Chapter 392: Method

Through half a day of chatting, Captain Chen and the other three had become quite familiar with the self-familiar Ye Yaodong. The key was that he had a sharp tongue, spoke quite interestingly, and had a thick skin, so he could chat openly.

"Ahead is my old home. My mother should have already made floor beds for you. Do you want to rest or walk around and take a look?"

"Many thanks. It might be troublesome for you for the next few days. We'll just take care of ourselves. You go busy yourself with your work later."

"Alright, I'll take you in first. It's mainly because we've all moved to the new house, and the beds have been moved away, otherwise, you wouldn't have to sleep on floor beds."

"It doesn't matter, as long as there's a place to sleep. We've slept in even more difficult conditions."

The old lady was sitting in the shade at the door, and a large group of neighbors had gathered around. They were all here to sponge off the radio. They were chatting and working while cooling off there, and they were listening intently. It was only after a neighbor reminded them that they saw Ye Yaodong coming.

She stood up happily, "Dongzi is back? Your father said you took the Liberation Army comrades to the town hospital. You're back so soon, are you tired? You guys sit down and rest quickly, I'll go into the room and move stools..."

"You don't need to be busy, sit down and eat a pan-fried bun, I'll take them into the room first."

"Why did you buy so many... I haven't even talked about you building an extra room, why did you..."

"If you haven't talked about it, then don't talk about it. I'm taking you to enjoy happiness and you're not happy. Eat your food quickly, I'll take them into the room first."

"Hey... you child..."

The old lady held the pan-fried bun and looked at his back, chattering, and said to the neighbors on the left and right, "Dongzi, this child, is honest and filial. I just scolded his father a few times that day, saying I wanted to move to his place, and he immediately wanted to build me a house within two days. If I had known, I wouldn't have said this. It's fine, but he has to raise me as an extra. Originally, there was already one more mouth in the family this year..."

"Isn't it good to be filial? You also have blessings. He just bought you a radio, and now he's building you a house. Adong looks quite good now... more and more reliable..."

"Yes, you didn't love him in vain... Adong has succeeded and knows how to be filial to you..."

"This child has always been filial. Carrying that stack of pan-fried buns and oil pancakes, maybe it's for the group of big and small children in the family. The group of children in the family all like him... they all say children are the most sensitive, they know very well whether adults are good or not..."

The old lady now praises him whenever she meets someone, especially since people have seen him being filial to her in person, she has to say it even more, letting everyone know how good Dongzi is.

Before, there was nothing to show off, she could only love him herself. Now that he is giving her so much face, the old lady wishes everyone knew how good he is.

Ye Yaodong listened to the old lady's happy voice behind him. Without seeing her face, he could imagine her eyes were about to disappear from smiling.

As long as she is happy, a good mood can lead to longevity.

After settling the few soldiers, he also sat at the door to accompany the old lady to talk and blow the wind, and drew a big pie for her about what she could do after moving over, coaxing her until she was beaming with joy.

After sitting for a long while, the old lady urged him to go home, telling him to report home first, as the oil pancakes and pan-fried buns were about to get cold.

After returning home, he was surrounded by a group of children without any surprise, and they kept shouting Third Uncle or Father, his ears were about to explode. After distributing them one by one, he finally had some peace.

Early the next morning, when he was sitting at the door helping to pick green beans, he heard some gossip his second sister-in-law had heard from somewhere, saying that a scrap collector in the village had collected two bronze bowls for 20 yuan yesterday evening. After the news spread this morning, a bunch of people were sailing boats to that sea area, all wanting to go into the water to try their luck.

"What? Is it true?" Ye Dasao asked.

"Of course it's true."

Ye Yaodong frowned and said, "Are they stupid? Even if they salvage it, it has to be handed over."

"Maybe they want a reward, or directly exchange it for money, so it won't be their business."

"Naive! Knowing it's a cultural relic and still selling it... that crime is not light. Now it's people who have the final say, not the law."

"Gasp! What do you mean?"

"You wouldn't understand even if I told you. Just don't let your own relatives go, it's against the law."

Upon hearing this, Ye Ersao slapped her thigh and ran away in a hurry. She didn't dare not to believe it, she had already suffered a big loss once, and Adong was much more knowledgeable than them.

Just in time, the four soldiers came walking head-on. They also turned their heads to look at Ye Ersao, and then looked at the workers who were busy working on the side.

Thinking of what they heard yesterday, that it was to build an extra room for the old lady, they all took off their clothes one by one, wearing only tank tops, revealing their bronze-colored sturdy arms, and followed them to work.

"Hey hey hey... you don't need to work, there are workers..."

"It's okay, helping to contribute some effort."

As they said this, they took shoulder poles and dustpans one by one and followed the workers to carry stones and yellow soil. The eyes of the women in the village followed them from beginning to end.

By the time those people from the county came again, half the morning had almost passed. A group of men, women, and children who were watching the fun had already gathered at his door, and the nosy villagers followed closely behind those leaders.

Ye Yaodong discovered that there were some more people in that group.

"Morning!"

"Morning, morning, those few Liberation Army comrades..."

"They went to carry stones, look~ they're back, over there..." Ye Yaodong pointed behind them.

"Uh... Liberation Army comrades are really diligent..."

"They are cherishing the people! Do the leaders have any arrangements today? Are you going out to sea?"

The old man from the Cultural Center said, "It's like this, today we mainly came to talk about the bronze tripod. These few are staff members from the museum. They arrived yesterday evening. It just so happens that we came together today. Knowing that the bronze tripod has been donated to the Mazu Temple, they came specifically to talk and negotiate."

"Oh, not going out to sea today?"

Yesterday, they didn't mention the bronze tripod. He thought they were prepared to mention it after the salvage was finished. He didn't expect they planned to wait for the museum people to come and talk.

"We have to go out to sea once, we have to take our museum staff to the sea area to take a look. We have already reported and applied for salvage. After all, the few Liberation Army comrades are not professional. Yesterday they helped explore the path, and that's about it."

"Then I'll take you out to sea for a spin first, and then go to the Village Committee after coming back. About the tripod, you have to negotiate with the village cadres and let the village cadres collect the villagers' opinions."

"Many thanks."

Today was just a spin out to sea, so Ye Yaodong didn't bring food and drink.

He didn't know if these people had taken seasickness medicine in advance, but today their state was excellent, and they didn't get seasick. But when the boat drove to the destination, there were already several fishing boats around.

The people on the boats were all wet, and some were just emerging from under the water. After seeing them coming, everyone was sculling, and the boats were scattering.

The crowd on the boat couldn't help but frown tightly.

Captain Chen said, "I heard in the morning that the scrap collector in the village collected two bowls for 20 yuan."

"How can this be?"

The village head's smile also froze. Seeing that the leaders were all unhappy, he hurriedly said, "I didn't expect this to happen. Leaders, please rest assured, I will handle this matter. If I didn't know beforehand, that's fine, but now they actually dare to take the opportunity to salvage and sell it. I will definitely solve it, otherwise, the cultural relics will be lost outside."

"That's fine, then it will be left to the village head. Please also check these fishing boats. They cannot be allowed to salvage cultural relics. Also, let them leave this sea area quickly and not be allowed to approach again. If they are discovered again, they will all be treated as obstructing official business."

"Okay, okay. I have already recorded whose boat it is. After these fishing boats go ashore, I will have people check them boat by boat."

Those leaders nodded with satisfaction.

Ye Yaodong leaned against the side of the boat, only feeling that those people were full and had nothing to do, wanting money but not their lives. Knowing that people were looking at it, they actually dared to go against the wind and commit crimes. It was really that interests moved people's hearts. He didn't even dare to keep a small wine cup, for fear that people would think he was hiding something privately.

In order to confirm the location of the seabed, so as not to waste time looking for it next time, the four Liberation Army comrades took turns going into the water again to confirm the location of the seabed area. Ye Yaodong helped them place buoys to make marks.

They didn't have time to make marks yesterday, so they left.

After getting it done, and strolling around the surrounding sea area again, they returned.

Today was very easy.

It was just that after going ashore, the village head and others called a few village cadres to hand over the work of checking the boats to them, and asked them to talk to the villagers well, saying that this was an illegal act of obstructing official business, and they were not allowed to approach that sea area in the future, otherwise he wouldn't be able to protect them.

Suddenly, the villagers were full of complaints and cursed at those leaders. It was clearly something in their sea area, and they salvaged it themselves, but it was actually illegal. Everyone was even more resistant to them taking away the bronze tripod.

"Since it's illegal, we can't do it. Then they shouldn't think about taking away the Mazu Temple's tripod. Our Mazu is the Sea Goddess recognized by emperors of all dynasties, and is the Heavenly Empress with various titles."

"Yes, yes, can't let them take it away..."

"We all go to the Village Committee to see... don't let the village head and the others agree."

"Go, go, go... our village doesn't welcome them..."

"Yes, don't welcome them..."

These people on the shore were again full of indignation and walked noisily towards the Village Committee. The village cadres couldn't suppress them and could only follow them to the Village Committee.

The leaders who were putting pressure on the village head and the others inside the Village Committee heard the noisy movement outside, and the voices of wanting to drive them away and not welcoming them, and suddenly their heads grew big.

"This won't do, Village Head, your villagers doing this is obstructing our official business."

The village head also had two big heads. The handkerchief in his hand was frequently used to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and it was already soaked. He originally took it out of his pocket and habitually wanted to wipe his forehead, but found it was all wet, so he could only stuff it back into his pocket and sighed.

"I'm also in a difficult position! Leaders, it's not easy for us to be caught in the middle. If this tripod were in the Guanyin Temple, the Earth Temple, or any other temple, it would be easy to handle, but this Mazu Temple won't do! We seaside people believe in the Sea Goddess the most. It protects fishermen when they go out to sea safely, so don't make things difficult for me."

"We gave you two days to do ideological work for the villagers..."

"What can two days do? Don't say two days, the villagers won't agree even in two months."

"But this tripod must be collected by the museum, people from above have come."

Listening to the noise outside the Village Committee getting louder and louder, Ye Yaodong couldn't help but worry. The villagers' hearts were not smooth now, so don't let a conflict happen.

He saw Chen Shuji on the side also frowning, pulled his sleeve, and gestured to him with a gesture, a gesture of rubbing his thumb, index finger, and middle finger together.

Chen Shuji didn't understand.

Ye Yaodong couldn't help but complain in his heart, he gestured the gesture of counting banknotes so obviously, and he still couldn't understand it?

He whispered, "Money!"

Chen Shuji was even more confused, and whispered, "Money? Use money to bribe the villagers?"

He couldn't help but support his forehead. ===== CHAPTER 393 =====