Seeing Director Chen coming, Su Yuehua felt panic inexplicably, "Uncle Chen, is there something wrong?"

"Yuehua, someone came to the bureau today and offered a high price to buy the house you rented." Director Chen told Su Yuehua what had happened.

Su Yuehua pondered for a second and asked, "Uncle Chen, what does the bureau mean? We signed a contract at the beginning."

Director Chen was afraid that she would be anxious, so he comforted her, "Yuehua, you can rent the house with peace of mind. I can still make the decision on renting a house, not to mention that we still have a contract. I just came here today to tell you that if you want to buy a house, you should do it as soon as possible. It is safer to use your own house than to rent one. The annual maintenance fee of this house alone is not small, so the bureau also plans to sell it."

"Uncle Chen, how much would this house cost if sold?" Such a large courtyard house would obviously not be cheap, so Su Yuehua didn't even ask.

Director Chen pondered for a moment and said, "As for the price, we need to hold a meeting to decide. I estimate it will cost more than 10,000 yuan."

Su Yuehua gritted her teeth and said, "Uncle Chen, I'll buy this house. Please go back and give me a specific price."

"Okay, I'll reply to your letter tomorrow." Director Chen left after saying that. When he walked out of the door, he happened to meet Shen Chengyi who came to pick up Su Yuehua from get off work.

Shen Chengyi walked into the courtyard and said casually: “I just saw Director Chen.”

Su Yuehua nodded, followed him out and said, "Director Chen, just now I came to tell me that someone heard from the bureau that they want to buy the house for the cram school."

"Chengyi, I want to buy this house. The most important thing for doing business is to have a stable place to operate. This time we have Director Chen here. If we didn't have Director Chen, it might end up like our furniture factory."

"The furniture factory is fine, as they are all dead objects. But the cram school is different. If the bureau really takes back the house suddenly and doesn't rent it to us, it will be difficult to settle so many children."

Shen Chengyi walked to the jeep, took out the car key, opened the door and got in, then asked, “This house is not cheap, do we have so much money?”

Su Yuehua got into the jeep, closed the door, fastened her seat belt and said, "Director Chen said that this house will cost at least 10,000 yuan. The specific price needs to be determined at a meeting of the bureau. In the past six months of the cram school, you have only earned 2,000 yuan, excluding the teacher's expenses, rent, and utilities. The furniture business is not so good now, so you can only get more than 100 yuan a month after deducting the expenses. Add your salary, and we should have 5,000 yuan in our hands."

These days, it is a lot for a small family to save 5,000 yuan, but it is pitifully little to buy a house.

Shen Chengyi felt distressed when he saw her worried look, and comforted her: "Yuehua, don't get angry about the money, I will find a way."

"I've already thought of a way to deal with the money." Su Yuehua raised her lips and smiled. When the topic of buying a house came up just now, she already had a plan.

The next afternoon, Director Chen had something to do at home, so he asked his secretary to come and talk to Su Yuehua about the house. "Teacher Su, the final price decided at the meeting in the bureau is 18,000 yuan. Director Chen asked me to ask you, are there any difficulties with the money?"

"Secretary Li, I have a sum of money that won't be back until August. Do you think I can pay a deposit first?" Su Yuehua was also afraid that things would get more complicated the longer she stayed up, but the tuition fee could not be received until the cram school started on August 1st.

Secretary Li said readily, "Director Chen is worried that you may have financial difficulties, so he has specially applied to the higher-ups to allow you to pay part of the money first and collect the rest within a month. If you have time tomorrow, go to the bureau and sign the contract."

"Secretary Li, thank you so much to you and Director Chen." Only now did Su Yuehua deeply understand what it meant to have someone in the court to help get things done. From renting a house to running a cram school, it would have been impossible to go so smoothly without the help of Director Chen.

She was worried that the night would be too long and she looked at her watch and asked, "Secretary Li, can the contract be signed today? If so, I'll go to the bank to withdraw the money now."

Before going out this morning, Su Yuehua put her passbook in her bag. There is a bank at the entrance of the alley, so it is very convenient to withdraw money.

Secretary Li glanced at his watch and said cheerfully, "Okay, I'll ride back to the bureau now and draw up the contract first. You can bring the money over later."

"Thank you so much." After Su Yuehua saw Secretary Li off, she asked Fang Guoqiang and Fang Weinan to accompany her to the bank to withdraw money, and then went directly to the Education Bureau.

When they arrived, Secretary Li had already prepared the contract, waiting for her to pay the money and sign it. The next day after the contract was signed, the transfer was completed and the balance was paid, and the courtyard house of the cram school was completely hers.

After signing the contract, the father, daughter and their two daughters returned to the cram school. They happened to see sand being transported into the house opposite. The three of them did not take it seriously and went into the yard.

At this moment in the office, two parents were asking about the cost of remedial classes, and Teacher Ding was receiving them.

Su Yuehua stepped forward and introduced herself: "Hello, I'm Su Yuehua. The tuition for our remedial class is 35 yuan a month, and the dormitory is free. Now there is a discount promotion. If you pay the tuition for a year at a time, the tuition can be reduced to 30 yuan a month. If you pay for half a year at a time, the tuition is 33 yuan a month."

"Also, our cram school promises to fully refund the re-examination fee if you fail to get into university. We can sign the contract when we pay the fee."

When they heard that they could get their money back if they failed to get into university, they were both tempted. How much money does a worker earn these days? If they failed to get into university, wouldn’t all the money they spent on tutoring be wasted?

Seeing the two people hesitate, Su Yuehua continued, "The class will start on August 1st. There will be three days of trial lectures. You can bring your children to try it out. The biggest advantage of our remedial class is that we predict the test questions very accurately. You can ask this year's candidates for information."

One of the parents said, "I heard that your predictions for the exam are accurate, so I came here to ask, can you really guarantee that my child will be admitted to university?"

"Dear parents, whether your child can be admitted to university depends not only on the efforts of the parents and the school, but also on the cooperation of the child. Our remedial class can only promise to fully refund the tuition if the child fails to be admitted to university. Have you read it in the newspaper? This year, all 18 students in our remedial class were admitted to their ideal universities with excellent grades. Among them, Li Yangfan scored 369 points, ranking third in the country." There were some things Su Yuehua didn't dare to say too confidently. What if the person sent her a rotten wood? Even if she was the reincarnation of Lu Ban, she wouldn't be able to carve it.

The two parents exchanged glances and said cheerfully, "Teacher Su, please register our children first. We will pay the tuition for one year in one lump sum, but we didn't bring that much money with us today. Can we pay it when school starts on August 1st?"

"Don't worry about tuition fees." Su Yuehua said, and wrote down the names of two students.

Nowadays, the family conditions that can send their children to cram schools are not too bad. If you pay one year's tuition at a time, you can get a discount of 5 yuan. Many parents will choose to pay one year's tuition at a time without thinking.

As classes were about to start on August 1st, Su Yuehua arrived at the cram school early in the morning and saw a recruitment advertisement posted on the gate of the courtyard opposite.