Chapter 113 Technology is Productivity
"The country needs to develop, and technology needs to innovate..." Hao Mei looked at the pot in her daughter's hand and suddenly understood a sentence often said in the news.
Her mop is no match for the "ultimate skill" in her daughter's hand.
The mother and daughter looked at each other and laughed at the same time.
Rutang used her own strength to prove that even without a man's protection, she could take care of her family and not let anyone bully her.
Seeing how capable she was, Hao Mei's original worries were reduced a lot.
At noon, Rutang went to the station to wait.
Yu Yaoyang went to the village to collect agricultural products yesterday and brought back some. Some of them needed to be picked immediately, so he set the time for today and asked the village horse-drawn carriage to bring them over.
A horse-drawn carriage from Dali Village came over after a while. On the carriage sat villagers going to the city. The driver carried a few bags of agricultural products off the carriage.
"Rutang, are you transporting the goods by yourself? Where's Yaoyang?" The driver asked casually when he saw Rutang riding the donkey backwards to load the goods.
"He has something to do, I can do it myself." Rutang took out the money, paid the fare to the driver, and rode the donkey backwards towards the cannery.
These need to be taken to the cannery to exchange for supplies. Her family only goes there two days a week now. If anyone wants to exchange something, just tell her in advance. She will write it down in a notebook and then go to the countryside to collect it. This way, the exchange can be completed quickly without wasting time.
Rutang's slender figure doesn't match the fully loaded donkey at all.
The villagers sitting on the car watched her struggling to pedal the donkey upside down to climb the hill, and they all sighed.
"Rutang is such a miserable girl. She has such a weird father and married a street urchin who doesn't work properly. She is a high school student, but she can't continue her studies and has to work as a profiteer. How pitiful."
"Who says it's not true? With her looks, it's not impossible for her to marry a worker in the city who eats commercial grain. What a pity."
Everyone sighed and groaned, and the sound was loud, floating in the wind and reaching Rutang's ears as he tried hard to climb the slope.
Rutang turned around and silently took note of those people who gossiped about her. She decided to give them a good scolding when she returned to the village to collect the goods.
If you look down on self-employed individuals, then don't do business with them. But you have to rely on her and Yu Yaoyang to make money, and then you act like a superior person. Do you really think she is such a broad-minded person?
He didn't know that everyone in Rutangniaoqiaoer's notebook was still chatting all the way in the carriage.
No one knew how Rutang was doing in the city. Although Yu Yaoyang was very efficient in collecting agricultural products and settling accounts every time he returned to the village, no one believed that the couple made any money.
Every time Chen Guilan returned to the village, she would make a big fuss about it.
It was said that Rutang lost money in everything he did, and the family was unable to make ends meet. They had to rent a house in the city and could not even afford to live in the main house.
Chen Guilan only mentioned the beginning, and the villagers gave wings to their imagination, imagining the scene of Rutang being beaten up by Yu Yaoyang every day.
It is easier to believe that others are having a bad time than to believe that they are having a good time.
The carriage stopped in front of a truck. The people who were eagerly discussing Rutang's unhappy marriage stopped and looked at the man getting off the truck with envy.
"Dada, your business is quite big. You even bought a car?" the driver asked the man in a warm tone.
Jingtian had a smile on his face but a look of alienation in his eyes. He jumped into the truck bed to move the boxes.
"Hey, please bring it back to the village for my mother. I have something else to do, so I won't go back."
"We are all fellow villagers, it's no big deal. Your Jing family has produced such a capable person like you, it's really a blessing for your ancestors." The driver praised and looked at the truck with worshipful eyes.
Trucks in this era are legendary. If someone has one, it would be a big deal.
"It's just a small business, not something that can be shown on the stage." Jingtian spoke modestly, but there was a gleam of pride in his eyes.
Although he came from a poor family and could not be like the second generation of city workers who were born with a stable job in a state-owned enterprise, he also made a name for himself with his own hard-working hands.
"They've already bought a truck, how can it be called a small business? The street urchins of Old Yu's family are the ones doing small business. His wife rides a donkey upside down to pull goods. It's a pity that such a pretty girl married him and became a second-hand dealer." The driver recalled how Rutang had just ridden the donkey upside down to climb the hill, and sighed again.
"Yu Yaoyang got married? Who did he marry?" Jingtian became curious when he heard that Yu Yaoyang got married.
"Chen Rutang, the daughter of the third son of the Chen family, you should have an impression of her, the most beautiful and best-educated girl in our village! This girl has a miserable life, her father is so unreasonable that he married her to a street urchin for 500 yuan! Now her life is miserable, not only is she beaten every day, but she can't even live in a decent house, she lives in a guesthouse and acts like a servant."
The driver's words were echoed by everyone in the car.
They had never been out of the village, so they thought that the people who lived in such "improper" houses as the lower rooms were "servants", and their status was probably similar to that of the maids in the landlords' houses in the evil old society.
"Bang!" The box in Jingtian's hand fell heavily to the ground, and the sound of porcelain breaking came from inside.
The new teapot he bought for the family was broken, just like Jingtian's broken heart at the moment.
He jumped off the car excitedly and questioned the driver in an almost crazy tone: "What did you say?! Who did he marry?!"
"Chen Rutang, what's wrong? Did her father owe you money too?" Seeing how emotional he was, the driver's first reaction was that the bastard Chen Fu owed Jingtian money.
Jingtian didn't even bother to reply to the driver. He leaned against the bed of the cart in a daze, his expression dull, his heart raging.
She got married!
She actually got married!
She married the most unreliable man in Dali Village!
He was only away for two years. How come everything changed so drastically in just two years?
"Do you know where Yu Yaoyang lives now?" Jingtian asked.
The driver just thought he was looking for Yu Yaoyang to collect debts. It was reasonable for the son-in-law to pay off the father-in-law's debts.
"I heard that he lives in a lower room in the candy factory's residential quarters. You can ask around."
Jingtian had no idea when the carriage left. His mind was now filled with pain.
The driver was talking animatedly with the passengers.
"Seeing how miserable Jingtian is, Chen Fu must have owed him a lot of money, right?"
"Who said it's not that? It's so pitiful..."
When Rutang arrived at the cannery, there were already quite a few people standing there. They were all very excited to see her.
"Daughter-in-law Yangzi, you are here. We thought you were not coming."
"The chain fell off on the way. It took me some time to fix the bicycle. Wait till I can fix it. I'll wash my hands and get the goods for you."
Rutang said to everyone with a smile, and ran to the security guard to wash his hands before coming out.
The oil from the bicycle chain is not easy to wash off, and the security guard didn’t have any soap. After washing with water for a long time, there were still black marks, and the gaps between my nails were all black. Fortunately, it is no longer oily.
The employees at the cannery were all very polite to her. Their factory was not paying salaries now, and it was thanks to You Rutang and his wife that their urgent needs were solved.
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