The Yang family lives in the penultimate room of the first row of brick houses, and Xie Changxiao and Chi Yunyan visited them yesterday.

They did not have in-depth communication, only knew that there were six people in the Yang family, and the two elderly people looked at each other badly, and the eyes of them and the door-to-door salute were full of pickiness and dissatisfaction.

Wen Qizhou: "I haven't looked for it." He rubbed the knuckles of his thumb and stared at the other person: "Is there something wrong with them?" ”

"This ...... Let's put it this way, as long as there is a sandstorm in the village, the Yang family will ask us outsiders to collect rent, at least twice a month, and the amount we ask for is quite a lot. ”

"You gave it?"

"Well, Ah Hui and I were not familiar with the environment when we first came, and we were afraid of offending the Yang family, so we gave it three or four times."

As a result, the Yang family became more and more greedy.

The so-called rent, on the basis of two hares or pheasants, gradually increased by three catties / six catties / ten catties of vegetables.

They were bent on getting something for nothing, and they never thought about it, Zheng Yuanyang and the other two families could escape to Honggou Village for thousands of miles, which was the soft persimmon they could handle?

Zheng Yuanyang: "That family is full of bullying and fearing the hard, and they are both incapable and surprisingly cowardly. We scare them with sticks once, and they don't dare to come to the door and ask for anything again. ”

Chi Yunyan "tsk" twice: "How angry is the light scare?" If it were me, I would have to give them a stick to say the least. ”

"That's not going to work." He sighed faintly: "The Yang family has a lot of side connections, and they are still planting rice with everyone in the village, so if we want to exchange rice, we can't offend people ruthlessly." ”

"No wonder ......"

No wonder they endure for so long.

Knowing that the Yang family was not easy to get along with and greedy, he asked them to come to visit with a meeting gift.

Ge Huai: "Can you change rice now?" ”

"You can't change it, they only exchange four or five hundred catties every year, and if you want to change it, you can only wait until July next year."

"July...... We left early. ”

"Where are you going?"

"Capital."

Zheng Yuanyang didn't ask much: "Then you don't need to worry too much." He was referring to the treatment of the Yang family.

Hear the sound of praying boats.

They didn't talk for long, Zheng Yuanyang thought of Lu Hui and Yuan Jiayu at home, got up and put on a mask, and prepared to leave.

The moment the dust opened, the wind swept in, and he glanced at the figure striding down the steps, and then closed the door, cutting off the mixed wind and the shallow sound.

*

On the third day of the sandstorm, the Yang family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law walked to the tiled house where they lived against the yellow sand that permeated the surroundings.

The front yard door was unlocked.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law walked straight through the front yard, knocked on the wooden door on the steps, and raised their voices to say that they were looking for something.

It took a lot of time to talk through the door panel, Xie Changxiao simply invited someone in, took two chairs and stools and put them by the door to chat with people.

"Aunt Yang, why are you here?" He pretended not to know the intention of his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and asked again without changing his face.

Aunt Yang's cheeks are concave and thin, her cheekbones are slightly high, her face is slightly mean, and her eyes are full of shrewdness.

"We're here to collect rent." She didn't plan to go around in circles, and said bluntly: "There is a rule in the village, if a foreigner lives here for more than a week, he must pay monthly rent. ”

"How much?"

"The first two months were six chickens."

Xie Changxiao bowed: "Okay." ”

Seeing him so happy, Aunt Yang and his daughter-in-law rolled their eyes, and said with a smile: "Originally, I was supposed to collect ten catties of vegetables and two chickens, but my mother saw that you hadn't started planting vegetables yet, so I just collected six chickens, but I still have to make up for it." ”

"Of course." Seeing that she had calculated, Ge Huai dragged the bench and sat over, and smiled: "We are all real people from the countryside, and we won't rely on your rent." ”

Aunt Yang was happy: "I said why do you look so kind." She immediately grabbed Ge Huai's hand and said "good boy" one by one: "It's really a good person, unlike those black-hearted people, who don't know how to be grateful for giving him a house to live in." ”

"Who? Who messed with our aunt? ”

"It's not those rabbit cubs yet...... she scolded Zheng Yuanyang and the two outsiders angrily, spitting stars flying all over the sky.

Ge Huai was sometimes surprised, sometimes condemned.

With him cheering, the more the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with a broken mouth chattered, the more cheerful they became, and the topic changed from "unthanksgiving" to gossip from other families.

The gossip they provided was also wonderful.

For example, a sixty-year-old man was caught and raped in bed, a new daughter-in-law and a brother-in-law turned the phoenix all night, and a second-rate man touched the widow's house in the middle of the night......

It makes people listen to it with relish.

Chi Yue: "I want to knock melon seeds." ”

Melon seeds and gossip are a perfect match, but the person who provided the gossip is still there, and she can't find an excuse to take two bags of melon seeds.

"I want to, too." Wen Yaxian sighed regretfully, and looked at the two mouths that couldn't stop: "They are too good to talk." ”

"Well, it's been forty minutes of talking." She glanced at the dial, took the tea handed by Wen Qizhou, and continued to listen to the gossip.

When the story of the last wronged boss helping to raise a child for eight years was over, Aunt Yang pursed her lips that became drier and drier the more she talked, and finally remembered the business she and her daughter-in-law came over.

"Xiao Xie." She elbowed her daughter-in-law, who was still about to talk, and motioned for her to shut up: "Can you pay the rent today?" ”

"Yes." Without waiting for the two of them to rejoice, Xie Changxiao made his request: "But you have to show us the real estate certificate." ”

"Title deeds?"

"As a tenant, we definitely need the tenant to provide the real estate certificate, otherwise how can we sign a contract with you?"

"No need to sign ......"

Ge Huai: "Auntie, I know that you are a good person and are willing to trust us, but it is more secure to write clearly in black and white." ”

He buckled a high hat to Aunt Yang's head.

The corners of Aunt Yang's mouth twitched twice, and the usual sprinkling and rolling routine could not come in handy at all.

She made an excuse and said: "The real estate certificate is written in the name of my daughter-in-law, she brought it back to her parents' house a while ago, and she can't get it back for a while, so she just won't go through the process, right?" ”

"What about the homestead certificate?"

“…… Also at her mother's house. ”

"That's right." Xie Changxiao didn't debunk her clumsy lie, and muttered, "Then let's find the village chief as a witness?" ”

Aunt Yang panicked: "No!" ”

If they find the village chief, the Yang family will definitely not be able to hide the fact that they are collecting rent behind their backs.

Although Honggou Village is xenophobic, it will never take the initiative to bully outsiders, and the village chief will not tolerate the collection of rent. Once he finds out that their family is messing around in private, then what they have collected in the past will definitely have to be spit out.

"Why not?"

Chi Yue pretended not to understand.

A pair of crystal clear almond eyes, as if they can see through the souls of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, so that lies and calculations have nowhere to hide.

"The village chief's house is too far away." Her daughter-in-law once again prevaricated Chi Yue with lies: "My mother's legs and feet are not good, and she can't walk." ”

"It's okay, we have a car."

“……”

The air was quiet for a moment.

Aunt Yang was afraid that they would really want to find the village chief, so she couldn't sit still and said, "Forget it, we'll come back when we get the real estate certificate." ”