Chapter 1189

"People returning home in glory, what does it have to do with you? They won't invite you to drink, so what are you smiling about?"

Ye Yaodong said with a smile, "It doesn't matter if they don't invite me to drink; just invite me to watch the fun."

"What fun? Are they preparing to invite an opera troupe to perform a big show? Are they that rich?"

"Probably performing the big show themselves."

Lin Xiuqing understood less and less of what he was saying.

Ye Yaodong saw her face full of confusion and was just about to explain it to her when he didn't expect the two sisters-in-law across the wall to start gossiping one by one.

"Is it their family performing the big show? I've been wanting to watch it for a long time. Just waiting for that Haozi to come back and see his wife still at home—what kind of reaction will he have?"

"Right, right, right. There's definitely going to be trouble again."

Lin Xiuqing also understood after listening to the two sisters-in-law.

"Is that what you mean?"

"Yeah, is the rice cooked?"

"Not yet. You pick the vegetables for me; I'll go braise the meat first."

Ye Yaodong took over the work in her hands.

The two sisters-in-law next door also asked him what he saw when he came back just now, what everyone said, what kind of money they earned, and how much they earned.

He told them what he had seen and what the fellow villagers had just discussed, which ignited a raging fire of gossip in both of them.

And without waiting until after the meal, when it was time to eat, his mother came over and immediately brought the latest first-hand news.

"The moment he entered the door, before he even put down his luggage, his face changed. He immediately dragged his wife out of the room and threw her to the entrance, not letting her enter the house again."

"Then his wife sat at the entrance, crying and complaining with snot and tears. I was late when I went, but I heard it from the neighbors around them."

"There was a crowd of people standing three layers deep, besides those watching the fun, there were also those helping to mediate."

"The couple has lived together for so many years; there's no hurdle that can't be overcome. Of course, a husband and wife are better as the original couple."

"Although her family wanted to find her someone else later, didn't it fail? She returned home to take care of the children."

Lin Xiuqing also nodded in agreement. "Yeah, it's been so long; whatever happened is about over. For the sake of the two children, what can't they just make do with?"

"Nowadays, who gets divorced? Just make do and live. Now that there's money, life can be better."

Ye Mu agreed, "Right. If you ask me, it's just that they went out for a trip and their hearts went wild. Seeing the flower-filled world outside, they started to dislike their own home. Plus, after earning money, their wandering thoughts started to emerge."

Lin Xiuqing glanced at Ye Yaodong.

"Why are you looking at me!"

"No, I just thought of what you said when you came back earlier—that they made a fortune. I wonder how much money they hit? Outside? Did they find someone else again?"

Thinking she was implying something about him, Lin Xiuqing hurriedly explained.

Ye Fu chimed in, "Finding someone else is also normal. At that time, the two families made such a scene, and later, as soon as his injury healed, he immediately divorced and went out to earn money. It's normal to find someone else outside."

"Find, find, find. What's so good about the ones outside? You don't know their roots. They are with you because you have money. If you have no money, see who wants to be with you. Where is it like the wife at home, who guards you even if you have no money..."

"Right, that's correct. My mother is right. How can you find someone outside? Even if you're divorced, you can't find someone outside. Women outside only look at money." Ye Yaodong hurriedly expressed his loyalty.

Ye Fu hurriedly shut his mouth. If he said anything else, he would become the target of public criticism in a moment. He had experience with this.

The old lady asked curiously, "And then? You've already returned, so there should be a result, right?"

"Everyone helped mediate. The Wang family also guaranteed there that they would live a good life in the future and not cause trouble. The children in the family also stood with their mother and wanted their own mother."

"Later, everyone pushed them while talking, and pushed the couple into the house. His wife also quickly and nimbly went to cook. I guess this matter should be temporarily put aside for now, right?"

Lin Xiuqing said, "I reckon there will be more trouble. Didn't they come back after making a fortune? That group from the Wang family can't let go of a cash cow. Now that they've coaxed the couple nicely, they'll have to stir up something else."

Ye Yaodong gave his wife a thumbs up; she was quite clear-headed.

"Forget about them. Anyway, it's none of our business. Everyone there is saying they made a fortune and became bosses, yet they're still petty. When the fellow villagers said they would go to them for help and work for them, they didn't dare to make a sound. It's probably fake; they're back to swindle people again." Ye Mu said with some disdain.

Ye Mu didn't guess right on this matter; they simply wanted to return home in glory.

When they left, they were a bit dejected. Life in the village wasn't going well, so now that they had earned money outside, they naturally wanted to return gloriously to save face and regain their dignity.

Lin Xiuqing, however, guessed right.

The couple quarreled in bed and made up in bed; the next day, there was no more news of trouble.

When asked about the people in the village, everyone said the couple still had two children, so there was no hurdle that couldn't be overcome. Everyone helped mediate, and life naturally went on.

However, only two days of peaceful life passed before it was heard that the Wang family had the nerve to come to the door and ask Haozi to invest, to set up a small factory in the village, and that they would help him watch it so he could go out and venture.

Later, it didn't work out, and the Wang family said to let them follow him out to earn money and be his helpers, under the banner that the benefits should stay within the village and that the family should be the first to earn money.

However, this time, Haozi's own brothers couldn't sit still anymore and immediately drove the people out, even saying they would drive his wife back to her maiden home.

His own brothers hadn't benefited yet, so how could they let outsiders benefit first?

Originally, because there were quite a few of these messy things in Haozi's family, everyone had long been tired of dealing with them. Now that it involved their own interests, they naturally twisted into a line again to face the outside together.

Ye Yaodong had been resting at home for two days and was planning to go out to sea at night, but he just smiled when he heard the news about their family.

However, after he and his father went out to sea for a few days and returned, the talk in the village changed again.

It turned out that Haozi's brothers had sought out Haozi, demanding he pull them up and wanting to follow him out to earn money. Haozi pushed everything onto Chen Wei, only saying he couldn't make the decisions and was also following others to earn money.

Chen Wei was also being pestered by his own brothers, who wanted him to take them out to earn money. Recently, they had been making a scene, saying he was biased toward outsiders, that he had money to earn but favored outsiders instead of his own brothers.

And the village cadres had also visited them, wanting them to help the village. The village also gave them a bit of land at a cheap price, provided some welfare policies, and gave them some protection, letting them lead the development of the village and make the lives of the fellow villagers better.

When Ye Yaodong returned and heard Lin Xiuqing mention it, he laughed out loud, so happy he couldn't even take off his clothes.

"They have lifted a rock only to drop it on their own feet. Haha, I guess they should run away tomorrow. If they don't leave, the village cadres will be visiting them every day."

"Who told them to be so high-profile when entering the village, dressing so well? Plus, a while ago, when you guys returned from the provincial capital, it was rumored that rich overseas Chinese who made money all had to return to their hometowns to give back."

"Everyone's eyes are fixed on them, holding hope that our village can also have some industries so everyone can follow along to work and earn money."

The smile on his face deepened. "Let them show off when entering the village, earning a little bit of money and being so high-profile."

"Uncle Lin Seven, where are you carrying the hoe... hehe... just came back..."

"Aunt Chunhua, peeling potatoes, making lunch?"

"Ah Ming, why didn't you go out to sea to work..."

"Ouch, look at your outfit, made a fortune?"

"You guys went out and made a lot of money? How much money did you make?"

"Ouch, this suit on you shouldn't be cheap, looks really energetic, how much did you make?"

Ye Yaodong walked out from the small path, just seeing the two people seven or eight meters away from him, standing and talking to the people around.

He listened to two sentences curiously, looked at the village center shop not far away, and walked toward that side.

This is the information center of the village. Standing here, you can know all the gossip in the village.

He looked back from time to time while walking, pricked up his ears to listen, and then just walked to the entrance of the shop, watching others also pointing at the two people who looked like humans in front and whispering.

He asked curiously, "When did they come back?"

An aunt on the side was eating melon seeds and replied: "Don't know, just came back? Isn't this just entering the village?"

There are quite a few people who like to watch the excitement. Ordinary people who have nothing to do also like to sit at the shop door to chat, and some old men will drink two taels of wine, sit in the shop with peanuts and chat with people.

Or set up a game at the shop door to play cards. It just happens that the weather has cooled down recently, but it is not very cold, and it will not be very hot, so it is comfortable to play cards at the door.

Everyone was also looking at the front curiously.

This shop is opened in the center of the village, and it is also the only way to enter the village.

"Made a fortune? Dressed like a human, look at that hair combed into a big back, looks really energetic, looks like a boss."

"They returned in glory, looking at this appearance, with a briefcase in hand, full of style."

"Tsk tsk tsk... don't know how much money they earned, this outfit."

Aunt eating melon seeds said: "Look at what people wear, Adong, why don't you wear like that? You are a famous person in our area anyway, look at what you wear, look at what they wear, you say how your clothes match you."

"People have only been out for a while, and they wore such a suit back. You have to wear better, look at this, you have been compared."

Ye Yaodong was stunned, looking down at his equipment.

It's for work, gray, because he often works at sea, the diesel on the clothes is black and hasn't been washed clean, this piece and that piece, the elbow is cracked and mended a few stitches, and he is wearing liberation shoes on his feet.

"Money is earned and spent. Hurry up and let your wife toss it for you. Look at their appearance, you are originally more handsome than them, if you wear like that... ouch, the big girls and little daughters-in-law nearby will be fascinated by you..." Aunt Chunhua clapped her hands when she said the exciting place.

"No, Aunt Chunhua, people wear people's, I wear mine, don't I wear the same as everyone else? Why do I have to wear like that."

"Can that be the same? You are the living signboard of our village. Look at how long they have been out, and they came back in a human-like way, for fear that people don't know they made a lot of money. Look at you again, making so much money and wearing the same as us."

Aunt Chunhua looked like she hated iron for not becoming steel, as if her own son had been compared by someone else's son.

"Hehe, Adong is low-key, didn't forget his roots, and is the same as everyone else."

"Yes, who is more noble than whom? Everyone is the same, what is the difference in wearing." He looked down at himself again, feeling that there was nothing wrong with his wearing.

There is nothing to do at home, why does he have to wear such good clothes?

What's more, when he came back yesterday, the good clothes had been washed by Aqing. Every piece of clothes in the house was stained with diesel.

For him, it's the same to wear anything. Anyway, it's in the village, who knows who? Everyone has patches, some are dirty, coming back and forth to work all day, no need to change clothes back and forth, very normal.

In the shop, some people's trouser legs still have mud. In the village, there is no such particularity.

Others also echoed.

"Yes, why wear so well in the village."

"When did Adong come back? Heard you went to the provincial capital to worship ancestors, and also recognized ancestors and returned to the clan."

"Yes, yes, yes, I heard this morning, heard that your ancestors showed spirits, descendants are very promising, a bunch of rich relatives, all overseas Chinese."

"Heard your ancestral hall is built as big as our Mazu Temple, very imposing, and three days of flowing banquet, what are you eating? Is it all big fish and big meat?"

"I also heard, dragon dance and lion dance, singing big plays for 7 days, and flowing banquet, heard it is chicken, duck, fish, meat, your relatives are too rich, right?"

The two people who looked like humans walked for a short distance for more than ten minutes, and he stood still, chatting with the villagers.

"Rich are those overseas Chinese who returned, they sponsored it, we just went to touch a light, ate three days of meals, really quite cool, haha..."

"It's good to be rich, why didn't our village produce a few overseas Chinese and set up a flowing banquet."

"Don't think about it, our village has all kinds of surnames. That is the concentration of the clan. Don't know how many years it has been continuous. Those overseas Chinese return to invest and also need the help of the clan, otherwise they must be eaten without bones. You might as well count on rich people believing in Mazu and paying for the flowing banquet."

"That's right, heard that people from Wanwan came to us and were eaten poor and left..."

"Then we have to count on you to become richer, so that the villagers can eat the flowing banquet, haha..."

Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "Hehe, counting on me, I don't know what year and month it will be. You might as well count on the two bosses over there, look at what they wear, look at what I wear, you know I am poor."

"Haha, you are poor, who believes it?"

Just as they were talking lively and laughing, the two people who looked like humans in front also walked over and looked at them with a smile.

"Ah, Dongzi is here? Didn't go out to sea today?"

Chen Wei smiled and put his sunglasses in his pocket, and took out a box of Chengfeng, sent a cigarette to Ye Yaodong, and sent it to other men.

Ye Yaodong certainly took it, but he didn't smoke, just held it in his hand.

"Didn't go out to sea, rest for two days before going."

"Awei and Ahao really made a lot of money? Tsk tsk tsk, smoking Chengfeng? And sharing it with everyone."

"Isn't this obvious? Look at them wearing like this, you know they made a lot of money."

"How much money did you make, don't tell me the briefcase is full of money?"

Everyone looked at the briefcase in their hands with glowing eyes.

"Where, didn't make much, just made a little."

"Tsk tsk tsk, must have made a lot of money, became a big boss, don't forget the villagers in the future, when the time comes, the villagers will rely on you, you must help."

Aunt Chunhua said with a full face of smiles, and reached out to touch the suit on them.

"This clothes shouldn't be cheap, right? How much is this clothes? I haven't seen anyone wear so well, the leaders who go to the countryside don't wear as well as you."

"Yes, you took Haozi out to get rich, when the time comes, the villagers will rely on you, you must help."

The smiles on their faces froze.

Haozi sank his face, "Dongzi also didn't make less, why didn't see him take the villagers to get rich."

Ye Yaodong's originally smiling face also closed. Originally, looking at Chen Wei's polite attitude, he didn't intend to say anything. They all grew up playing together and have known each other for decades, so he intended to reveal the past and go their own way.

Anyway, they are not in the village now, the big road faces the sky, each goes to one side.

However, before he could speak, Aunt Chunhua on the side said: "Why not? His workshop often asks us to work."

"Pull it down, the few little brothers who watch the shop for him are all from other villages, why didn't see him ask our village? Elbows are turning out, all the benefits are given to outsiders, what did you help our village?"

This is thinking that it was already exposed at that time, and now there is no need to be hypocritical?

Ye Yaodong sneered, "Indeed, I am a small shrimp, how can I help the whole village? It's not bad to be able to ask a few people to help kill fish and work."

"Those few are the boys who helped me, so I gave them a job. You can't forget your roots, and you can't be ungrateful."

He looked at him with deep meaning, and Haozi's face turned black instantly.

Other villagers also helped speak.

"Those few boys are from nearby villages, his boats are all hired from our village to work, and he didn't take advantage of outsiders."

"Yes, his boats are also rented from the village. Because of working for him, many people in our village have higher living standards, and they have meat every meal."

"Adong is very conscientious, the wages are very high, as long as you work for him, you will make money."

"He also took the fishing boats in the village to other provinces to make a fortune, this is all his credit."

"That's right, he also sold the small wooden boats he didn't want to everyone cheaply. Look at the pier in our village, except for being a bit small, there are not a few boats, which village's pier nearby can compare to ours?"

"The villagers didn't take less of his light."

Everyone said one sentence after another, without him opening his mouth, they directly retorted Haozi's words.

Ye Yaodong was also very gratified in his heart.

It is impossible for a village to have only bad people with bad intentions. Most of them are still simple and upright good people.

Chen Wei saw that everyone was very protective of Ye Yaodong, and pulled Haozi who wanted to speak again, and said with a smile.

"Haozi is just more concerned about our village, thinking that the fat water should not flow to outsiders' fields, and let the villagers earn money first."

Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "Don't talk about me, look at you, you must be a big boss. Look at me wearing so soil, you wear suits and leather shoes, like a big boss, you must have earned more than me."

"Yes, the big bosses outside are all dressed like you. Look at you, you must have earned more than Adong."

"Adong has already taken the villagers to earn a lot of money. You look richer than him, so you should contribute some effort, right?"

"Heard that big bosses outside earn money, they all have to return to the hometown to open factories to benefit the hometown. Are you returning to open factories?"

"What factory are you opening, how many people do you plan to recruit? Can't take advantage of outsiders..."

"Yes, yes, yes, we are all from the same village. When you recruit workers, you must prioritize our villagers, fat water should not flow to outsiders' fields..."

He just said one sentence, and the villagers understood very well and took it over. The two were said by the villagers until their faces were red and white, and they didn't know how to answer.

Can they say they are not here to open factories? Just dressed better and returned to the village to show off?

Isn't this slapping their own faces?

The villagers had already asked when they were going to open the factory, and planned to accompany them to the village committee now.

Chen Wei couldn't hold on, everyone was crowding them and wanted to go to the village committee, he hurriedly explained.

"No, no, everyone misunderstood, we just made a little money, haven't been back for a long time, so come back to see the wife and children."

"Really or fake, I see you are all bosses?"

"No, no..."

"Haozi didn't just compare with Adong just now? Thought you also made a lot of money and returned to help the villagers get rid of poverty..."

"No, he was just joking."

Aunt Chunhua whispered, "Heard he reported Adong before..."

Although it was whispered, the villagers around were all sharp-eared, and they all remembered it. The look at Haozi was instantly wrong.

Ye Yaodong wanted to give her a like, really good at assisting.

They all say time is the best medicine, it will make people forget what should be forgotten.

Originally, it had been several months, and everyone had been washed by various gossip and had long since thrown it behind their heads. Now they remembered it again.

"It's a pity that they were friends before..."

"Yes, you two were friends with Adong before?"

"A bit stingy, returned so gloriously after making money, still hiding it, and said it was just making a little money."

The smile on Chen Wei's face couldn't hang, and he turned his head and glared fiercely at Haozi.

Haozi was also very depressed. He felt he didn't say anything, why were the villagers so protective of Ye Yaodong.

In fact, there are constant legends about Ye Yaodong in the village. Every once in a while, there can be new legends, constantly refreshing everyone's upper limit.

And many people have also really received his benefits, and he has been developing in the village without going out. Everyone sees it in their eyes. Compared with relatives and friends, they are definitely included in their own scope.

Plus what Ye Yaodong wears now, compared with what they wear, everyone naturally feels that what he wears is more pleasing to the eye, makes them have more resonance, and feels that he is the one with everyone.

And the two who just returned were originally from outside, and they wore clothes that made people jealous.

Originally, everyone was just envious, but just now they kept denying that they made a lot of money, were unwilling to give back to the hometown, and kept taking Ye Yaodong to say things, everyone was a bit unhappy.

This big boss style, saying they didn't make money, who believes it?

It's just that they are not willing to help the hometown.

The above said, first get rich and drive the later rich, individual wealth drives collective wealth.

They just forgot their roots!

"Forget it, people returned gloriously, everyone say something nice. Whether to open a factory to benefit the hometown, that is also something our village cadres should worry about."

"That's right, what are you doing outside? Is the money outside easy to earn?"

"Hehe, average..."

"What is average... ask what you are doing outside..."