Chapter 35: Borrowing a boat

Ye Yaodong looked at the old lady helplessly, "Grandma, I'm already grown up, not a child anymore. Next time, don't steal eggs again. If my mother finds out, she'll peel my skin off!"

"It's fine. If you don't say anything, she won't know. You go out and play for a while, and come back after you've eaten it."

*Sigh*, in the old lady's eyes, he was still a child!

"Go, go, go play quickly. Don't stand at the door."

Urged by her, he had no choice but to walk out. He had originally planned to go to A-Guang's place to see. At this moment, he had a bit more urgency in his heart.

He was eager to make money, eager to buy dentures for the old lady. He wanted to fulfill the words he had spoken as soon as possible. In terms of age, even if she didn't fall, she didn't have many years left to live.

He got up a bit early today. When he arrived at A-Guang's house, he hadn't even gotten up yet.

"What time is it?" A-Guang was still hugging his quilt, not fully awake, his speech muddled.

"I left the house at 6:30. It should be around 6:40 now!"

"Ah?" A-Guang raised his head in disbelief, opening one eye, "Are you sick? What time is it? There's no work to do, why come over so early in the morning."

"To tell you to get up and pee!"

"Damn, do you want to drink something hot? Get lost!" He pulled the quilt over to cover his head.

Ye Yaodong grabbed a corner of the quilt and tugged, "Get up, the sun is already high. With you like this, can you get up tomorrow to work at the Yujing pier?"

"Don't bother me. Tomorrow is tomorrow's business! Did you take aphrodisiacs today? Getting up so early?"

"Early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy. Get up quickly and go borrow a boat!"

"What's the rush? What time is it? The tide won't recede until noon. Don't bother me. If you bother me again, I won't go borrow it." A-Guang snatched the quilt from his hand, pressed it under his body, and clamped his legs tightly around the quilt, continuing to close his eyes.

"What are you clamping the quilt for? You're not a woman."

"What does clamping a quilt have to do with being a woman? Can't a man clamp a quilt?"

"You don't understand this, right? You greenhorn, get up quickly. If you get up, I'll tell you."

A-Guang was so annoyed by him that his head grew big. He grabbed his own bird's nest hair and sat up directly, "Damn it, I don't want to know. Are you annoying or what? Even if we borrow it now, we can't go immediately. The tide hasn't receded."

"At least we can know early whether we can borrow it!"

"I'm also convinced by you. Did you take the wrong medicine these past two days? Actually so actively wanting to go out to sea!"

"Mm, I'm crazy about money. You're awake anyway, don't sleep. Get up and go ask."

A-Guang was also annoyed by him and had no choice. He simply climbed up to put on his clothes, muttering, "It's really enough. How did I become brothers with you? Not letting people sleep early in the morning. Isn't it fragrant to hug your wife and sleep at home?"

"My wife is up, my whole family is up!"

"And then I have to get up?"

Ye Yaodong looked at his resentful eyes and smiled, draping his arm over his shoulder, "We're good brothers, don't you have to be anxious about what I'm anxious about?"

A-Guang slanted a glance at him, and catching him off guard, directly opened his mouth and breathed a breath at him...

Ye Yaodong's pupils constricted, his facial features instantly wrinkled into a ball. He covered his mouth and nose with his hand and jumped quickly to the side, "Damn... you're too much... damn..."

"This breath of immortality can extend your life by ten years. No need to thank me!"

"You damn it, if I live twenty years less, it must be because of you!"

A-Guang was somewhat triumphant. He 'casually' took revenge for being woken up early. He could also count this as a clever move~

"Who told you to come over early in the morning to disturb my sleep? I also have a temper when I wake up!"

"Damn, where is this a temper when waking up? This is miasma, poison gas, you're going to suffocate me, fjjigerzn&; *％~" Ye Yaodong cursed a few times and went to the door to wait.

Being near him again, who knew if there would be any unknown gases released!

As a result, he sat at the door and waited for a long time without seeing A-Guang come out, so he had to go in again, only to see him standing at the back door, pulling up his pants and tying his waistband.

"You just finished pooping, right? So long, just come over and eat."

A-Guang glared, "Please add the word 'rice'! Just come over and eat rice!"

His eyes were smiling, "Same meaning, come eat quickly, it's still hot, just right to eat!"

"You... just wait until I get back, then you'll get it!" Ah Guang grumbled as he walked straight away. Did he really think he didn't know this guy? He was just complaining that he was dawdling, a roundabout way of urging him to go borrow a boat quickly, and he even had the nerve to say such disgusting things.

Ye Yaodong sat at the table with his legs crossed, waiting. A-Guang's aunt's house wasn't far from his house; it was also a case of marrying within the same village.

He was also thinking that since he was idle anyway, since he was up, asking early would bring peace of mind early. He really felt that the isolated island must have more goods than the pier. Thinking of his recent good luck, he was also a bit carried away.

After patiently waiting for less than half an hour, A-Guang returned.

"My aunt and uncle agreed to lend it, but the old people in the family wouldn't. I said we'd count it as renting it from her, renting it for half a day at noon and giving her two yuan, and we'd pay for the fuel ourselves. Only then were the old people willing to lend the boat."

Generally, a worker's daily wage wasn't even 2 yuan. Renting for half a day with fuel paid by themselves, giving two yuan wasn't a small amount.

"Mm, it's fine. Brothers, clear accounts. It's only right for the old people to want money. This is on me. I happen to have two yuan here." It just so happened that he felt his pocket yesterday; he had two yuan in his pocket and wanted to buy cigarettes but couldn't bear to.

A-Guang pushed it back directly, "Hey, what are you giving? It's only two yuan. If I pay, I pay. It doesn't matter. It just so happens I won a few yuan playing cards yesterday."

"One thing is one thing. I'm the one who told you to borrow a boat to go out to sea, so of course it's on me. Take it, it's only two yuan."

"I've already given it, so forget it. Take these two yuan to buy diesel."

"Then fine."

It really wasn't much money; there was no need to push it back and forth. Taking it to buy diesel was just right.

A-Guang put one foot on the stool and picked up the bowl and chopsticks, "Can I eat breakfast in peace now?"

"You eat, I didn't stop you from eating. It's you who are anxious." Ye Yaodong sat on a chair to the side, shaking his feet and grinning.

A-Guang gave him a big eye-roll.

"The tide should recede to the bottom at 12 o'clock. You go a bit earlier, go to the pier to buy diesel around 10:30. I'll go over with you to drive the boat then."

"Fine, no problem. There's nothing to do now, so I'll go back first. If A-Zheng and the others come over later, you tell them."

"Clearly something that could be done in a few minutes, you damn it, you had to come over so early to wake me up." A-Guang's resentment was very deep. He rarely got up so early when there was nothing to do.

"I'm training you, aren't I? Otherwise, what if you can't get up when you go to work at the pier? If you really feel bored, do you want to lie back down?"

"Get lost!"

"Alrighty!" ===== CHAPTER 36 =====