Ye Yaodong stood up and was about to go inside to eat. Not far away, he saw Secretary Chen coming over in a hurry. He had to stop again and sent Ah Qing and the two children to eat inside first.
"Why is Secretary Chen here again? Did you just send someone away? Go in and sit down for a while and have a couple of drinks."
As soon as Secretary Chen walked up to him, he started to sigh, "You can really make things happen."
"What does it have to do with me? How can I be bothered by this? I can't predict the situation, and I didn't call them here."
"Then what do you think we should do now? Before these leaders left, we tried to find ways to do some ideological work for the villagers to get them to agree to donate. Isn't this embarrassing? If it were me, I wouldn't be happy to move them away."
"Go in and talk, drink two glasses of wine, sit down and talk slowly."
Secretary Chen waved his hand and said, "I won't go in. It's too hot. I'm covered in sweat after walking. I'll blow some air at the door first."
Ye Yaodong had no choice but to move a stool out of the house, and the two of them sat at the door, enjoying the breeze and chatting.
"It's cooler at your door than in the village."
"It's okay. It's hot now. The southeast wind blows. It's quite cool when I sit at the door and the sea breeze blows in my face. It's more comfortable at night and it's not stuffy at all. In autumn and winter, the northwest wind blows from the back of the house and can't blow in front of the house.
,fine."
"It's pretty good," Secretary Chen said casually, then returned to the topic, "Hey, can you tell me how the villagers should do their ideological work?"
"You ask me, how do I know, isn't this your job?"
"Didn't you make this happen?"
"nonsense!"
"The source is you, don't make excuses."
"Humph, those people didn't ask me to do ideological work for the villagers, not to mention that I also donated it to Mazu for blessings with good intentions."
"Otherwise, would you like to donate instead?"
"Scared!" Ye Yaodong stood up with his eyes widened, "Are you kidding me? Why don't you donate this divine thing after donating it? Am I mentally ill? You can think of your own solution and don't try to trick me. I'm not a fool!
"
Secretary Chen smiled sheepishly, knowing that he had come up with a bad idea, "I just lost my mind and said casually, haha~ It's nerve-wracking, forget it, let's talk about it tomorrow, let them figure it out on their own."
"Hmm... do you think there are still things like this in the sea? Let them fish for a few more things, or fish for another cauldron for them, so that they won't miss Mazu's big cauldron?"
Ye Yaodong said angrily, "Do you think it's so easy to catch? You can catch whatever you want? Let me tell you, even if they can still salvage the bronze, they will not let go of that big tripod. The tripod is not ordinary."
"That's right, well, I have a headache. Let's talk about it tomorrow."
Now Ye Yaodong didn't want to keep him around anymore. Just now he wanted to give him some advice and solve his problems, but now he was just going to give him a headache for a few more days.
While he was eating, Ye's father also came back from selling the goods. He also heard Ye's mother tell the whole story. I don't know if she added her own opinions to it. Anyway, Ye's father also knew the whole story.
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"Don't interfere. If they want to take the tripod away, let them negotiate with the village committee and the villagers. We can't be this evil person."
"Can I still not understand this? I will just cooperate with them and work normally."
"I won't be able to go to sea for a few more days. It will delay things too much." Father Ye was also a little depressed.
"Would you like to have a bite here? I don't have time to cook at night, so I'll just make do with what's available for lunch."
Father Ye waved his hand, "Your mother has gone back to cook. The old lady has made the food in advance. I can just go back and eat."
Ye Yaodong nodded and continued to eat his own.
The next day, the workers from the Zhou family next door also gave half of the money to work for him.
It is said that the stones and loess picked during this period are enough, and the rest is just a matter of building them. If it is not enough, we can go to the mountains or the river to get more.
The excavation masters don’t have much work anymore, so they might as well give half of the labor to them today, and let the workers go to the mountains to pick up the materials. There is no need to ask them to buy them, as long as the sand is a little more even, this way they can save a few workers.
Pay some wages.
Of course Ye Yaodong had no objection, and thought he would have to wait ten days and a half until they were almost done before they could come to him.
In the morning, when he came back from cutting firewood, he would sit at the door to enjoy the breeze, choose vegetables, watch the workers going back and forth, and wait for people from the county to come.
As a result, he waited and waited. The whole morning passed without seeing anyone. He was depressed. Didn't you ask him to wait at home?
"A Dong, hasn't anyone come yet? It's already noon." Lin Xiuqing finished cooking everyone's meal and came out, feeling puzzled.
"Who knew, he told me to wait at home and not go to sea, but in the end I didn't even see anyone."
We didn't go out to sea today, so we could only continue to sit and wait. As a result, when the sun went down, not to mention the silhouette of people, not even a hair was seen.
Father Ye also came over with a load of stones, wiped the sweat on his face with the towel wrapped around his neck, and then said: "I haven't been here all day, I was deceived, and I wasted a whole day at home. What a good day."
I went out to sea at night."
"How do I know? Those people promised to come, but they didn't come. They didn't know what kind of plane they were planning to take, and they delayed me for a whole day."
"You're not making any money, and you have to spend money, but what's the point? You're the same, the money is so hot, so why do you need to build another house? There are a lot of empty houses in the old house, and I'm worried that the old lady won't have room.
Live? If you can’t even live here, you’ll just mess around. If you can’t save your money, just leave it with us and your mother and I will save it for you.”
Ye's father had to help with his work, and he also had to be verbose, and he had to talk about things he couldn't stand.
"I didn't ask you to do it, and I didn't spend your money, so don't be nagging. Just pretend you haven't seen it. Out of sight is pure."
"Do you care about you? I'm afraid that you will mess around all day and ruin the family's fortune. In the future, there will be no one to take care of your children, and you will have to beg for food when you get old."
Ye Yaodong said with a smile: "Isn't it you?"
"You bastard, you don't have to worry for a moment. Even if I don't expect you to take care of you in old age, do you still expect me to take care of you in old age? Don't wait at home tomorrow. Ignore them. Just go to sea at night. Earn more money so that you can have a family.
You lose."
He frowned hesitantly and thought for a moment, "I'll go to Secretary Chen's house and ask around."
As a result, Secretary Chen told him to wait one more day tomorrow. If he didn't come back tomorrow and go to sea again, he had to wait patiently for one more day.
As a result, the next morning, while he was breaking corn in the cornfield next to the house, planning to cook some for his two children in the afternoon, he heard his sister-in-law running back and shouting: "Those people from the county are here again."
"Coming? Are you heading here?"
Ye Yaodong speeded up his movements, intending to break off a few more, otherwise he would run out of time later. If it were later, the sun would be stronger, and there would be no way to go out.
Unexpectedly, Sister-in-law Ye said: "No, they were blocked by the villagers at the entrance of the village and couldn't enter. I heard that someone had already called the village committee."
"Ah? Why are you blocked at the entrance of the village and unable to enter?"
"I heard that they were afraid that the officials would be unreasonable and wanted to move the cauldron from the Mazu Temple. I specially took some nets and spread them out at the intersection to prevent those people from entering. It was said that the old men in the village discussed it yesterday afternoon
The idea is that as soon as they see that group of people entering the village, they will open the net so that they can't even get in."
Ye Yaodong suddenly couldn't laugh or cry. It's not like you're blocking them. If you don't let them in, they won't be able to get in. The old man in the village is really scary and powerful.
"It's useless. Once the village chief and secretary know about it, they can come in anyway."
Second Sister-in-law Ye also muttered: "That tripod doesn't look special, does it? The yellow and green ones don't look good, and they are not available in temples. Why do you have to fish this one from the sea? It was from thousands of years ago.
Things, it’s just a tripod, it’s only worth a few dozen dollars at most if you sell it, why are you so persistent?”
Sister-in-law Ye didn't understand either, "What kind of cultural relic is it? I don't know what it is used for. It can't be eaten or drank, and it doesn't look good."
"That's right, it's not too much trouble to come all the way here..."
Lin Xiuqing came out and said with a smile: "Maybe people want to take it back for research. Isn't it quite rare that things from thousands of years ago can still be preserved to this day?"
"That's true."
The three sisters-in-law were chattering there, and Ye Yaodong was not in a hurry to run to the entrance of the village. Anyway, the village committee had already left and people would be here soon.
Talk about Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here.
Only ten minutes had passed, and the original team had arrived again. The village committee members were all accompanying them with smiles on their faces, talking as they walked towards their home. In addition, there were a few more tall and tall people behind them.
When a man looks at his temperament, he can tell that he is a soldier.
That upright posture made him, a shameless person who was used to standing or sitting, feel ashamed.
"Comrade Ye Yaodong, I'm so sorry. I made you wait in vain yesterday. It's really because things were not arranged well, so I couldn't come over." The elder of the cultural center said politely.
"You didn't come yesterday and didn't say a word, so I waited all day in vain. My father told me to go to sea at night. Fortunately, I thought I would wait one more day to see. What if you didn't come yesterday and come today, and then you will pounce again.
It's all gone, and it seems like I've broken my promise. Fortunately, you came today, otherwise I wouldn't have waited tomorrow."
"Sorry, there were too many things yesterday and I didn't think everything through."
"So what are you going to do today? What arrangements are there?" Ye Yaodong said while looking at the soldiers. Why did he bring the soldiers with him?
Be a bodyguard?
Are you afraid that the villagers will be unreasonable and use force?
"Can you please take us to the sea area where you caught the bronze? We don't know how deep the seabed is at the moment. We have deployed a few people who are familiar with water and plan to try to dive into the water to take a look first.
Have you found anything?"
It turns out they were brought for diving.
"OK."
Seeing that they didn't mention the bronze cauldron, Ye Yaodong was happy not to ask further, so as not to cause trouble.
Take them to that sea area as soon as possible and retire as soon as possible. No matter what they can fish out from underneath, he has already benefited.
Chapter completed!