Back To the Small Fishing Village In 1982

  With something on her mind, and it was still a big deal for their family, Lin Xiuqing just sat at the door all day, raising her eyes to look into the distance from time to time, hoping that Ye Yaodong would come back.

  The old lady knew it was half past two, so she picked a lot of sweet potato vines from the vegetable field and walked over.

"Adong likes to eat this. I'll cook one for him later. They should be back soon, right? Let's put the rice down and cook it. When they come back, maybe they'll be in a hurry to start collecting dried fish. What if you don't have time to eat?"

   "Yes, what you said is, I'm going to put the rice down and cook it. When he comes back, let them eat first, and then work after eating."

  After Lin Xiuqing finished speaking, she put away the sleeves of the sweater she had just rolled up, put it in the basket, and then got up and went to the house to cook.

   "Go, I'll pick this sweet potato vine, wash it and bring it in for you."

  As soon as Ye Yaodong came back, he saw white smoke rising from his chimney, and he wondered why he cooked so quickly today?

  He thought he had misremembered the time, so he checked his watch to make sure it was only three o'clock.

   "Dongzi is back? Come in and sit down for a while, it's cold outside, first sit in front of the stove and rub your hands to keep warm."

   "Cooking so early?" He said as he walked into the house.

   "Go in and tell me, Ah Qing received a call in the morning and asked her to tell you."

   "What phone...ah?"

  He got stuck in the middle of speaking, and then reacted quickly, his eyes widened in surprise, "Is it from the army?"

  The old lady smiled and said nothing.

  Lin Xiuqing sat in front of the stove and looked at him with a smile, "I don't know if it's a call from the army, but he didn't say clearly..."

   "Ah... no?" Ye Yaodong was disappointed again in an instant.

"Why are you in a hurry? Listen to me...I don't know if it's a call from the army. After all, the other party didn't say anything clearly, but he told me that his name is Zhao Weimin, and he asked you to send 1,000 catties of dried fish tomorrow. To the place yesterday morning, delivered at the same time."

  Ye Yaodong felt ups and downs caused by her, and suddenly said angrily: "You woman, you have to divide a sentence into several paragraphs, and almost gave me no time to rejoice."

"Zhao Weimin is the head of Zhao's logistics team. He collected the dried fish. He called in the morning and asked for 1,000 catties, right? I'll ask my neighbors and my elder brother and second brother. See how many of them there are?"

   "Don't worry, the rice is already cooked, just stir-fry the sweet potato vines and you're ready to eat, otherwise I'm afraid you'll be busy collecting dried fish later and won't have time to eat."

   "It's okay, it doesn't matter. I'll go and ask first. They probably don't have much stock. They left it for drying yesterday. It may take four or five days to dry it. Some time ago, every household didn't have much drying."

   "Then I'll call you later."

  Ye Yaodong didn't wash his hands, didn't take a sip of water before he hurried out again.

  The old lady looked at his back in a hurry, and couldn't help but said: "I knew I would call him to eat first, and then tell him while eating, I just came back, and I went out again before my **** was hot."

   "The dishes haven't been cooked yet, so it's okay to ask him to go to the next door first."

   "Then it's better to sit down and rest for a while first."

"You asked him to ask me, didn't I just say it? He is also anxious, what can he do? It's not too late, just ask him to come back to eat after the dishes are fried, it's almost the same minute."

"Um."

  Lin Xiuqing took all the dishes out, put a large bowl of rice on the table, then put oil in the hot pan, quickly poured the sweet potato vines into it and stir-fried, then chopped the chopped garlic and threw it in to continue frying.

  She was still muttering, "There is nothing delicious, but I like eating sweet potato vines. I haven't seen him eat them before... People use them to feed pigs, but he suddenly fell in love with them and competed with pigs for food..."

   "What's the matter? It's cold weather. Apart from radishes and cabbage, there are only leeks, and the sweet potato vines grow the best. I didn't have to eat them before, so I still eat them."

  Lin Xiuqing just read it in bits and pieces, but she didn't make a sound when she heard the old lady's rebuttal.

  Ye Yaodong went out for a walk, talked to his neighbors and then came back.

   "Are you ready? How much does everyone weigh?"

   "I don't know, the quantity is not much. I asked them to pick out the varieties first, and then come to weigh them. Eat first, and then go to work after eating."

  He went to wash his hands before sitting down and picking up chopsticks to eat.

Lin Xiuqing also sat down, "I received a call in the morning. When I came back, I wanted to collect a few hundred catties for you first, but the old lady said that she didn't know what your plan was, and it would be too late when you came back. I think so, I don't know how much you plan to charge, is it the same as the price you told the elder brother and the second brother yesterday?"

   "Well, that's right, it's easy to settle accounts. If someone is jealous again and feels uncomfortable watching me make money, go ask the approximate price of the thing, and then come back and tell me that I am unscrupulous and exploiting the folks is not good."

   "That's right, we haven't made any money yet? It has been rumored in the village that we have made thousands more." Lin Xiuqing has a deep understanding of gossip.

  Ye Yaodong saw that the old lady hadn't been seated, and Ah Qing hadn't pretended to be a meal, so he asked suspiciously: "You guys haven't eaten yet, what are you looking at? There are two more children, why did you call?"

  The old lady smiled and said: "I'm not hungry, it's not time for meal yet, so I'll wait for the two children to eat together later, and they're both playing, and they're nowhere to be seen. It's a bit early."

   "We can eat it together directly. If we are hungry at night, we can cook the noodles, so as to save the reheating of the dishes later."

   "You have to work in a hurry, you eat first, don't worry about us."

   "That's up to you."

  Hearing someone calling at the door, Ye Yaodong took a few casual bites and went out with a large scale and a small scale.

  Lin Xiuqing also went out to help.

  The family still has 360 catties, and they only need to collect another 640 catties, which is enough for the time being, but 640 is a lot.

  They can’t directly weigh the goods as soon as they are brought over from others. They have to pour out the goods brought by the neighbors in bags for inspection. Or mixed with other fish.

   What I am most afraid of is encountering troublemakers. I don’t want to see you well, so what should I do if I deliberately mix stones in it? It is not that no one has done things that harm others and benefit oneself.

   After all, this is not a product of his own, so he has to be careful when receiving it, and it is going to be sent to the army. Integrity and quality, he has to do it well first.

  However, fortunately, the neighbors are not cheating, cheating, or using their brains.

  When I went to ask before, I told them that they should pick them out in advance and divide them up. Come here now and check that there is no problem.

  I was too sleepy, my mind was muddy, I only wrote 1,000 words in an hour and a half, my mind was stagnant, and I couldn't turn it around at all. I just finished writing the first paragraph, and immediately forgot what I wrote before.

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