When people from Century Real Estate came to the Yongjia community where the Qu family lived, Xia Shao was reading and reviewing in her master's house. shu manhu
The teaching materials of Hong Kong schools are still very different from those of mainland high schools. Moreover, Shengye Girls' High School is taught entirely in English. Some of the professional terms Xia Shao still need to be memorized. But fortunately, she has her own way of understanding, so it is not difficult to memorize some words. It's just that when she came back last week, she was sitting behind the desk and immersed in reviewing. Xu Tianyin was sitting by the far window in a daze. This time she pulled him over and asked him to sit next to her. She threw the dictionary to him and found something for him to do.
Later, Xia Shao simply didn't even look it up in the dictionary, and instead of trying to pronounce it herself, she simply pushed the book to Xu Tianyin and asked him to read it to her. After reading, I was asked to listen to explanations and grammar. Xu Tianyin has always been a man of few words, but Xia Shao caught him and became an English teacher for a day. And it's not just in English. Xia Shao was funny and deliberately teased Xu Tianyin, asking him to read the same word in English, Japanese, French, Russian and other languages. Xu Tianyin's tone was rigid and his voice was not loud, so the girl's dissatisfaction was often heard in the study.
"The sentence 'Life is lovely' should be full of emotion. Senior brother read it too rigidly. Read it again."
"Hmm... I think I understood it wrong. This prose was written by Mr. Ba Jin during the Anti-Japanese War. At that time, the national enemy was facing the enemy. He should have the emotion of forge ahead and motivation in it, and it should not be emotional. Senior brother! Forge ahead! Endeavor! Read it again.”
"It's about striving forward, not glaring at others!"
"Eh? Why do I read melancholy when I read it again? Senior brother, melancholy! Do it again!"
"..." The man sat next to the girl, with a pile of homework books in front of him. The Mandarin book was spread out in front of him, and the dictionaries were piled high on top of the homework books. His eyes looked at these heavy schoolwork, and his eyebrows were slightly furrowed.
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"Melancholy! Hurry up!" Xia Shao poked someone at the side.
Xu Tianyin sat next to him and turned to look at Xia Shao. She sat next to him and looked at him. Before he could speak, her eyes had already turned into crescent moons. It was almost evening now, the light fell off the branches outside the window, and the mottled tree shadows were cast into the house, falling on her shoulders, cute and cute. She always loved teasing him so much, always smiling so hard that people couldn't take their eyes away. The man's eyes were fixed on the girl's eyebrows, he nodded and repeated the English words.
His tone was still rigid without any fluctuation, but as he stared at her, there was always some rare softness in his eyes, so his tone could be called gentle, at least not cold.
Xia Shao's eyes lit up, and she smiled with satisfaction, "Okay! I can save the tuition fees for hiring foreign teachers in the future."
She was smiling and making small calculations, looking like she was calculating carefully. The man's eyes were soft, and the corners of his lips were slightly curved. He silently raised his hand and helped her turn the page of the book on the table so that she could continue reading.
The time the two of them spent reviewing together always passed quickly. After dinner, while it was still dark, Xia Shao changed into her school uniform, packed her things, and Xu Tianyin sent her to school. But as soon as the two got in the car, Xia Shao received a call from Emily.
"Mr. Xia, something happened in Yongjia Community!"
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When Xu Tianyin drove Xia Shao to the gate of Yongjia Community, the situation at the gate was not much better than when Xia Shao came yesterday. It can be said that it is worse than that.
When we got off the bus, it was slightly dark. Emily and an employee were waiting for Xia Shao at the gate of the community, and greeted Xia Shao as soon as she got out of the car.
Xia Shao had already understood the matter in the car. The reason started this morning when Xia Shao called Emily to tell her about the acquisition of Yongjia Community. Emily was an activist. After she returned to the company, she held a meeting and urgently came up with an acquisition plan. In the afternoon, she took the company's evaluators to personally Come to Yongjia Community for on-site inspection. But when I arrived at the gate of the community, I saw residents gathering together to protest, criticize, and even insult. Their words were unbearable, and the situation got out of hand several times.
Emily couldn't understand Cantonese, and the staff around her learned about it and told her that the person who was being criticized and abused was a resident in the community.
People from Century Real Estate came to the community this afternoon and offered a high price compensation policy to that household for some reason. After the household agreed, the residents of the community were indignant. The residents cursed at the entrance to the corridor and outside the door of the house. I heard that that household Residents have called the police.
Originally, Emily didn't need to tell Xia Shao about such a thing. But after doing some research, she found out that the blocked resident's surname was Qu, and it was the family they were looking for today to find out more about the situation. At noon, Emily called Xia Shao to report on the company meeting in the morning, and mentioned that she would bring an appraiser to the community for an on-site inspection in the afternoon. Xia Shao mentioned Qu Ran's home on the phone so that they could go to her home to learn about Century Real Estate's policy on the acquisition of Yongjia Community. Only then did Emily learn that Qu Ran and Xia Shao were classmates and roommates. When she came to the gate of the community today, she learned that this happened to Qu Ran's family, so Emily called Xia Shao.
Xia Shao had a good ear and heard the residents' curses as soon as she got off the car.
"Have we treated your family badly since you moved here? Why would you do this to betray your neighbors?"
"White-eyed wolf!"
"Get out of the neighborhood!"
"Take the money Century Real Estate compensates your family and get out of the community!"
Qu Ran lives on the second floor, and many people are standing downstairs, looking up at the window and pointing. The windows of Qu Ran's house were closed tightly, and a dim light came out in the dark sky. The sound of curses came into the house. After a while, a figure appeared in front of the window. Someone opened the curtains and opened the window. !
It was Qu Ran who poked her head out. There was a light behind her, and her face could not be seen clearly, but her voice was trembling, with a cry in her voice, and she shouted to the people below in the community: "We have already explained it! Why don't you believe it? Century Real Estate People said that the compensation policy for community residents is the same, and we just signed the contract! We don’t know anything!”
"Ah! The CEO of Century Real Estate is notoriously mercenary! Will he give us such a favorable compensation? If you mother and daughter are greedy for money, just admit that you are greedy for money. Don't pretend to be innocent!"
"Either you are pretending to be innocent or you are stupid! You are still studying in a prestigious school, and all your studies have been in vain!"
"You mother and daughter, stop pretending to be innocent! Asking your daughter to associate with the underworld is just for the sake of the house!"
"If Century Real Estate hadn't seen Xiaoran dating people in the underworld, would it have been able to treat your family so favorably?"
"Stop showing off like you don't admit it, okay? It's disgusting! Thanks to us for taking so much care of you mother and daughter over the years! We've all taken care of White Eyed Wolf!"
"The CEO of Century Real Estate is notoriously mercenary. He is willing to give your family so many preferential treatment for free? Who knows who the money will come from!"
The residents of the community didn't know why, but they decided that if Qu Ran's family received too much compensation, they would definitely receive less compensation. In short, the abuse continued. It is simply hard to believe that neighbors who used to be harmonious would turn against each other in one day, and the old friendship would be gone. Because of a compensation contract, I am so jealous.
Qu Ran stood at the window and looked down blankly. She had never thought that this day would come to her. Her voice was hoarse and crying, "We really don't know! You believe us! Grandpa Liang! Aunt Liu! Aunt Wang !”
"I beg you, can you tell me something tomorrow? My mother is not in good health..."
But her voice was buried in the angry curses of the residents. In the chaos, someone picked up a stone and threw it upstairs! The stone hit the glass, and the shattered glass made the girl standing at the window duck back. Qu's mother's panicked cries suddenly came from the room. It was obvious that Qu Ran was injured.
At this time, a piercing siren sounded from the alley behind the community, and the police were actually coming.
The residents got out of the way, and Xia Shao took advantage of the chaos to squeeze through the crowd and go upstairs.
There were broken glass on the floor of Qu Ran's bedroom. Qu Ran fell to the ground and had scratches on his forehead, palms and legs. Qu's mother wiped her daughter's wounds with tears. When Xia Shao called and knocked on the door, both mother and daughter were surprised. After opening the door cautiously, they found that only Xia Shao and Xu Tianyin were the only ones, so they felt relieved to let them in.
Tears fell from Qu's mother's eyes. While wiping her daughter's wounds, she burst into tears, full of grievances.
It turned out that Century Real Estate came to Qu Ran's house to negotiate the contract in the afternoon, and proposed to compensate her family for a new house of the same area in the same location, and also provide compensation for demolition. Qu's mother didn't react to such a favorable condition for a moment. The community had been in a stalemate over this matter for half a year, and suddenly the conditions were so great compared to before that she was still a little confused. After reacting, Qu's mother naturally asked why there were such favorable conditions and whether other residents in the community had them. People from Century Real Estate kept saying that other residents had them, but Qu’s mother had no doubts. The real estate company is not related to the Qu family, so why did they lie to them? Therefore, she knew that there would be no better conditions than this, so she signed the contract immediately.
After the contract was signed, Qu's mother went out happily, hoping to tell the neighbors about it and make her family who had not yet signed the contract happy. Unexpectedly, people from Century Real Estate did not go to other people's homes. After the neighbors heard about it, the incident quickly spread in the community.
The residents all felt that Qu Ran was associated with the underworld, so Century Real Estate gave their family generous compensation. It was clearly agreed at the beginning that everyone would work together and no one would sell if the compensation was low, using this as a bargaining chip to force Century Real Estate to increase the compensation. Unexpectedly, Qu Ran's family would now ignore everyone else for their own benefit. It was their mother and daughter who betrayed the community. Therefore, suspicion and accusations eventually turned into abuse.
Qu Ran curled up on the sofa, his eyes straight, "Why is this happening? My mother and I were really deceived, why is no one willing to believe it? We all got along well before, why did it suddenly become like this? …”
"It's all my fault." Qu's mother held her daughter in her arms, crying and blaming herself, "It would be great if Mom had thought about it again, but she didn't think about it so much. At that time, Mom only thought about our family getting a new house to compensate. The money can be used to renovate a good kitchen... Why didn't Mom think that if the real estate company had such a compensation method, what else would they have to earn? Alas! Mom was stupid. She lost her head when she saw such a good condition. She didn't think about it. so many… "
"Auntie, don't blame yourself so much. From your family's point of view, there is nothing wrong in agreeing to the contract. Who can refuse such a good condition? If Century Real Estate finds other families today, I believe they will also sign. In the end, it is all It's all about money." Xia Shao advised from the side.
At this time, Qu's mother simply didn't have the energy to think about how Xia Shao knew something was going on in their family. She just wiped the tears on her face and said, "Xiao Xia, thank you for coming to see Xiao Ran. I told you to watch the joke..."
Xia Shao shook her head, but before she could speak, Qu Ran raised her head. There were still tears in her eyes, and there were scars on her forehead, palms and legs, but the girl pursed her lips and her face was unusually determined. She got up and got off the sofa, grabbed the contract on the coffee table, and walked to the window.
Xia Shao and Qu Mu were both stunned, but they saw her walking to the window with the contract and looking downstairs.
Downstairs, residents and the police were complaining, saying that Qu Ran's family was connected to the underworld, "Sir, there is a delinquent girl in our community. The kid Aran used to be very good, but ever since he made friends with the underworld, he..."
Before he finished speaking, the residents downstairs were all stunned!
A contract was smashed on top of my head!
Everyone looked up and saw a chubby girl standing by the window. The window was covered with smashed glass and sharp edges, which made her eyes sharp at the moment when she was always cheerful and honest. She often mentioned her neighbors in the community in front of her friends and kept them in mind. I had never heard her talk about her relatives, but I heard her talk about the grandparents and uncles in the community every day. But tonight, she looked at them with strange eyes, sharp.
"Take it! Whoever wants it can take it! My family's name is signed on it. If anyone is jealous, just take it to bargain with Century Real Estate. Don't come to my house and scold me and my mother! It's all in vain! Isn't it all about money? My mother and I can’t give you money, so if you want money, go find someone who can give it to you!”
The residents were stunned. No one expected Qu Ran to be like this.
Before anyone could react, the police downstairs came upstairs to Qu Ran's house to learn about the situation.
Xia Shao took this opportunity to come out of Qu Ran's house and found Emily waiting there at the corner of the corridor.
"I asked you to handle the matter as soon as possible. The longer it takes, the deeper the impact of the bloody situation in the community will be."
The employees brought by Emily stood aside and were stunned when they heard Xia Shao talking about Feng Shui and looked at her with surprised eyes. But Emily asked: "You mean, what happened in the community today is related to Feng Shui?"
Emily's tone was obviously doubtful. She did not question Xia Shao's statement, but for a materialist, this statement was still difficult for her to understand.
Xia Shao didn't explain much, just asked: "How do you feel when you are standing here now?"
Emily was stunned, and immediately looked at the red-painted wall in the corridor. In the dim light of the night, these bloody graffiti made people feel even more frightened.
"It's very uncomfortable and depressing. I wonder how the residents here live in such an environment. Are they not afraid?"
Xia Shao nodded, "That's exactly the truth. Depression and fear. People who live in this kind of place for a long time will be affected by many negative effects, such as low mood, depression, boredom, and even irritability. If you feel uncomfortable, you can easily anger others. What happened in the community today is not all caused by Feng Shui, but Feng Shui is definitely a contributing factor."
The tragic situation of looking into the mirror with blood in it originally heralded a bloody disaster. Qu Ran was injured today, which is exactly where he should be. But fortunately it was just a minor injury. If we continue to ignore it, such things will happen one after another in the community, and something serious will always happen.
"Century Real Estate uses this method to harass residents just to make them feel uneasy and unsatisfied living here. They will sign the contract early and end the matter. What I asked you to do, do it as soon as possible."
After listening to Xia Shao's explanation, Emily felt that it made sense and nodded in agreement.
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Second update tomorrow! There will be an update at noon to make up for tonight's update.
This month, I am renovating my home. I basically have no time during the day and only have time to code at night. If I get less at night, I will try my best to make up for it at noon.