Ye Yaodong felt a flock of crows flying overhead.
You are already old, but you still want to break up with me. How childish!
"Okay, now you two have company, so you two can relax here for a while. Guang and I will leave first."
Ah Guang also looked at them cheerfully, "Then you guys just squat down and take a break. After you've calmed down, you can get on the road. Dongzi and I will go first. Xiaoxiao just so happens to have another bike here. You two can ride back later."
It was a good opportunity to get these two idiots together, and they left quickly with ease.
"do not… "
"No, I won't carry him!"
"Mind you!"
"I'm fine, I don't feel much pain anymore..." Ah Zheng quickly covered his crotch and chased after Ye Yaodong.
Ye Yaodong looked at him with a frown on his face, "You still want me to give you a ride? I strongly suspect you are just trying to be lazy and not want to work."
"You yourself told me earlier to be smart and jump on their car!"
"Get lost! I told you to go back to the city and pick me up!"
"I don't care. It was you who told me to jump on their car. Now I'm upset. Tell me whether you are responsible or not?"
Ah Zheng looked like a dead pig that was afraid of boiling water, which made people feel helpless.
Ye Yaodong looked at him speechlessly and shook his head, "Come up."
"Oh, okay, okay~"
"Fuck, wait for me, I'm alone, what if I get robbed?"
They all left one by one, and Xiaoxiao became anxious.
"Isn't that perfect? You can come in last..."
They said this, but they were still waiting there and didn't leave.
"Are you okay with this? If not, come in and sit for a while?" A Guang asked with concern.
"I've slowed down a bit and feel a little better, but I don't dare to ride anymore. Can you give me a ride?"
"No problem, what about your bike?"
Xiao Xiao glared at Zheng fiercely and said, "Get off the bike and ride it back!"
Ah Zheng knew he was in the wrong, and he didn't feel any pain in his crotch anymore, so he pouted and said, "I'll ride if I want!"
After chattering and making a fuss at the door for a while, the four of them got on their bicycles and set off again. Director Wu had actually been standing at the door, watching from a distance, and he just felt that it was great to be young.
These young guys look full of energy.
Ye Yaodong didn't need to carry anyone, so his legs and feet were nimble enough to ride a bicycle, but there was a stick tied to the front basket, which was a bit of a hindrance.
Others feel the same way.
"Throw it away? Everyone's pockets are empty, and we don't have any money. It seems useless. It's quite a nuisance to leave it in front of you."
"Why throw it away? Just in case. No matter if I have money in my pocket or not, I will be beaten if I meet someone. I don't want to be beaten. If I really can't use it, I can take it back and use it as firewood."
"If you think it's in the way, just give it to Xiao Xiao to carry. He happens to be sitting in the back, so he can help carry it with his empty hands."
"That's right. You have to hold your shit back, and the stick can be used after you take it back."
"Can it be used? A shit-stirring stick?"
"Haha, what the hell~"
"God damn shit stirrer ~ hahaha ~"
“Hahaha~”
Three bicycles were riding side by side, chatting and walking. Everyone was talking and laughing so hard that the fronts of the bicycles were spinning around. Fortunately, they all kept steady this time and no one's crotch got stuck on the horizontal bar again.
It has been a long time since we have gathered together to play. In the past year or two, everyone has been busy making money and rarely get together. When we do get together, we just drink and have no time to go out and play.
It was a cold day and the wind was blowing hard, but everyone was still chatting happily.
Although there were rumors of robbery yesterday, fortunately they did not encounter any of them. They chased each other along the way and everyone returned home safely.
Lin Xiuqing felt relieved seeing that everything was going smoothly.
As the year draws to a close, not only have thieves become more active, not to mention robberies, there are even more beggars in their small fishing village.
One person came yesterday, and two people came today, all of them carrying cloth bags to beg. She could only scoop a small bowl of rice for each of them and send them away.
In fact, if she didn't come out, people wouldn't stay longer. The big and small dogs at the door were all barking around, almost scaring people to death. It was the old lady who stopped them and asked her to scoop a small bowl of rice.
There are people everywhere who are having a hard time these days, but they are content and will leave with gratitude after getting a small bowl of rice.
Lin Xiuqing was relieved to see Ye Yaodong return safely on his bicycle.
"Have the contracts been signed? Has the money been paid?"
"Well, everything is done. Just check the progress when you have time. Put the order away and lock it up."
Ye Yaodong unzipped his cotton jacket, lifted up his clothes, and then took out the order contract from his cloth bag and gave it to her.
"It's good that everything is done. Then in the morning the neighbors came to ask us if we can collect the dried fish in the evening. They collected all the dried fish in the past two days and basically they can be dried in the evening."
Ye Yaodong nodded, "Alright, then let's collect all of them and put them at home. We can put the things for the eldest and second brothers here, and collect them later. Let them pack them up and put them at home first."
"Otherwise, we have no place to put the goods after they are weighed, so they will have to be piled up at their house. It is better to wait for a few deliveries, and then weigh the goods at their house when it is empty. We are family, and the eldest and second brothers will not say anything."
The eldest brother and the second brother won’t say anything, for they are afraid that the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law will nag.
However, if you give a heads up in advance, even if you are not happy to keep the money, no one will gossip about it.
"Okay, then you go eat first. I'll go door to door to inform them and ask them to deliver the goods later. It's just right to finish the work in one afternoon, so we don't have to work too late and until dark again."
"It's up to you."
Their house is actually not very big, covering an area of less than 100 square meters. This is because they added a room for the old lady at the back, otherwise it would not be so big.
Like Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua's family, they don't have a yard, only two rooms and a main room, which makes it look even smaller.
Moreover, Ye Yaohua's house in the middle is sandwiched on two sides with no extra space. If they want to add rooms, they can only build a building on top.
After an afternoon of busy work, the wall of Ye Yaodong's main hall was piled with sacks as high as a person, leaving only enough space for walking.
The remaining goods that were collected could only be piled up in the rooms of the two children and the old lady, but that was okay, as they could still fit them.
It was wise to leave the goods from my two brothers' houses alone and not take them away.
Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua were also easy to talk to. When Ye Yaodong mentioned it casually, the two agreed without hesitation, saying that they could just call over whenever they needed it, and they didn't worry about being stood up at all.
"Then if the weather permits to go out to sea next time, we can continue to sunbathe, right? You still want more, right?" asked Mrs. Ye.
They have all tasted the sweetness and don't want to give it up easily, they just need to put in a little more effort.
"Yes. They may not necessarily do that. Anyway, you two families can show as many as you want. I want all of them."
Then they felt relieved and they could just pile up the huge amount of goods in the house.
Just when they finished their work and were about to eat, Ye's mother came back from work, sighed loudly, and brought them another piece of gossip.
"Did you know? It turns out that one of the robbers in the rumor yesterday was from Dongqiao Village next door to us. He teamed up with a friend from the village and a few young men in the town to do highway robbery."
"Originally, they were robbing people around the town, but later everyone became more cautious and never walked alone. They always walked in a large group. That's why they recently changed their route to the county town."
"Guess what now?"
"There was a tractor that just came out of the town and was heading to the county town when it passed near Chishui Village. These ignorant people actually tried to stop the tractor, shouting at it from behind and even fighting with the driver who was driving the tractor."
"guess what?"
When Ye's mother reached the climax, she slapped her thigh in excitement, "That's really the evil that got its comeuppance."
"The driver held on to the handle tightly and refused to let go. No matter how hard the man hit him, he just drove faster and faster around the bend, hoping to throw the man off."
"As a result, the tractor behind flipped directly into the ditch, and the large tire on the side crushed a person's leg, and the bone was broken on the spot..."
"Hiss~" Ye Yaodong took a breath, "Is the robbery so fierce? He even wants to rob something as big as a tractor?"
"I heard that the tractor was carrying several boxes of stuff. When the driver saw someone blocking the road, he thought they were trying to hitchhike, so he wanted to stop."
"As a result, the driver saw that they were holding sticks and looked unfriendly, so he stopped and planned to just run over them. Who knew that those people actually climbed on top of the tractor when it rushed over."
"Oh, you, what a sin! Your whole leg is covered in blood and flesh. The village committee has been talking about this for the whole afternoon."
Ye's mother said to Ye Yaodong with concern: "You have to be careful when you go out recently. It's almost the end of the year, and there is no peace anywhere. Those thieves can never be caught."
"I'm not worried about your elder brother and second brother. They rarely go out and stay at home to work. But you are the only one who goes out all day long."
"Also, you have to keep a close eye on the children at home. There have been more and more beggars recently. Be careful not to let them get taken away. If they are really kidnapped, you won't even know where to look for them." Ye's mother said this to Lin Xiuqing.
"I'll take it to heart. Eat first, mom. I'll get you some food."
"Well," Ye's mother looked at Ye Chenghu worriedly, "Come back after school. Don't hang around outside all day after school without going home first."
"knew."
It was cold and windy in winter, and without the sun, they didn't even step out of the house and stayed at home.
Ye Yaodong also had a rare few days of leisure. He ate and slept, slept and ate, and stayed in bed all day without going anywhere.
It was not until New Year's Day, when he had to go to the city to pay the shops, that he shared a car with his elder and second brothers and Acai and rode on a tractor together.
The agreed time for delivering the dried fish was the next day. He was originally struggling over whether to deliver it a day in advance, but after thinking it over he decided not to do so.
First, it seems inappropriate to deliver the item in advance before the agreed delivery time, as it will make you appear to be too anxious.
Secondly, he was afraid that it would be exposed that he was sent to the army, and the army camp was not something that could be known to anyone.