Chapter 376: Housework
"This vegetable field is overgrown with weeds, and I need to hoe it, and when we go out after lunch, I will go to the vegetable market to buy some small vegetable seedlings and seeds, and you will help me plant them. As long as we grow vegetables on these plots of land, the two of us basically don't have to buy vegetables in the future. By the way, there is a chicken coop over there, you can raise a few chickens, feed the chickens with endless vegetables, and bury the dung pulled by the chickens into the ground......" Zhou Yan followed Meng Jian to the backyard, pointed to a few vegetable fields and said to Meng Guan.
"Okay. Meng Jian is still what Zhou Yan says and what he listens to, and he will not express his opinion for the time being.
At noon, because there was no time to clean the stove, and there was no shopping for vegetables and rice, the two went out for lunch. After lunch, Zhou Yan sat and pondered for a while before deciding to take Meng Yi to her grandmother's house.
Grandma's house is actually an uncle's house, Zhou Yan's father is the eldest son, and there is a younger brother and a younger sister below, Zhou Yan's grandmother has always followed her uncle.
Zhou Yan decided to go to her grandmother's house, first, to tell her grandmother that she was back, and to ask her father where she was buried so that she could go to the grave, and secondly, to ...... I also want to test my grandmother and uncle's attitude towards my father's property, and officially declare to them that she is the rightful heir.
Jinli Town is not big, and grandma's house is not very far from my father's house, so the two of them walked for about ten minutes after lunch. This is a little farther away from the location of the town center, but it is not biased to the edge of the town, it is still relatively close to the town center, and it is a new street, which is more lively than the place where Zhou Yan's father's old house is located.
Although Zhou Yan didn't want to buy any gifts, Meng Yan still insisted on buying some fruits, and then went to the supermarket in the center of the town to buy canned middle-aged and elderly milk powder for more than 300 yuan. The new son-in-law came to the door for the first time. It really can't be said that he didn't bring anything to the past, and Meng Jian originally wanted to buy something else. But was stopped by Zhou Yan sharply, and it is estimated that she will quarrel with him if she buys it again. As a last resort, Meng Jian could only give up.
After all, it is no longer the time when they are worth tens of billions or hundreds of billions in the real world, and a few hundred yuan is enough for the living expenses of the two of them in the town for half a month, according to Zhou Yan.
Luckily this is not the real world, otherwise it would be too tragic.
However, Meng converted by chance...... But he felt that this place was more like the real world, and the world where he had a fierce ghost clone was more like the fantasy world in Zhou Yan's mouth.
If this is the real real world, it will really be a nightmare.
No, absolutely not, I'm just coming in to do the task, and I'm going back when I'm done with this task...... Meng Jian kept comforting himself.
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When Zhou Yan and Meng Jian went to their uncle's house. The gate of my uncle's yard was open, and a white-haired old woman and a middle-aged woman were sitting in the yard basking in the sun and chatting. Because the courtyard door was open, Zhou Yan pulled Meng Jian and walked in directly.
When the old woman who was chatting in the courtyard saw Zhou Yan come in, her face suddenly sank, and her face turned to the side, as if she didn't want to see her.
The middle-aged woman got up and greeted her with a smile: "Little Swallow is back?"
"Hello aunt! This is my husband, his surname is Meng, and his name is Meng Guan. Zhou Yan said hello to the middle-aged woman and introduced Meng Jian to her. Then he looked at the old woman in the courtyard.
"Yo, it's Xiao Meng! come, come, sit, my aunt will pour you tea!" the middle-aged woman greeted Meng very warmly.
"Don't bother, we'll just come and sit. Zhou Yan grabbed the middle-aged woman. Then he went to the old woman.
The middle-aged woman seemed to be polite, and Zhou Yan said that she would not be allowed to pour the tea, so she did not pour it. After nodding and smiling at Meng Conversion, he walked back to the chair where he had been basking in the sun and sat down.
"Grandma. I am back. Zhou Yan stood beside the old woman and shouted to her.
"Oh. The old woman drooped her eyelids and looked like she was ignoring her.
"I'm married. Zhou Yan then said to the old woman. His eyes were red, and tears welled up in his sockets.
"Oh. The old woman still didn't react, and still ignored her, as if Zhou Yan was not her granddaughter.
"My husband and I have both recently lost our jobs, and the city is expensive and rents are high. My dad died, the house left in town was mine, and he and I were going to move back for a few months. Zhou Yan hesitated and said to her grandmother again.
"As long as you can live, you can live as long as you like. Grandma finally replied to Zhou Yan, but her attitude seemed a little impatient, and she didn't even raise her eyelids to look at Zhou Yan.
Meng Confu's mind spun quickly......
What is this mission trying to do for him?
The theme of the mission was 'prophecy', but now Meng Jian couldn't find anything to do with 'prophecy'.
At first, Meng Confucius's speculation on the mission was to help Zhou Yan snatch the inheritance, and then in the process, he had to prevent his grandmother, uncles and aunts from poisoning them and accidentally killing them, but now it seems that things are not what he imagined.
No one robbed Zhou Yan's house at all, and even when Zhou Yan told her grandmother that 'the house is hers', her grandmother and the aunt on the side did not raise any objections.
Isn't that scientific......
Even if the grandmother is old and doesn't want to fight, the uncles and aunts will also want to fight, right? After all, it is a property worth more than 200,000 yuan.
Could it be...... Is there a problem with that house?
In addition to this reason, Meng Jian really couldn't think of any other reason to make Zhou Yan's uncle and aunt not have a trace of greed for this big house.
The haunted mansion is very much in line with the usual setting style of the mission.
It must be that the house is haunted.
The question of the house was speculated for the time being, but Meng Jian had another bigger question in his heart at this time.
That is, Zhou Yan's grandmother has a very strange attitude towards Zhou Yan.
It is understandable that Zhou Yan's father has a bad attitude towards Zhou Yan...... Because Zhou Yanke died of his wife, and his personality became withdrawn for many years after that, you can see how detached he is from the old furniture and appliances in the old house.
But Zhou Yan's grandmother, there is no need to blame her granddaughter for her daughter-in-law's death, right? From the traditional understanding of Huaxia, the daughter-in-law is an outsider, but the granddaughter is her own family, why does she also have such an attitude towards Zhou Yan?
There's definitely something hidden here.
As long as it is unreasonable, there must be a reason for the director's irrationality, and this reason is likely to be one of the important clues of this mission.
"Grandma, where is Daddy buried? I'm going to go to his grave. After Zhou Yan finished talking about the house, her grandmother didn't say anything abnormal, and she had to move on to another thing after being silent for a while.
"Forget it. Grandma replied to Zhou Yan with her eyes closed.
"What's the matter, he gave birth to me and raised me, and when he dies, of course I have to go to his grave to see!" Zhou Yan's expression became a little excited.
"Little Yanzi, come here......" Seeing this, the middle-aged woman, who was Zhou Yan's aunt, quickly stood up and pulled Zhou Yan away, whispered a few words to her, and told her where her father was buried.
Now that she knew where her father was buried, Zhou Yan didn't ask any more, and after coming back and greeting her grandmother, she pulled Meng Qian and prepared to leave.
"Grandma, if I marry Xiaoyanzi, I will definitely be good to her. Before leaving, Meng Jian took the initiative to go over and greet the old woman.
First, this is the etiquette he should fulfill as a grandson-in-law at this time, after all, it is the first time he comes to the door, and second, he also wants to test whether he can talk to this old grandmother. This is the quest world, and he treats everyone as NPCs as much as possible, and if he is looking for clues, of course, he must try to talk to all the NPCs.
In those RPG computer games, that's how the clues were found.
"Got it, don't come here if you don't have anything to do in the future. The old grandmother opened her eyes and glanced at Meng Conversion, and then replied to him.
"Grandma, this milk powder is bought for you, remember to drink it every day, people are old and have strict bone loss, so you should pay attention to calcium supplementation. Meng Jian put the milk powder he was carrying in front of Grandma Zhou Yan.
"I'm in good health, I don't need these things, you better take them!" Zhou Yan's grandmother waved her hand impatiently at Meng Conversion.
Zhou Yan rushed over and looked at her grandmother very aggrievedly, probably because she couldn't stand Meng Condus being treated like this by her grandmother, and opened her mouth to say something to her grandma, but was forcibly pulled away by Meng Conversion.
After the two walked out of the courtyard gate, Zhou Yan pushed Meng Qian away and walked back, and after crying and saying a lot of words to her grandmother, she took out the milk powder angrily.
"Why bother?" Meng Jian looked at Zhou Yan and sighed.
"You don't care!" Zhou Yan replied to Meng Jian very stubbornly, and then walked to the front.
Meng Jian shook his head and didn't say anything more, it was difficult for a Qing official to decide family affairs, and before he figured out what happened to the Zhou family, it was not good to talk about right and wrong and draw any conclusions.
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In the afternoon, Zhou Yan wanted to go to the back mountain to go to the grave of her father and mother, but Meng Jian persuaded her to be pregnant and not to walk so far, he just went on her behalf. But Zhou Yan insisted very much, saying that it was not far away, it didn't matter if she walked slowly, and Meng Jian had no choice but to rely on her.
There is a dilapidated bicycle in the old house, apparently Zhou Yan's father's, although it is dilapidated, but the products of the past are very sturdy and still workable. Meng Jian also found a pump in the utility room, he inflated the bicycle, and after a test ride, he found that there were some problems with the brakes, so he found tools to repair it.
"You are quite capable, you can do anything. Zhou Yan stood beside Meng Jian and watched him busy, and praised him.
"Don't boast, I can't afford to buy you a BMW, what's there to say about getting a broken bicycle?" Meng Jian shook his head and said a few words to himself.
"Don't say that, I know I'm the one who caused you, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't be so miserable now. Zhou Yan's eyes were red, and she said to Meng Jian very reproachfully. (To be continued......)