"Why are you so sulky? Are you angry with him again?"
"No, I'm just telling the truth. He misrepresented it himself. It's okay, just work for him to vent."
"You really don't know what to say. Dad just came back from the sea and you are angry with him."
Ye Yaodong felt that he had been wronged a hundred times, but he didn't say anything. It was obviously his father who deliberately misinterpreted it.
"Then you, a filial daughter-in-law, hurry home and cook for him to let him calm down. I'm here to watch."
"All right."
Father Ye was carrying it back and forth, and after hearing what the couple said, the expression on his face became natural.
After moving the goods, his anger subsided, and he turned around and talked to Ye Yaodong again.
"If you have to go to class at night, don't get these clothes dirty. Change them later and wear them again at night. Otherwise, don't come in and out here. It will smell like fish later. If you go to class, others will smell it.
not good."
"Well, there are so many people working there, so you don't have to move around all the time."
"I've already finished moving, and you're just saying this?"
Ye Yaodong shut up immediately.
Aguang smiled and said, "Don't Dongzi care about you?"
"You care about me, and you don't often ask me to pick shit."
Aguang couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Although I don’t know why my father-in-law said this suddenly, it does sound funny.
Ye Yaodong also laughed, "Then I will ask you to eat."
"So I have to pick the shit for you?"
The people around him laughed happily after hearing Father Ye's resentful words.
Ye Yaodong changed the topic and looked at Pei Dongqing, who was pressing the calculator while writing, "Have you finished the calculation? When you are done, give them the bill of goods, and you and your brother will go home for dinner."
"Right away."
"You guys, hurry up and go home to eat. We've finished moving the goods, so why are you still hanging around here? They all stink, so don't stifle anyone."
"Oh, don't worry, stay a little longer..."
A Guang walked over and waved away the people surrounding her, "Go, go, stay away from me. The more you talk, the closer you come. Don't surround my sister, looking for a fight."
"We protect Miss Holly, otherwise all these toads will come close to us."
"Get out of here, get away from me."
Father Ye also helped to chase people away, "Aren't you all tired?"
The group of people all said in unison, "I'm not tired."
Ye Yaodong shook his head helplessly, the little sheep in the wolf's den were more popular.
Fortunately, there are usually many women working in the workshop, so Pei Dongqing's work here is not too out of the ordinary.
After Pei Dongqing finished counting, he handed the list to Ye Yaopeng, Zhou Da, and A Guang, who also took the opportunity to stand behind A Guang.
"Brother Dong, I'm going home for dinner first."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "Go ahead and come back after dinner."
The men watched the brothers and sisters walking out, and then they shouted, "Let's go, let's go home for dinner..."
They were shouting, but a large group of people still followed the brothers and sisters all the way, almost making A Guang angry to death and unable to drive them away.
Father Ye sighed with emotion, "Look at these, all of them are like wolves. The little girl is so thin-skinned. Fortunately, your sister is married, otherwise I would be the one who would be in trouble."
Ye Yaodong also agreed.
If his little sister had remained unmarried, his father would probably not be able to leave the house and would have to stay at home to guard her.
"Let's go, let's go home for dinner. We'll be back just in time for lunch."
Father Ye said as he walked: "There are so many people, and all of them are qualified to work. It's okay to pick anyone at random. That girl is not young anymore. There are many people in the village who get married at the age of eighteen or nineteen, so that's it."
They didn’t have a mother, so they dragged one after another until they were this age. It would be difficult to find them any older, and now a female college student can still say this with her gold bricks."
"Don't stand and talk without hurting your back. If it were you, how could you just pick one to be your son-in-law? Uncle Pei only has three children in total, and it's not like other people have seven or eight. It doesn't matter, it's almost enough."
Thinking of this, if anyone could become his son-in-law and take Ye Xiaoxi away, he would like to kill them all.
Those crooked melons and cracked dates are all assorted as miscellaneous fish, none of them are decent, how can they be matched?
A flower stuck in cow dung is disgusting.
"It's not me who's worried. Anyway, my daughter is getting married, so I don't need to worry about it. Now there's also a stepmother and your sister's sister-in-law who can help take care of her."
Father Ye was slightly comforted. Fortunately, his daughter was married, and the Pei family seemed quite reliable.
Lin Xiuqing had just come back early and had already laid out a table of food. They started eating without waiting for Ye Mu to come over.
Ye Chenghu climbed onto the table and was stunned when he looked at his father's dress across from him.
"Dad, have you been promoted again?"
"Where did you see it?"
"Looking at it, I feel like you have been promoted. Why do you only wear one pen? Don't you have several? Hang them all up!"
"Crazy, why are you hanging so much?"
"If you don't hang them all up, how will people know that you have so many pens? When people ask, you can tell them that they are all rewards! Don't people admire you even more?"
Lin Xiuqing had rice in her mouth and covered her face with laughter.
Ye Yaodong pretended to be serious and knocked on the table, "I want to eat your food. How can a child talk so much? Do you need to worry about it? How many pens do I have to hang up is none of your business? Do you think I am you? I love to show off so much."
"I saw that you were wearing something different today, so I just made a suggestion."
"I can't stop your mouth even if I eat."
He felt a little weird at first, but he had seen many people dressing up like this, and he wanted to try it himself. Ye Chenghu's curious eyes always made him feel that he had the same character as him.
So, after the meal, he took off the pen from his chest, changed his clothes, and put away his briefcase.
Then I went to check the fishing boat's accounts with others for this month, and asked Ah Qing to pay this month's salary.
In the evening, he took a notebook, stuck a pen in it, put it in the basket in front of his bicycle and went to the party school.
After entering the party school, he also felt a lot more comfortable.
When I came in the morning and went in and out with my briefcase, I felt a little awkward and weird.
Sure enough, wild boar cannot eat fine chaff.
The virtue you deserve is the virtue you deserve. Pretending is not suitable for him.
After receiving the wages from the two brothers in the evening, Father Ye also told them that he would continue boarding Dongzi's boat after the Qingming Festival. He also explained to them in detail.
Although the two brothers were a little unhappy, their father wanted to go back and follow Dongzi, but there was nothing they could do. Fortunately, several boats were in one place, which made them feel more at ease.
Sister-in-law Ye and Sister-in-law Ye were more direct. They were hanging clothes at the door early the next morning and directly told them that their father was partial.
It's the same as sailing, but he stopped helping them after only two months. It's not like he didn't pay him wages...
I have been working for A Dong for several years but it is not enough. I have to help him again in a hurry. They are both sons, but they are treated differently...
Just as Ye's father was finishing breakfast, the old lady shouted that the toilet at home was almost full and asked his father to take it to the latrine to empty it. The two sisters-in-law saw it again.
In fact, Father Ye also heard their dissatisfied chatter.
Sister-in-law Ye pinched her nose and said hello, "Dad, do you still have to wait for you to empty the toilet at Adong's house?"
Second Sister-in-law Ye followed, "It's been several years and I haven't seen you pour it for us."
"It's been several years, and I haven't seen you ask me to come to your house for dinner?"
After saying this, Father Ye picked up the dung and left.
The two sisters-in-law were immediately speechless.
Ye Chenghai came out of the house with his schoolbag and said: "I won't pick up the shit for you, I will pick up the shit for my third uncle."
Sister-in-law Ye jumped up and down in anger, and he ran away immediately.
Several other children also ran after him.
"What kind of child are you raising? He will make people angry."
Ye Yaopeng said: "Why are you chirping so early in the morning? Why do you have such a big opinion?"
Ye Yaohua also glared at Sister-in-law Ye unhappily, "I haven't seen you picking up excrement for the family. Didn't you wait for me to come back and let you do it? You're making irresponsible remarks."
"I don't think my father is always interested in Adong..."
"Yeah, he didn't even help us with anything..."
Ye Yaopeng said politely: "If you want to support him in his old age, he will also care for you and help you."
"I think so too. Then he must be willing to live with us."
"Why did you go so early? I'm just saying this now."
Ye Yaodong fanned the smell on the tip of his nose with his hand. Don't think he couldn't hear it. He said loudly: "When my parents had no money two years ago, I didn't see you saying that now the two old people have money in their pockets."
Now, he can take care of himself in old age with whomever he likes, and he can work for whomever he likes to work for."
“Who doesn’t even have the freedom to work anymore?”
Lin Xiuqing also said angrily: "In my hometown, the old lady's hut used to be occupied by you to raise pigs. What did I say?"
"We used to borrow an old house to ferment fish sauce, but now we have moved it out long ago, and we have never taken advantage of it again."
"The old lady even cultivated a small vegetable plot on the roadside at the entrance of the village, didn't she also plant it for you?"
"You are still talking about favoritism. Aren't you guys taking advantage of all the benefits? Are you favoring us? Are you favoring us? They still support me, but they are favoring us by doing some work for us?"
The old lady was also sighing through the wall, but she was actually talking to the other side of the wall with her neck raised.
"This brother's bones are still connected to his tendons, but his wife is different. Her gossip affects the relationship between brothers..."
Ye Yaopeng immediately scolded Sister-in-law Ye: "I listened to you so early in the morning, what's wrong with you? Go in and tell me, don't you think it's embarrassing... you'll be sour, what else will you do besides being sour, just give it to me
Go in."
The two couples immediately started yelling at each other.
Ye Yaohua and his wife also started to argue and curse.
The weather has been getting warmer recently, and neighbors all get up early to work early in the morning.
I didn't know what happened at first, but the two families had a dispute and the noise was too loud, which also attracted the attention of other people, who were all curious and wanted to come over and watch.
They also felt embarrassed, so they dragged themselves into the house, closed the door, and beat and scolded them.
Everyone was a little unaware of the situation, so they curiously asked Lin Xiuqing.
Lin Xiuqing said: "It's nothing. There is no conflict between any couple. They can fight over a trivial matter. Anyway, they are beaten at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed. The eldest brother and the second brother are not messy. They are the ones who beat their wives. They are quarreling.
, just cursed a few words and it was over.”
"That's true. Judging from their normal relationship, it's not like other people's families who fight every day."
"Couples have to be considerate of each other in their daily lives. If you tolerate it and he is more considerate, the conflicts will lessen..."
Each woman expressed her own opinions very thoughtfully and stood at the door to chat.
Lin Xiuqing did not continue chatting with them. She watched Ye Yaodong go out, and she followed him to the workshop.
Yesterday I brought back a large amount of miscellaneous fish that has not yet been fully fermented and lacks salt.
They couldn't continue fermenting until a cart arrived early this morning, so she had to go and see if it had arrived.
The old lady muttered to the others: "They have lived a good life for too long, and they feel uncomfortable. They have to mutter a few words to make others feel uncomfortable. They will be fine in two days."
Lin Xiuqing also walked and said to Ye Yaodong: "It's just that I didn't kill any fish today, and I paid all my wages yesterday, otherwise they would be embarrassed."
"They just felt that my father had only helped them sail the boat for two months, and now he stopped helping. He wanted to come over to help me sail the boat, and they felt uncomfortable. Don't worry about it, they just had a few quarrels, and it would be over in a few days.
After a while, they will still join in and kill fish for us to earn wages."
Don’t worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality.
Comparing the two, most people don't think much about it. They only think that one son has helped drive the boat for two or three years, and the other two have only helped drive the boat for two months.
However, Ah Qing had just pointed out the advantages they had taken advantage of. They probably couldn't explain it straight and were not strong enough to talk about it anymore.
As time goes by, some people will always be forgetful and only remember the advantages that others have taken advantage of at the moment, but not those that they have taken advantage of before.
There are too many people like this.
There will always be various frictions when living together, just like brothers, but they are better than outsiders and there will be no overnight feuds.
It is true that it rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, but at the same time the temperature is getting higher and higher day by day.
The rain during the Qingming Festival was intermittent, and it passed in just half a day.
It is also customary to sweep tombs during Qingming Festival, and the same is true for begging for tomb cakes.
This year is the first year that the tomb has been repaired. It was not even completed during Qingming Festival last year.
The tomb sweepers were still the same team, but Uncle Ye was thinking about the ancestral hall in the province and asked Ye Yaodong when he was walking on the road.
"Do you want to go to the ancestral hall to offer incense and kneel down during the Qingming Festival? Has anyone from the province called you?"
"No, you probably don't need it."
"Do we have to wait until the anniversary of the completion of the ancestral hall before everyone can kneel down and offer incense?"
"have no idea."
"Why don't you call and ask?"
"You seem to care about your ancestors more than your own father, second uncle?" Ye Yaodong teased.
"Don't you also want your ancestors to protect you?"
"Why did I hear my dad say that you have been asking about smuggling in the past two days?"
Uncle Ye smiled and didn't feel embarrassed at all, "Ah haha, I just wanted to ask. It's so nice abroad. I heard there are jobs everywhere and the wages are high. If this kid stays at home, he will either go overseas or work at home.
There's no point in working, and there isn't much work to do at home, so it's not good to just sit around at home."
"The per capita fee for going abroad is quite large. Are you ready?"
"We are all from my family. I want to ask if it can be cheaper. Haha, I also want to ask someone to take care of me more. When A Dong is free, he can help me ask. We are all from the same family. He is also your nephew. He will be successful in the future.
You also have light on your face."
Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched. His second uncle was still so good at calculating and his mind was spinning faster than him.
I just went to the ancestral hall in the province last year and recognized my ancestors, and I immediately had an idea.
"I'm not that shameless. It's your first time to go, and it's my first time to go. What do you think? When you go to the province next time, you can ask yourself. I'm afraid I won't be able to convey the message clearly."
"Aren't you familiar with that Lao Hai? Lao Hai even asked you last year if you wanted to send your children abroad. You should go and ask, it's definitely possible, and it will be cheaper for him."
"I'll give you the number, and you go ask? I don't dare to guarantee it. How to send it abroad and what the situation is. I don't know. I'm afraid it won't be conveyed clearly if I send the message in the middle. If there is anything you can talk to yourselves, you can know it.
It’s clearer.”
"Isn't that Lao Hai reliable?"
Ye Yaodong: I think you are even more unreliable.
"You already have an idea, but now you're asking Lao Hai if he's reliable? When you asked me to help you just now, you didn't even think about whether it was reliable."
"Haha, give me your number later and I'll call him to find out more."
"It seems that my cousins ​​have saved a lot of money in the past two years and can send their children abroad."
Ye Yaoguo, the cousin of the second uncle's family, answered: "Don't you think you can't miss this opportunity? The children at home are now older and can work part-time. What kind of work can we do here? We can earn at most one month."
Thirty to fifty yuan, I heard that overseas you can easily earn thousands of yuan a month."
Another cousin also agreed, "Yes, I heard that overseas is very prosperous, and you can earn thousands of dollars just by looking for a job. Working abroad for one year is worth working at home for a lifetime."
Uncle Ye also said: "Send two of them out first, and then when they have established a firm footing, take them one by one, and the whole family will be taken out. Isn't this better?"
"When we were worshiping our ancestors, the overseas Chinese said that they were like this before. After smuggling out, the fellow villagers outside would help each other and form a group. Each one would lead one by one, and each one would help one by one, which would make them stronger."
"If we can go abroad safely to work, then our family will definitely be in good shape in the future. Even if we want to sell iron, we have to give them one out first."
This family is so bold and imaginative that they actually want to go abroad to make a fortune.
I must have been thinking about it for several months, and now I finally couldn't hold it any longer and took the initiative to ask him.
"Then you've already made up your mind, then go and ask yourself, then we can work together as a group and let them give you a discount."
"What is a group fight?"
"If you form a group with more people, you will get a discount. You also need to understand the risks. Don't blame me for not reminding you that visas are difficult to obtain. You will probably have to smuggle across the border. If you smuggle in, you will understand."
Ye Yaoguo said: "Well, give us your number later, and we'll check it out first to confirm whether we can arrange work. Or when will you go to the provincial capital? We'll take your boat and say hello directly in person. By the way, you can also
Help me talk."
"Then you have to go to sea with me, and then I can go to the provincial capital. When you go to sea with me, I don't get paid. When you go to the provincial capital depends on the situation, otherwise you can go whenever you want.
"
"Then... let's call and find out first."
"You can make up your own mind. I'll write you the number when I get home after sweeping the grave."
None of these nephews went abroad in their previous lives. Everything is really changing in this life.
The idea is quite good and in line with the trend.
There are indeed many people who smuggle themselves abroad to work, and they can be found everywhere, but what will happen is unpredictable. First, they have to ask Mazu to bless them and reach their destination safely.
His heartfelt blessings!
If you go abroad to work and make a living in the future, that would be even better and you can honor your ancestors.
"Okay, okay...if they become successful, they won't forget your help..."
"I didn't help, so don't remember me. You should think about it yourself first. There are definitely risks."
"OK."
Everyone else was there whispering about the benefits of going abroad.
Last year, I went to the provincial capital to pay homage to my ancestors. When I saw those glamorous overseas Chinese, I was already envious of them all.
They were all chatting there. As long as they could go abroad to work, no matter how they went out, they would still be overseas Chinese and enjoy the same scenery when they came back...
Father Ye pulled Ye Yaodong in a low voice and asked, "If you are caught smuggling, you will be sent back, right? You won't be refunded if you are sent back, right? Isn't that a waste of money?"
"This is a bet on a future."
"Then it's better to let them talk on their own, or else ask you to help and ask you to pay compensation if they fail?"
"It's not like my son is going abroad. Why should I get involved? The whole family plans to go abroad on their own."
"Let's take a gamble. If we really go abroad to work, we can earn a few thousand yuan a month. If we just send a little bit back, it will be enough for the whole family to eat and drink. Your second uncle's idea is not bad, and the whole family will benefit."
Ye Yaodong laughed twice, "When everyone pays homage to the ancestors later, be more sincere and ask for the blessings of the ancestors."
Uncle Ye said happily: "Of course, we have prepared a lot of sacrifices. My dad will have a good place to live this year. I hope he will bless me more."
The two families were talking lively.
A large group of children also ran away happily.
Only Uncle Ye and Ye Yaofan remained silent and did not participate in their conversation.
No one took the initiative to say anything to them. Everyone was talking about smuggling abroad to work, and everyone was looking forward to it.
After going up the mountain, some grass had grown taller than people. They used sickles to clear the way, talking all the way to the cemetery without stopping.
The Tomb Sweeping Festival only comes once a year to the cemetery to weed it, and the cemetery has long been surrounded by weeds.
A large group of men all found their own positions to weed and work.
Ye Yaodong also thought to himself while weeding, "It's another year to celebrate the Qingming Festival. This year, I will go up the Ancestor Worship Mountain. My ancestors will soon appear..."
"Dongzi, what are you reading?" Ye Yaosheng asked him with a smile.
"Oh, let's recite it before worshiping, so that the ancestors know that we are coming, and get ready to come out quickly. Then we can make wishes to him when we worship."
"You have already exchanged small boats for big ships, big ships for bigger ships, and more ships."
"Who thinks it's too much money?"
"I'll have to imitate you in reciting it later. What you recited the year before last worked quite well."
Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "Then you should talk about it too."
Ye Yaosheng said in a low voice: "My father and my brother actually want to borrow money from you. I heard that smuggling out will cost a lot of money, several thousand yuan. They plan to send two people first and have a companion. Then this
It would cost tens of thousands of dollars."
"Yeah, I got it."
He had already realized it after listening to what they just said.
If you can successfully smuggle yourself in and work hard abroad to make money, it will indeed be better than working at home. They are indeed decades behind.
He also hopes that the next generation of nephews will develop better and not be trapped in a small fishing village. There will of course be more opportunities outside.
But they didn't say anything, so of course he happily pretended not to know.
"Do you also agree with them smuggling the children out?"
"What do I have to agree with or disapprove of? My own children have to make their own decisions at their own risk. What does it matter whether I approve or not? Besides, if the first two girls in your eldest and second brother's family are not included, then
The two nephews are also sixteen or seventeen years old, so they are not considered children anymore. If they want to have a try, can adults support them?"
"That's what I said."
"So why are you so worried? Your daughter is only a few months old? Wait until they are successful, and then I will give you a try."
Ye Yaosheng laughed heartily, "You are right, then I wish them success in going abroad to make a lot of money, so that they can attract everyone."
"Well, I'll beg them to pull it out when the time comes."
"Don't be kidding, everyone is begging you to get a divorce. You see, they are all very polite to you now. Just because they are afraid of making you unhappy, my father, my eldest brother, and my second brother don't dare to say anything if they want to borrow money from you.
, I’m just afraid that you’ll be angry, and nothing will happen.”
Ye Yaodong thought about it and it seemed true.
In the past two years, I could go to his house and yell at him, confidently showing the elders' records and asking him to pull them out.
Last year when I went to the provincial capital to take his boat, I still complained to him.
Now they are starting to apologize and don’t dare to offend him?
Is this the benefit of being an official?
When the altitude reaches a certain level, do you automatically become afraid?
"Do you still see clearly?"
"Your sister-in-law said it."
"Oh, my sister-in-law is so smart, you found a treasure."
Ye Yaosheng smiled sweetly and happily, "Yes, good luck."
Ye Yaodong was disgusted for a moment, so he casually said, as for feeding him dog food?
"You go over there."
"What's wrong?"
"Didn't you see that everything has been cut here? Are you ready to cut the entire area of ​​ten miles?"
"It's so exaggerated. Why don't we just cut off an extra meter or two? Haha, then I'll go to the edge."
With more people and greater strength, a group of strong laborers worked hard for more than half an hour. The cemetery was cleared, and all the weeds within two or three meters of it were removed.
The broom has been swept from the top to the bottom of the tomb, making it clean.
The tomb was originally only a year old. Apart from the weeds around it, the cemetery was not dirty and had not been invaded by stubborn weeds.
And they had already filled the cemetery with yellow paper and pressed stones, and then placed another circle around the outer area where they had just cleared it.
Finally, they took a big stone and pressed a piece of yellow paper on the bulging part above the cemetery, and then knelt down and worshiped underneath.
Ye Erbo was very active and took over the job of lighting incense and distributed incense to everyone.
Uncle Ye was angry, but he didn't speak.
Chapter completed!