They kept drinking and chatting, discussing their plans with each other. It wasn't until after three drinks, it was almost nine o'clock, that Aguang got up still unsatisfied. He had to make an appointment with Uncle Zhou to go to the city tomorrow.
Ye Yaodong also cleared away the mess of cups and plates on the table, put the dishes and chopsticks on the stove for Ah to clean tomorrow, and locked the courtyard door.
The surrounding area was quiet, except for his house, there was no light at all. The residents nearby went to bed early to rest.
He checked the doors and windows of his home and locked them before turning off the lights and returning to the house.
Ye Xiaoxi curled up in the corner with the quilt, a small ball. When he climbed onto the bed, she moved a little, twisted and turned over, then got up again and lay on the pillow, sleeping with her butt sticking out.
Ye Yaodong patted her butt twice, "If you sleep on your stomach with your butt stuck out, are you a frog or a toad?"
"She is sleeping well, you don't care how she sleeps, don't touch her, just sleep with you."
"You're not asleep, are you waiting for me?"
"Waiting for your head, you woke her up. She was nagging her as soon as she lay down. You woke her up and you came to comfort her."
"I'll coax you."
Lin Xiuqing turned her back to him, too lazy to talk to him, and kept chattering late at night.
"Honey, when we were drinking and chatting earlier, Aguang said that among our friends, I am the most promising now..."
"Do you think I'm so awesome..."
"I also think I'm so powerful. It's only been a while since I've been able to do everything without saying a word. Now everyone from all over the country knows that there is a person like me in our village..."
"Oh, I just keep calling me Xianyudong. It's really ugly. It would be better to call me Boss Ye, Boss Dong..."
"If I start selling fish sauce tomorrow, will I have to call it Yuludong again? This sounds ugly..."
"Hey, when we have money, we can buy a few more boats and let them call me Ship Wangdong. This nickname is fine. This nickname is nice and loud..."
Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes in her heart. After drinking too much horse urine, she kept blabbering. She didn't know how much rice wine the two of them drank.
The rice wine I brewed at home tasted sweet and not too strong, and I was very energetic after talking about it. Seeing how chatty he was, he drank a lot, which made me feel very dizzy.
"If you drink too much, just let me sleep. You keep talking non-stop. I have to listen to your bragging late at night."
"Why are you bragging? What I said is true. Now people will praise me."
"You are so proud."
"Proud, of course I have to be proud. I managed to get by on my own merit, so why can't I be proud?"
"Go to sleep, go to sleep, I know you are great." Lin Xiuqing coaxed him like a child and patted him.
Ye Yaodong became more energetic and started to make round balls again.
Early the next morning, dazzling sunlight streamed in through the window, and a thin layer of newspaper was not enough to block the glare. Ye Yaodong turned over and continued to sleep while hugging the quilt.
It was only the constant noise of voices in the yard that drove him away from his sleepiness.
It's like this almost every day. It's not easy to sleep in these days. There are hard-working people everywhere. They get up early in the morning and chat while doing things.
Last year and the beginning of the year, there were fewer people nearby, so it was quite quiet in the morning. A few more households moved in some time ago, but it has never been quieter since then. People in the mountains get up earlier than those at the beach.
He couldn't lie still now. He still had things to do today. When he saw that it was already early seven o'clock, he got up immediately.
After he finished cleaning up and finished eating, he walked around the house and workshop, and there were probably people in the village committee, then he slowly went out.
As a result, I saw that the children who had gone out long ago were still chasing each other back and forth on the road, and they were still getting further and further away from the entrance of the village.
It's strange that these little brats can read.
He sat and waited for a while at the door of the village chief's office inside the village committee. It was not until 8:30 that the village chief and Secretary Chen arrived.
"Are you done? We thought you had forgotten to apply for the land and were not going to get it."
"Good morning, how could I forget this? I've just been busy these past few days, not at home, running around all the time, so I just came here now. It just gives you a few more days to think about it."
The village chief took the key and opened the door of his office before inviting them in.
As soon as he sat down, he searched for a bunch of keys in his hand to open the drawer and said, "I've already prepared it for you. I'm just waiting for you to come over and sign."
Secretary Chen added, "You are also a celebrity in the village now, and the site is granted to you to build a workshop. When the time comes, it will also be an industry in our village, which will also be good for the reputation of the village."
The village chief handed him the written document and said: "You took everyone to Zhejiang Province to fish for jellyfish this year. Everyone came back with a lot of money, and everyone praised you. I don't think so."
Who would have any objections to granting you such a large piece of land?"
"Thank you very much. You have to be accommodating." Ye Yaodong took it happily.
"We calculated the land next to it a few days ago. The land directly surrounding the slope next to Thean Hou Temple is about a little over two acres."
"The dried fish workshop next to it also has an acre and a half. If the land next to it is divided into two, it probably won't be enough for you, so I might as well give it all to you. There's not much point in leaving any left over."
"Yes, yes..." Ye Yaodong nodded in agreement as he watched.
"So we also discussed it. A good person will give it to you in the end. But when we granted the land to you last time, we already charged you less in royalties. We can't charge you less this time."
Ye Yaodong also saw it. The two thousand two hundred yuan written on the list was more than half the price of the dried fish workshop.
But to be able to buy such a large piece of land for 2,200 yuan is already a huge profit.
The law is not perfect these days. If you buy it, it is his, and it will not change.
"Okay, okay, thank you. It's no problem. I don't have any objections at all. I will obey the arrangements of the two leaders. You can draw as much as you want. You can pay as much as you want. We will act according to the regulations."
Both of them were very satisfied with his attitude.
"If your workshop is successful, it can be regarded as a contribution to the village. When the time comes, you will need help from people in the village. If you ask the villagers to work, you can also create income for the villagers."
"Absolutely, I have to ask people from our village first to hire people to do the work. Most of the people in this village are my relatives."
"Well, if there is no problem with the amount, we will go over and measure it again later. If there is no problem, we can sign and pay, and then you can do whatever you want with the land."
"Why don't we take a look together while we're not too busy right now at work and can walk away? Can we implement the matter as soon as possible?"
"Okay, let's go now."
Ye Yaodong happily put the order in his hand and watched as they called three more people, and they all went to the beach together.
The villagers on the road saw a large group of them passing by, and they were all curious and asked what they were going for.
There are so many people from the village committee who don't come together at the same time for no reason.
"Go to the beach and measure the land."
"Who wants to build a house again?"
"Oh, now everyone is crowding towards the beach to build a house there? I used to dislike that place. A large area of ​​land is empty there, and no one wants to build a house there."
"Everyone now thinks that Feng Shui is good there..."
"Whose family is going to build a house again?"
Their passing attracted the attention of some women. The men were all at sea or working, while the women were weaving and mending nets at home, so it was only the women who kept up with the gossip.
Everyone looked at the excitement and took the things in their hands, chatting while walking, and watching the excitement.
Many people hold a handful of wooden shuttles in their hands and hook the fishing net lines onto the shuttle as they walk, gossiping without delaying their work at all.
"A Dong is also walking together. Isn't his house just built? Isn't it the Feng Shui they brought in?"
"I guess it's for his parents to live in, right?"
"Nervous, is it necessary for these two old people to build another building? They can just add a floor to the top and build a building that is enough to live in. It also looks better and sounds better. They have built a building.
"
"The old house looks quite big, and it's quite good..."
"Let's go and have a look together, and ask questions by the way."
What should we do when everyone catches up?
The village committee's reply surprised them.
"A Dong wants to buy land again? Hasn't he already built a workshop? What other workshops are he going to build?"
"If you don't want to build a building, why don't you buy land? Isn't the fish drying workshop big enough?"
"What are you going to do with the new workshop?"
"A Dong is so amazing. He has earned so much money at such a young age, and he still wants to buy land."
"He has made a lot of money, but I haven't seen him do anything recently. When someone else came home a few days ago, everything he needed was filled in, and a TV set was bought. The Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated for them.
It’s the Spring Festival. Some people have started building houses, so it’s normal for them to buy a piece of land.”
"That's true. I haven't heard what they want to build a house for. They have only come to measure the land now, so they can keep their money."
"That's why he has more and more money..."
Ye Yaodong couldn't laugh or cry as he listened to the discussions of the women behind him. He spent his money outside, so it would be strange for them to know.
A large group of them walked together, attracting more and more people behind them. When they reached the open space, all the people nearby ran over to take a look.
It happened to be early in the morning, there wasn't much work, and the sun wasn't very bright. If we were just building a house and surveying the land, there wouldn't be so many people. I could only ask a few questions out of curiosity.
Now we need to measure the land to build a workshop again, or A Dong, who has been the center of the topic these two days, wants to buy it. Everyone is more excited and finally takes action.
Lin Xiuqing also ran over. After seeing Ye Yaodong, she went over and asked, "Has it been approved? The land will be measured soon?"
"Well, I went to tell you a few days ago. The village committee has already measured it. Now I will measure it again. If there is no problem, just sign and pay."
"Oh, how old are you?"
"I've been given this piece of land, about a little over two acres."
"Ah! Is it too big?"
"What's big? If it's big, let it be big. Who thinks they have too much land?"
Father Ye also said happily: "Of course, the more land, the better. If you can't use it, you can also go to the mountain to pull a few carts of soil down and plant some vegetables first."
Ye Yaodong glanced at the sky. He couldn't finish the vegetables grown in the yard and the small patch of vegetables planted on the slope of the back door. He still wanted to plant them?
Whenever the old lady was picking vegetables, she would say something like "It's a pity if you can't finish the food" and ask them to push a cart out to sell it when they have time.
She also said that her legs and feet were inconvenient, otherwise she would push the cart by herself and go out to sell it.
They were busy drying fish inside and outside, while she dried vegetables there all by herself. If she couldn't dry or pickle anything that couldn't be put away, her neighbors and relatives nearby sent it around.
He just went back to deliver the goods, and the tractor was loaded with a full load. Otherwise, the old lady would probably have to put a few baskets of vegetables on it and let him take it to the market to sell on the way.
When the village committee was measuring the land, the villagers watching the excitement were also talking about it.
"How much area does this measure? It's so long..."
"Should I buy all this piece for him?"
"Ah! You have to buy such a large piece of land? It would cost a lot of money to enclose it."
"It must be several thousand..."
"Isn't this too rich? I have all the money posted on the wall..."
Lin Xiuqing also felt distressed. The labor to build the wall must be more expensive than buying the land.
Ye Yaodong followed the people from the village committee back and forth, and it took him about twenty minutes to measure the land. Only then did the villagers become convinced that he had really bought the entire large area in front of them.
"Is it okay? The numbers are correct."
"No problem, I'll sign right away."
Ye Yaodong swiped a few times and awkwardly wrote his name on the list.
Looking at the crooked words, he felt that he had to take some time to practice his name. Maybe there would be many places where he would be asked to sign in the future.
I'm a bit stuck with this hand of dog crawling.
"When I get home later, I will take the money and send it to the village committee."
"Okay, you take this list one by one and I take it one by one. You have to save it carefully. We will also keep the bottom and stamp it in advance."
"Sure, this is my land deed."
The people watching on the side asked curiously: "Is this good? How much does such a large piece of land cost?"
"Thousands of dollars!"
"Hmm...thousands of dollars? So expensive?"
"Oh my god, I sold my whole family for less than a few thousand dollars, and I'm so prosperous..."
"You just know that their family is prosperous? You will know it when you come back from fishing for jellyfish. Others are buying this and that, but there is no movement in their family. Now they come directly to buy land."
"If you have money then, it's normal to buy land..."
As they went home and returned to the village committee, the villagers who were watching also followed behind, talking and returning to the village.
It is estimated that this will be the topic of after-dinner conversation for the next few days, and other new gossip will come out every few days and will not stop.
After Lin Xiuqing returned home with the land deed, she felt happy because her family had another property.
She folded the list carefully and put it together with the shop's list, the previous land deed, and several contracts for booking fishing boats. She then opened the lists again and took a look.
"Boss boss, stop looking at this. Your mouth is watering. Hurry up and pay."
She smiled and turned around to glare at him angrily, "Isn't this taken out? So I just took a look to see if all these lists are there and if they are gone."
"Your keys are locked. There are people in our house all day long, and they won't disappear for no reason. Even if the village committee's list is gone, our list will still be in good condition."
"I feel sad when I think that buying a piece of land only costs 2,000 yuan, but building a wall is even more expensive. I really did what the guys said and put the money on the wall."
"If you think about it better, if you just sell the dozens of tons of fermented fish sauce stored in the workshop, you won't be able to recover your capital in less than a year, and you will still make a profit."
"Let's wait until it's sold. You've already got the money in your hands before it's sold."
"Being happy in advance can also reduce worries. There is nothing wrong with it. As a person, you should think about the good things. This can reduce a lot of unnecessary worries."
"You are all lying and using the same theory."
Lin Xiuqing checked the list one by one before putting it back. Then she took out other keys to open the wardrobe and the box.
Seeing her keys changed again and again, and the locks locked layer by layer, Ye Yaodong really felt safe.
After she took out the money, he also counted one dollar, one thousand each, and took back the rest of the money.
The couple were counting money and talking in the house. Father Ye and Mother Ye were also at the door, happily chatting with the neighbors on the left and right.
When your son becomes successful, your parents' faces will be the brightest.
It wasn't until they came out that Mother Ye quickly returned to the yard.
"Have you got the money? If you have the money, I will go to the village committee with you to pay it."
"Let's go."
The departure of the rightful owner did not affect the chatter of the neighbors at all. Everyone was talking around Lin Xiuqing, and all kinds of good words came out as if they were free of charge.
"What do you plan to do with the newly purchased land?"
"I don't know yet, I haven't made any plans yet. We have to discuss it before we discuss it."
Lin Xiuqing didn't want to talk too much about things that hadn't been done yet, so as not to spread the word.
"You bought it before you even thought about it? I heard it costs several thousand yuan. Isn't this just a waste of money?"
"Haha, no way."
Sister-in-law Ye smiled and said: "Are you going to use it to put fish sauce in it and make it into a fish sauce workshop?"
"Ah? Starting a fish sauce workshop?"
"Fish sauce workshop? Fish sauce is so cheap. It costs more than 10 cents to buy a bottle. You have to spend thousands of dollars on bare land and building walls. Can you make money with such a big investment?"
"More than that, if it's not open-air, you'd have to build a warehouse for fermentation. I think those big wooden barrels piled in the corner of your workshop would cost a lot of money to order. It might even cost seven or eight or nine thousand yuan.
Ten thousand yuan, isn’t this too harsh all at once?”
"You have to persuade your men not to take such big steps. We have to take it step by step. Although we have made a lot of money this time, we can't spend it like this."
"It was originally placed in my hometown, right? Then when there were too many, it was moved here, right? But you have fish sauce fermenting in the open space and drying fish on top, so it shouldn't affect you? Why spend so much money? Look,
It seems that your fish sauce hasn’t started selling it yet. It ferments faster when exposed to the sun in the open air, but it shouldn’t be that fast, right?”
Lin Xiuqing smiled and said: "It's still early, the sales haven't started yet, it's only been a few months, don't we have no plan yet? Just help us make the calculations."
"Isn't this because I care about you and feel sorry for you? I don't even have the money in my hand to keep it warm, but I have to throw it away. Isn't it uncomfortable?"
"Others spend hundreds or even thousands of yuan on some small household appliances at most. If you build a workshop as big as this, it will cost a lot."
Sister-in-law Ye said: "It's true. Wouldn't it be better to just ferment it in the original workshop? Isn't it still possible? Just have a place to put it. You can still make money by fermenting it this way."
"It should be okay. Anyway, he only needs a few yuan for the materials. I heard that those shrimps and fish can be covered for only ten yuan, and my mother is there to help with the work..." Sister-in-law Ye suddenly said a little sourly.
.
They are all cheaper.
Obviously their family also had a share, but the groceries were covered by Adong for only ten yuan.
She estimated that just grinding those dried shrimps would make a lot of money, not to mention the fermented fish sauce.
With such a large amount, if you don't buy land, you will definitely make a profit.
You don’t have to do anything yourself, others are helping you do it.
Lin Xiuqing also heard the sour tone in his second sister-in-law's mouth, "My mother didn't help us work for free. Just like my father, we also paid our mother wages, and we also invited the boys in the workshop to help us move and lift."
, help my mother ferment the fish sauce, and watch the venue."
"Those shrimps and miscellaneous fish are because Aguang and Adong have a good relationship. Adong also sold shrimps before. Aguang didn't think of throwing them back into the sea, so he just brought them back to him. Just calculate some gas money to save waste, and we don't
It’s all for nothing.”
"Besides, we also hold three shares, and A-Guang's family holds five shares. The right to speak is in A-Guang's hands. If they don't want to take it, it's natural for them to give it to us."
"Originally, it was something that no one wanted and was going to be thrown back into the sea. We chose it first, and that was right."
The sisters-in-law were always comparing themselves to each other, and they had long expected that the second sister-in-law would gossip.
Fortunately, there was only the second sister-in-law, and they did not participate in the eldest sister-in-law's family. Otherwise, both of them would have had opinions.
Father Ye also said: "It was Dongzi who was tossing it in the beginning. Since it can be of some use when he gets it back, why not give it to him first? At the beginning, he didn't raise any opinions. Now he is talking here and there. What's there to say?"
"
"I asked you to spend such a large price to order wooden barrels, hire manual labor, run a workshop, and wait for fermentation for more than half a year. Are you willing to spend this money? Do you think you don't need to spend money and energy on anything? Dong Ziguang ordered those
The big wooden barrel cost thousands of yuan, are you willing to give it up?"
"Do you think shrimps are so easy to make? Do you know how much firewood it costs to cook them? So I hired those boys to chop firewood all day long, then cooked them, dried them, ground them, and then transported them to the city.
Sell."
"You still want to take half of it and pack it up yourself and sell it to Adong, right?"
"Separate it from him and sell it to him?"
Second Sister-in-law Ye said with a smile to Father Ye, "I just said something casually as a joke, you can only say so much."
Lin Xiuqing also softened her tone, "Let me tell you, although those things are not valuable, they are large in quantity and require a lot of energy and other costs."
"Haha, that's what I said. If you have a larger share, of course it's you who have the final say."
Second Sister-in-law Ye felt that she was asking for trouble. After finishing speaking, she turned around and went to Sasha's door to find some work for herself to avoid embarrassment.
The other neighbors smiled awkwardly and also changed the subject, not mentioning the fact that they bought land to build a workshop.
"Now that you have bought the land, you should go to sea to work tomorrow, right?"
"Let's see when A Dong will finish his work. He has been running around since he came back, and he has not rested. He needs to rest at home for a few days."
"I have to rest at home for a few days. I have been back from Zhejiang Province for many days, and I haven't seen him."
"Yes, he hasn't been at home for two months, so he needs to know about the situation at home..."
After Ye Yaodong came back, Lin Xiuqing and Ye's father also followed him into the house.
Everyone went about their business and no longer gathered around to talk.
Ye Yaodong returned to the house and poured himself a large cup of tea before saying, "It's done! That land will be ours from now on."
"It's good that it's done. It means everything that needs to be done is done."
"That's about it. I'll wait for a few days to rest, then go to the city to drive the motorcycle back and order the tractor. It'll probably be over for the time being."
"When will the workshop start to be built?"
"I'll ask my eldest brother and my second brother later when they will start building the house. If they want to add an additional floor to the house, we will have to move back to our hometown for a month. If they want to build it right away, then first
Build a house, then build a workshop after building the house, and take turns."
"That's right. Let's wait until they come back in the evening and ask."
"And Dad, we are going to be very busy. We have to build a house and a workshop. We have to keep people watching. I plan to rent one of my two boats, and I will keep one in hand.
Boat, we can just take turns going out to sea."
Father Ye thought for a moment and felt that what he said made sense.
"Okay. Should I rent it to your eldest cousin first or to Ah Sheng first?"
"Let's go together, shall we? This will save you the trouble of either the aunt or the second aunt having objections and coming to the door to bother you."
"That's right. Two people have been working for you together for so long. Who to rent to first and who to rent to later is a problem. Anyway, one person can't do it. Two people have to go to sea to do it. Let them co-write it first. At the end of the year
When you get the big boat, you can share it one by one."
"Yes, I think so too. Although the second aunt is a bit difficult to deal with, Brother Asheng is a nice person. He has been working for a year and a half. If he saves more money, he will be able to find a more reliable wife by then.
, and you don’t have to listen to the second aunt’s nagging all day long, that whole family is unreliable.”
"Then I'll call them over and tell them to settle the matter early so that they don't have to play around all the time."
"Okay."
Ye Yaodong also asked Ah to calculate his wages for the past few days. Although he didn't work, he had agreed to pay for the work on a monthly basis. Even if he didn't work for a day or two, he would still have to calculate his wages.
Father Ye is anxious just because he is here. He should call the people over as soon as possible and the agreed wages will be paid by today. He can also send the people out to sea to make money as soon as possible.
It saves everyone from playing there and still getting wages. If you don’t go to sea for a day, you will earn less money, and you will have to pay an extra day’s wages.
Chapter completed!