Seeing how delighted she looked, Ye Yaodong broke into a cold sweat for her. He had no idea what would happen to her once his Eldest Cousin came back...
With all the neighbors there, surely she would not get beaten too badly?
He just wondered how much longer his cousin's "business empire" could last.
She had brought this on herself. It had nothing to do with him. He never went out of his way to cut off someone else's income.
The crowd dispersed as quickly as it had gathered.
A throng surrounded the officials and village cadres, following Eldest Cousin's Wife to her house amid cheerful chatter.
The space outside his house emptied at once, returning to its former quiet.
His eldest and second brothers and their wives were all rather confused. They had only caught the gist and only half understood it, so as soon as everyone left, they hurried to question him.
"What happened, Dongzi? How come they said you were a Ten-Thousand-Yuan Household, then suddenly you weren't? Did they really make a mistake?"
"No wonder Secretary Chen kept coming over these past few days..."
"How could they get it wrong? Something as important as a Ten-Thousand-Yuan Household, and they actually got the name wrong?"
"I couldn't make heads or tails of it. What exactly happened...?"
Ye Chenghu also tilted his head at him. "Dad, what's a Ten-Thousand-Yuan Household? Why did so many people come to our house?"
Ye Yaodong glanced down at his eldest son, then looked at the four curious adults. "The county issued instructions to report Ten-Thousand-Yuan Households, and the village got the name wrong. They were supposed to report Eldest Cousin, but that bunch of muddleheaded old fools wrote the wrong name and made a mess of it. Ah, I wanted to be a