By 5:30 in the afternoon, everything in the Ye family returned to normal.
Ye Zhiqiu went to pick eggplants and stew catfish, while Ye Tianya and Wang Xiaolan went to the cafeteria to get food. As for Ye Wubing, he worked like a slave for Ye Bailu.
It was as if what happened today had never happened. Ye Zhiqiu often lamented how he had managed to survive and grow up in such a crazy family!
During dinner, Ye Zhiqiu picked up a piece of fish belly for Ye Bailu, and then asked Ye Tianya, "Lao Deng, why didn't you go to work this afternoon? You must have a lot of work recently, right? Don't tell me you all went to watch Li Guangcai and Widow Wang's fun..."
Ye Tianya, who was sucking on the fish head, put it down and replied depressedly: "What are you looking at? What's so exciting and interesting! I was planning to fetch water to irrigate the crops this afternoon, but the water fetching area collapsed.
Changing the route is too far, and fetching water from the river is too far. We've been working pretty hard these days, so we just arranged for a few people to repair the road. Why are you asking this all of a sudden? You don't have to work."
Ye Zhiqiu told his friend that he went fishing today and the river water had become a little shallower.
Ye Tianya hadn't been to the river recently, so he said in surprise, "Oh my goodness, the water level has dropped by one point in just a few days. If this continues, the river will dry up. My dear son, you should hurry up and go to work in the city. At least you can have enough food and not starve!"
Ye Zhiqiu curled his lips. Even if he worked, wouldn't he still have to support his family? Even though the village had fresh food every day now, in two months, it would become watery. By next year, it was estimated that even watery food wouldn't be enough!
But there is no need to worry too much about my family, as there is a lot of food grown in my space. I will have a big harvest soon, enough for my family to eat for decades.
This is just a small portion of the land he has cultivated. After all, he has only been here for two years and initially had no seeds to plant. However, he planted the land anyway, harvested the harvest, and then replanted it, eventually reaching his current scale.
Wang Xiaolan was a little worried that her eldest son would be able to work as a worker and get a salary once he moved to the city.
So she looked at Ye Zhiqiu pitifully and asked, "My dear son, you are going to be a city dweller soon. Will you not recognize me?"
Ye Zhiqiu's face darkened. He really couldn't understand what was going on in his mother's brain. He muttered, "How dare I disown you? Otherwise, you'll tell the whole world that I'm an unfilial person."
"Then will you give your salary to your mother?"
No? I haven't even started a job yet, why are you already thinking about my salary?
Ye Tianya also looked at Ye Zhiqiu, wanting to hear what his eldest son had to say. It wasn't that he was worried too much, but life in the countryside was tough these days! He and his wife couldn't even save thirty yuan after working for a year.
If I want to buy a pack of cigarettes, I have to calculate and then smoke the tobacco...
Ye Zhiqiu breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that he was just worried about his salary. That was nothing! After entering the city, he could sell rabbits to make money. A rabbit skin could be sold for at least one dollar, and rabbit meat could be sold for more than one dollar...
That's not right? If I calculate it this way, even if I sold all the rabbits in my space, it would only be a few thousand yuan? After two years of hard work, I can't even become a millionaire?
However, Ye Zhiqiu quickly figured it out. There were still fish, shrimps and turtles in his space. There were quite a lot of these things, tens of thousands of kilograms.
There is no problem in becoming a 10,000 yuan household, the question is why do you need so much money?
Thinking of this, Ye Zhiqiu suddenly felt that life was boring. He replied lazily: "When I get my salary in the future, I'll give you half, okay? But don't look at me, it's very creepy..."
"My dear son, you are so big. I will take care of your poop and pee..."
Ye Zhiqiu was furious. He snapped, "If you say that again, I'll deduct money! I'll deduct one yuan each time! Anyway, I'll be in the city by then. I won't send you a letter, but money. What else can you do?"
Wang Xiaolan shut up obediently. She couldn't let her eldest son get angry. His salary was 32.5 yuan, and half of that was 16.25 yuan, which was 195 yuan a year!
Thinking of this, Wang Xiaolan covered her mouth in surprise, fearing that if she shouted it out, it would make Haodaer unhappy.
With a smile on her face, she picked up a piece of fish for Ye Zhiqiu and said happily, "It's so big, son. I won't say anything. Come on, eat the fish! The bones are so delicious. Oh no, the fish meat is really good..."
Ye Wubing looked at her eagerly, but Wang Xiaolan didn't pick any fish for him. He muttered the word "partiality" in his heart.
Ye Tianya didn't think there was anything wrong with his son eating an extra piece of fish. After all, only the head and tail, the meatless parts, were his.
He also often made fun of his wife and children, saying that they didn't know that the head and tail of a fish were the most delicious parts of the whole fish.
Ye Zhiqiu knew it! But he also knew that these two parts were meatless! In a life short of oil and water, why would you need the most delicious parts? Of course, the parts with meat and oil are the best parts.
After eating, Ye Tianya went to fetch water. There were so many people in the family who needed to take a bath, so he had to fetch water.
Ye Zhiqiu would not do this job. The place where he had to fetch water was too far away, and he was not willing to suffer this hardship.
Ye Wubing disappears after dinner. I don’t know why he is so energetic every day and rarely has time to stay at home.
Ye Zhiqiu pondered the events of the space. It had been two years, and he hadn't raised any pigs, let alone cattle or sheep! And the same thing happened with goose. The taste of stewed goose... slurp... his mouth was watering just thinking about it.
So he asked Wang Xiaolan, who was mending clothes by the light of a kerosene lamp, "Mom, do you know of any village that has lots of pigs and geese?"
Wang Xiaolan stopped what she was doing and asked curiously, "What's going on? Why are you asking about this? Don't we have five pigs in our village? Only the commune raises geese. I haven't heard of any in other villages raising geese. It would be great if we could raise them. My mother's family used to raise geese. One goose egg could be used to stir-fry a dish with chili peppers..."
Ye Zhiqiu scratched his head. His mother had no family. During the war, the whole family was killed by the Japanese invaders.
She fled here and was abducted by Lao Deng. They went to register their residence and initially lived in the city.
Later, after the founding of New China, land was distributed to Kaoshantun, and he settled down here.
They used to often talk about how they had to endure so much hardship in the city to take care of the two brothers. However, Ye Zhiqiu had no memories of those things and knew nothing about them.
"Mom, do you think it's possible for me to trade my rabbits for a pair of geese?"
"You wish! Nowadays, the number of poultry and livestock is recorded. Who would dare to trade with you? Unless they are from the black market and have collected geese from other places with loose regulations, no one would dare to trade..."
Wang Xiaolan's words woke Ye Zhiqiu up.
Yes! There's also a black market! It's just a bit far to walk to, about two hours...
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