Chapter 68: It’s not easy to live in Shanghai(1/2)
After coming out of the courtyard, Li Jia saw Qin Hao laughing behind him and couldn't help but be angry: "Why are you laughing! Don't laugh anymore."
"You are too domineering, you care about the sky, the earth, the cry or laughter of others."
Li Jia turned around and walked towards the alley. Qin Hao saw this and chased after him: "How do you feel?"
"What's wrong?" Li Jia asked knowingly.
Qin Hao smiled wickedly and said, "Aunt Song and Uncle Lin are easy to get along with, so you don't have to worry."
"What do I have to worry about? You are the ones I should worry about?" Li Jia raised her chin and snorted softly.
"What am I worried about?"
"Hmph, my parents are not as easy to talk to as Aunt Song and Uncle Lin."
"Don't worry, when I come to my place, there is no mother-in-law who can't be taken away."
"Tsk, who is your mother-in-law, a scoundrel."
The two of them said one by one, and slowly walked out of the alley under the reflection of the moonlight.
Li Jia stayed in Suzhou for more than ten days. Before leaving, Song Ying bought her many Suzhou specialties. If she hadn't been afraid that Li Jia wouldn't be able to hold it, Song Ying would probably be able to fill her two suitcases.
Huang Ling joked: "You have invested such a heavy investment, aren't you afraid that someone will break up with Haozi and they will be useless?"
"No, Haozi said that he liked this girl and would not change."
"If I want to say that, I'm just waiting for the wedding banquet."
"Then you have to prepare a big red envelope."
"miser."
Speaking of red envelopes, Huang Ling lowered her voice and said to Song Ying: "By the way, how many red envelopes do you plan to give to Yiming to get married?"
"Six dollars, for good luck."
"so much?"
"Not much. In recent years, we have settled the transactions on the spot by doing manual work. We have never owed a penny. We have to pay back this favor, right?"
"Well, then I'll also pack six."
A week later, Li Yiming got married, and the alley of the cotton spinning factory became particularly lively.
"Lin Dongzhe, wait for me."
Li Yiming got married and was fashionable. He adopted a Western-style wedding. The woman wore a wedding dress and greeted her in a car. The specifications made many people stunned.
Zhuang Xiaoting couldn't squeeze in in the crowd, so she quickly called Lin Dongzhe. Lin Dongzhe could only turn around and drag Zhuang Xiaoting in, and then she entered the gate of Li Yiming's house.
"Wow, the bride is so beautiful." Zhuang Xiaoting looked at the bride wearing a white wedding dress, her eyes full of envy.
Not only Zhuang Xiaoting, but also Huang Ling and Song Ying are so fond of wedding dresses.
"What material is this? How can it be so white?"
"It looks like plastic, but it is certainly not ordinary plastic."
Zhang Amei on the side was shocked: "This kind of wedding dress costs a lot of money, right?"
The bride just smiled and had no intention of showing off. Li Yiming greeted him next to her.
"Dear uncles and aunts, let's go to the yard to sit, the meal will start soon."
Song Ying and Huang Ling were about to get up, but Li Yiming called him again: "Where are Haozi and Tunan? Why didn't you see them?"
"They probably didn't squeeze in outside, there were too many people today." Song Ying pointed out the window.
Li Yiming quickly squeezed out the crowded crowd and dragged Qin Hao and Zhuang Tunan in.
"Xiaoyue, this is what I have always told you about Qin Hao and Zhuang Tunan. They are famous college students who walked out of our alley."
The bride greeted them generously and sent them candies enthusiastically.
"It's so embarrassing that you can come today. Let Yiming have a few drinks with you."
At the wedding banquet, Zhuang Tunan quietly said to Qin Hao: "Brother Yiming has married a good wife."
"Well, Yiming is blessed." Qin Hao nodded in agreement.
After the wedding banquet, Zhuang Tunan felt a little thrilling. Before going to college, he was devoted to studying. Later, when he went to college, he had to learn new knowledge, and he had to give people some extra lessons and subsidize living expenses, so he had no time to think about this. However, today Li Yiming's wife gave him a little yearning for marriage.
"Why, I'm moved?"
Zhuang Tunan's old face turned red: "What are you talking about nonsense? I'll just talk about it."
"Okay, why are you pretending to me? I still said the same thing. Women in our construction industry are scarce resources. If you don't hurry up in college, it will be even more difficult to meet when you graduate and work. Don't listen to the counselors talking nonsense. Let's talk about love first. Whether it can be done is another matter."
Zhuang Tunan didn't say anything, but Qin Hao knew that he should have listened.
The happy time of summer vacation is always short. Lin Dongzhe and Zhuang Xiaoting started school half a month early because they were attending a key high school. Qin Hao and Zhuang Tunan also went to Shanghai a week later, while Xiang Pengfei was driven back to Suzhou by his mother Zhuang Hualin. Zhuang Tunan gave him a week of classes and was almost angry to death.
Many questions that can be explained to Lin Dongzhe and Zhuang Xiaoting once or twice can be explained five or six times to Xiang Pengfei. If he said it in another way, he would be blind again. In the words of Lin Wufeng's previous description of Lin Dongzhe, some people are born to be unable to study.
The first semester of junior high school is extremely painful for the school students in the department of architecture. In addition to learning a lot of theoretical knowledge, various extracurricular homework are also emerging one after another. During this period, universities still pay great attention to students' practical abilities.
Time flies, and winter is already coming, and the leaves of the sycamore trees on both sides of the Tongji campus have completely turned yellow.
Just the day before the school holiday, Li Jia received a call, so that she tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep. In the words of her roommate, a Henan girl, Li Jia tossed all night like a pancake.
"My parents and my brother are coming to Shanghai."
Seeing that Li Jia was full of worry, Qin Hao pretended to be puzzled and asked, "This is a good thing, why do you look frowning?"
"It may not be a good thing. My dad said he wanted to send Xiaowen to Shanghai to study." Li Jia seemed to be afraid that Qin Hao would not understand, so he added.
"Grandpa and grandma and second uncle and second aunt will definitely not agree, because they are afraid that Xiaowen will compete for a house with them after they settle down."
Qin Hao patted Li Jia's hand: "Are you afraid that your parents will suffer a loss when they argue with your grandpa?"
Li Jia shook her head: "I don't want to see them throw their dignity on the ground for Xiaowen and trampled on others. In order to let me go back to Shanghai to study, my parents knelt down on the spot for grandparents and the others. I will never forget that scene."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! As he spoke, Li Jia's tears couldn't stop falling, and Qin Hao gently patted her back to show comfort.
Qin Hao thought for a while: "Can you settle down as long as you have a house in Shanghai now?"
Li Jia was stunned, then shook her head and said, "That's not the case. My parents are educated youth. As children of educated youth, Xiaowen and I can settle down through the policy as long as we have a household registration."
Qin Hao laughed: "Hi, what else do I think of it? I just don't have a house. Just go back and buy one."
"Buy a house?" Li Jia was shocked by Qin Hao's "bold" idea. This is not the 21st century. Buying and selling real estate is not a simple commodity transaction. There are many barriers in policy. Just like the house where the dealer and the Lin family live, the property rights are not their own, but belong to the cotton spinning mill.
Qin Hao gently tapped Li Jia's forehead: "At first glance, he doesn't care about current affairs and news. As early as five years ago, houses were allowed to be bought and sold in policies. As long as it is a house with personal property rights, private transactions can be carried out."
"Really?" Li Jia's eyes lit up, and then he asked timidly: "That should be very expensive, right?"
"The price should not be too expensive. The main thing is to find someone who is willing to take action on personal property rights. I will pay attention to it for you first."
As soon as Qin Hao finished speaking, Li Jia suddenly ran to the dormitory. After a few minutes, she panted and handed it to Qin Hao with a passbook.
"This is the money I have saved in the past two years. The total amount is 23,745 yuan. If it is not enough, I will lend it to you. Then I will return it to you slowly. The password is my birthday."
Qin Hao took the passbook and opened it to look at it, then joked: "It's not bad, the little rich woman has hidden a lot of money in the treasury. Are you not afraid that I will run away just after taking the money?"
"Hmph, you can run away, you can't run away, you can't run away." Li Jia wrinkled his nose.
After joking, Qin Hao still put away his passbook.
Li Jia seems weak, but in fact she is a very strong girl. In the original drama, in order to bring her parents and younger brother back to Shanghai, she has been trying hard to save money after graduation. When her colleagues suggested that she find a Shanghainese with a house to marry, she would not have to save so much money to buy a house. However, she still does what she does, because she knows very well that if she is not her own house, she always depends on others' roofs. She doesn't want her parents and younger brother to suffer the hardships she has suffered again.
"Then wait for my news."
"Um."
Two days later, Li Jia's parents and younger brother had arrived in Shanghai.
In the surging crowd at Shanghai Railway Station, Li Jia rushed towards her parents from afar.
"Dad, mom, Xiaowen."
The family of four was squeezed out of the train station by the crowd before they could hug each other.
As soon as Li's father stood firm, he yelled to go to his parents' house. Li Jia persuaded him to take them to have breakfast first.
After a family of three ate eight bowls of wontons in a row, Li's father said unsatisfiedly: "The wontons in Shanghai are still good."
After eating and drinking, Li's father wanted to take the bus with his family.
"Dad, you haven't had a good sleep after two days and two nights. You'd better go to the guesthouse to rest for one night and go to your grandparents' house tomorrow morning." Li Jia suggested.
Li’s father shook his head straight after hearing this: “What kind of guesthouse you are in? It’s quite expensive. I’d better go to my dad to make do with a bed board.”
"Dad, the guesthouse doesn't cost much..." Li Jia could have imagined the second uncle and second aunt's disgusting eyes when she saw their family. To be honest, she didn't want to see the second uncle and second aunt's winks at all.
"You kid, you just made some money and got away, right? Your dad and I worked so hard on the Northeast farm and couldn't save a lot of money all year round. If you have money, you have to save money." Li's mother impatiently snatched the luggage from Li Jia's hand, pulled her son Li Wen and walked towards the bus stop.
There was no way, Li Jia could only follow behind.
After taking two buses, the family arrived at the destination.
"Oh, Jiajia, your family is back for the New Year with grandparents."
"Tsk tsk, I'm so filial, so far away, and I'm back to pay New Year's greetings."
To be continued...