Chapter 667

Feeling that his thoughts were one after another, and the things at home were gradually more than other people's, which also showed that he wasn't messing around.

But you have to eat rice one bite at a time, and you can't become a big fat man in one breath.

"Let's take it slow, okay? People didn't say they wanted to sell it. After all, it's their old house. As a village head, he doesn't lack money. Maybe he wants to keep it as a souvenir. Only ordinary people would consider selling it."

"That's what I'm saying, so I just thought about it casually. I plan to just leave it like this for now, rent it first, and talk about it later."

She nodded and felt more at ease.

"How many pounds of fish did A Zheng buy back today?"

"2000 pounds, I guess. Can dry out three or four hundred pounds. The travel expenses were paid by him. Pure profit of more than twenty yuan should be no problem."

"That's not bad. You can earn more than 20 in one trip. If there's weather in a month, you can go a few more trips, and you can earn a lot."

"You also have to not go out to sea. Anyway, we don't have to worry about it. Just wait for him to fix it and sell it to us."

Lin Xiuqing nodded, "That's fine, let's pay him a travel expense for one trip, it's good for both of them to share it, and it saves a lot of money compared to paying for it yourself every time."

"That's right! It's good to have someone to carpool. I pay when I go, and he pays when I come back. Anyway, I have to deliver goods, and he has to buy goods, a win-win."

After the old lady served the noodles she cooked for him on the table, she smiled and said, "Your friends look more and more like they're getting the hang of it. It's good to entrust the work of delivering dried fish at night to them. You can also sleep more at night, and you don't have to be so hard-working."

Just as Ye Yaodong was about to echo and speak, there was barking at the door, and Ye Yaosheng's voice.

"Dongzi? Is Dongzi at home!"

"Is Dongzi back?"

Ye Yaodong stood up and looked at the door, only to see Ye Yaosheng blocked at the door by his pack of dogs standing in a row, unable to enter.

It wasn't his first time coming to the door, the dogs recognized him and didn't bark indiscriminately, but they weren't familiar enough to let him in directly.

Ye Yaodong walked toward the courtyard gate and kicked the few dogs in the way, "Go aside, you're in the way."

Ye Yaosheng looked a bit haggard, his spirit a bit listless, and the dark circles and bags under his eyes were particularly heavy. One look and you knew he hadn't been doing well lately.

He associated it with the gossip his wife, his mother, and nearby neighbors had been chatting about these past two days, and he probably guessed his purpose for coming.

"Is there anything, Brother Asheng? Come in and sit."

"Oh, good." Ye Yaosheng had never felt so constrained before, his whole body from head to toe exuding an awkwardness.

Also to relieve his awkwardness, looking at the bowl of rice noodles on the table, he made small talk, "Eating a snack?"

"Just came back from the city, didn't eat lunch and it's not dinner time yet, so I cooked a snack to pad my stomach first."

"You're quite hard-working, nothing is easy."

"It's okay, better than many people, sit."

He sat down, but for a moment didn't know what to say, rubbing his hands back and forth.

Ye Yaodong didn't intend to watch him make a fool of himself. Seeing that he was embarrassed and awkward and couldn't open his mouth, he asked, "How did that matter of yours go? Is it solved? What did Ye Erbo and Second Aunt say? I heard it's been making a scene for a few days?"

He smiled self-deprecatingly, "Let the whole village watch the fun for a few days."

Lin Xiuqing took the rag to the stove, wiped here and there, turned her head and smiled, "They aren't really talking about your matter anymore. Today they were all talking about the thief in Haiqing Village, and they were all discussing our family."

"Hehe, the villagers finally stopped talking about my matter when they were eating today."

"How was it solved? Did you reach an agreement?"

"I came here for this matter. Sigh, these two days the village cadres and the Women's Federation came to the door to help mediate. In the morning, because of your family's thief matter, they didn't come, but they came down in the afternoon."

"Because my breaking off the engagement caused losses to the Wang family and Wang Lizhen, now they want me to compensate them 200 yuan for reputation loss or something. Anyway, I have to give their family 200 yuan as compensation, and this matter is considered settled."

Although Ye Yaosheng looked haggard, when he mentioned it was settled, his tone also revealed a sense of relief.

The old lady hurriedly said, "Good, good, it's good that the engagement is broken. It's fine if your dad is not sensible, and your mom is also unreliable. Neither of the two is reliable. The wife you had before was arranged by your mom blindly, getting her this folk prescription, getting her that folk prescription. I didn't even bother to say it, but she ended up eating a perfectly good person until she was sick and gone."

"It's good that the engagement is broken now, so you don't get dragged into being sucked dry for a lifetime. That family doesn't look like a good one. Let your Third Aunt ask around for you later, and introduce a good one again..."

"Your Third Aunt is also prestigious now, wandering around the villages from time to time. She knows better than anyone which woman in which village is like what, much more reliable than your mom. You can't listen to your mom anymore."

After speaking, she touched her pocket, turned around and prepared to go back to the room, but before she had walked two steps, she turned around again and didn't move anymore.

She almost forgot, during the New Year, she had wrapped the money she had saved all these years in red paper and given it to Dongzi. Now she wanted to take some money to subsidize Asheng, but she couldn't.

Sigh, old, old, useless, can't save much money, can't divide it among a few children and grandchildren.

The old lady sighed in her heart.

No one present noticed the old lady's actions.

Ye Yaodong said to Ye Yaosheng, "It's good that it's solved. Is the 200 yuan to be given all at once today? Is there any difficulty?"

Seeing him come specifically to the door and talk about his own matter, Ye Yaodong was also prepared in his heart.

Ye Yaosheng smiled awkwardly, paused for two seconds before saying, "Yes, I don't have enough money on hand..."

"Ye Erbo and Second Aunt aren't helping you?" Lin Xiuqing said in surprise.

The old lady finally came to her senses. She was old and couldn't save much money. Originally, her money should have been given to Dongzi.

But, what's going on with the second couple?

After the couple pitted their own son, they just let go and didn't care? This 200 yuan should be paid by the second couple. They caused the trouble themselves, they can't let others wipe their butts.

She was old and half a foot in the grave, of course she had no money. The two old ones must have a little, parents spending money on their children is only right and proper.

"What about your dad and mom? Ask them to pay! They aren't sensible themselves, messing around, and have already implicated you. Now they can't even bear to pay the money, and you have to borrow it everywhere? Both are old bones, can't bring it when born, can't bring it when dead, and still so stingy."

"No..."

"No what no, old, can't think at all, both brains are filled with shit. All deserve to be scolded. If no one scolds them from time to time, they don't know who they are. I'll go talk to them..."

"Can't bear to pay when it's time to pay, holding it tight, not even caring about their own son, who will support them in the future? This can't go without scolding, I'll go scold them, can't bear to give 200 yuan..." The old lady became angrier the more she spoke, holding a cane, and was about to walk out.

Ye Yaosheng hurriedly stopped her, "No, my mom also gave 50 yuan..."

"Ah? 50 yuan... Why didn't she just give 5 yuan? This old confused one, can't distinguish between four and six, so stingy to her own son, obviously they messed around and arranged the marriage blindly, and as a result, only gave 50 yuan to dismiss it, might as well not give it? What's the use? Still have to beg, this second couple is becoming more and more unreliable..."

The old lady was even angrier when she heard 50 yuan. She pitted her own son, and didn't say she was responsible, just gave 50 yuan to dismiss it.

Ye Yaodong and Lin Xiuqing also hurriedly stopped the old lady, "Don't join in the fun... If you want to scold someone, let Dad call Ye Erbo over later, don't run around with your cane."

"Old, where did it all go? Son doesn't help..."

Ye Yaosheng hurriedly explained again, "Among the brothers, my dad can't be biased toward me, 200 yuan is not a small amount..."

"He also knows it's not a small amount, why did he agree? And didn't say to give a little less. You haven't subsidized that woman less this year, should this also be calculated? This is already day lily, and still dare to ask for so much money? How much does it cost to marry a wife?"

"This is not marrying a wife, still have to pay a sum of money to marry a wife. Your mom is blind, still said you are honest, want to find a fierce one, good, this is how fierce she is, fierce to your family, this brain is filled with straw, or shit?"

"Her family made a scene and cried..."

"Your family has no one? Don't your dad and mom usually make a scene? This time they just wilted, letting others knead them round and flat? No use at all... only know how to bully their own family..."

The old lady angrily poked the ground with her cane a few times, "Can you let the village mediate again and give a little less?"

Ye Yaodong lowered his head and said softly, "Forget it? It's been mediated for several days, it's too tossing, it's not a way to keep making a scene, everyone can't work."

"You just say you have no money, and drag it..."

"If I drag it and don't give it, they come to the door every day, no one can stand it..."

"Oh my, your family is really going to piss me off..." The old lady angrily hit him a few times, "It's a good thing I didn't rely on you for old age, otherwise I would have lived ten years less. I won't care about you anymore, your family loves how to do it, I'm already half a foot in the grave, who knows how many days I can eat? Care less, I can live a few more days."

After speaking, she angrily leaned on her cane and went back to the room herself.

Ye Yaodong thought to himself, it's good that she left, it saves her from listening to things that make people angry. If she runs around later, they will add to their worries.

"Then Brother Asheng is short 150, right?"

Ye Yaodong nodded with a wooden face, "Didn't save much money this year, can only thicken my face and come to ask you, I'll work to pay you back later."