Chapter 1013 Where Is Ye Xiaoxi? (7000 Words)

After the father and son had a simple dinner, they went home and took a shower.

After taking a shower, Ye Yaodong went out to get a piece of nylon bag and asked Lin Xiuqing to help cover the boxes. However, after shouting twice, no one came out of the room. He called the old lady again, but no one came out. movement.

"Did you all go to the workshop? He disappeared after a while."

He raised his eyes and looked at the brightly lit workshops in the distance. Every one of them was going to where the excitement was, including the old ladies, who were about to go to bed, and they were still going there.

"Third uncle, what do you want to do?" Ye Chenghai hurriedly ran out of the house.

"You're here just in time, come and help."

"Okay~"

Ye Chengjiang also hurriedly responded and ran over, "Third uncle, I'm here to help you too~"

"And me, and me, I just went to poop..." Ye Chenghe also ran out of the house while holding up his pants.

"In the past, people who didn't say hello to me would hide inside, but now they all run out if I yell. What are you doing? You don't want to do your homework, right? As long as you don't do your homework, you can do anything, right?"

Ye Chenghai and Ye Chengjiang also laughed after being poked into their minds.

Ye Yaodong turned to look at Ye Chenghe who was running towards him with his pants in a hurry, "Have you washed your hands? Have you wiped your butt?"

Look at the waistband of his trousers, one more leg can be tucked in, and there is a rope tied on top. I don’t know if it is leftovers from Ye Chenghai or his mother. The trousers are also folded up a lot. The sweatpants underneath were exposed.

"It's not long after the Chinese New Year. What kind of rags are you wearing? Are you going to wear this to school? Don't you want to be laughed to death by others?"

"Third uncle, he was chasing the female classmate to deliver candied haws on a stick after school. Then he didn't look at the road and fell into a ditch. His clothes were scratched and the cotton fell out. Then he came back and gave his mother a good beating. I can only wear tattered clothes and trousers." Ye Chenghai gloated and did not defend him at all.

"Damn it, which female classmate? How old are you? You have a little girlfriend now?"

Ye Chenghe's face turned red, "Where is there? What kind of little girlfriend? Don't talk nonsense, she is a classmate..."

"Third uncle, let me tell you, that's the female classmate who burned her hair before, and now she gets behind her every day after school, and she can't even scold her..."

"Don't say..."

Ye Chenghe was so angry that he jumped to his feet and tried to pull Ye Chenghai to stop him from talking. However, Ye Chenghai didn't do what he wanted. He dodged with a smile and continued talking.

"...People hate him so much. He has to wait until they return to the village before going home, which makes us all have to follow him..."

Not to be outdone, Ye Chengjiang exposed his background, "Also, and...he also gave all the little heads he saved to the female classmate, and gave her all his beads..."

"Shut up……"

"A few days ago, when school started, I bought pencils and erasers for people, but they didn't want them. Today, he bought candied haws and chased them behind their butts, only to accidentally fall into the ditch..."

Ye Chenghe's face was so dark that it was hard to tell, but his ears were red. He was so angry that he chased and beat the two of them. The two of them ran and hid all over the yard, and then hid behind Ye Yaodong.

"Come on, come on, there's more..."

"Can't you tell, Ye Chenghe, you know so early that you have booked a wife first? Are you better than your brother?"

Ye Yaodong looked at this idiot with interest, but he didn't expect that his IQ was not online, and he was enlightened quite early. He also knew about puppy love and booking his wife in advance.

"There is no third uncle. Don't talk nonsense. That's my classmate..."

"Oh~classmate~then why don't you send other female classmates home, why don't you buy erasers, pens, and candied haws for other female classmates?"

"That's different. Who asked me to make her cut her hair short? When her hair grows long again, I will ignore her."

"Hehe~ Is it because people are ignoring you?" Ye Chenghai poured cold water on him without any burden and exposed his shortcomings.

"When Cheng He fell into the river, Chen Xiuni didn't just walk away. She stood by and helped pull him up." Ye Chengjiang smiled and got out from behind Ye Yaodong, "I think she is starting to pay attention to you."

"Then I'll give her the pen and eraser tomorrow?"

Licking the dog, licking the dog, the more you lick, the more you get.

Ye Yaodong smiled and patted him on the head, "You're so promising. The old lady is still saying that five generations live under one roof at night. You should work hard and try to get one by the age of 18."

Ye Chenghe scratched the back of his head and looked up at him with a smile, not knowing what he meant.

"Have you washed your hands?"

"No……"

"Why don't you hurry up and wash your hands? Lazy people poop a lot. When it comes to homework, there is a lot of nonsense. There are a lot of jobs in my workshop waiting for help, and you are still grinding there and haven't even finished your homework. , I don’t know how to seize the opportunity to make money.”

Ye Chenghai and Ye Chengjiang immediately looked at him with bright eyes, "Do you have money to help?"

Ye Chenghe had already ran out of the yard to wash his hands, but he immediately braked and turned back, "Do you have money, third uncle? I, I, I, I will help later, just wait for me..."

"Go wash your hands quickly."

"Then wait for me, I'll be right away."

It costs money to please girls, and it also costs money to please little girls. From the old lady down to Ye Xiaoxi, it costs money to please them all.

The other two pairs of eyes were still looking at him with bright eyes.

Ye Yaodong hit his head alone, "Are you obsessed with money? When you talk about money, your eyes are brighter than light bulbs."

"Hey, who doesn't like money..."

"Third uncle, when you called us here, did you mean to ask us to help kill fish in the workshop?" Ye Chengjiang smiled flatteringly and rubbed his hands back and forth.

"I didn't ask you, you ran out when you heard the noise. First help me open the nylon bag, wrap all the boxes in the corner and cover them up. It doesn't matter if they are too long, just stuff them into the gaps around the edges. Go, go outside and pick up a few big rocks for me and press the corners for me, don't let the wind blow them away."

"okay."

There is a radish hanging, and the two are very active.

Ye Chenghe also ran and shook his wet hands, and ran over to join immediately, for fear that he would do less work.

After he finished, three pairs of eyes were watching him.

"The work is done, why are you still looking at me? Come in and do your homework."

"Third uncle, do you still need help in your workshop? We can help with the work, we are very strong."

"Have you done your homework?"

"We'll do it now."

"It's past 8 o'clock. It's time to go to bed soon. If you want to make money, finish your homework quickly and do it again tomorrow. Those in the workshop will be busy for several days. If you go to help then, I will calculate the wages for you. Press Hourly, it’s a dime an hour.”

The three of them immediately stopped, then put their heads together, counted on their fingers, and muttered.

"School ends at 3:30. After finishing homework, we go to work at 4 o'clock. By 9 o'clock, we will have 50 cents..."

"5 cents a day, two days is one dollar! Wow~"

"Wow~ there are so many, let's go and do our homework..."

These three are not young at all, they are all in their teens. They scold and do something every day, and they run faster than anyone else after eating.

Anyway, they don’t have any land at home, so they don’t have much work to do except hunting pigweed every day when they come back from school. The little private land they have is not enough for an adult to do it for two minutes.

The dozens of tons of goods brought back in the past two days still need manpower anyway. Teenagers can already do a lot of work and help a lot. Throw them into the workshop to do more work and give them a chance to make money. , so as not to develop a lazy temper.

Let them know the importance of money, and cultivate in them the concept of working hard to earn money early. Only through labor can we create wealth.

No one was at home now, only him. He wanted to go to the workshop to have a look, but he was worried that no one would look after the house. Even the dogs would get into the excitement and go to the workshop instead of looking after the house.

He went into the house again and locked the back door. He checked again and found that all the chickens, ducks and geese in the yard were closed. Then he locked the doors and windows and the courtyard door. He went to the workshop and the lights were on. It's not turned off, it's all on.

Most of the nearby neighbors have turned off the lights and gone to bed. Even the village is dim. They have to work tomorrow. Those who can go to bed early have basically gone to bed, except for the bustling people in their rented house. .

His three little boys were also running around in the workshop, and they probably knew they belonged to him. The two boys even came over to help, and they were all there to help dry the goods.

When he came over earlier, he just took a look at the goods, then came back to eat, and didn't care about the children. Now it seems that they are doing a decent job.

Several girls were squatting beside the oversized basin to help wash the fish, but Ye Xiaoxi kept playing with the water there without anyone paying attention.

He quickly strode forward to lift the person up. The clothes in front of him were already wet. The sleeves on both hands were soaked. If you pinched the sleeves casually, the water would come out. Even the pants were wet from the thighs. so wet

"Still playing, still playing, go away... put me down, put me down... bad guy... bad guy..."

"No one cares about you. How cool is it? You're so wet and you're still playing there?"

"Bad guy...bad guy..."

Ye Xiaoxi was carried and hung in mid-air by him, waving his hands and feet constantly and yelling in a milky voice.

"Still so fierce?"

"Dad, I love you~I love you~Let me down~"

Ye Yaodong was delighted, "Are you really flexible? Just now you called me a bad guy, and now I love you? You stinky girl~"

He smiled and slapped her little butt.

"Dad~ I have Tangtang, let me give you some Tangtang~"

"Damn, you even bribed me? It's no use. Let me tell you, I just carried you to your mother and beat her. You dared to play with water so hard that you were soaked all over."

He grabbed her little hand and took a look, "Look at your hand, I don't know how long it has been soaked. It's as wrinkled as a dried carrot. I'll see if your mother doesn't beat you to death, take off your pants and beat her." "

"No, bad guy, you bad guy~let me down~"

She started waving and struggling and yelling again.

Ye Yaodong yelled at her and carried the child to find Lin Xiuqing who was sorting fish.

She and her two other sisters-in-law were sorting groceries there and chatting by the way.

Of the more than 30,000 kilograms of goods that Father Pei brought back, except for the nearly 20,000 kilograms of fish that had to be weighed and calculated, the other more than 10,000 kilograms of groceries he brought back were not sorted. It's a mess inside, with everything in every corner.

These groceries need to be sorted. The small ones can be fermented, and the large ones can be picked out to be dried. The value of drying is higher.

There are also some small shrimps, shrimps, which have to be picked out, boiled and shelled. This project is also quite huge.

These groceries have increased in quantity after the New Year. He kept them for himself two or three days in advance, and also asked Pei's father to keep them. The accounts have not been settled this month, and he has not yet agreed on how much to pay for such a large amount of goods. .

Last year, I just kept a little bit casually, leaving three or four thousand catties. If I came back with the four or five thousand catties, I would like to give them 10 yuan. I will definitely have to add more money when I settle the accounts this month.

And now that there are so many groceries left behind, of course the boatmen on the ship have no time to sort these groceries. Except for the useless and large jellyfish and the like, they are thrown back into the sea. Everything else is swept away with a broom. Basket, throw it in the corner, take it back and let them sort it themselves.

So much so that the need for manpower is now even greater.

The people next door were also waiting for these small trash fish to be sorted out and carried over for fermentation. They sorted them all afternoon, and it wasn't until they ran out of baskets at night that they started carrying them over one by one.

It pours in very quickly, so sorting takes time.

The old aunts kill the fish here first, and after picking out a certain amount, they take it over and sprinkle it with salt to ferment. No labor is wasted at all.

Lin Xiuqing used the weak light of the headlight to keep picking. From time to time, she would hold her hands hollow, lightly beat her back, and laugh with her sisters-in-law.

When she heard them pointing behind her, she turned around and looked.

"What's wrong?"

"You take a closer look, touch her sleeves, pants, shoes, and take a look at her palms."

Ye Xiaoxi was stunned for a moment and hung there with a look of despair, a straight face, and his hands were clenched into fists, trying to shrink into his sleeves.

However, Lin Xiuqing was afraid that she would not be able to withstand stains when wearing clothes, so she put sleeves on her so that her little hands could not fit into the sleeves.

Lin Xiuqing touched her sleeve, her face sank, and she glared at Ye Xiaoxi, who was hanging his head with a guilty conscience.

"I asked you not to play in the water. Just play here and take a look. Why did you go to play in the water? Your skin is itchy? Your pants are wet and your shoes are wet too. Show me your hands."

Ye Xiaoxi clenched her palms and hid them in front of her chest, refusing to let her open them.

Lin Xiuqing angrily slapped the back of her hand several times, "You're still shrinking, now you know you're afraid?"

She said nothing, still shrinking her head and hands. The back of her hand, which was white and blistered, was red from being slapped. When she realized it hurt, she quickly grabbed Ye Yaodong's clothes, turned around and hid in Ye Yaodong's arms.

The feet that were being carried, still hanging in the air, were clamping onto him desperately.

Both hands were still huddled in her arms, grabbing her father's clothes and blocking them with her back, trying to prevent his mother from hitting him.

"Still hiding...the skin is getting thicker and thicker, and I can't help but cry..."

Ye Yaodong had just finished being a bad guy and wanted to be a good guy again, so he quickly carried the child instead of hugging him, "Okay, okay, don't just beat and scold her, take her back and change her clothes first, put it on her body wetly, she will I have a cold, I don’t know how long I have been soaking in it, my hands feel like ice.”

"You took her back and changed her clothes. Why did you bring her to me? Wasn't I busy? You changed her clothes and put her to sleep. What time is it? It's time for her to sleep. There are two sons. , you take them home together and tell them to sleep."

"I wonder where she puts her clothes?"

Lin Xiuqing was angry and depressed at the same time, "There is only one cupboard and two boxes in the house, and you can't find them? Go through the boxes and give her a random piece of clothing, as long as she can wear it to sleep."

"Oh." He responded honestly.

"Remember to wash her face, hands and feet."

"oh."

"Go quickly."

"oh."

Ye Yaodong carried Ye Xiaoxi, who was still huddled in his arms like a quail, and walked out. He patted his two sons on the shoulders and asked them to follow him home and go to bed.

It wasn't until he left the door of the workshop that the little boy in his arms started to move. He stuck his head out and looked around, then put it on his shoulder and looked back, and then relaxed.

"Are you afraid? Let's see if you dare now?"

"Bad guy!"

"Keep scolding! If you scold again, I will take you back to your mother again and ask her to change your clothes. See if she doesn't leave a few slap marks on your butt."

She pouted and hugged his neck tightly, not daring to say a word.

"It's so cold. My sleeves are wet and stuck to my neck. Take them away."

"No, ice you~ice you~"

"Hiss~"

She played for a while and found it interesting to see his father shrinking his neck to avoid it. She also giggled and kept stretching her hands into his neck.

"Ice you~Ice you~"

The expression on his face that made him want to cry just now is now starting to make him laugh again.

After leaving the workshop, the two sons had already run home and were waiting at the door for him to open the door.

"Hurry up, Dad, please hurry up and open the door."

"Why urge..."

As soon as the two boys entered the house, they ran upstairs to them. Ye Yaodong shouted to them to wash their hands, but they pretended not to hear them, so he ignored them. One daughter was enough to keep him busy.

If they feel their hands smell bad later, they will naturally come down and wash them.

After Ye Yaodong took the child back to the house, he hurried out to get hot water and prepared to wipe her first as Lin Xiuqing ordered. Unexpectedly, when he went in with a basin of warm water, there was no one on the bed and nowhere in the house. Man, I didn’t even see the cabinet when I opened it.

"Ye Xiaoxi! Ye Xiaoxi! Where have you been?"

He yelled and ran out to search.

He was filling hot water by the stove just now. He didn't see anyone walking past him, so he definitely wasn't outside. He walked toward the stairs.

A little man wearing a floral cotton-padded jacket was sticking his butt out and crawling neatly on his hands and feet.

"Ye Xiaoxi!"

She climbed faster on her hands and knees, and was only two steps away from climbing upstairs.

Ye Yaodong took off his shoes at the edge of the stairs and quickly climbed up two steps. When she climbed the last step and moved two steps quickly while lying on the floor, he immediately picked up her back clothes again.

"Why are you running? The more I call you, the more you run? Do you want to be beaten?"

"Don't sleep!"

He slapped her butt again angrily, "Be honest with me. She will disappear in a blink of an eye. She can run away like no one knows and is so naughty."

"snort……"

Ye Yaodong hugged the child and hurried downstairs. He was already exhausted, and it was too torture to have to look at this guy when he came back.

After taking off her clothes and pants, he wanted to put her clothes on first and then wash her hands and feet. Unexpectedly, the moment he took the clothes, she slipped into the bed again and wrapped herself tightly.

He was still holding her small clothes in his hands, but no one could see them anymore.

"Come out here, otherwise it will be easier to fight if you are naked."

It's just that he has never taken care of a child before, so he is too careless and inexperienced, otherwise he should have changed it.

Ye Xiaoxi poked his head out from under the quilt with a playful smile, "Hey~"

"Come here quickly and put on your clothes and trousers. I'll wipe your hands and feet, and then I'll make you drink malted milk. I haven't washed your hands and feet yet. They smell like fish and they're getting into the bed. It's everywhere when you touch them. It's going to stink at night." died."

As soon as she heard that there was malted milk to drink, she immediately got out of the bed neatly and stood obediently to let him get dressed.

"Ancestor, when can I expect you to serve me?"

She grinned widely, and after she finished getting dressed and her face, hands and feet were wiped, she immediately shrank into the quilt and wrapped her tightly.

"I really owed you something from my previous life."

This complaint is absolutely true.

When Ye Yaodong walked out with the water, he turned around and warned, "Don't run out again, don't climb the stairs again, or I'll give the dogs malted milk to drink."

"knew."

The muffled sound of breast milk came from the bed, and he felt relieved to pour some water and make some malted milk for her.

Only then did he remember that the old lady hadn't returned yet? Still in the workshop?

He touched the watch in his pocket and saw it was nine o'clock.

"As I get older, I am becoming more and more lively. I go wherever there are people, but I don't want to come back to sleep."

After looking at the entrance of the hospital, he quickly soaked in malted milk and went to put the child to sleep. He was already sleepy and wanted to lie down and sleep.

As soon as he urged Ye Xiaoxi to finish drinking the malted milk, he quickly turned off the light and lay down. The surroundings were silent and silent. There was not even the sound of wind tonight. He snored as soon as he closed his eyes.

Next to him, Ye Xiaoxi's eyes widened. He rolled around on the bed, from left to right, from the head of the bed to the end of the bed, and then rolled in a big circle on him. He even sat on him, twisted around, and pinched him. face and pulled his hair.

After a lot of fussing, she was tired of playing, but he still slept like a dead pig and didn't react at all.

The old lady came back to sleep soon after he came back.

Lin Xiuqing waited until the moon was in the middle of the sky, then she couldn't bear it anymore, so she came back first, holding on to her waist, and left the work to her two sisters-in-law.

She has to come over again tomorrow morning, and she will definitely have to watch the workshop. If she stays up all night, she will have to go to bed tomorrow morning. She will not be able to come over, and she will be out of energy all day long.

Ye's mother also called a group of women to come over tomorrow morning to take over the shift. She must be there and watch just in case. She is destined not to be able to endure it. She can only leave it to others to watch and let them realize themselves. , mutual supervision.

It was only after she dragged her tired body home, washed herself, went to bed, and touched the child out of habit that she realized she hadn't touched the child.

She wasn't surprised and just continued touching.

This child often sleeps from the head to the end of the bed, and then sleeps to the edge of the bed. Sometimes he hangs on the edge of the bed and sleeps on his stomach with his feet on the ground.

He reached up to her and whispered, "Where have you gone?"

She just touched the quilt twice, but now she reached into the quilt without giving up, thinking that she had just touched him.

Ye Yaodong woke up a little from the cold wind that came in, and said in a daze: "What are you doing? Why are you anxious? Stop touching it and let me rest first. I'm so sleepy and tired..."

"I touch you, am I touching you? I am touching the child. Where did the child sleep? I haven't touched it for a long time?"

"Don't make a fuss if you don't know..." He pulled the quilt and rolled it up again, pressing the quilt under his legs.

"Is the child in bed?"

Seeing that he was snoring again, Lin Xiuqing was breathless. She raised her hand to pat him twice, but then she remembered that he had just come back from the sea at night, so she had to put her hand down, not to vent her anger with him, and continued on her own. Touch.

It wasn't until she touched it twice more to make sure that the child was not on the bed that she became more anxious.

Afraid of disturbing Ye Yaodong's sleep, he didn't turn on the light, so he quickly put on his coat and ran out to get a flashlight.

Although she was anxious, she wasn't that worried. At most, the child fell out of bed while sleeping and curled up in a corner of the house. It was impossible to get rid of it.

But when she came in with a flashlight and looked around the room, and there were still no children, she started to worry.

Unwilling to give up, she took the photo on the bed again, lifted up Ye Yaodong's quilt, and took the photo again, but couldn't see anything. Then she was convinced that the child was gone?

Ye Yaodong was not covered with a quilt and shrank from the cold. He woke up again. He was annoyed that his sleep was interrupted again and again.

"What are you doing? Why are you tossing in the middle of the night? Aren't you tired? I am tired. I told you tomorrow is tomorrow, but you still insist on tossing me at night. Can you come early tomorrow morning? It's so late at night. You don't want me. Life?"

Lin Xiuqing almost jumped in anger at him, "What hooligan words are you talking about? What kind of rubbish is filling your head? Do you know that your daughter is missing? Where did you do the child?"

"Huh? Huh?"

Ye Yaodong fell into a drowsy sleep and his head was a little clearer, "What's missing?"

"Your daughter is missing!"

"My daughter is missing? Ye Xiaoxi is missing? Why is she missing? Where is she? Where did you do it?"

"It's my turn to ask you, where did you take your daughter?"

"When I was sleeping, didn't she also sleep well in the bed?" He was shirtless and didn't feel cold anymore. He scratched his messy hair and looked confused.

Lin Xiuqing almost laughed angrily at him, "Then where did she sleep?"

"Don't know? Look for it quickly..."

He was also confused, so I asked him, how did he know?

"Look here...look here...where did she sleep?"

Ye Yaodong also woke up immediately.