Although he thought Brother A Sheng was a good person, he was not a big boss, and any money that slipped through his fingers was enough for him to live on.
My own accounts have not been settled yet, and there is still several thousand yuan of balance due for the ship.
He just made a little money, but his second uncle thought he was very rich. His attitude was different from before. He even kept nagging him to help his brother Asheng. Sigh~
I guess there are many people who have this idea, but they just haven't come up to him and said it.
When he really gets rich, he really wouldn't mind helping him out. After all, they are family, and he has a good impression of this hardworking cousin.
Now, we have to wait for him to get rich first. What he earns this year is not even enough to buy a boat. How can this be compared
Only when one person becomes wealthy can he lead others to become wealthy as well.
The faint light of the flashlight flickered and illuminated the way ahead of him. It was a cold day and there was no one on the road. There was only the sound of the whistling wind. The villagers had already huddled in their beds early.
However, the lights were still on in the houses of several families living near the beach. The men had all gone back to their houses to sleep, but the women were still killing fish.
When he reached the door of his house, he wanted to ask his mother to go to bed early, but he swallowed his words back. His mother couldn't stand him saying nice things...
Moreover, his elder and younger sisters-in-law were going out to sea with the fishing boat at night, so they really had to kill all the fish and dry them tonight; they couldn't leave them overnight.
Hearing the noisy movement coming from his eldest brother's room, he changed his words and shouted, "Ye Chenghu, Ye Chengyang, go home and sleep!"
"Ah? So soon? Eldest aunt and second aunt didn't call Brother Hai and the others to go to bed." Ye Chenghu hurried out when he heard his name being called.
"Why do you care what time they go to bed? Go home and get some sleep, or you won't be able to get up tomorrow."
"I'm not sleepy yet. I want to play for a while longer."
"You don't want the reward?"
"Okay..." Ye Chenghu was unwilling and reluctantly pulled Ye Chengyang out.
Seeing him surrender so easily, Sister Ye and Sister Ye became curious and asked, "What's the reward?"
Ye Chenghu proudly said loudly: "My father said that if I get two 100 points in the exam, he will take me to the city to play."
"No wonder Ah Hai has been asking his father recently, saying that his third uncle has been running back and forth to the city, why hasn't his father gone?"
"Ah Jiang is the same. He keeps asking why his father doesn't follow his uncle's example and go to the city to sell dried fish. He says people say his uncle has made a lot of money..."
"Can his father earn this much? The family's boat still needs to be operated. If he hires someone, he might not only not make any money, but also lose the goods. How can it be as easy as just talking?"
"Just give it to his uncle directly. It will save us trouble and we can make money without taking any risks..." Ye Ersao also said with saliva flying.
"That is to say, it is not that easy to make money. It is a long way to go, and you have to travel back and forth. You don't want travel expenses? You don't want energy? You just want to think about what others do, what does he want to do?"
"I guess he wants to go to the city. I'll have a fight someday when I have time. You dare to think about it? I haven't even been to the city or the county yet."
When Ye Chenghai and the others heard Ye Chenghu yelling, they ran out to listen to what they were saying. However, they heard that they were going to be beaten up. They immediately shrank back and shuddered.
Ye's mother also said: "It's better not to take Cheng Hu with you, otherwise his heart will become wild after going there, how can he go to school properly?"
Yes, that's right!
A group of children nodded wildly in the room.
Ye Chenghu's eyes widened, and he ran to Ye Yaodong, "Dad has already promised, you can't go back on your word, you can't lie to me, if you lie your nose will get longer."
Ye Yaodong patted him on the back of his head twice and said, "Don't go back on your word. I'm a man of my words. If you can get 100 points more times, I'll take you there more times and make others envious."
Ye Chenghu was happy, "Okay."
"Let's go home and sleep."
"Um."
He nodded heavily, and followed his father home with Ye Chengyang on either side. A large group of children in the back room looked at them with envy.
Their mother would just say she would catch them and beat them up, but Uncle San was nice.
Everyone is thinking, "Why am I not Uncle San's child? Alas~"
The next morning, it was still dark outside. The sun rises late in winter, and it was still pitch black outside at five o'clock. No one went out to sea at this time, so the three of them walked on the road with flashlights.
The village goes out to sea either at two or three o'clock in the morning or just after daybreak. When you walk to the dock, it is still very quiet.
Ye Yaodong had prepared everything and put it on the boat the day before, and had also filled up the boat with oil, so they didn't need to prepare anything today.
After using bamboo poles to push the boat away from the shore, the boat slowly accelerated.
Ye Yaosheng and Ye Yaodong stood together and said with a smile: "My father was indeed a bit nagging yesterday, don't mind it."
"Ah? It's nothing. It's normal for Second Uncle to worry about you. Everyone will love their son. You work so hard, you will get rich sooner or later!"
"Haha, I don't expect to get rich. Who knows if I have the luck to do that? Anyway, I can get to Hukou and live a good life."
"Of course, life is made by people." Ye Yaodong patted his shoulder.
"Dongzi, I want to ask if A Guang's boat is still available for rent?"
"What? You want to rent it?"
He smiled and said, "Yes, I have always wanted to rent it. At first I thought he wanted to keep one boat for himself, but later I saw that he actually rented it to Haozi."
"Now that it's been taken back, I want to ask if you still want to rent it to someone? It was raining a while ago, so I didn't have a chance to ask. I'm sure I'm reliable and I won't hide anything..."
Ye Yaodong said with some embarrassment: "I don't know if he will still rent it or not. He probably won't rent it, right? It's almost spring, and I'm collecting dried fish now, the profit is not bad, they must be thinking that they can make more money by running their own boat."
"They have already sent one boat out, so they probably won't send another one out, unless they buy another one, or they don't really want to do this anymore. Uncle Pei wants to retire, so maybe they will do that."
Ye Yaosheng nodded, and his face didn't show disappointment, which was also expected.
"I see. I think so too."
"Um."
Ye Yaodong was also thinking that after he got the big ship, he would not be able to take care of it and would definitely have to ask his father to take care of it. Then he would see whether his father wanted to drive it himself or just learn from A Guang and the others.
If he wanted to collect rent like A Guang and the others, he would ask Brother A Sheng to do it, so that the wealth would not flow to outsiders. His father could just stay at home to collect the rent, as his father was old anyway.
"Pray to Mazu more often then. A person's luck will not always be bad. It will get better."
"Hmm... I hope so..."
As they chatted, the sky began to turn pale, the darkness gradually dispelled, the view became wider, and there was no need for flashlights anymore.
As the sky gradually brightened, the three people on the boat discovered that there was a small wooden boat floating not far away. The shape was very similar and could be recognized at a glance.
The three of them's eyes lit up.
"There's a boat!"
Father Ye also quickly turned the bow of the boat and headed towards the small wooden boat.
There was no human figure seen above, and it was obviously ownerless. I don’t know if it had lost contact, so there was only a small boat floating on the sea.
Ye Yaosheng said happily: "I didn't expect that I could pick up a small wooden boat for free just after sailing out, and before I even got to the destination. The yellow paper I burned just now was not in vain."
"Let's get closer and take a look."
Ye Yaodong was not as happy as he was. No one knew how long the boat had been drifting. Who knew if it was still useful
As the fishing boat approached, Ye's father gradually slowed down. The two men saw the fishing boat clearly before Ye's father did. They immediately got goose bumps and expressions of disgust appeared on their faces.
"Ugh~ What's on there? Why is it so disgusting?" Ye Yaodong was extremely disgusted.
"I don't know. It can move. That long thing looks like a sandworm, but it won't crawl onto the boat. Sandworms grow on the beach. This one looks disgusting."
Ye Yaosheng also felt extremely uncomfortable looking at the densely packed and still wriggling things on it. Each one looked like a long earthworm, and the dense crowds of them were extremely disgusting.
It's because they have good eyesight...
After seeing it clearly from a distance, Father Ye also stopped and hesitated whether to get closer. He also felt that the things moving there were too disgusting.
He walked towards the two of them and shouted, "What's that thing on there? Do you see it clearly? Do you recognize it?"
“I don’t know. The whole ship is covered with them. They’re scarier than the rocks on the shore… Oh, no, they should be covered with barnacles.” Ye Yaodong reacted instantly.
Ordinary insects cannot survive in the sea. No one knows how long this ship has been drifting in the sea, so it is normal for it to be attached to barnacles.
The whole ship is filled with secrets, probably various species of barnacles and shellfish.
Ye Yaosheng rubbed the goose bumps on his arms. "It should be true that there are barnacles, but what are those long strips of flesh that are covered with barnacles and tightly covered... "
"Meat from various barnacles?" Father Ye was also inclined to believe that those wriggling strips of meat were the tentacles of barnacles.
"It should be right. Let's take a closer look. There's no need to get closer. It's floating over here slowly with the wind."
"Then take a look first."
Ye Yaosheng said: "I'll go get a long hook and wait until I get closer so that I can hook it over easily."
"The long hook is over there in the corner."