Chapter 37 Bird Cage

Running a newsstand is not a simple matter, and although the commercial street has been planned, it is currently under construction, so Lin Qiu still goes to work as usual. However, he will pay attention to the newsstands he encounters on the way to and from get off work or picking up the children, studying their design, product classification and placement. He already has a lot of ideas in his mind, just waiting to be implemented.

During this period, Lin Qiu went to the post office and applied for a postal license as suggested by the landlord's daughter-in-law. After obtaining the postal license, I went to the Pengcheng Press and Publication Bureau to apply for a news and publication business license.

These two certificates are essential for newsstands. As for other certificates, you can only apply for them after the newsstand is built.

Based on the various types of merchandise handled by other newspapers, Lin Qiu estimated that a lot of certificates would need to be processed.

Before that, Lin Qiu's family had another important thing to do, which was to move.

The moving day happened to be a Sunday, so Wang Xiuren and Lin Qiu both took the day off and did not send Wang Shan to the nursery that day.

The saying "a sparrow may be small, but it has all the organs" is really true.

Don’t be fooled by the small rental house of more than ten square meters. When they arrived in February, there was nothing in it except a bed. When they moved out in August, Wang Xiuren and Lin Qiu moved the house four or five times with snakeskin bags. I don’t know when I accumulated so many things.

After piling the things in the living room, Wang Xiuren and Lin Qiu didn't have time to sort them out and hurried back to the small rental house. Wang Shan was still there. You also have to keep the house clean. You can't leave garbage in the house.

The two of them, one sweeping and one mopping, one wiping and one washing, cooperated very well.

After the cleaning was done, the family of three rushed to the new rented house to move their things.

Lin Qiu is responsible for tidying up the room. He spread the bedding on the bed, put on the sheets and quilt cover, and then folded the clothes in the closet. Now he finally had a closet to put his clothes. Before, he had always kept them in luggage bags, which was very inconvenient to take out and put in. Lin Qiu thanked the landlord again.

After tidying up the room, Lin Qiu put the cleaning supplies in the bathroom. Hang up the towels, put the toothbrush and cup on the washbasin, and put away the laundry, soap, scented soap, slippers, etc. one by one.

While Lin Qiu was tidying up the bedroom and bathroom, Wang Xiuren placed the pot on the gas stove, put the bowls and chopsticks in the cupboard under the gas stove, put the basin on the shelf next to the faucet, and put condiments such as oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc. on the countertop of the cupboard. Finally, he put the kitchen knife where Wang Shan couldn't reach it. The kitchen was tidy.

As for the living room, there is basically no need to tidy it up because there was only one room and no living room at all.

Instead, Wang Xiuren made a few small stools out of waste materials and placed them neatly on the balcony by Wang Shan.

Soon, the new rental house was settled in.

The shoes are neatly placed in the shoe cabinet, and the umbrella is hung next to it. The dining room is connected to the living room, simple and bright. There are two bedrooms, but Wang Shan doesn't dare to live alone for the time being, so she lives in the big one and uses the small one as a storage room. All the gifts given by the landlord before, except for the fresh food, are put in there after they are eaten.

Wang Shan ran around happily, and her giggles filled the entire space.

“The new house is so big and beautiful!”

Wang Shan loudly expressed her love for the house.

"Mom, are we all going to live here from now on?"

Wang Shan suddenly pulled Lin Qiu, leaned close to Lin Qiu's ear, and whispered in her heart, "Mom, I want to live here forever, so that Yingying won't say that I'm an outsider who can only live in a birdcage!"

"Mom, the bird cage is too small for a person to live in. I don't want to live in it!"

Lin Qiu was both angry and sad. He was angry because his daughter was bullied in the nursery, and he was sad because his daughter suffered because of his family's poor conditions.

She held back her tears, took a deep breath, and gently asked her daughter what had happened.

From Wang Shan's intermittent answers, Lin Qiu basically pieced together the whole story.

In fact, it was a very small thing. When playing on the slide during recess, this girl named Yingying wanted to cut in line and play one more time, but Wang Shan didn't let her, so she told others that Wang Shan was from another place and could only live in a birdcage.

"Don't worry, Shanshan. Mom promises that there will be no bird cages in the future and we will all live in a big house!" Lin Qiu squatted down and solemnly promised her daughter, even though she couldn't understand what it meant now.

Wang Xiuren, who was holding the simple curtains made by Lin Qiu and was about to hang them up, felt very uncomfortable when he heard his daughter's words.

The two words "outsider" and "birdcage" seemed to be welded in his mind. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter had been wronged.

Wang Xiuren remembered what Lin Qiuzao always said.

right! Buy a house! And you have to buy a big house!

So what if we are from other places? You can still buy a big house on your own! One day!

Wang Xiuren secretly swore in his heart that he would let his daughter live in a big house so that these locals would never laugh at her again!

Moving in was supposed to be a happy thing, but the bubble of happiness was burst by Wang Shan's casual words. Apart from her still being immersed in the joy of moving to a big house, Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren were more concerned about how to make more money.

Lin Qiu was too tired to cook, so he went to the market and bought some semi-finished products, including salt-baked chicken, braised pig's trotters and some cold dishes.

After a quick lunch and waiting for Wang Shan to take a nap, Wang Xiuren sat on the balcony and smoked, which was rare.

"Didn't you quit smoking?" Lin Qiu opened all the windows, hoping to use the wind to blow away the smell of smoke.

"I feel upset and want to smoke a cigarette to relieve my sorrow!" Wang Xiuren frowned while holding a cigarette in his mouth.

"It's no big deal!" Lin Qiu pretended to be relaxed, but the tremor in her voice exposed her disguise, "As long as we work hard, we will definitely be able to live in our own big house!"

"Yes! As long as we work hard." Wang Xiuren said this with a confused look on his face.

"Am I useless? I thought I made a lot of money, but here I can't even afford a place big enough for a birdcage!"

Wang Xiuren flicked the ash off his cigarette and said, "You are right. I want to buy a house and let my daughter go to the school where the locals go! I want them to never dare to bully her again. I want to make money, lots of money."

After saying that, he raised his hand and wiped his face hastily, then said dejectedly: "But, I'm just a worker, I only know how to do manual work, how can I make more money? I don't know!"

Lin Qiu didn't expect that this incident would have such a great impact on Wang Xiuren. I have never seen him like this in my previous life!

"Take your time, there's no rush." ​​Lin Qiu lowered his voice and gently comforted him.

"We are still young, we still have many opportunities. We can learn from others, watch more and do more. As long as we work hard, I don't believe we can't make money. We can definitely buy a house! Believe me, I will work hard with you!"

"Really?" Wang Xiuren had no confidence.

Lin Qiu held his hand and nodded heavily: "Really! Maybe we will buy a house next year!"

Wang Xiuren said nothing and held Lin Qiu's hand tightly.

The hearts of the couple separated by two lifetimes began to connect at this moment.