Xia Wenyue and her daughter were puzzled. Xia Wenyue asked, "Where did the house come from?"
Xia Mian smiled and said, "Do you still remember the day we first came here, I said I wanted to buy the yard across the street?"
Mao Huimei said, "Isn't that just because I'm angry about what Zhou Qianqian said? Xia Mian, are you really going to buy it?"
"Of course." Xia Mian smiled, "I won't buy it, and Dr. Ning won't agree."
They all knew that Zhou Qianqian and the Huo family had bullied Ning Shaoyun, so it was perfectly normal for Ning Shaobai to stand up for Ning Shaoyun.
Xia Mian recounted what happened at the Huo family that day, emphasizing how Old Madam Huo insulted them and bullied Ning Shaoyun, and then Ning Shaobai appeared to rescue them.
Hearing that they were being ignored, Xia Wenyue frowned, "This old lady is so confused, even worse than Huizhu and the others' grandmother. At least she pretends to be a decent person in front of others."
When Xia Wenyue heard Mrs. Huo's distressed look as she handed over the check for two hundred thousand, she slapped her thigh and laughed, "Oh, it's time to take it back. Second Aunt has only heard about it, but hasn't seen the check yet! It's the most affordable thing."
Huilan also laughed, "We should take it back and make her heart ache."
"He didn't take it back," Xia Mian said with a smile. "Doctor Ning just returned the check and said he wanted to buy the yard across the street."
Xia Wenyue was shocked. "What about the yard for 200,000? 100,000 should be enough to buy a house, right?"
Xia Mian laughed and said, "Actually, the market price is only about 60,000 or 70,000. Is it really possible to get that check?"
Xia Wenyue finally stopped joking and said, "You can't take the check, and we can't take the yard either!"
"Even though the old lady is unreasonable, that's her own business. Our family doesn't do things that extort money from others."
Xia Wenyue said earnestly, "Second Aunt may not understand the truth and hasn't seen much of the world, but she knows that being down-to-earth is the right thing to do."
"It may seem like you've taken advantage, but it's not a good thing. It's your own moral character that's damaged. Once a person takes a wrong path and gets used to it, it's hard to get back on track." Xia Wenyue said, "Listen to Second Aunt, we can't keep that yard. If we want to buy it, we can slowly look for one. We can also rent a house first!"
"Don't worry," Xia Mian held Xia Wenyue's hand and assured her, "Ning Shaobai did that to piss off the old lady. Otherwise, why would he just take the check and leave? Why bother with that unnecessary effort?"
"That hospital didn't want her for nothing. I've already prepared the money. Doctor Ning said that we'll have Brother Rong Xin as a witness."
"The only good thing about this yard is that both its location and surrounding conditions are very good. It saves us from searching everywhere."
Xia Wenyue asked, "Isn't it the Huo family's ancestral home? Can you really sell it to us?"
Xia Mian said, "Isn't there a row of them? Their whole family has moved into the villas. No one would want to come back and live in this shabby bungalow."
Xia Mian lied with his eyes open, "Besides, Mr. Huo saw that the old lady was rude to us, so he was just trying to make up for it. We didn't ask for anything, just bought a house, it's nothing."
Xia Wenyue was convinced. In their opinion, if they could live in an apartment building, they would certainly not live in a bungalow like this. Only Ning Shaoyun's house was well decorated and convenient to live in.
There is a large courtyard at the entrance of this alley, with a similar layout, except that the water pipes and toilets are all in the yard. In fact, it is almost the same as my hometown. I have to put on clothes to go to the toilet at night. It is indeed not as comfortable as living in an apartment building.
Xia Wenyue was concerned about another thing, "Do you have enough money?"
Xia Mian smiled and said, "That's enough. My mother left me something. Just sell it."
Xia Wenyue didn't ask any more questions after hearing this. Perhaps because she had experienced too much, she was very tactful in handling the ways of the world.
Buying property is always a good thing no matter where you are. If Xia Wenyue had money, the first thing she would do would be to buy property.
The three sisters of the Mao family were very happy to know that Xia Mian would soon have her own yard. No matter what, Xia Mian was a relative, and the natural blood relationship made them closer and more comfortable living together.
"I wonder what the yard across the street looks like?" Mao Huilan wondered.
"It's said to be a two-story building," Xia Mian said, "It should be similar to the one we live in now. You can first think about which room you will live in and how to arrange it after you go there."
Xia Mian left Xiao Feng and Mao Huizhu to play, and she went next door to find Ning Shaobai to ask about the transfer of the courtyard house. Ning Shaobai has been very busy recently and has rarely been seen.
She just saw him come back.
Xia Mian strolled to the next door and knocked. A middle-aged man with a limp and a scar on his face opened the door. "Xia Mian, are you looking for Shao Bai?"
"Yes, Uncle Li."
Ning Shaobai has a couple who take care of the yard. The husband is Uncle Li, who is not very talkative. He used to be a soldier and was discharged due to injury. He is usually responsible for some trivial matters in the yard, and his wife Aunt Cui is responsible for housework and cooking.
Seeing that Uncle Li didn't say that Ning Shaobai was not there, Xia Mian walked inside. When passing by the hanging flower gate, she saw a wooden ladder on the side.
Uncle Li saw her stop and said, "The forecast said there might be rain soon, so I checked the roof."
Xia Mian's eyes rolled, a wicked smile appeared on his face, he made a gesture to Uncle Li to keep quiet, and then ran towards the ladder excitedly.
"Oh!" Uncle Li was about to stop him when he felt someone patting his shoulder. He turned around and saw Ning Shaobai standing quietly behind him, making a gesture to keep quiet.
Then he crossed his arms and watched Xia Mian do something bad with an expression of enjoying the show.
Uncle Li shook his head helplessly. He found that he, the master of the house, acted like a child when he met the little girl next door.
Over there, Xia Mian had already climbed up the wall. He lowered his voice and began to scream in a long, drawn-out tone, "Ning Shaobai~ Shaobai~~ Xiaobaibai~ I died so miserably~"
In the dim night, I felt quite scared.
Xia Mian screamed and widened her eyes, afraid of missing the panic expression on Ning Shaobai's face when he ran out.
Then she felt something poking her calf. She was stunned for a moment, thinking that she was bitten by a big mosquito. Without even looking, she raised her other leg and rubbed it.
However, what followed was a slippery touch, moving across her calves, and Xia Mian's scalp felt a little numb.
Just as I was about to look down, I heard someone scream in panic, "Wow, snake!"
"Where?! Ah!!" Xia Mian was frightened and shook his legs quickly, and then he felt the wooden ladder beam under his feet collapse.
"Hey! Be careful!" Ning Shaobai's face changed, and he quickly threw away the stick in his hand and opened his arms, "Summon!"
Xia Mian wanted to be careful, but the beam under his feet seemed to be rotten inside. Before Ning Shaobai finished speaking, the wood broke completely with a "crack".
Xia Mian dodged and fell backwards.
It's over!
Xia Mian fell on his back and had no way to adjust his posture, so he had to hold his head to protect his vital parts.
I was prepared to get hurt from the fall, but my body suddenly stopped and I felt someone supporting my shoulders and knees. Then I stumbled a few steps before stopping.
Ning Shaobai felt suffocated in the chest by the force of her fall. He took a few steps back and leaned against the wall to stop his momentum.
He looked down at Xia Mian for a few times, and only breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that nothing serious was wrong.
This damn girl scared him to death.
Xia Mian opened her eyes, and Ning Shaobai threw her hand away in annoyance, "What are you doing? Has the little fairy fallen to the mortal world?"
He rubbed her head again, feeling unsatisfied. "Didn't you wear a helmet to protect your hair when you came down through the atmosphere?"
Xia Mian had just stood firm when she heard his mockery. She angrily slapped his hand, bent down to pick up the hat and put it on. "It's you, why are you teasing me?"
Ning Shaobai rolled his eyes and looked at her with his arms folded. "This is really like the officials being allowed to set fires but the people being forbidden from lighting lamps. Who was playing tricks on whom first?"
Of course, she was the one who wanted to scare him first. Xia Mian felt guilty and gave a fake smile, "Since I was the one who made the mistake first, I will forgive you."
Ning Shaobai laughed out of anger, tapped her hat brim and said, "Why don't you just call me Chang Youli?"
Xia Mian chuckled and quickly changed the subject, "I came to talk to you about serious matters."
Ning Shaobai glanced at her with an expression that said, "How could you possibly have something serious to do?" "What's the matter?"
"What happened in the courtyard across the street." Xia Mian chuckled, "Tomorrow is the seventh day, and there's still no news from Old Madam Huo. I hope nothing has happened."
"It's the seventh day?" Ning Shaobai said. He had been busy these days and almost forgot about it.
"Isn't the old lady trying to shirk her responsibility?" Xia Mian said. "That old lady doesn't seem to be a respectable person, and her purpose of driving Sister Ning away has already been achieved. I'm afraid she's trying to shirk her responsibility."
Ning Shaobai said, "Don't worry, she can't deny it. Don't go out tomorrow, just wait at home."
The old lady really wanted to cheat as Xia Mian guessed. Anyway, Huo Xuewen had already signed the divorce agreement, and Chenchen was not considered the grandson of their Huo family. Why should the yard be given to Xia Mian?
But as Ning Shaobai said, she didn't dare to deny it.
Ning Shaobai’s words that day were still fresh in her mind. She was not sure if he knew anything and wanted to hope for luck.
But looking at the empty and deserted Huo family house, she was afraid of bearing the consequences.
The old lady stroked the few property deeds in her hands. These were the only things she had left. These were the things that the old man allowed her to keep because she gave birth to the eldest grandson of the Huo family.
She originally thought that as long as she held on to these, she could secure her position as Madam Huo, but now she realized that the villa, the company, the shares, and the antique jewelry in the house were all more valuable than these.
Now, even the housekeeper's rights have been completely lost.
That day, Huo Pengyi came back furious and dismissed all the relatives and friends she had invited, leaving no one behind.
Instead, she invited back the elderly people in the house whom she had previously dismissed.
He gave the housekeeper clear orders that she, the old lady of the Huo family, no longer had any right to appoint or dismiss the servants in the house, and could even stop them directly if they did something inappropriate.
She is no longer the old lady of the Huo family, but now more like a prisoner under house arrest.
Huo Xuewen, who always helped her, didn't say a word and didn't go home the next day.
However, she actually won, the old lady thought. Thinking that Huo Pengyi personally forced Huo Xuewen to sign the divorce agreement, the old lady felt that she would turn things around sooner or later.
Although the North City project that was previously taken back has not been returned, it doesn’t matter. The project can always be found again, but divorce is not easy.
After Huo Xuewen and Ning Shaoyun divorced, she would slowly change Huo Xuewen's impression of Qianqian.
Qianqian is so beautiful and capable, she will definitely impress Huo Xuewen. Then when they get married, Qianqian will give her a real eldest grandson of the Huo family, and her hard days will be over.
As long as the secret is not revealed before then...
The old lady was hesitant. She really couldn't bear to leave that yard...
The phone rang.
"You haven't forgotten the agreement on transferring the ownership of the house, right?" The pleasant voice made the old lady's already cold body even colder.
The old lady asked, "What do you know?"
There was a chuckle on the other end of the phone. "The reason you were able to successfully follow Huo Pengyi back to Yan City was because you gave birth to a son, so that the Huo family would have successors, right?"
"Tsk tsk, for your own future, you can even give up your own daughter. Your courage is truly admirable."
The old lady trembled all over. "How did you know? What do you want?"
"I don't want anything," Ning Shaobai said calmly, "Just sell the house to Xia Mian."
The old lady didn't believe it. "It's that simple? What's your conspiracy?"
Ning Shaobai laughed, "There's no conspiracy. To be honest, if it weren't for my sister, I wouldn't bother to care about the Huo family's affairs."
"Besides, weren't you the ones who provoked me first?" Ning Shaobai's tone turned cold. "If you dare to provoke me, you must pay the price. Your daughter came up to me and provoked and insulted me, and I happen to be a man who always keeps my word."
The old lady still felt unconvinced. With such a big handle, how could Ning Shaobai not ask for more benefits?
Some time ago, the old man of the Ning family somehow announced that he would hand over the company to his half-brother Ning Shaoyang.
Ning Shaobai is about to be abandoned, how could he not do anything?
However, Ning Shaobai didn't want to waste time talking to her. It was as if he just remembered this matter and wanted to remind her, "Xia Mian will be waiting at home tomorrow. If you don't see him at noon, what you did will be known to Huo Xuewen and Huo Pengyi."
"Oh, by the way," Ning Shaobai said, "A friendly tip: Huo Pengyi has a family outside. The reason he took back the Chengbei project wasn't to force Huo Xuewen to sign a divorce agreement, but to take the opportunity to give the project to his biological son. His biological son is only three or four years younger than Huo Xuewen."
The old lady's eyes suddenly widened and she screamed, "You're talking nonsense! It's impossible! The old man is not that kind of person! I gave birth to a son for him, and he promised the old man that he would never marry again!"
"Well, believe it or not. If you dare to bet, I don't mind."
The old lady didn't dare to gamble, so the next day, Zhou Qianqian appeared in front of Xia Mian.
Ning Shaoyun and Xia Mian had just returned from sending the three little ones to kindergarten when they ran into Zhou Qianqian at the door. She was probably afraid that Ning Shaoyun would call Huo Xuewen again, so the first thing she said was, "I'm here to transfer the property."
Ning Shaoyun ignored her and went straight home.
Xia Mian stayed, "Are you the old lady's client or the owner of the yard?"
Zhou Qianqian felt depressed, "This is my yard." Even if this yard is shabby, it can still be worth 50,000 or 60,000.
Go, how could she not feel distressed.
If the old lady hadn't told her yesterday that Huo Xuewen had already signed the divorce agreement and asked her not to cause trouble and be more generous at this critical juncture, she would not have come.
Xia Mian was really shocked. She just thought that the old lady wanted Zhou Qianqian to stay temporarily, but she didn't expect that she had already given it to her.
This is simply the treatment of a daughter.
However, Xia Mian was only surprised. After all, the Huo family's affairs had nothing to do with her. She only needed to ensure a smooth transfer.
Fortunately, Zhou Qianqian had just been severely punished by the Huo family father and son, so she didn't dare to make trouble at this moment.
"Wait a moment."
Xia Mian called Rong Xin directly. Ning Shaobai had already made arrangements. Rong Xin answered the phone and said, "Wait for me for about half an hour."
Hearing that Xia Mian had asked Rong Xin to be a witness, Zhou Qianqian couldn't help but sneer, "You're feeling guilty. Are you worried that I'll take the house back in the future?"
Xia Mian looked at her and nodded, "Well, after all, you are such a frivolous person, there is nothing you can't do."
"Open the door. Since this is our house today, let's go in and take a look. Otherwise, it's pointless to just wait here." Xia Mian gave a fake smile. "Or would you like to go to Sister Ning's house and have a seat?"
Zhou Qianqian naturally didn't want to.
It just so happened that Xia Wenyue had not yet set up her stall, and Mao Huimei and Mao Huilan were also there. When they heard that the yard Xia Mian wanted to buy had opened, they immediately ran over excitedly to take a look.
The layout here is indeed similar to Ning Shaoyun's, both facing north and south, so this door is actually a back door. Zhou Qianqian opened it on purpose to show off to Ning Shaoyun.
However, after Xia Mian moves in, this back door will definitely be used frequently.
Entering from the back door, you will directly reach the main courtyard.
There are three main rooms, with an annex room on each side. The back door is next to the annex room on the left.
Then there are three rooms in the east and west wing.
Because this was the house her family was going to buy, Xia Wenyue looked at it very carefully. "The main room in the middle of the main house will be used for entertaining guests, and the east and west rooms will be used as bedrooms for Xia Mian and Xiao Feng, one each."
Xia Mian smiled and said, "Xiao Feng will live with me for another year. You and your uncle can live in the west room."
Xia Wenyue did not refuse. Feng Shui is very important in her hometown. If there are elders in the family, living in the main house can bring prosperity to the family, especially when moving into a new courtyard, having the elders to support the family can bring good fortune.
"Sister Huimei, Huilan, and Huizhu can live in the three east wing rooms, and the west wing will be used as a kitchen and bathroom."
Mao Huilan had already passed through the hanging flower gate to look at the main gate, and came back and said, "There are seven or eight back houses over there, which can be used as warehouses. There are so many houses."
Mao Huimei also came back after looking at the wing rooms. "It seems that there is only the water pipe at the door of the west wing here, and the toilet is also outside. Can we make it into a bathroom like Sister Ning's house and connect the water pipe into the house?"
Xia Wenyue didn't quite understand. "It's certainly convenient to build like the Ning family does. It's like living in a building, but it's brighter and more comfortable than a building."
Zhou Qianqian couldn't help but say, "You guys should be secretly happy to have gotten this yard for free, but you're still thinking of making it so nice, re-plumbing and re-wiring. That's going to cost at least 200,000 or 300,000 yuan."
Mao Huilan looked at Xia Mian in surprise, "Sister Mian, why is it so expensive?"
"It's expensive, but it's comfortable." Xia Mian smiled, "We'll decorate it like that when we have more money."
Zhou Qianqian said disdainfully, "Then you'll probably have to wait until your next life."
Xia Mian rolled her eyes. "How come you only care about food and not about punishment? If I can really afford to renovate it, will you be responsible for insulting me?"
Zhou Qianqian thought that Xia Mian had the Ning family's help, and suddenly she didn't dare to say anything more.
The sound of a car engine came from the door, and a Mercedes-Benz stopped at the back door.
It was Rong Xin who arrived. He got out of the cab and handed a document bag to Xia Mian. "Can you take a look at it?"
Xia Mian opened it and found a house purchase and sale contract in duplicate, the only missing part was the amount.
Xia Mian handed the contract to Zhou Qianqian, "Take a look at it, then make an offer, and don't say we're bullying you."
Zhou Qianqian was a little surprised, "You give money?"
Xia Mian rolled her eyes and said, "Do you think I'm you, that I can take someone else's yard with a clear conscience?"
Zhou Qianqian was furious. "You talk like you're so noble. Do you have that much money? Don't you still rely on the Ning family?"
Xia Mian argued with her impatiently, "It's none of your business whether I have money or not, just name your price."
"One hundred thousand." Zhou Qianqian blurted out.
Xia Mian sneered, "I just said I want to be moral and civilized. When did you say I was a sucker? Are you sincere? If not, I won't buy it."
Zhou Qianqian: ...
She actually started talking about buying and selling. If you didn't know, you would have thought she was begging Xia Mian to buy it.
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