Chapter 023: Hiding the Truth

The receipts that the factory gave to Tang Yuan included egg tickets. She took the opportunity to secretly transfer some eggs out of the game space so that she could cook eggs outside openly.

The biggest problem these days is that everything requires receipts, especially for someone like her whose monthly salary and receipts are clearly visible. Everyone knows exactly what she can buy and what she cannot buy.

She can be lucky occasionally and buy something that is not in the range, but she can't be lucky all the time.

A bathroom is not enough, she also has to buy a set of kitchenware. If she can cook in the game space, it will be much more convenient for her to eat anything in the future.

The prices of kitchen appliances vary from cheap to expensive. The cheapest one is a coal stove, but you need to buy coal later. The fire is not big and hard to control, so it is not very convenient for cooking. I just pass it up.

The more expensive ones are gas stoves, and there are also gas stoves and solar stoves, etc., the prices are different. Different appearances also lead to different prices. However, she only needs to meet basic cooking requirements, so the appearance only needs to be the most basic.

In that case... 200 yen.

Tang Yuan looked at the options that came up from the search.

A gas stove and basic appearance cost two hundred. Gas and pots and pans need to be purchased separately. Just choose the most basic ones, and twenty or thirty dollars will be enough.

On average, she can now earn 30 game coins by planting enough plants every day. If she doesn't buy cotton cloth, she can buy a set of kitchen utensils in just eight days to meet her needs for cooking privately.

In this case, the matter of using cotton cloth to make cash can wait until the kitchen is ready. Although she does not have much cash on hand, it is enough to use, and she will not be short of money in the short term.

For the next two days, she either read in the boiler room or in the game room until the time agreed with Dongzi and Afeng arrived.

Early on the third day, she left her "temporary residence" and went to the dilapidated house where they had agreed to meet.

This shabby house is an old one. It may have belonged to a wealthy family. Various woods inside were specially made with exquisite carvings. After the owner left, no one lived in it for many years and it gradually fell into disrepair. Now the beams on the top have fallen down. It looks like a really shabby house and no one usually passes by.

About half an hour later, Dongzi and Afeng sneaked into the shabby house carrying a basket, leaving only a crack in the door.

Tang Yuan waited for another half an hour, making sure there was nothing unusual around him before he opened the door and went in, turning back to bolt the door.

The two of them hid in a secluded corner. When they heard the sound, they quietly emerged. When they saw her, they immediately stood up and said, "You... we are here. Oh, I forgot to introduce myself to you. My name is Sun Dong and his name is Sun Feng. We are willing to cooperate with you. We brought all the eggs today."

"You can call me Xiaofang," Tang Yuan introduced herself. These days, different surnames are grouped together, and she would not give her surname. "Have you really thought it through? Am I taking advantage of you in this cooperation?"

"No, no, no, it's not you who took advantage of us, it's us who took advantage of you. It's not difficult for us to get the eggs from you, but it's not easy for you to sell them," Sun Dong said immediately, "and it may not be easy for us to do it either, because someone in the village is targeting us."

Tang Yuan looked up and thought to himself, you are really honest and you are not afraid of being lowered in price.

"It's best that you think this way. I'm the one who suffered the loss in the first place. Without me, you won't be able to do any business in the future. Instead of thinking that you will make less money by lowering the price, you should think about how much money you can still make by doing this business." Tang Yuan said earnestly.

Sun Dong thought so too. If they hadn't encountered Tang Yuan and the situation in the village, they would definitely not be able to do business anymore. At that time, they wouldn't be able to sell eggs at 5 cents, let alone 5 cents.

Being able to make money now is the best outcome.

Thinking of this, he felt that he had gotten a great deal, and said willingly, "That's right, thank you, thank you Sister Fang!"

"Just think it over carefully. If one day you don't want to cooperate with me anymore, just tell me directly. There's no need to play those fake games. I don't need you for that." Tang Yuan glanced at him and bent down to pull the straw-covered basket.

Sun Dong bent down and said, "Don't worry, we have picked out the good eggs. We keep the bad ones for ourselves. But you can check them one by one. Recently, they can only lay 30 eggs a day."

"It's normal that the egg-laying frequency is low in hot weather. When the weather gets brighter, the eggs will lay one egg a day on average, and the number will increase," Tang Yuan counted all the eggs. "Leave this basket, I'll go buy a new one. It's too eye-catching."

"Then I'll give it to you," Sun Dong said considerately, "Many people in our village know how to weave baskets. We can just find someone to do it."

"Well," Tang Yuan didn't bother to be polite with him. He picked up the basket and turned to look at him. "By the way, you just said that someone in the village is watching you?"

"Don't worry, Sister Fang. We won't leave the village often from now on. Uncle... the team leader told us to work hard." Sun Dong explained to Tang Yuan and covered the eggs carefully with straw to prevent others from seeing the eggs inside.

Tang Yuan had nothing to do, so he picked up a stick from the side and played with it. After thinking for a while, he looked up and said, "You can't do this. You have to leave the village, and you have to leave the village as usual."

Sun Dong was puzzled: "Why?"

Tang Yuan asked him: "If a person often does something and suddenly stops doing it, what would you think?"

Sun Dong thought for a moment and said, "He has a problem, right? Sister Fang, are you saying that if I suddenly don't leave the village, will someone be suspicious? But even if they are suspicious, so what? I really won't leave the village."

"Who said you won't leave the village? Don't you have to come and bring me eggs every few days?" Tang Yuan held the stick and knocked on the basket. "If someone suspects you, they will definitely keep a closer eye on you. If you come out every few days, they won't have to worry about affecting the fields. Maybe they can catch up with you, and then..."

"You bastard!" Sun Dong pouted, and after a moment of annoyance, he asked, "But I don't sell eggs, so it's okay for me to leave the village."

"Will people in your village secretly go up the mountain to look for things?" Tang Yuan knew that many people these days had a "sense of collective honor" and that the things on the mountain also belonged to the village, so everything they picked had to be handed over to the village.

But this is a village matter and is not as serious as profiteering. I guess many people would do it secretly.

Sure enough, Sun Dong nodded: "Yes, there are plenty."

"Then you can go to the mountain and kill time anyway. Then let your uncle, no, your captain scold you a few times, and then you can slowly move to the fields to work," Tang Yuan suggested. "Even if we are going to deliver eggs on that day, we will go around the mountain. We don't have a fixed time for delivering eggs. I'll tell you when you come. It may be two days later, three days later, or even one day later. Do you understand?"

Sun Dong thought about it carefully and slapped his thigh: "If that bastard follows me, as long as I run fast, he won't be able to catch up with me. If we don't set a fixed time, he will definitely not find any problems. This is good. Anyway, we don't rely on farming to earn work points to make a living. We only work half a day every day."

"It's good that you know this. If you have any problems, don't bring me along," Tang Yuan looked at him. "If you can be found out about a deal like this, you might as well do it yourself. The sooner you get caught, the sooner the problem will be solved."

"No, no," Sun Dong smiled innocently, "We are still very smart."

Tang Yuan handed over the money and waited for him to accept it. He picked up the basket and walked to the door: "It's better to do this. I'm leaving first. When you turn around, pay attention to see if there is anyone outside. This time we have used up a batch of eggs. You can come back in four days next time."

"Okay, take care, Sister Fang."

After the people from Tang Garden disappeared, Sun Feng, who had been silent the whole time, spoke up: "Dongzi, didn't my father tell us to go to the fields and work for a whole day? How did it become half a day?"

"Can you handle it for a whole day?"

Sun Feng shook his head: "Maybe it's a bit tiring."

"It's okay. Go back and tell Uncle what Sister Fang said. He will definitely agree." Sun Dong turned around and looked at the dilapidated house. "We have time to fix what needs to be fixed. If it rains on the day of the transaction, this broken house will leak everywhere, and it will be difficult to trade."

"Oh." Sun Feng listened to Sun Dong and did whatever he asked him to do.

"Some places just need to be improved, don't make it too clean, otherwise people will be suspicious." Sun Dong said.

"Oh." Sun Feng responded, threw the wood he had just picked up down again, raised a cloud of dust, and followed Sun Dong to the corner.

"Look at the top of your head. Don't worry about the big holes. Just clean the areas that are not leaking. Use wood to block them. Just leave a space where you can talk on rainy days."

The two of them were busy for half an hour, clearing out a few corners where they could talk, and then they walked out the door.

After making sure that there was no one outside, the two of them left the shabby house one after the other.

Later, someone passed by and looked inside through the crack of the small door. He saw an even more desolate ruin and left, shaking his head.

Sun Dong and Sun Feng returned to the village and told the captain the causes and consequences of the transaction.

The captain tapped his pipe on the small table again. "She's right. We can't let you go down so soon. Just do as she says. Go out for a walk and kill some time. Then I'll scold you back."

The two had already decided to do this before they came, and when they heard the captain say this, they naturally nodded.

After the two men left, the captain's wife came in with a basket filled with cloth: "What did you say?"

The captain told her the situation.

"I never thought of that," the captain's wife said in amazement, "that girl is really smart."

"It's a pity that all the smart brains are used for speculation."

"You said that, isn't your son also speculating?"

"I don't mean anything else, I just think it's a pity. Dongzi is smart and brave enough to do this. That girl is smarter than Dongzi, it's a pity..."

"You think it's a pity, but they might be happy. If I had this brain, I would go and make money."

"It's a pity you didn't."

"You sound like you have one! Our family is doing well now, all thanks to your son!"

"Hey, you..." The captain watched his wife go out and angrily knocked the small table with his cigarette stick.