Zhou Xiang sighed, "Alas! I don't have any good ideas for Aunt Wang. Tomorrow, I'll make vinegar and separate it into two bottles. Otherwise, she'll pour out half of it."

"That's not right! You just said the vinegar bottle was empty, and she believed it straight away. I also told her the soy sauce was gone before, but she didn't believe me and found it on the stove in the kitchen."

"Haha, this is her strength. She knows exactly how much oil, salt, sauce and vinegar are left in our house."

"No way? She can calculate?"

"You're overthinking it. She'll stare at the intersection and see if you bring your soy sauce and vinegar bottles with you every day when you buy groceries. She'll know how many days they'll last, and she'll estimate how much she can use. Combined with what she saw when she came here, she'll be even more certain of the remaining soy sauce and vinegar. With that estimate, she'll know I wasn't lying to her."

Zhou Yu opened his eyes wide. "This, this, this is too much, isn't she? Aren't we all living under her nose?"

"It's not that exaggerated. She's just interested in the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar in my house, and she stares at your hands when you buy groceries. Otherwise, she won't go beyond the scope or touch other people's bottom line. That's her brilliance.

Borrowing things is probably a perverted hobby of hers. She can't sleep at night if she doesn't take advantage of others.

"Then I'll take a pound of vinegar tomorrow and put it in two bottles. When she comes to borrow it, I'll deliberately let her see it and say I only took half a pound. I wonder if she can still calculate it accurately?"

"Whatever you say! I don't believe you can beat her."

That night, the Yang family held a special family meeting, chaired by Yang Jin.

He asked everyone again if they had provoked Ling Ran and Zhou Xiang.

Everyone shook their heads. Yang Jim's mother felt sad about today's loss and felt that none of her children's words were trustworthy.

"If you admit it, I won't hold it against you. But if I catch you later, don't blame me for hitting you hard."

Yang Ji would never believe what his mother said. If he admitted it, he would be beaten half to death. Money was her life. There was no way she wouldn't get beaten for just a few dozen dollars.

I don’t know if it’s my own fault!

After a moment of silence, Yang Cheng stood up and said, "We can't go on like this. It will only make people think we're afraid of him. Since we can't call the police, let's turn the passive situation into the active one."

Yang Juan was the first to agree. She had been beaten every other day recently, which was too miserable.

"Brother, do you have any ideas?"

Seeing that his eldest sister didn't object, Yang Cheng nodded and said, "Isn't Ling Ran just trying to get revenge on our family because of Zhou? If we get rid of the Zhou family, he won't come here anymore, and he won't have any contact with our family."

"No." Yang Ji was the first to jump out and object. If Ling Ran didn't come to the Zhou family, how could he get close to him?

The Yang family members all looked at her.

Yang Ji immediately realized that he was too excited and hurried to make amends.

"What happened before was a small matter. Our family is so unlucky. If we take the Zhou family away and Ling Ran finds out, the consequences will be even more serious than they are now."

Yang Jin nodded. He didn't expect that his quiet third sister was actually smarter than his second sister.

"Big brother, your plan won't work!"

Yang Cheng sat down dejectedly. Was he really going to let Ling Ran treat him like this?

The cause was the Zhou family, so shouldn’t the Zhou family be held responsible?

If we get rid of the Zhou family, we can apply to live in that small courtyard. It is tidy and has a clean bathroom. There are nine people in our family, and it is too crowded to live in these three rooms.

The Zhou family's courtyard has at least four rooms, one on the north and one on the south. They can even grow vegetables in the yard.

After thinking for a while, I suddenly remembered that I had heard something about paying rent when I was at the grain station.

"Sister, have you heard about paying rent?"

Yang Jin nodded. "I've heard of it. I heard that if you pay for 70 years at a time, the house can be considered your own. It's called renting instead of selling."

"Yes, that's the term. Renting instead of selling. Since we can't get rid of the Zhou family, we might as well disgust them. Didn't the Zhou family build a bathroom and a washroom? I heard the bathroom is very clean! There's no smell at all."

"Brother, do you mean that we should pay the rent for the Zhou family's courtyard first and ask the Zhou family to move out?"

Yang Juan, as expected of Yang Cheng as a sibling, immediately understood what her elder brother had not finished saying.

"Yes, in that case, does Ling Ran still have a reason to deal with our family? We have completely legitimate reasons. The Zhou family of five lives in four houses, and our family of nine lives in three houses."

Yang Ji disagreed, "Brother, our family also has four rooms. The Zhou family just vacated the pot room."

"So, the Zhou family occupies more houses. Although the current small pot house was built by her family, the land is public!"

Although Yang's father was tempted, he didn't have much money at home. He still had a lot of money on the goods!

Yang Jin estimated and said, "At least three or four thousand yuan. How much money do we have at home?"

Yang Jim's mother hesitated and said, "Yes, we do have some, but we still need to buy more."

"How many?" Yang Jin asked.

"More than four thousand."

"Let's get the Zhou family's courtyard first. As long as we get it, we will definitely not suffer any loss. The Zhou family's courtyard not only has a kitchen, a bathroom, and a washroom, but also three large kangs! After we sell it and make some money, we can buy more goods. If we buy in small quantities, we can save the money after a few times." Yang Jin made the decision.

Although Yang Ji wanted to stop it, her words were powerless, and she also wanted to live in a more spacious place and sleep on a big kang.

So Zhou was right when he said there were no good people in the Yang family.

There are a total of six families in the family compound. The Zhou family compound is against the east wall of the family compound and adjacent to the wall of the supply and marketing cooperative. The food station built two northern rooms to form a yard, and the supply and marketing cooperative built two southern rooms that were leaky.

Then there are the Yang, Wang, Huang and Feng families. These four families live against the north wall of the family compound. Each family has three large tiled houses and a kitchen, the same standard configuration.

Before, Yang's father was the stationmaster, and later Xie Lin from Xiaoxie Village took over as the stationmaster. The Xie family built a small courtyard next to the south wall of the staff quarters, which contained three tiled houses and two pot houses.

Then there are several single duty rooms and offices against the north wall of the front yard. In fact, it is called the front yard because it faces the street. To be precise, the front yard is on the west and the family quarters are on the east.

The entire front yard is 20 mu (approximately 13,000 square meters). The largest area is the large pigpen on the south side, which can hold hundreds of pigs.

The open space is also quite large, and sometimes there are three or four large cars coming in and out.

To the east is the processing room, behind which is a small river. To the east of the river is the family compound, which covers an area of ​​more than ten acres, about eight or nine thousand square meters.

The family compound was full, and the Yang family planned for the Zhou family to move out of the compound, but they never thought about where the Zhou family could move to.

On Saturday morning, Zhou's father hurried home and found Zhou Xiang.

"Think about it, just now your cousin Xie Lin asked his son to tell me that the Yang family plans to buy our yard by renting it instead of selling it. It's still in your cousin's hands!

Xie Yong said his father was dragging the Yang family down, and asked our family to find a solution first."