Chapter 122 Happiness Shattered
Yu Yaoyang was determined to make the wedding a grand one.
When he was not so well-off before, he had already been determined to make her the most decent bride in the village.
Now that we are doing business and have enough money, we want to celebrate the wedding in a grand manner. We buy the best wedding candies from the city, and no other family in the village can get such treatment.
The frugal Hao Mei did not stand on the same front with her daughter on this issue. She even approved of her son-in-law's approach.
Whether you are betrothed as a wife or a concubine, the more splendid the wedding is, the more it proves that the husband's family values him.
During this period, rumors had been circulating in Dali Village that the Rutang couple had fallen on hard times in the city. The rumor became more and more intense, and after several upgrades, it had evolved from "Rutang riding a donkey upside down to pick up scraps" to "Yu Yaoyang sold Rutang to get the money to collect medicinal herbs when he returned to the village."
The content of the rumor has shifted from family ethics to legal suspense. If Yu Yaoyang does not take some action to dispel the rumor, who knows how outrageous it will become.
According to Hao Mei's request, the two could not meet on the day before their wedding, so Yu Yaoyang went back early, and Rutang and Hao Mei stayed in the city.
She continued her clothing business and sold meals as usual.
She even tried to find the captain of the fishing boat and take some crabs to sell. However, Yu Yaoyang had told her before returning to the village not to go to the market alone to sell crabs because he had already accepted the "wedding gift" for selling the small crabs.
The stall selling smaller crabs at the market had regarded Yu Yaoyang as a thorn in its side and had once brought people to pick a fight with him, but Yu Yaoyang's fighting power was off the charts and they were unable to gain any advantage. So they gave up their stall with resentment and humbly moved from the prime C position of the market's seafood stall to the back row.
The best position was given to Yu Yaoyang.
As long as Yu Yaoyang is around, there is no market for small crabs. Zhao San, the owner of a small crab stall, hates Yaoyang, but he can't do anything about it. He hates Yu Yaoyang but can't get rid of him.
Rutang was worried about this for several days, fearing that Yu Yaoyang would make enemies with others and one day he would be put in a sack and dragged into an alley and beaten up.
But things did not turn out as she worried. She didn't know what means Yu Yaoyang used, but he managed to subdue Zhao San. Yu Yaoyang claimed that Zhao San was moved by his good character.
Rutang almost believed it until she went to the market to bring food to Yu Yaoyang and saw Zhao San with his arm in a sling and a black eye.
Rutang’s reaction at that time was that her eyes went dark. It was over, everything was over. Was this a beating from her man?
I silently recited the Public Security Administration Punishment Regulations in my mind, calculating how many days I would have to stay in prison if the cartilage in someone's eye was damaged, and how many days would it take to get a bone broken? - Is a bone broken considered a minor injury? If I cause minor damage, I won't have to go in, right?
Just when Rutang was wondering how "punishing" Yu Yaoyang's behavior was, Zhao San took the initiative to find Rutang and explain the situation.
It turned out that his injuries were not caused by Yu Yaoyang, but by a group of thugs who came over and wanted to beat Zhao San up without any explanation after he closed his stall.
At the critical moment, a roar full of justice was heard from a distance, and Yu Yaoyang came over and rescued Zhao San from the gangsters in time. From then on, Zhao San regarded Yu Yaoyang as his boss.
This process sounds very touching, and it has a sense of chivalry of helping others when seeing injustice.
But Rutang always felt something was strange.
She was too embarrassed to ask Yu Yaoyang in front of Zhao San, so after returning home, Ru Tang asked Yu Yaoyang why those thugs wanted to beat up Zhao San?
Yu Yaoyang spread his hands and asked, "Who told Zhao San to be so rude and spread dirty rumors about the gangster's wife?" What they said was really unpleasant, like two dollars per time, small profits but quick turnover and so on.
Rutang had a serious expression. Spreading dirty rumors about girls was quite disgusting, and he didn't deserve to be beaten. However, there seemed to be a technical problem here - how did the gangster know that Zhao San had spread rumors about his wife?
Yu Yaoyang patted his chest and said righteously, of course it was told by a caring citizen.
This enthusiastic citizen is Yu Yaoyang.
Growing up under the red flag and bathed in the red sun, Yu Yaoyang is such a good boy with a sense of justice. It's Zhao San's fault for being so mean and nonsense, but this is all his blessing!
Yu Yaoyang not only taught the talkative Zhao San a lesson, but also eliminated the biggest obstacle in the market for him. It can be said that he killed two birds with one stone.
After listening to this, Rutang had only one feeling: he was really not a good person.
But, she likes it.
This time Yu Yaoyang was going back to get married, which would delay his crab selling for three days. Zhao San thought his chance had come and was extremely happy. However, Yu Yaoyang "seemingly unintentionally" revealed that his wife was still in the city, so he asked his wife to come over and take over the crab selling.
Zhao San was so scared that he shuddered, thinking that this couple were money-grubbers, they were about to get married, why wouldn’t it delay making money?
He quickly took out a huge sum of ten dollars, saying it was money for the bride to buy a head flower, and asked the bride to get married peacefully at home and not to be contaminated by the fishy smell of seafood.
Yu Yaoyang successfully tricked Zhao San into giving him ten dollars. Ru Tang pouted, feeling that Zhao San had been tricked by Yu Yaoyang, and she had also been tricked by Yu Yaoyang.
He had no intention of asking her to go to the market to sell crabs. This job was not as easy as selling clothes. Moving and transporting more than 200 kilograms of crabs was quite physically demanding. He didn't want her to be tired, so he deliberately tricked Zhao San.
In order to obtain the "exclusive crab operating rights" in the market for these three days, Zhao San will definitely make some representations, so that Yu Yaoyang can tell Rutang that he is lenient with others and won't let her make such troubles.
After Rutang figured out the twists and turns here, she laughed at him for being a big profiteer who cheated everyone, but there was also a little sweetness in her heart.
He really cares about her, and his feelings are hidden in these little details.
Rutang prepared a bag of wedding candies, and anyone who came to her stall to buy clothes or eat could get a few pieces to share in the festive mood. Everyone knew that this beautiful and pretty proprietress was getting married, and they all sent their most sincere blessings.
Amidst all the blessings, there is always a discordant voice, and this discord comes from Chen Guilan.
Chen Guilan has been in a good mood these days.
Although her fried conch business was always lukewarm because it lacked the secret sauce and could not sell as well as the other two businesses, after experiencing previous failures, she also gained some experience and could earn three or four dollars a day.
When Ru Tang sets up the stall, she only takes a little time at noon and can make a net profit of more than ten yuan. This is because she deliberately buys the goods at a high price. Because she buys the goods from her fellow villagers, Ru Tang tries to charge everyone more.
If it hadn't deliberately raised costs, Rutang's profits would have been even higher.
Chen Guilan was different. In order to save money, she made her family work from dawn to dusk to pick conchs, exploiting the family's labor force.
Even if you use your family's labor for free, you can only earn three or four dollars.
But Chen Guilan was still very happy. Although it was a bit hard to live in the city with an income of more than ten yuan a month, when she thought that it was she who "pushed" Chen Rutang away from the train station, Chen Guilan was full of a sense of accomplishment.
When she had free time, she would imagine Chen Rutang's miserable life. She felt happy thinking about how Chen Rutang was so poor that he could not even afford to eat and how he was beaten by Yu Yaoyang.
It wasn't until Chen Guilan saw Rutang giving a gift to the director in the backyard of the brewery that her happiness was shattered.
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