Chapter 26: What a Strange Person
The old man sat for a while and then left. Huang Juxiang stood up, took off the bedding on the bed and took it outside to dry in the sun, and soaked the sheets in a basin to wash.
Zhen Chuanjun swept the floor obediently, and Deng Xiuzhen hurried to help wipe the tables and cabinets.
"Go back, we don't need your help here." Huang Juxiang said to Deng Xiuzhen while rubbing the quilt.
"It's okay. You're injured and it's inconvenient. I'll help you clean it up and it will be faster. There are signs of leaks in some places. If you want to live here, the roof needs to be repaired." Deng Xiuzhen said this without stopping her hands.
"We're leaving tomorrow and probably won't be coming back, so let's just leave the house here."
"Leaving tomorrow? Where are you going? Why aren't you coming back?" Deng Xiuzhen was very surprised.
The woman didn't answer.
"There is something I need to tell you." Deng Xiuzhen said after hesitating for a long time.
The woman still didn't say anything, just rubbed the sheets hard.
"I found out your mother had passed away, and then I called the police, who came," Deng Xiuzhen said. She didn't want to say it because she was afraid of getting in trouble.
But subconsciously she couldn't help but say it, always feeling that not saying it would get her into bigger trouble.
The woman looked up at Deng Xiuzhen.
When she met those eyes, Deng Xiuzhen couldn't help but look away. Those eyes were so deep, so deep that they seemed to suck people in.
Deng Xiuzhen lowered her head and introduced Song Qinghua to buy a store. She and Xiong Wei found out that they were cheated and came here. After returning home without any results, she found that the children were missing. She immediately called the police and went to look for Song Qinghua and Liu Xiaozhen. After failing to find them, she came here and found that the old man had hanged himself. She told Huang Juxiang everything that happened.
"I understand. You go back first. Huang Juxiang said lightly. "From beginning to end, her expression did not change, and her hands did not stop moving.
She had said what she needed to say and done what she needed to do. Since Huang Juxiang still wanted her to leave, she left without hesitation.
If others don't blame her or ask her to take responsibility, she certainly won't ask them to take responsibility.
After lunch, I clean the house, buy groceries and cook dinner in the afternoon.
Deng Xiuzhen was busy when she suddenly heard a knock on the door.
When she opened the door and saw Huang Juxiang, she was shocked because she had not told Huang Juxiang where she lived.
“I went to the police station this afternoon, and they told me that you and that Xiong Wei were probably the last people to see my mother.
I want to ask, what was my mother doing at that time, did she say anything?" Huang Juxiang asked standing at the door, her tone as calm as ever.
Deng Xiuzhen recalled carefully and said: "The old man just said I don't know a few words, and then he didn't say anything else."
After listening to this, Huang Juxiang left without saying anything.
What a strange person! Deng Xiuzhen muttered after she realized what was going on.
The next afternoon, Huang Juxiang came again, looking a little haggard. After what happened yesterday, Deng Xiuzhen was not so surprised today. Instead, she politely invited Huang Juxiang to come in and sit down.
Huang Juxiang didn't say anything either. She just walked into the house, then walked straight to the table and sat down, still saying nothing.
Deng Xiuzhen didn't know what to say. The key point was that she didn't understand Huang Juxiang, and she didn't know what Huang Juxiang was trying to do.
"I want to sell that house to you." Huang Juxiang spoke after a long time.
"Ah?" Deng Xiuzhen was unable to react for a moment.
"I went to see Chen Guohu today and he asked me to sell the house."
Can I not buy it? Deng Xiuzhen asked in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it out loud.
"Yesterday, I hated you a little bit, thinking that you pushed my mom to behave like that. Later I realized that, in the final analysis, it was not your fault.
If I were you, I would also go find Chen Guohu.
So, I don’t blame you.
I want to sell the house to you because I want to go back to Yuncheng. Chen Guohu is still trying to quit drugs, and he will go to jail even if he quits.
The house will fall apart if nobody lives in it. No one wants it if I sell it. If I rent it out, no one will take care of it and it will be unrentable.
I have been dealing with you these past two days and I have discovered that you are an honest person.
Even if I am bullying an honest person, I will sell this house to you for 500 yuan."
"500 yuan? Sell it to me?" Deng Xiuzhen felt like a piece of cake had fallen from the sky! As long as the roof of the house was repaired, it could be lived in or rented out. The market price should be more than a thousand yuan, not to mention that it could also solve the rollover incident. She made a lot of money.
"After something like this, the house can't be sold for a while, and I guess you guys don't dare to live in it. But you don't have to feel that you've suffered a loss, because the matter between us is not over yet. If you buy the house, our matter will be written off."
"Okay." Deng Xiuzhen didn't dare to say more and agreed immediately.
The next day, Deng Xiuzhen and Tan Yanlin did not go to Mamu, but went to handle the house transfer procedures. When they arrived, Huang Juxiang and Chen Chuanjun were already waiting there, carrying the boxes they brought back.
The formalities are complete and it is processed quickly.
After completing the formalities, Huang Juxiang handed the keys to them and left without even saying goodbye.
Deng Xiuzhen said "Goodbye" loudly to her back.
Chen Chuanjun waved at them, but Huang Juxiang didn't even turn her head.
The two of them didn't care and hurried to the newly bought house.
Deng Xiuzhen came three times. The first time, she and her husband came with Xiong Wei to inquire about Chen Guohu's whereabouts. She only remembered the old man's quiet appearance. The second time was at night with Tan Yanlin. She was very scared that time. She only remembered the old man's stiff body and the unfinished meal. The third time was to send Huang Juxiang back and help wipe the table. At that time, she was only concerned with observing Huang Juxiang and was soon driven home by Huang Juxiang.
I've been here three times, but I've never taken a close look at the house.
Now that the house belonged to them, they looked from the rooftop all the way down to the rooms.
I found that the house is actually quite large, at least 60 square meters. It looks like two rooms from the outside, but they are actually separated inside.
Entering from the front door, there are two doors on the left side of the dark table, one leading to the kitchen at the back and the other leading to the bedroom.
There was a coal stove in the kitchen, with some coal next to it; there was also a small iron stove that burned wood next to it, and some thin branches were piled in the corner. The cupboard looked like it had been there for many years, so it must have been cleaned, and it was very clean and tidy.
The bedroom is a suite with a bed inside and outside. The inner room is actually an old-fashioned flower bed, and the cabinets and boxes next to it are also old-fashioned and look very exquisite.
Maybe it’s because the quilt has been washed before, the sky has cleared up after the rain these days and it’s sunny, and it exudes the scent of the sun.
No changes needed to be made to the room!
Deng Xiuzhen originally planned to renovate the house and rent it out, and then wait for the future renovation.
In a few years, there will be great development here, and many people will buy houses here and build buildings on the foundations. Later, this place will be demolished to build a vegetable market. Whether you sell the house in a few years, or build a house to rent out in a few years and then wait for the demolition, you can make a lot of money from this house, and the more time passes, the more money you can make. You can just sit there and make money.
Now she doesn't want to rent it out anymore. It's okay to lose money for a while, but don't want to ruin everything.
She felt that this house contained too much, something she couldn't understand at the moment, but felt strongly about.
After hearing Deng Xiuzhen say that the house would not be rented out and would be left there after being cleaned up, Tan Yanlin was somewhat puzzled: It was OK not to live in it, after all, an old man hanged himself here, it was a haunted house, and it was not good for children to live here. But why couldn't it be rented out?
If you think these old furniture are good, you can just put them away. Why do you have to keep them as they are?
But I still agreed. After all, it was only 500 yuan, and it also settled a hassle. I just regarded it as compensation to others as I didn't buy the house.
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