After a few days, all departments started to return to work, and Qian Jingui began to go to the county town to inquire about transfers to the county education bureau and the admissions offices of several primary schools.
Both of them are from rural areas. If they want their children to go to school in the county town, they need a rental contract if they don’t have housing there.
There are three primary schools in the county. Primary One is the best school, and places are hard to come by, so there are almost no vacancies. The same is true for Primary Two.
Although the teaching staff and school facilities of the Third Primary School are a bit inferior, fortunately there are still places available and they are said to be able to accept transfer students.
After Qian Jingui brought the news home, Shen Nan immediately made a decision to rent a house in the county town and try to get this matter done before the new semester starts.
They now have more than 20,000 yuan on hand, and the housing prices in the county town have risen to more than 1,000 yuan per square meter. If they want to buy a house in the county town, they will have to work hard for a few more years.
But now they have skills, and people in the county town are more willing to spend money than people in the countryside. Once they go to the county town, life seems to be more promising.
Besides, no matter how bad the conditions of the county primary school are, they are still better than their village primary school, so Shen Nan is already very satisfied that his child can go to the third primary school.
With a goal in life, the couple are now full of energy and thinking about how to make their lives more prosperous.
Another week passed, and on the eve of the start of the second semester of the second grade, the transfer procedures for Qian Baoge were finally completed.
When Qian Baoge heard that she was going to go to school in the county town, she danced with joy. It was only because her mother repeatedly told her not to tell anyone about this that she resisted sharing the news with her good friends.
The family packed up their things and drove a tractor to the county town before the Lantern Festival, taking all their daily belongings with them. The couple worked together to move the things on the tractor to the rental house.
At that time, the county town had not been fully developed. In addition to houses built with funds raised by units and commercial buildings, there were also some bungalows or two-story self-built houses.
Shen Nan and Qian Jingui rented a bungalow with a small courtyard near the school.
The house was built in the 1980s, more than a decade old, but it didn't look old. They cleaned the house thoroughly inside and out.
Qian Jingui works on the construction site, and is good at bricklaying and simple decoration.
Before moving his family here, he went to a place in the county town that sold decorative materials and bought some sand, cement, lime, putty, scrapers, brushes and other materials, and painted the inside of the house himself.
The originally dim room suddenly became bright. After a few days of drying, the wall surface has dried and does not affect the living space at all.
Both rooms use old-fashioned light bulbs with low wattage, which makes the rooms appear dim when the lights are turned on at night. In order to make it easier for the children to study at night, Qian Jingui bought higher-wattage light bulbs.
After the household belongings were brought into the house and neatly arranged, it looked presentable and immediately had the feel of home.
The family stayed in the new house for one night. They were filled with emotion and were so excited that they could hardly sleep.
The next day was the Lantern Festival. After getting up early and washing up, they took their children out shopping to buy some food and daily necessities and make a sumptuous meal at noon to celebrate their family's new home.
They also heard that there was a lantern festival in the city at night. In the past, in the village, the Lantern Festival was a cold time, and driving to the county town at night was unsafe. The weather was cold, and children could easily freeze. Therefore, villagers who lived far from the county town did not go to see the lantern festival during the Lantern Festival.
Qian Baoge had never seen lanterns in her life. Just listening to her mother describe the scene of the Lantern Festival made her look forward to it.
After they had lunch at noon, they rested for a while. Shen Nan was happy today and did not cook at night. Instead, she chose to eat out with her family of three and enjoy the life of the city people.
They bought two plates of dumplings, a bowl of Yuanxiao (Chinese rice dumplings), and a dish of stir-fried vegetables at a small restaurant, had a delicious meal, and then strolled to the Lantern Festival in the center of the county town.
There were many people walking on the street, all heading for the Lantern Festival. When the Lantern Festival arrived, there were not only a dazzling array of beautiful and spectacular lanterns, but also people selling snacks and balloons.
Qian Baoge was envious of the hydrogen balloons in the hands of other children. Shen Nan took the child directly to the small vendor selling balloons and let Qian Baoge choose the one she liked best and paid three yuan readily.
The aroma of the snack stall spread far away, and Shen Nan bought a few fried skewers for the children. Seeing the fried skewers, she suddenly remembered that she had also learned this craft.
At that time, I tasted the fried skewers made by the chefs at school. They were so fragrant that I could never get tired of eating them.
Unfortunately, I was running the stall by myself before and was too busy, so I could only make these simple and easy-to-make stone cakes that can be made by one person.
Thinking of this, she bought a few more fried skewers and shared them with Qian Jingui to taste. Qian Jingui thought it was good, but Shen Nan had eaten better ones, so naturally she thought the taste of this fried skewers was average.
Since the couple wanted to take root in the city, Shen Nan thought, next they should set up another fried skewers stall. The opening hours of these two stalls can be staggered.
Among them, stone cakes are mainly used as breakfast, while fried skewers are mostly sold at noon and in the evening.
Moreover, the profit from fried skewers is definitely greater than that from stone cakes, so the income can basically double. Wouldn’t it be easy to buy a house in the city?
Shen Nan is a person of action. A few days later, Qian Baoge went to a new school, and she started discussing with Qian Jingui about selling fried skewers.
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