I am chasing a rough man in the 80s
Chapter 168: The Alarming Secret

Chapter 168: Chapter 168: The Alarming Secret

"Buy... what?!"

"A tractor."

"How much did Tiegen drink?" The village chief turned to Suizi and asked, "Why didn’t you give him a plate of peanuts?"

Would he spout such nonsense if there were a plate of peanuts?

"Village Chief, we’re serious."

"There are 95 tickets for the tractor. Your family only has 2. With the 2 tickets my family has, we might dimiss it, but what about the remaining 91, what will you use to buy them?"

"Chief, we will use money to buy the tickets you have, we won’t just take them for free."

The village chief visibly relaxed, considering the two tickets would be equivalent to over sixty yuan. He was just being polite, it was good that Tiegen and his wife didn’t take him seriously.

"Where did you both get so much money?"

"We plan to do it this way..."

The village chief was at a loss as he listened.

Initially, he was full of disbelief; however, by the end, he was lost in deep thought, looking at Suizi with an increasingly serious gaze.

The village chief was extremely upset at this moment.

He thought about when Chen Kaide had used Suizi to pay for the bride price, why hadn’t he fought for his son then?

If anyone could marry this daughter-in-law, there would no way they would have trouble living happily. She was indeed the quintessential money-spinner.

Noticing the chief’s more than meaningful gaze, Jingting’s eyes flickered. He moved over and grabbed the chief’s hand, using just enough force to bring the man out of his reverie.

"Chief, we will need your help to speak up for us. When your son gets married and starts to build a house, I will take care of the transportation of the soil."

This was an appropriate thing to say, without any ill intentions.

However, there was a murderous look floating in the corner of his eyes that gave the chief an illusion. It was as if anyone who dared to steal his bride would have their joyous event turned into a tragic one.

The chief suppressed his regret.

He had considered Suizi before. His family could afford a bride price of two hundred yuan.

But who in the village would dare to snatch any girl that Tiegen had set his sights on?

"Fine, then. I’ll convene a meeting when I rush back to discuss and vote on this matter. As long as a majority of people agree, the tickets are yours, but you two have to make sure it’s feasible. It’s my reputation on the line here," he warned.

"Rest assured, it will work out." Suizi was full of confidence.

She had two plans to ensure that they could buy the tractor.

The first plan she shared with the village chief was that her family would give everyone half of the money first, then the remaining half in six months.

The bull they had at home and the money in hand added up to half the price of a tractor.

This method, where everyone could see the cash, was always better than holding worthless paper.

The other plan was to piece together funds and exchange IOUs for tractor tickets from each household one by one. With the solid foundation Jingting and Wang Cuihua had laid over the years, they could certainly gather enough.

Regardless of which method they used, Suizi had confidence that they could bring home their first major asset.

And things happened just as Suizi had expected.

Despite a few bumps along the way, the outcome was positive.

Most of the villagers were happy to take half the money first, which was thirty yuan.

Everyone knew that a ticket was worthless if held in hand, but cash was reliable.

Yet, there were a few families in the village who had differences with Jingting and his mother.

Watching Jingting buy the tractor made them envious, so they held onto their tickets unwillingly to sell.

Jingting wasn’t insistent either. If they didn’t want to sell, so be it.

He would go door-to-door to collect from those who were willing to sell.

After a round of collection, only a few households were left. Seeing how the others had received their money, they couldn’t sit still any longer.

They took the initiative to find Jingting, worryingly afraid that Jingting might change his mind and not purchase their tickets.

By the time Suizi and Jingting were officially ready to enter the city, they had collected all the tickets required for the tractor.

The hand-controlled tractor was relatively new, with a red engine and a blue cart.

With this machinery, tasks such as ploughing, cultivating, sowing, harvesting, digging ditches, and irrigation became a breeze, and its hauling function was far superior to both the ox and horse carts.

For farmers of this era, owning a walking tractor is much like owning a sports car in the future.

Yu Jingting had a well-thought-out plan in his heart — once he got the tractor, he would first take Suizi around the village for a spin.

This type of tractor could only accommodate one person in the driver’s seat.

He planned to have the three women in his family stand on the back of the tractor, dressed in matching red cotton jackets.

This would be the epitome of conspicuous luxury.

However, his long-considered boastful plan was swiftly turned down by Suizi.

Let alone the fact that flaunting wealth around the village on a tractor was a pretty low-grade behavior, the sight of several women standing on the tractor in bright red jackets, as if they were death-row prisoners paraded before execution, was too much even for her to contemplate. It made her blood pressure spike just thinking about it.

She refused to cooperate with him.

Understanding that his well-drafted and "heartlessly boastful" plan fell through, Yu Jingting felt a sense of regret.

The day the tractor arrived, all the neighbors came over to see it, crowding around it.

Suizi didn’t understand what was so interesting about it.

There, Yu Jingting stood beside the tractor, a cigarette dangling from his lips, basking in the villagers’ admiration as though he was a star.

His calm demeanor a stark contrast to the ecstatic villagers.

Suizi was almost convinced.

She had seen him practicing poses in front of the mirror the previous night.

All of the nonchalance he displayed today must’ve been rehearsed last night. He probably thought that it gave him an impressive aura?

Wang Cuihua, clutching a tambourine, curiously circled the tractor.

She wanted to perform a shaman dance to bless the tractor. But she gave up the idea, possibly because she remembered she had been faking her shaman identity and that her dance wouldn’t make any difference.

Jiaojiao even rounded up a group of her little friends to watch her brother’s tractor, a look of triumph all over her little face.

From the standpoint of a reincarnator, Suizi thought this tractor was just the first step in Yu Jingting’s long journey and only a grain of sand in the vast sea of his destined glorious life.

But the joy in her family was infectious, and it affected Suizi as well.

She wrote "Safe in and out" on a red paper and pasted it faithfully onto the vehicle.

The villagers wouldn’t leave. Felling cold, Suizi went inside.

The room was filled with smoke.

Wang Cuihua was burning incense, murmuring before a portrait of Yu Shuisheng.

"You, old ghost, must bless our son to be safe outside and especially bless his wife so she can deliver the baby safely. May our whole family be safe and sound."

Seeing Suizi come in, Wang Cuihua quickly dried the corners of her eyes.

"Suizi, come with me."

Suizi followed her mother-in-law into the inner room.

Wang Cuihua unlocked a camphorwood box.

Inside the camphorwood box were the clothes for seasons change, neatly wrapped in cloths per category.

Wang Cuihua took out each cloth wrap and put it on the bed.

"Mother, what are you looking for?" Assuming her mother-in-law was looking for clothes, Suizi wanted to help.

"Found it." Wang Cuihua fumbled out a wide-mouthed glass bottle from the bottom of the box.

The bottle was clean. Wang Cuihua overturned it.

Two irregular-shaped red gemstones quietly lay on Wang Cuihua’s palm.

They varied in size. Judging from the texture, they should be high-grade Nanhong agates.

Anyone who knew about gemstones would immediately recognize that these were antiques.

"These were left by that old ghost while he was still alive, I don’t know where he got them from. Initially, I wanted to save some money to make two rings, mounting these pieces in but I never had enough money..."

"Now, it’s too late for me. You can have it. You can pass it down to your daughter-in-law or your daughter in the future. I have no idea whether it’s valuable or not, just consider it a token of sentiment from the old ghost... Suizi, what’s wrong?"

"This, this?!" Suizi covered her mouth in surprise.

She had uncovered an incredible secret!

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