Chapter 76 [Harsuq Mortgages His Wife]
Since Singer Industrial Group started to operate at full capacity, the entire Sinjar town building materials market has completely changed. Because it is a monopoly operation with no other competing enterprises, the cement plant and asbestos tile plant of Singer Group have seen their sales performance rise steadily since they got on track, and the speed of making money can be described as robbery.
It is now mid-January, and it is the middle stage of the dry season. The rain in the sky is gradually decreasing, and the temperature is also suitable, very dry. Such good weather is suitable for house inspection, and the publicity methods adopted by Singer Industrial are too shameless. Why do you say that? Unlike other manufacturers who advertise and distribute brochures, Singer Industrial's publicity method is actually verbal approval, and they spent money to hire a group of idle people in Sinjar town who are good at speaking.
Carry out unified simple training, and then spread these publicity personnel into the society, so that these good at speaking people can hold Singer Group's brochures. Go to all over the country to promote how good the cement produced by Singer Industries is, how cheap and durable asbestos tiles are, and the payment method is very flexible. You can pay in one lump sum or in installments. Your family paid without asking any questions.
One person spreads it, two spreads it, and three spreads it. When many people spread it, it becomes a fact. In addition, the brochures print how beautiful the houses with cement stone tiles in big cities should be. How happy the people living in them should be. These pictures are deeply rooted in people's hearts. Society is made up of people, and there must be competition in places with many people. In every village, there will be a family that spends a huge amount of money to buy back the cement asbestos tiles from Singer Industries and then starts to renovate their own houses.
Became the first person in the whole village to eat crabs. When the house was built, everyone could see how bright, beautiful, and durable it was. Moreover, after renovating the house, the owner of this house always had a smiling face no matter who he met, and what was even more excessive was that he invited some of his distant relatives to visit his home.
Under the gaze of the villagers, the owner of this house personally introduced to the relatives from afar how good the cement house he had spent a huge amount of money to build was. Old man, who could stand such a show-off? No matter what, the man who built the house was considered a middle-class family in the village. He was not that rich, but he was bold and dared to order a batch of building materials from Singh Industrial Cement Factory and Asbestos Tile Factory in installments.
After coming back to build the house, the family's status in the village is rising steadily. The eldest son with cerebral palsy who was previously ignored. He was actually targeted by the matchmaker. The family in the next village was willing to pay a huge dowry and took the initiative to propose marriage. This made the owner of the house feel that building the house was a wise decision.
Wherever he went, he almost put his eyes on the top of his head, and he was so arrogant that he even had a habit of receiving pedestrians coming and going at the window. Sometimes he even took the initiative to pull those people who were in a hurry, pointed at his beautiful and tall cement house, talked and laughed, and showed off.
So arrogant, do you think people of the same class in the village can stand it? You just took out a loan to build a cement house with 3 bedrooms and 1 living room. If you can get a loan, why can't we get a loan? The well-known people in the village who were not much wealthier than this house-building company began to take action, and they really couldn't stand the other party's arrogance.
The male owner came to Sinjar Town and Singer Building Materials Company with his family savings and livestock certificates. Like the store manager of the building materials company, Vilal, to negotiate business, of course these people didn't have so much cash to buy tons of cement and asbestos tiles. They could only take installment payments or mortgages to bring these cement and stone tiles to the village to build houses.
And when their husbands took the money out to buy building materials, the wives of these villagers were not idle and began to organize some good female villagers to do logistics support. They even asked their children to run to relatives in other villages and inform them that these relatives would come to help build houses in two days. Wow, it was so lively.
Those who are determined to pay high interest in installments to repair their houses have improved their social status and reputation to a certain extent. It shows that their family lives a rich life, which makes those Shudras living at the bottom envious. One of the Shudras is named Harsuko.
Harsuko is 41 years old this year. His family rents a few acres of land and married a wife at the age of 25. He used the dowry brought by his wife to buy a human-powered tricycle that can carry thousands of pounds of weight and do transportation work in the town of Sinjar. In this way, life has become better day by day.
Although it cannot be said that they are rich, the food produced in the family is enough for food, and they can also make some living money from the transportation business to improve their family life. At least the four children have clothes and shoes to wear. Finally, two daughters were born. The economic pressure in the family is relatively large. The eldest daughter is already 14 years old but has not saved enough dowry.
No one accepted their family's request in advance, so they kept delaying. Harsukh, who had been running a transport business in the town, was also well-informed. Although he didn't know a few words, he had a lot of experience and a flexible mind. He saw those Shudras who lived a better life bought cement and asbestos tiles from Singh Building Materials Store with loans and came back to build houses. Their status in the village was rising steadily, and their daughters and sons had no worries about getting married, which made Harsukh feel extremely unbalanced.
Others were people, and so were they. They were all in the Shudra class. Who was better than who? Why could others improve their status in the village, but he couldn't? After wasting time at home and weighing the pros and cons for several days, he finally made up his mind to take his own property to Singh Building Materials Store to buy cement and asbestos tiles to build a house.
But his family lived in a mud house, a house made of adobe and thatch, with no doors or windows, and only 30 square meters. How much money could such a house be mortgaged? If you can't even buy two bags of cement, how can you build a house? After Singh Building Materials learned about Harsukh's family situation, they decisively rejected him.
But people are forced to be flexible, and some strange and even perverted traditions in Indian society are real. I don't know what Harsukh is thinking? Or was he driven crazy by the villagers who were building houses in those villages? He actually pulled his 30-year-old wife on a tricycle and ran to Sinjar Town. Singh Building Materials used his wife as collateral and bought a full two tons of cement and 40 asbestos tiles with a loan.
The total value of these building materials is 24,000 rupees, which is more than 2,000 yuan if converted into RMB, but 24,000 rupees in Sinjar Town. That belongs to the category of huge loans, a ten-month loan. If you can't repay the 24,000 rupees, there is still an interest of 2,400 rupees. Harsukh mortgaged his wife to the building materials store, and he would become a slave owned by the Singh family.