The crowd only gathered at the door for a while, and seeing that no one from the family came out for a long time, everyone cursed and said a lot of sour words before gradually leaving.
As a result, everyone in the village was talking about their family finding ambergris, and how big and heavy the ambergris they found was, and how much it could be sold for.
They also said that their family had turned their backs on people now that they had become rich, and that they looked down on others. A lot of unpleasant things were also spread.
It's like this in the countryside. Once something happens, it will spread throughout the whole village within a few minutes. And sometimes, even if the news is specious and has no basis in fact, it can still be spread very confidently and with details.
By the time he returned home with his hands in his pockets, listening to all kinds of sour gossip all the way, the villagers had already arranged for the Xu family to buy a three-wheeler and a TV, as well as to be rated as a ten thousand yuan household.
A useless thing, just thrown there, could actually cause such a farce. He almost laughed his mouth off.
As soon as he stepped into the house, his mother pulled him aside and asked him all kinds of questions.
"Dongzi, has anyone in our village really found ambergris?"
How could his mother know about it even though she never left the house
"That's right. I don't know what kind of luck I had to pick up such a rare thing. It's really pie in the sky. I've made a fortune." He happily told his mother about the excitement he saw in front of Xu's house just now.
"Hey, you really found a treasure. I heard it belongs to the ruffian Xu family, right?"
"That's right, I found a treasure for their family!"
Mother Ye slapped her thigh with regret, "Oh, how could God be so blind that he actually found it for their family? It's really a bargain for them."
"I'm so lucky!"
"That scoundrel of a family has made a fortune, so he must be so proud of himself. I heard that he will exchange the money for money and move to the city tomorrow."
Ye Yaodong: “?”
Why is it different from the version he heard
The villagers are really good at making arrangements!
"I had to walk around to find out. How did you find out at home?"
"Aunt Lan next door ran over excitedly to talk to her two daughters-in-law, and I happened to hear it at the door. There is the sea at our doorstep, how could he have picked it up? It's really... really..."
"What the hell... I said it for you, no need to thank me!"
Ye Yaodong said this with a giggle and went back to his room. Mother Ye rolled her eyes at him in reproach.
The old lady also laughed.
As soon as he pushed the door open, Ah Qing unexpectedly asked him in a low voice, "Was it stolen by that young man Xu Laifu from the village?"
Ye Yaodong smiled brightly, "That kid is used to stealing, I didn't expect him to steal from our house, I'll teach him a lesson when I have time."
Lin Xiuqing also smiled and said, "I heard my mother talking to Aunt Lan next door in the room. Word spreads so quickly."
"That's right. When I went there, I heard that they had picked up ambergris. When I walked all the way back, I heard them saying that they could buy a three-turn, one-ring TV. Later on, it was spread as if they had made tens of thousands of dollars and bought it back."
"Aunt Lan said they were going to move to the city to have a good life and not live in this country place like ours."
"It's so funny."
Lin Xiuqing suddenly thought of something and the smile on her face faded. "Will this sudden incident have any impact on us?"
"What impact can it have? We picked it up and thought it was useless, so we just threw it aside, and he thought it was a treasure and stole it back. What does it have to do with us? We didn't ask him to steal it. He stole our things, and I haven't even gone to scold him yet. How dare they come and cause trouble?"
Lin Xiuqing was relieved after hearing this. "That's right. If he dares to come to our house to cause trouble after stealing our things, beat him up."
"Um."
At this moment, Ye's mother's shouting suddenly sounded outside the house again.
"Hey, who the hell stole half of my longan? It's so damn terrible. He put it in the cabinet and still stole it. Which bastard did it? If I catch him, I will skin him alive..."
Ye Yaodong heard his mother cursing outside and opened the door to take a look.
"What happened again?"
After a few curses with spit flying all over her face, Ye's mother said, "I don't know which bastard stole two handfuls of longan. The quantity is obviously less. I didn't pick it up to check it before. I was just planning to peel the meat and stew it for Ah Qing in the evening. When I took it out, I found that the quantity was wrong. Ying's mother is so tender..."
"You didn't check it carefully just now. Check again to see if there is anything missing."
Fortunately, all his valuables were locked up in the house.
It’s just that it’s not popular to deposit money in the bank now, otherwise he would really want to deposit the money.
At that time, there was not even a postal savings account, and the post office was not called a post office, but a post and telecommunications bureau, and the postal service and telecommunications had not yet been separated.
Every household keeps their money at home. No one would feel comfortable depositing the money outside. Of course, they would feel more at ease if they kept their own money under their noses.
He is also worried about the current mechanism. What if the bank defaults on the payment after a few decades of deposit? This is not uncommon.
Mother Ye kept muttering to herself and began to check everything through the boxes and cabinets.
"The bird eggs in the bucket in the corner seem to be getting fewer. When I brought it to make snacks for Ah-Qing in the afternoon, there were still quite a lot of them. But this time, there seemed to be only a few at the bottom. I don't know if it was stolen by one person or several people. They are all so dirty..."
"With so many people coming to our house, if you steal things smoothly, who knows who took them? That's why I told you to go out less and play around less, and keep things at home private."
"I didn't go out to say anything. I was just afraid that your daughter would be disturbed when she was sleeping, so I went to the door to listen and attracted people here." Ye's mother was also very angry. "I won't let those people come to my house tomorrow. I'm so mad that they want to take away even the smallest things."
"I'll teach you a lesson and let fewer people come to our house."
Fortunately, the things stolen were not valuable. People nowadays have little education and cultural quality, so there are too many petty thefts. If something is lost, we don’t even know who took it.
"Okay, okay, go to sleep."
"Well, there are two pheasant feathers in the small bucket of seabird eggs I brought back today. They are pretty nice. I'll use them to make shuttlecocks for my nieces."
"They just play all day long. The rooster feathers that were plucked during this period were collected by the three of them. They play with each other every day. Now there is a large group of them. I don't know where they have gone..."
Ye Yaodong returned to his room amid his mother's nagging. He planned to go to bed early as he thought he would be busy for a few more days.
The next day he did the same thing as the day before, except this time he brought a slingshot with him. He was always unwilling to let go of the pheasant right in front of him.
However, when he was prepared, he didn't see a single one. Damn it.
I want to shoot chickens, but there are no chickens; I want to shoot birds, but I can’t shoot birds! My hands are not good enough, and my skills are not good enough.
I specially asked my son to borrow a slingshot last night, but I came back empty-handed and was laughed at by the kids.
He picked a large basket of wild strawberries in a depressed mood, hoping to bribe a few children.
When he returned to the beach after the sun rose, he was looked down upon by his father again. That 'I knew it' expression on his face was a bit discouraging.
Ye Yaodong pretended that he saw nothing and directly called his father to get on the boat to collect the traps.
We had a smooth fishing day at sea today. We were a little tired, but the harvest was very considerable and everyone was in a good mood.
To their surprise, when they returned in the evening, the village was bustling again and everyone had something exciting to watch.