Chapter 13

“Auntie how are you doing? Feel yourself, did you fall and break any bones?” Lin Minjun asked as she walked over to the aunt

She stretched out her hand and didn’t dare to immediately go up to help her up, not for fear of being touched, but people who fall, especially the elderly are prone to fall to the bone, and it’s easy to cause a second injury by randomly moving around at this time

“Thank you ah, let me see if the injury is hurt” This aunt said, from the leg bone began to touch, has been touched to the elbow, himself also relieved, “the bones are not hurt, is a little pain in the tailbone, it should not be a big deal, come on, girl, you help me a hand, help me stand up okay?”

“Of course, you slow down” Lin Minjun said, reaching out and craving a bit, the aunt slowly stood up

After she stood up, the aunt weighed the bag containing the cabbage and tugged it with difficulty, ready to continue walking, Lin Minjun thought she was fine, so she was ready to continue to find a house for herself

The foot just stepped out four or five meters, only to hear the aunt shouted from behind, “girl, please do something, I’ll pay for it, you assisted me to go home okay, I’m afraid I fell, walking in pain” Auntie said, while hissing cold air, looks really painful

Lin Minjun saw that she couldn’t even stand steadily, and turned back to help her, “Why don’t you call your children over, if I’m fine, I’ll send you back, but I have something important to do today, I have to go look for a house”

“Find what house?” This aunt then asked

“A house to live in, you should know by listening to the accent that I’m not a native of the North City, no, I have to hurry to find a house to settle down, or else I’m going to be treated as a blind stream and persuaded to return” Lin Minjun a said with a smile

Auntie first pointed to a place, let Lin Minjun help himself to the side of the road to rest a little, this is fine asked: “You want to find what kind of? Do you have any requirements for the location? How many people are living there? How big of a place do you want? And the rent? How much rent can you accept?”

From her previous life, Lin Minjun knew that these old ladies in the hutongs, aunts, have always been the center of intelligence, there is nothing that happens in the vicinity that they don’t know about, so maybe this aunt knows where there is a house for rent

“I live alone” She thought for a moment before saying, “The location is not much to ask for, as long as it is not too remote on the line, after all, I still have to live, too remote places are inconvenient to work, the place does not need to be big, there is a bed can be, the rent I have not thought about it yet”

Lin Minjun said, this aunt has been hammering his tailbone, after listening to straighten up, “I here, ah, just have a set of suitable, not far, after a street to, if you are interested in, go with me to see?”

Is this not a case of finding the right place without looking for it, but getting it with no effort at all?

Lin Minjun had been looking for days like a headless fly without finding a suitable one, and then she ran into an old lady on the street because of her good intentions to help her

“Let’s go, I’ll help you, let’s go take a look together”

Saying this, Lin Minjun helped the aunt and went forward

On the way to see the house, this auntie probably also saw that Lin Minjun was a bit apprehensive, so she introduced herself

“My surname is Xu, called Xu Yongfang, you call me Big Aunt Xu on the line, I was originally an employee of our power supply bureau, and later applied for sick retirement” Auntie Xu said while smiling, introducing herself first, or letting Lin Minjun know that she is not a bad person

Lin Minjun nodded and smoothly asked, “What about that house, what’s the situation?”

Just after the snow on the North City Hutong path, the icy road surface reflected the sunlight, Lin Minjun helped Auntie Xu to walk forward slowly, while walking, while understanding the situation of the house

Auntie Xu: “I was about to tell you, that set of houses was originally a large family in the north of the city lady’s study, some years ago when the government took away, as the power supply bureau of the staff quarters, two years ago, the lady took off the hat, the yard and back to the, but inside the staff has not moved away, just the owner of the yard from the housing management into the lady’s son, this with us! It doesn’t matter, you just need to know that the people living in that courtyard are people with official jobs, not bad people”

Lin Minjun listened and asked, “How big is that house for rent?”

“The house is a good house, is after entering the door of the south inverted seat, right next to the shadow wall, I looked less than ten square meters, there is a small kitchen in front of the door”

Now the living environment certainly can’t be compared to the later generations, but ten square meters is enough for one person to live

According to Xu Auntie said, this house location in the east city, belongs to the prosperous boundary children, the yard lives a dozen households are not crowded, but also are the power supply bureau employees, belong to the good unit

Lin Minjun listen more and more moved, at the same time, the heart is also a little apprehensive, so good house, the rent should not be cheap, right?

Just about to ask the rent, Auntie Xu led her into a hutong, pointing to the innermost courtyard and said, “Look, that’s our courtyard, I’ll take you in to see”

The two people continued to walk in, not yet reached the door of the courtyard, the hutong in front of the two children heard the commotion jumped out, looked up and down Lin Minjun a glance, and suddenly sang, jumping and jumping, “Someone’s coming, someone’s coming, the widow’s home is coming!”

Widow’s home? Where did these two bear children come from, why is their speech so unpleasant

Lin Minjun frowned

The two bears were still laughing and joking, “The Widow’s Home is here”

The two of them said while scurrying around in the alley, Big Mother Xu quickly grabbed one and pointed at the bear child’s nose and said, “Dog egg, if you bring your younger brother here again grinning I’m going to go find your mother”

Since the bear child is a bear child, to be a skinless, playful, heard this is still shaking his head, “looking for my mom why, I’m not wrong, everyone says that your yard is a widow’s home”

Such an unpleasant name must have been said by adults, but they would only chew their tongues in private, and only a child would take it out in the open

Big Mother Xu sneered, “Alright, then I’ll tell your mother that two days ago you took your brother to play with fire in the yard and almost burned the woodpile, something your mother definitely doesn’t know”

The bear child let out a wow, pulled up his brother and ran home

Auntie Xu patted the dust on her hands and looked at Lin Minjun’s bewildered face before she went on to explain, “Just now, I was about to tell you that this courtyard of ours has another origin”

“You say” Lin Minjun perked up her ears and listened more and more attentively

Auntie Xu first pointed to the gate of the courtyard at the southeast corner, “Let’s go in first, come to my house, pour a cup of tea and talk slowly”

Lin Minjun followed Auntie Xu into the courtyard, Auntie Xu pointed and said, “My family lives in the first entrance, look, here is the hanging flower gate, through the hanging flower gate, turn left is my house”

This is also a beautiful pattern on the hanging flower door, both elegant and good-looking, Lin Minjun has not yet properly see the house, already have a good feeling about this place

But what exactly is the name of its Widow’s Home, now, first follow Auntie Xu in and listen to what she has to say