The next morning, He Dongchuan went out before dawn as expected.
Su Ting slept until half past six when she was woken up by the alarm clock. It was still dark and the sky was gray. The temperature seemed to have dropped again. After putting on a sweater, she stood there thinking for a while and took out a thick woolen coat from her luggage.
After getting dressed neatly, Su Ting went to the second bedroom and called the brother and sister to get up.
The two children still refused to get up, but Su Ting still maintained a tough attitude. She first picked up Manman and dressed her. Hearing her sister crying, He Yan couldn't sleep even if he wanted to.
After taking her time to wash up, it was almost seven o'clock. Because He Yan had to go to school, Su Ting didn't delay any longer. She took the money and ticket and took the child to have breakfast.
Because they didn't want to get up, the two children were a little depressed when the cold wind blew after they went out. However, this state did not last long. When they entered the cafeteria and smelled the aroma of food, the brother and sister raised their heads and looked forward to it.
Today, both the brother and sister wanted to eat foot wraps, so Su Ting ordered one and bought each of them a cup of soy milk. She took a bite of the big pancake and ate it with tofu pudding. It tasted very good.
After breakfast, Su Ting returned to the guesthouse to put away her things and took her two children to school.
The military district primary school is outside the family compound and covers a large area. It has an L-shaped teaching building with three floors on both sides. The ground is paved with flooring, the outer walls are plastered with lime, and the bottom is painted with half-person-high green paint, which is quite similar to the classroom in Su Ting's memory.
In addition to ordinary classrooms, the teaching building also has music and dance classrooms. The former has a piano, and the latter has mirrors covering the front wall. Just looking at these, the military elementary school here is much better than the one on Pingchuan Island.
The teachers' offices are in the short building. There are two on the first floor. There are ten teachers in each office. There are about twenty teachers and staff in the school in total.
Su Ting came here yesterday and knew which class He Yan would be assigned to. After arriving, she went straight into the second office and found a teacher named Li Yuezhen.
Like the Hepingchuandao Military District Primary School, the military district primary school in the Shanghai base also gave priority to military wives when recruiting teachers. However, because the requirements were relatively high and a high school degree or above was required, the teaching team included not only military wives, but also local people who had attended high school and educated youth who came here to work in the countryside.
Li Yuezhen was an educated youth who went to the countryside. However, she was not from another place. Her family lived in the city. Because she was a daughter of a noble family, her family was reluctant to let her go far away, so they used their connections to bring her here. Firstly, this place was close to home, and secondly, there were troops stationed nearby, so there was no need to worry about the daughter of a noble family being bullied.
Li Yuezhen is not very old, she just turned 20 this year. She went to the countryside after graduating from high school two years ago.
She was also lucky. When she went to the countryside, there was a shortage of teachers in the military primary school. She had sufficient education and had always been at the top of her class, so she passed the recruitment exam very smoothly and became a teacher in the military primary school.
Before going to the countryside, Li Yuezhen had never thought about becoming a teacher, but after she became a teacher, she realized how lucky she was when she saw the educated youth who had gone to the countryside with her working hard every day.
Therefore, she is very grateful for this job and treats the students in her class very attentively.
Su Ting asked the staff at the guesthouse before asking the principal to arrange He Yan to Class 2, Grade 4.
After the transfer was agreed yesterday, the principal arranged for Li Yuezhen to meet with them, so when she looked up and saw Su Ting appeared outside, she came out and asked, "Comrade Su, classmate He Yan, are you here?"
"Hello, teacher." He Yan greeted.
Slowly follow and learn: "Hello, teacher."
"Hello, classmate He Yan," Li Yuezhen replied, and then said to Su Ting, "Man Man is really well behaved. How old is she?"
Su Ting said: "One and a half years old."
Li Yuezhen asked: "You can speak so clearly at the age of one and a half?"
"She likes to learn whatever anyone says." Su Ting said with a smile. Because she has the nature of a parrot, her speaking skills have improved very quickly.
Li Yuezhen praised: "This child is smart."
Su Ting thanked her. Knowing that she was busy as a teacher, she did not stay long. After a few pleasantries, she said, "Then Xiaoyan, please help me, Teacher Li?"
"Don't worry, I will definitely take good care of He Yan." Li Yuezhen said with a smile, lowered her head and let He Yan say goodbye to Su Ting and slowly.
He Yan waved his hand and said, "Goodbye, Mom, and goodbye, sister!"
Man Man, who was sitting in Su Ting's arms, twisted her body and waved goodbye to her brother, and added a sentence: "See you at dinner~" "Dan Fan" means lunch.
Li Yuezhen burst out laughing when she heard this. She waited until Su Ting walked away with the child in her arms before she lowered her head and said to He Yan, "I'll get you your textbook."
The textbooks used in Fujian and Shanghai are different, so after transferring here, He Yan's previous textbooks could no longer be used and had to be purchased again, which was also the main reason for paying tuition again.
Leadership textbook, Li Yuezhen took He Yan to class.
It was morning reading time, and as they passed by, the classroom was filled with the sound of reading, until Li Yuezhen walked into the classroom, clapped her hands and said, "Everyone stop, I have something to announce."
After hearing her words, the students shut up from front to back.
When the classroom quieted down, Li Yuezhen said, "We have a new student transferred to our class. I hope you can take care of him, get along well with him, and help him adapt to our group as soon as possible. Can you do this?"
"Yes!" the students below answered in unison.
Li Yuezhen nodded with satisfaction, turned around and waved to He Yan who was standing outside the classroom door, motioning him to come in: "Student He Yan, please introduce yourself."
He Yan stood on the podium and looked down.
The classrooms at Hushi Jiji Primary School were about the same size as those on Pingchuan Island, but the number of students in the class was half that of the others, only about 30. At this moment, they all looked up at him, their eyes full of curiosity.
He Yan's heart gradually calmed down, and he said, "Hello everyone, my name is He Yan."
Li Yuezhen waited for half a minute, but didn't hear anything else, so she asked, "Why don't you introduce yourself to others, what are your specialties and hobbies?"
He Yan said "oh", thought for a moment and said, "I know martial arts, and I can knock down a kid who is half a head taller than me."
The smile on Li Yuezhen's face broke, and she said with a dry laugh: "Haha, classmate He Yan is really good at joking. Learning military boxing is good for keeping fit, but we don't advocate fighting. Do you have any other specialties?"
In the past, He Yan thought he knew a lot, but thinking back it seemed like nothing. He could sing OK, and he had acted in plays, but he only rehearsed for a while before the performances. Besides, there were so many people who could sing, so it didn't seem like a remarkable skill.
After thinking about it, He Yan asked uncertainly: "Does climbing a tree count?"
"We don't encourage students to climb trees." Li Yuezhen said softly. She seemed to have understood. The child looked well-behaved and his grades were good before he transferred to the school, but he was definitely not an honest child.
He Yan understood what the teacher meant and said, "It's all OK."
"It seems that He Yan has a wide range of interests," Li Yuezhen concluded with a smile. She measured He Yan's height and asked, "By the way, are you nearsighted?"
“Not nearsighted.”
"Then I'll arrange for you to sit at the back of the classroom, is that okay?" Li Yuezhen asked. After getting a positive answer from He Yan, she pointed to the empty seats in the back row of the classroom and asked, "There are two empty seats left. You can sit wherever you want."
There are a total of thirty-five seats in the classroom, divided into five columns and seven rows in total. The two empty seats are both in the last row, but one is in the second row and the other is in the fifth row, right next to the window.
He Yan responded, picked up the book on the podium, walked to the last row and sat down by the window.
After settling the new students, Li Yuezhen stopped wasting time and let the children continue their morning reading. She walked to the boy in front of He Yan, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Student Zhu Binbin, the teacher has given you a task. Remember to communicate more with He Yan and try to help him adapt to our class as soon as possible. Can you do it?"
"Yes!" Zhu Binbin said loudly.
Li Yuezhen turned to He Yan and said, "You should communicate more with Zhu Binbin. You can ask him any questions you have. Of course, you can also come to the teacher directly. Don't be shy, okay?"
"I know." He Yan replied.
Li Yuezhen was satisfied, stood up and said, "The teacher is gone, Zhu Binbin, please take good care of the new students."
Zhu Binbin agreed immediately, and when Li Yuezhen left, he turned around, sat facing He Yan, and introduced himself, "My name is Zhu Binbin. Zhu is the Zhu of Zhu Yuanzhang, and Bin is the Bin of politeness."
It was the first time that He Yan heard someone introduce himself in this way. He hesitated for a moment and said, "My name is He Yan. He is... He in He Zhizhang, and Yan is Sanhuo Yan."
Zhu Binbin asked: "Who is He Zhizhang? How do you write the character yan in the Chinese character for three fires?"
He Yan was silent for a moment, took out a pen filled with ink, opened the textbook, wrote his name, and turned to Zhu Binbin to show him.
Zhu Binbin suddenly realized and asked, "Do you know how to write my name?"
"Didn't you already say that?" He Yan asked doubtfully.
"I did say that, but many people don't know what the Bin in politeness is."
He Yan was even more confused: "Since others don't know, why do you introduce yourself like this?"
Zhu Binbin said: "Because it sounds like this, people will think I am very smart."
He Yan thought that there was no point in introducing himself to show off his intelligence, as he would be exposed once they started talking. Just like now, he not only did not think Zhu Binbin was smart, but also thought he was a little silly.
…
While He Yan was chatting happily with his new friend, Su Ting took him to the Military Dependents Placement Office.
The military dependents resettlement office at the Shanghai base is larger than that on Pingchuan Island, with seven or eight offices on the first floor, more staff, and more complicated procedures.
Just for the settlement procedure, she went to almost all offices except the leadership office and conference room, and to some offices more than once.
From this we can see that having too many people is not a good thing. A problem that can be solved by one person must be handled by five or six people, which makes things more complicated and reduces work efficiency.
Originally, Su Ting had made good plans. After submitting her information, she would ask the staff of the Military Dependents Placement Office to take her to see houses. If it was suitable, she would try to reserve a house in the morning. She could go there and clean it in the afternoon, and try to finish tidying up the house and move in as soon as possible before her luggage was delivered.
As a result, she had been busy this morning with the documents for settling in with the army, and by the time she finally submitted the documents, it was already time to get off work at noon.
It was impossible for the people at the Military Family Resettlement Office to work overtime for her, so the house-hunting was delayed until the afternoon, and Su Ting was in a bad mood all the way back to the guesthouse.
Su Ting's mood gradually improved until she met He Yan and learned from him that she had made several new friends in the morning.
Although the efficiency of the Military Dependents Placement Office was a bit low, at least the documents were submitted smoothly. It took two or three days at the fastest and seven or eight days at the slowest.
Well, judging from the work efficiency of those people in the Military Dependents Settlement Office, Su Ting felt that it would probably take about a week for their household registration to be issued.
But no matter sooner or later, as long as the household registration can be settled, it will be fine. Moreover, He Yan adapted well to the new environment. In just one morning, he made several new friends... So, things are going well.
In order to make things go more smoothly, after sending the two children back to the suite after dinner, Su Ting did not go to bed, but went downstairs to the living room on the first floor to chat with the military wife who was guarding the front desk.
The military wife's name is Zhang Yanping. Her personality is a bit similar to Yu Xiaofang. They are both very enthusiastic and outgoing. It was she who helped to get the green onions and ginger from the kitchen before. The pickled vegetable tickets that Su Ting and the others had eaten these two days were also exchanged with her.
Because of these interactions, the two were already familiar with each other, so after finding Zhang Yanping downstairs, Su Ting did not beat around the bush and directly talked about the two houses: "They are both three-bedroom apartments. The environment inside the houses should be similar. Moreover, I walked around our compound several times in the past two days and I think the environment is pretty good."
Although the house in the compound was not Zhang Yanping's, she had lived here for several years with the army and had long considered it her home. Hearing Su Ting praise the good environment of the compound, she felt very proud and said, "Of course, our compound was built according to a unified plan. There are all buildings, even the single-family houses where the leaders live are built like buildings. The inside of the houses is well planned, and these houses were built only a few years ago, so they are all new."
"I also think the house is quite new from the outside," Su Ting agreed, "but I don't know if it's spacious inside."
"Aren't there only two children in your family? Since you were assigned a three-bedroom apartment, you must have plenty of space to live in." Zhang Yanping couldn't help but sigh, "Comrade He is really capable. He is less than 30 years old this year, right? He is already a deputy regiment commander, and his rank is high, so the house you were assigned is also good."
The building has three types of apartments: two-bedroom, three-bedroom and four-bedroom. When the house was first built, there were few people following the army, so three-bedroom apartments were not that rare, and everyone was eyeing the four-bedroom apartments.
But as time went by, more and more people lived in the compound, and the housing became increasingly tight, so three-bedroom apartments became rare. To this day, although there is no explicit regulation, three-bedroom apartments are basically only allocated to cadres at the deputy regiment level and above.
However, Zhang Yanping also lives in a three-bedroom apartment, so she was just sighing, and there was no envy or jealousy in her tone.
Su Ting seemed to be enlightened: "You are right. There are only four people in our family, so we can live anywhere. I just don't know if the residents of these two houses can get along well."
"Well..." Zhang Yanping fell into deep thought.
Seeing that she didn't say anything, Su Ting's mind moved slightly: "Sister Zhang, you also know that our family is new here. Among all the people in the compound, my husband and I are the only ones who know you, and we trust you, so I want to ask you about the personalities of the residents in these two houses. In fact, I don't have any other ideas, I'm just worried that I'll meet someone who is particularly difficult to get along with, and we'll quarrel every other day."
"I understand. Living in this building, you see them everywhere every day. It's really annoying to meet someone with a bad temper." Zhang Yanping thought about it for a long time before hesitating and said, "Most of the residents in buildings nine and ten are fine."
“What about the minority?”
"A small number... Actually there is only one person, who lives in Building 9, Room 302. He has a bad temper and quarrels with people every now and then. Building 10, Room 201 also has a bad personality. I heard that he is a local of Shanghai, from the urban area, has a high education, is quite arrogant, and doesn't talk much to others."
Aren't 302 and 201 both opposite those two houses? How lucky are they? There are only two three-bedroom apartments left, and the neighbors don't get along well.
Su Ting thought for a moment and continued to ask, "Then do you know why the people living in Building 9, Room 302, quarreled with others?"
"Oh, there are many reasons for quarrels. The children fight, they disagree with each other, and she always pours water downstairs. Because of this, she has quarreled with the two families downstairs. The relationship is very tense." Zhang Yanping said, and then she responded and asked, "By the way, is the six houses you just mentioned 301?"
"yes."
"I think you should choose the house in Building 10. If you move to Building 9, you will never have peace in the future. It's true that the house in Building 10 is arrogant and looks down on others, but it may also be because they don't want to pay attention to us and have never quarreled with others."
To put it bluntly, Room 302 in Building 9 is a powder keg that will explode at any time. Although the neighbor opposite Building 10 has a bad personality, at most they don't interact with each other after moving in. At least it is quiet.
Su Ting had never thought about becoming relatives with her neighbors. In her previous life, before she moved into her own house, she lived in a community near her company for three years. The number of people she knew could be counted on one hand, not including the people across the street.
Therefore, Su Ting was more inclined towards the military wife in Building 10, Room 302, Building 9. As soon as she heard the name, she knew that she was the same type as Xu Fen.
Although Xu Fen is a troublesome person, at least she lives quite far away from her home. If she doesn't build a good relationship with him after moving into Building 9, she will have to see him every day. It's depressing just thinking about it.
After asking Zhang Yanping, Su Ting had an idea in her mind.
Although they still need to see the houses first and discuss with He Dongchuan when he comes back in the evening before making a decision, if the difference between the two houses is not too big, they will most likely choose building 10, room 202.
The military primary school also starts classes at two o'clock in the afternoon. After He Yan went to school, Su Ting took Man Man to the Military Family Resettlement Office and asked someone to take her to look at houses.
But after she found the corresponding staff, the other party said nothing and just asked her to wait.
At first Su Ting thought that she had something to do, so she really waited there. However, after waiting for a long time, she didn't see the person working. Instead, she was chatting enthusiastically with her colleagues.
After waiting for more than half an hour, Su Ting couldn't help but walked up and asked, "Comrade, can you take me to see the house now?"
The other person said coldly: "I'll call you when I'm done."
"So what are you doing? Chatting?"
The other person's face turned cold: "What do I do with you? I told you to wait here, so just wait. If you don't want to wait, you can go back. I won't hold you back."
"Then give me the key and I'll go see the house myself."
"Oh! You are so arrogant!" The other party raised his eyebrows, turned his seat to the left, and looked up at Su Ting. "It is stipulated by the higher-ups that the house cannot be given to you before all the formalities are completed. What if I give you the key now and you don't return it to me? Also, you go to see the house alone. What if there is any bump or scratch inside? Who can I complain to?"
Su Ting laughed angrily: "So what you mean is that I have to wait here and listen to you chatting with your colleagues until you are happy enough before you are willing to take me to see the house, right?"
The short-haired military wife in front of the other party heard that the two were about to quarrel, so she spoke up to smooth things over and said, "Comrade, you misunderstood. Xiao Song really has something to do. How about this, you go out first, and I will talk to her and see if her work can be postponed so that she can make time to take you to see the house earlier. What do you think..."
Before the short-haired military wife could finish her words, she was interrupted by Xiao Song: "Sister Wu, why are you talking to her so much? I am just following the rules. If she can accept it, she can wait outside. If she can't accept it, she can go back. She is used to it! Does she really think that her husband can do whatever he wants just because he has a high rank?"
"It turns out that the rule of your military dependents placement office is to leave the wives of military dependents who need to work aside to chat," Su Ting sneered, "Okay, I won't say any more to you. I'll go find your leader."
After saying that, he picked her up, slowly turned around and walked away.
Sister Wu's face changed, and she quickly stood up and shouted, "Comrade, comrade..."
After shouting several times, he failed to stop the person. He turned to Xiao Song and said, "Look, things have gotten out of hand."
Xiao Song was a little panicked at first, but after hearing this, she refused to admit it and pouted, "Let her complain. I have no regrets anyway. She doesn't understand anything and just says we were just chatting nonsense. You guys have to testify for me later."
Sister Wu thought, weren't they just chatting nonsense just now?
But this certificate must be made. Firstly, they are all colleagues and to be honest, it will be difficult for them to get along well in the future. Secondly, if the director knows that they have been chatting idly during work, it will not be good for them personally.
Others had similar ideas to Sister Wu, so vague responses were heard in the office.
After hearing everyone's answers, Xiao Wu showed a satisfied smile on her face. She just couldn't believe that she couldn't handle a new military wife. She waited for Su Ting to bring the director to find trouble.
…
The office of the director of the Military Family Placement Office was at the very back. There was no one guarding outside, but the door was closed, so it was impossible to tell whether there was anyone inside.
Su Ting led Manman directly to the door and knocked. After a while, a voice came from inside: "Come in."
Su Ting pushed the door open and shouted to the people inside, "Director Wang."
Director Wang looked up and saw a stranger. He was slightly surprised and asked, "Excuse me, who are you?"
"I'm a new military wife, my name is Su Ting, and my husband is He Dongchuan, who was just transferred here." Su Ting introduced herself as she walked inside, and she also introduced the child in her arms, "This is my daughter, her name is Man Man."
Although Director Wang did not know Su Ting, he had heard of He Dongchuan's name. He stood up and walked out from behind his desk, shook her hand and said, "It's Comrade Su. When did you arrive?"
"I arrived the night before yesterday." Su Ting replied.
Director Wang moved for Su Ting to sit on the sofa, walked to the cupboard against the wall, took out a cup, poured a few leaves of tea into it, and asked while pouring hot water into it: "What do you want to drink?"
Su Ting quickly said, "Don't bother, Man Man and I will just have a cup of tea."
"That's fine." Director Wang placed the enamel cup in front of Su Ting, sat down and asked, "Are you staying in the guesthouse these two days?"
"right."
"How is the environment in the guesthouse? Are you used to it?"
"The environment is good and Sister Zhang is a very nice person."
Director Wang knew all the military wives in the compound. After a brief thought, he asked, "Comrade Zhang Yanping, right?"
"It was her. On the first day we moved into the guesthouse, my brother had a runny nose. Thanks to Sister Zhang, she borrowed ginger and a coal stove from the canteen. Otherwise, the child might have caught a cold in the next two days."
Director Wang nodded: "Comrade Zhang Yanping is good."
"Yes, but we booked a suite in order to have more space. It has two rooms, a living room and a balcony. The environment is almost the same as my own home," Su Ting said with an embarrassed smile, "but the room rate is a bit expensive."
"Well, suites are more expensive than single rooms."
"It's just a few days, it's not that we can't afford it, we're just worried it might take too long."
Although He Dongchuan's absence was reported by the Military Dependents Placement Office, the transfer of military officers and the placement of military dependents are closely related, so as soon as he completed the procedures, Director Wang received the news.
In addition, the maintenance of vacant houses in the compound is under the management of the logistics department, so the keys to the vacant houses are in their hands, and the allocation of houses is also under their management. The Military Dependents Placement Office provides auxiliary work, such as taking new military wives to see houses, collecting excess keys after the house is confirmed, and completing the procedures required for moving in. These are all their jobs.
Although Director Wang had a lot of things to take care of, she didn't need to do these trivial tasks, but she was aware of the progress of the matter. She asked in confusion: "Hasn't Comrade He completed the registration procedures? The houses have been delivered. You can decide which one to choose and get the key after completing the move-in procedures."
"That's what I said, but I came here at two o'clock, and no one has taken me to see the house yet," Su Ting said cryptically, "I came to you just to ask, after going through this set of procedures, how long will it take for me to get the key?"
Director Wang looked down at his watch. It was already past five minutes past three. He understood what Su Ting meant.
To put it bluntly, the Military Family Settlement Office is there to serve the wives of military personnel. It is understandable that the process is slow for complicated procedures like settling down, but there are no procedures for viewing houses. Basically, the wives of military personnel can just show up and the staff will take the key and go.
After you finish looking at the house and the military wife decides on it, you can get the key after signing and completing the formalities.
As long as the military wife decides to do it quickly, the whole process will not take more than an hour. If she decides to do it slowly, it is hard to say, three to five days is common, but it depends on the military wife herself.
After considering it, Director Wang said, "How about this? You sit here for a while and I'll go ask what's going on. What do you think?"
Su Ting agreed immediately: "Okay."
After the agreement was reached, Director Wang left the office and went to the second office at the entrance to ask, "Who has the key to Comrade Su's house?"
Xiao Song stood up quickly: "It's in my hand."
Director Wang asked, "I heard from Comrade Su that she came at two o'clock. How come it's already three o'clock and you haven't taken her to see the house yet?"
When Xiao Song heard this, he complained immediately, "Director Wang, this is really not my fault. It's the end of the month, isn't it? I have a lot of work to do, and I just wanted to finish what I was doing and asked her to wait for me for a while, but she didn't want to. I just asked everyone a few questions, and she kept pestering me, saying that I was just chatting with everyone and wanted to complain to you."
At first glance, there was nothing wrong with what she said, but Director Wang was not a rookie who had just started working, so there was no way he would be fooled by her.
It was already past two fifty when Su Ting went to her office. If she went there after the quarrel, then she waited for Xiao Song for at least forty to fifty minutes before the quarrel.
What kind of work can take so long that it would make people wait for forty or fifty minutes?
Besides, she always stressed that they should consider the wives of soldiers more when doing things. How much time would it take her to look at a house? At most an hour, how much time would it waste?
But now was not the time to talk about that. Director Wang asked, "Where is the key?"
"In my drawer."
"Give it to me."
Xiao Song took out the key and asked hesitantly, "May I ask what you need the key for?"
"Besides showing Comrade Su the house, what can I do with the key?"
When Xiao Song heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "It's such a small matter, why bother you? I can just take Comrade Su to look at the house."
"Work done?"
"There's still a little left. I can come back and continue."
Director Wang chuckled, "Since you can come back to make up for it? Then why did you make Comrade Su wait so long? I have always told you that the purpose of our Military Family Placement Office is to serve military wives. Our working principle is to facilitate military wives. But look at what you did today. Tell me yourself, is this putting the cart before the horse?"
Xiao Song was scolded so much that he dared not raise his head, but he could not help but defend himself by saying, "I didn't mean to make Comrade Su wait so long."
"Then tell me, why did you let her wait so long?" Director Wang asked, and before Xiao Song could answer, he said, "Don't say you are busy with work. Others don't know what your work is, but how could I not know? I know that you just feel unbalanced because you feel that Comrade Su has taken your house."
Xiao Song raised his head hurriedly: "Director Wang, I..."
"You don't need to explain. I know exactly what you're thinking. You have many children, and a two-bedroom apartment is not enough. You want to move to a bigger house, right? But you have to understand one thing. There are rules for allocating houses. It doesn't mean that you can live in a big house just because you have many children. Your man is not of high enough rank. Even if Deputy Head He hadn't been transferred here, this house would not have been allocated to you."
"Besides, even if Comrade Su has reserved a house, there is still a three-bedroom apartment left, which will not hinder you from changing houses. Why are you trying to set a trap for him?"
At this point, Director Wang's face darkened: "How can I trust you in the future if you abuse your power for personal gain? How can I dare to give you a job?"
Xiao Song's expression suddenly changed: "Director Wang, I was wrong..."
"You are wrong. I won't bother with you this time, but I hope you can remember your job responsibilities. Otherwise, if something like this happens again, I can only tell you that our Military Dependents Placement Office does not need people who cannot distinguish between public and private affairs."
After Director Wang finished speaking, he took the key and went out.
She was very stern in front of Xiao Song, but in front of Su Ting, her expression returned to a gentle state, and she said, "I just asked, it's our comrade who is wrong, I just criticized her harshly, I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused to you."
Su Ting waved her hand and said, "Although I waited for a while, it didn't cause me any inconvenience. You are very polite."
"Thank you for your understanding," Director Wang said, taking out the key. "Is it convenient for you now? If you have time, I can take you to see the house."
"You take me there?" Su Ting asked in surprise, "Will this interfere with your work?"
"Work can be done at any time," Director Wang said with a smile, "Shall we go over now?"
Su Ting hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay."
…
The house layouts of buildings nine and ten are the same, and the furnishings inside are similar. There are beds in the three rooms, a wardrobe in the master bedroom, and a dining table and stools in the living room. The only differences are that the legs of one bed are shorter and that wardrobe has a hole.
If I move in, these furniture will definitely need to be repaired, or even bought again, and some new things will be added.
So Su Ting didn't pay much attention to these things, and paid special attention to the neighbors opposite. Unfortunately, she came at the wrong time, and the neighbors opposite Building 10 were not at home. However, there was someone in Building 9, Room 302, who spoke to them for a few words, but they didn't talk much, so she couldn't tell what kind of people they were.
After discussing with He Dongchuan in the evening, they decided to trust Zhang Yanping and chose Room 202 in Building 10.
So the next morning after breakfast, Su Ting took Manman to the Military Dependents Resettlement Office again. This time she was not troubled and got the key very smoothly after completing the procedures.
Looking at the small silver key in her hand, the corners of Su Ting's lips curled up slightly.
Although the property rights do not belong to them, they may live here for several years or even more than ten years in the future. Rounding it off, this house can be considered their home.
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