Chapter 136 The house changes hands, and the cousin comes to visit

In the Grand Hyatt Inn on Xichun Road, Zhou Yi was "clacking" with his abacus in the account room on the fifth floor.

"Clap!"

The door was symbolically knocked twice, and then a clear female voice came: "Son, I'm coming in!"

The door opened, and a smartly dressed woman walked to the table, looking at Zhou Yi who didn't even raise his head, full of praise: "Hey! My son is so capable! So good!"

"Mom, tell me if you have something to say, I'm busy, I don't have time to chat with you."

Zhou Yi raised his head and glanced at Hong Yuanping who was already sitting on the side, and then put his eyes back on the account book.

"Hey, I really have something to do!"

Seeing that Zhou Yi ignored her, Hong Yuanping continued: "My dear son, do you remember that our family has a small courtyard on Wandong Road?"

"Remember, I told you that I gave it to my brother and his wife to live in." Zhou Yi replied while calculating with an abacus.

"That's it." Hong Yuanping sighed, a little helpless: "Today, Old Wu found me and said that someone wanted to buy this house..."

Zhou Yi stopped what he was doing, looked at his mother and asked: "You didn't sell it, did you?"

Hong Yuanping smiled and continued: "I definitely didn't agree at the time. I remember you said your brother lived in it. Besides, our family doesn't need this little money."

"Then it's okay." Zhou Yi nodded and continued to calculate.

"But..." Hong Yuanping spoke again, a little hesitant.

"But what? Mom, can you finish what you want to say in one go?" Zhou Yi rubbed his eyes. He had been looking at the account book for a long time and his eyes hurt, so he took a break.

Hong Yuanping came closer and lowered her voice unconsciously: "But son, do you know who the buyer is?"

Without waiting for Zhou Yi to speak, Hong Yuanping asked herself and answered: "It's the landlord! It's the landlord of Master Lou! The landlord wants to buy our house, how can I not sell it? So I came to you as soon as I handed over the house deed. Go and talk to your brother and his wife. The house is uninhabitable. We still have You can just find them another one from other courtyards."

Zhou Yi's eyes widened when he heard this, and he couldn't help but blurt out: "There's something wrong with this owner of the building, they--ah!"

Hong Yuanping covered Zhou Yi's mouth tightly and cursed him in a low voice: "You damn boy! Are you tired of living? Dare to curse the official appointed by the court? Or the owner of the building, how many heads do you have enough to chop off?" Not satisfied with the curse, she raised her hand and hit him hard on the head.

Zhou Yi rubbed his head, feeling a little scared. He stood up from behind the table and said to Hong Yuanping: "Mom, I'm going to find Brother Liu now."

"Well, go ahead, move out as soon as possible. We ordinary people should not have anything to do with the government." Hong Yuanping warned.

Zhou Yi said "well", opened the door and left in a hurry. Rushing

all the way from Xichun Road to Wandong Road, Zhou Yi arrived in front of the small courtyard, stretched out his hand and knocked on the door and shouted: "Brother Liu! Brother Liu! Are you home?"

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, the door of the room opened from the inside, and Liu Mingan smiled and called out: "Brother Zhou." Then he stepped back a little to let the person in.

Zhou Yi entered the courtyard and saw at a glance that the stone table used for drinking tea and chatting was covered with pens, ink, paper and inkstone. He was very surprised. No wonder Liu Mingan opened the door for him so quickly.

"Brother Liu, why are you reading and writing here? It's so cold."

Zhou Yi sat down at the table, watching Liu Mingan close the door and walk over, and asked.

"The light outside is good, and it's a bit stuffy inside." Liu Mingan answered casually, and then went into the room to pour Zhou Yi a glass of water.

"Haha... So, I thought you were waiting for someone."

Zhou Yi was indeed thirsty, and he took up the water and drank it all in one gulp, but he didn't notice that Liu Ming'an was stunned by his words.

"Brother Zhou, do you want to drink more?" Liu Ming'an waited for him to put down the cup and asked.

"No, no, I'm not thirsty anymore. I came to you because I have something to say."

Zhou Yi was about to talk about the upstairs family, but suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen Jiang Ning. He looked into the house and asked softly, "Is your sister-in-law sleeping again?"

In Zhou Yi's impression, Jiang Ning seemed to like sleeping during the day. At least he had encountered this twice.

Liu Ming'an didn't admit or deny it, but just asked him what it was.

"Brother Liu, this is what happened. My mother told me that this courtyard was bought by the Lou family. You know, an official wants to buy it, and we as businessmen dare not refuse, so now this courtyard belongs to the Lou family."

Zhou Yi slowed down his breath, with a bit of apology on his face: "I'm sorry, brother Liu, but you can't live here anymore, you and your sister-in-law have to move out. My family has many other properties, where do you want to live? Or go to Yuqin Street, there is also a house there, very quiet..."

Liu Mingan smiled and shook his head: "Brother Zhou, there is nothing to be sorry about."

Liu Mingan knew that it was the Lou family who came, but he couldn't leave for the time being, otherwise Jiang Ning wouldn't be able to find him when she came back.

It was just a headache how to tell Zhou Yi about him and the Lou family.

"Knock! Knock! Knock!"

The door was knocked again. Zhou Yi stared at the door and muttered, "Could it be that the Lou family came to claim the house?"

Liu Ming'an stood up and wanted to open the door, but Zhou Yi had already walked past him.

As soon as the door was opened, Lou Lianyu, dressed in casual clothes, stood outside the door. When he saw Zhou Yi and Liu Ming'an behind him, he guessed the identity of the person in front of him.

"Are you Mr. Zhou Yi, the young master of Junyue Restaurant? I am Lou Lianyu. Nice to meet you!"

Lou Lianyu greeted politely and bowed to Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi thought that the person who came was at most a servant. Who would have thought that Lou Lianyu came in person!

Zhou Yi stood there for a while, not knowing how to react. It was not until Lou Lianyu bowed to him that he suddenly came to his senses and shouted, "I am honored to meet you, Lord Lou." He was about to kneel down.

Lou Lianyu stopped Zhou Yi and walked into the courtyard and closed the door. "No need to be polite. I am just here to visit my brother's brother, not an elder."

Visiting his brother?

His mother seemed to have only given birth to him, right? There were only

him and Liu Ming'an here. Could it be that...

Zhou Yi's mind was dizzy and he felt that he didn't seem to understand the situation. But he saw Lou Lianyu walked past him and asked Liu Ming'an behind him with a friendly smile, "Ming'an, how are you these days?"

Liu Mingan was entangled between the two titles of "Lou Sir" and "cousin", and finally chose the latter: "Cousin, thank you for your concern, I'm fine."

The guess was confirmed, Zhou Yi's eyes were as big as copper bells, looking at Liu Mingan, and then at Lou Lianyu, and suddenly felt that he was really redundant here.

Liu Mingan did not ignore Zhou Yi, knowing that he was uncomfortable standing here, patted him on the shoulder and said: "Brother Zhou, I'm sorry to trouble you to make this trip. I will come to Junyue Inn to find you later, you go back first."

"Oh oh", Zhou Yi wished for it, bowed to Lou Lianyu, said "Lou Sir, goodbye", and ran away in a flash.

Only after walking out of Wandong Road did Zhou Yi slow down his pace and slowly reached out to pinch his leg.

"Hiss!"

It was not a dream, his lovely brother Liu really had a great background!