Chapter 41: The house is for sale, the price is negotiable
The man said nonchalantly: "Okay, you are rude to me, I was waiting for you to be rude to me, hahahaha, you are still rude to me!"
The man was laughing happily when suddenly something came flying towards him and hit his face. He grabbed it and found it was a woman's menstrual belt, which was still red.
He was immediately furious, dropped what he was holding, and was ready to teach the woman a lesson, but the woman had already turned and ran away. The man immediately stood up to chase her, but was hugged by Old Man Zhao.
The man shouted angrily, "Let me go! Let me go! I'm going to beat that stinky BZ to death!"
"If you chase after him now, the bad luck will really come upon you. It's better for you to wash up quickly, go home and worship to get rid of it." Deng Xiuzhen said, trying not to laugh.
When the man heard this, he quickly ran home. Just as he took a step, he turned back and said to Old Man Zhao, "Uncle Zhao, I'm leaving first. You follow me. My dad is at home." After saying that, he ran very fast. He was accidentally tripped by a vine, but he got up and ran again.
"Do you know him?" Deng Xiuzhen asked.
"Yes, it's the son of old man Li we are looking for. I think his name is Li Huzi." Old man Zhao Shuliang replied.
"What era is it now? Why do you still believe this?" Deng Xiuzhen asked. She knew this saying: in the old times, according to folk feng shui, menstrual blood might bring bad luck. In the new era, only a few isolated areas still believe that menstrual blood is unclean and will hinder the arrival of good luck.
Pucheng is a relatively open area, and its thinking is similar to that of many big cities. So although Deng Xiuzhen has always lived in the countryside, she has long since stopped believing in this.
I didn't expect to run into two people who believed it today. One of them actually used it as a weapon to attack, and the other was so scared that he lost his way.
"That Li something seems a little bit - special. How do you know these people?" Deng Xiuzhen said with a laugh.
“Old man Li is a good man. Even though his son’s face is dirtier than a piss pot, he is a good person.
Now let's go and take care of the tree stump first." Old Zhao answered irrelevantly.
Maybe Li Huzi had told his father, so when they arrived, Old Man Li was already waiting at the door.
Seeing them coming, they came over to greet them warmly. It was then that Deng Xiuzhen discovered that Old Man Li walked with a slight limp.
Zhao Shuliang held onto Old Man Li and asked, "How are you feeling lately? Are you feeling better?"
Old man Li replied: "Not bad, I can walk a few steps."
The two talked affectionately and walked back to the house.
Deng Xiuzhen stood at the entrance and looked around, and found that there was only this family, and there was no one else nearby.
"Xiuzhen, come in." Deng Xiuzhen heard Old Man Zhao calling her.
When I went in, I saw the room was full of stuff, but nothing was acceptable. It looked like a garbage collector's house.
"Xiuzhen, I've already talked to your uncle Li. Just tell me how many tree stumps you need and I'll ask Huzi to deliver them later." Old man Zhao probably saw that Deng Xiuzhen was not adapting to the environment, so he didn't ask her to sit down, but got straight to the point.
"Hello Uncle Li, my name is Deng Xiuzhen." Deng Xiuzhen greeted old man Li enthusiastically as she had something to ask him.
"Hello, hello," Old Man Li responded enthusiastically, though a little embarrassed.
"Uncle Li, I want to ask you, how many families live near you?" Deng Xiuzhen was a little confused. As she walked along, she saw a few mud houses where the quarrel had taken place before, but no one lived there. Then she saw Old Man Li's house, but she didn't see any houses along the way. So where did the woman who had just quarreled live?
"Here? There used to be three families living here, but later one family moved away, and now only my family and Zhao Fulin's family are left. His family lives a little over there, not far from mine." Old man Li said, pointing to the side and rear.
"Are your two families the only ones living on this side of the mountain now?"
"Yes, just two families. This place is not easy to live in. It's not convenient to use water and there are no fields. It's really inconvenient.
My family has always lived here because we raise pigs and chickens. People in the city think raising these things smells bad, the chickens are not tasty, and it is difficult to prepare pig food.
Living here, the chickens can roam freely and the pigs can eat pig grass. There is more food for pigs in the mountains.”
"Who owns the land here?"
"My family has it, and other families have it too. Why are you asking this?" Old man Li asked curiously.
"I saw an abandoned house in front of me, so I thought about whether I could buy it. Then I can grow some vegetables and raise some chickens and pigs."
"Well, that belongs to Zhu Laoqi. He found a job in the city and moved away. If you really want to buy it, I can help you contact him."
Deng Xiuzhen quickly expressed her desire to buy it.
Old man Li promised to give her a definite answer when he delivered the tree stump.
"Why did you buy the land there?" asked Old Man Li on the way back. This time they took a different road. They still didn't meet anyone on the road, but the road was easier to walk on than the riverside. It felt like a road.
"Do they usually go in and out through here?" Deng Xiuzhen did not answer Old Man Li and changed the subject.
“Well, we usually don’t go over there, I just want to see if there are any fish there, if there are, we can go and catch some fish.
The small fish are pickled, then hung into bunches and smoked. They are delicious. I have eaten them before." Old Man Li did not ask any further questions.
A few days later, Li Huzi sent several carts of firewood and a dozen large tree stumps. At the same time, he told Deng Xiuzhen a piece of news: the house was for sale and the price was negotiable.
It’s just that no one has lived in the house for several years. There are some leaks and some beams are about to break. The buyer will have to pay for the repairs or redoing.
If possible, go to the alley by the bridge to find Zhu Laoqi tomorrow.
Deng Xiuzhen was secretly happy but did not show it. She just thanked Li Huzi again and again and said that he had worked hard.
At the same time, she told Li Huzi that if his family slaughtered a pig for sale, she could buy some meat, as well as some pig liver, heart, lungs, etc. Li Huzi went back happily.
In the evening, Qin Yanlin asked her why she thought of buying the old house on the mountain.
Deng Xiuzhen thought about it, not knowing how to answer, so she said, "I think it will definitely be useful if I buy it."
Tan Yanlin looked at her, hesitated for a while and said: "You can still make money by running Mamu now. If it really doesn't work, we can save some money to sell electrical appliances. If we can't afford to buy a shop, we can rent one.
I've been paying attention to these recently and found that selling electrical appliances is really profitable.
Otherwise, we won’t buy that old house…”
"Yanlin, why don't we sell the appliances and just buy a house?" Deng Xiuzhen interrupted Tan Yanlin. She didn't mean to interrupt him, but when she heard Tan Yanlin talking about selling appliances, she remembered Tan Yanlin's fate in his previous life and felt very excited.
"But, I went to see that piece of land, it's really too remote and really useless. Just listen to me, how about we go and sell electrical appliances there?" Qin Yanlin said patiently.
"No, I think it's better to buy the land. Let's not sell the appliances. We can talk about next year's matters next year." Deng Xiuzhen insisted.
"Then tell me, what's good about that place?" Tan Yanlin closed his eyes and asked, suppressing the irritation in his heart.
"I really think it's good, so just listen to me, okay?"
After hearing this, Tan Yanlin took a deep breath, calmed down and said, "Tell me what you think. If it really makes sense, we'll buy the house. If you haven't made up your mind, we won't rush. Just think about it again and then we'll say it, okay?"
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