Chapter 394: Invitation

After contributing all the ideas in his brain, Ye Yaodong felt relaxed.

The storm brought by the bronze tripod, let's see how they negotiate next. It's good to get it done early, so as not to make trouble, and the villagers can also calm down.

He put his hands in his pockets, put on the sun hat on his hands, not afraid of the curious eyes cast by the villagers on the road, and walked specifically in the shade of the trees all the way. It was almost July, and the sun was scorching, getting hotter day by day. If he didn't protect himself from the sun and stood in the sun for a few days, his mother wouldn't recognize him.

It was already mealtime. Along the way, smoke was rising from the chimneys of every household in the village. Passing by some people's houses, fragrance drifted from the windows.

Especially the fresh smell of some families frying crabs made his stomach growl.

Fortunately, those people had a conscience today and didn't go out to sea for a whole day, so he could still go home to eat a meal with peace of mind.

Lin Xiuqing was puzzled when she saw him back, "I thought you didn't have time to come back for lunch again, so I only left a little bit of vegetables, and everything else was taken outside to the workers. Then I'll make another shrimp skin fried egg, otherwise it won't be enough to eat."

"If I don't come back to eat, where would I go to eat? It's not like I'm on the sea. No need to be busy, just eat a bite casually."

"It's not troublesome to fry an egg, the two boys also love to eat it. I heard from Father that you followed those people to the Village Committee, I thought you would have to be busy with them for a day."

"I'm not needed, I just went to watch the fun, and by the way, listen to the news. Today, a few people from the museum came. It seems they said they applied for a salvage team yesterday, so there's no need to call those few Liberation Army soldiers into the water today. After all, they are not professional salvage, just exploring the path first to confirm if there is anything on the seabed. It won't take a few days for the salvage team to come."

"Then if they are not going out to sea to salvage, why did they run here today? It's so hot, and they don't think it's hot. If it were me, I would wish to hide in the room and not go out."

Lin Xiuqing said while beating two eggs into a bowl, cutting a small handful of green onions, grabbing a handful of shrimp skin and putting it in, and then sprinkling a little salt and stirring.

Ye Yaodong sat at the table with his feet crossed, watching her busy, and casually picked up two pieces of vegetables to steal a bite.

"Isn't there still the matter of the bronze tripod that hasn't been solved? Just because it wasn't mentioned yesterday doesn't mean those people gave up. Maybe they were specifically waiting for the museum people to come today before talking. Just now at the Village Committee, they were talking about the bronze tripod. I listened for a while and saw it was almost mealtime, so I came back first. Anyway, it's none of my business."

"It's good to come back to eat, we can't get involved in the affairs of those big figures. Earlier I heard from Second Sister-in-law that the villagers all ran to the Village Committee to make trouble aggressively. What's the situation? Nothing happened, right?"

"Nothing, just full of indignation. The fellow villagers all saw wealth and wanted to try their luck at sea to see if they could salvage anything. How could these officials let things fall into other people's hands? The fellow villagers were dissatisfied, ran to the Village Committee to make trouble, and have now been appeased and persuaded to leave." Ye Yaodong also told her about repairing the temple by the way.

The egg liquid poured into the pot and made a sizzling sound. Lin Xiuqing scraped the egg liquid at the bottom of the bowl clean, put the bowl aside and said, "Repairing the temple, that's quite good. Anyway, that tripod, it's the same if it's left there, and there's already an incense burner in the temple. It's good to use it to negotiate conditions with those officials and get some money to repair the temple. The Mazu Temple is broken and rotten."

"That's what I said, so the fellow villagers were very happy. Originally, they were aggressive and wanted to drive them away, but after hearing it, they were all beaming with joy."

"I don't know how much money the government can reward to repair the temple."

While talking, she poured a tiny bit of rice wine into the bowl that just held the egg liquid, stirred it, melted the residual egg liquid in the bowl into the rice wine as much as possible, trying not to waste it, and then poured the wine in the bowl evenly along the edge of the pot into the pot to enhance the fragrance of the fried egg.

Even though she has some money in her hands now, she is still diligent and thrifty, and some personal habits cannot be changed.

Except for stir-frying vegetables without wine, other dishes locally have the habit of adding a little rice wine to enhance the fragrance.

"It's hard to say how much money can be rewarded. It depends on how those village cadres negotiate. They don't dare to agree casually, they must make the villagers satisfied, and whether to donate the tripod or not depends on the villagers."

"Hmm, you go and call the two sons back to eat, I can take the egg out of the pot after flipping it."

"The sun is so big, where did the two little rabbits die again?"

"You go to the door and call, if they hear it, they will naturally jump out from the corner."

Ye Yaodong walked to the door and shouted at the top of his lungs. He didn't see anyone for a long time, and didn't hear a response.

He was cursing and swearing and was about to go find them everywhere in the village, when he saw two of them running back one after another, holding a big watermelon in their hands.

"Where did you die? Where did the watermelon come from? Running around in the hot weather, summer hasn't even arrived, and both of you are already darker than me."

The two of them laughed and called Father, then ran into the house holding the watermelon directly.

Lin Xiuqing also asked there, "Where did you get the watermelon?"

"Looking at the appearance of these two chicken thieves, eight out of ten they stole it from some mountain or field."

"Mother, cut the watermelon quickly, we are almost thirsty to death..."

She took the watermelon and put it in the corner, "This watermelon is hot from the sun and can't be eaten. You will have a stomachache if you eat it. Wait for a while, when the watermelon is not hot, then you can eat it. Eat first."

"Then you soak it in water, it will be cool immediately."

Ye Yaodong patted the back of his eldest son's head, "Where did you steal it from?"

"Back mountain!"

"Aren't you afraid of being caught and having your legs broken? You're still afraid of having nothing to eat when your maternal grandparents send watermelons over in a few days."

"Then we want to eat now."

"Eat your head, hurry up and sit at the table to eat, don't go stealing again in the future."

While they were eating, Ye's father and mother came over to help with work. Ye's father helped move things with the workers beside the house, and Ye's mother went to clean up the bowls and chopsticks the workers had just finished eating.

She chattered while working, still talking about Ye Yaodong's blind tossing, wasting money, and so on.

Just right, Ye Yaodong had just finished eating and was preparing to take the bowls and chopsticks to be filial to his old mother, when he heard this.

"The old house is also broken and rotten, it's been several decades, and it needs to be repaired every three days. Or I'll build another one, and you and Father move over to live too. We all live on this side, you two old people are bored over there."

"Bored with what? Neighbors are on both sides, it's boring to move over, and I have to be a cow and a horse for you. We two old people live over there, don't worry, how comfortable it is."

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, "Looking at you running here so diligently every day, I thought you also wanted to move over to live."

"Old mother has worried about you for more than 20 years, I'm not at ease, so I come over to turn around from time to time, afraid that no one is watching you and you become bad again..."

"Then in the previous 20 years under your eyelids, I didn't get better either."

Ye's mother listened to him talking back and wanted to beat him, "You only know how to make me angry every day. If you moved over, that would be it, I would be angered by you for ten years less."

"How can it be, you two don't even cook well in the old house, move over, I'll tell the workers later to pick more materials and build another one."

He really sincerely wanted to pick up his old father and mother together. The old house is lonely for them, and moving over can also see the grandchildren every day.

"No, is your money hot? The house is there and no one lives in it, no one takes care of it and no one is popular, so it's broken. It's a pity to ruin a good house. I won't move, just live in the old house. Don't toss blindly. If your money is hot, give it to me, I'll save it for you."

"Then as you wish."

Regardless of whether they want to move over or not, he pondered whether to build another one? Prepare it there in advance, it's just that it seems there is no space to build another one?

He walked to the side of the house uncertainly to take a look, there was really not enough space. After building the house for the old lady, the vegetable garden next to it was almost sticking to the corner of the wall. Taking the vegetable garden was not enough to build an extra one.

The small room behind is their family's latrine. He doesn't share it with his eldest brother and second brother's family. He is tired of the disgusting shared latrine in the old house.

If he wants to build an extra one, he can only build it upwards, and add another layer of red bricks. It won't work to build two layers of stone, it's not easy to transport, red bricks are more convenient.

Then he has to go to the brick factory to buy bricks, which is troublesome, and building a building is also a bit eye-catching.

Thinking about it, he could only dispel the idea. Since his mother doesn't want to move, let's talk about it later. Anyway, she and his father are still young.

"Father, Little Aunt's husband sent a watermelon."

Ye Yaodong lifted his feet and went to the door, "Why didn't you go out to sea today? The waves on the sea are not big."

"Yesterday afternoon I came back and heard about your business here, but you were not there. Today my second sister is looking at someone, my father said to rest for a day, and just sent the person away a while ago. As a result, I stood at the back door and saw a few children stealing watermelons, and my father shouted a few times to scare them away. He simply went to pick watermelons, and I sent a few over by the way."

"Yo, your own family stole from your own family."

"What?"

Ye Yaodong pointed to the watermelon soaking in water in the basin in the corner, "The two little cubs stole it back earlier."

"Damn, you should have said so earlier. It turns out it's you guys. That piece of back mountain is entrusted to you. Go back with me later and pick enough."

"Really?" Ye Chenghu thought he was going to be scolded, but didn't expect there was such a good thing, and ran out of the house excitedly.

"Little Aunt's husband is not allowed to go back on his word!"

Aguang smiled evilly, "Don't regret it!"

"Definitely not!"

Ye Yaodong's mouth twitched, this little idiot, the sun is so big, others hide too late, he is still rushing to work.

Lin Xiuqing was also speechless, "Not allowed to go now, you can only go when the sun is about to set."

"It's okay, I'm not afraid of the sun, Little Aunt's husband, let's go, let's go quickly..." Aguang's butt hadn't been hot yet when he was dragged away by Ye Chenghu in a hurry, for fear that he would be left behind by his mother if he was late.

Ye Chengyang shouted behind that he also wanted to follow, but was grabbed by Ye Yaodong, "Don't go, you just stay at home and eat watermelon, eat until you are satisfied, your brother is a fool!"

"Brother is a fool?"

"Hmm, your brother is a fool, go, cut the watermelon to eat." ===== CHAPTER 395 =====