After thinking for a moment, Ye Beiping glanced at Su Xinyi and said in a deep voice, "Grandma Qiu, could you let my wife and I discuss this?"
"Okay." Grandma Qiu looked at Ye Beiping intently for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
After Ye Beiping led Su Xinyi out of the house.
Zhou Xiaomei asked in a very soft voice, "Grandma, why...?"
"What? What?" Grandma Qiu pretended to be confused and glanced at Zhou Xiaomei, then pouted and said, "Didn't you say this young man is from the countryside? He's renting a house so his wife can have a baby. I don't want this guy to be unable to pay the rent later."
"Besides, the kid doesn't seem like he'll go back right after having a baby. My house is just sitting empty anyway, so I might as well rent it out and make some money."
"Um... okay."
Zhou Xiaomei was speechless, completely unable to understand what Grandma Qiu meant.
The rent is a bit expensive, but if meals are included, it's only 20 yuan a month. It's good enough that the pregnant woman doesn't have to pay out of pocket.
You can't just feed pregnant women tofu and vegetables every day, can you?
Even tofu isn't cheap these days.
Ye Beiping led Su Xinyi outside, and the latter immediately said, "Beiping, why don't we go look somewhere else? I'm scared of this old lady."
Fear?
Yes, it is indeed quite frightening. If Ye Beiping hadn't been reborn, he would have been truly intimidated.
However, Ye Beiping was reborn, and he roughly understood what the old lady meant.
He's a good person, but he's stubborn.
It's obvious that Grandma Qiu made that decision on purpose when she talked about the rent later; it was after listening to Zhou Xiaomei's words.
I guess she's just getting old and needs companionship, so she probably doesn't care much about money.
They're in their seventies or eighties; having so much money is useless to them.
Ye Beiping gave Su Xinyi a deep look. Actually, he thought this place was good. At least the old lady was a woman and would definitely have experience with pregnant women.
Although he was reborn, this was his first time taking care of a pregnant woman, and he only had some hearsay about it; he had never actually done it himself.
But looking at Su Xinyi like this, if she lives in constant fear, it will definitely have an impact.
"Xinyi, you don't need to be afraid of this old lady." Ye Beiping planned to try to persuade Su Xinyi, and if that didn't work, they could always go somewhere else.
Aren't you afraid?
Su Xinyi looked at Ye Beiping with a puzzled expression and asked with a frown, "Didn't you see how she looked at us just now? It was like she could see right through us. Her eyes were like knives."
"Ha ha."
Hearing this, Ye Beiping smiled and gently cupped Su Xinyi's cheeks in his hands, rubbing them: "Silly girl, she was just trying to scare you. You can tell that Grandma Qiu is an elderly person living alone. If she didn't look fierce on the surface, she would be bullied to death by the neighbors."
"Grandma Qiu, this is just a way of protecting yourself. You see, although the rent you mentioned to us seemed expensive, it includes meals. Didn't you think about how much money we could save? We spend more than 20 or 30 yuan a month on food and drinks, not to mention rent and utilities."
"I guess Grandma Qiu is lonely and wants to find a companion. But she can't just find someone who pleases her; it's a test for us."
After Ye Beiping's analysis, Su Xinyi thought about it and it seemed to make some sense.
She looked up at Ye Beiping with bright, sparkling eyes and asked uncertainly, "Is it true?"
How could a naive young girl understand so much? Su Xinyi might understand the theories, but when it comes to the ways of the world and human relationships, she hasn't even figured out the relationships at the educated youth settlement, let alone dealing with a seventy or eighty-year-old woman who is incredibly shrewd.
Looking at Su Xinyi's pretty face, Ye Beiping smiled and said, "Really, why don't we try living here? If it's really not suitable, we'll move. By then, I'll probably have made some money, and we can move to a bigger, nicer house while we wait for our baby to be born."
As he spoke, he reached out and touched Su Xinyi's abdomen.
Feeling the warmth, Su Xinyi nodded in agreement, probably emboldened by the baby in her belly.
More likely, it's about saving money. Ye Beiping is right; if meals are included, it can save money.
Ye Beiping breathed a slight sigh of relief when he saw that Su Xinyi had agreed.
It wasn't that he wanted her to suffer, but he didn't detect any murderous intent or danger in the old lady's sharp eyes, which is why Ye Beiping made that guess.
Perhaps it's because he was reborn, but Ye Beiping has always been very sensitive to this kind of thing. It seems that he has a natural talent for seizing opportunities and recognizing the people around him.
After discussing it for a while, Ye Beiping gave Su Xinyi a lot of courage before she slowly walked back to the house.
At this moment, Su Xinyi was much more open and honest with Grandma Qiu than before. She was less afraid and more focused on observation and reflection.
This left Grandma Qiu somewhat bewildered, wondering what the two had said outside that caused the little girl to act so unusually.
More than anything, I was angry.
Her fierce demeanor failed to intimidate the young woman in her early twenties, leaving her feeling somewhat defeated and annoyed.
"Grandma Qiu, we've made up our minds." Ye Beiping said, holding Su Xinyi's small hand as if to give her a sense of security and encouragement: "We've decided to rent your house. We don't need to make any changes to the house or anything, we just need to buy some daily necessities and move in as soon as possible."
While staying in state-run hotels means you don't have to worry about hygiene, it's still expensive and a waste of money.
Staying here for a few more days would be equivalent to a month's rent here.
Grandma Qiu and Zhou Xiaomei were both surprised to hear Ye Beiping's words, not expecting him to agree.
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