Ye Yaodong stood up and prepared to go into the house to eat, but he saw Secretary Chen coming hurriedly not far away. He had to stop and send A Qing and the two children into the house to eat first.
"Why is Secretary Chen here again? Did you just send someone away? Come in and sit down for a while and have a couple of drinks."
Secretary Chen began to sigh as he approached him, "You can really cause trouble."
"What does it have to do with me? Why should I bother with this? I can't predict the future, and I didn't call them here."
"So what do you think we should do now? Before these leaders left, they asked us to think about ways to persuade the villagers to agree to donate. Isn't this embarrassing? If I were in their place, I wouldn't be willing to let them move away either."
"Let's go in, have a couple of drinks, sit down and talk slowly."
Secretary Chen waved his hand and said, "I won't go in. It's so hot and I'm sweating all over. I'll just get some fresh air at the door first."
Ye Yaodong had no choice but to move a stool out of the house, and the two of them sat at the door, chatting while enjoying the breeze.
"Your door is cooler than the village."
"It's OK. It's hot now, with southeasterly winds blowing. Sitting at the door, the sea breeze is quite cool. It's even more comfortable at night, not stuffy at all. In autumn and winter, the northwest wind blows from the back of the house and doesn't reach the front, which is good."
"That's good," Secretary Chen said after a few words, and then returned to the topic, "Hey, can you tell me how to do ideological work for the villagers?"
"You ask me, how do I know? Isn't this your job?"
"Didn't you make this up?"
"nonsense!"
"You are the source, don't quibble."
"Humph, those people didn't ask me to do ideological work for the villagers. Besides, I donated to Mazu with good intentions to ask for blessings."
"Or, why donate instead?"
"Shocked!" Ye Yaodong stood up with his eyes wide open. "Are you kidding me? This is something from God, and you want to change the donation after donating it? Am I crazy? You figure it out on your own, don't try to trick me, I'm not a fool!"
Secretary Chen smiled awkwardly, knowing that he had come up with a bad idea. "I just said it without thinking. Haha~ It's a headache. Forget it. Let's talk about it tomorrow and let them figure it out on their own."
"Hmm... Do you think there are more things like this in the sea? Let them fish out a few more, or give them another tripod, so they won't be thinking about the big tripod of Mazu?"
Ye Yaodong said unhappily, "Do you think it's that easy? You can get whatever you want? I tell you, even if they can salvage some bronze artifacts, they won't let go of the big tripod. The tripod is not ordinary."
"That's right. Oh, I have a headache. Let's talk about it tomorrow."
Now Ye Yaodong didn't want to keep him. He just wanted to give him some advice and help him solve his problems. Humph, now he will have to worry about it for a few more days.
While he was eating, Ye's father came back after selling the goods. He also listened to Ye's mother tell the whole story. He didn't know whether she exaggerated or mixed in her own opinions, but Ye's father knew the whole story anyway.
"Don't get involved. If they want to take the tripod away, let them negotiate with the village committee and fellow villagers. We can't be the bad guys."
"Don't I understand this? I just need to cooperate with them and work normally."
"We won't be able to go out to sea for a few days. It's such a waste of time." Father Ye was also a little depressed.
"Would you like to eat something here? I don't have time to cook for dinner, so just eat what we had for lunch."
Father Ye waved his hand and said, "Your mother has gone back to cook. The old lady prepared the meal in advance. I can just go back and eat."
Ye Yaodong nodded and continued to eat his own food.
The next day, half of the workers from the Zhou family next door also came over to work for him.
It is said that the stones and loess collected during this period are enough, and the rest just need to be built. If it is not enough, we can go to the mountain or river to get some more.
The excavator masters didn't have much work to do, so they might as well give them half of the labor today, and let the workers pick the materials from the mountain. There was no need to ask them to buy it, just make the sand uniform. This way, with fewer workers, they could pay less wages.
Ye Yaodong had no objection of course. He thought he would have to wait for ten days or half a month until they were almost done before they could come to him.
One morning after he came back from chopping firewood, he sat at the door to get some fresh air, picked vegetables, watched the workers busying around, and waited for people to come from the county.
As a result, he waited and waited, and the whole morning passed, but there was no sign of anyone. He was very depressed. Wasn’t he told to wait at home
"Adong, haven't they arrived yet? It's already noon." Lin Xiuqing came out after cooking for the workers, also wondering.
"Who would have thought? They told me to wait at home and not go out to sea, but I didn't even see a single person."
We didn’t go out to sea today, so we could only sit and wait. As a result, when the sun went down, we didn’t see any people, not even a hair.
Father Ye also came over carrying a load of stones. He wiped the sweat off his face with the towel around his neck and said, "You didn't come all day. I was cheated. I wasted a day at home. If I had known, I would have gone out to sea at night."
"How should I know? Those people said they would come, but they didn't show up. I don't know what plane they were on, and they wasted a day on me."
"You don't make any money, but you still have to spend it. What's wrong with you? You too, money is hot to the touch. Why do you want to build another house? There are a lot of empty houses in the old house. Are you worried that the old lady will have no place to live? If you can't even live in it, you'll just mess around. If you can't save your money, just leave it with us. Your mother and I will save it for you."
Father Ye helps with the work and is a talkative person, and he always speaks out about anything he doesn't like.
"I didn't ask you to do it, and I didn't spend your money, so stop nagging me. Just pretend you didn't see it. Out of sight, out of mind."
"Do you care about me? I'm just afraid that you'll mess around all day and squander all the family wealth. Then there'll be no one to take care of your children, and you'll have to beg for food when you're old."
Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "Don't you have it?"
"You bastard, you're always worried. I don't expect you to take care of me in my old age, but do you expect me to take care of you in your old age? Don't wait at home tomorrow. Don't worry about them. Go out to sea at night. Make more money so that you can spend the family fortune."
He frowned hesitantly, thought for a moment, and said, "I'll go to Secretary Chen's house and ask."
As a result, Secretary Chen asked him to wait one more day tomorrow. If he didn't come to go out to sea again tomorrow, he would have to wait patiently for one more day.
As a result, the next morning, he was picking corn in the cornfield next to the house, planning to cook a few for the two children in the afternoon, when he heard his sister-in-law running back and shouting, "Those people from the county are here again."
"Coming? Heading this way?"
Ye Yaodong quickened his movements, intending to break a few more, otherwise he would be too busy to go out later. If it was any later, the sun would be brighter and he would not be able to go out.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Ye said, "No, they were stopped by the villagers at the entrance of the village and couldn't come in. I heard someone has already called the village committee."
"Ah? Why are we stopped at the entrance of the village and can't enter?"
"I heard that they were afraid that the officials would be unreasonable and move the tripod from the Mazu Temple away, so they specially put up a few nets at the intersection to prevent those people from entering. It was said that the old men in the village came up with this idea yesterday afternoon. As soon as they saw the group of people entering the village, they would put up the nets to prevent them from getting in."
Ye Yaodong was suddenly at a loss whether to laugh or cry. It was not you who stopped them. If you didn't let them in, they wouldn't be able to enter. The old men in the village were really scary and stubborn.
"It's no use. Once the village chief and secretary know about it, they can come in anyway."
Mrs. Ye also muttered, "That tripod doesn't look special. It's yellow and green and doesn't look good. Aren't there any in the temple? Why do you have to fish this one out of the sea? It's thousands of years old. It's just a tripod. It's worth a few dozen dollars at most. Why are you so obsessed with it?"
Mrs. Ye also didn't understand. "What kind of cultural relic is this? I don't know what to do with it. You can't eat it, you can't drink it, and it's not pretty to look at."
"That's right. You came all the way here, and you don't mind the trouble..."
Lin Xiuqing came out and said with a smile: "Maybe someone wants to take it back for research. It's rare that something from thousands of years ago can be preserved until now."
"That's true."
The three sisters-in-law were discussing something there, and Ye Yaodong was not in a hurry to run to the village entrance. Anyway, the village committee had already sent people and would be here soon.
Speak of Cao Cao and he will appear.
Only a dozen minutes later, the original group of people came again. The village committee members all had smiles on their faces and walked and talked towards their house. In addition, there were a few more tall men behind them. As soon as he saw their temperament, he knew they were soldiers.
The straight standing posture made him, a shameless man who was used to standing and sitting in an improper manner, feel ashamed.
"Comrade Ye Yaodong, I'm so sorry to have kept you waiting yesterday. I couldn't come because I hadn't arranged anything yet." The old director of the cultural center said politely.
"You didn't come yesterday and didn't tell me, so I waited for a whole day in vain. My father even told me to go out to sea at night. Fortunately, I thought of waiting for another day. What if you didn't come yesterday and came today, then you would be empty-handed again, and it would seem like I broke my promise. Fortunately, you came today, otherwise I would not wait tomorrow."
"I'm sorry, I had so much on my plate yesterday that I didn't think it through."
"So what are you going to do today? What are your arrangements?" Ye Yaodong said as he looked at the soldiers. He wondered why they brought soldiers with them
Being a bodyguard
Are you afraid that the villagers will be unreasonable and resort to violence
"Could you please take us to the sea area where you caught the bronze artifact? We don't know how deep the seabed is. We have deployed a few people who are very good at swimming and plan to try to dive into the water to see if there is anything we can find."
It turns out it was brought for diving.
"OK."
Seeing that they did not mention the matter of the bronze tripod, Ye Yaodong was happy not to ask any further questions to avoid getting himself into trouble.
Take them to that sea area earlier and retire earlier. No matter what they can fish up from the bottom, he has already benefited.