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Chapter 165 Opening Oysters
Sleepless all night until dawn, the whole family got up late this morning, and went to bed too late last night, and so did the two children.

But when they woke up and saw Ye Yaodong, the two of them immediately remembered the pancakes and maltose that their father had promised them. They were all waiting for them to fall asleep yesterday, and they didn't know why he came back.

"Father, dad, where are our pancakes and maltose?"

"Father~Dad~"

The two climbed directly to Ye Yaodong's side, one pushed him and the other sat on him, so scared that he immediately woke up to protect his lifeblood.

"Go down!"

"Father, you agreed yesterday to bring us pancakes and maltose!"

"Yeah, yes, pancakes, maltose!"

Lin Xiuqing was also woken up, and sat up, "I started reading early in the morning, and I have been reading all night yesterday."

"Father promised us! You must keep your word!"

Ye Yaodong had a wrinkled face, and before he even opened his eyes, he was tossed and twisted by two people. The little one was still sitting on his stomach and twisted around. He turned sideways, put him down, and hurriedly said: "I bought it, I bought it. On the table outside."

"Oh~ yeah yeah~"

"Yeah yeah~~"

The two of them didn't even put on their excited clothes, so they climbed out of the bed and rushed out one after the other.

After Ye Yaodong heaved a sigh of relief, he took the quilt to cover himself and continued to close his eyes.

Lin Xiuqing sat aside and dressed while laughing at him, "Let's see if you dare to tempt them next time. If you say something else, they may forget it. If you say bring them food, they will remember it for a long time." .”

"That's right, I asked as soon as I opened my eyes. I thought they would forget it after one night." Ye Yaodong sat up and hugged her, pushed her back on the bed, and took off the clothes she just put on, "Lie down again. Now, I slept too late last night."

"What are you doing, both children are up, it's time to get up and make breakfast."

"Don't worry, just sleep for a while."

Ye Yaodong wrapped one arm around her waist, and one leg was still on her body to hold her down.

"Don't make trouble, it's already dawn..." Lin Xiuqing struggled and whispered.

"It's been a long time..."

It has been more than half a month since he came back from his mother-in-law's natal house, and he didn't dare to act rashly.
"That can't be helped. In the early morning, the two children were still outside, and they rushed in after a while."

"That night?"

Lin Xiuqing said hesitantly: "Wait tonight... let's talk about it, let me get up first, and let the children see it later."

Ye Yaodong reluctantly let her go after the addiction, and let her get up, then rolled up the quilt, intending to lie down for a while, by the way, slowly, because it's easy to be impulsive in the morning.

Every day the tide recedes about 50 minutes later than the previous day, and I got up late again in the morning. At this moment, the tide is low at 8 o'clock. The water level is too shallow, and it is difficult for the boat to go out. He can rarely get out of bed until he finishes eating. After lunch, go out to collect the ground cage net.

It's just that the wish is beautiful, but the reality is that the two children ran in chirping again.

"Father, mother put away the malt candy and won't let us eat it."

Ye Yaodong turned over and looked at them, "If your mother doesn't feed you, I'm fine too?"

"Tell her, didn't you buy that?"

"I bought it. If she doesn't give it to you, I can't help it. I will be under her control."

"Aren't you the head of the family? If you scold her, she will listen to you."

Lin Xiuqing just came in from the outside and was about to dress them when she heard this, twisted his ears, and slapped his butt hard.

"You're itchy, aren't you?"

Ye Yaodong also stared at his elder son, he was heard saying such things, he deserved to be beaten.

"Ah, I was wrong mother..."

"Why don't you give them to eat? I bought them all back. Do I want to let them go bad?"

Lin Xiuqing said angrily: "Listen to him lying, keep half of what you say, I told him, eat it after dinner, don't eat it now, this kid can't wait, so he ran in and complained."

This time Ye Yaodong didn't speak for them, and even took the meaning out of context, which was clever.

After watching her teach his son a lesson, he also became sober, so he simply got up and went to the back door to see how the shelled ones were divided yesterday.
I saw bamboo baskets piled up in the corner of the back door, all sorted and sorted well, only one sack of oysters was left intact in the corner.

This is because he told her yesterday not to move.

"Dong didn't go to sea today?"

"Well, sister-in-law, the tide hasn't arrived yet, so we'll go in the afternoon."

"We have made two more ground cages, do you want to take them out this afternoon?"

"Ok."

He now has nearly 60 ground cages, which can be placed in 6 rows.

He silently calculated the savings at home, and gave her a little over 700 at noon and night. He estimated that the savings at home were only around 2000, which was still too little, so he took all of them, and he could only buy a second-hand trawl net. In fact, the most important thing about ships is that the machines on board are expensive.

After thinking about it, it is better to open the small boat first. This small wooden boat has not been driven for a long time. I will change it when the child is born safely next year, the fine is over, and I have money on hand.

Thinking of this, he went into the house and took a washbasin for washing vegetables, washed it and put it aside, then dragged the sack of oysters out from the corner, untied the straw rope tied to the opening, and poured it out.

Putting on gloves and holding a flat-head screwdriver, I plan to take advantage of the time before breakfast to help open a little bit first, so I won't leave this job to others.

Each of these oysters has a size of 5+ or more. Just after prying open the shell, the meat inside is almost overflowing, and it is very fat.

It's a pity that there is no mustard, otherwise squeeze a little mustard and smear it on, and it will be very fresh if eaten raw.

After thinking for a while, he simply shouted to Lin Xiuqing who was in the room: "Ah Qing? Have you pretended the porridge yet? Shall I wash some oysters and steam them?"

"Okay, I'll take the pot out."

He dug out the meat and put it in the washbasin, picked out ten more beautiful ones, rinsed them with a scrub brush to clean the sand on the shell.

Then they brought it into the house and handed it to Lin Xiuqing to steam, then went back to the back door and continued to open the oysters.

Every opened meat is very full, it is a pity to take it to dry, but there is no way to store it without drying, such a sack can not be eaten in two days.

After opening four or five oysters in a row, there was nothing in it that he wanted, and he was not very disappointed. After all, the probability is hard to say. It is possible that a whole sack of oysters did not come out without a single oyster.

While he was busy, Mother Ye came over beaming, and he could hear his mother's loud voice at the front door from the back door.

In a short while, from far to near, he came out from the back door of his sister-in-law's house, then looked at him with bright eyes, and walked over quickly.

"Dongzi, you didn't open it yesterday? I thought you opened it yesterday, and I just wanted to come over and ask how many you opened."

He raised his eyebrows, seeing how happy his mother was, she must have gained something yesterday, "Did you produce pearls yesterday? How many?"

Sister-in-law Ye followed Mother Ye, and was startled when she heard the words, "Pearl?"

The second sister-in-law Ye had just poured the oysters brought by mother Ye into her own bowl, and was about to come out with the bowl to return it to her, when she heard sister-in-law Ye say pearls!
What pearls?
She also leaned forward curiously, "Mother, what pearls are you talking about?"

Ye Mu narrowed her eyes with a smile, and said joyfully, "I'm telling you, don't go out and say, Hui Mei and I opened that whole bag of oysters last night, and it turned out 3 pearls, and she herself The one opened on the island, she got 4 this time."

"What? 4 pearls?"

Both sisters and sisters widened their eyes in disbelief.

Ye Yaodong was also a little surprised, 2 pieces can be opened out of one bag, which is very good, I don't know if he can open this bag.

Fatty and the others were not at home last night like him, and they don't know if their wife drove out yesterday.

Mother Ye happily said: "Yes, it comes out of oysters. I never thought that pearls can really come out of oysters. I have only heard of them before, but I have never seen them."

"Hui Mei didn't say anything when she came back at noon yesterday. She didn't say anything until I opened one last night. This stinky girl is afraid that I will take hers..."

Mother Ye complained as she spoke, "She's still young and hasn't married yet. If I keep it for her, can I not return it to her? There is still such a large sum of money, and I have to keep it myself. I am My mother, and not a stepmother, can she still be greedy..."

The two sisters-in-law were dumbfounded again, what a large sum of money?
It's both pearls and money, why doesn't Mother make it clear?
Only Lin Xiuqing, who came out after hearing the sound, understood it and understood the whole story. She smiled and said: "My little sister is not young anymore, she is already 20. Didn't my mother always let people introduce her to her? Then she will also be married when she is married." It’s not far away, and it’s not a bad thing to collect what you earn yourself.”

The two sisters-in-law felt like cats' paws in their hearts, scratching their hearts and scratching their livers, why didn't they make it clear?

Second Aunt Ye couldn't help but interjected, "Mother, what are you talking about about pearls growing out of oysters, and how much money do you have? Can you explain it more clearly? We all hear it in a fog."

"Oh, it's all said so clearly, why don't you understand?"

Lin Xiuqing smiled and explained to them again, and the two sisters-in-law finally understood, and they were immediately envious, slapping their thighs and regretting why they didn't have the cheek to follow yesterday?

They quickly walked a few steps to get in front of Ye Yaodong, looked at the oysters all over the floor, and the sack next to it, picked up an oyster and looked at it, but didn't find anything special about it.

How can pearls be opened?

When they heard about it before, they thought it was a rumour, a fake, but they didn't expect oysters to really come out?

Mrs. Ye still couldn't help asking: "Is it really from the oysters?"

Mother Ye rolled her eyes, "I've said it several times, but you still don't believe it! When Dongzi comes out later, you should believe it."

Ye Yaodong could not help shaking his head when he heard the four women chattering, one woman was equal to 500 ducks!
The second sister-in-law Ye asked again: "Mother, did my little sister really earn more than 300 yuan yesterday?"

The tangled and uncomfortable look on her face seemed to have missed a hundred million!

Ye Yaodong felt bad for her when he saw it.

"Then it's fake? Dongzi helped me take it to the town and sell it. It's a pity. I wanted to go with you yesterday morning, but your aunts called me to dig sand clams at the beach, so I missed it. Oh, what a shame." So angry……"

Sister-in-law Ye also asked Lin Xiuqing, "Little sister's sold more than 300, do you sell more?"

How can I tell them exactly how much money I earn?
Lin Xiuqing smiled, "It's not much different, just a little more than my younger sister. My younger sister has still opened pearls, but we haven't opened ours yet. A Dong didn't tell me yesterday, but he just asked me not to touch that pearl yet." bag of oysters, I hurried out and didn’t come back until night. When I went to my hometown yesterday afternoon, my little sister didn’t tell me that I didn’t even know that oysters could produce pearls.”

"That's great. These are pearls, and they are sold for money. You have made a lot of money again." Mrs. Ye was very envious.

The second sister-in-law Ye was also very envious, "I also got several sacks of goods, these can last for a long time."

"what!"

At this moment, Ye Yaodong let out a cry of surprise, and they immediately turned their heads.

"pearl?"

"It really came out?"

Listening to other people's words, how can it be true to see it with your own eyes? It's incredible!

(End of this chapter)