Liu Nanshan and Gu Xuelan were not asleep yet, so they read it together and were silent for a while.
Liu Wangxue looked forward to it and asked, "Mom and Dad, what do you think?"
Liu Nanshan didn't want to dampen his daughter's interest, thinking that she just wanted to buy a house: "Daughter, if you really want to buy a house, your mother and I will work together. At worst, we can sell our current house. It will be enough for the down payment of a house in the city. This is shabby." It’s rotten, not that bad.”
Gu Xuelan also thought so: "Besides, this Qiushui Town is in Southern Anhui Province, right? It's so far away, and I'm not familiar with the place. I don't know what the folk customs are like."
"Mom and Dad, I don't want to buy a house," Liu Wangxue said, "I just want to change my lifestyle. We don't invest, so buying something so expensive and carrying a mortgage loan is so tiring!
Look, this house has two bedrooms, and our family can live together. Also, this small yard is quite big. When the time comes, part of it will be converted into a sunroom, and part of it will be left to grow vegetables, such as cucumbers, eggplants, and tomatoes. A grape trellis will be set up in the corner of the yard. "
Moreover, this yard faces south, with sunshine from morning to night. Think about it, you can enjoy the coolness under the grape trellis in summer, keep warm in the sun room in winter, read a book, drink tea, feed the cat, play with the birds, and eat home-grown vegetables. How pleasant it is! "
Liu Nanshan was moved, and helped his daughter to persuade Gu Xuelan, who was still hesitating: "We are both at this age, and it doesn't matter where we live. It's rare for my daughter to like it, so why not go and have a look first?"
Liu Wangxue hugged Gu Xuelan's arm and said coquettishly: "Yes, Mom, let's go take a look first and then decide whether to buy it or not, okay?"
Gu Xuelan didn't believe such a cheap house: "Are you sure this person is not a liar? There are a lot of online scams nowadays."
In order to reassure Xuelan, the father and daughter decided to arrive in Qiushui Town two days in advance to see the local situation for themselves. If it was not good, they would come back.
Gu Xuelan reluctantly agreed, and Liu Wangxue added Xu Qingsong's contact information and agreed on a time to view the house.
After a day and night of sleeping in a soft sleeper, she arrived in the city, and then found the minibus to Qiushui Town based on the traffic information provided by Xu Qingsong. Liu Wangxue specifically asked the driver, and the route happened to pass by the hotel she had booked.
It was already noon after checking in. Liu Wangxue asked the front desk which restaurant was delicious and chose a beef noodle restaurant based on the recommendation.
The noodles are as wide as the pad of your thumb, long and chewy. The beef and brisket are stewed to a fragrant and tender texture, and paired with the golden-brown mille-feuille pancake, it's extremely satisfying.
In the past two days, Liu Wangxue walked around the neighborhood with her parents, found the community where the suite was located, and got familiar with the surrounding area.
I also went to the Wutong Avenue and met a young man filming a video. Liu Wangxue recognized him at a glance. It was Xu Qingsong.
She didn't go over to say hello, but took her parents in another direction.
Next to Wutong Avenue is a middle school. On Saturday, only the children in the third grade of junior high school and the third grade of high school were in class. School had just finished and they were coming out of the school in groups.
After Xu Qingsong finished filming a section, he took off his phone to play it back and check it out. His eyes were immediately attracted to the girl in the shot - high ponytail, tight short sleeves, overalls with wide-leg pants and Martin boots, slender figure, beautiful and sassy.
He pulled back the progress bar and fixed it on Liu Wangxue's profile. The more he looked at it, the more he had a guess in his mind. So I sat directly on the roadside and searched for the live broadcast and recording of "Xu Piaopiao".
Before going to bed at night, Liu Wangxue sat cross-legged on the bed and asked her parents, "What do you think of this place?"
Gu Xuelan put a facial mask on her face and kept her facial movements in check when speaking: "The restaurants in the street are quite clean, the environment is good, quiet and comfortable, and the air is fresh."
Liu Nanshan took the remote control to change the channel: "I think it's good too. The people around me are warm and generous, and life is convenient, but the traffic is not very good, so you need a car."
Liu Wangxue nodded and said deliberately: "If you live here, I have to drive the car over."
Liu Nanshan disagreed: "Your car is too ostentatious. I think most of the cars running on the streets here are battery cars. If you want to drive one, you'd better buy my car. A second-hand Chery is cheap."
Gu Xuelan leaned on the bedside: "Your dad is right, it's better not to be arrogant and drive his car farther away. In addition, you can buy a small battery car to buy groceries and use it in a supermarket."
Liu Wangxue looked happy: "So, the second elder has agreed to buy a house here?"
Gu Xuelan looked at the time, took off the mask, and her voice returned to normal: "That's not the case. Let's see the house tomorrow."
Liu Wangxue stretched out her hand and gestured "OK".
The appointment with Xu Qingsong was at 9 o'clock in the morning, and we would meet at the gate of that community.
The family of three had breakfast and walked over.
From a distance, I saw a young man leaning against the wall, scrolling through his mobile phone with his head down. He seemed to be feeling something, and looked up, with a raised eyebrow and a handsome smile.
He trotted towards Liu Wangxue. He had short, fresh hair and three-dimensional facial features. He wore a T-shirt, overalls, and Martin boots, with the trousers tucked into the boots. He was just like a replica of Liu Wangxue's outfit yesterday, clean and handsome.
"Catkins?"
Liu Wangxue: "Xu Qingsong?"
"Yes, these two?"
Liu Wangxue introduced: "My parents."
"Uncle and aunt are so young, I thought they were your friends."
It's not an exaggeration. Liu Wangxue's parents look really young, and she herself doesn't look 28 years old at all. Instead, she looks like a college student in her early 20s, as fresh as a green onion.
One sentence of praise made all three of them laugh.
Xu Qingsong took the initiative to reach out his hand and shook Liu Nanshan's hand, "Uncle and aunt just call me Xiao Xu."
The unit where this house is located is relatively far inside, but the community is not big. Xu Qingsong led the three of them inside, and they arrived in a short while.
Xu Qingsong took out the key and opened the door. What he saw was water on the ground. When he heard it, there was a rushing sound.
Gu Xuelan's brows immediately frowned. She was not optimistic about the old house.
Liu Wangxue held her mother's arm and leaned forward to look inside: "Did the water pipe burst?"
"It was fine when I came to check yesterday," Xu Qingsong said, "Uncle and aunt, please wait a moment while I go in and take a look."
After a while, the sound of water was still sounding, and Liu Nanshan couldn't stand anymore and wanted to go in to help.
Gu Xuelan stretched out her hand to stop her: "Don't go in, your shoes will get wet soon."
"It's okay, Xiao Xu may have never been exposed to this and doesn't understand."
Liu Nanshan stepped in the water and saw Xu Qingsong in the kitchen trying to block the water pipe.
"It's useless to block it, you have to close the valve."
Xu Qingsong turned his head, feeling a little embarrassed: "Uncle, why did you come in? The valve is broken and the thread cannot be screwed on."
When Liu Nanshan was young, he worked as a contractor and knew all about water and electricity lines. He usually repaired the work at home by himself.
"Then you have to turn off the main gate." After Liu Nanshan said that, he turned around and went out. The main gate in this kind of old community is usually on the landing of the stairs. He went up and found it. When he turned it here, the broken pipe in the kitchen disappeared. Gradually there was no water left.
