Feng Ye walked ahead alone, following the route he remembered to get home.
Decades have passed, and I had almost forgotten what the fishing village used to look like. But now, walking on this road, my memories are being awakened little by little.
The road was a muddy road, full of potholes, and you could easily slip and fall.
Weeds grew rampant on both sides of the road, and houses were scattered around without any pattern, one on the east and one on the west.
Most of the houses are single-story stone houses, while some are two-story red brick houses built in recent years.
In the past, when people were poor, they would use local materials to build houses, hiring stonemasons to carve stones. In recent years, things have gotten a little better. Some people have made money and don't want to work too hard anymore, so they just buy red bricks and cement.
In another ten or twenty years, most of the stone houses will be demolished, and every household will rebuild with red brick houses.
Even if some remain, you can't tell from the outside that they were built with stones. The exterior walls are plastered with lime putty, or sprayed with paint, or tiled.
Later generations also liked to build houses low, as long as the waves couldn't reach them, the lower the better, which was euphemistically called sea view houses.
But nowadays houses are being built higher and higher, because people say that houses built too low are damp and bad for your health.
Feng Ye's house is located halfway up the mountain. It's not far as the crow flies, but the road is winding and takes some time to navigate.
He currently lives with his parents, while his older brother, Feng Xuan, has already separated from the family.
Although they were said to be separating the family, they actually ate separately but lived together. They shared the main room, but two rooms on one side were given to Feng Xuan's family, and Feng Xuan built a kitchen on the other side.
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When they arrived home, Xiao Chunxiu took out her key and opened the door to the main room.
Ah Can, Xiao Guowen, and Xiao Guowu, as if they were old friends, found stools and sat down, staring longingly at Feng Ye.
Feng Yeye didn't keep them waiting any longer and said directly, "After deducting the referral fee for Uncle Fa, there's still a few yuan left. There are four of us in total, so each of us can get ten thousand..."
He overestimated his mental arithmetic abilities.
"Nonsense, let's just split it."
Feng Ye put all the money on the table and then distributed it to each person one bill at a time.
Xiao Guowen carefully folded the money bills one by one, muttering to himself, "100, 200, 300... 1000... 5700, 5800."
When he counted to 5800, he pushed the remaining money in front of Feng Ye and waved the money in his hand: "5800 is enough, the rest is yours."
Xiao Guowu and A-Can both looked at Xiao Guowen with some doubt.
Feng Ye smiled slightly: "If the four of us split it equally, each person can get more than 10,000 yuan. Are you sure you only want 5,800 yuan?"
Xiao Guowen nodded: "The boat is yours, the net is yours, and you found the yellow croaker, so of course you should take the lion's share. We can each take ten points. Besides, I already got more than ten yuan extra."
"No regrets? Over ten thousand! You'd have to work as a porter at the dock for ten years to earn that much."
"Don't tempt me, I'm afraid I won't be able to resist."
Xiao Guowen gave a wry smile.
It's impossible not to want it.
With over ten thousand, you'd instantly become a ten-thousand-yuan household.
Although a household with 10,000 yuan is no longer worth much, it still puts one ahead of 99% of the population in the country.
"As long as you don't regret it."
Feng Ye nodded, put the money that he pushed over into his own pile, and then looked at Xiao Guowu and A-Can.
Ah-chan is recounting the money that he just neatly stacked.
Xiao Guowu looked at the money in his hand with reluctance, then at Feng Ye and Xiao Guowen, and finally gritted his teeth, spitting out some saliva as he counted it.
Feng Ye smiled with satisfaction.
These three brothers are destined to be friends for life.
To be honest, he also had reservations about splitting the money equally.
As Xiao Guowen just said, the boat and net belong to him, and he was the first to discover the large yellow croaker, so why should the money be split equally?
Is it just because they put in some effort?
But he can't bring this up; we can only rely on their own initiative.
He also used the money to test the three of them's thoughts and see if they could still be brothers and friends in this life.
If they can't resist the temptation and accept the money, he will give it to them, considering it compensation for their past life.
We'll never be brothers or friends again in this lifetime; at best, we'll just be nodding acquaintances.
If they can resist the temptation and only take a portion, they will remain brothers for life, and he will be willing to take them along when there is an opportunity to make money in the future.
After all, he had been reborn and had gained decades of experience.
Making money isn't exactly easy, but it's not that difficult either.
A little while later, Ah-Can and Xiao Guowen finished counting, and each of them kept only 5,800 yuan. Then they put the extra money in front of Feng Ye.
"Ah Ye, from now on when you take us out to sea, whenever we encounter a school of fish, we'll distribute them this way."
Xiao Guowen happily folded the stack of money in half and stuffed it into his pocket.
Ah-Can and Xiao Guowu nodded in agreement.
Feng Ye smiled and said, "Of course I have no objection to getting a larger share of the money."
Xiao Guowen stood up: "Alright, I'm going back to take a shower first. I smell like fish, it's awful. Come to my house for dinner later. I'll ask my wife to prepare a good meal, and we'll have a good drink together. Ah Can will come too."
"Brother Wen, you dare to order your wife around? Aren't you afraid she'll beat you up?"
Ah-chan laughed as he exposed Xiao Guowen's shortcomings.
“Yeah, Brother Wen, when are you going to get rid of this henpecked husband problem?” Feng Ye also laughed.
Xiao Guowen patted his pocket: "With this in hand, I don't believe I can't make her submit."
Rich men have a different kind of courage.
"Okay, I'll take a shower and change my clothes first."
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