Chapter 10

After talking about setting up a stall, he also talked about renting a room

Lin Minjun took out the tea leaves that she went out to buy today, and embarrassedly said, “I just came to North City, I don’t know much about the neighborhood, I went out today and didn’t find anyone who could inquire about this, if you guys are free, can you help me inquire, no matter if the environment is good or bad, as long as I can have a place to settle down first”

Nowadays, there are not so many foreigners in the North City, and there are no real estate agents, so she could only bother the Zhao family again

At the dinner table, Zhao mother hadn’t said a word from the time she ate to the time she chatted, drinking bowl after bowl of Lin Minjun’s specially made drunken chicken

This dish tasted a bit like a medicinal dish, the chicken meat was smooth and tender, and the soup was warm, plus Lin Minjun spoke politely and treated people sincerely, for a while Zhao mother did treat her as her own child

Taking another sip of chicken soup, Zhao mother’s pale face gained some color, and said with a smile, “You’re a guest in our home, what are you talking about politely, not just inquiring about renting an apartment, anyway, I’m now at home recuperating, and when I have time to spare, I’ll help you inquire about it”

Zhao Ning and Zhao’s father also said, “That’s right, this child of yours even bought tea, a waste of money, it’s just a matter of saying a few words, we’ll all help to inquire, we’re all old Beicheng people, it’s not a difficult thing to do”

Lin Minjun know people to help themselves not should be, is out of good intentions, the tea left and right, finally gave Zhao father, looking for a house this matter also officially started

That is to say that it is not difficult to find a house, but in fact, there is still difficult, now the city’s households are not enough housing, some of the courtyard of a dozen square meters of place to live a family of five people, people have their own house is not enough to live, and how can it be rented

Zhao family members are helping to find, Lin Minjun also looking for their own, so a series of three days, what news is not

This day there is still no news of the house, Lin Minjun from the street back, just walked into the hutong heard neighbors chatting, chatting, seems to be the Zhao Ning family

There was an old woman with gray hair washing clothes and said, “I see Zhao Ning home days are not short, why do not see Zhen Gang and his daughter-in-law? Even Xiao Liu Zi can’t be seen lately”

The old lady washed the clothes, and a middle-aged woman was helping to dry them, and said with a smile, “You don’t know? This is not a family housing tension, I heard that the sister returned, just as the old mother-in-law was sick, Zhen Gang took his daughter-in-law and child back to his mother’s home, with the factory to take a leave of absence, but the factory at most a week, which should also come back, right?”

The old lady shook the wet clothes, now understand, “I said how the sister came back Zhen Gang on the go, you remember Zhao Ning brought back a girl, said in her home to borrow to live, a total of so two rooms, Zhao Ning and the girl to live, Zhen Gang can not bring the daughter-in-law and then back to squeeze the child which is not to come back, he was back and also have no place to live I said recently why always see Zhao Ning her mom sad face”

The Zhao family has a total of two children, Lin Minjun also once heard Zhao Ning mention that he has an older brother named Zhao Zhengang, has been married and has a child, she also wondered how this time to come over did not see people

Now listen to these two old neighborhood chat, finally understand, Zhao Ning her brother saw her sister back, just take the daughter-in-law child back to the mother-in-law’s home, was to give her sister to make a place for her to take a good rest for two days

I did not expect because of their own arrival, Zhao Ning her brother stayed in her mother-in-law’s home is not good to come back

Now that the date for the factory to take a vacation was coming up and he hadn’t found a place to move out, the anxiety of the Zhao family could be imagined

Lin Minjun also felt the urgency, more eager to find a place to move out

Lifting her foot, she passed by the two old neighbors and returned to the Zhao family

After arriving at the Zhao family, I entered and saw Zhao mother and Zhao Ning sitting in the living room, seeing Lin Minjun come in, Zhao mother’s eyes were full of hope, “Did you find it?”

Lin Minjun shook her head, “No, I circled around the street, looked for a few hutongs and asked, all of them said that there were no vacant houses, have you found any?”

Zhao mother spread her hands, smiled bitterly and said, “I’ve asked all the houses in the neighborhood, I just haven’t heard of anyone who has a house for rent, daughter, what about your side?”

“Nothing either” Zhao Ning’s face looked a little better, and poured Lin Minjun a cup of tea, signaling her to drink it to warm up, before continuing on

“Didn’t I go to the Youth Office again today? I happened to ask while lining up, but everyone said they hadn’t heard of anyone’s house for rent”

Zhao Ning had recently gone to the Zhiqing Office every day to line up, waiting for the Zhiqing Office to arrange a job

Three people a pair of information, found that there is no house for rent in the neighborhood, so they had to put all their hopes on father Zhao, who works as a chef in the famous state-run restaurant in the north city, and sees a lot of people, and can naturally ask for more information

When it was dark, Zhao’s father came back slowly from the outside, and as soon as he entered the door, Zhao’s mother couldn’t wait to ask, “How’s it going? Did you get any news?”

Father Zhao drank a cup of tea before slowly saying, “I found out”

Lin Minjun breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, she was living in Zhao Ning’s house occupying someone else’s brother’s house, the pressure was greater than Zhao Ning, and she also wanted to move out earlier

Zhao mother was even more excited than Lin Minjun, “Really? What kind of house is it and where is it located? How many people live in the yard, are the neighbors nice?”

“You’re asking so many questions at once, where do I start?” Zhao’s father frowned, still not slowing down

“Then say them one by one”

Zhao father unhurriedly poured himself a cup of tea again, sipping a mouthful, “This house is a courtyard, also like us here like a large mixed courtyard, but the people living in the courtyard is a bit much, dozens of households it, the place is in Chongwen, the neighbors, the other are good, is that I heard of the four courtyards live in the just reformed out of labor”

At the end, his eyes in the room three people in a circle, and finally fixed on Lin Minjun, “What do you think?”

Lin Minjun hadn’t said anything yet, Zhao mother said first, “Poor Chongwen poor Chongwen, the environment of that place isn’t expected to be any better”

“Auntie, I’m not afraid of being dirty and messy, the big deal is that I’ll clean it up myself” Lin Minjun hurriedly said

Zhao mother shook her head, “not that, we only live in this yard twenty households, you build a seismic shed, I built a small kitchen, are crowded into this, dozens of households over there, you want to clean up no place to clean up, the most important thing is that there is a just out of the labor reform neighbor, still live in the four, he is every day to pass through the front of the three, in case of any bad thoughts how to do? ”

“My mom has a point, Chongwen is not close to us, Minjun is still a young girl from abroad, in case something happens, there is no one to help” Zhao Ning followed

Although Zhao mother was particularly anxious, her eldest son’s leave of absence was about to expire, and he was still waiting to come home to work

But she couldn’t in good conscience let a young girl from out of town go and live in a house that had a reformed laborer as a neighbor

So even though her heart was anxious like anything, Zhao’s mother, after hearing her husband’s words, still firmly disagreed, “No, I don’t need to see that house, I know the environment is poor, a young girl living there is no good, Lao Zhao, you continue to ask around when you go to work”

Zhao’s father was a bit impatient, “You don’t agree with the one you inquired about, but there are other houses waiting to be picked”

After searching for three or four days, there was no suitable house, and it was not easy to inquire about one, but it was impossible to live in, so things were at an impasse

But of course Lin Minjun wouldn’t sit around and wait for death