After chatting with his wife for a long time, Li Chu finally left, satisfied.

Ding Qiunan carried the basket containing the medicinal herbs back to the pharmacy.

"Qiu Nan, Deputy Director Li must have missed you so much after just a short time apart," a colleague in the pharmacy joked, noticing Li Chu had just arrived.

"Of course, I'm his wife. If he doesn't miss me, why would he miss someone else?" After being married for several years, Ding Qiunan had long since developed a thick skin. She didn't react at all to this kind of teasing. It wasn't anything shameful, so it was better to be open and honest.

"Hey, Qiu Nan, you two have been married for quite a while now. Aren't you tired of spending so much time together? I'm already fed up with just seeing my husband."

Ding Qiunan looked at her colleague with some surprise: "Xiaoyu, a couple is supposed to live together for a lifetime. You've only been married a short time and you're already tired of each other. How are you going to live your life in the future?"

"But it's always the same trivial things, going on and on and on. Don't you get annoyed?"

"Is it annoying?" Ding Qiunan asked herself after hearing her colleague's words. She seemed to have never felt annoyed. On the contrary, she felt uncomfortable if she didn't see her husband for a day.

Last month, Li Chu went on a business trip to a hospital in Jinshi to review the doctors there. The trip lasted three days.

fantuantanshu.

Those three days felt like an eternity to her; she couldn't muster the energy to do anything until Li Chu returned and she finally returned to normal.

She shook her head at her colleague: "I don't feel annoyed at all. In fact, our house is much more lively whenever he's home. You know he was away on a business trip last month, and our house was much quieter those few days. Not to mention me, even the kids and the dog were listless."

Do you have a dog?

"Yes, didn't I tell you?"

"I've never heard you mention that before. Are dogs easy to raise?"

"Yeah, I think they're pretty easy to raise. All the dogs in my family are very well-behaved and we don't have to worry about them. They just eat what we leave behind."

"How many more?" Her colleague was even more surprised.

“There was only one dog originally, which Li Chu found on the roadside. We had just gotten married then. Later, this dog brought home two of its own puppies, and then last year it had another litter. Three of them were taken away by someone else, so now we have four dogs at home.”

"So many! Your house must be so lively!" Xiaoyu was incredibly envious.

"Hehe, it's alright. Usually, the kids like to play with the dog, and sometimes the dog can help look after the kids."

"Ah! You can do that too!" We're all living our lives, but how do they manage it? Why is my house always so cold and quiet?

"By the way, Qiu Nan, if your big dog has puppies in the future, could you give me one?"

"Sure, I'll just give you one when it's born. We can't possibly keep that many anyway."

"Thank you, Qiu Nan!" Xiao Yu was so happy she almost jumped for joy.

"No need to thank me so early. Just don't find it annoying when the time comes. Puppies can be very clingy."

The dog that Wu Xiaoliu wanted to go to was kept by Jiang Li. For the first few days, it annoyed Jiang Li quite a bit, whining and whining in front of her every night. It wasn't until a week later that it became a little normal.

Xiaoyu waved her hand dismissively: "It's nothing, it'll probably make the house much more lively with that little guy."

Ding Qiunan chuckled, hoping she could hold on.

After get off work, Li Chu and Ding Qiunan picked up the child and went to her sister's house together.

When they arrived, the family of three had already returned.

As soon as she entered, Wang Ziwen looked at Li Chu and asked, "Xiao Chu, I heard from Xiao Qin that you're planning to buy a house?"

“Yes,” Li Chu walked over and sat down in the chair opposite her brother-in-law, taking the water cup handed to her by her niece.

“My sister said that the house next door is for sale. It’s such a big house, how could I not want it?”

"Why did you buy so many houses? Isn't there enough room for you all here?" Wang Ziwen found it very strange. The government provides housing, so why did her brother-in-law have nothing better to do than buy houses himself?

"Sister," Li Chu turned to greet Li Qin, who came out of the kitchen, and continued to say to her brother-in-law, "We can definitely live in this small courtyard now, but what about in the future? When the children grow up and get married, won't they all need a house?"

"Wow, you're really thinking ahead. Doesn't the government provide housing?"

“Brother-in-law, you have no idea how many people have registered at the neighborhood committee and are waiting for houses. And then there are those waiting for their work units to build houses, who knows how long that will take. Now that I have my own place, I don’t have to go through all that trouble of queuing up.”

Wang Jiayuan sat on the sofa with her younger brother and sister, and took out two candies from her pocket and gave them to them.

After receiving the candy, Wenhui and Wenxuan thanked their older sister first, then ran to Li Chu's side with the candy in their hands. Little Wenhui held up the candy in her hand: "Daddy, Daddy, the candy my sister gave to my brother and me, can we eat it now?"

"Yes, you can eat it. Did you thank me, sister?"

"We've already thanked you." And they said it in unison again; I don't know where they got this unspoken understanding from.

Wang Ziwen looked at her two nephews and nieces, then at her brother-in-law. She hadn't paid much attention before, but now she realized how well her brother-in-law and his wife had raised their children.

Thinking about the house issue again, he shook his head slightly and decided to let it go. He could buy it if he wanted, since he wasn't short of money anyway.

Besides, buying this house isn't exactly a waste of money, no matter what.

After Li Qin and Ding Qiunan finished cooking and everyone sat down at the table, Li Chu remembered that he needed to ask about the house price.

"The landlord said it was two thousand, but he also said he could give me a discount."

"How many?"

"Two thousand at most."

Li Chu looked at his sister, then at his wife, and said with a wry smile, "Sister, does that mean that your neighborhood committee tricked me last time?"

"Oh, how can you say I tricked you? Besides, even if I did trick you, look, this is how I made it up to you."

Alright, since my sister has said that, what else can he say?

"Xiao Chu, wait for my call tomorrow. Prepare the money and your household registration book in advance. Do you have enough money? If not, your brother-in-law and I have some more."

Ding Qiunan then hurriedly said, "Sister, we have enough money."

"Okay, that's good. Qiu Nan, you agree to let Xiao Chu buy a house?"

"Yes, he told me that afternoon."

The house purchase is settled; we just need to go and complete the formalities tomorrow.

"Xiao Chu, there's something else I need to tell you," Li Qin said, putting down the chopsticks in her hand and looking at her younger brother with a serious expression.

"What's up, sis?" Li Chu was a little unaccustomed to her sister's sudden outburst. What was it all about? Why was she suddenly being so serious?