Chapter 128: Salute first, then soldier
The place where you enter the door is a rockery with a peculiar shape, and there is gurgling water falling on the rockery, and you can see a lot of forks on the main road along the rockery to go inside.
The ground of each fork is paved with very thick stone slabs, and various flowers and trees are planted next to the stone slabs, some courtyards are dominated by osmanthus trees, some courtyards are dominated by ginkgo trees, some are planted with acacia trees, some are planted with hibiscus flowers and so on.
Zhang Fan saw a ginkgo courtyard composed of several thousand-year-old ginkgo trees, which was particularly beautiful.
Each ginkgo tree, which is called a living fossil, is estimated to be enough for the price of a house, after all, such ginkgo trees are fenced in the scenic area to protect people from approaching.
The ginkgo tree in Chen Yuan is bigger than the largest ginkgo tree in the local ginkgo valley, which is worth it for people to imagine.
And similar ginkgo trees, there are actually a lot of them in Chen Yuan.
"Mr. Zhang, please come here, Chen Guangliang's descendants are inside......"
Walking through many courtyards, I didn't expect that Chen Guangliang's descendants did not live in those courtyards, but lived in a row of inconspicuous wooden houses next to the courtyards, and that place looked like a utility room, or a place where servants lived.
As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Fan saw a thin old man lying on the bed, with big eyes and a little spirit, and there were two people standing there next to him, saying that it was the nanny invited by the son of the old man Chen.
Dedicated to serving Chen Guangliang's descendants.
"Mr. Zhang, he is the descendant of Chen Guangliang, he has always told me that he is the caretaker of the house, and he refuses to move, and his son has no choice, so he has to send a few people to serve and take care of him, but this old man can't live in the courtyard, and he wants to live here......"
Rong Zhikang didn't know what Zhang Fan was looking for Chen Guangliang for, so he could only tell him everything he knew.
"You all go out first, I'll talk to the old gentleman, the old things in the past, about Chen Guangliang!"
Zhang Fan motioned for them all to leave, because what they were going to talk about in a while involved the Heaven and Earth Pawnshop, and he wanted to make sure that this descendant of Chen Guangliang knew the Heaven and Earth Pawnshop?
Or, when Chen Guangliang died, did he tell his descendants that he had signed a contract with the Heaven and Earth Pawnshop?
Of course, he salutes first and then soldiers.
The matter is clear, whether this old man wants it or not, the contract signed by his ancestors, his descendants must also abide by it, this is beyond doubt.
The two nannies were a little hesitant, but Mr. Rong and their boss came over together, and the relationship was quite good at that time, and Rong Zhikang also assured them that Mr. Zhang had no malicious intentions.
But after everyone in the cabin withdrew, Zhang Fan and Hua Yueying were left in the house.
The thin old man lying on the hospital bed stared at Zhang Fan quietly, and only took the initiative to speak after looking at it for a long time.
"My father is Chen Guangliang, how can you know him at such a young age?
Although the old man was paralyzed, he didn't expect that his thinking was still very agile and he was not confused at all, so Zhang Fan felt that the communication was much smoother.
"Did your father tell you that your family's Chen Yuan was destroyed by him many years ago, and this house is not your family?"
As soon as Zhang Fan said this, the old man was startled, and hurriedly wanted to support his body and pointed at Zhang Fan.
"You, who the hell are you? How do you know about this? Actually, even if it's not the Chen family's house, but I've been managing it for so many years, and if you can't come up with evidence, I'll treat you as a ...... of nonsense."
Although the old man was talking like this, his fingers on the bed kept shaking, and he could see that he was very excited, very excited.
"Do you know how to read this? And your father's signature, and the bloody handprint he pressed, these can't be wrong, he used this house as a pawnshop for heaven and earth decades ago, you won't deny it......"
As he spoke, Zhang Fan had already taken out the contract.
This thing was originally in the warehouse of the Heaven and Earth Pawnshop, because there were too many contract contracts in the backlog in the warehouse, so when Zhang Fan cleaned up last time, he put this contract aside.
When his mind was moved just now, the contract had already appeared in his pocket, and he would take it out and hand it to the old man, but he saw that his hands were trembling, and then he stared at the name of the contract for a long time.
He even touched Chen Guangliang's signature with his hand.
Suddenly, tears flowed back, and he whimpered at the signature and bloody handprints.
"Dad, Dad, what you said is true, someone really came to collect this house, it has been more than fifty years, I finally waited for them to come in my lifetime, this time they came with this contract, it shouldn't be a ...... to deceive me"
The old man's tears fell on the parchment, and he couldn't get it wet.
He rubbed his eyes vigorously, and then said to Zhang Fan very sincerely.
"When my father died, he once confessed to me, saying that he was a descendant of Xiao and took Chen Yuan as a pawn, and people have to believe in their words, but for so many years, this Chen Yuan has been empty, and we are waiting for its owner......"
"You wait for me, I'll call my son, ask him to come over quickly, let him go through the formalities of Chen Yuan for you, and the descendants of our Chen family, can you get together here for the last time?"
The old man was incoherent at this time, and his speech was a little trembling, and he was really excited.
He has been here for many years, and this life is to promise his father's dying words, get rid of raising a few children to grow up, just to put this Chen Yuan in the hands of its owner, which can be regarded as their lifelong wish!
"Yes!"
Zhang Fan came to collect the overdue house, this house is really insignificant in the Heaven and Earth Pawnshop, so that the Heaven and Earth Pawnshop didn't know what the reason was, and it didn't have time to take it back.
This Chen Yuan has been taken care of by the descendants of the Chen family, but I didn't expect that Chen Guangliang still had a little conscience, and he actually kept telling his son to let him always wait for the people of the pawnshop in heaven and earth to collect the house.
Yes, yes, it is rare for a person with a conscience and integrity to be like this in the world.
Because of a contract, it is really rare that the people of the Chen family can keep it for half a century.
Therefore, Zhang Fan felt that the old man's request was not too much at all, but said that he would come back in three days, and just take the contract directly, as for the contract to find the Rong family.
The old man nodded and agreed, and when they walked out of the house, they saw Xu Zijun and Li Cheng looking around the house, and Li Cheng also took a lot of photos and talked to Xu Zijun.
"This family, in fact, we all know in the intermediary circle, people's houses, no amount of money, people are not short of money, the son is very rich on the coast, it's just strange, such a good garden, their family does not live here, what a pity......"