Two hundred and twentieth chapters lead the wolf into the room
Such tidy courtyards are becoming increasingly rare in Beijing. Strictly speaking, the courtyard of Hong Tao's house is actually half a courtyard, with only the houses on the north and east sides. The houses on the south side were all built after the liberal arts period, so they cannot be compared with this courtyard.
For example. After 2010, the price of a standard courtyard house could skyrocket. It would start at 100 million yuan. If you take tens of millions, it would be quite a lot. Don’t even think about buying this kind of courtyard.
On the west side of the yard is the courtyard gate, and next to it is a garage. At this time, the folding door of the garage is wide open to the yard. There are two cars parked inside, and a middle-aged woman is picking vegetables at the door of the garage.
"Miss, you are back." When the woman saw Liu Xiaomei and Hong Tao walking in, she immediately stood up. You could hear the northwest accent when she opened her mouth. She was probably from Boss Liu's hometown.
"Auntie, I'll come back to get something, and you can open the warehouse." Liu Xiaomei spoke to the middle-aged woman quite nicely.
"Hey, I'm going to get the key. You guys go and sit in the room first. Young man, do you want tea or a drink?" The middle-aged woman was very enthusiastic and had a loud voice. She looked good and had a lot of energy.
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"Leave him alone, let's go, don't poke around in the yard, sit down for a while." Liu Xiaomei raised her head towards the north room, and then walked towards the east room herself.
"Hey, are we letting people in or not?" Hong Tao followed Liu Xiaomei's instructions and opened the door of the main room in the middle of the north house. It looked like a living room inside, which was quite large, with almost three rooms.
It was opened. However, the floor of this house is made of wooden floors, with a large round carpet spread in the middle, and there are no slippers to change into at the door.
"Young man, go in, it's okay, I'll wipe it off if it's dirty, go ahead, go ahead, there's a cigarette on the table. I don't smoke either, I don't know what's good or bad, you smoke yours." Seeing Hong Tao hesitate at the door, he refused to come in.
The middle-aged woman in the house and yard came over, pushed Hong Tao directly in, and then stared at Hong Tao at the door, as if she would not leave unless he smoked.
"I x, I'm sorry if you don't smoke!" Hong Tao looked at it and saw a small iron bucket from Dunhill on the coffee table. After opening it, there was a roll of cigarettes like a cannon rolled by himself. One end was thin and the other was thick, and there were full-length tobacco leaves on the outside.
There is black tobacco inside. Although I have never smoked it, it looks high-end. If you don’t smoke it, it will be useless.
"Young man, are you a friend of the lady?" The aunt held a bunch of keys in her hand. Instead of opening the warehouse, she followed into the house. She helped Hong Tao find a box of matches and brought an ashtray over.
"Auntie, I'll do it myself, I'll do it myself. Ah, I'm quite familiar with Boss Liu." Hong Tao quickly took the ashtray by himself. He couldn't say no to her question, so he had to carry Boss Liu out.
"Are you a local? Are you 25?" The aunt was obviously not willing to be fooled.
"Oh, I live in the north of Houhai. You have really good judgment. This year's birthday happens to be on the 25th or June." Hong Tao took a look and thought, don't even think about sending this guy away with a few words. Since you are willing to chat, let's chat.
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"Oh, it's one year old, right? You don't like to live in vain here, right?" The aunt asked very carefully.
"Yes, it's one year old. You are 40 this year, right? Is your child here too?" Hong Tao couldn't let her ask this question anymore. She would have to ask about her parents and work soon, so we might as well take the initiative.
"Hey, aunt, I'm almost 50. My eldest son is at work, and my younger daughter is about to go to college, both of them are in Beijing. What do you do for a living? Have you got a family?" This is a blessing, not a curse, but you can't avoid it.
After going around and around, the aunt finally came back.
"Oh, I'm running a small business of my own, and I haven't started a family yet."
"Well, if you do your job well, have your parents retired? What kind of jobs do they do?" The aunt probably stayed in the small courtyard every day and had no one to chat with. It was not easy to catch Hong Tao, and she was not polite at all.
"Oh, they are all gone. There was a car accident two years ago." Hong Tao said to himself, now you probably have nothing to talk about.
"Ah! Oh, your child's life is so miserable. Then who will you live with? How can you live without a family at your age?" As soon as the aunt heard this, she sat down next to Hong Tao and patted her.
Hong Tao's legs looked like he would shed tears again.
"It's okay, it's okay. It's good to live alone. I can feed myself and the whole family won't be hungry, so it's easy." Hong Tao didn't know what to say. Could it be that he and the middle-aged woman had something in common?
"You can't say that. When my parents were around, I couldn't feel anything. When I was not married, I couldn't even cook and ate instant noodles every day. The same goes for Mei Zi. She even got angry when I wasn't around.
I can’t afford it. I eat out every day. How can you say that anything cooked outside is as comfortable as eating at home?
Take it, look, you are tidy and on time. You are a good boy who knows how to live a good life. Young people nowadays don't know how to feel sorry for others. My daughter-in-law..." The aunt's thinking was a bit divergent.
As she talked about Hong Tao, she turned a corner and went to her daughter-in-law.
When the mother-in-law talks about the daughter-in-law, it can't be finished in one or two episodes. Hong Tao is the worst at talking about family matters. At this time, he can only be a listener, and he can't remain silent. Isn't that using silence to fight, too
It's rude.
"Oh, Auntie, why are you talking again? I still have to go out. Please open the door first." Just when Hong Tao was about to finish smoking his third cigarette, Liu Xiaomei came in. She changed her clothes.
The hair also looks freshly blow-dried.
"Oh, that's right. Look at my memory. I have the key in my hand and I forgot about opening the door. I'm going to go right now." That aunt is also a good at pretending to be confused. She doesn't even know how to do it.
Forget, I just feel depressed and want to find someone to talk to.
"Hey, you're smoking a room full of cigarettes. Let's go. You said you and an old lady could chat together, and you really did." Liu Xiaomei blew away the smoke in the room with her hands, opened the door, and waited for Hong Tao.
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It turns out that there is a quite large room in the southeast corner of the yard. There are many large boxes and small baggage piled in it. All of Hong Tao's luggage is placed next to the door. When he was at Zhou Xiaoli's house, they were all scattered.
Just leave it alone, it doesn't show anything, but now there are more than ten large cardboard boxes in one episode. If Hong Tao gets it back by himself, the shipping fee alone will cost several thousand, and some items may not pass the security inspection.
Seeing that the aunt was going to help move the box, Hong Tao hurried up and stopped her. Let alone whether the box was heavy or not, this was not the way to go. Hong Tao would not let anyone help, and he would do it one by one.
Move the boxes to the door of the garage, pile them into a pile, and then wait for Liu Xiaomei's order to decide which car to use to pull them.
"Loading the car, are you still waiting for me to install it for you?" Liu Xiaomei saw Hong Tao stop and looked at her blankly, becoming anxious again.
"How about loading that one? You can't finish it in one trip, right?" Hong Tao pointed to the two cars, a BMW and a Volvo. They were both sedans and couldn't hold a few boxes.
"Then it will take two trips. I can use either car. But let me declare, I can't move it. Don't count on me." Liu Xiaomei waved her hand indifferently.
"I didn't expect you to be able to do this at all." Hong Tao didn't dare to say it, this woman couldn't be recruited.
Hong Tao picked the champagne-colored Volvo, opened the trunk, and started loading boxes inside. The reason why he picked this car was not because of how much space it had, but because Hong Tao had never driven one before and had touched a BMW several times in his previous life.
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"The back seat can also be loaded, otherwise it won't be able to be loaded in two trips." Liu Xiaomei saw that Hong Tao had loaded three boxes into the trunk but stopped loading, and gave another order.
"There are pieces of iron on the box. I'm afraid the seat will be scratched." Hong Tao pointed to the straps on the box, which had metal knots on them.
"It's okay. If the car is scratched, I will sell it to you. Hurry up and load the car..." Liu Xiaomei refused to give up.
"...If you dare to die, I will bury you." Hong Tao saw that he didn't care about his family, so he just pretended. I don't have any money to sell him to me.
"This small courtyard of yours is not bad, but the house is a bit old, and the flip-flop is pretty good. By the way, I will trade it with you for the building, just over there in the Asian Games Village. How about it?" After entering Hong Tao's yard, Liu Xiaomei
Standing under the pomegranate tree in the middle of the yard, she looked around, and then gave her evaluation of the yard. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
