Chapter 954: Three Days without Roof Tiles (7,000 Words)

The two brothers looked at Aguang and his son again.

"Do you want to go together?"

Father Pei shook his head, "I just visited the department store in the province yesterday, as well as all the urban areas. I came today just to walk around the market. We won't go to the department store now. You go Bar."

Aguang also said: "Let's chat with Dongzi and his in-laws here for a while."

The two brothers looked at each other, and Ye Yaohua spoke first: "Then we won't go either. We'll just chat with everyone here. The women can just go shopping in their store, and we won't join in the fun."

Ye Yaopeng also said: "Then don't go either. Uncle Pei and A Guang just went shopping with us. Do you have any ideas?"

Everyone looked at the father and son.

Father Ye also smiled and asked: "You have a lot of money now. Do you want to buy two and put them there? Anyway, the money is left there. Dongzi has bought so many, so it shouldn't be wrong. Now look at it." This shop is the big one in his hands."

"Someone in Dongzi can help. We bought it and left it there."

"We bought it and left it there. Haha, my shop is now rented to Dongzi's brother-in-law. The rent is five to six hundred a year, which is pretty good. If we can rent it continuously, we can pay back the money in a few years."

"Brother's shop has been rented. You can mostly see whether the business is good or bad, and it will be easy to rent out in the future." Ye Yaodong said, "Anyway, I feel that it is better to buy a shop or a boat when I have money in my hand."

"Places that are too far away are beyond our reach. It's like a provincial city. Although it's busy every day, it's inconvenient for us. The road conditions are too bad and the bumps back and forth are too severe. It's fine in county cities."

"If you don't want to buy in the city and find it inconvenient to come here, you can go to the county seat and have a look. The county seat is still a county seat."

"The county town is not as lively as our town." A Guang's first reaction was to dislike the county town.

"That's just for now. After all, it's a county town. It will definitely get better in the future."

"If you really want to buy a county town, you might as well buy a city. All of you are setting up shop here. It looks so big and new here. Although the surrounding area looks a bit desolate, but as you said, with support, it's so Big markets will always become more lively, so it’s not as good as here.”

Ye Yaodong tapped the table, "Yes, as long as there is a popular place, it will be lively. Even if the surrounding area is a little deserted now, as long as there are many people coming and going, the surrounding area will definitely be lively. People create labor, and labor is the primary productive force."

"That's why I asked you and Uncle Pei to come over today and take a look. No matter what others say, it's not as real as seeing it with your own eyes. It's all in vain if someone talks about a flower but you don't see it yourself."

Father Lin said with a smile: "Before the festival, I asked around, and a lot of people left messages saying they wanted to sell in the past two days, but there were only few people here today, only three. It is estimated that there will be more people who want to sell. I’ll also ask at your door.”

"If someone comes to the door, I will call and tell A Dong. You can also go back to discuss it. If you have any ideas, you can come back later. Anyway, if you want to make a decision immediately."

Ye Yaodong agreed, "Yeah, come here for a walk today. If there is any news later, I will give you a shout."

He already has five, and he is not very interested in the ones with No. 3 and No. 4. He also wants to buy a tractor.

If they want it, buy it for them first. No one wants him to take it over. He is more interested in the ones around the No. 2 entrance. Unfortunately, it is slowly getting busier now, and no one will sell it, unless they are in urgent need of money.

"Then let's wait until we get back. Let's go out for a walk."

"Okay, then you can go out for a walk. There are not many big brothers and two brothers here, so you can go and have a look together. Anyway, they are all here, and it is a waste of time to just sit in the shop."

He won't go out anymore. He doesn't even want to visit the market anymore.

He didn't stay in his shop for long. He just happened to sit in the shop for a while, drink a few sips of tea, and wait for them to come back.

After they all went out for a stroll, Ye Yaodong also walked to the door with his arm around his father's shoulders and told him about buying a tractor.

"I just said you didn't stop the car for no reason yesterday and went to the tractor factory to have a look."

"Isn't this just what I saw? I had no plan to do so before, but when I saw it, I thought about buying a tractor. It saves me from having to call Uncle Zhou all the time. The toll is not cheap."

"He is counting on you to make money. If you buy one, he will lose most of it."

"Then I can't just make money for him and not buy it myself. What's the logic of this? I must consider my own needs."

"That's what I said."

After speaking, Father Ye thought for a moment and realized that he had made a lot of money this time and had plenty of money.

"You can buy it now. The boys you raised at home are still there anyway. You can just ask them to deliver the goods after you buy them."

"This is what I plan to do. It will be convenient for me to have a car and go back and forth. Next year we will have an extra fish sauce to transport."

"When you get back, you can discuss it with Ah Qing. It just so happens that the store didn't buy too much today, so I bought three."

'At once'!

Fortunately, these words were not heard by outsiders. Father Lin and Mother Lin were sitting in the shop talking and chatting.

Even buying three stores is not a lot. It should shock people. This is not a lot. How rich does the family have to be?

"Well, I'll discuss it with her after the busy work is over. There's no rush anyway. I won't go to the province in half a month. There are still a lot of things to do at home that I haven't been busy with. The eldest brother and the second brother are thinking about building a building."

"The village committee didn't give an explanation. We've been out for the past two days, and we didn't have time to ask questions in such a hurry. The women at home are useless. It's up to the men to make the decision. Now that you have bought the store, this The matter has come to an end for the time being. It will probably be dark when we go back in the afternoon. You can go to the village committee and ask again tomorrow morning."

"I know, I have planned it, and things have to be done one by one."

"When it comes to building a building, you can ask your eldest brother and second brother to help you. You have so many things to do, so don't do everything. After all, when the building is finished, the three brothers can just share it equally."

"Dad, do you want to move in with us? If we build a building, I will be very wealthy here. I can build at least three large rooms upstairs. When the children grow up, there will be enough room for three people to live in each room. .”

Father Ye waved his hand, "Your mother and I want to keep an eye on the old house. How can we let it sit there and deteriorate? Moreover, there are also old neighbors who have lived there for decades. We are used to it and we don't want to move anywhere."

Ye Yaodong was not surprised. Anyway, his father and mother were not old enough to walk around and needed to support themselves in their old age. If they wanted to live alone in the old house, then they should live alone.

"If you really don't plan to move, then when we build the building, we can repair the house for you."

"That's okay. The walls are made of stone, which is very strong. There's no need to worry about it. At most, the roof should be repaired and the doors and windows should be replaced. Some of the wood is rotten and the glass is cracked."

"Well, let's do it together then."

The father and son were calm, discussed everything, and chatted for a while.

Father Ye did not urge him to go to sea. Instead, he asked him to rest for two days after all the things were done.

Ye Yaodong cried with joy in his heart. The old man finally felt sorry for his son, and now he would not open his mouth to object, instead opening his mouth to scold him indiscriminately.

They didn't wait long before everyone came back. Running back and forth to do errands was quite time-consuming.

Those women also count the time when they go shopping, and come back almost when the time comes, so as not to be too late and have an accident when it's dark when they get home.

All of them went with baskets, and when they came back, the baskets were full, their faces were beaming with joy, and they were more willing to buy since their hands were loose.

Everyone came back, and they also said something to Lin's father, Lin's mother, Lin Xianghui, and Sister-in-law Lin, and then got on the tractor and went back.

On the tractor, every woman chattered non-stop, talking about what they had seen, heard, and felt, as well as what they had bought, how cheap they were, and how expensive some of them were.

Seeing how happy and excited they were, this trip was not in vain.

But he still didn't feel happy for long, so he lowered his head and wrapped himself tightly, then began to chirp in silence. He didn't feel energetic until he was almost home.

"I don't know if those at home are good or have they turned the house upside down?" Lin Xiuqing said worriedly.

"Your two sons are still young and not very naughty. My two sons were not beaten for three days and went to the house to lift the roof. The sticks were broken. The next day, they still went to climb the wall and climb the tree, and they didn't even give me any anger. I’m so angry, I haven’t been home all day today, and if I let them stay at home, I would be worried that they would demolish the house.”

"We all have to go to school, so we can't be at home all day. We won't tear down the house. At most, we'll be naughty and playful."

"I'm afraid they won't go to school and will run around in the mountains and rivers." Mrs. Ye Er muttered.

Sister-in-law Ye's brows were so furrowed that she could pinch a fly, "We're almost home. We'll know when we get home. Check to see if they behave well. If they behave well, they will be rewarded. If they do not behave well, they will be whipped."

Ye Yaodong silently lit a candle for them in his heart. In the morning, he even asked them to remember to go into the water and touch the snails for him after school...

If his legs were really broken, he would be the culprit.

When they got home, they lived up to their expectations. The house was turned over as if it had been robbed. The chairs were knocked to the floor. The sugar in the cupboard was dug out and eaten by them. The red date cores and longan shells were vomited all over the floor. .

The door of the house was open, chickens, ducks and geese were running around in the house. There was a lot of chicken, duck and goose droppings on the floor. Looking at Sister-in-law Ye, Sister-in-law Ye’s temples felt bulging and painful.

As a result, none of the children were seen, and they didn't know where they died or why they hadn't come back yet.

Angry, they shouted several times at the door, but there was no response.

The old lady listened to their curses and hurriedly walked into their room. She was also shocked.

"Hey, before I went to cook, I even looked at the children at the door. They ran away and didn't close the door. The chickens and ducks have all gone to your house. Get them out quickly..."

"When I come back later, I'll have to peel off my skin. No one is at home, and I don't know how to close the door when I go out."

"I don't know where he died. It's getting dark. I can't see anyone. There's chicken shit all over the floor. Oh my God... there's chicken shit on the stove. If you come back, I'll beat him to death..."

The two sisters-in-law walked into the house on tiptoes, cursing, and chased away the chickens huddled under the table, as well as the chickens huddled under the bed in the room. There were chickens and ducks from each of the three households.

The only good thing is that the master bedroom is locked there, the iron lock is still hanging, and I am not bold enough to dare to break the lock and run in.

Lin Xiuqing couldn't help but feel lucky that there was an old lady watching over her house, which was still neat and tidy as before.

She watched her chickens, ducks and geese being driven out, and said awkwardly: "Scatter a handful of plant ash later, sweep it away, and then brush it with water."

"I'm going to be so angry with them that I haven't looked at them for a day, and my house has turned into a chicken coop..."

"You grown men, hurry up and find them when you are free. Let me give them a good beating and give them a long memory."

Lin Xiuqing quickly drove her chickens and ducks back to the yard and let them return to their cages.

Ye Yaodong hugged Ye Xiaoxi and looked around for a few moments, then took the old lady to go home first.

I just sent Aguang and Uncle Pei back first, and picked up his daughter by the way.

Then his parents got off the car first, planning to walk a few steps back, take a shower and then come over for dinner.

However, when he entered the yard, he saw a row of buckets placed on the porch of his house, which were quite conspicuous.

"Huh? Those kids caught it? Such a big hairy crab, and two buckets of it! What is this? Is this a river shrimp? There are also such a big bucket of river shrimp!"

The old lady pointed to the one near the corner, "The three buckets inside are snails. How long will you have to eat so many? The good ones don't have to do anything. If you have them do this all day long, you are not just poking their hearts. Each one is more active than the other."

"Earlier, when I came back from school, my whole body was wet and my head was covered with water. I asked them to take a shower and change clothes. They responded well, but as soon as I got back to the house, there was no one there again."

Ye Yaodong grabbed a river shrimp by its long beard and gestured in the palm of his hand. It was not too small. Some of them were quite capable. They caught so many in one catch.

"Aren't you going to the river to catch these again?"

"It's hard to say..." Lin Xiuqing couldn't help but have a headache. There were also two boys from his family inside.

"Put Xiaojiu down, go find them, and get him back quickly. It's getting dark, and he's still soaking in the water. It's cold in the morning and evening, and he'll be in trouble if he catches a cold."

"I'll ride to the surrounding rivers to take a look."

As soon as Ye Xiaoxi was placed on the ground, she immediately put her hand into the bucket, and Lin Xiuqing slapped her hand twice.

"No playing in the water!"

Ye Xiaoxi shrank his hands, raised his head and looked at her with wide eyes, then raised his feet and dragged the baby home, shouting as he ran: "Dad, dad..."

Ye Yaodong had just entered the room and quickly turned around.

He saw her raising her wet hands high to show him, then her mouth was flat and her face was full of grievances.

"You were beaten, right? You're not allowed to play in the water. If you're naughty, you'll be beaten."

Lin Xiuqing couldn't help but shake her head as she followed her, "You know how to complain at such a young age, how can you do it when you grow up?"

Ye Xiaoxi had no one to coax her, so she held back her tears again, pouted, hummed a few times, then grabbed the baby's hair and dragged her out.

"Drama queen, tears come when they come and disappear when they don't."

"Let me see if there are any dishes that haven't been cooked yet. You go find your two sons. Your daughter is being watched by the old lady."

"Um."

After Ye Xiaoxi dragged the baby out, he continued to squat in front of several buckets and watched eagerly.

Whenever he wanted to reach out, he would glance at the old lady with his little eyes.

The old lady was sitting on an armchair, holding a cattail leaf fan and looking at her cheerfully. When she saw a mosquito trying to bite her, she gently patted it twice with the cattail leaf fan.

She watched as the old lady put her hand into the water without noticing, and then took it out immediately...

There was a crash, and the old lady heard it, and smiled and patted her twice more.

"Go get a branch and poke it. Don't reach out, the crab will bite."

She nodded happily immediately, didn't want the doll, threw it aside, and immediately ran to the firewood pile in the house to find branches.

The old lady also went to the yard and grabbed a small handful of straw. She twisted the two straws into slender twists in her hands and then connected them into long strips.

I grabbed a hairy crab from the bucket, took a piece of straw, tied the two large pliers first, and then tied the crab slightly with a slender twist.

After Ye Xiaoxi brought out a branch, she tied the ready-made twist rope to the branch and hung it up for her to play with.

Her eyes were bright with excitement, and she shouted, "Crab... crab..."

The branch she was holding in her hand kept swaying, and the crab hanging on the rope also swayed with her, sometimes on the ground, sometimes in the air.

After playing happily for a while, she ran into the house carrying the crab to find her mother as a treasure.

"Mother... mother... madam... crab..."

The old lady watched her run into the house and continued to catch hairy crabs. She planned to tie up the big feet of all the hairy crabs to prevent the children from being bitten by their big feet if they were naughty.

When she came out, the old lady gave her a long rope, and a crab was tied to the other end and crawled on the ground. She was so happy that she couldn't help grinning and drooling.

"Crab~"

She was holding one in her left hand and one in her right hand, running around the yard as happily as a butterfly.

But she was so young that she couldn't even walk steadily. She fell down just after running for a while.

However, she didn't ask for help. She got up and clapped her hands. Her mouth was flat in pain, and tears hung at the end of her eyes, but she wiped them away with the back of her hands. She pouted, breathed twice on her palms, and picked them up again. Her two crabs.

The old lady saw that she had fallen, so she quickly went over to take a look, and was relieved that there was no broken skin, but her palms and knees were a little red, so she quickly went into the house to get some tea oil and wiped it on her.

Seeing that she looked a little languid and unhappy, the old lady tied a shrimp to her, tied it to the branch she was holding, and hung it with the crab.

Ye Xiaoxi was happy again.

"Shrimps... big prawns... so many~"

Lin Xiuqing stood by the stove and looked at the door. Seeing that she was crying and laughing, she ignored her. Children grow up quickly.

The old lady's rice has been cooked a long time ago. The steamed minced meat, steamed eggs, and steamed fish are all steamed together with the rice at the same time. She only needs to fry two vegetables and make a soup.

When a group of children came back, her food was ready. At the same time, there were bursts of curses and cries of crying for father and mother from the door next door.

"Third uncle asked me to go into the water and touch snails..."

"It's Uncle San..."

"Third uncle called us this morning to touch snails for him..."

"Ah, don't fight, don't fight... We just listen to the third uncle's words..."

Ye Yaodong touched his nose, feeling embarrassed, and quickly carried his two wet sons home, pretending that he didn't know what to do.

But the commotion next door couldn't stop. The two families were so close that the slightest disturbance could be heard in their ears, not to mention that they were yelling at each other at this time.

"Your third uncle told you to eat shit. Do you want to eat it?"

"I will do whatever my third uncle tells me to do."

"Then you go eat shit for me."

"He didn't tell me to eat shit."

Sister-in-law Ye's lungs were about to explode with anger, "Everyone is a debt collector. What's the use of giving birth? It will only make me angry...I'll beat you two to death..."

"Mom, I'm going to weed the pigs. We'll feed the pigs in the afternoon and evening... It's none of our business..." Ye Jingjing also jumped up and down at the door.

"Isn't it none of your business? You don't even know how to lock the door when you go out. It's like your house has been robbed. You don't hold the broom up when it falls over. There are chicken and duck feces all over the floor..."

"You think I won't hit you just because you're pretending to be holding a handful of pigweed in your hand? Look at the difference between you two. Is there a spot on your body that's dry? You have the nerve to say it's none of your business... none of you are good..."

Not to be outdone, Sister-in-law Ye scolded: "My skin is all itchy. What did I tell you before I left? I told you to take good care of your home. Is this how you look at it? Look at your feet, which are all wrinkled. Did you not go to school today?" ?”

"No, no, no, no, we went to school, we went to school..."

"Really? I think you just didn't go..."

"have……"

The old lady's voice also sounded at the door, "Don't fight. Don't fight yet. Let them take a bath and change clothes first. They are all wet. They will catch a cold later."

"You deserve it. Is there any dry place on your body? You still touch the snails. How can you feel like you if you touch the snails?"

"Yes, we were catching crabs. I accidentally slipped on my feet and fell into the water. Ajiang was very mean and poured water on me, so we fought in the water... No... we just caught hairy crabs and touched them. Snail..."

Sister-in-law Ye whipped Ye Chenghai's calf, and a red mark appeared directly.

"You got into a fight in the water, right? You really need to clean up..."

"Obviously he did it to me first..."

"Everything belongs to other people. If you don't go into the water, can others do anything to you?"

"Third uncle asked me to catch snails for him."

"Your third uncle didn't ask you to grab several buckets for him. He was just having fun and deserved a beating." After the old lady finished speaking, she walked back to her yard. She deserved to be beaten regardless of them.

When Father Ye and Mother Ye came over, they originally wanted to stop them. After knowing the cause and effect, they said they deserved it and ignored them.

Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang were not beaten, but they shrank like quails and remained silent as soon as they came back, trying to minimize their presence.

Lin Xiuqing didn't punish them, and they took the initiative to stand against the wall.

She glanced at them sideways and said, "Go and take a shower, then go and stand."

The two quickly took off their clothes, and the two naked little yellow chickens hurriedly ran to the back door to take a shower. After washing, they went to stand naked in the corner, extremely active and honest, just to avoid being beaten.

Ye Xiaoxi looked very curious, holding two crabs in his hands, walking back and forth in front of his two brothers.

They were so nervous that they were covering their crotches with both hands, for fear that she would put a hairy crab on them.

"Shame on your face!"

"Dede (brother)... shameface~"

"Go away!"

"No~"

Ye Xiaoxi was also very mean, walking around carrying crabs in front of them, and kept shouting with shame.

The two little boys also turned red from what she said, feeling ashamed and angry.

"Go away, or I'll beat you up later."

"Bite you!"

She picked up the crab and carried it in front of them. The two of them instantly moved left and right.

Ye Xiaoxi seemed to have discovered a new world, happily holding a crab to scare them, "Bite you, bite you~"

In an instant, the three of them were running around the room, screaming.

Ye Yaodong was sitting in his seat, secretly eating the food first, not caring about them, since his mother-in-law was there anyway.

"Stand still for me."

Lin Xiuqing frowned and cursed, then lifted Ye Xiaoxi into his arms.

Ye Yaodong also gave Ye Xiaoxi a few bites.

Lin Xiuqing glared at him fiercely. He was the culprit and he didn't care about anything.

"Did you go to study today?"

"Yes, we all go to school honestly." The two of them stood in the corner honestly.

"real?"

"Really, because Brother Ahai and the others are afraid that if they don't go to school, there will be no little books or dolls, so we are all very honest."

"Then why are you soaked from head to toe?"

"Because Brother Ahai and Brother Ajiang fought in the water, and then we splashed water." Ye Chenghu said everything.

"How many clothes have you changed today?"

Ye Chenghu glanced at Ye Chengyang. Ye Chengyang closed his mouth and looked forward. He covered the front of Xiao Jiji with his hands and remained silent.

He could only whisper: "Three...three pieces."

"So I have no clothes to wear, so I can only stand naked in the corner?"

Ye Chenghu also followed Ye Chengyang's example and tightened his mouth, looking ahead without saying a word.

If I had known, I wouldn't have answered just now.

Lin Xiuqing would just say that the two of them would usually wear at least boxers after taking a shower, but today they just stood there naked and allowed Ye Xiaoxi to scare them.

The old lady quickly smoothed things over, "Eat first, let them stand. You haven't been at home all day, so you must not have eaten well outside. Don't get hungry. Eat as soon as everyone is here."

Ye Xiaoxi's cheeks were bulging, and he didn't forget to turn his head to provoke. He stretched out his index finger and scratched his face twice, mumbling something shy.

"You eat your food, otherwise you have to stand in the corner later."

She instantly became honest and quickly covered her mouth with both hands.

"You are smart and evil at the same time. Who do you look like?"

"She looks like me. My daughter looks like me. Isn't it obvious? She looks like me, her temper is like me, and her clever energy is also like me. She looks like me in every aspect."

"You will put gold on your face."

"It's true. The two standing in the corner look like you."

Lin Xiuqing gave him a blank look.