Chapter 145 Money Comes in Again

Ye Yaodong handed him the fishing rod, and also threw a small fish and shrimp to him, so he could use whatever he wanted as bait.

He waved his hand quickly, "No, no, I just came back from collecting the cage. There is something in the bucket. Just grab a small miscellaneous fish."

"Okay." Ye Yaodong threw the small fish back into the bucket and threw the shrimp on the board of the boat.

Lin Laoliu held the fishing rod and said with a smile: "Then I will give it a try and return it to you after fishing."

After saying that, he followed Ye Yaodong's example and cut out a piece of fish meat, hung up the bait, and threw it into the sea. He said, "I don't know if I'm lucky or not. What can I catch?"

"Wait slowly, there will always be fish taking the bait."

Ye Yaodong held his chin and stared at the sea. It felt like four or five minutes had passed. Lin Laoliu was hesitant to lift the rod to see if the bait had fallen, but he saw a long thing in the sea. Swim through.

In less than 3 seconds, Lin Laoliu said happily: "Yes, yes."

He slowly tried to lift it, and found that it was quite heavy. He was a little surprised and pulled it harder.

"Big eel!"

Ye Yaodong shouted in surprise.

Lin Laoliu also said happily: "Good guy! This one weighs seven or eight pounds, thick and long."

"Uncle Lin, good luck."

"Haha, maybe it's because there are too many newbies." He lifted up the big eel and stretched it out to Ye Yaodong. "Put it back in the bucket quickly! Such a big eel is pretty good."

"What you caught, do you want to keep it? I'll just lend you a fishing rod."

There were already a few good fish in the bucket, so I gave him what he caught.

"No, no, as promised, I'll lend you the fishing rod to play with, and I'll give you the fish I caught."

"That's so embarrassing."

"What's the point? As an elder, I can't say anything about this fish. Put it in the bucket quickly, be careful, don't get bitten by it. Such a big eel has very powerful teeth. . Take the fishing rod over by the way, I have to go back to eat."

Now that he said that, he wouldn't be polite.

"Thank you very much, uncle. If you have time to come to the village, come and sit at my house."

"well……"

After saying hello, Lin Laoliu rowed the boat back. Xishan Village also has a very small pier, which is not as good as their village, but it can still be docked and boarded and disembarked.

After the others left, Ye Yaodong used fish meat to catch two more rods, and another one was Silly and Shi Jiugong, so he simply called it a day and went back.

It's noon, it's time to go back for lunch.

Today is the first day for them to start a new business, so they have to go home early.

He put away the fishing rod without any hesitation, and picked up all the remaining shrimps on the deck back into the bucket. They could not be wasted, and they could be peeled and dried if they could not be sold for money.

As for the half-finished fish that he had captured, he threw it back into the sea and let it return to dust, dust to dust, and return to the embrace of the sea to make its final contribution.

Rowing the boat under the scorching sun, the wind on the sea blew away the heat from his body, making him feel very comfortable. There were also some boats on the sea that were preparing to call it a day and stop operations.

After he slowly docked the boat, he still put the fishing rod on the boat. Anyone could make such a simple fishing rod, so no one would go out of their way to steal it.

After fixing the boat, he got off the boat with two large barrels of goods and sent them to the collection point. Tiger spots were not common, but it was not that no one had caught them.

He caught one three months ago, but this one was bigger, weighing 2 pounds and 3 pounds. Ah Cai was very generous and gave him a good price, which was 4 yuan and 50 cents per pound.

The eel is 4 cents per catty, the one is 7 cents and 2 cents, the red seal is 3 cents and 5 cents, and the 4 caught are only 3 catties. The price of Huangshan fish is based on the size.

The one he caught weighed 20 cents per catty and was bought for 1 yuan and 1 cent. The remaining one was only 67 taels in size and cost 7 cents per catty.

Oh my god, after all, he has gained so much today!

It was more than the value of his cage goods. The cage was only sold for fifteen yuan, and those blue crabs and red crabs were big ones.

"There are a lot of goods in the cages lately?" Ah Cai handed him the list and asked with a smile.

"good."

He put away the order with a smile, and did not go out of his way to say that half of the fish was caught by him. There was no need to explain everything clearly to others, as long as he made money by himself.

There was also a one-legged red crab that he specially kept in the bucket, and he also kept a few silly crabs. Today's delivery was quite good. I took these worthless ones back to pickle salted fish, and I can also make them. Hot and sour fish fillet soup.

There are also some small fish and shrimps that should be taken back to dry. When they moved, they didn't take anything from the dried fish and shrimps at home. They really only took things from their own house.

Carrying two buckets, he was eager to return and quickened his pace.

When he arrived at the door of the house, he saw his wife slapping away the hand of the boss who was about to steal something, "Your father hasn't come back yet, why are you so anxious?"

"I'm hungry, mother, when will father come back?"

"It's almost here. Who asked you to run around all day long? You won't be hungry soon. Just wait and see, it should be soon."

Ye Chenghu pursed his lips, "Grandma used to always say don't wait for dad, let's eat our own food and let dad be hungry."

Ye Yaodong: This brat!

Lin Xiuqing didn't know how to explain to her children that their father had gotten better. She thought about it and said, "That was before. Don't we not live with them now?"

"Mom, I'm hungry, rice..."

Seeing that her youngest son was shouting too, she had no choice but to pat them on the head, "Okay then, mom will load the food for you first and wait while you eat..."

"I'm back."

"Dad, you're finally back, I'm going to starve to death!"

"Dad, give me a hug~" Ye Chengyang quickly climbed off the stool and rushed over, hugging his legs out of habit!

Ye Yaodong lifted him up and put him on the stool, then looked at Lin Xiuqing, "Next time if I come back late, don't wait for me, just eat. If there is no food left, just cook some noodles then. As long as it fills your stomach.”

She smiled and said, "Aren't you thinking about eating together as a family on the first day? Go and wash your hands."

"Um."

A simple three dishes and one soup.

Steamed salted fish, scrambled eggs with shrimps, fried green vegetables, and pickled vegetable and potato soup.

He did know that the vegetables were grown by them themselves. The vegetable patch he had planted in the backyard was already green and could be cut off and eaten.

Did his mother bring the other dishes?

With this in mind, he also asked.

Lin Xiuqing responded: "Yes, not long after you went out, my mother came over with a large basket of dry goods and potatoes, and asked me to share it with my eldest sister-in-law and my second sister-in-law. Let us go get it after we finish eating."

"Oh, don't worry about buying groceries, just eat quickly."

"Mom also said that there wasn't much rice left at home, and dad and the eldest brother went to sea. She asked you and the second brother to put the rice in the barn into four sacks and send it to the workshop to be threshed. Divide a bag. I also keep the rice bran myself. When the hen has a nest and the chicks hatch, we will divide a few of them each, and we can use them to feed the chickens."

Ye Yaodong listened to the chatter in his ears and nodded while eating, "I'll go after dinner later."

"Not in a hurry."

After Lin Xiuqing gave him a large piece of shrimp and scrambled eggs, she also put a few small pieces into the eldest son's bowl. However, the younger son in her arms couldn't wait for her to feed him and shouted: "Yes, yes." …”

"I know, I'll get it for you."

After stuffing a piece of shrimp into his mouth, he became quiet.

"Eat slowly, there's more..."

Ye Yaodong watched the interaction between mother and son, his eyes full of smiles.

"You should eat too. He's already so big. Just give him a spoon and dig it in yourself. You don't have to feed him like this, right?"

"Then how can we eat decently? Only after these two have finished eating can I eat in peace."

"All right."

After the two children finished eating and left the table, Lin Xiuqing took her younger son's half-eaten rice and continued eating. Ye Yaodong quickly poured the remaining shrimp and scrambled eggs into her bowl.

"Too much……"

"Finish eating!"

After taking a few sips of the soup, he put away the bowl, then took the kitchen knife and cutting board to kill the fish.

Lin Xiuqing watched him working and ate faster, preparing to help.

One of the couple killed the fish and the other peeled the shrimps. They finished the work in a short time.

"There is also a one-legged red crab in the other bucket. After dinner in the evening, I will go to the drugstore to buy some Codonopsis root and wolfberry and stew it for the two children."

"okay."

At this point, Ye Yaodong remembered that he washed his hands and ate when he came back, and even forgot to give her the goods list to keep.

Lin Xiuqing looked at the price on the bill of goods. She was no longer surprised or asked. She was numb. She was used to him selling it for a lot of money every time. She just counted the money and saved it.

"I finished collecting the goods for the ground cage today, and I fished for a while. The harvest was quite good. I caught a two-pound tiger spot."

"Ah, no wonder, it sold for so much money."

"Well, if you save hard, there will be many places where you will need money in the future."

She understood this without him having to say it.

"Dongzi? Are you okay? Let's go to the old house to load rice."

It was Ye Yaohua who heard the voices at the back door and came out to call him.

"alright."

Just in time to finish killing the fish and wash her hands, she took care of the rest.

There is no rice milling machine workshop in their village, so they need to push a cart of rice to Dongqiao Village, where there is a rice milling machine workshop.

When they went there, the person in front of them had just finished processing, so they arrived without queuing.

The two brothers carried a bag of rice and poured it in through the top opening of the rice mill. Ye Yaodong took a sack and put it on the rice outlet. When everything was ready, the owner of the workshop started the rice mill.

After a while, the grinding wheel started to move, grinding the outer skin of the rice and removing the pale brown shell. Grains of white rice flowed out from the mouth and flowed to the sack.

The freshly ground rice was hot, white, nice to look at and easy to touch. From time to time, Ye Yaodong stretched out his hand to catch it. When his palm was full, he turned it over, threw it back into the bag, and then repeated the action.

After processing one bag, he lifted it and estimated that one hundred kilograms of rice would produce about sixty or seventy kilograms of rice. He charged a processing fee of 1 cent. If he didn't want the rice bran, he could charge 1 cent less.

They definitely wanted this, and their mother also told them to take the rice bran home to feed the chickens.

By the time all four bags of rice were crushed, an hour had passed.

The two brothers paid their wages and went back to share the rice with them.