I came to the world of the heavens

Chapter 597 The Weird Old Man

Chen Shishi was walking on the street, followed the guidance of the good-natured street vendors in the market, and walked to the south of Zichuan. Sure enough, he saw many big houses. In the past few years, there were wars everywhere. The rebels shouted the slogan of uprising, burned, killed and looted everywhere...

Many men in Zichuan County have joined the army, and gradually many houses have become empty, only some lonely old people guard them. Some are old and weak, unable to work, unable to make money, and starving to death in the house. Neighbors discovered the body only after it smelt and floated out.There are those who live in remote places, whose bones are rotten and slowly eaten into bones by snakes, insects, rats and ants, but no one finds them.

I told Chen Shishi that these vendors are all locals. The reason for introducing this place is that the houses are both empty and empty. If Chen Shichu needs to live here, he doesn’t need much rent, but it is enough for the widowed elderly to live well. for a long time...

Chen's initial purpose only needs a place to stay.

If you can live and help, why not do it...

He walked up and down the Zichuan South Alley, the ground was good, paved with crushed stones, at least it wouldn't splash mud all over his legs when it rained.As expected, many of these big houses were empty as the vendors said.Old men in twos and threes were sitting at the door with small chairs, chatting without a word.

Usually no one will come.

Because there are too many old people here, there is a sense of stagnation.

When the old people saw a young man like Chen Shishi approaching, they were suddenly a little curious. An old woman opened her wrinkled eyelids, looked at Chen Shishi with cloudy eyeballs and asked, "Young man, are you here to find a house?"

Chen Shishi nodded with a smile: "Yes."

Hearing this, the old woman got up slowly, went into the room, took out a board and handed it to Chen Shishi. The board actually showed the floor plan of these houses in the south of Zichuan. The lines and directions were slightly irregular, but they were understandable.The price is written on the vacancy of each house, such as two hundred, three hundred, and five hundred.

Chen Shishi nodded: "Old man, this thing is well made. The location and price are clear at a glance."

The old woman smiled and said: "Yes, it was made by a scholar who lives in my house. He couldn't pay the rent, so he bought this thing and told me that it would be used for a month or two. My house is empty, and it is empty. If I have more popularity, I will give it to him."

Chen Chuchu thinks that the scholar is quite intelligent, but it takes some effort to draw the floor plan.

He saw a nice apartment on the board, with a yard in the front and back, and several wing rooms, but the price was only 100 Wen, which was much cheaper than other poor apartment types. He didn’t know, so he asked, “Why does this house only cost 100 Wen?”

The old woman was illiterate, but she could read pictures, and when she saw the family, she sighed slightly: "Hey, that old man has a very weird temper. Although the price is cheap, several tenants couldn't stand his temper and left. If things go on like this, he will die in the house without food or drink in winter..."

Chen Chushi took out ten copper coins and put them on the board and handed them to the old woman: "Thank you for your guidance, the old man, that house is nice, I'll go and have a look."

The old woman's eyes were not very good. After taking the board, the copper coin slipped in her hand before she realized what it was. She hurriedly returned it to Chen Shishi and shouted, "I didn't rent your house, so I don't need money!"

Chen Shishi had already walked away, and he just waved his hands: "I don't receive the favor in vain!"

What kind of favor is this, alas, alas!

The old woman was physically weak, so she could only sit down with a board. She knew that Chen Chushi was a kind person, but in this world, kind people are very miserable and die quickly...

The 100 Wen apartment is not too far away, more than 200 meters away, when Chen Chuchu arrived here, the house is better than expected, with good lighting and ventilation.He stretched out his hand and knocked lightly on the door three times. After waiting for a while, there was no response, and he knocked three more times. The old man's voice came faintly from inside: "Knock what, won't you push the door and come in?"

"That's disturbing."

Chen Shishi opened the door and walked into the yard. There were no trees in the yard, and the ground was divided into two fields for growing vegetables.

He saw an old man in his 70s sitting on a stone by the side of a vegetable field, staring at the small white butterflies flying on the rapeseed flowers in a daze.

Chen Shishi walked over, avoided the rapeseed in the field, saluted and said, "Old man, my name is Chen Shishi. I am a scholar. I came from Fujian and want to live in Zichuan for a while. Your house is nice, is it convenient for renting out?"

The old man looked up at him, and said weakly: "Since you know that I am renting out, it is natural to rent, of course! 100 Wen per month, pay now, choose the wing room yourself, I will not clean it for you."

This old man really has a weird temper.

Chen Shishi smiled, but it was nothing to this extent. You must know that when he founded the company, when he went around the customer's home in the early days, he encountered a lot of strange things. I still remember a subordinate Go, everyone was sent to the hospital because of the almost unreasonable demands of the other party.

He took out a bag of copper coins from his pocket and put them in the old man's hand: "It's exactly 100 copper coins, you keep it."

The old man touched the cloth bag, it was good silk, and the bag alone was worth a lot of money. His eyes never left Chen Shishi's cheeks for a moment. Seeing that there was no trace of displeasure on his face, he was silent for a moment: " Find a wing by yourself, don't scare away my butterflies..."

The house is symmetrical, the old man's room is on the right, and Chen Shishi chose the room on the left, which happened to be opposite to the door.In this way, on the first day he traveled to this world, he had a place to stay...

In the evening, the setting sun and sunset were infinitely beautiful. Chen Shichu moved a chair and sat under the eaves of the yard. He took out the "Liaozhai Ghost Encyclopedia" edited by Master and several friends from the publishing house, and read carefully the illustrations and descriptions inside. , trying to find information about that white-haired man...

The white-haired man who attacked Xu Sanniang at Tan Jinxuan's house was very strange. He didn't have an obvious sneaky aura. He was shot in the back several times and survived.

The old man went out for a while, brought some rice back, and cooked some porridge with wild vegetables in the kitchen. There was a square table in the living room, and he sat beside him, and suddenly began to pat the table with his hands: "I'm hungry. , I'm hungry, sister, hurry up and make porridge!"

Chen's initial concentration on reading was not affected.

Unexpectedly, the old man was still knocking on the table with his hands and shouting the same words repeatedly. Chen Shishi put down the book and asked: "Old man, then sister is probably not at home, is she out?" Who is sister, Chen Shishi I don't know, maybe it's not the old man's wife, but also his daughter-in-law or something...

The old man ignored Chen Shishi, but Amei and Amei yelled.

Chen Shishi was stunned for a moment, feeling that he was a little demented, the sun was going to set outside soon, there were no oil lamps here, and when it got dark, he couldn't see anything.He went to the kitchen and opened the lid of the stove, beat it as thick as possible with a spoon, covered the porridge with wild vegetables, and brought it to the old man: "My sister is not here, it is the same when I serve you a bowl, it is very hot, drink it slowly .”

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