In the end, Chu Yi did not respond to the suggestions of the boss of Yahang and Lu Abo. He got on the bullock cart and rushed out of the county town, despite the two men's constant shouts from behind him asking him to reconsider.
In the east wing of the Chu family's old house, Shen Luzhu, who had already had lunch, had just put his fat son to sleep. He was also a little drowsy when he heard something sound coming from outside his courtyard. He got off the bed and left the house.
It turned out that Chu Li, who was still asleep, heard the sound of Chu Yi driving the bullock cart back. He ran out of the house to open the courtyard door and welcomed his brother into the courtyard.
Shen Luzhu followed closely behind, stepped forward and asked with concern: "Why does it take so long today? Have you had lunch?"
Seeing that Chu Yi was sweating profusely due to the heat, he picked up the herbal tea on the stone table in the courtyard and poured a bowl of it over to him.
Chu Yi patted his brother on the shoulder and told him to go back to his room to rest for a while, and then explained to his wife: "I ran into the boss of the walking shop and Lu Abo, so I was delayed. Before I had lunch, A Zhu gave me Can I make a bowl of noodles?"
Hearing that Chu Yi hadn't had lunch yet, Shen Luzhu hurriedly took the herbal tea from Chu Yi's hand and said, "It's better not to drink the herbal tea now. It's not good for your stomach. I'm already asleep. Go to the west wing and rest." I'll pour you some warm water, and eat a couple of bites of pastry to cushion it. The noodles are quick, so wait for me!"
Chu Yi smiled at his wife: "Okay, A Zhu, take your time, I'm not in a hurry."
Although he said this, Chu Yi followed his wife into the kitchen. He rolled up his sleeves and wanted to help, but Shen Luzhu quickly stopped him.
"You've been working hard all morning, why aren't you tired yet?"
"Not tired."
Seeing that Chu Yi was unmoved, Shen Luzhu continued to scoop the water, so he could only reach out and grab the water: "Go and rest even if you are not tired. It's summer. You have to stay in the kitchen for anything. It's so hot. !」
Chu Yi didn't argue with his wife, but he still didn't go out obediently. Instead, he took a small bench and sat aside to accompany her: "Then A Zhu, wouldn't it be more exciting if you cook every day?"
After saying that, he looked up at the four sides of his kitchen and suggested, "How about we hire a few craftsmen tomorrow to open a big window on the north wall. I can't think of window sash, so that the kitchen can be quiet." If it's cooler, wait until the air gets colder in autumn and then close the windows."
"This summer is coming to an end. Besides, I don't know whether I will stay in the county or at home next summer. What are you going to do with it now? If I have that time, I would rather you take a good rest."
As Shen Luzhu spoke, the movements of his hands never stopped. He kneaded the noodles neatly, cut them into thick noodles of the same thickness, heated the pot with oil, added soup to cook the noodles, and finally added a few slices of home-made noodles. Sauced pork, two fried eggs and a small green vegetable, a pot of fragrant noodles is ready.
Chu Yi stepped forward and took the bowls and chopsticks from his wife's hands, took the noodles out of the pot, and went to the main room with Shen Luzhu to eat the belated lunch.
After dinner, the young couple were afraid of waking up Zhengzheng, who was still sleeping, so they sat on the kang in the west wing and chatted.
"The Lu family wants us to buy the east courtyard of their home, and they said they would sell it to us for just one hundred taels."
Shen Luzhu was a little puzzled: "One hundred taels? What happened to the Lu family's shop? Otherwise, how could the price be so low? They came to us on their own initiative."
"My A-Zhu is still smart. They went to the Yamen again that day, but they still couldn't find out what the truth was. Not only that, everyone in the county now knows about it, and no one is willing to buy from Lu's family. house."
Shen Luzhu nodded and sighed: "I have been entangled in this matter for so many years and went to the Yamen twice, but the result is still the same. The Lu family did not lose but lost, and the Yu family did not win but seemed to win. . But even if this is the case, there is no need for the Nalu family to be so anxious and have to sell the house! If we just live like this, when the lease expires, the Yu family will have no reason to continue to occupy it. "
Chu Yi gently fanned his wife with a cattail leaf fan: "Uncle Lu just said that he couldn't bear it anymore. He had been tormented by the Yu family all day long. Now he just wanted to stop having any entanglement with the Yu family. He sold his money and went to the countryside to retire. "
"No, this Yu family is too unscrupulous. Why do you bring someone to torment people in private? Could it be that they went to the east courtyard of the Lu family to cause trouble?"
"The Lu family said it. I didn't ask for details, but it seems that the Lu family did
It was a heavy torment. "
Although the Lu family is pitiful, Shen Luzhu can no longer feel any sympathy for the Lu family at the moment, just because this man surnamed Lu seems to be targeting Chu Yi, his family. How can he arrest someone just because he is honest? You are trying so hard to deceive someone!
Shen Luzhu said angrily: "It's true that the Lu family, their shop is so bad, and there are neighbors like the Yu family nearby, they should know that no merchants in the entire county want to get involved. , I have the nerve to go to you, how can I say it out loud, do you really think we are stupid?"
Chu Yi pinched his wife's angry cheek in a funny way: "They said that our family has good relations with Brother Ding, so the Yu family didn't dare."
Unexpectedly, Shen Luzhu became even more angry after hearing this: "What? What kind of bullshit reason is this!"
Chu Yi hurriedly coaxed: "Okay, don't be angry, I didn't agree."
"This family really doesn't deserve sympathy at all. They were tricked into renting out their shop at a low price, and they paid the rent for several years. They couldn't even raise the rent. They didn't know what they were thinking, so they turned around and were deceived again. A trumped-up lease came out, but he could only swallow his anger. Now he has the courage and brains to face us. If you have this ability, why don't you get your own shop back!
Why should they be friends with Brother Ding? I think they are still playing with Brother Ding's idea. Maybe they are thinking of tying us into a boat at a cheap price, and then using Brother Ding's influence to force Yu A family is a shop, and when the time comes without the obstruction of the Yu family, the shop in the west courtyard will naturally be able to be sold at a good price. This wishful thinking is really loud! "
Chu Yi didn't expect these little thoughts of the Lu family at the time, but there was no need to buy the house even though he knew it was in trouble. Secondly, he didn't like the Lu family and the owner of the bank, and always wanted to rely on Ding An's identity. , the face to achieve some purpose.
In his opinion, if he wants to fight, he should rely on his own ability. Even if he doesn't have that much ability, he should at least learn to take the initiative to stay away from trouble. If he tries to rely on the power of others in everything, he will inevitably appear to be calculating.
"If you don't tell A-Zhu, I really didn't expect this relationship."
"I'm just making a wild guess. Maybe they haven't thought about it this way, but they really treat us as fools!"
Chu Yi saw that Shen Luzhu was getting angry again in the blink of an eye, so he quickly changed the subject and started talking about the two shops he went to visit in the county today, and what the Yingxing clerk said to him before he left.
"The guy said that. Although he was mostly trying to persuade us to rent the painting studio, he probably didn't just make it up out of thin air and make it up to deceive us. Maybe a shop like Lu's is just not easy to find. But I have already told the guy that we are not in a hurry. I originally thought that after I left there, I would ask two other banks to ask, but who knew that I met the Lu family. If nothing happens in two days, I will go there again. Let’s take a look at the county.”
After hearing what Chu Yi said, Shen Luzhu said thoughtfully, "Chu Yi, how about we buy the Lu family's shop?"
Chu Yi noticed that his wife said "shop" instead of "house", and for a moment he couldn't follow Shen Luzhu's thoughts: "Shop? What does A Zhu want to do?"
"Isn't the Lu family eager to get rid of the Yu family? We can think of a way without relying on Brother Ding, but we must make an agreement with the Lu family in advance. After the matter is completed, the two yards will be sold to us at the current price. "
"Then my A-Zhu has already found a solution?"
"Well! Chu Yi, do you still remember the lease that Brother Ding showed us last time?"
Chu Yi nodded in response.
Shen Luzhu leaned close to Chu Yi's ear and whispered, "What do you think of this..."
After hearing this, Chu Yi looked at his wife with a funny face. Only his A Zhu could come up with such a solution: "Then I will go to town tomorrow to talk to Lu Abo?"
"no, I'm fine."
Shen Luzhu shook his head and continued: "There's no rush, let's just go there one more time before the shop gets busy during the Winter Clothes Festival as we have agreed with you. If the Lu family is really as they said, they will definitely come back again." Ours, if they don't show up, it means God doesn't want us to get involved in this matter. Then just treat it as a visit to the shop, and let you know by the way. If it gets busy during the Winter Clothes Festival, we can go to the county seat again. look
The shop will have to wait until mid-October to be completed. "
"Okay, listen to A-Zhu."
It was agreed that they would go to the county town to have a look later, but within two days, the Lu family came directly to the village of Kaoshan, and even went directly to the Chu family's old house by asking around.
At that time, the young couple was chatting with their fat son in the yard next door. Suddenly they heard Chu Li greeting him. When he turned around, he saw Chu Li lying on the wall of the courtyard shared by the two families, waving to the young couple: "Ah Brother and sister-in-law, there is someone at home, and they say they are looking for my brother."
After the last family separation, when Chu Yi renovated his house, he only raised the height of a few other walls, leaving only the wall shared with the grandfather's house next door, just to accommodate the two families. It's okay. My son likes to lie on the wall and post a message.
Although the wall has not been increased, Chu Li is getting taller every year, but it is still a bit strenuous to lie on the wall like this, and he has to stand on a stool under his feet.
Shen Luzhu was worried that Chu Li would fall, so he hurriedly warned: "Ah Li, be careful when you go down. Watch your feet. Don't fall."
"I know, don't worry, sister-in-law!"
Someone came to the house, and the young couple hurriedly hugged Zheng Zheng and walked back. Unexpectedly, they met Lu Abo and his wife directly at the entrance of the courtyard. Chu Li, who had already come down from the wall, opened the door from the courtyard: "My sister-in-law is the one who came to see my brother."
Chu Ping, who followed him out from the yard next door, looked at the two very unfamiliar people in front of him, bumped his cousin with his elbow and asked, "Who is this? I've never seen him before. He doesn't look like someone from our village. Is he a relative of my cousin’s mother’s family? Then why do I want to find you, my cousin?”
"Ruabo, what are you doing?"
Lu Abo also knew that he might offend people if he came directly to the door without any warning, so he quickly explained: "Boss Chu, don't mind, my wife and I went to a nearby village to buy a place for our retirement." House, I happened to hear that Boss Chu’s house is nearby, so I stopped by to take a look.” Kanshu La
Chu Yi was very dissatisfied with Lu Abo's behavior today. He also knew that fear of being on the road was just an excuse. He had left his home address in Yaxing just in case there was anything that required him to contact him immediately. The boss of Yahang wanted to send someone to pass on the news, but he actually asked the boss of Yahang to reveal it to the Lu family.
"That's quite a coincidence."
Chu Yi's words made Lu Abo not know how to respond for a while. Fortunately, the other party didn't say anything else. He only said: "If you have anything to do, let's go into the hospital and talk."
