Chapter 141: 143: The Car-Owning Class

Chapter 141: Chapter 143: The Car-Owning Class

Manual labor is hard, but an electric one is much easier, for everything in the future. Apart from other things, if someone in the house gets a headache or a fever and the village health center can’t handle it, we have to go to the hospital in the city. If we walk, it takes two hours. If we ride a tricycle, it still takes an hour. But with this electric tricycle, it will take less than half an hour.

Tang Zhinian was in agreement. Who wouldn’t want such a handy asset? If anyone in the village owns an electric tricycle, it’s enough to make others green with envy.

He had always wanted an electric one, but he never had enough money. Wait, that’s not right. In fact, he did have the money. All the money earned from selling coriander was saved without a penny being spent.

But he didn’t dare to touch that money because it was for marrying off Tang Zhijun. They’d earned a lot this year so he felt he could afford to spend a bit too.

“How much does this cost?”

Tang Zhinian was more taken with it the more he looked. He touched the vehicle from corner to corner. Indeed, for a man, a vehicle is an irresistible attraction.

Even a tricycle is still a vehicle.

“One thousand six hundred,” the vendor came over and gave him a straightforward quotation. The price quoted was very real, without any padding. In reality, people these days are so honest that they wouldn’t dare to quote too high a price. No one would dare buy something overpriced otherwise.

“One thousand six hundred?” Tang Zhinian was in a bit of a bind – one thousand six hundred was no small sum. Though their household had earned a lot, spending such an amount all of a sudden was also heart-wrenching.

But he turned back and glanced at Tang Yuxin. She looked so small standing next to the tricycle, her little face appearing jovial, evidently also very fond of it.

“Alright, let’s buy it,” he clenched his teeth. Purchasing it would indeed be convenient. In case there’s any emergency at home, they wouldn’t need to fret over finding a doctor.

So, he paid the one thousand six hundred.

Once the vehicle was selected and test-driven, Tang Zhinian withdrew money from the bank and promptly paid it. Then he practiced riding it in the open space. It’s quite similar to the manual tricycle at home, but it’s faster and heavier. However, it wasn’t difficult.

When it was almost dark, Tang Zhinian took Tang Yuxin back to the village. She enjoyed shopping very much, and of course, she helped her father keep a close eye on their new tricycle, so it wouldn’t attract any thieves.

By the time they returned, Tang Zhijun was already back.

“Uncle, Uncle...”

Sisi ran out from the inside. Wearing her new clothes, she came out very happily to show off her new treasures.

“Our Sisi is growing up so nicely,” Tang Zhinian reached out and hugged Sisi, touching her chubby little face. After a winter of nurturing, she had gained back some weight, her face looking rounder. But no matter how thin or chubby she was, she was a beautiful child.

Sisi bit her little finger, feeling extremely curious about the good things Tang Zhinian brought back.

“You little rascal, you have your part too,” Tang Zhinian held Sisi in one hand and rummaged through the tricycle with the other, pulling out a big doll to give to Sisi.

Sisi, warmly thanking her uncle, took the doll and held it tightly in her arms, absolutely delighted. It felt as though she had another little companion to play with. She struggled out of Tang Zhinian’s arms, holding the doll and went off in search of her mother.

“Come on over and try it.”

Tange Zhinian called over his younger brother to try out their newly purchased electric tricycle.

“Alright.”

Tang Zhijun rubbed his hands together. Without even unloading the items from the tricycle, he hopped onto the vehicle. He had ridden other people’s electric tricycles in the village before, so this was not new to him. In fact, he picked it up more easily than Tang Zhinian.

In a matter of moments, he could already ride the tricycle around the village.

Tang Zhinian called both his brother and sister-in-law together. He then took out their bank books. With such a large amount of money, they had kept it in the bank and not left much at home. The previous flood incident had given them quite a scare. If not for Tang Yuxin unintentionally finding the money, he wasn’t sure how long it would have taken for them, the brothers, to save ten thousand yuan.