Chapter 211: A decision that goes against our ancestors
The whole family soon knew that Rutang was pregnant with twins, and both mothers were delighted and smiled from ear to ear.
The small clothes and quilts I had prepared before were not enough, so I bought some cloth and started working overnight.
Rutang's trip was also delayed because of this sudden good news.
Yu Yaoyang is now content with having a baby. He is so happy that he doesn't even bother to do business. He just wants to stay at home every day to accompany his wife and the two precious eggs in her belly.
Unfortunately, things did not go as he wished. He wanted to lie down at home, but his business did not allow that. The pharmaceutical factory asked him to place orders for medicine. After the autumn, the price of medicinal materials increased and the demand skyrocketed. It seemed as if money had grown wings and flew to Yu Yaoyang's home.
I want to keep a low profile, but the conditions don't allow it.
Rutang was staying at home to take care of her pregnancy. Watching her savings continue to grow, she could only sigh that when good luck comes, it cannot be stopped.
The young couple discussed it and decided to move the whole family to L City to reunite with his uncle while Rutang was still able to move.
This decision shocked the two mothers.
The Chinese New Year is just around the corner. Where are we going to celebrate it?
Rutang is due to give birth in more than two months. Her belly is so big that it is not convenient to move around. Does she have to give birth and recuperate in L City?
For Hao Mei and others, this decision was not just bold; it was simply unprecedented and would never be repeated.
For Chinese people, the Chinese New Year is the most important day of the year. Going home to celebrate the New Year regardless of whether one has money or not is a belief that Chinese people always say and has engraved in their bones.
When Hao Mei heard Rutang say that he wanted to move, she blurted out, "Isn't this going to be unfair to our ancestors?"
If you don't stay at home during the New Year and don't visit your ancestors' graves, wouldn't you be feeling guilty towards your ancestors if this gets out?
Rutang retorted her with just one sentence. Whose ancestors did she feel guilty about?
There is almost no discrimination against girls in northern cities, because most of the families are working-class and do not care about this.
However, rural areas like Dali Village still retain the bad habit of favoring boys over girls.
Visiting graves during the Chinese New Year is the job of men. Married women are just guests when they return to their parents' home, and it is not their turn to offer sacrifices to the ancestors of the Chen family.
As for the old Yu family, there is no need to hold a sacrifice. Yu Yaoyang's father's ancestral home is in the capital, and their ancestral grave is not here at all, so there is no need for all those formalities.
Even if the grave was there, Yu Yaoyang would not worship it. Not going to the grave to pee was already very restrained of him.
If changing surnames wasn't too troublesome, he would even want to change his surname with his younger brother. He has completely broken off with his biological father.
In fact, when he was in Beijing with Rutang during the summer vacation, he thought about going to Yu Ziming's house and breaking the glass.
Rutang stopped him, how childish! What’s the difference between him and an eight-year-old kid!
The Yu Yaoyang brothers and the Yu family are almost enemies. From the moment Yu Ziming abandoned his wife and children, there no longer existed any family affection. Visiting the graves to worship their ancestors was simply impossible.
Hao Mei thought about it and felt that it made sense, but since she and her brother were not around, what should she do with her mother's family?
Rutang is going to move there, and her brother Hao Wang hasn't said he will come back for the New Year. Hao Mei hasn't dared to go back to the village these days. She can tell with her knees that her mother must be cursing in the village.
Fortunately, the old lady didn’t know where she lived in the city, so she couldn’t find her and would have to lie on the kang in her house and scold her.
After a brief moment of surprise, Xiao Li quickly came to her senses.
There were other relatives taking care of her mother's side, and when she left, they took her mother with them and rented a bigger house.
Xiaoyue happened to be on vacation, so I took him along to see the world with his brother and help the family.
Looking at such a large family, Rutang thought that it would be inconvenient to rent a house, considering the birth and confinement of the child, so she decided to just buy one.
The housing prices in L City are slightly higher than those in D City. Rutang doesn't want to buy a bungalow because there are so many delicate orchids at home that have certain requirements for the temperature. So he decided to buy a house in the family area with centralized heating.
This way the children won't suffer when they come out, and the flowers are guaranteed to survive the winter.
Yu Yaoyang went there a few days in advance and quickly picked out two houses according to Rutang's requirements.
Both of them have three bedrooms and a living room. They are located in the coal company’s staff quarters. I bought them for about 8,000 yuan.
For Rutang, real estate is worth investing in. Even if they don't live in it, buying it and leaving it there will be a huge sum of money when it is demolished in the future, which is much more cost-effective than saving money.
L City is the provincial capital. Even if the northern economy is depressed in the future, the housing price in the central area of the provincial capital is still 20,000 yuan per square meter, which is a huge profit.
The young couple was worried about the nagging of the elders at home, so they concealed the fact that they rented the house. The owner was a small boss of a coal company, who sold the house when he was transferred to another place. The house was fully furnished and very clean, so they could move in directly without having to tidy up.
The whole family moved here and was very satisfied.
Even Xiao Li's mother couldn't find any fault with the food. It was very cold in the north in winter, and the temperature in the stove at home could never get up.
The collective heating in the building has greatly improved the happiness of the whole family, not to mention the flush toilets in the city. In the cold winter, living in such a house is simply like a fairy-like life.
Yu Yaoyang handed over the business of purchasing medicinal materials in his hometown to his relatives. He recruited a few flexible people here to help him purchase medicinal materials here. The prototype of a company has already been established.
He himself took Rutang to the flower market and bought some when he saw something suitable.
After winter, the flower market has cooled down a bit and is no longer as popular as before, and the price of orchids has dropped.
Rutang took advantage of the low price and bought dozens of pots of medium-sized varieties. He set aside an empty room in his home to store the flowers and filled the living room with them.
Two houses with six rooms were not enough to accommodate the several men, so Yu Yaoyang simply rented another house in the community and used it as a flower house.
Soon, the greenhouse was full again.
The price of Clivia dropped by 30% within a month. Those who were on the sidelines at first lost confidence, and some who could not wait any longer started selling off their valuable varieties.
Although the transactions involve physical objects, the rules of transactions are like financial products, no different from stocks and futures in later generations.
When prices go up, market confidence is sufficient, and the higher the price goes, the more people will buy crazily.
When prices go down, market confidence shrinks, and the further prices fall, the fewer people dare to buy.
In the first half month of the price drop, there were still people buying with the mentality of buying at the bottom. After the price dropped for a month in a row, those who wanted to buy at the bottom were scared away, and only big funds like the Tang family entered the market quietly.
Rutang used the stock K-line chart to record the rise and fall of this month, but unfortunately it was impossible to calculate the transaction amount. Despite this, many problems can still be seen.
She had experienced the financial market in later generations and knew the rules for the rise and fall of financial products, but her husband did not know. This was a good opportunity for him to explore the market rules and lay the foundation for the stock market a few years later.
Yu Yaoyang was curious about her technical charts. Rutang evaded the question by saying that she had seen foreign futures and stock charts in the library and imitated them.
These things were put into operation earlier abroad than in China, leaving Rutang with plenty of room to make excuses.
The couple's secret teaching was conducted behind closed doors. One day, Chopin, who was passing by, overheard it and shook his head.
There's evil capitalism everywhere in foreign countries. Why is it worth learning their corrupt practices? What to do if you learn bad things!
Rutang smiled but said nothing.
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