The Little Days of the Great Landlord

Chapter 11 Shabby House
It was already noon when Yang Ming returned to the rented room in Sunshine Community. At this time, Wei Qingqing was alone. She was lying on the bed, blowing on a small electric fan, and reading a book bored.

"Are you back? How did the talk go?" Seeing Yang Ming coming back, Wei Qingqing hurriedly got off the bed.

"Hmm! It's okay! Auntie Zhang took good care of me. Are your sisters gone?" Yang Ming sat on the bed and threw the file bag on the bed. There was a thick stack of contracts in it!
"I left a long time ago, but they are very keen on our tomatoes. She said that they will come in the afternoon." Wei Qingqing poured a glass of water for Yang Ming and smelled alcohol on him, "You drank ?”

"Yeah! After signing the contract, I had a meal with those big bosses to get in touch with each other." Yang Ming took the water, "Let's go to Zhengjia Village in the afternoon. If the house is too dilapidated, we will Hurry up and fix it!"

"Okay! I'll call Fangfang and tell her not to come this afternoon!" Wei Qingqing said, taking out his broken mobile phone from Yang Ming's trouser pocket, and was about to call Sun Fangfang.

After finishing calling Sun Fangfang, Wei Qingqing said, "She said, the three of them are going to identify themselves, and they will go together in the afternoon. They came by car, and I told her, let's leave at two o'clock in the afternoon."

"Just go, to be honest, you girls are crazy!"

"She's just that carefree, and her husband Zhang Yang isn't cheap, so they're a perfect match." Wei Qingqing nodded sympathetically.

After the two chatted for a while, Yang Ming went downstairs to Uncle Zheng's house, and told him about going to Zhengjia Village to look at the house this afternoon, and Uncle Zheng readily agreed.

After one o'clock in the afternoon, Sun Fangfang's family of three came. The car they drove was a commercial vehicle with a large interior space. It would be no problem for seven or eight people to sit. The driver was Sun Fangfang's husband, Zhang Yang. Sit in the back seat.

Yang Ming and Wei Qingqing got into the back seat and sat with Sun Fangfang. Uncle Zheng got into the co-pilot and was in charge of guiding the direction. Under the guidance of Uncle Zheng, the commercial vehicle drove towards Zhengjia Village.

Zhengjia Village is a small mountain village in Huaishu Township, Yungu County, under the jurisdiction of City S, about 60 kilometers away from City S.

The commercial vehicle drove out of the urban area and turned onto a country road at a fork. Walking on the country road, the human voice seemed to disappear suddenly, and the noise of the city seemed to have been left behind by them.

The road condition of the country road is obviously not good, bumpy, there are clusters of weeds on both sides of the road, insects chirping in the grass, and occasionally two crooked trees, cicadas creaking and screaming, but it seems more peaceful.

After walking on the country road for about an hour, the commercial vehicle turned into a fork road under the guidance of Uncle Zheng. The road condition of this fork road was even worse. After another two hours of trembling, we arrived at Huaishu, Yungu County. Township.

The commercial vehicle made several turns and turned onto a gravel road, walked straight along the gravel road, and finally came to a peaceful small mountain village.

"This is Zhengjia Village. It has a small population. There must be about a hundred households! Go straight along this gravel road, and the family at the end is my old house." Uncle Zheng said.

Listening to Uncle Zheng's advice, Zhang Yang drove the car directly to the outside of a small farmyard. Along the way, he saw that they were all tiled houses of green or red bricks, and one or two houses were still made of stone. One exception, all have a spacious large yard.

The car stopped and turned off the engine. Uncle Zheng opened the car door and got out. He pointed to the small farmyard and said, "This is the house! Every year there are always people messing around and thinking about my house!"

Yang Ming and Wei Qingqing also got out of the car, and looked at the small farmyard in front of them in surprise. It was different from what they had imagined. This small farmyard was not dilapidated at all. There was a big willow tree on the right side of the door. , there must be two people hugging each other, the branches almost hang down to the ground, the yard surrounded by the fence, maybe the branches used to surround the fence are easier to live, the green branches have grown on this fence, and there are two big trees growing in the yard One is a chestnut tree and the other is a persimmon tree, both of which are luxuriantly branched and green fruits are hung on them. The east and west rooms are made of mud mixed with straw. It has a rustic atmosphere, and the house is a tile-roofed red brick house. Judging by the degree of weathering of the red bricks, it should have been more than [-] years. Apart from being unpopular, this small courtyard can be regarded as a good house in Zhengjia Village. Combined with the The two also understood what Uncle Zheng said. Someone must be renovating frequently. Yang Ming and Wei Qingqing, who knew about Uncle Zheng's family affairs, could guess in their hearts that the person who renovated the house was most likely that one. The family that pushed Uncle Zheng's son into the river.

"This house is pretty good too! The environment here is also pretty good, with a rustic atmosphere..." Sun Fangfang got out of the car with her baby son in her arms, glanced around, and said.

Uncle Zheng took out the key from his pocket, opened the fence door, "Come in!"

"This Zhengjia village is surrounded by mountains on three sides. There is only one road to the outside, which is the road we came in. There is an old forest on the other side of the mountain. The forest is full of blind bears, wolves, wild boars, etc. Don’t go there by yourself.” Uncle Zheng led everyone into the courtyard, opened the door, and led everyone into the main room. “This small courtyard covers a total area of ​​350 square meters. There are two courtyards at the front and back. The back door leads to the backyard, and the east and west houses can accommodate people, all of which are earth kangs."

Yang Ming and the others also saw that when they first entered the main room, there were two stoves on both sides of the door, one on the left and one on the right, but there was no pot on it, and the mud inside hadn't turned black, obviously it hadn't been burned.

Uncle Zheng took everyone to look around the east and west rooms again. The two rooms were tidied up very neatly. The kang was wiped extremely smooth, pasted with a layer of kraft paper, all kinds of New Year pictures were pasted on the walls, and the windows were made of oil paper. It looked a little dark in the room.

"Don't look at the brick outside of this house, but the inside is made of adobe. If you don't like it, you can tear it down and re-build it. It doesn't cost much to build a house in the countryside. And this earth kang, who still lives in earth kang now... If you are not used to living here, you can dismantle and change the bed, but the stove hall outside cannot be used, remember to block the hole under the house, so that no mice and insects will come in through the hole..." Uncle Zheng stomped his feet The flat blue brick floor of the lower bunk, said.

"It's pretty good, it feels very rustic!" Wei Qingqing said.

"It's fine if you like it," Uncle Zheng nodded, "Three or sixty-nine are the big fairs in Zhangjiazhuangzi, Wangjiaji, and the county; April [-]th is a large collection of Niujiashan, Lijiazhuang, and Hujiabao. If you need anything, you can buy it nearby..."

Uncle Zheng took everyone to the backyard again. The backyard is half the size of the front yard. On the left side of the yard is a large well with a bluestone edge and a pulley. In the corner on the right side of the yard is a simple toilet. Next to the toilet is a A barn with a solid wooden donkey cart and a full set of bridles, but no animals.

"This is the backyard, and behind it is a small ravine. The two acres of land at home is in the mountains. You can get there by taking a car and walking straight from the small ravine. It's about 300 meters away! Do you want to go and have a look?" Uncle Zheng opened the back door , said.

"Let me go and have a look with you, let them rest here first." Seeing that Sun Fangfang was holding the child, it was not easy for them to trek along, so Yang Ming said.

"Okay, you guys go and come back quickly, we have to go back at night tonight, otherwise there will be no place to sleep at night!" Wei Qingqing said.

"I'll go with you too! Ugly sister, don't worry, I'll watch over your husband and promise not to let him be picked up by wolves!" Zhang Yang said at this time.

Everyone laughed, Wei Qingqing kicked him on the butt angrily, and even Uncle Zheng, who had always been gloomy, showed a rare smile, "Don't worry, this small ravine has a horizontal small The ditch has a big drop, and wolves can't get through."

"What's going on, why does this old man look so ugly after he got here? Didn't your husband forcefully buy someone else's house?" After the three men left, Sun Fangfang whispered to Wei Qingqing.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Wei Qingqing gave Sun Fangfang a blank look, and then told her about Uncle Zheng's family.

"So that's what happened. I was afraid of something, so I asked your brother-in-law to follow. You said that this house has been deserted for 30 years, but it doesn't look like this house at all?" Sun Fangfang found a small bench, sat down.

"In my opinion, it must be the family that pushed Uncle Zheng's son into the river. He has been regretting what happened back then, so after Uncle Zheng's family left, he helped take care of him." Wei Qingqing found someone Little Maza, sit next to Sun Fangfang.

"Young lady is right!" Just as Wei Qingqing finished speaking, an old man's voice sounded behind them.

The two women were taken aback, stood up hurriedly, and turned to look.

I saw an old man in his seventies standing in the backyard leaning on a small walking stick.

"Who are you?" Seeing that it was an old man, Wei Qingqing asked the two girls without panicking.

"I'm Zheng Yunqian's uncle. My name is Zheng Guangrong. I used to be the party secretary of Zhengjia Village. Miss, Xiaoqian is back. Where did he go?" the old man whispered.

Wei Qingqing knew that Zheng Yunqian was Uncle Zheng, so he said, "Old man, Uncle Zheng has already given us the house and the land, and he took my husband and the others to see the land."

"He's going to sell this little property? He won't come back even after he dies?" Mr. Zheng Guangrong lost his voice when he heard this.

"It's not sold, it's given!" Wei Qingqing corrected.

"Xiao Qianzi's line is extinct. If he sells his belongings, let's sell them. Poor Zheng Yu, don't feel at ease in this life." Zheng Guangrong sighed dejectedly.

"Sit down, old man, can you tell us what's going on? Maybe we can help you!" Wei Qingqing quickly gave up her ponytail to the old man.

"You all know about Xiaoqianzi's family, so I'm not afraid to tell you!" Zheng Guangrong sat on the saddle with his walking stick in his arms, "I'm afraid you all know what happened 30 years ago, so I told you about it." Let’s talk about what happened later, that Zheng Yu was the bastard who pushed Xiaoqianzi’s Ergouzi into the river, he must be 37 years old this year! He was still young at that time, only seven or eight years old, not sensible, Just treat it as fun, after Er Gouzi is gone, he still looks for him all over the world to play with, he doesn't know that Er Gouzi will never come back, and then gradually grows up and becomes sensible, knowing that Er Gouzi is not In his hands, I live in regret all day long. It has been like this all these years. Which family in the village was the first to build a brick house? With the money he got, he bought tiles and built them up bit by bit by himself. He didn’t want to ruin the appearance of the house, so he took the bricks and pasted them one by one outside, and built them one by one. Every year, every year and holidays Yes, put New Year pictures and couplets on the inside and outside of the house, and clean the inside and outside of the house once every ten days and a half months. In the past thirty years, he has never stopped. He is not young, and he is not married. Daughter-in-law, their family is about to die, so he just wants to hear his uncle and aunt say something to him, even if they scold him, or beat him up! The head of the family has made peace, but once we make peace The conversation broke down once, and now, Xiaoqianzi even hates us..."

Listening to the old man's words, the two girls were silent for a long time. Sun Fangfang hugged the baby son in her arms tightly, thinking about it, her baby son is gone... Bah, bah, it's unlucky... Why don't you go crazy?It's meaningless to live.

Wei Qingqing felt a little heavy, "Well, let's try to talk to Uncle Zheng and the others!"

"Girl, if you have such a heart, the old man will thank you! Speaking of it, it is also a tragedy for our old Zheng's family!" Zheng Guangrong nodded gratefully.

The old man didn't dare to stay for long, fearing that Uncle Zheng would make him face when he came back, so he left in a hurry.

Shangouzi is a mountain trail with a width of about 20 meters. Uncle Zheng took Yang Ming and Zhang Yang along the mountain valley to the two acres of land. There is no weeds, and there is a small mountain stream flowing down from the mountain on the ground. The small mountain stream is ten meters wide, the water quality is clear, and there are small fish wandering in it.

"The two acres of land were allocated by the team. Because our family is blocked at the end of a small ravine, we were allocated these two acres of land. Speaking of which, we opened up these two acres of land ourselves. Our family used to have two acres of land. Quite a lot, and a lot of land was allocated. After our family had an accident, we returned all the other land to the country, and left this piece of land." Uncle Zheng showed a sad look on his face again, "This land guards the mountain. The brook is very fertile, so when you plant it, you burn the grass, just plow it once.”

"It's really nice here, quite quiet." Yang Ming stood on the field row and looked around.

"There are still fish in the creek. I will get a net to catch some later. The wild fish and farmed fish are different." Zhang Yang looked at the fish swimming in the creek, drooling a little.

"Okay, that's all, it's getting dark, let's go back, and go to the village tomorrow to go through the transfer procedures." Uncle Zheng said.

So, the three of them started walking back.

ps: Ask for recommendation, ask for collection...

(End of this chapter)