Quick wear: cannon fodder is a bit strong

"...Although this thing didn't work out in the end, my reputation was ruined."

"Uncle Song, when I leave for the countryside, there won't be a room for me at home."

"My younger brothers will get married in the future, and there will be less and less room..." Qiao Ruizhu looked bitter, and Song Chengcai understood.

Yes, even if he could find a way to help Qiao girl return to the city in the future, by then the Qiao family would probably be occupied, so where would there be room for Qiao girl?

Maybe he would marry her off and collect a dowry.

The more Song Chengzhang thought about it, the more worried he became about Qiao Ruizhu. He now felt from the bottom of his heart that the house should be sold, and even sold as soon as possible.

Otherwise, once the sons of the Qiao family get married, it will be even more difficult to drive them out.

However, although he also needed a house, he could not buy it.

After all, he had old ties with the Cheng family, and the Qiao family might accuse him of bullying. Thinking of this, he asked Qiao Ruizhu to come back in the afternoon so he could find someone who could buy the house.

After Qiao Ruizhu left, Song Chengcai hurriedly locked the office door and pushed his bicycle out.

After coming out of the textile factory, Qiao Ruizhu looked at her watch. Hmm, it was only half past ten in the morning.

Since there was still time, she went to the registration office for educated youth going to the countryside in the city.

The registration desk was a small, bustling office, filled with people crying, making noises, arguing, and cursing.

Qiao Ruizhu waited quietly on the side, watching the show without getting involved.

She finally moved forward after all the noisy people had left.

The receptionist was a woman in her forties, with a sullen expression and a serious demeanor, as if she was doing her job impartially and serving the country and the people.

Without even looking up, he asked, "What's the matter?"

"Sister. I'm the educated youth going to the countryside tomorrow. My name is Qiao Ruizhu."

"Oh. Have you prepared everything for the trip to the countryside? Little girl, this is the organization's policy. It's useless for you to come to me."

"It's like this, comrade. I have a brother and a sister at home who are both unemployed. They want to go to the countryside like me."

"I'll help them sign up. Do you think this can be done?"

"Oh?" The eldest sister had a gloomy face, but she perked up after hearing this.

"We can do it, why not? Children like you who are so conscious, the organization must support them."

"Little girl, do you have your household registration book with you? Just having your household registration book will do!"

"I have it, I have it," Qiao Ruizhu said, pulling out her household registration booklet and handing it over. "Comrade, can you assign my sister and me to the same place? We can take care of each other."

"As for my brother, he wants to train himself in the most difficult places of our motherland. I hope the organization can meet his request."

The elder sister's face relaxed, and she felt that she had secured the honor of being the advanced individual of the month. Her attitude was particularly good:

"No problem. Where are you going in the countryside, little sister?"

"Yushihe Village, Qiongyan County, Bian Province"

The eldest sister flipped through the registration book and said, "Okay, it just so happens that there will be another batch of educated youth assigned to that place in half a month. Don't worry, your sister will be with you in half a month."

"Thank you, sis. What about my brother?"

"The Tibetan areas in Northwest China are in great need of educated youth, but many people are unwilling to go. Someone like your brother, who has a high school education, can go there and help his fellow villagers."

"That's great, thank you, big sister."

When she left, Qiao Ruizhu had 150 yuan in her pocket as a subsidy for going to the countryside. Qiao Jiaojiao also received 50 yuan, and Qiao Anhua received 100 yuan because he was going to the northwestern Tibetan area.

At noon, I went to a state-owned restaurant and ordered a plate of braised beef with soy sauce and braised pork ribs, plus 10 big meat buns.

Still attracts attention.

Fortunately, no one disturbed her today, so Qiao Ruizhuzhu ate with great satisfaction, and then packed up half a plate of braised beef with soy sauce and 8 big meat buns as usual.

After lunch, Qiao Ruizhu went to the bank again and withdrew 3000 yuan from the passbook she had received from Qiao Yongjun and his wife yesterday.

When I returned to the textile factory, there was an old man waiting in Song Chengcai's office.

When his eyes met Qiao Ruizhu's, they were both stunned.

Coincidentally, this person was the one who had been dining at the state-owned restaurant yesterday and who said he knew the old man Cheng Changming.

"Haha, little girl, it turns out you want to sell the house!"

Having watched the entire conflict, the spectator fully understood Qiao Ruizhu's decision to sell the house.

"Director Song, could the four-and-a-half-room house you mentioned be the one Cheng Changming gave his daughter as a dowry?"

"No wonder he dared to ask for 2,200."

"Okay, that house is worth it, it's totally worth it! 2200 is 2200, I'll buy it!"

"Girl, did you bring the property deed? When are we going to handle the paperwork?!"

Qiao Ruizhu: “…”

Song Chengcai: “…”

No, old man. This is about buying a house, not buying cabbage. Are you so happy?

It turned out that Mr. Zhang and his wife and their children lived upstairs from Song Chengcai's house, so they knew each other's situation. It could be said that this family's current living conditions were even more difficult than the Song family's.

Because the Zhang family's official job now falls on the eldest son. The eldest son and his wife have a son and a daughter, and the baby is about to be born in her belly.

But at this time, the second son was afraid of going to the countryside and was also planning to get married. However, the family also had only one and a half rooms in the tube-shaped building, so how could they have enough space to live in it?

What's more, there is an unmarried sister-in-law in the family. The eldest daughter-in-law was originally thinking of moving the children out, and now the younger brother-in-law is getting married, so she made a fuss all day long, and recently she simply moved back to her parents' home with the children.

When Qiao Ruizhu decided to sell the house, Song Chengcai immediately thought of this family and went to discuss it with the old man.

He didn't expect it to go so smoothly.

Qiao Ruizhu only asked for two thousand yuan, but he deliberately added two hundred more, hoping that she would bargain with him.

Unexpectedly, Uncle Zhang skipped the bargaining step.

In fact, Song Cheng can fully understand this feeling.

Although Mr. Zhang’s eldest son is the only one who has a formal job, his children and daughter-in-law all have salaries, although they are temporary workers.

They are not short of money, they are short of houses.

These days, housing is in short supply in the city. Even if you have money, you can’t buy one and can only wait for it to be allocated. But how many houses are there to be allocated?

Not to mention temporary workers, even people with formal jobs have to wait in line.

In fact, some of those who choose to go to the countryside do so out of helplessness, because they have no place to live at home, or to make room for their family.

The reason why Uncle Zhang was so willing to buy the Cheng family's house was, firstly, because he was in urgent need of a house to solve a pressing problem. Secondly, he had seen the Cheng family's house before and knew it well.

It's hard to find such a spacious house in the city now. The house is in a good location and has a yard, so we won't have to worry about adding more children to the family in the future.

At worst, we can build a side building in the yard.