Sister-in-law Zhao, Sister-in-law He and others helped the Le family finish their work. The Le family had lunch and went back to their respective homes.
In the afternoon, Mr. Le Xiao went to the warehouse to tidy up the ground, dug trenches, and made preparations for planting plants. He spent the rest of the time on the second floor supervising his younger brother to read and write textbooks.
That day was also Friday, because Sunday was the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, and the school had the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday. The middle school and high school students went to catch their cars in the middle of the afternoon and went back to their homes.
High schools in the county, considering that many students are far away, start class early at noon and end get out of class before three o'clock, so that students can catch the bus home.
Jiudao's bus back to his hometown leaves at 3:30 in the afternoon. If he misses it, he can only take the shuttle bus to Zhuangxiang and ask his family to pick him up in Shangzhuang, or ask a tricycle to take him back to Jiudao.
Zhou Tianqing and other students from his hometown take the 3:30 bus home every Friday, and so does Li Xiaoyan.
When the bus returned to Jiudao Street, it was already dark.
Mrs. Meng did not go home after finishing work at the construction site. She waited at Xiang Street to pick up her daughter. After picking up her daughter, she went with Zhou Tianqing and a high school student from Meicun Village.
When we arrived at the entrance of Meicun, Meng Sao, Li Xiaoyan and Zhou Tianqing were all together.
When she first entered the village, Zhou Tianqing saw the helicopter in front of the village office building. She was so happy that she ran home as fast as she could and happily asked her grandma standing under the eaves: "Mistress, sister Le is back, right?"
Aunt Pa and her family were waiting for her granddaughter to come back for dinner. She looked at the door and saw her granddaughter running towards her. She asked with a smile: "You came back yesterday. What do you want to do?"
"I'm going to see Sister Le tomorrow to help me make up lessons. Hey, English is too difficult. I only scored over 80 points in the test. The English teacher hates me." Zhou Tianqing shouted, not feeling embarrassed. She had other liberal arts majors.
Everything is fine, but my English is not very good.
"The Lele family's fields have been planted today. I wonder if Lele will go to the mountains to pick tea leaves tomorrow. I'll ask later. Now wash your hands and eat."
Zhou Tianqing muttered, "Aunt Qiu Feng's family has planted fields so early." After entering the house, Aunt Pa turned off the lights under the eaves while talking to her granddaughter, then closed the door and went to the kitchen to eat.
Li Xiaoyan also saw the helicopter that was visible due to the lights of Zhou's house. It was a bit strange. Didn't Le Yun say that she would go abroad in March or April and not come back during Qingming Festival? Why did she come back again?
Sister-in-law Meng had something on her mind, so she walked dully past Village Chief Zhou's house and turned the corner of the village road. No one was around, so she asked softly: "Xiaoyan, I heard that you were promoting in school that you are the cousin of the Le family girl's brother.
Is this happening?"
When asked by her mother, Li Xiaoyan's back shuddered and she immediately denied: "No, I didn't publicize it. One day I made a phone call and was overheard by a classmate. The classmate asked me, I just frankly admitted that you married Uncle Zhou."
The new aunt of the Le family's little boy was passed around by classmates, and then the news spread out somehow.
Whose family is the favorite in the school? It will pass in a few days. Mom, why are you asking this? Is the Zhou family blaming you again? "
"You really didn't do anything? Why did even the people at the construction site know about it? The teachers in the junior high school and primary school also heard about it." Mrs. Meng didn't want to doubt her girl, but why did even the old principal Yin call her and put it politely?
Let her control her own girl.
"I didn't know that now that the Le family is rich, any trivial matter related to the Le family would be a big deal to others." Li Xiaoyan was determined not to admit that she was the cousin of the Le family. Anyway, her mother couldn't go.
The school traces the source.
Sister Meng did not ask any more questions, and walked more than ten meters before speaking again: "Xiaoyan, I hope you understand one thing. If a person does something wrong, sooner or later he will have to bear the consequences of what he has done, or pay the price. If
Whatever you have done, correct it as soon as possible. The Lejia girl is not a weakling. Once someone ruins her reputation, she will hold them accountable.
"I didn't do anything wrong, it's none of my business." Li Xiaoyan firmly refused to admit that she had done anything wrong.
Sister-in-law Meng sighed silently. She always felt that the girl had changed recently and became sharp and unreasonable. She hoped it was not Xiaoyan's fault.
Sister Meng couldn't find the reason for the girl's change, so she didn't say anything else all the way. When she returned to Zhou's house, Grandma Zhou and Brother Zhou were still waiting for dinner.
Grandma Zhou and Brother Zhou didn't ask Li Xiaoyan what was going on about the rumors about No. 2 Middle School. They ate, watched TV, and did housework.
Le Xiaololi made another fish feast in the evening, and even brought out the home-brewed wine.
The wine was mellow and fragrant, and Yan Laoyan, Mr. and Mrs. Lejia, and Mr. Yan and Liu Shao each drank several bowls, so that they became drunk after the meal, and they all ran out to sleep early.
In the end, only the Le family siblings who did not drink alcohol were left sober.
After knocking them all down, little classmate Leshan secretly turned off the camera and ate fruit with her brother while she wrote the material while Leshan practiced and went to bed on time until 10:30.
Little Loli slept until after one o'clock, then got up and went downstairs, moved a lot of things out of the space and placed them on the floor, then put away a bunch of empty boxes in the refrigerator room, and went back to sleep.
Le's father, Zhou Qiufeng, got up early and brushed his teeth when he found a pile of items on the floor.
Yan Shao and Liu Shao were also calm as usual, working as porters quickly, moving boxes of ingredients and fruits to the refrigerator room. Every time the little Loli knocked someone down, it proved that someone must bring something to her, so it didn't matter.
Worth the fuss.
That day is also the day before Qingming Festival, the Cold Food Festival.
In order to firmly implement his family's "custom", Mr. Yi accompanied his young disciple after the morning exercise. He stayed on the third floor, eating bread and drinking herbal tea.
After classmate Le Xiao finished eating, he directed the two handsome boys to sort out the items in the refrigerator room, and then move fertilizers and plant seedlings to the ground under the warehouse.
She made a plan and planted Dendrobium officinale and Gastrodia elata in the land under the warehouse. Those two medicinal herbs like shade.
The little Loli demonstrated how to bury trees, add fertilizer, and put seeds and seedlings. Then she left it to the two handsome guys and Mr. Yan to do whatever they wanted. She went up to the third floor to teach her younger brother.
In the afternoon, little Loli tutored the eldest daughter of sister-in-law Zhou Tianqing and sister-in-law He with their homework.
While Miss Le was tutoring several half-year-old children with their homework at home, Brother Fu, who was guarding the park, received a visitor - a neighbor from the east of the park.
The east, west and north of the park are all private residences. Most of the neighbors to the east are old houses from the late 1980s and 1990s, and there are even a few old-fashioned small courtyard houses that are more than a hundred years old.
The one who came to visit the paradise was the owner of a courtyard house in the east. His house had two entrances. The south room with a courtyard in front was converted into a two-story paved building in the 1990s and rented out to people who opened shops for business.
The second courtyard is a private residence. The upper room was demolished and rebuilt in the late 1990s due to weak walls. The east and west wings were also renovated, but the south wing was not repaired.
When the He family was renovating their house, they negotiated deals with many nearby house owners, hoping to make the house as large as possible. In the end, many transactions were not completed.
The owner of the house who visited Paradise was named Song, and he had already immigrated to Canada in the Americas. However, his mother was unwilling to leave and stayed in China. When the He family renovated the house, Mr. Song's mother was still alive, but she passed away more than a year ago.
Mr. Song entered the park and followed Brother Fu, who was guarding the garden, to sit in the living room. After drinking tea, he explained his intention: "Mr. Fu, I won't beat around the bush. I came today to ask the owner of the park whether he wants to buy the land.
Preparing the house for sale."
"Mr. Song, are you saying you want to sell your house?" Brother Fu was extremely surprised and suspected that the neighbor was joking: "As far as I know, the previous owner of the paradise went to Mr. Song to discuss the sale before building the garden. At that time, Mr. Song
Are you serious now when you say you won't sell your house?"
"It's true," Mr. Song, who was nearly fifty years old, smiled bitterly: "To be honest, my grandfather's previous generation and his contemporaries had emigrated overseas before the founding of the People's Republic of China. My family was the only one left in the country. It took me a thousand years to
Immigrate and settle in Canada.
My mother was still alive when the park was built, and she couldn't leave her hometown. She didn't want to go to Canada with me to retire, so it was naturally impossible to sell the house at that time.
My mother passed away a year and a half ago. My family moved to Canada. It was almost impossible for my children to return to Canada to settle down. Since there was no one to take care of the house in China, I decided to sell it.
When my mother passed away, the contract between the tenants at home and the tenants in the store had not expired, and it was not convenient to break the contract. The contract of the latest tenant in the store expired in March this year.
I came back this time to collect and sell the house, so I came to ask the owner of the paradise if she has any intention of buying a house."
"I have been in contact with the little girl these days. She was originally going to America at the beginning of the month, but something happened and she was delayed. She just settled her affairs and returned to her hometown two days ago. She should leave the country immediately after the Qingming Festival.
Can I ask how Mr. Song's house is sold? Are there any special conditions? According to the little girl's style, if the house is bought, it will be incorporated into the park, and the buildings will definitely be demolished."
"The house has been sold, and it's up to the new owner to make arrangements. My only request is that I wish to make a one-time payment, preferably in U.S. dollars. It would be better if the handover procedures can be completed in the next few days. I will stay for five days at most before returning to Canada.
country."
Mr. Song talks about business sincerely and shows his sincerity: “Actually, some tenants also want to buy a house, but they just want to buy a store and they need to get a loan or pay in installments.
I also have a job in Canada, so I can’t run around often, and I don’t want to split the front store and the back house into several parts and sell them, so I want to package and sell the entire house.”
"Mr. Song, can you go and see your house? I would like to roughly measure the dimensions and take some videos to send to the little girl."
"Okay." Mr. Song was very happy to take people to explore the homestead.
Brother Fu is a man of action, so he did what he said. He went to the guard room to find the measuring tools, locked the gate of the paradise, and followed Mr. Song to see the house.
All the tenants and tenants of Mr. Song's store have been moved out, and the store door is closed.
Brother Fu roughly measured the length and width of the storefront building. The storefront building was the original back-to-back room that was the first to enter the courtyard. Because the back-to-back room had its entire facade renovated, the front door was opened on the east side.
The courtyard behind the facade room and the second entrance courtyard are planted with flowers and plants and are neatly kept.
Brother Fu surveyed the interior, then went out and walked around the house to ask questions about the boundaries and property rights, including the bottom price.
