Two days after coming back from the mountain, Qin Yu still hasn't calmed down. Not to mention taking Ji Jun with her, she herself is still frightened.
Cobras are venomous snakes. If you are bitten on the mountain, there is no way you can save yourself.
Ji Huai didn't let her go anymore, but someone had to do the work on the mountain, right? So he went alone.
Ever since he left the house, Qin Yu had been thinking about it. He felt uncomfortable even mentioning it, and he couldn't do anything without his mind.
Ji Huai didn't get home until half past one that day. She was so anxious that she couldn't eat, so she waited at the entrance of the village with her son.
She had never been so scared when she went to the mountains alone, but the snakes she saw before were not this big, and they were not highly venomous.
Seeing Ji Huai coming back from a distance, her heart dropped slowly. Before she could fully recover, she bathed her son that night and saw another snake in the path behind the house.
This time it was a bungara snake, also a venomous snake. It was about the size of her forearm and about two meters long. The snake's body was black and white. It was heading into the alley. Qin Yu almost stopped breathing as she hugged her son. Just run outside.
Ji Huai heard the movement and ran out quickly.
"Snakes, there are snakes." Her voice was trembling, and she looked at the alley.
Behind Ji's house is a large jungle with too many snakes. Last time a snake catcher came here and used snake poison to lure the snakes out. They caught several black venomous snakes.
Ji Huai was about to walk in with his stick in hand.
"Don't go." Qin Yu pulled him back and started to walk back. She was worried that he would be bitten. She was too scared.
Liu Yun and Ji Hao also came out after hearing the noise. Liu Yun quickly said, "If you want to beat him to death, go and beat him quickly. What if you let him go and get bitten? Go quickly."
Ji Huai comforted Qin Yu and said, "It's okay. I'll go get a fight, otherwise it will be dangerous in the future."
People in the village will kill any snakes found nearby, especially venomous snakes. Even if the snake escapes, the whole village must be mobilized to find it and beat it to death, otherwise it will bite people and cannot be kept.
Qin Yu held his hand tightly, her fingertips turning white with strength, and pursed her lips tightly. The expression on her face could not be seen clearly in the dark night.
She understood the logic, but it was dangerous.
Liu Yun was still urging him, extremely anxious, "Ji Huai, hurry up and fight, or he will run away in a while."
"Why don't you let me go? Let me fight." Qin Yu looked at her and shouted back angrily.
Even though she knew that Ji Hao was not as flexible as Ji Huai, she should fight now, but she was still very angry. Why did she rush her husband
"Ji Hao doesn't know how. What should I do if I get bitten?" Liu Yun blurted out, and at the same time pulled Ji Hao back.
Qin Yu, who had never been troubled, got angry for the first time. He looked at Liu Yun and cursed unceremoniously, "What's wrong with the bite? There are four people in your family. One person died and there are three left. There are only three people in my family. How many people are there?" unfair?"
These words were quite vicious. Ji Huai was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. His wife was really furious.
"How are you talking? Why are you so dead? Can you speak?" Liu Yun almost jumped up, but Qin Yu didn't give her face and said coldly, "Your husband is a human being, isn't my husband a human being?" Why are you driving him up? If your husband doesn’t take care of me, what does it have to do with my husband? I won’t fight him. Whoever bites him will be unlucky!"
As she said this, she pulled Ji Huai towards the room without looking back.
Ji Hao's face turned green and white, and he was very embarrassed. He was very afraid of death, so of course he didn't dare to fight. Liu Yun was scolded until he was silent, so he didn't dare to fight. He walked to the side and shined a flashlight on the snake. My legs were so frightened that I felt weak, and the snake seemed to have turned around.
The two of them ran back quickly.
Liu Yun did not dare to go to the toilet, and was so frightened that she shivered.
It was a venomous snake. If it bit it, it would be fatal. It would be too late to go to the hospital.
at this time.
Ji Huai gently patted Qin Yu who was holding him, and said in a low voice, "I often shot snakes when I was a child. I'm going to see if they are still there. I have to beat them in case they bite you or the child."
Qin Yu was really angry. Liu Yun's words were like asking Ji Huai to rush to die. Could she not be angry? That was her husband, and she hugged him tightly, "We sold the pepper, and we just listened to you. We went to the city, not here anymore."
She didn't want Ji Jun to be like her, making a living in the mountains and encountering danger at any time. Picking pepper was very hard and tiring. Sometimes there would be green snakes wrapped around the trees, and she couldn't tell them apart at all. The thought of these made her scared.
"Then we have to kill the snake." He reassured her.
Qin Yu: "I know there is a snake hole next to it. Make a cage tomorrow, then grab two frogs and put them inside to catch them. Don't fight them."
She was really scared and her body was still shaking. One of her uncles was bitten to death by a snake and his whole body turned black.
Ji Huai had no choice but to leave in the end.
Qin Yu was afraid that he would get up in the middle of the night and sneak away, so he hugged him tightly that night, which made him feel a little swollen.
Ji Jun didn't know what happened yet. His mother didn't hold him to sleep today, so he went to cling to his parents.
The next day, Ji Huai went to catch the frog. Qin Yu made a cage and caught the snake that day. The snake hole was in the jungle not far from their house.
I guess there are a lot of snakes there, because I saw a lot of snake skins shed.
Ji Huai didn't tell Liu Yun about the snake he caught. Judging from Ji Hao's cowardice, he probably wouldn't even dare to go home.
Liu Yun walked around the alleys when he saw them. He used to come here to peek at what they were eating, but now he didn't dare to come. He didn't dare to go to the toilet at night. He was so miserable that he once saw a rope. He screamed in fright on the spot.
The cries of ghosts and howls of wolves are terrible to hear.
Qin Yu asked Ji Huai to find someone to sell the pepper, but he was not in a hurry. In order to reassure her, he took her to the city.
It's not easy to go to the city. It rained a few days ago, the roads are muddy, and the shoes are covered with soil.
After walking for nearly five kilometers, there was an uneven road. It took two hours for a bus to arrive. The fare per person was five cents. The bus was very narrow and smelled bad. Ji Jun looked out the window curiously. Holding this big cart that seemed to him very big.
Qin Yu thought Ji Huai was taking her to see a tractor, but she didn't expect that he was taking her to see a house. The person leading the way was his high school classmate Zhou Qiming, a fat man wearing glasses.
The two came to a bungalow. Zhou Qiming opened the lock and said, "This house is definitely worth buying now. There is a yard behind it, which is nearly 250 square meters. We can build several more floors in the future, but now there are three." The house is enough for you."
"My old uncle is no longer coming back and has settled abroad, so he sold it cheaply."
Qin Yu looked at the house. They passed through the hall, and behind it was a kitchen. There were rooms on both sides, surrounded by walls, but they were not lived in all year round, and the yard was covered with grass half a person's height.
Compared with the earthwork and tile houses in the village, this one is a bungalow with ceramic tiles on the outside. The doors and windows are made of wood. In Qin Yu's opinion, it is very tall and classy, and it is better than many houses in the city.
"Aren't you going to see the car?" she asked Ji Huai quietly.
What to do when looking at a house? They are selling, not renting.
Ji Huai asked her to wait, looked at Zhou Qiming and asked, "We are all classmates, can we sell it cheaper?"
Zhou Qiming thought for a while and replied to him, "The land here is seven yuan and twenty-one square meters. I'll give you seven yuan. As for the house, you also know that he not only has a bungalow, but also a kitchen, a small room, a toilet and so on. The house has been built, but I haven’t lived in it much. The house was sold for 8,000, including the land, 9,600 is the lowest price. It’s too little and my uncle and I can’t justify it.”
Qin Yu took a breath, nine thousand six yuan
It only costs three to four thousand to build a house in the countryside. Five thousand can build a large house, and you can use expensive wood to decorate the door frame.
Three to four thousand yuan is the amount of money that most rural people can save in a lifetime. Some people cannot afford to build a house in their lifetime.
"Shall we rent? Don't buy it." She pulled Ji Huai's hand to stop him.
Zhou Qiming saw that they had different opinions and said, "You guys should discuss it first. Nearly ten thousand yuan is not a small amount."
After speaking, he walked aside.
"We must buy it." Ji Huai was very determined. He met Qin Yu's eyes and said word by word, "The house we rent belongs to someone else. If we want to move out completely, we must have our own home in the city. Buy Once we get down, this is our home, and only with a home can we gain a foothold here."
"As long as we have a home and a place to live, we just have to work hard to support ourselves."
Qin Yu struggled in his eyes, but was finally convinced by him.
Ji Huai and Zhou Qiming made an agreement to contact each other after a while and buy the house and land together.
"Okay." Zhou Qiming nodded.
After Qin Yu made up his mind, he asked Ji Huai to sell the pepper quickly in case the house was bought.
After seeing the bungalows in the city, the dilapidated tile-roofed houses in the village were much worse in her eyes. She couldn't let her children stay here.
Ji Huai was right, if they wanted to go out and take their children with them, she would not be able to support herself if they had hands and feet.
If you farm in the village, you won't be able to make a fortune, and you will never be able to get out.
He replied: "How can anyone buy it? If someone buys it, there is no way that tall grass can grow in the yard of that house."
Nowadays, land and real estate are the least valuable, completely worthless. People in the city are eager to sell their land, but no one is buying it.
Especially for so-called shops, if anyone wants to buy it, the sellers will not let them go and want to sell it quickly.
Qin Yu was still worried and asked him to contact someone quickly.
Ji Huai also began to use his connections. He had a lot of bad friends, and the news spread quickly.
The current price of pepper is very high. The recent purchase price has reached 3.5 yuan per catty, which is more valuable than many things. There are many people who want to buy it.
Qin Yu has been planting it for two years, and the growth is pretty good, but the mountain land is still a bit barren. The annual output of a pepper tree is only about three kilograms, and pepper needs to be soaked and dried before it can be sold to others as seasoning. Maybe only 60%.
The annual output is less than two kilograms, and the price of a tree is not very high. In the end, the price was less than 50 yuan a tree.
Including the stone pillars, it was barely more than 14,000.
The money would not be enough to buy a house and a car for Ji Huai, and their family would have to spend money wherever they moved to the city.
Qin Yu gritted his teeth and agreed to sell the land.
The land was sold for 6,000 yuan, and the other party readily agreed.
In fact, the land was left to Ji Huai by Ji's father, and it was not considered hers. She wanted to give Ji Huai the money for the sale, but he asked for five thousand yuan.
Five thousand dollars was just enough to buy his tractor.
Qin Yu was a little worried at first and felt that she was taking a gamble. His approach made her feel completely at ease. He had a house and he was willing to endure hardship. Why didn't she believe him once
The last time he took buyers to see the pepper garden, Ji Huai pointed to the boundary line with Liu Yun's house, "This row of peppers here is occupying the road. My sister-in-law didn't even look at it when she was planting it. She said she would cut it down and leave nothing." Yes, she hasn’t been here recently. If you don’t like it, you can cut it off for her in advance.”
The family he chose was famous for their hard work and bad temper. If Liu Yun dared to act like a monster, he would be seeking death.
The man said, "Okay, I'll bring my wife to take a look in two days. We're going to dig a trench and put some fertilizer in."
The cooperation between the two parties was very pleasant. Qin Yu took 20,000 yuan and didn't sleep all night. It was the first time she saw so much money. She went to the bank in the town to deposit it very early that day, and quickly took the money and Ji Huai went to buy a house.
When she got the keys, she felt that the bunch of keys was very heavy.
Looking at the bicycles and occasionally cars driving on the road, she was actually a little confused and in a trance. They had nothing in the village.
This means that if they can't make money in the city, they will starve to death. But apart from driving a tractor as Ji Huai said, she has no idea about any job opportunities in the city, and she has never heard of anyone working there. I'm working in the city.
"It will definitely be better than before." Ji Huai looked at her very seriously and said.
Qin Yu was still optimistic, looking at the big backyard, "Can I tidy up the chickens and grow vegetables?"
Does the city let you do this
Ji Huai: "Okay, we can do whatever we want with our house."
She breathed a sigh of relief again. She probably wouldn't starve to death, and at most it would cost nothing. When she thought about them being able to live in the city, her eyebrows arched again.
Seems pretty good.
The people in the village thought they were crazy. Chen Haiyan almost fainted and shouted, "Qin Yu! What did you encourage my son to do?"
She cried and shouted, "Dad, look, this is your daughter-in-law. She has committed an evil act. Our family has committed an evil act. We have sold half of the mountain, including the pepper and the mountain. People are going to die."
"I'll forget it if I die."
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The land is not owned by their family but belongs to the country, but they have permanent use rights. Selling it is equivalent to giving the use rights of this land to others. Pepper is the only crop they can make money from, and the price is good. Generations can make a living from this.
In Chen Haiyan's view, selling for any amount of money is equivalent to asking for death, because there is no job at this time, and most people cannot make a living by anything other than farming.
Ji Huai: "Mom, I want to sell it."
"You agreed to sell her?" Chen Haiyan continued to scold Qin Yu, "You know his temper, but what will you do if you sell Ji Jun? Will he have nothing by then and will he starve to death?"
"I'll bear the consequences, so don't worry about me, mom. It's none of Qin Yu's business, and she doesn't agree to sell it." Ji Huai protected Qin Yu and changed the topic, "We go to the city to work hard. If we succeed, Mom can also enjoy happiness."
Upon hearing that they were going to the city, Chen Haiyan fell to the ground, dumbfounded, "What are you going to do in the city? Crazy, absolutely crazy!"
She cried and howled. There were very few people doing business in the city now, and she had never heard of it in the countryside. She had never been out of the city a few times in her life. Of course, she felt that Ji Huai wanted to use the money to ruin everything.
Our ancestors only had two pieces of mountainous land, which was their lifeblood. Even if they lost their lives, they could not lose their land.
When Liu Yun heard that Ji Huai had sold both pepper and land, he thought he was crazy and even gloated a little.
The other party has nothing left.
Qin Yu was really cheated when she married Ji Huai. It was so miserable. Do you plan to go hungry when you come back
Their pepper could be picked for decades, hundreds of pieces a year, and the land was still owned by the family. Not to mention the extra profit, Ji Huai was so dizzy that he couldn't use his brain.
No matter what Chen Haiyan said, Ji Huai still insisted on leaving. In just two days, he left the village with his wife and children in large bags.
When the people in the village found out, they were shocked.
This family became the talk of everyone, and everyone thought they had burned out their brains when talking about them.
"Ji Huai didn't know what tricks he used to make Qin Yu sell the land and pepper. She usually seems smart, but now she actually believes what the kid said. When she comes back next time, the money is gone, what else can she do? Life?"
"Last time I heard that he was going to the city to work hard. I thought he was going to the construction site to find a job, but it turned out that he was going to sell all the things at home to work. Fortunately, I didn't let my son come into contact with him, otherwise it would be terrible. "
"He's a prodigal son. If his father knew about it, he would probably be so angry that he would jump out of the coffin. Everything would be lost and ruined."
"Qin Yu is also stupid. He is still a village beauty after all. Marrying such a person is worse than marrying a cripple from the village. A cripple can also farm."
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Naturally, Liu Yun also heard these words. People in the village were very gossipy and wanted to ask her about Ji Huai. She shook her head with a look of helplessness on her face, "Don't mention it, my mother-in-law is almost mad to death for giving birth to this son." He is hopeless and pretends that he does not have this son, but fortunately he has lived with us."
"In the future, the two of us still don't know how to support Ji Jun. Fortunately, our family has been separated a long time ago, otherwise it will be troublesome in the future."
"How stupid do you think they are? You can't do this even if you think about it! Qin Yu is just like Ji Huai. He wants to make a fortune and can't endure hardship. Ji Hao is also very angry. After all, he is his younger brother, but there is nothing he can do. , Ji Huai bought them all directly."
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The villagers' perception of Ji Huai changed again, from a courageous man to a lazy man with big dreams.
He actually sold all his possessions and went to the city. He said he would go to the city to work hard, but it turned out that he was going to the city with money to play. I have never seen such a stupid person.
After Ji Hao heard about it, he also came back this week. He comforted Chen Haiyan, saying that it was impossible to be sad, and he was even a little lucky.
Ji Huai and Qin Yu looked down upon him. Aren't they targeting him everywhere during this period? When they have nothing and he has everything, how can they do anything but humble themselves
Liu Yun was very happy and a little smug, "I haven't pulled out that row of peppers yet. Now they have all sold them. How can anyone care about them? I went to see them last time. I can pick a few this year, but the price is still rising."
Want her to pull it out? That is impossible!
That row of peppers can be sold for a lot of money this year, and that’s all money!
"I'll go take a look with you tomorrow." Ji Hao said.
Since he became a teacher, his status has changed. He doesn't want to do this kind of farm work.
Before she finished speaking, Liu Yun quickly agreed. She couldn't wait to show her results right away.
The next day, the two of them walked one after another. Liu Yun did not wear long sleeves or a hat when doing farm work like Qin Yuyu. He was tanned and his face was covered with sun spots. Ji Hao followed her, and She still kept her distance.
She was a woman holding a hoe and a bucket. Ji Hao didn't hold anything. People in the village couldn't look at her and pointed at her.
Walk all the way up the mountain.
Liu Yun kept mumbling with a proud look on his face, "This is our family's rice. I planted a little to the side and then planted some more."
"I also planted a tree here. That tree belongs to our family, and those papayas also belong to our family."
"I originally wanted to plant more peppers on the side, but it's not enough. Next time I plant in the field by the river, I can still plant a few peppers. They don't plant them either."
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Regarding her behavior, Ji Hao did not stop her. Instead, he said, "Xiaocheng and Xiaoxian will also marry wives when they grow up. We must save money to build houses for them. Try to have as many types as possible. The more we sell, the more money we will have."
Liu Yun also agreed. She couldn't be idle and had to work. She wished she could work all the time. She immediately said, "In a few days, I will go to open up wasteland and continue planting pepper. Where are our two sons? Plant as much as you can.”
All she thinks about all day long is how to occupy other people's land, how to take advantage of it, and where to get some land. She wishes that all the land belonged to her family.
Ji Hao nodded, and he was responsible for directing from behind. He could be greedy as much as he wanted, and just let Liu Yun come forward. On this point, the couple were of the same mind.
"It's almost there. I haven't even pinched the flowers in that row. The peppers are growing this year and they are growing pretty well." Liu Yun laughed.
Ji Hao was also very satisfied. When it came to selling money, he was happier than anyone else and his pace quickened.
"It's this row..." Before Liu Yun could finish her words, she was stunned. The rows of peppers on the outermost row were already withered. She ran forward quickly, and someone was digging stone pillars in front of her.
"What are you doing?" She yelled hysterically, looking like she wanted to kill the man.
How dare they, how dare they chop off their pepper! And if you cut it from the root, it will die.
There were also strings of small peppercorns on the pepper tree. Liu Yun felt that she was in danger. She could not breathe and it was going to kill her!
Ji Hao's face also darkened, and he stepped forward and yelled, "Who told you to do this? You are breaking the law!"
The middle-aged couple looked at them and said, "Is that piece of pepper yours?"
"That's right, that belongs to our family!" Liu Yun shouted with veins popping on his forehead, "This matter is not over, it's not over! Compensate! Compensate to me!"
She had worked so hard to plant it, weeding it every few days, and even applied fertilizer some time ago. That was her hard work.
"Are you sick? What should I pay for?" The woman also scolded with a sullen face, "This is the land we bought, and you have all planted it on our side. Didn't your brother say that you agreed to cut it down? Even if you don't Agreed, you have erected some pillars on our side, in our fields, and they are ours."
The other party was not so easy to talk to, and was more fierce than them. He asked Ji Hao, "Who is breaking the law? If you want to break the law, you are breaking the law."
Liu Yun felt as if a basin of cold water was being poured down on her again. She looked at the bunches of wilted peppers and thought that she should just die.
Ji Hao was not much better than her. Looking at the row of peppers, he was still heartbroken, "Even if you agree, you can't cut them down so quickly. We have been planting them for so long."
"What? I have to wait for you to grow peppers, and then I can chop them after picking them? Do you want us to give you this piece of land?" The woman said rudely, "I heard that you are also a teacher, how do you teach students? ? Don’t you understand other people’s things and your own things? You’re still a teacher, what a piece of shit.”
They are just rough people who work hard, and they are not soft-spoken when scolding. The place is so big, so of course they did some research before buying the land.
Ji Hao now prides himself on being a scholar. His face is like pig liver, as if he had eaten shit.
"What if I just cut it down?" The woman was also angry at what they said. She looked at the next pepper tree, pointed at the border, and started spraying, "Look, you have planted it on other people's land, and you are still so confident. Teacher, what the hell! Are you the only one paying back the teacher?"
She kept scolding Ji Hao, but he couldn't refute and came back disgraced.
Moreover, those two people were from the next village. Within two days, their deeds had spread throughout the village, and everyone made them a joke.
Ji Hao still pretended to be polite on the surface. On this day, people in the village were gathering to drink and chat. He wanted to enjoy everyone's respect for the teacher and compliments for him, so he deliberately walked that way. Before he reached it, he heard something inside People are talking:
"The whole village was laughing their heads off, and other villagers also knew that Ji Hao is a teacher, and the teacher still does such a thing, what a teacher, the whole school is embarrassed!"
"You're still asking for compensation. Li Cuihua scolded him in the village today. Although Ji Huai has no future, people really don't care about him. He's become a teacher, and he's still like this."
"When you marry Liu Yun, both husband and wife are the same. No one is worthy of him except Liu Yun. That guy Ji Hao is the best match for Liu Yun. One has no brains and the other thinks he is extremely smart. He gives advice to Liu Yungan, he is the most evil one."
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The people inside spoke in a sarcastic tone, bursting into laughter as they spoke. Ji Hao felt angry for a moment. This was an insult to him. His arrogance and arrogance were severely trampled under his feet at this time, and he was completely shameless.
He was afraid of being discovered, so he finally went home as if on the run. Looking at Liu Yun's face and bloated body, he felt as sick as if he had eaten a fly.