Chapter 395 Invitation
After contributing all the ideas in his head, Ye Yaodong felt relieved.
The turmoil brought about by the bronze tripod will depend on how they talk about it. It would be better if it can be settled sooner, so as to save the trouble and the villagers can calm down.
He put his hands in his pockets, put on the sun hat in his hands, and was not afraid of the curious eyes of the villagers on the road. He deliberately chose the shade of a tree to walk along the way. It will be July soon, and the sun is burning hot. Standing in the sun without sun protection for a few days, his mother wouldn't recognize him.
It’s already time for dinner. Along the way, the chimneys of every household in the village are full of smoke, curling up, passing by some houses, and the windows are full of fragrance.
Especially the umami taste of some people’s fried crabs, you can feel your stomach growling when you smell it.
Fortunately, those people today found out with conscience that he could go home and have a meal without going to sea for a whole day.
Ah Qing was still puzzled when he saw him come back, "I thought you didn't have time to come back for dinner again at noon, and you only left a little food, and the rest was taken out to the workers, so I'll make another shrimp skin fried egg, or it won't be enough have eaten."
"If I don't come back to eat, where should I go to eat? It's not at sea. I don't have to work too hard, just have a bite."
"It's not troublesome to fry an egg, and the two boys also like it. I heard that you went to the village committee with those people. I thought you had to work with them for another day."
"I don't need me, I just follow along to watch the fun and listen to the news. A few people from the museum came today, and it seems that they also applied for the salvage team yesterday, so there is no need to call those People's Liberation Army into the water today, after all They are not professional salvage, they just explore the way first to confirm whether there is anything on the bottom of the sea, and the salvage team will come in a few days."
"Then they don't go to sea to salvage. What are they doing here today? It's not too hot on a hot day, but I can't wait to hide in the house and not go out."
While speaking, Lin Xiuqing cracked two eggs into the bowl, chopped a handful of green onion, grabbed a handful of shrimp skins, put them in, sprinkled a little salt and stirred.
Ye Yaodong sat at the table with his feet crossed and watched her busy, and casually took two bites of food to steal away.
"Isn't there still something about the bronze tripod that hasn't been resolved? I didn't mention it yesterday. It doesn't mean that those people gave up. Maybe they just waited for people from the museum to come to talk about it today. Just now at the village committee, they were talking about the bronze tripod. I heard After a while, I saw that the fast food was ready, so I came back first, and I have nothing to do anyway."
"It's fine to come back for dinner, and we can't get involved in the affairs of those important people. I heard from the second sister-in-law that the villagers went to the village committee to make trouble. What's the situation? Nothing happened, right?"
"It's okay, so I became angry. The villagers all wanted to see the money, and they ran to the sea to try to see if they could salvage something. How could these officials let things fall into other people's hands. The villagers were dissatisfied one by one. , went to the village committee to make a fuss, and now he has been appeased and persuaded to leave." Ye Yaodong told her about the temple building by the way.
The egg liquid was poured into the pot and made a sizzling sound. Lin Xiuqing scraped off the egg liquid at the bottom of the bowl, put the bowl aside and said, "Xiaomiao, that's pretty good. Anyway, that tripod is left alone, the temple There was already an incense burner in the village. I used it to negotiate terms with those officials and get some money to build temples, but the Mazu temples are all dilapidated.”
"That's what I said, so the villagers are very happy. They were aggressive and wanted to drive them out. After hearing that, they all smiled in surprise."
“I don’t know how much money the government can reward for building temples.”
While talking, she poured a little bit of rice wine into the bowl that had just been filled with egg liquid, stirred it, and tried to melt the remaining egg liquid in the bowl into the rice wine, trying not to waste it, and then poured the wine in the bowl along the pot. The walls are evenly poured into the pan to enhance the fragrance of the fried eggs.
Even though she has some money now, she is still thrifty, and some personal habits cannot be changed.
Except for stir-fried vegetarian dishes without alcohol, there is a local habit of adding a little rice wine to enhance the fragrance of other dishes.
"It's hard to say how much money can be rewarded. Let's see what the village cadres talk about. They don't dare to agree casually. The villagers must be satisfied. The villagers have the final say on whether to donate or not."
"Well, I'm going to ask my two sons to come back for dinner. I can turn the egg over and it will come out of the pan."
"With such a big sun, where did the two **** go?"
"Go to the door and call out. If you hear it, you will naturally rush out from the corner."
Ye Yaodong walked to the door and yelled at the top of his voice, but he didn't see anyone for a long time, and he didn't hear Ying He's voice.
He was cursing and was about to search around the village when he saw two ones running back, holding a big watermelon in their hands.
"Where did the dead go? Where did the watermelons come from? They are running around in hot weather. Summer hasn't arrived yet, and both of them are already darker than me."
After the two giggled and called daddy, they ran into the house with the watermelon in their arms.
Lin Xiuqing also asked there, "Where did you get the watermelons?"
"Looking at the appearance of these two chicken thieves, they probably stole from which mountain or field."
"Mom, cut the watermelon quickly, we are dying of thirst..."
She took the watermelon and put it in the corner, "This watermelon is too hot to eat in the sun. It will hurt my stomach after eating it. Let it sit for a while until the watermelon is not hot before eating. Go eat first."
"Then put it in water and soak it, it will cool down immediately."
Ye Yaodong patted the back of the eldest son's head, "Where did you steal it?"
"Houshan!"
"Then we want to eat now."
"Eat your head, hurry up and eat at the table, and you are not allowed to run and steal it in the future."
While they were eating, Father Ye and Mother Ye came over to help with work again. Father Ye helped move and lift with the workers next to the house, and Mother Ye cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks that the workers had just eaten.
While she was working, she babbled, still talking about Ye Yaodong messing around and wasting money.
Coincidentally, Ye Yaodong heard this just after eating and was about to serve his mother with the bowl and chopsticks.
"The old house is also very dilapidated, and it has been for decades. It has to be repaired every three days, or I will build another one, and you and your father will also move here. We all live here, you two The old ones are boring over there."
"What's boring? There are neighbors on both sides. It's boring to move here, and I have to be your cow and horse. We two old people live there, so we don't have to worry about it. I don't know how comfortable it is."
Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes, "Seeing you running here so often, I thought you wanted to move here too."
"I've been worrying about you for more than 20 years, and I come here from time to time because I'm worried that no one will look at you and you will turn bad again..."
"I was under your nose in the past 20 years, and I didn't feel better."
Mother Ye wanted to beat him up when she heard him talk back, "I'll be mad at me every day. If I move here, it's fine. I'll be angry with you for ten years."
"How could it be? Both of you can't cook well in the old house. Move here. I'll tell the workers to pick more materials and build another room later."
He really wanted to bring his father and mother over with him sincerely. The two of them were lonely in the old house, and they could see their grandson every day when they moved here.
"No, your money is too hot, right? The house can't live there. If it is left unattended and unpopular, it will be ruined. It's a pity that a good house will be ruined by it. If I don't move, I will live in an old house. Don't mess around. , if the money is too hot, give it to me, and I will keep it for you."
"Then do whatever you want."
Regardless of whether to move here or not, he was thinking whether to build another room? Prepare there in advance, it seems that there is no room for an extra room?
He went to the side of the house uncertainly to have a look. There was indeed not enough space. After building the house for the old lady, the vegetable field next to the house was almost touching the corner of the wall, and it was not enough to cover the vegetable field.
There is a small toilet in the back of their house. He doesn't share it with his elder brother and second brother's house. He is fed up with the nausea of sharing the toilet in the old house.
If we need to add a cover, now we can only cover it on top and add another layer of red bricks. Two layers of stone will not work, and it is difficult to carry. Red bricks are more convenient.
Then you have to go to the brick factory to buy bricks, which is troublesome, and building a building is also a bit eye-catching.
Thinking about it, he can only give up the idea. Since his mother doesn't want to move, let's talk about it. Anyway, she and his father are still young.
"Father, little uncle brought watermelon."
Ye Yaodong raised his foot and walked towards the door, "Why didn't you go out to sea today? The waves on the sea are not too big."
"I came back yesterday afternoon and heard about your situation, but you were not here. Today my second sister visited her, and my father said he had a day off, and just sent her away for a while. As a result, I saw a few children at the back door Stealing watermelons, I yelled at my dad a few times to scare him away, so he went to pick watermelons, and I will send some over by the way."
"Hey, my family stole my family."
"What?"
Ye Yaodong pointed to the watermelon soaking in water in the washbasin in the corner, "The two brats picked it back secretly."
"Damn, let me tell you earlier, it turned out to be you, and I will leave the back mountain area to you, and I will go back and pick it up later."
"Really?" Ye Chenghu thought he was going to be scolded, but he didn't expect such a good thing, so he ran out of the house excitedly.
"Little uncle, don't go back on your word!"
Ah Guang smirked, "Just don't regret it!"
"Certainly not!"
Ye Yaodong twitched the corner of his mouth, this little idiot, the sun is so bright that others have no time to hide, and he is still rushing to work.
Lin Xiuqing was also speechless, "You are not allowed to go now, the sun will go down soon."
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of the sun, little uncle, let's go quickly..." Ah Guang was hurriedly dragged away by Ye Chenghu before his **** was hot, for fear that he would be left behind by his mother when it was too late.
Ye Chengyang yelled behind him and wanted to follow, but Ye Yaodong grabbed him, "Don't go, just eat watermelon at home, enjoy yourself, you idiot!"
"Brother is an idiot?"
"Well, your brother is an idiot, let's go, cut watermelon and eat it."
(end of this chapter)