That scholarship was considered a squandering after he had made a lot of money. His mother mentioned the matter of her children dropping out of school. He felt it was a pity, and he also wanted to earn fame and accumulate virtue.

But there is no need to regret this, it is a good thing after all.

If he continues to earn money next year, he will continue to donate it to Mazu.

Lin Xiuqing smiled and patted him, then glanced at the door again, fearing that others would see her, "Don't keep kissing outside."

"It's not outside, isn't it at home?"

"Outside the room is outside."

"What are you afraid of? It's not like you're being a hooligan."

Ye Yaodong put his arm on her shoulder and went into the room, "If the room is available, then let's go to the room..."

Lin Xiuqing was hugged by him and followed him into the house. "I've just finished my work. Let's go back to the house to do some math while the children are out."

"Well, let you experience what it means to count money until your hands cramp."

"With 80,000 yuan, it's really possible that my hands will get cramps from counting the money."

"Shh, keep your voice down."

"You just said it."

"That's why I told you to keep your voice down."

With such double standards, Lin Xiuqing glared at him, asked him to lock the door, and then rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find out all the money in the house.

Ye Yaodong watched her keep moving jars, and he went back and forth several times to pick them up. They were all jars of malted milk.

"How many pennies are there? How many jars are there?"

"Isn't that right? The change is basically given to me by my father. It has accumulated so much throughout the year. When A Cai and I settle accounts, we can't hold the jars of change and count them, right? They are all taken.

When we went to settle the bill together, there was so much change that I couldn’t even spend a few cents on in a day, but wasn’t it all left there?”

Ye Yaodong fainted.

"Then how long does it take to count? Is it a can for one cent, a can for two cents, a can for five cents, and another can for 10 or 20 cents?"

"Well, let's put this aside for now. Let's count the big ones first. Fortunately, you sent them back and I went to the bank to get them. They were all given to me. Otherwise, my hands would get cramped and I wouldn't be able to finish counting all night long.

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"Next time you take the time to take it to the bank to change it, and bring a can there every few days. There are so many two-cent ones, which take up too much space, and it's troublesome to count them."

"Okay, I'll take a look at it later."

Ye Yaodong originally put these jars of one minute, two points, and five points on the bed, intending to pour them out and count them. Later, when he saw that there were so many, he put them directly on the table. They took up too much space, and he had no desire to count them.

It's better to keep it for his wife to take to the bank and count slowly when she has nothing to do during the day.

His eyes lit up when Lin Xiuqing took out a large bag of money wrapped in newspapers.

"All the big money is here?"

"Yes, actually I have already counted the big unity pieces. For every one hundred big unity pieces, I tied them up with rubber bands. For those pieces that cost one, two, five, and every one hundred pieces, I also tied them up with rubber bands. It's just a dime.

I didn’t deliberately count the two-cent cents, I just sorted them into bundles. If I had to count them, it would actually be faster. It would be more troublesome to count the coins.”

"I won't count the coins anymore. You can take them back later. Just count them again when you take them to the bank to change them. The big ones are on these banknotes. Just count them."

There is no need to know too precisely, just have an idea of ​​how many there are.

Those rich people may not even know how much money they have.

"Alright."

Lin Xiuqing climbed onto the bed holding the large bag of money, and Ye Yaodong climbed up too.

The couple happily extended their paws to the big piles of unity first, and then they counted five pieces, two pieces each, from high to low.

Then there are the cents, which need to be counted slowly.

After waiting for half an hour, Lin Xiuqing twisted her neck and said, "Our previous estimate was correct. There are more than 78,200 coins here, and the more than thirty jars of coins only cost a few hundred yuan."

"That means it's not yet 80,000, but it's not much different."

"Well, it's all here."

"Put it away first so you know what to expect."

The two of them neatly coded the calculated money and wrapped it in newspapers.

"Originally, I wanted to ask you to nail a larger wooden box and then nail it to the cabinet in the next two days. It seems that it is not necessary now. Most of it will be done soon."

"Don't feel bad, I'll change it to a contract for you in a few days, so it's easier to store."

Lin Xiuqing gave him a blank look, "Fortunately, this is a new house and there are no mice."

"Speaking of the house, my second brother used to think about building an extra layer with bricks at the end of the year. Now that I have made money, I think I want to build it even more. I was worried that my eldest brother and sister-in-law would not agree, but now my eldest brother has also made a lot of money.

With the money, we should start construction before the end of the year.”

"Are you going to add a cover again?"

"It's not enough to live in. Didn't you see that except for the youngest of their children, the first two are already in their teens. It's not convenient for a boy and a girl to live in the same house. If we don't have the conditions, we can only make do with it. There's nothing to say. If there are conditions,

Then we definitely have to separate."

"Then we have to build the building together. After all, our three rooms are side by side."

"Well, of course we will build it together. But we are not in a hurry. We will just wait and see when they tell us."

This is what he promised his second brother before.

"Okay, everything we talked about tonight is money."

"What do you mean by spending money? This is investment to make money and improve your family's life."

"Only you can talk."

"I'm not mute, of course I can speak."

"Go, go, go out and see your precious daughter. She went to play with her two brothers and brought her back. She is still young and it is not good to stay outside when it gets dark."

There is a superstitious saying that you should not take children who are too young out after dark.

"I went out to look around and looked for the old lady. I haven't seen her come back for so long."

"I went out to show off and couldn't bear to come back."

He chuckled, kicked off his flip flops and walked out.

The old lady walked to her hometown and said she was tired, so she rested at the door.

Ye Xiaoxi's conspicuous bag was just found by Ye Yaodong on the roadside. Now he dragged the baby and ran to hold the old lady's hand to take her home.

"You two, one old and one young, have only ten teeth in total. You still don't know who is leading whom."

"Let's hold them together," the old lady said cheerfully, "it's better for us, Xiaojiu, to be filial."

Ye Xiaoxi became even more excited after hearing the compliment, and handed the doll to Ye Yaodong, using both hands.

It's so rare. In the past two days, she has been dragging the baby with her wherever she goes. She still holds it when she sleeps. It's so dirty that she can't bear to wash it.

The neighbors on the left and right also praised it.

Mother Ye also smiled and said: "Girls are better than some boys."

"I broke one of my sticks the day before yesterday. It was so annoying. No one was good. I ran to the beach to swim without paying attention."

"That's to fight..."

Ye Yaodong smiled and grabbed the baby's hair and followed an old man and a young man. The middle-aged men and women behind him began to talk about their various experiences of spanking children.

The villagers he met along the way all took the initiative to greet him with enthusiasm.

It was like this when he came, and it was like this when he went back. He was almost flattered.

Looking back on his previous reputation of idleness and comparing it with today's enthusiasm, this is the so-called thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. He has not even been thirty years yet, only less than three years.

As the old lady walked away, she said to Ye Xiaoxi: "Your father is very powerful now and has made a lot of money. You should study hard when you grow up. Our family is short of someone who can study."

Ye Xiaoxi was at a loss as to what it meant, but he nodded cooperatively, "I know!"

"It's okay. It doesn't matter if you can't study. If no one can study, your father can earn more money and go to some class in Qingbei to get a diploma."

As for what class, I'll ask him about it after he earns more money.

"Haha, you can't say that. You told her to study hard since she was a child, and she will remember it in her heart."

"Then why didn't you tell me to study hard when I was a kid?"

"It's no use knowing how to read it. The teacher doesn't know how many days he can teach the students."

"Uh...okay."

As Ye Xiaoxi walked, she looked up at this and that, listening to their conversation, and accidentally tripped over a stone. Fortunately, the old lady held her hand and kept her knees from touching the ground, otherwise the skin would be broken and blood would immediately appear.

Ye Yaodong also immediately hugged him up and refused to let her go.

The three of them returned home slowly.
To be continued...