1096 Buying a House



As soon as Tan Jing pushed open the main door, Jiang Yi rushed over and gave her a tight slap. After that, Jiang Yi felt that one slap was not enough to vent her anger and slapped Tan Jing again. After getting hit twice, Tan Jing fell to the ground and almost could not get up.

"So you still know your way back! The entire family is about to starve to death! You jinx, where the hell did you go! You don't even bother to bring anything with you when you come back! What an ingrate! I really raised you for nothing!" Jiang Yi said furiously.

When Tan Jing was not at home, all the chores in the family fell on Jiang Yi again. This inevitably made her angry. In addition, Tan Hu ran out of money to gamble at the casino recently, so he often came back to beat and scold them. Jiang Yi was already very distraught by now.

Tan Jing did not dare to say anything. Once she said something, Jiang Yi would scold her for a while. She might as well keep quiet and let Jiang Yi vent her anger. Once Jiang Yi felt better after scolding her, she would be let off.

"When are you going back to the Xia family! Quickly go and apologize to the Xia family! Our creditors come to demand for money every day and all the valuable things in the house have already been taken away by them! If you don't go back to the Xia family soon, our family won't be able to survive anymore!" Jiang Yi complained.

"This… I'm not the one who owes money. Besides, the Xia family don't want me there now. Where's my place in that happy and harmonious family? Isn't it all your fault for what happened to me in the Xia family?" Tan Jing said helplessly.

"What has this got to do with us! You're the one who can't get pregnant! If only you can give the Xia family a big fat boy! Then see whether the Xia family will give you everything. It's not just cash, even if you want a mountain of gold and silver, the Xia family will also give it to you! Don't even try to blame us for everything! Don't even think about it!" Jiang Yi said overbearingly.

Tan Jing did not want to stay with the Tan family anymore. She felt that it would be better for her to go back to the house she shared with Xia Wen. She would not be able to recuperate well in the Tan family's house. If she continued to stay with them, her wounds would probably fester and rot sooner or later!

Tan Jing did not even enter the Tan family's house. She just took her luggage and went to the bus stop nearby to take a bus back to the house she shared with Xia Wen. As she stood outside the door, she kept thinking about what might happen after she opened the door and went through all the possibilities in her mind. Then, she mustered her courage and took out her keys to open the door.

It appeared that the house had been left vacant for a while. Even after she left, Xia Wen did not come back to stay here. She found out that when his workplace unit realized that he worked overtime every day, they specially found an unused apartment in the workplace unit's apartment block as a place for Xia Wen to rest. In the end, Xia Wen decided to use it as his living quarters!

When others asked Xia Wen about it, he would just say that he was too busy with work and that his own house was too far away, so he might as well stay in the workplace unit's apartment block.

With that, Tan Jing felt at ease enough to settle down in the house.

Qiao Mei had not been idle for the past few days. There was not much corn left, so when it was dark and there was no one around, Qiao Mei produced a lot of corn and filled up all the rooms in the house. Earlier, she had asked Sun Juan and Zhou Shuang about the matter of where they wanted to live, but the two of them had not given her a reply yet.

The next day, Qiao Mei came to the corn courtyard house to discuss this matter with the two of them.

"Sister Sun! Sister Zhou! And Sister Feng, you're all here!" Qiao Mei said with a smile.

"Yes we are! We've been waiting for so many days to start work! We're all just waiting for you to come and inform us to come back to work. After you came to tell me yesterday, I immediately went to inform everyone!" Feng Hong said happily.

How could anyone be disinterested in a money-making business! Only Sun Juan's sister, Sun Jiao, would not be able to come again. She and her husband had moved to another location as their prospects there were better than in the capital. Their expenses were also lower there, which allowed them to live an easier life in return.

"We're all on the same side, so I won't talk in circles. It's about the rooms which I mentioned to you previously. Sister Zhou and Sister Sun, have you given thought to this matter?" Qiao Mei asked.

Feng Hong already heard about this matter a while back. It was not like Qiao Mei was giving Sun Juan and Shou Zhuang the rooms. There was nothing for her to be jealous of. The two women had to pay for it with cash. If she had money, she would also beg Qiao Mei to sell her a room!

"We've already decided! Our decision is to buy! But not in this courtyard house of yours. We want to buy the rooms in the courtyard house two streets behind this house," Sun Juan said.

All the neighbors nearby knew very well the extent to which Qiao Mei had renovated the corn courtyard house. Also, there were still many former residents of this courtyard house living nearby.