An adult-high, half-hollowed courtyard wall encloses three white-walled and black-tiled houses in the center.

The front of the house is poured with cement, which is clean and used to dry clothes and cool down in the summer evening, and behind the house is a private plot where a few seasonal vegetables and fruits are grown.

The walls of the courtyard are covered with lentil vines, autumn eggplants, and a few trumpet flowers.

"Aunt Ma is definitely the most exquisite person in our town. Wu Meili muttered with a smile, and then opened her voice and shouted into the house, "Auntie, are you at home?" ”

Come in, the door is unlocked. Aunt Ma opened the door and came out, put two pairs of self-woven rattan cloth slippers at the door, and beckoned to them.

Wu Meili bumped Xu Suizhu with her elbow, pursed her lips and smiled: "I'm not wrong, right?"

"What are you choreographing me again? Why don't you just let you change your slippers, it's a lot!" Aunt Ma couldn't help but laugh and scolded when she saw her small movements.

"How dare I arrange my aunt! I'm complimenting you on your love of cleanliness. ”

"Come less!I still don't know you!" Aunt Ma glanced at her with a smile, and then greeted Xu Suizhu, "I haven't seen you for a few years, and Suisui is getting more and more standard!"

"Auntie, do you know me?" Xu Suizhu followed Aunt Ma into the house and asked curiously.

"Your father is an iron army, right? That's right! I hugged you when you were a child. Time flies, you've graduated from college in the blink of an eye, and your dad has been gone for six years......"

It's sad to bring up this topic.

Aunt Ma wiped the corners of her eyes, and then picked up the melon seeds, peanuts, and sour jujube cakes prepared on the table to entertain Xu Suizhu, "Come, there is nothing delicious at my aunt's house, these melon seeds and peanuts are still left over during the New Year." The sour jujube cake was bought by my unfilial son, and it tastes okay, try it. ”

Wu Meili grabbed a handful of melon seeds, and said while swallowing: "Auntie, you should be content! If Brother Quan Zhu is an unfilial son, then I don't think there is a filial son in any family in our town." I usually buy you food and clothing, and now I have to take you to the city to enjoy happiness, such an unfilial son, I want to give me a dozen. ”

Aunt Ma was amused and laughed.

And then the house.

"Girl, I didn't plan to rent it out, I love to be clean, your sister-in-law understands my temper, and I can't see the dirty and messy house. I'm also afraid that people won't cherish it and ruin my carefully maintained house. But I heard your sister-in-law say that you have to stay in the town to work, and it is a hassle to have no place to live. Your father helped our family in the early years, and now you have difficulties, I don't know about it, forget it, if you know, you won't help, and after a hundred years, you will go underground, and I'm afraid that I won't have the face to see your father. So you relax and live, you pay for the electricity and water you usually use, and you don't have to pay the rent. ”

"Then what's going on!" Xu Suizhu felt that this was too cheap for Aunt Ma, "My aunt is willing to rent me such a good house, I am already very grateful." As for the rent, it's as much as it should be. ”

Aunt Ma insisted: "I said that I am not renting a house, if you give me rent, I will not give you a place to live." After the others in the province found out, they pestered me and said irresponsible things. ”

Wu Meili pulled Xu Suizhu: "You don't know, some houses in the town are too crowded, and more than a dozen people live in one room, and when I learned that my aunt was going to move to the county seat, I came to ask early in the morning, if my aunt didn't insist on not renting, I am afraid that the threshold would be broken." ”

Xu Suizhu is not so hypocritical, when she heard this, she immediately responded: "Okay, then I will be cheeky and live here for my aunt." ”

Aunt Ma smiled: "In terms of being cheeky, you have to count your sister-in-law." ”

"Oh aunt, I cheekily came to ask you, not for my sister. It's good for you two to meet like relatives, just count me as an outsider. ”

"Hahaha-"

After laughing and laughing, Aunt Ma led Xu Suizhu to visit the house:

"In the east bedroom, the south window has four panes, which is very bright, warm in winter and cool in summer...... Your Uncle Quanzhu poured cement the year before last, and by the way, he built a bathroom for me in the second half, which is convenient for rubbing the bath...... If the winter quilt is not enough, you can just take it out of the quilt cabinet and use it. These boxes contain my clothes, and I can put mirrors and combs on top of the covered cloths, and I will empty the closet for you to use......"

Then he came to the Westinghouse: "The Westinghouse has not been inhabited, so I will pile up some miscellaneous items and household goods, and you can put any miscellaneous things here." I hit three walls and then the ceiling for the utility rack, which can put a lot of things. ”

"The stove is a little smaller, one-eyed stove, but your Uncle Quanzhu got me a gas stove, a big pot for stewing rice, and a gas stove for stir-frying, which is very convenient. I won't take it away, I'll leave it for you to use, and you have to remember to scrub it often, especially after frying, be sure to wipe the oil beads clean. You should always keep an eye on the gas when it runs out, every once in a while there will be cars coming to pull the gas canisters, and if you miss it, you will have to wait until next month......"

Aunt Ma led Xu Suizhu around, and Xu Suizhu was very satisfied with the house.

Not to mention the wooden floors in the rooms, the gas stoves in the stove rooms, and the clean walls painted with green paint, the bathroom with white tiles and running water alone is very satisfying. In this day and age, a house with such conditions is really good.

Knowing that Aunt Ma's son would come to pick her up tomorrow, Xu Suizhu decided to move in next Monday. Aunt Ma gave Xu Suizhu a copy of the house key, and everything that should be explained has been explained.

After finishing two important things in the morning, and both of them were successful results, Xu Suizhu rode back to the fishing village with a smile all the way.

"Auntie, I'm back!"

"It's good to be back!

"Smooth and smooth! No more, the principal told me to go to work on Monday. Xu Suizhu hugged her aunt and smiled and frowned, "Doudou, should you be hungry, right?"

"Not long after you left, the little one fell asleep and didn't wake up yet. Xu Xiuyuan was guarding the door of the room to mend the broken fishing net, and the little bun could be heard when he woke up and chirped.

"This sleep is so long?" Xu Suizhu said in surprise, calculating the time, "It must have been four or five hours, right?

As he spoke, he went into the house to look at the little buns.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Baozi had woken up, and his eyes were rolling with his fingers in his mouth.

Xu Suizhu saw it very rarely, hugged him and kissed him: "What a good baby, I don't cry when I wake up." Ma Ma will feed you. ”

As she fed the milk, she saw that the little one was hungry and swallowed it heavily, and in a few moments she had exhausted the ration she had accumulated for the morning.

Feeding the little buns, Xu Suizhu was also hungry, so she and her aunt simply cooked a bowl of seafood noodles, scooped a spoonful of snail sauce, and talked about the interview and the rental situation while eating.

Knowing that the two things were successfully implemented, Xu Xiuyuan breathed a sigh of relief and happily said that she must prepare a few good dishes to celebrate in the evening.