Chapter 6: A Street Slicker Who Is Good at Winning People Over with His Virtues
Aunt Qi looked at Rutang with doubt in her eyes: Is this the good young man Yu Yaoyang you mentioned?
Seeing that Aunt Qi was looking at him with more and more meaningful eyes, Rutang quickly used his trump card and whispered in Aunt Qi's ear: "Aunt Qi, please help publicize the good deeds he has done. I have some wild duck eggs at home, and I will send you a few tomorrow."
Aunt Qi smiled brightly.
With the blessing of wild duck eggs, Yu Yaoyang must be a good young man!
After sending Aunt Seven away, Rutang walked towards the melon field and met Yu Yaoyang, who was holding half a broken watermelon in his hand.
"You..." Rutang saw the melon in his hand and looked away. Fortunately, Aunt Qi had already walked far away and didn't see it.
If the gossipy Aunt Seven saw this, she wouldn't be able to explain herself even if she had a mouth full of mouths.
"Tsk, you're going to make me die of laughter? It's no big deal? Why are you panicking?" Her guilty look amused Yu Yaoyang.
"How can the melon watcher let you go?" she was curious.
Although the production team existed in name only, the melon fields were still collective property, and there were people to watch over the melons when they ripened.
Yu Yaoyang smoothed his short hair and said in a casual manner: "I win people over with my virtue!"
In the melon field, Wang Laowu, who was watching the melons, was smoking a cigarette and patting his pocket contentedly. His pocket contained three large front door cigarettes that Yu Yaoyang had just handed to him. What a great way to win people over with virtue.
On the roadside, Yu Yaoyang pressed Rutang against a stone, handed her the watermelon, and asked her to eat it before leaving.
Rutang was nervous. Did he hear all the crazy flattery she and Aunt Qi said?
She praised him as a good young man and even bribed Aunt Seven with duck eggs... This made Yu Yaoyang, who would shine with a little sunshine, know that there was something good about her.
Seeing that Yu Yaoyang didn't mention it, she felt relieved because she thought he probably didn't find out.
Cut the watermelon in half and give him one half.
Yu Yaoyang took it and ate it in three or two bites, then looked at her leisurely.
Rutang is tall but has a small mouth, and eats delicately, like a kitten.
"Eat slowly, there's no rush. The elders won't think that I, Yu Yaoyang, am a bad young man just because we're a little late."
Rutang choked and started coughing madly, his face red as if blood was about to drip out.
He really heard it!
"What's with that expression on your face? I'm a good young man. Why do you blush when you tell me the truth? Girls who tell the truth can get rewards, okay!"
He reached into her pocket and put something in it.
Rutang reached out his hand puzzledly and took out a stack of banknotes. What is this?
"If you are willing to give it to your father, then give it. If you don't want to give it to him, then keep it for yourself. Anyway, the betrothal gift has been given to you, so you can do whatever you want with it." He waved his hand, as if he was saying something insignificant.
Rutang was full of surprise. Why did he suddenly change his mind? He just insisted on giving the money to her father and refused to agree to lower the bride price.
"Oh, brother, I win people over with my virtue!" Yu Yaoyang put his hands on his hips.
Of course Yu Yaoyang would not tell her that he had disagreed before because he thought she wanted to use the lowering of the bride price as an excuse to break off the engagement.
When I heard her defending him in front of Aunt Seven, I knew she didn't mean that, so I let her decide on the bride price.
Rutang held the money, thoughtfully. She seemed to understand a little what "conquering people with virtue" meant. Isn't this just throwing money around? Money ability!
After eating the melon, the two walked towards Rutang’s house.
After putting the betrothal gift in her pocket, she felt at ease and looked around. It had been a while since she came back, but she still hadn't taken a closer look.
The village is full of small mud houses, and it is not a wealthy village.
The soil in Dali Village is poor and contains a lot of saline and alkali.
The harvests from the crops we planted were not very good. In the past two years, the production team had a shrimp farm, so everyone was able to live a decent life.
In the past two years, there have been constant rumors that the production teams are to be disbanded. In some areas, the production teams have even been disbanded, and are now in name only.
The villagers realized that the spring breeze of reform was about to blow, and they were all trying to find a way out. No one was willing to continue working hard for the collective. There were loopholes in the management of the shrimp farm. At the end of last year, the shrimps became sick and died, and the subsequent production team did not make any arrangements.
The shrimp farm was empty and unattended, and without the income from breeding, everyone was living a tight life. Only Yu Yaoyang, a street urchin who was often criticized for not having a proper job, had a few spare dollars in his pocket.
Rutang quickly filtered this information in his mind and made a plan in mind.
In his previous life, Yu Yaoyang missed the best opportunity to start a business in order to find her who had been abducted. The couple suffered a lot in starting a business together. Both of them were in poor health and became ill from overwork.
Now that she is back, she wants to avoid all the detours in her previous life, make money and not lose her health.
Rutang reached into his pocket and touched the five shiny new hundred-dollar bills.
At a time when the average monthly income of a worker is only a few dozen dollars, this is a huge sum of money.
But for Rutang who wanted to start a business, it was too little.
Thinking of this, Rutang didn't even want to give her father the 100 yuan betrothal gift.
The two earthen houses of the Chen family were crowded with people, and all the aunts and uncles of the Chen family had come.
Today is the day for the bride price. Yu Yaoyang's father, an educated youth, had long since abandoned his wife and children and returned to the city. The person in charge of the family is Yu Yaoyang's mother, Xiao Li.
Xiao Li brought her two sons to the Chen family early in the morning. As long as the betrothal gift was paid and the Chen family invited the Yu family for dinner, the marriage would be considered a done deal.
Chen Fu looked at the people in the room with an unpleasant expression.
The Yu family was small, with only three people including Yu Yaoyang, so Chen Fu only prepared one table of dishes.
Chen Fu didn't expect that the brothers of Old Chen's family were also here!
They bring their whole family here and stay here, using the excuse of wanting to see their new son-in-law and refuse to leave. In the final analysis, don't they just want to eat at his house?
Maybe he is still thinking of borrowing the dowry money for his daughter.
Thinking of this, Chen Fu became more and more anxious. Why hasn't Rutang come back yet?
He had already planned it out. As long as Yu Yaoyang gave him the betrothal gift, he would immediately make an excuse to go out for something and not give his relatives a chance to ask for money.
Coincidentally, Rutang, who was standing at the gate of her own yard, thought the same thing.
All along she had been thinking about how to make money and spend it so as not to give her scumbag father the opportunity to gamble.
Finally, she thought of it.
Rutang stared at the large iron washbasin in her yard, or to be more precise, at the conchs in the washbasin, and a smile slowly broke out on her face.
"You want to eat that thing?" Yu Yaoyang followed her gaze and frowned when he saw the conch in the iron washing basin.
There are a lot of these things on the big rocks on the beach. There is not much meat on them, but they taste very fresh.
No one in the village wants to eat it because they think it’s too troublesome.
Rutang's father Chen Fu is a stingy person. He even prepared this thing on the day of the bride price. If this gets out, he will definitely be criticized by the villagers.
Yu Yaoyang was not dissatisfied with the stinginess of his future in-laws' family; he just felt sorry for his future daughter-in-law.
How much suffering did she have to endure to stare at this broken thing?
The street scoundrel who is good at "conquering others with virtue" really wants to pat his chest and say, "After we get married, I will let you have meat every week and eat as much seafood as you want."
"I don't want to eat it, I want it to be useful. Brother Yaoyang, can you do me a favor?"
Rutang tiptoed and whispered a few words in his ear in a low voice.
Yu Yaoyang's face was full of surprise, and he looked at her with incredible eyes, as if asking, are you serious? !
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