Chapter 1176 Returning Home in Glory

As soon as Ye Yaodong got home, he put his things on the table and sat slumped like an uncle. Lin Xiuqing had to fetch him water first and let him wash up, and then went to light a fire and planned to cook him some midnight snacks.

"What's delaying you? Didn't you say we'll eat on the flowing water table for three days? Then we should be sailing back early this morning. We won't arrive in the middle of the night, right?"

"I came out and returned to the provincial capital in the morning, but no one had been to the provincial capital before, so I stayed in the provincial capital for a whole morning shopping. I had something else to do in the afternoon, so I was taken to a plastics factory."

"plastic factory?"

"It's a bag factory that makes ice bags. The bags are made of plastic. I asked Lao Hai to take me around the factory and identify the door. We'll talk about it when the machine arrives."

"How does it look?"

"I have a general understanding. Anyway, when I go to move the machine in a month or two, we will have a chat and come back with a few samples."

"oh."

Ye Yaodong thought about it and said, "I still have some paper in my suitcase. Remember to put it away for me and put it in the drawer. This is very important. Don't lose it."

"What are you writing about?" Lin Xiuqing turned to ask him while chopping vegetables.

"Phone number, very important phone number."

He told her who the phone numbers belonged to and his plans.

Then he told Lin Xiuqing to order more large water tanks and extra large wooden barrels in the next few days. Next year they will definitely start to increase production and fermentation, so they must prepare in advance.

As for the ships, they are being delivered one after another anyway. It will take time to order these things.

Everything has to have a time period and have to wait. He is not in a hurry and has to figure out the quantity of raw materials himself.

These numbers can be saved for now, and there will be no loss if they are not used.

When the old lady heard the noise outside the house, she knew it was him who was back. She put on her coat and came out to take a look. She said a few words of concern. Seeing the couple talking there, she went back to the house first.

Ye Yaodong went back to his house after finishing his supper. Lin Xiuqing had already packed the things he brought back.

Early the next morning, he picked out the copybooks from the books he bought yesterday.

Ye Chenghu was having breakfast. Looking at the familiar copybook, his eyes widened and he jumped up immediately.

"I do not want!"

Ye Yaodong glanced at him, "Stop being so sentimental, who is going to give it to you? It's of no use at all. Asking you to write a few more words is like killing me. The copybook I gave you before must be given to me honestly every day." 's completion.

Ye Chenghu breathed a long sigh of relief, as long as it wasn't given to him.

He wanted everything but the copybook.

"Dad, why are you buying more and more? This is not for me, who is it for?"

"You really want it?"

He immediately shook his head into a wavy drum, "No."

"Then you're asking the wrong question."

"Are you curious? Give it to the other brothers and sisters. Give them a little more."

Ye Yaodong picked up the copybook he picked out, rolled it up, and hit him on the head. "It's worthless. This is what your father left for you to write."

Ye Chenghu's eyes widened in surprise, "Sir, you still want to write."

"Of course, your father is a well-known figure now, so how can he not know how to write? We happen to be on the same level. When the time comes to compare, if you are worse than me, you will be dead."

Ye Chenghu shrank his neck, not daring to say anything, and hurriedly lowered his head to eat his food.

Lin Xiuqing was also a little surprised, "Are you going to keep this for yourself? I thought you were going to give it all to my eldest niece."

"Give half to her and half to me. Anyway, there is no one in the family who can read, so giving it to them is a waste."

"Why are you practicing this?"

"Didn't I tell you? I am famous all over the country now. If I say that I can't write, wouldn't that make people laugh? I'll practice this first and make my writing easier, and then I can practice my signature well."

Lin Xiuqing was speechless, she thought so far.

"If you can't engrave a private seal, why should you practice your signature?"

"That's different, you don't understand."

If you say she doesn't understand, she doesn't understand. She doesn't want to understand anyway.

"Did Dad call me in the past two days to ask how the lighter sales were going?"

"No, you can call him later."

"good."

By the way, he also had to call Fang Jingfu to ask him not to always produce a single variety, but to come up with some varieties. In addition to colors and patterns, he could also try more and try to make them more exquisite, so that the varieties could be more diverse. .

However, the small workshop has just started. You can hire people to draw patterns and study them, but you still have to win by quantity first.

One bite cannot make you fat, but you can put it forward first and develop in this direction.

After Ye Yaodong finished breakfast, he went on the phone without stopping. He also asked his father-in-law about the situation of lighters. The sales were good. Some vendors were wholesalers, and the person who had been here before approved another 2,000 lighters. Sold one.

Father Lin also thought about promoting it the next time Boss Zhou asked for dried fish products. It would probably take less than a month to sell them.

He asked Ye Yaodong to order another batch of goods. It would be best to replenish them early next month, so that they could be connected and avoid running out of stock.

Ye Yaodong calculated that today is the seventh day of the lunar calendar, the 18th of the Gregorian calendar, and there are still 12 days until the beginning of next month. He first tried to contact Fang Jingfu.

However, Fang Jingfu immediately refused, saying that he couldn't do it just because he wanted 10,000.

So after talking about it, he could only reluctantly give 5,000 more until the 5th of next month, so he had no choice but to agree.

After making the call, he sat and chatted with the old men from the village committee for a while.

Only then did I realize that in the past few days when he was away, the seedlings had already been planted while the typhoon had passed, and they would divide the seedlings and pinch the seedlings together when they grow a little longer.

Everything is going in the right direction.

However, when he returned home, he unexpectedly saw two familiar figures.

Chen Wei and Moazi each carried a password box. One was wearing a suit and tie, and the other was wearing overalls and toad glasses. They had polished leather shoes under their feet, and they walked with their heads held high.

When I saw the villagers, they all took the initiative to say hello with a smile.

"Where did Uncle Lin Qi come from with the hoe... Haha... I just came back..."

"Aunt Chunhua is peeling potatoes, are you ready for lunch?"

"Why didn't A Ming go to work at sea..."

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"Oh, look at your outfit, have you made a fortune?"

"You guys went out to make a lot of money and came back? How much money did you make?"

"Oh, this suit you are wearing is not cheap, isn't it? You look really energetic. How much did you earn?"

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Ye Yaodong walked out of the alley and happened to see two people seven or eight meters away from him, standing and talking to the people around them.

He listened curiously, looked at the canteen in the center of the village not far away, and walked over there.

This is the village's intelligence center. If you go to this station, you can know all the gossip in the village.

As he walked, he looked back from time to time, pricking up his ears to listen. Then as soon as he reached the entrance of the canteen, he saw other people pointing at the two doggy-looking people in front of him and whispering.

He asked curiously, "When did they come back?"

An aunt nearby was eating melon seeds and replied: "I don't know. I just came back, right? Didn't you just enter the village?"

There are a lot of good-hearted people around. Most people like to sit in front of the shop and chat for a while when they have nothing to do. Some old men will also drink two ounces of wine and make peanuts in the shop to chat with others.

Or you can set up a game of cards in front of the store. The weather has turned cooler recently, but it’s not too cold or too hot. It’s very comfortable to sit outside and play cards.

Everyone looked forward curiously.

This shop is located in the center of the village and is the only way to enter the village.

"Have you made a fortune? He is dressed like a human and dog. Look at his slicked back hair. He looks really energetic. He looks like he is a boss."

"They are returning home in fine clothes. Looking at them like this, they are still holding the lockbox in their hands. They look very grand."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... I don't know how much money I earned, looking like this."

The aunt who was eating melon seeds said: "Look at what they are wearing, Adong, why don't you dress like that? You are also a famous person in our country from all over the country. Look at what you are wearing, look at it again What others are wearing, why do you think your clothes are suitable for you?”

"You've only been out for a short time and you've come back dressed like this. You have to dress better. You see, it's all being compared."

Ye Yaodong was confused and looked down at his equipment.

They were worn for work, and were dusty. Because I often worked at sea, the diesel oil on my clothes was so black that I couldn't even wash them off. There were patches here and there, and I had to get a few stitches on my elbows because they were torn. He also wore Jiefang shoes on his feet.

"You have to spend the money you earn. Hurry up and ask your wife to help you. Look at what they look like. You are much more handsome than them. You want to dress like that... Oops, the big girls nearby are so young. My wife will be fascinated by you..." The aunt said that she was excited and clapped her hands.

"No, Aunt Chunhua, others wear other people's clothes and I wear mine. Aren't I just like everyone else? Why do I dress like that?"

"Can it be the same? You are the living symbol of our village. Look how long they have been out, and they come back looking like normal people, for fear that people will not know that they have made a lot of money. Look at you again, how can you still make so much money? Wear the same clothes as us.”

Aunt Chunhua looked like she hated iron, as if her son was being compared to someone else's son.

"Haha, Adong is keeping a low profile and has not forgotten his roots, just like the big guys."

"Yes, who is more noble than whom? We are not all the same, so what difference does it make in what we wear?" He looked down at his outfit again and felt that there was nothing wrong with what he was wearing.

There's nothing going on at home, so why is he wearing such nice clothes?

What's more, I just came back yesterday, and Ah Qing had already washed the good clothes, and all the clothes in the house were stained with diesel.

It doesn't matter what he wears, since he is in the village and no one knows who he is? Some of us are still wearing patches, and some of us are dirty. We go back and forth to the field all day long. There is no need to change clothes back and forth. This is normal.

Some people in the small shops still have mud on their trousers, but they are not so particular in the village.

Others echoed.

"Yeah, why are you wearing such nice clothes in the village?"

"When did Adong come back? I heard that you went to the provincial capital to worship your ancestors, and you even recognized your ancestors and returned to your clan."

"Yes, yes, I heard this morning. I heard that your ancestors had a spiritual appearance and that their descendants will be very successful. You have a bunch of rich relatives, all of whom are overseas Chinese."

"I heard that your ancestral hall is as big as our Thean Hou Temple. It's very grand. It has three days of flowing water. What do you eat? Is it all big fish and meat?"

"I've heard about it too. They all perform dragon and lion dances, perform operas for seven days, and have running water mats. I heard that they all use chicken, duck, and fish meat. Your second uncle and the others have all gained weight, and so have your relatives. Too rich?"

The two human-looking people walked for more than ten minutes for a short distance, and he stood still curiously, chatting with the villagers.

"The rich ones are the overseas Chinese who came back, and they are all sponsoring us. We just went to make a fortune and ate for three days. It was really cool, haha..."

"It's great to have money. Why don't we have a few overseas Chinese in our village setting up flowing water mats?"

"Don't think about it. There are people of all surnames in our village. It is a place where clans are concentrated. I don't know how many years in a row, those overseas Chinese who return to the country to invest also need help from the clan, otherwise they will definitely be eaten away. You It’s better to expect rich people to believe in Mazu and pay for the flowing water mat.”

"Then I heard that some people from the Bay Area came to our place, but they all left because they were so poor..."

"Then we have to hope that you will become richer so that the villagers can have a good meal, haha..."

Ye Yaodong smiled and said: "Haha, I don't know how old I am. You might as well count on the two bosses over there. Look at what they are wearing, and then look at what I am wearing. They will know that I am poor."

"Haha, who will believe you are poor?"

Just as they were talking lively and bursting into laughter, the two dog-like people in front also came over and looked at them with a smile.

"Ah, Dongzi is here? Didn't you go to sea today?"

Chen Wei smiled and put his sunglasses in his pocket, took out another box of Chengfeng, gave Ye Yaodong a cigarette, and gave it to all the other men.

Of course Ye Yaodong took it, but he didn't smoke it, he just held it in his hand.

"I haven't gone to sea yet. Let's rest for two days before going."

"Have Awei and Ahao really made a lot of money? Tsk, tsk, tsk, have they all drawn Chengfeng? Let's share it with everyone."

"Isn't it obvious? Looking at them dressed like this, you know they are making a lot of money."

"How much money do you earn? Is there money in the lockbox?"

Everyone watched with gleaming eyes as the two men held the password box in their hands.

"Well, I don't make a lot, I just make a little bit."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you must have made a lot of money. When you become a big boss, don't forget about the villagers. When the time comes, the villagers will join you, so you have to help."

Aunt Chunhua said with a smile on her face, and reached out to touch their suits.

"Your clothes are not cheap, are they? How much does one of these clothes cost? I have never seen anyone wearing them so well. Even the leaders who go to the countryside don't wear them as well as you."

"Yes, you all took the mice out to make a fortune. When the time comes, the villagers will join you, so you have to help them."

The smiles on their faces froze.

Mouse's face darkened, "Dongzi also makes a lot of money. I've never seen him lead the villagers to make a fortune."

Ye Yaodong's originally smiling face also disappeared. Seeing Chen Wei's polite attitude, he didn't intend to say anything. They had grown up together and had known each other for decades, so he planned to expose all the past things. Just go your own way.

Anyway, they are not in the village now, the road is facing the sky, each walking on one side.

However, before he could speak, Aunt Chunhua beside her said, "Why not? His workshop often asks us to work."

"Pull him down. The boys who are looking after him in his shop are all from other villages. Why don't you see him inviting people from our village? His elbows are turned outward, and all the benefits are given to outsiders. What are you doing to help our village?" "

Is this thinking that it was already exposed at that time, so there is no need to be conceited now?

Ye Yaodong sneered, "Indeed, I am a small shrimp, how can I help the whole village? I am just an ordinary fisherman. It would be good if I can hire a few people to help kill fish."

"Those guys are all boys who helped me, so I gave them a job. As a person, you can't forget your roots, and you can't be ungrateful."

He looked at him with a deep look on his face, and his face turned dark instantly.

Other villagers also helped to speak.

"Those few boys are from nearby villages. They hired people from our village to work on his boats, and they didn't give outsiders any advantage."

"Yes, his boats are all rented by people from the same village. Because of working for him, many people in our village have improved their living standards and have meat every meal."

"A Dong is very conscientious and his salary is very high. As long as you work for him, you will make money."

"He also took the village's fishing boats to other provinces and made a fortune. This is all due to him."

"That's right. Those small wooden boats he didn't want were sold to everyone at a low price. Look at the pier in our village. Apart from being a little smaller, there are a lot of boats. Which nearby village has a pier as good as ours?"

"The folks also benefited from him."

Everyone said something to each other, without him needing to speak, they just responded directly to the mouse's words.

Ye Yaodong was always relieved.

A village cannot have only bad people with evil intentions. Most of them are filled with good people who are simple and upright.

Seeing that everyone was defending Ye Yaodong, Chen Wei pulled the mouse that was about to speak again and said with a smile.

"The rat is just more concerned about our village. He wants to keep the wealth from going to other people's fields and make money for the villagers first."

Ye Yaodong smiled and said, "Don't talk about me. You must be a big boss by looking at me. I dress so cheaply. You all wear suits and leather shoes. Just like the big boss, you must earn much more than me."

"Yes, the big bosses outside are all dressed like you. Looking at you like this, you must be earning much more than A Dong."

"A Dong has already made a lot of money with his fellow villagers. You guys seem to be richer than him, so don't you have to contribute?"

"I heard that bosses outside have made money and want to return to their hometown to set up factories to benefit the village. Are you coming back to set up a factory?"

"What kind of factory are you going to set up? How many people do you plan to recruit? You can't give outsiders a discount..."

"Yes, yes, we are all from the same village. You must give priority to our fellow villagers when recruiting workers. Don't let outsiders get away with it..."

He just said one sentence, and the villagers took it over very sensibly. The two of them blushed and turned pale when they talked to the villagers, and they didn't know how to respond.

Can they say that they didn't come here to set up a factory? They just dressed better and came back to the village to show off?

Isn't this a slap in the face?

The villagers have already asked them when they will set up the factory, and they plan to accompany them to the village committee now.

Chen Wei couldn't stand it. Everyone surrounded them and went to the village committee. He hurried to explain.

"No, no, everyone misunderstood. We only made a little money and haven't been back for a long time, so we came back to see our wives and children."

"Really? I saw you all became bosses?"

"No, no..."

"Didn't Haozi just compare himself to Adong? I thought you also made a lot of money and came back to help the villagers get out of poverty..."

"No, he was just joking."

Aunt Chunhua said in a low voice, "I heard that he had reported Adong before..."

Although she spoke in a low voice, there were villagers around, and everyone had sharp ears and remembered it. The look in their eyes when they looked at Haozi was instantly wrong.

Ye Yaodong wanted to give her a thumbs up, she was really good at assisting.

It is said that time is the best medicine, it will make people forget what they should forget.

It had been several months, and everyone was washed away by all kinds of gossip and had long forgotten it, but now they remembered it again.

"We were friends before the loss..."

"Yeah, you two were both friends of Adong before?"

"You're a bit stingy. You made so much money and came back so gloriously, but you're still hiding it, saying that you only made a small amount of money."

Chen Wei couldn't hold back the smile on his face, and turned around to glare at Haozi fiercely.

Haozi was also very depressed. He felt that he didn't say anything, so why did the villagers defend Ye Yaodong so much.

In fact, there are constant legends about Ye Yaodong in the village, and there will be new legends every once in a while, constantly refreshing everyone's upper limit.

And many people have actually benefited from him, and he has been developing in the village and has not gone out. Everyone sees it. Compared with the closeness, he is definitely included in the scope of his own people.

In addition, compared with what Ye Yaodong is wearing now, they certainly think that Ye Yaodong's clothes are more pleasing to the eye, more resonating with them, and feel that he is in the same group with everyone.

And the two who just came back originally came back from outside, and they were wearing clothes that made people jealous.

Everyone was just envious, but just now they kept denying that they made a lot of money, unwilling to give back to the village, and even used Ye Yaodong as an excuse, which made everyone a little unhappy.

With this big boss style, who would believe that they didn't make any money?

They just don't want to help the village.

The higher-ups have said that the rich will lead the poor, and individual prosperity will lead to collective prosperity.

They just forgot their roots!

"Forget it, they came back in glory, so everyone should say something nice. Whether to set up a factory to benefit the village is also something that our village cadres should worry about."

"That's right, what do you do outside? Is it easy to make money outside?"

"Haha, just average..."

"What do you mean by average? Asking what you do outside..."

"Nothing, I'm going back first."

Both of them were a little ashamed, and they couldn't stand the villagers' questioning, and they didn't look as impressive as when they just entered the village.

Aunt Chunhua said disdainfully: "Why are you leaving now? They don't tell us what they do outside. Are they afraid that others will take their jobs?"

"Yes, they dare not tell us how much money they earn."

"I think their password boxes must be filled with money. I heard that rich people's money is stored in them."

"Really?"

"Ask Adong. Adong seems to have a password box like this."

Everyone turned to look at Ye Yaodong.

Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "I don't know what they put in, but I put clothes anyway. Am I not President Ye? I can't carry a bag when I go out to a meeting?"

The mouth is on his body, so of course he has to say everything.

"Yes, yes, yes, you are an official, how can you carry a package to meet people? You must have a password box to pack your clothes."

"Ah, Adong is still simple. Look at him, he is an official, but he still wears the same clothes as us."

"What are they doing? When they are asked to pay money, they act as if their lives are threatened, and their faces change."

"That Haozi is not a good guy at first glance. Didn't he report Adong before? There has never been such a trend in our village. It's all from his family."

"Hey? Didn't he divorce his wife? Isn't his wife still living in his house now..."

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Ye Yaodong stood there, listening to these idle old men, old women, and aunts talking for a long time before walking home.

Anyway, he was idle anyway, and there was nothing else to do today, so he listened for a while.

He was actually a little curious. Now that Haozi has made money, his ex-wife must regret divorcing him.

He moved back a long time ago, and in the name of taking care of the children, he stayed in his house again and has lived for several months.

Now that the real owner is back, I don't know what trouble will happen.

He secretly thought in his heart that he didn't know if he had a concubine outside. If he found a concubine, it would be even more exciting.

When he left the store, some women with good intentions went to Mouse's house to see if anything would happen if he came back and found his ex-wife at home.

He thought that he probably wouldn't have to wait long. At most, after lunch, the news would spread throughout the village.

He also really wants to know what the outcome will be. After all, the two families were at loggerheads before. The mice were beaten on the bed and did not get out of bed for a whole month.

Lin Xiuqing was sitting at the door picking vegetables, watching him come back slowly with a smile on her face, thinking something good had happened.

"You found the money, are you so happy? Or are all the lighters sold out?"

He touched his face, "Is it obvious?"

"You usually walk with a straight face."

"When I see someone returning to their hometown in fine clothes, they want to take care of their hometown, so I'm happy for the villagers."

Sister-in-law Ye from next door heard this and asked, "Who has returned home in fine clothes and made a lot of money?"

"Chen Wei and Mo Zi, they wore suits, leather shoes, slicked back hair, and carried a lockbox into the village. They were very impressive. The villagers guessed that they had made a lot of money and came back as big bosses."

"Really? Oh my, you're already a big boss after you go out? And you're dressed so well?"

Second Sister-in-law Ye said disdainfully: "Who knows if she is like Ah Hong, engaging in crooked ways, coming back in a high profile, and then defrauding money."

Sister-in-law Ye choked for a moment and said in a low voice: "That's right, it's so easy to make money, and I'm not an overseas Chinese."

Lin Xiuqing thought that these two people seemed to have gone against him, so why should he be happy?