When Meng Tao arrived in Mengzhou, he first went to the freight yard of the railway station to receive the goods, Ma Fengnian was waiting there early, and when he saw Meng Tao coming, he immediately started pouring the goods for Meng Tao to inspect.

They are all local specialties with very good quality and quality, totaling more than thousands of catties.

Thirty catties of tea, ten catties of black tea, green tea and white tea.

Meng Tao doesn't understand tea, just look at the special grade written on the package, she thinks it's good, she believes that Ma Fengnian, at least for now, is very honest and will not lie to her with shoddy.

After settling the payment on the spot, it was still Ma Fengnian who left first, Meng Tao closed the door and stayed in the small cargo shed in the freight yard for an hour or two, slowly sorting out the goods, and seeing that the vehicles and people in the field outside were the most busy and moving, he directly received the goods into the space and left.

After a few turns on the street, I saw a grocery store, took out money and tickets, went in and bought a pack of noodles and a pound of eggs, put them in a satchel, and then bought another three catties of grass carp, a roast chicken, a catty of braised pig scalp, and five or six apples and pears in a net pocket, and walked slowly towards Apricot Lane.

The blue wooden door of the No. 9 courtyard was locked, Meng Tao walked a few steps to push open the No. 10 courtyard gate on the left, the rusty iron door creaked, and before she could call the master at home, Aunt Wang walked out of the house, saw Meng Tao, and shook the waterway in her hand with a smile:

"I said, my left eye jumped early this morning, there must be something good, but Miss Meng is back!"

Meng Tao shouted Aunt Wang, and looked at her yard, which was a little larger than the No. 9 courtyard she bought, there were five main houses, and a whole row of wing rooms, and the wing room was full of clothes under the corridor, it seems that the family has a lot of people, and there are a lot of sundries piled up in the open space, and the yard is small and messy, and there are no floor tiles on the ground, only a cement road about half a meter wide is paved from the courtyard gate to the main house, and the shoes are not dirty when walking in the rain.

Aunt Wang welcomed Meng Tao into the main house, and three little radish heads ran out of the house, the eldest one was five or six years old, and the younger one was just a toddler, about two years old.

Aunt Wang smiled and said that the five or six-year-old is her youngest son, and the three-year-old and two-year-old are the grandson and grandson respectively, isn't it raining these two days, the weather is too cold, the younger son and the two grandchildren don't want to go to kindergarten, stay at home and let her watch, the three babies almost didn't go to the house to uncover the tiles, and they will annoy her to death.

Meng Tao handed the fish, roast chicken, pig scalp and fruit in her hand to Aunt Wang, there were children at home, so she had to take out a pound of fruit candy from her shoulder bag:

"In the past few days, Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang have helped clean up the yard, and it has been hard work, I should have entertained a meal anyway, but there is nothing in the house, so I can only buy some vegetables and trouble Aunt Wang to cook them herself."

Aunt Wang excused herself twice, then continued, and said with a smile on her face: "Miss Xiao Meng is so polite, at that moment, let's eat lunch together at my house!" ”

Meng Tao said: "No, I still have to go to the street to buy some household goods, and now I want to see what the courtyard house looks like." ”

"Okay, I'll get you the key. The house has been painted, the ceiling has been replaced, the wires have been replaced, the doors and windows have been repainted according to the original colors, and I also said that there are materials, why not paint the exterior walls of the house white? Your Uncle Wang said I don't understand, people just have to keep red walls and blue tiles to look good, isn't that so?

After two days of painting and painting, your Uncle Wang and I began to clean and wipe the inside and outside of the house, and the window panes, and the yard was also cleaned, and the flower pots were not moved according to what you said...... Oh, the key is here, you go and see, I'll go with you. ”

"No need, you take care of the child, don't let you bump into it."

"Hey, okay! Then when you're done, come and tell me about it. ”

"Okay."

Meng Tao took the key and walked out, opened the door of the ninth courtyard, and now it was his own courtyard.

The dead branches and leaves on the ground in the courtyard have been swept away, the flower shelves have been repaired again, and the hanging dead branches have been cut off, and the whole yard looks spacious and neat, and it looks very comfortable.

The house and the outside are inspected again, the powder wall is snow-white, the floor is bright and clean, basically as Aunt Wang said, all done, Uncle Wang's handiwork is very fine, the wall is brushed, the paint can not find fault, the kitchen according to Meng Tao's requirements, rebuilt the stove, knocked off the yellow tiles, and pasted a pure white ...... The couple doesn't know anything else, but they do it with their hearts after receiving the job, which is good.

Next, it's time to buy some furniture and basic utensils.

Meng Tao replaced the locks of the house and the courtyard door with new ones, locked the door and went to the left neighbor's house, Aunt Wang was shouting to deal with the lawsuit between several children - caused by grabbing fruits and sugar cubes.

Seeing Meng Tao enter the house, Aunt Wang hurriedly left the children, came to talk to her, and took the sugar jar to make her a cup of white sugar water.

Meng Tao waved her hand and said no, and settled the wages of their husband and wife with Aunt Wang, Aunt Wang liked the cheerfulness of the new neighbor very much, and tried her best to keep her for dinner, Meng Tao thanked her and said that next time, there is still something to do.

Coming out of Wang's house, I saw Aunt Zhao and a few women standing in the middle of the road talking at the door, Aunt Zhao saw Meng Tao, and hurriedly greeted "Little Meng girl", and beckoned her to come over, Meng Tao smiled and said hello, saying that she still had something to do, regardless of the eyes of several women staring at her, and walked straight out of the alley.

I heard the gossip behind me, and asked if this was the new neighbor? At such a young age, who gave her the money to buy a house? It is also said that this girl has long eyes and looks down on people, what is the big deal?

Meng Tao just didn't hear it.

She knew that the neighbors of this era had a very good relationship, close personal contacts, and could open their doors to each other and accept each other, with basically no privacy.

She is not an antisocial personality, of course, she is happy to see neighbors and friendly people, but it depends on the situation, everyone has their own temperament, not everyone can get along, and it is impossible to be intimate as soon as they meet.

She is unwilling to do things that are beyond her bottom line.

Meng Tao first went to the store department of the furniture factory, there are ready-made furniture for sale, the state-owned manufacturers are good at this, they will never cheat, what grade of products are marked at what price, the real penny is worth the goods, Tong Su is not deceived, so even if Meng Tao does not understand wood, he can buy the furniture he likes according to the price.

The furniture factory sent a medium-sized trailer truck to deliver the goods, and two workers came with the car to unload the goods.

After settling the furniture, Meng Tao locked the door and came out, and saw that Uncle Wang had a tricycle with a bicycle, so he borrowed it from him to buy things on the street, Uncle Wang was afraid that Meng Tao would not be able to ride a tricycle, so he asked his fourth son Wang Jiancheng to go with him, and he could also help with things.

Wang Jiancheng is seventeen years old, tall and tall, doesn't like to study, and follows his father as an apprentice, Uncle Wang taught him to call Meng Tao "Sister Meng", he scratched his head and was embarrassed, thinking that Meng Tao was younger than him, Meng Tao smiled and said that he would be twenty years old on New Year's Eve, Wang Jiancheng had to shout "Little Sister Meng".

The two sat on a tricycle, chatting all the way to the supply and marketing cooperative, pots and pans, kettles and other kitchen utensils or something, even if they don't live permanently, a house, this kind of thing must be there.

other brooms, mops, washbasins, pails;

Charcoal and stoves should also be bought, as the old man said, to join the house, you need to burn a fire to prosper the house, even if it is a superstitious saying, but in winter, Meng Tao likes to play with fire very much.

There are supply and marketing cooperatives and department stores in the city, and the citizens are exquisite, they love to go to the department stores to buy and sell things, and they feel that the goods of the supply and marketing cooperatives are low-grade, but in fact, they are not much different, and some are exactly the same.

Meng Tao didn't go to the department store, and directly bought two quilts, bed sheets, mosquito nets, etc. at the supply and marketing cooperative, and some toiletries and change of clothes were stored in the space, so there was no need to buy them.

Wang Jiancheng pulled back the goods full of tricycles and helped Meng Tao move into the house together, Meng Tao saw that he was running and whistling, and there was no boiling water to drink at home, so he took out an apple from his satchel to quench his thirst, Wang Jiancheng was not polite, and went home with the fruit.

As soon as I got home, I was pulled by my mother and asked what the girl next door had bought? How can Wang Jiancheng count everything, only pick up a few things and say, Aunt Wang sighed repeatedly: "This little Meng girl is too young, she spends money lavishly, she has to buy everything, and she doesn't know how to live a fine life." ”

Wang Jiancheng said: "Then can you still buy it?" The house is empty and there is nothing, how can you live without buying? What to eat? ”

Aunt Wang went to the next door to see the freshness, and came back after a while, pouting: "The courtyard gate is tightened, and you shouldn't shout." ”

Uncle Wang said: "People are tidying up things in the house, how can they hear you?" If you hear it, you're not available, so don't bother. ”

"Excuse me? Move and move, don't you want people to put things? I'll be able to help her when I go. ”

"You don't know what people want to do, young girls have different visions from your old ladies."

"You bad old man, you talk like you know."

"I don't know, it's better than you can see: this little Meng girl is not ordinary, she can't get along with you long-tongued women, usually have nothing to do with her, it will annoy you."

"What's not ordinary? I'm a long-tongued woman, and Xiao Meng is still in the countryside. ”

"What's wrong with the country? The little girl took out a few hundred yuan to buy a house at once, can we do it? ”

"That's right, Xiao Meng, a country girl, why is she so rich? Where did she get the money? ”

"She is a little girl, she must not be stolen and robbed, you can manage the money in the family?"

"I'll have to ask her another day if there's any good way to make money."

"You don't want to talk too much."

"Just ask what's wrong?"

Wang Jiancheng sat at the door and nibbled on an apple, and said: "Mom, don't ask, let me tell you: Sister Xiao Meng told me on the street just now, she is from the countryside, yes, but her grandfather is a retired old cadre, subsidized, and saved her dowry money, she wants to live in the city in the future, so she uses it to buy a yard." ”

"Oops! This ruined girl, the dowry money can be spent, and the in-laws will not be disgusted in the future? ”

Uncle Wang: "......"

Wang Jiancheng: "......"

How can the dowry money buy a courtyard house and lose the family? It's also property.

Aunt Wang inquired about the source of Miss Meng's money from her son's mouth, and was puzzled, and suddenly became bored without freshness, and complained to her son: "Why did you find the fruit I specially hidden?" That's for your second brother to leave tomorrow! ”

Wang Jiancheng finished eating the apple, and even gnawed the kernel, it was too delicious to eat: "I don't know where your fruit is hidden, this is what Sister Meng gave me just now." ”

Aunt Wang: "......"

Over there, Meng Tao didn't know that she had become a topic of discussion in the Wang family, as Uncle Wang said, she was busy in the house, and she really didn't hear anyone shouting at the door.

Move the furniture, place the supplies, the curtains have not had time to sew, first cut the cloth according to the size of the window and hang it to cover it, and then take it to the sewing club car when the sky comes.

Divide the master bedroom, guest room, and study, and release the antique case, eight immortal tables, four Ming Dynasty chairs and two Qing Dynasty Taishi chairs received in the provincial capital from the space, and put them in the study, cover them with thick flannel cloth, the doors and windows are very firm, and they are usually locked, and there will be no guests in this room, and they will not be discovered.