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Chapter 216 of 1032

Chapter 216: The post-80s idlers (end)

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Since Ji Huai was unwilling to build a house together, Ji Hao was not allowed

to build it together privately. If he did build it together, then it would be

demolished, and he did not agree to replace the main house with a partial

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Ji Hao and his wife couldn't, and Liu Yun didn't want to live in the same room

with Ji Huai, so they would dismantle and build them separately, and build

half of the main house and half of the side house.

After half of it was demolished, Jihuai's house looked even more shabby. The

structure of the house was broken, and it was impossible to live in it. Once

it rained, the house collapsed.

Liu Yun looked at the bottom of his heart secretly, no wonder they, Ji Huai

asked her to tear it down.

Only then will they see where they come back to live.

In a blink of an eye, the rice is ripe again.

Jihuai’s two mu of rice has long since ceased to grow, and they planted it for

Uncle Ji’s family free of charge, but Uncle Ji’s family said that they would

give them a certain percentage of the harvest a year.

When the rice is ripe, the pepper is ripe.

Liu Yun is going to the pepper plantation in two or three days. There are no

weeds in her pepper plantation. It is more important than life. Seeing that

the pepper is growing well this year, my heart is blooming happily.

How is Ji Huai making money now? Maybe it won’t be earned in a few months, but

the pepper is different, every year, it can be picked for decades, Ji Huai and

his family have nothing.

Ji Hao was a little frustrated during this period. Liu Yun was confident

enough to let him come back, "Our pepper will surely sell for several hundred

jin this year, maybe we can pick more. You come back and pick it with me."

"Last year, it rose to four yuan, maybe four yuan and five yuan this year, we

also have several thousand yuan, and we can pay back the money for building a

house in one go."

Ji Hao also rushed back, picking peppers was also very active.

Pepper is different from farm work. If you don’t pick it quickly, you will be

stolen. Isn’t it killing him?

The two picked the pepper back and soaked it. This year it really rose to four

yuan and five, and even four yuan and six were collected. But they are happy.

This year they can collect more than 400 catties. This is not nearly two.

Thousand dollars?

The highest price in history.

Ji Hao and Liu Yun were reluctant to sell, and thought they could rise, maybe

they could rise to five yuan, then they could make a profit.

Many people in the village have sold them, and they are afraid of falling. The

prices of crops fluctuate. Some people are rushing to harvest them, and the

supply exceeds demand. That will be high. When the gust passes, it may fall to

the bottom.

Wait and wait, it went up to four yuan and seven, Ji Hao and Liu Yun were

ready to move, but they didn't sell either.

It was Mid-Autumn Festival in a flash.

When Ji Huai and the others came back, the other party actually replaced it

with a bigger car, and it had been modified. It seemed to be specially used to

transport goods. Looking at the collapsed house, the couple didn't mind at

all.

Chen Haiyan cooked a table meal and ate with the family.

Ji Huai and his wife are living well now, but she has already lived with Ji

Hao. Following the eldest son, the land and some of the money left by Ji's

father have been given to Ji Ha and them, and it is impossible to pester Ji

Huai.

The younger son gave some money and took it. She was too embarrassed to ask

for it if he didn't give it to her. Seeing that his son is promising, now the

village is complimenting Jihuai, and her face must be bright, so she will not

embarrass the couple.

At the dinner table, Liu Yun mentioned pepper.

"The price of pepper is pretty good this year. It can sell for more than two

thousand for more than four hundred catties. Pepper can be grown for decades,

which is not worth tens of thousands? This thing is stable again, and it

produces results every year."

In the meantime, isn't it just that Ji Huai's money is unstable?

There is delivery today, but I don’t know if there is any tomorrow.

If you sell pepper, you lose hundreds of thousands.

Ji Huai picked up a chicken leg for his son, frowned slightly and looked at

Liu Yun, his eyes seemed very puzzled. Ji Hao gave Chen Haiyan a look (color)

and immediately said to the convenience, "After dinner, you will help your

brother. Bring the pepper to the city and sell it? I heard that the purchase

there is a dime more than the town."

Hearing, Ji Hao didn't speak immediately, watching Ji Huai's reaction.

Over 400 catties, they will definitely not be able to transport it. Does

Jihuai have a car? It can save a lot of effort.

"Yes." Ji Huai didn't say anything, nodded, looked at the two men who seemed

to have tens of thousands of looks (color), and asked, "Is the pepper still

more than four yuan a catty?"

"That's not it, I heard that in some places, it has risen to four or eight

yuan, maybe five yuan soon!" Liu Yun quickly returned, feeling comfortable.

If it wasn't for their lack of money, they would have to save.

The dried (dried gan) pepper will not go bad and can be stored for a long

time.

"Isn't it down? There are not so many people buying now, and they are all

reduced to two yuan each." Ji Huai replied casually.

"What?" Liu Yun's face (color) froze.

Ji Hao was also stupid.

Two for one?

How did it drop in half?

"Don't talk nonsense! Just hope that we are not good!" Liu Yun calmly refused

to accept this fact and retorted loudly.

Ji Huai felt amused, "It's not my acquisition, what do you do with my sister-

in-law?

"Impossible! A lot of people are rushing to take it!" Liu Yun said with

certainty. After eating a few bites of rice, he hurried to the village to ask.

Most of the people in the village sold it, and it was already very high for

more than four yuan, and it was sold in a hurry. How can anyone pay attention

to the price?

Asked a group, Li Dazhuang's mother said, "I went to town today, and it seems

to have heard that one piece is nine to one jin."

When I heard it was lower than two yuan, Liu Yun only felt that his blood

pressure was rising, and he almost didn't faint, and his eyes turned black.

Both she and Ji Hao insisted not to sell!

It will definitely come back.

How could they be willing to lose half at once?

Since it is not for sale, Jihuai does not need to be transported to the city.

Not long after the lunch is finished, the couple went back to the city.

People have a car, not to mention how convenient it is.

Ji Hao looked at Ji Huai's car and was very sour. I heard that this kind of

car costs seven to eight thousand yuan, but that is seven to eight thousand

yuan.

Later, I heard that Ji Huai was still taking Li Dazhuang and the others to the

city to help him unload the goods. According to Li Dazhuang, Ji Huai had a

good time in the city, knew many bosses, and paid him a salary of 120 yuan a

month.

He spent 70 or 80 yuan a month as a teacher. Teachers in the town are scarce,

and one person has to teach several classes. Li Dazhuang can make so much

money for a month, which is really annoying.

Their house was gradually built up, and Jihuai’s half was not covered, so all

the money saved was to build a side house, four small side houses were built

at once, and Chen Haiyan also generously lived in one room. Of course, the

other side’s Some money, all subsidized them.

Ji Hao also left the stairs on the first floor. Later, if he has money, he

will build another floor.

But now, apart from owing one (fart pi) stock debt, after half a year, the

purchase price of pepper has not risen. Instead, it has dropped to one and

five. They are crazy.

From four bucks to one buck, two-thirds were lost. The people in the village

laughed at them secretly, but sell it? Still not reconciled.

Should we sell it when it rises to two yuan apiece?

It didn't take long for their house to be built. Ji Huai, who originally said

that he would have money to build a house two years later, also went home to

build a house.

Li Dazhuang’s father was a contractor, while Li Gousheng’s father was a famous

carpenter who carved out patterns from wood. He has been doing this for

decades, and the cost is naturally expensive.

Ji Huai invited two people. I heard that Li Gousheng’s father would cost more

than a thousand yuan. The doors, windows, tables, chairs and bed cabinets were

all made of wood and built on one floor. A very traditional house, but anyone

with a discerning eye knows it. This cost is not small.

Ji Hao knows that the cost of building a house must be more expensive than

theirs.

Seeing that Ji Huai makes such a profit, he is taking that little salary. He

is really ready to move. He also wants to drive a tractor. He also wants to

ship goods. Anyway, she is also a teacher. Anyway, she has seen a little bit

of the world. ?

Liu Yun naturally felt the same way. He must be better than Ji Huai and

blindly believe in himself, "If you do it, you will definitely do better than

Ji Huai and make more money!"

"Don't say a few thousand in a month, maybe you can make more!"

Ji Hao feels that he can do it more and more. What is so good about the

teacher of 781 months?

So he resigned decisively.

After selling half of the pepper, I also sold a car, went to study, and

treated a lot of humanity, "I have made money back. I must buy the pepper

again. I won't buy land like Ji Huai. It is completely useless."

"Build a house and buy hilltops to grow pepper. This is the asset. Although

the price of pepper has fallen, it will rise back sooner or later."

As everyone knows, when he bought the car, Ji Huai had already sold the car to

Li Dazhuang and asked the other party to collect and deliver the goods,

because now there are many people doing this, and the village has not received

so many goods, and all parties are there. Low prices, little profits.

He began to transport some electrical appliances and rare objects from the

capital to sell. There were TV sets, electric fans, electronic watches for

children, small alarm clocks...

Anyway, they are things that are rarely seen in the city.

People's living standards have gradually risen. Some people (gan gan) work

hard, open restaurants, open clothes shops, and make snacks, and they can also

earn some money. They demand the quality of life.

An electrical appliance can make dozens of yuan, and a small item can make a

few yuan. He is responsible for shipping the goods, and Qin Yu rents a shop to

sell goods in it, and becomes a salesperson in his store.

"How much is this fan?"

"This fan is one hundred and fifty yuan." Qin Yu walked over with a smile and

said to the old lady.

She now has some changes in her dressing style, with her hair crossed, a light

blue long dress and fashionable wedges on her feet.

"So expensive?" The old lady's enthusiasm slowed down a lot.

"These appliances are indeed very expensive now. There are only a few in our

store. Two of them were sold yesterday. This is the last one." Qin Yu's face

(color) did not change and continued.

奶Nai)(奶Nai), I want that watch." The little boy pulled by the old lady looked

to one side of the counter and pulled her to go there, "I want that watch."

"Didn't you just buy a toy?" Although the old lady said that, she walked over.

"Is it this? It has a little tiger printed on it." The other party was about

the same size as Ji Jun, and she couldn't help lowering her voice. Ji Huai

stocked a lot of this kind of watches, and children now like them very much.

"Yeah." The little boy took it with a look of joy.

"How do you sell this?" the old lady asked again.

Qin Yu: "This is five yuan each."

The price was considered cheap, and other places sold for six or seven yuan,

or nine yuan, so the old lady thought it was okay, but she didn't let her

grandson put it away, and seemed to buy it.

Qin Yu observed her look (color), and continued, "My son also likes wearing

them very much. Every time he sees what is new, he saves one of the zodiac

signs and asks his dad to give it to him next time. The whole thing is

different, and the little toy gun, each one is different."

When the little boy heard the toy gun, he walked over and looked at it.

奶Nai)(奶Nai), I want this toy gun." He was holding the digital watch, and he

saw a spear at once, without moving his eyes away.

Jihuai's purchase channels were found in the capital by himself. They were all

new products and their sales were very good.

"How do you sell this gun?" the old lady asked again.

"This is a bit expensive, it has to be sold for ten and five dollars." Qin Yu

said softly, "because there are not many, it is more difficult to get the

goods, and it took some effort.

"Seven or eight yuan can be sold, who can buy more than ten yuan?" The old

lady narrowed her eyebrows, obviously feeling extremely expensive.

"I can't sell it." Qin Yu looked helpless.

"Add twelve yuan together, I bought it." The old lady ignored her and spoke

directly.

"No." Qin Yu shook his head, "If you are like this, I can't sell it. It costs

at least 15 yuan. Then, do you want the fan? If you want, I can give you the

electronic watch. After all, twelve yuan is sure It's a loss, and the fan

still has a few dollars to make money, so I won't lose money."

The old lady hesitated, "The fan is one hundred and fifty yuan, which is too

expensive."

"It may be sold elsewhere for one hundred and sixty, we are buying directly,

which is much cheaper than them." Qin Yu sighed, "Or the gun will also charge

you ten yuan, a total of one hundred and sixty yuan, do you think it will

work? It’s not easy to make some money in business."

"One hundred and fifty-five." The old lady bargained.

"Auntie." Qin Yu laughed helplessly, "Isn't that the equivalent of giving this

gun to your grandson? There are not many of these toy guns in our shop, and my

son wanted to play with this but his father didn't give him. "

The old lady insisted.

"We each take a step back, I will charge you one hundred and fifty-eight, and

it can't be reduced anymore." Qin Yu took a step back, and his attitude became

harder. There was even one, and that was the bottom line. If she doesn't buy

it, she can't help it.

The old lady thought for a while, "Okay."

"Then I will pack it for you, where is your home? I will ask my husband to

send it to you, we will deliver it to your door, and we can install it for

you, or we can send you back together." Qin Yu said to her quickly.

The old lady heard it and delivered it to her door.

There is actually a small truck to take them back, the service of this shop is

really good.

Although, when checking out, she still murmured, "You must have made money and

won't sell at a loss."

"Auntie, I really didn't make any money for you. We also want to live, enough

to feed ourselves." Qin Yu said sincerely and looked at Ji Huai next to him,

"Hurry up and move into the car."

After that, he said to the old lady, "Everything is expensive. If we can sell

it cheaper, we will definitely sell you. There is really no way."

When Ji Huai was a competent little handyman, he walked over to move the fan

and looked at her with a serious face, looking at her with a smile.

Qin Yu stared at him, calmly and naturally continued, "If you have any

problems in the follow-up, you can send it over. We can repair it, and you can

return it if it breaks within a week."

"Okay." The old lady was very satisfied and took a look at the other products

in her store.

Before leaving, Ji Huai looked at her like that, jokingly, "Tearful earns 67

yuan."

I don’t know if I’ve stayed with him for a long time. Qin Yu is now doing

business with one set after another.

"Go!" She put the money in the cupboard, looked at the old lady not far away,

and squinted her eyes. "Although it is sold cheaply, the service attitude must

remain unchanged."

Ji Huai endured a smile, nodding his head honestly, as if he was being taught.

He took the old lady away. Ji Jun came in from behind. The toy gun in his hand

had been broken by him. He walked over and took the gun that the little boy

had just bought.

"Mom, I want to play this."

"That costs ten yuan, and your dad also costs five yuan for the purchase! You

can really destroy it!" Qin Yu felt that he was too much toy, and he was too

naughty.

"Then I want to play, Dad said, all can be played." Ji Jun grew taller again,

looking like a handsome boy, and when Ji Huai was a child, he was a wild

monkey and slipped away with a gun.

Qin Yu gritted his teeth, father and son are the same, it costs money!

The things they sell in the store are fairly new, and the prices are a bit

cheaper than elsewhere, and some are not cheap, but they have a good service

attitude, and they do not charge extra fees for delivery.

In this way, business is naturally prosperous.

Sometimes Jihuai has to deliver more than a dozen goods a day. This is more

profitable than buying ingredients, and it is easier to expand the business.

After a short time, they became one of the best stores in the city, and Qin Yu

was too busy alone. , Have to hire employees.

The other end.

Ji Hao bought a tractor. His eloquence was not good. Later, he was forced to

take Liu Yun to buy food materials, wanting to follow Jihuai's old business.

However, the two couples' sexing sons cheat others when weighing things.

Basically, someone else sells something to him once, and will never sell it a

second time.

They still feel that they are at a disadvantage, and they care about it. After

a few months of acquisition, they have not acquired much at all. No one wants

to send them to restaurants, and there is no market at all.

Sell it on the street, earn a little money, but lose more if you can’t sell

it.

After dragging it for a year, I really couldn't make any money, so I could

only sell the tractor.

After it was sold, they quickly took the money to buy land and planted pepper.

It must be a loss than before, and the price of mountainous land has increased

year by year.

Ji Hao lost his job as a teacher again, but he still felt that everything he

could do was more profitable than a teacher. He worked desperately. He did

everything (gan) to work, and he took Liu Yun to set up a stall.

But nothing succeeded.

But it didn't affect them that Master Ji Huai was stupid, and all the money he

earned was used to buy land, and the land could give birth to gold?

And the money they saved in the past few years has been used to invest in

pepper. Ji Hao also worked as a geotechnical worker, building walls for

others, and earning more than being a teacher, and he could earn nearly 200

yuan a month.

They kept building and decorating houses. They built two floors and wanted to

build the side house with two floors. The front yard and the back yard were

also built. Liu Yun also built a house on the land of his next neighbor.

No one was there anymore, so she robbed others of the land in an upright

manner.

The two of them spent their entire lives on the ground in the countryside,

occupying a bit here and a bit there, racking their brains to think of a few

peppers, planting five hundred and wanting one thousand, one thousand and two

thousand.

And what about Jihuai couple?

From a small store to a large department store, Qin Yu became the manager,

managing a hundred people in the store alone, making it the largest store in

the city.

Jihuai invested in catering, and built a building with others on a piece of

land he bought before, ready to open a branch.

The couple didn't make any publicity either, and they still looked like they

went back to their hometown. Ji Hao has built a two-story house because of the

constant loan, and they both stood on the second floor and looked at them.

Looking down.

Ji Huai looked at the dark skins of Ji Hao and Liu Yun. Both of them were at

least ten years old in recent years and shook their heads.

When Ji Hao and the people in the village brag, he finally built the house and

can take a break, and then said, "Actually, I don’t do much (gan gan), but

it’s not much less than Ji Huai. My house also has two floors. , Very wide."

"There are hundreds of peppers, what am I missing? I don't need anything

either."

Li Dazhuang laughed, "Are you afraid that you don't know how good Brother Huai

is now."

"Doesn't he have a house in the city? Does it have two floors?" Ji Hao

refused.

"People have opened malls now, and they also open restaurants. Do you know how

big the mall is? They can make thousands or tens of thousands in a day." Li

Dazhuang laughed at him ignorantly, "What use are you building so many houses

in the village? The houses in the city are now what they used to be, but now

they are hundreds of square meters."

"Brother Huai has a lot of land, and one of them has been offered for 120,000

yuan, but he didn't sell it. Brother Huai is not short of that 120,000 yuan."

Li Dazhuang cocked his feet and raised his eyebrows.

"What's the kidding? What house in the city can have a few hundred yuan a

square? Who is fooling?" Ji Hao didn't believe it at all.

Li Dazhuang laughed at his ignorance.

Ji Hao and Liu Yun continued to guard their land in the village, earned some

money, and built a wall at home to separate the Jihuai family, thinking that

they live no worse than Jihuai and the others, and maybe even better.

They have pepper.

In the past few years, he has planted hundreds more, and there is still a

piece of land in the village where a small room can be built. He always thinks

that Ji Huai is not big enough, or he doesn't want to believe it, he thinks he

is amazing.

Ji Huai is doing well, so why not go home and cover the side house? The

sundries house has collapsed, why not build it?

But they couldn't convince themselves, because Ji Huai had bought a car, a car

worth tens of thousands, and could only try to convince himself in

contradiction.

Slowly, all the peppers can be picked. By this time, the price has fallen to

the bottom, because these years, everyone has been growing, and the output is

very large. The most popular mountain in the past, no one buys it now.

Ji Hao panicked and wanted to buy land in the city, but was told that a small

shop in the city started at 50,000 yuan.

fifty thousand.

It is an astronomical figure for him, and it will never be stored in a

lifetime.

Li Dazhuang and Li Gousheng said again, "Brother Huai has half a street in the

prime area of the city, not a single row. Both sides of the road are his."

"Isn't it going to build a community recently? There are several buildings,

and that piece of land is also owned by Brother Huai. It is said that he also

has a share. When construction starts, priority should be given to recruiting

people from our village to work (gan)."

"Brother Huai is awesome, we have to drink some soup along with it."

....

The country's economy has gradually developed and the city has become

prosperous. After the young people in the village go out, they rarely come

back, and they all stay outside to work.

Even Ji Cheng and Ji Xian did not come back after they went out, and sometimes

they just leave after eating a meal during the holidays.

The house Ji Hao and his wife desperately built, they couldn't hold back at

all. Now, no one took a look at the land that Liu Yun desperately built,

except for the older generation.

They now want to save money to buy land and build houses in the city, or buy

houses, but they have no money anymore. All the money they have spent these

years has been used to build houses, desperately building houses on other

people’s land, and planting pepper. This It all costs money.

Many elderly people in the village saved a sum of money while the pepper price

was still there. After the construction of the community invested by Jihuai,

he gave the villagers a preferential price. Those who want to buy a house in

the city can get a 15% discount. .

You can buy a large house for less than 40,000.

Many people in the village went to buy it, so there were not many people in

the village.

Ji Hao and his wife also wanted to go, and even asked Chen Haiyan to say that

they should buy a set, especially Ji Cheng, he wanted it more so that he could

marry his wife in the city.

Not to mention 15% off, Ji Huai said that Chen Haiyan’s face was 50% off. The

50% off made Ji Hao and his wife rub their hands together, and did not dare to

say a word.

It's only a 20% discount, so you have to sell the pepper.

In the past two years, the pepper production has been low, and there is no

harvest at all. I am afraid that I have to sell thousands of pepper pillars to

buy.

Of course Liu Yun refused. That was their family's asset.

This hesitation, that was terrible, turned into sixty thousand the next day.

You have to sell the land to buy it. The key is that the land is not easy to

sell. Except for growing pepper, it is not easy to grow anything there. I am

afraid it will be sold at a low price.

Later, Chen Haiyan suffered a stroke. Liu Yun's first reaction was to ask Ji

Huai to take care of it, but Chen Haiyan refused at all and returned after

being discharged from the hospital.

She didn't kiss her youngest son, and now Qin Yu is promising, earning money,

and still worthy of her? Didn’t you suffer?

She has loved Ji Hao since she was a child, and the other party is the most

comfortable staying together.

"Mom, we are so poor now, don't you stay here to burden us?" Liu Yun was

reluctant, and what he said was hard to hear. "Why are we like? You should be

raised by Ji Huai, and you shouldn't come back here and cause us trouble,

really."

Chen Haiyan is not an offensive character (color), she exploded right away,

and her scolding sound can be heard in half of the village, "What? You start

to despise me now? What's wrong with me living with you? Wasn't my land at the

beginning? Has it been given to you? The money your father left is also given

to you, and I have been helping you all these years."

"When it's good, you say it's no good to support it, so drive me away, right?

I tell you, no way!"

"I'm embarrassed to say that I've given you everything. Now I am not afraid of

thunderstorms, so that everyone in the village will see it, and the residents

of the neighborhood committee will also come and see it."

....

Liu Yun second counseled, Ji Hao could only bite the bullet to persuade Chen

Haiyan, saying it was a misunderstanding.

Chen Haiyan's tone was not so easy to dissipate, and then Liu Yun was tossed

very much.

Once he didn't wait, the curse could last for a long time, making Liu Yun

doubt his life, and he wanted to kill him.

Chen Haiyan's stroke sequelae became more and more serious. In the end, she

could only lie on the (bed chuang). Ji Huai took her to the capital. There was

no particularly effective treatment method. He could only prescribe some

medicine to control it.

She is about to return home, and Liu Yun will wait on her.

In her words, the more you want to show off (tuo) me, the more I will make you

suffer!

Liu Yun was complaining, so he could only wait, and Ji Hao didn't care about

the matter. He opened one eye and closed another. If Chen Haiyan said a few

words, the whole village would hear curses again.

Even if Chen Haiyan could not move, her cursing voice could be loud and loud.

New Year is another year.

Ji Huai and his wife came back and brought a lot of good things back. Every

year when Ji Huai came back, he would visit the elderly in the village and

prepare a gift for the elderly.

He changed the car again and it was still an imported luxury car.

The wine I brought back is said to be good wine.

Chen Haiyan and Liu Yun were cursing each other again, and Ji Hao fled

outside, disgusted in his heart.

He heard Li Dazhuang and the others chatting:

"In our village, people with some abilities have bought houses in the city. It

seems that Ji Hao's family doesn't have it."

"Don't talk about him. Last time Brother Huai told him to apply for a loan. It

only costs a few tens of thousands to buy it. Neither of them can get it

together. The land of your aunt's house is not occupied by them. What time?

People with a little brain will only stare at the thing in the neighbor?"

"That's true. It's not good for people who are too smart. Brother Huai doesn't

look at this thing. How rich are people now? Let him guard the house in the

village. I can't afford it for the rest of my life."

....

Ji Hao trembled, but couldn't refute it. The teacher's salary was still

rising. Thinking of this, the smell of rust surged up his throat, and he would

bite his teeth.

Why, why is he so unfortunate?

When I went back and looked at Liu Yun, my anger didn't come out even more. It

was because of this woman who was robbing and occupying land because of this

scourge!

Liu Yun was not to be outdone this time. She found that Ji Hao was playing

with a woman (gou) in the village, and she had also had a fight before.

The two were beaten up and beaten, but they had to continue their lives.

Staying in the village all my life, suffering from unoccupied houses, looking

at the sky-high prices of houses in the city, burying each other's grievances

and regretting each other. ,,51..net,...: