Chapter 198: Robbed
After receiving their wages, the two took their three children to the logistics office on the other side.
"Is Secretary Zhao here?" Yu Hui stood at the door and knocked.
"Are you there?" Secretary Zhao stood up and waved to Yu Hui at the door.
Next to his desk stood a woman in a floral shirt.
"Is she Deputy Captain Gu's lover?" Secretary Zhao asked when he saw that she was holding a baby girl in her arms.
Yu Hui nodded and took Gu Nan, Gu Xi and Qian Lan into the office.
"I'm here to rent a bungalow outside the military compound." Yu Hui explained her purpose.
Secretary Zhao smiled and said, "Deputy Commander Gu has already told me. Sister-in-law, please sit down for a while. I'll finish signing the contract for Comrade Wen and then I'll do it for you."
Comrade Wen?
Yu Hui and Qian Lan looked at each other, then looked at the woman standing at the desk at the same time.
As if she noticed their gaze, the woman turned her head. If it wasn't Wen Zhaodi, then who else could it be?
"Wen Zhaodi?" Qian Lan exclaimed.
Gu Nan and Gu Bei both frowned and glared at Wu Hongbing's mother, but they both remembered that she had asked her mother and sister to come to their house to extort money.
"Sister-in-law Yu, Xiao Yu." Wen Zhaodi greeted the two of them with a forced smile. Now facing Yu Hui, she felt a little embarrassed and a little proud.
"You want to rent a house too?" Yu Hui asked with a frown.
Apart from renting a house, she couldn't think of what contract Wen Zhaodi could come to sign.
"Yeah." Wen Zhaodi smoothed the hair by her ear. "I heard that Old Wu in our family has opened a restaurant as a self-employed person, so he wants my mother-in-law to come over and open a bun shop and sell some breakfast or something."
"My mother-in-law's father used to run a bun shop and was very skilled. She inherited his skills and is now very good at making buns."
I heard from Old Wu that Yu Hui is planning to open a noodle shop, which will mainly be open at noon and in the evening.
In the morning, everyone is in a hurry. Those who go to work or school prefer to eat some convenient buns and steamed buns.
It is convenient to buy and eat.
But at noon, most people in the family compound go out to work, so they just eat in the cafeteria. In the evening, the family has to eat together.
Not many people go to her shop to eat noodles at noon or in the evening.
She felt that Yu Hui's noodle shop would definitely lose money, so it would be better for her to open her own bun shop.
Yu Hui didn't expect that a competitor would appear before her noodle shop even opened.
Although one is a noodle shop and the other is a breakfast shop, they are located in the same area, so competition is inevitable.
Yu Hui didn't respond, so Wen Zhaodi didn't continue talking. After signing the contract, she paid five yuan in rent.
When I paid the money, I felt a little bit painful.
After signing the contract, Wen Zhaodi did not leave immediately. Yu Hui walked to where she had stood before.
"Which room do you want to rent, sister-in-law?"
Secretary Zhao asked.
Yu Hui: "Room 3."
Secretary Zhao exclaimed, "Ah!"
"What's wrong?" Yu Hui asked.
Secretary Zhao looked at Wen Zhaodi, who had not yet left, and said, "Room 03 has been rented by Comrade Wen."
Yu Hui turned to look at Wen Zhaodi, who smiled at her apologetically, but the pride in her eyes could not be hidden.
He even said in a fake tone, "If I had known you were going to rent Room 03, Xiao Yu, I wouldn't have rented it."
Yu Hui frowned. She didn't expect that the house she liked would be rented out first.
"Then let's go with number 05." She didn't like Wen Zhaodi and didn't want to live next to her shop.
"Number 05 is at the very edge." Secretary Zhao reminded.
"It's okay, just number 05."
Seeing that Yu Hui rented Room 05, Wen Zhaodi took the contract and left.
The contract was handwritten by Secretary Zhao and was made in duplicate.
Yu Hui signed and put her fingerprints on the document, but Qian Lan did not, after all, she didn't contribute a penny.
After paying the five yuan, Officer Zhao said, "We've eliminated a number of tables, chairs, and benches from the canteen at our camp. Do you want any? If you do, ask a few people to pick out some that are usable and take them away. It's free."
The military district leaders asked their logistics department to provide some support and help. Secretary Zhao thought of the batch of tables and chairs that had been discarded from the camp cafeteria.
Instead of burning them as firewood, it’s better to give them to Yu Hui and the others. After all, tables and chairs are needed to run a shop.
Secretary Zhao originally wanted to ask Wen Zhaodi if she wanted it, but she left first.
On second thought, she sells buns and steamed buns, and customers buy them and leave, and don’t sit in the store to eat, so there should be no need for tables and benches.
Yu Hui's eyes lit up, "Yes, of course."
Secretary Zhao smiled and said, "Then ask Deputy Captain Gu to find a time and get a few people to go to the warehouse to move it."
"OK."
Great, I can save some money again.
At the same time, Lu Tianyou and Lin Siyu also bid farewell to their families and boarded the train to Chengdu.
They didn't start school until September 5th, so they went to school two or three days in advance.
Lin Siyu stood against the wall, and Lu Tianyou stood in front of her, holding up the wall with his hands to separate her from the other people on the train.
The train was very crowded, with the aisles and train connections packed with people. It was not only noisy but also very hot.
Lin Siyu pinched her handkerchief to cover her nose, looked at Lu Tianyou complainingly and said, "I told you to come to the train station early to buy a ticket, but you didn't listen and walked to school standing again."
I had to stand when I came back and stand when I left.
"Sorry, I got up late." Lu Tianyou apologized with a frown.
In fact, it was not that there were no seat tickets left, but he deliberately bought a standing ticket because seat tickets were more expensive.
He wanted to ask his parents for more money, but his mother didn't give him much. She only gave him twenty yuan and the money for the round-trip ticket, so he had no choice but to buy a standing ticket.
Faced with Lin Siyu's complaints, Lu Tianyou felt a little unhappy.
She could have bought a seat ticket, but because she had to pay for her fare, she couldn't sit and had to stand with her. She even complained.
Lin Siyu turned her face away and didn't want to pay attention to him, thinking that the next time she came back, she must ask him to buy tickets early.
After getting the key to the house, Yu Hui, Qian Lan and the children went to see the house.
When I opened the door, it was empty inside, there was nothing there, and the roof was covered with cobwebs.
"Sister-in-law, let's build a stove on the right side of the door. We will have a big stove hole for cooking noodles and a small one for boiling water. Then we will use bricks to build a two-layer table against the wall. The bottom layer will hold the basins, the middle layer will hold the bowls and chopsticks, and the top layer will hold the seasonings and the dough board for kneading the dough." Yu Hui was looking around the house while planning with Qian Lan.
Qian Lan smiled and said, "Okay."
"Mom, there is another room inside." Gu Xixi, who had already run inside to explore, stuck her little head out from the door and said.
Yu Hui and Qian Lan went to take a look and found a small room with a 1.5-meter bed and plenty of space left.
"This can be used as a storage room."
Qian Lan nodded. "This house is quite good, very suitable for opening a shop. The walls are not damaged or cracked. We just need to clean it up."
"Then we will clean it up this afternoon and ask a bricklayer to build the stove and table tomorrow." Yu Hui looked at Qian Lan and said.
"Okay." Qian Lan nodded. "You can stay home and take care of the kids this afternoon. I can clean it up by myself."
Yu Hui shook her head. "Let's do it together. I'm embarrassed to let you work alone."
Qian Lan smiled and said, "I didn't pay a penny, so I deserve to do more work."
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