Children had especially good memories, particularly when it came to something they had been promised but had yet to taste. They could go on about it for days and days.
After enduring Ye Chenghu's eight-times-a-day nagging for three days, Ye Yaodong finally could not stand it anymore and went to Town to buy them two bottles of Arctic Ocean soda.
One bottle cost fifteen cents; two cost thirty.
They actually sold it outside the neighboring village's primary school too, but with the New Year celebrations underway, the shops were all closed. He could only go to Town to buy it.
He regretted it now. He really could not make promises to children lightly. Once he did, they could pester him to death every single day, thinking of nothing but the soda he had promised to buy.
It was only because he was easygoing. If it had been his mother, would the boy have dared ask all day long?
"Don't throw the bottles away. You can get five cents back for each one."
Holding his opened soda, Ye Chenghu nodded like a woodpecker, beaming. "Then when we finish drinking them and you return the bottles, buy us another two while you're there."
"Getting addicted to ordering me around?"
"Hehe, hehe! Everyone's so jealous of me. They say you're so nice, buying us things to eat every day. When they go home and ask for soda, they all get asked if they want to drink pee."
"Fair enough. Same color!"
"Dad, I'm going out to play!"
Ye Chenghu could no longer wait to show everyone the soda he had just gotten. Now it was their turn to envy him.
Lin Xiuqing scolded from beside him, "You just keep spoiling them, giving them whatever they want. They'll be running wild before long."
"What's