ushernet Chapter 387: Meet a talkative neighbor and find out the house price in just a few words
Chapter 387: Meet a talkative neighbor and find out the house price in just a few words
After a discussion, Jiang and Zheng Sanniang cooked, while Li and Yutao helped.
Yucheng and Dundun took Xiao Zhuzi to call Zhou Dalang's family so that they could celebrate together.
Shen Yu smiled and said, "I slept until almost noon last night. I am very energetic now. There is no need to rest."
"Let me cook too, it's quicker."
Zheng Sanniang pushed Shen Yu out of the kitchen and said with a smile, "Good girl, I know you cook delicious dishes."
"But we have been learning how to cook and practicing for these days, and now we can finally eat it."
"Just give us a chance and let us cook a few dishes for you to try."
Li also smiled and said, "That's right, you can't always cook while we wait to eat."
"If you feel like you have nothing to do, just walk around here. The ingredients are all ready. We can have dinner in half an hour at most."
Seeing that everyone was determined not to let her take action, Shen Yu had to give up.
She said with a smile: "Then I will be a hands-off boss today and go out for a walk and wait for the ready-made food."
Li waved her hand and told her to put on an extra layer of thick clothes, then turned and went into the kitchen to discuss what to eat for lunch with Jiang and the others.
Shen Yu saw that everyone had started to get busy, even Yu Cheng and the others were leading Xiao Zhuzi out of the door, leaving him standing stupidly in the yard alone.
She smiled and shook her head, went back to her room, put on a thick jacket, and went for a stroll in the alley.
The alley was quiet and no one was there.
Shen Yu usually went out from the front door of the shop, and occasionally walked through the alley at the back. He was always in a hurry and never paid attention to this dilapidated and narrow alley.
Shen Yu walked and looked. In addition to the back door of his own shop, there were six other houses.
Compared with the shops, these houses are much shorter and look much older.
There was a house whose courtyard wall had even collapsed, and the owner was too lazy to repair it. Looking through the gap, the yard was filled with junk, and it looked like no one lived there.
Shen Yu was standing on tiptoe to look inside when he heard footsteps at the entrance of the alley. An old but powerful voice asked, "What are you doing? You're sneaking around."
This sudden loud voice actually frightened Shen Yu. He quickly retracted his head and looked to the side.
The person who came was an old man in his fifties, full of energy, but his hair had turned a little gray.
When he saw that it was Shen Yu, the expression on his face relaxed and he said with a smile: "It turns out to be Miss Shen from the restaurant. What are you doing here?"
Shen Yu quickly leaned over and bowed: "How are you, old man? You recognize me. What's your name, old man?"
The old man nodded and said, "My last name is Tian, and I live nearby. My grandson loves the big meat buns in your restaurant, so I often go to the store to buy some."
"Miss Shen, the restaurant doesn't need to be open for business today. Why don't you take this opportunity to go out and take a look at this broken yard?"
"I came all the way here and saw someone clinging to the wall, and I wondered how a thief could come into a yard like this."
Shen Yu smiled embarrassedly: "It turned out to be Mr. Tian."
She explained calmly, "I am usually busy with the restaurant business, rarely pay attention to the neighbors here, and rarely go out of the backyard alley."
"I have nothing to do today, so I just came out for a walk after dinner to digest the food."
"I was passing by here and saw a section of the wall collapsed, so I wanted to see what happened."
"Uncle Tian, there are people living in this yard. Why didn't you repair the collapsed wall? What if someone gets in or falls down and hits someone?"
Mr. Tian laughed and said, "Young lady, you are joking. In such a shabby yard, which thief would go in and steal? Would he steal those broken bricks and tiles?"
He said with some disdain: "I know this yard. His family moved to Maoer Hutong on Qianmen Street a long time ago. No one lives here anymore."
"So when the wall collapsed, they just left it there, not caring whether it was easy for people passing by. The debris piled up in the yard, and no one took care of it."
Shen Yu's heart moved, and he deliberately asked: "Uncle Tian, you are an old resident here, I think everyone who lives here knows you."
"Since this family doesn't live here, it would be a pity to leave this yard unused. If you are interested in selling it, how much would you like? And are there people living in these houses next door?"
Mr. Tian was a talkative man. When he heard this question, he became interested. He stroked his gray beard and prepared for a long conversation. He stretched out his palm and shook four fingers: "Miss, you are asking the right person. I have lived here for nearly forty years."
"This house is older than I am. This alley was already here when I moved in."
The dangling finger almost poked Shen Yu's face, but Shen Yu still had a smile on his face, but he quietly took a few steps back before continuing to listen to him.
Seeing that Shen Yu was listening attentively, Mr. Tian spoke more excitedly: "Among the houses next door, only two are occupied."
"One is my nephew's family, and the other is surnamed Wang, who has also lived here for a long time."
"The other families have moved out, and the house is vacant."
"This alley is shallow, narrow, and a dead end. No one will buy it."
"Except that your restaurant is a shop facing the street, with a large yard and a newly built house."
"The houses and yards of the remaining few are all dilapidated and shabby. They are far inferior to the alley where I live, which is full of new houses."
Old Man Tian said this with a smug look on his face, as if only the alley where he lives is considered a good house.
When Shen Yu heard him say this, he asked, "Mr. Tian, since the house here is so broken and rotten, why don't your nephew's family move?"
Mr. Tian said helplessly, "Well, young lady, you don't know that my eldest brother and I are brothers, and the house here is our ancestral home."
"After my eldest brother and I separated, this ancestral house belonged to him."
"My eldest brother married and had four sons in one go."
"Having more sons is not always a good thing. When they grow up, they will marry and have children. Then there will be no room for them in this ancestral house."
"My eldest brother and his wife made some money a few years ago, so they quickly bought a house and moved out."
"Later, the four sons got married and had children, but they didn't split up, so the house they moved to seemed too cramped."
"My youngest nephew is not old enough to get married, so we had to move him to the ancestral house to live temporarily."
"When he gets engaged and gets married, he'll have to move to a new house."
"I came to the ancestral house today to pick up something."
"On weekdays, my fourth nephew works as a clerk in a shop. He only comes here to sleep at night. On weekdays, no one is here. We use it to store some sundries from our two families."
Shen Yu listened to other people's trivial matters as if he was listening to a story and he listened with great interest.
Seeing that Mr. Tian had stopped talking, she asked, "Then is your eldest brother's family willing to sell this house and buy a new one?"