Chapter 652 Seeking Help

The old lady smiled, showing her toothless gums. After handing the child to Ah Qing, she stood by the bed and watched Ye Yaodong count the money.

"You haven't had lunch yet. I thought you were talking about something, so I didn't dare to knock on the door to disturb you. I'll go cook you something to eat first."

"I'm not hungry," Ye Yaodong took a moment and replied,

"Finish counting first." Lin Xiuqing held the child and sat on the stool next to her to nurse the child, but her attention was always on them. She was a little embarrassed when she heard the old lady's words.

"Then let me help you count the coins, hurry up." The old lady also sat beside the bed and helped sort the banknotes.

"My father didn't count enough to tell you?" Ye Yaodong nodded and shook his head. He counted silently, where would he have time to answer her questions?

I'm just thinking about asking now, is it a bit late?

"Nodding and shaking your head, what do you mean?"

"Don't make any noise! ​​Just now you told me not to make a sound while counting, but now I'm sitting there blabbering without counting." Lin Xiuqing was speechless.

The old lady smiled and patted him with the money in her hand.

"Answer it, it won't take you long? Didn't I keep asking you questions?" Ye Yaodong happened to count to an integer and stopped mercifully.

"Our dad only knows the approximate total. He remembers how much he received every day, but he doesn't add it up every day. He thinks it's troublesome to add up and it's easy to forget, so he only remembers what he received." After Lin Xiuqing got the answer, she stopped quarreling with him. .

After Ye Yaodong counted 100 cards, he took out one and clamped it to avoid making a mess, and then piled it up in small piles.

By the time Ah Qing finished feeding, he and the old lady had almost counted the coins, leaving only coins. There were not many large-denomination banknotes, almost all of them were dime notes. I really experienced what it meant to count money until my hands cramped.

"I'll also use the change to settle tomorrow. There's almost no place to put the saved pile. I'll have to put it in a box next time." The old lady nodded matter-of-factly.

"You have to pack a box and lock it."

"Then when the thief comes, just take the box away..."

"What are you talking about?" the old lady said with a smile.

"It's a joke. Even if you buy a box, you have to nail it to the closet. It's dead."

"Shh, you can't tell anyone."

"That's for sure. It's just for you." Ye Yaodong continued to count the piles of banknotes covering the bed. After he had an idea of ​​the number in his mind, he handed the coins to Ah Qing to count, and asked for more go out for a while.

Just come back and ask for the numbers. The old lady was still calling behind her,

"Shall we go out after dinner?"

"You cook first, I'll come as soon as I can." Lin Xiuqing added for him,

"He went to Uncle Pei's friend's house and promised to collect their dried dragon head fish. But we have no place to put it in our house. We will make room tomorrow. He went over and told them."

"Oh, I need to tell them to make them feel at ease." Ye Yaodong rode his bicycle back quickly, and it didn't take long, but when he came back, he happened to run into his elder sister-in-law, second sister-in-law, and the others.

It turned out that the wind had picked up, so I came back early. The eldest brother and the second brother were still selling goods at the dock, and the two sisters-in-law went back first with a cart of goods.

"Today's delivery looks good." Sister-in-law Ye smiled and said,

"Fortunately, I dug some kelp by the way. It doesn't grow very well. It will probably take another two months to grow very big. I'll let Ah Qing take two pieces back for frying later." Sister-in-law Ye couldn't wait to put the kelp on the cart. He brought down a bucket and ran to him.

"Ah Dong, look at the small bucket we dug today. Is this the chicken feet you took to town to sell a few days ago?"

"oh?"

"I think its legs are very long, longer than the usual Buddha's hand." She looked at Ye Yaodong expectantly.

Sister-in-law Ye also quickly stopped the cart and walked over. She still wanted to wait until she got home before asking. Ye Yaodong quickly stopped his bicycle, put his feet on the brakes, and reached into the bucket to grab a few.

Why? It really is!

"You are very lucky."

"Really?" The two sisters-in-law were immediately happy. This one has a little longer legs, but it is still more expensive. They went fishing in the sea these days, and the harvest was good. They either caught some stranded fish, dug up razor clams, and occasionally picked up one or two blue crabs.

Not to mention the shelled ones that are dug up and dried to dry, just trying your luck to pick them up on the island is better than sitting at home and weaving a net all day.

Although luck was the main factor, it was obvious that they had been pretty lucky these past two days. They even encountered an unexpected surprise today. They found some sea chicken feet that Adong mentioned in the cracks of the rocks.

Ye Yaodong nodded affirmatively,

"Well, when I went to sell it the day before yesterday, I sold a dozen kilograms for 200 yuan. You should have five or six kilograms here, and you should be able to sell dozens of them, right?" The two of them were even more happy.

"Then Adong, can you please help us sell it while it's fresh this afternoon?"

"Ah? Me? I just came back. I may not be free. You can go by yourself." He had several rooms of goods piled up at home, waiting for him to weigh them. How could he have time to help them send them to the town to sell?

The two of them looked at each other and laughed. Second Sister-in-law Ye said bluntly: "We haven't been there either, and we are so scared. How can we dare to send them to other people's hotels? The same goes for your eldest and second brothers. What if we are kicked out? ? You have been there a few times, you must be familiar with it..." Sister-in-law Ye also nodded quickly in agreement,

"Yes, yes, you have been sold twice. You should be more familiar with it... It won't take long for you to ride a bicycle. You can ask your two brothers to help with the work at home. There will be no delay at all." Ye Yaodong frowned. He frowned.

The two sisters-in-law continued: "I won't waste too much time on you. You are familiar with it anyway. You can come back after a while."

"It's only 1 o'clock now. It won't take long to weigh the dried fish. It's all afternoon and night. It's still a long time. Just think of it as a favor to your brother and sister-in-law..." Alas~ I have to go now.

Ye Yaodong nodded,

"Okay, when the eldest and second brothers come back later, let one of them come with me. If you dig it next time, you can send it there yourself."

"Hey, okay, let's talk to your eldest and second brother when they come back."

"Well, I'm going back first."

"Okay." Ye Yaodong pushed the bicycle and walked first, stopping for only a small step to avoid bumping his butt.

The old lady in the house had already fried the rice cakes and made him a shrimp skin soup to go with it. They were all covered with plates to prevent them from getting cold in the cold weather.

Seeing that he was back, he quickly waved to him, took off the plate covering it, and handed the kuaizi into his hand.

"Come here and eat quickly so it doesn't get cold. I don't know when you will come back. I'm afraid that the noodles will be lost when I cook them, so I fried the rice cakes for you and soaked them in shrimp skin and soy sauce soup."

"Okay." It's crab fried rice cake with shrimps, oysters that my two sisters-in-law opened yesterday, eggs and cabbage, all of which are still steaming. His appetite is greatly increased.

The shrimp skin soup on the side is dripping with soy sauce. Last week, there were green scallions, white shrimp skin, and a little bit of oil. It looked like a little onion oil was added. It smelled like meat oil, which was very fragrant.

The old lady loves him! He first stirred the shrimp skin soup twice with a spoon, and after taking two sips to warm his stomach, he picked up the kuaizi and ate it.

"Well, it's delicious! It smells so good!" The old lady smiled kindly.

"You are very hungry. What did you eat in the city this morning?"

"Meat buns and porridge, my father-in-law and others cooked porridge, so I bought a few meat buns to eat together."

"It's okay if you have something to eat, but I'm afraid you haven't."

"How is that possible? I am someone who wants to take a bite of everything I see. How could I let myself go hungry?"

"Okay, okay, eat quickly, ladle out the soup and go with it. Where did this basket of dried shrimps come from? I brought back a basket two days ago and brought it again today. I'll hang it up for you." The old lady took him off the bicycle just now , picked up a basket of shrimps placed on the table, planning to put them away for him and hang them on the wall.

"No need to hang up!" Ye Yaodong said with his mouth full, and then bit into pieces and swallowed.

"This was given to me just now. I planned to give it to Uncle Zhou. I trouble him to come and go every day. Although I calculated the fare, I couldn't get it into his hands, so I thought of giving this basket of shrimp skin to him. ." The old lady nodded,

"That's right. We don't have anything else at home except dried fish."

"Yeah." Lin Xiuqing also came out of the house after counting the money.

"How about you wait a moment and I'll help you deliver it? You still have to weigh the goods."

"No, let's weigh the goods later. Sister-in-law, the second sister-in-law dug up some sea chicken feet and asked me to take them to the town to sell for her. I'll send them over later, just in time."

"Huh? Are they so lucky?"

"Well, it's really good." Everyone was thinking very well at this moment, but they didn't know that the unexpected would come unexpectedly.

"Then hurry up and eat. It will take a while to weigh 3,000 kilograms of goods, and it will have to be moved around. I will ask dad to move the goods to the yard later so that you can weigh them directly when you come back."

"It's okay." The old lady didn't know that they sold another 3,000 kilograms today, and asked in surprise: "I want to weigh 3,000 kilograms at once. Does anyone want it?"

"Yes." Ye Yaodong repeated it to the old lady, and the old lady was happy. She heard them say that they would be able to free up space today and collect the several thousand kilograms of dried dragon head fish tomorrow. She thought Dongzi was going to send another truck to the city at night to free up her home. She didn't expect to sell such a big one again. Pen, no wonder he excitedly pulled Ah Qing into the house as soon as he came back.

"Then you have to thank me properly for buying so much right now." The old lady said and felt worried for him.

"We don't seem to have anything to give away...except dried fish, just dried fish..."

"It's okay. The shell meat that the two sisters-in-law dried must have been dried. I'll weigh them later and take some as a gift tomorrow. By the way, we can promote it and maybe expand our business."

"Hey, yes, yes, you are still smart and can think. Eat quickly, eat quickly, don't just talk..."