The reborn peasant girl wants to turn over

Chapter 108 Strange Rent
The train traveled for a day and a night, and Li Xiuxiu thought about it for a day and a night, she must send those two traffickers to jail.

The moment she set foot in Lanling County, Li Xiuxiu took a deep breath of the cold winter air, soaking in the cold from her nasal cavity to her chest and lungs, and she felt her heart beating heavily in her chest cavity.

Li Xiuxiu's feelings about this place in Lanling County are a bit complicated. Here she once wanted to escape by death, but she couldn't die; here she met Zhou Shaojie, the light in her life, which gave her the courage to live.

Li Xiuxiu first found a guest house to live in, and then began to wander around the county slowly.

Lanling County is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and a river flows from north to south in the west. In winter, everything here is gray and there is no trace of green. The people in the county have the characteristics of northerners, rough, bold, and hospitable.

Although Li Xiuxiu stayed here for more than ten days, it was a pity that she was locked in a narrow wing room for most of the time, without seeing the sun, and she was not familiar with Lanling County, nor did she know the den of the two traffickers. For the specific address, I just roughly remember the shape of the house.

After wandering around like this for about a month, she ran all over the streets and alleys of Lanling County, and finally found the house. She inquired carefully, but the house is now vacant, and the landlord is trying to sell it. While Xiuxiu was relieved, she was also a little disappointed.

The traffickers haven't come here yet, and I don't know when they can be sent to prison.

Li Xiuxiu even thought about buying the house herself, but she worried that if she bought it herself, the traffickers would buy it elsewhere when they came, and it would be difficult to find them again.

In the end, Li Xiuxiu rented a house across the street.

The landlord is an old man missing half of an arm, and it is said that the old man seems to have been a soldier.

Li Xiuxiu found this house through "Thousand Miles". The house is facing the street, and a door is opened on the street. There are two main rooms in the yard behind the house, and it happens to live in this taciturn old man who always looks stern. .

When Li Xiuxiu heard that the old man planned to rent out the house facing the street, he also heard something about the old man. It seemed that the old man had never been married in his whole life, because the neighbors in the neighborhood had never seen the old man's wife. The old man moved suddenly about ten years ago. Living here, at the beginning there were always some people in military uniforms who came to visit the elderly, but gradually there were no more people.

Li Xiuxiu guessed that this old man should be a revolutionary soldier. She thought that ten years ago was when the country was in turmoil, so this old revolutionary probably came here for some reason.

Before she came to ask for rent, she also listened to the old man's mobile home for two or three days. The old man's life seems to be very regular. He gets up at six or seven every morning, and then he seems to be doing sports like boxing. After that, he spends most of the day. Listen to the radio and read a book or spend in silence.

She has always been full of trust and affection for soldiers, and although the old man is a widow, it seems that he is not easy to get along with, but she does not want to communicate with people too much. There are houses facing the street that also open the door, which is convenient for travel.

So she knocked on the old man's door.

The old man was expressionless, the wrinkles on his face were as if carved by a knife, and the dark eyes were calm. He looked at the young girl in front of him, and he didn't speak for a long time. Then he let out the wind and said that he would rent out the house for only a week. Time, and it is still the first month, someone came to the door, and he was thinking about whether someone had specially arranged for this girl.

Li Xiuxiu felt that the eyes of the old man in front of him were staring at her sharply like an eagle, the eyes were extremely penetrating, as if he was being pointed at coldly by two guns, as if a fast bullet would be shot out in the next second.

Li Xiuxiu began to reflect on whether she had done something wrong, but she didn't seem to have it. She just thought that the landlord was reliable, and renting his house was safe and easy. She swallowed, calmed her mind, and said politely: "Hi, I heard that you are renting out the house, so I want to come and see it."

Mr. Zeng saw Li Xiuxiu under his gaze, his eyes were still clear and stable, he was noncommittal, but he stopped looking at her, nodded, turned and left the courtyard gate, and walked inside.

Li Xiuxiu was a little stunned, what do you mean?Should we let her look at the house?Why are there no words?

Zeng walked a few steps ahead, but didn't hear anything behind, so he turned around and glanced at Li Xiuxiu indifferently.

Li Xiuxiu immediately understood what the old man meant, and asked her to follow, Li Xiuxiu let out an oh, and quickly followed.

The house that turned left after entering the yard was for rent. She saw that the yard was very spacious, and there was a big tree with a huge bare crown that covered half of the yard. There was a table under the tree. Chair.

Mr. Zeng opened the door directly, stood at the door, and said without a wave: "This is the room." Then he turned around and walked towards the table and chairs under the tree.

Li Xiuxiu watched the old man slowly sit on the chair, picked up a newspaper on the table, did not look at her, did not speak, and felt a little awkward for a while, how could the landlord leave the inspector aside? This old man is so talkative!

She silently pinned the hair around her ears, and walked into the door opened by the old man just now. The room is very bright, and it is also a suite with an inner room. It is similar in structure to the house she rented in Jiangtian City, but the outer room is more spacious , The door facing the street is also in the outer room, locked with a big lock.There are some simple furniture in the house, which is rare. When the eight 90s houses were rented out, they were basically empty houses.

Li Xiuxiu is still satisfied with this house. Although the landlord is a taciturn old man, after thinking about it, she doesn't seem to be that difficult to get along with. If you don't talk, don't talk. She calculated what she needed to buy, and walked out of the room.

The old man stood upright, staring at the wall in front of him, with no expression on his face, as if he was in a daze, and the newspaper in his hand was empty on the table.

The weak sunlight in winter sprinkled a layer of gold on the old man, sitting alone under a dead tree with no leaves, very desolate.Li Xiuxiu suddenly felt a sad loneliness exuding from the old man, which made her heart skip a beat. Although the old man looked tough, he was actually a poor man.

When she walked under the tree, the old man quickly came back to his senses. The loneliness just now disappeared in an instant, and his indifference returned. He looked at Li Xiuxiu, raised his eyebrows and gave a questioning expression.

Xiuxiu smiled and said, "Hi, I like the house very much and want to rent it. How about the rent? When can I move in?"

"What do you do?" the old man asked abruptly.

"Ah?" Li Xiuxiu couldn't react, why did she ask her what she did?Are you talking about renting a house?Does renting a house also depend on occupation?What should she say she does?Make clothes?For headgear?She appears to be in a state of homelessness at the moment.

Seeing that Li Xiuxiu didn't answer for a long time, the old man had a dumbfounded expression on his face, then lowered his head and spread out the newspaper, asking, "Are you literate?"

This is a good answer, Li Xiuxiu said: "I know all the common characters."

"The house does not charge rent. You read a book or newspaper to me for an hour every morning."

(End of this chapter)