I really just want to make money

Chapter 36 Abandoned School
"Why did you collect the tables, chairs and benches made of wood?"

"Selling second-hand goods. There are so many migrant workers. To save money, some people don't even have a table to eat in the rented house. It's too expensive to buy new ones. It's more cost-effective to buy old ones!" Zhang Hua explained.

The old man thought for a while, nodded and said, "That's right, then come and see with me!"

Said that the old man was about to get up, Zhang Hua hurried forward to help him, but the old man waved his hand and refused, and stood up very neatly, the old man lay on the rocking chair and looked like he was dying, but he was so energetic when he stood up.

"My uncle is really strong!" Zhang Hua praised.

The old man seemed very happy, and said cheerfully: "Haha, what is this? When I was young, after traveling hundreds of miles a day, I was able to immediately go to the battlefield to fight devils. Now I am old!"

"I like to talk about your crap every day. You are so good that you retreated after fighting one round." The old lady handed the old man a cane on one side. A smile, and a hint of admiration.

When the old man walked up, Zhang Hua realized that the old man's legs were lame, so he quickly boasted: "That man also bleeds on the battlefield. Telling it can educate the young people, and let the young people understand Today's good day is hard to come by!"

The old man nodded in satisfaction, patted Zhang Hua on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Your enlightenment is good, come with me!"

Zhang Hua saw that the old man was inconvenient to walk, so he wanted to support him, but the old man refused, "My legs and feet are just lame, and it's not that I have no strength."

After walking for a while, I arrived at the place. This is an abandoned elementary school with earthen walls and tile roofs. From the outside, it looks like a two-story building. Two large wooden doors that are four meters high and three meters wide are closed tightly. Then, the old man took out a key and opened the big iron lock, and said to Zhang Hua, "Push it away!"

Zhang Hua hurried forward to push the door, but the wooden door did not move at all, "Is there something blocking it?"

"Of course not, your strength is too weak!" The old man shook his head and said.

Zhang Hua felt a toothache, so he called Liu Xianhua and the others over, and the four of them pushed a door together.

"Crench!"

The four of them exerted their breastfeeding strength to slowly move the wooden door and opened it to the inside. After pushing it open enough to allow a person to enter, Zhang Hua was exhausted, "No, no, let's rest for a while. "

Then Zhang Hua found something to hang some lubricating oil on the gears of the tricycle, put it on the door socket and wiped it vigorously, then took Liu Xianhua in and closed the wooden door back, and let Zhang Tao and Liu Ming push it open outside One point, and then close it again. After repeating this several times, the wooden door became much easier to push.

The other door was also treated in the same way. After the two wooden doors were fully opened, more than half an hour had passed.

"Master, how long has it been since this door was opened?" Zhang Hua's tone was full of helplessness.

The old man said cheerfully: "It's been about five or six years. This is the house of the former landlord, and later it was turned into a school. In 1990, a building was built in the village to be used as a school. This house was vacant. Recently, the boss came to see it. When I got to this land, I said to deal with all the rotten things in it!
When we moved earlier, all the useful things were moved to the new school, but we kept the desks and benches, which are actually good things that can still be used, but the villagers despise the old ones, saying that they don’t match the new school , Nowadays, people don’t know how to save money when they have money. "

The old man walked inside nagging, Zhang Hua and the others followed behind.

Maybe it was because no one came in for a long time, the inside looked a bit gloomy, and the temperature felt a little lower than outside, Zhang Hua couldn't help frowning, and said, "Master, let's start a fire first!"

"What are you doing with the fire?" The old man gave Zhang Hua a sideways look, and asked, "Are you afraid of ghosts? The great man told us that all ghosts and snakes are paper tigers, we must believe in science!"

Zhang Hua was a little dumbfounded, he was taught by an old man to believe in science.

"I'm just talking about science. In this kind of place where no one has been here for a long time, some things will always be corrupted, so some bacteria that are harmful to the human body will be bred. Let's make a fire, burn it, smoke it, what kind of bacteria They were all burned to death and driven away, this is not superstition, but a kind of science!" Zhang Hua explained.

"It seems that there is still a little truth." The old man thought for a while, and said: "It seems that the things of the ancestors are not all wrong!"

"Of course, many seemingly superstitious things have a certain truth. They are the wisdom summed up by our ancestors' experience. Even if we don't understand it, we should not easily deny it. The current superstition may be the future science. , Doesn’t the current science also prove that some superstitious things in the past are correct?”

The old man nodded and said, "Okay, then get something to start a fire in this doorway, and be careful not to set the house on fire."

"That's definitely not the case, and you don't need a big fire, just get some fireworks out!"

As Zhang Hua looked around, he found that although there was a smell of corruption in the school, and there was a thick layer of dust on the ground, there was nothing to burn, unlike some places after relocation that were full of rubbish.

The old man pointed to a room next to him and said, "There are things that can be burned in there."

The door was not locked. After Zhang Hua opened it, he found some books and papers inside, as well as some damaged tables, chairs and benches. He went in and moved some out at random. After lighting the papers first, he put some rotten wood on top of them. After a while, the inside of the doorway was smoky. Winded up.

After the wood ignited and the fire stabilized, Zhang Hua said, "That's all. You can show us what things are for sale?"

"Everything in this school has to be sold. Tell me about those you like, and quote a price. I'll go back and discuss with some old men. I'll give it to you if it suits you. It's going to be demolished soon. There's no one in the village. What do you think, ask us old men to deal with it, and you are worrying!"

The old man sighed and said: "According to our old man's idea, we don't sell it, it's just a thought to keep it, but we are old, how many years can we live?

The price offered by the boss is also good, let’s save some money for the young people, it’s more realistic, it’s a pity that these things were smashed by the excavator and buried in the ground, and no one cares about them. good. "

"You are honest!" Zhang Hua grinned and said, "If you want to say that, then I will pack all the things in this school, but the price is not easy to offer. After all, you give me everything If you pay, then I will try my best to lower the price!"

(End of this chapter)