The old man stepped forward to check the pulse, muttered a word and went behind the counter.

Only then did Zhou Huilan notice that this room was an old-fashioned wooden structure, with extremely high beams, and behind the counter on the west side was a whole wall of Chinese medicine cabinets, four or five meters high, and a custom ladder was placed next to it to take medicine.

The old man took a pill, took off a little bit and melted it with wine, first put it under his nose and smelled it for a while, and then pinched it on his neck, and the old lady took a deep breath, and then woke up and turned around.

"Dead old woman, drink this and get out of my house quickly!" The old man put the wine cup aside, turned his head and left.

Zhou Huilan was confused by this attitude, for fear that the old lady would really refuse to drink the medicine.

But the old man didn't say a word, raised his head and poured the medicine into his stomach, then held Zhou Huilan's arm and walked straight out.

Out of the Chinese medicine shop did not stop, the old lady pulled Zhou Huilan directly into a small door diagonally opposite, this door is very narrow, there is a narrow aisle behind it, Zhou Huilan's fat body squeezed into the door, looked at the generally narrow aisle, and stopped awkwardly.

She had come to look for a house, and since the old lady was no longer in danger, she should also go.

But the old lady didn't let her go, "Girl, thank you for saving the life of the eldest lady and come to sit at home for a while." ”

Zhou Huilan also wanted to ask the old lady about the news of renting a house nearby, so she sucked her stomach against the wall, walked through the aisle with great difficulty, and passed through a small door at the end, which suddenly opened up.

This courtyard looks decadent, but if you look closely, it is neat and tidy.

On the right hand side is a row of big houses with blue bricks and gray tiles, and there is a corridor facing the small door, and there is a rockery pond in it, but the pond is dry, and the ground next to the rockery is bare, and only a small piece is planted with a few vegetables.

"Come on, come in and sit."

Zhou Huilan, who was stunned, came back to her senses and followed the old man into the house.

The old house is the same as the Chinese medicine shop, except that the roof looks higher, but in addition to a delicately carved old-fashioned shelf bed, there is only a washstand and a chair.

The old lady moved the chair to Zhou Huilan, and she had no place to sit herself.

"Look at me, there's not even a chair in this house, girl, sit down."

Zhou Huilan felt her weight and could directly collapse the chair, so she quickly waved her hand, "Old man, I won't sit, you just recovered and rested, so I won't bother." ”

"Thank you, girl, you saved my life, but I don't have anything ...... old woman" The old man became depressed, "I'm alone, I don't know when I'm going to die, alas......"

"Old man, I want to rent a house around here, do you know who has a vacant house for rent in this neighborhood?"

Zhou Huilan hurriedly changed the topic, but she didn't expect that the old lady suddenly clapped her hands and stood up viciously, "All the people living around here are Zhou Papi!" Where will you rent a house! After speaking, he took Zhou Huilan's hand, "Girl, why don't you stay here with me!" You saved my life, and I didn't repay you with anything, and I didn't need any rent when you lived here, so I would repay you for saving your life. ”

This......

The surprise came too suddenly, and Zhou Huilan was a little overwhelmed.

However, before she could respond, the old man told him what happened to him about pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

The old lady's family name is Duan, her maiden name is Xu, she married at the age of eighteen, her husband went to the battlefield less than a month after marriage, and she wrote a letter to her home during the war, and she has not been heard from since.

The husband is the only child in the family, and after the man leaves, she and her in-laws are left in the house.

Originally, half of this Songbai Street belonged to the Duan family, but when it was just liberated, the in-laws handed it over, and during the movement, they were forced to divide most of it, and now there is such a small garden left.

"In this room, it used to be all Huanghuali furniture, and now there is only this bed left, if they can't carry it out, even this bed won't be left for me." The old lady said, lamenting, "I used to have a cat, recently disappeared, early in the morning I saw it on the wall I looked for it, but I didn't expect the old problem to be committed, fell in the corner, if it weren't for you, today I would see the Lord of Yama go, if you have no place to live, just move over, just think you pity my old woman alone, come to accompany me, do you think it's okay?" ”

The old man has said this, and if Zhou Huilan refuses, she won't know what to do.

To tell the truth, this yard still meets her expectations.

There is a lot of traffic nearby, there are yards and land, and the old lady chatted casually, obviously a cheerful person.

"Aunt Xu, I can come over to accompany you, but I also have a daughter who is four years old this year, and she has to come with me, and this rent, you have to collect it, if you don't collect it, I will definitely not come."

"How can you call Aunt Xu, you have to call me Granny Duan."

"Okay, Granny Duan."

In the end, it was agreed that the room next to the big house was for Zhou Huilan to live in, and the rent was twenty per month, but there was no furniture in the house, and Zhou Huilan had to buy it herself.

Putting down the small burden of carrying her daughter's things, Zhou Huilan spent two hours scrubbing the house that had not been occupied for a long time, and then listened to the guidance of Granny Duan and came to the nearby second-hand market.

In 93, with the initial nouveau riche living a good life, more and more people have gone to the sea to do business and make money, so the second-hand market has been derived, and most of the old-fashioned furniture that has been eliminated is made by carpenters in the early years, although the appearance is outdated, but it is definitely not a problem.

What Zhou Huilan needs most is to be strong.

After turning around twice, she took a fancy to a one-meter-eight bed, with a one-foot-high fence on three sides, and the standard bed size of newlyweds had just been upgraded to one meter five, so this big bed was an antique in the second-hand market.

The boss asked for thirty, and in the end, Zhou Huilan only took out twenty-five yuan, brought two chairs, and spared the boss a small stone mill pushed by hand, which she planned to use to grind soy milk.

To set up a stall, it is safest to start with the lowest-cost soybeans.

When the bed was tidied up, the mattress and the bed were left.

Zhou Huilan's first reaction was, of course, to buy a new one, and she was not short of money now.

But I went to the nearest department store and asked, a set of the most common bed sheets and quilt covers cost forty yuan, a three-pound cotton quilt cover costs thirty yuan, a hard bed wants to be soft and the mattress weighs eight pounds, and a bed is two hundred smaller, not counting the quilts of different weights in different seasons, as well as the sheets and quilts that are washed.

Zhou Huilan admitted that she was distressed.

Thinking about the house of the meat factory, Wang Jianye never went back to sleep at all, the cover was all purchased by herself, and if she didn't take it, it was not cheap for the dog man and woman.

Immediately went back to the door of the second-hand market to find two tricycles, negotiated five yuan per person, and helped her go to the family courtyard of the meat factory to pull the quilt, but one car was loaded with quilts, and the other car was to pull her and Yaoyao.