Zhang Guilan was naturally very happy when she came back. Hua Zhao told her that there was not much corn at home and that she would buy it tomorrow, and asked her to continue selling melon seeds during the day and popcorn at night.
The bosses at the train station might not like something as sweet as buttered popcorn, but Hua Zhao thought they might like melon seeds more.
Zhang Guilan thought the same way. She didn't care at all that there was no more corn at home. Hua Zhao didn't have it, but she still had it!
Hua Zhao told Ye Shu that she wanted to visit the courtyard where she bought it.
"What are you looking at it for?" Ye Shu asked curiously.
"I haven't gone to take a look at my house after I got it." Hua Zhao pulled her away and said, "Take a look at what needs to be repaired and repair it, otherwise it won't collapse."
"That's true, the yard is in a state of disrepair." Ye Shu said.
It wasn't far anyway, so the two of them strolled there.
As a result, I saw a man wandering back and forth at the door from a distance, looking in from time to time, and even stepping on the wall to look in.
Ye Shu immediately frowned: "I'm afraid these people are those who lived here before, those who are determined to move back."
She wanted to take Hua Zhao and leave.
She felt that it would be okay to deal with this man by herself, but Hua Zhao couldn't bump into him, so it was better to avoid him.
Hua Zhao didn't show any mercy and turned around after her.
But the man had already seen them, saw them turning around and leaving, and immediately identified them.
"Hey! Don't leave! Did you buy this house?!" the man shouted loudly. He inquired clearly and clearly that several women came to see this house, and finally a beautiful woman with a big belly showed up.
Bought it.
The house at the end of the alley is occupied by a beautiful woman, her mother, and her siblings, and this courtyard is empty.
An alley is a large courtyard, and some idlers come out of it when they hear the noise, and stand at the door to look around.
Ye Shu didn't want to leave. What else could he do in broad daylight? He couldn't do anything he wanted to do. She could kill him with one move!
Ye Shu walked back with Hua Zhao. She stood in front of Hua Zhao and looked at the man coldly: "This house belongs to me, what does it have to do with you?"
Wasn't it the woman with a big belly behind her? The man was confused for a moment, but it didn't matter, they were together.
"Who are you? A capitalist lady? You bought a house and can't live in it? And we poor people don't even have a shabby house! You are too corrupt! I'm going to report you!" the man said arrogantly.
This sentence would have been as effective as a bomb 10 years ago, but now.
Ye Shu sneered: "This house originally belonged to Zhao, a big capitalist. What's wrong? The country didn't say anything about occupying other people's houses at the beginning. It just made an agreement with them and rented them to you! Now the country has said again,
No more renting! You have to give it back to others! You guys, a group of tenants, still want to occupy a dove’s nest and become the master? Who gives you the face?!"
"I...!" The man blushed so anxiously that his neck was thick. He was obviously not a eloquent person, and he was speechless after just a few words of truth.
Of course, Ye Shu was telling the truth. At first, this house belonged to someone else, and a huge piece of pie was dropped on them to live in. Later, the state decided not to rent it anymore and asked them to move out.
It’s all what the state says.
But if he were a reasonable person, he wouldn't be here now.
"I don't care! My family has no house to live in! A family of more than ten people, old and young, are crowded into a shabby house, and they are going to die! But you have an empty house...I won't live in your house in vain, I want to move
Come back and I’ll pay you rent!”
Anyway, he still has to pay rent for the shabby house he shares now, which is 3 yuan a month.
"Sorry, I won't rent it," Ye Shu said.
"Why don't you rent? It's empty anyway!" The man became angry and pointed at Ye Shu's nose and cursed: "You capitalist eldest ladies made a fortune by sucking the hard-earned money of us poor people and bought it.
House, now that the country has let you go, you are not grateful and are still watching us poor people suffer! It is so heartless! I am going to sue you!"
Hua Zhao looked at the man speechlessly. In the era she lived in, no one would ever say such a thing. But the expression on the man in front of her seemed as if he was speaking the truth. He was so confident.
Most of the people watching the excitement also had expressions that showed that he was right.
The timing of her arrival was actually more appropriate. In 1976, the madness had come to an end, and everyone gradually calmed down and learned to think.
If she had come 10 years earlier, she would have doubted her life.
"You go, go quickly, or we'll get off work soon." After Ye Shu finished speaking, he took Hua Zhao and left.
The man was furious and rushed over to pull Yeshu away.
Ye Shu waited for his hand to fall on her shoulder, then pinched it with her backhand: "What? Are you acting like a gangster in broad daylight?" After that, he kicked him away.