Chapter 94 Chapter 94 Five Dollars for Ten Songs
There was a dull bang, and Zhao Ruyue stood there and waved to the driver in the car: "Thank you, Sister Guan. Please drive safely on your way back."
Guan Xiu in the car also waved: "Okay, take Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia back to the house."
After watching the car drive away.
Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia ran into the house with their schoolbags on their backs: "Dad, we're back!"
During this period, when Zhao Ruyue did not go to the county town early to look at houses, her two children would follow her to the county town.
They took their homework and went to school with Zhao Ruyue, under the pretext of "sending mom to school".
There were people who brought their children to night school like Zhao Ruyue, but there were fewer women in the maintenance class, and there were only three in total including her. She was the only one who brought her child. There were more students in the accounting and nursing classes next door.
Taking the two children with her is not without its benefits. In the beginning, when she didn't take them with her, there were always men who came to talk to her, saying that they were all classmates and they should get to know each other, and that they could build connections in the future.
After Zhao Ruyue took the two children there once, no one came to chat with her anymore.
Every now and then they would go to their friends' homes in the county town to do homework and play together. In the evening, Zhao Ruyue would pick them up after class.
Leaving your child at someone else's home, even if he or she is relatively obedient and sensible, it is still a hassle to take care of the child.
Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming felt bad, so Ning Shaoming would always cook something delicious in different ways and let the two children take it to share with their friends.
As a result, the parents of the two children's friends not only didn't mind them going, but were actually looking forward to it.
It’s not because of what they bring, but because what they bring is different every day, which makes people can’t help but guess what they will bring next time they come, just like an interesting little game.
Ning Shaoming stuck his head out of the window of the main room: "Why are you so late today?"
Ning Shixia rushed into the room and looked up at the clock hanging on the wall: "It's only fifteen minutes late."
After saying that, he buried his head and gulped down the water, not bothering to talk anymore.
"It's almost ten o'clock," Ning Shaoming knew that he couldn't get anything out of the two kids, so he changed the subject, "Which of you two is going to take a shower first?"
Ning Shiqiu raised his hand: "The weather is getting hotter and hotter, the car is too stuffy, and it's really uncomfortable to feel sticky all over."
"Why don't you open the windows in the car? When the car moves with the windows open, there should be wind and it should be cooler," Ning Shaoming said as he turned and went into the house to get soap for his son.
Ning Shiqiu held a glass of iced mint water handed to him by Ning Shaoming and explained, "We dare not open the windows too wide in the car, otherwise the light from the car will attract small flies to fly into the car. We can only open a few gaps to let in some air."
Ning Shaoming came out of the room with a bar of soap and gave it to him: "You only have a little soap left. I'll get you a new one. You can stick the almost used soap on the new one, otherwise it will be difficult to take it out when you take a shower."
"Okay." Ning Shiqiu finished drinking the mint water, unpacked the soap, and went to take a shower.
Ning Shixia disassembled the soap box into a whole piece of paper shell, and then folded it up neatly.
When Zhao Ruyue came in and saw him, she smiled and asked, "Are you helping your grandfather collect paper shells again?"
"Yes, Grandpa said that empty toothpaste tubes can also be sold for money. Don't throw away the toothpaste at mom's house when you're done. I'll wash them and collect them for Grandpa to sell for money."
Zhao Ruyue agreed with a smile, picked up the mint water on the table that was obviously prepared for her and took a sip.
He said to Ning Shao who was sitting next to him, "I recently asked Sister Guan to take me around the county town. I saw a place with a row of small bungalows and was negotiating with them about the house. I was delayed today and came back a little late."
"Small bungalow?" Ning Shaoming thought it sounded familiar. "Is it the one you mentioned before, that a row of houses all belonged to the same family? You also said that the location of that row of houses was good, but it was a pity that the family didn't want to sell them separately. Otherwise, it would be nice to buy three bungalows, clean up the back, and use them as living quarters or as warehouses."
“Yes, that’s the one. When Ruyu and I passed by, she said that the family had said before that the house would not be sold individually, so I didn’t put that row of small bungalows in the list of options.
I couldn't find a suitable shop recently. I passed by there again today and saw that the phone numbers hanging on the doors of the houses in that row were not the same. I thought that the family might have split up and given the houses to their children, so my previous idea might come true, so I called and asked. ”
"What's the result?" Ning Shaoming asked.
Zhao Ruyue: "Two calls went through, and I asked them to meet up right away. The two people who came were really brothers."
"It looks like they really have split up the family," Ning Shaoming guessed, "Before, that family wanted to sell the entire row, probably thinking that it would be more fair to divide the money after the sale. In the end, they couldn't sell it, so someone got anxious and just divided up the houses directly."
Zhao Ruyue said, "I can't ask directly what the inside story is, but buying a house is not something that can be decided in a day or two. I will go to Ruyu another day to see if she is busy. If she is not too busy, I will ask her to help find out. The row of houses is not far from her home, so I should be able to find out."
Zhao Ruyue thought that the family must be very anxious to sell the house and get the money.
When dividing the family property, if the parents have enough money, they can give more cash compensation to those who get less house, so as to make it as fair as possible, instead of insisting on selling the house before dividing the property.
It is probably because there is not enough money to go around, or the children all want money and not the house, so they are thinking of selling the row of houses at once and then dividing the money.
Now they no longer insist on selling the house first and then dividing the money, but just divide the house directly. Maybe the division is not fair enough. Maybe they have discussed with each other that those who get more houses will sell their houses for money and then give more to those who get fewer houses.
No matter what the family's true situation was, from Zhao Ruyue's observation, they seemed to be in a hurry to exchange the house for money.
"The two brothers each have two houses, both of which are the same size. The houses are about 50 to 60 square meters. There is a shop in the front and a kitchen and a small room in the back. There is no patio. The houses are relatively old. The asking price for one is 35,000 yuan."
Ning Shaoming felt that the price was actually acceptable, and it was just a new offer, so there should be room for further negotiation.
"What was their attitude like when you talked to them? Could it be any less?"
Zhao Ruyue said: "If we can buy both houses from one of them at once, and the owner is willing to lower the price a little bit, I think it should be no problem to negotiate the price down to around 65,000 for both houses.
But it would be a bit troublesome if we only need three rooms. The other owner might not agree to sell them separately. If we take all four rooms, it would exceed our budget by a lot. We don’t have enough money. This kind of house is not a commercial property, so it seems difficult to buy it with a loan. ”
"I'll go with you some other day, and then ask the owner to come out and talk."
Zhao Ruyue glanced at the calendar.
"The two landlords said they both work in public institutions in the county and are only free on Saturdays and Sundays. Is it okay for me to make an appointment with them on Saturday afternoon this week?"
"Okay, today is only Wednesday, and we still have Thursday and Friday. We can ask someone for information about the house and learn more about it so that we can negotiate the price."
As they were talking, Ning Shiqiu had already finished his shower and came out. Ning Shixia also put on her pajamas and pulled Zhao Ruyue to take her to take a shower.
The family members took turns taking a bath and then went to bed.
Zhao Ruyue took the time to call the two homeowners and made an appointment to go with her husband on Saturday to discuss the house.
From then on, in addition to being busy with store affairs and classes every day, I also had to inquire about news about the house.
She not only asked her cousin Zhao Ruyu to help inquire, but also asked several female classmates who lived in the county town and whom she had become familiar with at night school.
The town’s junior high school was on holiday on Friday. After Ning Danping came back, she washed her face and hands, put on an apron and started helping out in the store.
During this period, most of the people who came to the store to buy things were junior high school students. She felt embarrassed at first and mostly helped wash vegetables and dishes in the yard and the kitchen.
Later, when her classmates found out that it was her uncle and aunt's shop, they were particularly envious of her for having such relatives.
He also asked her, "When you go to help out at your uncle and aunt's store, can you eat whatever you want?"
Ning Danping thought about it and realized that it was true. It seemed that her third uncle and third aunt had never told them not to eat something that was selling well.
Whatever is available in the store, you can eat it as long as you don’t waste it and don’t eat it to the point of being full and feeling like vomiting.
Because she eats well recently, she has grown several centimeters taller.
The clothes and pants that used to fit me well are now a little too short and tight, but I just don’t have the money to change them.
I buy a pair of shoes every year, so I always buy a size bigger. Now they fit me perfectly.
Her family is in this situation now, and she doesn't dare ask her mother for money to buy clothes and pants, so she can only make do with what she has.
There are more customers on Friday afternoons, and the store is usually busy until nearly seven o'clock before closing for dinner.
Zhao Ruyue still had to go to class, so she could only pack her dinner in a lunch box and eat it in the car.
She packed her books, notebooks, pens and lunch box, put on her bag and went out.
When I walked to the door, I suddenly remembered that I had not given Ning Danping the MP3 that Fan Xiaorong bought for me.
She went to the post office to pick up the package on a weekday and had left it at home, planning to wait for Ning Danping to come back from vacation and then let her open it herself.
"Sister Guan, I suddenly remembered something. Please wait a moment!"
Guan Xiu waved her hand: "Go ahead, I'm not in a hurry." At this time, the only passengers were Zhao Ruyue and her two children.
Zhao Ruyue trotted back to her room, opened the bottom drawer of the cabinet, took out the package and handed it to Ning Danping: "This is the MP3 my friend bought for you. He told me a few days ago, and I almost forgot to give it to you. Open it and check it yourself. If there is any problem, tell me when I come back in the evening."
"Thank you, Aunt San. Next time you call your friend, please tell her thank you for me!" Ning Danping was so happy that she almost jumped up when she received the package.
"Okay." Zhao Ruyue gave her the package and ran out.
After Ning Danping opened the package, she suddenly remembered something and ran after him.
Zhao Ruyue had already gotten into the car. When she saw her running out, she thought there was something wrong with the MP3 player: "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the MP3 player or..."
"No, no," Ning Danping waved her hands quickly.
Then she folded the MP3 player she had just taken out and looked at, a piece of paper with two lines of words written on it, and ten yuan, put them back into the package, and handed it to Zhao Ruyue.
She said to Zhao Ruyue a little embarrassedly: "Aunt San, when you go to the county town, can you help me go to Xinhua Bookstore and ask the people there to download some songs for me?
I have written the song titles on that piece of paper. Just give the MP3 and the paper to the people there. You can download the MP3 and then pick it up. You don't have to wait there. ”
Zhao Ruyue was still a little confused when she received the package. After the car drove for a while, she came to her senses and chatted with Guan Xiu: "Is this how you download songs now?"
Maybe it's because in her previous life, her own children were still young at this time, so she didn't pay much attention to the things that teenagers like today.
When I came to my senses, mobile phones were already everywhere. I didn't need to download songs, I just needed to download music apps. There was no membership required, and I could listen to songs freely.
However, the songs written by Ning Danping, such as "Lonely Northern Hemisphere", "Lilac", "Gardenia Blossoms", "Invisible Wings", "Happy Worship", "Two Butterflies", "Mouse Loves Rice"... these also looked very familiar to her.
It turns out that these songs have appeared now. She thought they were popular in the years before and after the 2008 Olympics.
Guan Xiu looked straight ahead and nodded with a smile: "Yes, my brother's child is in the same class as your Danping. He also complained to his parents about buying him an MP3 player saying that he could learn English, but in the end he only knows a few words like hello, yes, no, and goodbye. He usually uses the MP3 player to listen to pop songs."
Zhao Ruyue couldn't help laughing after hearing this and said, "Young people are like this."
"I listened to that kid once, and his songs were either extremely noisy or sung indistinctly, with a lot of gibberish, and I had no idea what he was singing about.
But I heard from my sister-in-law that my nephew did not go to Xinhua Bookstore to download songs. It was said that it cost five yuan for one download and he could only download ten songs. The boy said that he might as well buy something delicious with the money.
So every Friday afternoon when he has a day off, he would go to your house to eat a bowl of fried rice noodles, buy two cup cakes and a Dorayaki, and then take a bus to my eldest sister's house in the county town. Don't you give a Dorayaki for every purchase of two cup cakes in your house? So when he got there, he would give my eldest sister's son a cup cake and a Dorayaki each.
The two cousins were playing with the computer while eating, and they even downloaded songs by themselves. They said they could download as many songs as they wanted without spending a penny.
But we adults didn't know how to do it, only the kids knew those things. He stayed at my eldest sister's house on Saturday and went home on Sunday morning. ”
Zhao Ruyue was surprised and asked, "Your eldest sister's family actually bought a computer? Computers are not cheap nowadays."
Their county town is really backward. She hasn't even seen an Internet cafe in the county town. There is one in Pengcheng, but she heard that it is a bit messy. She has never been there before, so she doesn't know if it is true.
"Yes, it seems that a computer is more expensive than an LCD TV. But my eldest sister married well and her husband's family is well-off. When the child asked for a computer, they bought it for her." Guan Xiu said this, and she couldn't help feeling a little sad when she thought of her husband's family.
But it's not jealousy. Her elder sister also helped her buy the car, and it was her elder sister who gave her the idea of driving to make money.
When she first started driving, her income was not very good, but gradually she had repeat customers and Zhao Ruyue as a regular passenger. Now her life is getting better and she cannot thank her sister enough.
Zhao Ruyue couldn't help but sigh as she listened: "The gap between the rich and the poor is really huge nowadays."
In big cities, there may already be tall buildings, PHS phones ringing everywhere, and fashionable young people who are already skilled in surfing the Internet.
Their small county town is still gray, as if it is still in the 1990s.
Apart from the computers in the computer classrooms at school, there are probably only a hundred households in the entire county that have computers installed.
Of course, it is also possible that the people she interacts with are of too low a class. After all, there is no shortage of rich people even in the poorest places.
As Zhao Ruyue thought about it, she suddenly felt a sense of urgency in her heart.
But... she pinched the professional textbooks in her backpack. This time, she didn't have a floating feeling as when she was still in Pengcheng and was taken to the factory by the landlord.
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