The district director does not live in the urban village. He has already bought a high-end apartment nearby, which is decorated very luxuriously. He only goes there when it is time to collect rent every month.
"I have something to do later. I'll write you an address and you can find it when you get there." As he said that, the district director wrote a line of words in a notebook. The handwriting was crooked and heavy, but at least it was recognizable.
"This Liang's Restaurant is hers. You can see it if you go to that street."
Li Yutong thanked her.
When she got the address and found the place, she couldn't help but be stunned.
The location is very good. There are tall and sturdy trees on the side of the street. The large black-painted and gold-lettered sign of Liang Ji Restaurant is half-hidden by the branches. The decoration looks very luxurious, with two floors, and there are also a convenience store, breakfast shop, etc. next to it.
She noticed a black painted iron door next to it with a for rent sign hanging on it. She looked up and saw that there were seven floors in total. Judging from the color of the exterior walls, it could be distinguished from the floors next to it. The one facing the main road seemed to be a kitchen. She could see bottles and jars of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, etc. on the windowsill through the glass. Counting them, she found that there were eight such kitchens on the first floor. Most of these rental houses were standard rooms.
The bedroom is right at the entrance, and there are two small rooms side by side inside. One is the kitchen and the other is the bathroom. There is nothing else. This kind of house is suitable for one person or two people sharing it. It is convenient to live in and the rent is cheap.
Li Yutong walked around the wall and took a look at the back. There were glass windows with oil, salt, sauce and vinegar visible behind the wall, proving that this rental building was similar to the school dormitory. The eight rooms facing the sun were square, and the ones not facing the sun also had eight rooms with a corridor in the middle.
Li Yutong understood in her heart why Li Hongyan could so ruthlessly instigate her grandfather to quarrel with her grandmother Chen Xiaoying, and was not afraid that her grandmother would not give her a share of the family property. It turned out that she already knew that the financial situation of her biological mother Liang Xiuqing's family was better than that of her grandmother Chen Xiaoying.
However, we can't tell anything just by looking at the appearance of the house. What if this building, which looks like it has a very high rent, is not Liang Xiuqing's house?
Li Yutong thought about it, walked around the area, and found the entrance to an alley where a group of old ladies who looked relaxed and comfortable were sitting.
Li Yutong walked over and inquired in the name of renting a house.
"Auntie, I'm taking a break. Can I ask you guys something?"
"What's the matter?" An old lady looked at Li Yutong warily.
Li Yutong said: "I want to rent a house near the street, but I don't know what the houses here are like. I'm afraid that the water and electricity bills will be deliberately high. I'm also afraid that the landlord is powerful and difficult to talk to, and will increase the rent in the second month. I'm also afraid that the place where I rent a house is full of all kinds of people, and it's not safe for a little girl like me to live there."
She frowned, looking worried and not knowing what to do: "Auntie, what do you think of that building? I think it's right next to the road, and it's convenient for getting in and out by car."
Li Yutong wore a pair of black-framed student glasses. She looked innocent and honest, with a naive face. At first glance, she looked like a simple college student who had just graduated from school and had not yet been beaten by society.
A few old ladies looked at each other, since they were just sitting around doing nothing anyway.
"Where do you want to rent?" The old lady looked at the building where Liang Ji Restaurant was that Li Yutong had just pointed out.
The old ladies looked at each other.
An old lady in a dark blue shirt said meaningfully: "Oh, it's Liang Yongfa's house..."
The old lady looked like she had something to say...
These old ladies seem to be about the same age as Li Yutong's grandmother Chen Xiaoying, which means they are probably the same age as Liang Xiuqing.
Li Yutong opened her eyes wide, very curious, and bought a few bags of peanuts and melon seeds to put on the table. She ate melon seeds with the old ladies and listened to the old ladies' chatter.
After eating all the melon seeds and peanuts, Li Yutong suddenly realized.
Worried that the old ladies were exaggerating, she found a detective agency and hired them to investigate the Liang family's true family and property situation.
For an ordinary family, there is basically nothing difficult to investigate. Within a week, Li Yutong had the results. To be honest, it was quite unexpected.
You can go and shoot a family ethics drama, at least 80 episodes.
They also gave her a written report, which was almost identical to what she had learned from several old ladies.
Taking advantage of the fact that it was just the next week, Li Yutong took these things to find her grandmother Chen Xiaoying.
Chen Xiaoying is a person who cannot sit still. Even though she has a big house close to People's Park, she only gets up early to exercise and is usually busy in several stores.
Now with the help of her eldest daughter Chen Hongping, she feels a little more relaxed.
When Li Yutong came back, Chen Xiaoying was angry. Sitting on the sofa were the second child Li Hongjian's son Li Chaochao, the third child Li Hongqiang's daughter Li Yujie, and the fourth child Li Honggang's daughter Li Yumeng.
"I spent so much money to send you to school and hired good teachers to teach you one-on-one. What are you learning?"
The report cards were horrible. Li Chaochao, who was thought to be the dumbest, turned out to be the one with the best grades. He scored over 80 in math and Chinese.
But Li Yujie and Li Yumeng drove her crazy when she saw them.
Before the New Year, there were too many messy things at home and she had no time to see how they did in the exam. Now that those things are basically over and the school happened to be holding the opening exam, she wanted to take a look at their test papers.
When I saw it, I almost died of anger.
Li Yujie failed all the exams. She felt heartbroken when she saw the 40 or 50 points on the papers.
Li Yumeng was even more outrageous. She didn't write most of the test paper at all, and the few words she wrote looked like they were just scribbled casually. It was clear from the test paper how perfunctory she was.
Chen Xiaoying got angry, but the three of them remained silent.
Li Chaochao looked at Chen Xiaoying with timid eyes and lowered his head again.
Li Yujie's eyelids fluttered, and she looked impatient.
Li Yumeng, on the other hand, looked indifferent, frowning and pouting. You can curse me, it has nothing to do with me.
Seeing the four people in front of her all looking like dead pigs that were not afraid of boiling water, Chen Xiaoying really felt that she was wronged.
She spent so much money on tutoring, but the academic performance of these three people was still a mess.
Especially Li Yujie.
"Your mother paid for your education, and you were dating a classmate there. Are you crazy?"
Li Yumeng had figured out that she was born not to like studying. She had been vacant about studying since the first grade of primary school. Yang Xiaohui didn't care about her. If she cared too much, she would yell at her, and Yang Xiaohui would find excuses for her.
"The teacher always criticized her and talked about her in front of the students. Xiaomeng was so scared that she didn't dare to go to school."
"It's because the teacher doesn't know how to teach. She should learn. Why doesn't she learn? The teacher doesn't know how to teach!"
"The teacher scared my good child into becoming ill, and I haven't even bothered to find out what happened to them yet."
Chen Xiaoying planned to put Li Yumeng aside for now and talk about Li Yujie. It was obvious that she studied hard when she was sent to school in the city in elementary school. How come she only cared about dating now that she was in junior high school?