Lin Xiuqing's face was full of smiles, and she glanced at Ye Yaodong.
Then he said in a very dignified manner: "Your father is the head of the family. Everyone in our family listens to your father. Your father earns all the money. Of course, he has the final say."
Father Ye also glanced at Mother Ye at this time.
Mother Ye also squinted her eyes, "What are you looking at? The old house is with me now. Do you want to take care of the money or..."
The old lady interrupted them, "You are eating here now and living here these two days. You will definitely live with Dongzi in the future. You will eat his food, drink his food and live in his house. Of course you are the head of Dongzi's family. You will also be the head of Dongzi's family in the future."
You have to listen to him."
Ye Mu pursed her lips, "Tiantian Dongzi Dongzi, luckily it was me who gave birth to him, otherwise I would have been so angry that I would have died."
Ye Yaodong saw that the style of painting suddenly changed, and he also shouted, "Eat, eat."
With this interruption, the dinner table became lively and cheerful, and it was no longer so serious. Several children were also happily joking and grabbing food.
"This is the fish I picked up!"
"This is the shrimp I picked up."
"Children can't eat too much of this drunken shrimp. You should eat less of it."
"I'm not afraid!"
It was only after the typhoon that the rain stopped the next day. Everywhere in the village was still busy. People were repairing houses, repairing tiles, cleaning, and re-building walls.
It looks like reconstruction after the disaster. As long as there are no casualties, everyone still has a longing for life on their faces.
The roads were cleaned immediately by the villagers. Everyone swept their front and back doors. As long as they didn't look at the roofs of their houses, the village returned to its original appearance.
While the villagers were working for their own families, they were also discussing the return of others. Those who had not returned also had various kinship ties with the village.
After Ye Yaodong and his three brothers came back from pushing two carts of tiles, they all helped with the work in the old house. They all had to go to the rafters to help lay the tiles. It was easier to hire someone to make the door and window glass directly.
Ye Mu spent a lot of time tidying up the house. Each house was in a mess, with debris blown in by the howling storm and broken tiles falling from the roof.
"A Dong is now a big boss, why is he still climbing up and down to repair the roof?" the neighbors joked with a smile.
Mother Ye chuckled and said: "The big boss is also my son. I have to help with the work at home. Otherwise, who can we expect with our old arms and legs?"
"You two old people have such a good life. Now that the three brothers are rich, they still work with you."
Father Ye also had a smile on his face, "Don't brag, I only have a few more boats than others. Wherever I am the boss, I am still a fisherman, no different from the big guys."
"It's much worse. It seems that fishermen are different from fishermen. How can someone like A Dong still be called a fisherman? The fisherman is almost the same..."
Ye Yaodong frowned, what, why is he the fisherman again?
"Where is it..." Father Ye said modestly, but the expression on his face was particularly helpful.
"Ah Hai is now that old. I heard that he even went to work in a shipyard. It's really good. He can go to work in a shipyard even before he finishes reading. He will also have a stable job in the future..."
"You are really capable. You are only 15 or 16 years old, but you can go to the shipyard to learn your skills. Everyone in your family is so talented, it is incredible..."
"Haha, he is still young and hasn't finished school yet. He just went to the shipyard as an apprentice to learn some skills. I don't know what will happen in the future..."
"That's right. That's a shipyard. How decent. If you have a craft, you won't have to take risks at sea..."
"It's true that we, the older generation, have nothing to do. We have to go through wind and rain just for the sake of food. The younger generation can feel more comfortable. Of course, we should not follow our old path..."
Ye's father, with a bright face, was chatting with other neighbors downstairs, and Ye's mother was doing the same. The couple was listening to the neighbors' compliments downstairs, and watching their three sons working on the roof.
The two oldest grandsons, Ye Chenghai and Ye Chengjiang, were also sorting and delivering the tiles, and Lin Guangyuan was also there to help.
When the neighbors were praising him, Ye Chenghai was very thin-skinned even though he was still young and kept silent. Ye Chengjiang would wink at Ye Chenghai from time to time.
Ye Chenghai clenched his fists and gestured at him a few times, and kicked him a few times. The two brothers instantly started laughing and joking.
Lin Guangyuan said to Ye Chenghai enviously: "You are so awesome. After you graduate next year, will you go directly to work in the factory?"
"I don't know, that's what Third Uncle said."
"Damn it, if I had known better, I wouldn't have dropped out of school for two years. I'm obviously two years older than you, but I'm still in the third grade of junior high school like you. It's ridiculous to tell people."
"It doesn't matter, you will be a soldier in the future!"
"I haven't even scratched my horoscope yet, and I still have to study for a year. It's so annoying."
"Don't bother, I'll take you to Captain Chen later. I heard someone said this morning that he was repairing circuits in a nearby village."
"Good brother, let's get to work quickly..."
Lin Guangyuan felt energetic all over his body in an instant. He hurriedly lifted a bucketful of tiles, climbed up the ladder, and carried them to the roof.
The three brothers worked for two whole days to give the roof of the old house a new look. They put new tiles on them and removed the old ones.
Father Ye felt happy when he saw it, "Now we can temporarily keep the water from leaking for a few years. In the past, we just repaired the leaks and repaired them. Every year there were broken ones. Now it's better. We can replace them with new ones at once."
It saves trouble."
Ye Yaodong clapped his hands, "The doors and windows were replaced last year, and the roof was replaced this year. Now it's better, and we can live here for another twenty years."
"More than that, you can live here until you die of old age..."
"A-Dong's phone number...A-Dong's phone number..."
"Ah, you have my phone number again?"
A group of people stood at the door and turned to look at the old man riding a bicycle.
"I just went to your house to call you. Your wife said you were at the old house. Come on..."
"Coming."
Ye Yaodong watched him push the bicycle around a corner, get on it and walk away. He immediately trotted behind him, then jumped on and sat down.
The old guard was jumped by him unprepared, and the front of the car swayed and almost fell over. "You guy, why didn't you say anything when you jumped up? You almost fell down."
"Work on your skills, where's the call coming from?"
"From the city."
Ye Yaodong thought, it was Ye Yaohai who called a few days ago, why must it be the popsicle seller today? So many days have passed.
After arriving at the village committee, he saw that the number left was different from the one from the previous few days. He called with great expectation and found that it was indeed the popsicle seller.
He said that after asking for a few days, he had some news and asked him to go to the city and tell him face to face.
Ye Yaodong asked him to tell him directly on the phone now that it would take several hours to go to the city and back, which was a bit troublesome, but the other party refused and wanted to tell him in person.
As soon as he thought about it, he knew that he must be thinking about the red envelope, and he was afraid that he would not accept it after talking to him on the phone, and would have nowhere to find anyone.
He thought that he would be fine at home now, so he made an appointment to meet at the market at noon tomorrow.
This is about making it bigger and stronger, and transforming from manual to mechanized. It is still worth the trouble to make a trip.
When he went back, he also talked to Lin Xiuqing, and then rode his motorcycle to the city early the next morning.
The typhoon had just passed and the roads were full of potholes and mud. Motorcycles were afraid to ride too fast for fear of slipping.
This kind of weather did avoid flying dust, but the mud sprayed randomly, making it even dirtier. When a passing tractor drove by, not only was the motorcycle sprayed all over him, but half of his body was also sprayed with mud.
Ye Yaodong could only curse constantly along the way.
He came to the city only after he had cursed his mouth dry, and half of his body was turned into a clay figure. The passers-by looked at him sideways, and for the first time they no longer looked envious.
As soon as the popsicle seller saw the motorcycle, he came up to him and looked at him in surprise.
Ye Yaodong held back his anger and said, "It's best that the information you tell us is useful."
"It's useful, it's useful. Haha, the typhoon just passed and the road is really not that good."
Ye Yaodong just looked at him.
The other party saw the unhappy expression on his face and did not dare to talk nonsense. He immediately said: "They bought the filling machine you mentioned in the provincial capital. I heard it was imported and very expensive. It is also available in the streets and alleys of the provincial capital.
They sell ice bags of various flavors, but I don’t know where to buy them in the provincial capital. I have to go to the provincial capital to find out.”
"Fuck, aren't you talking nonsense? There are some in the city, and there must be some in the provincial capitals. Just ask one of the provincial towns to buy them, and the others are gone?"
"Well... his family said that relatives in the provincial capital helped to buy it. As for the factory, they didn't know which one. They just said it was a machinery factory."
Ye Yaodong was speechless, that's it?
"Do you know how many hours it takes me to drive to the city? How much fuel does it consume? You just told me it was a machine factory in the provincial capital without even a name?"
"I definitely won't tell the name of the place so clearly, to prevent others from stealing my business. And besides the person who bought it, who would remember it so well? I definitely wouldn't tell my family so clearly, even if I did.
, I will only remember it once and then forget it. After all, the provincial capital is not accessible to ordinary people. Most of the villagers have never left this city in their lives. I have been waiting for you here for a long time, and I have tried my best to help you.
I asked..."
Oh, forget it, after all, it was enough to make people inquire, and to run around and wait here. Ye Yaodong touched his pocket and handed him two dollars casually, as payment for his hard work.
"Okay, what you said is of no use to me at all, just treat it as hard work."
The hawker received the money and said happily: "The boss is indeed trustworthy. What I just said was from my mother's inquiry, but I think they are lying and just talking nonsense. Several of their relatives are involved in smuggling.
If you ask me, they must have smuggled it over, not bought it from a machine factory in a provincial capital."
Ye Yaodong looked at him in surprise, "Good guy, do you still have a trick up your sleeve?"
"Hey, this is what I guessed after all. However, there was a typhoon in the past two days, and the roof of their house was blown off and the glass was broken. I took the opportunity to run over and take a look, and saw the machines in their workshop through the window.
It has English letters on it.”
"If I don't give you money and scold you, will you stop talking?"
"Haha, no, it's just my guess after all, and I really don't know where I bought it, and I don't have any real and accurate information."
"No wonder you asked me to come over and say, two dollars is not wasted, come on, come with me to the store, you can give me a pen and paper to draw, what does it look like?"
If he said this on the phone, who would care about him?
He's quite naughty, he knows how to talk to someone face to face, and he also knows that one person should say it first and the other person should leave it for later.
"OK."
After paying the money, the service was indeed different and easier to talk to.
The vendor actively followed him to the store, and then looked around in amazement. He also drew an abstract machine pattern on a book for him. Although it was a bit abstract, like a primary school student's drawing of lines, he could barely make out a shape.
What does it look like.
"Your painting is a bit abstract, so-so, and you can barely understand the shape..."
"Hey, after all, I just went to elementary school and barely know a few words. The boss is so awesome. Is this your store? I heard there are thousands of dollars in one store here..."
"What's your name? How old are you?"
"Wang Jianxin, 18 years old."
"There is a job, do you want to do it?"
"What kind of job? I make pretty good money selling popsicles every day."
"You can only make a profit selling popsicles for one summer, or is it because we are neighbors near that small workshop and take advantage of the cold weather?"
Wang Jianxin rolled his eyes and looked at Father Lin and Mother Lin who were greeting customers at the side, "Does the boss want me to watch the store?"
"It's not your turn to do this job. I want you to work as a supervisor for me for a few months. There is a piece of land nearby that I want to enclose and build a warehouse and a house. I don't have time to stay here for a long time.
, everyone else is also busy with other things, and they don’t have time to watch there all day long.”
Ye Yaodong also came up with the idea on the spur of the moment after seeing this boy's agility and cleverness.
The land next to it needs to be leveled and rebuilt. It really needs to be watched by people, so as to save people from having to do foreign work. My father-in-law and brother-in-law have to be busy with their respective shops, so they can't be there to watch all day long.
At most, he could take a look when he had free time in the afternoon. It would be better for him to find someone, and it would be better to find a local.
When I came to the city a few days ago, I asked my brother-in-law to help find people in the village to clear the land. Then there was a typhoon, and it probably hasn't started yet, so I just asked someone to watch it.
"September will soon be here, and you can only sell popsicles for another month at most. I'll give you 40 yuan a month, and you just watch the workers work, record their attendance days, and don't let others work for you."
"Just watch?"
"Yes, there are other workers doing the work."
Wang Jianxin happily agreed, "Okay, okay, okay. I will give the job of selling popsicles to my younger brother at home. We will use one bicycle and let him sell at the market here. Then I will go to the construction site to watch."
"
"Let's go then, I'll take you to the open space to take a look."
Ye Yaodong also looked at his father-in-law, "Have you started working yet?"
"No, I had already set a date for starting the construction, but a typhoon came, so I went to swing a hoe a few times as a date. I planned to wait until the weather gets better in the past two days before letting the villagers work. I will go with you.
"
Father Lin saw that there was no one in the store at noon, so he went with them. By the way, he also took Wang Jianxin to meet the master worker to discuss which day he would work.
Ye Yaodong followed and watched them get to know each other, and arranged a time to work together. After nothing happened, he planned to go home.
Today is not in vain. At least there is an explanation for the work in the open space here, and there is a supervisor to supervise the work. My father-in-law and brother-in-law only need to come occasionally to see if the work is actually started. There is no need to keep an eye on it. After all, people's energy is limited.
, you can’t call them anything.
It’s also easier for locals to talk to locals.
"Thank you, Brother Dong."
"Work hard. Record your attendance for me and don't mess up the accounts. I will come over often when I have time. If you cheat and lose this opportunity, it will be difficult for you to find such an easy job in the future. Work hard now and you will be in the warehouse later.
Once it’s built, someone needs to be watching over here.”
Wang Jianxin immediately nodded, patting his chest and promising, "Of course, I will do my best, and I will keep the pie in the sky."
"Um."
Ye Yaodong nodded, got on his motorcycle and went home directly.
When I went there, the left half of my body and the motorcycle were sprayed with mud. When I walked back, the same half was still wet. It was already dry and wet again.
When he got home, some children at the door were screaming strangely.
"Uncle Third, did you fall into the pit?"
"Ah, my motorcycle...Dad...why don't you take good care of it...and it ended up like this..."
Ye Yaodong frowned and looked at Ye Chenghu speechlessly, "Whose motorcycle is it?"
"It's from our family! I'm just expressing my exclamation, Dad, did you fall? How did you end up like this?"
The old lady immediately came out and pulled his clothes here and there to see, "Why is it like this? It's covered in mud and yellow mud from head to toe."
"It's okay, the ground is full of potholes, and it's easy to splash when a car drives over it. Some large trucks and tractors drove by and sprayed me all over."
"Oh, that's okay. Then go wash it up quickly and I'll wipe the car for you."
"I'll come, I'll come, I'll wash the car..." Ye Chenghu immediately rushed into the house to get a rag.
Ye Chengyang also followed him, "I also want to help wash..."
"I'll also wash your car."
When each one gets older, it becomes harder to bark, and that's when they become so active.
Ye Yaodong happened to take advantage of the situation and gave the car to them for cleaning.
Lin Xiuqing was cooking dinner in the house, and looked at him in surprise as he was covered in mud, "Why are you in such a mess?"
"Um."
He explained it and told her about the situation in the city.
"Ah, do we have to ask Lin Ji? Let's see if he knows about the filling machine?"
"I think so too, but who knows when I will meet him. Ever since I learned that a lighthouse was going to be built in the sea outside the town, I haven't seen him for a long time."
"Go to his house and leave a message for his wife, and ask again when you get back."
"I'll go after dinner later."
Now this kind of industry has just started in China, and he also feels that it is not developing that fast yet, and most of it still has to be imported from abroad.
"Wouldn't it be good if you just hired someone to be the supervisor?"
"Otherwise, your parents will have to look after the shop. Your eldest brother also has his own shop to work on and a house to build at home. We can't call them everything, let alone leave it to the villagers to make them realize themselves. We must let them
People are watching.”
"It's good to invite an outsider to look at it. Let's take a look at it. In the future, someone will have to look at the warehouse. At that time, we will invite one from home and one from the local area, and we will work together to supervise each other to look at the warehouse."
Lin Xiuqing frowned and thought it made sense, "I just think it seems a bit hasty. Is it okay to ask one of the younger brothers at home to come over or ask someone from the village to come over and watch?"
"In a few days, if the boats in the factory come back and are rented out, the boys at home will not be busy enough. A few of them work three shifts, so they go there and sit there all day long, and I am afraid that they will not be able to stay.
"We are all barely grown-up boys. It's better to have company at home."
"It's more appropriate to hire a local person, and you can communicate better with the local villagers. After all, those villagers don't speak Mandarin. Anyway, it's just a test. If it's not suitable, just get out. My relatives are too embarrassed to tell people to get out."
She reluctantly nodded, "Okay."
"Anyway, he didn't let him handle the money. He just kept track of attendance and supervised people's work. It was nothing reliable. Your dad and your eldest brother could occasionally take a look at them when they were passing by on their way to and from get off work. And Wang Jianxin knew they were over there in the store. , and don’t dare to cheat.”
"good."
After Ye Yaodong cleaned himself up, he thought about going to Lin Jishang's house before dinner was served. When he walked to the door, he saw several children washing their motorcycles, making him wet from head to toe.
"Aqing...Aqing..."
"ah?"
"Bring out the whip!"
"don't want……"
Everyone screamed and immediately dispersed, leaving only Ye Xiaoxi squatting beside the bucket with both hands still soaked in the bucket.
Ye Yaodong strode over to lift the person up, but she reacted slowly and turned around to run away.
He grabbed the collar of her clothes behind her back.
"Don't hit... give the dog a bath..."
When he turned around to look, he discovered that there were two little puppies scratching inside the bucket.
"Damn, it's a good thing the dog can paddle through water, otherwise I would have died playing for you."
Lin Xiuqing came out with a whip, took the collar held by Ye Yaodong, and hit her calf, "Playing in the water again, the dog can't change its habit of eating shit. It plays in the water every day, and even played in the mud in the afternoon."
Ye Xiaoxi immediately burst into tears and kept jumping with his legs to relieve the pain, "Don't hit, don't hit, it's not me, you have to... you have to..."
"You have to run away...you have to be bad..."
"You play with everything. I see you are wet from head to toe. In the blink of an eye, you are all dressed up again. How many clothes do you have to change in a day? Come inside."
"There's gotta be...ah...you've gotta run away..."
Ye Xiaoxi cried loudly, and her clothes were grabbed. She could only stagger and cry, turning her head to look at the door of the hospital, and then she was dragged into the house.
Ye Yaodong fished out the two dogs soaked in water in the bucket, watched them shivering, and quickly sent them to the kennel to wrap them in straw. The other dogs also came over, sticking out their tongues and licking his arms.
Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang, who were standing at the entrance of the courtyard, didn't dare to come in. They felt that there was no danger, so they cautiously called out, "Dad..."
"Do you want to come in now and be beaten, or do you want to wait until your mother has had enough to eat?"
"What didn't we do..."
"You're not doing anything, so why are you running?"
"It was you who yelled at me to get the whip, so we ran away."
"Then do you have a guilty conscience?"
Ye Yaodong went over, holding one in one hand, and dragged it into the house.
The one in the room was crying and jumping around, trying to hide behind the old lady, and kept shouting, "We have to run away..."
As soon as the two brothers were dragged to the door, they didn't dare to go in. They clung to the cracks in the door, listening to the brutal screams that kept coming from inside the room, and kept twisting their heads outward, trying to run away.
"I don't want to go in...I don't want to go in..."
Lin Xiuqing turned to look at the door. Ye Xiaoxi also rushed to hold her hand with tears in her eyes, "You have to come back, you have to fight... you have to fight..."
She whipped her backhand, causing Ye Xiaoxi's thighs to hurt. He quickly backed away in fear and hid behind the old lady.
"Dad... please let go, please let go..."
Ye Chenghu looked at Lin Xiuqing walking over with a whip, and pawed at the door in a panic, her fingernails turned white.
"It's none of my business..." Ye Chengyang also argued, "They made me wet..."
Not wanting to come in, Lin Xiuqing stood by the door and fought. This saved the old lady from coming to the rescue and they couldn't run around.
The two brothers were beaten in pain and screamed before they realized they couldn't get out, why not go in?
At least there was room to hide in the house, and I could jump up and down a few times. I was beaten hard by the door, but I couldn't escape at all.
Ye Chengyang was the first to let go and run into the house. Like Ye Xiaoxi, he hid behind the old lady.
It took two more whips for Ye Chenghu to react, and he quickly let go and ran towards the old lady.
"Oh, you ran away, why don't you remind me?"
Ye Chengyang had no time to reply. He looked warily at Lin Xiuqing who was walking over and tightly grasped the hem of the old lady's clothes behind her.
"Aunt, help me..."
The three children hid behind the old lady like chickens, and the old lady cooperated by spreading her hands like an old hen.
Lin Xiuqing angrily shouted at the old lady to go away.
The old lady spread her hands and refused to move away. She also moved left and right to protect the three little ones behind her, "Don't hit, don't hit, that's how naughty children are. Take a shower first, don't catch a cold..."
Ye Yaodong watched in amusement as they acted like a chicken catching a chicken. He couldn't help but show the expression on his face, and then he walked over and pulled the old lady away.
"Hey, don't pull me, or I'll break it. Let them take a bath first..."
The three little ones also shouted and tried to hide behind her, "No..."
Lin Xiuqing chased after them and beat them, "I've been playing in the water for so long, and I still have half an hour to go? I'll start with a spanking. I'm not afraid of being beaten all day long. I'm getting more and more naughty..."
"Where's Ayuan? Why aren't you with you?" Only then did Ye Yaodong realize that one was missing.
Ye Chenghu said quickly: "He ran away with Brother Ahai, oh... Mom, don't hit me... It hurts..."
"It hurts so much, but I haven't seen you cry. The skin is so thick."
Ye Chengyang immediately imitated Ye Xiaoxi's howling and crying, and the two of them cried louder and louder.
Ye Chenghu screamed a few times, but couldn't cry. He could only hit, ah, hit, ah...
The old lady was pulled by Ye Yaodong and stood there, unable to move. She couldn't protect her even if she tried to protect her. She just watched these three jumping up and down, running around the room.
"Okay, okay, okay, the beating is over... the beating is over, you can..."
"My body is wet. If I run again, I will catch a cold if I sweat..."
After three people quickly climbed up the stairs, Lin Xiuqing ended up unable to hit her with the whip.
Ye Xiaoxi crawled at the end, still crying, "They're all beating me... They're all beating me... You have to stop running..."
Chapter completed!