Records of Strange People and Strange Events in the Old Mansion

Chapter 41 Money

"elder sister……"

Dan'er stood outside the door of the old house owner's house and shouted. The man on his feet walked to the door and asked, "What's going on?"

"Money, money, money." Dan'er held a large stack of colorful banknotes and did not dare to approach the stiletto man.

"Where did you get all this money?" the stiletto man asked, his hands involuntarily reaching for the banknotes.

Dan'er's mother appeared in the corner, panting and said to the cross-legged man: "It's the money shared by my aunt, and I just scattered it in Taiping Pond."

"Oh, thank you..." Before the cross-legged man could finish his words, Ma Yaksha came out to greet Dan'er and Dan'er's mother: "Come in, let's have a meal together."

"Okay, but this..." Dan'er's mother stared at the threshold of the old owner's house and didn't dare to take a step forward.

"Come in as soon as I let you in, quickly." Ma Yasha slipped Dan'er into the old owner's house with a big handbag, and pulled Dan'er's mother across the threshold of his house with a big hand.

After entering Zhu Badger's house, Dan'er and Dan'er's mother were about to kneel down when they saw Zhu Badger. Zhu Badger came over to support the two mothers and said: "No need, I am still me, and you are still you."

"Sister, why don't you go shopping at Big Bus? There are so many things." Dan'er looked up and down and saw that Zhu Badger was indeed the same Zhu Badger as before. He was so excited that he spoke more eloquently than normal people.

Zhu Badger smiled and asked: "How many things did you buy? Did Huang Okra give all the money to your family to buy things on the big car?"

"Yes, sister, how do you know?" Dan'er entered Zhu Badger's house openly for the first time. He was curious about everything in Zhu Badger's house and squatted in front of the old-fashioned self-ringing clock, unable to move away.

"Well, my family's share of the money is small, because my family's land is small, and the land that was bulldozed is even less. Dan'er also likes this and that. After buying a few things, the money goes back to those people's bags. ." Dan'er Niang sat on a chair in the hall and sighed.

"Hey, two brothers, am I right? Huang Okra's money went back into the bags of the people she brought." Zhu Badger looked at One-Armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man.

The One-Armed Luo and the Stilt-legged Man nodded, and retorted respectively: "Fairy, Dan'er's family has little land. It's just the little land they were originally allocated, and they didn't open up wasteland." "Of course the land allocated is small, so it should only be bulldozed." Did you push down a corner of the vegetable patch?"

"I'm telling you, no matter how little land there is, no matter how much or how little money you share, Huang Okra can still make all the money you share go back into the bags of the people she brought, and maybe some of it will be paid back. "Zhu Badger looked at Dan'er's mother.

Dan'er's mother responded: "That's right, I don't have any money in my pocket. The little money I got will be counted after I buy it. Several families not only bought everything with the shared money, but also used their own money to buy things. Zhu The fat man also put in the wages he earned from cooking for Huang Qiukui’s family last night, and then went home to get the money to buy things.”

"This money is for free anyway, even if you buy something."

"Yes, yes, after all, the things you buy belong to your own family, so there is no loss or loss."

The one-armed Luo and the cross-footed man were already drinking old wine, smacking their lips while drinking.

"You two can't sit still for a long time, right? Go ahead and go to the big bus to buy something, otherwise this old wine won't taste good in your mouth."

"You really want us to go buy something from a big car?"

"Isn't it to test whether we are loyal to you?"

The One-Armed Luo and the Stilt-legged Man were raised by their buttocks when Zhu Badger told them to go shopping at Big Bus, but they still didn't dare to leave Zhu Badger's house.

Zhu Badger smiled and replied: "Of course I really want you to buy it." Zhu Badger called to Ma Yasha who was busy in the kitchen: "Mom, please take out the money that Dan'er just brought back."

"Isn't it still on the bamboo chair? You can take it yourself." Ma Yaksha responded in the kitchen.

Zhu Badger looked around and saw that a lot of colorful banknotes were piled on the bamboo chair at the entrance. He called to Lu Huan and Lan Yuliu: "You two bring Dan'er, and the one-armed brother and the two-legged brother Let’s go shopping together at the big car.”

"okay!"

Lu Huan didn't wait for Lan Yuliu to respond, took Dan'er's hand to the door, picked up the pile of banknotes and ran out the door.

The one-armed Luo and the swing-legged man urged Lan Yuliu: "Let's go, let's go quickly, I'm late and the good things have been bought." "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, women walk slowly."

"I have to go watch some Dan'er together. He's not good at buying things." Dan'er's mother got up and wanted to chase her out. Zhu Badger held her back and said, "You don't have to go. The little money my family has compensated will be given to Dan'er." It’s worth buying to be happy, and with Lu Huan and Sister Liu here, I won’t buy more.”

"They really won't buy more? I know you're good to Dan'er, but you can't spoil him." Dan'er was still fidgety.

Ma Yasha came out of the kitchen and said to Dan'er's mother: "Don't worry, my fairy is a real fairy now. What she said is not wrong."

"Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, fairy, real fairy, real fairy." Dan'er became more and more restless, not even daring to look at Zhu Badger.

Zhu Badger served Dan'er Niang a cup of honey tea and asked softly: "Does he come home often?"

"Him? He, he, he, the ones who don't come back, and the ones who don't come back. Dan'er, he will respond, Dan'er, he will respond." Dan'er's mother was trembling all over.

Seeing this, Zhu Badger turned to Mayasha and said, "Would you like to accompany your sister-in-law to the big bus? And buy some needles, thread, and brains by the way?"

"Okay, sister, let's go." Ma Yasha didn't even take off the scarf on his chest before he picked up Dan'er and walked out.

Not long after Zhu Badger entered his room and played with eight thin dogs and eight pig badgers, Ma Yasha, Lan Yuliu, and Lu Huan returned home.

"Have they gone home to put away their things?" Zhu Badger asked the hag.

Ma Yasha replied: "I'm so happy. The two bachelors bought a lot of things."

"I'm so happy. I don't know how happy I am to have been deceived." Zhu Badger curled his lips.

"Being cheated?"

"Who are you talking about, fairy?"

One-armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man walked into Zhu Badger's house one after another, and Dan'er and Dan'er's mother also returned later.

"I said you were deceived. All the people in the old house and the whole village were deceived by her, Huang Okra." Zhu Badger sat down at the dining table.

"is it possible?"

"impossible!"

One-armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man didn't believe it.

"Come over and sit down to eat. Let's talk while we eat." After Zhu Badger asked everyone to sit down, he asked One-Armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man: "Did you also buy something with the money you shared?"

"Well, I originally wanted to buy some more, but Huanhuan said nothing and wouldn't let me buy more."

"Me too. If Yuliu hadn't stopped me, I might have bought another few hundred yuan."

One-armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man looked at Zhu Badger and Lu Huan and Lan Yuliu. They didn't understand what Zhu Badger meant by asking them.
"Let me ask you again, did Huang Okra give you the money she gave you as a red envelope?" Zhu Badger asked One-Armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man.

"that is not."

"She can't be that good."

The one-armed man and the rocker-legged man shook their heads.

"Huang Qiukui said it was nice to give everyone money, but in fact it was just the money that everyone deserved. It was the compensation she should make for destroying everyone's fields. Now she has brought a large truckload of goods to sell to you, and you have just She got the money back and she not only made a real fortune from you, she also made the money above." Zhu Badger said while eating.

"But after all, we have so many things in our hands?"

"Yes, I was so sweaty from holding him that I almost couldn't catch my breath."

One-armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man didn't believe that they were made off by Huang Okra.

"If you were in the city, you could buy these things several times with the same money. Believe it or not, just ask Huanhuan and Sister Liu." Seeing Lu Huan and Lan Yuliu eating silently, Zhu Badger knew that they had seen the clues.

"No one wants the things in her big car even if they are discounted by 30% in the county supermarket, and you are still so happy to buy them." "You haven't warmed up the money in your hands, but she used it like this Take it back, you are all fools."

Lan Yuliu and Lu Huan told the truth, they both admired and hated Huang Qiukui in their hearts.

"No way?"

"how is this possible?"

The one-armed Luo and the swing-legged man were doubtful.

One-armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man didn't believe that Huang Okra had tricked them, so they asked Zhu Badger, "You haven't been to the scene, how do you know those things are worthless?" How do you know she will still cheat her money?

Zhu Badger said, is it necessary to go to the scene? As a businessman, isn't it just money? She must have promised from above that she would take care of everyone's land issues in the village, so she decided to cut it off first and then compensate you for the land that was bulldozed.

The cross-legged man said, no matter what, we got the money and bought something with the money, so we didn’t lose anything.

"It's not a waste of time for you to cross your legs!" Lu Huan knocked the chopsticks on the cross-legged man's rice bowl, rolled his eyes at him and said, "Did you understand what the fairy said? If your village really wants to build a road, the higher-ups will definitely do it. Compensate the fields that the road needs to pass through. Huang Okra gave you a small amount of money to compensate you, and you are still grateful to her. The money she took from it may be several times the compensation for you."

"Huanhuan, Fairy, she is already a real fairy. I, a stiletto-legged guy, will definitely not be able to understand her. You are not a fairy, and I can't understand you either, hehe." The stilted-legged guy grinned at Lu Huan.

Lu Huan was furious and raised his chopsticks to hit her again. Lan Yuliu grabbed Lu Huan's hand and said to the cross-footed man with a smile: "Brother, let me use an analogy. Huang Qiukui received a million banknotes from above to deal with you." Various compensations for road construction in the village, but she only used 500,000 yuan to compensate you and make you smile. Do you think she made a profit?"

"That's for sure, he made half a million." The leg-walking guy answered Lan Yuliu loudly without even licking his head.

Lan Yuliu asked with a smile: "Did you lose or make a profit?"

"In terms of money, we lost money, but in terms of things, we didn't lose money, there were a lot of them." The cross-footed man still said that we didn't lose money, and Lan Yuliu was so angry that his smiling face turned into an angry look, and she turned her head and ignored him.

Zhu Badger smoothed over the situation and turned around to talk to the cross-footed man:
"Let me explain it more clearly. Brother Tiaojiao, how much money did you receive from Huang Okra?"

"More than a thousand dollars."

"Did you spend more than a thousand yuan to buy all the things on Okra's big car?"

"I bought it."

"If those things are only worth one or two hundred yuan, do you lose money or not?"

"Of course it's a loss. It's a big loss."

"That's great. Not only did you suffer a loss in compensation, but you also suffered a loss in purchasing goods. You really suffered a huge loss."

"This, this, this, this Okra, is so vicious, even more vicious than her father, the weasel. One-armed, let's go and settle the score with her. If you don't give me a clear explanation today, I will throw her to the Taiping Pond to meet the river ghost. !” The cross-legged man slapped the table angrily and staggered about to rush out of Zhu Badger’s house. The one-armed Luo was steadier than him, but his face was as red as a pig's liver. The one-armed Luo held the stilt-legged man, his big head poked towards the red badger, and asked: "Can we settle the score with her?"

"Yes, but you won't get any benefits, but you will be humiliated by her." Zhu Badger replied calmly.

"Humiliation? How humiliating?" One-armed Luo raised his buttocks.

"Did you all sign your own names when you received the banknotes? When you were buying things, did the people she brought with you tell you to inspect the goods on the spot and not return them after you take them home?" Zhu Badger asked One-Armed Luo.

The one-armed Luo replied: "The signature means that after taking it home, it cannot be returned or even exchanged."

"Not only did we have to sign our names, but we also had to write down what we had read and read their agreement without any objections. A few of the older ones couldn't write so many words, and the people she brought pointed out each word. Let them copy it." The cross-legged man added.

"That's great. You signed your names without any objections. If you go to settle accounts with her, don't you slap yourself in the face? Are you bringing humiliation to yourself? What matters most when you don't come to the village is integrity, especially for us old people. The spit of a homebody is like a nail." Zhu Badger looked serious.

The One-Armed Luo and the Stilt-legged Man were like deflated rubber balls. They sat slumped on their chairs for a while before each uttered a sentence: "I didn't expect that she is really more vicious than her father the weasel!" "I can't swallow this. Tone!”

"Whether she is vicious or not, do you need to tell me? She wants me to die. I can't swallow this breath, so I have to swallow it for the time being." Zhu Badger's tone was cold, and he glanced at Lan Yuliu from the corner of his eye, and Lan Yuliu quickly lowered his head. .

"Sister, you are a real fairy now, can't you defeat her?" Dan'er looked up and asked Zhu Badger when he saw everyone present bowed their heads in silence.

Zhu Badger smiled and said: "It is precisely because I am a real fairy now that I clearly understand her dirty deeds. In this way, you should not publicize this matter outside, just pretend you don't understand anything. I doubt she still knows There are more important machinations to be carried out.”

"Ah? Is there a more important conspiracy? How can we still be at peace without the village? Can our old house still be at peace?" Dan'er Niang panicked, holding her shoulders with her hands, her body trembling.

Ma Yasha comforted him and said, "Don't be afraid. Isn't there my fairy? Isn't there my ghost who can't die?"

"Auntie, Uncle Yunshan is really not dead?" Qiaoqiao asked cautiously.

"Didn't Huang Okra say that my Badger's father is not dead? Come on, I will ask her to give me back!" Ma Yaksha stood up and strode into the room where she lived, holding out Zhu Yunshan's portrait.

"Mom, you can make trouble, I will end everything." Zhu Badger watched Ma Yasha walk out of his home.

One-armed Luo and Stilt-legged Man followed Ma Yasha on the left and right, becoming Ma Yasha's personal bodyguards.

Dan'er and Dan'er's mother wanted to go, but Zhu Badger wouldn't let them go and told them to go home quickly and never go over to watch the fun.

Lu Huan and Lan Yuliu were worried and wanted to follow, but Zhu Badger stopped them and said that it was too early to go now and that it would not be too late to go there when her own mother was crying.

Lu Huan asked Zhu Badger: "How do you know about Huang Okra's tricks at home?"

Zhu Badger replied: "Because I am the real old house fairy."

Lu Huan was dubious. Lan Yuliu smiled and said to Lu Huan, "Don't ask too many questions. The secret must not be leaked."

"Sister Liu, it seems that you are indeed more spiritual than me. I hope you will take more care of me in the future." Zhu Badger winked at Lan Yuliu, who smiled and said: "The fairy takes care of me just fine. I want to ask the fairy without shame, what about the okra?" Is there a deeper meaning in asking the villagers to sign?"

"I said Sister Liu is more knowledgeable than me. Huang Qiukui must have wanted to find out the person who posted the notice through the signature." Zhu Badger answered calmly. Lan Yuliu then said: "It seems that she does have a way to make money, but really His wisdom is far inferior to that of fairies."

"Sister Liu's words are wrong. She must understand that it is not possible to find out the person through the signature, but it is not a bad strategy to knock the mountain and shake the tiger."

"Knocking on the mountain to scare the tiger? Is she going to publicly say that the notice was not posted by the villagers, but was an outsider with evil intentions?"

"Sister Liu is worthy of being called Sister Liu."

"Only the heads of households can sign. What about the other villagers?"

"Sister Liu, why don't you just say something like me?"

"Is not it?"

"In that case, wouldn't she be able to let the people above target you or me?"

"Well, I am an outsider, and you are the only person in the village who can write well with calligraphy."

"Sister Liu has grasped the situation of Donkey's Village and my situation so quickly. She must also have a clear understanding of the situation in the old house."

"The fairy was joking, but Zhu Hu was curious about the notice. I helped analyze it."

"I'm afraid that even if you analyze someone like Zhu Hu to be ugly, he will still be in a fog and can't tell where the squinty eyes are."

"Hahaha, fairy, you are so interesting."

"Hey, hey, what are you two doing in riddles? Are you laughing at me for being stupid? Okay, let me go. I'm going back to my home."

Lu Huan listened to Zhu Badger and Lan Yuliu talking endlessly, stamped his feet, and pretended to go upstairs to pack things.

Zhu Badger hurriedly went over to hug Lu Huan and said affectionately: "Our family Huanhuan is the smartest. If it weren't for you, I would really have become a ghost."

(End of this chapter)