It seems that his ideas come one after another, and his home gradually has more things than other people's homes, which also shows that he is not doing anything reckless.
But you have to eat slowly, bite by bite. You can't become a fat man in one breath.
"Let's take our time, shall we? He hasn't said he wants to sell it. After all, it's his old house. As the village chief, he's not short of money. He might want to keep it as a souvenir. Only ordinary people would consider selling it."
"That's what I said, so I just thought about it casually. I plan to do it this way for the time being, rent it first, and think about it later."
She nodded and felt relieved.
"How many pounds of fish did Zheng buy today?"
"About 2,000 kilograms, and I can show off 300 to 400 kilograms. He paid for the return trip, so it should be no problem to make a profit of more than 20 yuan."
"That's not bad. I can earn more than 20 yuan per trip. If the weather is good in a month, I can go a few more times and earn a lot."
"It has to be before he goes out to sea. Anyway, we don't have to worry about it. We can just wait for him to prepare it and sell it to us. He is going to go there again at night, but I think I won't go with him. I will just ask him to deliver the cart of dried fish."
Lin Xiuqing nodded, "That's fine, we can pay for his trip and split it between the two of us. It also saves us from having to pay for the round trip ourselves, and it can save us a lot of money."
"Yes! It would be nice to have someone to share the ride with. I pay when we go there, and he pays when we come back. Anyway, I have to deliver the goods and he has to buy the goods. It's a win-win situation."
After the old lady served him the noodles, she smiled and said, "Your friends seem to be getting more and more capable. You can ask them to deliver the dried fish at night. You can sleep more at night and don't have to work so hard."
Just as Ye Yaodong was about to agree, he heard a dog barking and Ye Yaosheng's voice coming from the door.
"Dongzi? Is Dongzi at home?"
"Is Dongzi back?"
Ye Yaodong stood up and looked towards the door, only to see that Ye Yaosheng was blocked by a group of his dogs standing in a row at the door and couldn't get in.
This was not the first time he came to the house. The dog recognized him and did not bark, but it was not familiar with him enough to let him in directly.
Ye Yaodong walked towards the gate and kicked the dogs that were in the way. "Go away. They're in the way."
Ye Yaosheng looked haggard and listless, and the dark circles and bags under his eyes were particularly heavy. It was obvious that he had not been doing well recently.
He thought about the gossip that his wife, his mother, and the neighbors had talked about in the past two days, and probably guessed the purpose of his visit.
"Brother Asheng, what can I do for you? Come in and sit down."
"Okay, okay." Ye Yaosheng had never felt so restrained before, and he exuded an awkwardness from head to toe.
In order to ease his embarrassment, he looked at the bowl of rice noodles on the table and said, "Want some snacks?"
"I just came back from the city. I haven't had lunch yet and it's not time for dinner yet, so I'll cook some snacks to fill my stomach."
"You have a hard time. Nothing is easy."
"It's OK, better than many people, sit down."
He sat down naturally, but didn't know what to say for a moment, so he rubbed his hands back and forth.
Ye Yaodong didn't want to laugh at him. Seeing that he looked embarrassed and awkward, he asked, "How's your discussion going? Is it resolved? What did your second uncle and second aunt say? I heard that it's been going on for a few days?"
He smiled self-deprecatingly, "The whole village has been watching the excitement for a few days."
Lin Xiuqing took a rag to the stove, wiping here and there, then turned around and said with a smile: "No one is talking about you anymore. Today they are talking about the thief from Haiqing Village and our family."
"Haha, today the folks finally stopped talking about me while eating."
"How did you solve it? Did you reach an agreement?"
"I'm here just for this matter. Well, the village cadres and the Women's Federation have come to your house to help mediate these past two days. They didn't come this morning because your house was robbed, but they came this afternoon."
"Because my breaking off the engagement caused losses to the Wang family and Wang Lizhen, now I have to compensate them 200 yuan for the loss of their reputation or something. Anyway, I have to give them 200 yuan as compensation, and the matter is settled."
Although Ye Yaosheng looked haggard, when he talked about the ending, there was a sense of relief in his tone.
The old lady said quickly, "Okay, it's fine if you cancel the engagement. Your father is not a decent person, and your mother is not a good person. Neither of them is reliable. Your previous wife was your mother who was always messing around with her, giving her this and that folk remedy. I don't even want to say anything about her, but in the end, she made a good person sick and died."
"It's better to cancel the engagement now, so as not to be dragged down and sucked of for the rest of your life. It seems that the family is not a good one. Let your third aunt ask for you later and find a good one for you..."
"Your Third Aunt is also very powerful now. She often travels around several villages. She knows better than anyone what kind of women are in which village and which family. She is much more reliable than your mother. You can't listen to your mother anymore."
After she finished speaking, she touched her pocket, turned around and prepared to go back to the house, but before she took two steps, she turned around again and did not move again.
She almost forgot that during the Chinese New Year, she wrapped all the money she had saved over the years in red paper and gave it to Dongzi. Now that she wanted to give some money to Asheng, there was nothing she could do.
Alas, I am too old and useless to save much money, and I cannot share it with my children and grandchildren.
The old lady sighed in her heart.
No one present noticed the old lady's behavior.
Ye Yaodong said to Ye Yaosheng, "It's good that it's solved. Do you want to pay the 200 yuan in one lump sum today? Are there any difficulties?"
Seeing that he came to his house specially and talked about his own affairs, Ye Yaodong was prepared.
Ye Yaosheng smiled awkwardly, and after two seconds he said, "Yes, I don't have enough money..."
"Second uncle and second aunt won't help you?" Lin Xiuqing asked in surprise.
The old lady came to her senses instantly. She was old and couldn't save much money. Her money should have been given to Dongzi.
But what about the second brother and his wife
After the couple cheated their own son, they just left it alone? The second son and his wife should pay for the 200 yuan. They can't let others clean up their mess after they have caused it.
She is old and almost half buried in the ground, of course she has no money. The two old people must have some money on hand, and it is only natural for a father to spend money on his son.
"Where are your parents? Ask them to pay. They are unreliable and reckless. They have already implicated you. Now they are reluctant to pay and you have to borrow money from everywhere. You are old and you can't take anything with you. Why are you still so stingy?"
"no… "
"It's nothing. He's old and doesn't think at all. His head is full of shit. He deserves to be scolded. If no one scolds him from time to time, he doesn't even know who he is. Let me talk about him..."
“He is reluctant to pay when he should, and he holds on to it tightly. His own son doesn’t care about him, so who will take care of him in his old age? I have to scold him. I’m going to scold him. He is reluctant to give 200 yuan…” The old lady became angrier and angrier as she spoke, and was about to walk out, leaning on her crutch.
Ye Yaosheng quickly stopped her and said, "No, my mother also gave me fifty yuan..."
"Ah? Fifty yuan... Why didn't she just give five yuan? This old fool, he doesn't know what's good and what's bad. He's so stingy even to his own son. It was obviously them who made the match, but he only gave 50 yuan. It's better not to give it. What's the point? They keep asking for money. The second son and his wife are getting more and more unreasonable..."
When the old lady heard the fifty yuan, she got even angrier. She had cheated her own son, but he didn't even take responsibility. She only gave him fifty yuan to get rid of him.
Ye Yaodong and Lin Xiuqing also hurriedly stopped the old lady, "Don't join in the fun... If you want to curse, let my dad call Second Uncle over later, don't run around with your cane."
"You are old, where does all the food go? My son doesn't help..."
Ye Yaosheng quickly explained, "Brothers, my father can't be partial to me. 200 yuan is not a small amount..."
"He already knows a lot, why did he agree? He didn't say he would give less. You've been giving that woman a lot of money over the past year. Shouldn't you calculate this as well? It's already late, and you still dare to ask for so much money? How much does it cost to marry a wife?"
"You haven't even found a wife yet, but you still have to pay for one. Your mother is blind, and she still says you're honest. You want to find someone powerful. Well, this is the powerful way. It's powerful for your family. Is your brain filled with straw or shit?"
"Their family was crying and making a lot of noise..."
"Is there no one at home? Aren't your parents usually quite noisy? Are they so quiet now that they can be manipulated by others? They are useless... They only know how to bully their own family..."
The old lady angrily stabbed the ground with her cane a few times, "Can you ask the village to adjust and give less?"
Ye Yaosheng lowered his head and said in a low voice, "Forget it? We have been trying to mediate for several days. It's too much trouble. It's no use to keep making trouble. No one can do their work."
"Just say you have no money and keep dragging your feet..."
"If you delay and don't pay them, they will come to your house every day, and no one can stand it..."
"Hey, you and your family really piss me off..." The old lady angrily slapped him several times, "It's a good thing I didn't rely on you guys to support me in my old age, otherwise I would have died ten years earlier. I don't care about you anymore. You guys can do whatever you want. I'm already halfway to the ground, who knows how many more days I can eat? Just mind yourselves, I can live a few more days."
After saying that, he went back to his room angrily, leaning on his crutches.
Ye Yaodong thought that it would be better to leave, so as to avoid being annoyed by what he was saying here. If he ran around later, they would have to worry more.
"So Brother Asheng is now 150 short, right?"
Ye Yaosheng nodded with a wooden face, "I haven't saved much money this year, so I can only come here to ask you shamelessly. I will work for you to pay you back when the time comes."