Fu Wan didn't specify when she would repay the money.
Ye Jun hesitated for a long time before finally borrowing two hundred yuan from Fu Wan.
Two hundred yuan is actually a huge sum of money for Ye Jun.
After all, at that time, chicks only cost five cents each.
The hens that are laying eggs now were bought by him at the market last month. They were chicks that Li Chunhua had hatched for him, and they had just finished molting.
I estimate that they'll be ready for market around the Lunar New Year.
He had already planned it out: the chickens would be divided into two batches, one batch specifically for selling eggs, and the other batch for selling broiler chickens.
Listening to Ye Jun's eloquent plan, Fu Wan became even more convinced that he would succeed.
The three of them talked as they walked, and when they got home, it was just about time for the meal to begin.
Li Chunhua arranged for Fu Ming and Fu Wan to sit down, and upon seeing this, Ye Jianguo quickly notified the kitchen that they could bring out the dishes on trays.
Ye Lin ran into the house and brought out a long bundle of red firecrackers.
As soon as the match was struck, a crackling sound rang out.
The children weren't scared by the noise; they just held crab legs in their hands and ate them while shaking their heads.
"You know what, this crab really tastes good!"
Uncle Ye tasted a piece of crab and took a sip of wine, then squinted his eyes and praised it.
Ye Xiaocui felt proud when the crab was praised, and Ye Jianguo was even more proud.
"There are plenty of these crabs where my sister lives, but there are also many people catching them everywhere. If it weren't for my clever nephew and niece, and my sister and brother-in-law being hardworking, we wouldn't be able to enjoy this delicious treat today!"
That made sense, so Uncle Ye immediately picked up his bowl and wanted to clink glasses with Boss Fu.
In such an occasion, not drinking was not an option, but Fu Ming was a clever fellow who managed to avoid sitting at the same table as Fu Wanye and Xiao Cui.
Not long after lunch, Ye Xiaocui began planning her return.
Seeing that there were fewer people in the yard, Fu Wan pulled Ye Lin and Chen Guifang into the house.
"Wan, what's wrong?"
Chen Guifang wiped the water off her hands on her apron and asked with some confusion.
Fu Wan smiled mysteriously, then turned and took out a wad of banknotes from the cloth bag she had brought.
"Here's your salary and bonus for the past two months at sea, Brother Lin, please take it."
After saying that, she teased, "The factory will pay your wages later, but I thought you should also know about paying Brother Lin's wages, so I dragged you all along."
Ye Lin took the stack of banknotes, flipped through them, and his hands began to tremble.
"Ah Wan, this...this is all ten-yuan bills?"
He had initially thought that Fu Wan had placed large bills on both sides for aesthetic purposes, with some small denominations in the middle. If it totaled a couple hundred yuan, that would be a very good arrangement.
After all, I only helped out for two months.
But when he flipped through it, he found it was full of ten-yuan notes; he couldn't find a single note smaller than ten yuan.
"Ah Wan, this is too much money. How much did you give us?"
Fu Wan waved her hand and said, "It's not much, here's a thousand yuan."
"What?! A thousand yuan?!"
Chen Guifang's voice suddenly rose, but then she immediately realized something was wrong and quickly covered her mouth.
But the commotion had already attracted Li Chunhua, who was sweeping the floor outside.
She walked to the door and asked, "Guifang, Awan, what's wrong?"
Fu Wan shook her head, "Auntie, it's alright!"
But Li Chunhua wasn't so easily fooled; she immediately came over without even putting down her broom.
Upon seeing the stack of ten-yuan notes in Ye Lin's hand, Li Chunhua's expression changed drastically.
Where did all this money come from?
As if she had found a savior, Chen Guifang whispered to her mother-in-law.
"Mother, this is the salary that Awan gave to Brother Alin for the past two months. This is too much. Mother, please persuade Awan."
"What, salary?"
Li Chunhua was also shocked. She was the one who managed the money in the Ye family. Just by glancing at the stack of banknotes, she knew that there were at least five or six hundred in there.
It's no exaggeration to say that the Ye family probably wouldn't even have two hundred yuan if they emptied all their savings.
"Ah Wan, why did you bring so much money? Take it back right now!"
Li Chunhua's face immediately fell. She snatched the money from Ye Lin's hand and turned to stuff it into Fu Wan's arms.
Fu Wan was both amused and exasperated. "Auntie, this is really Brother Lin's salary and bonus for going to sea."
As you all know, we've made quite a bit of money from our fishing trips these past two months. After deducting our family's costs and our own earnings, we're still able to share some of that money.
Li Chunhua still had some doubts upon hearing this, "Can you really get so much? You're not really paying out of your own pocket?"
Fu Wan nodded, "Pretty much. Not to mention, the yellowfin tuna that Zhenxing caught before sold for quite a bit of money."
"Anyway, you guys keep this money. It's not just Brother Lin, Brother Liang gets the same amount too."
Hearing that Fu Liang's family also had some, Ye Lin finally felt relieved. The corners of his mouth turned up even higher.
“This…so much money, Awan, thank you so much.”
"No need to thank me. You must have borrowed a lot of money to build your house. Hurry up and pay it back."
Not only did they borrow money to buy the house, but they also haven't bought the furniture and appliances for the new house yet.
Ye Lin and his wife originally planned to wait until they had paid off the mortgage and had more money before buying furniture, but they never expected Fu Wan to bring such a large sum of money today.
"Ah Wan, thank you so much."
Chen Guifang said sincerely that this sentence not only referred to her current salary, but also to the help Fu Wan had given to her family.
Fu Wan shook her head. "You all deserve this. I'll say it again: work hard, and you'll earn far more than this in the future."
Instead of offering words of comfort, give a large sum of money.
She understands this principle.
Chen Guifang nodded and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.
She cried tears of joy.
Li Chunhua knew about the help Fu Wan and her family had given her, and when Ye Jun told her about Fu Wan lending him money, she felt even more grateful.
Gratitude wasn't just lip service; while Fu Wan turned around to look for her child, Li Chunhua instructed her two sons to load the recently dried mountain produce into the tricycle.
It was only when Ye Xiaocui and Fu Ming pulled the tricycle together that Fu Wan and the others found a place to sit.
"It's almost time, we should head back."
It was still quite difficult for the tricycle to squeeze onto the road, so Fu Wan had no choice but to ride the motorcycle that Ye Lin had ridden back to Qingshan Village to go home.
The two children sat in the tricycle with Ye Xiaocui. Before setting off, Ye Lin asked Fu Wan, "Wan, are we going out to sea these next few days?"
Fu Wan thought for a moment and said, "I'll go back and take a look. Brother Lin, you go ahead and do your work. You can go back to Fu Family Village when you're done."
Ye Lin was relieved to hear this, and then turned to Chen Guifang to discuss visiting her father-in-law's family when he took Chen Guifang to work at the cannery the next day.
The Fu family returned to Fu Family Village under the setting sun. As soon as they opened the door, the old village chief, Fu, arrived.
"Awan, we've received word that you can go to the Fisheries Administration Bureau tomorrow to complete the procedures for contracting the sea area!"
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