Chapter 18 This is not intentional taking advantage
Rutang had a good sleep and woke up early the next day.
Before daybreak, she carried a bamboo basket and picked up a small shovel and ran straight to the beach.
There are already two young wives from the village living by the sea. Although the land in Dali Village is not good, the seafood is abundant. There are oysters and conchs on the rocky mountains, and crabs and clams in the sand.
If the villagers feel hungry, they will come here to catch fish and never return empty-handed.
Seeing Ru Tang coming, the two young wives greeted her. They heard that Chen Fu was arrested for gambling, and they all showed sympathy to Ru Tang and tried to comfort her.
Rutang wanted to laugh when she thought about her scumbag father being humiliated, but she was too embarrassed to show it too obviously in front of everyone. She could only think about the scenes of her scumbag father beating her and her mother on a daily basis to suppress her laughter and show a painful expression.
The young wives worked quickly and filled a basin with everything in it in a short time. When they got home, they steamed the food in a pot, no matter what kind it was.
The basket that Rutang brought was too big, so he could only fill the bottom.
"Sell me your clams and conches."
"You accepted this?!" The two young wives were shocked.
These things are worthless and if they can’t be eaten they will be fed to chickens and ducks.
"Rutang, if you want to eat it, I'll give it to you. It's not worth much."
"I earned it through hard work, how can I take it for free? I came to the city to make money, don't worry, I won't lose money. If you two are not in a hurry to go back, you can stay and dig some more. I will charge 0.2 yuan per pound for conchs and clams. I won't sell oysters for seasoning. The shells are heavy and the meat is small. I'll sell them at a lower price, 0.3 yuan. But I don't know how long I can do this business. I will charge you one day at a time. Don't be disgusted."
This price is simply astronomical. How could the two young wives dislike it? They are so happy that they are almost blossoming with joy.
In fact, if Rutang could lower the price further, the two young wives would agree. But she knew that their families were in financial difficulty. If she gave them a little more, she could make a profit for her family and help her fellow villagers, which would also help her gain a good reputation in the village.
The two young wives accompanied Rutang to dig clams at the beach. They dug wherever there were bubbles on the beach and found clams. The three of them were busy until high tide, and their buckets and baskets were full.
The two young wives each earned a few dollars and were so happy that they couldn't stop smiling. They helped Rutang deliver the things home and kept praising Rutang all the way. When they met a group of people gathered together to gossip, the two young wives, who were in a good mood, followed over to listen.
"Someone from the city came yesterday and arrested Jing Quan. They said that this street thug from our village solved a case. Do you believe it?" someone said.
"How can a person like Yu Yaoyang, who is not doing his job, solve a case?" others echoed.
If it were usual, this kind of street-swearing would definitely attract a lot of response, and everyone would follow suit and vent their dissatisfaction with life on one person. This is also the norm in the village.
Even though Yu Yaoyang might not have offended them, everyone was cursing them, and if he didn't say a few words, it would seem like he was not fitting in.
But today was different. As soon as the topic of scolding Yu Yaoyang started, someone immediately stood up to refute it.
"Why is Yaoyang not doing his job properly? Yesterday he helped the village chief catch an adulterer, I saw it with my own eyes! Anyone who dares to say he is a bad person has a bad heart!" Aunt Qi jumped out first.
As the person who was bribed by Rutang with a few duck eggs, she firmly protected Yu Yaoyang before getting the eggs. In order to highlight her credibility, Aunt Qi lied that she saw it with her own eyes.
"That's right, don't talk about others behind their backs. Rutang is such a good girl, wouldn't she feel uncomfortable if she heard it?" The two young wives who had just received money from Rutang also chimed in.
Rutang could obviously take the fruits of their fishing for free, but she insisted on paying for them and even gave them the change when they weighed the fruits.
Just because of this honesty, the two young wives don't want to hear others say bad things about Yu Yaoyang. Rutang is going to marry Yu Yaoyang in the future, so if they say something about her man, isn't that just talking about her?
Public opinion in the village is now divided into two camps. Most people do not believe that street urchins are good, while a small number of people are taking a wait-and-see attitude based on the spread of Aunt Qi and others.
But none of this matters to Rutang, she is busy at home.
She sorted the collected seafood by category.
A basin of clams, a pile of oysters, and a basin of conchs.
There were also some half-grown crabs, which she picked out separately and didn't sell. Instead, she made them into fried crabs with typhoon shelter and sent them to Brother Yaoyang.
The small seafood needed to spit out the sand, so she added salt to the water and threw a pair of scissors in to speed up the sand spitting out. While waiting, she squatted by the well and brushed the mud off the oysters.
These tasks sound easy, but they are quite tiring to do. In the early summer morning, the water is still very cold and it hurts my fingers.
Rutang calculated the cost and found that the price for small seafood was a bit high, but he still made a profit overall. The cost price was 0.2 yuan per pound, and he could sell it for 1 yuan after frying.
There are fewer conchs today, only a little over ten pounds. Together with the clams, there are thirty pounds. I should be able to sell them for more than thirty pounds like yesterday.
Selling half a month's salary for others in one day sounds good.
The actual operation is very hard.
I have to get up at three in the morning to collect and clean up the seafood, and my fingers are wrinkled from being soaked in water.
I ride a bicycle for three hours round trip, and when I get there I have to fry and sell seafood. At the end of the day, I am so tired that I don’t even want to talk. I earn money through hard work, and in the early stages of starting a business, I can only earn a little money through hard work.
It was 9 o'clock when Rutang finished cleaning up. It seemed still early, but she had been busy for more than 5 hours without interruption.
Yu Yaoyang rode his bicycle to pick her up.
Yu Yaoyang carried a plastic bag filled with small seafood that had spit out sand and placed it on the back seat of the car.
After doing all this, Yu Yaoyang showed a gentleman's expression. This was not him deliberately taking advantage. Only the beam was left.
Rutang didn't hesitate and got on the bus directly. After waiting for a while, the bus didn't move. She felt it was strange and looked back. Yu Yaoyang quickly stopped smiling happily and coughed twice.
"Let's go." A real man won't reveal himself. He was so excited that he couldn't sleep for half the night imagining the scene of riding a bicycle and hugging Rutang.
Yesterday we had a tractor and it only took us half an hour to get to the city.
He rode his bike today, and even though he pedaled very fast, it still took him an hour.
Because he could see the beautiful Rutang just by looking down, Yu Yaoyang was filled with endless energy. This road that he had walked countless times became picturesque because of her company. Even the locust flowers falling from the trees seemed to be more fragrant than before.
After entering the city, the two did not rush to find Uncle Wang to get the stove. Instead, they went to the department store first. Rutang wanted to buy some tea to improve the service quality of the stall.
A bag of half a pound of Gaosu costs 80 cents, which is given to customers for free to quench their thirst. Rutang also bought a bag of jasmine flowers for 2 yuan, which only weighed 4 taels, and he kept it for his family to drink.
After making my choice and paying the money, I turned around and Yu Yaoyang was gone.
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