Uncle Ye glared at Ye Yaodong fiercely before stepping over the threshold. He still remembered that he had been choked in the morning!
After the two entered the house, Ye Yaodong and Ye Yaohua followed closely behind.
The woman in the house was clearing the table and washing dishes. Ye's father was holding his water pipe, planning to take a few puffs after dinner, when he saw his two brothers coming again.
As soon as Uncle Ye and Uncle Ye Er arrived, they walked towards the old lady and called her in unison, "Mom!"
"Well, have you eaten yet?"
"I ate it. Did mom eat it too?"
"Um."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes and asked even though he knew the answer. The Chinese way of asking questions is always to start with "Have you eaten?" It's really strange and it's the same in every era.
Uncle Ye Er glanced at Uncle Ye Da, who then coughed and said, "Mom, we came here this morning, but since you weren't here, we thought we'd come again."
"Did you come to see me specially?" the old lady asked knowingly.
"Ah, no, ah yes..."
He lost his composure before he even started talking. He couldn't even use his gun to act like a gun, so Uncle Ye might as well say it himself.
"It's like this, mother. Didn't the third child just catch a net of large yellow croaker and sell it for over a thousand? The boat was left by father and was given to the third child. He also repaired it. Even though he got the better deal, we didn't feel comfortable asking him to share it."
"But the children in the family have all grown up, and the house is no longer big enough for them. We want to borrow 300 yuan from the third child to build two rooms for the children to live in. What do you think..."
The old lady frowned, turned sideways, and put her ear close to him, "Ah? What did you say? I'm hard of hearing, please speak louder!"
“Hahaha~”
Ye Yaodong couldn't help laughing. The old lady was really interesting. She usually had sharp ears and sharp eyes, but now she was hard of hearing
The old lady glared at him secretly in reproach.
Uncle Ye was also embarrassed by his laughter. How could they not know that the old lady was hard of hearing
Father Ye put down the hookah and said helplessly: "You came to ask for money this morning, but now you are talking about lending it to me. Why don't you give up? I have three sons, and they all live in one room, with four or five people sleeping in one bed. I have to build a house myself to divide the family, so how can I get the money to lend you!"
"Then you should borrow less, and we can add some ourselves. Third brother, our grandchildren are much bigger than yours..."
"Is it possible that my grandson will never grow up?"
"You have a boat now, so you can earn more money fishing yourself than working as boatmen for others."
"How can it be so stable to rely on luck for a living? Your two sons have separated, so why should you worry about where your grandchildren will live? Just worry about your sons, and you can just have a place to live."
Since Ye's father had blocked his words, what else could Ye Erbo say
Uncle Ye did not give up. He said to the old lady who pretended to be deaf and dumb: "Mom, how about we pay the third brother to rent this boat? There are 30 days in a month, and my second brother and I can rent it for 10 days each. Is that okay with you?"
"I'm deaf, go discuss this with your third brother!"
Uncle Ye was speechless!
Ye Yaodong smiled and put his arm around the old lady's shoulders and said, "My grandma is old, please don't make her upset. It's impossible to rent a boat. Who will be responsible if it gets damaged? Although it's an old boat, it's also our family's treasure. Don't think about it. We just went out to sea once."
After hearing what he said, Ye Laoer suddenly had a lot of thoughts and started to back off.
Yes, these are old boats. Who knows if they can be used after being repaired? If it breaks down near the dock, it can still be brought back, or at worst it can be swam back. If it breaks down while sailing out to sea...
The hair on his body stood up just thinking about it.
He pulled Uncle Ye who was about to speak and said, "Forget it, let's not rent a boat. We can think of other ways to solve the problem at home."
"We are not outsiders, we will definitely take good care of it."
"No, this ship is old. Who knows if it will break down again after it's repaired? It's fine to stay on the shore. What if..."
Seeing that Uncle Ye refused to listen, Uncle Ye expressed his thoughts implicitly. He didn't expect that Uncle Ye was so brainless as to interrupt and shout it out.
"If it breaks down, I won't be able to get it back..."
"Puh, puh, puh, you jinx, you're cursing me. We're brothers after all, why are you trying to provoke me like this!" When Ye's father heard what they said, he jumped up in anger and wanted to throw his pipe at them.
Mother Ye also said angrily: "Bah, we are brothers after all, how can you curse our family so viciously just to borrow money?"
Ye Yaopeng was also furious. He stopped calling them uncle and uncle and pointed at them and asked, "How have we ever let you down? You don't wish us well and you curse us..."
“No, I didn’t… That’s not what I meant…” Uncle Ye also came to his senses and realized what he had said too quickly. He quickly slapped himself on the mouth twice and tried to explain.
Uncle Ye also quickly explained, "We didn't mean that. We are all family, how could we curse you..."
Ye Yaodong's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He had just fallen into the sea when these two people started cursing their family again. "Pooh, pooh, pooh, bad things don't work but good things do. Our family will surely be prosperous and make a fortune! You two, get out of here right now. You are not welcome here. If you don't leave, I'll kick you out with a broom. Don't blame me for what happens next!"
"No, we really don't mean that..."
The daughters-in-law in the family were also very annoyed, and they spoke angrily one after another.
"You just can't stand seeing our family doing well, so you're going to curse us if we don't lend you money or rent you a boat?"
"We are all family, how can you be so vicious and mean!"
"How have we done anything wrong to you? If you want to curse our family like this, you must not lose your conscience..."
Uncle Ye and Uncle Ye II were like people who had stirred up a hornet's nest. They were surrounded and questioned by a group of people. They had no way to defend themselves and could only keep apologizing as they were in the wrong.
"Alright! You are already old, but how can you still speak so stupidly? We are people living by the sea, how can you say such unlucky words? They are your own brothers!" The old lady slammed the table and stared at the two brothers with a serious face.
Then he muttered two more sentences, "Buddha bless you... Mazu bless you... Don't blame me, don't blame me..."
The old man believes in evil the most. How could he allow his family members to say such unlucky words, especially about his own brother
Uncle Ye and Uncle Ye were also panicked. "Mom, we didn't think so. How could we curse the third brother? We are brothers. Even if there is a big conflict between us, we can't curse him like this. We just talked about it together. We really didn't think so."
"I know you are stupid, but you are just a little too calculating. But you can't be too greedy or too calculating. Only by being kind can you be blessed. Go back and don't think about things that don't belong to you."
“Hey hey!”
Uncle Ye and Uncle Ye II left as if they had been pardoned, and they did not dare to stay any longer.