Chapter 72: The Wasteland
Back at home, Bian Rui introduced Yan Lan and Wu Guanglong to his grandmother and mother, and then put the exploration net back to its original place.
As soon as I came out of the alley, I found that my grandfather was back and was chatting with Wu Guanglong, and the content of the conversation was also about the old man wanting to rent a house.
Seeing his grandson coming out of the alley, Bian Rui's grandfather looked at Bian Rui, and the meaning in his eyes was full of inquiry.
Bian Rui understood what his grandfather meant, so he had to open his mouth and say: "Mr. Wu has taken a fancy to the scenery of our place, and wants to live here and plant something by the way, probably because he wants to learn from hermits......."
"That place may not be very good, right?" Bian Rui's grandfather was a little confused, the place Wu Guanglong was talking about now was almost not reliable, a few miles away from the village, and a few miles away from the school, in the old man's opinion, the place was too remote.
Bian Rui had to hum twice.
Both Bian Rui and Bian Rui's grandfather understood that if the place was not biased, it would be the turn of Wu Guanglong and his wife, and the house would have been built by the villagers a long time ago.
"Okay, then I'll help you talk about it, as for whether it will be successful or not, it's hard to say," Bian Rui's grandfather said after thinking for a while.
No matter what, it's a place in the village, in fact, if Bian Rui's grandfather agrees to come down, it's nothing, but the old man has lived all his life, and he has to ask the brothers what he means if he says something like this, and if there is anything inappropriate, he will have a way out.
Wu Guanglong said: "Then thank you."
Bian Rui's grandfather waved his hand and stood up from the small chair: "It's a matter of whether the matter will be successful, and I'll talk about it when I come back after I ask."
Bian Rui saw that his grandfather was about to go out to ask immediately, so he opened his mouth and said, "Grandpa, call me when you have news, I will go back now and prepare to grill fish at night, and I have to be stunned."
"I see, don't eat at home at night?"
"Gone, I'll eat with them."
"That's right, you eat more easily together, and eat with our gang of people."
After saying that, Bian Rui's grandfather had already arrived outside the door.
Bian Rui and Yan Lan carried the fish to Bian Rui's house on the slope, and as they walked, the old man Wu Guanglong asked Bian Rui.
"Why are the people in your village very long-lived, I heard that the oldest ones are almost 100 years old now?"
Bian Rui nodded: "Well, it's not just our village that has a long life, several nearby villages have a long life, a ninety-year-old man in every village, and there is a one hundred and eight year-old lady in Shenjia Village......."
The secret of the longevity of the village is known to Bian Rui, each village has a mountain spring that flows through the village from the mountain, and the end of these springs is a flat lake on the peak here, in the past, the ancestors would pour a bucket of space water in the flat lake every year, and they don't know whether it is the fairy gas of the space water, or what kind of gas, through the small stream through several villages, usually everyone cooks and washes vegetables to take the mountain spring water, and naturally lives long.
In fact, it is not considered longevity, modern research does not show that the life expectancy of human beings should be about 150 years old, and it is only because of many restrictions that the space water seems to open these restrictions slightly, so that people can live to about 110 years old. Some of them will live longer.
"Look, I'll talk about a good place," Wu Guanglong turned his head and said with a smile at his wife next to him.
When the old lady heard this, she smiled and said: "If there is such a benefit, we will stay, like these old gentlemen in Bianjia Village, live well and well past the age of ninety, and do not cause trouble to the children, it is better to sleep and I will be satisfied."
Bian Rui and Yan Lan both laughed when they heard this.
Back at the house, Bian Rui began to kill fish.
"Is the water here clean?" Yan Lan saw that Bian Rui was carrying a cutting board and came to the edge of the stream with a knife, and directly put the cutting board into the water, and then began to pick up the knife and hit the scales, so she opened her mouth and asked.
Bian Rui pointed to the stream beside Yan Lan: "You ask if this water is clean?" Let me tell you, the tap water in Mingzhu is not as clean as this water, if you don't believe it, come and take a sip?"
As he spoke, Bian Rui took a handful of water and motioned to Yan Lan.
When Yan Lan saw it, she quickly turned her head: "Forget it, why do you wash it and let me drink raw water."
Bian Rui saw it and directly sucked the water in his hand into his mouth, and then swallowed it in one gulp, now this stream is the lifeblood of the longevity of the old people in Bianjia Village, not to mention this water, even if you poison it, it can decompose the poison for you, space water seems to be born with the function of purification, as long as there are parasites, dirty things and the like where it is.
He Yan Lan didn't understand, and Bian Rui didn't want to explain to her, so he picked up the knife and continued to kill the fish and remove the scales.
Needless to say, Bian Rui's technique is naturally needless to say, after three or five minutes, the four big fish were cleaned by Bian Rui, and there was not even a single scale on the body, and the skin of each fish was also intact.
Cross knife flowers bloomed on both sides of each fish, and Bian Rui carried the fish, letting Yan Lan carry the cutting board and knife back to the small courtyard.
After preparing the ingredients and starting to marinate the fish, Bian Rui was busy with his work, the mobile phone in his pocket rang, and as soon as the phone was connected, Bian Rui heard his grandfather's voice.
Uh-huh!
"I'll talk to Mr. Wu Guanglong later," Bian Rui nodded as he answered the phone.
When he put down the phone, Bian Rui didn't know what to say in his heart, the grandfather over there discussed the result, and the house and land agreed to rent, but the price was really not low, and the rent was paid every five years, and the rent was not collected for the first five years, but the old man Xu Wu Guanglong in the village rented land to build a house, and the three big tile houses with a small yard and a vegetable garden of one acre of land were paid.
Three big tiled houses cost 70,000 or 80,000 yuan to build here, and 100,000 yuan will cost 100,000 yuan if you add a small decoration, and 100,000 yuan will be used for five years, which is 20,000 yuan a year.
Bian Rui also knew that it was estimated that the eldest grandfather did not want to rent out the land in the village, and for these old people, there was nothing more important than guarding the land of their ancestors.
Old Man Wu Guanglong opened his mouth at this time and asked, "Xiaobian, how is it?"
Bian Rui didn't say much and directly reported the price to the old man, and then persuaded: "This price is really not low, do you want to think about it more, or do you go to other villages to have a look?"
Wu Guanglong said with a smile when he heard this: "Hey, what is there to say about this, three big tile houses, a small courtyard and one acre of land, the annual rent is only fifteen thousand." Let's go, now take me to see that piece of land, if it's really good, we'll rent it, Xiaoyan, do you want to rent a piece, living in this kind of place is not only self-cultivation, but also respectful to each other among neighbors, smelling chickens and dogs every day, it's just a dream life, it's much more interesting than in the city."
Yan Lan immediately waved her hand when she heard this: "I can't enjoy this, I'm only in my twenties, and I still have a lot of youth, so I can't accompany you here to cultivate your self-cultivation."
In fact, Yan Lan also likes it here, but she lives in the village if she wants to, what is there to live in a place where birds don't lay eggs, a few miles away from the village, not to mention that she has to be scared to sleep at night.
"Wait a minute, I'll take you there when I'm done grilling, okay?" Bian Rui said.
Wu Guanglongdu's master couldn't wait, and directly grabbed Bian Rui's arm: "Go early and come back early, besides, it's only time to grill the fish now, or the freshly baked feet before eating, go, go!"
Bian Rui was helpless by the old man, so he had to put down the fish in his hand, put the fish in the basin, covered it with a gauze, put it in the kitchen, and closed the kitchen door.
Four people and three motorcycles lined up on the country road, and when they arrived at the entrance of the village, Bian Rui was stopped by Zhu Tongqiang.
"Bian Rui, go and see the ground, take me with you" Zhu Tongqiang said as he climbed into the back seat of Bian Rui's motorcycle.
Bian Rui can't do anything about this, people are familiar with it, and it's not too annoying, and it's not suitable to get angry at others or anything. To be honest, there is really no good way to deal with such a person, I wish people like Tongqiang to handle interpersonal relationships quite accurately, and getting along with people not only makes you not disgusted, but also keeps you from getting angry, which is really not something that ordinary people can have.
"You know all this?" asked Bian Rui.
Zhu Tongqiang smiled and said: "How big is this village, and besides, my proposal to rent a house is much longer than Mr. Wu's."
Speaking of this, Zhu Tongqiang turned his head to the old man behind him and said with a smile: "Old man, we may be neighbors in the future, get closer."
Old Man Wu smiled: "No problem, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors!"
Bian Rui sighed in his heart, re-put in gear, and the big motorcycle drove out of the village.
After driving for about seven or eight minutes, there were no traffic lights or anything here, so a few miles was not a distance at all when there were motorcycles.
"Well, this is it!"
Bian Rui stopped his motorcycle on a grass and said.
Now the place where Bian Rui's feet are stepping on is the original trail, because no one has walked for a long time, on the path where the original bricks came out, a small grass sticks out of the brick cracks, and the original neat twill bricks are now in tatters, and the long-term rain and wind blow, the bricks have been succumbed, and the bricks may crack with a light step on the feet.
More unbearable than the road under the foot is a row of slippery houses, when it was built in the past, it was intended to be used as a teacher's dormitory, a total of more than a dozen small tile houses were built, and then because there was no teacher willing to come to the Bianjia Village Primary School, so it was vacant, waiting for the Bianjia Village Primary School to do a little better, there are teachers willing to come, the house here has long been inhabitable, plus the village has some money, and several nearby villages also want to send their children here, so we raised funds to build a few small western-style buildings on the slope near the school for the teachers to live.
"This house can't be inhabited, it can't be repaired, the front is the ground, you can see the ridges when you look closely, but you have to spend a lot of effort to renovate ......."
Bian Rui said as he reached out and pinched a brick, and gently rubbed the brick with his hand to break it.
"Yes, yes, Xiao Zhu, what do you think?" Old Man Wu Guanglong looked around the surroundings and actually said two words good.
Zhu Tongqiang made a slightly bitter face: "This is everything from the beginning."
Now the eyes can be regarded as full of desolation, as far as the eye can see, there are broken tiles and remnants, the house can no longer be seen, only half-height brick walls, the road is not a road, everywhere is full of tall grass and shrubs, as for the vegetable field, where can you still see the shadow of the vegetable field, the long face is covered with wild vines.