After confirming that he had borrowed the boat, Ye Yaodong felt relieved and walked leisurely towards home. However, halfway there he remembered that the construction of the house would start tomorrow, so he turned around and headed towards the homestead.
Today it was his second brother's turn to go out to sea with his father, and his eldest brother stayed at home. After breakfast, he said he wanted to go to the mountain to pick up loess. I don't know how much he picked up. It's really a bit embarrassing to talk about it...
There is a reason why people's lives are getting better and better, they get rich through hard work. But today is the first day of the new year and it is a rare tide, and the boat has already been borrowed, so his elder brother can only work harder.
Thinking of this, he could no longer be leisurely and quickened his pace.
When they arrived at the homestead, there were piles of yellow soil half a person high all around, but there was no sign of his elder brother. There was only a large pot of tea placed under a shady tree nearby. He was probably out fetching soil again. He leaned against the tree, thinking that he might go and lend a hand later.
After being reborn, his mentality has already been very positive.
After waiting for only a few minutes, he saw his elder brother coming over pushing a two-wheeled ash truck.
“Brother!”
Ye Yaopeng looked up and smiled, "Why are you here?"
"Come and have a look. Work will not start until tomorrow. Why are you working with loess so early in the morning?"
He wiped the sweat from his forehead, took another sip of tea, and then said, "I didn't go out to sea today, and there's nothing to do at home, so I wanted to go get some more loess. I'll need it later anyway. If I start working on this residential land tomorrow, it won't be considered early."
"Since you have to hire someone to do the work anyway, you can just do the easier tasks yourself."
"This is the easy work. When work starts tomorrow, the workers who do the rough work will have to dig holes, chisel stones from the mountain, and carry the stones down the mountain for the masters to chisel them flat. Carrying loess is already considered the easy work."
Ye Yaodong frowned and nodded, "Okay, I'll go up the mountain with you and give you a hand."
Ye Yaopeng looked at him in surprise, "You want to help?"
"You don't want my help?"
I'm depressed. I wanted to help with a little bit, but everyone was so surprised.
"Haha, okay, then come with me up the mountain to help you swing the hoe. We can push a few more carts today." It was rare for the third brother to take the initiative to ask to help with the work, so how could he possibly push the carts out.
"I'll just work for a while, and I'll be back at ten o'clock. I have something else to do in the afternoon."
Ye Yaopeng smiled awkwardly for a moment, it turned out that he was overthinking. The third brother just came here to take a look. It was already 8 o'clock, and he didn't want to work seriously. Just like that, why did he change his personality
But it's good that he can come over and help a little, which shows that he is serious about building the house. It's better than not being seen all day before. At night, I heard from his wife that the third child went to help with the sea fishing these days, which shows some progress.
"Okay, then you can come with me and help. Tomorrow the house construction will start and you should stop running around. Tomorrow it's my turn to go out to sea with Dad. I'm the only adult man at home, and Mom and the others have to cook for the workers. They will definitely be too busy to handle it."
"I know."
Ye Yaodong didn't know what his elder brother was thinking. Even if he knew, he wouldn't take it to heart, because this was the effect he wanted. A person's transformation cannot be too big or too sudden.
After Ye Yaopeng emptied all the dirt in the ash bucket truck, he took the handlebars and said, "Let me push it. You lead the way."
"good."
Although the gravel dirt road is not easy to push, the ash bucket truck is empty and it is quite easy to push. In the past few years, when people built houses, they carried loess and gravel from the mountain on their shoulders.
These materials don't cost any money, just manpower needs to go up the mountain to pick them up.
At that time, cement was not used to build houses. Instead, loess from the mountains was mixed with sand, then spread on stones and piled up to dry. Not many bricks were used. After all, people felt that stones were free and the houses built were sturdy.
In the case of a building, bricks are only used on the second floor, because stones are too heavy and too high to be stacked, and bricks are not as convenient.
In fact, there is no difference in price between the two. Although bricks cost money to buy, stones also cost money to hire someone to move them, and the wages of the craftsman who carves them are even more expensive.
Although it was the morning sun, it was still scorching. After just walking a short distance, Ye Yaodong was already sweating profusely.
As soon as Ye Yaopeng reached the destination, he picked up the hoe and said, "I happened to have two dustpans with me. I'll do the hoeing. When it's full, you can pour it into the ash bucket truck."
"good!"
There were two dustpans, one was full, Ye Yaodong picked it up and emptied it, while Ye Yaopeng continued to use the other one to fill it. The two of them worked together, and they were indeed faster than when one person did it alone.
In a short while, the ash bucket truck was full.
"I'll push it back. Can you dig up some more soil for later use? It saves time walking around. One person can push it alone."
Ye Yaopeng nodded, "Okay, let's take turns. I'll push next time."
"Um."
He didn't mind pushing it, because he would only work for an hour or two and then go home, and he wouldn't push it many times. But what he didn't expect was that he actually flipped over...
He had only pushed the car a short distance when a rock hit the tire at the turn. As a result, he lost balance and the car flipped over...
Ye Yaopeng saw it and came over. He looked at him with a frown and patted his shoulder. "It's okay. Put it back. The road is not good to begin with. Push it a few more times and it won't fall over."
Ye Yaodong was really a little depressed. He had never pushed this car before, so he could only comfort himself in this way.
"It's a good thing you saw it. If Dad saw it, he would probably scold me again."
"If you work harder, Dad won't scold you. Take the soil back first."
He curled his lips. But forget it. How hard-working are his elder and second brothers? They will be scolded if they don't do their job well!
After loading, Ye Yaopeng didn't let him push it, lest it fall over again, "Let me push it, you go and hoe some more loess."
"Fine."
He is good at causing trouble but not being able to accomplish anything, so he is better at going to the beach to catch seafood!
After helping out on the mountain for quite a while, he saw that the time was about right, so he went back first.
After swinging the hoe for so long, he was already very hungry, so he hurried back to eat something to fill his stomach and prepare some tools for mining.
Seeing him coming back sweating and with a red face, Lin Xiuqing asked curiously, "Didn't you go to borrow a boat? Why do you look like you were working? You look like you were fished out of the water."
"I just went to work. I came out of Guang's house and it was still early, so I went to help my eldest brother."
Everyone looked at him in surprise. He actually took the initiative to help transport the soil
real or fake
Seeing everyone's questioning expressions, Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes and said, "Don't I have a share in the house? If I don't help with the work, won't Dad break my legs?"
That’s true!
It was only these few days that Ye's father went out to sea, otherwise the house would be filled with the voice of Ye's father scolding Ye Yaodong every day.