Chapter 014 A Better Reputation

Tang Yuan came to the scrap yard carrying a chicken he bought for three yuan, a bag of eggs, and a bag of cloth.

The black market has been cracking down very strictly these days. Those two people went there today and were chased again, so she took advantage of the opportunity. If she doesn't go to the black market today, no one will be watching her.

But...she looked at the clothes she was wearing.

When she goes back later, she will see if there is any two-sided material for sale, one side blue and the other side gray. This way, if she gets chased on the black market, she can just change her clothes and wear the other side out, so that people won't easily find her.

"Your chicken..." Shen Wenyu took a fancy to the chicken in her hand at first sight.

"I want to eat," Tang Yuan put the chicken behind him, "I finally found this chicken."

"Okay, okay, you're so stingy," Shen Wenyu said unhappily. Suddenly, he saw the red color showing from her bag. His expression changed immediately and he walked forward quickly. "Do you really have red material in your hand?"

"I'm stingy..." Tang Yuan stretched out his voice, "If you don't want it..."

"How can you be stingy? I'm talking about myself, who is stingy and has no sense of taste. It's not easy for you to buy a chicken, how can I be interested in the chicken in your hand?" Shen Wenyu stepped on herself without hesitation, "This material?"

"It was a lot of effort for me to find this big piece of material. You only need half of it to make a set of clothes." Tang Yuan was no longer angry. She came here to sell things. How could she stop selling because of a quarrel? Wouldn't she be the one who suffered the loss?

Besides, being stingy is the character trait of this person.

She put down the chicken in her hand, took out the red cloth from the bag, and put it in Shen Wenyu's hand: "Look carefully, this cloth is flawless, a total of 15 feet, you can cut half, and I can sell the other half... No, I'll exchange it with someone else."

Shen Wenyu didn't care whether the item was sold or exchanged, she only cared about the quality of the material.

When she touched it, she was delighted, thinking that the material was really good.

"How much?" She looked at Tang Yuan.

Tang Yuan stretched out his hand, and seeing Shen Wenyu frowning, he said, "It's not easy to find."

"Even if it's hard to find, the price..." Shen Wenyu hesitated. Normally, the cloth is 30 cents a foot, but this one costs 50 cents, which is 20 cents more expensive per foot.

But the material is not thin, so it can be worn in autumn. In winter, you can also wear it by sewing a layer of lining inside and stuffing some cotton inside.

"The same material, but in a different color, and at this price," Tang Yuan pointed to four, "it's 10 cents more expensive. The price of thin material is definitely different from that of thick material, and you don't need a cloth coupon."

Shen Wenyu then noticed that there was still material in Tang Yuan's bag. She took out the blue material and touched it: "The thickness is the same."

"Yes, but the color is different. This color is hard to buy but not hard to sell." Tang Yuan picked up the red material.

"That's true. What color is hard to sell? All colors are easy to sell." Shen Wenyu looked around at the blue cloth. "How many feet of this cloth are left?"

"Fourteen." Tang Yuan reported the number directly.

Money is hard to make these days, but sometimes it is easy to spend. She would just earn two dollars and eighty cents and spend three dollars right away. She had to eat the eggs herself, so they were consumables that could only go into her stomach but not into her pocket.

"Fourteen...that's five dollars and sixty cents..." Shen Wenyu murmured.

"This can also be cut. If you want, I'll cut it in half for you. Here's also this piece of red cloth." Tang Yuan said as he picked up the red cloth. When he was about to open it, Shen Wenyu held his hand.

"I want both. Give me both," Shen Wenyu said. "According to the price you mentioned, make it an even number and sell it to me for thirteen yuan, okay?"

The full price is thirteen dollars and one cent is removed from the round number thirteen.

"Okay," Tang Yuan nodded, "10 cents, can I have some scrap newspapers?"

Shen Wenyu glared at her: "That's not my personal stuff!"

"Then I'll buy some more? Weigh it?" Tang Yuan touched the scale under his feet and looked at Shen Wenyu with shining eyes, "Is there any waste paper in there that's worth a bit of money, such as the stamp album from last time?"

Shen Wenyu was speechless. She shouldn't have been so greedy. If she hadn't rounded off the amount, none of this would have happened.

But the stamp album was really useless to her, and she didn't need to send any letters. If she took it back and it was discovered, it would affect her work.

"Next time, next time, I'll keep it for you. It's thirteen yuan, and you can't regret it." Shen Wenyu immediately counted out thirteen yuan and put it in Tang Yuan's hand. Seeing that she looked a little uncomfortable, he felt much better.

She has already agreed to do it, so she would never give me this dime. It would be better to keep it and buy more eggs for the family.

Just as she was thinking about it, when she took out the whole cloth, she found a small bag of eggs in the big bag.

Shen Wenyu: ...

"Give me ten more."

"Old price." Tang Yuan looked at her and stretched out his hand towards her.

Shen Wenyu pointed out eighty cents and put it in Tang Yuan's hand.

"Rounding off, this shouldn't be..." Tang Yuan looked at her wallet a few more times.

Shen Wenyu glared at her.

Tang Yuan pursed his lips, took out three more eggs from the bag, and put them in Shen Wenyu's hand: "Two cents, give me an even number, I don't want these notes."

"So polite?" Shen Wenyu saved four cents, quickly took back the bill, and put a one-dollar bill in her hand. "It's your word, you can't go back on your word."

Tang Yuan chuckled, took a few newspapers from the table and stuffed them into his bag.

Shen Wenyu brought the newspaper from home to read by herself. She had already finished reading it. Seeing how skillfully she stuffed it into her bag, I couldn't help but roll my eyes. It turned out that she would never suffer a loss no matter who suffered one.

But compared to newspapers, eggs are naturally better.

She put the eggs in her hand away, picked out the ten eggs she bought, took out a bag from the drawer, and put the eggs and fabrics in it: "Next time, come back in ten days. Don't come too often."

"You are the one who needs to see me, not me." Tang Yuan curled his lips and said with a chuckle, "Then I will come in a dozen days, you should prepare everything for me. If we want to make a fortune, we still have to rely on those books and paintings that may be antiques."

"Remember, remember, stop nagging," Shen Wenyu waved her hand, "You can hide deeper."

"Oh, don't worry. I'm so smart, I won't do anything stupid." Tang Yuan replied with a smile, carrying her empty bag, picking up the chicken tied with a straw rope on the ground, and left the waste station with brisk steps.

Excluding expenses, the money she earned today was already equivalent to her monthly salary.

If you calculate it this way, it’s not too bad.

After leaving the waste station, she avoided the crowd and returned to the game space. She took the chicken for a walk, but she couldn't find any alien space for breeding animals, so she could only put it in a corner.

On the other side, Shen Wenyu returned home carrying cloth and eggs.

I gave the dark blue material to my mother-in-law and took the red material back home. Both sets of elders were very happy.

Fifteen feet of red material was not only enough, but also plenty. When Shen Wenyu's mother saw the material, she was instantly delighted and decided to divide it into two pieces: "Keep the other piece with me first, and give it as a gift when your cousin gets married. She will remember us all her life."

Besides being delighted, he stuffed all kinds of things into Shen Wenyu's hands.

There was a lot of cash and various things that were not usually available. He took advantage of the wedding opportunity to buy some more tickets and evenly distributed them to Shen Wenyu.

"When you got married, your family was not well off and didn't provide you with anything. Fortunately, you have a good mother-in-law. Now our family has the conditions. You can take it back to show your mother-in-law. She is good, and we are not bad either. You must take it out in front of their whole family to give you face."

The situation at Shen Wenyu's husband's family was actually not that bad, probably because the conditions were good and there weren't too many dirty things going on.

But of course the more good things the better. At worst I can give my sister more as a gift.

Sure enough, after she brought the things back, the atmosphere at home became a little better. The mother-in-law even took out the fabric to show off, saying that the large piece of cloth could be used to make a set of clothes for the old couple.

She secretly told Shen Wenyu that all the extra materials would be given to her, and she also stuffed money into her hand as compensation.

Tang Yuan didn't pay attention to Shen Wenyu's situation. She just focused on the matter of the virgin chicken. The next morning, she went out in her own body and carried the chicken that had been hungry all night back to the machinery factory in broad daylight.

Now there is only an empty room in her game space, without any kitchen utensils, so she has no way to deal with the chicken and can only take it outside.

In response to everyone's curious looks, she just said that she was lucky to have met someone selling chickens. She had no idea where the other person was from or how he sold them.

Tang Yuan's dull image is deeply rooted in people's hearts and is reflected here. After hearing her say this, everyone just thinks that she is lucky and that she does nothing, but people who want to sell things will come to her door on their own initiative.

With this in mind, everyone helped her find a way to deal with the chicken.

The chicken, which weighs nearly three pounds, is not light in weight, and Tang Yuan’s existing pot could not hold it all. Finally, someone suggested borrowing the pot from the cafeteria.

After stewing the chicken, you can use the oil in the pot to stew something else. Even if it’s just a little bit of oil, it’s good in this environment where there is not much oil or water.

But in the end, Tang Yuan not only kept the oil and water, but also kept some of the scraps from the chicken.

Chicken heads, chicken butts, chicken gizzards, chicken livers... these things are cut into small pieces, and after being stewed in a pot, a large bowl of them will be filled with a little bit of meat.

The minced meat in this purely vegetarian dish does not require any meat coupons at all, which makes everyone who came to the cafeteria to eat today very happy.

This also made Tang Yuan's reputation in the machinery factory better and better.

…

"She is a little bit stupid, but don't they say that stupid people have good fortune? I think that's the case with Xiaoyuan."

"It's just that he's a little dull, not really stupid. It's a good thing he's a little dull, otherwise if he were smart, he wouldn't have left these things behind. Not to mention these things, even the little bit of oil in the pot would have to be rinsed out with clean water and taken away."

"It's true, this vegetarian dish tastes really good with a little bit of oil in it. After eating that meal, every time I order the same dish, it tastes different."

"Of course they can't be the same. How can dishes with oil and dishes without oil be the same?"

"I don't know when Xiaoyuan will buy meat again. Not necessarily chicken, but pork or spareribs. I don't think her small pot can hold all of them."

"I think...right..."