"You think you are the Jade Emperor, and you can speak with all your might. Forget it. If you really want to speak with all your might, then you can just lie at home and do nothing but dream."
"I want to, too! But there's no money falling from the sky. I've been lying in bed for half my life without any money. I have to do it myself." Ye Yaodong retracted his head and sat up straight, saying half truthfully and half jokingly.
It is indeed true. Compared to the years I lived in my previous life, I have indeed lived half of my life now.
Lin Xiuqing rolled his eyes at him and said, "If you lie down any longer, your wife and children will be left hungry."
"Well, I will definitely not let you go hungry again. Collect all the money, lock up the big bills, and put the small change in the cabinet. The fish that everyone has will be almost all dried by tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, so I will collect all of them by then."
"Take out the 5,000 yuan and put it in a cloth bag and lock it. I'll unlock it when you go to pay tomorrow. Tomorrow morning, right?"
Ye Yaodong helped her get the coin off the bed and said, "Well, we agreed to do it tomorrow morning."
"Then we have to pay a deposit of 5,000 here, and another 5,000 to the store for the balance. We are spending more than we earn! There is not a single person with a salary of 10,000 yuan in the surrounding area, and we have already paid 10,000 yuan in one go."
"This shows that you are a great man!"
"Yeah, you can earn and spend."
"No problem! I spend money so that I can earn more in the future."
"You're the only one who can say..."
When she was about to glare at him while talking, Ye Yaodong quickly kissed her on the lips. Although she still glared at him, her expression was filled with anger and smile.
"I'll go get you some water to wash your feet. Wash your feet and go to bed early. You went out at night and didn't come back until dark. You're busy enough. You must be exhausted from running around outside all day long. Wash your feet and go to bed early. Have a good sleep."
"Um."
Men are treated better these days, even the water for washing your feet is served to you.
But you have to make money. If you don't make money, you will just lie at home every day. Will they bring you foot washing water? It's good enough if they don't splash it on your face.
The next morning, after a simple breakfast, Ye Yaodong took the money he had prepared yesterday and went to the village to get a certificate.
Buying a boat is a big deal and needs to be paid for in installments, so I still have to get a certificate from the village before they will feel comfortable building it.
He carried the bag close to his body as usual and only went to call his friends after he got on his bicycle.
Since someone was robbed yesterday, he couldn't go out alone today. The money in his pocket was not fifty or five hundred yuan, but 5,000 yuan! Exactly!
Even if he sold his friends, they wouldn't be worth that much money.
Find a few more people to go out with you. There will be strength in numbers. If you really meet the enemy, people will be afraid of him. Besides, if you run away, uh uh uh... he will have more people to take the blame.
Anyway, they are not going out to sea, so they are just sitting around at home doing nothing. It would be a good idea to find them something to do, so that they don't get rusty or become lazy just lying around at home.
The night before yesterday, they were drinking and complaining that he was not fair in not taking them with him. They also wanted to go to the shipyard to take a look and broaden their horizons, so it was a good opportunity to take them along.
It's just... too damn heavy!
Those bastards were running fast at everything, but he was just a little step slower and was blamed.
"Li Xiaozheng, you are too stingy, aren't you? Xiaoxiao said the day before yesterday that she wanted to buy a bicycle, and she rode it back yesterday. You put all the money you earned into your own pocket for retirement? You can't even afford to buy a bicycle?"
"Haha, isn't it Chinese New Year not yet? I plan to buy another one before Chinese New Year to show off. Otherwise, if I buy it too early, it will be bad to leave it there to collect dust. I'll be out at sea all day and won't go anywhere. It's better to buy it later so that I can ride it for longer in the future."
"Fuck, how long do you want to ride if you live by the sea? For a lifetime? There are only a few days left, so buy it sooner and enjoy it sooner."
"No, that won't work. My wife said that we have to be thrifty in life. She won't let me buy it now. I have to wait until the New Year to buy it."
"Fuck you, after you got a wife, she's the one who tells you everything. Are you horny? My wife is the best. She listens to me in everything..."
Ah Zheng sat behind him and rolled his eyes secretly. How dare you say that? He also talked about wife and so on every day.
You think everyone has a wife!
However, now he still has to rely on others to give him a ride, and he is very aware of the current situation!
"Brother Dongzi, you should have ridden a long way away in the time it takes you to say this. Didn't you see that the two of them have already run far away, and you are still riding leisurely here? They might even laugh at you for being a coward!"
"Is it them or you? Why do I feel like you are laughing at me in your heart?"
"That's impossible! I have to rely on you now. We are in the same car. How dare I laugh at you?"
"You should be smart and buy a car right away. It's only one or two hundred yuan. Why do you have to wait until the Chinese New Year? Don't you know that people are waiting for the Chinese New Year to raise prices and slaughter you? What things don't increase in price during the Chinese New Year?"
"That's right, that makes sense!"
Ye Yaodong looked at the two cars in front that had already run more than 20 meters away, gritted his teeth, and pedaled hard to catch up.
"Remember to be smart when you come back and jump on their car early. No, no, it's your turn to give me a ride!"
He has pedaled so hard, it should be his turn to sit on the bike when we go back, right
Ah Zheng was secretly thinking that he had to be more careful when going back to see whose car he was jumping into.
Ye Yaodong tried his best to catch up, but he couldn't. He could only keep a distance from her and gave up.
They also knew that they might encounter robbers on the road, so when riding in the front, they kept their eyes and ears open.
However, I don’t know if it’s too early, Jie Dao hasn’t gotten up yet, or is he taking a day off today? Or maybe he intercepted an order yesterday and didn’t spend it all, so he’s temporarily closed today.
Anyway, they were safe along the way and arrived directly at the shipyard without encountering any problems. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
A Guang and Xiao Xiao arrived first. They were not in a hurry to go in and waited at the door for a while before they saw Ye Yaodong coming slowly on his bicycle.
"You didn't eat. It took you half a day to get here!"
"Why don't you try to carry one person? It's too heavy."
Ah Guang held a stick in his hand and swung it a few times. "The road is pretty safe. Yesterday, there was a rumor in the village that it was almost New Year and there would be robberies. So when we went out, we specially brought a stick each, but it was completely useless."
"Just in case. What if I get robbed? I don't want to get beaten."
Ah Zhengyi said sternly: "It's okay for you to get beaten up, but I hope Dongzi doesn't get robbed of the money he used to buy the boat."
"Conscientious words are so heartwarming!"
"of course."
Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "You really have a sense of the overall situation! Okay, when we go back later, if we encounter a robbery, let Dongzi push you out of the car to provide cover. This will buy us some time to escape."
Ah Zheng was so upset that he suddenly felt that hitchhiking was not safe? He was bullied because everyone had a car.
"Okay, lock up your bikes, and let's go in. I'll show you around."
"Okay! Then I'll have to rely on Boss Dong later!"
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes fiercely, "I will sign a slave sale agreement with Director Wu later and see how much money it can get?"
"How cruel! No wonder he asked his brothers to come along..."
A few people walked and joked as they went into the factory. Ye Yaodong walked in as if he knew the way and even said hello to the old security guard.
Then, without waiting for Director Wu to come out, he took them on a tour, introducing each one of them one by one. It felt like it was his own factory, and he didn't treat himself as an outsider at all...
After seeing this, Director Wu followed behind with a smile and did not disturb them.
Only after the tour was over did they sit down, sign the contract and pay the money.
"Do you understand everything, Dongzi?" Xiaoxiao had only been to school for a few days, nor had she attended any literacy classes. When she saw these words, she felt like they were written in a foreign language.
"Nonsense, how can I sign if I don't understand? Besides, didn't Director Wu explain it point by point just now?"
Ah Zheng was also scratching his head, "It seems that it is not very convenient for me to be illiterate. I can't even understand what I read."
"That's why I usually tell you to read more and brag less. But when I asked you to go to a literacy class with me, you all refused to do it, as if you were going to the guillotine."
"Think about it, if you become a big boss in the future, and someone gives you a contract to sign, and you can't read, and you ask them what it says? Isn't that a joke?"
"If I knew how to read, I could just read it from beginning to end and then sign my name. It would make me look like a boss, no, like a boss, wouldn't it?"
"Just like Director Wu, he looks like a cultured person, a model... a successful person."
Fortunately, he stopped talking quickly and didn't say anything.
Director Wu also looked at them with amusement.
Ah Guang stroked his chin and said thankfully, "Fortunately, I didn't go along with you guys. After being severely beaten by my father, I went to school obediently. At least I managed to graduate from the fifth grade of elementary school and learned all the characters. When I become a boss in the future, I won't be laughed at for making mistakes."
Ah Zheng also scratched his head and said hesitantly: "Then do I have to go to a literacy class too?"
Xiaoxiao looked at them with amusement, "Are you guys dreaming too much? The factory manager is still here, and you're just dreaming. I don't know if you'll be laughed at when you become a boss, but right now you're already being laughed at to death."
"Well… "
Director Wu did find them a little funny, but he was a well-mannered man and just smiled.
"Comrade Ye Yaodong is right. We still need to be able to read. Knowing how to read is very useful and can save us a lot of trouble. If we know how to read, we can go anywhere. Otherwise, we won't even know how to get on a bus and will have to keep asking people."
Ah Guang agreed, "Indeed, if we live in the village all our lives and fish, then it doesn't matter whether we know how to read or not. But if we travel back and forth to other places, not knowing how to read will not be enough."
"That is to say, I go to the city every few days because I have someone to rely on!"
Ye Yaodong also hopes that his friends’ future paths will become wider and wider, and that they will surely live a better life in this life than in the previous one.