To celebrate Ye Yaodong's impending purchase of a big boat, the guys drank to their hearts' content. The rice wine wasn't weak either, with an alcohol content in the teens, and they gulped it down in great mouthfuls.
Several times, Lin Xiuqing wanted to remind Ye Yaodong to wrap things up and go to bed early. He still had to leave during the night to deliver the goods.
But they were all in such high spirits that she held back. Only when it was almost nine, with their faces flushed red and their speech slurred, did she have to speak up.
"It's late. You should call it a night. You might all have work tomorrow, so go home and get some sleep. A-Dong has to get the goods to the city by six or seven tomorrow morning, which means leaving at two or three. Shall we leave it here for today?"
"Ah! Right, Dongzi still has deliveries tomorrow. Then that's it, that's it. Let's call it a night."
"Okay, okay, we're done, we're done. Everyone go home."
"Let's head home, then. That's it for today..."
Seeing them stagger around on the verge of falling over, Lin Xiuqing simply went next door to get Ye Eldest Brother and Second Older Brother Ye to walk the three of them home, so they wouldn't fall along the way. In weather this cold, they would suffer if they collapsed by the roadside and froze there all night.
Ye Yaodong had already felt his way back to the bedroom himself, and snores were drifting out.
She shook her head, cleared the mess off the table, then picked up the child from the standing cage and went back to the bedroom.
But as she was undressing, she saw Ye Xiaoxi climb onto Ye Yaodong and keep