Chapter 274

Originally, he thought it would take a few days, and that it would only be exposed after the village committee or the county committee finished their investigation. He didn't expect it to be exposed so quickly, by the afternoon of the second day.

If he hadn't beaten his wife so severely, Ye Yaohong probably wouldn't have been exposed so soon.

Still the same saying: every cause has an effect!

Ye Yaodong had just woken up from his afternoon nap when Lin Xiuqing called him to go get some vinegar.

"Suddenly my mouth feels bland and tasteless, I want to eat some pickled radishes. I just went to the field and pulled one, you go buy some quickly, I'll slice it and use salt to draw out the water first."

"Anything else you want to eat, why pickled radishes? What's so good about that? How about I ride my bike to town and buy you a few apples? I heard eating apples is good."

"Dad... Dad... I want to go with you... I want to eat apples too..."

"Dad, apples... apples..."

The two children nearby, having heard the commotion, immediately ran over, hugged his legs, and shouted excitedly.

Ye Yaodong gave each of them a slap on the back of the head, "Go, go, go, what does this have to do with you? Your ears are so sharp, you can run over from so far away the moment you hear about food."

"I want to go, I've never sat on the back of your bicycle..."

"Didn't I let you sit to your heart's content inside the house? Don't get in the way, I'll take you in a few days when it's market day, it's not lively in town right now."

Ye Chenghu's eyes lit up, "Alright then, you're not allowed to lie to us, I'll remember this. You said last time you'd take us to see a movie, but you never took us."

Such a good memory!

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, and after shooing both children away, he walked toward the bicycle parked inside the house.

Lin Xiuqing, however, held him back, "Don't bother, I don't want to eat apples, I just want to eat something sour, you don't need to make this trip specially."

"No way? Isn't there a saying 'sour for a boy, spicy for a girl'? Don't scare me, two sons are more than enough..."

"What nonsense are you talking about, I just want to eat it right now, forget it, I won't eat it."

She didn't want another son either...

"Sigh... fine, fine, eat whatever you want, I'll go get the vinegar for you."

Ye Yaodong held the empty bottle in his hand, walking slowly and deliberately on the small path where the sun could reach, and everything he heard in his ears was various discussions about Ye Yaohong, thin and fragmented.

When he arrived at the small shop to get the vinegar, he actually heard someone still speaking up for him.

"Ye Yaohong is really not a human, even cheating the money of fellow villagers. Where is he doing business? He's clearly just cheating money."

"Could there really be some misunderstanding? He just left, maybe he really has something urgent, maybe he can still pay the interest as usual next month?"

"That's right, maybe he just didn't want to be in the limelight? It's normal for the wife at home not to know what business her man is doing!"

"Forget it, the village committee already said he's suspected of running a pyramid scheme, and if it was purely not wanting to be in the limelight, why beat his wife so badly? He must have had a guilty conscience, that's why he ran away without even spending the Winter Solstice."

"I heard many people sent 500 over yesterday morning, originally intending to just try it out, now after just one day their guts are turning green with regret."

"Good thing I was a bit slow, when I went, I happened to hear he had already left. Oh my god, good thing, good thing, it scared me to death, 500 yuan almost went down the drain, that's our family's income for more than half a year."

"I don't know if they can find him, his family is in such a mess right now, a whole bunch of people have gone to his house to make a scene, many people are standing at the door watching the fun, it's packed. His mother is still there guaranteeing he'll be back for the New Year, and will definitely give the money..."

"Adong, that ten-thousand-yuan household status for Ahong is hanging in the balance, could it be your turn now?"

Yikes!

How did it get back to him again?

Ye Yaodong held the bottle of vinegar he had just filled and stared, "What does that have to do with me? I don't have ten thousand yuan, I already said last time it was a mistake. Maybe my cousin really had something urgent and left in a hurry? It's not against the law for him to borrow money to do business, right? If you want to know if it's true or false, just wait. The county knows he's a ten-thousand-yuan household, they'll definitely take it seriously."

"I don't know if everyone can get their money back, who would dare give him money after knowing about the pyramid scheme..."

Ye Yaodong walked out with the vinegar bottle after filling it, thinking about how everyone in the village was talking about this, he thought for a moment and felt he should go over and take a look to see what the situation was.

He didn't expect that after just one afternoon nap, it would have spread so widely.

By the time he walked to the door of Ye Yaohong's house, the entrance was already surrounded three layers deep, mostly people watching the fun, while the victims were inside the house arguing.

"Make way, make way..."

Ye Yaodong finally squeezed through the crowd and heard the sound of tables being slapped, threatening them to get the money by the end of the month at the latest, and it had to be returned with interest, otherwise they would tear this house down.

Inside the house stood many of Ye Yaohong's cousins who were helping to speak up, and his uncle, second uncle, and father were also there, all helping to appease the villagers.

He also went over and stood beside his father, listening to the relatives say: "Everyone go back first, it's hard to say how this will be returned, at least the interest for the first two months was given very punctually, you gave him the principal, isn't it for the monthly interest?"

"This money was just given, it definitely has to wait until next month to be due, everyone might as well wait and see..."

"The village committee already said he's a pyramid scheme, he must have taken the money and run."

"That's right... that's right..."

"The village committee just came to understand the situation, they only said there's a phenomenon of a pyramid scheme, they didn't say he's definitely running one. It's normal for people doing business to be short of money for turnover, we're all fellow villagers, he gave the interest on time before, he didn't short anyone."

"Qiuju is injured and lying in bed now, she can't get up to explain to everyone, everyone please give us a little more time..."

"Right, right, the monk can run, but the temple can't. His family only has a bunch of children now, and the woman can't get up, everyone please give us a little more time, the county still has him listed as a ten-thousand-yuan household, they'll definitely find him."

His father also helped say a few words.

How relatives treat each other is their own business, but when facing outsiders, the family relatives will all unite.

With so many relatives, he was the youngest among them, so he didn't need to speak up. Although there were many villagers, there were also many relatives helping to speak. Everyone said a sentence and finished the talk, he just needed to stand beside his father to bolster the momentum.

In the end, it was still fruitless, because there was indeed no conclusion yet, and the money had just been given, not yet exceeding the deadline.

As they talked, they could only go back first and see if they could find the person first.

After the people had mostly dispersed, he saw his sister-in-law and second sister-in-law standing in the corner, along with four or five other cousins-in-law...

It turned out that quite a few relatives were involved.

After the villagers had all dispersed, they closed the door, and the family members began to ask the uncle and aunt, but they knew nothing either.

When they asked the eldest sister-in-law on the bed, she could only cry and shake her head.

After everyone asked without result, they could only leave temporarily. Ye Yaodong walked with his father, and his two sisters-in-law followed beside them.

Ye's father frowned and asked: "How much money did you two invest?"

Both of them had their brows locked, feeling extremely annoyed inside, but just now, hindered by so many relatives and their father-in-law, they couldn't speak up and could only stand there watching.

Ye's second sister-in-law had a bitter face, "One thousand, fortunately, I was persuaded by Adong yesterday and didn't give any more money."

Ye's father was frustrated, but it wasn't easy to scold his daughter-in-law, so he glared at her and looked at Ye's eldest sister-in-law, "What about you?"

Ye's eldest sister-in-law also frowned, her expression not looking very good, "I also gave one thousand..."

"Hmm?" Ye Yaodong was surprised for a moment.

Ye's second sister-in-law was also astonished, "Weren't you 500?"

She turned her head unnaturally, "I sent it over temporarily the morning before yesterday, thinking of investing the same as you."

【To be honest, I've been using the source-switching app to read and follow updates recently, there are many voices for reading, and it works on both Android and Apple.】

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but rub his forehead. Wasn't his eldest sister-in-law always quite clear-headed? He didn't expect that while the second sister-in-law was persuaded, the eldest sister-in-law was actually unwilling to give up.

Perhaps it was the comparison between sisters-in-law?

You took more than me?

So I can't let the gap widen? I have to add more?

"Does Big Brother know?"

Ye's eldest sister-in-law remained silent!

Ye's father was suddenly furious and cursed, not caring that he was the father-in-law, "Is your head filled with straw? Is this how you manage the household, one by one? You don't even tell the men in the house when you take money? You give 1000 yuan just like that, how can you be so careless?"

"How long does it take to save this 1000 yuan? Isn't it tiring to work? How much do you earn weaving nets a day, 1 yuan? How come you think 1000 yuan isn't worth anything?"

Ye's second sister-in-law said weakly, "This... isn't this thinking that everyone is our own people..."

"You treat others as your own people, do they treat you as their own people? Pig brains, I'm going to be angered to death by you." Ye's father glared at them fiercely, then turned and walked away directly. This job of scolding daughters-in-law should still be done by the mother-in-law.

Things had reached this point, and Ye Yaodong was too lazy to talk to them. It was a headache, and they weren't his wives anyway, so he'd wait for his eldest and second brothers to return from sea.

He didn't plan to go to sea, just collect the goods from the ground cages the next day, but Ye's eldest and second brothers couldn't bear to rest early. After all, they had to pay rent to their father, and they felt there was still some time before the New Year, so they went whenever they could.

They didn't know about this yet, it was estimated that there would be more trouble when they returned in the evening.

Ye Yaodong walked toward home with the vinegar bottle in big strides, not caring about the two sisters-in-law behind him.

Lin Xiuqing waited for a long time before seeing him, "Did you walk to town? You're only back now, it was just getting vinegar, and you didn't come back for such a long time, I thought you fell asleep buying it."

"I heard the discussions in the village, so I went to Big Cousin's house to take a look."

She took the vinegar bottle from his hand and asked curiously, "How is his house?"

"A group of people made a scene at the door, a whole bunch of relatives were all there helping to speak, Dad went too."

"What did they say?"

"Nothing much, isn't it not confirmed yet? We have quite a few relatives, they were all sent away temporarily."

"Then they should come to the door again in a few days, fortunately we didn't take the money, the eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law must be regretting it to the guts. The second sister-in-law even took 1000, this time it's going to hurt their bones."

"The eldest sister-in-law is not much better, she secretly went to send 500 again yesterday morning."

"Ah?"

Lin Xiuqing saw Ye's eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law walking over from afar with their brows tightly furrowed and ugly expressions, and she stopped talking.

The two of them glanced at the couple, didn't greet them, and went into their respective rooms directly.

She looked at Ye Yaodong, pulled his sleeve, and signaled to go inside to talk.

"Why did the eldest sister-in-law suddenly become so irrational?"

"Wealth moves people's hearts, or maybe there's no harm without comparison? You get 50 interest, I only get 25, that won't do, I have to be the same as you? Maybe it's this kind of psychology?"

Lin Xiuqing had nothing to say either.

After a while, the children all came back from school, and just as the two at home were about to run over to find their older brothers and sisters to play, bursts of scolding came from next door.

She stopped the two children, only letting them play at their own house, not to go over and look for scolding.