During dinner, Ye Beiping talked about going to Hangzhou.
Ye Xiaoxin and Tao Qiuyan stared wide-eyed at Ye Beiping and Su Xinyi across from them.
"You..." Ye Xiaoxin stammered, not knowing what to say. She stared at Ye Beiping with her big eyes and muttered, "Pingba Village can't even accommodate you anymore, and you still want to run to the city."
Upon hearing this, Su Xinyi pursed her lips and lowered her head, not daring to utter a sound.
I thought she was the one who made Ye Beiping do it.
Tao Qiuyan reacted quite strongly, frowning as she asked, "Have you thought about what you're going to do in Hangzhou? You'll need money for everything there, where are you going to get so much money?"
This is the issue that a mother cares about most.
A mother worries when her son travels a thousand miles.
When you're out and about, you have to spend money everywhere.
Ye Beiping felt a warmth in his heart. He took Su Xinyi's restless little hand under the table, gave her a comforting look, and explained, "Xinyi is pregnant now, so going to a big hospital is definitely the best option..."
Before Ye Beiping could finish speaking, Ye Xiaoxin muttered, "It's just having a baby, why do we have to go to a big hospital in Hangzhou? Why is it so..."
"Xiao Xin," Tao Qiuyan scolded upon hearing this.
Looking at Su Xinyi's belly, she sighed, "You really should go to a big hospital, but have you thought about the future?"
Ye Beiping wanted to go to Hangzhou, and Tao Qiuyan knew perfectly well that it was because of Su Xinyi.
Which child wouldn't want to go home to their parents' home in Hangzhou?
But Hangzhou is so far from Pingba Village, it takes three or four hours by car.
Tao Qiuyan was somewhat worried about Ye Beiping's personality if something really happened.
Although they did earn money and take care of others during this period, big cities are still big cities, and it is a fact that people from the countryside are easily looked down upon when they go to big cities.
Ye Beiping smiled and comforted Tao Qiuyan, grinning, "Mom, don't worry. Once I'm settled in Hangzhou, I'll bring you and my sister to Hangzhou. We'll live in a big city and never have to go back to Pingba Village again."
"No way." Tao Qiuyan refused outright, frowning as she said, "Your father is still here, your roots are here. If you don't come back, are you planning to fly to the sky?"
When it comes to such matters of principle, Tao Qiuyan is unyielding.
Ye Xiaoxin also longs for big cities; who wouldn't want to live in a big city?
However, after hearing Tao Qiuyan's words, she reasoned over emotion and pouted, "That's right, even if I go... I'll still come back a few times every year."
Upon hearing this, Ye Beiping suddenly smiled.
There's something... funny about my older sister.
“Okay, I’ll come back a few times every year.” Ye Beiping nodded and continued to explain to Tao Qiuyan, “Mom, don’t worry, Pingba Village is our root, I will never forget it.”
And so, the matter of Ye Beiping and Su Xinyi going to the city was settled.
Tao Qiuyan knew that no matter what she said, Ye Beiping would definitely go to Hangzhou, so she could only agree and keep her worries to herself.
After dinner, Ye Beiping accompanied Su Xinyi for a stroll along the country lanes before going to find Wu Di and Hou Baolin.
Before leaving, he also asked Su Xinyi for two hundred yuan.
The two of them put in a lot of effort for the beer festival, and the Jiangshan Brewery certainly couldn't pay for it; they had to take the money from their own commissions.
When Ye Beiping called the two men out, he handed them the money and said, "Fatty, Monkey, I'm planning to go to Hangzhou in a few days."
"What?" Wu Di and Hou Baolin were shocked. The joy of holding the money vanished instantly, replaced by expressions of confusion and doubt.
Wu Di asked with a bitter face, "Beiping, you're going to Hangzhou? What about us? Have the Three Musketeers broken up?"
The current rule is that people with rural household registration cannot move to the city.
Neither Wu Di nor Hou Baolin were allowed to enter the city.
Hou Baolin then asked, "You can come and go in Beiping, but what about Su Xinyi?"
“Yeah, you married Su Xinyi and then went to Hangzhou. Aren’t you afraid that the old bachelors in the village will have designs on you?” Wu Di chimed in.
Su Xinyi has a rural household registration, so how can she move to the city?
Both of them knew that Ye Beiping had a pass and didn't need to report where he went, but Su Xinyi didn't.
Ye Beiping explained with a smile, "Xinyi is also going to Hangzhou. I will go to the commune to get her a certificate to return to the city. The reason will be any reason, such as returning to the city to take care of her pregnancy or returning to her parents' home. Originally, Xinyi was from Hangzhou, and her family was also in Hangzhou."
Wu Di and Hou Baolin understood and nodded.
However, the two of them felt uneasy holding the money, mostly because they were reluctant to part with it.
The bond they'd built since childhood was hard to accept; Ye Beiping was about to leave Pingba Village, and he felt somewhat uneasy.
Seeing the two of them looking sad, Ye Beiping smiled and patted them on the shoulder, saying, "Listen to me, I'm going to Hangzhou to make money, it's not like I'm never coming back. Even if I stay in Hangzhou from now on, once I've made some money, I'll take you two with me, don't worry."
"Mmm." The two of them pursed their lips and nodded firmly upon hearing this.
The three men embraced each other like brothers.
Ye Beiping continued, "You should work hard to earn money while you're in Pingba Village. Maybe I'll come back for the New Year."
"Uh-huh."
"Oh, right, I've prepared something for you." With that, Ye Beiping took out two pieces of paper from his pocket and handed them to the two men, saying, "There are a few ways to make money on these. You can give them a try. If they work out, you can bring along the young people in the village and get rich together."
"Pingba Village is too poor, and I hope I can help you. It would be best to form a collective, which would be legal in terms of procedures."
In this era, it is illegal for individuals to do business privately. However, if people from a village or commune gather together to do something, it is still within the bounds of the law.
It is called: collective household.
After discussing this matter, the three of them found a place to drink.
Wu Di and Hou Baolin kept asking Ye Beiping about Hangzhou, seemingly longing for it.
However, they are all registered residents of rural areas, so it would be difficult for them to go to Hangzhou, or even to the county seat.
Ye Beiping answered their questions one by one, but his explanations were somewhat embellished. He himself didn't know what Hangzhou was like in 1978, but he knew about Hangzhou in the 1990s.
Because in his previous life, he came to Hangzhou in the 1990s.
He introduced the two people to Hangzhou as he knew it in the mid-1990s.
I don't know if he drank too much, but he also talked about future skyscrapers and high-rise buildings.
Wu Di and Hou Baolin looked incredulous, saying that Ye Beiping was bragging.
And so, the three of them got drunk in the fields and, instead of going home, slept until dawn.
This was a common practice, and my family was used to it.
If you can't find them late at night, just wander around the fields near the village, and you'll naturally find the three drunkards.
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