Chapter 571 Cleaning up the Courtyard
As soon as I reached the door, I could still hear the remaining few people in the house talking together.
My goodness, how does it feel to discuss gossip in front of the person who is responsible? Zhang Hongye should be the one who has the most say at the moment. With his awkward expression at this moment, it is absolutely no problem for him to deduct two villas.
He glanced at the expressions on the couple's faces with a little helplessness, and was also afraid that he had really offended them. He believed that if he met someone with a bad temper, the consequences would include him, who did not participate in the discussion, being at risk of being implicated.
To be honest, Li Lu didn't care much about this, let alone Jiang Tao.
When she was Li Zhongye’s daughter, she would see aunties and grandmas talking about important people, and hear about what was happening in their families, even if she didn’t know them, but she would still be enthusiastic about the gossip. Whenever she had the chance to pass by the “group chat”, she would always listen carefully.
There were no entertainment facilities in those days, and televisions only existed in some upper-class families. The rest of the people would sit outside after dinner to enjoy the cool air and talk about interesting things around them. Any little movement would be magnified and spread infinitely.
Besides, the situation described in the house now is not exaggerated, at most it is a slight embellishment of the facts.
Seeing that the two did not show any displeasure, Zhang Hongye was relieved.
I coughed twice loudly, hoping that my colleagues inside would react.
After all, if you look into it carefully, it is already an overstep to give such an obvious reminder in front of the person involved. Now it all depends on whether God will help.
The result was good. As soon as the first two coughs came out, the discussions in the room disappeared.
In the final analysis, things should be dealt with one by one. With the help of those who came out to check the situation, she quickly took the sorting tools. Jiang Tao gave a look, and Li Lu understood and stopped a few meters ahead, obviously giving her husband time to communicate alone with the people from the street office.
The others were all smart people. They said they had work to do and turned around to go back.
Then before parting, Jiang Tao secretly put a pack of Daqianmen cigarettes in Zhang Hongye's pocket.
I felt a sudden weight in my shirt pocket and reached out to touch it. I knew what it was without even looking.
This not only shows that the two people in front of them did not care about the matter that was just discussed, but also that the things mentioned during the house viewing were still taken to heart, so that even though Li Fei did not show up, he was definitely put on the list of people who needed special care by the street office.
Perhaps in order to thank the young couple for their generosity, he expressed his views more directly: "Brother Jiang, don't worry. If you encounter any problems in the future, just let the girl you mentioned come to me directly. If I'm not here, other comrades can do it too.
Also, bring these tools back after use. I'm on night shift here today, so maybe I'll see them again later.
If you can’t find the person, just put it in the storage room at the door. ”
After exchanging a few more pleasantries, they said goodbye to Zhang Hongye and walked back to the courtyard.
As soon as I turned the corner, I could see Li Fei waiting at the door with a lot of things. I could tell what he brought, including washbasins, rags, brooms, etc., and even a thick stack of newspapers.
At this moment, she didn't even notice her sister and brother-in-law walking behind her. Her whole mind was focused on marveling at the yard in front of her.
I didn't expect that the conditions would be so good when Xiaolu asked for a new place to live. Just looking at it from the outside has far exceeded expectations.
But after a moment of thought, I realized that I had been waiting at the door for six or seven minutes but no one showed up. Could they have got the address wrong?
As my thoughts wandered, I didn't realize that the couple had left on their own accord because of something.
Once the idea came to my mind, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that this was the case. I saw the address on the house deed at home just now and wrote it down directly without realizing the "specialness" of this area.
At this moment, I looked up and took a careful look at the yard again. It didn't look like no one had lived there for a long time. I started to complain to myself that I could even get a simple address wrong.
Li Lu saw her sister staring at the courtyard in a daze one second and suddenly became anxious the next.
The action doesn’t end here.
Then she squatted down again and carefully tightened a few items on the ground that had not been unpacked. Then she stood up and picked them up, apparently preparing to leave.
Li Lu had to call out, "Sister, didn't we meet at 3:30? It's fine if you arrived early, but why are you leaving before we even meet?"
A familiar voice appeared, and Li Fei turned around in a daze, and saw that it was his sister and brother-in-law who were walking towards him with a lot of cleaning supplies.
Nene asked, "Are we really not in the wrong place?"
"Don't worry, the address on the deed is the courtyard in front of you, and the new deed is with me. Do you need me to take it out for you to compare?"
After getting confirmation again, she felt relieved and explained why she was like that just now.
"The main reason is that this place is too neat and tidy. I clearly heard you mention before we separated that no one had lived in the yard for a long time.
Looking at the actual situation, it’s hard not to doubt, right? ”
“Hahahahaha… Indeed, this is because the people from the street office do the regular cleaning because we pay them monthly. Hurry up and go in and take a look at what kind of environment you’re going to live in for a long time to come.”
The second time she entered the courtyard, Li Lu was still more and more satisfied with the environment, not to mention Li Fei who came for the first time.
Since there wasn't much work to do, he left the dusting and pasting newspapers on the walls to the two sisters. Jiang Tao went to the yard and used borrowed tools to carefully cultivate the vegetable patch on the left.
On the other side, in addition to a temporary storage room for bicycles, clothesline poles and other similar items, the area next to it is also planned to be used for raising chickens.
As for whether it is possible to raise chicks in towns and where to get the chicks, these are all matters for the future.
Anyway, since the space is reserved, just build a simple nest first.
If it doesn't work in the end, the worst that can happen is that I can just renovate the nest and raise a big dog, which should be more than enough accommodation.
It was just after six o'clock when everything was done, and the three of them went together to return the tools.
Jiang Tao still remembered that Zhang Hongye mentioned in the afternoon that he would be on duty at night and his sister would inevitably need to be taken care of here in the future, so it would be embarrassing if he didn't recognize her.
It's a good opportunity for us to show up together.
After sending Li Fei back to her current residence, they checked the time and found that the state-owned restaurant outside was closed. The young couple would not be able to eat if they returned to the guesthouse. Fortunately, there were still eight buns left from the buns they bought in the morning. They simply heated them up in a pot and paired them with homemade pickles, which solved their dinner problem.
Jiang Tao and Li Lu walked back to the guesthouse and happened to meet Li Jie getting out of the car at the door. They knew without even looking that the person in the driver's seat was Chen Yu.
Both sides seemed surprised.
"Little sister, you and your brother-in-law just came back now. Have you been busy outside all day? By this calculation, you should have done most of the work, right?"
Before he could hear the answer, Chen Yu got out of the car decisively. He noticed that they looked different, so he asked with concern, "Did anything happen to you?"
Li Lu originally planned to ask her eldest brother for help, so she did not hide anything and directly told the story of how she was inexplicably detained and not given a ticket when she went to the street office in the afternoon, without any exaggeration.
Among them, Jiang Tao expressed his own guess directly without any reservation. He was afraid that Li Zhongye had done something after signing the statement of severing relations, or had given some benefits in exchange for help.
Otherwise, they wouldn't have acted so blatantly to make things difficult for me. After all, the person who handled the documents has lived here for 20 years and has never had any conflict with them.
"I'll give you an accurate conclusion on this matter tomorrow morning. Don't worry at night. The most important thing is to get a good rest."
It was Chen Yu who was speaking. With this accurate statement, Li Jie also spoke to comfort him: "Don't worry, this is normal procedure. The street office is already violating the rules by blocking it. The higher-ups will come down and check it out."
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