Chapter 1407 Broken Engagement 56
Chapter 1407 Breaking off the Engagement 56
Yuanchun held Taohua's arm and joked, "Oh, I didn't expect that my silly brother would marry such a considerate woman. Before they even got married, she already felt sorry for me, her elder sister-in-law. But you are wrong. My father's pension is indeed all there. Not only the pension, but also the savings that my parents saved when they were alive are all there."
"My mother was ill, and it did cost us a lot of money, but that money was donated to us by my father's comrades and leaders after he died. It was quite a lot, several hundred yuan, but it was a pity that it didn't save my mother's life."
"Before my mother died, she asked me to swear that I would support Yuandong's education and never let anyone know about the existence of this money, so I pretended to be poor. Otherwise, Li Chunlan would have taken the money away long ago."
"This money is for Yuandong to marry, buy a house, and get a job, as well as my dowry."
"So, don't worry that I will use Huo Min's money to support my family."
"Come on, don't just stand there, let's go buy a house."
Yuanchun didn't want to live too far away from her brother and his wife in the county town, so following the navigation of 007, she took Taohua to a house just across an alley from her house.
Yuanchun knocked on the door and an old woman opened it.
When she learned that they were there to buy a house, the old woman smiled kindly and took the two little girls around the house.
The house is very big, made of blue bricks and large tiles. The layout is ordinary for a house in Northeast China with three bedrooms, a living room, two kitchens, and two side rooms. There is no backyard, but the front yard is about 170 to 180 square meters. There are two vegetable plots in the yard, surrounded by wooden fences, and three old hens are raised.
The old woman said, "My house doesn't leak. It was just repaired last year. The cracked tiles on the roof were replaced with new ones. There is also a well in my yard. It was dug by someone the year I moved in. The water in the well is very sweet."
"If my son hadn't been transferred back to the capital, I wouldn't have been willing to sell this house. But my son is going back, and my wife and I can't stay in this small county. Our hometown is the capital."
As soon as she opened her mouth, Yuanchun could tell she spoke with an imperial accent. Moreover, the old lady had an elegant and noble temperament, and it was obvious at first glance that she was not an ordinary person.
007 told her, "The old man of this family predicted that the world would become chaotic more than a decade ago, so he used some connections to transfer his two sons to this small county town, and he and his wife also retired early and followed him here."
The whole family moved to this small county town and escaped the most intense years. His two sons also started their own families here. Last year, his family's enemy also went there to work on the farm.
Not long ago, the old man suddenly fell ill. He didn't want to die in this small county town. He missed the capital so much that he wrote a letter to his old friend and tried to transfer his two sons and daughters-in-law back to the capital.
There was no need to keep the house in this small county town, so I wanted to sell it before leaving.
The house is large and well maintained, but it's not cheap.
It costs one thousand eight hundred dollars.
The furniture and household items in the house were also packaged and sold together.
"My family packed up their valuables and left everything else behind. They sold the house together with the price they found to be cheap."
"This house is not expensive at 1,800 yuan. Think about it carefully."
"When my family first came here, we spent 1,600 yuan to buy this house. This well was added later and cost 30 yuan. The furniture is made of fine pear wood and cost more than 200 yuan. If you want to buy other pots, bowls, and pans, it will cost a lot of money, and you need tickets."