Chapter 101 Cleaning up
The house transfer procedures were quickly completed. After walking out of the housing management office, Li Yan gave a bunch of keys to Gu Jiu: "The house will be yours from now on."
"Thank you. Uncle Li gives up." Gu Jiu handed the key to Lin Shu.
Li Yan endured the sadness in his heart and said with a smile: "Actually, it's okay to transfer the house to you. If it stays in my name and no one lives in it or maintains it, it will be ruined in a few years. I'll sell it to you. After that, if people live in it, this house can be passed down for a long time.”
“Uncle Li, it’s best if you think about it this way. The house really can’t be left unoccupied, otherwise it will fall into disrepair too quickly. ”
"Okay, now that the transaction is completed, I won't delay you anymore. We will see you later."
"See you later."
After bidding farewell to Li Yan, Tang Jianjun returned to the office, Lin Shu and Gu Go back for a long time.
“What do you want to do with that house?”
Lin Shu held his arm, looked at the drizzled street, and said with a smile: “Clean it out first and let my brother and the others live in it. In the past, help us increase the popularity of the house first.”
Gu Jiu nodded in agreement. After all, it was not a problem for my uncle and the others to rent a house in the county. It would be better to live in their house and bring some popularity to the house.
Taking advantage of the rain these days, Gu Jiu ran to his uncle's rental house the next day.
The two uncles who stayed in the rental house were worried about being unable to work on rainy days. The road home was muddy and inconvenient. It was too boring to stay in the rental house. Gu Jiu happened to come to find them. They didn't even think about it. So I agreed.
When the two uncles saw the dozen rooms upstairs and downstairs, they asked in shock: "Brother-in-law, how much did you spend to buy such a big house?"
< br>"One thousand and three, do you think it is expensive or cheap?" Gu Jiu gave each of them a pair of gloves.
Lin Wei scratched his head, "How should I put it? It is definitely expensive to buy a house like this in our rural area. It is difficult to estimate whether it is more expensive or cheaper in the city."
Lin Guang nodded. : "Brother is right. Fortunately, this house has many rooms. If you rent it out, you can earn a lot of income a month."
Gu Jiu: "We have no plans to rent it out. We will clean out the house first and then You two choose two rooms to live in and return the rental house. "
The two brothers looked at each other, and Lin Wei stood up and objected first: "This is not okay, what's going on with the house you bought for us?"
"Brother, you guys? Don't be polite. It's not good if no one lives here after buying this house. You can help us look at the house when you move in." Gu Jiu walked around the house, pointed to the back and said, "You can look at it for me. Do you want to clean the well in the backyard?”
There is a back door at the back of the house, and a wall encloses the backyard. The original owner used the space in the backyard to dig a well for convenience.
With this well here, even if the tap water here is cut off in the future, there is no need to worry about running out of water.
“Let’s go take a look.”
The three of them went into the backyard and brought up half a bucket of water. The well water was very clear.
But Lin Wei still said: "Since the owner has changed, I think it is more secure to clean the well before using it. However, there is no rush now. We will clean the well after we clean the whole house."
"Okay, let's do what the elder brother wants. Let's clean the room first."
The original owner of this house passed away, although Li Yan cleaned up his father's belongings. However, after living in a house for several generations, there are still a lot of items accumulated.
Most of the accumulated items are useless garbage, a small amount of furniture is usable, and some furniture is broken.
If nothing else, first clean out all the useful and useless things in each room, and then slowly organize them.
Three grown men here are cleaning items in each room, and Lin Shu is also very busy here.
Time was limited in the morning. After Gu Jiu left, she started doing laundry and cleaning. It was already ten o'clock when she finished.
A few people wanted to eat at noon, so she started buying a lot of vegetable ingredients from the farmer's market without stopping, and then bought a piece of meat and a fish from the system mall to prepare lunch.
When lunch was ready, I took a few bites at will, then packed up all the food and sent it to the old house over there in Jianshe.
As soon as I walked to the door of the old house, I heard the sound of wood being thrown inside. "Why are there so many clutter?" Lin Shu carried the basket in and faced the patio filled with clutter, including furniture, bottles and cans, old clothes, old daily necessities, etc.
"That day when we came over to look at the house, there weren't many of them, but after we cleaned them all, there was quite a pile of them." Gu Jiu came over and took the basket from her hand.
Lin Wei and Lin Guang saw her coming and greeted her one after another.
"Brother, second brother, stop being busy and wash your hands. Let's eat first."
Lin Shu wiped the old table clean so that they could place their lunch boxes conveniently.
The three men washed their hands and sat down to eat. Lin Shu looked around in each room when he had nothing to do.
The floor tiles on the first floor have been used for many years, and a layer of black mud has accumulated in some places. Moreover, the adobe floor needs to be replaced, and she plans to have it replaced with a water-sanded floor.
The old windows on the first floor were too small. I went to the countryside and asked a carpenter to customize some carved windows of the same style. The size was enlarged to increase the brightness of the room.
There is also a roof on the first floor, which is very delicate. It only needs to be painted a few times after renovation.
The wooden floor on the second floor needs to be renovated. In some places near the window, the floor is a bit rotten due to rainwater. The rotten floor must be replaced.
The tiles on the back of the house also need to be resurfaced, and the broken tiles and rotten beams need to be replaced.
Based on this statistics, if the places to be repaired are listed, the cost is probably not much different from the house price.
Tsk, as expected, it costs a lot to maintain a house well.
Coming down from the second floor, the three grown men had finished their meal and started having sex.
"Little sister, which of these things do you want and which ones don't? Just say something so I can clean them up." Lin Wei kicked the pile of debris.
Lin Shu: "Keep the useful things, clean out the useless things, and don't even need personal belongings."
"This chest of drawers can be kept."
Lin Wei said while cleaning the items inside. Just two jingling sounds attracted everyone's attention.
Gu Jiu picked up the round coins that rolled to his feet. When he saw the portrait on it, he raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Brother, you are lucky. You can also dig out silver coins when cleaning the cabinet."
"Really a silver dollar?" Lin Guang picked it up in disbelief Another one was checked and found to be the real Yuan Datou. He said excitedly: "Brother, it's real. Can you see if there is anything else in the cupboard?"
Lin Wei hurriedly emptied everything in the cupboard. When he came out, he actually found two more coins and more than a dozen copper coins.
"Hey, you can still find silver coins after cleaning up the debris. It's really a long time since I've been alive." Lin Wei looked at the debris piled on the floor excitedly, "It seems that these debris need to be cleaned up carefully. Maybe they are in some old clothes pocket or Windfalls can be found in boxes.”
"Ha, I found this in the pocket of this old clothes. What kind of certificate this should be is not easy at first glance. Brother-in-law, look what is written here?" Lin Guang raised his hand excitedly. He handed two pieces of yellowed paper to Gu Jiu.
His call attracted everyone's attention.
Lin Shu walked up to Gu Jiu and asked: "What is it?"
Gu Jiu looked over and over, and couldn't help laughing: "This is just a pawn ticket from the previous pawn shop, some It’s the end of the year.”
"Pawn tickets?"
Lin Shu became interested. This was something she had only heard of in legends. She was curious about what was written on it?
Gu Jiu handed it to her.
Lin Shu took it and took a look. It was all in traditional Chinese characters. No wonder the second brother didn’t recognize the characters on it...
Well, it seemed like she didn’t recognize it either.
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