Chapter 274 The Rat Club (monthly ticket plus ten more)
The local winter solstice has the custom of offering sacrifices to stoves.
After rubbing the glutinous rice balls, Lin Xiuqing cooked the glutinous rice **** and put them in four bowls. Put two bowls under the sticker of Zao Gong and Zao Po, and put two bowls at the door.
There are oranges and olives, Tianjin ingots, three cups of tea, three cups of rice wine, and two flowers in the incense burner.
There is a saying: "Oranges are round, olives are pointed, and Zaogong Zaopo will go to heaven after eating them."
In the past few years, the feudal superstition was broken, and the village did not dare to rectify anything. After the opening in the past few years, it has revived, and some old customs have been slowly picked up.
After setting up all the things to be sacrificed, Lin Xiuqing lit 8 incense sticks, and after three prostrations, she put three sticks into the incense burner in front of Zao Gong Zao Po, still using her left hand to burn incense.
Then went to the door, a small bamboo pole was inserted beside the stool with two bowls of glutinous rice balls, and three more were inserted after praying three times.
There are two left to be inserted by the door, one on the left and one on the right.
After finishing, she asked Ye Yaodong to set off firecrackers.
At this time, the sound of firecrackers sounded intermittently in the village.
The neighbor Ye Chenghaixing hurriedly grabbed the job of setting off the firecrackers, but he didn't expect that when the firecrackers were set off, he didn't run too far, and the firecrackers directly exploded on his clothes, burning a hole.
Now it's over, and the noise of chickens flying and dogs jumping started again.
"Fortunately, I didn't say I would set off firecrackers..." Ye Chenghu patted his chest and said happily.
Ye Yaodong patted the back of his head, "Come inside, let's eat."
After the meal, Lin Xiuqing took the Tianjin Yuanbao that had been sacrificed for a long time to the door to burn, and put it in a small discarded iron pot. These days, the ashes left by the burning of Jin Yuanbao can be sold for money.
It will be burned on New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve.
It was dark at the festival, and after the incense was lit, Lin Xiuqing put away all the things, and brought the pot of ashes into the house.
The two children stood up and down, waiting to eat, "Mom, are the olives ready to eat?"
They ate oranges every day some time ago, and they are no longer rare.
"Eat it, eat it."
"What about the glutinous rice balls?"
"Put some cabbage and shrimp in later, cook them again in the pot, and serve them as supper for you."
That's right...the glutinous rice **** are boiled and salty, there is no filling inside, and the boiled salty ones are also delicious.
Both children nodded happily.
For two days in a row, Ye Yaodong saw the two sister-in-laws worried all the time.
Now you know how to worry?
Fortunately, he stopped them from continuing, otherwise they would not be able to eat and fall asleep now.
In the past few days, there have been more gossips in the village. They are all guessing what kind of business Ye Yaohong is doing outside. Why did he beat someone when he heard that his wife had reported a ten thousand yuan household? Still beating so badly that you can't wait to leave the next day?
Although there were many people who speculated there before, there were few doubts in the villagers' words, and most of them were envious. Now only some people who have invested money have volunteered to speak for Ye Yaohong.
It’s impossible not to help and talk, they all invested money, if something really happens, it’s really going to cry.
Helping to speak can also bring me some psychological comfort, although in fact I am quite uncertain.
It is more likely that everyone regretted it in their hearts, and they still insisted on it.
Ye Yaodong wandered around the village as a morning exercise, and then went home for dinner. Just as the postman was delivering the newspaper to his door, he just picked it up.
During this time, he has developed a good habit of reading the newspaper every morning. Even if he goes out to sea, he will read the newspaper of the day when he comes back at night.
As he walked into the house, he opened the newspaper, and the eye-catching headline surprised him once.
"The first case of corruption in reform and opening up!"
"XXX Death Penalty!"
Is it time to crack down on the "smuggling tide"?
After the re-opening, the land that had been silent for a long time suddenly opened its doors. At that time, a lot of waste was waiting to be done, but people were full of expectations and expectations for the future. Therefore, in terms of living expenses, everyone no longer only considered food and clothing as before, but also began to pursue tricks and trendy.
However, the embarrassing thing is that there was a shortage of various daily necessities at that time, such as black and white TV sets, video recorders, watches, motorcycles, etc. Many of which were not available for money, so many criminals saw "business opportunities".
So, the southeast coast is crazy.
"Workers don't work, farmers don't farm, students don't go to class, and cadres don't engage in self-interest". Even pornographic video tapes are trafficked from overseas in some areas, and various (emotional) sensual venues are secretly growing rapidly.
He paused, and browsed roughly. It was not until Lin Xiuqing called him several times in a row, calling him to have breakfast, that he slowly walked to the table again.
"What are you looking at, you're still so fascinated."
"The first corruption case after the re-opening was opened to the public yesterday, and today it will be directly published in the People's Daily. You eat first, and I will read it first."
Lin Xiuqing said nonchalantly: "It's none of our business? We're just ordinary people, why do you care so much? You can't read all the words, and you can't leave the newspaper all day long."
"Hey... don't make noise... let me finish watching..."
He also deliberately turned his back to her.
Lin Xiuqing rolled her eyes, "Don't you still think I'm nagging? Now you're asking me again."
"Oh, what word is this?"
"The violent profiteering!"
"knew."
"Hey, wait..." Lin Xiuqing grabbed his sleeve again, "There is a saying along the coast of Guangdong Province: No matter what new car arrives in Hong Kong today, it will appear on our streets tomorrow..."
"I'll watch it first, you eat yours, and I'll show you later."
Ye Yaodong turned around and continued to watch.
Lin Xiuqing had to feed the baby first.
After he read it back and forth twice, he put down the newspaper, and didn't bother to read the contents of other sections.
In his previous life, he only heard that smuggling along the coast was crazy in the past ten years after the opening, but he couldn't read and didn't pay much attention to current affairs, so he didn't know it was really so crazy.
No wonder Lin Jishang's family was so rich in their previous life, they were the richest man in the village.
I guess it will be closed in the future, right?
I also want to ask him to build a net lifting machine, but I don’t know if it will be a good idea. At present, heavy industry is mainly developed, and turbines are not yet popular, and small boat fishermen basically rely on manpower.
This can only be said later, anyway, he will not go out to sea a year ago, and he will at least wait until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the next year.
Seeing huge profits, it is a lie to be indifferent. But he didn't have any big ambitions in the first place, and he had no big ambitions in his two lifetimes. He only thought about his wife and children being hot on the bed, and he would be happy if he got rich.
Greedy thoughts are only temporary.
Thinking that I have been able to earn money through labor in the past few months, there is no need to take risks.
Why bother? Could it be that he was reborn just to get in and curl the yarn?
It’s good to go on the right path.
Although he sometimes acts like a fool and is a little less serious, his three views are still upright.
After feeding the child, Lin Xiuqing picked up the newspaper next to him and read it. After reading it, she whispered, "Isn't it Linji?"
She poked the paper...
"Shh... just know, don't say it."
As soon as she delivered a watch to their family and talked a lot with her man like a fool, she was very puzzled.
Then she saw that he was always delivering sewing machines and bicycles in the middle of the night, and she was overwhelmed in her heart, but she didn't ask.
"No wonder it involves such a wide range of profits, and they are all traded in silver dollars. It can only be blamed for the lack of supplies now, and many people have money and have no place to spend it."
"Well, just take a look, it's none of our business. It should be near Chinese New Year, so they were executed before the year, and they will definitely be severely cracked down."
Speaking of this, he thought of Ye Yaohong again.
I don’t know what he has collected so much money for? Can't just hold it in your hand, spend it?
"Why did the man you mentioned get so much money? Could he be smuggling too?"
"It's hard to say, let's see."
He took the newspaper back and planned to look at other sections, but saw a corner saying that a "rat society" had appeared in the Wanwan area, so that the people should be more vigilant and not be deceived.
What the "rat club" is most afraid of is the break of the capital chain. As long as the capital chain continues, they can cheat new money to pay old debts.
There is only one small section left in the newspaper, what's the use?
Nowadays there are many illiterates, and not everyone can subscribe to newspapers. The money of uneducated rural people is best cheated.
Ye Yaohong’s behavior is almost like a rat club. Fortunately, he has a "smart" wife, otherwise there may be more unlucky people in the village.
After he understood it, he didn't plan to report it either.
It is estimated that if the village committee sees the rat club in this issue of the newspaper, they should know it in their hearts. After thinking about it, they can match the number and know that they have been cheated.
Normal borrowing, who gives such a high interest?
Before, it was only a small-scale publicity by Ye Ersao, and no one in the village committee paid attention to it, and everyone was not so busy, but the incident of the ten thousand yuan household a few days ago was undoubtedly another advertisement for Ye Yaohong.
He is in the limelight, more people give him money, of course there are more discussions in the village, and on the cusp of this storm, it is difficult for the village committee to think too much.
Sure enough, someone from the village committee went to Ye Yaohong's house that afternoon to find out about this matter, but was stopped by Ye Yaohong's mother. She was the one who stopped her to visit these few days.
Of course they didn’t stop her in the end. As soon as the village committee entered the room, they were surprised by Mrs. Ye Datang who was lying in bed.
The bruised nose and swollen face showed that the beating was serious. I heard that the eldest daughter was taking care of her for the past two days, and one side of the eldest daughter’s face was also swollen by the slap.
The young ones, I heard that they were running wild outside at that time, but they didn't know anything, and they were not beaten.
The injury that was still covered by Ye Yaohong's mother was exposed all of a sudden.
Even the three words "rat society" spread throughout the village, and some people who invested money jumped up in anger, came to the door to insult, and forced them to pay back the money...
Sitting at home, Ye Yaodong could hear the whole village erupting.
(end of this chapter)