Chapter 58 Chapter 58 It’s your birthday today, and he bought you…
Today, the per capita housing area of urban residents is less than five square meters. Every household has a house that is not enough for self-use, let alone for renting, selling,
It is rare for someone like Old Man Sun, who is extremely greedy for money and has only a few family members, to be willing to rent out his house.
Few, but we can't say there are none at all.
Chen Xiangyang returned happily, "Grandpa Sun said the rent is ten yuan a month. Although it's a bit expensive, the environment is much better than where I live now. There's no smell of stinky feet or snoring or farting. There's a bus stop right at the door, so it's convenient to go anywhere."
Jiang Ling asked him, "When are you going to move in? Do you want us to help you move?"
"No need for help. I only have two worn-out clothes and a set of bedding." Chen Xiangyang replied, "But we may have to wait until the end of November to move. I just paid the rent for next month. The landlady is very nice to me, and I can't ask her for the rent back. If I move in like this, more than a month's rent will be wasted. I have agreed with Grandpa Sun that we will start renting the house from the end of November."
"Okay, if there's anything you can do for us, just tell us. Don't hesitate."
Chen Xiangyang chuckled twice, "That's for sure."
Thinking that we will be living together soon, I feel motivated to go home.
Jiang Ling was sitting on the kang, drying her hair, when Song Guanshu suddenly asked her, "How about renting or buying a house in the staff quarters of the daily chemical factory?"
Jiang Ling didn't understand why he suddenly thought of this, "We are living well now, why do we want to change houses?"
"Living in the staff dormitory of the daily chemical factory will make it more convenient for you to go to and from get off work. I can't go to and from get off work with you because it's not safe for a woman like you to go alone on the road," he said.
"It's not that chaotic outside, so there's no need to make so much trouble." Jiang Ling felt that this was really unnecessary. The steel plant's staff quarters were indeed far away from the daily chemical factory, and the commuting time was long. "I don't like living in a tube-shaped building. The sound insulation is poor and I can hear the neighbors quarreling. Besides, the rooms in the staff housing of the daily chemical factory are very small."
She had only lived in the Jiang family for a few days, and probably didn't like the Jiang family, so she also didn't like the family building in her memory.
"If I move there, I'll have to be neighbors with my parents. I'll see them every day, and I don't want that."
It turns out that she hates the staff housing so much. Song Guanshu smiled and said, "Okay, then we won't move to the staff housing of the daily chemical factory."
Jiang Ling couldn't help but roll her eyes at him. "You can't just move if you want to. The family compound of the daily chemical factory is usually two or three generations squeezed into a small house of 20 to 30 square meters. It's not enough for one's own family, so how can it be rented out or sold to others?"
Jiang Ling thought Song Guanshu was just talking and didn't take the matter seriously.
She went to get off work and came home as usual. One day in early November, after get off work, Song Guanshu suddenly told her that he wanted to move.
Jiang Ling was shocked. Why did they have to move out of the blue?
Later I heard that they moved to Aunt Fang's house, which is only two steps away from where they live now.
It's not like I have to move to a new environment. Most of the neighbors are old ones, so I don't need to re-establish interpersonal relationships, which is good.
However, Jiang Ling couldn't understand why they had to move.
The biggest trouble in this yard, Old Lady Liu, has left, and the environment is so harmonious.
Song Guanshu's answer was, "Winter is coming soon, and the wing room is not as warm as the main room. I rented this wing room because there were no other houses around. Now that there are, it is more convenient to live in a separate courtyard."
This is true. There are other people living in the yard, which makes life very inconvenient.
"But there's no need to rush to move. We need to clean and ventilate the new house. Aunt Fang's house hasn't been occupied for a few months, so there should be a layer of dust. Let's go clean it up in the next few days and then move in."
Song Guanshu said softly, "I have been idle at home these days, so I cleaned the new house."
It turned out that this person had already started preparing to move, and only notified her today.
There were not many things belonging to two people in this house, just clothes, bedding, and some pots and pans, which Song Guanshu had packed long ago.
If Song Guanshu hadn't been afraid of letting Jiang Ling return home to an empty house, he would have moved all his things there.
Now that he had done everything, Jiang Ling picked up the package of clothes and said, "Let's go."
After all, it was a place where she had lived for more than a year, and she was a little reluctant to leave so suddenly.
The couple went out with their luggage, which attracted a lot of attention. Old Lady Liu, who was sitting at the back door, couldn't help but sneer and say, "Oh, you can't afford the rent after being laid off, so you have to sleep on the street."
Jiang Ling went to and from get off work alone for a period of time. The neighbors all knew that Song Guanshu was laid off from the factory and was now unemployed at home.
How I envied young working couples in the past, but now I feel so happy about their misfortune.
Old Lady Liu was the one who gossiped the most behind their families' backs. At the beginning, the two families lived next door to each other, and the couple across the street ate meat every day, which made their family envious. It was not just envy, but also jealousy.
Now Song Guanshu, the one who could earn money in their family, is unemployed, and Jiang Ling is the only one who still has a job. I heard that the daily chemical factory has not paid wages for a long time.
How could she not feel happy?
There are many neighbors who share the same idea as Old Lady Liu, but at most they just say a few sarcastic words behind her back. There are only a few people like her who say bad things to people’s faces.
Jiang Ling thought that this old lady was really annoying. Even though they didn't live in the same yard, she was still annoying.
"Aunt Liu, you should take care of your own family affairs. Has your grandson gotten over his habit of pushing pregnant women?"
The eldest grandson harmed the unborn younger grandson, which was a pain in Old Lady Liu's heart, but she couldn't blame him for the unborn child.
Also because of this bad habit that Liu Lei contracted at some unknown time, people living nearby with pregnant women no longer associate with their family.
After all, Liu Lei’s record of one kill is verifiable, and he even tried to push past the pregnant old lady Fang.
Jiang Ling was at work at the time and didn't know anything, but the neighbors heard it all. Liu Lei wanted to push Old Lady Fang, but she was used to doing housework and was in good health, so she was not pushed down immediately. This scene happened to be seen by Old Man Sun.
As long as it doesn't involve money, Old Man Sun is a kind old man.
He almost went crazy that day, and slapped Liu Lei in the face wildly. He also threw Old Lady Liu, who came forward to stop the fight, to the ground with a big fight. The fight was not over until he went to the factory to call Section Chief Liu and a few young men from the security department, who pulled Old Man Sun away.
Liu Lei didn't go to school for half a month. When he went to school half a month later, the marks of being beaten had not completely disappeared.
Because his incident had such a bad impact, even the teachers at school had heard about it.
There was a math teacher in their school who had just gotten pregnant. Her family was very concerned and were afraid that he would deliberately push her down, so they asked for a six-month leave of absence.
Jiang Ling heard all these things from her sister-in-law Juxiang, whose child also studied in the primary school attached to the steel plant.
Jiang Ling feels that although the lack of family education in the Liu family has caused Liu Lei to have big problems, social education can make up for the shortcomings of his family education.
The slaps Old Man Sun gave him were enough to teach him a lesson.
The next time he dares to do something bad, the first thing he will think of will be the slaps given to him by old man Sun.
The things in the house had been sorted out by Song Guanshu, and the two of them moved twice to complete the move.
It was only then that the neighbors realized that the young couple was not going to sleep on the main street, but had moved to Old Lady Fang's original house.
After Mrs. Fang and Old Man Sun got married, she moved to Old Man Sun's house and the Fang family's house became empty.
The three married daughters of the Fang family all had their eyes on this house, but they never expected that it would be given to people outside the steel plant to live in.
In fact, some children of factory workers had small houses at home, so they came to Grandma Fang to borrow her house.
Old Man Sun is such a shrewd old man, no one can take advantage of him.
When he heard that these people wanted to stay at his house without paying a penny, he picked up a broom and chased them out.
"In fact, you should be a cleaner." Jiang Ling couldn't help but praise, "Look how bright this room is."
The curtains have been hung on the windows, and I don't know when he did so much work.
"Thank you for your appreciation, boss. Are you satisfied with this house?"
"I'm very satisfied." Jiang Ling took out a dime from her pocket and gave it to him. "Spend it sparingly. Use it to buy three meat dishes to celebrate the move. Don't waste the rest of the money. Buy yourself a new set of clothes and a new pair of shoes."
Song Guanshu carefully folded the dime again and again and said, "OK."
He had already prepared a warm pot meal for the move, and potatoes and beef brisket were stewed in an iron pot. During the time they were moving, the beef brisket was bubbling in the pot and was stewed until it was soft.
Because Jiang Ling loved eating tomatoes and was afraid that she would not be able to eat them after the weather got cold, Song Guanshu bought a basket of tomatoes at the end of August, boiled them in a pot to make tomato sauce, and sealed them in cans so that she could eat them even in the winter.
The potatoes have been stewed and mixed into the tomato soup. Jiang Ling can finish two bowls of rice with this soup.
All the belongings were moved to the new house, and the box containing the money was naturally brought along.
Jiang Ling also counted the money she had saved during this period. Her salary was not much, not as much as she earned from doing good deeds and being brave to help others.
Her salary was not much to begin with, so she gave Jiang Liwu more than ten yuan, and gave another ten yuan for Jiang Lian's child's medical treatment.
Now that the weather is getting colder, Jiang Ling bought herself two sets of clothes for autumn and winter. Adding the money she usually spends, the money she has saved is very limited.
The money that Song Guanshu entrusted her to keep was placed aside. Jiang Ling counted the money and put it all in front of Song Guanshu.
"Not a cent less, I will return it in full."
There was a hint of helplessness in his beautiful eyes, "Why, are you going to separate from me?"
What does this have to do with anything?
Jiang Ling said with a smile, "It's not that the investment ratio of cooperating with Li Gui to set up a factory affects the original shareholding. You can take them all and take more."
Song Guanshu breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that he didn't have to return the money to him.
He said, "I still have some money from the last time I sold the formula."
He didn't hide this.
"How much money can there be? You take all this money, even though it's not much."
Song Guanshu gestured a number to her, indicating the profit from selling the recipe.
Jiang Ling was a little surprised. It was indeed a lot of money. No wonder Chen Xiangyang had been spending so lavishly during that period.
That's a huge sum of money for daily expenses.
However, when it comes to doing business, this money is not enough.
Jiang Ling didn't have much money herself, let alone be able to provide him with help.
Jiang Ling asked: "How about borrowing some money from the bank? Would the bank be willing to lend it to you?"
Song Guanshu smiled and said, "People with little money have their own ways of dealing with it. I heard on the radio that if you use your brain too much at night, your hair won't grow."
Jiang Ling glared at him. She was thinking about the problem for him, but this man was cursing her.
"Which radio would say that using your brain at night won't make your hair grow?" Jiang Ling asked, "Is it the radio that Chen Xiangyang bought for twenty yuan?"
Jiang Ling asked him to invest all his money, but he said, "If I invest all my family's money in the factory, I will get a larger share of the profits, but if the factory doesn't go well, all my family's money will be lost."
Jiang Ling couldn't help but tug at his face, "Are you Song Guanshu?"
"It's absolutely genuine." His face was held by Jiang Ling, and there was a hint of humor in his words.
It’s really strange that Song Guanshu would actually worry about the future and consider what would happen if he lost all his money.
"Have confidence in yourself, Comrade Song Guanshu. The greater the risk, the higher the return. How can you be so afraid of everything? I am still waiting for you to make a lot of money so that I can enjoy the taste of luxury."
Jiang Ling likes to take a gamble when doing things. She is a generous person and thinks that even if she loses all her money, she can still make it back. As long as she has the ability, she will never be short of money.
Even if Song Guanshu fails this time, with his intelligence and professional level, he can make back the money quickly no matter what he does.
"Okay." He responded and took out some of the money, but didn't take it all.
"The rest will be kept for household expenses during this period."
Li Gui was in charge of all the related chores such as contacting the state-owned factory and finding a venue. Jiang Ling couldn't understand what Song Guanshu was mumbling at home.
However, Jiang Ling also has some suggestions. "The new factory is not well-known, so you can produce some trial packs at the same time. After customers try them, they will find that your products are no worse than those of state-owned factories, and are even more cost-effective, so they will be willing to buy them."
"Okay, I'll tell Li Gui."
Although she didn't do any work on the move, Jiang Ling talked with Song Guanshu about the development of the factory until midnight, and she was almost late for work the next day.
When she entered the office, Corey's colleagues were gathered together reading the newspaper.
Everyone was watching so intently that no one even noticed her entering the room.
The work bell rang for a long time, but they had not returned to their seats yet and were still standing around Old Tang's desk.
After everyone finished reading the newspaper, Jiang Ling couldn't help but ask, "What are you reading? Is there any new policy in the newspaper?"
"No, haven't you read the Friday story-telling section of the North City Evening News?" Lu Jianjun's voice was filled with disbelief, as if she had made a huge mistake by not having read it.
Jiang Ling's eyes flickered. "What happened to the Friday story time?"
"It's very interesting. It's about what happened in the steel plant's staff quarters where you live last Friday. Our female police officer from North City identified the murderer based on the description in the newspaper."
Lu Jianjun commented, "It's a pity that the protagonist is a woman."
The older women in the office couldn't bear to hear this, "What's wrong with being a woman? You weren't born by a woman? Your mother isn't a woman?"
Old Tang said, "Xiao Jiang, I've finished reading this story. You can take a look at it too. This episode is even better. It tells a story about a dismembered body. It's thrilling and very good. It's no worse than the Hong Kong and Taiwan novels you read all day."
She shook her head. “No thanks.”
However, Section Chief Tang was very enthusiastic and insisted on giving it to Jiang Ling.
Jiang Ling only glanced at the title, then looked at the contents of other pages in the evening paper, listening to her colleagues praising the female police officer Yueliang for her courage and strategy.
The sales volume of Beicheng Evening News is not as high as that of Beicheng Morning News, and it has been lukewarm for many years.
The editor-in-chief of the newspaper originally wanted to do her acquaintance a favor by asking her friend to open a small column on the back cover of the Friday newspaper. Unexpectedly, the sales of the Friday evening paper were slightly higher than those of the other six days.
Although the effect is not particularly obvious, it is a good start.
Although the Moon in the story has no parents, she is tenacious, kind and brave. Readers feel sorry for her but also proud of her.
Every Saturday at work, colleagues in the Finance Department would get together to discuss what happened the night before.
Sometimes a story comes to an abrupt end at the most critical moment and is divided into two parts, the second half of which will not be available for another week. The next day, the office is discussing who the murderer is.
The plot in the newspaper the night before affected everyone's work efficiency the next day. For example, the story the day before saw that Yueliang had her incompetent colleagues robbed her of credit. It was obvious that she had contributed the most, was bleeding and injured, and finally hit the murderer, but because she was unconscious, her colleagues took the blame for what she had done on their own heads, and got promoted and made a fortune. However, Yueliang only said one thing, as long as the person was caught in time, everything would be fine.
Before Jiang Ling even reached the office door, she heard her colleagues swearing.
Even Lu Jianjun, who always looked down on Yueyue for being a woman, couldn't help but complain, "He's still a man, but he can do such a thing. How shameless."
The reactions of the other people in the office were even more intense than his. Li Chunjiao took out a piece of letter paper and said, "I'm going to write a letter to the North City Evening News."
Old Tang reminded her, "It's no use writing to Beicheng. You have to write to the author."
"What's the author's name?" The author's name was too small, so he squinted his eyes to read it carefully. "The author's name is Ai Yue."
Jiang Ling discussed the matter with everyone as if nothing had happened, and also joined in scolding Yueliang's colleague.
She wrote this column with no other purpose than to get more people to join her in scolding Yang Gongan.
So relieved!
This is the case in their finance department office, let alone other places.
Tong Wanyue noticed this column of Beicheng Evening News very early on. Because of the similarity of the name and some overlapping experiences, a colleague who loved reading newspapers noticed it and shared it with her.
It can be seen that the author is not an insider, but knows a little more about the case than ordinary people, and there is some element of interpretation. If the names were not too similar, no one would have thought that Yueyue was her.
Except for the first story which was similar to hers, the remaining cases were completely fabricated.
Just when she thought that the protagonist's name was Yueliang and the Chen Mazi case were just coincidences, perhaps this was a more interesting case that the author had heard of recently, and a major case that people in the north city talked about with relish, so he used it as the beginning of a series of stories to attract readers' attention.
She saw the stabbing incident that happened in the staff housing compound not long ago, and after reading this short story, it was not difficult for her to guess who the author was.
Only Jiang Ling and Ding Yan knew the inside story, and only Jiang Ling could do such a thing.
Tong Wanyue said she didn't care, and she really didn't care. She had lived for so many years, and nothing mattered to her except life and death. It was just that her credit was taken away, so what did it matter?
She didn't care, but she was touched that someone cared about her and wanted to stand up for her.
In fact, even if her parents died and she had no family, she was not alone.
Winter comes quickly in the north city, and Jiang Ling wears a padded coat whenever she goes out.
Li Gui named the factory Hengjiu Daily Chemical Factory and affiliated it with the Cotton Mill. The factory was short of staff, so Song Guanshu joined in the work.
He goes out early and comes back late. When Jiang Ling gets up in the morning, he has already gone out and there is a prepared breakfast in the pot.
In the evening, they usually have dinner together.
On rare occasions, when Jiang Ling went home to cook and Song Guanshu had not returned yet after dinner, she would eat first without waiting for him. Leave some food in the pot for Song Guanshu to eat when he comes back.
Jiang Ling was sitting on the bus and saw Song Guanshu waiting at the bus stop through the front windshield.
This man was tall and had long legs. He wore a long windbreaker very stylishly. He had handsome features and when his eyes met Jiang Ling's, a faint smile appeared on his face.
Jiang Ling jumped off the bus and there was no possibility of her falling, so he still reached out to help her.
Song Guanshu was holding the dinner he had just bought from the market. "I just happened to see a roast duck for sale, so I bought half one."
Before he walked back home, he saw someone standing at the door, and Song Guanshu's eyebrows slightly frowned.
Jiang Ling had already rushed over warmly, "Sister Wanyue, why are you here?"
Song Guanshu opened the locked door silently.
Tong Wanyue followed the two into the house, "I just went to where you lived before, and that Mr. Sun said you moved."
"Yes, I just moved a few days ago. The new house is not far from where I lived before, so I didn't specially inform everyone."
Not many people could come to her house to look for her and Song Guanshu, and it would be too troublesome to notify every family one by one. Anyway, when they found their old home, Grandpa Sun and Aunt Fang would show them the way.
Tong Wanyue said, "I saw from your registered information that it's your birthday today, so I bought you a pair of shoes. Try them on to see if they fit. If not, I'll take them to the mall to exchange them."
Is today her birthday?
She never paid attention to when her original body had her birthday.
She has been very tired at work these days, and when she has free time she has to write articles for the newspaper. She has lost track of what year it is.
She looked up and took a closer look at the calendar on the wall, and found that her original body had the same lunar birthday as her.
Song Guanshu's eyes trembled slightly. He hadn't celebrated his birthday for a long time, so he naturally hadn't paid attention to Jiang Ling's birthday.
Jiang Ling herself had forgotten about it, but she didn't expect Tong Wanyue still remembered it. She was extremely surprised.
He hugged Tong Wanyue with emotion, "Thank you, Sister Wanyue, I almost forgot about it myself."
Tong Wanyue hugged her and said, "You're welcome. I should thank you for standing up for me."
They were of similar height. Jiang Ling nuzzled her neck and said, "Sister Wanyue, you are such a nice person. Your embrace is as warm as my mother's."
Tong Wanyue smiled and said, "Okay, stop crying and try the shoes to see if they fit your feet."
In the past, when her daughter had her birthday, she would buy birthday presents half a month in advance. She remembered that young girls cared a lot about birthdays and called it a sense of ritual.
She opened the package and took out a pair of sheepskin boots that protected the ankles. "I saw that we are about the same height, so I bought them according to my shoe size. The receipt is in this bag. If they don't fit, go and exchange them."
"The shoes Sister Wanyue bought for me are 100% perfect."
Jiang Ling sat on the kang and tried on shoes happily. Song Guanshu found two pieces of waste paper and asked her to step on them and walk a few steps.
Tong Wanyue hinted: "You need to wear shoes that fit your feet, and you need to find a suitable man. If he doesn't fit, you must change him. Don't let yourself be wronged."
Jiang Ling nodded like a chick pecking at rice, "I know, this pair of shoes is perfect. Sister Wanyue, the shoes you picked are really comfortable, more comfortable than all the shoes I've bought."
She stood on tiptoe to show Tong Wanyue how the new shoes looked on her. Jiang Ling was so sweet that Tong Wanyue smiled so hard that her eyes were curved.
However, Tong Wanyue's purpose in saying that was not to make her wear the right shoes. Seeing that Jiang Ling was not understanding, she asked gently, "It's your birthday today. What did he buy you? He didn't buy you anything, did he?"
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