Chapter 258 Picking Shrimp Skins

  After the villagers asked how to do it, they happily ran around and told each other.

The cart was also parked again in the open space of the grain drying field. The villagers who had been waiting with the small stools and the round dustpans immediately surrounded them when they saw it, for fear that there would be no goods for them if they were too late. picked.

  Ye Yaodong also looked at it, and planned to go to the old house and tell his mother. Usually, his mother is responsible for such things.

   Unexpectedly, in the middle of the walk, he saw his mother and his younger sister, each holding a bench and a round winnow, running in a hurry.

   The news is really well-informed!

   "What's the rush? What about the big cart of shrimp skins, the whole village can pick one day."

   "I'm afraid there will be no room if I go late. Since you are free, go and call your sister-in-law and second sister-in-law. Otherwise, they will be far away and no one will talk about it."

  Mother Ye ran away in a hurry without waiting for his answer.

  He shook his head, so he had no choice but to go home and tell his two sister-in-laws. Unexpectedly, his wife was also quite moved.

   "I'll go too, it won't be tiring to sit there and choose..."

  Ye Yaodong looked at her quietly, and was glared at by her, "I can't see it, why are you like this? I haven't seen you so nervous before the first two."

   "That's different. Last night when you stood up, your eyes were dark and you almost fell. Forgot?"

"I can't sit down, I'll be more careful," she said while looking for a round winnow, and whispered, "Some people still go to the mountains to cut firewood for seven or eight months of pregnancy, and I'm only four months old." , the belly is only a little bit, wrapped in a padded jacket, who can see..."

  She rambled on for a while, then took the bench and was ready to go out, Ye Yaodong had no choice but to go up and help her carry it, "Then choose it for a while and come back."

"Uh-huh."

  Children are also like little tails, running ahead and jumping up and down.

   When I ran to the grain drying field, my good fellow, it was already densely packed with people, basically all the women and old people in the village and some half-grown children were picking. There were very few young and middle-aged people, and most of them went to work.

  In the arena, everyone had a round dustpan on their knees, either holding a ladle or a small basket in their hands, and fiddled with shrimp skins with the other hand.

  Some people pick it up with both hands, put it in the corner of the dustpan, and wait a while to grab it and put it into the water ladle.

   At this moment, the truck driver glared at a woman, "Take out all the shrimp skins in your pocket, I won't pick them for you, take these small fish and weigh them, you can go."

   "Ah...I...I didn't..."

"I've seen you grab a lot of shrimp skins and put them in your pocket. I'm asking you to pick them out, not to eat them. Just taste a couple of them and stuff them in your pockets. Take them out and put them in your basket. Take the small miscellaneous fish to weigh it, I don’t need you.”

  The woman was revealed to be hiding in public, and her face turned red instantly. They were all from the same village. No one knew anyone, and she felt ashamed in an instant...

The other people who also put it in their pockets were also a little embarrassed and quietly took it out. If they were caught, they would lose face and become a talking point for everyone in the village. Not everyone can be cheeky. not give a **** about.

  She blushed in embarrassment, listening to other people whispering there, and her mother-in-law cursed and said that she was embarrassing. She couldn't bear it, didn't take anything, and ran away embarrassingly covering her face with her hands.

  The truck driver shouted at everyone again, "You are not allowed to steal or eat, take out all the shrimp skins in your pockets, otherwise, if you find out, you will have to pay for it..."

  The crowd became honest now, and they all looked for opportunities to take out the shrimp skins in their pockets, and some people didn't dare to move their cheeks anymore.

  When I first came here, I watched a lively scene, and Ye Yaodong also said to Lin Xiuqing: "Shrimp skin supplement calcium, wait a while, let's buy some back."

  Lin Xiuqing nodded, and also grabbed his son who was about to reach out his hand to Mother Ye, "You are not allowed to eat it now, you can eat it after you buy it, or you will be treated as a thief and cut off your hand, are you afraid?"

   "But other people..."

  Mother Ye quietly took a small amount and stuffed it into Ye Chenghu's mouth, and he immediately started chewing...

   The couple frowned suddenly. When teaching their children, they were most afraid of such pig teammates.

At this time, the driver of the cart shouted again: "Adults should also take care of their children, otherwise they will deduct money when they are counted. We have two people patrolling, and we will remember which one of you stole food. If this happens again , we're leaving, we won't be picked..."

   Immediately, the scolding and the crying of the children rang out at the same time...

  Lin Xiuqing couldn’t say anything about Ye’s mother, so she could only stare at her eldest son, “Did you see that? You can’t eat other people’s food. Everything costs money. You can only eat it when your parents buy it.”

"Oh well."

  Ye Chengyang didn't eat it, and he didn't dare to stretch out his hand, so he could only watch helplessly. After calling him father, he called mother again, and after calling him grandma, everyone knew that he was greedy with his salivating appearance.

  Ye Yaodong patted his head, "I'll go buy some for you, follow me."

  The driver of the cart did not expect that there are still people who are so good at it, and are willing to take the initiative to pay for it instead of stealing it, and are also happy to weigh the goods.

   After Ye Yaodong filled the two children's pockets with shrimp skins, he also took out two cigarettes and started talking with him.

   It turned out that this cart of shrimp skins was brought back from Shenjiamen by a fishing boat, and several carts were also taken to nearby villages to be picked. There were too many impurities and small fish in it, and they needed to be picked before they could be packed.

  Thinking that in his previous life Ah Guang went to Shenjiamen with his father to engage in shrimp skins, and only made some money after changing his name in his forties, he couldn't help but pulled out two cigarettes and chatted with the driver.

   "Shenjiamen waters are flooded with shrimp skins, but our fishing boats are small and can only fish offshore, so the output is not high, the efficiency is poor, and there is no equipment. Fresh shrimps can't be put in the boat to dry directly, so it's so-so..."

   Ah Guang also came over at this time, and when he heard this, he smiled and said: "Trawling nets at home is also very good. My father wanted to go to Shenjiamen with his friends a few months ago, but luckily he didn't."

  Hmph... You won't be my brother-in-law anymore, you can only be a middle-aged widower.

   "Why didn't you go to sea today?"

   "The machine broke down, so I had to hurry back halfway through the drive, and I just had a two-day rest."

   After chatting for a few words, the two also went to help pick shrimp skins. Ye Yaodong helped his wife pick them, and Ah Guang helped Ye Huimei pick them of course.

  It’s just that not long after the previous farce ended, the children running around saw that Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang’s pockets were full of shrimp skins, and they also ran to tell the adults at home that their pockets were full of shrimp skins, and they wanted them too.

  The adults were too noisy, so they quietly grabbed a handful of their pockets, thinking that if others can do it, so can they.

   Who knew he was caught on the spot again.

   "You weigh the small dried fish in the bag, I don't want you to do it."

   "Why, they can fill the pockets of children, so they can't do it."

  Ye Yaodong listened to the noise, looked up, and saw Awei's wife pointing at them with her index finger, talking with her neck stuck.

   They all belong to the Xu family, no wonder they can be cheeky when they are caught, and bite others with confidence.

   "Because they bought it by themselves, take out the shrimp skin in the child's pocket, weigh the groceries and you can go, and you are not needed."

"How can it be…"

   "How is it impossible? Do you think everyone loves to take advantage so much? People buy it with their own money, go and go, and don't need to weigh it. These small miscellaneous fish are worth what you just ate, and what is in the pocket of the child."

  Awei's wife was a little unconvinced, and wanted to argue with reason, but Awei stopped her by yelling at her. He felt it was too embarrassing.

  Awei’s wife didn’t feel it at all, she shook off his hand, packed her things there, and cursed, “It’s all your friend, it’s all about filling the child’s pocket with shrimp skins to tempt people, it’s too much money to burn…”

"Shut up…"

  His wife was holding a dustpan and a stool in her hand, and while walking, she turned her head and gave Ye Yaodong and his wife a hard look.

  Ye Yaodong watched from a distance, and cursed, "I am happy to ride a horse."

  Lin Xiuqing tugged at his sleeve, "Leave him alone."

  Being in vain added a layer of blockage to his heart, and he was so depressed that he went directly to the driver for advice.

"You can't stop them from stealing. I suggest you take back all the shrimp skins first, and then weigh ten catties each. After picking, the shrimp skins and the small fish will be weighed together. If the total is not ten catties , The missing taels will be directly deducted from the wages, and the quantity can be repeated in the book."

  The driver's eyes immediately lit up when he heard the words, "That's good, save me from staring at them all the time."

  After Ye Yaodong returned to his original position, not long after, the two of them discussed it and asked everyone to weigh it, and then implemented it according to his method.

   Now, no one dares to steal too much, and it will save trouble once and for all.

   Occasionally, I can hear some beating and scolding, and the sound of children crying.

  Ye Yaodong chatted with Ah Guang, and thought it was quite interesting. After sitting like this for two or three hours, the couple picked a lot. When they came home at noon, they weighed 60 cents.

This job can't make a lot of money, it can only be said to be fun, but for the women and old people in the village, it's pretty good and easy, after all, weaving nets can't make a dollar a day, and you can steal a few bites, the problem not big.

  After lunch, Lin Xiuqing went to pick out shrimp skins again. Ye Yaodong turned over the dried fish and planned to go out to sea to collect the cages. In the morning, the tide was low, but in the afternoon, the tide just arrived, so he could go out to sea.

  Since he collected it once before the earthquake, he didn't collect it after the earthquake.

  The night he killed the toadfish, he told his elder brother and second brother to collect it for him when he came back, but they came back late the next day, so they didn't collect it.

  Yesterday, when he came back to collect it, he said he couldn’t find it. He was a little puzzled for a moment, it must be gone, and he planned to go out and have a look by himself when the tide came up in the afternoon.

  (end of this chapter)