Back To the Small Fishing Village In 1982

  Chapter 312 Slippers for sugar

  Ye Yaodong didn't even give him a look.

   "Hey... little uncle... how can you go back on your word? I am a guest! A guest! Do you know what a guest is?" Lin Guangyuan trotted beside him and looked up at him.

   "I know that you can do what you want, be honest with me, you are living under the fence now, do you understand?"

   "Why don't you live under the fence, I'm here as a guest, you have to take good care of me."

  Ye Yaodong bluntly gave him a slap in the face, "I've been thinking about playing all day long, and tomorrow I'll take you to the pier to carry goods, and make good money to honor your sister-in-law and uncle."

   "Ah... this is a bit too much... let's discuss it, little uncle, just go at night, and then I will be honest..."

   "Don't go so fast! Slow down...Little Uncle...Little Uncle...Let's just go once..."

   "Maybe there are a lot of goods, there are sandworms during the day, and there must be more at night...Today is fifteen..."

  Ye Yaodong paused, "Today is fifteen?"

   "Yes, today is fifteen!"

  He calculated silently in his heart, Ye Xiaoxi was born on the fifth day of March, isn't today the fifteenth day?

  Lin Guangyuan felt something was going on, and smiled obsequiously, "I heard that there will be a big tide on the 15th, little uncle..."

  Ye Yaodong glanced at him, "Children will grow taller if they sleep more. If you don't sleep in the middle of the night, sneak out and be careful that you will grow into a dwarf in the future."

   "It's okay, it won't affect my future marriage."

   "But it affects how to pick up girls and find rich women."

   "Huh? Damn, little uncle, so you are this kind of person..."

   "You buy me? If you buy me, I won't tell my sister..."

  Lin Guangyuan followed beside him and tried his best to persuade...

  Ye Yaodong spread his palms directly to cover his face, and pushed hard, "Shut your mouth, if you keep talking, I won't take you tonight!"

  Lin Guangyuan jumped three feet high in surprise in an instant, "Oh hoo~ soooo~"

   "I won't call you, go if you can get up, don't go if you can't get up."

   "I will definitely get up!"

  Lin Guangyuan rushed directly to the door of the house excitedly, and yelled to tell others the good news.

  Ye Yaodong didn't have time to stop him, he heard the children cheering happily from a distance, and then he was scolded all over his face.

  He stopped in his tracks for an instant, and couldn't move forward now...

   At this time, he will also be scolded when he goes back...

  For example, a person in his 20s is still like a child of a few years old, thinking about playing all day long, as if he hasn’t grown up, and going to the beach at night...

  Go to the beach, it’s late at night, the lights are dark, you can’t see anything, haven’t you been to the beach...

  Day by day, I love to toss around, and even bring a group of children to toss, I am too full...

  …

  He turned his head and went out again, preparing to go for a walk in the village. Anyway, with his parents at home, Ah Qing was not afraid that no one would take care of him.

  A simple and quiet fishing village, facing the sea and backed by green hills.

  The rainy season has just passed, and it is the time when hundreds of fish come ashore. The fishermen and women are busy preparing the nets for fishing, or they are in groups of three or four holding shuttles and quickly inserting them into the fishing nets.

  The open space on both sides of the road is also covered with mottled old fishing nets and floats. It is a completely different scene from drying fish in winter, but it is also a busy and thriving scene.

  The laughter of various children can be heard everywhere in the surrounding trails.

  Ye Yaodong was walking on the quiet alleyway, smoking and wandering blindly, only to hear the sound of thump, thump, thump, and hawking.

   "Maltose, maltose ~ broken for sugar ~"

   "Maltose, maltose ~ bought maltose ~"

As soon as he walked out of the intersection of the small road, he saw a group of children holding various old slippers in their hands, chasing a middle-aged man who was carrying a load, and there was a large piece of sugar in it. Shouting "trash for sugar"...

   Maltose comes in both solid and liquid forms, and the middle-aged people pick and sell the solid ones.

  The middle-aged man put down the pole with a smile on his face when he heard a group of children shouting behind him.

There was a large sugar cake on the wooden board of the sugar booth. The light yellow sugar cake was sprinkled with flour. The middle-aged man held a thin iron sheet in his left hand and a small hammer in his right hand. Maltose just knocked it off.

  The children were in a hurry, but the middle-aged man didn't care how anxious they were, he was doing all this without haste, and the children's saliva was about to flow down.

   After knocking down a small pile of malt candy, he exchanged the broken slippers in their hands with the children one by one.

   You can also use money or rice, but most adults are reluctant to do so. Children go home to collect old slippers or other rags.

   Ye Yaodong also smelled a faint smell of maltose when he approached, which is one of the children's favorite delicacy nowadays.

  He spent all his time watching the children licking them one by one after changing to maltose, with an extremely satisfied expression on his face. Thinking that he also had a bunch of children at home, he also patiently waited aside.

  Until all the children changed to candy, and after walking and licking in satisfaction, he also took out the coins in his pocket, all of which were worth one cent, two cents and five cents.

   "How much is one yuan?"

   "A penny."

Oh so cheap.

   "Give me ten dollars." He counted out ten cents and handed them to the sugar seller.

  The middle-aged man's face was full of smiles. It was rare to meet someone who was willing to spend money, and he bought so much at once. He knocked slowly, and gave Ye Yaodong an extra knock.

  Ye Yaodong took the maltose wrapped in old newspaper, thanked him, opened it, picked up a small one, stuffed it into his mouth, and ate it while walking.

   It was hard, and he rolled it in his mouth.

   After warming the mouth for a while, it softened a bit. It is chewy, sweet and delicious, and sticky to the teeth. The silky sweet feeling reaches the bottom of my heart.

   "I haven't eaten it for decades, and the maltose is still authentic at this time." He thought to himself.

   Slowly, he walked back the way he had traveled back and forth, and the gradually slanting sunset drew his shadow long...

   Before he reached the door of the house, he heard a lively noise from a distance. A group of children were there screaming and throwing sandbags, shouting that they had a few lives.

  After Ye Yaodong approached, he raised a small packet in his hand, "Do you want to eat maltose?"

   "Huh? Maltose?"

   "Maltose?"

   "Ah~ I ate maltose~"

  “I want~I want~”

   "I want to~"

   "Wait for me~ I want to..."

  A group of older and younger children gathered around excitedly. At this time, every family has limited conditions and little food, so no child can resist maltose.

   "Wow, there are so many, third uncle is so kind!"

  Ye Yaodong spread his hands with a smile, and asked them to take it by themselves, "One piece per person, don't take more."

   "Well, it's delicious and sweet!"

  Others nodded in agreement, sticking out their tongues to lick, and when it was a little soft, they took a bite and pulled out long strands.

   "I'll get the chopsticks!"

"I also want…"

  Ye Yaodong watched each of them hold a chopstick, rolled it around the chopstick and sucked it slowly, until their mouths were covered with white flour, enjoying the sweetness, and making fun of each other.

   A small piece of candy was eaten and played by them for a long time.

  He still has a piece left in his hand, but unfortunately Ye Xiaoxi has just been born and can’t eat it yet, and Ah Qing is also in confinement, so it seems he can’t eat it either.

   One piece was not enough for them to divide, otherwise it would be a fight, so he wrapped it up casually, put it back in his pocket, and went into the house.

   It's been a while since I saw Ye Xiaoxi. This little doll really changes every day, which is rare.

   As soon as I entered the house, I saw his mother and the old lady coming out of the house, "Are you back? Where did you die again? They were sent away and disappeared."

  Ye Yaodong laughed, "Walking around with nothing to do."

  He took out his pocket again and handed the old lady the leftover malt candy, "Malt candy, I just bought it, sweet mouth."

  The old lady smiled and showed her gums, "I won't eat it, you can eat it yourself."

   "I just ate a piece, and the group of children at the door have it too, and there is one piece left, you have a sweet mouth." He stuffed it into the old lady's pocket without any explanation.

The old lady put her hand in her pocket, touched it but didn't take it out, she just smiled more happily, "Spend less money, it's not easy for you to earn some money, and I haven't gone to sea recently, or let your mother come over to play at night." Ground floor, you and your father are going to sea, I heard that there are a lot of goods recently."

  Mother Ye also nodded, "The two children are afraid of noise, so they sleep in the same room now, you go to accompany them, spread out the straw mats and make a bed on the floor, and I will sleep in Aqing's room and take care of them by the way."

  Ye Yaodong thought about it, and thought it was okay. Lin Guangyuan shared a bed with the two boys, and he made a bunk on the floor, and he only persisted for a few days.

   "Okay, then wait until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow to go to sea."

   "How many kids do you want to take to the beach at night?" Mother Ye frowned.

  He laughed and said: "A Yuan has been pestering him all the time, let's take him to the beach for a stroll at night, the others will definitely not get up, and I didn't expect to bring so many, who knew he had such a big mouth."

   "What are you going to do? You can't play during the day? You have to go at night, you're too full, and you're not afraid of danger..."

   "He stayed here to play on purpose. I didn't want to satisfy him, so I took him out to play for a while. He's so old, I know how powerful he is."

  The old lady warned: "Be careful, watch over other people's children, don't let anything happen, you won't be able to afford it."

   "Don't worry, go when the tide is low, you won't go into the water." It's not just swimming, just catching the sea, he can still see it.

  Mother Ye didn't bother to care about it, so she just went out out of sight. She had to start preparing dinner again, and she had to pluck some spinach.

  When night fell, the children reluctantly went back to the house to sleep. Before they separated, they all told each other that if anyone woke up at night, remember to call out.

   As a result, they were all scolded without any surprises, but they were all rough-skinned and thick-skinned. It didn't matter whether they were scolded or not.

  Ye Chenghai even deliberately grabbed Lin Guangyuan and whispered, remember to call him...

  In just one day, they have established a revolutionary friendship!

  (end of this chapter)