Capítulo 725: Chapter 724: Aunt Chen Was Tricked by Ma Dapan
Chapter 724 Aunt Chen Was Deceived by Ma Dapan
ngyu said, “The adults in my family aren’t here; I’m the only one ho. You—comrade, did Ma Dapan send you to back her up?”
Aunt Chen breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing that only a young girl was at ho.
“Comrade, what’s your honorable surna?”
“My surna is Jiang.”
“Comrade Jiang, I’m Aunt Chen from the Street Office. We have sothing to discuss with you. May we co in?”
ngyu was taken aback. Ma Dapan actually called soone from the Street Office over?
She stepped aside. “Please co in.”
However, she didn’t plan to bring them into the living room but led Aunt Chen to a chair in the porch area: “Please have a seat.”
Aunt Chu stepped into the yard and was imdiately struck by surprise. This courtyard was extraordinary; the doors and windows all boasted rosewood carvings, conveying an exquisite, simple yet imposing presence.
If Cheng Jiuhe had been here, he certainly would have replied to Aunt Chen: Of course these doors and windows and the veranda pillars are extraordinary. They are rosewood doors and windows salvaged by him from soone else’s renovation of an old courtyard in Houhai. He had bought them for a good price.
The original courtyard simply had a wall on the southern side. Where would one find a rosewood carved porch?
The original doors and windows here were the simplest kind of beech wood. Even the roof tiles had been mostly replaced.
One could say that in this courtyard, aside from the brick walls, everything else had been changed.
Even the bedroom floor was replaced with ventilated long-strip wooden flooring.
Aunt Chen, looking at the small courtyard with white walls, red windows, and gray tiles, thought no wonder the residents felt disgruntled—such a courtyard wasn’t sothing an ordinary family could afford to live in.
But as for past events, who was right and who was wrong, who could clearly say? Aunt Ma and comrade didn’t forcefully occupy your house, after all.
Aunt Chen had entirely mistaken Jiang ngyu for soone who had just co back from the countryside.
“Comrade Jiang, I know, Aunt Ma’s family has lived in your house and you’re unhappy about it because the house is yours. They moved in last year without seeing the consent of your family.
But as for houses, without people living in them, they deteriorate quickly. So Aunt Ma’s family moved in because they saw your house was unoccupied. But on another hand, they were also keeping the house in good condition for you.”
A house, if left uninhabited for ten or twenty years, would quickly fall into disrepair. In contrast, an occupied house, sustained by human presence, would not deteriorate so easily.
Therefore, Aunt Chen naturally thought what she said was very reasonable.
“So let’s not dwell on the past, shall we?”
ngyu’s expression was a bit odd: “Are you suggesting that anyone can just live in a house if it’s empty?”
“Not exactly that, but let bygones be bygones. Aunt Ma’s family has already agreed to move out, so just let them clear out their things. You won’t go wrong listening to Aunt Chen.”
ngyu shook her head: “But it’s my house; why should I let her live there? I didn’t pay them to look after the house, so why could they just break my lock, move into my ho, and then leave it in such disarray?
I’m right to ask them to return my house to its original state, am I not? They’ve lived there for more than ten months; I’m right to ask for ten months of rent, am I not?”
“This—hold on, what did you say? Ten months?” Aunt Chen turned to Ma Dapan: “Didn’t you say you’ve been living here for over ten years?”
Ma Dapan nodded with certainty: “Yes, it’s been over ten years. Let think, a total of sixteen years.”
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