Chapter 67: Old Man Zhang
Now that he is here again, the sense of familiarity in his heart slowly overflows and fills his heart, here are the memories of his childhood, the memories of his youth, and the memories of middle age...... The past flashed in his mind like a movie replay, but now it is a thing or a person, how can he not be sad?
"Uncle Zhang, you're back." The man was the first to run out to meet him. The man had already calculated that he would come back today, because last year, the year before last, the year before last, the old man came back at this time.
"Datong, are you still there? How? Calculated that my old man will come today, and he came here to wait for me? When the old man saw the man, he smiled and spoke, his voice full of confidence in his old age, a kind of confidence unique to the elderly.
"Isn't it? Uncle Zhang, it's good to come back, it's good to come back, just come back alone, what about the eldest nephew? The man said.
"Hey, they're so busy, how can they have time to come back and see this broken house? I came back alone, old man, I don't want anyone to follow, it's clean. The old man laughed.
"Uncle Zhang, you still like to joke." The man said.
"As people get older, it's better to smile more." The old man said. "Hey, who are these two?" He pointed to Li Chen and Yuan Qingdao.
"Oh, Uncle Zhang, I have to say sorry to you, they just moved to Bilian Village last month, and they have no place to live, so I rented the house to them." The man said.
"Datong, you're not kind." The old man pointed at the man, as if he was a little blamed, but he was smiling.
"Uncle Zhang, what you said is true." The man bowed his head and smiled.
"You've received a lot of money from people, right?" The old man said that it stands to reason that this kind of money talk should be whispered in private, but he said it in front of the tenant.
"Not much, since Uncle Zhang is the owner of the house, I will give you the rent." The man said. At that time, when Ling Ran came to him to rent a house, he paid ten taels of silver for rent for half a year.
"Did I ask you for rent? Datong should be kind, the visitor is a guest, and this house is originally empty. People don't have a place to live, and you have to ask for rent from them? Get the rent back. The old man said.
"Rent refund?" When the man heard this, his face changed greatly, in the village. He is also a somewhat financially minded person, otherwise he would not have thought of renting a house to make money. Now it's hard to ask him to spit out the money he ate.
Yuan Qing watched the old man's every move from the side, this old man was a very chic person. is the kind of righteous person, not just relying on the old and selling the old.
"You two are the ones who live in this house, right?" The old man asked, looking at a man and a woman in the hall.
"Yes, sir." Yuan Qing nodded.
"You little girl, don't call me uncle, my surname is Zhang and call me Uncle Zhang." The old man said that the older people are, the more afraid they are of getting old.
Yuan Qing smiled and said, "Uncle Zhang, we just moved in last month, I don't know that you are the owner of this house, I'm really embarrassed." ”
"Hey, how can I blame you?" The old man waved his hand. "Who are the two?"
"Uncle Zhang, the two of them are a couple." The man said, he seemed to be respectful to the old man.
"A couple? Well, not bad......" The old man looked at the pair of handsome guys and beauties in front of him, which was very eye-catching, nodded and said, "There is no one else in the house, right?" ”
"Nope." The man said.
"No kids?" The old man said.
"It didn't take long for them to get married." Men have to answer all questions.
"In that case, you two, it looks like you two young couples are going to have to share a room with a bad old man like me." The old man said. He would come to the ancestral house once a year in March and a half, and after coming for about ten days, he would go back again. This is his ancestral house, and these two people are renting here, so let's just take a look.
"That'...... All right. After a long time, Yuan Qing nodded with difficulty.
"Little brother. What about you? The old man looked at Li Chen again.
"Yes." There was no emotion on his face, and he didn't know if he wanted to, but since he had agreed, he wouldn't regret it.
"Uncle Zhang, that's it. I'll go first. The man said, he wanted to leave quickly.
"Go back and return the money to the family, and if there are still people in the village who have no place to live in the future, as long as the house is empty, let the family live in it, and don't charge any rent." The old man looked at the man and said with a rather serious expression.
"Yes, it's Uncle Zhang, I'll go back." The man nodded and bowed, and before the old man came forward, he commented on the old man in front of Li Chen.
"Let's go." The old man said lightly.
"Yes." After speaking, the man walked out as if he was about to be amnestied. What a weird old man is? Obviously you gave me the house, I can let whoever I want to live in, and I can rent it to whoever I want, can you control it? It's just that the man scolded the old man like this in his heart, but in his mouth movements, especially in front of him, he didn't dare to show it at all, and he looked like a dog......
The old man not only has a rich son, but also a confidant who is an official, he is a common man, dare to point at the old man's nose and say disobedient words? It's better to obediently refund the rent to the "little couple". In this way, it is more realistic.
The man had no choice but to go home and get the money.
In the small courtyard, in the hall.
The old man sat at the table and knew each other with Li Chen.
After a while, the man came in a hurry, and the old man told him to take back the rent he had collected, and he had to pay it back, and as fast as he could.
"Two, this is ten taels of silver, the rent that man paid for you, you can give him the money." The man put ten taels of silver in his hand and handed it over, and it was not Yuan Qing and the two of them who came to rent a room with him, but Ling Ran.
"Okay." Yuan Qing stretched out his hand to take the money and said lightly.
"If it's okay, I'll go." The man lowered his head, his tone was a little timid, it was easy to collect money, but it was difficult to return it, he was now forced by the old man's obscenity and had to return the money, where did his face exist?
"Datong, go back, I'll see you tomorrow." The old man said.
The man nodded, and slowly turned away.
In fact, Yuan Qing and Li Chen didn't care if the rent could be returned, since the old man insisted on doing that, they didn't say anything, let him do it.
"My nephew is not bad-eyed, but he loves to play tricks too much, and his brain is too flexible, and he refuses to suffer anything at all...... He's got a bad character. The old man looked at the man's back, and Nan Nan said to himself.
People who are too smart may be very good, but everything is too much, and the old man's self-talk also has some truth.
Yuan Qing nodded silently. The three of them sat at the same table, a light of tea on the table, Yuan Qing only brought it out of the kitchen not long ago, it was still warm, the fragrance was curling, and it fell into people's hearts.
The three of them may have met for the first time, and there was nothing to talk about.
This house is the old man's rented house, he is the owner of the house, and Yuan Qing and the others are guests? It doesn't seem to be. Anyway, now the three of them live under the same roof.
"Two, you just came from Qiuzhou City today, you're a little tired, which of these two bedrooms do you live in?" The old man said, "Oh, this is the bedroom I used to live in. He pointed to the bedroom on the left side of the hall, "I have a problem, that is, I am nostalgic for the old, I have been in one place for a long time, and I have to die in that place, and I can't get rid of it, if you two sleep in this room, I will trouble you to change the room, and the old man has no requirements, but he can't sleep in other rooms." ”
Yuan Qing was suddenly embarrassed, the room the old man pointed to was the bedroom where she lived...... "I live there." ”
"Oh? Do you two not live in the same bedroom? The old man said, he looked at the two people next to him, a little surprised.
"Well, we sleep in separate rooms." Yuan Qing didn't hide it, and said it bluntly.
"You two newlyweds, why do you want to sleep in separate rooms?" The old man was puzzled, and most husbands and wives slept in the same room.
"I had a fight with him the other day." Yuan Qingdao. Telling such a lie, her face was dyed a faint crimson......
"Oh, I see." The old man suddenly realized, "The little couple who just got married, quarreling at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed, what is the quarrel so fierce?" Want to sleep in separate rooms? Li Chen, did you make Yuan Qing angry? You can see that the girl's face is red with anger. ”
Hearing this, Li Chen looked at Yuan Qing's face, which was red without knowing whether he was angry or what's wrong, and said in a light tone: "Don't be angry." "He was very cooperative.
Am I angry? It's just that she lied before, and her face was embarrassed, Yuan Qing sighed in her heart, asking her to tell this kind of lie, it was really embarrassing for her.
"Hey, is this how you coax a lady? You tell you that if the husband and wife sleep in separate rooms, it must be something very sad about the husband and wife, even if you don't tell the old man what you are quarreling about, the old man, I know that it is false if you quarrel fiercely. "The old man is also a person who has come over, and the husband and wife sleep in separate rooms, except for special circumstances, it must be that they have a big quarrel......
"Tell me, why are you two quarrelling, old man, I am also a person from the past, and I may be able to help you." The old man said seriously, "Is it that you are not clear with other women outside, so that Yuan Qing can see it?" ”
Cheating, no matter what era is, is the enemy of marriage.
"Nope." Li Chen said impatiently.
"It's good if you don't have it, since you don't, then you don't have anything to quarrel about, okay, okay, the husband and wife who have just gotten married, and it's not one of them who has someone outside, what's there to quarrel about? Let's live together, don't be so careful, everyone will give way, and the family will be harmonious. The old man said.
Since the other party is not cheating, there seems to be nothing to quarrel about.
"Girl, please go and move your things out first, old man, I want to rest first." The old man said to Yuan Qing.
Yuan Qing nodded weakly, got up and walked weakly.
The old man looked at her back, then turned his head to look at Li Chen and said, "Boy, go in and help your lady, don't always be cold to her, she is your lady, you are not good to her, who is good?" ”
Li Chen was called a kid by others for the first time, but the other party was an old man, he didn't say anything, and the old man's words made sense, so he got up and left. To be continued