Paying for a house

Author: Ink and Wash in Wine

Paying for a house

"May I ask, is this Captain Zhou's house?" When he came to Zhou Changzhu's yard, Ye Tan stood outside the yard and asked.

Hearing the sound was a woman in her forties. She stepped forward and opened the yard gate, and asked with a smile: "You are here to find Lao Zhou in my family."

This woman is Captain Zhou's wife, surnamed Tong and named Tong Meifang. She looked at Ye Tan's black-sen and knew that several new educated youths came to the village yesterday, so she knew that this should be one of those new educated youths. She was afraid that she would come to Zhou Changzhu to talk about the matter.

Ye Tan nodded with a smile: "You are Aunt Zhou, my name is Ye Tan, I am here to talk about something with Captain Zhou, and in addition, I also want to ask you for something."

After hearing Ye Tan's words, Tong Meifang said "Oh": "You are Ye Tan. I heard from my old Zhou that you want to find Carpenter Liu to make some cabinets, right?"

"Yes." Ye Tan nodded.

"Come in quickly." Tong Meifang greeted Ye Tan with a smile.

Ye Tan entered the yard and handed the brown sugar and fruit candy in his hand to Tong Meifang: "Aunt Zhou, the first time I came to the door, this is a little care."

"Oh, you kid, come here, what are you going to get?" Tong Meifang said hurriedly, but her smile became deeper. This girl is a polite person, but the fruit candy is not bad, but the brown sugar is more expensive. Now the town is still good, and it is not good for villagers to buy brown sugar.

"Auntie, please keep it, it's just a little bit of my heart." Ye Tan smiled and put the thing in Tong Meifang's hand: "Besides, I still have to work hard on my aunt to help me."

When Tong Meifang saw that Ye Tan really wanted to give it to her, she thought that her daughter-in-law had just been pregnant. After all these years, she finally got pregnant, but she had to make up for it. So she took it away: "Okay, then I'll take it away with shame. If you don't understand anything in the future, come and ask your aunt."

"Hey, thank you aunt."

At this time, Zhou Changzhu walked out of the room and asked, "Who is here?"

Ye Tan smiled and said hello: "Captain Zhou."

"Ye Tan." Zhou Changzhu remembered that Ye Tan said he wanted to find Carpenter Liu to make a cabinet yesterday, and said, "It just so happens that your aunt will take you to Carpenter Liu's house later. What do you want to fight? Just tell Carpenter Liu directly."

"Captain Zhou, I want to tell you something." Ye Tan said hurriedly.

"What's the matter? Let's talk about it." Zhou Changzhu had a good impression of Ye Tan. He was not a pretentious person. He took the initiative to live in the utility room, but helped him solve a big problem. Therefore, he didn't mind helping Ye Tan more wherever he could.

"That's right. I saw that there was an open space in the backyard of our educated youth. This is not enough for female educated youth to live in. I thought, can I pay for my own money to build a house? Captain Zhou, don't worry, please help me ask someone to build a house. I will pay for it myself." After entering the house and sitting down, Ye Tan told Zhou Changzhu about his thoughts.

During this period, a woman in her twenties poured Ye Tan a glass of water, placed it next to her, and smiled kindly at her. This was Zhou Changzhu's daughter-in-law Yu Juan. The mother-in-law just told her that Ye Tan gave them three taels of brown sugar, which could just supplement the child in her belly.

Ye Tan also responded with a hurried smile and said, "Thank you, sister-in-law."

After hearing Ye Tan's words, Zhou Changzhu suddenly understood what Ye Tan meant: "Do you want to live by yourself?"

Ye Tan smiled embarrassedly: "Well, is that OK?"

"It's not impossible." Zhou Changzhu thought about it. Although there was no such precedent in the village before, it was still possible. After all, no matter what, the houses of the female educated youth were not enough to live in, so they had to build a new house. Since it was a house, labor would have to be done, and the village would have to give labor manual points. To put it bluntly, the village would have to spend money to build this house.

But if Ye Tan paid for the money to build a house by herself, not to mention that the village didn’t have to pay for it, those who built the house could get cash directly, and both parties would be cheap.

But what should be made clear in advance must be made clear: "However, Ye Tan, you also know that although you pay to build a house, the foundation still belongs to the village. In other words, if you pay to build a house, you can only live in it, but the house cannot belong to you. In the future, the house will be returned to the village. As for the money you build a house, it can only be regarded as the cost of temporarily giving you the foundation. Look, can you accept it?"

"Yes." Ye Tan didn't think that the money for building a house could be recovered. She just wanted an independent space. After all, the secrets on her were too big. If someone discovered it, there would be a big trouble: "However, Captain Zhou, since I paid for building a house, I hope that during the period when I lived in that house, I would have the independent right to use the house. The village could no longer arrange for others to move into my house. Is that okay?"

"Okay, no problem." Zhou Changzhu was not a man of Moji, so he agreed directly. After all, if someone paid for the money to build a house, if he stuffed people into his house without the consent, what would happen? Zhou Changzhu couldn't do such a shameless thing.

Seeing that Zhou Changzhu agreed, Ye Tan also became excited and said hurriedly: "Captain Zhou, please help me call someone to build a house. In addition, I also want to build a kitchen alone, and I also want to cook alone."

"Yes." Zhou Changzhu nodded. Even if Ye Tan didn't say it, he would also build a kitchen together. The open space in the backyard is not close to the kitchen in the front yard. If there is no fire pit in winter, this place can freeze to death: "See if there is anything else you want. If there is no problem, I will arrange for someone to go to the brick kiln to pull bricks tomorrow, and then organize someone to build a house. I will tell you how much it will cost at that time."

"No problem." Ye Tan thought about it and said, "How much does it cost in total? Captain Zhou, just tell me."

Zhou Changzhu smiled: "Okay."

Seeing that Ye Tan and Zhou Changzhu had agreed to something, Tong Meifang smiled and said to Ye Tan: "Then while it's still bright, let's go to Liu's house now."

"Okay." Ye Tan stood up and said goodbye to Zhou Changzhu, followed Tong Meifang to Liu's house.

On the way to Liu's house, Tong Meifang touched Ye Tan's hair and said pity: "You are too thin. Fortunately, although we are in the village, we are still in the country and the water and soil are still young and can be raised slowly."

The original owner was not only not tall, but also yellow and thin, but also had dry and dull hair.

Ye Tan thought that he didn't look like a rich man now. He then wanted to build a house and fire himself. No one would doubt it, and even had any other thoughts. So he briefly told Tong Meifang about the experience of the original owner, and finally said: "Fortunately, the leader in the factory presided over me for justice. Although he still wanted to go to the countryside, he also asked me for some compensation."

(End of this chapter)
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