Reborn 1990's Fat Wife Should Be Self-Reliant

Chapter 12 Rent a House

The old man stepped forward to feel the pulse, muttered and went behind the counter.

Only now did Zhou Huilan notice that this room was an old-fashioned wooden structure with extremely high beams. Behind the counter on the west side was a whole wall of traditional Chinese medicine cabinets, which were four or five meters high, and a custom-made ladder was placed next to it. Take medicine.

The old man took a pill, took a little off and melted it in wine, first put it under his nose and smelled it for a while, then pinched it on his neck, the old lady took a deep breath, and then woke up slowly.

"Damn old woman, drink this and get out of my house!" The old man put the wine cup aside, turned his head and left.

Zhou Huilan was confused by this attitude, for fear that the old lady would be serious and refused to take the medicine.

But the old man poured the medicine into his stomach without saying a word, raised his head, then supported Zhou Huilan's arm, and walked straight out.

The old lady dragged Zhou Huilan straight into a small door diagonally opposite. This door was very narrow, and there was a long and narrow passage behind it. Zhou Huilan's fat body squeezed into the door. The aisle stopped awkwardly.

She came to look for a house. Since the old lady is out of danger, she should go too.

But the old lady didn't let her go, "Daughter, thank you for saving my mother's life, come and sit down for a while."

The hospitality was hard to come by, Zhou Huilan also wanted to ask the old lady about renting a house nearby, so she pressed her stomach against the wall and walked through the aisle with great difficulty.

The yard looked rundown, but upon closer inspection, everything was clean and tidy.

On the right is a row of big houses with blue bricks and gray tiles, facing the small gate is a corridor, and there is a rockery pond in the middle, but the pond is dry, and the land next to the rockery is bare, only a small piece of land is planted with vegetables.

"Come on, come in and sit down."

Zhou Huilan, who was stunned, came back to her senses and followed the old man into the house.

It was the same old house as a traditional Chinese medicine shop, except that the roof looked higher, but apart from a delicately carved old-fashioned canopy bed, there was only a washstand and a chair.

The old lady moved the chair to Zhou Huilan, so she had no place to sit.

"Look at me, there's not even a chair in this house, girl, sit down quickly."

Zhou Huilan felt that her weight could collapse the chair, and quickly waved her hand, "Old man, I won't sit on it. You just recovered and rested more, so I won't bother you."

"Thank you, girl, you saved my life, but my old woman has nothing..." The old man became depressed, "I am alone, and I will die at some point, oh..."

"Old man, I want to rent a house near here. Do you know anyone who has a vacant house for rent near here?"

Zhou Huilan quickly changed the subject, but the old lady suddenly slapped her hands and stood up viciously, "The people living around here are all Zhou Bapi! How can anyone rent a house!" After finishing speaking, she took Zhou Huilan's hand, "Girl , why don’t you live with me! You saved my life, and I don’t have anything to repay you, and I don’t want any rent when you come to live here, so let me repay your life-saving grace.”

This……

The surprise came so suddenly that Zhou Huilan was a little at a loss.

However, without waiting for her to respond, the old man spoke out what happened to him in a bamboo tube.

The old lady's husband's family name is Duan, her maiden name is Xu, married, and within a month of marriage, her husband went to the battlefield. During the war, he wrote a letter to his family, and there was no news after that.

The husband is the only child in the family. After the man left, she and her parents-in-law were left in the family. People in that era paid attention to loyalty.

Originally, half of Songbai Street belonged to Duan's family. When it was first liberated, the parents-in-law decided to hand it over once, and they were forced to divide half of it during the exercise. Now there is only such a small garden left.

"This room used to be full of huanghuali furniture, but now this bed is all that's left. If it wasn't for them not being able to carry it out, they wouldn't even keep this bed for me." The old lady said, lamenting, "I used to have a cat, but it disappeared recently. I saw it on the wall early in the morning and I looked for it, but I didn't expect to make a mistake and fell into the corner. If it weren't for you, I would have gone to see Lord Hades today. Now, if you have no place to live, you can just move here, as if you pitied my old lady and came to accompany me, do you think it's okay?"

The old man talked about this point, if Zhou Huilan refused again, he would not know what is good and what is wrong.

To be honest, this courtyard still met her expectations.

There is a lot of traffic nearby, there are yards and land, and the old lady is obviously a straightforward person after chatting.

"Ms. Xu, I can come and stay with you, but I have a four-year-old daughter who needs to be with me. You have to pay the rent. If you don't, I won't come."

"How can you call me Mrs. Xu, you have to call me Granny Duan."

"Okay, Granny Duan."

In the end, it was agreed that Zhou Huilan would live in the room next to the big house, and the rent would be [-] per month. However, there was no furniture in the house, and Zhou Huilan had to buy what was missing.

Putting down the small burden of carrying her daughter's things, Zhou Huilan spent two hours scrubbing the house that had not been lived in for a long time, and followed the guidance of Granny Duan, and came to the nearby second-hand market.

In 93, as the initial nouveau riche lived a good life, more and more people went to sea to do business and made money, so the second-hand market was born. Most of the old-fashioned furniture that was eliminated were made by carpenters in the early years. Although the appearance is outdated, it is definitely not a problem.

What Zhou Huilan needs most is to be strong.

After turning around twice, she took a fancy to a 1.8-meter large bed with a foot-high fence on three sides. The standard bed size for newlyweds has just been upgraded to 1.5 meters these days, so this large bed is an antique in the second-hand market. .

The boss asked for 25 yuan, but in the end Zhou Huilan only paid [-] yuan, brought two chairs, and spared the boss a small hand-push stone mill, which she planned to use to grind soybean milk.

To set up a stall, it is safest to start with the lowest-cost soybeans.

After tidying up the bed, only mattresses and bedding are needed.

Zhou Huilan's first reaction was of course to buy a new one, she is not short of money now.

But I went to the nearest department store and asked. A set of the most common bed sheet and quilt cover costs 40 yuan, a three-pound cotton quilt cover costs 30 yuan, and a hard board bed weighs eight catties no matter how soft it is. It's two hundred less, and that's not counting the quilts of different weights in different seasons, and the sheets and quilts that need to be changed.

Zhou Huilan admitted that she felt distressed.

Thinking about the house in the meat joint factory, Wang Jianye never went back to sleep at all. The bedding was bought by herself.

Immediately, I went back to the gate of the second-hand market to find two tricycles, and negotiated a deal of five yuan each to help her pull the quilt to the family courtyard of the meat factory, but one car was loaded with quilts, and the other car was to pull her and Yao. Yao's.

(End of this chapter)