The smiling tiger stammered, "So, what about these two rooms now?"
This time, Chen Yan answered him without hesitation: "Sell it to my little brother, Qiqi is about to graduate from university."
Chen Yan thought to herself, "As expected, my younger brother is really good. As long as he brings up this reason, no one in the courtyard will doubt him."
The siblings had already discussed it; the fat man planned to take advantage of this house-buying frenzy to acquire every single house in the courtyard, as many as he could afford.
Chen Yan secretly admired the fat man. He really had a good plan. The whole yard would belong to their family in the future. Just thinking about it made her excited.
After returning from Benleihu's house, Smiling Tiger felt increasingly uneasy.
Look at others, then look at him.
All these years have passed, and I still haven't achieved my ideals and ambitions. I'm just wasting my time in this courtyard.
Smiling Tiger looked at Bang Geng's house, and an idea slowly began to form in his mind.
"..."
It is said that a courtyard house is like a sieve, and no secret can be hidden.
Sure enough, the news that Yi Zhonghai and Sha Zhu had sold their houses to Fatty for 2,000 yuan a room reached Yan Jiecheng's ears just two days later.
That day, Fatty was at home watching the videotape "The Unyielding Spirit" and reminiscing about Zhou Zhiruo when he heard a sneaky knocking sound at the door.
The fat man quickly turned off the TV and came out to open the door for the person.
Upon opening the door, they found Yan Jiecheng standing outside, looking around warily.
Why is he here? The fat man muttered to himself as he let Yan Jiecheng in.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he came in, seeing the drawn curtains, the lit video camera, and the turned-off television, he had an "I understand" expression on his face.
The fat man angrily turned on the TV: "Open your eyes and look carefully, I'm not like you, hiding at home watching cat movies in broad daylight!"
Unexpectedly, a burst of gongs and drums suddenly came from the television, along with cheers and shouts of encouragement...
The fat man suddenly turned his head, and good heavens! "The Black Three Minutes!"
They were leading 1-0 in the 87th minute, but then suffered a "black three minutes" and were ultimately eliminated, failing to qualify for the 1990 World Cup in Italy.
Yan Jiecheng and Fatty witnessed the classic "black three minutes".
After watching it, Yan Jiecheng held his head in his hands, while the fat man silently smoked for several minutes before finally admitting, "I'm not pretending anymore, I was just watching cat videos."
Yan Jiecheng slowly lowered his arm and said to the fat man, "Do you have any beer?"
Fatty went to the refrigerator and took two cans of beer. The two of them started drinking. Yan Jiecheng then asked Fatty, "I heard you bought a house from Uncle Yi and Shazhu for 2,000 yuan a room?"
The fat man put down his beer and asked, "You even know about this?"
Yan Jiecheng nodded and lowered his voice: "Do you like my house?"
As mentioned earlier, in the front yard of this courtyard house, the west wing housed the elderly couple Yan Fugui and his wife, while the east wing was given to Fatty. The room where Yan Jiecheng and his wife lived was actually the servants' room in the past.
Although it's called servants' quarters, it's actually a combination of a row of servants' quarters, so it can barely be counted as two rooms.
The fat man asked him in surprise, "If you sell the house, where will you live?"
Yan Jiecheng said somewhat embarrassedly, "I've saved up some money in the past two years, and I'm thinking of buying a house outside, and then... with Yu Haitang, we..."
Having said that, the fat man understood: Yan Jiecheng was planning to divorce Zhang Hongying and move on to Yu Haitang.
The fat man asked him, "What about Zhang Hongying?"
Yan Jiecheng kept rubbing his face: "I've thought it through. I'll give her three-tenths of the money from the house sale—no, half of it!"
He originally intended to say one-third, but somehow his conscience bothered him in the end, and he increased it to half...
To be honest, Yan Jiecheng is really a scumbag, utterly despicable.
Even in feudal society, there were "three things you shouldn't do"!
The first rule is that a woman cannot divorce her if she has nowhere to go. This means that if there are no living relatives in her natal family and the woman has nowhere to stay, the husband cannot divorce her.
In addition, there are rules such as "not going to the place of mourning for three years" and "not going to the place of going from poverty to wealth." Yan Jiecheng especially violated this rule to the fullest extent.
Although Zhang Hongying was a rural resident, what was her family like when she married Yan Jiecheng?
Above, he had to serve the cunning "Old Yan Xi," and below, he also had to serve Yan Jiefang, Yan Jiekuang, and Yan Jiedi's sister-in-law.
Anyone who has watched the TV series knows that the Yan family's family tradition is to be calculating. From a bicycle or a radio to two fish heads or a month's water bill, Yan Fugui has to calculate everything.
One can imagine the kind of dire straits Zhang Hongying endured for so many years.
Of these "three things not to do," Zhang Hongying meets two of them, and Yan Jiecheng is now actually trying to abandon his wife; you see, this is the kind of child that Yan Bugui, a primary school teacher, educated.
After a moment's thought, the fat man rejected Yan Jiecheng.
Seeing that he was getting anxious, the fat man said to him, "What you did was really unfair. First, I don't care about your family's mess, but Zhang Hongying hasn't done anything to wrong you, so you have to make sure she's settled. Second, and this is the important point, your two rooms aren't really that significant. Let me tell you the truth, I bought the houses from Uncle Yi and Sha Zhu because I'm after the whole courtyard. I could easily negotiate with Smiling Tiger to exchange my two rooms for his, and then the whole courtyard would be mine. My family could live in the main house for once. Do you understand what I'm saying?"
Yan Jiecheng understood, but he was unwilling to give up. He gritted his teeth and said to the fat man, "Actually, you don't need to go to such lengths."
The fat man looked at him with amusement: "Oh, so where does this distance come from?"
Yan Jiecheng pointed to the west wing and said, "If we add my parents' two rooms, the front yard will be just as complete."
Upon hearing this, the fat man's eyes lit up, a fact that Yan Jiecheng keenly observed.
He said, "Really? If you can convince Uncle San, I'll give you an extra 1,000 yuan for each of the two west wing rooms, making it 10,000 yuan in total, all for one!"
Even after leaving the fat man's house, Yan Jiecheng was still full of emotion.
Wow, this fat guy is really rich! He offered 10,000 yuan without even flinching.
When Yan Jiecheng returned home, he saw the worried faces of Yan Fugui, Zhang Hongying, and the others.
Finally, night fell. When it was quiet and the night was deep, Yan Jiecheng turned over, looked at Zhang Hongying lying on the outermost side, and whispered to her, "Are you asleep?"
Zhang Hongying was clearly not asleep. They were an old married couple, and Yan Jiecheng's little schemes could easily slip through her fingers.
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