Chapter 13 Renting a House
Autumn is coming, the hot summer that made me and Ye'er anxious is finally over, the baby has completely recovered his health, and the small courtyard at home is filled with the baby's happy laughter every day, as well as the childish sound of the baby's babbling. However, in this peaceful atmosphere, a new family conflict inevitably occurs.
Because my younger brother plans to get married this winter, but there is no extra house in the family. There should have been more than one house in the family, but my father and mother gave birth to three of our brothers, but only two houses were built, one of which was not far from where we lived, and belonged to my brother's family to live temporarily. We, as well as our parents, grandfather, and younger brother, live in the old house at home, because my brother is six or seven years older than us, and he has done some small projects in recent years, and with some money in his hands, he went out to apply for a homestead in the new community and built a two-story house.
If there are more brothers in the family, the eldest person often has these two character characteristics, either he is honest, conscientious and conscientious to fulfill the responsibilities of the eldest in the family, take care of his younger brothers and sisters, and honor his parents, and the representative figure is Wu Dalang; There is also a kind of greed and cheapness, for their own interests will not take into account the flesh and blood of a fellow mother, the representative figure is the eldest brother of the cowherd, and my brother belongs to the second type of family leader of this standard.
Since the elder brother has the money to go out and build a house, he should vacate the house he lives in for us to live in, and our house is vacated for the younger brother to live in, but the elder brother and sister-in-law just don't agree, their reason is very simple, that is, they also belong to the children of their parents, and the parents should provide them with housing, and now they have the conditions to go out and build their own house, or this house will continue to belong to them, even if our little brother does not have a house to live in, it is none of his business; Either we have to give him money to compensate them for their losses before they are willing to move into a new building.
The father looked at the unreasonable request of his brother, who had already plumped his wings, and couldn't come up with an effective solution, because the father always knew it, but when the words came to his mouth, he was always not good at words, and he always couldn't speak. No matter how much my grandfather or mother persuaded me, my brother and sister-in-law would not agree to vacate the house for us to live in, unless they were given money as compensation for the losses they had suffered.
This matter is deadlocked here, the younger brother is facing getting married, there is no house, and he is also very distressed, but the father is not in charge of this contradiction in the family, and none of us can do anything. In this kind of contradiction, once I was not at home at work, Ye'er had a conflict with her younger brother because of the house.
When I got home from work in the evening, I listened to Ye'er's narration and was very angry. This home really disappointed and sad me. My brother and sister-in-law have no humanity, and they see that we are brothers and sisters because of the house, but they occupy two houses by themselves, and my father is not good at words, so he doesn't care about the contradictions between usγγγγγγγ
I can't let my baby and Ye'er be wronged, although we are very poor now and can't afford to buy a house, but I believe that we will have our own house in the future; Although we are very poor now and can't afford to buy a house, but people can't be short-sighted, I decided to go out and rent a house to live, and Ye'er also agreed with my idea.
I agreed with Ye'er, so I decided to go out and find a house. There is an old house not far from us that is vacant there, it is the house of my distant aunt's family, and her family also went out to apply to build a two-story house in the new community, and the old house has been idle. When I found my aunt, she readily agreed without thinking, and my aunt said, it's empty anyway, as long as you don't dislike the dilapidated house, choose a good day to move in, as for the rent, don't want it, just think it's to help her family take care of the house.
This is a distant relative with whom I hardly usually contact us, and she was able to make her house available for us to live in for free, but my own brother occupied two houses, and we almost slept on the streets! Man, sometimes really a very poisonous animal.
When I told my mother the news that I had gone out to rent a house, my mother was very reluctant, and my father was still silent and silent. I don't know what my father thought at the beginning, but even now, I don't agree with my father's approach.
Ye'er and I chose a good day, invited a few of my little helpers, and we moved to the old house of my distant aunt's family not far from where we lived.
We moved out, my brother and sister-in-law didn't feel any guilt or sympathy, my brother moved into the house we used to live in, and my father and mother never came to visit our new home, everything depended on my strong support. Only grandpa came to see us from time to time, sometimes with some cucumbers and beans that had just been picked in the field, grandpa always liked to hug the baby every time he came, we were always worried that grandpa could not hold the baby, but the grandfather who was eighty years old at that time was so good that he could hold the baby and walk back and forth with crutches without effortγγγγγγ