Chapter 1227: Quarrel

After everyone knelt and offered incense, they took turns kneeling and speaking.

First, they urged the ancestors to eat and drink well below, and to pay attention to receiving the paper money they would burn for them later, the television, sewing machine, and refrigerator they would burn.

They didn't enjoy blessings when they were alive, so they should enjoy blessings well after they died...

After muttering for a while, they started making wishes.

Everyone knew Ye Erbo's thoughts as soon as they went up the mountain.

He lived up to expectations, and the wishes he made were also for Old Master Ye to bless their family to be smooth, for their descendants to have a future, to go abroad safely, to earn a lot of money, and to return gloriously...

Ye Fu made a wish for the safety of the whole family.

Everyone talked to the ancestors, and some children just knelt and worshiped without making wishes.

Ye Fu saw that Ye Yaodong was very quiet today and was a bit suspicious. Before, he was the one who could talk the most, and there were many tricks when worshiping graves.

"Dongzi, why didn't I hear you make a wish to the ancestors today?"

Is the ancestor a toad in a wishing pool? How can it be so spiritual?

Ye Yaodong slandered in his heart, but what he said was nice.

"The big wish was already made the year before last, so I won't make it. The ancestors have long kept it in their hearts, so I'll leave the opportunity to you."

Ye Erbo hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, your wishes the year before last were too big, and the ancestors blessed you. It's good that you didn't make a wish this year, don't scare the ancestors, don't come up, and by the way, let the ancestors listen to our voices."

Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched, he had nothing to say, and turned to look at the large group of children making noise in the open space ahead.

Visually, it has grown to two or three hundred, all of whom followed them up the mountain to beg for grave cakes.

Those children were whispering, noisy and noisy. The big ones were ten years old, and the small ones were only three or four years old, running and jumping everywhere in the surrounding open space, and their family's children were also making noise together.

From the moment they walked out of the house with brooms and sickles, the children in the village began to follow behind, and then the team kept growing.

The children who originally followed other grave-sweeping teams were also all attracted and followed.

In the same village, everyone knows him. This is really not bragging. From the 80-year-old man and woman to the three or five-year-old child who can run and jump, everyone knows that Ye Yaodong has money.

Since his family went to sweep the grave, they must follow behind him. What if they distribute money? What if they distribute more?

Many people have heard that he distributed money the year before last.

In such a while, just as they were weeding, offering incense, and burning paper money, there were more and more people on the mountain, and there were large groups of people running here from a distance.

Ye Yaopeng came over with a worried face, "Why are there so many people... the light cakes prepared are not enough..."

Ye Yaohua was also embarrassed, "Only one load was ordered, 100 pieces. Now these people begging for grave cakes look like there are two or three hundred, and there are still people running here..."

The other cousins saw that people were constantly walking towards their cemetery, and they were also worried. They also walked towards the brothers to discuss what to do.

Sweeping graves on Qingming is a custom, and begging for grave cakes is also their custom here. You can't just drive people away.

"Otherwise, let's distribute it in advance, and set off firecrackers directly after distributing. When people come later, just say there is no more."

"Then it's not enough to distribute now? Why are they all running to our place? There weren't so many people in front, but now there are more and more."

"Then if the grave cakes are not enough, should we distribute money directly? Everyone, see how much money you have on you and pool it together? If it's not enough after distributing the grave cakes, give them 5 cents each and let them leave."

"If it's not enough to distribute, we can only distribute money."

"Then let's pool it together first. This load is definitely not enough. How much money did you bring?"

"I didn't bring much money either, only one or two yuan, and it's not doing anything, so I didn't bring much..."

"Then pooling a few yuan each is almost enough. When we go back, we will settle the accounts..."

Ye Yaodong watched them digging into their pockets to calculate money, discussing pooling it together to solve the large group of children first.

He also touched the inside and outside pockets of his jacket, took out stacks of one-dime banknotes, and others' eyes were straight, just watching him keep taking them out.

"Dongzi..."

"Dongzi, you brought so much money..."

"Why did you bring so much?"

Ye Yaodong stacked 5 bundles of banknotes tied with rubber bands on his palm and said, "The rain stopped early this morning, and it's Sunday, so the children don't have to go to school. I thought there wouldn't be few people begging for grave cakes today, so I took a few stacks of one-dime banknotes before going out, just in case."

"It looks like a large quantity, but it's only 50 yuan. Everyone, put your money away first. These 5 bundles of 1-dime banknotes are enough to distribute."

Everyone hurriedly took their money back, smiling and talking to each other.

"You are still the one who is thoughtful, and you brought small change, which is convenient for distribution."

"I didn't expect so many children to follow us up the mountain. Those who originally followed others all ran over."

"It must be because of Dongzi. He is a celebrity in the villages around us. Those children heard that it was our family sweeping the grave, so they must all follow."

"Yes, they must all be here for Dongzi, the rich man."

Ye Yaosheng looked at the happy expressions and said with a smile, "Since Dongzi has one-dime banknotes here, it's convenient. Let's distribute this first. Anyway, it's exactly 50 yuan. After distributing, we will share it according to the number of our brothers."

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua nodded one after another, "I have no opinion."

"I have no opinion either."

Others looked at each other and could only follow and echo, "Then let's distribute it first. Go and tell Dad and the others, let's go and distribute the money first, so that they won't have more people after burning paper money."

"Distribute the grave cakes first, put the money away, don't let those children see it, otherwise they are all very smart, they will hide in the back to distribute money, and don't want the cakes."

"Yes, Dongzi, put the money away first, let's lift the two baskets of cakes to distribute first."

"Okay."

Ye Yaodong put the money back in his pocket.

Several of them, brothers and cousins, assigned the work themselves, and he didn't need to worry or say anything.

Ye Fu and his three brothers had been kneeling there muttering to their father and burning paper money, and didn't notice that there were more and more people on the mountain.

When they were told, they were also startled and immediately asked them to distribute the grave cakes first.

After distributing, set off firecrackers, and don't worry about people coming later.

Ye Chenghai, Ye Chengjiang, and other family members also helped stand at the intersection and high places to supervise whether anyone had received it and ran over to pretend they hadn't received it and received it a second time.

Although there were many people begging for grave cakes, their family was not small, and they all helped to distribute and supervise, which was orderly.

It was just that the people in front received grave cakes. After the grave cakes of the last load were distributed, Ye Yaodong took out a bundle of one-dime banknotes, which made the children's eyes shine.

"If you have received it, go away. If you come back a second time, you will be beaten."

"Is the rest money?" The lucky one standing in front was excited.

"Well, the rest is money. If you receive it, go away. If you come back a second time, it will all be confiscated and you will be beaten."

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, everyone has a share, and those in front are not allowed to look back."

The children who had received the light cakes hadn't left yet, and saw the money being distributed in the back. One by one, they looked down at the large string of light cakes around their necks, and their frustrated tears were about to fall.

"Can we not want the cakes..."

"It's not enough to distribute, so we temporarily distribute money. Don't make trouble, all go down the mountain."

A group of children were emotionally excited. Seeing the money being distributed, no one was reconciled and no one wanted to leave, making a noise for a while.

However, they couldn't resist the army that received the money, so they could only watch eagerly from the side, and then didn't dare to waste time, so they could only follow others to run to other people's houses to beg for grave cakes.

However, everyone secretly vowed in their hearts that next year they would come to their house to sweep the grave, and they must stay until the end to receive it. They must not squeeze to the front because of rushing to the market.

Missing a dime, they regretted their intestines were green.

That was a dime. Their daily pocket money was at most two cents, and some parents didn't give pocket money at all.

After sending all the children away, they started to distribute to their own children.

One by one, they had been waiting there with wolf eyes.

"Third Uncle, you are too wise, distributing money is really good."

"Isn't distributing money good? Buy whatever you want." Ye Yaodong said with a smile.

"Those who received the big cakes at the beginning were so angry. Next year when they come to our house to beg for grave cakes, they will definitely not squeeze in the front."

Ye Yaodong distributed double to them, two dimes each. Hearing them excitedly talking to him, complimenting and blowing him, and saying good words constantly, he also followed happily.

Actually, it didn't cost much money. Including his own family, it only cost thirty or forty yuan in total, but it made everyone excited.

He said to other brothers, "Next year, you don't need to specially order light cakes. Just distribute money directly, it's easy."

"I didn't expect there would be so many people..."

"Who let Dongzi have money... they all came for him. Okay, hurry up and set off firecrackers, otherwise people will come again later, and Dad and the others have also finished burning."

After setting off firecrackers, everyone took their own hoes, sickles, and brooms and walked down the mountain.

The children at home had already rushed to the cemetery with people on the side after receiving the money.

Their own grave sweeping had delayed their begging for grave cakes. Now that it was over, they had to hurry to catch the market.

When they walked down the mountain, they were also asking Ye Yaodong to calculate the money just distributed, so they could distribute it according to the number of brothers.

Originally, Ye Erbo wanted them to divide into three parts for the three brothers of the older generation, but Ye Dabo disagreed.

"I only have one son now, and you all have three or five. Wouldn't I be at a disadvantage again? Anyway, they are all married and have separated. It should be shared equally by their brothers. We are all half-footed into the soil, how can we share according to the three of us?"

Ye Erbo said, "Repairing the grave is shared by our three families. Isn't the expense of grave sweeping also according to our three families?"

"You have many grandchildren, and the money received just now is also more. You share less and get more, of course you say so."

"It should be shared equally by our three brothers. It's our own father's grave. Then my son has many children, and I am at a disadvantage? And have to pay more? There is no such reason."

Ye Fu also had a headache watching them argue back and forth, "It's not much money, just thirty-something yuan. We are also old, and in a few years we won't be able to walk, and we won't be able to go up the mountain. In the future, they will have to arrange grave sweeping."

"9 brothers share it, 4 yuan each, just calculate it like this. It's only once a year to sweep the grave, what's there to argue about? Whoever has a harder family, let them give in."

"In the future, they have to go to sweep the grave. It's no problem to share equally according to their number of people. Just like this."

Ye Yaodong immediately echoed his father's words. He didn't care about this, it was just a little money, he supported whatever his father said.

"I have no opinion."

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua also hurriedly echoed, "Then listen to Dad. We have no opinion."

Ye Dabo had already dug into his pocket and handed 4 yuan to Ye Yaodong, intending to make it real.

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua brothers also hurriedly said, "Dongzi, we will give you the money when we go back. We didn't bring that much money on us."

"Give it to Dad. Our offerings were all prepared by him. You calculate it and give the money to him, he will collect it for me first."

Ye Erbo saw that neither of their families had any opinion, and thinking that he still had to ask Ye Yaodong for the number, he also accepted it.

"Well, well, then you brothers calculate it."

Ye Fu didn't expect such a good thing, Dongzi spent money and he collected money.

He smiled and hurriedly put down the load of offerings, asked Ye Yaopeng to carry it, and waited to collect the money.

However, several people in Ye Erbo's family also called out that they didn't bring that much money on them, saying they would take it together when they went back.

After entering the village, Ye Erbo and the others all followed Ye Yaodong, not going to their own home, and still talking about getting the number first.

Ye Yaodong followed them, gave the number, and let them toss.

However, he also reminded.

"Today is Qingming, Old Hai must have returned to his hometown to sweep the grave these two days. It should be impossible to find anyone by calling now."

"Ah, yes, then let's call in two days."

"Well."

Ye Erbo hesitated for a moment, said nothing, and left with the number first.

Ye Yaopeng and Ye Yaohua also each took 4 yuan and handed it to Ye Fu.

Ye Fu had already reached out to take it, but was snatched by Ye Mu.

"What money is this? Why do you each take 4 yuan to give to your father?"

The two brothers looked at each other, Ye Yaopeng hesitated whether to say Dongzi spent the money, and his father collected the money.

Don't know if his father would be scolded.

Ye Yaohua said honestly, "This is the money Dongzi paid when distributing grave cakes. We brothers share it together, 4 yuan each."

"So much? Then why give it to your father."

Ye Fu snatched the money from her hand, "Dongzi asked me to collect it for him first, and give it to him later to drive the boat to refuel and add ice. We have to go to sea tomorrow night."

Ye Yaodong laughed directly when he heard it. His father's excuse was brilliant. It was hard for him to turn his brain so fast temporarily.

Ye Mu didn't speak when she heard that there was a name for it.

Ye Fu hurriedly stuffed the money into his pocket, sat down to eat naturally, poured himself a full glass of wine first, and then said to the eldest and second son who were a bit confused.

"Tomorrow should be good weather, you prepare, go to sea at night."

"Oh, good."

"Go back to eat, what are you doing standing here stupidly? Stew the chicken and duck at night, and give you a bowl, just to make up for going to sea."

"Oh."

Ye Mu was curious about Ye Erbo coming over to ask for Old Hai's number just now, threw the matter of Ye Fu collecting money behind her head, and turned to ask Ye Yaodong.

Ye Yaodong told her about the matter.

Ye Mu slapped the table, "Good, just said why I have been hearing recently that he is asking people if there is anyone taking people abroad to work."

"The ambition is quite big, even this idea has it. Isn't it good to stay at home? Who knows if it will succeed, if the person found is reliable, what if the money is spent and wasted?"

Ye Yaodong said realistically, "So they set their sights on Old Hai. They have also seen so many overseas Chinese in their hometown, and feel that our family members are capable, and the probability of finding family members to help is higher."

"Knows how to think blindly all day long, just thinking about using the relatives who have just climbed up."

He shrugged and said nothing.

"This sending people abroad must cost a lot of money? Can they take it out?"

"Who knows, anyway, it has nothing to do with us."

"Yes, it has nothing to do with us. If you give the number, let them contact themselves. If you borrow money, don't lend it."

"I'm going to sea at night, I'm not at home."

Ye Mu hurriedly turned to urge Aqing, "Don't lend it. If they come to borrow money, you say Adong is not here, you can't make the decision, or say you have ordered a boat and have no money on hand."

Lin Xiuqing said with a smile, "Why are you so afraid of them borrowing money, feeling like facing a great enemy."

"Your Second Uncle is very treacherous. As the saying goes, the eldest is bad, the second is treacherous, the third is stupid..."

Ye Fu was unhappy, "How do you talk?"

Ye Mu glanced at him and continued, "If you lend it, it might not come back. When the time comes, the excuse will be that the person is working abroad and it is inconvenient to remit money, dragging it for a few years."

"The one who owes money is the master, why give the money you earned hard to others? You are reluctant to spend it yourself, why borrow it? Just keep it for yourself, don't borrow it to anyone."

Ye Fu said, "Then if you really come to borrow money, you can't push it away. Not to mention giving more, you have to give some. Everyone knows our family has money, they are also for the children to go abroad..."

"Go abroad for his mother, smuggling is smuggling. If caught, it will not be returned if sent back to the country. Lending money to outsiders, I don't want to lend it to them..."

"You have prejudice."

"I just have prejudice against them."

"What does it have to do with you, and didn't borrow money from you..."

"Then it won't work if you borrow from my son. Two sons have already been cheated, two thousand yuan, and I don't know if they can pay it back in this life."

Ye Fu threw down his chopsticks unhappily, "Then their family is already miserable, it's also my brother, you can't force them to die."

"Then it is a fact that they owe money."

"You have no human touch, it's also my biological brother. If it were your own brothers and sisters, see if you would still speak so hard? I think you would have taken out private money to lend it long ago."

"Then my brothers and sisters didn't cheat people like this, calculating people."

"Just your brothers and sisters are good, your heart is as small as a needle tip, remembering everything."

"I am small-minded, you are big-minded, you are generous, you lend it. Anyway, it's your brother, if you have money, you lend it yourself, let me see how much money you can take to lend..."

Ye Fu was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, "People haven't opened their mouths to borrow money yet, and you are so afraid."

"I'm not afraid, I'm just in case. Do you dare to say they can take out the money for smuggling? I heard that sending one person abroad costs thousands of yuan."

"Then it hasn't opened its mouth to borrow yet, you are still talking here."

"I'm talking in advance, so that you don't have such loose hands. Think about it, thousands of yuan, how long does an ordinary family have to save, how many years? Why should I lend it, my money was blown by the wind?"

"Said it, didn't borrow from you, you are very funny, keep talking. People didn't do anything, you are here muttering a lot."

"Want to bet? If they don't come to borrow money, I will cut my head off and give it to you as a stool."

Ye Fu had nothing to say. He also thought in his heart that Ye Erbo indeed had a high probability of coming to borrow money.

But he felt that going abroad to work is not a bad thing. Not to mention taking more, as a relative, each family helps to borrow a little, isn't this also what should be?

As for such a big reaction? It's not like Ye Yaohong was cheating money at the beginning, they are sending their grandchildren abroad to work.

Moreover, his own family is not poor, and it is nothing to borrow a little to help for the sake of being a family.

"Nothing to say, right?" Ye Mu looked at him with contempt, "You definitely think so too, but you still want to argue, saying you are stupid, you are stupid."

"You are smart, whoever makes you suffer, you treat whoever as an enemy."

"Hey, that's true!"

Ye Fu glared at her angrily, drank the wine in the glass, and stopped talking to her.

Ye Mu continued to mutter, Ye Fu treated it as if he didn't hear it, and managed his own eating and drinking.

Ye Yaodong only felt that his ears were suffering.

They hadn't even borrowed money from his house yet, he hadn't done anything yet, his mother was already unhappy and muttering, and had already had a fight with his father because of the matter that had no shadow yet.

The old lady also hung her head, didn't say anything, and only took care of Ye Xiaoxi's meal.

And Lin Xiuqing couldn't get a word in listening to the two old people arguing, so she had to go out to find the two sons.

It was Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang who returned excitedly with two large strings of light cakes like mud people, which ended the intermittent quarrel between Ye Fu and Ye Mu.

The two old people's firepower turned and all concentrated on the two children, just because they were both unhappy in their hearts.

"What time is it and you don't know how to come back to eat?"

"Still know how to come back, come back to wash the dishes, right?"

"Just this temperament can still study? Still buy a pile of copybooks every day, what's the use of buying a pile of paper and pens."

Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang looked at the two people who seemed to have eaten explosives, and hurriedly looked at Ye Yaodong and Lin Xiuqing.

His father and mother hadn't said anything yet?

Ye Chenghu rarely had eyes this time, put the light cakes strung with ropes on the stool, hurriedly ran to the back door to wash his hands, took off his dirty clothes, changed his rain boots, and then went upstairs with a bang, bang, bang.

Anyway, he wasn't hungry. He had already eaten light cakes on the mountain, so he wouldn't eat if he didn't eat.

Ye Chengyang also ran upstairs after changing his dirty clothes just like him, but he also brought the light cakes he begged for.

If he was hungry later, he could eat at any time.

Ye Yaodong watched the people who didn't stop eating, and shouted, "Okay, stop arguing, isn't it annoying? If you want to borrow, borrow, if you don't want to borrow, don't borrow, why so many things?"

"Then remember not to lend, can a living person be suffocated by urine? Eat as much as you can."

Ye Fu also said, "People also want a little more hope."

"Hope a ghost, don't set your sights on my son, I don't care about him."

"Stop, stop! Do you still want to eat? You two are also very funny, and didn't borrow from you, so excited." Ye Yaodong was also speechless.

Ye Fu said, "Your mother can't tolerate a grain of sand in her eyes."

"Can you tolerate sand in your eyes?"

Ye Yaodong sighed heavily, hurriedly added a few chopsticks of vegetables to his bowl, and then carried it to the door to eat, letting them argue.

However, just as he carried the rice and sat on the threshold, a pile of dog heads and cat calls surrounded him. What's going on?

"Go, go, go, even you are so annoying."

He reached out and swiped, and the surrounding dog heads all fell to one side neatly, and then neatly stretched out their tongues again, surrounding his bowl, making him have to stand up to eat.

But those few dogs like to stand and hug his legs, which made him unable to concentrate on eating again.

He is too difficult.

"Eating a meal is not at ease, there are unappetizing things everywhere, and I can only stand and eat."

"Dad!"

Ye Yaodong turned his head to look at the source of the sound. On the window upstairs, two little cubs stretched their heads, gnawing on light cakes, watching the dog keep jumping to climb his legs.

"Dad, were you also driven out?"

"I think you don't need to eat dinner either." Ye Yaodong shoveled the rice and vegetables in, took the bowl and chopsticks into the house, and then went back to the room to get money and walked out.

He went directly to the pier to drive the boat, it was quiet on the boat.

Going to sea at night, just right to refuel and add ice, saving the trouble of listening to them muttering at home.

Originally on the mountain, hearing Brother Asheng say they wanted to borrow money from him, he thought that Old Hai had to agree before they could prepare money.

Since Old Hai can agree, the channel for working abroad has a place, and there is help from overseas Chinese in the family. As long as they can successfully smuggle, it should not be bad.

If they don't borrow much, then borrow a little, just for the sake of his father, and also to help the nephew.

Save them from saying that he is inhuman after getting rich, oil and salt don't enter, and has no relative feelings. Usually, his cousins didn't treat him badly, and it was also to find a way out for the next generation.

Mainly he is not short of money now, a thousand or eight hundred yuan is easy to say.

Now listening to his mother muttering a lot, he feels that although his mother can't tolerate sand in her eyes, some words still make sense.

His Second Uncle's side has so many brothers and sisters, it shouldn't be bad to pool together. How can they all count on others? Whoever wants to send children abroad naturally has to pay for it themselves.

His father said it was actually not wrong, that was his own biological brother after all, bones are connected by tendons, borrowing a little money can help, then borrow a little, his own family is not said to be very difficult.

However, anyway, it hasn't been said, wait and see, maybe they don't dare to borrow money from him now?

Look at his Second Uncle now so polite, smiling, for fear of offending him.

Anyway, he is going to sea at night. ===== CHAPTER 1228 =====