70s Delicate Girl: A Guide to Being a Rich Woman-Chapter 169: Agreement Reached

Watching Xu Mumu and the others leave, Yin Yang finally turned and headed to the team leader’s house. It wasn’t work time yet and it was still quite early, so the team leader must be at home.

"Yin Zhiqing? Is there something you need?" The team leader’s wife opened the door and was a bit surprised to see it was Yin Yang.

"Auntie, I need to talk to the team leader. Is he in?" Yin Yang said gently.

"He is. Come in. Guodong, Yin Zhiqing is here to see you," she called toward the yard, and Zhao Guodong came out of the room wiping his face.

"Yin Zhiqing, what brings you here so early? You’re not asking for leave again, are you?" Zhao Guodong said calmly. Yin Yang did ask for leave quite a bit, and ever since Yin Yang arrived, someone had informed Zhao that if Yin Yang wanted leave, just grant it.

"I’m not here to ask for leave, it’s about something else," Yin Yang said helplessly. Was it that whenever he sought out the team leader, it could only be about leave? Is this how the team leader viewed him? It shouldn’t be, didn’t everyone have a good impression of him?

"Come over then, what’s the matter?" Zhao Guodong asked with curiosity.

"Team leader, this is a pedal-powered threshing machine drawn by Comrade Xu Mumu..." Yin Yang took out the blueprint and briefly explained the principle and purpose.

"So, you and Xu Mumu came up with this and want the team to fund it. But Yin Zhiqing, this isn’t cheap to make, and our team’s funds..." Although he wasn’t the treasurer, the team leader had a good idea of how much money the team had.

"I can provide the funds, but I have one condition." Yin Yang looked at the team leader as he spoke. He wasn’t short on money and now wanted to fix the cowshed over there; it was too rundown. In winter, it would certainly be cold, and his grandfather’s health wasn’t good. If he got sick, it would be troublesome.

"What condition?" Zhao Guodong hesitated for a moment, not expecting the young man to want to negotiate terms with him.

"After the harvest, let the team’s people renovate the cowshed. It’s too rundown," Yin Yang said calmly.

"I can’t make that decision on my own. I’ll need to discuss it with the accountant and secretary," Zhao Guodong said, giving Yin Yang a deep look. He was aware of Yin Yang sneaking to the cowshed but chose to turn a blind eye.

Since those old professors arrived, they had been quite low-key and he actually respected them quite a bit. If not for the upper policies, he wouldn’t have assigned such heavy work to them.

"Alright. If the discussion goes well, I’ll head to the steel factory this afternoon," Yin Yang nodded calmly. He was willing to pay, fully believing they would be agreeable.

Indeed, what Yin Yang thought turned out to be true. Before noon, Zhao Guodong came to him. The team agreed to his conditions. Simply renovating the cowshed was quite easy; materials could be sourced locally.

The walls could be made of loess mud walls, and for the roof, once the grain was threshed, there’d be plenty of straw to lay over the top.

When Xu Mumu returned from school, Yin Yang told her that everything was settled, and in two days, the county’s machinery factory would bring over the machine for them.

"Yin Zhiqing, are you always this efficient?" Xu Mumu was momentarily stunned, then looked at Yin Yang with surprise.

"I have some connections at the steel factory, so it made things easier," Yin Yang said with a smile.

The simple pedal-powered threshing machine wasn’t something the machinery factory hadn’t made before. It wasn’t hard to produce, and with Yin Yang’s connections, his order naturally was prioritized.

"How did you persuade the team leader?" Xu Mumu asked curiously.

"I just mentioned that I’d pay, and by the way, asked them to renovate the cowshed," Yin Yang smiled. Problems that could be solved with money were hardly problems at all.

"Oh, alright," Xu Mumu accepted. This guy was quite determined to get a more comfortable living place for his grandpa.

"The team also mentioned they’d hold an awards ceremony after the autumn harvest," Yin Yang laughed while looking at Xu Mumu.

"Oh, please, I just drew the picture. Those parameters were hard to calibrate. Without you, if I were to do it alone, autumn harvest would have been over by the time it was ready," Xu Mumu said sheepishly.

"That’s not up to me. Your great uncle seems to think highly of you," Yin Yang chuckled. Upon knowing that the drawing was made by Xu Mumu, her great uncle was thrilled.

"Great uncle just really likes kids," Xu Mumu said helplessly. Over at great uncle’s place, there was always just one child, and compared to her family, they were at a disadvantage in having children.

Hence, great uncle loved children, especially his own few grandkids. He’d often give candies to Minglei and the others.

She still remembered the piece of oilcloth her dad brought back from great uncle’s house, which was still on her roof, keeping the rain out.

Yin Yang just smiled faintly without saying much, and Xu Mumu took her few family kids back home.

When she got home, her family hadn’t yet finished work, still busy in the fields, so Xu Mumu went to do her own chores. She hadn’t finished her translation work yet.

When Xu Hai and they came back, they looked at Xu Mumu with delight, clearly already aware of the threshing machine deal, naturally informed by great uncle.

"Girl, you really are capable, even managing a threshing machine," Li Caixia looked at Xu Mumu, delighted.

"Mom, I just drew a picture; the rest was all done by Yin Zhiqing," Xu Mumu said helplessly. She only didn’t want her family working so hard seeing how tired they were.

"If you hadn’t drawn it, how would Yin Zhiqing get the spotlight?" Li Caixia directly credited it all to Xu Mumu.

Xu Mumu sighed helplessly. Her mother already had an established mindset about it that she couldn’t change.

Anyhow, through this incident, the Old Xu Family once again realized the importance of knowledge, which was a good thing.

Xu Mumu was quite curious about what kind of connections Yin Yang had with the steel factory, especially when a tractor delivered the threshing machine. There hadn’t been outsiders in the village for a long time, much less someone arriving on a tractor, so most of the villagers ran over to watch.

At that time, Xu Mumu was at school, and when she got back, her mom was animatedly recounting the event of the tractor’s arrival.

Everyone had seen tractors before; the team had one old tractor only used for very important matters with the team leader’s permission.

The steel factory people came in a new tractor, noticeably better than the one kept by the team.

"Did you guys use that tractor?" Xu Mumu asked Xu Hai, more concerned about that than who brought it over or how lively it was.