Chapter 866: Agreement

Ye Yaodong went to the old house to call people and took the opportunity to talk to his father and mother there, which delayed some time. The old lady had already cooked the dishes, and several children had already taken their seats at the table first. Only A Qing was still moving firewood into the house.

"Eat first, what are you still busy with? Both pots are burning there. Leave this firewood for later, and just order the children to move it after the meal." Ye Yaodong said as soon as he entered the house.

Lin Xiuqing straightened her back and said with a smile, "It's just that seeing you guys hadn't come over yet, I wanted to do something while waiting for you."

"Let's eat first, Father and Mother are behind."

"Alright."

This time, they didn't have to wait long before Ye Fu and Ye Mu came over. Perhaps because there was a pile of fish at home waiting for them to deal with, they didn't have time to chat with people as they walked.

Ye Chenghu had been thinking about his trip to the city. As soon as he saw Ye Yaodong sit at the dining table, he chased him and asked, "Father, when are you taking me to the city? It's been so many days."

"You said 'in two days' a few days ago, 'in two days', and it's been many days since then."

He counted several times with his fingers but couldn't count clearly, "I can't even count how many days have passed. When are we going? It's been so long."

Ye Yaodong paused with his chopsticks and glanced at him, "Rest for a day tomorrow, it just so happens I'll take you then."

His brother-in-law came over yesterday morning to talk about renting the shop, which made his eldest sister-in-law so happy she almost couldn't find north. She thought the shop would have to wait a year or two for the surrounding area to become lively before it could be rented out. She didn't expect that only half a year had passed, and A Qing's brother said he wanted to rent it.

To her, this was a windfall from heaven. Anyway, leaving it there was just leaving it there. It was great to have income sooner.

It instantly relieved the depression she had been in for the past few days. This was the thing that had made her happiest in recent times.

However, after today, she would probably be unhappy again.

If the matter of renting the shop was left to be talked about tomorrow, it could probably still ease things a bit.

Whatever, he earned his own money and didn't hinder anyone or wrong anyone.

His brother-in-law also said yesterday morning that they would settle things at home these two days, buy tables, chairs, benches, and materials, and tomorrow morning, the couple would take their luggage, household goods, and things and transport them to the city in one trip.

After his eldest brother knew he was also going to the city, he said last night that he didn't plan to follow, and would directly hand over the shop in the city to him, letting him take his brother-in-law to settle down.

His family didn't have any dried fish either; all the stock had been transported to the city before. Now, at most, he would take Ye Chenghu. Tomorrow, he just needed to hitch a ride with his brother-in-law.

Ye Chenghu originally thought his father would continue to say "in two days," or say "wait until I'm free," and fob him off with these words. He had been waiting for several days, and he was just asking out of habit.

He didn't expect his father to agree directly, saying it would be tomorrow.

This surprised him!

He stared wide-eyed, looking at his father in disbelief, "Really, Father? You're saying it for real, you're not lying to me, right?"

Ye Yaodong glanced at him, "If you don't want to go, then don't go, it saves me the trouble."

"Go, of course I want to go. I risked my life to get a hundred points just to go to the city with you to buy a soccer ball!"

Ye Chengyang also bit his chopsticks with longing, "I want to go too!"

"Wait until you're older. You're still too young. It's easy for me to lose track of two people at once. What if you get kidnapped by human traffickers? Be good, I'll take you next time, you two can take turns."

"That won't do! I got 100 points to have the chance to go, how can he just take turns? He must also get 100 points to go!" Ye Chenghu protested.

He felt it was too unfair. Why did he have no threshold to go?

"Eat your meal. I'm your father, I have the final say. Besides, you didn't get two 100s either, it was my extra-legal grace that I reluctantly took you, otherwise you wouldn't be able to go either."

Ye Chenghu was full of dissatisfaction, but he didn't dare to protest anymore, just poked the rice in his bowl with his chopsticks.

"Eat quickly, help move firewood after eating. There are many delicious things in the city..."

Ye Chenghu's eyes immediately lit up, and he smiled and shoveled the rice and dishes in his bowl, and asked vaguely, "Father, is the city very lively? Is it livelier than our market? Are there many people setting up stalls to sell things? Are there many delicious and fun things?"

"Of course, if you behave better, I'll be better to you tomorrow."

"Hmm, hmm, hmm, Father, you're the best."

"Don't spoil him. He's already much happier than all the children in the village. He has eaten what others haven't, and he eats it every day. You buy him things others haven't played with, and you take him to places others haven't been. Won't he be walking sideways in the village when he comes back?" Lin Xiuqing said, unable to watch.

"No, Mother, Father always says to be low-key. I will definitely be more low-key than Grandma."

"What's more low-key than me?"

Ye Fu and Ye Mu came in from outside and happened to hear this sentence.

"Father told me not to be so showy, no, it was Mother who said it."

Now his father was his provider, controlling his joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, controlling whether he would eat fragrant and drink spicy food tomorrow, or drool with longing.

Ye Yaodong laughed, good boy, quite clever.

Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes at him, "A weather vane, now you know how to please your father?"

Ye Chenghu laughed.

Ye Mu also glared at Ye Yaodong, but didn't say anything and sat down to serve rice.

"A Qing, give Father 100 yuan first after you finish eating."

He told Lin Xiuqing about what he had said to his father and mother at the old house just now, and the arrangements for making fish sauce. He had to make it clear, otherwise, they couldn't keep working for him for free, and he wasn't their only son.

Lin Xiuqing nodded repeatedly, "Alright, I'll go give it to Father in a moment, I'm almost done eating too."

Ye Fu hurriedly said, "No rush, I'll go to Dongqiao Village after I finish eating."

"I plan to rest for a day tomorrow and prepare to go to the city with my brother-in-law. He rented eldest brother's shop yesterday. I'll go with him, and by the way, calculate the accounts for my father-in-law's side. Father has been tired out after being at sea for several days, so take the opportunity to rest for a day tomorrow."

"How much is the rent?"

"Eldest sister-in-law didn't say directly, just told me that if I go to the city tomorrow, I should ask how much other shops are renting for, and it will be the same as others. Anyway, it's not an outsider, it doesn't matter if the money is given later, it can be rented out first."

Ye Fu nodded, that's also fine, ask others first.

"It's best to ask those around the second entrance, we can't take advantage of others. It's already very good that it can be rented out, it's better than leaving it empty. It doesn't matter if it's calculated a little less."

"Hmm, I know."

"Then what about the mountains and fields at his home?"

"Handed over to my second brother-in-law to manage, let him hire people if he should hire people. Anyway, my father-in-law and my brother-in-law split a sum of wages for him every month. It seems like it's 40 yuan, each gives him 20 yuan as wages, and the produce from the fields and mountains is also split among the three. There are still elderly people at home, and their age is not too old, so they can watch over them."

"That's also good, the second one staying at home is not working for nothing."

Ye Mu asked curiously, "Has he decided what business to do?"

Lin Xiuqing smiled and took over the conversation, "They plan to open a breakfast shop first, selling steamed buns, baozi, soy milk, and tofu pudding in the morning, and cooking noodle soup at noon. After all, the market opens for the morning market, and there are the most people in the early morning. Basically, they haven't eaten, and they are busy until dawn, so they have to eat something to pad their stomachs."

"This is good. How to say it's a wholesale market, there must be many people coming and going. It's more stable than doing other things, as long as you have a skill."

"That's what I thought. This way, the cost is lower, as long as you pay the rent and the money for tables, chairs, benches, pots, bowls, and ladles. If it weren't for thinking about utilizing the noon time to cook noodle soup, the tables, chairs, benches, bowls, and chopsticks could be saved."

"If you can be busy, you can do a little more."

"It just so happens that it's summer vacation, and the older children at home are idle and running around the mountains. My eldest brother and sister-in-law plan to take them all to help, and let them come back to school when school starts."

Ye Chenghu interrupted happily, "Then will Cousin A Yuan and the others go together tomorrow?"

Ye Yaodong nodded.

"That's great!"

"Do you want to stay in the city to help your maternal grandparents?"

As soon as this was said, Ye Chenghu nodded happily, "Okay, okay."

"Then Father, bring the soccer ball back for me to play, eldest brother won't need it!"

"Who said that! I can play in the city."

"Father promised to buy one for Cousin A Yuan, you two can play with one, so Father bring it home for me to play."

"No, that's mine."

Ye Chenghu was a bit hesitant for a moment. He wanted the soccer ball, and he also wanted to stay in the city to play.

He looked at his father with longing, "Can I stay in the city with the soccer ball?"

"Don't listen to your father's nonsense. If you're there, your maternal grandparents will have to take care of your food and drink, look after you, so you don't get kidnapped."

"If your mother doesn't agree, then forget it."

He originally just teased him and said it casually.

"Also, I plan to buy you a basketball. As for the soccer ball, Brother Ahai has one, you can play together, no need to buy two, two will be too many to play."

"One soccer ball, one basketball is just right, you can take turns playing, and there are more ways to play. Play more basketball, you can grow taller later. It just so happens that the ground at the small workshop has been leveled, I'll have your grandfather make a basketball hoop later."

Ye Chenghu thought it made sense. With two types of balls, they could have two ways to play, one to pat in the hand, one to kick on the foot, and they could take turns.

"Okay, okay, then I want the basketball, you buy the soccer ball for Brother Brother Ahai."

Ye Mu couldn't help but complain from the side, "Brother Ahai wants a soccer ball, his parents won't buy it, and you have to buy it? He grows at your house all day long, and you have to pay for his food and drink from time to time. Now you have to buy the toys too."

"You'll see tomorrow. The eldest family has it, the second family doesn't, and then there will be whispering again."

Ye Yaodong didn't care. He loved to buy things for whichever family's children with his money. Where would they be so shameless as to open their mouths? Backbiting is backbiting.

What's more, if we calculate an account later and there is money to split, the second sister-in-law might be like a peacock, her tail could be raised to the sky.

She might be very proud in her heart, earning so much more than the eldest family, where would she still point at a soccer ball and gossip.

"I promised Brother Ahai long ago, what's there to say? At that time, seeing his tears falling, and he worked hard for a few days, it's fine to reward him."

"And I promised to buy one for A Yuan, so I'll buy one for Brother Ahai too. Anyway, it's for everyone to play together after buying it."

By then, give all the money A Yuan earned to him, and the soccer ball will be his reward.

Also, can't be partial, let A Yuan pay for it himself. It's not easy for a half-grown child to earn some money, and it's hard work, tanned like charcoal.

"You think it's very good, but people will feel it's unfair, feel you are treating them differently."

"Otherwise, Mother, you pay and buy one for Ajiang, so both families have one, and it will be fair."

Ye Mu immediately glared, "It's your business if you want to buy, why drag me into it?"

"Then don't say anything about fairness. Ten fingers have different lengths, what are you talking about fairness?" Ye Yaodong said angrily.

He bought a soccer ball, and his mother could also make a fuss. Isn't it that he loves to buy for whoever he wants?

"Stop talking, second brother is coming..." Lin Xiuqing looked at the figure flashing by the window of the back door and hurriedly reminded him in a low voice.

Ye Yaohua walked in from the back door on tiptoe with a happy face, "These few large geese of yours are getting bigger and bigger. They still crowded over when they saw me, following behind my butt, almost pecked me. I have to go through the front door next time."

"Finished eating so quickly?"

"Yeah, eat quickly, let's go to A Guang's house to settle the accounts together after eating."

"Right away."

Ye Yaodong shoveled the remaining two mouthfuls of rice and stood up. It was just that it took some effort to call his father and mother, otherwise, he would have finished eating long ago.

"Let your father go with you."

Ye Fu nodded repeatedly. Even if Ye Mu didn't say it, he would have to go and watch. He knew clearly how many times he sold goods after being on the boat for so many days.

The old lady said, "Eat slowly, no rush, eating like this will cause indigestion and stomach pain."

"No, I'm not walking, I'm riding a bicycle, let's go, second brother."

"Riding a bicycle? It's so close, just walk a few steps."

Ye Yaohua was a bit reluctant to ride his precious bicycle for a moment. He went to buy one after earning money from squid last month.

After buying it, except for going to villages further away or the town, he didn't ride it much, wiping it clean every day, loving it like a treasure.

Where is it like Ye Yaodong, whose feet are so precious that he has to ride a bicycle even to buy soy sauce.

"Riding a bicycle is faster, be active in splitting money, A Guang and the others must have finished eating and are waiting, we have to be fast."

"Oh, alright, alright." Ye Yaohua then hurriedly went back home from the back door to push the bicycle.

Ye Mu muttered while eating, "Lazy is lazy, but still speaks so nicely..."

He turned a deaf ear, pretended not to hear, urged his father to keep up while pushing the bicycle, and went out.

The Wang Wang team also excitedly followed behind him.

Seeing second brother also pushing the bicycle out, he went up first, then let his father sit on it, riding slowly, waiting for his second brother to catch up.

A Guang's house had indeed finished eating and was cleaning up the bowls and chopsticks.

However, when they arrived, Zheng Shu hadn't arrived yet. He was in the village next door and would be slower. ===== CHAPTER 867 =====