Xu Huaiqian was a person who could go anywhere and get along with others. After breakfast, he walked around the Chen family home.

He had only taken a quick look at Chen Liejiu’s family yesterday. Since he had decided to live in the Chen family, he had to get to know them in detail.

From small things like pots and pans to big things like rice jars on the dining table, he counted everything and tried his best to know what was in the house.

While he was doing this, Wang Wanwan followed him closely.

 After Xu Huaiqian had a general idea of ​​what the Chen family had, he turned around and looked at Wang Wanwan who had been following him, and asked her with a smile: “What are you following me for?”

“Nothing,” Wang Wanwan shook her head. She saw Xu Huaiqian reaching out to get the teapot to pour water, quickly poured it for him and put it in front of him, “Second brother, I’ll do these things in the future.”

Don’t do it yourself, what if you get hurt or bumped, and your condition gets worse, and you won’t live long?

Xu Huaiqian looked at her strangely. He felt that Wang Wanwan’s attitude towards him was wrong, but he couldn’t tell what was wrong.

Just as he was thinking about it, Chen Liejiu came back with a group of people.

 Xu Huaiqian saw him appear with a group of people from nowhere. Each of them pushing a wheelbarrow, pulling slate, wood and earth blocks dug up from nowhere. They looked like a demolition team that had just returned from a demolition. He walked into the yard with a teacup in hand and asked him in surprise: “What are you doing?”

“Move the boxes into the house for me, and throw the rest outside the yard.” Chen Liejiu directed people to put the things away, and replied to Xu Huaiqian in a shocking way, “It’s okay, I demolished your house.”

“These are the materials I brought back from your house.” Chen Liejiu, who had been busy all morning, was very thirsty. After saying that, he quickly walked to the water tank next to the kitchen, and opened the lid of the water tank. He picked up the gourd ladle and was about to scoop the raw water in the water tank to drink.

 Xu Huaiqian’s eyelids twitched. He wanted to ask him why he went to demolish the house when he was not collecting debts. But what he did was to hand him the teacup that he had just brought out but had not had time to drink: “Drink this. Drinking raw water will easily cause worms in your stomach.”

In this era without fertilizer and pesticide pollution, although the water in the well is not worse than modern mineral water, bacteria and worm eggs, which are not visible to the naked eye, fall into it. If people drink it, they will get sick, and it is difficult to treat it here.

“Oh, okay.” After hearing what Xu Huaiqian said, Chen Liejiu hurriedly put down the gourd ladle in his hand, took his teacup and drank it all. After quenching his thirst, he said: “It turns out that worms in the stomach are caused by drinking raw water.”

Xu Huaiqian nodded: “Mm.”

Because of work, Xu Huaiqian often went to the countryside. He knew that some people in poor mountainous areas would find water on the spot when they were thirsty for convenience. They never considered hygiene issues and just drank it, which caused many people to get sick. 

They spent a lot of effort to publicize this hygiene issue, so they knew that if they didn’t say it was serious, no one would listen.

“When eating vegetables and fruits in the field, it is best to wash them before eating. Sometimes, if you don’t pay attention, insect eggs will fall on them. If you eat them, you will have a stomach full of insects that will gnaw your internal organs and suck your blood.”

Xu Huaiqian’s words not only confused Chen Liejiu, but also scared a group of men who were unloading materials outside the yard.

Among them, there was a big man with a silly look. After unloading the stone slabs on the cart, he poked his head into the yard and smiled at Xu Huaiqian: “You are our sister-in-law, you know a lot.”

A few years ago, a child in Dali Village died with a swollen stomach. A curious person opened his stomach and saw that it was full of insects. At that time, everyone was scared and thought that he was possessed by some evil spirit. They invited a witch to dance for three days and three nights.

Now he knows that this is the case. 

Before Xu Huaiqian could reply, Chen Liejiu took the lead and glanced over: “Don’t call him sister-in-law, it’s disrespectful. Just call him second brother.”

Others calling Xu Huaiqian sister-in-law can satisfy Chen Liejiu’s vanity to a certain extent. It let outsiders know that he married in a husband as a ger, and the man he married is a scholar.

It’s very impressive wherever he goes.

But husband and wife are one. He built his face on Xu Huaiqian’s dignity, so what good would it do him if Xu Huaiqian was unhappy and hated him.

Chen Wu scratched his head in a naive way and called out unskillfully: “Second brother.”

“You can call me anything.” Xu Huaiqian didn’t care about the title. He married into the Chen family, and now he eats and drinks Chen’s food. It doesn’t hurt to be called sister-in-law. Then he asked about what happened just now: “You demolished my house?”

“Yes.” Seeing that Xu Huaiqian was not angry, Chen Liejiu said with relief: “It was that Xu Dalang. The beads on the abacus were ten miles away, and I could hear the sound in Dali Village.”

“He wanted to mortgage you to me, and then occupy your house and your property. By then, he would pay back the money he owed me, and he could get all your property for free. It’s a beautiful thought,” Chen Liejiu snorted, “I won’t let him get his way.”

He wanted to do this before, but he had no status. Now Xu Huaiqian is his man, and he can take Xu Huaiqian’s things legitimately. Why doesn’t he take them?

A bully should act like a bully.

He is right to demolish the house, right?

Xu Huaiqian looked at Chen Liejiu’s proud expression, which was not ashamed but proud, and his heart was in a mess.

 Originally he wanted to settle down first, sort out the original owner’s memory, and then go back to fight for the family property. However, when he woke up, his wife had solved all the problems for him in one go.

What will he do in the future?

“If the house is left there, it will be occupied by someone sooner or later. It is better to tear it down and take it back, pick up some materials, some of which can still be used.”

Xu Huaiqian did not speak, and Chen Liejiu thought he was angry. After all, he did not discuss this matter with him in advance: “It just so happens that everyone is here today. I will pick some usable materials later and make a new toilet for you. I guarantee that it will be clean every time you go to the toilet, okay.”

Fortunately, Chen Liejiu has not raised his brothers and sisters for nothing these years. Although he has no other skills, he still has the ability to coax people.

Yesterday, he found that Xu Huaiqian’s face was not very good after he went into the toilet.

When he was escorting before, he knew that rich families had a kind of running toilet with a slanted board connected to the sink. After using the toilet, it was flushed with water, and there was no odor.

Now it is just right to coax Xu Huaiqian.

 Demolishing the house made the eldest wife shoot herself in the foot, but Xu Huaiqian could still make up for Chen Liejiu in his heart, because he was trying to save face for himself.

But demolishing his house to build a toilet for him…

Other wives coax their husbands by kissing and hugging, but his wife coaxes him by building a toilet for him…

Later, when others asked what the first gift his wife gave him was, he answered: a toilet.

Really… down-to-earth.

But Chen Liejiu didn’t notice Xu Huaiqian’s embarrassment, and added fuel to the fire for fear that he would hesitate: “If you nod, I will ask them to start the work immediately, and I guarantee that you can use it today, okay?”

Xu Huaiqian took a deep breath: “Whatever you want.”

“Okay, I’ll ask them to do it right away.” Chen Liejiu automatically changed “whatever you want” to “I’ll do as you say”, and agreed readily.

 Xu Huaiqian had no choice but to say, “I’ll get a teapot to boil some water for you.”

“Boss, the sister-in-law you found is pretty good.” As Xu Huaiqian left, Chen Wu sighed sincerely.

If it were him, he would fight to the death with anyone who demolished his house.

Thinking of this, he looked at Chen Liejiu again.

Even his wife wouldn’t do that.

After all, if he had a house, he would have a place to settle down. No matter what, he would have a place to stay.

The boss demolished someone else’s house today, which was equivalent to completely cutting off Xu Huaiqian’s retreat. In the future, if Xu Huaiqian did not want to be a live-in son-in-law, he would have no way out even if he asked to leave the house.

Xu Huaiqian was not angry at all, and he accepted it calmly. It must be said that he was a good person with a good temper.

 “It’s just that his health is too bad.” Chen Wu couldn’t help but mutter after he finished speaking. He was as thin as a stick, with less than two taels of meat on his body. He was afraid that their boss would lose her husband at a young age.

“I told you not to call him sister-in-law!” Chen Liejiu kicked him, “Why don’t you go pick the materials quickly? What are you mumbling about?”

Chen Wu, who was kicked, didn’t dare to think about it anymore, and went to find materials for repairing the toilet. Chen Liejiu was left alone. He looked at Xu Huaiqian’s back, who was so thin that he couldn’t even hold up his clothes when he walked into the kitchen. He was thoughtful for a moment.

There is nothing special about building a house for a farmer. As long as you have hands and feet, materials, and know how to do it, you can start working.

When Xu Huaiqian stepped into the kitchen with a teapot, he had thought it through. His wife was in charge of the outside, and he would be in charge of the inside.

 It just so happened that when he went to the countryside, he often cooked with the villagers. He knew how to use the wood stove, so it was easy for him to help cook and boil water.

He had a good idea, but as soon as he stepped into the kitchen, Wang Wanwan followed him in: “Second Brother, don’t move, I’ll do it!”

She snatched the teapot from Xu Huaiqian’s hand, added water, and lit the stove quickly.

Xu Huaiqian: “???”

I can’t even use the kitchen?

After Wang Wanwan finished her work, she turned around and saw Xu Huaiqian still standing there. She thought about it and thought it would be bad if she didn’t let Xu Huaiqian do anything.

 “Second brother, why don’t you go back to the house and count some copper coins? Every time eldest brother takes people to collect debts, he will give each person ten wen as labor money when he comes back.”

This is why Chen Liejiu, a ger, can start a debt collection business in the village, and no one in the Chen clan opposes it.

Ten wen may not seem like much, but it can buy two kilograms of rice.

You may not earn hundreds of wen after digging crops in the fields for a year, but you can earn ten wen a day by following Chen Liejiu.

It is true that it is impossible to earn money every day, but as long as there are a few days in a month, you can save a bucket of rice, which can make life much better for the family. The Fifth Chen family was so poor that they almost starved to death before, but they can have a full meal thanks to Chen Liejiu. The people they brought are all members of the Chen clan.

“Okay.” Xu Huaiqian didn’t know the twists and turns here, but he thought that Chen Liejiu had handed over all his wealth to him yesterday, and he finally found something to do. He nodded and went to the bedroom to find the purse.

 But as soon as he took it, the purse that was bulging yesterday was now empty with only the bottom left.

Except for a few strings of copper coins and a few silver dimes, there was no silver ingot left.

Xu Huaiqian’s face froze.

He vaguely remembered that Chen Liejiu asked him for money when he got up in the morning.

What did he say at that time?

–There are bills collected for the bank in the purse, I have to take it back to settle the accounts.

It means that all the money he took away was the bank’s money.

The rest are his property? ? ?

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