Wearing eighty books, the little widow turns into a rich woman

Chapter 7

Only then did she understand why Liu Jinbao brought his bums to make trouble, and no one from the two neighbors said anything.

As soon as Lin Lan walked to the center of Jigeng Road, He Cuicui said loudly on purpose: "Lin Lan, I heard that you are rich now, hurry up and return the money you borrowed from us."

"Okay!" Lin Lan counted four yuan and returned it to the two, blushing and said, "I'm sorry, I only returned the money to you today."

Li Guizhi, who originally thought it would take a lot of talking, looked at her in surprise, reached out to take the money, and said softly, "Just pay it back."

He Cuicui twitched her lips: "If you have money to buy sunflower seeds, you will have no money to pay back." After saying that, she dragged Li Guizhi away.

The two went to Zhang Yazhen's house, and He Cuicui looked at Zhang Yazhen with a smile: "I was in a hurry just now, and I haven't asked you how you know Lin Lan is rich?"

Zhang Yazhen went to the gate of the courtyard, took a look, closed the gate and came back with a proud face: "Liu San brought people to kick the door of Yang's house this morning... I heard Yang Dingbang tell the police that Liu Jinbao should pay for her door. He also said Youngest Yang owes a gambling debt that has nothing to do with Lin Lan."

"I saw that she left with the police, and stood at the gate of the courtyard waiting for her to ask for money when she came back. How could she have given it to me without hesitation."

He Cuicui giggled: "Yazhen, you're still smart, otherwise you don't want to get back the money!"

Zhang Yazhen smiled triumphantly, and whispered in He Cuicui's ear: "I'm going to have a fight with her and ask Yang Dingbang to help pay back the money."

He Cuicui glanced at her: "Will Yang Dingbang pay her back?"

Zhang Yazhen frowned and said, "He's a criminal police officer with a few bucks, can he catch his eye?"

He Cuicui nodded: "That's true."

Li Guizhi smiled: "In fact, Lin Lan is quite pitiful. I thought she was married to the edge of the city, but she didn't know that the youngest Yang is just a poor, tinkling gambler and bum."

"Why do you feel sorry for her?" Zhang Yazhen curled her lips, "She was originally a shallow-sighted, lazy woman, but now she is a widow with a demonic appearance, we want her a little bit, you know what I mean! "

"Know!"

The two understood, and thanked Zhang Yazhen with a smile, and went home separately.

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Lin Lan stood in the courtyard and looked at her current home. The courtyard faced south and was spacious.The house is surrounded by an adobe brick wall, and there is a vegetable field more than one cent in size.

There is a bamboo grove outside the west wall, and outside the east wall is the Yang family's private land. The rapeseed planted in the field was planted by the original owner's mother two months ago with her two brothers.

The house looks old. The brick walls of the three main rooms are covered with tiles, and the east and west wing rooms have three rooms each, but they have earthen walls and the roof is covered with straw.

The one on the right side of the hall is the wedding room of the original owner and Yang Guangming. After Yang Guangming died, the original owner didn't dare to live in it, so he moved to the left one.

In the west wing, the one next to the main room is a firewood room. There is a stone mill in the corner of the door, which is piled with firewood and various sundries.

The other two are pigpens, and there is a boxy chicken coop made of moso bamboo in the corner. The latrine is also in the pigsty house, and a cesspit was dug directly to the cesspool below, which was dug behind the west wing.

The main room has double doors, the east wing next to the main room is the stove room, and the other two are the rooms of Yang Guangming's three sisters when they were not married.

A long bamboo pole is hung horizontally under the eaves of the corridor, and a three-layer triangular basin stand is placed against the wall, with two wooden basins placed on it.

There were two old towels hanging on the basin rack, and a small square mirror on top of the soap dish.

Lin Lan leaned closer to Xiao Fangjing and saw her current appearance, oval face, phoenix eyes, straight nose, slightly bigger mouth, slightly thicker lips, long black hair messily on top of her head.

After Lin Lan saw it, she felt that the original owner's appearance was several times better than her character.

She brushed her hair up and pulled it back with her hands to get ready for work.

Pushing open the door of the stove, one sees a small square table and a few small bamboo chairs, then turns around and sees a small door behind, and a light bulb hanging on the beam.

Lin Lan looked at the yellowed light bulbs, and thought it would be better to go to the suburbs, so she turned on the electric lights these days.The place where she used to live was not connected to electricity until [-], and she still remembers the joy of everyone that day.

The next day at school, the teacher made a riddle for everyone to guess: There is a vine in the house, and a melon grows on the vine. When the sun goes down, red flowers bloom in the melon.

Looking over, there is a double-eyed earthen stove built against the wall, and a shiny black and red pottery kettle hangs in front of the stove. it.

There was a messy pile of firewood in front of the stove, and green onion leaves, vegetable roots, and sweet potato skins were thrown on the ground.There are two iron pots on the stove, dirty dishes and chopsticks are placed in the outer pot, and half pot of hogwater is in the inner pot.

The cement-smeared stovetop has not been washed for some time, and it is black and dirty.There was a big pottery bowl against the wall, on top of which was a dirty shaukei, and there were two more hanging on the wall.

There is a thick wooden cupboard with mottled colors against the wall behind the stove. It looks old at first glance, but it is still very strong.

Next to the cupboard, near the back door was a large water tank covered with a bamboo cover. Lin Lan opened it and saw that there was only a little muddy bottom water in the tank.

She unlatched the latch and opened the back door, and saw a small courtyard behind, and a well on the right side of the small courtyard, covered with a round stone slab cover.

Beside the well is a square, [-] to [-] centimeters high cement pool. There is a strip-shaped whetstone next to the pool. A bluestone washboard is placed near the wall, and a gutter leads directly to the outside of the courtyard.

There is a half-sized vegetable field on the left side of the small courtyard, and there is a small wooden door in the backyard wall.A little shallot, coriander and Huoxiang were planted in the vegetable field.The outside of the fence is full of bamboo forests, and the roof of the house behind can be seen from the bamboo forest.

Lin Lan looked around and felt that the layout was somewhat similar to her childhood home, and the accent here was similar to her previous life's accent, but the place names were all different.

She looked at the yard and thought: It was even harder than this before, and she could live a prosperous life, and her life will also blossom steadily when she comes back again!

Lin Lan was originally a determined person, she made up her mind, looked back at the dirty kitchen, rolled up her sleeves and got busy.

I picked up a bucket of water and poured half of it into the water tank, picked up the bamboo brush handle that was falling apart on the stove, cleaned the water tank, and poured dirty water on the vegetable field.

The water tank was cleaned after changing the clean water twice, and the water tank was filled with seven or eight buckets of water in one breath.

Lin Lan just arrived in front of the stove, took out a box of matches from the stove hole, lit a handful of straw, and started boiling water to wash the dishes.

After the water is hot, pick up the loofah pulp to clean the bowls and chopsticks, clay bowls, pot lids, and shaukei, put them in a porcelain basin, and put them in the pool outside.

I went back and grabbed a handful of plant ashes in the pot, and used a brush handle and a loofah to scrub the things on the stove and the cupboards.

The cupboard hadn't been scrubbed for some time, and there was a thick layer of black dust inside, and a handful of soap locusts were found on the top of the cupboard.

Lin Lan took out the bowls, plates, pots, jars, and soy sauce and vinegar bottles from the cupboard and cleaned them.

A can of lard and some seasonings were found in a small jar, and these were left over from funerals in my memory.

While scrubbing the cupboard, I found several jars, large, medium and small, and a pottery oil jar in the corner.

There were five or six catties of rapeseed oil in the oil jar, which was sent by the original owner's natal family after Yang Guangming's death.

(End of this chapter)