Chapter 11 The house leaks air, light and rain

When people in the village move, there are certain rules for making the beds. They can't just do it casually. They need to choose an auspicious day. If they can't choose, they have to choose the first or fifteenth day of the month.

Therefore, Zhou's father decided to move today.

Zhou Chenglei and his father took the cleaning tools and went to clean the old house.

Jiang Xia was worried that men wouldn't clean as carefully as women. She had high standards for the cleanliness of her home, so she said, "You don't have to clean up my stuff. I'll help clean up, too. More people means faster work."

The original owner had just gotten married and was ready for divorce at any time, so many things were still in the red, white and blue bag.

Now is a good time to move.

"Okay, then let your mother stay and divide the things with your sister-in-law."

Tian Caihua thought Jiang Xia was smart again, so she pretended to be diligent and went to clean, leaving Zhou's mother to stay and divide the things.

In this case, would she have the nerve to share those old, broken and bad things with her mother-in-law?

I really underestimated her!

So clever! Suddenly she thought of the whole process of dividing the family property. Jiang Xia was so virtuous and didn't fight for anything, which made her so calculative, sarcastic, and unfilial. In the end, she got a little advantage in the new house, and the other two elders didn't wrong them at all.

The more Tian Caihua thought about it, the angrier she got! Bah, she didn't believe that Jiang Xia really didn't fight or compete, and didn't want anything, this big-tailed wolf!

How insidious! The two elders probably felt that Zhou Chenglei and Jiang Xia were at a disadvantage by moving to the old house, so they secretly used some of their private savings to subsidize them.

Thinking of this, Tian Caihua became unhappy again.

Jealousy made Tian Caihua temporarily forget that Jiang Xia was going to divorce. What would she care about? *The Zhou family lived in a small fishing village. They lived off the mountains and the sea, so most of the villagers made a living by going out to sea to fish.

Moreover, their area is mostly plains with few mountains, vast land and sparse population, so every household has a lot of land.

The villagers' lives are pretty good and they don't go hungry.

The Zhou family’s old house is relatively close to the sea, but it is not on the seaside, just relatively close.

Houses close to the sea have heavy moisture and are relatively humid. It is easy to get rheumatism if you live there for a long time. There is also the risk of being destroyed by a tsunami. There is absolutely no poetic feeling of "I have a house facing the sea, with flowers blooming in spring", so villagers will not choose the seaside to build houses.

Although the seaside scenery is beautiful, they see it every day and are not appreciative of it.

But later, with the development of the economy, in order to create tourist areas and selling points, many houses and hotels were built on the seaside.

Jiang Xia looked at this long-unused stone house. The courtyard wall was also made of stone. It looked very solid and had a sense of age.

The yard is already overgrown with grass but is large.

Jiang Xia was a city dweller in his previous life. After his parents passed away, he sold his house and lost money. Later, he lived in a basement that his grandmother had been assigned to before she retired as a sanitation worker. It was very small and dark, with no windows, and he couldn't even grow flowers in the house.

It was not until she was admitted to university and paid off her grandmother's medical expenses, and two years after graduating from graduate school, that she had the money to buy a one-bedroom apartment in Beijing with full payment. Unfortunately, she passed away before the house was even delivered.

So she has never lived in a house with a yard in her life!

The yard is very big and Jiang Xia liked it the moment she saw it. After she gets divorced, she also wants to buy a house with a yard and plant flowers in the front and fruit trees in the back.

She has already used this yard as a prototype in her mind and imagined how to build her own small yard in the future.

The yard is now full of weeds. Moreover, because this is an old house that has been built for decades and no one has lived in it for two or three years, it has fallen into disrepair and is deserted. Many tiles on the roof have fallen off. Standing in the house and looking up, you can see light coming through the gaps in the tiles.

If light leaks, rain will naturally leak.

Father Zhou frowned and said, "We need to buy some tiles to repair the roof, otherwise it will be troublesome when it rains or has a typhoon."

Zhou Chenglei: "I'll buy it tomorrow."

Jiang Xia looked up: the sky was blue and it didn't look like it was going to rain, but Jiang Xia thought of the plot in the book.

In the book, a super typhoon landed on the coast. After the typhoon, there were many fish and shrimps on the beach. The heroine also ran to pick up fish and shrimps to sell to earn living expenses and tuition fees, because school will start in September. As a result, she was too bold and ran far to chase a fish. She was swept into the sea by the waves. It was the hero who saved her.

According to the plot in the book, the original owner and the male protagonist are getting divorced today, and it’s time for the female protagonist to appear!

Who knows when that super typhoon will come?

She was a little anxious and said, "August is the season with active typhoons, and we don't know when it will rain. It's still early now, can we go buy some tiles and fix the roof?"

Zhou's father said, "We've started to have weather forecasts this year. If there's a typhoon, the radio station will make an announcement telling everyone not to go out to sea."

Jiang Xia felt a little relieved, but couldn't help but wonder, "Is this weather forecast accurate?"

“Sometimes it’s accurate, sometimes it’s not.”

Jiang Xia: “.”

Father Zhou: "The weather forecast is for the entire city, and there are so many counties under the city."

Zhou Chenglei saw her worry and said, "Dad, I'll go see if there are any tiles for sale. I should be able to fix the roof in an afternoon."

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Father Zhou didn't want to stay alone with his daughter-in-law for too long, so he said, "I'll go! You guys clean up here."

There is a tile kiln in the next village, and they will deliver the tiles to your door so you don’t have to haul them yourself. So Zhou Chenglei didn’t rush to go.

After saying this, Father Zhou went out.

Zhou Chenglei looked at the weeds in the yard and thought it was difficult to weed them, so he said, "You go clean up the house, and I'll weed the yard."

Most of the furniture in the house had been moved away, and the house was empty. It had been cleaned when they moved, so it was not messy, just dusty, so she wouldn't be too tired to clean it.

Jiang Xia had no objection, so she tied a headscarf, covered her mouth and nose with a cloth, and then took a broom and inspected her "new home" with great ambition.

There are four rooms in this house, with a living room in the middle and rooms on both sides.

The living room is long and deep and the layout is not very good.

There are two lower houses on the left and right sides of the main house. The left one is the kitchen with two large stoves and two lower small stoves next to the big stoves.

On the right is the utility room, which is used to store farm tools and the like.

Next to the kitchen is a low and narrow room, which is the shower room, or bathroom.

The floor of the bathroom is paved with red bricks, while the kitchen and utility room are not paved with bricks. The house is paved with square old step bricks, which is good.

Jiang Xia heard from her college roommate that there are still mud brick houses from the 1950s and 1960s in her hometown. The floors are not paved with bricks, but hardened mud, which has turned black.

The house also has a backyard, which is quite large. There is also a pigpen, cowshed and chicken coop built with stones, but they are all in tatters.

After the visit, Jiang Xia felt that it was much better than she had imagined, so she decided to start cleaning her room.

The old house was also connected to electricity and equipped with lights. Jiang Xia pulled the rope on the wall next to the door, and the tungsten filament bulb lit up.

She took a long broom and decided to start by sweeping the cobwebs from the walls and beams.

After sweeping the four walls, she was holding the broom to sweep the beams when she suddenly made eye contact with the two snakes on the beams.

"Ah!" Jiang Xia was so scared that he dropped the broom and ran out like the wind, with the cloth on his face blown off.

(End of this chapter)