Chapter 1003: Holding the Banner of Relatives (7000 Words)

The next day, Ye Yaodong slept until he woke up naturally.

When he woke up, he saw Ye Xiaoxi and Pei Yu sitting at the door eating maltose syrup. Each of them took a chopstick and picked out the long strips while stirring. They looked very happy.

"Isn't this very good? Two people sitting side by side."

The old lady was listening to the radio and whispered: "She didn't know that A Guang was gone. She bought maltose early in the morning and A Guang put her down. It happened that Xiao Jiu also woke up, and the two of them sat obediently. To eat, he didn’t even look for it. Then he ran to the workshop and followed the tractor delivering fish sauce to the city.”

"It doesn't matter if she doesn't see it. Anyway, there is plenty to play and eat here."

"Well, go and eat quickly."

"It seems the wind is quite strong this morning?"

"It's a little bit, but the sun is strong and the wind doesn't make it cold."

He stood at the door and looked at the beach not far away. The tide was low, and he didn't know whether the waves would be big from a distance.

Then he turned to look at the workshop. Inside the wall, there was a large area filled with fishing nets hanging to dry, or dried fish hung to dry in sheets. It looked quite spectacular.

After being exposed to the sun for a day and a night, now from this distance, he could smell the salty fragrance coming from not far away from his door. Originally, it was just the sea breeze that would bring a bit of the fishy smell of the sea.

"It tastes authentic."

"What." The old lady didn't know what he was feeling.

"Nothing, I'm going to eat."

He was talking about the smell of dried fish produced by normal drying, not that produced by machine roasting, which means that seaside people will get used to the fishy smell of the sea.

If you were in an inland area, you would probably frown upon arriving at a seaside fishing village.

The day he didn't have to work was spent doing nothing and wandering around. In such a good weather, none of the young and middle-aged people in the village were lazily hanging around at home. Except for the second-rate idlers, he was probably the only one.

However, the villagers all know that his family has a big business now, and no one will whisper behind his back. Instead, they greet him warmly when they see him.

Ye Yaodong also chose the path where the sun was shining, and walked while basking in the sun. Some women were also mending and weaving nets in the sun, chatting and gossiping.

In the two days after landing, I could clearly feel the warmth brought by the wind at home. It felt like spring and the flowers were blooming. It was already March.

It's not like being at sea, where the wind blowing is cold and piercing like a knife. There is no breath of spring at all. You still have to wear a hat and a scarf, tightly wrapped.

Before he could take a look around, he was surprised to see a dusty Lin Jishang carrying a sack on the path.

I just finished asking Ah Qing yesterday, and he showed up today.

"A Dong!"

What should I call him? Ah?

Do you always feel like the two of you are familiar with each other? Not familiar.

Not familiar? But we are quite familiar with each other, even though we don't call each other face to face, it's all yours, we just open our mouths and say it.

Now that he is called A Shang, he always feels goosebumps all over the floor. He thinks it's weird no matter what. Although everyone in the village calls him that, he still feels weird.

The thought flashed, and I gave up calling him A Shang and went straight to talk about something.

"You're celebrating the New Year, where did you come back from? You're so dusty."

He looked unshaven, his face was haggard and his eyes were bloodshot, as if he hadn't had a good night's sleep in a long time, as if he would fall to the ground and touch him in the next moment.

"Just came back from overseas."

"Isn't it possible that you didn't celebrate the New Year at home?"

Lin Jishang nodded and looked at some women weaving nets in the surrounding open space. He turned to look at them curiously and raised his voice slightly.

"I went out for a trip and found some ways to do business. Give me your dried fish weighing 5,000 kilograms the day after tomorrow. I'll arrange for a big truck to come over. If it can't fit, it's okay to stack it higher. Anyway, tie it up with a rope. fixed."

"Ah?" Ye Yaodong was surprised for a moment and then quickly nodded in agreement, and pretended to be very happy and said: "This is great. Five thousand kilograms of goods were shipped at once. The way you found is very powerful. It seems that this year You want to make a fortune."

He smiled and said: "No, no, I'm just average. I can't compare to you. I can only make a living, which is better than shining shoes."

"Where? I'm just a fisherman. I can't compare to you. I've only been hanging out in this fishing village all my life. You're different. You've already gone out. When will you make a name for yourself? I'll have to I hope you can pull it out."

"Don't brag. It makes me embarrassed. Who doesn't know you from all over the country? Who am I? I have to count on you."

"That's not true. You are being humble. I have long seen that you are not like ordinary people. You dare to go out and have a try. How can ordinary people dare to run around? Look, you can find a way to sell dried fish now. You will definitely be more powerful in the future. , If you can sell dried fish today, you can sell department stores tomorrow, and you can live in a building and drive a car next year.”

"You first, you first, I don't have that ability yet..."

"Yes. When you drive a car, isn't it always a matter of time? Walk around and talk while walking. Is five thousand catties of dried fish enough? If it's not enough, I still have a lot in stock. I saved a lot before the year. Now after the new year Work started again..."

"Let me go home first and take a shower and have a rest. I will go to your place to weigh the goods tomorrow. I will go out for a few days and I can't sleep well. It's too chaotic outside. There are a lot of robberies and robberies. I'm afraid that if I'm not careful, I won't even be able to sleep. No one can come back, and you have to turn one eye when you sleep. It’s still the comfort and peace you get from making money in the village..."

"I can't go out, so I can only hang out in the village..."

"Everywhere, you have stores in the city, but you have a good sense and feel that there is chaos outside now, so you have to guard your own one-third of an acre..."

Ye Yaodong didn't expect that he could be praised like this. This kid is a character. No wonder he stayed behind in his previous life, steadily prospered, and became a master.

The two of them walked far away while bragging. They also chose the main road in the village where there were many residents, and took a long detour, sending flares all the way.

The women around who heard the conversation between the two also whispered to each other and discussed the two.

"Lin Jishang is also doing business?"

"Listening to their chat, it seems like he has a way to do business?"

"I heard that doing business outside is very risky now. You may never come back."

"how do you know?"

"Isn't this what you heard? They walked over just now and they didn't say there was chaos outside, there were robberies and robberies, and lives could be lost outside..."

"It's better to earn some money peacefully in the village. Ah Shang must have polished his shoes outside and hit a rich man. I heard that he didn't come back for the Chinese New Year this year. His wife said that he wanted to do more while there were many people during the Chinese New Year. Work to earn more money, and now I suddenly come back and say there is a way, well, I can sell a lot of goods, isn't that just meeting a rich person?"

"I didn't expect that polishing shoes could bring out benefits..."

"Don't tell me. Those who can wear leather shoes must be rich, and they are willing to pay to have their leather shoes polished. I will definitely go home and polish them myself."

"I think too much. I don't necessarily wear it for two days all year round. During the New Year and holidays, I wear it once and then put it away."

"That too……"

Ye Yaodong accompanied Lin Jishang to brag for a while, and after firing some cannons, he said goodbye at the fork in the road and went back to his home.

As soon as he got home, he called Qing.

"Aqing...Aqing..."

"She's in the workshop."

The old lady was basking in the sun at the door. Seeing that he hadn't stepped into the yard, she started shouting and hurriedly spoke out.

Ye Yaodong immediately turned around and headed to the workshop.

"Aqing...Aqing..."

"Next door, I went to the open space over there to dry the fish..."

He then looked for the newly built workshop next to it.

"Every day, I have to look for you everywhere, working blindly, hiring so many people, and still working hard there..."

Lin Xiuqing turned around and looked, "Why are you looking for me everywhere? If I'm not here, where else can I go?"

"Lin Ji wants five thousand kilograms of dried fish. We have agreed that he will come to weigh it tomorrow morning or in the evening. If I am not at home after going to sea at night, and he comes to weigh it tomorrow, you can greet him and see what kind of dried fish he wants to go with. Five thousand catties each.”

"Ah? Isn't he not at home?"

"I just came back and met him on the road."

"Oh, that's okay. If we sell out five thousand kilograms at once, we can get rid of the mountain piled up in our own house. Or the warehouse next door is half empty and half the room is filled. Fortunately, construction just started after the new year. No one has been sleeping in that house for the past two days. I cleared out half of the goods, so I have room to put the more than 20,000 kilograms of goods that have been dried in the past two days."

"So it's just the right time for him to come back. We almost have no place to put it here. The half of it that's vacated can just be used to store the goods that have been dried in the past two days."

"Did you tell him how much it cost?"

"No, he didn't ask, he just mentioned it. I also helped him brag to the villagers on the road. Anyway, it's up to you to see what he wants at that time and quote the wholesale price. He probably doesn’t know how to bargain, so we can ask whatever price we want. Five thousand kilograms of dried fish sounds like a lot, but it’s nothing to him.”

"That's true."

"It's almost noon, why don't you go cook?"

"Don't you want to finish drying this basket? Then I will dry it for you, and I will cook..."

"You want me to work when you catch them..." Ye Yaodong muttered quietly, but he still stabbed a hole in the remaining half of the basket of fish with a needle, then tied it with a rope and hung it up to dry.

But I didn't expect that Lin Jishang didn't wait until the next day and rushed over to weigh the goods before the workshop got off work in the afternoon.

Probably because he wanted to do it in front of a large number of people, he now started doing business.

Seeing is believing, hearing is believing.

In fact, he can also be rumored to have made money by doing business outside, but everyone in the world will have a preconceived sense, and rumors will be distorted. What's more, it has been rumored that he smuggled before, and everyone will only think that he made money from smuggling. Money, or not taking the right path.

But this dried fish is the real deal, and everyone will believe it more after seeing it produced in the village.

After all, the total amount of dried fish is only about 2,000 yuan, but smuggling is about huge profits. It is impossible to smuggle thousands of kilograms of dried fish that take up a lot of space.

He can earn two hundred yuan from just a TV set.

With his shareholder wind behind him, he cleared himself up and made a lot of money in the future, which made people believe him even more.

The main thing is that this is also my hometown. No matter what kind of mischief I do, I have to come back. I can't let anyone expose me, at least not yet. In the future, I can spread it casually. Anyway, I have already passed the limelight.

Thousands of kilograms of dried fish were weighed bag by bag in front of the three aunts and six women in the village, and then pushed to his home on a cart.

Everyone was watching and talking, saying that Lin Jishang was going to make a fortune, and he could easily make a fortune of five thousand catties.

After all the goods were weighed, the sky was dark, and people everywhere in the village were spreading rumors that Lin Jishang wanted to follow him and make money with him.

What they didn't expect was that they worked until dark before having dinner. During dinner, several relatives and cousins ​​from the eldest and second uncle came to the door.

The surprise is quite unexpected. It’s already the Chinese New Year. When I came back the day before yesterday, a bunch of people came to chat with me. Why did they come again today? But we have to invite people in anyway.

"Eating? Are you eating so late?"

"Have you just finished your work? I heard that Lin Jishang is riding on your success and is going to make a fortune soon..."

"Ah Dong, we are all relatives, and we are all our own people. As your business grows bigger and becomes more powerful, you must not forget to support everyone. We cannot just take care of outsiders. We are our own people."

"You can't write two characters for Ye in one stroke. We are the only family in the whole village with the surname Ye. We have to stick together. What's the benefit? You can't give it to outsiders. You have to take care of our own people first..."

"Yes, everyone has watched you grow up or grown up together. My brothers and sisters have broken bones and connected tendons. Our own family members are much closer than outsiders..."

"They say that father and son fight against tigers and brothers. Outsiders can't be trusted as much as our own brothers. Don't be fooled. We will never lie to our own people..."

A group of people nodded in agreement while talking, which almost made the whole family confused.

But fortunately, his family is not stupid. After listening to what they said, he knew that maybe he weighed several thousand kilograms of dried fish at the Lin Gathering in the afternoon, and it was said in the village that he was going to get rich soon.

Everyone probably thought that they were hooking up with him, that he had pulled him out and gave Lin Jishang a chance to make a fortune.

Grandma's, weighing goods in the morning and evening, I don't know what happened in the village. It actually made relatives who didn't usually come to the house sit still.

The whole family was sitting there eating, looking at each other in disbelief as they watched these people talking strangely, saying all kinds of things like "they are a family".

Mother Ye couldn't help but put down her chopsticks, "What do you mean my family won't deceive my own family? My two sons were defrauded of two thousand yuan by my own family. Who am I to ask for explanation? It's hard to collect debts, and it's hard to force them." If you can’t force them, it’s better to be deceived by outsiders, and we can even knock on the door, smash the door, and remove the electricity.”

Several people present also looked back and forth, all looking at Uncle Ye, Aunt Ye and Ye Yaofan. They also ran over to join in the fun, but just now only Aunt Ye made a sound, and no one else said a word.

There were quite a lot of people coming, and even those who were related to each other didn't know what they were doing, and they all gathered together very quickly.

Uncle Ye said awkwardly: "That's all in the past. It's all happened in the past. Why do you still mention it? One code is the same. My family said this during the Chinese New Year. Aren't you poking fun at our hearts? I've already done this. A son has gone up."

"Didn't you say that your family won't lie to your own family?" Ye Mu pursed her lips and picked up her chopsticks to eat.

Father Ye tried to smooth things over with a smile, "We are not outsiders. We are the only ones with the surname Ye in the whole village. So if anything happens, we must think of our own family first. Aren't we the ones who work in the workshop first? Then If you are not quick with your hands and feet, you can’t blame us.”

"Anyway, if there is work in the future, it will definitely be done by our own family first. Today's Ashang came here to buy dried fish from Dongzi. Dongzi recruited him and gave him money to earn. It was obvious that he was He takes care of Dongzi’s business.”

Ye Yaodong was speechless. He turned around and said, "If you have this ability, I won't even be able to welcome you. I don't have anything else in my house, but there are a lot of dried fish. If you want to come over and wholesale, you can do it for tens of thousands of kilograms. If you really want it, If you can give me a batch of tens of thousands of pounds, I will laugh out of my dreams."

"Don't say tens of thousands of kilograms. Each of you can help me buy a few hundred kilograms. The price is easy to talk about. They are all my relatives, so I will definitely give you a discount. Don't say that I don't take care of my relatives. I will definitely sell it to you. It’s cheaper than selling it to others.”

As he spoke, he suddenly felt blessed and immediately continued.

"I understand that you want to recruit relatives. Lin Jishang asked me today if I bought five thousand catties. How many hundred catties are you going to buy? We are all relatives, so we must take care of each other. He, an outsider, has taken care of me for five thousand catties. Jin, you will definitely take care of me, right?"

"You are right. This money cannot be earned by outsiders, it must be earned by our own people. Don't say that I don't take care of everyone. A lot of you came to your door to talk about it at night, so I will definitely make money for you. Space, if the wholesale price is lower, you can make more money by selling it when the time comes.”

"Ah Qing, please take a note. After everyone heard about it in the evening, they all came to the door so enthusiastically and said that we are all a family and we should all help each other and support each other. We have nothing to thank them and can only wait for them. The price will be lower for the quantity you want, and it certainly won’t be more expensive than others.”

"We are all relatives, we are all a family. We cannot write two characters in one stroke. You helped me sell goods today. I will remember this in my heart and thank you all from the bottom of my heart..."

"It shouldn't be said like this. Everyone should take care of each other. The more you sell, the more you earn. You don't need to thank me too much when the time comes. I have nothing else to help you, so I can only provide you with a stable supply. .”

"When I come back from my next trip to sea, I will try my best to sell as many goods as possible. Then I will leave it to you all to produce the goods from my workshop. I also need you to pay more attention, sell more, and come here to wholesale more..."

Everyone at the table said they were dumbfounded to him. They were obviously here to get a share of the pie and take advantage. They were all surnamed Ye, and they were all members of the family. They asked him to take more care of his relatives. Earn money for relatives.

But when he understood this, it completely changed.

Everyone standing in the room next to him was confused by what he said. Who wants to come to buy his dried fish?

And entrust them with a whole workshop of dried fish?

Lin Xiuqing almost couldn't help laughing when she heard this, but she still held back her smile and responded with his words.

"Okay, I'm going to get paper and pen. There are so many people and it's easy to get confused if you don't take notes. Let's go weigh the goods after dinner. We are all a family. You want to earn this money and you are not willing to let others earn it. Well, it’s dark that day, so we have to weigh the goods to you, so as not to be delayed all night. If we weigh the goods tomorrow morning, it may also delay you in making money.”

Ye Yaodong looked at her appreciatively and said, "Aqing said the same thing. We are all a family. You all come here to say that you want to earn this money. You don't want this money to be earned by outsiders. Then I won't eat. I will weigh you first." All is OK.”

He put down his chopsticks and stood up directly.

This time everyone was so panicked that they immediately pushed him back to his seat, fearing that he was really going to weigh dried fish and sell it to them.

"No, we're not here to weigh the goods?"

"That's right, who wants to buy your dried fish? We want it ourselves, so we're afraid we won't have it?"

Ye Yaodong looked at everyone pretending to be puzzled, "Didn't you say that we are all a family? What benefits can we give to outsiders? We have to think about ourselves first."

"I thought about it over and over again, thinking that it would be just a matter of recruiting workers in the workshop. My father has already promised, so the profit from selling the goods will be left."

"Lin Jishang just weighed five thousand kilograms away, and you guys came here. I thought you also want to make this money. I will make them all for you, dry them, and you can take them and sell them. , you can make money, and you don’t have to save the goods for six months or a year, you can immediately sell them on the street, which is also good.”

"You can earn hundreds or even thousands of dollars from a few thousand kilograms of goods. Do you want each of you to buy a few thousand kilograms and take them back?"

Everyone's expressions turned ugly instantly.

Uncle Ye couldn't help but said: "Aren't you giving him a way to make money over there? Let him weigh the goods and sell them?"

"Blind Jiba said, if I have a way, can I still make money for him? I am always shouting at Lin Jishang, Lin Jishang, and you are still shouting at me. If you listen, you will know who is closer to whom. I am with him I’m not familiar with it, I really think too much.”

"I have two brothers and a brother-in-law at home. How can I give him the opportunity to make money? If I want to pull him out, I'm pulling up my own family. That's the way he knows me."

A cousin spoke up: "He himself said there just now that from now on it will be all up to you to pull him out and lead him to make money..."

"That's right. When he gets goods from me, he can't rely on my supply of goods to support him. Who in this country can dry more dried fish than me? He can't rely on me to provide him with these goods so that he can earn more. money?"

A sister-in-law said with a smile: "We just heard people say that you want to help him make a fortune, so we wanted to come over and let you take care of us."

"It's okay. I have so many dried fishes lying there. If you can sell them, you can come over and wholesale them. It can be a few kilograms. If you have money, we can make money together."

"How can we sell it? How can anyone in this area be short of dried fish? It's too far away and we can't get out. There are so many thieves and robberies."

"That is to say, well, it's the same sentence. We are all a family. If something good happens, you have to think about everyone."

"That's for sure. There's nothing else. If you have work to do and can make money, you must think about our own family first." Father Ye immediately answered with a smile, for fear that he would continue to talk about asking people to buy dried fish and ruining people's lives. All offended.

"Huh? Where is he going to sell his goods? I haven't seen him during the Chinese New Year. I heard in the morning that when everyone looked at him, he seemed as if he hadn't slept for days and nights. What were you doing out there?"

"I went out to make money, what else could I do? Maybe I was worried about being robbed when I came back, so I didn't dare to close my eyes. Or maybe I walked a long way back, so I looked tired, right?"

Ye Yaodong also helped to explain, "Don't everyone in the village say that he shined shoes for a boss, so he suddenly caught the east wind, and immediately returned to the village and came to my place to sell dried fish."

"Really? Is it true that it's just a rumor in the village?"

"Is this okay? Does the boss like a shoe polisher?"

"Look at what you said. What the boss wants is that he has a way to sell goods. If I have a way to ship goods in large quantities, can I still let him make money? I would have sold it myself."

"That's true."

"Then he is really going to get rich now?"

"It looks like I'm going to get rich. I didn't expect that I would meet a noble man when I went out, and he would also make money with you."

Ye Yaodong nodded quickly, "Yes, that's right, that's it. He makes money, so I also make money by selling goods to him, so he takes care of me. At most, I can help him when he buys too much. He’s a bit cheaper.”

"Everyone has money to make money together. If you also want to make money selling dried fish, you are welcome to come to my place to weigh the goods. I heard that Wang Laoqi saved dried fish for a year, and then went to the market to sell the goods after the year, and still made a lot of money. Quite a lot, but I was just unlucky and didn’t keep it when I came back..."

"Don't mention it. If he has money to earn but has no money to bring back, he will be unlucky."

"It's not easy to save dried fish for a year, so why not come to you and buy a few hundred kilograms to resell, and it will come faster."

He nodded quickly, "Yes, that's it. Everyone either doesn't have a boat, or they don't have as many boats as me, or their boats are not as big as mine. If you come to me to buy dried fish and then sell them, won't you make faster money? Why save for a year?" ?I didn’t say that I sell dried fish, so I won’t let others sell it. You are welcome to come and buy dried fish from me.”

One by one they waved their hands.

"Can't make it, can't make it..."

"Forget it, if you don't have the ability, just keep your life and make a living."

"It costs money to buy this. We can get whatever we want..."

"Then you can eat. Anyway, everyone is here to chat and talk. Although we are all family members, we still have to move around before we can kiss..."

"If something good happens, don't forget everyone. As a family, we should stick together more..."

Father Ye responded one by one with a smile.

Ye's mother didn't want to respond, she just kept her temper and ate alone.

After Father Ye said a few more polite words to them, everyone left with a smile. Although they did not achieve their goal, they were not unhappy either.

Ye Yaodong felt that this was actually the best way for his father to avoid offending inside and outside. Although he could talk and coax people, he also inherited some of his mother's temper and was a bit rebellious.

This person acted according to the circumstances, came to the door without knowing anything, and held the banner of relatives and asked him to do whatever he wanted. His rebellious psychology immediately emerged.

I can give it to you, but you can't ask for it.

He understands what should be understood, and of course he knows what should be known, but he also looks at people.

So he still hasn't cultivated enough. If he talks to outsiders, he must be very considerate and say what he says, but for his own people, he will have a rebellious mentality.