Chapter 648

Ye Yaodong also felt relieved. It was only the beginning of the year, and now that the final payment problem was solved, everything earned this year could be saved, and he could be a bit more relaxed, not so tight that he would be desperate once the money was handed over.

He picked up the porridge that had become warm on the side, drank a few mouthfuls, had a few strips of pickled mustard, and finished the bowl. Then he grabbed a meat bun wrapped in newspaper on the table, greeted his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and immediately went out again.

He had to settle the house matter first.

Thinking about it, he felt a bit of a headache. If he really wanted to do something seriously, he wouldn't just do one thing. There were many stumbling blocks and thorny bushes on the road to the destination, and there wouldn't be a shortage of things coming one after another.

He wasn't familiar with the small village nearby and hadn't been in it; he had only passed by at most, and he didn't know which one was the village chief.

As soon as he entered the village, he saw a group of old women sitting there basking in the sun. He looked at them, and they were also staring straight at him, making his scalp tingle. The originally lively talking voices of theirs quieted down, and the children running and jumping nearby also hurriedly hid away.

Ye Yaodong smiled awkwardly. Was this treating him as a human trafficker? Was there such a handsome human trafficker?

He touched his cheeks, feeling that he should be able to kill both young and old, and instantly became full of confidence, smiling and walking forward.

"Grandma, basking in the sun? The sun has been quite good these past few days, bask in the sun and kill the bacteria."

"Yes, yes, basking in the sun, basking in the sun..."

"Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing in our village?"

"Doesn't look like a peddler, and isn't carrying a pole, empty-handed... Could it be that he's here to scout? Tell the children to hide far away, don't come out."

"I heard the newspaper said a few days ago that many were caught, and they're out again so soon?"

Ye Yaodong: "?"

Did they think he wouldn't understand because they were speaking the local dialect? Saying it so directly, although the language spoken in the towns here might be different, some individual tones were common, and he could still guess a little by guessing.

He hurriedly explained: "No, Grandma, I want to find the village chief, can you tell me how to go?"

"Ah, want to find the village chief?"

"Yes, how do I go to your village committee?"

Their languages were not the same, the grandmother couldn't speak Mandarin, and they were like chickens talking to ducks, but anyway, they could roughly understand what the other was saying.

"Looking for the village chief? Then it seems he shouldn't be a bad person..."

"Walk forward, turn right at that intersection, go to the end, then turn left. After turning, see the road and turn left again. There's a wooden board at the entrance that says Xinghua Zhongcun Village Committee, that's it."

"Oh, good, good, good... Then I'm leaving, you continue basking in the sun."

Ye Yaodong walked forward with his legs. Wherever he passed, the children avoided him as if he were some plague. And the gazes behind him were always like thorns in his back.

He finally experienced the feeling of a stranger entering their village.

After shaking his head helplessly, he walked a few steps faster, and the children playing around hid even further away.

What was worse was that he forgot which small road intersection the grandmother pointed to just now.

"Child, come here..."

"No, you're a bad person..."

Ye Yaodong's mouth instantly bent down, his face full of sorrow: "Where do I look like a bad person?"

"You look like a bad person now, and my mother said that strangers from outside, as long as they take the initiative to talk to us children, are bad people."

Indeed, ordinary strangers wouldn't go to talk to children, but he was asking for directions.

"No, I'm not calling you over anymore, just tell me how to go to the village committee, I forgot." Ye Yaodong was very helpless.

A slightly older child pointed to the small road on the side, and Ye Yaodong turned into the small road under the gaze of the grandmother who was following him with tiger-like eyes.

Turning left and right, after attracting the gazes of a large group of women around, he circled a large circle before seeing the wooden board with the name of the village committee.

He wiped the sweat that had seeped out on his forehead and felt relieved.

It was not easy. He was guarded by people all the way, from 80-year-olds to 3-year-olds. Everyone who passed by stared at him.

At this moment, there were still two old men following behind him. When he walked into the village committee, those two old men were still sitting on a stone on the side, their eyes still staring at the village committee.

He didn't know if it was the aftermath of the human traffickers that broke out in their county a while ago, or if children were lost somewhere around, that they were so vigilant?

It made him a bit nervous all the way here, fearing that his behavior was wrong or impolite somewhere, and he would be beaten!

Entering the village committee, he felt relieved.

It was called a village committee, but it was actually just a small courtyard. As soon as he walked in, he shouted a few times at the entrance.

"Is anyone there? Is anyone there?"

"Who is it?"

"That... comrade, hello, I want to ask if there are any houses to rent in your village?"

"Rent a house? No, no, where are there any houses to rent? Every household doesn't have enough space for themselves, who would rent it out?" A middle-aged man with white hair on his temples directly waved his hand to drive him away, and then turned to go in.

"Wait, Uncle, I'm really here to rent a house. I bought a stall in the market nearby, and it's inconvenient to eat and live there, so I want to come over to rent a house, thinking your village is quite close..."

This time, the middle-aged man stopped his steps: "You bought a stall over there?"

"Yes, if you don't have any to rent, selling is also fine. If anyone has built a new house and the old house isn't lived in, selling it to me is also fine. Looking at your village, you've also built two buildings..."

The middle-aged man looked at him carefully several times before finding him a bit familiar: "Are you the young man who bought two stalls?"

He had to be familiar. Such a young man bought two shops, everyone remembered him. Just now, he didn't think of it for a moment and didn't associate it in that direction.

Ye Yaodong's eyes instantly lit up. He recognized him? If he recognized him, then it would be easy to handle.

"Yes, yes, yes, Uncle also bought a stall? Were you there when the lottery was drawn? My stall has already opened to sell dried fish. You don't have to worry that I'm a bad person coming to the village to kidnap children. I'm a good person, a three-good youth, a good citizen..."

"I am the village chief of this village, named Wei Aiguo. That dried fish shop is yours? It looks like two elders are watching it there, and there are several rental notices posted at the entrance. I thought it was rented out." The middle-aged man was also a bit relieved now, and he also greeted him to sit inside.

"The ones watching the shop are my father and mother. Sigh, your village's vigilance is so high. As soon as I came in, I was stared at from the head of the village to here, worried that I was a human trafficker."

"Not entirely, hehe, it's because we started catching ultrasound in the last few years, everyone is afraid, and when they see strangers entering the village, they stare at them first. Our village is not big, less than 100 households, but basically, they all have the same surname. You just said you wanted to come to rent a house, right?"

"If I can buy it, that's also fine."

Occupy the land in advance. It's at least on the outskirts of the city. In the future, when it develops, it will sooner or later be divided into the city. Although the land is not valuable now, it's not easy for outsiders to run to other villages to buy land and houses because they are xenophobic.

Villages in the south are all clan gathering places, basically, most of the village has the same surname.

Their village is because it's near the sea, the older generation had nothing to eat, went to the seaside to make a living, and then many took root, so there are all kinds of surnames.

Village Chief Wei tapped the table with his fingertips in turn, looking thoughtful: "Buying a house has to ask the villagers, who has extra houses willing to sell. Generally, people won't sell, but renting can be asked."

"That's fine, we are all regular and honest people, Village Chief Wei can rest assured, renting and buying are both fine."

"I'll ask, I have to ask this first, tomorrow."

"Hey, good, I'm not necessarily in the shop tomorrow, you can go to the shop and tell my father-in-law, he will tell me."

Wei Aiguo was instantly surprised: "It's father-in-law, not biological father?"

"Yes, it's father-in-law, anyway, he's also a father."

This time he was a bit appreciative. After saying so much, he thought it was his biological father watching the shop for him, and he was renting a house for his biological father. It turned out to be his father-in-law. It was rare for the relationship to be so close.

"Okay, I'll ask, and go to the shop to tell your father-in-law tomorrow."

"What number did the village chief draw for the shop?"

Village Chief Wei was dejected: "Sigh, don't mention it, it's Shop No. 4 at Entrance No. 3. It's left there and I don't know what to do. It can't be rented out, and I'm scolded to death by the woman at home."

"It will be lively in a few years. Development always has a process, take it slowly."

"You're still the lucky one."

"Then I'll go first, waiting for your news tomorrow."

"Hey, good, good."

After Ye Yaodong walked out, he remembered that he came empty-handed and didn't buy anything. A miscalculation!

He patted his forehead. If he was carrying something, he probably wouldn't have been directly rejected just now, and he would have to rely on this face to go in and talk.

He could only buy a few pastries to make up for it tomorrow after confirming that there was a rental.

On the stone not far from the village committee, the two old men were still sitting there. He didn't know if they just sat there basking in the sun. He shook his head speechlessly and walked past them swaggeringly.

And then walked out under the gaze of the women and grandmothers in the village...

It was almost noon, and there were no people coming in and out of the shop. The two elders were also free and turned on the radio to listen to the drama.

As soon as Ye Yaodong told them that he planned to go to the village to rent a house for them, he immediately received their strong opposition, feeling that there was no need to spend this money.

It was only when he said that all the goods had to be transported over and piled up in the shop, and they would soon have no place to live, that the two elders didn't speak.

"Then I'll stay, see if anyone comes tomorrow? There are no customers now, your mother is watching in the shop, I'll go get the money for you. After taking it, it's just right to go back early."

"Okay."

He also had to go back to weigh the goods, weigh out 3,000 jin of dried fish in advance, in case there really wasn't enough, he would go to find Uncle Pei's friend, or see if there was any dried fish added today.

Uncle Pei's friend hadn't weighed the thousands of jin of dried fish yet. Yesterday, he weighed the ones from a few households in the village, and the house was already piled full.