Pastoral lucky girl's counterattack

Chapter 17
The boat left the pier for about an hour and arrived at Zhangjia Village. Zhangjia Village is close to the river. The village built a small pier at its own expense, with seven or eight bamboo rafts leaning on it.The water near the small pier was shallow and the boat could not reach the shore. Qiu Laifu had to park the boat in the water and let Huzi watch the wounded stay on the boat. After the raft, we rowed for a long distance before reaching the shore.

There were two women on the bank washing clothes on the stones by the river. When they saw someone coming ashore and glanced at them, when they saw Chen Zhongren, an older woman smiled and said, "Mr. Chen is here, this is someone who wants to buy Jiang's house." house?" And the younger woman glanced at her mouth and continued to wash her clothes.

Chen Dayan smiled professionally, "Sister-in-law Yang does the laundry? Is Village Chief Yang at home?"

It turned out that the middle-aged woman was the wife of the village chief. "At home, he's just come from town and just rested. You just go and find him."

"Okay. Sister-in-law Yang, you can do your own work first, I'll go find him." After speaking, he took Qiu Laifu up the river bank and entered the village along the village road. He stopped in front of a large courtyard, which was unlocked. At a glance, the courtyard is relatively large, with three large tile-roofed houses plus side rooms on the left and right, and the side rooms are both opened and covered with tiles.It seems that the life of the village chief's family is relatively well-off.Of course it is compared with other thatched houses in the village.

Chen Da shouted at the top of his voice, "Is the village head at home?" The village head's voice came from inside the house immediately, "Yes, yes, Chen Da is here, please come in, the sun is shining outside."

Chen Da led Qiu Laifu into the courtyard, and the village chief came out to see the two of them.Then he asked Chen Da with his eyes.

Chen Datian understood the meaning of the village head and introduced, "Laifu, this is the village head Yang of Zhangjia Village, who manages more than 50 households in the village. Village head Yang is an enthusiastic person. If your family can settle here, Yang The village head will definitely take care of you."

Qiu Laifu immediately greeted him, "Hello, Village Chief Yang! Please take care of me if you can settle down in your village."

"Look at this child's words are really good, you can tell that he is literate, good! There are too few literate people in our village." The village chief replied happily.The village chief let them into the house and brought them two bowls of herbal tea. Thirst quenching.) Both Chen Da and Qiu Laifu drank tea unceremoniously. To be honest, they were a little thirsty.

After drinking the tea, Chen Da straight to the point and said, "Village Chief Yang would like to trouble you today. This child is here to see the house. Is it convenient for you to take us to see it now?" I took the keys and took them to see the house.In fact, Chen Zhongren has brought people to see it several times.Those people felt that it was inappropriate and did not buy it.It's been on hold for over a year now.Although houses in the countryside are cheaper, people who have money to buy a house are generally unwilling to buy a house in the countryside.

They walked for about half an hour (about seven to eight minutes) to a yard with a large rusty lock hanging on the gate.Village head Yang took the key and fiddled with it a few times before opening the courtyard door.The scene in the yard is clear at a glance when the door is opened. The yard is overgrown with weeds, and the yard is quite wide, about 8 square meters in the current measurement unit.The house in the courtyard is three-bay long when viewed from the front.

Village Chief Yang opened the double doors of the middle room, and some dust fell out.We didn't enter the house until the dust was gone.There are a few simple pieces of furniture in the room, and there are six rooms, so it is enough for Qiu Laifu and Huzi to live together.

Although it is an adobe house, it is also covered with tiles. Judging by the wear and tear of the walls, it is still a relatively new house.But somehow it was empty?Qiu Laifu had doubts and asked, "Uncle Village Chief's house is relatively new, why is there no one living there?"

The village chief looked up at the cobwebs on the roof, and then explained slowly, "This house was built by my cousin. Back then, my cousin made some money by selling goods. Not only did he build this house, but he also bought 30 mu Good place. Life is getting better. Many people in the village are very envious. But the good times don’t last long. In the summer of the third year after the house was built, my cousin took his 15-year-old son to go shopping again. I wanted to take my son out to see the world, but I didn't want their boat to encounter a water ghost (a kind of thief who robbed a passing merchant ship on the waterway). Among the dozen or so people who went together, only one of them jumped into the water and escaped. Thanks to him Good water quality (good at swimming), swam to the opposite side of the river, went ashore and hid in the woods to escape those water ghosts.

My uncle couldn't stand the blow and fell ill, so he went.There is only one sister-in-law left in the family.Originally, the land was sold to treat my uncle's illness, and this house was left in the family.Later my cousin also remarried.She entrusted me to sell the house, and the house has been empty for three years now.

My cousin said that even the furniture in the house was sold for 10 taels of silver. In fact, when the house was built, I remember they said that the house cost 18 taels of silver.Do you like this room? "

Looking around, Qiu Laifu is quite satisfied with this house, and the price is not expensive.Just about to nod in agreement.Suddenly there was a shrill scream from the next door, followed by a hoarse and broken voice who cursed, "You lazy woman, what are you looking at there? You want to hook up with a wild man, right? See if I can't beat you to death!" You." Then there were a few more crackling sounds, accompanied by whimpering.

Qiu Laifu was not tall enough to see what was going on next door, so he asked suspiciously, "Uncle Village Chief, what's going on?" Village Chief Yang sighed, "This is Widow Wang who is torturing her daughter-in-law again, this daughter-in-law It was also a hard life, and the Yang family sold her to Widow Wang's house for a dowry of three taels of silver, no longer caring about her life or death.

The son of the widow Wang is not a good one either. He idles around all day long, sneaks around and even goes to the town to gamble. If he wins, he will eat and drink in the restaurant in the town.ask for money.

When the daughter-in-law was beaten, the widow Wang watched. If the widow Wang beat her son because she had no money, she turned around and beat her daughter-in-law too.

If I, the village head, stand up and say a few words of justice.Widow Wang will definitely cry and make a fuss, and even yell that the village chief is hooking up with his daughter-in-law.They even extorted money from me, the village chief.This widow king is a jerk.I'm out of touch with her too.She also has some 'credit' for the room being empty for so long.If you don't want to be neighbors with her, there is another house we can look at. "

Although the village chief really wanted someone to buy the house, he still reminded the evil neighbors of the house with conscience.If you can live with such a bad neighbor, buying this house is also very cost-effective.

There are only two members of Qiu Laifu's current family, plus the troublesome wounded man he picked up.Of course it's not easy to deal with such a bad neighbor.So I went with the village chief's words and went to see another house.

When they left the courtyard, there were already three or two villagers outside the courtyard looking into their heads.Those who love to gossip asked the village chief, "Is this someone who wants to buy this house?" Back to lead Qiu Laifu and Chen Da to another house.

(End of this chapter)