Chapter 211 (Catching Bugs) Two in One
After wandering around here and there for a few rounds, Ding Guo found a place where some old ladies gathered. She joined the group chat smoothly and created an identity for herself: an old rural lady who had just been taken in by her son to live in retirement!
The old ladies all love to ask questions, but it is also through various inquiries that they can grasp the local intelligence lines.
So as soon as they sat down, someone asked Ding Guo: "I saw you coming from the alley in front, which courtyard do you live in?"
Ding Guo shook his head slowly and used the accent of his hometown in Huiyang: "I can't read, and I don't know the date. I just remember that there was a Chinese toon tree in front of my house."
The old ladies understood and expressed their understanding. They also wanted to find out where the son of the new old lady worked, how many people were in the family, and whether the daughter-in-law looked at them coldly. Then Ding Guo asked, "Just now I saw a young girl being held by an old sister-in-law. She was talking about the Zou family and refused to move out. I listened for a few words but didn't understand what was going on..."
Before she finished her words, at least two old ladies at the scene were ready to lean over to watch the fun, asking, "Is it from Courtyard No. 4 in front? That family has been quarreling for a while. Are the relatives from the Zou family coming over? Let's go and take a look."
Ding Guo hurriedly stopped the person and said, "Let's go. The girl is not a relative of the Zou family. The old sister-in-law stopped the wrong person."
The old lady who had bowed sat back down steadily and started talking immediately: "Speaking of this matter..."
Ding Guo was among a group of old ladies, chatting quite lively.
Courtyard No. 4 was originally the private property of a family surnamed Zou. It was later confiscated and the Zou family was demoted. Now the Zou family has been rehabilitated and the government has returned the house to them.
But that yard has been divided into more than a dozen small households and rented out.
The people living there refused to leave, and the Zou family had nowhere to live when they returned. It was still the street office that helped to arrange a place for them. They have been arguing about this matter for more than two months and still haven't figured it out.
People on the street also went to do the work, but several old men and women all lay on the ground, one holding his chest and rolling his eyes, another holding his head and shouting that his head hurt, and the people on the street could do nothing.
The Zou family had just been rehabilitated, but their experiences over the years still made them cautious in everything they did. Not to mention being tough enough to chase people away, they would subconsciously tremble all over if someone spoke loudly to them, and they could only run around the streets.
The street didn't dare to take forceful measures, and the situation remained at a stalemate.
In the end, the Zou family had no choice but to discuss and decide to sell the house.
Of course, they didn't say they were selling it, but rather they were transferring it to a relative. And the other party wasn't a real relative of the Zou family, but a buyer they contacted privately.
Everyone knows this.
The people who came to view the house had not arrived yet, but the news had already spread. The families living in the Zou family's courtyard surrounded and blocked the place every day. If they saw anyone approaching suspiciously, they would go up and question them, for fear that this would be successful.
"They just take advantage of the Zou family because they are honest. They're afraid that someone will come and drive them out." said the old lady sitting on Ding Guo's left.
"How did the news spread so quickly?" Ding Guo was curious.
"Well, you don't know, old sister." The lady sitting on Ding Guo's right patted Ding Guo's thigh, "There are people working on the street in that yard."
Ding Guo nodded as if to see what was going on.
The topic began here, and Ding Guo learned that the unfortunate Zou family was not the only one facing similar situations in the area.
There were three other families. One of them was a retail investor who defended his territory. The owner of the house couldn't beat them, so he joined them. He built a shed at home and lived there temporarily.
The residents of the other two homes successfully got their houses back.
These two households also had their ancestral properties returned, but there were some people in the families who were noisy. One family would go to the house to make trouble in the middle of the night every day. The residents would not let them have a good life, and they would not let the residents have a good life either; the other family would go to the school to block the residents' children every day.
Everyone showed off their magical powers, but they were all very successful.
To put it bluntly, if you can’t get the house back it’s because your measures were not harsh enough.
Ding Guo said he learned something.
On the other side, he changed his clothes, rode out on his tattered bicycle with a head full of mosquitoes, turned a corner, and prepared to go to the main road from this side.
Ding Guo was listening to gossip with great interest when someone poked his arm. "This is the guy from the family at the back who goes to school every day to block other people's children. With such a character, he will never be able to get married in this life."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed in that direction.
Ding Guo looked in the direction of her movements.
The mosquitoes also looked over here because the crickets were chirping too loudly.
When their eyes met, Ding Guo was stunned. Mosquito also stepped back and stepped on the foot brake to stop.
She was not mistaken, there really were some strange things mixed in with the old lady's pile.
"...Grandma Ji, why are you here?"
The word "sister" almost came out of her mouth, but she braked at the critical moment, called her grandma, and changed Ding Guo's surname without permission.
Ding Guo was confused. What the hell is Grandma Ji?
But this immediately made her the focus of the group of old ladies. Several old sisters who were originally chatting with her enthusiastically immediately formed a barrier with their eyes.
Automatically put Ding Guo into the same camp as the young man with a bad reputation.
In fact, they had almost finished chatting that day. Seeing this, Ding Guo had no choice but to stand up with her knees propped up: "Old sisters, let's talk later!"
The old sisters were collectively silent, brewing new topics, waiting for Ding Guo to leave before starting the conversation.
Ding Guo walked towards the mosquito tremblingly.
Mosquito also got out of the car, his mouth twitched, and he looked at Ding Guo meaningfully.
She said that this sister had more than one partner, and they appeared nearby. Could they have come from the black market in the northeast corner of Ritan Park?
The two of them had just met and walked a few steps outside in tacit understanding when they heard the voices of the old ladies' group talking over there.
"Who is that old woman's son? Why is he so familiar with the boy from the Chang family?"
"Oh, I was so busy talking that I forgot to ask..."
"That's not a serious one. I'm close and I can smell her scent!"
You can tell at first glance that she is not a serious old lady.
"Well, what good people can there be among those who know the Chang family?"
Ding Guo: ...
Before she had taken ten steps, her reputation was damaged.
Mosquito was used to it: "Don't worry about it, I'll go and stop their kids later."
Ding Guo: ...
Mosquito: "They rely on their age to be unreasonable, spread rumors about our family, and cursed my grandmother behind her back, so I rely on my youth to act rashly. They take advantage of their age and I take advantage of my youth, it's fair."
Ding Guo gave her a thumbs up, and this idea seemed to be correct.
As if afraid that Ding Guo might misunderstand, Mosquito explained: "I won't hit their children, I just say bad things about their grandparents in front of them. Anyway, I will say the same things to their children about their elders as they say about me and my grandma."
She is also a child. Those people who spread their own rumors don't even avoid her. Is it okay for her to follow their example?
Ding Guo couldn't help but burst out laughing, and forgot to control his voice for a moment, and turned on the original sound channel: "An eye for an eye."
After she finished speaking, she was stunned, and Mosquito was also stunned.
Although Mosquito knew that Ding Guo was pretending to be an old lady, he was still startled when he suddenly heard Ding Guo speaking in her original voice.
Ding Guo withdrew his gaze and thought, forget it, the vest was not tight enough to cover a mosquito's eyes anyway.
"Sister, what business are you doing here?" Mosquito didn't call her over to say hello. She was very concerned about what goods Ding Guo had sold on the black market.
It's really inappropriate to come here disguised like this for no reason without a good excuse. You can't say that you are following a mosquito, right?
Ding Guo then thought of the matter of the ‘Zou family relatives’ and said, “I am not here to do business today, I want to get some information.”
"What's the news, sister? I'm familiar with this area. You just heard them say that my family lives here. By the way, sister, my last name is Chang, and my name is Chang Wangyue." In order to get closer, Mosquito also quickly reported his real name.
If she didn't say it, who would know if the old ladies didn't say it?
"Chang Wangyue?" Ding Guo turned his head with his eyes wide open. His triangular eyes were so painful because his eyelids were stretched too wide.
Just now, those fake old sisters said their surname was Chang, and Ding Guo hadn't remembered anything yet. Now that Mosquito told her her real name, she was shocked and looked carefully at the Mosquito in front of her.
The heroine of a novel often encounters various opponents on her way to starting a business, and Ding Nianjun is no exception to this rule.
In the book, Chang Wangyue is Ding Nianjun's most troublesome competitor. He is a character who is often defeated by Ding Nianjun, but he keeps fighting despite repeated defeats and is called "the indestructible cockroach" by readers.
However, Chang Wangyue's appearance in the book is described as wearing a high ponytail, a white shirt, black trousers, and holding a mobile phone in her hand.
The reason why Ding Guo had this impression was that every time he wrote about Chang Wangyue, he would emphasize her high ponytail, white shirt and black trousers.
However, in the second half of the year, the big brother in my hand was replaced by a small mobile phone that was gradually becoming popular.
Chang Wangyue didn't expect that her name was so scary that the old lady's eyelids were deformed.
"Sister, what's wrong?"
Ding Guo tried to defend himself: "It's nothing. You said your name was Mosquito before, and I thought there should be a 'wen' in your name, but I didn't expect it to be so irrelevant."
mosquito:……
Mosquito didn't think much about it and asked Ding Guo again about the information he wanted to know.
"I want to ask about the houses here..."
Mosquito: "Sister, you are not a relative of the Zou family, right?"
Is the Zou family already very famous in this slum?
Everyone knows it as soon as it is mentioned!
Ding Guo shook his head: "No, I didn't hear about it until I came here. But he has relatives, so I'm thinking of asking around for other houses."
Mosquito said, "Sister, I'll keep an eye on this for you. In the past two years, many people have returned their houses. Some have moved back home, while others are afraid that the policy will change and want to sell their ancestral homes. This is not only in Pengbo Hutong, but also in other places. Sister, do you have to buy here?"
Ding Guo shook her head. She had never thought about the house before coming here. It was thanks to the old lady she met first that she remembered the issue of returning the ancestral home, which was often mentioned in the literature of the time.
You don’t have to buy the product after hearing this information, you can just learn about it first.
But if she really encounters this, she won't push it away.
Even if she doesn't buy it, she can ask Dayong.
Mosquito nodded and said, "Okay, I'll tell you when I have news... Sister, how can I contact you?"
Also, what does this sister look like and what is her name?
She didn't want to see this old face anymore.
Ding Guo: "Shepherd's purse will be available soon. I will sell you a batch of shepherd's purse. I will come to you then. If you have any information about a house, please let me know. If not, it doesn't matter. I am not in a hurry."
Mosquito's eyes lit up, and he looked around, then asked in a low voice, "Sister, do you have any grain? The grain prices are good before the wheat harvest."
It was the last high price before the wheat harvest, and Ding Guo was tempted, but after thinking about it, he decided to brake and shook his head.
She had supplied food to Mosquito three times, and the quantities were not small. It would be too risky to continue the transaction.
This risk is not specific to mosquitoes.
The deal was not made by Mosquito alone, she had other partners.
She had given up the idea of continuing to sell food before, and now that she knew Mosquito's real name, she didn't want to do it anymore.
The book does not mention Mosquito's experience in the black market, but it does mention that she was backstabbed by a partner, but the book does not mention the specific stage.
I don’t know if they were partners during that period.
I can sell some wild vegetables in small quantities, and there is no need to contact her in the park. I can go directly to the black market to find her when the time comes.
Wild vegetables in spring are not very popular in rural areas, but they are in good demand in cities.
Mosquito looked suspiciously at Ding Guo's artificial triangular eyes for a few seconds, then withdrew his gaze.
Although she was a little disappointed, she still enthusiastically expressed that she would help Ding Guo find a house. She also rode her bike to take Ding Guo to a nearby bus stop. However, she did not ask Ding Guo where he lived, for fear that the old lady would not cooperate with her in the future.
After all, you have to put on makeup when you go out to inquire about a house, which shows how cautious the old lady is.
Although Ding Guo didn't tell him about her secret help, there was a big piece of ash on Mosquito's head, so Ding Guo didn't pretend not to see it, so she asked, "What's wrong with your head?"
Mosquito raised his hand and touched it, then continued to pedal his bike, saying nonchalantly, "Nothing, I had a fight with two grandsons this morning. Those two grandsons had robbed my customers before, and I ran into their transaction today and ruined it, so we had a fight."
Well, it’s Chang Wangyue in the book, the man who will avenge himself if he’s grudged. He doesn’t take the initiative to cause trouble, but he’s not afraid of trouble.
But he is too fierce, one person fighting against two!
After Mosquito finished speaking, as if afraid of scaring Ding Guo, he hurriedly explained: "They provoked me first. The brothers in our territory don't take the initiative to hit others, especially those who cooperate with us."
Ding Guo: ...
"He deserves a beating, but you still have to be careful, where are the two of them!"
Mosquito: "No big deal. If you can't win, just run away. I learned this from my grandparents when I was in the countryside."
Since those old ladies were able to tease her just now, they must have told the old lady about her family affairs before she came out.
Thanks to those old ladies, I'm afraid all the stray dogs near Pengbo Hutong know that they were sent down to the countryside for rehabilitation.
So Mosquito didn't hide anything when he talked about it now.
Ding Guo recalled the words that the Plastic Old Sisters cursed Mosquito for not being able to marry, and couldn't help asking, "Don't they know your true identity?"
Mosquito shook his head, with a hint of bitterness in his eyes: "I don't know, I'm used to it."
When she was sent to the cowshed with her grandparents, they let her dress up as a little boy for her safety.
My grandfather never survived the torture of being sent down to the countryside, and never waited for redress, and he was buried forever on that land.
After returning to the city, her grandmother suggested that she change back to a girl, but Mosquito disagreed.
Compared with an old man and a young girl, or an old man and a boy who can support himself, the latter combination is safer.
It's ironic, but this is the reality.
When they were in the cowshed, the whole world was full of malice towards them; when they returned to the city, everything had changed and they didn't feel much kindness either.
Anyway, the old neighbors back then had either passed away or passed away, and no one knew whether she was a man or a woman, so she was just kept in her original appearance.
The two separated at the bus stop, one went to the black market, and the other sat for a while, found a place to enter the space to remove makeup, took out the bicycle and went home.
The two kids were practicing walking in the yard, wobbling with their little feet.
Aunt Qiao and Wang Chunhua each looked at one of them, with their hands outstretched behind their backs in a protective gesture.
Seeing Ding Guo coming in, Aunt Qiao and Wang Chunhua accurately predicted the reactions of the two kids, and caught them immediately when they were about to start running without knowing the immensity of the world, thus preventing two dogs from eating shit.
Ding Guo parked the car aside. Dabao and Xiaobao struggled towards Ding Guo in Aunt Qiao and Wang Chunhua's arms, shouting "Ma, Ma, Ma" over and over like souls.
"Hey hey hey hey!" Ding Guo responded with a smile, picked two bundles of fresh toon sprouts and a piece of pork belly from the handlebars and brought them to the kitchen, then went to wash his hands. Then he came over, picked up the two babies, one in each hand, and kissed them.
A week later, Ding Guo continued to wear old lady makeup and sent more than 20 kilograms of shepherd's purse and 20 kilograms of dandelions to Mosquito.
Mosquito was surprised that the wild vegetables Ding Guo brought were so clean and tidy. They were so tidy that they didn’t look like wild vegetables, but rather like they were artificially cultivated.
But who would be crazy enough to leave the regular vegetables alone and not grow wild vegetables?
I can only say that the old lady not only has connections, but is also very conscientious. She used a ruler to measure the goods when receiving them, right?
A young man who was on sentry duty with Mosquito was surprised: "Auntie, this wild vegetable is so delicious!"
This appearance will definitely fetch a good price.
As they were talking, someone from the black market saw it and exclaimed, "Oh, this shepherd's purse is so plump? Is it dandelion? Oh, it's so juicy! Big sister, how much is this wild vegetable?"
The mosquito quickly stopped him: "It's taken!"
Mosquito gave Ding Guo a good price and bought it all.
She sent the young man who was on guard with her back. She looked around and talked to Ding Guo nearby: "Sister, two houses!"
"The house of the Zou family in Pengbo Hutong was ruined. The person who was looking at the house had a conflict with the residents inside. An old man was pushed down and had a stroke. That person was not a good person. When he saw that he had caused trouble, he immediately lost his mind. Now the residents are using the title of 'relative of the Zou family' to ask the Zou family to hand over the person. The Zou family couldn't hand him over, so they are blaming the Zou family and want the house as compensation."
Mosquito looked around again and continued, "It's a bit messy, but if you want it, I can definitely negotiate a low price. As for the people inside, you give me the job and I'll pay for it. How about it?"
Ding Guo: "Didn't the family that had a stroke rely on the Zou family?"
Mosquito chuckled and said, "They can't find the person who checked the house, but I can. Every grievance has its perpetrator, so let's find the one who should be held accountable!"
Don't ask her why she didn't directly provide information to help the Zou family. First, they didn't have that kind of relationship, and second, good people don't live long. She doesn't want to be a good person. She just wants to work hard to make money, live a clear life, raise her grandmother to a hundred years old, let her grandmother have enough food and drink during her lifetime, and not be bullied.
Ding Guo: "What about the other set?"
Mosquito continued to be vigilant about his surroundings: "The other one is in Sanheli. It's a little smaller, but there are just as many people living there as in the Zou family yard. I can also clear out the people there."
Ding Guo smiled and said, "What are your conditions?"
Mosquito rubbed his hands, hesitated and opened his mouth several times before he smiled shyly, and said: "Sister, I would like to ask you to help me get another batch of grain. The price is based on the market price, so that you won't suffer a loss. This is the performance I want. If I can achieve a little more performance, I will be the second in command of our area."
"After the house is bought and the people inside are cleared out, I will be responsible for clearing out the mess in the yard for you. I will properly accommodate the people who were driven out and ensure that they do not cause trouble for me. Everything will be clean and tidy."
Ding Guo: ...
What a damn ambition!
No wonder the book gave Ding Nianjun such a headache.
The reason why Ding Nianjun has been successful in his career is not only because he has a good business sense, but also because of the great support from the Pan family.
Chang Wangyue built his career entirely on his own.
The scale of the enterprise is not large, but this person's fighting power is really strong.
Ding Guo stared at Mosquito with her artificial triangular eyes for a while and said, "Let's get another group of people to get the food."
Mosquito's eyes lit up instantly, and he nodded repeatedly: "Okay, sister, I will follow your instructions." Then he said, "Sister, is there any problem with my people?"
Ding Guo didn't know who had stabbed the mosquito in the back, and she couldn't just say that. She shook her head and said, "No, I was just being cautious."
Mosquito had no suspicion that the old lady was indeed cautious.
"Let's take a look at the one in Sanlihe first."
After agreeing on a time to view the house, Ding Guo thought about it and called Dayong.
Coincidentally, Dayong had just returned from a week-long business trip and was helping with odd jobs in the machine repair team and learning at the same time.
Ding Guo didn't want to talk about the house on the phone, so he asked him if he had time to come to the capital in the near future.
Ding Dayong's heart skipped a beat. He guessed that his sister was going to tell him something special. Other things were fine, but it was not a problem with his sister. He held the microphone and said, "I'll go buy the tickets for tonight!"
He has looked at the shift schedule and found that there have been no medium or long-distance shifts recently. For short-distance shifts, he can let the trainee drivers in the team practice, so he can take two days off.
Although he guessed that what his sister was going to say was not ordinary, he didn't expect that she would directly throw a bomb to him.
"Buy a house?"
Ding Dayong had been envious for a while when he learned about the house his sister bought in Fengning, but he instinctively felt that buying a house was something far away from him.
Even though he has money now, I never thought he would be able to buy a house, let alone in a big city like the capital.
Now that his sister mentioned it, Ding Dayong was shocked and suddenly had an epiphany.
Yes, buy a house!
After he married Yuling, he also had his own home when he came to the capital.
As for housing allocation, he has his eyes on his unit, but the unit will not allocate him a house in the capital.
Besides, it’s unclear when it will be his turn.
Similarly, Yuling’s qualifications in the company are not sufficient.
"Sister, is there anyone selling a house?"
After he said that, he laughed. If he didn't have accurate information, his sister wouldn't be able to call him to the capital with just one phone call.
Ding Guo didn't want to give up both the Zou family's house and the one in Sanlihe, so he bought one for himself and asked Dayong to buy one.
Although he hadn't visited the Zou family's yard yet, Ding Guo felt that given the current chaos over there, the house would probably not be sold for a while.
She is not worried about the house being sold, but is worried about the current policy, which may have a negative impact on her having too many properties under her name.
So she was busy all day, looking for the system to protect her.
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