Chapter 118 House Viewing
After Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao finished their lunch at Xia Zhen's house, they were about to leave.
"Let's go to a nearby guesthouse and get a room. Send the luggage over first, and then wait for Qin Wan and the others to come over. You guys are also on vacation, and then we'll go look for a house."
It is now mid-December and the weaving factory has not yet closed for holiday. In order to welcome them, the two of them took a day off today.
Liu Kunming asked Xia Zhen to stay in the house and not go out, while he took Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao to the guesthouse.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw a woman in her thirties, pulling a child of seven or eight years old, opening a door on the third floor.
Seeing Liu Kunming coming out, the woman looked at him sideways for a few seconds, then was stunned: "Haozi?"
When Deng Minghao heard this, he immediately frowned and looked at the woman a few times, but still couldn't recognize who she was.
"Is it really you? Didn't you sneak off to the countryside? Why are you back again?" The woman asked Deng Minghao with wide eyes.
Li Ruolan also glanced at the woman: "Who is this?"
Deng Minghao still shook his head. He felt that the woman looked familiar, but he couldn't seem to remember where he had seen her.
"It's me! I'm your cousin, Deng Xiaofen." The woman also noticed that Deng Minghao didn't seem to recognize her, so she quickly introduced herself.
Speaking of his cousin, Deng Minghao remembered something. Deng Minghao had an uncle, but the whole family moved away because of work.
Deng Minghao had seen his uncle's family before he was eleven or twelve years old. After Deng Minghao's grandparents passed away, his uncle's family rarely came back, so Deng Minghao did not recognize his cousin at first.
"It's Sister Xiaofen. I haven't seen you for a long time and I can't remember what you look like." Deng Minghao said with a smile.
Deng Xiaofen hummed, then glanced at Qingqing in Deng Minghao's arms: "Didn't you go to the countryside? Why are you back? Are you married? Is this your child?"
Deng Minghao didn't want to talk to this person any more, and said, "It was in the countryside, but educated youth also have holidays, so we asked for leave and came back.
I am indeed married, this is my wife and children, it is cold and the children can't stand the cold, so we left first."
After they finished speaking, regardless of Deng Xiaofen's attempt to stop him from talking, the three of them quickly picked up the child and went back.
Liu Kunming said, "I didn't expect you two were cousins. This guy has never even looked at us since we moved here."
Deng Minghao said, "We haven't been in touch for a long time. If she comes to you to ask about something in the future, you should say that we are in a terrible situation."
"Don't worry, I know what to do."
Opposite the weaving factory was a supply and marketing cooperative, and behind the cooperative on the street was a guesthouse. Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao took out their letter of introduction and marriage certificate and booked a room.
Liu Kunming helped the two of them pack up before leaving: "Then I will go back first, and then go to see if Lu Yunxiao and the others have come in the evening.
If you come, we can go to a restaurant to eat, so you don’t have to run into Deng Xiaofen and then you won’t be able to explain yourself.”
Deng Minghao came back only after sending Liu Kunming out.
Li Ruolan was surprised and said, "I didn't expect that the guesthouse would still have heating at this time. It's warmer than our heated kang."
Deng Minghao stretched lazily: "After all, this is the capital, and it's only 70 cents a night, so there must be a reason why it's expensive."
The supply and marketing cooperatives here are divided into small, medium and large rooms.
The small room is the one that Li Ruolan and her friends are living in now. There is only a bed and a table in the room, nothing else. This is the most expensive one.
There are four beds in the big room in the middle, and each bed costs only 60 cents.
There is also a large room in the living room on the first floor, with more than ten beds. It is the cheapest, costing only fifty cents for a night.
I don’t know if something delayed them, but Qin Wan and Lu Yunxiao did not arrive in Beijing in the afternoon. Li Ruolan, Deng Minghao and Xia Zhen went to a state-owned restaurant to have a meal together.
Qin Wan and Lu Yunxiao arrived at noon the next day. When Deng Minghao went downstairs to the canteen of the guesthouse to get food, he happened to meet Qin Wan and the other three.
"Will this child follow you from now on?" Deng Minghao glanced at the little boy in new clothes. After putting on the new clothes and cutting his long hair short, he looked more like Lu Yunxiao.
But he still had a blank expression on his face, neither crying nor making a fuss.
Lu Yunxiao hummed: "If he didn't follow us, he would have to be sent to an orphanage, and he has a lot of injuries on his body, and several of his little fingers and toes have been broken.
If we send him to an orphanage, there will be no money to treat his injuries, so why not let us take him with us? Maybe we two can really be a family."
More importantly, due to long-term abuse, the little boy developed serious mental illness, which was manifested in that he did not cry or make a fuss, and had no expression when in pain.
"Then go get a room first. We'll stay here for four or five days. Liu Kunming and Xia Zhen's factory will be closed for the holiday in a few days. We can go look for a house after they have the holiday."
Lu Yunxiao responded, opened the room, and went to get some food. The four of them rested in the room in the afternoon.
Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao went out for a walk and bought some things.
In the afternoon, Liu Kunming and Xia Zhen knew that Qin Wan and the others had arrived, so they naturally got together for another meal.
Liu Kunming and Xia Zhen continued to work, while Deng Minghao and Lu Yunxiao took a car out to look at houses to see if they could find a good one.
I just went around a few places and did come across a house that was for sale, but after looking at them, I didn't see any that I was satisfied with.
After wandering around for a few days, Liu Kunming and Xia Zhen finally had a day off. The next day, Liu Kunming took Deng Minghao and others to look at houses.
“There are two houses for sale in this alley, and they are next door to each other. I went in to see the houses, and they are both quite nice.
More importantly, these two houses have not been rented out and no one lives there now. If you buy them, there will be no disputes when you take over the houses in the future."
Deng Minghao frowned: "Isn't this a bit strange? Why hasn't this house been rented out? Did something happen to the house here?"
Liu Kunming nodded: "I heard that these two families were born as princes and princesses, but later, in order to survive, they became red capitalists like Xia Zhen's grandparents.
These two houses have been inherited and have been rented out before, but for some unknown reason, the red armbands come here every few days, as if they want to turn over all the land of the two houses.
Naturally, the tenants did not dare to live here anymore and moved away one after another. As a result, the owners of the two houses became increasingly destitute and now they can no longer afford to live happily. Someone in their family is sick, so they have to sell their ancestral homes.”
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