Chapter 77 New Life in Kyoto! (1)
My family bought two houses at once, and both needed to be renovated and decorated.
Taotao became busy again.
She took a pen and paper, scribbled and drew, and took Song Zhi to the scene to give instructions...
——The mansion looks a bit eerie, of course, because people have a preconceived notion that it is a haunted house, but there are indeed some problems with the structure of the house.
So Tao Tao said to Song Zhi: This place needs to be demolished, this place needs to be renovated, this place needs to be expanded, this place needs to be replaced with something else…
Song Zhi has strong ability to act.
Almost as soon as Taotao finished speaking, he started to take action.
Of course, he couldn't finish the work by himself, so he called Zhu's brother-in-law Wang Erjiang and agreed to pay him one dollar a day and work with Song Zhi.
Song Zhi and Wang Erjiang were busy revising the design according to Taotao's suggestions, while Taotao went to find paint color samples, bought gouache paints and painted several copies on paper according to the colors she could find. Finally, she took them out for her family to choose.
My family unanimously chose the forest department.
In fact, Taotao also likes this combination of natural plants and flowers the most.
——The overall structure of the house will not undergo any major changes, but the existing door will have to be sealed and another door will have to be opened. In addition, another layer needs to be added to the roof, which will then be transformed into a small garden, and several beams in the house will also need to be filled with wood.
——Different fruit trees and seasonal flowers are planted in the yard. Taotao also wants to dig a well (to create a Feng Shui eye) and build a small fountain in the yard.
These are all changes based on Feng Shui.
Next, it is the soft decoration of the house and yard.
Generally speaking, the idea is to hollow out the walls of the rooms on the first floor and install glass windows to maximize the amount of light, making the house used as a shop look bright. Then add cement flower troughs outside the window frames on the second floor and plant some flowering vines. Let them grow slowly down along the flower troughs in the future, and colorful flowers will bloom in spring and summer. This is the most beautiful and cheapest decoration.
Since this house is a legendary haunted house, the best way to whitewash it is to attract many people to come here to play.
With more people coming here and it becoming more popular, no one is afraid of this place anymore and the rumors have dissipated.
So Taotao asked Song Zhi to mow the lawn in the yard, use bricks and cement to build two ping-pong tables, and then build four sets of cement tables and chairs, so that everyone could buy food from the southern grocery store and sit in the yard to chat.
Considering that it is very sunny in the summer and very dark at night, Taotao asked Song Zhi to find a way to make a retractable awning above the concrete tables and chairs, and installed street lights around the yard.
Just as Sister Zhu said, Wang Erjiang is a rural boy who is very hardworking.
According to him, this was the first job he had ever found.
So he worked diligently and very hard.
Children who grow up in rural areas, as long as they are motivated, can basically do everything (the same is true for Bai Zhenggan). So Wang Erjiang knows a little bit about cement craftsmanship and is also a carpenter.
He and Song Zhi managed to complete all the renovation and cement masonry work within a week!
Song Zhi hired people to dig wells, install glass windows, etc.
Taotao and Xingxing went to look for various plants, most of which were ready-made, and transplanted them in the yard, in the flower beds outside the windowsills on the second floor, and on the roof.
We are not all lazy people.
Two weeks later, the whole yard had changed dramatically!
The originally overgrown yard was made clean and tidy.
The spacious courtyard is neatly divided into four parts:
——The most eye-catching area is the table tennis area, which has two stone (cement) table tennis tables. In this era, there are few entertainment options, and even fewer places to play table tennis!
Before the house was rented out, someone saw Song Zhi and Wang Erjiang building a table tennis table. They were so surprised that they asked them many times when they could come play table tennis...
It is conceivable that after renting it to the Logistics Department to open a sundry shop, these two tables alone will be able to attract a lot of people!
——The rockery area (also made of cement) is equally eye-catching.
This rockery was built by Wang Erjiang. According to Taotao's request, many concave and convex places were made on the rockery. The shallow pits were all planted with beautiful aquatic plants, and Taotao filled the convex parts with small pottery figures, or cute little animals such as pottery horses and dogs...
Taotao saw a vendor selling clay figurines while strolling around the black market. She had an idea and paid the vendor to make a lot of small clay figurines, such as clay horses, clay dogs, clay rabbits, etc. She then baked them at a low temperature and then stuck them on the rockery.
Behind the rockery is a suppressed well. Song Zhi simply built a siphon circulation device in the rockery, so that water will continuously emerge from the top of the rockery, slowly flow down from the rockery and into the pool...
As long as the water pressure is high (there is enough water in the pool), the water will continue to flow this way.
There are a few small wild fish in the pond. They are small but very nimble. They will run away very quickly at the slightest disturbance...
Just relying on this rockery area, I believe it will attract many elderly people with children to come and play.
——Then there is the rest area.
There are four sets of stone tables and stone benches here. When you feel tired and hot playing table tennis in the summer, you can just buy a bottle of soda from the southern grocery store and drink it. How comfortable it is! Or maybe some old people are playing poker here when they have nothing to do! Or in spring and autumn, after dinner, the women sit here chatting and knitting, while the men sit at another table and talk about everything...
It’s so lively just thinking about it!
——There was another area where Taotao only asked Song Zhi to trim the weeds a little longer so that people would feel particularly soft when walking on them. Then I moved three or five large round pebbles here, and that's it.
Children will especially like to climb these round stones, and the soft grass will also allow adults to let their children crawl around here without worry.
If you keep the children, you can keep the adults, and adults are always willing to spend money on children...
This is the transformation of the yard.
Look at the house again.
Since the house is to be rented to the Logistics Department to open a sundry shop, Taotao only plans to open up two large houses. The other two houses will be used as warehouses for the sundry shop to store things.
The two rooms used as stores have an area of nearly 100 square meters.
A row of glass counters can be placed along three walls, and another set of counters can be placed in the middle of the room; the room next to it is also a counter, but there are three or four sets of wooden tables and chairs there, where people can sit down and rest.
The floor of the house was paved with tiles according to Taotao's request - this was the most expensive decoration in the entire house!
I have to say that a house paved with tiles does look very classy.
So when Dong Mingchun accompanied the logistics department to discuss the rental contract with Tang Liren...
Tang Liren remembered Taotao's explanation and mustered up the courage to make an offer, "The rent is thirty-five yuan a month, and the lease contract must be signed for at least five years!"
The other party gasped, "Oh, this rent is too expensive!"
——The budget of their logistics department is to pay twenty dollars in rent every month.
Tang Liren followed Tao Tao's instructions and continued, "How about I let you try out the business for free for a month, and then you can consider whether to rent my house after a month."
Dong Mingchun joked: "What if they don't rent it?"
Tang Liren smiled and said, "If you don't want to rent it, then don't rent it. We have a big family, and there's nothing wrong with exercising and playing table tennis in the yard after work!"
The other party hesitated for a moment and decided to try out the business for a month.
result!
As expected, the southern zadian’s business is booming!
Only a week later, the logistics department came to Tang Liren with a rental contract, "…35 yuan a month for a 5-year contract, no problem at all!"
Tang Liren also put forward additional conditions, "Comrade, please help me solve two employment problems! One is my daughter Bai Xingxing, who is 18 years old this year and very smart. The other is Comrade Wang Erjiang, a family member of the compound. He is strong and efficient at work... Please think about it again. I will write the rental contract to start from the first of next month! How do you think?"
The other party agreed.
——The original purpose of opening a southern general store was to solve the problem of living convenience for the families of the residents in the compound. If we want to expand the post and recruit temporary workers, of course, we must give priority to the families of the residents in the compound.
So, Bai Xingxing and Wang Erjiang became colleagues.
Later, based on her work experience in that dream, Bai Xingxing came up with many good ways to promote products, which brought a lot of income to the Nanza Store...
Of course, this is a later story, so let’s not talk about it for now.
At this time, Taotao and Song Zhi had already boarded the train to Kyoto.
After staying in the city for more than half a month, the two of them devoted all their time and energy to the renovation and decoration of the mansion.
Taotao didn't even have time to renovate and decorate her own small house.
But it didn't matter. She left behind a thick stack of drawings with detailed explanations, and also left three hundred yuan for her parents, asking her family to help her with the decoration slowly.
Anyway, as long as she can live in the new house when she goes home for the New Year, it will be fine.
It is much more convenient to go to Kyoto from the city.
There is no need to reverse or anything, just get on the bus halfway and go straight to Kyoto.
It just takes a day and a night of train journey.
Song Zhi bought two lower berths in a sleeper. After the train started, the conductor came over with an old lady and asked Taotao if she could switch berths with the old lady.
The ticket in the old lady's hand is for the upper bunk in Taotao's row.
Taotao saw the old lady wearing clean and tidy old clothes, with silver hair and a kind face, and nodded in agreement.
The old lady was very grateful and took out a handful of dried sweet potatoes for Taotao to eat.
Taotao took it with a smile and chatted with the old lady.
The old lady’s surname is Wang, and she is a woman with a tragic fate.
She became a widow at a young age and raised four children alone with great difficulty. Now her one son and two daughters all live in Kyoto. She was taking care of her crazy eldest son in the countryside. A few months ago, her eldest son finally died of illness. After she took care of her son's funeral, she packed her simple luggage and prepared to go to Kyoto to live with her children.
At this point, the old lady sighed, "I'm afraid... they are all unreliable!"
Tao Tao asked curiously, "What if it's really unreliable?"
——The old lady just said that after her husband died, she and her eldest son raised her youngest son and two daughters with great difficulty and also paid for their education, but in the end her eldest son was driven crazy by the rent owed by the landlord. Yes, I was already crazy before liberation. Grandma Wang has been taking care of her crazy son for more than 20 years. The youngest son and two daughters have already established themselves in Kyoto. They usually don’t care about her or their crazy brother. If she doesn’t write a registered letter to ask for money, they don’t care about Grandma Wang’s life or death and will not give her a penny!
So Grandma Wang felt very hopeless about her future.
After hearing what Tao Tao said, Grandma Wang smiled bitterly, "What else can I do? After all, I am their mother. If they really don't want to support me, then... I will go to their work unit! Give me an explanation! If it doesn't work, I'm not too old to move, so I'll just go pick up rags... Oh, there's no point in living like this!"
Before Taotao and Song Zhi boarded the train, Tang Liren, Tan Fenghui and Xingxing prepared a lot of food for them.
——There are about ten boiled eggs, twenty homemade meat buns, a full lunch box of dumplings, and a box of tightly packed rice.
Taotao took out the boiled eggs and shared them with Grandma Wang.
Grandma Wang quickly said no, no, she had prepared her own food.
When I took them out, I saw that they were two small boiled sweet potatoes.
Tao Tao said with a smile: "Oh, Grandma Wang, I just want to eat boiled sweet potatoes! Can I trade you an egg? Please trade with me, I'm drooling."
Grandma Wang: "Then I'll give it to you to eat!"
Taotao took the boiled sweet potatoes, and then stuffed a boiled egg and a meat bun into Grandma Wang’s bowl.
Taotao and Song Zhi shared a box of rice, with a layer of fried pickled vegetables with lard stuffed under the rice, which smelled delicious. Before eating, Taotao enthusiastically gave Grandma Wang a small piece of rice with pickled vegetables and asked her to guess what vegetables her pickled vegetables were made of.
Grandma Wang had a hearty meal.
Taotao also shared several meals with Grandma Wang...
Even when the train was about to arrive in Kyoto, Taotao had already asked where Grandma Wang's youngest son worked. After the train arrived at the station, Taotao, Songzhi and Grandma Wang got off the train together. After leaving the station, Taotao grabbed Grandma Wang, put an envelope in her hand and said:
"Grandma Wang, I want to ask you a favor. I have a friend who lives near your son's workplace. Can you please deliver this letter to him?"
Grandma Wang agreed immediately, "Okay! Tell me your friend's name, and I will definitely send it to you!"
Taotao smiled at her and said, "My friend's name is written in the envelope. Can you please take it out and have a look? Thank you, Grandma. Bye!" With that, Taotao and Song Zhi left quickly.
Grandma Wang was stunned.
She opened the envelope and found a large solidarity note inside, plus a small note.
The note read: Grandma, please be strong and face life bravely!
The signature is a picture of a cute big peach.
Grandma Wang hurriedly chased Taotao and Song Zhi, "Taotao? Taotao..."
But the two of them had already gone far away!
In the distance, Taotao even waved vigorously to Grandma Wang, "Come on, Grandma Wang!"
Grandma Wang tightly clutched the envelope, note and money and sobbed.
Taotao and Song Zhi smiled and quickly left the train station and got on a bus.
She looked out the car window curiously.
——This is the capital!
This street is very grand, the road is very wide, there are all kinds of cars passing by, and there are also many pedestrians on the road. The pedestrians' clothes look much more decent than those of the people on the streets of Song City.
Taotao stared at the world outside the car window, and Song Zhi stared at Taotao.
——The girl he loves has a kind heart, and she is willing to help even the old lady she meets on the road. She knew very well that doing this would get her nothing in return.
Song Zhi couldn't help but smile.
At this time, Song Zhi heard Tao Tao ask: "When are you going to Guan's house?"
When talking about the Guan family, Song Zhi felt a little irritated for no reason, so he replied: "Let's wait until we settle down. We will go to the school to register first, and we will live in the school dormitory this semester. When the house is bought and decorated... we will not live on campus next semester, but in our own house."
Taotao knew very well that this was because time was wasted on decorating the big house in Song City.
As school is about to start in two days, I may really not have time to go house hunting.
Tao Tao, "After we register today, can't we go to the Housing Authority right away and look for houses nearby?"
Song Zhi nodded, "That's fine."
After thinking for a while, he said, "I teach at the University of Technology, so I should be able to get a single dormitory. Why don't you live in the dormitory with me instead of sleeping in a dormitory?"
"don't want!"
Taotao flatly refused.
——How nice it is to sleep on a big bunk bed! She has never had this experience before!
but--
Tao Tao rolled her eyes and asked him quietly, "When I want to eat you, can I go to your place?"
Song Zhi remembered Da Baitao's fiery methods, and his handsome face suddenly turned red.
Taotao giggled.
The sweet laughter made a wretched young man sitting in the front row look back at her...
Taotao put away her smile and frowned.
Song Zhi stared coldly at the young man, and only stopped after the other man shuddered and looked away.
Taotao took Song Zhi's hand, grabbed his thumb, and then pressed his thumb with her own thumb, playing with various angles...
At first Song Zhi thought she was just playing.
After pondering for a while, he suddenly understood - Dabaitao was using their fingers to imitate her eating him?
Song Zhi's handsome face, which had finally returned to normal, suddenly turned red again!
He clenched his big hand and held her pitiful, thin little paw tightly in his palm.
Peach@
: Let me out!
Song Zhi: If I don’t let go, then shout for help!
Taotao glared at him angrily.
He turned his head away as if nothing had happened, but held her hand tightly.
Taotao turned her hands with difficulty - although Song Zhi held her hands, he was afraid of hurting her, so he gave her some space.
She playfully scratched his palm with her light nails.
Song Zhi was shocked!
He had already been aroused by this little devil! Now she gave him this blow, and the tingling sensation spread from the palm of her hand to her heart and spread to the depths of her body...
He had to gasp and let go, setting Da Baitao free.
Taotao was free and satisfied. She turned around and continued to look at the scenery outside the window, feeling fresh and curious.
Song Zhi looked at Dabaitao with gritted teeth.
I really want to give her to...
But now they have no house!
Song Zhi took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, and secretly made up his mind - buying a house must be put on the agenda!
After taking a bus, Taotao finally saw her new school - Kyoto University of Agriculture!
Looking at the plain but imposing school gate, the wide playground, and four or five five- or six-story teaching buildings...
Taotao exclaimed "Wow", her eyes full of little stars!
Song Zhi looked at her excited expression and smiled, "Come on, I'll take you in to register."
Taotao nodded.
The two went to the Academic Affairs Office to register. Taotao learned that her homeroom teacher's surname was Tang, where her classroom was, and then she received a dormitory number.
Song Zhi accompanied her to the dormitory again.
Because it was the beginning of the semester, the girls' dormitory was open during the day. Taotao found her own dormitory with Song Zhi's company - it was a girls' dormitory for twelve people, with upper and lower bunks. The lower bunk was a large bunk bed with space for eight people; the upper bunk was an iron bed with four separate beds.
When Taotao arrived, there were already people in the dormitory.
Several women were sitting on the lower bunk bed chatting.
When they saw Taotao, they were very surprised by her beauty. They were stunned for a while, and then a woman who seemed to be in her early thirties came forward and asked Taotao, "Are you also a new student this year? Do you live in this room too?"
Taotao nodded, showed the key card she had received, and said, "Hello, my name is Bai Taotao."
The woman shook hands with Taotao. "Hello, my name is Zhao Jinglian! I am thirty-two years old. Maybe... I will be the oldest in our dormitory."
Then she said to Taotao and the other girls, "She is Sun Ximei, she is Qian Cuicui, she is Wang Bingyuan... From now on, we will be good sisters living in the same room!"
Taotao looked at her roommates.
——Zhao Jinglian is not tall, has short hair, is very capable, and has a few freckles on her face.
——Sun Ximei looked to be about twenty-four or twenty-five years old, tall, fair-skinned, with long hair, and extremely beautiful.
——Qian Cuicui was very thin, with dark skin, and was about twenty-three or twenty-four years old.
——Wang Bingyuan has a pretty appearance, and a pitiful air.
At this time, Zhao Jinglian said to Tao Tao, "Pick a berth. The rest of us chose the lower berth, which is convenient for getting in and out... Do you want to choose a lower berth as well?"
Taotao looked around.
Song Zhi knew that she wanted an upper bunk.
He went over and adjusted the iron frames of several upper bunks, chose the most stable one that could avoid the electric fan on the ceiling, and patted the bed.
Taotao smiled and said, "Then I will choose this bed!"
——Just now everyone was immersed in Taotao’s beauty, until this moment Song Zhi walked out from behind Taotao?
Everyone stared at Song Zhi blankly, and no one spoke.
Oh my god, are they... a divine team?
The man is so handsome and the woman is so beautiful; the man is elegant and the woman is pretty, they are simply a match made in heaven!
"Bai Taotao, is he your brother?" Qian Cuicui asked.
Tao Tao corrected: "He is my husband."
Everyone's jaw dropped again.
Zhao Jinglian, "You, you...you are already married?"
Taotao nodded with a smile.
Sun Ximei also said, "You don't look that old, do you?"
"I'm twenty years old!" Taotao replied.
Sun Ximei was very keen to find the bright spot, "You are only 20 years old this year... and you have been rated as an advanced worker and peasant soldier student?"
"Yes!" Tao Tao asked curiously, "Aren't you an advanced person?"
Sun Ximei: ...
"Of course I was selected as an advanced worker, which allowed me to come here to study," Sun Ximei looked at Taotao and said, "However, most of us only have junior high school education and have worked in the unit for several years before we were selected as advanced workers. What about you?"
Tao Tao told the truth, "I'm a librarian in our village, and I was rated as an advanced librarian!"
"Oh, so that's how it is." Sun Ximei chuckled and stopped talking.
Song Zhi heard the contempt in Sun Ximei's tone and felt unhappy. He said to Tao Tao, "Just leave the food here. Shall we go to the cafeteria to check?"
Taotao nodded happily, "Okay!"
Apart from studying, Taotao is most concerned about food and accommodation.
As for accommodation, she came to experience the dormitory and the big bunk bed. Whether it is good or not, she will decide after this semester.
So what she wanted to know most now was the food and prices in the school cafeteria.
However, it was only ten o'clock in the morning and the canteen was not open yet. While Song Zhi went to apply for a meal card and buy meal tickets, Taotao stood at the window looking at the wooden sign hanging above.
The names and prices of the dishes are written on the wooden sign.
It is basically the same price as the lunch box of Songshi Municipal Party Committee, but a little more expensive: steamed buns are one cent each, vegetarian dumplings are two cents each, meat dumplings are three cents each, noodles are five cents a bowl, and white porridge is one cent a spoonful.
For lunch and dinner, a meat dish costs six cents, a vegetable dish costs three cents, peanuts and pickled radishes cost one cent per portion, rice is still one cent and two ounces, and soup is free.
Taotao calculated that even if she and Song Zhi had meat for three meals a day, the daily food expenses would be only about 70 cents at most, which would be 20 yuan a month, or 10 yuan per person, which was not expensive.
I just don't know if it tastes good.
Song Zhi had applied for meal cards. He took one for himself and handed one to Tao Tao. "I put ten yuan on the meal card, which should be enough for a month's food."
Taotao nodded, "I want to go to your dormitory to take a look."
Song Zhi smiled, "Let's go!"
The two walked to the next door University of Technology.
Song Zhi's registration procedure was simpler because many teachers at Gongda knew him, and two of them even attended Song Zhi and Tao Tao's wedding not long ago...
The general affairs chief who was in charge of the dormitory took Taotao and Song Zhi to the single dormitory for the teachers of the University of Technology.
——Actually, it is the first floor of the student dormitory building. There is a long corridor with small rooms on both sides. There are about twenty or thirty rooms on the first floor, all occupied by male teachers, one room each, and some of their families live with them. The second and third floors are dormitories for male students, and the fourth floor is a dormitory for female students.
The head of the General Affairs Section explained that there were few female teachers at the four nearby universities, so they all lived together in a small building.
Taotao walked into the male teachers' dormitory on the first floor and found that at least half of the rooms had a coal stove at the door, and a tin pot for boiling water was placed on the coal stove.
Taotao walked into Song Zhi’s single dormitory.
That's quite crude!
Just a single bed, a table, a chair and a coat rack.
They are all extremely old.
Especially the bed. As soon as Taotao sat on it, she found that the bed legs were shaking violently, and then...
"Squeak—bang!"
After a long, swaying squeak, the wooden bed completely fell apart? !
Fortunately, Song Zhi was quick enough to pick Taotao up!
The head of the General Affairs Department looked embarrassed. "Um, um... these furnitures may be... too old. Hahaha. Can we change the bed for Teacher Song?"
Then he took Song Zhi and Tao Tao to the warehouse to find a bunk bed.
The result is not out yet!
Taotao tugged at the corner of Song Zhi's clothes.
Song Zhi, "Chief, don't worry, we can just go out and buy a bed."
The head of the general affairs department had been so busy with the registration of new students and new teachers that he was dizzy these days. He said apologetically, "Then I'm sorry to bother you, Teacher Song... It's like this. If the bed frame is broken, you can buy new furniture. We will subsidize one yuan for each piece. A room can only be subsidized for three pieces of furniture at most. When the time comes, please come to me with the receipt!"
After saying that, the General Affairs Section Chief left in a hurry.
Tao Tao, "Let's go eat first, then go to the Housing Authority to ask if there are any houses nearby, and then go buy a bed!"
Song Zhi had no objection.
He left his luggage in the dormitory, took out his lunch box, went out with Taotao, and headed towards the cafeteria.
When Taotao pinched the wire, she found that it took eleven minutes to walk from her dormitory to the cafeteria, and it took about seven minutes to walk from Song Zhi's dormitory to the cafeteria.
Song Zhi came over with lunch boxes - in addition to rice, there was a dish in each of the two lunch boxes: stir-fried pork slices with green peppers and bean sprouts, stir-fried eggplant, and some fried peanuts.
The green pepper, bean sprout and pork slices probably didn't have soy sauce in them, so they were white. After being simmered for too long, the green pepper turned yellow and the bean sprouts wilted. The grilled eggplant was greasy, and I don't know if it was because the sauce was too dark or if it was burnt, it was all black.
Taotao only took one look and immediately lost her appetite.
Song Zhi explained: "Only these two dishes are worth looking at."
Tao Tao said with disgust: "You eat first!"
Song Zhi smiled bitterly, picked up the chopsticks and tried each dish.
He patiently piled the meat slices, bean sprouts and peanuts into her lunch box, and then started to eat his own.
Taotao tried a bite and found the bean sprouts okay, but the meat slices were overcooked and hard, so she put it back into Song Zhi's bowl.
After thinking for a while, she took another piece of eggplant from Song Zhi's bowl and ate it...
Wow, it's so salty that it tastes bitter!
Taotao was eating rice desperately.
Song Zhi smiled and said, "Go outside and buy some food later."
Tao Tao said with a bitter face: "I finally know why there is a coal stove at the door of your teacher's dormitory! Let's buy one too. Eating this kind of food... is too pitiful!"
Song Zhi smiled and said "OK".
At this time, many students came in with lunch boxes, chattering about...
"What's going on over at the Agricultural University girls' dormitory? I heard someone was about to jump off the building!"
"I don't know. A cordon has been set up. Many teachers are there to maintain order. The police have also arrived..."
"Why did you jump off the building?"
"He's not a student from the Agricultural University. He's a member of society from outside. He climbed up to the female dormitory building and said he was going to jump down!"
"I went to see it, it was a girl. I heard that... her place in school was taken by someone else or something..."
"Hey, stop talking. The teacher told us not to discuss this!"
Taotao and Song Zhi looked at each other.
However, neither of them had any intention of joining in the fun. After dinner, they went to the nearby housing management office.
The staff at the Housing Management Office here are quite high-ranking and have a bad attitude. When they heard that this young couple wanted to buy a house, they impatiently asked them to show their work IDs.
Song Zhi handed over his work ID. When the man saw that he was a teacher at the University of Technology, he returned the ID to Song Zhi angrily and said in a bad tone, "Do you have money?" All he talks about is buying a house! Young people nowadays want to buy a house before their hair even grows out...
Song Zhi was a little angry.
Tao Tao tugged at Song Zhi's clothes, signaling him not to be angry, and then asked the staff member, "What price range do you have for houses?"
"One hundred million yuan a set, can you afford it?!" The man rolled his eyes.
Tao Tao said to Song Zhi, "This guy said that the houses here cost 100 million yuan each! Let's go to the tax bureau to report the situation! I have to ask the Housing Authority how much tax they have to pay for a house worth 100 million yuan. If they can't pay it, then he is committing market fraud! Or maybe the Housing Authority is breaking the law and evading taxes!"
Taotao glanced at the work badge on the man's desk again, "Humph, Zhang Weimin! Work number 0104, I'll remember it, I'm going to report you now!"
She took Song Zhi and left.
The two hurriedly walked out a dozen steps when they were caught up by a middle-aged woman who stopped them. "Hey, young comrade, did you... misunderstand something? Our housing management office never has any houses that cost 100 million yuan..."
Tao Tao sneered, "Do you think I'm deaf? Don't tell me these things. Just treat us as the proletariat who can't afford to buy a house. Anyway, the proletariat doesn't deserve to own a house, right? So, you should save some energy to explain to the people at the tax bureau how much tax you have to pay for a house worth 10 million yuan, and then explain to the police what fraud is all about!"
As they were talking, a few more people came over. They all seemed to be from the Housing Management Office. They kept apologizing to Tao Tao and Song Zhi.
"Don't worry, that 0104 is a temporary worker!"
"Yes, yes, we are the official employees. If you two want any kind of house, just ask us!"
"If you have anything to say, please speak up. We are both reasonable people!"
"My two young comrades, are you two planning to buy a wedding house?"
Tao Tao's expression lightened up a bit, and she said, "Yes, we just want to buy a wedding house."
The middle-aged woman looked like a small leader. She said with a smile, "It's like this. The houses under the jurisdiction of our housing management office are a little bit more expensive than those in other areas. Even the cheapest four- or five-year-old tube-shaped building with two bedrooms and one living room of 60 square meters costs 700 yuan..."
Tao Tao asked: "Is there a house with a private entrance and yard?"
The middle-aged woman was stunned. She looked Tao Tao and Song Zhi up and down and asked, "Yes, there are, but they are really not cheap... Young comrade, you two are still young. Even if it is a wedding house, you should buy a more affordable one, right?"
Tao Tao said, "Please tell me the truth first. If it's too expensive and I can't afford it, I'll give up and just look at the tube-shaped building."
At this point, the middle-aged woman believed that Tao Tao and Song Zhi really wanted to buy a house. "Young comrade, let's go to our office to discuss. I will briefly tell you about the housing sales in our area. You listen first, and I will take you to see which ones are suitable."
Taotao smiled and said, "Thank you, big sister!"
The middle-aged woman said her surname was Liu, and Taotao called her Sister Liu.
Sister Liu introduced Taotao to several houses with their own doors and courtyards, and the asking prices were 1,500, 1,900, 2,300 and 2,500 yuan respectively.
Taotao asked Sister Liu to lead the way and took a look around.
The 1,500 yuan house is quite big, but it is too old and the renovation cost is too high, so Taotao doesn't consider it.
The 1,900 yuan house was very new, but it only had one room, with an area of about 60 square meters and a very small yard, which Taotao didn't like.
The house that cost 2,300 yuan was of moderate size, a T-shaped house with one and a half floors, a cellar, and a large yard.
The 2,500 yuan house is a little newer than the 1,500 yuan one, but it is three stories high, and Taotao thinks it is too big.
After choosing and choosing, Taotao felt that the house priced at 2,300 yuan was more suitable.
She still had three thousand yuan left, which was just enough to buy this house for two thousand three hundred yuan.
However, Taotao felt that she shouldn't make a decision so quickly, so she said to Sister Liu: "Sister Liu, thank you for accompanying us today! It's hard for you to come here with us. After all, buying a house is a major event in life, and we need to think about it again."
Sister Liu, "Okay, come again next time. Don't bother with Zhang Weimin, just come to me directly!"
Taotao: "That Zhang Weimin..."
Sister Liu said softly: "He is just a relative, a temporary worker!"
Taotao smiled and took a handful of candies from her pocket and stuffed them into Sister Liu's pocket. "Thank you for your hard work today, Sister Liu. We are leaving now. See you later!"
Then Taotao asked Sister Liu if she knew where to buy old furniture.
Sister Liu smiled and said, "If you want to buy old furniture, come to me!"
So he took Taotao and Song Zhi to the warehouse of the Housing Management Office. Sometimes, the Housing Authority also
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