Chapter 754: Driving Away

After Ye Yaodong said this, he stood up. "Instead of asking Brother Afan to buy a boat on installment, why don't you pay off the money you owe my eldest and second brothers first?"

"It's lucky I wasn't swindled out of my money. If I were you, go try going to my eldest or second brother's house and ask them to help you out? My two sisters-in-law would sweep you out with a broom."

"What kind of wishful thinking is this? Still trying to catch a wolf with empty hands? You've already ruined my two brothers, and now you're coming to treat me like a fool, Auntie?"

"I originally thought Brother Afan was just simple-minded and got coaxed into it, that he wasn't the one swindling money. The old lady also kept it in her heart, thinking of letting me help pull him up, so I agreed."

"Now it seems you aren't satisfied with Brother Afan working for others; you want him to be a boat boss himself. Then why don't you go somewhere else and buy him another boat? Better yet, buy him several, so he doesn't have to work at all and can just lie at home."

"I don't have any boss-level jobs here, and I can't accommodate such a big Buddha. Go see whose temple is big enough for you."

This kind of person really isn't worth sympathizing with. It truly is a case of 'like mother, like son.'

If the upper beam is crooked, the lower ones will be too.

"That was Ahong's doing, what does it have to do with Afan? Afan was also coaxed into it..."

"How does it have nothing to do with him? Didn't he go along to earn money? Aren't the two of them in the same boat? Otherwise, why would he have been sentenced? Isn't it only right that he helps bear some of the debt?" Lin Xiuqing couldn't help but speak up.

Ye Mu was also angry. "You haven't even paid back the money you owe, yet you're already coming here to scheme for my family's boat. Where is your shame? I forgot, I should call my eldest daughter-in-law and second daughter-in-law over and have you write two IOUs for them. Since the son can't pay it back, it's only right for you parents to help pay it back, isn't it?"

"Ah!" Ye Dabo Mu widened her eyes. "Ahong is the one who took the money, what does it have to do with me? Why should I have to pay?"

Ye Mu glared back. "He's the son you gave birth to, shouldn't you be responsible for him? Besides, since you're so good at planning, why don't you plan for when he'll pay the money back? Whose money falls from the sky? Debts must be repaid; it's only natural. Don't you leave; I'm going to call my two daughters-in-law over, and we'll make it clear when the money will be paid."

As she spoke, Ye Mu walked outside. Ye Dabo Mu tried to grab her, but was shaken off.

"Hey... let's talk this over. I just came to discuss it, and besides, I'm not the one who owes the money... The two of us old folks are already pathetic enough, where would we get the money?"

The old lady also felt stifled and said angrily, "It's pathetic because you didn't teach your son well, ruining two sons for a lifetime. It's all your fault."

"If I had known you were so good at planning, I wouldn't have bothered with this. Whose son it is, that's who should worry. I should have just played deaf and blind, saving myself from doing bad things with good intentions and dragging others down."

"Dongzi, just do whatever you need to do. People like this are never satisfied. Our good intentions easily lead to bad outcomes. They have big ideas of their own; it wouldn't be good to block their path to wealth. The person hasn't even come out yet, and the mother is already here trying to arrange everything. Since when is it our turn?"

After the old lady finished speaking, she stood up to drive them away, waving her cane twice.

"Go, go, go. We can't meet your demands, and this place can't accommodate a big Buddha like you. You'd better go to someone else's house."

Ye Dabo Mu looked at the doorway and then inside the house, wanting to explain a few words, but fearing that she would be blocked inside and asked for money. She didn't want to end up having to pay for her son at her age without seeing any benefits.

She looked at them unwillingly, then hurried toward the outside of the house, but her legs didn't move fast enough, or perhaps Ye Dasao and Ye Ersao reacted faster.

They blocked her at the doorway with Ye Mu, the three of them surrounding her and chattering away, with Ye Mu's voice being the loudest.

"If you can scheme to buy a boat from Dongzi, you must have money. Pay back a little first..."

"So what if we're relatives? Does being relatives mean you can swindle our money and not pay it back? Still thinking of coming here to swindle another boat? I originally thought you were pathetic at your age, being dragged down by your son, but now I don't see what's pathetic about you. My son is the one who's pathetic."

"After one person was swindled out of 1,000 yuan, the third one was targeted too, and you're still thinking of swindling his boat? Do you think my family is easy to bully? You've targeted us, and you call yourselves relatives, a family? Is this how you treat us as family... I can't afford to be treated like this..."

"So what if we have money? Does having money mean we deserve to be swindled? Did we earn your money?"

The people inside the house all came out and saw the four of them pulling and tugging at the doorway. Women are better at dealing with women.

The three women of her family pulled and shouted at Ye Dabo Mu, while Ye Dabo Mu shook her arms as she walked, and the four of them moved bit by bit toward the main road.

Then, after a while, Ye Dabo Mu pushed them and ran away quickly.

The old lady sighed. "Evil people must be dealt with by evil people, otherwise your Dabo Mu would be pulling you to cry and complain together, and you wouldn't even be able to drive her away. If you did, they'd say you have no human touch, and since they don't owe you money, they'd say you've made it big and don't even recognize your relatives."

"Originally, it sounded quite pathetic, being at that age, yet she actually had this crooked idea. It's too hateful. Your Dabo seems okay, but your Dabo Mu is too bad. The sons were all taught badly by her."

"It's a pity your two cousins ended up with such a mother, both of them are in jail. When marrying a wife, you must marry a good one. It's fortunate your wife is good, and your mother has a sharp tongue but still knows what's right, otherwise what would you do..."

The old lady stood at the doorway muttering, not expecting anyone to pick up her words.

Lin Xiuqing held the child and said, "Mother is much better than Dabo Mu and Erbo Mu. Dabo Mu is too good at thinking and planning; no wonder Brother Ahong is so calculating."

"It's all because the mother didn't teach them well!"

The old lady was now completely convinced that it was all Ye Dabo Mu's fault, pinning everything bad on her head.

After Ye Mu drove the person away, she originally intended to return to the courtyard, but was stopped by neighbors nearby who were watching the excitement.

They were all neighbors, so if something happened in anyone's house, as long as there was a slightly louder sound at the door, who wouldn't know?

Ye Mu wouldn't cover for anyone; she shouted with no good words in her mouth, waving her hands and spitting, wishing the whole village knew how shameless the other party was.

She told everything that happened in the house, without any awareness that 'family shame should not be spread abroad.'

"You all judge, what kind of thing is that? Why don't you take a piss and look at your own face? Opening your mouth and wanting a boat, saying you'll pay back a little every month. Pay back a ghost! Only she knows how to calculate, and everyone else is a fool."

"As soon as she sticks her butt out, I know what kind of shit she's taking. She spent the afternoon talking to me and wouldn't let me leave, saying in every way that we have money and to lend her some to get through the crisis. I didn't expect her to come over in the evening crying with snot and tears, opening her mouth to ask Dongzi for a boat."

"Why doesn't she close her eyes and dream? That would come faster! My eldest and second sons were swindled out of money by her son, and she forgot so quickly."

"She never remembers what she owes others, but is jealous of what others have, always thinking of coming over to scheme. I had to call my two daughters-in-law out to remind her that she still owes our family money. Let's see if she dares to come to my house again."

"It's not like we owe her!"

"It's not that we don't care about the kinship, thinking that her second son was also tricked by the eldest. The old lady is at that age and still worried about her grandson after he's released, living in trouble. She's been thinking about it and talking about it for the past two days. Dongzi doesn't know how filial he is, directly saying that when he's released, he can go work on our family's boat."

"Everyone, tell me, has my Dongzi done everything he should? They are brothers, and he also thought about helping out, but who knew their hearts were so big."

"This is directly opening their mouths to scheme for a boat of ours. Such relatives, how dare we help? How do we have the ability to help? We don't want to help until we become enemies."

"It's a pity I was soft-hearted just now, feeling that she was at that age and quite pathetic. People shouldn't be too kind. It's also our family's fault for being too easy to talk to, letting people climb up the pole."

"From old to young, from top to bottom, it's because we're too kind that we've been targeted..."

Ye Mu spat as she spoke, her hands gesturing along, not knowing how excited she was, chattering away without stopping, not even needing to catch her breath.

Ye Yaodong and the others at the door heard it all clearly and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. His mother said 'from old to young, from top to bottom,' she probably excluded herself, right?

Ye Fu listened to her loud voice and said with disdain, "What's there to talk about? Talking so much to others at the door, rambling on endlessly. Her mouth hasn't stopped all day long. I don't know if she's thirsty or not, why so many words..."

"What can't be said? It's a fact that they have designs on us, it's not like we're the ones being talked about."

Although his mother loved to talk a bit, she wasn't wrong.

After that pulling and tugging at the door just now, he estimated that his Dabo Mu probably wouldn't dare to come over to scheme again. It was mentally exhausting, and she really dared to think. In his previous life, she was shaking like a flower rooster, and his mother was also sourly talking behind her back every day.

In this life, his mother didn't need to be sour; she could openly complain, show disdain, and drive people away.

"Alright, my mother won this round, and we can have some peace for a while. When dawn comes, my mother will go around the village a few more times, and I guess no one will be jealous and come to our house to borrow money, borrow a boat, or whatever."

Fortunately, he only had a few relatives who were worrying. Ah Qing's relatives weren't in the surrounding area, so the news wasn't that well-informed, and they couldn't have designs on their family. That was quite good.

Ye Yaodong stretched, then put his arm around the old lady's shoulder and pushed her into the house.

"No need to feel angry, depressed, sad, or anything. Their path is longer than yours. What's the use of worrying about them? Let them be whatever they want. Can you manage them for a lifetime? Just manage yourself well. When people are released, it will be next month. They aren't children; they will plan their own affairs."

"Sigh, at this age, not one is worrying. Life is so good now..."

"It will be even better in the future."