054: Cleaning up the new home
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No matter what, the three members of the Yu family carried their loads and moved into their new home.
Then he began to tidy up the courtyard.
Seeing that everything about the house seemed wrong, the family of three really didn't know where to start.
Finally, I decided to clear out the weeds and vines that had accumulated in the yard for several winters.
Because the house had not been occupied for several years, every spring and summer, the yard was overgrown with weeds, and no one cleaned it up, so it was allowed to grow wildly. When winter came, the weeds naturally died, and they sprouted again in the spring of the following year, growing even more vigorously.
Over the years, a thick layer of dead vines has accumulated on the ground.
Fortunately, it was early spring and the ground had just thawed, so only some small weeds emerged from the ground, making it relatively easy to clean up.
The family was working in the yard.
Outside the yard, a group of women and children slowly gathered to watch the fun.
The women and children looked at the three people busy in the yard in horror. Their expressions were as if they saw three ghosts moving around in the yard in broad daylight.
Several women murmured:
"You say, aren't they afraid?"
"I guess this family doesn't know the house is haunted?"
"This Xiao Jia is really something. Why didn't he tell them what happened in this room?"
"Even if you don't know what's going on in the house, looking at how dilapidated it is, you can guess with your toes that something is wrong, right?"
"Tsk tsk, dare you bet that within three days, this family will have to move out?"
"No need to bet, I'll definitely move it. If you don't, I'll take my head off!"
Several women stood far away, chattering and talking non-stop. No one dared to get close. They all felt that this family was really brave!
Not afraid of ghosts!
The three members of the Yu family saw these women and children from afar and knew that they were all talking about them. They just went about their own business and let others say whatever they wanted.
Yu Xiaoye couldn't help but make a few jokes:
"Dad, Mom, we don't need to lock our house anymore. Look, thieves won't dare to steal from us."
Xu Ying added:
"No one comes to visit our house anymore."
Yu Jiahui said:
"That's great. We can just stay at home and live our own lives. We don't have to interact with others too much, or they might find out there's something wrong with our family."
"Yeah, just live your life well."
The three members of the Yu family spent an hour clearing out all the weeds and vines in the yard and threw them directly into the woods outside.
Now, the mud was exposed, and it looked much cleaner and not as desolate as it had seemed at first.
Then I started to tidy up the house.
They chose to start with the two rooms on the west side because they looked more complete than the two rooms on the east side.
The wooden door was intact, the earthen kang in the room seemed quite sturdy, and there were fewer holes in the roof.
The house is divided into two rooms, both with earthen kangs, connected by a wall.
Next to the kang in the outer room is the cooking stove. When cooking in winter, the kang is also heated.
There was a thick layer of dust and mouse droppings on the kang. Yu Xiaoye borrowed a broom from Jia Song and swept the kang clean. He also swept the spider webs on the beams and corners of the wall.
While cleaning the house, Yu Xiaoye inadvertently looked up and saw the beams. The image of someone hanging himself suddenly flashed through his mind, and his mind shuddered.
To say I wasn't afraid at all would be a lie.
Fortunately, they don’t have to actually sleep in this house at night and can go back to the cabin on the luxury yacht to sleep. Otherwise, their family would not dare to move in so carelessly.
Cleaning the surface makes the house look much better.
But it is still far from being a place where people live, and it still looks like an unfinished house.
There was no furniture in the house, just four bare walls, a brick bed, and a stove. Anything that could be moved out of the house was probably taken away by the previous family who moved in.
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Fortunately, the wooden doors and window frames were left for them, otherwise they would not even have doors or windows.
After cleaning this room, go clean the two rooms next door.
The whole family is busy and happy.
Even Xu Ying, who initially had a strong resistance to this haunted house, felt a sense of accomplishment after seeing the originally dirty and dilapidated house become clean and tidy under their hands.
I also developed a little affection for this small courtyard and felt that it was starting to feel like home.
After cleaning the yard and the inner room, the family began to think about how to make the outside walls cleaner.
The exterior wall has been exposed to wind and rain, and the khaki wall surface has become gray and dull, like a piece of moldy cake, which is not beautiful at all.
In fact, no one’s walls are clean.
It's just that no one lives in the house, so because it has no popularity, the degree of decline is more serious.
Yu Jiahui stood at the door, pondered the wall for a while, and felt that it should be repainted.
There is no need to buy cement and white lime (they are not available), just use yellow mud to make mud, and repaint the wall, trying to make it smoother and more beautiful.
The roof also needs to be replaced with a new one.
Yu Jiahui suddenly felt like renovating the old house. In his previous life, they lived in a building in the city and had no chance to renovate the house like this. Now that he had his own yard, he had to spruce it up and put his hands-on ability to use.
But it’s too late today, we have to do it tomorrow.
While the family was cleaning the house, the old man named Lao Wu also rushed back from the county town.
He was the little old man who lived in the bed next to Yu Jiahui in the hospital.
Lao Wu originally wanted to hitchhike on Li Xinchun's car, but Li Xinchun abandoned him, so he had to wait for a ride alone on the roadside.
After waiting for a long time, I finally got on a truck going to the Quarter Field.
Come to the quarter-finals.
He then walked from the headquarters of the fourth division to the headquarters of the fifth division, and then waited at the fifth division for more than an hour until a carriage heading to the seventh company arrived.
We took a horse-drawn carriage to the Seventh Company, and then walked all the way back to the Eighth Company.
After many twists and turns, I'm finally back.
As soon as he arrived at the company, he went home to put down his bags. Before he had time to drink a sip of hot water, he heard his wife sighing and telling him that a family had been assigned to the company today and had moved into the yard at the back.
When Lao Wu heard this, he was startled and immediately remembered the strange family that lived next door to him during his days in the hospital.
Lao Wu asked his wife:
"Is it a couple with a little girl, and the whole family is dressed in rags?"
Lao Wu's wife, Ma Da Niang, nodded as she sewed the soles of his shoes:
"I heard it was. I didn't go out to see it, and I don't want to. I never want to see that house in my life."
Lao Wu was stunned for a moment, not even bothering to drink the water. He turned around and walked out, running all the way to the northeast corner of the company headquarters. From afar, he saw that the once dilapidated yard had changed a lot.
Lao Wu was in a daze for a moment and thought he was seeing things.
He blinked hard and opened his eyes again to make sure he was not mistaken. The yard had indeed been cleaned up much more cleanly.
The family of three was cleaning the collapsed chicken coop.
Lao Wu rushed over, put his hands on his hips and shouted:
"Hello!!!"
Yu Jiahui raised his eyes and saw the old man in the bed next to him. He suddenly smiled:
"Hey, isn't this my fellow patient? You're finally back!"
Lao Wu pointed to the yard and said:
"Did you know this yard is haunted?"
Yu Jiahui pretended to be surprised:
"Hey, is it haunted? Is it a male or female ghost?"
"Nonsense, of course it's a female ghost!"
"If you say it's a female ghost, then I won't be afraid——"
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