"How long will they stay?"
"The minimum is two years. Don't worry! Money is not a problem. We have it all! As long as there's a place to stay, it's fine."
"There's a ready-made warehouse for rent in the granary. After ten new grain storages were built last year, the buildings along the north wall of the granary became vacant. We can just clean them up. But it's harder to find a place for people to live. Some residents moved into Sijitun this year, so housing is tight. My new house is vacant, but you've been living there for too long. It's fine for a month or two, but not two years."
"Where is your new house?"
"It's just outside the south wall of the granary, next to the road south of the granary. It's the second row of houses on the riverside from the front."
There is the river in front and the granary on the left. How come this seems more and more appropriate?
"Take me to see it."
"Hey! I'm getting married on October 1st."
"I know."
It’s just a marriage, I’m not asking you to get married on the street.
Li Guangyin's new house is on the first street outside the granary wall, in the second row of houses by the river.
There are four blue brick houses, but they are not newly built and you can tell they are old houses. They are probably second-hand houses.
There is a yard of about 200 square meters, with some vegetables growing in it.
The room was clean and tidy, and there was no furniture yet.
There are four rooms, three kangs and two stoves, which is a standard local configuration.
There is no problem sleeping twenty people on three kangs, and there is guaranteed to be plenty of room.
"How about this house? Can it accommodate a squad of soldiers and your other personnel?" Wan Feng asked Wang Tang and the others.
There are ten people in a class, plus Wang Jiangtang and three others, plus the cook, there are only fourteen people in total, and there are six flexible vacancies.
Wang Tang nodded: "Very good."
"Then we'll rent it."
Li Guangyin got anxious when he heard this: "Hey, hey, if you guys rent it out, where will I get married on October 1st?"
Wan Feng snapped his fingers and said, "Third brother, take out a wad of money."
Han Guangjia took out a bundle of unopened fifty-yuan bills from his pocket and slammed it into Li Guangyin's hand.
"Starting from today, I'll pay two years' rent. You can settle down at your own house for the time being when you get married. Your house is quite big, so it's definitely enough for you to get married."
Li Guangyin was petrified on the spot, holding the money in his hand at a loss.
His father bought this house for only 4,000 yuan, but now the rent for two years is 5,000 yuan?
Not only did I get my house capital back, but I also seem to have made a thousand dollars.
Li Guangyin looked back at his fiancée. Her face was flushed and her breathing was getting faster.
That expression showed that he was absolutely willing.
"Why do you think it's not enough? Then I will rent the house in front. I believe that if I give him 5,000 for two years, he will be able to move out in no more than ten days." Seeing that Li Guangyin did not express his opinion, Wan Feng asked again.
Sijitun is considered a place with fertile land in this area, with guaranteed harvests regardless of drought or flood. In 1987, a family planting 20 mu of land could only earn two to three thousand yuan.
It is unheard of here for Wan Feng to rent a house for 2,500 yuan a year. This amount is enough to equal their income in the first year of a good harvest year.
"I'm not complaining about it being too little, it's just that your move is a bit scary."
Using money to attack people is something Wan Feng likes to do very much recently.
It’s really cool!
"Go back and discuss it with your father. Let me know when I visit your house tonight."
"well!"
"There's a vacant warehouse at the granary. Take us there to see if we can rent it."
"I'll take you there right away."
"Can you come in?"
The grain warehouse is a strategic location in rural areas and no one is allowed to enter.
"If they dare not let me in, follow me. We will go in through the dock."
Li Guangyin led Wan Feng and his men as they swaggered along the dock into the granary, and as expected, no one paid any attention to them.
There are many people working in the granary, both men and women.
Men used conveyor belts to transfer grain out of the granary, packed it into sacks, and transported it to the riverside and loaded it onto boats.
The women helped pass the sacks, sweep up the grain pulled down from the conveyor belt, and mend the sacks.
Wan Feng took an unintentional glance and slowed down his pace.
"You guys go check it out first, I see someone I know."
When Li Guangyin took them to the row of houses against the wall on the north side of the granary, Wan Feng came to a woman wearing a white headscarf who was mending a sack.
"Beauty! How dare we do this kind of work? Isn't this a waste of materials?"
The woman turned around and saw Wan Feng. After being stunned for two seconds, she showed a surprised expression: "Wan Feng! Why are you here?"
"I came here to do something and saw you."
"I haven't seen you in over a year. Didn't your family move back to Beiliao?"
Wan Feng nodded: "It's been a year since I moved back. Did you cry when I moved out?"
Zang Yunli was at a loss for words: "I wanted to cry, but no one was watching me so I didn't cry."
"Haha, you're still so cheerful. Are you married?"
People in Heilongjiang still generally get married very early, and both men and women basically get married when they are 20 years old.
"Not yet?"
"What does your boyfriend do?"
"I don't have a boyfriend yet."
"Hey, old classmate, can you please be open with me when we talk? Why are you telling so many lies?"
Zang Yunli almost fell to the ground laughing. "You were born a bad guy. You haven't changed at all. You're still the same. What do you mean by opening your chest? That's called opening your heart, okay?"
"Isn't it different?"
“Not even close!”
The distances are about the same.
"I remember we are the same age. It's impossible for us to be single at 20, right?"
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