Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 168 Donation

Three years passed quickly, and the renovation of the old house was coming to an end. Zhu Huan slept until he woke up naturally every day.

"Sister, sister..." Dan'er shouted outside the bamboo shed.

Since the renovation of the old house began, Zhu Huan moved out of the main house and lived with everyone in a bamboo shed under the big camphor tree.

"What's the matter?" asked Zhu Hu.

Dan'er replied: "My master wants you to come over."

"Okay, I'll be there right away." Zhu Hu came to the old house after washing up carefully. She now dresses neatly every day.

Seeing Zhu Huan passing by, the old craftsman hurried forward and whispered a few words in her ear.

Zhu Hu frowned, and after a moment's silence, he asked the old craftsman: "What do you think we should do?"

"This old man really can't make the decision. You have to make the decision yourself, fairy." The old craftsman looked solemn.

Zhu Hu paced back and forth for a while and then said to the old craftsman, "Let everyone rest for a while. I'll go call the higher-ups."

"Have you decided what to do?" the old craftsman asked Zhu Huan.

Zhu Hu nodded and said, "I believe you will support me in doing so."

"Well, very good, you didn't let me down. You are worthy of being the old house fairy, the real old house fairy." The old craftsman's solemn expression turned into a smile.

Zhu Huan returned to the bamboo shed to make a phone call, and made three calls in a row.

Since the renovation of the old house began, in addition to sending business personnel, a special telephone line was also set up to facilitate Zhu Huan to contact the higher-ups in a timely manner.

Zhu Huan's first call was to the head of the county in charge of cultural relics work to report the situation to her.

The second call was made to the Provincial Cultural Management Office, asking them to send someone down immediately.

The third call was made to Zhu Yunshan and Zhu Yunhe, asking them to bring their families to the old house immediately.

By the time Zhu Yunshan and Zhu Yunhe brought Ma Yasha, Daner's mother and their respective children back to the old house, people from the county bureau and the town station had already blocked off the old house. Zhu Huan's eight greyhounds and eight wild boars were on high alert and did not allow any unauthorized persons to approach the old house or Zhu Huan.

When Zhu Huan saw Zhu Yunshan and Zhu Yunhe coming back, he greeted them and teased Ma Yasha and the two children in Daner's mother's arms for a while before bringing them to the main house of the old house.

"I called you back in a hurry today because we found the treasure house." Zhu Huan said calmly, and his eyes looking at Zhu Yunshan, Zhu Yunhe and his wife were equally calm.

Zhu Yunhe and his wife and Zhu Yunshan and his wife seemed even calmer than Zhu Huan. The four of them did not speak, but just looked at Zhu Huan quietly.

Zhu Hu asked: "How are you going to deal with it?"

"What are you going to do?" Ma Yasha spoke first.

Zhu Huan did not respond to Ma Yasha immediately, but glanced at Zhu Yunshan, Zhu Yunhe and Dan'er's mother with an inquiring look.

Dan'er's mother said: "You can do whatever you want with it."

"What about you two?" Zhu Hu's gaze fell on Zhu Yunhe and Zhu Yunshan.

Zhu Yunshan and Zhu Yunhe looked at each other and answered Zhu Huan in unison: "We respect your decision."

"What about them?" Zhu Huan's gaze turned to the child in Ma Yasha's arms and the child in Daner's mother's arms.

Ma Yasha answered loudly without even a burp: "He is my son, my full representative, and I have no objection to your decision." "Me too, I am my full representative, and I firmly support your decision." Dan'er's mother replied immediately.

"Do you know how I made the decision?" Zhu Huan asked the four relatives in front of him with a smile.

Ma Yasha said quickly: "Isn't it just a donation to the country?"

"That's right, we knew you would do this." Dan'er's mother smiled at Zhu Huan.

Zhu Yunshan and Zhu Yunhe nodded to Zhu Huan, with great relief on their faces.

Zhu Huan said: "Thank you for your understanding and support. I know you are all good people. I just made this decision for us. But the child has the right to choose. You can't make it on his behalf, and the same goes for me."

"So what are you going to do?" Ma Yasha asked Zhu Huan.

Zhu Huan replied, "After donating the old house and all the treasures in the treasury, the higher-ups will reward you with a sum of money. Dan'er and I don't want a penny, we'll give it all to the two younger brothers. Also, the higher-ups will give you tax and other benefits and subsidies for your company operations in the provincial and county capitals, which should be worthy of the two younger brothers."

"What about you and Dan'er?" asked Dan'er's mother.

Zhu Hao replied: "Dan'er has decided to work as a maintenance worker at the Old House Museum. The higher-ups have agreed and will solve his staffing problem. As for me, you don't have to worry about me."

"Of course you don't need us to worry about you, but we always need to know what you are going to do next? You are still young and you have a long way to go." Ma Yasha's voice was a little hoarse.

Zhu Hu went over and patted Ma Yasha on the shoulder, smiled and said to her: "I know you are still worried about me, but please rest assured that I will not leave the village. Even if I want to leave, my dog ​​and badger can't leave me, and I can't leave them either."

"So what are your plans?" asked Dan'er's mother, tears welling up in her eyes.

Zhu Huan smiled and replied, "I'm farming in Lubu Village."

"Can you be serious?" Ma Yasha glared at Zhu Huan.

Zhu Hu said to Ma Yasha with a smile: "You should add 'you, the Badger Eight Immortals' at the end, hehe."

"Child, we won't feel at ease if you continue like this." Zhu Yunhe said.

Zhu Huan said to Zhu Yunhe: "Uncle, I really want to farm in Donkey Village. I like this kind of life."

"Do you want me to communicate with the people above? You and Dan'er will become a member of the Old House Museum. Don't you want to be a tour guide of the Old House Museum?" Zhu Yunshan asked Zhu Huan for his opinion.

Zhu Hu replied: "I had this idea before, but now I know it's difficult and I have to give up."

"You retreated when you saw the difficulty?" Zhu Yunshan was puzzled. Zhu Hu said, "The staff members selected by the higher-ups, especially the tour guides, are all very skilled and can speak several foreign languages. I can never compare to them. Also, they are all beauties. If I, the Eight Immortals of Hu, were to be the tour guide, I would definitely scare away the tourists who come to visit the old house."

"So you're just going to give up the old house?" Ma Yasha asked.

Zhu Hu replied: "I can't give up the old house, so I will farm in Donkey Village and keep watching over the old house."

"Are you going to live in a bamboo shed all your life?" asked Dan'er's mother.

Zhu Hu replied, "The management of the Old House Museum will build a row of management houses at the main road intersection. They promised to build a two-story courtyard for me and Dan'er next to it. It will be very comfortable to live in."

"Then I will give you the management rights of the agricultural cooperative." said Ma Yasha.

Zhu Hao responded, "No, the professional manager you hired is an expert. Don't ruin his job and the reputation of the agricultural cooperative. If I can't finish the fruits, vegetables and grains I grow, please ask your boss to buy some of them. I can also have more pocket money to buy some snacks. Oh, by the way, I am a fairy and don't care about worldly things. I will save this pocket money to buy snacks for my baby Beibei."

"Baby, Beibei, you don't need to worry about it. You don't need to be concerned about it. We will be very sad if you are like this." Dan'er's mother put Beibei in her arms to the ground, turned her back and wiped her tears.

Ma Yasha put the baby in his arms on the ground and let the baby play with Beibei.

Baby Beibei is already two years old and is just babbling and learning to walk.

"You..." Ma Yasha choked and was about to speak to Zhu Huan when two figures rushed to Baby Beibei, picked up Baby Beibei and ran away.

"Where are you running to?" A figure rushed over and snatched baby Beibei from the hands of the two people.

Ma Yasha and Dan'er's mother reacted and took baby Beibei back. They looked around and saw Zhu Yunshan and Zhu Yunhe had already subdued the two people who had snatched baby Beibei. Zhu Huan was cursing at the two people: "One-armed, Qiaojiao, what do you want to do? Come at me if you have the guts. Why are you taking your anger out on the child? I tell you, if the child makes the slightest mistake, I will never forgive you."

"Fairy, fairy, we were confused for a moment, just confused for a moment." "Yes, yes, fairy, please forgive us, we were confused for a moment, just confused for a moment." One-armed Luo and the cross-legged man knelt on the ground and begged.

"Forget it, the child is fine, let's let them go." "Yes, as long as the child is fine, let's let them go. We are fellow villagers." Ma Yasha and Daner's mother came over with baby Beibei in their arms to persuade Zhu Huan.

Zhu Hu raised his eyebrows, glared at Ma Yasha and Dan'er's mother, and cursed: "Let them go? It is precisely because you have always thought that you can't lose face as fellow villagers, and you indulged them time and time again, that the two of them have become what they are now."

"Child, after all, Baobao Beibei is fine, so don't make a fuss about it." "That's right, we are all neighbors of the old house, don't take it too seriously." Zhu Yunshan and Zhu Yunhe saw that their wives' faces were red after being scolded by Zhu Huan, and came over to persuade Zhu Huan.

Zhu Huan didn't give Zhu Yunshan and Zhu Yunhe any face at all, instead he scolded them even more fiercely: "Am I making a fuss over nothing? We are all neighbors of the old house, so don't take it too seriously? Am I making a fuss over nothing? Do they regard you as neighbors of the old house? If Dan'er hadn't arrived in time, I don't know what they would have done to baby Beibei? They have committed a crime, they dared to snatch the child in broad daylight and in public. If such evil people are not dealt with in time, they may commit murder and arson in the future."

"Fairy, fairy, we are forced to do so. We are forced to do so." "Yes, yes, fairy, even if you give us a hundred guts, we would not dare to have any thoughts about the young master." One-armed Luo and the cross-legged man kept kowtowing to Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao raised his legs and kicked Dubi Luo and Qiaojiao Lao respectively, then loudly asked them, "Tell me, was it Lan Yuliu and Huang Qiukui's people who told you to do this?"

"Yes, yes, they threatened us that if we don't do what they want, they will kill us." "That's right, they want us to find ways to steal the treasures from the old house, or take away the two little masters and exchange them with you for the treasures in the old house." One-armed Luo and the cross-legged man replied.

Zhu Hao sneered, "Humph, I'm afraid you guys owed a huge gambling debt, and you borrowed money from Lan Yuliu and Huang Qiukui's people, but you couldn't pay it back, so you came up with this idea, right?"

"Fairy, you can see clearly that we do owe a huge gambling debt, and that was a trap they set for us." "Fairy, they plotted against us, but we had no choice, no choice." One-armed Luo and the cross-legged man were both in tears.

Zhu Hao sneered and said coldly: "You have no choice? Flies don't bite cracked eggs. If you behave well, they won't be able to catch you even if they set the most traps. So, do you want to settle it privately or publicly?"

"How about a private settlement?" "How about a public settlement?" One-armed Luo and the cross-legged man looked up and asked Zhu Huan.

Zhu Huan replied, "If we want to settle it privately, I will call Huang Huacai over and let her deal with you, because this is our family affair after all. If we want to settle it publicly, of course I will hand you over to the police and let them investigate your responsibilities. Last time, my parents spoke well of you and let you escape, but I will never forgive you this time."

"This..." "That..." One-armed Luo and the cross-legged man looked at each other for a while, and said to Zhu Hao in unison: "Let's settle it privately."

"Okay, Sister Huacai, come here." Zhu Huan called to Huang Huacai who was standing at the gate of the old house watching the fun.

When Huang Huacai heard Zhu Hu calling her, she answered and hurried to Zhu Hu and asked, "Fairy, what do you want?"

"Set some rules for them both. Remember, know when to stop and don't let those police officers cause trouble for you." Zhu Hao kicked One-Armed Luo and Cross-legged Man again.

Huang Huacai grinned and assured Zhu Hao: "Don't worry, I will definitely control the heat, just like Zhu Pangzi stewed pig's trotters." Huang Huacai picked up the cross-legged man with one hand and grabbed the one-armed Luo's hair with the other hand. He cursed and dragged the cross-legged man and one-armed Luo out of the old house. When he walked to the gate, he smiled and asked the police uncle standing there: "You didn't see it just now, and you don't see it now, right?"

"Sorry, I didn't see it." The policeman blushed. There were so many people guarding the old house, but they let One-armed Luo and the Cross-legged Man go in and snatch the child. Can they say they saw it now? Besides, Zhu Huan had just said that this was the old house's family affair, and family affairs should be handled by the family themselves.

Huang Huacai dragged the stilted man and the one-armed Luo to the Taiping Pond, broke off a willow branch, and gave the one-armed Luo and the stilted man a good beating. Then he ordered them to fill the six large vats of water under the earthen platform. The water in these six large vats was used by Fatty Zhu to cook. Fatty Zhu now led a cooking team, not only to cook for the craftsmen who were repairing the old house, but also for the villagers who were working in the agricultural cooperative base. Recently, he was even busier, and he also took care of all the meals for the road construction workers across the street.

After Huang Huacai ordered Dubi Luo and Qiaojiao Lao to fill six large vats with water, he reprimanded them for cleaning the toilets. Not only did they clean all the toilets in the bamboo sheds, they also washed the diapers of Huang Huacai and Fatty Zhu's son.

Zhu Huan cured Huang Huacai's gynecological disease according to the prescription in the medical book, and Huang Huacai gave birth to a big fat boy. Huang Huacai and Zhu Pangzi were so happy that they held a big banquet for half a month. Although Zhu Pangzi and his deceased wife had three daughters, who now work in Zhu Yunshan's company in the county, they were naturally happier to have a big fat boy.

After being punished by Huang Huacai, One-Armed Luo and Cross-legged Man fled back to the town's immigrant community without even having lunch. It was a long time before they dared to sneak back to Donkey Village.

During lunch, Ma Yasha asked Zhu Huan: "Did you already know that the treasure house is under the millstone?"

"It should be said that the treasure house is under the wine cellar." Zhu Hao corrected.

Zhu Yunshan asked Zhu Huan: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? There would be no need to go through so much trouble."

"Toss and turn? Without that kind of trouble, can we send the Willow Spirit and the Sunflower Monster to prison for good? Can we make them spend their entire lives in prison? Also, can we find out the true face of the Lu family?" Zhu Huan responded to Zhu Yunshan unhappily.

Zhu Yunhe said: "That would be very embarrassing for your grandpa, after all, Ruber and him are inseparable."

"He is embarrassed? And he is inseparable from me? What about me? Am I cheap? Very cheap? Should I be manipulated as a chess piece by him and you?" Zhu Huan's tone was obviously full of resentment.

Zhu Yunhe blushed and wanted to explain, but he moved his lips a few times but still couldn't say anything. Seeing that her husband was speechless after being asked by Zhu Huan, Dan'er's mother pretended to coax Beibei and said to herself with a hidden meaning: "A son is no longer under the control of his mother. When you grow up, can you understand the painstaking efforts of your father and mother?"

"Painstaking efforts? I'm afraid you have other intentions. Don't think that I'm really an Eight Badger Immortal who only knows how to charge into battle for you. In fact, I have long understood that your so-called good intentions are nothing more than the same as the Willow Spirit, the Sunflower Monster, and the Lu family. You want to find the treasure through me." Zhu Huan did not give any face to Dan'er's mother, nor did he give face to Zhu Yunhe, Zhu Yunshan and Ma Yasha.

Ma Yasha rebuked Zhu Huan: "What nonsense are you talking about? Are we that dirty?"

"Of course you are noble. It is impossible for you to rush directly to the treasure house like the Willow Fairy, the Sunflower Monster or even the Red Shanzi. But do you dare to ask yourself? Ask yourself if you have such little thoughts?" Zhu Huan still did not give Ma Yasha any face.

Ma Yacha's face flushed, but he still insisted and asked Zhu Huan: "What are we thinking?"

"Your little trick is to secretly take possession of the treasures in the treasury, and you want me to announce to the outside world that there is no treasury and no treasures in the old house. Is that right or not?" Zhu Huan asked loudly.