Rebirth of the era of struggle

The relationship between grandpa's generation is not counted, and it has become a little alienated by now.

Mainly from my father's life.

Zhu Tingting's father has two brothers, one is Zhu Tingting's uncle and the other is Zhu Tingting's younger uncle. Both of them are still farming in Zhujia Village, and each has children.

In addition, Zhu Tingting also has an aunt who married to the county seat. She only comes back to visit her every year during Chinese New Year and the old man's birthday. She is not in the village now.

Grandma Zhu Tingting is still there, and she is over 70 years old, and now lives with the eldest.

This is probably the case.

As for peers.

Only the eldest son of the uncle is at home, that is, the one I met on the road before, the other peers who go to school, and those who go out to work, are not here...

I stood for a moment at the door of the original old house.

Zhu Tingting pushed open the fence and walked in.

The house has completely collapsed, the roof is empty, like a funnel facing the sky, the surrounding red bricks are still barely supporting it, and it seems that the damage is not small, and it may fall down at any time.

As for the small yard.

It has been turned into a vegetable garden, full of various vegetables.

Peppers, eggplants, beans, tomatoes...

Across the small vegetable garden, the two walked to the door.

"Be careful."

Lu Yang reminded me.

I also sighed in my heart that things are right and people are wrong...

If I went out for a few years and came back home like this, I would probably feel uncomfortable.

"There are three rooms in my house. I used to live in the south, and my father lived in the north. The living room is in the middle... The threshold of the living room is very high. When I was a child, every time I passed by, I was careful and fell down several times."

Lu Yang looked at the door.

Although the threshold has long since disappeared, it can be seen from the groove left that it is quite high.

"There's nothing at home..."

Lu Yang asked.

"No way... I don't remember very clearly. When I took care of my father's funeral, I spent a lot of money and used up the rest of the family. I also confiscated much gift money. I kept a little and the rest I gave it to my grandma and uncle. I was still young and didn’t understand anything. At that time, my dad was in charge of the whole process.”

Zhu Tingting searched the house for a while.

Obviously.

Nothing.

"The rest of the quilts and beds, a few cabinets, and some agricultural tools are missing, but they are all like this. Even if they stay here, they probably won't be able to be used." Zhu Tingting is more open, and probably knows who took them went.

"If you miss it, you can find a craftsman to rebuild the house to its original appearance, and it doesn't cost a lot of money." Lu Yang looked at it and said.

"Forget it, forget it." Zhu Tingting shook her head directly: "It's down, it's down, what's the point of repairing it, I basically won't come back in the future, and it's a waste of money to repair it."

It is basically unrealistic for a woman to live alone in the village. If it weren't for the big event of moving the grave, Zhu Tingting would not have come back... A few years ago, during the Ching Ming Festival, she would send a few hundred dollars back. Ask uncle cousin to buy some firecrackers and yellow paper.

"Hey, how did you go in, how dangerous it is, come out quickly."

When the two are chatting.

Zhu Tingting's third mother hurried over.

Zhu Tingting and Lu Yang came out.

Sanniang looked around, forced a smile on her face, and said, "It's so dangerous inside, what if you hit someone, don't be careful, Tingting, go to my house for dinner later, I'll cook more at noon A few dishes."

"No Sanniang, just now my sister-in-law has already said that I will eat at her house at noon."

Zhu Tingting waved her hand.

"That's it, alas, yes, you young people can chat when you eat together. Our family is just me and your third uncle, so we don't have much to talk about."

San Niang said.

"My brother Ah Qing is now."

Zhu Tingting asked.

"Brother Qing, you are still the same. You hang out with others in the county. Over the years, you haven't turned out to be a human being. You can only support yourself, not as good as you, a girl."

After San Niang demoted her son, she continued.

"However, there is also good news. Around the Dragon Boat Festival, your Brother Ah Qing has already engaged, and you will probably get married at the end of the year. When that time comes, if you have time, you can come back to have fun."

"Congratulations, San Niang."

Zhu Tingting showed a smile.

"Congratulations, you have been running all your life, just for your children, and the hard days are still to come. By the way, you have been outside all these years and have not come back. I saw that the yard was empty, so I planted some vegetables. You Looking at these, I planted them all, Tingting, you shouldn't blame Sanniang..."

"Empty is also empty, Sanniang can grow vegetables if she wants to."

Zhu Tingting didn't care.

"Oh, you are still reasonable. When I opened the land, your uncle was still nagging me. I think that guy is just jealous. He doesn't like others. The space next to him is also empty. It's good to grow a la carte. The vegetable garden is so far away... "

Zhu Tingting couldn't answer these words, but smiled awkwardly.

"Tingting."

Sanniang took Zhu Tingting's hand and said, "There is one thing I want to discuss with you. In fact, this is also your third uncle's idea. You see, our two families are next to each other, and your house has collapsed. There is no way I’m living here, and now I’ve found a boyfriend, so I probably won’t come back. Your third uncle and I talked it over and said that we want to buy your house. You can decide how much you want... Well, it’s mainly for the sake of it. Brother Qing, he has been fooling around outside all these years. He is married and doesn’t even have a wedding room. Your third uncle and I are also worried. The houses in the county are too expensive. We plan to give you Brother Qing. This is to build a one-story house, so that he also has a temporary place to stay..."

Hear this.

Lu Yang on the side frowned slightly.

This San Niang, since he entered the door in the morning, has been acting strangely, but now she has become more polite, and she really has no good intentions.

Taking over the yard of Zhu Tingting's house without permission to grow vegetables, and wanting to buy the house directly, isn't this bullying?Zhu Tingting said how much money a homestead in the countryside can make, but if it can be sold for two or three thousand, it would be great. Moreover, both inside and outside the words are for the sake of his son, which feels like a moral kidnapping.

It seems that if Zhu Tingting does not sell the homestead here, his son will have no house and cannot marry a wife.

Zhu Tingting glanced at Lu Yang.

Obviously struggling and not knowing how to refuse.

Seeing this, Lu Yang said directly: "Sanniang, this homestead is the only idea left by Tingting's father, and it must not be sold. Moreover, the current national policy is good, and rural household registration is subsidized. If it is sold Lost, Tingting's household registration will also be moved out, it's too troublesome, let's keep it for now, maybe when I get older, I can return to my roots."

"Oh, from now on, Tingting will be your family member when she marries you, and she will be the proprietress. How can she care about such things?"

Sanniang's tone was a little dissatisfied.

Zhu Tingting also went on to say: "Sanniang, let's not talk about this matter for now, I will talk about it later...You go ahead first, my sister-in-law is calling me over there, I will go there first."

Not far away, Zhu Tingting's daughter-in-law was waving at the door.

Zhu Tingting also waved her hand, took Lu Yang's hand and left together.

Out of the courtyard.

Zhu Tingting exhaled.

His face is not very good.

The sister-in-law took two steps to meet her, glanced at the yard, then at Zhu Tingting's appearance, and said in a low voice: "Tingting, our third lady wants to buy your yard, right?"

"Sister-in-law, you also know."

Zhu Tingting was a little surprised.

The sister-in-law sneered: "As long as they are so narrow-minded, who can't see it, let me tell you, as soon as your house collapsed, she couldn't wait to occupy the yard, for fear that others would rob it like him. Those cabinets, agricultural tools, water tanks, etc., were all taken away by the two of them... not only this, but the matches burned in their house during the Chinese New Year were all picked up from the beams of your house..."

Although these words meant to disregard the relationship, it should be true. It can be seen that the relationship between the brothers and two families living in the village is not very good.

"Those are broken too."

Zhu Tingting shook her head.

"You, you were too honest to be taken advantage of by others. You wouldn't agree to her just now, would you?"

"No, no, that piece of land is the only thing my dad left behind, and I don't plan to sell it."

"That's right, keep it, and don't sell it to her..."

……

As they walked, they came to Uncle Zhu Tingting's house. Sister-in-law Zhu Tingting invited Lin Erhu in as well. This family has a bit of rural simplicity, much better than the third family.

As soon as you enter the yard, the house is filled with the smell of rice.

The old man's house is a small building on the second floor, and the kitchen is in the yard.

On the table, the bowls and chopsticks have been set.

Zhu Tingting's uncle also warmly greeted them.

After washing their hands according to the local etiquette, several people went to the table...

during meals.

Zhu Tingting's uncle served as the host to pour wine and persuade food, and the honest and responsible elder brother of the Zhu family accompanied the guests. tea.

"Lu Yang, you can drink quite a bit, let's see if you can still have some."

Zhu Tingting's uncle was a little drunk.

"My drinking capacity is only average, and I was happy today, so I drank a little more. It's already time, and if I drink more, I will get drunk." Lu Yang said modestly.

"It's okay to be drunk, it's a matter of where you live at home."

"Don't bother, when we came here in the morning, we already booked a hotel in the town, but the stay was a waste."

After drinking some wine, everyone chatted.

Zhu Tingting's sister-in-law talked about Sanniang's purchase of a house just now.

After hearing this, the uncle frowned and said: "The third family is too greedy. Zhu Qing wants to build a house, so he can just find a place in the village. What do you want Tingting's house to do? How much is it worth? Tingting is a girl. Without that piece of land, how can we return to our Zhujia Village in the future?"

"It's not because Tingting's house is flat, the location is good, and it's next to her house... I don't even think about it. It was not easy for my second uncle to fight for those few homesteads."

The sister-in-law also said.

"Tingting, keep the land, don't buy it from anyone, uncle will watch it for you at home, no one can move..."

"Thank you uncle."

Zhu Tingting thanked.

"Why are you being polite to uncle? When your mother gave birth to you, it was the hospital where uncle pushed her to the hospital. I think you are like your own daughter. By the way, bring that here."

Uncle Zhu Tingting winked at his daughter-in-law.

The aunt seemed a little reluctant, but she probably couldn't manage the house at home. After the ink stained for a while, she got up and went to the room on the first floor. After a while, she came out with a piece of red cloth in her hand.

The red cloth wrapped something.

When I opened it, there were several rusty oceans on several sides.

The uncle handed the ocean and the red handkerchief to Zhu Tingting, and said, "When the houses were built, your grandfather put a few yuan of ocean under it, saying it was for a town house. It was not worth much at that time, and it should be very expensive now It’s expensive. Your house collapsed. Your third uncle and wife secretly dug it out. I found out and asked for it. There are six yuan in total. I only have these three yuan in my hand. Now I’ll give it to you. Next, you ask them to come over."

Zhu Tingting took the handkerchief and looked at Dayang engraved with one yuan.

"Didn't our third wife say this just now?"

The sister-in-law deliberately stoked the flames.

"I didn't say it."

Zhu Tingting shook her head, then closed the handkerchief, returned it to her uncle, and said, "Uncle, this thing was passed down from my grandfather, you can accept it."

"What do I need your stuff for?"

The uncle pushed it back and glared at his wife who was about to reach out.

Seeing the delay of the two, Lu Yang smiled and said, "Tingting, since it is for the town house, you can take it. I don't think you will come back often in the future, so it's just a thought to keep it."

"Yeah, keep it, each family belongs to each family, and we have it too."

The sister-in-law picked up the handkerchief and stuffed it into Zhu Tingting's backpack beside her, not forgetting to remind her, and said, "There are still three yuan from Sanniang, don't forget."

Without comparison, there is no harm.