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Qiaodong Village demolition?
Has the notice come down?
The people in Qiaoxi Village were bewildered. Old Man Liu frowned and said, "Her third uncle, you must have heard wrongly. It's Qiaoxi Village that's being demolished, right?"
But seeing Uncle Chen Jin's silly grin, he had a bad feeling and felt a little panicked. He forced himself to calm down and continued to ask, "Where did the notice come from? What does it say?"
"The city has issued a stamped notice, and the village chief has received a call. People from the demolition office will come this afternoon to issue a notice and do an assessment. They have already left the city. Oh, it's too late to say anything else. I'll take my third sister back first." The third uncle shouted anxiously, "Third sister, get in the car!"
"Ah? Oh, oh!" Chen Jin was dizzy from the news brought by his third uncle. He came back to his senses after being pushed by Lan Meiying beside him. Lan Meiying was happy for her but also sad that it wasn't her grandfather's house that was demolished. "Sister Chen Jin, go back and take a look."
"Yeah. Hehe." Chen Jin was infected with his uncle's silly smile. He took two steps forward and sat on the motorcycle with one leg crossed. "Third uncle, all right, let's go."
Hehehe, Qiaodong Village is going to be demolished?
Ahhhh! She owns two buildings!
Hahaha~ Oh my god, is she going to be a nouveau riche?
The rumbling sound of the engine starting up and the flying dust could not stop Chen Jin and her third uncle from grinning.
"Hey, hey! Her third uncle, is our Qiaoxi Village mentioned in the notice?"
The car had already started. Men, women, young and old from Qiaoxi Village followed it for a few steps. Uncle San didn't even turn his head and said, "I don't know~" and walked away with Chen Jin, grinning foolishly.
The people of Qiaoxi Village were covered in dust, and they looked at the people next to them in confusion: Is this true?
Someone quickly reacted and ran towards the ancestral hall.
"Village Chief! Something bad has happened!"
"What's wrong? Just keep talking nonsense! Please don't blame me, ancestors." A shrewd-looking old man in his fifties walked out with a stern face. When someone ran up to him, he scolded the person for talking nonsense.
"Just now, someone from Qiaodong Village came over and said that their village had received a demolition notice. People from the demolition office will be there this afternoon."
Village chief Liu frowned, "Demolition notice for Qiaodong Village? Are you sure it's true?" He quickly affirmed, "Impossible. If there was a demolition notice, how could I not have heard any news? Qiaodong Village is further inside than our village." There is no way that the demolition would be carried out there.
The villagers who had just heard what Uncle Chen Jin said also came over one after another. Some said, "Uncle Chen Jin said that. It's probably true."
Village Chief Liu: "Who is Chen Jin?"
"The daughter of Shi Sheng in Liu Dagen's family, Chen Wenfang brought her back to Qiaodong Village to raise her after the divorce." Oh, this is not important. The person who spoke said anxiously: "Why don't we arrange someone to go to the city to inquire? Chen Jin's uncle knows that Qiaodong Village has issued a demolition notice. Maybe the demolition area is large this time and it has been included in their area."
The others also nodded, but they were worried: just this morning at the meeting, they said that the city was going to build an industrial park in their Qiaoxi Village, so how come now it became Qiaodong Village that was going to be demolished?
After the meeting, there was a heated discussion about the demolition compensation, with some people even arguing with their family members until they were red in the face. Now no one can stop arguing. If the demolition fails, what's the point of arguing because we have no money?
Village chief Liu was still rational. He immediately asked his son to drive a motorcycle to the city, and he also rushed home. He had to call his son-in-law who worked in the city to find out the situation.
When I trotted home, my face turned pale: We were supposed to go to Chaiqiao West Village!
The villagers didn’t even bother to have the rare “village dinner” once a year and followed the village chief to listen to the news.
Everyone in Old Man Liu's family looked unhappy. If it was true that only Qiaodong Village was demolished and not Qiaoxi Village... Upon closer thought, Chen Jin was the only one left now, and the building and orchard that Chen Fang left for her... hiss, they were all hers to take care of.
Liu Shisheng and Jiang Zijun felt the most uncomfortable.
Chen Jin's brothers and sisters also thought about what they had said to Chen Jin at home, and how they often disagreed with her in the past... They were now praying silently, hoping that the news brought by Chen Jin's uncle was false.
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The motorcycle was driven onto the main road and was exposed to the sun for a while before Chen Jin remembered that her umbrella was left at her grandfather's house.
Chen Jin confirmed with his uncle again: "Did you really receive the demolition notice? It says Qiaodong Village?"
Uncle San patiently replied to her loudly: "Really! It's our Qiaodong Village!"
The sun was so strong at noon in July that the grass on the roadside was wilted. But now she felt like there was a fan in her heart, blowing at her.
Ah, it’s so comfortable in the sunshine! The sky is so blue today! The clouds are so white!
"Hehehe~" The uncle and nephew both grinned foolishly.
The motorcycle drove for more than twenty minutes, a little faster than usual, and turned into the village, quietly. My third uncle didn’t stop at his house, but went straight to the village chief’s house.
There were five motorcycles and a half-new van parked in front of the village chief's house. Bursts of exclamations came from the house, including several loud "Hahahaha".
As soon as Chen Jin got off the car, he trotted in and saw that several uncles who worked in the city and usually didn't come back unless there was something important were there.
Today is a working day.
"Chen Jin is back. Oh, your third uncle told you, right? Our village is going to be demolished! Chen Jin, your house is built just right. Oh, how much money will you get?" Chen Jin's family can get a lot if the two six-story buildings are demolished. The aunt who said this was only a little envious. After all, her family does not have enough buildings, but her homestead is large!
Some people are regretting that they did not listen to Uncle Chen Jin and build more houses this year. Who could have thought that the demolition would come so suddenly?
It’s not that no one wanted to go back and see if they could add to the wall, but the village chief Chen Guangman scolded anyone who had such thoughts.
"I think you haven't taken enough advantage! Are the people in the demolition office stupid? Can't you tell the difference between the original and the new ones? Don't try to do anything bad to me! How much more can you add? Demolish it quickly and get the money quickly. Look at Qiaoxi Village, I think they added too much, so people skipped them and chose ours. If anyone dares to do something weird and delay everyone from getting paid..."
Chen Guangman is not only the village chief of Qiaodong Village, but also the patriarch of this branch of the Chen family. Once he speaks, all the troublemakers in the village have to give him face.
Besides, everyone wants to put the demolition compensation in their pockets as soon as possible and can’t wait to get the payment now.
Chen Jin looked around, then walked over to his third uncle and aunt, "Have the eldest and second uncles heard the news?"
"I called and said they are on their way back."
Although my third aunt didn't smile as foolishly as my third uncle, the light in her eyes was dazzling blingblingbling.
The third aunt suddenly stopped laughing, pulled Chen Jin outside, and reminded her: "This time, apart from our village, the only village that will be demolished is Mutang Village over there. I asked the village chief, and Qiaoxi Village is not included in the demolition range."
ha! Qiaoxi Village was not demolished! We held a village meeting and had a village dinner this morning. It’s too early to be happy!
Thinking about the dirty talk she heard at her grandfather's house, she just wanted to put her hands on her hips and laugh out loud: she can buy a house for herself!
"I'm telling you, keep all your family documents safe. If your father's relatives come over, get out of here as soon as possible. Those things in the house were saved by your grandparents and your mother for you. As soon as Liu Shisheng got into college, he looked down on your mother for being uneducated. No one in the Liu family is a good person. If you give them a share of your demolition compensation, your mother will jump out of the ground and beat you up."
On the day she came back, her third aunt persuaded her to go to Qiaoxi Village for dinner, saying that if their place was being demolished, they had to go there to claim a share. But if it was her own village that was being demolished, her third aunt would not allow her to let them claim a share.
He is quite two-faced, but as human beings, most of them stand on the side of the interests of their own family.
Chen Jin is naturally the same.
"Don't worry, I am a stingy person and I will definitely not let them take advantage of me."
Third aunt was right. If she dared to give the money from the demolition of her home to her father, her mother might be so angry that she would jump out of the ground and beat her.
Originally, the Chen and Liu families had arranged the marriage early on, and as soon as they reached the right age, Chen Fang and Liu Shisheng got married. In the second year of their marriage, Chen Fang became pregnant, and Liu Shisheng was recommended to study at the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University in another province because his uncle was a commune secretary. When he saw the progressive young people outside, he looked down on Chen Fang, who only had an elementary school education. He also fell in love with Jiang Zijun, who was from the same school, and went back to ask for a divorce.
The Liu family was also not human. Instead of persuading Liu Shisheng to shoulder his responsibilities, they persuaded Chen Fang to agree to a divorce. In order to achieve their goal, Old Lady Liu and several sisters-in-law took turns scolding and coaxing her. Chen Fang couldn't stand it anymore and divorced and went back to her parents' home. But the Chen family was not to be trifled with. They came and smashed things, and even wanted to report Liu Shisheng, but they were suppressed, and even implicated the eldest uncle who used to work in the commune.
However, so many years have passed since the incident, and everyone has been living their own lives without disturbing each other, so there is no longer any tension when they meet like before. Especially in recent years, Old Man Liu often called Chen Jin to invite him over for dinner. The elders in the family didn't want her to be caught in the middle, so they would just nod when they met. Of course, except for her bad-tempered uncle.
No matter what, she would not give a penny to Liu Shisheng!
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The village chief knew that a demolition notice had been issued, but he had no idea about the specific scope of the demolition and the demolition compensation regulations. Unlike the village chief of Qiaoxi Village, who has been thinking about how to compensate for demolition in recent years.
The people from the demolition office and my eldest and second uncles arrived at the village at the same time.
Oh, not only that, the village chief of Qiaoxi Village also came.
Chen Guangman skillfully invited the people from the demolition office to the ancestral hall in the middle of the village, and the villagers naturally followed. Chen Jin was appointed to take notes and write down what the staff of the demolition office said.
The ancestral hall originally had a four-courtyard structure and is said to have a history of more than a hundred years. Most of it has collapsed, leaving only a main house in the second courtyard and a large wing room on the left, both of which have been renovated. The main room houses the Chen family's ancestors, while the side rooms are filled with the village's sundries, mostly discarded tables and chairs.
There is a large drying yard on both sides of the ancestral hall, with large banyan trees planted on both sides. The age of these trees is about the same as the ancestral hall.
Without any need for Chen Guangman's instructions, the men in the village took the initiative to move out long benches and two tables from the wing room, dug out a piece of rag from inside, went to a nearby villager's house to fetch a bucket of water to wipe the table where the demolition office staff would sit. As for the villagers themselves? No one cares whether the stool is dirty or not.
He stared at the documents in the staff's hands until countless holes were popping out of them.
"Are all the villagers here?"
Chen Guangman stepped on a large rock and looked over. "There are a few people working who cannot be contacted. There are people in each of the eighteen households."
"Okay, as long as each household has a representative." A middle-aged man who looked like a cadre picked up a few pieces of paper and cleared his throat. "Hello, fellow villagers. I am Jiang Weimin from the Demolition Office. Now I will explain to you the announcement about the demolition of Qiaodong Village..."
Director Jiang in front first read the content of the announcement, and then explained the relevant matters in the announcement one by one to everyone. For example, the scope of demolition and demolition compensation.
Although Chen Jin was sitting at the bottom, Chen Guangman specially had someone arrange a table for her. She was writing quickly, and she took notes on everything Director Jiang said.
If some villagers don’t understand something, they will raise their hands to ask questions.
The people of Qiaodong Village became more and more excited as they listened, but the village chief Liu and several villagers of Qiaoxi Village who were sitting at the back felt disappointed when they heard that the demolition area would include Qiaodong Village and Mutang Village.
After the meeting, the notice brought by the demolition office was handed over to the village chief. The announcement has been made, and starting tomorrow, someone will come to draw the lines of the demolition area and organize experts to conduct a specific assessment.
Even after the people from the demolition office left, the people of Qiaodong Village still felt as if they were walking on cotton.
"Oh my god!" My uncle was excited but didn't dare to be too ostentatious. He only laughed loudly when he got home.
All the people from my eldest uncle's, second uncle's, third uncle's families, including her, gathered at my eldest uncle's house.
It's rare for the three aunts to have a common topic to sit down and talk about. She and her brothers and sisters also gathered together to talk.
There was a series of “I didn’t think about it”, “Who could have thought of this”, “It’s a big hit”, “Ha ha ha”, “Hehehe” in the room.
Then, everyone thought of the most crucial thing, and asked Chen Jin to estimate how much money he could get based on the compensation standards mentioned by Director Jiang of the Demolition Office.
The eldest cousin Chen Yongcheng moved out a desk, the second cousin Chen Yongxin moved out a stool, the younger cousin Chen Yongan handed over a calculator, and the third cousin Chen Yongfei also took a calculator to check the calculations. Cousin Chen Ting and cousin Chen Jia stood behind Chen Jin like bodyguards.
My eldest uncle Chen Wenqiang was the most impatient. He put his hands on his hips and leaned forward. My aunt He Jingxian was the most calm person in the room, sitting on the sofa with a smile on her face.
My second uncle Chen Wenhua has been cultivating his energy by drinking tea and reading newspapers at the Meteorological Bureau for many years. He would come to visit leisurely from time to time. Second aunt Liu Juan usually could keep her composure, but now she was anxious. She watched from the side for a while, then moved over and pushed her daughter Chen Jia away.
My third uncle Chen Wenkang was rubbing his hands while waiting for the result. My third aunt Wei Xiuhe was standing by and watching with a smile on her face. She was not very literate and felt that she could not see anything even if she got closer.
There was also my eldest sister-in-law Meng Lin, who wanted to watch, but her one-year-old son was making a fuss.
"So many?! Third sister, did you calculate it correctly?" Second aunt was so surprised that her voice broke.
The third cousin counted the numbers Chen Jin listed and said, "There may be a little error, but it's basically this much."
"How much?"
"Hey, why don't you just tell me the number!"
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