Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 26 Selling the House

Not wanting to keep anyone in suspense, Tao Qiuyi smiled and said, "First, vacate the room next to ours for our second roommate. The kitchen and toilet near our side will naturally belong to us. You can find another place to build a kitchen and toilet. We won't interfere with how you plan to divide up the other rooms."

"Second, I won't go into detail about how much it cost to build this courtyard. Just give us two hundred yuan from your eldest uncle and third uncle. Comrade Li Hongying will give you one hundred yuan. If you don't have the money, your four sons will cover the remaining one hundred yuan."

"We, my eldest uncle and third uncle's family, gave 30 yuan. Fourth uncle didn't live with us from the beginning, but he's also Comrade Li Hongying's son, so 10 yuan will be enough."

"Third, Comrade Li Hongying has devoted all her energy and effort to your eldest and third uncles, generously giving away her entire fortune and still not feeling it was enough. She even squeezed her other two sons to subsidize you."

"As the saying goes, early planting brings early harvesting, early birth of a son brings early happiness. Comrade Li Hongying dedicated her life to my uncle and his family. My uncle and his family should be provided for in their old age. After the family division, my uncle and his family cannot use Comrade Li Hongying's reputation to blackmail me and my fourth uncle."

"Fourth Uncle and I didn't participate in Comrade Li Hongying's retirement care, so naturally, we and Fourth Uncle don't have a share in the room where Comrade Li Hongying lives. Also, I don't know how to grow vegetables in the yard. Wei Jingyuan has difficulty walking, and Xiao Huai and Li Zi have to go to school and don't have time to grow vegetables. The vegetable garden belongs to you."

"Uncle Eldest and Third Uncle agree to the above terms. We'll pay the money and sign the documents, and the house will be considered yours. You can live there with peace of mind. No one will come to evict you."

"If you don't agree, then move out within three days. If you don't, I won't go to the team leader and the old branch secretary to make a decision. I will go directly to the town police and report you for illegally occupying other people's property."

Illegally occupying other people's property, what kind of crime is this? Someone asked the people around him in a whisper.

Some people also think that Tao Qiuyi is too stupid. He sold six rooms and such a big yard for only 470 yuan. How stupid, really stupid!

The old branch secretary didn't think Tao Qiuyi was stupid. His focus now was not on this. He didn't have to worry about whether his laughter would be unkind. He looked at Tao Qiuyi happily. This girl not only had personality, but also had means and was good at satirizing people.

Devotion, hard work, generous contribution, exploitation, dedication, extortion, these words come to her mind at any time. She describes Li Hongying's partiality as so great, without saying it directly, but she says Li Hongying is partial.

Oh, it made him laugh to death. He admired this little girl more and more.

The captain had been the captain for seven or eight years and had seen a lot of the world, but after hearing Tao Qiuyi's proposal, he was still shocked and couldn't believe it.

How could a seventeen-year-old girl be so smart, so clear-headed, and consider everything so carefully that she even brought him along?

It's not impossible to get her mother and her eldest and third brothers' families to move out of the yard, but it would be very difficult. She simply didn't let her mother and their families move, and asked her to pay for the house.

Two hundred and thirty yuan sounds like a lot, but the eldest and third brothers' families can afford it. She also included their mother's share and let the four brothers bear the cost, and he also had to pay ten yuan.

From then on, no one dared to say that he was unfilial to his mother because he gave her ten dollars to buy a house for her to live in.

In particular, she praised her mother for being partial to her eldest and third brothers. She had four sons, but she only paid for two of them, and it was natural for her to leave her mother's retirement support to her eldest and third brothers.

She also specifically stated that after the family split up, the eldest and third brothers could not use their mother's reputation to blackmail them and herself.

After he paid the ten dollars, whenever his mother came to him and his wife to ask for money or tickets, he could refuse them with a clear conscience, and his wife would no longer have to endure his mother's anger.

He got a great deal. "Brother, what do you think?" Wei Lao San pulled Wei Lao Da aside and whispered to each other that buying three houses for 200 yuan was not a bad deal, but he didn't want to agree to it because his mother's retirement benefits also had to be given to him and his eldest brother.

But Tao Qiuyi said again that they would take care of his mother in her old age and give them the house where his mother lived, which blocked their way out. It would be useless for them to rely on his mother to cheat in the future.

Boss Wei lowered his voice, "Third brother, since you came to discuss this with me, I'll be fair. We made a profit by buying three houses for 200 yuan. We three families will share 30 yuan for mother's house. Fourth brother, who has never lived here, will contribute 10 yuan, which is also fair."

"Our two families will provide for Mom's retirement, and the house she lives in now will also be given to both of us. This is the most shrewd thing about that damn girl Tao Qiuyi. She told us clearly that buying three houses for 200 yuan is a huge bargain for us. If we don't agree, she won't sell the three houses to us."

"Big brother means that you agree to this proposal." Wei Lao San also thought of this, so he went to discuss it with Wei Lao Da.

Boss Wei fell silent.

He felt that he and the third brother were being led by Tao Qiuyi.

Each family had to give Tao Qiuyi 230 yuan. Zhou Mei and Li Yuegui's first reaction was that this little brat was asking for too much and dared to ask them for money. She should just eat shit.

They had long regarded this yard as their own home and were always ready to kick out the annoying Wei Jingyuan siblings. Now, Tao Qiuyi actually asked them to buy the yard. How could they be willing to accept this?

Zhou Mei and Li Yuegui saw that their husbands were discussing something in a low voice, so they walked over to their husbands. Before they could express their opinions, they were scolded by their husbands and told not to speak because they were in the middle of discussing something.

The two were so angry that they wanted to yell, but when they thought of the many people watching in the yard, they had to hold it back.

"Boss, do we really have to give that little brat 230 yuan to buy this house?" Zhou Mei asked Boss Wei in a low voice.

Boss Wei nodded. He felt uncomfortable and resentful at the thought of giving so much money to Wei Jingyuan and his two siblings.

Then they thought that the house would belong to them in the future, and no one would mock them for living in their second brother's yard or bully their nephews and nieces, and no one could drive them away.

I suddenly felt that spending 230 yuan to buy such a large yard was a good deal.

"Didn't you say before that I could live in Jingyuan's house? Why do you want me to pay a hundred yuan?" Li Hongying asked with a painful look on her face. Seeing her two sons struggling and her two daughters-in-law sulking beside them, she felt powerless for the first time.

Seeing Li Hongying angry and helpless, Tao Qiuyi felt happy and didn't mind explaining her doubts. "One hundred yuan may seem like a lot, but it's not much when you divide it among your four sons. I'm doing this to give you face and let you know how filial your sons are to you."

"My sons are already very filial to me. I don't need you to let me know." Li Hongying snorted coldly. She didn't believe that Tao Qiuyi was so kind.

Except for the disobedient fourth brother, the eldest and third brothers, and even the second brother who had died, were all very filial to her. Therefore, he wanted to help the eldest and third brothers get more benefits, but unfortunately there was nothing he could do.

What’s even more infuriating is that she couldn’t refute a single word Tao Qiuyi said.

(End of this chapter)