"I want to be with you," Granny Dog answered without hesitation, grabbing Lin Qingyan's hand. "Girl, don't you like me?"

"No, I love you very much, Grandma. Grandma, listen to me, I want to move out, and then we can live together. I'll look for a place so you won't have to sleep in that thatched hut anymore."

Granny Dog grabbed Lin Qingyan's hand: "All I want is to be with you."

"Okay, Mother-in-law."

After she moves out, I must give Grandma Dog a proper makeover.

She needs a place to live before she can move out.

Autumn is short and winter is long in Northeast China.

It won't be long before it freezes or even snows.

Once the ground freezes, the soil and water will be frozen, making it unsuitable for building houses. Even if we go to the brigade leader now to approve the land for building a house and find someone to dig the foundation and build a house immediately, due to "funding issues" and the need to make adobe bricks, it is unlikely that it can be completed before the ground freezes.

Then we'll have to look for any empty houses in the village. If they're a bit broken or leaky, we can fix them in no time.

Suddenly, she remembered the three-room house that Tong Jiaojiao used to live in. If she moved out, it would be just enough for her, her mother-in-law, and her younger brother.

After Tong Jiaojiao was assaulted in that house, she moved out completely, and no one else moved into that house.

I don't know who the current owner of that house is, or whether it has been returned to the brigade's jurisdiction.

She has a grudge against Tong Jiaojiao, so it's definitely not easy for her to talk to her.

She first went to ask the brigade leader, and if it was a good deal, she would rent the house first, and then decide whether to buy it later depending on the situation.

She said to Granny Dog, "Granny, let's go to the brigade leader's house first and ask about the house."

"good."

Just as they were about to leave, they ran into Zhang Jinbao, who had a basket slung over his arm. He smiled at Lin Qingyan and said, "Lin Qingqing, you worked hard today helping Cuie give birth. I brought you some eggs, so please accept them."

Lin Qingyan glanced into the basket and said, "Brother, let's save these eggs for your wife to help her recover."

"No need, we have more at home. These were specially brought for you, and your sister-in-law would feel bad if you didn't accept them."

Lin Qingyan smiled and said, "Alright, I'll accept it."

Lin Qingyan took the eggs out of the basket, returned the basket to Zhang Jinbao, and asked him about Tian Cuie and the child's current situation. She learned that the mother and child were doing well.

"I'll go check on my sister-in-law and the child later."

Zhang Jinbao agreed; he felt more at ease knowing that Lin Qingyan was willing to check again.

Lin Qingyan counted, and Zhang Jinbao had brought a total of twenty eggs.

She and Granny Dog hadn't eaten much earlier, so she boiled eight more eggs, and Granny Dog ate four of them in one go.

"Grandma, slow down. No one's going to take it from you. Don't choke."

Lin Qingyan watched her the whole time and reminded her.

Fortunately, under Lin Qingyan's supervision and reminders, Granny Dog did not choke.

Lin Qingyan ate only one egg, leaving the remaining three for Lin Zhiheng to eat that evening.

After finishing their eggs, they went to talk to the brigade leader about the house. As they walked down the road, they naturally attracted the attention of other people.

One was a clean and pretty young educated youth, and the other was a dirty and violent madwoman who was always acting crazy.

In the past, the old woman they saw was either chasing dogs wildly or fighting with them, and sometimes she would show a fierce expression to people.

But now, they find that the madwoman seems unusually well-behaved in front of Lin Qingyan, a stark contrast to her usual crazy and fierce image.

A teenager wanted to test if Grandma Dog had changed her ways, so he barked like a dog and ran up to her, saying, "Crazy woman, are you not crazy anymore?"

Snap!

The old woman slapped him several meters away.

"Go to hell!" Granny Dog glared at him fiercely.

The boy, clutching his sore shoulder, deliberately stepped back a good distance and yelled at the old woman, "You old hag, you're still the same old hag, a crazy, filthy old woman, you haven't changed at all."

This time, Granny Dog ignored him and continued walking forward with Lin Qingyan.

Before they even reached the brigade leader's house, they met him on the road. Lin Qingyan quickly pulled Granny Gou over to greet him: "Uncle Brigade Leader."

When the captain saw that it was Lin Qingyan, he stopped and looked at the old dog that Lin Qingyan was holding, and he was slightly surprised.

He smiled and asked Lin Qingyan, "Little Lin, did you need something from me?"

"Uncle Captain, I want to move out of the educated youth settlement. I wonder if there are any empty houses in our team."

The first thing the captain thought of was the house where Tong Jiaojiao had lived.

“The three rooms where Tong Zhiqing stayed last time have been empty. Why don’t you move into one of them?”

Lin Qingyan was worried that Tong Jiaojiao would use the issue of house ownership as leverage, so she asked the brigade leader, "Tong Jiaojiao originally built that house, and she lived there for a while. I want to know whether the right to use the house now belongs to the brigade or to Tong Jiaojiao."

The brigade leader said, "Of course it's here in the brigade. A few days after she moved out, Old Yu's relatives who work in the city were coming to visit. They had nowhere to stay, so they asked me to find them a place. Tong Zhiqing told me that she was no longer staying there, so the ownership of the house returned to the brigade. You just need to move in."

Lin Qingyan felt she had gotten a great deal, since Tong Jiaojiao had already fixed the house, so she didn't have to fix it herself.

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