Chapter 352: Li Jie's Family Affairs

Zhou Qiuhe had become a regular salesperson at the town's supply and marketing cooperative two years ago, but her household registration was still in the countryside and she also worked in the town.

Director Zheng was transferred back to the county to work a year ago, so the town’s supply and marketing cooperative directly appointed Zhou Qiuhe as the director and hired another salesperson.

This time there happened to be a vacancy in the county's general supply and marketing cooperative. Director Zheng was a nice person and had been thinking about Zhou Qiuhe, so he recommended Zhou Qiuhe.

The General Supply and Marketing Cooperative also knew about Zhou Qiuhe's performance, so they agreed to transfer her to the county seat. However, the matter of converting her rural household registration to urban household registration has not been finalized yet, and it will have to wait until there is a quota.

Zhou Qiuhe was hesitant at first to agree, mainly because she was afraid of hurting Li Jie's self-esteem.

After all, on the surface, she has now become a formal employee of the county supply and marketing cooperative. If she tells others that it is because Li Jie followed her that he had the opportunity to go to the county, she is afraid that her manhood will be embarrassed.

However, secretly, it is Li Jie who actually makes more money by following Luo Cheng.

I didn't go there very often, just when I had free time, for three to five days or ten days, and every time I came back I would bring back dozens or even hundreds of dollars.

The two of them now have two to three thousand yuan in savings.

Zhou Qiuhe hesitated for a long time, but finally told Li Jie.

Juanjuan secretly told her that if she had the chance, she must go to the county town, and not only the county town, but also to bigger cities like Beijing.

Don’t be fooled by the fact that life in the city is tight now, which is not much different from the hard life in the countryside. You need food stamps to buy food, meat, eggs and the like. And you can’t go into the mountains to hunt, dig wild vegetables and pick mushrooms like in the countryside. But it will definitely not always be like this in the future.

Even without Xia Juanjuan's suggestion, everyone knows that life in the county town is definitely much better than working on the farm in the village production team and earning only a dozen work points a day, which is equivalent to a few cents or a dime.

Even if it is for the sake of our children not having to live a hard life in the countryside in the future, we cannot miss this opportunity!

After hearing what Zhou Qiuhe said, Li Jie slapped his thigh and said, "Go! Of course we have to go! Didn't Fourth Brother's wife tell us that we have a chance to move to the county? Besides, the college entrance examination has been resumed this year. Our children will all go to the county to study. The teachers in the county must be better. We will try to have four college students in the future!"

Zhou Qiuhe didn't expect Li Jie to not even hesitate for a moment, and she couldn't help but be moved: "You... don't object?"

Li Jie was stunned for a moment: "Why should I object?"

Zhou Qiuhe said with some worry, "I'm afraid you won't be able to stand the gossip in the village, saying that you followed your wife into the city or something... In fact, you make more money than me, but it's hard to say it openly..."

Li Jie laughed and said, "I don't think it's a big deal. They said that because they are jealous because they didn't marry a wife as capable as mine! I won't go home and get upset just because of that. Qiu He, don't worry. Let's work hard together to make our family and our four kids live a good life and become city dwellers!"

Zhou Qiuhe couldn't help but feel a sour nose, and kept nodding: "Yes! Let's work together. However, you are thinking too far ahead. How old are the four little guys? You are thinking about letting them take the college entrance examination and become college students. They haven't even started yet."

Li Jie smiled sheepishly: "Wasn't I excited? But let's talk business. After we move to the city, the farm work in the village will be at its busiest time. I will come back to work for a few days. At worst, I won't get any work points. You don't have to travel back and forth. You can just work in the county and take care of the kids.

I also found a part-time job. I have been to many places with Luo Lao Da in the past two years, and I am quite familiar with the county town. Apart from other things, the timber factory seems to have plans to transform into a furniture factory recently, and they are recruiting workers. I heard that there is no limit on the household registration, and you can enter if you pass the exam. I also learned some carpentry work from my father when I was a child, so I should be able to do odd jobs there. If there is work for Luo Lao Da, I will still follow him. Let's try to save money for a few more years, and then buy someone else's old house in the county town, and we will live a life of meat and eggs every day in the future!"

Zhou Qiuhe listened to Li Jie drawing a blueprint for the future, as if the family was already living a good life in the county. She felt sweet and comfortable in her heart.

However, she immediately smiled and said, "Let's not talk about the distant things first. We are going to move to the county town, so we have to solve the housing problem first, otherwise we can't sleep on the street."

Li Jie chuckled and said, "That's true."

Zhou Qiuhe thought for a moment and said, "Juanjuan happens to be taking the college entrance examination in the county these days. I'll ask her to go back to Beijing two days after the exam and let her help take a look."

Zhou Qiuhe would not arrive in the county town until around noon, so Xia Juanjuan took a walk around the Xincheng Vocational District early in the morning.

She did consider renting Tonghua Lane to Zhou Qiuhe and Li Jie's family, but after thinking it over, she decided not to.

Firstly, the county supply and marketing cooperative where Zhou Qiuhe was going to work was in the new city, and it would take too much time to commute if she lived in the old city. The new city vocational area was where workers from two large factories and their families gathered. The conditions were better than those in the old city in all aspects, and the school was also close, so it was actually more convenient than the old city.

Secondly, if I rent it to them, how will the money be calculated? Not asking for money is not a big deal. Everyone has greed. How many people have rented out a house and quarreled over the ownership of the house many years later? Zhou Qiuhe and Li Jie certainly won't do that now, but people change, and Xia Juanjuan doesn't want a house to make her unable to be a relative in the future.

Besides, it was hard to explain where the money came from to buy this house. I was embarrassed to say it was the landlord or Grandma Luo.

The most important point is that this house is hers, a place similar to a teleportation point. When she goes back to the county town, she can come here directly through space. If she lets Zhou Qiuhe and others live here, it will be inconvenient for her.