Chapter 666

Ye Yaodong and the others grabbed the tractor handrails and clattered all the way. This time, people didn't sway from side to side as usual, but were stuck tightly by the dried fish.

To prevent the mountain road from being difficult to drive because it was stacked relatively high, the car would drive slower today. By the time they reached the city, they hadn't finished unloading the goods, and the horizon was already turning fish-belly white, beginning to brighten.

The transition from dark to dawn is just the moment before the sun is about to jump out of the horizon.

A Zheng and Ah Guang were here for the first time, full of excitement. The first thing they did after jumping off the car was to run straight to the market, under the pretext that they were afraid there wouldn't be any quantity if they were late.

After all, it was already dawn, and the people rushing to the morning market had basically finished buying and left. Those still flowing were basically not rushing for the morning.

Ye Yaodong cursed while unloading the goods, "These two are too unreliable. Bringing them here was counting on them to help move back and forth, but as a result, before the car was even parked steadily, they disappeared. Damn. Still coming back to help me move? Move my ass, by the time they come out of the market, the sun will be shining on their butts."

"Hehe, maybe they are anxious in their hearts, it's already dawn." Uncle Zhou helped unload the bags one by one on the tractor first.

"Really unreliable, can't count on any of them."

"There aren't many here, we can move a few trips and it'll be fine, two people are fast."

"Sorry to trouble you, Uncle Zhou, letting you help with everything."

"What polite words are you saying? I'm counting on you to take care of my business more after the tractor is bought from the village, so I can earn a little more."

Hey!

"By the way, is the village planning to sell the tractor? Was it bought?"

When it came to this, Uncle Zhou was happy, "Bought it yesterday, just short of a thousand yuan. Secretary Chen said it could be owed first and paid at the end of the year."

Although he owed money, having a big guy at home was also something worth celebrating.

When he drove the tractor to his own gate to park during the day, Uncle Zhou washed it carefully, wiped it until it was shiny, and specifically bought a string of firecrackers to set off.

"That's fine, just a thousand yuan. You can earn it easily this year. When you're free, go to the roadside to carry passengers back and forth, and you can pay it back at the end of the year. It's also good that no one in the village is competing with you."

Saying this, he really felt a little guilty.

"Who can compete with me? There aren't many people in the village who can drive a tractor, and I've always been the tractor driver for the village production team. Others can't compete with me even if they want to."

"Yes, yes, yes, this has become your private property, and you can earn more money. I didn't know you had already bought it so quickly. I only heard about it the day before yesterday, and it's already in your hands today. When I go back, I'll buy you another string of firecrackers and send them over."

He had already said hello two days in advance that he would use the car today, so he didn't specifically apply to the village committee yesterday, and he really didn't know Uncle Zhou had already bought it.

"No need, no need, we've already bought firecrackers and set them off ourselves. You just need to take care of my business more, and that'll be enough for me to earn."

"No problem, you're the only one in the whole village with a tractor, if I don't hire you, who do I hire? I'm not like Acai and the others, who have partners."

Only Ye Yaodong uses the tractor every three days in the whole village. Just working for him can earn a lot in a month, and Uncle Zhou is already very satisfied.

The two chatted while moving. After moving and stacking them, it was already bright, and he was sweating all over. He simply took off his thin cotton-padded jacket, wore only the sweater inside, hung the cotton-padded jacket on his hand, and went to the shop to help.

Looking at the sun hanging high in the sky, after the people coming and going in the shop became fewer, he went to the nearby village to rent a house from the village head.

He had already asked in advance, just the price of the rent was left. One didn't ask for a high price, and the other didn't lack money, so the two hit it off. Ye Yaodong only went for half an hour before coming back immediately.

It just so happened that Uncle Zhou's tractor was parked at the door, which was convenient. He asked Uncle Zhou to help move the bed up together, and then moved all the things up. One trip was enough to pull everything, leaving only Lin's mother to settle down in the rented house.

He didn't count on the two burdens, he handled it himself.

By the way, he took another 20 pounds of dried fish and gave it to the village head, asking him to take care of it more. In a village, with the village head taking care of it, it was basically stable.

Ye Yaodong stood at the shop door, wiped the sweat on his forehead with the back of his hand, and shook the sweater on his chest to cool down. From getting off the car until now, the sun was hanging high, and he hadn't stopped to rest at all.

"I'm really diligent! I deserve to make a fortune!"

Lin's father smiled and brought out a bowl of porridge and handed it to him, "Yes, they all say diligence leads to wealth, and that makes sense. Busy all morning, didn't have time to eat, hurry up and eat a little to pad your stomach first, it's almost nine o'clock."

"Those two guys went in and didn't know how to come out. They aren't even as slow as giving birth to a child. I finished all the work, it's a good thing I didn't wait for them to unload, otherwise the day lily would have been cold."

Those two people were indeed slow.

After entering the market, it was as if their eyes weren't enough to see. They kept walking around, lingering, walking past stall after stall, comparing goods from three shops, and finally A Zheng gritted his teeth and bought 2000 pounds of toadfish.

After all, this fish was something their family was used to drying, and they all knew how many pounds could dry out a pound.

When he came, he had already calculated with his wife. Although it was a little more expensive than the acquisition price at the pier, he could still make money by drying it, and this fish was currently the most abundant in the market.

When the fishing for this fish comes to an end, he will just dry other fish.

However, when they came out, Uncle Zhou had already gone to take other jobs, and they couldn't find him, and they couldn't immediately load them home. Both of them stood at the door and were dumbfounded.

"Is he taking private jobs with the tractor?"

Ye Yaodong explained, "Uncle Zhou bought the tractor yesterday. Now the tractor belongs to him privately, not the brigade, so he can take jobs at will."

"Ah? When did this happen? Why didn't we know?" A Zheng was surprised.

"Why do I have to tell you? The production team was disbanded long ago. The village has always been reluctant to distribute the tractor. Now that the Mazu temple is almost finished, it feels like the tractor is useless there, so it's better to sell it."

"Alright, then move these goods to your shop door and wait, and by the way, cover them with some rags to prevent the sun from ruining them. It's at least 5 degrees different inside and outside the market."

"Isn't it? It's cold inside the market, and you feel hot as soon as you come out."

"What you're saying is nonsense. Those fresh fish inside the market are packed with ice, so the temperature will be low, right?"

Ye Yaodong didn't hold it against them, and helped them move back and forth a few times.

Fortunately, Uncle Zhou had a good sense of time. As soon as it was lunchtime, he came back, and they moved the goods onto the tractor again.

It was only past three o'clock when they arrived home, which was earlier than the time Ye Yaodong usually arrived home.

A Zheng was also relieved. With his large family, he could still kill these fish before going to sleep, so as not to let them stay overnight and not be fresh.

After Ye Yaodong arrived home, he just took a sip of water when he heard Lin Xiuqing excitedly talking about the aftermath of this morning.

"Just as it was dawn this morning, when the second sister-in-law went out with the chamber pot to dump it, she was scared and screamed. The chamber pot fell to the ground, and she didn't care about cleaning up the poop and pee, she just hurriedly called everyone in the nearby houses."

"After I heard the commotion, I immediately climbed out of bed and explained it to everyone, saying it was a thief, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. They looked from afar and thought someone had hanged themselves on a tree."

Ye Yaodong laughed, he had thought that people who got up early this morning would be scared when he hung the person up last night.

He didn't expect the one who won the prize was his second sister-in-law!

"Several men went up to take the person down, and then hurriedly went to the village committee to call people, and then the whole village came over. I repeated what you told me last night, and the neighbors on both sides were very angry."

"If it weren't for the fact that he had been hanging for a night and was already breathing more than he was exhaling, I guess everyone could have rushed up and beaten him again."

"And then?" Ye Yaodong sat on the recliner excitedly, crossing his legs, half resting and half listening to the story.

"Then people in the village who were related to their village took the initiative to go to their village to bring a message. Not long after, a lot of people from both villages surrounded the slope at our back door, arguing very fiercely, and almost fought again."

"Especially the brothers from the Zhou and Lan families next to us, pointing at the noses of A Qiu's family and cursing, saying that if they see anyone from their family entering our village in the future, they will beat them once every time they see them."

Ye Yaodong listened with satisfaction. It seemed that their crisis awareness was also very strong.

"And then?"

"Then A Qiu's parents cried and begged the village committee to let them take the person for treatment first, so as not to really die. The village head just raised his hand to let them go, let them take the person away, and said that he is not allowed to enter our village again in the future."

"Oh, just like that? That's fine, last night's lesson was enough. Anyway, it was to beat the villagers, and the goal was achieved."

Lin Xiuqing nodded, "The person looks half-dead already, we can't do anything else. Anyway, the whole village saw it, and everyone knows the consequences of stealing from our house, that's enough."

"Yeah."

After Ye Yaodong finished listening to the aftermath of the story, he started to take off his clothes and took out the cloth bag and handed it to her, "Reward for you, you told it very well."

Lin Xiuqing gave him a reproachful look, took the cloth bag, "Hurry up and put on your clothes, is the house rented?"

"Yeah, living in the village, they should be able to sleep more peacefully at night. I also told the village head to take care of it more often. Anyway, it's their house we're renting."

"That's good, they can also pay more attention to their house."

"It would be even better if we could buy it."

"Buy it for what, it's already an old house, right?"

"It's quite old, but it can also house people, not much different from our old home, it's okay. I was thinking of buying it, we can tear it down and rebuild a better one. In the future, we can have a place to stay when we come and go to the city, which is equivalent to settling a home in the city."

Lin Xiuqing frowned and thought about it, and felt it was feasible, but felt his pace was a bit fast. The big projects at home hadn't been completed yet, and he was thinking about the city?