After eating his fill, Ye Yaodong had nothing to do, so he went to take a nap.
In the depths of winter, nothing was more comfortable than being under the covers.
He did not wake until after four in the afternoon, when A Qing woke him.
"Mrs. Zhou next door and her family kept quite a bit of fish a day earlier than everyone else. She just came over and told me it's dry now, and they'd like to weigh this first batch."
"Huh? What's the rush?" Ye Yaodong sat up, still bleary-eyed. "I can just go around collecting it from everyone tomorrow."
"Maybe there's so much that they're feeling uncertain and uneasy, and they want to sell us whatever's ready first."
She knew pretty much what these women were thinking. They all wanted to sell early and get the money in their hands sooner.
Whenever they had nothing to do, everyone liked to drop by the two sisters-in-law's houses next door for a chat. Only her house had dogs, which made visiting inconvenient.
Otherwise, they would be sitting at her house every day, chatting and listening to the radio. There was so little entertainment in the countryside.
She occasionally went over for a chat when she had nothing to do, but besides gossip, all she heard were roundabout questions about whether they would still be buying after the New Year, and whether they would buy more going forward.
Some even asked whether they would move to the city once the shop there was handed over. Would they sell their boat and take the whole family to enjoy life in the city?
Those questions nearly made her laugh herself to death. Fortunately, they had fenced in their home and had the dogs there.
Otherwise, with their family buying dried fish