Leisurely Cultivation Time

Chapter 233 Storytelling

"Is this investment a normal thing? They didn't pay, Ye Fei can invest wherever he wants, what does it have to do with them?" Ye Hong asked puzzled.

Ye Rongtian also said helplessly: "That's right, but they feel that Ye Fei is sorry for them if he doesn't invest in the village."

"It's true in your village. Rongtian has done so much for them. It's okay for them to be ungrateful. Instead, they feel that you owe them something. They are really greedy."

"Yeah, there were too many gossips back then, so I moved to Fucheng, but I didn't expect that some people would be even more rude when I came back this time." Ye Jinglu also said a little angrily.

"Oh, I really don't know what to say about your village. Forget it, don't talk about it, the more you talk about it, the worse it gets." Ye Hong waved his hand and said.

Afterwards, the two chatted about the daily routine, and uncle Tang Bai and Chen Bizhu also interjected a few words from time to time.

The four of them chatted for a while, and everyone drank a lot of tea. Ye Rongtian looked at his parents and aunt, and his uncle was chatting enthusiastically. Let's go to the houses of the two cousins ​​first."

Ye Jinglu glanced at Ye Rongtian, nodded and said, "Alright, I'll sit here for a while, you go first."

Then Ye Rongtian asked Ye Fei and Ye Xue again: "Do you two want to play here, or go with me?"

"Let's go together." Ye Fei replied without hesitation.

Didn't you see that grandpa and aunt have talked until the grandchildren have passed?My aunt's grandsons are all married and have children, and now there are four generations living under the same roof.

Don't think about it, you will definitely talk about yourself later, and then you will have to be nagged, so don't think about it, run now if you have a chance.

Naturally, Ye Xue also nodded. Her thoughts were similar to Ye Fei's. It's better to follow her parents, and she can get away with acting like a baby by herself. Grandpa and aunt are different, and she is too embarrassed to act like a baby to them.

After saying hello, Ye Rongtian took Wu Xueyan to the outside, and Ye Fei and Ye Xue followed quickly.

After taking things from the trunk, the family walked on the road unhurriedly.

They didn't drive, and it wasn't that far away. It felt like showing off by driving there, and it made others think too much, so they decided to go.

Anyway, I'm not in a hurry, just walk slowly when I have time, and it's not bad to see the surrounding scenery.

There are rice fields on both sides of the road. The rice has been planted, and some small fish and some small frogs can be seen in the past.

Ye Fei said: "Now that the rice has been planted, there must be loaches in the field at night. If you have time, go buy a pair of loach pliers and grab loaches at night."

"Pick the loach, I want to play too." Ye Xue also said with interest when she heard the pinch the loach: "Why don't we go to the town and buy two when we go home later."

Wu Xueyan heard the two children say that they wanted to pick up loach, so she lightly supported Ye Rongtian with her arm, "What is pickling loach?"

"What they said about pinching loach is that at night, the loach in the field will come out of the soil, and we can use pliers to pinch it." Ye Rongtian explained.

"Is it fun? You seem very happy to see Ye Xue." Wu Xueyan also said with interest.

"I haven't caught this either, you can go with the children at night."

"You haven't pinched it? Why?" Wu Xueyan asked strangely, the child has been pinched, why didn't her husband pinch it.

"When I was young, my parents watched me and didn't let me play around, so they let me concentrate on reading and read more when I had nothing to do."

Ye Rongtian paused for a moment, and then continued: "There is no other way. In the past, the only way for rural children to get out of the countryside was to study."

"That's it, you're such a nerd. No wonder you used to feel that you are a rural person, and you don't know much about some rural customs and customs." Wu Xueyan said with a smile.

"No way." Ye Rongtian shrugged and said, "At the beginning, my parents didn't let me care about this. They only asked me to study hard so that I would be successful in the future. Now I have lived up to his expectations."

Wu Xueyan smiled at him, then turned to Ye Fei and Ye Xue and said, "I'll buy another pair of pliers later, I want to play with it too."

"You want to play too, Mom, can you catch loach?" Ye Fei asked suspiciously.

"No, I can learn." After finishing speaking, he gave Ye Fei a look and said, "If you tell you to buy one more, buy one more. There is so much nonsense."

"Okay, okay, I'll buy another one later." Seeing his mother's unfriendly eyes, Ye Fei quickly said yes three times, Wu Xueyan looked like you were smart.

It didn't take long for the four of them to walk to the edge of a wooden bridge, and their destination was just across the bridge and up the slope.

There is also a pavilion in the middle of the bridge, and a shrine in the middle of the pavilion, which houses a hunter-like figure.

Seeing the shrine, Wu Xueyan asked Ye Rongtian curiously: "What kind of god is this? How could he be enshrined on the bridge?"

Ye Fei and Ye Xue also looked at Ye Rongtian curiously.

"Well, I heard other people tell his story when I was a child." Ye Rongtian straightened his thoughts and said: "In the past, the river under the bridge was very, very big, and there lived a clan on each side, and the two clans lived on one side. They hunt for a living and they grow for a living.”

"One day, a young hunter came to fetch water from the river, and happened to meet a young woman on the opposite side who also came to fetch water."

"The man immediately fell in love with the woman when he saw her. It's a pity that the river is not only wide, but the current is very fast. Even people with good water skills dare not go down the river at will."

"But since the image of the woman entered the man's mind, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get rid of it. Since then, the man has come here at the right time every day, just to see the woman."

"One day, the man plucked up the courage to say hello to the other party loudly. Unexpectedly, the woman took a look at him and ran away shyly. Seeing the behavior of a woman, the man is also delusional."

"Until the next day, he saw the woman again at the same time and at the same place, and the woman smiled at him."

"Seeing the woman's smile, the man was very happy, but he immediately began to worry again, because he couldn't reach the other side, he could only look at the woman's smile from a distance, but he couldn't get close to the person he loved."

"In the end he made a big decision. He wants to build a bridge. Even if it takes his whole life, he will build the bridge and cross the river to meet the other party."

"That's it. From the second day on, he stopped coming to the river, but went up the mountain to prepare wood and stones."

"When the materials were ready, he began to try to build the piers. The stone was washed away by the rushing river two or three meters as soon as it was thrown into the water."

"Throwing stones down directly, they were always washed away. After much deliberation, he finally decided to go down to the river and build them up bit by bit with his hands."

"The next day he took a hemp rope and tied it around his waist, and then he went into the water with stones, resisting the impact of the river, and built up the bridge piers bit by bit."

(End of this chapter)