Chapter 23 This person can deal with
"You can go and ask at the processing factory on Qiantang Street. Their factory is not doing well and their families are short of money. Our candy factory is a big one and no one would rent out their house for such a small amount of money." The eldest sister's tone was full of pride, and she felt quite proud of treating the factory as her home.
Rutang smiled and nodded. She knew that her elder sister meant no harm and that the candy factory might be doing really well.
It seemed that she would return empty-handed, which was a bit regrettable. She liked this place very much. She had been wandering around the city for so long, and only the candy factory had spacious rooms and convenient transportation.
She had also been to the processing plant that her elder sister mentioned. The downstairs room was not small, but it smelled too bad.
The pungent smell from the processing plant spread across several streets, and she couldn't stand it even when the goods were stored.
While Yu Yaoyang was chatting with her elder sister, his eyes were not idle. Suddenly, his gaze fell on a certain place and lit up.
"How about another bet? If I can rent you a house here, you pay me according to the standard you paid me last night...how about that?"
Yu Yaoyang spoke in an excited tone.
He could see that Rutang liked this place, and wanted to take advantage of it, so he made a big bet.
Rutang didn’t know what he was thinking, but his tone made it hard for her to refuse. Who could refuse a sunny and cheerful boy?
Rutang nodded in agreement.
He ran to the front with high morale. There was a ditch in front of him and he jumped into it.
"Ah!" Rutang was startled. What is this for? !
Just for a bet of a kiss, he jumped into a ditch?
When I stood up, I found that there was no water in the ditch; it was dry.
There was a fat woman in the ditch, who seemed to be bending over to pick up something. Yu Yaoyang went over and helped her pick up something.
"What is she picking up?" Rutang asked the lady who was washing vegetables.
The eldest sister looked up and shook her head.
"That's our workshop director's wife, picking up rotten watermelons."
"What are you picking up that for?" Rutang asked curiously when she saw Yu Yaoyang helping others pick up things.
The woman washing vegetables pointed to a group of chickens in the ditch and said, "Here, feed the chickens. The director's wife is from the countryside and likes to raise these things. This morning, the truck carrying watermelons flipped over, and the watermelons were broken and no one wanted them, so they were thrown into the ditch. She picked them up and fed them to the chickens."
The eldest sister shook her head again after saying this.
"The family is not short of money, why bother with these things?"
Rutang was silent. She was wondering why Yu Yaoyang was so sure that he could rent a house. After thinking for a while, she understood.
He must have realized earlier than her that the director's wife was a very frugal person and might be willing to rent the house to them.
The residents of this family quarters are all working couples who value their reputation more than anything else and have plenty of money. They are unwilling to rent out their lower rooms, so if you want to rent a house here, you have to find a unique one.
He could notice these seemingly irrelevant details at a glance, but she still had to think about it before she could turn around.
Rutang sighed, maybe this is the intuition that only top businessmen have, he was born to do business. Who would have thought that this powerful businessman in later generations, when he was young, was full of thoughts about how to take advantage of his wife and give her a kiss on the face.
The IQ is all in strange places... The more Ru Tang thought about it, the funnier it became.
After a while, Yu Yaoyang came over carrying a sack of watermelons and winked at her.
"I won. My sister-in-law is willing to rent the room to us, two dollars a month." His tone couldn't be prouder.
Is that a rotten watermelon he is carrying?
No! He has the face of a pure man on his back, and the gamble of kissing a little face!
After losing to her twice in a row, this time he felt like he had won the whole world, so wonderful!
Rutang gave him a thumbs up. She was willing to lose this round.
The lady who was washing vegetables was a little surprised and looked at the fat sister-in-law who was walking over with Yu Yaoyang.
"Why don't you discuss this with Director Zhang? Will he agree to let you rent out the room?"
"The house is idle anyway, why not rent it out? Besides, I think Xiao Yu is a very honest kid. It's not easy for a young couple to run a business, so what's wrong with me helping out?" The fat sister-in-law spoke with an accent, and it was obvious that she was not from the city. She spoke clearly and crisply, with a hint of sarcasm in her voice.
"Thank you, sister-in-law! Let me help you carry it." Rutang stood up and wanted to take the bag from his sister-in-law, but his sister-in-law pushed him away generously.
"No, I'm used to working at home, this is nothing."
Rutang had a very good impression of this fat sister-in-law. In her, Rutang saw the shadow of his mother, who was hardworking, simple and willing to work.
After Yu Yaoyang helped Fat Sister-in-law carry the broken watermelons, Fat Sister-in-law took him and Rutang to see her own lower room. It was called a lower room, but it was quite large and there was a kang in the room. It was even bigger than Rutang's bedroom.
"If you two are busy too late and can't go home, just stay here for a night and bring back some bedding. There is a well in the yard and you can use water as you like." The fat sister-in-law said cheerfully.
Rutang was very satisfied and paid three months' rent in one go. He also gave the apricot on the handlebar to the fat lady, thus establishing a friendship.
Now that the house is rented, you can go to Accountant Wang's house to move your things over. When the fat sister-in-law heard that Rutang wanted to move things, she readily pushed a donkey out from the backyard. When Rutang saw this, his eyes lit up.
Riding a donkey backwards is a northern feature. It is a tricycle that is ridden backwards. The cargo box of a tricycle is at the back, while the cargo box of a donkey backwards is at the front.
"You two can leave your bicycles at my house and ride this one. I modified it myself, so it's light and can also carry goods. I usually use it to carry things, and it's very comfortable to ride." The fat sister-in-law was an enthusiastic and shrewd woman.
She modified the donkey with a scrap bicycle and welded the bed herself. The cost was not even more expensive than Yu Yaoyang's 28-inch bicycle, so she was not afraid at all that Yu Yaoyang and Rutang would run away on her donkey.
"Sister-in-law, you can modify this?! You can also do welding?!" Rutang looked at the donkey with shining eyes, what a great thing.
The fat lady raised her chin proudly, and she became very excited when she mentioned this.
"When I was in the countryside, I did the same amount of work as men with women's work points! Men can twist steel bars and do manual labor, and so can I! Isn't it said that women hold up half the sky? I can do all the work that men can do. I have nothing to do in the city, so I like to think about these things."
Even Yu Yaoyang was impressed after hearing this. This sister-in-law is a real tiger, no, she is really fierce.
Rutang admired her even more. In fact, there are many people with the same personality as Fatty in this era.
This is also related to the current context. Women have liberated their minds, dual-income families are everywhere, women's enthusiasm for work is unprecedentedly high, women are also rushing to do heavy work, they take pride in labor, and truly achieve equal rights and obligations.
"I like to raise chickens and ducks. I go to the market when I have nothing to do. I bring back a lot of things at a time, so I want to buy a tricycle. But when I asked about the price, it cost half a year's salary for my husband Zhang! And I need a ticket for that. One day I saw someone collecting broken bicycles, so I asked for information."
The fat lady was a person who couldn't keep secrets. Seeing that the young couple were really listening to her and not looking down on others like other city people, she started to talk.
As Rutang looked at the fat lady, a few words emerged in his mind: This person can be dealt with.
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