Chen Chuchu walked on the street, according to the guidance of the market's Xinshan vendors, walked to the south of Zichuan, and sure enough, he saw a lot of big houses, in the past few years, there were wars everywhere, there were foreign enemies in the north invasion, there were pirates in the East China Sea rampant, and there were frequent anti-thieves shouting the slogan of the uprising to burn and plunder everywhere......

Many men in Zichuan County have joined the army, and slowly many houses have become empty, only some lonely old people are guarding, and some are old and frail and unable to work, unable to make money, and starve to death in the house, and the corpse stinks and floats out before the neighbors find it. Some live in relatively remote areas, and the bones are rotten and slowly eaten by snakes, insects, rats and ants into white bones, and no one finds them.

The reason for introducing this place is that the house is empty and empty, and if Chen Chuchu needs it, he can live here without much rent, but if it is given to the lonely elderly, it is enough for them to live for a long time......

Chen's initial purpose only needed a place to stay.

If you can live and help, why not......

He walked around the alleys in the south of Zichuan, the ground was good, paved with broken stones, at least it rained and the mud would not splash all over his legs. Many of these big houses are empty, as the vendors say. There were old men sitting in small chairs at the door, and there was no word of chatting.

Usually not many people come.

Because there are too many old people here, there is a sense of twilight.

When the old people saw a young man like Chen Qiqi coming, they were suddenly a little curious, and an old woman opened her wrinkled eyelids, looked at Chen Qiqi with cloudy eyeballs and asked, "Young man, did you come to us to find a house?" ”

Chen Chuchu smiled and nodded: "Yes." ”

Hearing this, the old woman slowly got up and went to the house to take out a board and handed it to Chen Qiqi, this board actually drew the floor plan of these houses in the south of Zichuan, the lines and directions were slightly non-standard, but they could be understood. The vacant seats in each house are written with the price, 200 Wen, 300 Wen and 500 Wen and so on.

Chen Chuchu nodded: "Old man, this thing is well done, the location, price, at a glance." ”

The old woman smiled and said, "Yes, this is made by a scholar who lives in my house, and he can't pay the rent, so he got this thing and told me that it will be worth a month or two." My house is empty and empty, and many people are more popular, so I gave it to him. ”

Chen Chuchu felt that this scholar was quite smart, but it also took some effort to draw this plan.

He saw that there was a good house type on the board, with yards in front and back, and several side rooms, but the price was only 100 Wen, which was much cheaper than other poor units, so he asked: "Why does this only cost 100 Wen?" ”

The old woman was illiterate, but she could read the picture, and when she saw that it was the family, she sighed slightly and said: "Hey, the old man has a strange temper and is very stubborn, although the price is cheap, but there are several tenants before and after who can't stand his temper and leave, and if it goes on like this, he will die in the house without eating or drinking in winter......"

Chen Chuchu took out ten copper coins and put them on the board and handed them to the old woman: "Thank you for the guidance of the old man, that house is good, I'll go and see it." ”

The old woman's eyes were not very good, she took the board, and the copper coin slipped in her hand before she realized what it was, and hurriedly returned it to Chen Chuchu, shouting: "I didn't rent your house, I don't need money!" ”

Chen Chuchu had already walked away, but just waved his hand: "I won't receive favors in vain!" ”

What a favor this is, alas, hey!

The old woman couldn't do it well, so she could only sit down with the board, she knew that Chen Chuchu was a kind person, but in this world, good Samaritans were miserable and died quickly......

The 100-meter house is not far, more than 200 meters away, Chen Chu arrived here, the house is better than he imagined, with good lighting and good ventilation. He stretched out his hand and knocked lightly on the door three times, waited for a while, didn't respond, knocked three more times, and the old man's voice faintly came from inside: "Knock on what, won't you push the door in?" ”

"Then bother."

Chen Chu pushed the door and walked into the courtyard, there were no trees in the yard, and the ground was made into two fields for planting vegetables on the left and right.

He saw an old man in his seventies sitting on a stone by the vegetable field, watching the little white butterflies flying on the rape flowers in a daze......

Chen Qiqi walked over, avoided the rape in the field, saluted and said: "Old man, my name is Chen Qiqi, I am a scholar, I came from Fujian, I want to live in Zichuan for a while, your house is good, is it convenient to rent?" ”

The old man glanced up at him and said weakly: "Since you know that I am renting, naturally I am renting, of course renting!" 100 Wen per month, pay now, choose your own room, I won't help you clean it. ”

This old man really has a strange temper.

Chen Chuchu smiled, but only to this extent, it is nothing at all, you must know that when he founded the company, when he walked around the customer's house in person in the early days, he encountered a lot of strange things, and he still remembered that a subordinate went with him, and was so angry by the other party's almost unreasonable request that everyone was sent to the hospital.

He took out a bag of copper coins from his pocket and put them in the old man's hand: "It's exactly 100 copper coins, you can take it." ”

The old man touched the cloth bag, it was a good silk, this bag alone was worth a lot of money, his eyes did not leave Chen Chuchu's cheeks for a moment, seeing that his face did not show a trace of displeasure, he was silent for a moment: "Find a room by yourself, don't scare away my butterfly ......"

The house is symmetrical, the old man's room is on the right, and Chen chose the room on the left, which is opposite the door. In this way, on the first day he traveled to this world, he had a place to stay......

In the evening, when the sunset was infinitely beautiful, Chen Chuchu moved a chair and sat under the eaves of the courtyard, took out the "Liaozhai Ghost Encyclopedia" edited by Master and several of his friends from the publishing house, and read it carefully, trying to find the information of the white-haired man......

The white-haired man who attacked Xu Sanniang in Tan Jinxuan's house was very strange, there was no obvious sneaky aura, and he didn't die after being shot several times in the back, either an evil cultivator or a rare variety of ghosts.

The old man went out during the period, brought some rice back, boiled some gruel and wild vegetables in the kitchen, there was a square table in the living room, he sat down next to him, and his hand suddenly began to beat the table: "I'm hungry, I'm hungry, Ah Mei hurry up and make porridge!" ”

Chen's initial concentration on reading was not affected.

Who knew that the old man was still tapping on the table with his hand and repeating the same words, Chen Chu put down the book and asked, "Old man, that sister shouldn't be at home, she's out, right?" "Who is Ah Mei, Chen Chuchu doesn't know, it's not the old man's wife, but also a daughter-in-law or something......

The old man ignored Chen Qiqi, just shouted as Ah Mei and Ah Mei shouted.

Chen Chu was stunned for a moment, feeling that he was a little senile dementia, the sunset outside was about to set, there was no oil lamp here, and he couldn't see anything when it got dark. He walked to the kitchen and opened the lid of the stove, thickened it as much as possible with a spoon, covered the porridge with wild vegetables, and brought it to the old man: "Ah Mei is not here, it's the same if I serve you a bowl, it's very hot, drink it slowly." ”