Lin Xiuqing had already dug out the cloth bag when she was packing his luggage. Knowing that there was money inside, she didn't open it in front of everyone.

It’s better not to expose money, especially in front of outsiders.

Although this bag looks like a small amount of money, there are not many people who can easily take out thousands of dollars now.

She counted 300 yuan and gave it to Ye's mother, and asked Ye Yaodong, "Why is it so little? There seems to be only one or two thousand yuan left here."

"I paid two to three thousand as salary, and brought back a batch of lighters, so there is less. When I take the time tomorrow to transport this batch of lighters to the city and sell them, I can cash them in again."

"Are they easy to sell? How much did you pay for those lighters? It seems like a lot."

"Well, you should collect the rest of the money first."

Lin Xiuqing saw that he didn't mean to say anything, so she didn't ask any more questions. She planned to wait until she returned to her room and talk about it carefully then.

Mother Ye took 300 yuan in her hand and finished counting it.

"Although the salary is 4.5 yuan a day, it still doesn't cost 300 yuan in a month and a half. It's too much, so I'll give you 100 yuan and let Ah Qing keep it."

"No need, dad is not someone else. I originally planned to give more."

"No, it's not necessary. We are eating and drinking at your house now. There is no other place to spend money. I still have a salary, and he also has a salary. We can't spend all the money at all, and there is no need to give more. No matter how much you pay, it doesn't matter.

Just give him the math."

Ye Mu drew a large number of 10 cards and handed them directly to Lin Xiuqing.

Lin Xiuqing pushed it over again, "Take it, mother, it all depends on father's help, otherwise how can A Dong do all the work on his own? How can outsiders be as reliable as their own father, so it's right to give him more."

"No, give us the extra. When we get old, we will share it with you. It's all from you, so keep it. No matter how much you give us, we have no place to spend it. The money we have now is enough

We are taking care of ourselves.”

Although Mother Ye usually likes to show off and save face, talks a lot, and has a bad temper, she has a clear mind and is not a fool.

The old lady also had a smile on her face. Mother Ye spoke from the bottom of her heart.

"Yes, they are all eating from you and drinking from you. If you give them so much money, they have no place to spend it. You might as well keep it. Dongzi's stall is getting bigger and bigger, and there is no place to spend money.

There is still a lot of money, what can the two old people spend?"

Lin Xiuqing glanced at Ye Yaodong who was silent, then smiled and put the money away.

"Okay, I'll put it away first. Anyway, my parents are eating and drinking with us now, and we will definitely support you in your old age in the future."

"It won't be a problem for the two of us to support ourselves in the future."

Father Ye interrupted, "Okay, I got my salary and luggage and went back. Let's go back and have a rest. I'm exhausted. I didn't sleep much on the boat."

"Remember to come over for dinner later. It's late today. I only have enough time to stew a chicken. Let's stew the duck with herbs tomorrow night. I'll also give you two a good tonic. You guys are so skinny and dark.

My eyes are blue, go back to the house and lie down to sleep..."

Father Ye glanced at the old lady who didn't even raise her eyes to look at him. Although she told him to come over for dinner in the evening and kill the chicken for nourishment, he kept smiling at Ye Yaodong and pushed him into the house.

He shook his head and followed Ye Mu back first.

Ye Yaodong stood motionless, saying only that he needed to take a shower first.

Lin Xiuqing saw that everyone had left, except for the old lady and Ye Xiaoxi, and then she asked him.

"You said before that it was because you were arrested again this time, so you came back immediately after being released..."

"What? What... what got caught?" The old lady looked at Lin Xiuqing in astonishment.

Lin Xiuqing glanced at the old lady, did not answer, and continued to ask: "What's the reason? There were so many people just now, and dad kept hiding him, but now there are no outsiders."

"Fang Jingfu's workshop workers exceeded the limit. They didn't know whether the limit was 5 or 8, but there were thirty or forty people in his workshop, which was seriously over the limit. People who were staring at him reported him for engaging in capitalism. The weather happened to be bad that day. Everyone

They didn’t even go to sea, so they just helped assemble them in the workshop to earn wages, and then they were all picked up together.”

The old lady quickly touched his arm and groped up and down, "Caught again? Oops, what happened this year? Why do you two always have this happen to you? Is that okay? Have you suffered any hardships in there? This is also true.

It’s so unlucky. I told you that there should be a brazier at home to collapse when you come in..."

"I'm fine. I didn't go in. Everyone was caught. I didn't go in..."

"Is it because of your status as President Ye?"

Ye Yaodong was very proud, "It's almost half of this reason, plus I really didn't participate. The workshop was rented to him, not my workshop."

When the old lady heard that he was fine and had not been arrested, she was relieved. At the same time, she stabbed the ground heavily with her crutch and said angrily.

"I just said that when I asked you a question at the door, your father just replied in so many words. It turned out that he had something secret in his heart, so he didn't dare to let me ask, and he kept talking back."

"I'm so promising. I really thought it was because I talked too much. I was afraid that it would be too hard for him to come back and annoy him. I didn't dare to ask more questions or nag in front of you."

"The old guy was afraid of being embarrassed, so he didn't mention a word when he came back. He got angry when others mentioned it, and even yelled at me."

He coughed dryly and said, "This is the second time that my father is so proud. Of course I don't want to say it. It's not an honorable thing at my age. This matter is nothing anyway. I have been implicated and I am not here."

He spent the night inside. He caught it in the morning and released it in the evening, so don’t mention it and just uncover it.”

"So many people have been arrested. Why don't you tell your family when you come back? The whole village will know about it tomorrow."

"Then at least if they talk about it behind the scenes, he can pretend that he doesn't know. After all, he is Chairman Ye's father when he goes out, so he doesn't have to expose his fig leaf like this."

The old lady shook her head, "It's up to you to give him a good face, otherwise he wouldn't be as good as he is now. It's windy when the couple goes out and they probably won't be able to reach home for a long time, and they have to turn back for dinner halfway."

Lin Xiuqing couldn't help but laugh, "Although it was mostly Adong who earned face for my parents, my father also suffered because of Adong. Otherwise, how could he have been in the police if he had lived to this age in his life?

Bureau."

"Fortunately, Dongzi earned another official position this time and came back to give him face. Otherwise, he would have lost face when he walked out."

"There's nothing embarrassing about this. It's just asking for questioning. It's normal. It's the second time. It's familiar once and it's familiar again. It's nothing."

If you wait too many times, won’t it be like your own vegetable patch?

When I come back, I can brag about how many times I have been in and out of the public security bureau...

He didn't dare to say these two sentences. No matter how much the old lady loved him, she would give him a stick.

But as long as he didn't break the law, it doesn't matter if he's caught. At most, if he asks a question, if it matters, he can be released casually.

"What happens once is born twice, and it can be applied here? That's nonsense." The old lady glared at him angrily, and then said with a smile, "You two talk first, I will go to the room to light up the incense.

I burn three sticks of incense in the morning and evening. The evening incense has not yet been put on, so I can tell the Bodhisattva something. After I have finished speaking to the Bodhisattva, I have to go to the Mazu Temple and speak to Mazu."

"You believe so much."

"There is no conflict. The more you believe, the more gods and Buddhas will bless you. You will have to kill the chicken later, so burn the incense first, otherwise it will be stained with blood later." The old lady said as she went into the house.

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Ye Yaodong also went to fetch water and took a bath first. He would talk slowly after taking a bath later. He had not yet found out about the family affairs.

Ye Xiaoxi also ran into the house holding her toys, planning to hide them.

Lin Xiuqing first threw his dirty clothes into the basin, put away the password box, and then came out to clean up the dishes and continue preparing dinner.

The lively commotion in the family just ended, but it became quiet for a while. After the two children, Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang, ran back, the house became lively again.

As soon as the two children entered the village, they knew that their father was back and they were immediately excited. However, Ye Chengyang had to chase sheep and had no way to run. They could only watch Ye Chenghu disappear.

Before Ye Chenghu came home, he was already running and shouting at the door, "Dad, dad..."

As soon as he ran into the house, the military green hat he was wearing fell to the ground.

"Dad, you are finally back!"

"Where did the hat come from? It fell to the ground. Pick it up quickly."

"Dad, when did you come back?" he said as his eyes wandered around, looking for him all over the house.

"Just got back."

"Dad, have you bought me a gift?"

Ye Xiaoxi immediately poked his head out of the room and shouted loudly: "No!"

"How is it possible? Did you take everything?" Ye Chenghu didn't even have time to put down his satchel, so he immediately ran to the master bedroom?

"Sister, what did dad buy? Tell me, let's not tell Yangyang..."

Poor Ye Chengyang was still driving the sheep on the way, feeling very anxious.

After finally running back, I started crying even before I wiped off the sweat.

"Woo woo woo, I don't want to herd sheep, I don't want to herd sheep..."

Ye Yaodong looked at him standing at the door and cried loudly. He hadn't seen him for a long time, and was overflowing with rare fatherly love. He went over to hold his hand and walked into the house.

"Why are you crying?"

"I drove the sheep to school to wait for my brother to finish school, but when he heard you came back, he immediately left me and ran away. I don't want to herd the sheep anymore."

As he cried, he wiped his tears with the back of his hand.

Ye Yaodong cried so pitifully that he felt distressed again and took 5 cents out of his pocket and handed it to him.

"Stop crying, go buy some sweets later and don't share them with your brother."

Ye Chengyang took the coin and stopped crying.

"Ye Chenghu, Ye Chenghu, come out, take out the toys and share them. Don't take them all to yourself. You have to share them between three people, or I won't bring them to you next time."

Lin Xiuqing was beside her with a headache. "At night, I cry one way or the other, so I can be quiet during the day."

Seeing that there was no movement in the room, Ye Yaodong took Ye Chengyang back to the room, and then began to distribute toys to the three children, do some ideological work for them, and tell them which toys were fun.

We have to give them a fair share, at least the two older ones should be fairer, otherwise they will start fighting again in a few minutes, and the younger one is not very sensible yet, so he can still fool him.

Let them take turns to choose and divide them as fairly as possible, so that the three of them can be satisfied. But in the final analysis, Ye Xiaoxi is the one who suffers the most because she is young and ignorant.

After dealing with the big issue of dividing toys among the three children, he took some time to go outside to talk to Lin Xiuqing. It happened that there was no one in the main room, only the two of them, so he told her everything that happened outside during this period.

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He even told her about Fang Jingfu's desire to join the lighter gang, and by the way, he also told her that he also wanted to join the gang.

"I think it can be done. Anyway, we just keep our money. We can invest some of it. But what happened before he came back, I think his character should be okay."

In fact, the time of acquaintance was too short, otherwise he would not be so hesitant.

Lin Xiuqing looked confused after hearing this, "Can you believe it? We've only known each other for a few days, and you're going to spend tens of thousands to invest in someone else. Will it be wasted? Otherwise, you should just buy a boat."

Ye Yaodong was delighted, "I told you before that I wanted to buy a boat, and I was so talkative, but now you're begging me to buy it?"

"That's different. You have to spend tens of thousands of dollars to invest in someone else's workshop. The person is not there yet. The key is that you haven't known them for a long time. I always feel uneasy. If that's the case, then I'm not as good as you.

Use the money to buy boats, you can buy a bunch of them, at least you can still see them."

"It's not like this. When you invest, no one is there, you don't see anything, and you don't know if you will be cheated. Isn't what happened to Brother Ahong in the past two years a lesson? None of my relatives can be trusted.

An outsider I’ve only known for a few days…”

Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows and said, "You are wrong. Brother Hong is invisible and intangible. He only relies on his mouth to deceive relatives and friends, but strangers cannot deceive him. And this lighter workshop is in our house. Look,

It’s something that can be seen. If we form a partnership like this, we will definitely have to hire someone to keep accounts, and we will have to send one of our own people to do the work.”

"Sometimes cooperation without relatives is more sustainable, and the fear is that relatives will get involved. Fang Jingfu is a talkative person, which means he is good at socializing. The key is that he still has connections in the local area. He will definitely become bigger and stronger.

of."

"It doesn't matter whether we will be kicked out in the future. Anyway, if we invest in the early stage, we will definitely not be afraid. By the way, we can still sell the goods and make a little money here. What is produced in our own workshop is not called speculation."

"Ah yes!"

Lin Xiuqing suddenly thought of something, and took two quick steps to him while holding the spatula, "The person who was in his thirties or forties was reported, there can't be more than a few? In our workshop, when the fish is dried and the fish sauce is fermented,

, sometimes we need so many people, will it happen then..."

"No, we are in the village, and the village committee is on top. If we come to check, the village committee will also speak for us. And ours is not long-term. We are all temporarily called here to help, and we will ask for it on a regular basis.

Those are not more than the number of people. The ship will be the ship, and the workshop will be the workshop, so don’t worry."

Hearing what he said, she felt relieved.

I just heard him say that he was arrested because the lighter workshop exceeded the number of people, and my heart was already pounding, but the old lady changed the subject.

"That's fine. If you say it's fine, then it should be fine."

"Yeah. So I think it's feasible to invest in lighters. Let's give it a try with tens of thousands of dollars."

Lin Xiuqing was confused, "Is it really possible? I don't understand this either. I just worry that no one is there to watch. I don't know anything. The accounts are also done by others."

"Then if I invest in it, I will definitely have to hire someone to do the accounting. It's not that easy to make fake accounts. The incoming and outgoing goods have to be correct. When the time comes, the boy at home will bring someone over to do the work."

"Wait until you sell the lighters you have first?"

"That's what I thought. I wasn't in such a hurry originally. Something happened. I'll come back early and sell the goods first. Now I'm just letting you know in advance, otherwise you have to say I'll kill it first and tell you later."

"You can't do it until you kill it first. The money is in my hand." Lin Xiuqing glanced at him, walked to the stove, and continued cooking.

"Yes, yes, you have to apply to the head of the family, and I can only do it if approved."

"That lighter only costs more than one yuan, but it can be sold for 8 yuan. Isn't this too profitable?"

"Youyi stores sell them for a few hundred yuan, but they are branded and more beautiful than this one. What things are hard to sell these days, and what things are not profitable? They are all huge profits."

"You'd better sell those 2,000 items first. There are so many, and I don't know how long it will take to sell them."

"I'll take him to the city tomorrow."

She nodded and didn't say anything. Anyway, she had already bought it, so let's wait until it was sold out, not to mention the huge profits. She was also looking forward to seeing how much money she could make when it was sold out.

Ye Yaodong took a pair of chopsticks and looked at the freshly fried vegetables. He also poured himself a glass of wine and drank and ate at the same time. It was time to eat again. It was impossible to ask him to lie down and sleep. There was no need to sleep at night now.

, and he didn’t even finish asking.

"Have you not been at home during this period? Did anything happen in the village? Before I left, wasn't that group of people in that town making trouble in two nearby villages?"

Lin Xiuqing suddenly became excited again and stopped putting the food in the pot.

"Don't tell me. This incident has caused a lot of trouble after you left. People have died. Several people have died. It hasn't completely subsided yet."

Ye Yaodong paused for a moment when he picked up the chopsticks, extremely surprised.

"One of the people here is the brother-in-law of your friend Azheng, and the other is a relative of Uncle Zheng. On the second day after you left, a large group of people came from the town to go to Dongqiao Village and Daqingshan Village.

At that time, I even went to the entrance of the village to take a look, and there were really hundreds of people there, more than when I came to our village to ask for your help."

"I also went to see it with everyone. That large group of people was divided into two groups. One group went to Dongqiao Village and the other group went to Daqingshan Village. The two groups started fighting in two villages."

"Fortunately, as soon as they started fighting, the border guard station in the town behind was dispatched. No one was killed, but several were seriously injured. It is estimated that during that time, a lot of people were sentenced to death outside, and the families of those people probably

The commotion lasted for a long time, and the border guards were keeping an eye on it, so they were able to react so quickly."

"However, because of the collective riot, there were too many people, and there was no way to arrest them all. If there were no dead people, they could only let the respective village cadres negotiate and appease them, and the troops would help to intimidate them."

"The commotion continued for two more days. Azheng's brother-in-law couldn't bear it anymore and handed over the boat. After he handed over the boat, the group of people in the town rioted again. Everyone who had an accident at home said that the boat was

No one among them would give in to each other, and then they started fighting among themselves."

"At that time, a large group of people were led to the beach to identify the boat, and then because of the quarrel and fighting, many people fell into the sea. This was considered a good thing, they just fell into the water. Some people were pushed and fell on the shore.

On the reef, the head was bleeding a lot, and two more people were killed. Because it was on the shore, they were fished out directly, but it was too late to send them to the hospital."

"Our rocks are covered with all kinds of shells, which are very sharp. Not to mention falling on them, if you accidentally scratch them with your hands, you will get a cut. If you hit your head on them, you will get several cuts. It will cause chaos again.

Who cares if it falls?"

Listening to her description, Ye Yaodong could imagine the tragic scene, with a large group of people beating him to death.

It's really miserable.

The people are gone, the money is gone, and there is hope of a boat in front of me, so I will try to fight for it no matter what.

"Also, there were troops holding guns behind them. They fired several shots into the sky at the pier to calm down those who were fighting to death. However, just this fight also took away a bunch of people.

All tied up."

He frowned and said, "Are you always looking behind me?"

"No, it was too chaotic. I didn't dare to get close. Except for the first day when I followed them to take a look, I just listened to what others said and didn't dare to get close. The fight on the pier was the only one in the village.

The man went to take a look and came back and said it was too miserable."

"Then, Uncle Zheng's relatives heard about the commotion on the pier over there, and they were scared. They wanted to hand over the boat the next day. But early in the morning, an old lady went directly to the door of Uncle Zheng's relatives' house and drank pesticide.

I drank it to death immediately, and everyone was scared to death."

"It was very noisy at that time. There were a lot of people coming and going every day, and the gunshots from the troops rang out frequently every day. It was so chaotic.

Ye Yaodong was shocked, "Drinking pesticides in front of Uncle Zheng's relatives' house?"

"Yes, I heard that her grandson died and her son was sentenced. She won't be able to see her until she dies of old age. Another son died yesterday, so she doesn't live anymore."

Lin Xiuqing couldn't help but sigh when she talked about it. That period was truly the most tragic time for several villages.

"Fortunately, the boat we bought was from the local area, and everyone knew it. At that time, these people came to our door and just begged you for help. Fortunately, we handed it over to the border control station."

Ye Yaodong felt too miserable when he heard this. "When they came to ask us for help in the morning, they still had hope, so their mood was pretty good. Later, the border defense station shattered their hopes. When they heard about the ship, they took it again.

I took this as a life-saving straw, and I couldn’t control my emotions at that time.”

"Who says it's not the case? There was hope at first, but it all came to nothing. The life-saving straw is gone. It's easier to be incited when you're emotionally unstable."

"Then what?"

"Later, his relatives went bankrupt again, and there was nothing they could do if they died on the doorstep of their home. Although it was unlucky, the person was already dead, and he still died on the doorstep of his own home, so he was still being blamed. The village cadres of his village helped talk to the old man's family.

After some negotiation, we paid a sum of money and the family moved out the next day."

"Moved?"

"Yes, with such a commotion, he is also afraid that someone will imitate him, and another old man will drink pesticide at his door. After all, some old people really don't have a few years to live, and they will die by taking the opportunity, and they can still give money to their families.

The child wants a compensation so that the family can live on."

Ye Yaodong was speechless. This was really possible.

"Where did you move to? My family is all there."

"I heard that I have moved back to my hometown in the mountains. I went to the mountains to escape the limelight, but I haven't come back yet."

"What happened next? How to solve it? Where are the two boats?"

"The two boats were taken over by the Border Guard and driven away. On the second day after the fight at the pier, the old man drank pesticide again. The Border Guard immediately sent people with guns to guard the entrances of the two villages that day, and then took the two boats away.

The boat left for fear that the same thing would happen again."

"Why did you go so early? After the fight and people died, we found out about the village where people were sent to guard..."

Lin Xiuqing said: "How can you be taken seriously if you don't fight to death? It only lasted three days from the time the trouble started to the time someone died. The first two days were quite vigilant. A large group of people came to the village, and then the police came to mediate."

.We sent troops again on the second day, and only after the fighting started on the third day did we realize how powerful it was. On the fourth day, we immediately sent people to the village to guard the village, but the old man was sitting in front of Uncle Zheng’s relative’s house before dawn in the early morning.”

"There were soldiers with guns guarding those two villages for the whole month, and they were only removed before the Mid-Autumn Festival."

Ye Yaodong sighed, "It's really unlucky. Fortunately, I said at that time that the boats of the people in the town cannot be touched. There are no airtight walls. A lot of people are watching. As long as you buy it, everyone will know. Change your appearance."

It’s no use either.”

"Yes, the second brother has been rejoicing in the past few days. He keeps saying that it's a good thing you stopped him from buying it, otherwise he would be the unlucky one."

"It stopped later?"

"Several people died. Later I heard that a large number of people were arrested, and the riot went to the front door of the border guard station. Then the leader was arrested again, and it almost became quiet again. I heard that all the empty rooms of the border guard station were full of people.

Then no one mentioned the two boats, and I heard that no one dares to ask for them now."

"When I called you back, why didn't you mention such a big thing..."

"You didn't call back in those few days. It was dad who called me. Dad was worried about the phone bill, so he talked to mom for less than a minute. He only reported that it was safe, and hung up after being stuck for 59 seconds. Mom still kept talking.

She was scolded and hung up before even letting her say a few words."

This is indeed something his father can do.

"When you came to call later, it was also in a hurry. You didn't ask about it. It couldn't be finished in a few sentences, so I thought I'd wait for you to come back during the holidays. Who knew you didn't come back during the holidays either."

"Fortunately, it's none of our business."

"Yeah, luckily it's none of our business. My family was also very scared in those days. From that day on, the whole family went to Thean Hou Temple to offer incense in the morning and evening."
Chapter completed!