Sharing Session
It was the first time that Daju came to Hanlinyuan’s home. As soon as Chen Jin put him on the ground, he pulled up Chen Jin’s trouser legs again. A total scaredy cat.
Chen Jin had no choice but to carry the cat in one hand and the luggage back to the room in the other hand, then put it next to him and let it watch him pack his luggage.
Seeing that she was right next to him, Daju walked slowly around the room, as if he was familiar with the layout of the house.
I still don’t come here often enough. I hope I can come back and live in this house more often in the future.
After cleaning up the house, Chen Jin took Daju with him and said, "Let's go to my third uncle's house for dinner."
A little cat, following a feeder like her, is destined to go out and see the world. Fortunately, her big orange cat is not shy. He will go to other people's homes and play for a long time after meeting them a few times. He is a bit timid but very carefree cat.
Just as she arrived at her third uncle's house, Chen Yongan came back. She asked him why he didn't have to go to class, but Chen Yongan didn't hear her question at all. When he saw a small moving orange cat on the ground, his eyes lit up and he hugged the cat and rubbed it, then it meowed several times. That sound... Chen Jin was very sure that the big orange cat disliked him and acted like a "cat with no dignity".
After he had calmed down, he replied to Chen Jin, "Our two teachers have asked for leave. I will be back tomorrow if I don't have classes. I also wanted to ask for two days off, but my counselor didn't approve it. It would be better if my counselor was my third sister."
Chen Jin: "If I were your counselor, I would be at home, would you be able to find me to ask for leave?"
"Hey! That's right." Chen Yongan smiled foolishly, and suddenly felt that his counselor was still the best. At least he could still find him. Even if he didn't get two more days off, at least he could still get leave tomorrow if he didn't have classes.
He didn't dare to skip classes and go home, for fear that the dormitory supervisor would come to check on him and find him not in the dormitory. He might be criticized by the whole college, and that would be the end of him and too embarrassing.
"Daju, Daju, meow meow meow?" Chen Yongan pinched Daju's paws and touched its belly, his expression gradually becoming serious, "Third sister, is Daju stupid? Why is he so motionless?"
Chen Jin pulled up the pillow behind him and hit him directly, "You are stupid! It thinks you are stupid and doesn't want to bother with you."
Although she often complained at home that she had brought home a silly cat, she was the only one who could say anything about her cat and no one else was allowed to say anything. How is that stupid? It's obviously just a little lazy!
After having dinner at his third uncle's house, Chen Jin did not leave in a hurry. Instead, he took Daju and Chen Yongan to Aunt Zhou's house to visit and chat.
Aunt Zhou and Uncle Wenming have an older daughter who is married and a younger son who is still in junior high school and lives in the dormitory. Usually, it’s just the two of them at home.
Aunt Zhou washed a large plate of fruit to entertain them, and also prepared snacks and drinks. It seemed that she was going to have a long chat.
Zhou Xiangxiang looked left and right, always feeling that something was missing. She glanced at Chen Wenming who was sitting on a small stool next to her and chased him out. "Go downstairs and find someone to play cards or chess with. Don't disturb our chat."
Without giving Chen Wenming a chance to speak, he pushed him out the door and into the elevator, waving his hand, "Go ahead, come back at ten o'clock."
Chen Wenming asked what time it was, and Chen Yongan in the room replied loudly: "Uncle Wenming, it's half past seven now."
He pressed the first floor button under the watchful eyes of his wife. What would it matter if he were to be included in the symposium?
As soon as the person left, Zhou Xiangxiang turned around and made a phone call to call Aunt Chen Wu and Aunt Ke Xin. Aunt Ke Xin and she were neighbors on the same floor, and Aunt Chen Wu lived two floors above hers.
They all got together and became neighbors.
"Aunt Ke Xin is still in Rong City? Didn't she go to Shanghai?" Chen Jin was curious.
"She just came back yesterday. Something happened at home, so she's staying at home now." Zhou Xiangxiang glanced at the things on the table and said, "You guys sit down first, I'll go get some food."
Chen Jin shouted, "Aunt Zhou, there's no need to prepare anything. There's enough food. We've all had dinner."
Aunt Zhou replied: "It's not for you, it's for your cat."
“......Oh.” You are being too sentimental.
When Aunt Chen Wu and Aunt Ke Xin came over one after another, they were surprised to see Chen Jin and Chen Yongan. The first thing they said was to ask if they had no classes at school. Especially Chen Jin, it seems that you will never see Chen Jin unless it is a holiday or a special day.
Now, in the eyes of most people in Qiaodong Village, Chen Jin = the first invisible rich man in Qiaodong Village.
"I'm usually too lazy to go out, so I just stay at school. The work is not that busy, so I'm relatively free and it's not difficult to ask for leave." After all, it's not the kind of critical technical position that would collapse without her, so Vice President Sun was very prompt in approving the leave application.
When Aunt Zhou brought a plate of cooked food and put it on the ground for Daju to eat, she saw that Daju was clinging to Chen Jin's legs and refused to move. Aunt Zhou ignored it and started the once-in-a-lifetime "sharing session".
Everyone turned their eyes to Aunt Zhou.
It's this kind of gaze! Aunt Zhou felt that she was collecting gossip everywhere just for the opportunity to share it.
"As I said last time, an old man in Qiaoxi Village accidentally fell and died. Do you still remember that incident?"
Chen Jin nodded and said he remembered, then asked, "And then what? Isn't it all over?" At that time, they said no evidence was found, and the two brothers denied it. Even if the villagers had suspicions, they couldn't convict them.
But Aunt Ke Xin and Aunt Chen Wu didn’t know about this, so Aunt Zhou could only explain the whole story and then continued, “The household registration in Qiaoxi Village was frozen, and the news of the demolition was confirmed. The brothers started quarreling again. One said the division was unfair, and the other said it was already decided and he didn’t agree to change it. As they were arguing, they let it slip that the two brothers had a quarrel with the old man and got so angry that they said they accidentally pushed the old man down and didn’t send him to the hospital in time, so the old man died.”
"The two brothers quarreled too much at home, and many neighbors heard it, so they reported it to the police, and finally the two brothers were taken away." Zhou Xiangxiang almost finished speaking in one breath, and then gulped down two sips of water, saying: "These two guys are really not human. They really hurt people for money. As for the old man... Forget it, the dead are the greatest, I won't comment. Some elderly people, like Chen Wenming's parents, really deserve to be punished."
"Oh, speaking of those two old guys in our family, you also know that Chen Wenxing is not doing well, right? I said that he is not a good guy. Even though he has money, he still stays with his wife? It turns out that his wife has a big handle on him. Now, those two old guys want to come to my Yongkang again and call him a big grandson. I will scold them every time they come. Do they really think we care about those two old guys?"
"Knowing it's useless to look for me, she went to instigate Chen Wenming behind my back. I found out and locked up all the money in the house. Chen Wenming dared to use the money to support his parents without my knowledge. If I found out, he can just wait to live with his parents in their old age. I won't be called Zhou Xiangxiang until he leaves the house with nothing!"
No wonder she wanted to drive Uncle Wenming downstairs. Aunt Zhou must have been holding this in for a long time. She finally found someone to gossip with, and now she wants to vent.
Anyway, none of the people present here would spread rumors in the village, so Aunt Zhou can talk about her family affairs with peace of mind.
Chen Jin ate a strawberry in one bite, listening to gossip while eating delicious fruit. It felt so comfortable. All the troubles in life are reduced by half.
Aunt Zhou is truly the best friend of curious people and curious cats.
"It's still Qiaoxi Village, that Liu Laogen. Oh! Look at me! I almost forgot about your grandfather. Hey, this guy has imitated you and got a property notarization for himself, which made his sons and daughters-in-law very angry. The grandchildren at home also scolded him every day. Your first aunt and third aunt said they wanted to hang a white cloth at the door and hang themselves, saying that your father-in-law took the family money and didn't want to share it with them. My goodness, your three aunts' families came over in groups, trying to force Liu Laogen to cancel the notarization."
"However, Liu Laogen is not without help. His three daughters also brought their families to help him. It was like a fight in a ring, three against three, and both sides were evenly matched. Liu Laogen was also unable to sit still and refused to give in. He even said that if they forced him like this, he would move to the city to live with your father's family and let them take care of him in his old age."
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Chen Jin chewed the fruit quickly and swallowed it. "No way? Then what?"
"Then your three uncles all behaved themselves. Your grandma said that the one who wanted to hang himself would do so. After he hanged himself, she would marry him a new one after the seventh day. Your two aunts stopped making trouble again."
Aunt Zhou concluded: "This whole commotion is just the father and son testing each other's bottom line. Your three aunts are stupid. Do they think they can get the upper hand over Liu Laogen in this way? In the end, they are exceptions, not human beings."
Chen Jin chuckled and said, "They are all like this. They don't care what the final result is. They just want to join in the trouble. They want to make a fuss and show off even if it hurts others and does not benefit themselves. But they don't think too much. If my grandfather doesn't give them some in the end, they will continue to make trouble. They think they are the aunts in the family and have a high status."
In fact, they just take themselves too seriously and can't make sense of it. Just make trouble.
"Hey! Isn't it? Just like my sister-in-law. She just owes a lot of money." Zhou Xiangxiang said.
Chen Jin picked up another strawberry and ate it in one bite.
She said that there must be a lot of new things happening in Qiaoxi Village, but what her cousin Mengchong told her every day was too boring and without any ups and downs. Look at what Aunt Zhou said, she was so passionate and gesticulating, the content of the story itself was only 50% interesting, but once she described it, the interest of the story became 100%.
Aunt Zhou's storytelling show called "Village Stories" should attract a lot of people to watch.
"By the way, Aunt Zhou, you go to the fruit shop every day, how can you collect so much information?" Whether it is Jinxiu Community or Xiuli Community, does Aunt Zhou have her own "informant" in Qiaoxi Village?
Aunt Zhou smiled proudly and said, "I go to the fruit wholesale market outside the suburbs of Nancheng District every day to buy goods. There are people from Qiaoxi Village and their relatives there. The girl from the family I buy goods from is from Qiaoxi Village."
"The people in Qiaoxi Village are too ostentatious. As soon as they have a little money, they will go out and do something stupid. The news of demolition has been circulated for who knows how many times. There are people in the fruit wholesale market over there who are specifically betting on whether Qiaoxi Village will be demolished this year. I bet ten yuan on it, and I bet it won't be demolished..."
After saying this, Aunt Zhou remembered that Chen Jin still had land in Qiaoxi Village. If it was demolished, Chen Jin would be the one to get the money. He changed his words and said, "Well, I just threw it casually and hit the end that didn't work. Just treat it as a fart. I think the demolition of Qiaoxi Village is a foregone conclusion."
"It's okay, it's okay. If I get it, I'm lucky. If I lose it, it's my fate." Chen Jin waved his hand, urging Aunt Zhou to tell the next gossip quickly.
"Okay, I have a lot of things to say. I was thinking of finding someone to chat with when I go to worship my ancestors tomorrow, but I have a lot to do tomorrow and I may not be able to find anyone..."
Chen Yongan quickly nodded in response and said yes, but Aunt Zhou glared at him, saying he was impatient, and then she continued to get back to the topic.
"After talking about their family, there is also the accountant of Qiaoxi Village, a small accountant in the village. Do you know how much he embezzled?" Zhou Xiangxiang left enough suspense. Seeing that everyone shook their heads, she stretched out her palm, "Five hundred thousand! He actually embezzled five hundred thousand!"
Chen Jin's eyes widened. "So many?! How did you get so greedy?"
You know, although Qiaoxi Village has a large source of income from renting out houses, many people still do not abandon their own fields. She has never heard of any land in Qiaoxi Village being contracted out, and the village collective has never heard of any income. The only source of income is the new factory built on the land east of Qiaoxi Village. It has just started operating. It is still too early to discuss dividends. It is not necessary to negotiate for 500,000 now, right? The dividends distributed to the villagers of Qiaoxi Village throughout the year were less than 500,000!
Aunt Zhou smiled meaningfully, "If you want to be greedy, why can't you be greedy?"
"These are all old accounts. A factory was built in the suburbs of Nancheng District. The land next to Qiaoxi Village is adjacent to the factory area. They occupied a piece of land in the past and were compensated. If it weren't for the demolition this time, the accountant's family would have had conflicts. The people in his village wouldn't have known that they had been compensated 1 million yuan. They only knew 300,000 yuan, but they didn't expect that the bulk of it was taken away. There were also other subsidies from the higher authorities, and he deducted some of them. After all the calculations, he actually embezzled 500,000 yuan."
Aunt Chen was amazed. "Five hundred thousand is a lot. If it weren't for the demolition, how long would it take to save up five hundred thousand?" Like their family before, they only had one building and no orchard. They mainly relied on growing vegetables to sell in the city and renting out houses, so they saved money slowly. It takes many years to save up half a million dollars.
Aunt Ke Xin, who had been listening quietly and not interrupting, couldn't help but ask: "Such a big thing, it can't be that he can do it alone? Are there other village cadres who are not involved?"
She didn't believe such talk because she had never participated in it.
"I don't know whether other officials participated or not, but the village chief insisted that he knew nothing about it. When the accountant was investigated, he also said that he knew nothing about it. How can the higher authorities punish the village chief? It doesn't matter whether this official is removed or not. The people in Qiaoxi Village have no objection to it. But the accountant's house was splashed with paint, and the villagers shouted at them to spit out the money. He has really become a rat that everyone wants to kill."
Aunt Zhou continued, "The accountant took 500,000 yuan and bought several houses in the city. He also occupied a lot of residential land in the village. The accountant was in prison, but his family is fine. When they get compensation for the demolition, they can use the money they embezzled, and the man may not be in prison for long. It's just that these parasites are eating too much."
Finally, he reminded Chen Jindao: "Village head of Qiaoxi Village, you have to be careful too. Don't you still have homesteads and self-built houses in Qiaoxi Village? I think the village cadres are not good people. Maybe they will try to take advantage of the demolition."
Chen Jin felt that Liu Mantang might not really be greedy for money, but he must know something. There are so many twists and turns in it that even those outside the group don’t understand.
Liu Mantang is a person who wears one mask after another, and no one knows whether his true face is white or black.
As she spoke, Aunt Zhou enviously said, "Your luck is really blessed by the God of Wealth. It's a pity that I have no money, otherwise I would have bought the land with you."
Aunt Ke Xin and Aunt Chen Wu also agreed: Third sister has to deal with demolitions one after another, it's really like the God of Wealth is chasing her to feed her.
Big Orange actually nodded his head along with him.
Everyone was suddenly stunned, and then burst into laughter. Chen Jin said that her cat was a gossipy cat that loved to join in the fun, but now, hey! It’s true!
Although Chen Jin hoped that there really was a God of Wealth chasing her and feeding her, that was not the case!
The main reason was that my uncle had a good vision and felt that since the science and technology park and the industrial park were both in the same area, it was only a matter of time before Qiaoxi Village would be demolished. If there really is a God of Wealth, her uncle must be that God of Wealth.
"No matter what the reason is, you are about to become the second richest person in Qiaodong Village."
Chen Jinxiao, the richest man is currently her uncle?
"Wait, I have something else. The one about Chen Wenzhen, you don't know about it, right? Ah? You know everything? Okay, I won't say anything. Chen Wensong..." Aunt Zhou suddenly stopped and glanced at Aunt Ke Xin. Seeing that Aunt Ke Xin was also waiting to listen, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "Isn't Chen Wensong's wife pregnant again? This baby is said to be a son, but before she gave birth to the son, a man came to the house with a son to claim him as the father."
Everyone was shocked, but not particularly surprised. In short, it seems like something Chen Wensong can do.
"Well, how do you calculate this? He has one at home and one outside?" Chen Jin said, "It seems that Chen Wensong's real estate is selling very well. He has enough money to support two families."
Aunt Zhou said she was ignorant, "What you can see are one at home and one outside, there are many more that you can't see." Then she listed the gossip she had heard recently in Xiuli Community: There was a bald man who sent six different women home in one month, and he bought houses for all of them in Xiuli Community.
Chen Jin blinked, "It's true that I don't have much experience."
Aunt Zhou also praised Aunt Ke Xin for getting a good divorce. "People nowadays are so smart that it's not that easy to get a divorce. They control everything, such as the division of money and property."
He said to Chen Jin, "You'll find out when you go to Qiaoxi Village someday. There's a law firm in their village where people go every day to consult about divorce and property division. We didn't know to talk to a lawyer before, but it's a good thing that the village chief hired someone from the law firm to educate everyone about the law. Otherwise, if it was the same as before, we women would be the ones who would suffer."
"Most of those who consult about divorce are men, right?" Aunt Ke Xin sneered, "They are not good people. Once they have money, they think that this and that at home are not good enough, and that sows outside are more beautiful than their wives at home."
"There are also women who are wary of their husband's family, fearing that they will not get anything after the divorce." Aunt Zhou said: "Our village has set a good example for Mutang Village and Qiaoxi Village. If there is any problem, they will consult the police and lawyers, and they will fight for what they deserve. Now everyone knows to consult a lawyer..."
It’s true that Qiaodong Village has really set a good example, and the higher authorities should give them a certificate of “Advanced Group in Legal Education”. No, probably because there are still some big gamblers like Chen Yongqiang, and bastards like Chen Wenzhen and Chen Wensong, who are ruining the reputation of Qiaodong Village and should be crossed out from the family tree!
This "sharing session" started at about 7:30 and lasted until 10:30 in the evening, a full three hours! The scope of Aunt Zhou's gossip expanded from Qiaodong Village, Qiaoxi Village, and Mutang Village to Jinxiu Community, Xiuli Community, and Rose Garden. Compared with what Aunt Zhou knew, the little things other people knew were nothing. It has been a long time since Chen Jin had listened to gossip with such satisfaction.
I heard from Aunt Zhou that she is planning to open another fruit shop, but she hasn’t decided where exactly. Chen Jin thought: It doesn’t matter where it is opened, so that I can have another place to learn about new things in the future.
Aunt Zhou is really capable. She manages her fruit shop business well and can also satisfy her hobby of eating melon seeds and joining in the fun.
Chen Jin brought Daju back to Hanlin Garden contentedly.
When they were about to leave after chatting about gossip, Chen Jin realized that the big orange cat had already laid down at Aunt Zhou's feet, and it didn't look like the cat was very happy to go home with her. But whether he was happy or not, she caught him.
She couldn't listen any more, and the cat couldn't continue listening alone.
The next morning, we returned to the village to worship our ancestors and visit the cemetery to sweep the graves. In the afternoon, we went to Ping County to sweep the graves, just like last year. The difference is that there are a lot fewer people this year. Neither Chen Wensong nor Chen Wenzhen came, nor did Chen Bagu's family and Chen Wenxing's family. Everyone who came asked intentionally or unintentionally, "Where's xxx? He's not here." Then everyone just laughed in tacit understanding and said nothing.
Chen Jin brought Daju out and saw someone muttering to herself behind her back. But she ignored it.
When she brings a man to Qiaoxi Village tomorrow, there will be more people complaining.
When he got home that night, Chen Jin called and said, "Teacher Shen, let's meet downstairs at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."
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