No one can guarantee what the coming year will be like. I can only say that this year's harvest will indeed be a bumper one, which will give everyone a good start and increase the confidence of the whole village."

"And cultivating kelp is also suitable for long-term cultivation. A lack of harvest one year does not mean a failure of harvest every year. This can be regarded as a way out for our village, and it can also be regarded as a hope."

"The villagers don't have to dig in the fields to make a living. Farming kelp is better than doing other things."

Secretary Chen also nodded in agreement, "A Dong is right. A good harvest one year does not mean that there will be such a harvest every year. This is also the first time for our village. If everyone is optimistic about it, we can make a family out of it in the second half of the year." One laborer, another year of collective farming.”

"We can work together according to the previous work point system, and learn breeding techniques at the same time. Then the results will be distributed according to work. This can also reduce the risks borne by everyone."

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

"This is good, you can learn, and everyone can share the risk together."

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

"We have also discussed in advance that the money earned this year, after deducting expenses, will be used for costs in the next half of the year."

"Of course, if it's not enough, everyone can chip in a little bit each household, and then the harvest will be distributed according to the share of expenditure, but we won't discuss the details until then, and we have to discuss it in detail."