Chapter 31: Chaos

Wang Fuduo, who was sitting at the door, came over happily when he saw Lin Weiwan coming back. “Niece, three more families have moved in. Let’s go in and sign the documents as a proof.”

“Uncle Wang has been waiting for me for a long time. I’m going out to buy some things. You know there’s nothing at home now.” Lin Weiwan pushed her bicycle into the yard.

Wang Fuduo took Lin Weiwan’s heavy bamboo basket and put it on his back. Lin Weiwan locked the bicycle in the small warehouse, and then took out a padlock from his arms. After locking it, he followed Wang Fuduo into the house.

The floor in the living room was a bit messy, and two workers were still building partitions.

Under the glare of the Zhou family, Lin Weiwan took Wang Fuduo up to the second floor. Wang Fuduo also asked the heads of the three families to follow.

After collecting the money and signing the contract, and sending Wang Fuduo away, Lin Weiwan looked at the lively courtyard and felt good.

Old Mrs. Zhou had just packed the chamber pot for Mr. Zhou and came out. When she saw Lin Weiwan, she had an idea and wanted to throw a basin of feces out.

“If you dare to splash, I’ll pour it into you.” Lin Weiwan immediately discovered Mrs. Zhou’s intention and shouted loudly.

Mrs. Zhou paused her arm, thinking of Lin Weiwan’s tough look, and took the urinal back.

Back on the second floor, the mother and daughter of the Wang family greeted Lin Weiwan when they saw him coming back, “Xiao Lin, let’s have dinner together. We made dumplings today.”

Lin Weiwan looked at Mother Wang, “No need.” She turned and went back to the house.

She naturally saw what the mother and daughter of the Wang family were planning. She just hid a little. Now the Zhou family can still move around in a large area. When other residents move in, the Zhou family will have trouble.

After taking out the things in the bamboo basket and placing them casually, Lin Weiwan took out three hot buns from the space to solve the dinner.

Hang the curtains on the windows again and lock the door.

Take out the tablet and put on the headphones to watch. It is obvious that one of them was followed in the black market today. He walked steadily and had a tall stature.

It was okay to use brute force to deal with the Zhou family’s tough guys, but it would be troublesome to deal with the guy today and Zhou Weidong who kept looking at him with squinting eyes.

If they really fought, they would definitely suffer. While watching the video, Lin Weiwan finished three meat buns and drank spiritual spring water to quench his thirst.

After a day of hard work, the muscles that were originally a little sore gradually eased after drinking the spiritual spring water.

Zhou’s mother was fanning the coal stove in the yard with a cattail leaf fan. The fire was just right, so she quickly poured some oil and put the vegetables into the pot to stir-fry.

She caught a glimpse of the new woman who had moved in taking something from the utility shed and quickly turned around to check.

When he found that the firewood was taken away by the woman, he jumped up and cursed.

“You little thief, why did you take my firewood? You are so poor that you can’t afford to steal people’s firewood.”

The woman looked back at Zhou’s mother with two pieces of firewood in her hand.

“Who are you scolding, you gossip? I’ll return two pieces of firewood to you tomorrow. What’s the point of yelling? You have two pieces of firewood, so what can you do?”

The woman was Xu Mei, who had just moved in and lived on the first floor. Her husband worked in a canning factory.

They had never had a house, so they lived with their mother- in-law and her family of more than 20 people. Now that they have moved out, although the room is only 15 square meters, with no ventilation and no windows, it is better than living with that family and it is difficult to turn over.

“Who are you scolding? You think you are right to steal people’s things?” When had Zhou’s mother suffered a loss? She was originally upset, so she put the pot aside and rolled up her sleeves to get in.

Now there are all kinds of people in the house. If you are suppressed in everything, you will be bullied to death.

While wrestling, she shouted Zhou Weibei and Mrs. Zhou.

Soon a group of people wrestled at the door of the back kitchen on the first floor. Lin Weiwan took off her headphones and heard a knock on the door, so she put the things into the space.

“Comrade Xiaolin, there’s a fight downstairs, go check it out.” Wang’s mother saw that the wrinkles on Lin Weiwan’s face were a little deeper when she smiled.

“I can’t do anything about it. This kind of thing is handled by the police. At worst, there’s the neighborhood committee.”

Lin Weiwan locked the door and went downstairs, watching the three Zhou family members and the newcomer pulling their hair and slapping them.

“Stop it.” Zhou Weidong came back with his newly reissued ID and saw the Zhou family members twisting into a ball.

Seeing that no one listened to him, he hurried over to separate them.

“Son, you’re finally back. Hurry up and catch this thief.” Zhou’s mother pointed at Xu Mei and Zhou Weidong and complained. Her hair was loose and her sleeves were torn off.

“Bah, he’s just a soldier, but he really thinks he’s a policeman and wants to arrest people. Are you still sleepwalking?” Xu Mei was scheming with more than a dozen people in her husband’s family. She was very skilled at scolding them.

“Mom, that’s enough. What happened? As the saying goes, a distant relative is not as good as a close neighbor. Let’s sit down and talk slowly.”

How could Zhou Weidong let the matter go to the police station? Zhou’s father’s matter had been settled, and he didn’t know if he would be implicated when he returned to the army.

With such a mess at home and the police station, his military career was a perfect end.

“Son, she bullied people and stole firewood from our house. Things are precious now, and no one is rich. This person stole as soon as he came. What should we do in the future?”

Zhou’s mother was stingy. Now the family has only this little money. Every penny counts. If some of it is taken away by outsiders, how can we live?

“Who stole it? Can you speak human words? The neighbor borrowed two pieces of firewood from your family and will return it to you tomorrow. Don’t keep shouting about stealing and thieves. Thieves will cry when they go to your house. What are you taking advantage of?”

Xu Mei came for a whole morning and dug up everything about the Zhou family. Now she was just rubbing salt in the wound.

“You, you chatterbox, where is Lin Weiwan? Get this person out quickly. Who knows what he will do after he gets used to petty theft.”

Zhou’s mother thought of the owner of the house, Lin Weiwan, and quickly shouted to the inner room.

The first thing Zhou Weidong saw when he entered the house was Lin Weiwan standing aside and watching the fire from the other side. It was obvious that this situation was all caused by Lin Weiwan.

He couldn’t figure out why Lin Weiwan hated the Zhou family so much these two days, and how the Zhou family had wronged her.

The whole family took care of her like a child and didn’t ask her to do any work, but she actually acted like this, and even rented out the house after splitting up the family.

“Aunt, I can’t do anything about this. The agreement has been signed, the neighborhood committee director has also stamped it, and I have collected rent for half a year. I am not in the right to kick them out now.

It’s just two pieces of firewood. Why should you be so fussy? Aunt Xu didn’t say she wouldn’t pay it back. You are just too angry recently. Let your brother take you to get some fire-clearing medicine to cool down.”

Lin Weiwan looked at Zhou’s mother with an expression that I am doing this for your own good.

“Fuck your grandmother’s anger. If you don’t kick them out, just give me money and rent a house for us.” Zhou’s mother was so angry at Lin Weiwan’s sarcastic words that she exploded and started to curse.