The previous owner of Ye Fan's house was not generous, but her husband was very generous.
After settling in that day, Ye Fan told the former landlord that she really needed a house and had a son and a daughter, but there was one thing she didn't say that morning, she was a student at Beijing University.
The husband of the former landlord was there at the time and said eight thousand to eight thousand. She was in school and had no job, so it would be very hard for her husband to support the whole family by himself.
The former homeowner was speechless.
Ye Fan and Geng Zhiye were also speechless. It was five hundred yuan. The former landlord and his family were frugal and could save five hundred yuan for two in a year. How could he be so generous?
When he went to the bank to transfer money, Ye Fan reminded the former landlord to deposit four bankbooks, one with four thousand, one with two thousand, and two with one thousand. Four thousand were prepared for her sister-in-law, one thousand was reserved for marrying a daughter-in-law, one thousand was reserved for emergencies, and the remaining two thousand was reserved for her and her husband to provide for their old age.
Everyone said that "eggs cannot be put in one basket" and "a cunning rabbit has three holes", but Ye Fan actually asked her to divide it into four parts? The former landlord couldn't help but sigh in his heart that college students are still too narrow-minded.
However, she still listened to Ye Fan and asked the teller to get her four bankbooks. With five hundred left, the former landlord also decided to listen to Ye Fan and go to the thrift store to buy gold, silver and jade.
The former homeowner came out of the thrift store and saw a bag of gold, silver and jade. The obsession left with her because her brother and sister took away the gold, silver and jade from the house disappeared. At this moment, she felt relieved.
Because Ye Fan told the truth to the former landlord, and the former landlord also listened to her and left two thousand yuan in pension money, she no longer felt like taking advantage of the National People's Congress.
Then again, looking at the feelings of the previous owner and the old lady behind the house, Ye Fan also expected that the house in the back would be more expensive than the one she bought. Even if the house in the back was exactly the same as this one, it would still be a couple of cents more expensive. thousand.
Ye Fan shook his head slightly: "Ten thousand is less, at least twelve thousand."
"Then don't buy it!" Yu Wentao said, "She is not the only one who is anxious to sell their house."
Today Geng Zhiqin is at school with Geng Huihui to sign up and organize the dormitory. In addition to the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, there are three children at home. When Geng Benben heard what grandma said, he said: "Buy the one in the southeast corner. Grandma, I will give that house to you."
Yu Wentao couldn't help but vomit: "Don't let me tell you as if your father bought it for you!"
Geng Benben got angry when he talked about this: "Auntie, my dad is a college student like my uncle. Why doesn't he know more than my uncle? Who is the elder brother and who is the younger brother?"
Ye Fan smiled while picking vegetables: "Ask your dad later?"
Geng Benben didn't dare and continued to cut newspapers and wrap book covers.
Dabao couldn't help but said: "You tell my second uncle that you will make money if you buy it."
"Your second uncle doesn't believe it." Yu Wentao glanced at Ye Fan and saw that she was not angry, "I don't believe that you can make money by buying a house."
Ye Fan: "Things are rare and valuable."
"I know this. But who doesn't have a house?"
Ye Fan nodded: "In the past, we were not worried because our children had gone to the countryside, and the people provided houses. Now that the educated youths are returning to the city one after another, why don't they get married and have children? Just like our family, if the eldest brother also lives with us in the capital, we Should I buy another set? ”
Yu Wentao originally wanted to talk about the eldest son's unit being allocated a room, but suddenly he thought that there were more people who had not been allocated a room, so he said that half of the people in the alley of the Geng family's old house did not have a unit room.
There is also a large courtyard behind the Geng family's old house, where four or five families live in one house. When the children are young, they can make do with it. When the children are in their early twenties, they will not be allocated houses in the workplace because they are young and have low qualifications. Parents will have to buy a house, and it will be difficult to find a partner even if they don't buy a house.
Yu Wentao asked: "But everyone has no money to buy, so why do houses rise? The more they rise, the more unaffordable they are."
Ye Fan: "So after the reform and opening up, a few special economic zones were set up for everyone to make money. Go there and get a batch of clothes and earn seventy or eighty yuan. You can earn enough to buy a house in a year."
Yu Wentao thought about it carefully, and she seemed to be right.
Geng Benben couldn't help but say: "The one who can't afford a house in the end is the stubborn one like my dad who can't lose face and make money?"
Ye Fan wanted to laugh inexplicably: "Ben Ben, your dad is in a special situation. No matter which unit he goes to, he will be helped to arrange housing first. Only after your dad has been in this kind of environment for a long time will he think that we are too full to eat and toss around. ”
Yu Wentao suddenly thought of something: "Fanfan, do you mean that the idle people in society will be richer than us in the future?"
Ye Fan: "Those who are humble enough to set up stalls and are smart and diligent will be richer than us."
Yu Wentao couldn't help but think that the streets were full of idle people. If these people all made money and bought houses in droves, she would not be the one to choose two houses, but two or four people would fight for one house. These people are rich, and the result is that the one with the highest price gets it, and then the house price is pushed up higher and higher by them.
Yu Wentao was annoyed. Why didn't he think of it when he was in the capital every day? He still needed advice from his daughter-in-law who had just moved from the island.
Is this the difference between people?
Yu Wentao was happy again. This person was no one else, but her daughter-in-law.
"I listen to you, 12,000. That old lady wants to say 15,000, so don't pay attention to her." Yu Wentao said.
Ye Fan: "Didn't you tell me how many mahogany chairs there are? If she sells or gives away the mahogany chairs and agrees to lower the house price to 12,000, I won't buy hers."
With Ye Fan's assurance, Yu Wentao went to the kitchen to wash and cook with peace of mind.
Erbao remained silent. She was wrapping the book cover while thinking about her mother's words. After thinking about it, she put the book aside and asked: "Mom, you know you will make money if you buy it. The former owner of our house and grandma said The old lady behind, don’t they know?”
"The previous owner got the money from my mother to buy a bigger house. Later, the old lady thought that there was gold all over the country and she could make a lot of money, so she didn't care about this little money." Ye Fan said patiently.
Geng Benben heard it: "My aunt said she thought it was actually her self-righteousness?"
Ye Fan: "No. For example, you can be ranked first in your grade, but you need to study hard, listen carefully to the lectures, and work hard. But anyone who has never tried it personally will think it is easy."
Geng Benben was speechless: "Why are you talking about studying?"
Ye Fan: "Now the old lady is in the dreaming stage like you. If you don't do well in the exam, you can continue to work hard next year. She regrets it, and I will not give the house back to her."
Geng Benben dreamed of taking the first grade in the exam every day. He could not refute Ye Fan's words: "Auntie, call my mother and ask them to come here on vacation. I want to talk to them about buying a house."
Ye Fan looked at the young man talking about the house as if it were an adult, and felt very happy: "Okay. I will use the public phone to call your mother when I get to school in the afternoon."
In the afternoon, Ye Fan went to school to finish his day studies and then called his second sister-in-law's work to tell her that the new house was ready and he would come over for dinner on vacation.
The second brother and the second sister-in-law have not been to Ye Fan's new home yet, so during the September half vacation, the couple came over with melons and fruits to check the door.
This day happened to be the weekend. Brother Geng entered the hospital and saw three children doing homework in the main hall. Brother Geng and his wife looked at each other and wondered, is Benben so self-conscious now?
The second sister-in-law suspected that Ye Fan and her mother-in-law were watching the three children inside. However, when they entered the room, there were still only three children in the room. Sister-in-law Geng put the things on the table and asked, "Dabao, where are your mother and grandma?"
Dabao: "There is also a book rack in grandma's house -" he looked to the west. "It's the same as this one, but there's nothing on it. It's empty and ugly. Mom took grandma to the thrift store to choose a few items."
Brother Geng picked up a jade carving and looked closely at it. It looked like a sleeping child. The jade was yellow and white. The carving and the color of the jade were not very good: "Your mother bought this?"
Dabao nodded.
"Why don't you buy a few good ones? Have you run out of money to buy a house?"
Geng Benben: "Dad, it looks like an amateur at first glance. The jade in your hand is Hetian jade."
"But it's also miscellaneous jade, and the carving is quite dull." Brother Geng put the things back.
Geng Benben sighed: "Dad, what kind of craftsmanship was there before and what kind of craftsmanship is it now? It's strange that it's so exquisite."
Dabao nodded: "The royal carvings are good, but the royal family must use good jade materials. My mother said this is folk craftsmanship. Folk craftsmanship does not mean that it is not good. Besides, what else can you choose if you buy it at a cabbage price?"
Geng Zhiye's second sister-in-law said: "Dabao, don't pay attention to your second uncle. He just wants to compete with the best, and doesn't think about how expensive the best is. He can't even afford it with a month's salary."
The three children nodded together.
Brother Geng didn't dare to comment on the things on the shelf, but he couldn't help but ask: "Dabao, does your dad get paid to go to school?"
Dabao: "Second uncle, don't worry about my family having no money. My mother will go to the countryside to sell vegetables in the afternoon."
"You still have money to set up a stall?" Brother Geng didn't believe it.
Dabao doesn't want to talk to his second uncle - is there a conflict between having money and making money? The second uncle has really been a locksmith for a long time, and his brain has been screwed to death with a wrench.
Brother Geng was ignored by his nephew and his expression was unnatural. His wife Chu Fenghe wanted to laugh when she saw this: "Dabao, do my aunt and uncle know that you have moved here?"
Dabao nodded: "Dad went to my uncle's house the day before he went to school to tell them that we moved here." In those days, Dabao also sent a letter to a good friend on Hengshan Island, leaving the address of his new home, "Second mother, your mother last weekend Still coming.”
Chu Fenghe: "Aren't you worried that Ben Ben is here?"
Geng Benben nodded: "When you see Dabao and I share a bed, you ask if we can squeeze each other. Don't think that I don't know what she means."
"What do you mean?" Geng Zhiye's second brother Geng Zhihua asked.
Geng Benben: "If I'm crowded, I'll go to her house. My cousin went to her house and I didn't share a bed with her. She asked me if I was crowded. Aren't I worried that grandma and aunt are not good to me? If grandma is not good, she can raise me. So big.”
When Benben and his sister Huihui were young, the Chu family was sent to different parts of the country, and they were unable to help Chu Fenghe take care of the two children. Benben and his sister were raised by their grandparents. Although Yu Wentao initially took care of her grandchildren in the hope that Geng Zhihua would support her in her old age, it was true that Yu Wentao cared about her children and she never asked for money from Geng Zhihua.
Chu Fenghe had bright eyes and a clear mind, and could not fault her mother-in-law, "Your grandma just cares about you too much. She doesn't feel at ease when you are not in front of her."
Geng Benben sneered and said: "You are still talking nonsense when you say that grandma is illiterate, because I am afraid that I will be a black man. Don't explain for grandma, I know it all. My aunt said that a person who is knowledgeable and good at work can only show that he is smart, but it does not represent a person. Noble character.”
Chu Fenghe couldn't refute, because her mother was sent to the farm for many years because of her mother's colleagues. How can a person like the professor not be smart? However, he is narrow-minded and likes to avenge himself most!
Chu Fenghe: "Benben, grandma is not as bad as you said. Grandma has good intentions for you. I will go with my sister to visit grandma and grandpa on weekends."
Geng Benben wanted to say that he had to do homework, but suddenly thought of something: "You can go, you can use the money you and dad saved to buy a house for my sister and me."
Chu Fenghe suspected that she heard wrongly: "What to buy?"
Geng Benben: "Two apartments. This is my aunt's house. If you don't want to buy it, don't ask me to do things I don't want to do."
Chu Fenghe was speechless, could these two things be confused?
Geng Zhihui: "How old are you?"
"Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you!" Geng Benben finished speaking and continued to do math problems.
Geng Zhi choked and couldn't speak, and after a while he asked: "Why do you want a house at such a young age?"
"I make money by renting it out."
Geng Zhihui couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Who doesn't have a house? What's the difference between renting a house and sleeping on the street!"
"You have gone to college and are highly educated. I can't tell you, so just tell me whether you want to buy it or not." Geng Benben put down his pen, "You think I'm fooling around, but I think my mother is unreasonable."
Chu Fenghe sighed: "Grandma is your grandma, can it be the same as the house?"
"I haven't seen grandma for many years before, but she is still my grandma. Why do you want me to go there often now?" Geng Benben asked again.
Chu Fenghe opened his mouth: "Grandma was not in the capital before."
"I didn't ask you to buy it before. I know you and dad don't have that much money."
Chu Fenghe suddenly felt that all the books he had read for many years were in vain, and he could not argue with a young man.
Geng Zhiye came in with a bag of Qiuyue pears and saw three children immersed in homework. His second brother and second sister-in-law were on the east side of the large square table and the other on the west side. They looked at each other in confusion.
Geng Zhiye put the pears on the table. The three little ones looked up when they heard the noise. Erbao exclaimed: "Dad? Dad, I thought I wouldn't be able to see you until winter vacation."
Geng Zhiye also thought that he would not be able to come back until the winter vacation, but he did not expect that he could come out on the weekend. Geng Zhiye hugged Erbao who rushed over, and instinctively picked her up. Erbao struggled: "Dad, I am already in the fourth grade. Don't hug me. It will be embarrassing to be seen by classmates."
Geng Zhiye: "Your brother also screams shame every day. He came from the island a few days ago and didn't even sleep in my arms for a night."
"Riding in the car is different from being at home." Erbao came down and took his father's hand, "How many days can we stay at home?"
Geng Zhiye: "Get to school before eight o'clock in the evening."
Erbao was so disappointed, and then happy again: "Mom bought a big fish and a chicken this morning. I asked her to do all the cooking to replenish dad's health."
Geng Zhiye nodded: "Do your homework. Dad will take you to play in the afternoon."
Geng Benben was thinking about it and sat back immediately when he heard this.
Geng Zhiye motioned to his brother and sister-in-law to go to the west side of Bogujia. Geng Zhihui and his wife Chu Fenghe sat down on the Luohan bed in the west. Geng Zhiye casually pulled up a chair and sat across from them, asking: "What happened? You two looked very wrong when I came in just now."
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Geng Zhihui originally wanted to fool him, but when he heard his brother's last words, he knew that he couldn't fool him, so he said that Geng Benben was a kid who was so full that he wanted a house.
Geng Benben knew that his uncle, like his aunt, believed that he would make money if he bought it, so he didn't panic at all when he heard this.
Geng Zhiye does not object to buying a house, provided he has enough money. Geng Zhiye had not calculated how much money his brother and his sister-in-law had, but he also knew that they could afford the house here.
Geng Benben doesn't want a house in a good location in the east and west cities with convenient transportation, so it's not unreasonable. Geng Zhiye didn't know why his nephew suddenly wanted a house, but he planned to help him.
No one would stop Ye Fan from setting up a stall. If others saw that he could work alone, they would definitely set up a stall too. Geng Zhiye started with Ye Fan setting up a stall, saying that once the idle people in the courtyard made money, the first thing they did was to move out, either by buying or renting.
If they buy it, if they buy it now, they can sell it to the idle people in society later. If the idle people in society don’t buy it, Benben’s house can be rented to them.
Geng Zhi waved his eyebrows and said: "How much can I rent for? It's not even enough for the renovation costs. Don't you think it's a hassle?"
Geng Zhiye: "The house will still be yours after fifty years after you buy it. For example, this house in my house belongs to the owner's father. Her father went abroad and gave the house to her. She doesn't live in it, and it seems useless. She needs money recently, so she resold it to her. I solved the urgent need.”
"Saving money can also solve urgent needs." Geng Zhihui said this, and Chu Fenghe nodded to indicate that he was right. Geng Zhiye said to his heart, you two are married.
"Where will Benben live when he gets married?" Geng Zhiye asked, "He will be assigned a room after graduation. Based on his qualifications, he will also live in a single dormitory. Will he have to buy a house by then?"
Geng Benben was only in junior high school, so the couple didn't think that far ahead.
Geng Zhihui: “It’s not too late to buy it when the time comes.”
Geng Zhiye finally understood why his nephew ignored them, so that the couple could only look at each other, "In the future, we will have to learn how to set up a stall. Everyone has plenty of money. Can you keep the price down like now?"
"How much money can you make by setting up a stall?" Geng Zhihua was not optimistic.
Geng Zhiye: "Trouble buying eggs from the villagers. They cost 7 cents each and sell them to the citizens for 10 cents. In addition to eggs, there are vegetables, fish and crabs on that trip. Excluding the gas and car rental fees, exclude the money for Xiaoqin and Huihui." She earns more than two yuan at a time for her hard work.”
Chu Fenghe: "Not much."
Geng Zhiye felt tired: "Sister-in-law, I only set up the stall in the afternoon. If someone else sets up the stall in the morning, I have to work harder. If I don't ask for help from others, I will earn at least ten yuan a day!"
Chu Fenghe was shocked: "If it takes one month - it will be more than our two salaries combined?"
Geng Zhiye: "In the past, the director of the supply and marketing cooperative allowed Fanfan to compete with the buying station because the more he earned, the more bonuses he would get. Xiaoqin is a temporary worker and a salesperson, and he can get an extra five yuan every month."
Chu Fenghe: "Fanfan was an accountant at the time, and his contribution was greater than that of Xiaoqin. Didn't he get an extra ten yuan every month?"
Geng Zhiye didn't say yes or no, but gave her a look to let her figure it out.
Chu Fenghe thought to himself, no wonder they dared to buy a house. It turns out that Ye Fan's salary was so high during his years at the supply and marketing cooperative.
Said Cao Cao Cao Cao has arrived.
Ye Fan came back with his mother-in-law, sister-in-law and niece. But instead of entering the main room, they went to Yu Wentao's room first, because they bought a lot of things this time, and the outside room was spacious, so they could take out their things and lay them out.
Geng Huihui took out her things when she entered the house. Ye Fan saw that her hands were so dark that she couldn't see anyone, so he couldn't help but said: "Huihui, stop being busy, wash your hands and go to the main room, your parents are here."
Geng Huihui asked quickly: "Who?"
"Your parents are here."
Geng Huihui stood up subconsciously, remembered something, and hurriedly stuffed the things she bought for fifty yuan into her grandma's cabinet. Seeing this, Geng Zhiqin also stuffed the things she bought for 100 yuan into it.
Ye Fan was confused: "What are you two doing?"
Geng Huihui did not answer, but asked: "How did my aunt know that my parents are here?"
Ye Fan: "I just saw two packages of things on the table. It's not a holiday and no one comes to our house. Your parents must have bought them."
Geng Zhiqin said: "I'll go out and ask." After saying that, he went out and shouted to the main room, "Benben, is there a visitor at home?"
Geng Zhiye and his brother and sister-in-law came out of the house.
Geng Zhiqin subconsciously called "Third Brother", and then said: "Second brother and second sister-in-law are on vacation recently?"
Geng Huihui urged her to breastfeed: "Put it away quickly. My grandma's house has a lot of good things. If my mother sees it, she will say it's not valuable, and then scold us for spending money randomly."
Yu Wentao is not afraid of his second son and daughter-in-law: "Fanfan, if you buy something, you can put it in the treasure room, and if I buy something, I will put it on display."
After he finished speaking, Geng Zhiye went to the door of the wing and saw Ye Fan carrying a sack. He reached out to take it: "What did you buy?"
"The Dabao room is empty, so put a few ornaments."
Geng Zhiye went directly to his son's room opposite and took out the things one by one and put them on the table. "Excuse me, why did Ben Ben suddenly want a house?"
Ye Fan: "Did Benben tell the second brother and second sister-in-law?"
Geng Zhiye nodded.
Ye Fan started from the day when her mother-in-law inspected the house, saying that there were more ways to make money after the reform and opening up, etc., and finally said that her mother-in-law had not reached a good agreement with the house behind her. They wanted 15,000, and her mother-in-law gave 10,000.
Geng Zhiye couldn't help but say: "She really dared to bargain. Didn't they scold her?"
“We don’t even know if he scolded us in private.”
Geng Zhiye: "You didn't go with her?"
"I told her 12,000 yuan. Later, when she was shopping for groceries, she met that old lady and she was asked to add more. She didn't know why but she didn't like it and asked if 10,000 yuan was too much." When Yu Wentao came back, she followed her. Ye Fan showed off, and she almost fainted the old lady.
Ye Fan was accompanying his three children to learn English and had no time to argue with her, so he said don't make her angry. Maybe Ye Fan didn't scold her, so Yu Wentao went to cook happily as if he had won a battle.
"Since it's her money, it's how much she said." Geng Zhiye saw the things on the table in the room opposite, "Did she buy it herself?"
Ye Fan nodded: "She said she would help us decorate the house because she didn't pay for the house we bought." He wanted to laugh when he talked about it, "When she was choosing things, Huihui and Xiaoqin complained to me in low voices that she was stingy. ”
Geng Zhiye: "I bought it even if I was stingy. If my second brother and sister-in-law were to go with you, they would be so angry that they would have a headache. After analyzing the situation with them just now, I just want to scold them for their stupid heads!"
"People have different cognitions. Forget it if you don't want to buy it. Huihui will definitely have a dormitory for singles after graduation. Benben will be admitted to a good school and will be assigned to a good unit in the future, so a house is indispensable." Ye Fan folded the sack: " Well, no need to go to the thrift store anymore.”
Geng Zhiye saw the dazzling array of things on the table: "If you are greedy for too much, you may get trapped."
Ye Fan nodded: "When I see it, I want to buy it. The more I buy, the more I buy. I become addicted to buying it. Others can trap us in it by just setting up a trap."
"Yes, because we don't understand." Geng Zhiye said, "Put it here first, and then ask Dabao to clean it and put it on the table."
Ye Fan waited for him to come out and closed the door to his son's room.
Yu Wentao didn't have many things on her own, and the Bogu rack could accommodate them, so Geng Zhihui and Chu Fenghe didn't mind that she bought too much, and even brought a rag to help her wipe it clean and put it on the shelf.
Ye Fan went to the main room to look at Dabao and Erbao's homework. Geng Zhiye checked his nephew's math problems. There were no problems. The couple went to the kitchen.
Ye Fan turned on the stove and waited for the water to boil. Geng Zhiye asked her if she was busy at school.
"I'm not busy, but the professional courses are boring." Since Ye Fan used computers and English in her previous life until her death, and these two subjects were not returned to the teacher, she could pass the public courses of foreign languages and computers without taking them.
To prevent himself from being overconfident, Ye Fan asked someone to find out that Dabao's foreign language skills were sufficient for public classes. Computers were just a joke to Ye Fan, not as confident as she was during the high school entrance examination. The technical difficulty was high.
There were far fewer subjects that she didn't need to worry about. Ye Fan planned to take computer courses next year when her second child would be a year older and she wouldn't have to worry too much about it, trying to get two degrees.
Geng Zhiye said: "Will we set up a stall in the afternoon?"
Ye Fan: "Are you going?"
Geng Zhiye shook his head: "If I go to Santengzi with you, I will lose a hundred kilograms. Your trip will be in vain."
"I feel like there isn't much in the countryside this time of year," Ye Fan said.
Geng Zhiye: "Ask Huihui to go with you?"
Ye Fan nodded: "That's okay. In fact, you can ask a few uncles to pick them out and sell them yourself."
Geng Zhiye: "Let's not talk about whether they dare to set up a stall. They take a short bus ride from the village to the station, and then take a bus to the city, and then go back the same way. The money they make is not enough for the round trip fare."
"If the things are valuable, you can make a lot of money." Ye Fan said, "It would be fine if their village raised funds to buy a three-bouncer."
Geng Zhiye: "There are more than 100 households in Yujia Village, and it is not difficult for them to pay dozens of yuan each. But there is only one Sanbengzi, and it is a problem who sells it first."
"That's right." Ye Fan saw smoke coming from the kettle, "You can kill the chicken."
Geng Zhiye took a bowl with some salt water, went out with a knife, killed the chicken and bled it. The blood flowed into the bowl. Geng Zhiye threw the chicken into the basin, Ye Fan poured hot water on it, and Geng Zhiye cleaned up in the yard.
Geng Zhiqin heard the commotion and came out: "Third brother, please rest while I come."
Geng Zhiye walked from school to the bus stop, and took several bus stops before arriving home. He also wanted to sit down and have a rest, so he gave the chicken to his sister.
Yu Wentao went to the kitchen and asked Ye Fan to go to the main room to rest while she prepared lunch. Second sister-in-law Chu Fenghe was embarrassed to leave her mother-in-law to work alone, so she went to the kitchen to help.
Brother Geng went to the main room and looked at the antique furniture. He couldn't help but say: "It's better than the old house. The ancestors of this family were bannermen, right? It was actually preserved in those ten years."
Ye Fan: "Probably because the yard is so small, it doesn't belong to a wealthy landlord or businessman, so those people who are destroying the Four Olds ignored this house."
Geng Zhiye nodded: "It may be for this reason that the street did not think of arranging for people without houses to live in, so this house can be preserved so well."
The large courtyard behind the Geng family's old house was originally a large house for wealthy people. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the owner left and the house became vacant, and the street moved the houseless people into it.
Ye Fan thought of something and asked Geng Zhiye, "The house in the back is as big as my parents' house. The street doesn't dare to arrange for others to live in my house because my father is so powerful that they don't dare to provoke me, and they are also afraid of letting people in to disturb my father's rest. , how to save the house behind? ”
Geng Zhiye: "There used to be two families living there. The old lady was very powerful. After the revolution, she was acting strangely in the courtyard every day. People didn't dare to do anything and they retorted. She said she had heartache and wanted to go to the hospital. People couldn't bear it and moved away. It's like the streets. Those who helped solve the problem either found another unowned house or their unit built another employee dormitory.”
Ye Fanxin said, no wonder her mother-in-law didn't like the old lady. It turned out that the old lady was trouble-free.
It would be better not to buy her house. Otherwise, after a few years of living abroad and not being able to live well, when I come back, the house price in the capital will still increase, and the old lady will have to roll around at the door, making her own chickens and dogs restless.
No one expected that the old lady would find Ye Fan if she didn't plan to buy it.
It was cold after the beginning of winter, and there were no vegetables in the countryside. Ye Fan's stall business was suspended. On Sundays, Ye Fan would either take the children out, or accompany them to do their homework in the morning, read a book by himself in the afternoon, and the younger ones would play hopscotch or play marbles in the courtyard or at the door.
The day the old lady found Ye Fan was also a weekend - usually Ye Fan would go out early and come back late for class, so even if she got in trouble, Ye Fan would have no time to talk to her. Geng Zhiye was also at home that day, and the two of them were wrapped in quilts and reading side by side on the Arhat bed.
Dabao suddenly ran in and said, "Mom, the old lady is here and in our courtyard."
Ye Fan was stunned for a moment before reacting: "The one who wants to sell the house?"
Geng Zhiye pushed the quilt back when he saw her lift it up, "You sit down, I'll go out and take a look." After saying that, he jumped out of bed, put on his shoes in twos and twos, and reached the door just in time to block the uninvited people.
Geng Zhiye, tall and broad-shouldered, wearing a military coat, stood like a mountain in front of the old lady with her feet bound and stooped body. The old lady stopped in fright: "You, you--"
"Don't you recognize me?"
The old lady looked carefully: "Comrade Geng? Aren't you very busy?"
Geng Zhiye winked at his son, and Dabao moved a chair from the room and said, "Grandma, please sit down."
The old lady praised Dabao for being sensible and sat down with her crutches.
Geng Zhiye said, if you don't take good care of yourself at this age and go abroad, you won't be afraid that you won't be able to survive in the capitalist world.
"I'm busy on Sundays." There was a bench in the yard where Yu Wentao sat picking vegetables in the morning. Geng Zhiye took the bench and sat down by the door, "You're looking for my mother? She went back to her parents' home."
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Yu Wentao is annoyed with the old lady, and the old lady is also annoyed with Yu Wentao, thinking she is too greedy, "Where is your lover?"
Geng Zhiye: "I just went out to give something to my mother-in-law. What do you want from her? Tell me the same thing."
The old lady thought she was a step too late. She also thought about how her old man made the final decision in her family before, so she thought that the same was true for the Geng family. It would be better to go to Geng Zhiye to find Ye Fan, "Your mother wants to change to a bigger house, have you bought it?"
Geng Zhiye: "No. There is a house in the southeast corner, which is the same as my house. She is not satisfied. There is a big house for sale at a cheap price, but there are still three families living in it. They are unwilling to move, and we cannot evict them to live in the bridge. . After all, they can do anything once they are on the street. We are worried that they will take risks and hurt Dabao and Erbao.”
As soon as Dabao saw that his father could talk nonsense just like his mother, which was more than enough to deal with a little old lady, he went outside to play marbles with his cousin.
The old lady glanced at Dabao and said, "You're right. We can't let them harm such a smart kid like Dabao. What do you think of my family?"
Geng Zhiye smiled bitterly: "I think it's pretty good. But we, as a couple, have no money. My dad hasn't been gone for a year, and if we force my stepmother to buy a house, whoever knows about it will have to poke our spines. So, you still have to talk to her. .”
The old lady understands the truth, but Yu Wentao is simply unreasonable, saying that she won’t pay even ten thousand cents: “When will your stepmother come back?”
Geng Zhiye: "In three days."
"Can't you persuade your stepmother?" the old lady asked with a frown.
Geng Zhiye sighed: "How can I persuade her? She won't listen if she says too little, and if she talks too much it seems like I'm worried about her money."
The old lady thought that the relationship between her stepmother and her stepson was not as good as that between her biological mother and her biological son, who could say anything, "Then I'll come back in a few days."
Geng Zhiye walked her outside and made sure she turned north to go home. Then he returned to the house and said to Ye Fan, "The old lady looks very anxious."
Ye Fan: "My children hope that she will spend the Spring Festival abroad. Speaking of which, she is trouble-free, but my children are very filial."
Geng Zhiye said: "If you are not nice to outsiders but love your children, it is normal for your children to be filial. If your children are in a hurry, you might be able to get it for 10,000 yuan."
Geng Zhiye said that, but he never thought about buying a big house for 10,000 yuan. After all, it was unrealistic.
But it was done.
On the day of the winter solstice, Ye Fan accompanied Yu Wentao to transfer the property. Ye Fan asked her to sign because Yu Wentao didn't read the relevant procedures. After the procedures were completed, the name on the real estate certificate was Yu Wentao.
Yu Wentao was very unhappy and felt that she had been cheated.
(End of chapter)