Chapter 803 Adjust the Channel

The old lady smiled and helped serve bowls of rice, "You have time, you have time, eat first, and then study slowly after eating. It should take a long time to pretend like this, right?"

"We need to install an antenna, and then use a bamboo pole to make a telegraph pole to receive the signal outside. We will try to eat first."

Ye Chenghu glanced here and there with his little eyes, but he didn't dare to say anything this time, but he also made up his mind to stay at home and watch until the TV was installed.

The kids next door ate up their food in a few bites and then ran over directly.

The door to the courtyard was not locked after Mother Ye left. Several children were in the house, squatting in front of the TV and waiting. They were all chattering as excitedly as if they had bought a TV at home.

This made Ye Chenghu anxious, "You are not allowed to touch it. That is my TV. No one of you is allowed to touch it."

"Let's just look at it and not touch it."

His eager little eyes kept staring at the ground, and he just licked the rice in the bowl, without adding any side dishes, and just swallowed it dry.

When the bowl of rice was finished, he didn't even bother to lick the bowl, just threw his chopsticks and quickly got off the table.

Lin Xiuqing coughed twice, then quickly returned to his seat, licked the remaining rice grains in the bowl clean before squeezing it in again, shouting that no one was allowed to touch it, this was his family's, everything, he was very protective of food. .

"I haven't done any work today, and it hasn't rained, so I'll take advantage of the high tide to take your boat back from the border guard station and drive it to the beach. When the tide goes out, I'll ask Ah Sheng and your older cousin to lift the bottom of the boat. The barnacles were cleaned up. Another boat was brought ashore and painted.”

Father Ye calmed down his excitement and planned to talk to him about business matters.

"Morning?" Ye Yaodong stopped for a moment while picking up the food, "Okay, you can take advantage of your free time today and scrape the bottom of the boat in advance."

"What I originally told them was that when Mazu went on patrol tomorrow, we would get both boats ashore, paint them, and do some maintenance. Unexpectedly, it rained a little last night, so Aqing and I collected dried fish overnight and worked hard all night. , since we haven’t gone to sea, we can just ask them to do it a day in advance today.”

"Well, since I don't have any work to do today, I'll get the boat ashore and maintain it one day in advance. After Mazu's three-day trip to the streets is over, the boat should be almost dry and ready to launch, so there won't be any delay."

"So you haven't painted it yet this morning?"

"Not yet. I just scraped the bottom of the boat. I plan to wait for it to dry a little before painting it tomorrow. There was nothing I could do last time. I just scraped it clean and painted it directly. The paint is not that strong. This time I will paint it all together."

"Well, I'm just on my way."

Father Ye thought for a while and asked curiously: "How much money did you earn during this flood season?"

There are rumors in the village, and no one knows better than him that Dongzi will definitely make money by drying squid, and he can't lose it, but he doesn't know how much he will make.

The mother-in-law at home kept asking him, but he said he didn't know. Why did he ask so many questions? Can I still give you a clear account of my family fortune?

Now that I saw that his TV set had been moved back, I was really itching to know how much money Dongzi earned. He must be young and old.

Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows, can this be said?

"I won't tell you, but do you also want a TV? How about I buy one for you too?"

His father has not asked for his share since this month. He only takes 80 yuan of dead wages, and buying a TV for the two elders is nothing.

When Father Ye heard that he was going to buy them a TV, he was excited and happy, but he immediately put his face down and pretended to be angry: "Why are you so crazy! Having one at home is enough, what more?" Why are you buying one? You think it’s too much money and you don’t have anywhere to spend it? Don’t say it in front of your mother, or you’ll get scolded.”

"We want to watch it. Just come here and watch it. What's the difference between going home and sleeping after watching it? I have to go to sea during the day, and your mother also has to go to work during the day. Do you want to buy a TV and put it at home to make ashes? Don't When he has money, he likes to spend it arbitrarily, and Ah Qing has to watch it carefully, but don’t let him spend it arbitrarily or buy random things."

Ye Yaodong pursed his lips and regarded his kindness as a donkey's liver and lungs. If he didn't want it, he wouldn't want it. Then let them walk back and forth. Anyway, they were not far away and it would be healthier to walk.

Lin Xiuqing also glanced at him sideways.

The old lady said: "If you don't want to buy it, don't buy it. Why are you talking so much? You will save money if you don't buy something. Eat quickly and don't just talk. Those children are impatient."

All the children nodded in unison.

"Then we have to wait until my mother's table is moved back."

Ye Yaodong just didn't want the children to stand aside. If they waited there, pretending or not, they wouldn't be willing to go to class for several afternoons.

If you haven't pretended, you will definitely be waiting there with a look of anticipation, reluctant to leave; if you have pretended, you won't be able to move forward.

However, his mother was also very good. Until the whole family finished their meal, cleared the table, and washed the dishes, no one came back. She was also drunk.

"Grandma, why are you so slow?"

"We've come all the way to the county seat, why hasn't she come back yet?"

"Is she too slow? Let's go out and look for her?"

"I don't want it, I'm going to wait here."

"I don't want it either."

If one of them didn't go, the others would be reluctant to leave, so they planned to stay there and wait.

Ye Yaodong was not in a hurry.

"Uncle Third, can't you move it to the dining table? The dining table has been cleared and vacated." Ye Chenghai was really itching.

"I told you, no pretense at noon, you should go to class peacefully. When you come back from school in the afternoon, I will turn on the TV for you to watch."

"Now..."

Everyone is scratching their heads and feeling uncomfortable. How can they be willing to go to school if they don’t see it?

Ye Yaodong raised his index finger and swung it from side to side, "Go to school quickly. Your grandma won't be back soon. Anyone you meet on the road will probably have to stop and chat for a long time."

"No, it's not quite yet."

The others also nodded, it was still early for school.

"You can go to school early and share it with other students. Brag and say that your home or your third uncle's home has bought a TV. From now on, you can watch TV every day. Are you classmates going to be so envious?"

"Anyway, I won't pretend now. If you go to school early, you can brag a little longer. Otherwise, if you wait until class is almost over, you won't even have time to brag."

Several children looked at each other, the expressions on their faces already shaken.

"I've bought this TV anyway. It won't go away if I keep it at home. You three aunts won't sell it. You can watch it whenever you want. It's not too late to come back after school to watch it, but this is awesome. How uncomfortable would it be if you want to blow off time but have to hold back a class?"

"Go to school early, and you can share your happy things with your classmates for a while."

Several children looked back and forth, and after weighing the pros and cons, Ye Xiuxiu, the oldest girl, said first, "Uncle, we have gone to school. When we get back from school, you can turn on the TV for us to watch."

"That's right. It's troublesome to install the TV. It won't be installed properly in a while. If you wait until you arrive for class to install it, wouldn't you lose more than you gain? You won't be able to brag if you can't watch the TV."

Ye Chenghai also said depressedly: "Then let's go to class first."

After saying that, he immediately stood up and picked up the boys on the left and right one by one. "Let's go. There's no need to guard here. We're going to school. We'll see when we get back."

Ye Chenghu actually wanted to pretend to have a stomachache and ask for leave, but thinking about the consequences of the last time he had a stomachache, he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to follow them back three steps at a time.

After sending the group of children away, Ye Yaodong waited for a while before putting the TV on the dining table.

Ye Chengyang immediately stood at the table excitedly, "Fortunately, I don't have to study! That's great~"

Lin Xiuqing also gathered around curiously, "It seems like you need to put an antenna outside and tie it to a bamboo pole to receive the signal. I think that's how they do it in the village."

"Yes, we need to build a telephone pole outside to receive the signal."

Father Ye also rubbed his hands excitedly, "I'll get some wire."

Ye Yaodong first took out the TV and carefully placed it on the table. Then he looked at the back of the TV, stretched the two poles, and tried shrinking them back and forth.

"Don't move yet, I'll connect the power cord first."

Although he was a bit useless in his previous life, he still knows how to connect wires. This is a basic skill for men in every household, and there is no need to call anyone else.

Occasionally, if the circuit is burned out or something, there is no man who can't fix it.

Father and son divide the labor and cooperate.

One is connecting the power cord indoors, and the other is holding a wire and running outside to find a bamboo pole.

Father Ye used pliers to tie two iron rings and hung them on the bamboo poles. He placed the bamboo poles against the wall and then pulled the antenna to the TV and connected it.

After Ye Yaodong connected the power cord and turned on the TV, there were a bunch of garbled snowflakes. He then ran outside to adjust the direction and position of the bamboo pole to see which position received a stronger signal.

"Is it okay, Dongzi? Is there a signal?" Father Ye held the bamboo pole outside and kept changing directions.

"I'll look around a few times to see if any station can receive it."

It’s so rubbish~

Ye Yaodong couldn't help complaining in his heart, he couldn't compare, he couldn't compare at all.

"Isn't that enough?" Lin Xiuqing stretched her head, watching him keep turning on the mechanical button on the right side of the TV, and felt itchy.

"Are you looking forward to it? Didn't you still feel dissatisfied with it before and even said you wanted to sell it?"

Lin Xiuqing pinched him angrily, "Just now, now is now, I bought everything, do you still want me to look bad?"

"Give me a smile!"

Ye Chengyang was giggling on the side. Ye Yaodong noticed it and flicked his forehead, "I didn't ask you to laugh."

"Hey, dad...ah! Okay, there's someone, there's someone, there's someone on the TV~" He shouted excitedly.

"Welcome to the afternoon news broadcast, it's 2pm BJ time..."

Lin Xiuqing's eyes widened when she heard the voices and heads suddenly appearing on the TV, "That's it!"