Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Confirmed to stay in Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Because everyone around him worked in the factory with free food and accommodation, and asked their wives to return to their hometowns when they wanted to have children, Lin Nanjiang had no idea of renting a house nearby.
But if you think about it carefully, this idea is really good. He can rent a house, work hard all day, and then go home to his wife and children. Their life is better than living in a factory dormitory where the couple can only kiss but not do anything.
The expenses in big cities are high, but the salaries are also high. At worst, he can just work more overtime in the future.
His wife is not a person who spends money recklessly. If she rents a house, she can prepare pots and pans and buy groceries and cook for herself, which can save some money.
Speaking of which, they returned to their hometown at this time, and they didn't farm. Their family could only support them with some food and let them pick some vegetables from the fields, which cost a lot of money.
It would be better for the whole family to stay in Shenzhen first.
We’ll talk about what happens next later. The most important thing is that my wife is happy.
Lin Nanjiang nodded readily, "Okay, let's go look at the house later. How much money have we saved?"
Liu Suqin took out the passbook from her bag. Not counting the salary she received today, there was a total of five thousand in the account.
The couple's combined salary is not low, about 1,000 yuan each, and the factory provides food and accommodation, so they don't have much to spend. However, they only started saving money this year.
In the past, there was no pressure to get married, and young people lived a carefree life. Girls would buy clothes and shoes after receiving their salary, while men would smoke, play cards, and play games. It was considered good if they could give one or two thousand yuan to their parents at the end of the year.
Liu Suqin used to be like this. After deducting the round-trip travel expenses, she could bring home 2,000 yuan a year, hand over 1,500 yuan, and have 500 yuan left to go out and play with friends and classmates.
Lin Nanjiang was a little better off than her. After handing over the money to his parents every year, he would save up 3,000 yuan in private money. Last year, he used it all to buy her gold wedding jewelry, which weighed more than 60 grams of gold in total. She had worn it for decades in her previous life and still loved it very much.
We got married this year, mainly because after we found out we were pregnant, the couple finally started saving money.
Five thousand is not a small amount, but in her previous life, she took this savings back to her hometown and gave five hundred to each of her parents. She had to rely on them to take care of the child. When they visited their parents, she had to give red envelopes to their grandchildren. In addition, she had to buy furniture and prepare food and daily necessities. In short, she spent money like water. When Lin Nanjiang came back at the end of the year, more than half of their savings had been spent, and their eldest daughter had not even been born at that time.
Liu Suqin felt that the train tickets and red envelope money for a trip back home were enough for the couple to live in Shenzhen until the end of the year.
She was not prepared to sit in the rental house and do nothing. There were many opportunities in big cities. Her daughter was still more than three months away from being born, so she was thinking about what she could do to make money while taking care of the baby.
If that doesn't work out, you can go to the nearby factory and take some manual work home to do, which is also a source of income.
They did it right away. After packing up their things, they left the factory and prepared to look for a house.
Walking down the street, Lin Nanjiang was completely lost. "Where can I rent this house? Should I find an agent?"
In her previous life, Liu Suqin went to the county to accompany her children to study and rented a house. She was very calm and said, "No need. Just go to the area we want to rent. If they have vacancies, they will usually post them on the wall."
"good."
After going to see the houses on site, Liu Suqin found that she had still underestimated the prices in big cities. After looking at the rental houses for a long time, no matter how shabby or small, the rent was not less than three digits.
Considering the safety of pregnant women, the location they are looking for cannot be too remote, otherwise the price will not be cheap.
After looking at several streets, Liu Suqin finally made a decision and rented a small studio room for 150 yuan.
The house is a new building built two years ago. The landlord decided to rent it out early on and planned it out when it was built. Even the single room has a kitchen, bathroom, etc., but it is very small, with a total area of more than ten square meters. The walls are painted white and the floor is paved with cement. The bedroom only has a bed, a table, and a rack for hanging clothes. The so-called kitchen is just a table with an outlet on the wall next to it. The landlord said that I can buy an electric rice cooker to make soup or porridge, which is clean and nutritious.
The bathroom also only has a squat toilet and a faucet. You have to squat on the floor to wash clothes, and you have to boil hot water for your own bath.
This was the most "luxurious" decoration they had ever seen.
There was no way. After all, Liu Suqin was reborn from more than 30 years later and was used to living in a bright and clean commercial house. This was the worst condition she could accept.
The landlord offered 180 yuan, but she bargained down to 150 yuan. The landlord agreed, cursing at her, but because the house was hard to rent in the second half of the year, he asked them to pay a 200 yuan deposit, saying, "I'll give you a discount this time, but if you don't live there for a full year, I won't return the deposit."
Liu Suqin thought about it and said, "Uncle, if we move out after living here for a year, it will be difficult for you to find a tenant next year, and we will have to delay paying rent for three or four months. Why don't we keep a six-month deposit? If we want to move after six months, it will be around the time when we return to work after the New Year, and you can still get a good price for the rent."
"You are such a talkative girl. Okay, then I'll pay a deposit of half a year." The landlord, Mr. Chen, was also straightforward. He collected a deposit of 200 yuan and this month's rent on the spot and wrote a handwritten receipt, which was considered the job done. There was no contract or anything like that.
After handing over the money and the keys, Uncle Chen said before leaving, "You two seem to know how to live. I have some luggage from the previous tenants, clothes hangers, washbasins, kettles, etc. Would you like some? If you do, I'll give you a discount."
Liu Suqin and Lin Nanjiang exchanged a glance and asked, "Let's go and take a look?"
Lin Jiangnan nodded, "Okay."
Uncle Chen also lives on the first floor of their building, but his and hers house is much more spacious, with three bedrooms and two living rooms. Unfortunately, his children all have to go to work and don't often come home, so Uncle Chen set up a small warehouse at home to store the "junk" he picked up from the tenants.
There were all kinds of things in this warehouse, but the clothes hangers and kettles that Uncle Chen mentioned were already in Liu Suqin and Lin Nanjiang's dormitories, so there was no need to buy any more. She rummaged through it and pulled out a bunch of pots and pans, even chopping boards and kitchen knives. The thing she couldn't miss the most was the gas stove that was about 70% new.
The landlord was very satisfied with this.
He picked up all the other things, but he "bought" the gas stove from the previous tenant. Although the price was ridiculously low, only slightly better than selling it as scrap, he still spent money on it.
He also wanted to keep it for his own use, as cooking on a gas stove is so convenient. Unfortunately, his wife at home was not very good at it. She was afraid of this and that and dared not use the gas stove. It was almost covered in dust when it was placed in the warehouse.
As for other tenants, they don’t cook often and think gas stoves are not cost-effective, so they would rather buy an electric rice cooker to handle a few meals.
Finally meeting someone with the same discerning eye as him, Uncle Chen was so happy that he even brought a clean rice cooker from his kitchen. "You guys are going to cook for yourselves, right? Then I won't keep this rice cooker anymore. Take it with you. Just give me 500 yuan."
Liu Suqin's eyes lit up. There was such a good thing?
The landlord may have picked up these things for free, but if she wanted to buy them, even this second-hand gas stove would cost several hundred yuan, and she might not be able to find a place to buy it.
After all, if you go to a store that sells gas stoves, they can’t tell whether they are brand new or second-hand and refurbished.
Anyway, Liu Suqin felt that this 70% new gas stove was worth five hundred yuan, and the rest of the pots, pans, and rice cookers were just free. She quickly praised Uncle Chen for his magnanimity and vision, and then paid for these things.
Most of the salary she and Lin Nanjiang received today was spent on the landlord.
But Lin Nanjiang had no objections. After checking the pots and stoves and finding no problems, he hurriedly moved them all back to their small studio. After he was done, he closed the door and began to sigh to his wife, "After buying these, we only need to add some rice, flour, grain, and oil, which will only cost a hundred or eighty yuan. Our little home is settled. Besides rent, we won't have to spend much money in the future. This way, we'll save more money than going back home."
"That's right."
Lin Nanjiang went to drink some water, found a rag and wiped the bed, table and stove, and let Liu Suqin lean on the bed to rest. "You've been walking for a long time. You lean back and rest for a while. I'll go back and move our luggage over."
Liu Suqin was indeed tired, so she sat down without hesitation. "One person can't carry so much. You can bring mine first. It's okay to move your things slowly."
Lin Nanjiang chuckled, "I just went to get a rag from Uncle Chen. I've already agreed to lend me his tricycle."
Liu Suqin didn't expect that he would become so close to the landlord so quickly, and that he was willing to lend him such an expensive tricycle. So she waved her hand and said, "Then you should go and come back early and return the tricycle to him as soon as possible."
"Yeah." Lin Nanjiang hurried out. After being away for an hour and a half, he brought back all their belongings. After moving the luggage into the room, he did not let his wife touch it. He made the bed first and let her lie down to continue sleeping while he sorted out the belongings by himself.
Liu Suqin also couldn't imagine that he could be so hardworking. He was full of energy and energy. He was completely different from the person in his previous life who would just go home and watch videos.
But men love to work, so how could she discourage his enthusiasm? Liu Suqin naturally lay on the bed obediently, and then used her mouth to command her father, asking him to turn on the fire to boil water and put the pots, pans, cutting boards and kitchen knives in the pot to boil and disinfect them.
Lin Nanjiang was busy and sweating profusely. When he looked up and saw his wife lying on their bed, he was filled with energy again. He wiped his forehead and continued to work hard.
He finished all the moving, cleaning, organizing and tidying up work in one go. He swept the floor clean and put the trash cans in place. However, it was already dark when he finished. The young couple walked out of the small room, which was filled but not messy, with satisfaction, locked the door carefully, and went to the night market hand in hand to find food.
It always gets dark late in Shenzhen. It was already past eight o'clock, the busiest time of the night market. The two walked past the dazzling array of stalls and stopped at a box lunch stall. They ordered chicken leg rice and chili fried pork rice respectively. A box of meat dishes cost seven yuan.
Big cities are indeed expensive, but in their hometown counties, ordering a plate of stir-fried chicken only costs six or seven yuan.
Lin Nanjiang consumed a lot today and finished a full box of food in no time.
Liu Suqin had a small appetite and had eaten some biscuits in the afternoon. She was full after eating only one-third of her lunch box. Seeing this, Lin Nanjiang took the initiative to take her leftovers and said, "You finish this chicken leg, and I'll take care of the rest of the meal."
Liu Suqin simply grabbed the chicken leg with her hands and nibbled on it slowly. Before she had even finished it, Lin Nanjiang had already finished his second helping and wiped his mouth with satisfaction. "I've already taken the day off, so I won't go to work tomorrow. Let's buy some rice, flour, grain, oil, soy sauce, and vinegar first. Then I can cook at home tomorrow."
"Okay, then get up early tomorrow and go to the vegetable market to check out the vegetable prices here."
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