Chapter 417: Start Construction

Ye Yaodong also thought about it and asked his father: "Dad, calculating it this way, I only donated 50. If we really want to be serious, is it not enough to invite Mazu onto the boat?"

"I'll give you 50 and count it as yours, so the merit book will look better."

"Ah, no need, no need. I'll make it up myself. 50 yuan is not much."

"Your merit is already enough, everyone knows. I was originally going to contribute a share, just add it to yours."

"Then list your name separately."

"There's no difference, anyway, I've always been tied to you." It's hard not to be tied, there's still the old lady with the precious grandson at home.

Ye Yaodong shook his head, "That's different. Isn't this about engraving the merit stele? Then of course it's better to engrave your name separately. Anyway, neither of us lacks this 50 yuan."

Ye's father thought about it, that's true too.

"Then let's talk about it when we go back."

The others also talked while walking, all planning to go back and discuss it before coming over.

Later, Lin Xiuqing and Ye's mother also said they would donate separately and register their own names.

Even the old lady said that merit must be recorded separately. Whose money is donated, of course, whose name is written, otherwise how would Mazu know if you donated or not?

Ye Yaodong also felt that the merit of building the temple belongs to building the temple. This has already put him in the first place on the merit stele. Inviting Mazu onto the boat belongs to inviting Mazu. These are two different things and cannot be mixed. Anyway, make up another 50 yuan to reach the standard for inviting.

After a while, he and Ye's father took advantage of the village committee's off-duty time and went over to donate 50 yuan each.

This made Chen Shuji praise him repeatedly for being a good young man, thinking so comprehensively, "Finally, I didn't bear the pressure in vain."

Ye Yaodong raised his eyebrows, "Did it make it difficult for you to let me be engraved in the first place on the merit stele yesterday morning?"

"It's nothing, this is what you deserve! Don't be afraid, the fellow villagers all agreed, no one has anything to say."

He nodded. Chen Shuji is still okay, and he cares about him quite a bit.

After the father and son finished donating, they also finished their work.

In the following days, the villagers in the village also donated one after another. The names and amounts on the merit book were numerous, with several hundred, and basically every household had donated.

Households that went out to sea donated more, and those that didn't go out to sea donated less. Except for some elderly people who donated a few yuan to express their hearts, ordinary households generally donated ten yuan.

And the dozen or so households that had large boats and planned to invite Mazu onto the boat all followed the rules and donated one hundred.

Calculating this way, the donations from the village alone were several thousand, mainly because their village had a large population.

If there was no official name for initiating donations, their villagers could also raise funds to build it, but they just couldn't build it that big. In the previous life, it was built by the village raising funds after two or three years.

But now that there is a chance to use the official, it must be used. We can't let things be cheap for them for nothing, and being able to build the Mazu Temple bigger is definitely better.

Thinking about how generous the fellow villagers were, everyone despised the 500 yuan from the museum even more. This bit of money can only build a mud-walled house, it's cheap for them, and they took away so many things.

And the surrounding villages, their surrounding villages are close to each other. Ordinary people generally won't choose to donate to other villages, but those who have boats are not necessarily the same. Everyone also thinks about inviting a small Mazu statue onto the boat for safety.

All Mazu in the world are one family!

By the last few days, not only the surrounding villages, but even the boat bosses of the big and small villages in the town area who had boats heard the news and came to donate.

Some might have just come down from the sea, just saw the newspaper, heard about it, and rushed over.

Although there are Mazu temples in other places, there is no talk of rebuilding or repairing them. Now the Mazu Temple in Bai Sha Village is to be rebuilt, and it is an official fundraising, so of course it is more eye-catching, and you can also donate to invite Mazu onto the boat.

The village cadres looked at the increasing amount on the merit book one by one, and more and more people from other villages came here by reputation, and their mouths were almost unable to close from smiling.

Those people from other villages saw that there were official people at the donation point, and they felt more at ease in their hearts.

Those leaders were also very satisfied, mainly because the things salvaged were really not few, and they didn't work in vain sitting here.

Ye Yaodong also felt that the shipwreck on the seabed seemed to be quite amazing. It could actually be salvaged for half a month, and it was transported away basket by basket every day. It really made them a lot of money.

On the day construction started, because the waves were big at night, the villagers didn't go out to sea, and they all spontaneously ran to the pier to watch.

Because the funds were very sufficient, the designed Mazu Temple was not small, and it also included a stage, with open space left in the middle for people to watch plays.

The original small temple was not demolished for the time being, but left there first. Construction started from the land next to it, and finally, the small temple next to it was included.

This also allows Mazu to have a temporary place to live, so as not to be affected by typhoons soon, and some dilapidated places have also been repaired.

Their coastal areas are hit by typhoons every year and are affected every year.

Four or five days before the Mazu Temple was in full swing, the house built for the old lady and the surrounding walls were all built, and all the workers were transferred to work at the Mazu Temple.

The house was aired for a few days, and it just happened that it was a good day for the Mazu Temple to start construction. Ye Yaodong's three brothers pushed the handcart and moved all the old lady's things over.

The old lady's eyes were narrowed with joy. Standing at the door of the new house, she kept nagging, "It's such a big toss, I was living well in my old home, but you insisted on calling me to move over. How many days can I live..."

Ye's mother also nagged, "And you enclosed such a big courtyard, how much money is this? Are you afraid that others will spit melon seed shells at your door, or are you afraid that vegetables will be stolen? No family is like you, enclosing the whole piece of land into your own home?"

This time, without waiting for Ye Yaodong to refute, Ye's father spoke first, "Why do you care how he tosses? If it's enclosed, it's enclosed. Anyway, his house is on the edge, and it doesn't hinder anyone? And if he encloses the land, it's his."

This is really true. If he encloses it, it's his. He went to the village committee a few days ago to say a word, and they allowed him to enclose it without even asking for money.

"I'm just afraid that he will lose all his family fortune? What's the use of enclosing it?"

"This is land, what do you say it's useful for?"

Ye's mother didn't speak either.

Ye's second sister-in-law frowned and said, "If I had known, we wouldn't have chosen the middle. If we chose the side, there would be more land. Now we can only plant vegetables on the soil slope behind."

Ye's eldest sister-in-law also thought secretly, should she also enclose the land in front of the house and beside the house?

Otherwise, if someone wants to come here to build a house later, they will take the land she reclaimed to plant vegetables temporarily, and she won't even have a place to plant vegetables.

But she thought about needing money to buy it, and it also costs money to enclose it, so she dismissed the idea. Anyway, she can plant it now, there is no need to spend money to enclose it.

After Ye Yaodong heard his second sister-in-law's words, he said seriously: "At that time, it was divided from large to small. The left side is large, the right side is small. Don't brothers in the village build houses by dividing the left side large and the right side small? You didn't have any opinion at that time. Anyway, no matter how you arrange it, you are in the middle."

"And, I bought this land with my own money, and the wall was also enclosed with my own money. I was visited by a thief once before, so I thought that anyway, I have to add a house, so I just enclosed the wall."

Ye Yaodong also told the master who built the wall like this, saying that he had been visited by a thief once before, fortunately there was no loss, so he built one just in case, so as not to lose money, and it would be a big deal if family members were injured. In recent years, because educated youth returned to the city, there were too many little hooligans who had no jobs and were ignorant.

Ye's father knew his family fortune now, and also felt that it was good to enclose one. Looking at the glass fragments inserted on the wall, and the broken porcelain pieces, standing there one by one, the top was very sharp. When the sun shone on it, some reflected dazzling light. Looking at it, ordinary people would have to retreat, and there was a dog, so ordinary people would have to weigh it.

After his second sister-in-law diverted the firepower, Ye's mother didn't talk about Ye Yaodong, but talked about Ye's second sister-in-law instead.

"Why didn't you say it at that time, what are you saying now? If you had an opinion at that time, the three of you would build separately, pay the land money yourself, and have as much area as you want. You can build a palace if you want."

"I just said it casually." Ye's second sister-in-law curled her lip and twisted her body to walk out.

Lin Xiuqing smiled and changed the subject: "Building a courtyard makes the house feel bigger."

Ye Yaodong chimed in, "It's bigger because there's an extra room."

Ye's eldest sister-in-law looked at the happy old lady and smiled, "Grandma is very happy, right? It just so happens that you love Adong the most, and now you are following him to support your old age. You are in a good mood, and you can eat an extra bowl of rice every day. Who knows, you might live a few more years and live to 100 years old."

"Why live so long? It's good enough to live about the same. You should die when you should die, otherwise, you will drag people down." The old lady said this with a smile, but she looked at it very openly.

"What nonsense? You have so many daughters-in-law and granddaughters-in-law, what are you afraid of dragging down?" Ye's father said unhappily.

"I have a count in my heart!"

Ye Yaodong said unhappily: "What count do you have? Can you decide this? Don't talk about this all day, just live hard, and I will give you a big birthday when you are 100 years old."

"Good, good, good~ You have the final say, then I will live to 100 years old..."

"It's not a loss to live a few more years!"

The old lady said with a smile and no temper: "Good, good, good, then I will live a few more years..."

Ye's mother looked at the grandmother and grandson and said sourly: "You know how to be filial to your grandmother, coaxing her to be happy every day, but I haven't seen you be filial to your mother, and you only know how to anger me and talk back to me every day."

"I'll go, you didn't treat me like a treasure like the old lady."

"How else should I treat you like a treasure? Don't you know what kind of virtue you have? It's not bad that I raised you so big without beating you to death."

"Look... you want to beat me to death every day..."

Ye's mother picked up the whip on the table beside her, pretending to swing it at him twice, but he cleverly hid behind his old father, pushed his old father toward his mother, and then quickly slipped away outside.

Behind him, he only heard his mother's scolding, "Go away, you old immortal, die on the side..."

"Hey hey hey... you woman... what does it have to do with me, and you scold me too..."

"I'm scolding you, you gave birth to a good son."

"Didn't you give birth to him?"

Ye Yaodong listened to his mother's scolding full of energy behind him, and the slapping sound of his father, mixed with his father's "ouch ouch" sound, the house also seemed extremely lively.

The corners of his mouth raised, he took the sun hat on the stool at the door, and walked out with light steps. ===== CHAPTER 418 =====