Chapter 15: Touched with bad luck

Uncle Ye glared at Ye Yaodong fiercely before stepping into the door. He still remembered that he had choked him in the morning!

After the two entered the house, Ye Yaodong and Ye Yaohua followed them in.

The women in the house were cleaning the table and washing dishes. Father Ye was holding a water pipe, intending to smoke a few puffs after dinner, when he saw his two brothers coming again.

Uncle Ye and Uncle Ye walked towards the old lady as soon as they arrived, and called her in unison, “Mom!”

“Well, have you eaten?”

“Yes, mom has eaten too, right?”

“Yes.”

Ye Yaodong rolled his eyes at the side, asking knowingly. The way they Chinese people ask questions is to start with “Have you eaten?” It’s really strange, and it’s the same in every era.

Uncle Ye Er looked at Uncle Ye Da, and Uncle Ye Da coughed and said, “Mom, we came here this morning, and since you weren’t here, we thought we’d come again.”

“Did you come to see me specially?” The old lady asked knowingly.

“Ah, no, ah yes…”

He lost his composure before he could even say anything, and even being a gun didn’t work, so Uncle Ye Er simply said it himself.

“It’s like this, mother. Didn’t the third child just catch a net of yellow croaker and sell it for more than a thousand? The boat was left by father. It was given to the third child at that time. He also repaired it. Although he got the advantage, we didn’t feel comfortable asking him to share it.”

“But the children in the family are all grown up, and the house is not big enough. We want to borrow 300 yuan from the third child each to repair two rooms for the children in the family. You see…”

The old lady frowned, turned sideways, and put her ear close to her, “Ah? What did you say? I’m hard of hearing, please speak louder!”

“Hahaha~”

Ye Yaodong couldn’t help laughing. The old lady was really interesting. She was usually sharp-eyed and sharp-eared, but now she was hard of hearing?

The old lady secretly glared at him in a reproachful manner.

Ye Erbo was also embarrassed by his laughter. How could they not know whether the old lady was hard of hearing or not?
Father Ye put down the hookah and said helplessly: “You came to ask for money this morning, but now you are talking about borrowing it. Why don’t you give up? I have three sons, and they all live in one room, with four or five people sleeping on one bed. I have to build a house to divide the family, so where can I get the money to lend you!”

“Then you can borrow less, and we can add some ourselves. Third brother, our grandchildren are much older than yours…”

“Will my grandchildren never grow up?”

“You have a boat now, and fishing yourself is better than us making money as boatmen.”

“How can it be so stable to rely on the weather for food? Your two sons have separated, so why should you worry about where your grandchildren live? Just worry about your sons, and you can live in your own place.”

What else can Second Uncle Ye say after his words were blocked by Father Ye?

Uncle Ye was not giving up. He said to the old lady who pretended to be deaf and dumb: “Mom, then we can pay to rent this boat from the third brother. There are 30 days in a month. My second brother and I can rent it for 10 days each. Do you think it’s okay?”

“I’m deaf. You can discuss it with your third brother!”

Uncle Ye was speechless!
Ye Yaodong smiled and put his arm around the old lady’s shoulders and said: “My grandma is old. Don’t make her upset. It’s impossible to rent a boat. If it is damaged, who will be responsible? Although it is an old boat, it is also our family’s treasure. Don’t think about it. We have just sailed out to sea once.”

Hearing what he said, the second brother Ye was suddenly full of imagination and backed off.

Yes, these are old boats. Who knows if they can be used after being repaired? If it breaks down near the dock, it can be brought back. At worst, it can be swam back. If it breaks down when sailing out to sea…

His hair stood up just thinking about it.

He pulled Uncle Ye who was about to speak, “Forget it, don’t rent a boat. We can think of other ways to solve the family’s difficulties.”

“We are not outsiders, we will definitely take good care of it.”

“No, this boat is old, who knows if it will break down again after it is repaired. It’s okay on the shore, just in case…”

Seeing that Uncle Ye didn’t listen to his advice, Uncle Ye said his association implicitly, but he didn’t expect Uncle Ye to be so brainless and yelled.

“What if it breaks down when it goes out, then we can’t come back…”

“Bah, bah, bah, you crow mouth, you are cursing me, we are brothers after all, why do you want to offend me like this!” Father Ye was so angry when he heard what they said that he jumped up and wanted to throw the tobacco pot at them.

Ye’s mother was also angry and said, “Bah, we are brothers after all. You can’t borrow money, so why curse our family so viciously?”

Ye Yaopeng was also furious. He didn’t call them uncles anymore. He pointed at them and asked, “How have we done anything wrong to you? You don’t want us to be well, and you curse us…”

“No, I didn’t… I didn’t mean that…” Uncle Ye also came to his senses and said something quickly. He slapped himself twice and tried to explain.

Uncle Ye also hurriedly explained, “We didn’t mean that. We are all family, how could we curse you…”

Ye Yaodong’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He had just fallen into the sea, and the two people cursed their family again, “Pooh, pooh, the bad ones don’t work, but the good ones do. Our family will definitely be smooth sailing and make a fortune! You two, get out of here quickly. You are not welcome here. If you don’t leave, I will take a broom and drive you out. Don’t blame me for the ugly situation later!”

“No, we really didn’t mean that…”

The daughters-in-law in the family were also very annoyed, and they also said angrily one after another.

“Can’t you see that our family is doing well? If we don’t lend you money or rent your boat, you will curse us?”

“We are all family members, how can you be so vicious and mean!”

“How have we done anything wrong to you? If you curse our family like this, you must not lose your conscience…”

Uncle Ye and Uncle Ye were like a hornet’s nest. They were surrounded and questioned by a group of people. They had no way to defend themselves. They could only keep apologizing.

“Okay! You are old, how can you still be so brainless? We are people living by the sea. Can you say such unlucky words? They are brothers!” The old lady slammed the table and stared at the two brothers with a serious face.

Then she muttered two more sentences, “Buddha bless… Mazu bless… Don’t blame me…”

The old man believed in evil the most. How could he allow his family members to say such unlucky words, and they were talking about his brothers.

Uncle Ye and Uncle Ye were also panicked, “Mom, we didn’t think so. How could we curse the third brother? We are brothers. Even if there is a big conflict, we can’t curse him like this. We just talked about it. We really didn’t think so.”

“I know you are stupid and have too many little thoughts, but people should not be too greedy and calculating. Only by being kind will you be blessed. You should go back and don’t think about things that don’t belong to you.”

“Hey!”

Uncle Ye and Uncle Ye left as if they had been pardoned. They didn’t dare to stay any longer.

(End)