He quickened his pace and headed home.
As soon as I walked down a ramp, I heard someone behind me calling out, "Hey hey hey, pia pia pia~"
Turning his head, he immediately hid in the bushes nearby. Behind him, a man was pushing a cart and jogging down the slope. He rushed past him and fell down with a thud...
"Hiss~" He bared his teeth. I felt pain for the man. Fortunately, he was not in his seventies or eighties and could not withstand falls.
Just after he felt sympathy for others, he suddenly became sad. He raised his legs and was about to walk onto the road, but he found a ball of black cow dung on his rain boots.
No wonder he felt like he was stepping on shit when he stepped into the grass just now. He thought it was because the dead grass was too lush.
He looked at his left foot with disdain. Fortunately, he was wearing rain boots, otherwise this foot would be useless...
It's really bad when it rains.
He tiptoed for two steps in disgust, then realized that his feet were not touched because he was wearing rain boots and there was no need to tiptoe. He quickly walked a few steps, found a puddle, put his left foot in it, and scraped and rubbed it.
Looking at the water in the puddle, which changed from khaki to black, he walked forward a few steps and found another puddle to rub and scrape.
There wasn't much water in the puddles, and they weren't scraped clean. As he walked back, he stepped in every big puddle he saw.
As a result, as soon as he reached the door of his house, he heard Ye Chenghu complaining.
"Mom, my dad is playing in the water, and you told me not to play in the water."
"What? You still want to hit me?"
"Let mother beat you."
"Then I won't let you drink malted milk tonight."
Ye Chenghu's eyes rolled around. "My mom said that children can't play in the water, but she didn't say that adults can't. Dad is an adult, so rolling in the puddle is fine."
Ye Yaodong tapped his forehead and asked, "When did you become so smart?"
"It's malted milk!"
Now everyone laughed.
"You are beautiful!"
Ye Yaodong turned to his mother and said, "There was a typhoon last night and I don't know whose pigpen collapsed. The pigs ran away. Just now, my father and I went over and saw a new pig in the backyard. It also destroyed our vegetable patch."
"What?" Mother Ye stood up in surprise. Her hands were dirty and she had nothing to wipe them with, so she rubbed them on the basket twice. "Whose pig ran into our backyard and destroyed the vegetable patch? How can this be tolerated? A cat makes you poor, a dog makes you rich, and a pig covers you with a white cloth. I have to go and take a look."
She didn't even bother to wash her hands and hurried to the old house.
"Why are you running? I'll take you there on my bike."
"It's raining now, the road is so dirty and there's mud everywhere. Why ride a bike? Don't get the bike dirty." She just walked forward on her own.
Ye Yaodong ran back to the house, pushed the bicycle out, and chased after him, "Get on the bike, it's already dirty."
"You bastard, you don't even know how to take care of your bicycle. You ride it outside in this weather. Look at the tire and the sides, they're all dirty."
"What does it matter? Aren't bikes meant to be ridden? Come on up quickly."
Seeing that the bike had already come out, Ye's mother simply sat on it, but she still couldn't help muttering.
"Things will break easily in your hands, and you don't know how to take good care of them. Others treat them as treasures, and they are reluctant to ride them even if they can walk on two legs. When you ride them back later, remember to ask your wife to wash and clean them, as sea water will corrode them..."
"I know. If I don't ride it, it will get rusty if I leave it there. I've spent money on it, so of course I have to use it more often to make the most of it. Otherwise, why would I buy it and leave it there for show?"
"With your condition, you won't be able to ride it for many years. It will break down in a few seconds."
Ye Yaodong didn't argue with her. He let her talk as much as she wanted and didn't respond to her. She would stop after a few words. If you talked back, she would get more excited.
But after sitting on it for a while, Ye's mother couldn't stand it anymore.
"Stop, stop, stop. I'll walk by myself. If I continue sitting down, this road will shake me up to the sky..."
Although Ye Yaodong tried his best to ride to a flat place without puddles, it was inevitable that he would bump into some puddles. Ye's mother's butt was not stable on the back seat due to the bumps.
Seeing that there was another uphill slope ahead, Ye Yaodong had no choice but to put his mother down and let her walk, while he climbed down and pushed her.
After his mother arrived at the old house, the pig at the back was discovered by the neighbors, and everyone gathered there to watch the fun.
Ye Yaodong thought that it would take some time to deal with the pig, and his father probably didn't have time to clean up the house, so he might as well go back to his own home and take care of things first. He couldn't just throw away the mountain of shells on his wife and the old lady, his wife still had to cook and take care of the children. It was just a pig anyway, so it would be okay to just return it.
He stayed for a while, looked around, then got on his bike and rode back.
The village was full of children who were eager to play in the water. The sound of bicycles jingling all the way to their homes, and a group of people followed them to their doorsteps, shouting, "Bicycles, bicycles~"
When Ye Chenghu saw this, he immediately put down his work, ran forward, put his hands on his hips and shouted to the group of children: "This is my family's bicycle! My father bought it! You are not allowed to touch it!"
"Dad, let's move into our own yard."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, trying to push it in by himself, but he was too small to touch the handle on one side, and the other hand could only touch the front bar.
Ye Yaodong looked at his protective behavior speechlessly and patted his head, "Get out of the way. You're not even as tall as the car, and you still want to push it? If I let go, you'll be crushed by the car."
"Then push in now."
"Can they move the bikes or what?"
"Just don't touch me."
Lin Xiuqing stepped forward and said, "Let me push it in to wash it. It's all covered in mud. I also need to cook at the same time."
"Well, cook more. Mom probably doesn't have time to cook."
"knew."
Ye Yaopeng glanced at Mrs. Ye at this time and wanted to say something, but swallowed it back.
Whenever Mr. and Mrs. Ye come to their new home, they eat at Ye Yaodong's house. It seems to have become a habit and a tacit acceptance.
Ye Chenghu was satisfied when he saw the car pushed in. He looked at the group of children provocatively, then sat back on his small stool to help with the work.
Ye Yaodong didn’t understand what was going on in this little brat’s mind, nor did he understand his older brother’s complicated mindset. He chuckled a few times and sat in Lin Xiuqing’s seat to help with the picking.
After a long time, he still hadn't finished picking out all the things in the second sack. Looking at the five or six sacks still piled up in a row in the corner, he felt that he really had to wait until the afternoon, when some people would have to queue up.
After Lin Xiuqing entered the house, the old lady came out again and asked, "What's going on with the pig?"
"I don't know. They haven't come yet."
"Just return it directly if you find us. Tell your father not to ask for any compensation. Just plant the vegetables again and let them set off two firecrackers for us. It's not easy for them to raise a pig. After raising it for half a year, all of them ran away. This is a huge loss."
The old lady is kind-hearted.
"Well, not only one family's pig ran away, but also another family's. Finally, one appeared. Those two families probably have some arguments. Let's see what they have to say."
"Is it a white pig or a black pig? Or is it spotted? Is it easy to recognize? They should be able to recognize their own pigs, right?"
"It's a white pig. It's hard to say. There are many people raising white pigs in the village. If someone's pig runs away, everyone wants to take one back to reduce the loss. They will definitely say it's theirs."
"If it really doesn't work, we can just buy the pig and raise it, and let the two families split the money in half. The pigs from both families ran away, and the loss is so huge, and it's hard to tell whose it belongs to. At least everyone can get half, so that we can reduce the loss for each other."
Ye Yaodong gave the old lady a thumbs up and was about to speak when Ye Yaohua spoke first, "This is a good idea. We have been raising the pigs for more than half a year. They will be ready for sale by the end of the year. We can then kill them for the New Year. If they are sows, we can even keep them for breeding."
Mrs. Ye suddenly had an idea and asked Ye Yaodong, "Is it a boar or a sow?"
"male."
She was a little disappointed. It would be better if it was a female, but she still said, "Let's talk to our parents. If they don't want to raise it or don't have time, they can let us raise it. We can buy it cheaply. It has trampled on our vegetable garden, so we should compensate it, right? It should be cheaper, right?"
Ye Yaohua thought for a moment and said, "That's fine. Dongzi has some stones left from building his house. I'll go to other people's houses and take some of them. I can build a pigpen myself. Next spring, we can catch two pigs, one male and one female."
Sister Ye also wanted something. She couldn't help but said, "The old lady's small house in the old house is no longer inhabited. We can knock down half of the wall at the gate and use it as a pigpen to raise pigs. Mother should be able to raise pigs herself."
"Mom has to go to work, so how can she have time? I happen to be free at home, so I'll go to the old house and talk to her. The old lady's idea is better." Mrs. Ye said as the wind came to rain, and immediately wiped her hands and was about to go back to her old home.
Ye Yaodong also wanted to eat domestic pigs, but it was too troublesome for him to raise one. He had to clean the pigpen every few days, and it was smelly, which made his whole family miserable.
It would be fine if his second sister-in-law raised one, or he could buy a ready-made one. Anyway, domestically raised pigs are very kind nowadays. I just don't know if it will work. It was just something the old lady said casually.
Unexpectedly, by lunch time, they had not returned yet.
Just as he was about to ride his bike over to take a look after finishing his meal, he ran into Mrs. Ye who was running out in a hurry at the door. He wondered for a moment, when did she come back? Why didn't his parents come back
"Second sister-in-law? When did you come back? Where are my parents?"
"My parents said that we should cook noodles in the old house and tidy up the house. We should come back after the old house is ready. Otherwise, we won't be able to sleep well at night."
"What does the pig say?"
Mrs. Ye smiled and said, "Thanks to the old lady's idea, when I went there, the two families who had lost the pig were about to fight. They both claimed that it was their family, and they grabbed each other's clothes and were just about to punch each other."
"Neighbors were trying to stop the fight, and I didn't dare to step forward. Someone from the village committee came and pulled them apart, and then I told them about the old lady's idea. Then the village came out to negotiate for them, and the matter was resolved. Otherwise, they would have fought again."
"How do you sell pigs?"
"I gave them a 10% discount on the price of live pigs as compensation for the vegetable fields and as a thank you. I also asked them to set off a string of firecrackers for the old house. I won't say any more. I'm going to send the money over right away."
Seeing that his second sister-in-law ran faster than a rabbit, Ye Yaodong didn't call her.
But what I didn’t expect was that the fight didn’t break out, but in the afternoon I heard that the two families beat up another family.
A black pig ran to someone's doorstep. It was discovered early in the morning, caught and put back in the owner's pigpen. In the afternoon, it was found by a neighbor, who insisted that it was his and refused to return it.
Do you have pigs? How many pigs do you have? If your neighbors don't know, you can't just let it go.
Even Ye's father couldn't help but feel lucky after hearing this. Fortunately, his greedy thoughts at that time were only a flash in his mind, and he just wanted a little compensation afterwards.
The old lady also said: "We shouldn't take advantage of others, as they are already unlucky enough."
"Yeah." Ye's father responded awkwardly.
"Since you are going to build a pig pen, you can raise two more next year. It doesn't matter if you raise one or two. It's not troublesome or tiring, so just raise two more. This way, you can have some income at the end of the year."
Ye Yaohua also agreed with a smile.
Ye Yaodong felt that the old lady was kind-hearted and wise. Nowadays, few people are willing to take advantage of small opportunities. Some people even steal vegetables from the vegetable garden.
To others, the only problem with the old lady might be that she was partial to him, and Ye Yaodong felt proud at the thought.
But the old lady was not bad to her other children and grandchildren; she just treated them all equally.
But now I am more concerned about my eldest cousin and second cousin's family. I often visit them and give their children pocket money so that they can buy candies. The children are the most pitiful ones because of the sins committed by adults.