Chapter 64: The Tenant
I plan to send him to live at his grandmother's house in the countryside for a while after the summer vacation in Yangyang. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoI always feel that people can't live in the reinforced concrete jungle for a long time, nor can they breathe car exhaust for a long time, people need to get close to the soil every once in a while, they need to breathe the fresh air in the countryside, and they need to bask in the sun on the hillside like animals, otherwise people's brains and blood will become turbid, just like a crop sprayed with too many pesticides, bright on the outside but poisonous on the inside. I've always had the urge to get back to nature, and I've been in town for more than 10 years, and I've always felt like a mistake. I miss the simple and free life in the countryside, and until now I have not adapted to the rhythm of the city. For me, it's okay to come to the city once in a while as a tourist destination, and it's not what I like to live in the city for a long time, completely out of the countryside now.
But a phone call from my mother completely ruined my plan to take Yangyang to enjoy nature: my mother asked me to rent a house in the city, saying that she, my father and my brother's family were all going to move to the city. I asked why? Mom said my brother's baby was going to go to kindergarten in the city. I said that you can just watch the baby at home, what kind of kindergarten do you go to? Yangyang goes to kindergarten because no one looks at him, if someone looks at him, I don't necessarily send him to kindergarten, isn't kindergarten just a place to watch children? Mom said that most of the children in the village have gone to kindergarten in the city, and our children can't be left behind? I said that our land is no longer planted? Mom said that the land has been transferred to others. I said you really decided to move into the city as a whole? Mom said yes, no way, and said that it would take 15 years from the baby's kindergarten to high school graduation, and at that time, it would be difficult to say if she and her father were still alive.
I can't convince my mother, (no, to be precise, my brother and daughter-in-law, my mother is just the spokesperson for both of them), just like I can't convince a young man to wear handmade cloth shoes. For some reason, I felt a sense of despair when I heard that my parents and younger brother were moving to the city, which meant that the dreamy experience of my childhood was a thing of the past, never to be repeated, because our home was a tree that had been uprooted, waiting to be transported into the city, cut into a wardrobe or a coffee table by a chainsaw, and then coated with a thick layer of shiny but choking paint, and then delicately and stylishly become part of the city.
I told my mother to rent a bungalow in a large courtyard, the rent of that kind of house is cheap, otherwise the five people will rush into the city at once, and the expenses must be very large, and it is still unknown how much income they can make after coming to the city, so we should save first. But my mother said that she wanted to rent a building with complete water, electricity and heating, and I thought to myself that my younger brother's requirements were quite high. I said that the rent of a house is half of my salary, can you afford it? Mom said no problem, she has already sold the house in the village! God! We are cheap and determined to be city people!
It's really hard to rent a suitable building, and it's even harder to rent a building near the school that my mother wants, because there are so many people who go to the city to rent a house for their children to go to school, and there are queues at the real estate agents. I ran for three days without any results, so I asked Liu Jia to look for it, but I couldn't find a suitable building. So, one night, Lu Tao and I went to Wu Daren's house and asked him to help us rent a building not very far from the school. As soon as he didn't want to say anything, Wu Daren said that his old house was not far from the school, and he was willing to rent it to us at the lowest price in the city, and I said that it was just right.
Wu Daren's old house is not a building, it is a bungalow with a single courtyard similar to his mother-in-law's house, but it is fully equipped with water, electricity and heating, toilets and sewers, and it is more comfortable to live in than a building. It's just that this single courtyard is not only rented to my house, but there is already a tenant living in the courtyard, a young and beautiful woman, in her twenties, and she asked us to call her Xiaojuan. Xiaojuan lives in two small suites, and my family of five lives in three large suites, which open the door independently of each other, and both have separate kitchens and bathrooms. Xiaojuan was very happy that my family lived with her, she said that she used to feel scared when she lived alone in this compound, and she had asked Wu Daren to find another tenant, and finally waited for my parents and younger brother's family.
Xiaojuan likes children very much, and usually teases her brother's children to play, and it didn't take long for Xiaojuan and her parents and brother to get along with each other, and they got together to eat from time to time, of course, Xiaojuan came to my mother to eat. But Xiaojuan doesn't eat it in vain every time, and always has to buy some meat or vegetables for her mother. I also bring Lu Tao and Yang Yang over every week, so on Saturday or Sunday, my mother has to cook a big table of meals for a dozen or so people.
One day after dinner, my younger brother saw Xiaojuan go back to her room, and suddenly asked me in a mysterious whisper, "Who is Xiaojuan from the landlord?"
"Tenants. I picked my teeth and replied casually.
"It's not just a tenant, is it?" the younger brother asked again.
"It's not a tenant, is it a relative of Wu Daren?" I looked at Lu Tao, I thought he should know, because Wu Daren was his classmate.
"I don't know. Lu Tao shook his head and said.
When we talk about this, it's just a small talk, but the next sentence of my brother is not a small talk, but an explosive news.
The younger brother said, "Sometimes the landlord stays. ”
"What's so strange about staying, this is his home" I didn't react at first, so I didn't think it was strange.
"It's his home, yes, but isn't his home inhabited by someone else now?" the younger brother said, smacking the next door with his mouth.
"Really?" Lu Tao was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.
At this time, I also realized that something was wrong, but I was not surprised, but said in a mocking tone: "Hmph, men are like this now!" After speaking, I stabbed Lu Tao with the rib of my arm, deliberately warning him.
"Who said that men are like this now?" Lu Tao disagreed with me, but I think he disagreed with me hinting at him in front of others.
"Most men are like this, and if they are not, they must have no money. I said it deliberately.
"Does the man you are talking about also include Yangyang's uncle?" Lu Tao is also powerful sometimes, and he knows how to take the knife on my mother's family.
"Except for those of our surname Chen. I added.
"You directly say that I, Lu Tao, am also the kind of man who looks for flowers and asks willows, isn't it over, what kind of bend?" Lu Tao pointed to himself and said.
"Aren't you?"
"You think I am?"
Seeing that we were fighting endlessly, my mother began to get impatient, and gave an eviction order: "Go home when you are full, don't affect our rest!"
Originally, I admired this person very much, and felt that he was very talented, and he was promoted to the position of Zhengke just over thirty, and he would definitely go up to the position of Zhengxian or higher in the future, and he was indeed promising! But now I dare not compliment his character.
But I don't know why he asked someone from my family to cover for him. Isn't he afraid that we will reveal his secret to his wife? But then we think about it, as his acquaintance and friend, and the easiest person he can trust, we can only keep it a secret for him, otherwise we will feel that we are not enough friends, and if we give it to an irrelevant person, we may have already publicized it to him everywhere.
Later, I saw Wu Daren's wife walking in and out of the community all day long wearing a name tag, and I couldn't help but sigh for her. In fact, my sigh is superfluous, she doesn't know, it is equivalent to things that do not exist, and her happiness is real. I hope she doesn't know about it in the future, and I hope she will always be happy like this.
After a long time, our family talked less about Wu Daren and Xiaojuan, and gradually got used to their relationship, my mother even treated Xiaojuan as a landlady, and as soon as she made something delicious, she quickly sent it to Xiaojuan, as if she was worried that people would drive her away that day.
The problem is that we didn't spread the word about it, but Xiaojuan said it herself, and she went to our community to say it in front of Wu Daren's wife! She told Wu Daren's wife that she was pregnant, asked Wu Daren's wife to vacate her place, and threatened that if she didn't vacate, she would report it to the government, so that Wu Daren's reputation would be ruined. What is puzzling is that Wu Daren's wife actually agreed, telling Xiaojuan that she would complete the divorce procedures with Wu Daren within ten days. What is even more surprising is that Wu Daren actually refused to divorce, saying that the only thing he loves is his wife! What a mess! Later, he agreed to the divorce when he saw his wife leading a man back.
I believe that Wu Daren loves his wife, because it is his wife who wants to divorce him, not him. I also know that Wu Daren's wife deliberately brought the man back, she just wanted to complete the divorce procedures as soon as possible, because after she divorced, she never saw that man again.
Of course, in this farce, the person who suffered the most was Wu Daren's son Wu Xuewen. I learned from Yangyang that since his parents divorced, Wu Xuewen began to change, not only his academic performance was plummeting, but he also went to Internet cafes, fights, and had many problems. Yang Yang saw that his mother often went to school to find teachers.
Wu Daren also often came back to see his son, but Wu Xuewen, who was only six or seven years old, had already declared that he wanted to sever the father-son relationship with his father, and threw all the things his father bought for him into the yard, and once even picked up stones on the ground and threw them at his father! Later, Wu Daren came back to see that his son was missing.
For the Wuda Ren family, this incident is, of course, a lose-lose farce, and in my eyes, this incident is equivalent to teaching Lu Tao a good life lesson, and making him think about some life problems in the form of examples, especially marriage. I often joked to him: "Do you want to wrap a Xiaomi outside? If you want to wrap it, just wrap it, Yangyang and I are definitely not as noisy as Wu Daren's wife and children, if you want to go, I will help you carry your luggage, and you can come back to see Yangyang at any time, how about leaving?"
"Go, go, go, don't keep making fun of me. "Lu Tao was not happy when he heard me say this.
But the more he does this, the more I have to say, "Seriously, if you are suddenly given 10 million tomorrow, or suddenly you are given a big official, let alone a big official, you may not be able to control yourself." ”
"Do you want me to be like that? Why else do you keep talking about me like that? You have to say that all the time, even if I'm not bad, I'm going to make you bad. You've met me, and if you had met someone else, you'd have been kicked out a long time ago, because a woman like you is too upset. ”
"Do you think I'm upset?Okay, I'll be fasting for ten days from tomorrow, don't blame me for not talking to you!"
"If you don't say it, don't say it, I'll be quieter. ”
I like to use this way to remind and warn Lu Tao, which is called prevention before it happens, although it seems that his mouth is a little broken. Through the example of Wu Daren, he should be able to think that if he learned from Wu Daren, Yang Yang might treat him the same way Wu Xuewen treated his father! )