Chapter 385: I owe you money and I don’t want to find a daughter-in-law
Thinking of this, the contractor Li Dayun's dark old face darkened, and a look of sadness and helplessness flashed across his eyes. He opened the corners of his lips that were peeled by the cold wind and said:
"I am under pressure too. My subordinates are always asking me for money. Please be kind and have mercy on my brothers who are doing hard labor. It is not easy to do this job these days."
When Wang Lan heard this, she became dissatisfied:
"How can you be pitiful? Hongmei Village is such a big project, you must have given a lot of gifts to the higher-ups to get it. What's wrong with my family waiting to pay after the house is built? I don't believe that my family is the only one who is delaying. Why don't you go to other people's houses to ask for it? You come to my house every day like you are eating."
Li Dayun was stunned for a moment, his old face turned red, and his eyes were red with embarrassment. The target was given by the superiors, and if it was not completed as expected, he would be punished. However, he had never expected that so many households in Hongmei Village liked to cheat.
At this moment, the sound of a tractor was heard outside the door. Ye Xiaomei jumped down from the back compartment of the tractor and gave Liang Hui a bag of laundry detergent as a thank you gift.
As soon as she entered the door, Ye Xiaomei saw Wang Lan and an unfamiliar uncle sitting in the new tenant's living room.
His skin was dark and rough, and his lips were cracked and chapped. He showed no expression when he saw the visitor, but just pretended to be calm and lit a cigarette.
Wang Lan's pupils shrank, and she quickly came forward with a smile, taking the two large bags in Ye Xiaomei's hands and the backpack on her shoulders:
"Why didn't you call before you came? Oh, don't bother the kids. They just ate and went to bed."
Ye Xiaomei didn't know who the visitor was, and her first thought was naturally to see the child, so she was about to push open the door.
Wang Lan stood aside and said, "Speak softly and just watch from a distance. Children love to make noises and it's hard to comfort them if they wake up."
Ye Xiaomei stood at the door, looking at the two identical little creatures sleeping soundly on the bed, with their two little fists clenched on either side of their ears. They looked so well-behaved that Ye Xiaomei's heart melted for a moment.
Upon seeing this, Ye Xiaomei was stunned. After not seeing the child for several months, the child seemed to have changed. His eyebrows and hair had grown longer. He looked more and more like a mini version of Ma Qijun, especially his sword-like eyebrows.
The nose bridge is no longer as thin and round as when he was just born. Now it is high and straight, and his little face has opened up without any wrinkles.
"If you want money, ask her." Wang Lan looked at Ye Xiaomei warily and whispered to Li Dayun in a low voice.
Ye Xiaomei's whole attention was on the two children, so she didn't hear anything at all.
"Mom, I bought two cans of good milk powder and three buckets of rice noodles in the bag." Ye Xiaomei said, quietly closing the door. When she turned around, she was greeted by Wang Lan's smiling face and the strange look of the strange uncle.
This made Ye Xiaomei very confused. Why did this strange uncle look at her with such suspicion when they first met?
Wang Lan squatted on the ground and rummaged through the cloth bag. Sure enough, she took out a can of milk powder and several bags of laundry detergent. Wang Lan's eyes suddenly lit up:
"Yeah, I saw your Aunt Wu using this a few days ago. She washed clothes very cleanly. She said her son brought it back from working outside."
As he spoke, he took out all of them. Ye Xiaomei was just about to step forward, as she planned to leave two bags for her mother.
"Who is this?" the uncle finally spoke.
Wang Lan said without hesitation: "My daughter-in-law has my son's passbook, and she is in charge of all the money."
I thought to myself that she was telling the truth and she wasn't lying.
Ye Xiaomei didn't understand what was going on yet, so she nodded, "Oh, I am." What's wrong? She looked at the uncle suspiciously.
As soon as he said this, the old man stood up and knelt down unexpectedly, which scared Ye Xiaomei so much that she took two steps back.
He kowtowed and said, "It's not easy to work on the construction site. The New Year is coming soon. If we don't get paid, we won't be able to go back home. Can you please be kind and pay the wages for your homestead first?"
Ye Xiaomei gulped and glanced at Wang Lan, who was checking the milk powder and rice noodles she had bought as if nothing had happened and continued to tidy up her bag.
But now, how could she bear to have an elder kneel like this?
"Uncle, please get up first." Ye Xiaomei reached out to pull him up, and it was obvious that he was determined not to get up until she said something.
Ye Xiaomei didn't know what her mother-in-law was going to do when she got home, but the elders had to pull her up. Unexpectedly, when she exerted force, she pulled up such a burly man like Li Dayun.
Li Dayun grinned and shook his wrist, looking at the girl in surprise. Although she was young, she had such strong hands that she almost dislocated his wrist.
"We can talk it out. You're so sudden. Aren't you going to shorten my life?" Ye Xiaomei could see that he was hurt by her pulling. His face was almost twisted into a knot. He felt a little embarrassed.
"Xiao Mei, I'll take these to the room first. I'll look after the baby at night, so you don't have to worry about getting up at night."
Wang Lan happily went into the house with a few cans of milk powder in her arms and closed the door quickly, as if she was hiding from a thief.
As soon as I sat down, I thought to myself, I'll see if you don't return all the money you took from my son.
Ye Xiaomei was helpless. She had just arrived home and hadn't even had a sip of hot tea. She could only sit down and ask tentatively:
"Uncle, what's going on?"
Li Dayun told him everything. The Ma family found someone to buy the stones and cement themselves, and they did not owe a penny. The reason was simple: the other party would not deliver the goods without money.
But the workers were not paid. Li Dayun got jealous when he heard about this:
"It's hard for me too. Last month, a brother who just got married had a baby and he just couldn't get the money. He went to his superiors and they said that the villagers owed him money. I went to several families but couldn't get the money. So I had to pay this brother out of my own pocket so that he could go home to see his wife.
With this precedent, other brothers made excuses, saying that their mothers were seriously ill or their wives were ill. I later found out that everyone knew that it was difficult to settle the wages for the work in Hongmei Village. After leaving, they never came back. If this continues, the estimated completion date of the contract I signed will not be achieved at all. Not to mention making money, I will have to pay money. "
Ye Xiaomei's pupils shrank. Not to mention the uncle for now, anyone with a discerning eye could see through the trick Wang Lan was playing.
However, Ye Xiaomei did not have the confidence to reason with Wang Lan. After all, Ma Qijun's passbook was in her hands.
"Uncle, don't be anxious. First calculate how much money our family owes. If it's more, I'll go get it tomorrow. If it's just enough, I have money on me."
Ye Xiaomei said sincerely that it was indeed difficult to work on a construction site.
As for why Liang Zhenghuai was so successful in the city, it was because his father-in-law worked in the development planning department of a government agency, so he could easily be assigned some engineering jobs.
It is difficult for those honest people in the countryside who have no background to take this path.
When Li Dayun heard this, he thought it was indeed a good idea. After all, this girl was wearing a space suit and it was obvious that she was from the city and had seen the world. He had long wanted to buy one for his daughter.
He casually took out a notebook from his dirty cotton padded jacket. The cover of the notebook was already covered with pulp.
After opening it, there were crooked handwriting inside.
Ye Xiaomei quickly handed the electronic calculator to him to use, so that he would not make mistakes.
"The total is..." Li Dayun repeated: "The total is eight hundred and thirty-five."
Ye Xiaomei was stunned.
Li Dayun became anxious when he saw this scene and explained with gestures and excitement.
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