Xu Nanxing asked straight to the point, "Chen Zhiqing, you know a lot about the village, right?"
"I know them quite well. I'm not a very restless person and I know a lot of people in the village. Is there something wrong?" Chen Jiaxin asked doubtfully.
Xu Nanxing paused. "Well, you saw it this morning. I don't get along well with Song Zhiqing. We had an argument on the first day I arrived at the educated youth center. So I thought I'd move out. That way, we wouldn't have conflicts. So I wanted to ask you if there's any suitable house to rent in the village."
After a pause, he added, "It would be best if there's a separate house available for rent, and the owner has a good reputation. As a girl living in someone's home, I'd better get along with them, right?"
Chen Jiaxin was surprised. In the past few confrontations between the two of you, it was clearly you who had the upper hand.
But why didn't Song Zhiqing go out to rent a house, but you, the winner, left first...
You can complain all you want, but if you're unhappy living there and someone is picking on you every few days, no one will be happy.
If the other party is unwilling to move out, then you have no choice but to move out yourself.
Xu Zhiqing seemed to come from a well-off family and was willing to move out.
Although Xu Nanxing's latter sentence was expressed in an obscure way, Chen Jiaxin still understood it.
It is normal for a girl to have this concern when living alone in someone else's home.
She thought for a moment. "There's a family that's quite suitable. They have an extra room, a soldier in their family, and the villagers have a good opinion of them. But..."
Hearing that there was an extra room and that there was a soldier in the family, Xu Nanxing's eyes lit up. Hearing the other party's hesitation, he quickly asked, "What is it? What happened to his family?"
"Yes, the second son of this family is a soldier, and the eldest son works in a mine. Three months ago, there was an accident in the mine, and more than a dozen miners working in the mine died. Among them was his eldest son.
After receiving the tragic news, Mrs. Ye vomited blood and fainted. Later, when the compensation arrived, the child's mother took it and returned to her parents' home. Not long after, she remarried. Mrs. Ye couldn't bear the shock and passed away soon after. She left behind two children, the elder only 10 and the younger only 4, with no one to care for them. So pitiful!
He does have an extra room, but his family is in such a bad state. The villagers are a bit superstitious and think his family is unlucky. They're afraid of being infected by the bad luck, so they stay away from him."
After hearing this, Xu Nanxing had some guesses in his mind: "What's that family's surname?"
"My last name is Ye."
"Is the eldest child in that family called Ye Tian?"
"Yes, you know him?"
"Yes, I encountered it this morning while I was picking grass for the pigs."
It was indeed those two children.
Thinking of the pair of wet eyes I saw in the morning.
The two children are now without a father or a mother. The 10-year-old brother holds the hand of his 4-year-old sister tightly...
It makes me sad just thinking about it!
"Isn't the child's mother too heartless? All the compensation has been taken away. How will the child live?"
"Who says it isn't? But if you can rent his house, it will be a help to the kids."
"Didn't you say there's a soldier in his family? How dare the child's mother take all the money? She even pissed the old man off to death. Isn't she afraid that the child's uncle will come back and get back at her?"
"Actually... I heard about it, too. The second son of that family went on a mission last year, and then I heard that everyone lost contact, and there's been no news since. This time, his brother got into trouble at the mine, and I sent a telegram to the army, but I haven't received a reply yet."
Sure enough, if there is no adult male in the family, it is indeed easy to be bullied in the countryside.
Xu Nanxing didn't know what to say.
It is true that a hemp rope only breaks at its thinnest point and misfortune only finds the unfortunate.
This is what it means when misfortunes never come singly.
Xu Nanxing didn't know whether to sigh at the pitiful fate of Ye Tian and his sister, or to sigh that there was really no privacy in the countryside. Even Chen Jiaxin, who did not live in the village, knew so many things.
This gossip ability is really good!
After sighing for a while, Xu Nanxing continued, "Do you know where his home is? Can you take me there?"
"No problem! Come with me!" Chen Jiaxin also felt sorry for the two children of the Ye family. She was powerless before, but now she is very happy to be able to help.
After walking for a while, they came to a small farmyard, which was the Ye family.
It was lunchtime and everyone should be resting.
But what surprised them was that the entrance to the courtyard was full of people watching the fun.
A scolding voice came from inside the house: "You are still young and can't go to work in the mine. The job is just sitting there for nothing. Give this job to your uncle. In a few years, when you grow up, I will return the job to you!"
Don’t you even trust your own uncle? If you were bullied in the village, you would have to rely on your uncle! "
"I don't have a mother! I don't have an uncle! Get out! Get out!"
It was Ye Tian’s voice.
The voice was mixed with anger and sadness!
There was a burst of booing outside the door when he heard this.
Some outspoken people, who knew his family situation, shouted directly and rudely: "Oh! Zhang Chunhong, you remarried! You even abandoned your own children, and you still have the nerve to come and steal my son's job!
If you can't even trust your own mother, how can you trust your uncle who you only see once a year? Even tigers don't eat their own cubs! What kind of rotten things have you, the Zhang family, done? Zhang Chunhong, you even betrayed your own son. You are worse than an animal!
The noise in the house suddenly became silent.
The door opened and a woman in her thirties walked out. She should be Ye Tian’s mother, Zhang Chunhong.
The other party saw that the door was surrounded by people watching the excitement, and he also knew that the noise was a bit loud just now, and he didn't know that it was heard by many people.
With a bad look on her face, she said, "As a mother, of course I am doing this for the good of my child. He doesn't know how dangerous society is. The mine has now made a good deal and turned his father's temporary job into a regular one.
When Xiaotian grows up, he can report to the mine to work. But who knows how long it will take? What if the current leader is transferred mid-term? Will the new leader approve of the previous leader's arrangements?
I'm doing this for the child's own good! Let his uncle do the job for a few years first, and then when he's an adult, he can take over. Wouldn't that be foolproof? This child doesn't understand my painstaking efforts at all!"
Zhang Chunhong's words were sincere, and some villagers believed her a little.
When people leave, the tea gets cold. Isn’t this the case with the head of the Ye family?
As soon as the man died, his wife hurriedly remarried!
The decisions made by the leader may not be recognized by the new leader when he leaves one day!
Farmers still simply believe that what they hold in their hands is theirs!
But can what is in my uncle’s hand be mine?
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