"Well, let's make a deal first. The rent is one dollar a month, and you have to pay three months' rent first! Do you think that's okay? If not, forget it!"
When the old lady saw that the three female educated youth were still unwilling to pay for the rent of a house themselves, she spoke directly.
"Rent, we'll rent it. Let's do it. We'll move in right away!" Su Yiyi spoke quickly when she saw that the two of them were still hesitating.
It's already late at night, and the house has collapsed under the heavy snow. If I don't rent it, where will I stay tonight? There's no place to stay!
Su Yiyi didn't give the other two people a chance to refuse and made the decision directly.
"Okay then!" Wang Ping agreed reluctantly.
Song Lai Di had no choice. Although she didn't get along with those two people, she had no choice but to live with them.
"No, you all moved away, so the idea of eating together..." Li Tao said with some embarrassment.
Jiang Beichuan was even more annoyed. If all the female educated youth moved out, it would be really inconvenient for them to eat together in the future.
"We just need to come back and cook every day!" Su Yiyi looked at the collapsed house and said unwillingly.
"Alright! All your luggage has been taken out! Hurry and go to Aunt Qi's house, clean up the house, and heat the kang to dry the quilts!"
Captain Chen was too lazy to care about their future meals together. Seeing that they had taken out their clothes, bedding and washbasins, he spoke.
"Haha! Yuxian, look! Their washbasins are peeling and deformed!" Sun Yanyan pointed at Su Yiyi and the others' washbasins that were smashed into oval shapes with dents in them and said with a smile.
"Don't even mention it, it was smashed into silver!"
"No! It looks like a boat!"
"Like the moon!"
Su Nian and the other two were whispering and teasing each other.
"You three should stop standing here and watching the fun! Go clean your houses! Do you want your roofs to collapse? Then you can only live in the wild! There are no empty houses for you to rent!" Captain Chen gave the unscrupulous trio who were gloating over their misfortune a cold look and said unhappily.
"Don't worry! Captain Chen, we are hardworking people and the house won't collapse!" Su Nian assured with a smile.
Despite this, everyone obediently went to sweep the snow and stopped standing there watching the fun.
Needless to say, the male educated youth took the initiative to sweep the floor. They had learned from the previous experience, which was a living example. They couldn't afford to have their roof collapsed again and they couldn't afford to lose face.
The villagers slowly dispersed with laughter and ran back to sweep the snow. Most of them lived in thatched and adobe houses, which were definitely not as sturdy as theirs.
"Zhang Dahu! What are you doing?" Captain Chen suddenly shouted.
Captain Chen's shout startled everyone, and many of the villagers who had dispersed halfway turned back after hearing the noise.
"Nothing! I'm just helping a few female educated youth unload their luggage!" Zhang Dahu said with a smile.
"I just saw you stuffing a handful of money into your arms! We can't do such sneaky things!" Captain Chen said with a serious face.
"No! That's not possible! That's not possible!" Zhang Dahu said with an awkward smile.
"Let me tell you! If you do anything sneaky, don't blame me for making you lose face!" Captain Chen pointed at Zhang Dahu and said seriously.
"Hehe! No! Nothing!" Zhang Dahu shook his head in denial.
"Take it out! Take out what you stuffed in your arms!" Captain Chen shouted sternly.
"No! Nothing! Captain Chen! You're seeing things! Really nothing!" Zhang Dahu waved his hands and kept backing away while speaking.
"You won't take it out, right? Zhuzi! Huzi! You two go and see what he has in his arms!" Captain Chen was sure that his eyesight was good and he was not mistaken, so he said to the two young men standing beside him.
"No way! Did he steal our things?" Wang Ping asked nervously.
Song Lai Di also stretched her neck to see what he had taken! She thought that he should have taken all her things, right?
Su Yiyi also tried hard to recall if she was missing anything.
Zhuzi and Huzi went over and held Zhang Dahu down. Dazhuzi reached into his arms and actually managed to pull something out of him.
After seeing clearly what was in his hand, Dazhuzi threw it to the ground as if his hand was burned.
When everyone looked closely, many women blushed instantly.
Su Nian looked at the floral cotton bellyband on the ground and blushed for someone!
"Whose is it?" a man asked with a laugh.
Su Yiyi and the other three looked at it and quickly waved their hands, saying that it was not theirs and no one was willing to admit it.
"Hey! It's ownerless! Where did it come from?!"
"Yeah! Whose is it anyway?"
“Why doesn’t anyone want it?”
No matter how many people asked, no one admitted it and no one claimed it.
"Hey! I said there's nothing! This is mine! I picked it up on the hillside!" Seeing that no one admitted it, Zhang Dahu walked over, picked it up again, and put it in his arms.
"Haha! No way! Zhang Dahu! Did you pick it up?" a man asked with a smile.
"I picked it up! I was working too hard just now and it fell out. I put it back in and Captain Chen saw it. He thought I was stealing! I wouldn't do that!" Zhang Dahu said with a grin.
"Is it really not yours? Tell us whose it is. Our team will definitely take care of it for you!"
Captain Chen naturally knew that this must be one of the three female educated youth, but he was afraid and did not dare to admit it.
He will not tolerate such things and will definitely punish them severely. But since no one admits it, there is nothing he can do!
Captain Chen talked for a long time, but no one dared to admit it, so the matter had to be left unresolved.
In this day and age, no one dares to admit such a thing in front of so many people, and it will be useless even if Zhang Dahu is severely punished.
With a bad reputation, people will point fingers at you whenever you go out.
"Hey! Captain Chen! Don't ask me, it really isn't theirs. I picked it up on the hillside!
Maybe some young girl or young wife lost it while having a secret meeting with her lover!" Zhang Dahu said with an obscene laugh.
"Haha! No matter what, why would you lose Xiaoyi?"
"You thought of that!"
"Bah! How dare you say such a thing? Shame on you!"
"Look at you, why did you pick up something else? This is what you picked up! If you saw me, you could just walk over and that would be it!"
Many women were disdainful of Zhang Dahu and could not stand his behavior and criticized him.
If they knew who it belonged to, it might not be like this. Those village detective aunties would definitely talk a lot and spread rumors.
Zhang Dahu is thick-skinned. No matter what others say, he will do what he wants to do and he doesn't care.
Su Yiyi and the other three quietly packed their things and took them all to the ox cart in front of the Youth League compound.
Just like that, Su Yiyi and the others also moved away.
In the Youth League compound, on a day when it snowed heavily, four people moved out at once.
After the villagers had dispersed, Su Nian and the others swept the snow and returned to the house to continue gossiping around the fire...
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