But as soon as he got home, he had to get back to work.
In the hour or so he had spent at the Old House, Lin Xiuqing had already washed all the radishes they had dug up that morning. Basket after basket sat there, and she had taken an enormous basin and set a shredder over it. There were already some shredded radishes inside.
"You washed them all already? Can't you take a break?"
"I wanted to get it all done while the weather's good. Once they're shredded, half a day in the sun today and a whole day tomorrow, and we can put them away. The toadfish have all dried and been put away, so the bamboo trays are free. After lunch, I'll scrub them, and they'll be just right for drying the shredded radishes."
"Were you also thinking you should get more work out of me while I'm not going out to sea these two days?"
"As long as you know!"
Ye Yaodong waved her away helplessly. "Go on, go on. I'll do it. Hurry up and cook. I'm starving."
Lin Xiuqing stood up with a smile and handed the work over to him. The two children beside them also cried excitedly, "Roasted sweet potatoes! Roasted sweet potatoes! Mum, hurry up and roast the sweet potatoes..."
They had been squatting there waiting for ages. At last, they could roast sweet potatoes.
"Then go mix some mud yourselves. Stir it with a stick, roll up your sleeves, and don't get any mud on yourselves."
"Okay!" Ye Chenghu dashed into the field like a gust of wind, with Ye Chengyang right behind him.
Ye Yaodong only glanced up before continuing to shred the radishes, leaving them alone. It was only mixing some mud. Who couldn't do that?
Before long,