"Dong dong..."

Before I finished my meal, someone knocked on the door. Black Panther barked twice and then fell silent. Then a familiar face pushed the door open and came in. "Still eating."

The person who came was Li Zhen, who was holding something in his hand. Ji Luo asked him, "Have you eaten?"

"Ate."

Li Zhen strode over and looked at Ji Luo with a subtle look. "Ji Luo, guess whose house I just had dinner at?"

Ji Luo: "...I can't guess."

"I ate at Qin Dongxu's house." Li Zhen sat down on the bench next to her.

Ji Luo's eyes flickered slightly, his expression was natural: "You two usually contact each other a lot? Why did you go to his house for dinner?"

"Some contact, not much."

"I went to Sister Minfang's bookstore to buy books this afternoon. Afterwards, I felt a little dizzy and uncomfortable, so I went to the People's Hospital to see a doctor for some medicine. I ran into Qin Dongxu at the hospital gate."

"I happened to have some bacon on me, and I wanted to bring it to you. I gave him one, and he dragged me to his house for dinner."

Li Zhen handed her the cloth bag he brought with him. "My mother asked someone to buy some preserved food. When I came back from Guangzhou, she sent it to me on the train. This is for you to eat."

"Have you eaten the bacon your mother gave you?" Ji Luo asked him.

"Yes, I borrowed a spatula from the cafeteria and fried some food at noon today."

Li Zhen specially left two for her. When he met Qin Dongxu, he gave him one and got back to business: "Ji Luo, I just had dinner at Qin Dongxu's house and met his mother. His mother works at Jingdu People's Hospital, the director of the obstetrics and gynecology department. She looks..."

"His mother looks a lot like me. I saw her when I was in Sand City. She used to work at the First Hospital of Sand City."

Ji Luo looked very open-minded, and pointed at Zeng Minfang and the others: "Sister-in-law He Ye and Minfang have all seen us, and they also said that we look alike."

The two people who were named nodded in tacit understanding: "Yes, I have seen it."

Li Zhen looked at their expressions and felt an indescribable weirdness, but he couldn't guess the source of this weirdness. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Ji Luo, you look too much like Qin Dongxu's mother. I was stunned for several seconds when I saw her for the first time. Later, I asked Qin Dongxu if you have any blood relationship with their family."

"We are not blood relatives. I look like my mother, who died when I was very young. Our family is not related to Qin Dongxu's family at all. We just look alike."

"During the Spring Festival this year, my dad and his friends went to the provincial capital to play. When he saw Qin Dongxu's mother, he was stunned. He thought he saw my mother and stared at her for a few more times. As a result, Qin Dongxu's sister misunderstood him and the two sides had a conflict. They went to the police station."

Hearing her say this, Li Zhen didn't think much about it, "Your father admitted his mistake."

Tuantuan was chewing goose meat, his little mouth was greasy, and his eyes were full of doubts: "Mom, who died?"

"The elders you haven't met, mom will tell you when you grow up."

Ji Luo didn't plan to tell him about Bai Xuemei right now. He wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and started chatting with Li Zhen again: "You passed by Shacheng on your way back to Beijing. Didn't you go back?"

"I didn't go back. My parents came to the train station and gave me a lot of food and a newly knitted sweater and cotton coat."

"They usually have to go to work, and they have to take leave to come and see me. When I go home, I can only stay for one night at most, so I don't get off the bus to go back. Anyway, I will go back during the winter vacation, and the vacation will be less than three months away."

At that time, his parents sent three full boxes of food to his car, all of which were his favorite dishes, and several bottles of pickled vegetables and spicy sauce to go with the rice, which made him very happy.

He did not go home during the summer vacation, but he wrote letters back and told them that he made a lot of money by setting up a stall during the holiday. He called home before returning to Beijing from Guangzhou, so they rushed to the train station to meet him.

After dinner, Ji Luo called Li Zhen to the living room to discuss something. He had previously helped Four Seasons Home Textiles to get a lot of orders, and the final calculation showed that the total was about 200,000 yuan.

"Four thousand yuan exactly. Thank you for your support."

This amount had been agreed upon in Yangcheng before, and Ji Luo also promptly withdrew the money from the factory.

Needless to say, they were classmates, so Li Zhen didn't hesitate to accept the money with a smile, "This huge sum of money was earned with my professional ability, I have to save it well."

"Count." Ji Luo reminded him.

"No need to count."

Li Zhen originally wanted to put it directly into her schoolbag, but after thinking about it, he put it back into her hands, "Leave it at your house first, and I'll come to get it tomorrow at noon. The post office and credit union are closed now, so I can't send it to storage. It's not safe to bring it to the dormitory. It's safest to leave it at your house."

"Okay, come and get it tomorrow at noon." Ji Luo put the money back into the bedroom cabinet.

When the two of them came out of the living room, they happened to hear Zeng Minfang and He Ye talking about buying a house. Li Zhen immediately went over and asked, "Sisters-in-law, are you going to buy a house in Kyoto?"

"Yes, we are all staying here with Ji Luo now, so it's not a big deal to disturb him for a long time. The house allocated by my husband's company is too small for us to live in. Dongming hasn't recovered yet, and he hasn't found a job yet. Even if he finds a job in the future, the house allocated by the company will definitely not be big. We are considering buying an apartment."

Li Zhen actually had some ideas, so he asked, "How much does a house in Kyoto cost?"

"Do you want to buy it?" Ji Luo asked back.

"Some ideas."

"I plan to stay in Kyoto to work. When I graduate, I will be assigned a job. The housing area provided by the company will definitely be small. It should be fine for me to live alone, but sooner or later I will get married and have children, and then it will not be enough for me to live in."

"Anyway, I've made some money from setting up the stall. If there's a suitable house, I'd like to buy one."

Li Zhen had thought about this a long time ago. Thinking about going to Qin Dongxu's house today, he talked about his family again: "Qin Dongxu's parents both have jobs. His mother is the deputy director of the hospital, and his father is a director-level cadre in a government unit. His parents have such good jobs but they can only get a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment. When I start working in the future, the unit will at most allocate a single room. After getting married and having children, the unit will arrange for a new house. It will probably take a long time. I might as well buy a house early to avoid competing with others for housing quotas in the future."

Zeng Minfang and her friends have been asking about houses out there recently, and have also asked Xu Guanglei's cousin to keep an eye out for suitable houses. They are more familiar with the current market conditions and told him everything they knew.

Li Zhen had enough money to buy a small two-bedroom apartment, so he immediately said, "Ji Luo, can I borrow your phone? I want to call my parents."

"Use whatever you want."

Ji Luo waved his hand, motioning him to go to the living room to make a phone call and continue the topic with Zeng Minfang and the others: "If you want to buy a bigger house, you can withdraw money from me first."

"Jinsong and Dongming also said they wanted to buy a bigger one. They both like the small Western-style building, the kind by the lake in the back, two-story with a small loft. There are four or five bedrooms and a study. If guests come, they can clean up the small loft on the top and sleep there."

Zeng Minfang likes that kind of thing very much. Every time she passes by a small western-style building, she will stare at it for a while. He Ye also likes it and said, "The small western-style building has a small yard that can be used to grow vegetables. There is no noise upstairs and downstairs. The whole family can live in peace and comfort."

Tap the screen to use advanced tools Tip: You can use left and right keyboard keys to browse between chapters.

You'll Also Like