Chapter 23 I want to live in a single room

Hu Meili was so angry that she laughed at Liu Hongying's words, "Okay, you have nothing to do with me anyway, I'm too lazy to say more to you."

When Liu Hongying was young, their relationship was fine. But ever since Liu Hongying came back from the countryside, her personality became strange.

She didn't even think about why Hu Meili was trying to trick her.

Before the divorce, they were still a family. If Liu Hongying wasn't living well, could her family just watch and not help her?

Although Hu Meili disliked her for eating for free at home and wanted to marry her off, she did not dare to let her marry casually for fear of hindering the children at home.

Hu Meili had never met a man who was really in poor condition and wanted to take advantage of Liu Hongying.

But Liu Hongying doesn't value her reputation. Other flies will come to her when they smell the scent, and there will be a lot of invisible troubles.

Hu Meili was not even a stepmother now, so she didn't even have the energy to scold her. She just urged Lin Xiangnan, "Still looking, what are you looking at? Go pack your things quickly."

Lin Xiangnan returned the divorce certificate to Hu Meili and asked expectantly, "After the rooms are divided, can I live in a room by myself?"

"What the hell? The place is so small, you're lucky to have a bed to sleep on, but you want to live in a room by yourself." Hu Meili cursed, "Your two cousins ​​are still sleeping on planks in the living room. How dare you think that."

Lin Xiangnan sighed sadly.

After working so hard for so long, I still can't even afford a room of my own.

Lin Xiangnan pulled Hu Meili's sleeve and asked, "Can't you report it to the comrades at the Housing Management Office and rent a bigger house? Or you can move to another courtyard. Otherwise, we will see the Liu family all the time. How embarrassing."

Hu Meili said perfunctorily, "Okay. Since you are free, I will arrange this for you. If you can find a bigger house for your family, I will get you a small room, okay?"

Housing resources are really tight nowadays. People like the Liu family and the Hu family, whose hometowns are in the countryside, were lucky enough to find a job in the city and the factory arranged a house for them.

But the house was not theirs, it was someone else's property that was confiscated by the state. Although they lived there, people from the housing management office would come to collect rent every month, which was a little over 0.2 yuan per square meter.

The factory has its own dormitory building, but the number of people who can live there is less than 20% of the total employees. The rest can only rent in a large courtyard. Those whose families are too poor to pay the rent have to build shacks on the outskirts of the city.

It was still okay more than ten years ago because there were few children and people could still live in spacious houses for a while. But now, every family is so crowded that it’s like a mess.

The last time the factory distributed housing, everyone was so angry that their brains almost jumped out.

Not to mention that the steel plant has not built a new dormitory building, given Hu Meili's current situation, it is unrealistic for her to get a house.

Leading cadres, technical backbones, and model workers in the factory are the key personnel for housing allocation. Hu Meili is now divorced and is no longer even a working couple.

After so many years, all the old houses that could be divided in the city have been divided up.

The only way to live in a more spacious place is to exchange rental houses with others, or get a note from the housing authority and find a vacant lot on the edge of the city to build your own house.

When renting a house, everyone wants to live comfortably, and it is not easy to exchange for a bigger house.

The cost of building a house is not expensive, it can be done with about two thousand yuan, but Lin Xiangnan can't just conjure up building materials such as cement, bricks, and glass out of thin air, so they have to come from legitimate sources.

But as long as she could live in a single room, Lin Xiangnan felt that she could overcome all these troubles.