mtl008 Chapter 26 is truly a strange person.
Chapter 26 is truly a strange person.
The old man sat for a while and then left. Huang Juxiang stood up, took the bedding off the bed and took it outside to air it, and soaked the sheets in a basin to wash them.
Zhenchuan Army obediently swept the floor, and Deng Xiuzhen quickly helped wipe the tables and cabinets.
"Go back, we don't need your help here," Huang Juxiang said to Deng Xiuzhen, rubbing the blanket.
“It’s alright. You’re injured and it’s inconvenient for you to move around, so I’ll help you tidy up. It’ll be faster. There are some leaks in the roof. If you’re going to live here, the roof will need to be repaired.” Deng Xiuzhen said, but her hands didn’t stop moving.
"We're leaving tomorrow and probably won't be coming back. Let's just leave the house there."
"Leaving tomorrow? Where to? Why aren't you coming back?" Deng Xiuzhen was very surprised.
The woman did not answer.
"There's something I need to tell you," Deng Xiuzhen said after hesitating for a long time.
The woman remained silent, only vigorously scrubbing the sheets.
“I discovered your mother’s death, then I called the police, and that’s when they came,” Deng Xiuzhen said. She didn’t want to talk about it, afraid of getting into trouble.
But subconsciously she couldn't help but speak up, feeling that not speaking up would cause even bigger trouble.
The woman looked up at Deng Xiuzhen.
When she met those eyes, Deng Xiuzhen involuntarily looked away. Those eyes were so deep, so deep that they seemed to suck her in.
Deng Xiuzhen, head bowed, recounted how Song Qinghua introduced her to the shop she bought, how she and Xiong Wei discovered they'd been scammed, and how they ended up here. After failing to find anything, she returned home only to discover her children were missing. She immediately reported it to the police, then went to look for Song Qinghua and Liu Xiaozhen, but couldn't find them. She then came here and found the elderly woman hanging herself. She told Huang Juxiang everything that had happened.
"I understand, you can go back now," Huang Juxiang said calmly. Her expression remained unchanged throughout, and her hands never stopped moving.
She had said what needed to be said and done what needed to be done. Since Huang Juxiang still told her to leave, she left without ceremony.
If others don't blame her or ask her to take responsibility, she certainly won't beg them to take responsibility.
After lunch, I cleaned the house and bought groceries to cook dinner in the afternoon.
Deng Xiuzhen was busy when she suddenly heard a knock on the door.
When she opened the door and saw Huang Juxiang, she was startled, as she hadn't told Huang Juxiang where she lived.
“I went to the police station in the afternoon, and they told me that you and Xiong Wei were probably the last people to see my mother.”
"I want to ask, what was my mother doing at the time, and what did she say?" Huang Juxiang asked, standing at the door, her tone as indifferent as ever.
Deng Xiuzhen recalled carefully and said, "The old man just said that I didn't know any words, and then he didn't say anything else."
After listening, Huang Juxiang left without saying anything.
What a strange person! Deng Xiuzhen muttered after realizing what had happened.
Huang Juxiang came again the next afternoon, looking somewhat haggard. Having witnessed yesterday's events, Deng Xiuzhen wasn't as surprised today. Instead, she politely invited Huang Juxiang in to sit down.
Huang Juxiang didn't say anything, went straight into the house, walked directly to the table and sat down, still without saying a word.
Deng Xiuzhen didn't know what to say. The key was that she didn't understand Huang Juxiang, let alone what Huang Juxiang was trying to do.
"I want to sell that house to you." It took Huang Juxiang a long time to speak.
"Huh?" Deng Xiuzhen was momentarily stunned.
"Today I went to see Chen Guohu, and he wants me to sell the house."
Can I not buy it? Deng Xiuzhen asked herself, but dared not say it aloud.
“Yesterday, I felt some resentment towards you, thinking that you had forced my mother into that situation. But then I realized that, ultimately, it wasn't your fault.”
If I were you, I would also go to find Chen Guohu.
So, I don't blame you.
I want to sell you the house because I'm going back to Yuncheng. Chen Guohu is currently undergoing drug rehabilitation; even after he recovers, he'll still go to jail.
That house will collapse if no one lives there. If we sell it, nobody wants it. If we rent it out, nobody will take care of it, and it's impossible to find a tenant.
I've found you to be an honest person after interacting with you these past few days.
Even if I'm taking advantage of an honest person, I'll sell you this house for 500 yuan.
"500 yuan? Sell it to me?" Deng Xiuzhen felt like she'd won the lottery! The house only needed a roof repair, and it would be habitable or rentable. The market price should be over a thousand yuan, not to mention it would settle the car accident incident; she'd made a huge profit.
“With this incident, the house can’t be sold right away, and I guess you guys don’t dare to live there. But you don’t have to feel like you’ve lost out, our business isn’t over yet. Once you buy the house, our score will be wiped clean.”
"Okay." Deng Xiuzhen didn't dare to say more and immediately agreed.
The next day, Deng Xiuzhen and Qin Yanlin didn't go to Mamu, but went to handle the house transfer procedures. When they arrived, Huang Juxiang and Chen Chuanjun were already waiting there, carrying the suitcases they had brought back.
The paperwork was complete and the process was quick.
After completing the formalities, Huang Juxiang handed them the keys and left without saying goodbye.
Deng Xiuzhen shouted "Goodbye" to her retreating figure.
Chen Chuanjun waved to them, but Huang Juxiang didn't even turn her head.
The two didn't mind and hurried to their newly purchased house.
Deng Xiuzhen came three times. The first time was when she and her husband, along with Xiong Wei, came to ask about Chen Guohu's whereabouts. She only remembered the old man's quiet appearance. The second time was at night when she came with Qin Yanlin. She was quite frightened that time and only remembered the old man's stiff body and the unfinished food. The third time was when she brought Huang Juxiang back and helped wipe the table. At that time, she was only focused on observing Huang Juxiang and was quickly sent home by Huang Juxiang.
I've been here three times, but I've never really looked at the house closely.
Now that the house belonged to them, the two looked down from the rooftop and all the way to the rooms.
I discovered that the house is actually quite large, at least 60 square meters. From the outside it looks like two rooms, but they are actually partitioned inside.
Entering through the main gate, to the left of the dark table are two doors: one leading to the kitchen at the back, and the other to the bedroom.
There was a coal stove in the kitchen, with some coal next to it; there was also a small iron stove for burning firewood, and some thin branches were piled up in the corner. The cupboard looked very old; it had probably been cleaned before, as it was very clean and tidy.
The bedroom was a suite, with a bed in the inner room and a bed in the outer room. Surprisingly, the inner room had an old-fashioned floral bed, and the cabinets and chests next to it were also old-fashioned and looked very exquisite.
Perhaps because the chrysanthemum fragrance had been washed, and with the recent rain and sunshine, the quilt smelled of sunshine.
The room didn't need any alterations at all!
Deng Xiuzhen originally planned to renovate the house and rent it out, then wait for it to be renovated in the future.
In a few years, this place will see great development, and many people will buy land here to build houses. Later, this place will be demolished to build a vegetable market. Whether you sell the houses in a few years, build houses to rent out, and then wait for demolition, you'll make a fortune from these properties, and the profits will only increase over time. It's like money will just be falling into your lap.
Now she doesn't want to rent it out anymore. She'll just accept the losses for a while and not ruin everything.
She felt that the house contained so much, things she couldn't quite understand at the moment, yet felt intensely.
Hearing Deng Xiuzhen say she wouldn't rent it out and would just leave it there after cleaning it up, Qin Yanlin was puzzled: It's fine if they don't live there, after all, an elderly person hanged themselves here, it's considered a haunted house, and it's not good for children to live here. But why can't they rent it out either?
If you think these old pieces of furniture are nice, just put them away. Why insist on preserving them exactly as they are?
But I still agreed. After all, it was only 500 yuan, and it settled a dispute. I figured I might as well treat it as if I hadn't bought the house at all and compensate the other party.