Siheyuan: I found a wife right after I crossed over

Yes, Yu Li's condition was indeed a bit too much. These days, picking up the bride by bicycle is already a high standard of treatment. If the family is having a hard time, they would still use a cart.

In the countryside, people still use donkeys to pick up people.

As for picking up the bride by car, it is not uncommon, but only if they have the means. Your Yu Li family and Yan Jiecheng family are at most working class families, and none of them have ever ridden in a car in their lives, yet they still want to pick up the bride by car.

It’s also fortunate that Yang Chong has this car and is popular and willing to help you. Otherwise, without this car, wouldn’t you two have gotten married?

Not to mention Yu Xiu's mumbling, people in the courtyard were also gossiping all kinds of things.

Some people also said that when Yu Xiu and Yang Chong got married, they had never ridden in a car, so why should Yan Jiecheng’s wife ride in one?

Yang Chong thought for a moment and said, "How about I tell them that they can't use the car anymore?"

Yu Xiu shook her head: "Forget it, I've already promised him, if I don't let him use it now, I'll completely offend him."

Yang Chong thought about it and it made sense. It wasn't that he was afraid of offending the Yan family, but he had already agreed, and it would be inappropriate to go back on his word.

Up ahead, the Yan family is also busy preparing for the upcoming wedding.

As the wedding day draws closer, many things are put on the agenda and all the trivial matters are being taken care of.

Today, Yu Li came to Yan's house and asked Yan Jiecheng to accompany her to the street to buy clothes for her wedding.

This should be the case. After all, it is a major event in life, who doesn’t want to dress up beautifully?

But when they came back from shopping, Yan Bugui and the third aunt were about to cry. It was good enough for other people to buy one new set of clothes for the bride, but Yu Li actually asked Yan Jiecheng to buy her three sets of clothes today!

It cost Yan Jiecheng a full fifty dollars!

Yan Bugui was so distressed that his teeth almost fell out. But there was nothing he could do. He had already spent all the money and his daughter-in-law would be home soon. It was not worth getting angry over the fifty yuan. If he angered Yu Li, he would just pretend to be depressed at home.

Be patient, be patient, wait until you marry her and make her a member of your family, then you can slowly train her, Yan Bugui thought.

At this moment, Yang Chong was working day and night to transform the equipment at the steel rolling mill. Originally, this work should have been done some time ago, but it was delayed because he went to the front line. Now that he is back in Sijiu City, Yang Chong wants to make up for the lost time.

Although the current steel mills have made a lot of technical improvements, their supporting equipment is still far behind and cannot meet the requirements of new technologies. If the equipment can be upgraded to keep up, the production of the steel mills will reach a new level.

The No. 1 Steel Plant is facing the same problem. It has upgraded the technology of both plants, but the outdated equipment needs to be improved. Otherwise, the leading technology cannot be brought into play.

He had almost prepared a plan for the equipment transformation, and he just needed to sort it out. But after the plan was put forward, it needed financial support from above, which was a considerable investment. Under the difficult economic situation in the country, it was still unknown what the attitude of the above would be, and whether they could fully support it.

Yang Chong didn't have time to think so much. All he had to do was to come up with a plan and a budget first, and let the leaders in the department decide the rest.

After two days of sorting out, he finally came up with a plan for the equipment transformation and personally delivered it to Director Yang.

When Director Yang heard that if this plan could be implemented, the technical indicators and output of the steel rolling mill's products would reach an unprecedented level, he seemed very excited. He first asked Yang Chong to sit down, personally poured him a cup of hot tea, and then sat there to carefully read the transformation plan.

He kept nodding as he read, and sometimes he would slap the table excitedly: "Not bad, good, Yang Chong, how did you come up with this?"

The excitement was just like what people in later generations felt when they watched a cool drama or article.

After finally finishing reading it, he nodded and picked up the phone in front of him: "Okay, this plan is great. I'll call the big boss now and send him this plan. He will definitely be happy if he reads it."

Yang Chong said, "Director Yang, don't worry. There is still a budget sheet that you haven't read yet. It won't be too late to report after you have read the budget sheet."

"Oh?" Director Yang was stunned for a moment, then he realized there was a budget sheet at the back. He put down the phone he had just picked up and took a look at the budget sheet.

As soon as he took a look, his brows furrowed: "This, is the budget so big?"

The budget figures on the table were astonishingly large, completely exceeding Director Yang's psychological expectations.

Yang Chong nodded: "There is no other way. If we want to fully utilize the effectiveness of the new technology, we have to completely transform the existing equipment. The cost is a bit high, but after the transformation is successful, the effect will be obvious. The benefits we get will be several times or even dozens of times the cost we pay now."

"But this cost..." Director Yang frowned and said, "It's completely beyond our ability to bear. This is the cost of several factories for several years. If I report this, I'm afraid I'll be criticized."

Yang Chong said: "Director Yang, although the cost is high, I believe that the department leaders will definitely see the huge benefits after the transformation. Compared with the huge benefits and impacts in the future, these expenses are definitely worth it."

Director Yang shook his head and said, "Xiao Yang, you still don't quite understand the current situation. Although the benefits of this plan are obvious, the problem is that we can't afford the initial investment. The department leaders are also stretched to the limit and can't approve such a large amount of money. If we report it to the higher-ups, we'll get into big trouble."

"It's a pity to waste such a good plan. I think we should put it aside for a while." He shook his head, opened the drawer and put the plan and budget sheet in it: "Let's wait a little longer. Submit it when the situation improves and the right opportunity comes. Submitting it now will cause big trouble."

"Then Director Yang, how long do you think it will take before the right opportunity comes?" Yang Chong asked unwillingly when he saw that the renovation plan he had worked hard on for several days was idle.

Director Yang smiled bitterly and said, "I can't answer this question for you. It may be a few years, or maybe more than ten years."

Yang Chong got anxious when he heard this: "If it takes a few years or even more than ten years, then what's the point of upgrading this equipment? By that time, foreign countries will have upgraded it long ago, and we will still be backward. Are we just going to watch this great opportunity being thrown away in vain?"

Director Yang said, "There is no other way. This is the current situation in our country. You are still young and don't understand some things. I am really doing this for your own good and for the good of everyone."

He looked at Yang Chong apologetically and said, "I know it's not easy for you to work so hard to come up with such a plan. How about you take a break for a few days, then think about it and come up with a more realistic plan?"