I remembered my son calling me the night before last, saying he was planning to buy a house in Jinan to get married.
I couldn't sleep all night. I kept thinking about how my son had only given the family 1,000 yuan a month for the past few years. His salary had increased four years ago, but he had never given the family any more. He must have had his own little schemes all along.
Buying a house isn't something you can just do for 100,000 or 200,000 yuan; Yu Hai must have secretly saved a lot of money behind Chen Hong's back.
If Chen Hong hadn't pointed it out on the night of the divorce, I would still have thought that my son was working hard outside and it wasn't easy for him. It turns out that my son had changed a long time ago.
Chen Hong isn't stupid. Judging from Yu Yang's behavior today, she's been tolerating him for the sake of the child.
Fortunately, Chen Hong handled the matter well. Yu Yang was not affected by his parents' divorce at all. On the contrary, the child behaved better and became more sensible.
No matter what Yu Hai does, as long as he treats Chen Hong and her daughter sincerely, Chen Hong will not abandon him.
Once Yang started elementary school, I would pick him up and drop him off every day, since it was more convenient to live in two different places.
Chen Hong is not an ungrateful person. When Yu Yang grows up and goes to Beijing, he won't leave his old man behind. He'll shamelessly follow his grandson, which is better than going to Jinan to see a daughter-in-law he doesn't know.
After brewing a pot of honeysuckle and honey tea, Grandpa Yu called his grandson into the house to wash his hands and drink water.
My daughter-in-law prepared all the best things for the father and son to drink together. I must take good care of my grandson and myself, and I absolutely cannot hold my daughter-in-law back or delay her plan to save money to buy a house.
The father and son drank some tea and then flipped the dried fish over together. Yu Yang is a very smart child with strong hands-on skills. He can do it quite well after being taught once.
Her two little hands were very nimble, flipping things over quickly and arranging them neatly.
Yu Zhaohua thought to himself: "It's true what they say, like mother, like son. This child is just like his mother. He's good at everything he does, speaks fluently, and is quick-witted. Maybe the good fortune he's experiencing will come to him through his grandson. This child will definitely be successful when he grows up."
After finishing their chores in the front yard, the father and son went to work in the vegetable garden in the backyard. Beans, green beans, loofahs, and cucumbers were hanging heavily on the trellis, and the leaves of eggplants, tomatoes, green peppers, and chili peppers were also plentiful, with the small trees laden with fruit.
Grandpa Yu regretted it a bit. He should have stayed yesterday to help dry some vegetables. If it rained for another three days, some of these vegetables would spoil before they could be eaten, which was such a waste.
There was nothing else the father and son could do but pick all the chilies that were easy to store and string them together in the front yard to hang on the wall of the storage room to dry. They would figure out what to do with the rest when Chen Hong came back!
When Chen Hong returned to the dock, it was only a little past six o'clock. She had called ahead to arrange for Liu Laohu and his son to store the high-value fish in her spatial storage beforehand, leaving some ordinary ones to sell to them. In this way, she still made 8,760 yuan, less than the previous times, but still much more than the other boats.
Chen Hong felt that this number was about right, and that she could adjust it by one or two thousand yuan around this amount in the future.
After selling the fish, they cleaned the boat and packed their things to go home. As soon as they entered the house, they saw Yu Yang and his father collecting dried fish in the yard. They moved everything from the tricycle into the storage room and helped to pack up and tie up the drying racks.
Yu Yang said, "Mom, there are still some on the roof!"
Chen Hong took a bamboo basket to the roof to collect the dried fish, then tied up the rack and carried it down. "Why did you dry so much? The squid and starfish can be dried in the dryer when I get back. You must be exhausted today?"
“It’s alright. There were a lot of people working today. Your uncle and his wife came right after you left this morning. The three of us were busy all morning and finished drying everything. Your Aunt Guo cooked lunch, and they didn’t go back until after lunch.”
"Thank goodness they came, otherwise you would have been swamped. I'll go stew some beef first, and then call them to come over for dinner tonight. You and Uncle Village Chief can have a drink too."
"No need to call them anymore. They said when they left that they wouldn't be coming tonight. They don't know which family in the village got into college and need to invite them over to discuss the banquet."
"This is great news. I'll go and find out who's hosting a feast tomorrow. I'm often away from home, so I don't want to offend anyone." Chen Hong said as she carried a bucket into the kitchen, cooked rice, soaked beef in water, picked some vegetables from the garden, and sat by the kitchen door chatting with Grandpa Yu Yang.
"Chen Hong, Yu Yang and I have picked the chilies for you, strung them up, and hung them in the storage room. You should also pick the green beans, string beans, eggplants, cucumbers, and the like. The weather is going to change tomorrow, and some of these vegetables will spoil."
Chen Hong washed the vegetables and cut them, saying, "It's okay, don't worry. I'll pick them after I eat and put them in the cellar. They'll stay there for three or four days without any problem. Once the weather clears up, they can be dried in a day."
Once the beef has softened, cut it into chunks, blanch it, and then put it in an electric pressure cooker with the seasoning packet to stew.
I braised ribbonfish, made a cold salad of garlic green beans, steamed eggs with starfish roe, and diced quail eggs, shredded squid, abalone, sea cucumber, and conch meat to make a big mixed seafood stew.
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