"Mom, these steamed buns haven't gone bad! I thought they'd spoil by today." Zhou Cailian, with dark circles under her eyes, ate the steamed buns. Although she hadn't slept well last night, it didn't affect her appetite.
Yu Qiuying didn't reply. She had stored the buns in her spatial storage, so of course they wouldn't spoil.
After breakfast, she said to Zhou Cailian and the other two, "I'll go look for a house by myself today. If you three are bored, you can go for a walk around here, just don't go too far."
"Mom, aren't you going to take us with you to look for a house?" Zhou Jiahong wanted to go out with his mother.
“Mom, let’s go look for a house together.” Zhou Cailian also felt safer going out with her mother.
Zhou Jiadong didn't say anything. Anyway, he had no right to speak in front of his mother, so he just followed along.
“You don’t need to come with me. If you all come, it will cost money to take a taxi.” Yu Qiuying didn’t actually want to take them with her. She wanted to go directly to the area where she lived when she first arrived in her previous life. It was the old town, and most of the residents were locals. Living with locals meant that the flow of people was less complicated and the safety was relatively guaranteed.
Upon hearing about the taxi fare, Zhou Cailian immediately lost interest in going. "Alright then, Mom, please be careful when you go out."
Yu Qiuying gave her fifty yuan, saying, "I don't know if I'll be back for lunch. If I'm not, you can go out and eat by yourselves."
The old town isn't far from here, but to save time, Yu Qiuying still took a minibus there.
The roads in the old town area are still unpaved and remain dirt roads.
However, nothing else has changed much. Yu Qiuying remembers that the houses in this area were not demolished until 2015 in her previous life.
The houses here are quite close together, most are single-story, and few are two-story. The alleys are narrow and winding, but each household has a large yard. Most families have hand pumps for water and toilets, but usually the whole family lives together, and those with many children live quite cramped.
As soon as Yu Qiuying entered the alley, she ran into an elderly woman in her sixties. The woman was slightly hunched over, wearing a dark blue dress with Chinese knot buttons and a black headscarf.
Perhaps because Yu Qiuying looked unfamiliar, the old lady frowned and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"
The old lady clearly didn't speak Mandarin; she asked the question in the local dialect.
Yu Qiuying smiled and spoke to the other person in the local dialect, "I'm here to look for a place to rent, sister, are there any places to rent around here?"
When the old lady heard that Yu Qiuying was there to rent a house, she quickly waved her hand and said, "No, no, there are no houses for rent around here. There aren't enough rooms for my own family."
Yu Qiuying didn't ask any more questions. Whether it exists or not, we should look for it first.
As she walked in, she went from house to house asking questions. Perhaps because she was speaking the local dialect, people weren't wary of her and were quite helpful.
However, after asking around all morning, there were indeed no houses available for rent.
Around 12 o'clock, people who had been working came back for lunch, and the jingling of bicycle bells rang out from time to time, making the alley much livelier.
Yu Qiuying thought she would find a place to eat something and rest for a while before continuing her search after lunchtime. However, as soon as she turned a corner, she heard a commotion.
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