Ye Yaodong also heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. It's only the beginning of the year, and now he has solved the balance payment problem. This year's earnings can be saved, and his hand can be a little looser, so he won't be tight when handing over a handful of money. to die for.
He picked up the warm porridge at the side, drank a few gulps, served it with some mustard greens, and finished it in one bowl, then grabbed a meat bun wrapped in newspaper on the table, and had a fight with the father-in-law and mother-in-law Greeted, and then went out again.
We have to settle the house matters first.
Thinking about it, I feel a little overwhelmed. If I really want to do one thing seriously, I won’t just do one thing. There are also many stumbling blocks and thorny bushes on the road to the destination, and there will be many things that will follow.
He is not familiar with the small village nearby, and he has never been in it. At most, he just passed by, and he doesn't know who the village head is.
As soon as I entered the village, I saw a group of old women sitting there basking in the sun. He looked at them, and they also stared at him. Their scalps felt a little numb looking at him. Originally, they were still talking lively. It fell silent, and the children running and jumping aside hurriedly avoided it.
Ye Yaodong smiled awkwardly, did he regard him as a human trafficker? Is there such a handsome human trafficker?
He touched his cheek, feeling that he should be able to kill all ages, and suddenly full of confidence, he stepped forward with a smile.
"Grandma, why don't you bask in the sun? The sun is pretty good these days, let's bask in the sun and kill bacteria."
"Hey, bask in the sun, bask in the sun..."
"Who are you? Where are you from? What are you doing in our village?"
"It doesn't look like a salesman, and he didn't carry any loads. His hands are empty... Could it be that he came to step on the spot? Tell the children to stay away and don't come out."
"I heard that the newspaper said a few days ago that many people were caught, and they came out so soon?"
Ye Yaodong: "?"
Think he can’t understand the local language? He said it so directly, although the words spoken by the towns and cities may be different on their side, some individual tones are consistent, and he can still guess a little bit.
He quickly explained, "No, grandma, I want to find the village chief, can you tell me how to get there?"
"Ah, looking for the village chief?"
"Yes, how about your village committee?"
They don’t understand the language, and the grandmother can’t speak Mandarin. They talk to each other, and they can probably understand what the other party is saying anyway.
"Looking for the village chief? It doesn't look like a bad person..."
"Go forward, turn right to the end at the intersection over there, then turn left, and turn left again when you see the road after turning. There is a wooden board at the door that says Xinghua Zhongcun Village Committee."
"Oh okay...then I'm leaving, you guys continue to bask in the sun."
Ye Yaodong continued to move forward with his legs, and wherever he passed, the children avoided him, as if he was some kind of plague? And the eyes behind her were stabbing like awns.
He finally realized what it was like when a stranger entered their village.
After shaking his head helplessly, he walked a few steps quickly, while the children playing around hid further away.
What's worse, he forgot, at which intersection did the road Grandma pointed out turn?
"Kids come here..."
"No, you're the bad guy..."
Ye Yaodong's mouth bent down in an instant, with a mournful face, "How do I look like a bad guy?"
"You look like a bad person now, and my mother said that strangers from outside, as long as they take the initiative to talk to our children, they are all bad people."
Indeed, most strangers would not talk to a child, but he was asking for directions.
"No, I didn't ask you to come here, just tell me how to get to the village committee, I forgot." Ye Yaodong was very helpless.
An older child stretched out his finger to the side path, and Ye Yaodong turned into the path under the eyes of the grandma who followed behind him.
Turning left and right, after attracting the eyes of a large group of women around him, he went around a long circle before seeing the wooden board with the name of the village committee.
Wiping the sweat off his forehead, he also breathed a sigh of relief.
It’s not easy, he was watched all the way, from the age of 80 to the age of 3, everyone who passed by stared at him.
At this moment, there were still two old men behind him. When he walked into the village committee, the two old men were still sitting on a stone on one side, and their eyes were still staring at the village committee.
I don’t know if it’s the sequelae of the human traffickers that broke out in their county some time ago, or children were lost everywhere around them, so they are so vigilant?
It made him a little nervous all the way, for fear that he would be beaten if he behaved wrongly or impolitely!
After entering the village committee, he was relieved.
Said it was the village committee, but it was actually only a small yard. As soon as he walked in, he called a few times at the door.
"Anyone? Anybody?"
"Hello...comrade, I want to ask if there is any house for rent in your village?"
"Rent a house? No, no, where can I rent a house? Every household is not enough to live in. Who will rent it?" A middle-aged man with white hair on his temples waved him away, then turned around and walked away. to go in.
"Wait, uncle, I really came to rent a house. I bought a stall in the nearby market. It is inconvenient to eat and live there, so I want to come and rent a house. I think your village is quite close..."
Now, the middle-aged man stopped, "Did you buy a stall over there?"
"Yeah, if you don't have to rent here, you can sell some of them. If someone builds a new house and the old house is unoccupied, you can sell it to me. It seems that there are two sets of buildings in your village. ..."
The middle-aged man looked at him carefully for several times, only to realize that he looked familiar, "Are you the young man who bought two stalls?"
I have to look familiar, I bought two shops at such a young age, everyone remembers him, but I just didn't think of it for a while, and I didn't associate it in that direction.
Ye Yaodong's eyes lit up instantly, did he recognize him? If you know him, that's easy.
"Yes, yes, uncle also bought a stall? Was he there when the lottery was drawn? My stall has already opened to sell dried fish. You don't have to worry about me being a bad person. I come to the village to hold children. I am a good person, a good young man , good people..."
"I am the head of this village. My name is Wei Aiguo. Is the shop for dried fish yours? It looks like two old men are watching there. There are several signs for rent posted on the door. I thought it was rented out. Already." The middle-aged man felt relieved now, and beckoned him to sit inside.
"My parents are the ones watching the shop. Alas, your village is so vigilant. As soon as I came in, people watched me from the village, worrying that I might be a human trafficker."
"It's not all, hehe, it's been a few years since I started to get ultrasound. Everyone is afraid, and when they see strangers entering the village, they always stare at them first. Our village is not big, there are less than 100 households, but basically there is one Last name, you just said that you want to rent a house, right?"
"If you can buy it, it's fine."
First occupy the land in advance, at any rate, it is around the city. When it develops in the future, it will be allocated to the city sooner or later. Although the land is not worth much now, it is not easy for foreigners to go to other villages to buy land and houses, because xenophobic.
The villages in the south are all clan centers, and basically a village has many people with the same surname.
Their village is close to the sea, and the older generation has nothing to eat. Many people went to the seaside to make a living, and then took root. That's why they have all kinds of names.
Village Chief Wei tapped the table with his fingertips in turn, with a pensive expression on his face, "To buy a house, you have to ask the folks. Who has a lot of houses that are willing to sell, and most people don't know how to sell them. You can ask about the rent."
"It's okay, we are all people who behave according to the rules. Village Chief Wei can rest assured that we can rent or buy."
"Let me ask, I have to ask about this first, and I will tell you tomorrow."
"Hey, I may not be in the store tomorrow. You can go to the store and tell my father-in-law, and he will tell me."
Wei Aiguo was surprised immediately, "It's my father-in-law, not my real father?"
"That's right, it's my father-in-law, and I'm also a father anyway."
Now he was a little appreciative. After talking so much, he thought it was his father who showed him the shop, and he rented a house for his father.
"Okay, I'm sorry, I'll go to the store tomorrow and tell your father-in-law."
"How many lottery did the village chief's shop get?"
Village Chief Wei was dejected, "Oh, don't mention it, it's the No. 4 shop at No. 3 gate, and I don't know what to do if I still leave it there. I can't rent it out, and I was scolded to death by the mother-in-law at home."
"It will become lively after a few years. There is always a process for this development, so take it slowly."
"It's still your luck."
"Then I'll go first and wait for your news tomorrow."
"Hey, good."
After Ye Yaodong walked out, he realized that he had come here empty-handed and didn't buy anything, what a mistake!
He patted his forehead. If he was holding something in his hand, he probably wouldn't have been directly rejected just now, and he had to use his face to speak.
I can only buy a few pastries to make up for it if I confirm that there is a rental tomorrow.
On the rock not far from the village committee, there were still two old men sitting there. I don’t know if they simply sat there basking in the sun. He shook his head speechlessly, and walked directly over.
Then he went out again under the watchful eyes of the women and grandma in the village...
It was almost noon, but there were few people coming in and out of the store, and the two elders were also free, playing the radio and listening to the drama.
As soon as Ye Yaodong told them that he planned to rent a house for them in the village, he immediately got strong opposition from them, thinking that there was no need to spend the money.
It was because he said that all the goods had to be pulled over and piled up in the store, and they would soon have no place to live, so the second elder remained silent.
"Then let me stay and see if anyone comes over tomorrow? There are no customers at the moment, your mother is watching in the shop, and I'll get you the money. If I do, I'll go back early."
"OK."
He also has to go back to weigh the goods, and weigh out 3,000 catties of dried fish in advance. If there is really not enough, he will go to Uncle Pei's friend, or see if there is any dried fish to supplement today.
Uncle Pei’s friends have not yet weighed the several thousand catties of dried dragon head fish. Yesterday, they weighed a few households in the village, and they have already filled the house.