Busy days fly by, and in less than half a month, Yu Qianhe's house was allocated. It wasn't big, with only two rooms.
When Liu Yun saw the house, she froze. It was a tenement, the kind of tenement most popular in period dramas. Would she ever have a peaceful life again?
What she found most unbearable was that the toilet was a dry toilet, and it was a public toilet.
Yu Qianhe knew she probably wouldn't like it here, but there was nothing he could do. There were no more buildings left, only this place. He was lucky that someone had moved out, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to get two such big rooms.
"How about we look for houses to sell?" Liu Yun said, noticing her somewhat troubled expression.
Upon hearing this, Liu Yun immediately sobered up. She knew that this hadn't even started yet, and she had only read about it in books and novels. She didn't know the specifics, so it was better to keep a low profile for now.
"No need, it's just a dry toilet, just a tenement courtyard, nothing to worry about." A dry toilet is a dry toilet, a tenement courtyard is a tenement courtyard, not all of them are weird. But when Liu Yun moved in, she realized how naive she was.
The first thing Liu Yun did when looking at houses was to check out the toilets. She wanted to know what the toilets in those supposedly overcrowded tenement courtyards were like.
Seeing the toilet finally brought a sigh of relief. If she hadn't been blind or flustered, she probably wouldn't have fallen in! And it was quite clean. However, Liu Yun didn't realize she was speaking too soon. It was winter, so a clean toilet was normal. In summer, it would be teeming with maggots. She wondered if she'd still be able to laugh then.
This kind of courtyard is nothing like an apartment building. In an apartment building, each household has its own water pipes and toilets, but here the water pipes run through the courtyard, and there are no separate water pipes for each household. Here, there are only three water taps for three rows of houses, and each household gets their water from the courtyard.
At first, everyone drew water from the taps in front of their houses, and the water bill was charged per person. However, there was plenty of water in the south, so the water bill wasn't expensive. But some people still stole water from other people's taps every day and got caught. So later, they simply started charging everyone together for the whole yard, and the monthly water bill was split equally among all the households.
“We are in these two rooms on the side. There are two other rooms next door, which are a little smaller than ours. They will move in after the New Year.”
"Hmm." Looking at these two empty rooms, only four words came to mind: desolate and empty.
"Let's make a list first, and write down what's missing." Luckily, I brought paper and pen in case I needed to make a list.
"First, there's the bed, then the wardrobe. I need a dressing table. We need to partition off a kitchen from the living room, so we'll need a cabinet. We'll also need to buy bowls, chopsticks, pots, and a stove. Maybe we should build a wood-fired stove! And basins... um... I'll buy the basins. I'll buy wooden ones; I have ceramic basins. We can put a bamboo bed against the wall; it can be used as a stool, a bed, or a sofa. We'll also have a table and stools. I'll see if we can buy chairs; if so, I'll buy two. We can put a small cabinet by the door to store shoes, so they won't be scattered everywhere in the house."
"Okay, I'll find someone to take care of these."
"Do you have enough money?"
"That's enough."
"Let's go to the department store first and I'll buy you a watch and a bicycle."
"OK."
The two of them quickly tidied up the area when people came in from outside.
"Oh, you must be Technician Yu. My husband also works at a machinery factory. I'm Aunt Yuan, the manager of our institute. You can just call me Aunt Yuan. Are you moving in?"
"Yes, we'll move here after we get married. We've come to see what we need to do first. We don't have anything here, so we apologize for not being hospitable enough. We'll treat you to wedding candy after we move in."
"Hey, what's the big deal? I just saw the door was open and came to take a look."
"Aunt Yuan, is this courtyard full of people? How many families live here?"
"There are seven households in total. The three houses on the far right are mine. I have two sons and two daughters, all married, and three grandsons. The two houses next to them belong to Aunt Zhu, a family of four. The last two houses belong to Widow Wang, a pitiful woman raising three children alone. There are two households on your side. Your neighbors haven't arrived yet. There are also two households across the street. The two houses closest to the door belong to the Qin family, father and son, and next to them are Old Man Li and his wife, who guard the warehouse. The public toilet is behind this."
Liu Yun was stunned the moment she heard the name of Widow Wang. The more she heard, the more desperate she became, until finally she was numb. Good heavens, all she wanted was a simple, ordinary life; she didn't need anything more exciting.
What kind of households are these?! A widow, a widower, a family with a son but no grandson, a family without heirs but a little granddaughter—this is the perfect set of households for a bizarre tale of a tenement! I wonder which household the female lead lives in; I hope she's not a neighbor!
After chatting with Aunt Yuan for a while, it got late, so Aunt Yuan left.
After finishing lunch, the two headed towards the department store. When they arrived at the watch section, the sales clerks there recognized Liu Yun, as she frequently handled payroll.
"Xiao Liu, are you looking at watches with your partner? Are you getting married?"
"Yes, we'll get married in two weeks."
"Congratulations! Which one do you like? I'll show it to you." This is only possible because it's a colleague. If it were someone else, they'd probably just say, "Take it or leave it," and wouldn't even bother showing you the styles. Be realistic.
Looking at the watch counter, Liu Yun was immediately drawn to a blue watch. "Let me see this one."
"Wow, you have great taste. This is the only Omega women's watch left; all the others are out of stock."
He waved it in front of Yu Qianhe's eyes, holding it in his hand, and asked, "How is it? Still want to watch?"
"It looks good, let's take this one! Invoice please."
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