Chapter 1637: Happy Event

Ye Chenghai patted Ye Chenghe's shoulder, "Good brother, then lend me a million or eight hundred thousand."

Ye Chenghe's eyes widened instantly, and he pushed his arm away.

"Why don't you go rob? Even robbing a bank wouldn't be as much as you're shouting for. If I had a million or eight hundred thousand, would I still rely on Third Uncle to eat? I would have set up my own business long ago."

"Oh~ so I'm just your stepping stone."

Ye Chenghe quickly flattered, "How could that be? Third Uncle is my noble person. Without Third Uncle, where would I earn so much money?"

"That's not necessarily true, your father's boat also needs people."

"That's different. What I earn at my father's is like the left hand pouring into the right hand. What I earn here at Third Uncle's... Hahaha... What I earn at my father's is at most dead wages. What I earn here at Third Uncle's is big money. The more goods Third Uncle has, the more trips I run, and naturally, the more I earn."

Ye Yaodong said irritably: "You let your true thoughts slip out by accident. What you earn at your father's is the left hand pouring into the right, and what you earn here at my place is raking from the outside in."

"Hehe, hahaha..."

"Get lost..."

"I'm getting lost right now..."

Ye Chenghe hurried away, leaving only Ye Chenghai.

The two stayed and chatted for a while, chatting about Ye Chenghai's plan to make fishing boat accessories, chatting casually, mainly Ye Yaodong listening and Ye Chenghai talking.

After chatting about this, they chatted a few more words about picking up the bride tomorrow.

These past few days, the family had been busy and turned upside down. Not only was Ye Chenghai's own family busy, but Lin Xiuqing was also busy running around.

Because Ye Yaodong was busy with things outside, he didn't help much with Ye Chenghai's wedding. It was all his father and the other two brothers who were organizing it.

Now it was decided that tomorrow, early in the morning on the eighth day, they would set sail for the provincial capital before dawn, go to the woman's house to pick her up in the morning, and then return home before dusk, in time for the evening banquet.

After all, the engagement and wedding were held together. The engagement wine was eaten on the eighth day, and the wedding wine was eaten on the ninth day. On the eighth day, they would pick the person up first to eat the wine, and then settle the bride and her family in the town's guesthouse that night.

The next day, early on the ninth, they only needed to drive a tractor to the town's guesthouse to pick up the bride.

This could save time and be convenient, and they could catch the auspicious hour. After all, the journey was long, so they could only compromise by picking the person up a day early. Otherwise, if they went to pick the person up on the wedding day, it would be too late.

This was also something discussed these past few days.

The boat used was the new boat Ye Yaopeng had just delivered, which was just right.

The big red flower on the boat hadn't even been removed, and the boat was brand new, hadn't caught any fish, and had no strange smell at all. It was just right to be put to use as soon as it arrived.

As for the fishing boat, Ye Chenghai had already arranged a tractor at the provincial capital's wharf to pick them up when they docked to go pick up the bride.

Now everything was ready, everything was arranged properly, only the day tomorrow was missing.

After hearing the arrangements for tomorrow, Ye Yaodong patted his shoulder, "The arrangements are quite proper. Getting married means becoming an adult, not a child anymore. You have to be steady in the future."

Ye Chenghai grinned foolishly, "I know."

"You have a good father-in-law, and now you plan to open a small accessory workshop yourself, you won't be bad in the future."

Doing business in this era is exceptionally simple. As long as there are goods, you don't have to worry about no one wanting them. It's really hard to say who will be stronger in the future, Ye Chenghai or Ye Chenghe.

He didn't know how Chenghe's piece of land in Shanghai would be developed in the future; he didn't know much about it himself, only a general direction.

Everything else was left to the trajectory of the era's development.

Just as they were talking, Ye Chenghu came over.

"Brother Ahai, why am I not among the people picking up the bride! Brother Ajiang and Brother Chenghe are both going, why not me!"

"What are you going for?"

"I'm going to help you pick up the bride!"

"Stop messing around, we're leaving very early, we have to set off before dawn."

"Then I can get up too, I don't even need to sleep at night. Why did they all go, and you didn't call me? I'm your brother too!"

"You're too small..."

"Where am I small? I'm 14 years old, in two years I can marry a wife too!"

Ye Chenghai was amused by him and reached out his dragon claw, grabbing his crotch.

"Has your hair grown out yet? You want to marry a wife already?"

Ye Chengyang had just run over and heard this sentence, surprised, "Ah? Brother wants to marry a wife? Didn't Brother say he didn't want to marry a wife, and didn't want to marry a wife for the rest of his life?"

Ye Chenghu's face flushed red, and he stepped back, covering his crotch, "I was just using it as a metaphor."

"If you don't want to marry a wife, why use it as a metaphor?"

"I just said it casually. Didn't Brother Chenghe find a partner in junior high, and then got engaged at 16! That's why I used it as a metaphor!"

Ye Yaodong said: "Don't learn from him, this is bad behavior. What's good about puppy love? 16 is still as tender as a bean sprout, what kind of marriage, marriage my ass."

Ye Chenghu nodded repeatedly, "Definitely, I don't want to get married. Ah, no, that's off-topic. I also want to go pick up the bride with Brother Ahai."

"Ah? You want to go? Then I want to go too!" Ye Chengyang hurriedly scrambled to say.

"What are you guys joining in the fun for? You two are too small, I have enough people, I don't need you."

"No, one from each family. My dad is your Third Uncle, our family also has to send a representative to go pick up the bride with you!"

"Brother is going, I want to go too."

Ye Chenghai frowned at the two, "I'm leaving very early tomorrow, you guys definitely won't be able to get up."

"We can get up!" The two said in unison.

Ye Chenghai had no choice and looked at Ye Yaodong, "Third Uncle?"

"Let Chenghu go with you, as long as he can get up. Forget about Yangyang. Let Yangyang stay at home. Tomorrow when the bride is picked up, the day after tomorrow when you get married, you'll need to go to the room and pee a pot of boy's urine, there's a red envelope to get."

Ye Chengyang was a bit sad when he heard he was forgotten, but when he heard there was something he could be useful for later, and could get a red envelope, he nodded happily and couldn't stop.

"Fine, then I'll wait at home and let Brother go pick up the bride."

Ye Chenghu looked at him longingly and felt a bit regretful, but this was something he requested himself, so he could only accept it.

"Then I'll go pick up the bride. What time should I get up? Brother Ahai, you have to call me."

"Fine, since Third Uncle said to bring you, then I'll bring you. There are red envelopes for picking up the bride too."

He was instantly happy, "Great, Brother Ahai, I wish you a happy marriage and an early son."

"You have to get up early. If you dawdle, I won't wait for you."

"Don't worry, I'll definitely be able to get up."

The next day, before dawn, before the rooster even crowed, Ye Chenghai set off with a group of friends and brothers.

And at home, everyone started to get busy. Everyone got up to help, transporting tables, chairs, bowls, and chopsticks, buying vegetables early in the morning, and cooking meals for the helpers and themselves, all requiring manpower.

Some close neighbors who had good relationships also got up early to help.

There was a burst of noisy talk, only Ye Xiaoxi was still sleeping sweetly in the room.

Ye Chengyang woke up when he heard Ye Chenghu getting up, and then got up too, but was driven back to sleep by the adults. But when it was dawn, he climbed up immediately.

He ran to ask Lin Xiuqing, who was busy, with sleepy eyes, "Mom, when do I pee?"

"What when do you pee?"

"Dad said I need to pee boy's urine."

Lin Xiuqing said with a smile: "Don't worry, tomorrow when the bride comes, wait until she's in the room and then I'll call you to pee."

"Oh."

As soon as Ye Chengyang heard he didn't need to pee now, he hurried home to pee his morning urine. He had been holding it since he got up and didn't dare to pee, not knowing when his urine would be needed.

Ye Yaodong got up to help before the rooster crowed, and it wasn't until the sun was high in the sky that he came back from buying vegetables with his eldest brother and had time to sit down for breakfast.

After eating, he ran to the workshop to help arrange tables and chairs without stopping.

This was the place with the largest open space in their workshop, just right for holding the wedding banquet, and it was close.

The old lady's 90th birthday was also held there last year, so they had experience. It was just that last year's "Longevity" character was all replaced with "Happiness" characters this year.

The walls and ceiling were covered with colorful silk and flags, and the ground was temporarily covered with red carpets.

And on the road from their house to the workshop, they also bought red carpets, but the one on the road had to be left to be laid in the evening.

Everywhere was a festive red, which children liked the most. Most of the children in the village were running and playing around their workshop, full of laughter.

Just in the festive atmosphere, a bad sound suddenly appeared.

"Ouch, it's bad, Ahong's leg was broken by his sons..."

It was Ye Dabo's wife who ran over panting to call for help.

"What a sin, during the New Year, what kind of thing is this... you guys hurry and send a few people to help..."

"And they won't even send him to be treated, what a sin, hurry and send someone to help..."

Because of their family's good reputation in the village, most of the relatives had come to help with Ye Chenghai's wedding, or had come to watch the fun, so Ye Dabo's wife couldn't find anyone when she needed manpower, and could only run over to call for help.

The nearby neighbors wanted to reach out but couldn't, after all, the biological sons wouldn't let him be treated.

They could only come over to call the relatives to help say a few words and suppress the disobedient grandsons.

As soon as everyone heard, some people stood up and asked.

"What's going on? During the New Year, why is there trouble again?"

"How long has it been, what's wrong again? How could they break their father's leg for no reason? Did Ahong do something again?"

"Hurry and go take a look, I don't know what he did during the New Year, but this broken leg needs to be sent for treatment quickly."

Ye Dabo's wife said anxiously and sadly: "I don't know what's going on either. Ahong has been living at my place recently, but just now he went home once, and I heard someone report that there was trouble at home again. I hurried over, and they were already fighting."

"Don't worry about it, hurry over and help, those three little bastards are too ruthless, even laying hands on their own father."

"Hurry, walk faster..."

Whether they were going to help or watch the fun, most of the people were called away by Ye Dabo's wife.

If it weren't for the many chores at home, Ye Mu and Ah Qing and the others would have followed to watch.

Helping was out of the question; they were purely going to watch the fun, to see why he was beaten again.

Ye Mu cursed, "On a happy day, making such a scene..."

Actually, she wanted to say that a broken leg was just right, saving him from harming people. But he was a nephew after all, so it wasn't good to say this, lest it spread and people say she was ruthless.

Ye Dabo's wife also frowned, cursing in a low voice that it was bad luck, he deserved to be beaten to death.

Lin Xiuqing asked: "Not even peaceful during the New Year, I don't know what it's about this time, he must have done something again, otherwise the three sons wouldn't have beaten him again."

"I don't know what he's afraid of, he was beaten until he was covered in blood before the New Year, and now he's making a scene again." Ye Ersao's words remained merciless.

"Wait until they come back from watching the fun, then we'll know why he was beaten."

"During the New Year, what can't be passed, why must they make a scene in the first lunar month? I'd say those children are also ignorant..."

"It was originally a sin created by the adults. Before he came back, the mother and children were living just fine, living quite well. It was only after Ahong came back that things became chaotic."

Most people went to watch the fun, and those who remained were their own family or closer people, basically all women, as the men were moving things at the workshop.

Everyone said a sentence, and they were talking quite enthusiastically with spit flying.

Anyway, it was someone else's fun. They were worried about having work to do but no news to talk about, and now they had something to talk about again.

The scene on New Year's Eve had everyone talking until after the New Year, and the New Year wasn't even over, and there was something fresh again.

Everyone talked for a while, not knowing the situation, and could only repeat it over and over.

Ye Mu couldn't hold back and called the twins who were playing nearby, told them to go to the workshop to call Ye Chengyang, and then sent Ye Chengyang to inquire.

Now he was the only one who was half-grown, couldn't do much work, but could understand gossip, so he was the most suitable to be sent out.

He was also clever, running back 10 minutes after running over.

"I understand now, Ahong Uncle took advantage of people not being at home, ran home to steal money, and was caught red-handed, which is why he was beaten."

"His leg was broken by those brothers, saying they would rather keep him like this, saving him from running out to harm others and harming the family again."

"A lot of people are surrounding there persuading them to send him to the hospital quickly, but the brothers won't, and some people say it's quite good to just leave it like that."

"They are still arguing there, three layers inside and three layers outside are all people, I squeezed in with great difficulty to understand."

"That uncle is still lying on the ground, his face is bruised and purple, ouch, ouch, shouting, cursing the brothers as unfilial, saying if he had known, he would have strangled them when they were born, cursing them, son beating father, will be struck by lightning."

"And that aunt has been crying, a lot of aunts and grandmothers are persuading her there."

"The brothers are also saying not to treat him, just let his leg stay broken, so he can be peaceful in the future, and also saying they would rather he not come back."

"Saying today is just breaking his leg, if there's a next time, they would rather send him back inside to spend his old age."

Ye Chengyang hadn't even caught his breath and rattled off everything he had just heard, one sentence here and one sentence there, without any strong logic.

But everyone understood the reason for this scene today.

ps: Writer's block... so stuck... ===== CHAPTER 1638 =====