Siheyuan: All the incense in the family is counting on you

Facing Liu Lan's expectant eyes, Li Bowen nodded.

"Okay, that's great. I'll rent this place to you! I'll give you a year's rent first. I'm going to the countryside tomorrow. I'll let Zhuzi give you the rent and the rental contract tomorrow."

Liu Lan's face showed surprise. She really didn't expect Li Bowen to directly give her a year's rent. She had originally wanted to discuss whether he could give her half a year's rent as her family really needed the money.

Her husband's monthly medicine money is a big expense for the family. If the factory hadn't reimbursed most of the medical expenses, and if the mother-in-law could not do some odd jobs making paper boxes to supplement the family income, this family would have collapsed long ago.

But even so, the family was still in great difficulty, and the rent just happened to solve their urgent needs.

"Thank you!" Liu Lan's eyes gradually became moist.

Li Bowen pretended not to see it: "Okay, I'll be back in about a week, you just need to pack it up in the next few days."

"Don't worry, I will definitely help you get it done!"

"Shall we go, then?"

After seeing it, they decided that there was no need to stay here any longer. On the way back from Liu Lan's house, Li Bowen said to He Yuzhu, "You can find a dog and keep it at Liu Lan's place. She will bring back more things in the future. It won't work if she is the only woman at home. If a thief comes, there will be a house full of old, weak and sick people!"

He Yuzhu also smiled and said, "Don't say it's true. There's not a single useful one. Okay, I'll look around and find a good dog!"

After returning to the courtyard, Li Bowen took 60 yuan from home and gave it to He Yuzhu at the Intermediate Court. He also wrote two contracts and asked him to ask Liu Lan to sign them the next day.

The next day after dawn, He Yuzhu went to work by himself.

Li Bowen returned to the front yard, took the money, said something to the aunt and the others, then rode his tricycle around the city. The wedding banquet was about to begin, and although everything at home had been prepared, he still wanted to buy something for Chen Qiao. After all, although the two of them were having a wedding banquet, they could not get the marriage certificate, which made him feel a little guilty.

There is a saying in the city: "If you can't buy something in a department store, don't go anywhere else."

The department store in question was the one. He rode his bike to the door and found the parking area. Li Bowen took out a dime and handed it to the old man watching the bikes. He asked in a low voice, "Uncle, who should I go to buy the ticket from?"

The old man took the money very skillfully, put it in his pocket, then looked in a certain direction and nodded.

"I understand. Thank you!" Li Bowen understood what he meant. There is always a shortage of scalpers in any era. That's why he gave ten cents for the inspection fee, which was only three or five cents.

After walking to the location pointed by the old man watching the cars, I found a seat on the platform under the flower bed, and waited there with a cigarette in my mouth.

Sure enough, not long after, someone came over and sat next to him: "Ahem!"

Li Bowen looked in another direction and muttered in a low voice: "A watch ticket, a sewing ticket and a matching industrial ticket."

The man replied in the same low voice: "20 yuan in total, no bargaining!"

This is the price. There is nothing you can do if you think it is too expensive. If you have to wait until you get the ticket from the company, you will never know when it will happen. If I had known that Li Huaide would give them rewards and let them vote, I would have chosen a watch or a sewing machine. I had to choose a bicycle ticket myself.

Li Bowen took out two big black bills from his pocket, put a cigarette in his mouth, turned to the man and asked, "Comrade, do you have matches? Lend me a light."

"Yes, I brought it! Let me find it for you!" The man rummaged in his pocket for a while, handed over the matchbox, and took the money from Li Bowen's hand.

When I opened it, I saw that besides a few matches, the box was filled with the tickets.

He struck a match, smoked a cigarette, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, stomped it out, and walked straight into the department store.

When men go shopping, they focus on one thing and they don't even look at anything else. They go to the daily necessities sales point first and buy some toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, clam oil and the like, and a big bag of snacks, and then go straight to buy the big items.

The watch cost 130 yuan, and the sewing machine cost 178 yuan. In the blink of an eye, Li Bowen's annual salary was gone.

He put the watch into a shoulder bag and put it on his chest. He hired someone to carry the sewing machine to the parking spot, put it on the tricycle, tied it up with a rope, and headed straight to Changping. His uncle, aunt, and Li Mei would have to wait until the weekend and the day before the wedding banquet before they could go back, so there was nothing wrong with going back now.

Still finding a deserted place, putting the things in the space, riding the tricycle at lightning speed, after several hours of hard struggle, finally arrived at the door of my grandparents' house, jumped off the bike, and still jumped on the spot for a while to relax before walking into the yard.

The old lady was naturally happy to see her eldest grandson come back, but after seeing the things in the car, she began to complain about Li Bowen spending money indiscriminately.

"Grandma, the sewing machine was bought by my uncle and aunt! These small pieces are my own money." Indeed, the aunt wanted to give him money, but Li Bowen refused. His salary in the past few years was about a thousand yuan, so how could he ask for money from his hometown!

"Well, that's good, they deserve to spend money on you!" The old lady immediately became happy when she heard this, and kept walking around the sewing machine, praising it all the time.

The family was preparing a banquet as there was a kitchen in the village, with grandfather, third uncle and the head of the household helping, so Li Bowen had nothing to do at all. He couldn't go to see Chen Qiao, so he asked his second sister to deliver the snacks, and then he rode his bike to visit the nearby villages.

There are classmates from his elementary school in several surrounding villages, and these relationships must be fully utilized. Hu Li from Hujiazhuang was one of his best friends at that time. The guy is now married, and his child is over one year old.

According to the original body's memory, entering his house is just like entering his own home. Except for the wife, everything else can be used freely.

Without even saying hello, Li Bowen pushed the door open, lifted the curtain and walked in, then quickly walked out again: "Ahem, hey, wife, where's your fox?"

Hu Li's wife came out holding the child and said, "You called me your wife, why are you running away when you see me?"

"I didn't see anything. The little fox was blocking my view!" Li Bowen smiled awkwardly.

"Want to see it clearly? Then just tell me. I'm not a stingy person. You two brothers can use anything you want. What are you afraid of?"

"Stop, stop, stop. Why don't I surrender? Where is the young wife who would blush when she said something?" Li Bowen was defeated directly. This married woman with children is really not to be messed with.

"Hahaha." Li Bowen's embarrassment caused Hu Li's wife to laugh: "Fox has gone to work and hasn't come back yet. He has just been appointed as the team leader and is very active!"

"Really? This kid has made it big! I just happened to have something to ask him!"

"So are you going to look for him in the fields or waiting at home?"