Rebirth in the end times: The whole family keeps a low profile

The next day, Wang Jie and Su Yun went to learn about the stores in the trading center.

Su Zhangming accompanied Zhang Lili to the school for an interview. Fortunately, her certificates were all in Su Yun's space. She had been tutoring the children at home over the years, so she was able to prepare lessons and learn the content of the teaching materials with ease.

Even the director in charge of recruitment was impressed by Zhang Lili's dedication and seriousness. Kyoto is different from other bases. There are too many rich and capable people here. Before the natural disaster came, many bigwigs and rich people transferred their assets here. Every household swallowed up a lot of supplies, so while others were eating bran, the rich people in Kyoto were still living a prosperous life with wine and meat. If there was danger, there would naturally be others to stand in front.

Their living standards have always remained at a well-off level. Although what they want to eat and use are not as good as before, they are currently the happiest group of people.

After the underground city was built, they took advantage of the geographical location and were the first group to move in, having the best of time, place and people.

Therefore, most of the students in the school have parents in the military and are not short of money. Families with average living standards cannot afford to send students to school.

Zhang Lili was recognized and had to report to the school in advance to do some preparations before the start of school.

The host was just about to send the person away when Su Zhangming, who was standing next to him, quickly took out a can of tea and a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes from the backpack behind him. The director's eyes immediately lit up.

He was one of the first people to enter the underground city, and his family had good food and drink. But to be honest, he was very frugal with the cigarettes, alcohol, and tea that he was used to before the disaster.

Director Mao: Hey, Lili’s husband, what are you doing? Lili has passed the interview based on her own ability. These are really expensive and we cannot afford them.

Su Zhangming: Director Mao, it has nothing to do with Lili, it’s us. There are several children in our family who are of school age and they would like Director Mao to take a look and see if they can be given a place in the school registration system. Look, these are their recent calligraphy copybooks and the booklets they made at home.

As Su Zhangming spoke, he took out four test papers from the black backpack behind him. They were for different grades and subjects, and they were all the teaching results of Zhang Lili in the past few years.

Director Mao was surprised. Are there still children doing their homework at home these days? But thinking that there is such an excellent teacher like Zhang Lili at home, the children must be good.

Oh? Let me take a look.

As he said that, Director Mao took the copybook and the test paper from Su Zhangming's hand.

The four copybooks all had the children's names, ages and genders written on them. The handwriting was very neat, and even Su Bowei and Tang Tang's had sharp strokes, which was very pleasing to the eye. When the booklet was opened, it was full of large marks.

It was filled with test papers for each unit, and they were all done so well that Director Mao was very happy. Even before he saw the children writing, he already had a very good first impression.

Well, it seems you taught very well.

Director Mao was generous with his praise. He looked at Zhang Lili with a smile on his face and said: The children have been taught very well by you, and you will be a part of the school in the future. I promised you these four places. However, the tuition is not cheap. It is 5,000 points per child per semester. See if you can give it to me. If there is no problem, take this application form back, fill it out and give it to me.

Zhang Lili was very happy and quickly took the registration form.

Everything was done, and the two walked side by side on the road. The school was very close to home, and it only took five minutes to walk there. Su Yun even thought that with such a short distance, he could open a small shop at home, which would definitely attract many rich young men and women to patronize it, and it should not be difficult to earn student points.

Things weren't going very smoothly for Su Yun. The two saw a large investment promotion poster on the first floor of the trading center. There was an investment promotion office on the left side of the main entrance. When they went in for consultation, they were shown that the staff looked down on them.

Wan Baona: Is there anything wrong?

Wang Jie: Hello, we would like to know about the shops for rent.

Oh, where do you live?

Su Yun understood that where you live determines your social status, and this question is a disguised way of investigating your points strength.

Su Yun took it alone and said: Wu Yuan.

Five Abysses?

Wan Baona frowned slightly. Recently, people have been asking about shops every day, and there are quite a few in Wuyuan, but most of them backed off after hearing the rent. Wan Baona didn't think the handsome man and beautiful woman standing in front of her had the ability to do so. After all, they didn't speak the local language. People from outside the small base had very few points, and they probably gritted their teeth to rent in Wuyuan.

What do you want to do?

Wang Jie: Can we see the shop planning?

The planning map is posted on the wall for you to see for yourself.

The two turned around and took a quick look. The arc-shaped supermarket ran through the seventh floor of the Thirty-Five Abysses Road. Ordinary merchants could only rent from the fourth abyss downwards. The ten floors above were all high-end stores, and ordinary people could not afford to rent them and could not go up.

Wang Jie didn't want to go up and down, so he went straight to Wuyuan. Looking at the geographical location, the closer to the gate and the entrance, the higher the rent. The monthly rent of a 30-square-meter shop was as high as 18,000 points. The most remote place probably wouldn't have much traffic, and the rent of a 20-square-meter small compartment was as high as 3,000 points.

Ordinary people really can't afford to rent, but can Su Yun be an ordinary person? She felt that even if she opened a grocery store in such a deep place, with the advantage of space and the goods she had stockpiled before, the business should not be bad.

Su Yun pointed to the most remote shop and nodded to Wang Jie: Let's take this one.

Because the underground city stipulates that shops cannot be privately converted into commercial shops in residential areas, if you want to operate in compliance with regulations, you must rent a shop in the trading center.

Wang Jie walked up to Wan Baona and said calmly: We want this one.

Wan Baona lost her composure: Even in the most remote place, it would still cost 3,000 points, and the contract would be for at least half a year. It's hard to say whether it will be profitable or not. The underground city is still in its early stages of construction, and the prices of many commodities fluctuate, with no regularity at all.

Therefore, there are many people asking questions in the entire trading center, but not many transactions are completed.

Wan Baona didn't expect that these two people would sign the contract today without even having to go back and think about it.

He immediately took out the contract template and handed it to the two of them.

After using 18,000 points, Su Yun and Wang Jie complained: This is too shady. They just collect half a year's rent and don't give a refund. How can these people dare to sign such a contract?

Wang Jie smiled and said: Don't be angry, think about it, there is only one trading center in the entire Agricultural University, and there are only eight trading centers in the entire underground city, so the flow of people is quite large. We live close to it, and you may think it's a big deal, but think about those who live far away. If they want to buy something, they can only come to the trading center from afar, because private shops are not allowed. This trading center has great potential in the future. Even the most inconspicuous place may be hard to find a shop in the future.

Su Yun nodded: It seems to be like that, then why don’t we open a few more stores.

Oh, my dear wife, we just regard this store as a entry point, a platform for selling goods. There is no use in having more. It is enough to sell things.

We run a grocery store and can sell whatever we want, but we don’t have a business license anyway.

In Su Yun's mind, he was already taking inventory of what was in the space that could be sold.