"It's passed pretty quickly."

"Isn't that right? Most of the men in the village are back. I told my wife last night and of course the news spread the next day."

…

They chatted happily, and after the workers finished their work and weighed all the goods, Ye Yaodong asked Pei Dongqing to call Lin Xiuqing over to give him money.

After all the wages of the workers and the money of the boat bosses for dried fish have been settled, their finishing work has been completed.

Everyone went home happily for dinner.

Ye Yaodong and Lin Xiuqing also went home. "There are so many goods that we can't pile them up. We have to take them to the city to store them to prevent them from getting damaged by the rain. We just wrapped the house in nylon bags. The place here is too small."

"Are you going to the city tomorrow?"

"I'll see if I'm free tomorrow. If not, I'll do it the day after tomorrow. You can prepare the gift for me. I can just sail there in the next two days."

"Okay, this morning I also distributed some of the specialties you brought back here, and I also gave them to the village cadres."

"Um."

Halfway through their walk, a bunch of dogs came rattling from the door of the house and circled around them.

Ye Yaodong laughed, "Each one has a bell? Haha..."

Lin Xiuqing had a smile on her face and said, "It's so noisy. In the morning, after your daughter strung the bells, she went around catching dogs. After that, she caught chickens. There were chickens and dogs flying everywhere."

"What are you catching chickens for?"

"When there were bells left, she wanted to tie them around the chickens' necks, scaring the chickens to fly everywhere. I took the whip and she stopped."

"You have to tell her that you have to wait until the chickens are in the nest before catching them, so that they won't get mad. You have to reason with the child and don't use the whip at all times."

"You are so good at it. You come here to take care of her. She can stand and talk without pain in her back. You know how to make trouble day by day. You are even skinnier than her two brothers."

"Dad, dad..." Ye Xiaoxi rushed towards him happily.

Ye Yaodong quickly squatted down to catch it, "Have you finished eating?"

"After eating, dad, look and listen..."

She raised her two wrists and put them by his ears, jingling and shaking them.

Ye Yaodong's facial features immediately wrinkled up, it was so noisy!

Lin Xiuqing stood aside and looked at him with gloating to see how he could reason with the child.

"Does it sound good?"

"You'd better tie it to the chicken's neck, or tie it to its feet."

"I can't catch it, and my mother still scolds me, so I'll wear it myself."

"I'll ask your father to catch you later."

"Okay, okay."
Chapter completed!