Chapter 93: The Brothers All Know It in Their Hearts

Ah Guang pushed the cart to Ye Yaodong's door as he wished. At this time, Ye mother and the others had all gone to work at the foundation, and there were only a pile of children playing at the door.

"Go call your younger sister out to help! There is a lot of cargo, it will take us half a day to divide it."

"Younger sister went to the house to help, there is only Great-grandmother at home!"

"Great-grandmother, Great-grandmother~"

Ah Guang widened his eyes. What does he want Great-grandmother for?

Ye Yaodong also shouted to Ye Chenghai, who was shouting, "Don't call your Great-grandmother, you guys go and take a few more baskets? And basins, help pick out the small fish and loach."

"Good, Third Uncle."

If they were asked to buy soy sauce and vinegar, they wouldn't be happy. If they were asked to do this kind of thing, this group of children would be more active than anyone else, and they ran into the house to get basins and baskets one after another.

Ah Guang frowned, looking at the old lady who walked out with inconvenient legs and feet, and sighed in his heart. He is too difficult!

The old lady came out and just saw Ye Yaodong pouring the cargo of the two ground cages onto the flatbed cart, smiling and saying, "What did Dongzi get back again?"

"All fish and shrimp from the river, we will pick them ourselves, the sun is strong outside, you go into the house and sit."

"It's fine, I'll help pick."

"Third Uncle, brought it, what should I pack these in?"

"Pack small fish and shrimp, you guys pick the same ones together." Ye Yaodong demonstrated and

A group of children happily started picking them out, and even the neighbor's children from next door ran over to join in the fun.

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Fearing the crayfish claws would bite, and since the children's hands were small and tender—a bite would be no small matter—he and Ah Guang specifically caught the crayfish that were crawling around.

In no time, they had picked two full buckets, estimating there were twenty or thirty jin.

Ye Yaodong picked out the goods his family wanted to keep first and put them by the back door, letting Ah Guang push the rest back. Everyone was used to going to his house, and they would definitely go there to check once they woke up, and return the flatbed cart while they were at it.

Having been delayed for so long, he also had to go to the house site to work, otherwise his mother would start nagging him again about not attending to his proper business.

But he hadn't expected that not long after she had left, this kid Ah Guang would actually come again!

"Why do I feel like it's not me building a house? But you building a house? You're even more proactive than me?"

"We're brothers, helping out is only right." Ah Guang smiled and rolled up his sleeves, his eyes scanning the surroundings, but he didn't see anything at all.

Double the disappointment!

He could only pin his hopes on mealtime. If he weren't afraid of being suspected of mooching a meal, he wouldn't have come so early. It wasn't like he hadn't been sun-baked or done hard labor before.

Ye Yaodong just felt very puzzled; Ah Guang had looked too abnormal these past few days. "Are you very short of money and too embarrassed to say so? So you have to find ways to come over and work, thinking that if you make me feel guilty, I'll calculate more wages for you?"

"Go to hell! I'm worth several hundred yuan; would I care about your one or two yuan in wages? You're questioning your good brother!"

"Are you really not harboring ulterior motives?"

"I... what motives could I have?" Ah Guang felt a little guilty.

"Really just here purely to help?" Ye Yaodong was very suspicious.

It was no wonder he couldn't guess Ah Guang's thoughts; after all, in his past life, he hadn't even come to the house site to work himself. His family had many opinions about him and found him very unpleasant to look at, and his friends hadn't dared to come to his house either, for fear of being kicked out.

Since it hadn't happened in his past life, how could he have imagined that Ah Guang had ulterior motives?

"Treating kindness as a donkey's lungs! I help you work, and you actually suspect I have ulterior motives. What do you have that's worth me coveting? You're so controlled by your wife that you don't even have a single yuan in your pocket, and you're always trying to mooch cigarettes off me every three days." Ah Guang grew more confident as he spoke; things hadn't even started yet, so he couldn't lose his footing.

Ye Yaodong felt a bit awkward after being told this. Just then, his mother came over carrying a load of gravel and said with a smile, "Ah Guang is here. On such a hot day, sit down and drink a bowl of mung bean soup first."

Ye Mu had found Ah Guang more and more pleasing to the eye lately; he was a quite diligent young man, and she felt she had misunderstood him in the past.

Ah Guang also smiled and said, "Auntie, you've worked hard. Let me carry the load later; you rest for a while."

Ye Mu poured out all the gravel, put the carrying pole and basket to one side, first filled a bowl of mung bean soup for Ah Guang, and said with a smile, "Hey, hey... you eat some mung bean soup first."

She then looked at her son standing to the side, "Dongzi, why are you still standing there? Why don't you go to work? You've only just arrived; how much work have you delayed?"

"Mom, why do I feel like Ah Guang is your own son?"

Two completely different attitudes!

"What nonsense are you spouting? I only scold my own family hard. Are you going or not?"

Ye Yaodong pouted, put on his gloves, took the carrying pole and basket his mother had just put down, and intended to take over her shift to carry gravel.

Ah Guang talked to Ye Mu while eating. Seeing Ye Huimei, who was wrapped up tightly, pushing a wheelbarrow over, his eyes lit up. He quickly finished the mung bean soup in the bowl and then took the initiative to step forward to help push.

"I'll do it, I'll do it. You go sit and rest for a while."

"Ah, oh, thank you. Brother Guangzi is here again."

"Yeah, here to help a bit. You're such a big girl, why run out to get sun-baked? It's not good to get tanned. There are so many workers here; wouldn't it be better to stay home and help cook?"

"We don't cook all day long. I have to come out and help when I'm free, don't I? A while ago, there were just too many shellfish, so my mother kept me at home to shuck oysters and busy myself with drying those things."

The two started chatting, and Ah Guang naturally followed her up the mountain to shovel yellow soil.

Ye Mu didn't take it to heart after seeing it; she rested for a while and then continued working.

Others went to Ah Guang's house sooner or later and saw those baskets of sorted goods. They were a little surprised, not expecting there to be so many after just one night, and there were even two turtles. They all regretted not getting up earlier to pull the nets.

By evening, without anyone saying a word, they all came over together—some killing fish, some killing turtles, some washing crayfish, and some taking charge of the cooking!

By the time Ah Guang finished work early and returned, the house was already filled with all kinds of aromas.

Everyone looked at him teasingly, "Are you addicted to working? Why not go to my house to transplant rice seedlings tomorrow?"

"You can also go to my house to till the land!"

"My house has work too..."

"Get lost~" Ah Guang was so tired he sat on the stool panting, not even wanting to lift his eyelids. "You guys split these local goods; take them back to add to your dinner."

"Hmm, what's wrong with you lately? Going to Dongzi's place to work every day, making it seem like we're very disloyal for not going."

"Maybe I'm sick! I'm going to take a bath."

"Damn..."

"Did you take a fancy to Dongzi's sister? Being so proactive..."

"Hahaha, it's possible. Taking a step ahead to please the mother-in-law..."

Ah Guang's footsteps toward the backyard couldn't help but pause, then he pretended not to care and said, "Nonsense! If Dongzi hears that, he'll beat me up!"

Damn it, of all things, they actually guessed right with their nonsense!

"Haha, what's wrong with that? Dongzi's sister doesn't seem that young anymore..."

"I haven't paid attention. When Dongzi comes, I'll ask him how old his sister is..."

Ah Guang frowned and glared at them, "Stop talking nonsense and messing around. Don't go spreading rumors about things that haven't even happened. There will be gossip all over the village by then."

Seeing his rare, serious, and earnest expression, the others stopped, "We were just talking casually. We'll stop, we'll stop..."

Ah Guang walked a few quick steps and slipped away. Everyone probably just said it casually; if he didn't pick up the conversation and they couldn't see him, they would probably forget about it in a little while.

What he didn't expect was that as soon as he turned and left, the others started winking at each other.

Having grown up wearing the same pair of pants, who didn't know who?

Ah Guang clearly had a problem!

When Ye Yaodong arrived and saw their meaningful expressions, he felt a bit baffled.

"Did you all take the wrong medicine today?"

"No, haha~ It's all cooked, just waiting for you!"

"Yeah, just waiting for you. If you don't come, forget about the turtle soup; even the dishwater will be gone, there's only 37c orange juice left..."

"Damn..."