Chapter 55: Living in Peace
Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren didn't look like they hadn't slept all night. They got up early in the morning, washed up, and looked at their watches. It was not yet six o'clock.
Wang Xiuren was so excited that he couldn't sit still and mopped the house clean. After Lin Qiu dealt with Wang Shan, the two of them rushed to the newsstand in high spirits.
When Lin Ping arrived, Wang Xiuren had just returned from sending Wang Shan back, and Lin Qiu had just made an appointment with Ms. Sun to meet in front of the Housing Management Bureau at 10 o'clock this morning.
This time, Lin Qiu didn't give Lin Ping any instructions. He just said, "You watch carefully!" and left without looking back.
Lin Ping smiled and shook his head. If someone didn't know, they would think there was a dog chasing her from behind.
At ten o'clock, Ms. Sun showed up at the door of the Housing Authority on time, which made Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren, who had been waiting for more than ten minutes, finally feel relieved.
During the ten minutes or so of waiting for Ms. Sun, Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren could be said to have felt every second as if it were an eternity. Although I know that Ms. Sun is not the kind of person who goes back on her word, I am still worried that something might go wrong.
These days, the procedure for buying a house is relatively simple. As long as the buyer and seller present their ID cards, the names on the property certificate can be changed.
Wang Xiuren and his wife got their certificate, and Ms. Sun got the money. There was no need for either party to bargain anymore, and the procedures were completed quickly. It can be said that everyone was happy.
Seeing that Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren were written side by side as the property owners on the property certificate, with the Housing Authority's seal on it, the two should have been ecstatic, but instead they both showed an expression of disbelief. It all happened so smoothly that they were afraid they would find out it was just a dream the next second.
"Congratulations!" Ms. Sun smiled and shook hands with Lin Qiu. "All my personal belongings have been moved out. The rest are all left to you to deal with."
"Thanks to you!" Lin Qiu held Ms. Sun's soft hand. Only then did he feel real that he and Wang Xiuren had really bought a house in Pengcheng.
"That's okay. I'll leave first! I wish you good luck!" Ms. Sun got into a taxi with a cloth bag containing 60,000 yuan in it.
The couple who stayed behind stared at the property certificate in their hands like two fools.
"Let's go back!" Lin Qiu recovered first. "Pingping only took half a day off. She has to go back to work soon!"
"I have to hurry back too. I can still do half a day's work!"
Wang Xiuren also remembered that he had only taken half a day off, so he pulled Lin Qiu and quickly rushed to the bus stop.
After the smooth handover with Lin Ping, Lin Ping and Wang Xiuren went to work. Lin Qiu continued to stay in the newsstand, but he laughed foolishly from time to time. Fortunately, no one saw it, otherwise people would have mistaken it for a serious illness.
When they got home in the evening, the two decided to celebrate properly.
Wang Xiuren felt the money in his pocket, thought for a while and decided to buy a little bit of everything from several stalls.
There were pancakes, grilled meat skewers, fried noodles, rice rolls, and a large bottle of Coke. They were filled to the brim on the small dining table, and it looked quite sumptuous.
Wang Shan was most excited when she saw the Coke. She picked up the cup and shouted to Wang Xiuren, "Dad, hurry up! Hurry up! I want to drink Coke!"
"Don't worry, Dad will pour it for you right away!"
After saying that, Wang Xiuren first poured half a cup for his daughter, then filled Lin Qiu's cup, and finally poured himself a cup.
"Come on, let's have a toast to celebrate the addition of a new business to our family!"
Wang Shan was the first to respond to her father's suggestion. She picked up her cup and clinked it against her father's cup, shouting "Cheers!"
Lin Qiu also smiled and raised her glass to clink with her husband and daughter, "Cheers!"
The family of three happily enjoyed the satisfaction and excitement brought by buying a house, and their happy laughter seemed to break through the roof.
After eating and drinking, Wang Xiuren lay on the sofa, took out the remaining money from his pocket and put it on the coffee table, "There are only 103.80 yuan left."
Lin Qiu didn't even bother to check his pockets and counted the change in his pockets. "I still have eighty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents!"
This meant that the total money of the two of them was less than two hundred yuan. Fortunately, Ms. Sun left all the furniture, home appliances and other items to them.
Wang Xiuren sighed, "After buying a house, I'm penniless. I have to pay off my debts with my salary. I'm counting on you to pay for the family expenses!"
"It's okay, take your time!" Lin Qiu has a house and is not worried about anything. He is very optimistic. "The newsstand can make a lot of money every month. By the end of this year, we can pay off our debts. Maybe we will have some money left over for the New Year!"
Wang Xiuren was a little sad at first, but after hearing what Lin Qiu said, he felt that everything he did had meaning.
"We finally have our own home in Pengcheng. We don't have to worry about Shanshan's studies anymore!" Lin Qiu looked at his daughter with a satisfied smile on his face.
"Yes, life will get better and better!" Wang Xiuren felt soft in his heart as he looked at his gentle and capable wife and his innocent and lovely daughter.
April 18, 1993 in the Gregorian calendar and March 27 in the lunar calendar was a good day to move, so at the suggestion of the landlord, Wang Xiuren and Lin Qiu decided to move on that day.
Moving is just two words, but it is not easy to do.
On this day, Wang Xiuren and Lin Qiu got up early in the morning to pack their things.
They were afraid of disturbing the neighbors, so they did everything very carefully. Finally, they packed up everything in the house before dawn and cleaned the rental house.
This is just the first step. Looking at the living room full of luggage, Lin Qiu couldn't help but feel fortunate. He thought that it was a good thing that the rental house was on the third floor. If it was on the sixth or eighth floor, it would be too difficult to move all these miscellaneous things away.
The house we bought is on the eighth floor, and it is easy to move up because Jinxiu Garden has an elevator.
"Sister, I'm not late, am I?"
Lin Ping ran up panting, his bangs on his forehead were wet with sweat and stuck together in clumps.
"Why are you here so early?" Lin Qiu quickly poured a glass of water for his sister.
Lin Ping drank a glass of water and calmed down. "I talked to the aunt who opened the door and asked her to open the door earlier today."
"What time will the tricycle arrive?" Lin Qiu asked Wang Xiuren.
Wang Xiuren looked at his watch and said, "There's still half an hour left. I'll move the things down first!"
Lin Ping rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll move the small ones!"
But when we got downstairs, Wang Xiuren asked us to watch over the luggage. After all, the rental house was located in an urban village, and the tenants came from all over the world, a mixed crowd, and there were always a few people with shady hands and feet.
Neighbors in the alley came and went, and when they saw Lin Ping standing downstairs with a pile of luggage at his feet, someone soon asked, "Are you moving here or moving away?"
Lin Ping didn't recognize the person, so he just smiled and said nothing.
"What's there to hide?" an aunt interrupted.
Lin Qiu just happened to lead Wang Shan downstairs and replied with a smile: "We are moving out!"
In fact, Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren, who were supposed to be notified, had already made arrangements. Most of those who came to watch the fun were people who had met them a few times or even never said hello.
Lin Qiu smiled and said a few words to send the person away. She pushed Wang Shan towards Lin Ping and said, "Go play with your aunt!"
Wang Shan and Lin Ping were already very close, and they stuck together whenever they met. When she saw her aunt, she immediately ran over to her and called out sweetly, "Aunt, I missed you so much!"
Lin Ping was quickly captivated by this voice that sounded like honey, and he began to spin around while hugging his niece who rushed over.
Soon there was laughter.
The tricycle arrived on time. The driver stuffed the luggage into the bed quickly, and then Wang Xiuren followed the car to deliver the luggage.
Lin Qiu, Wang Shan and Lin Ping were guarding the remaining luggage while waiting for the tricycle to come again.
Soon, the luggage and people were taken to Jinxiu Garden by tricycles.
After setting off a string of firecrackers, Lin Qiu and Wang Xiuren were busy tidying up things, while Lin Ping took Wang Shan to visit around the house.
"Ah, there's a color TV!"
“This sofa is so soft!”
“The fluffy carpet is so comfortable to walk on!”
"Sister, your room is so beautiful, and there's a balcony in the room!"
"Shanshan, there is a giant panda doll in your room!"
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Lin Ping would exclaim wherever he went, and Wang Shan would scream as well. The whole house would be filled with the loud voices of the aunt and nephew.
Hearing her sister and daughter screaming, Lin Qiu did not stop them. When she and Wang Xiuren came in to clean the place, other than screaming, her other reactions were no different from Lin Ping's.
Ms. Sun is really a good person. She basically left all her things to Lin Qiu's family, so Lin Qiu did not make any changes to the house. He just did a simple cleaning before moving in.
The things were quickly put away in categories, and Wang Xiuren and Lin Qiu finally had some free time to lie on the sofa and turn on the TV.
Lin Ping and Wang Shan also calmed down. Lin Ping sat in a rocking chair, feeling the wind blowing in from the window, while Wang Shan rolled around barefoot on the carpet, hugging a panda as tall as her.
Lin Qiu looked around: the sun shone through the window onto the balcony, the wind blew the flowers blooming on the flower stand gently swaying, and the family sat together warmly in the house, watching TV and chatting, sharing the joy of moving.
Four words appeared in her mind:
The years are quiet and good.
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