Chapter 021 Noodle Soup
With such a good location, Zhang Yunxiu can only be at ease if he settles down early.
So when she returned to the street office with Officer Zhao, she paid the rent for one month first, and the rent will start officially on August 22 tomorrow.
"By the way, I almost forgot." Secretary Zhao suddenly said after finishing the rental procedures: "I went to the Production Mutual Aid Cooperative of the Revolutionary Committee to ask about the work you mentioned before. You can add in and get some manual work back to do it. By the end of last year, our county's clothing factory will recruit a group of temporary workers. You can sign up and try it out."
"Director Zhao, I, I really don't know how to thank you!"
Zhang Yunxiu had no great hope for finding a job. After all, Huaixiang County has a large population and only has so many jobs to offer. People with household registration in the city may not be able to find a job, let alone she is from the countryside.
It was just a matter of just talking, but unexpectedly, Officer Zhao really helped him ask.
Even if he doesn’t have a job, Zhang Yunxiu is very grateful for his kindness.
After chatting in the street office for a while, the brother and sister went directly to the house she rented and said goodbye to the enthusiastic Secretary Zhao.
"This room is not very dirty, but it also lacks furniture. I really have to go to the scrap station to get a batch back." Zhang Yunlong frowned at the empty room.
He actually refused the idea that the girl wanted to move out of living alone with her niece. If this stinky girl hadn't been stubborn, she wouldn't have agreed to come and rent a house.
Zhang Yunlong never let go of his heart along the way. After all, it is a common sense problem for people in the city to look down on them, these country bumpkins. He is really afraid that the girl will be bullied in this unfamiliar place.
Fortunately, Director Zhao is a really good person, which makes him feel a little more comforted.
All the rent is paid, and the house needs to be sorted out.
Although the empty house was cleaned once by the front owner, it seemed to have been empty for a while, so there was still a long-term musty smell in the house, and there was a thick layer of gray on the ground.
Zhang Yunxiu borrowed a basin and a broom next door, and cleaned the inside and out of the house with his elder brother. The other neighbors in the building also knew that there were newcomers to move in, so they came over curiously. Some enthusiastic people would take the initiative to help Zhang Yunxiu clean the house and chat by the way.
"It seems that the girl's neighbors are all OK."
Zhang Yunlong went out and bought some honeycomb coal and pulled it back. When he entered the door, he saw that the girl had already started chatting with several neighbors. Everyone had just met him, and the first impression he gave was quite good.
It was already six o'clock in the afternoon when the house was cleaned.
Zhang Yunxiu touched her hungry stomach, swept the basin and the young woman next door to thank her, and then asked her elder brother to go to a state-owned restaurant for dinner together.
"Why are you going to a state-owned restaurant? How expensive is this!" Zhang Yunlong was pulled into the direction of the state-owned restaurant by his own girl, feeling sorry for the money in her pocket: "We can bear to go home and have dinner, why are we spending these money in vain?"
"No, I can't stand it hungry anymore! Brother, if you don't accompany me to eat, I won't call you next time." Zhang Yunxiu snorted and threatened inwardly.
"You have money in your pocket and don't have a place to spend, right? Is the state-owned hotel a place where people like us can go?" Zhang Yunlong poked her forehead angrily, "Why are you spending so much money now? Now you have no income and have to raise a girl. How can you raise a child if you don't care?"
As he said that, Zhang Yunlong remembered what his lover had mentioned to her. He glanced at his girl silently and coughed lightly, "Xiu'er, you are still so young, are you really planning to stay for Bai Ting for the rest of your life?"
"Brother, I don't want to talk about this now." Zhang Yunxiu pursed her lips, but she actually didn't know.
It’s not that she had thought about remarrying in her previous life, but somehow, the men she met were not very good. Twenty years have been enough to slowly get rid of her love for Bai Ting. But perhaps she was fed up with her in-laws like the Bai family, and she was really a little scared.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are natural enemies. After living for forty years, she has never seen a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who can get along well with each other.
In the eyes of most men, my mother is always more important than her wife. She becomes annoyed as she looks at it and doesn't want to live such a life of frustration.
"If you don't talk about this, let's go quickly. If it's too late, there will be no seat."
Zhang Yunxiu pretended to be relaxed and said to his elder brother, and with a tough attitude, he pulled him into a state-owned hotel.
In this era, the waiters who could work in state-owned hotels were all arrogant and didn't take a look at the guests when they saw them coming in, especially rural people like the Zhang brothers and sisters who dressed simply and rustic.
Zhang Yunxiu was not treated by the waiter when she entered the door and hadn't reacted for a while. She was still waiting for someone to come and order her with the menu. As a result, she simply ignored the brother and sister.
Zhang Yunlong had never been to a state-owned restaurant for dinner, and was at a loss for a moment, just looking at her like this.
Zhang Yunxiu then realized, and hurried to the meal collection window and shouted, "I want a bowl of beef noodles, little bowl of brother, what do you want to eat?"
"I'll just eat vegetarian noodles." Zhang Yunlong wondered, why did the girl spend so much money now? But he couldn't persuade him, and he was helpless.
"Then two bowls of beef noodles, a small bowl and a large bowl."
Zhang Yunxiu didn't say anything, and directly paid the money and the food coupons to hand it over to the waiter standing at the meal collection window next to her, without caring about the pain in his elder brother's face.
She was not happy to eat a bowl of vegetarian noodles after finally getting to the restaurant.
There are actually many people in the state-owned hotel now, and there are also many people standing at the meal collection window. The brother and sister lined up and quickly received their noodles. The steaming beef noodles came out and attracted a lot of people's attention, which made Zhang Yunxiu feel furious.
With so many jealous eyes, the brother and sister quickly protected their noodles and found a table to eat.
The beef noodles these days are really real. Large pieces of beef are placed on the noodles, and the strong soup smell is straight into the nose.
Zhang Yunxiu was really hungry and didn't talk nonsense to her elder brother. She just took the chopsticks and ate them voraciously. The food was super satisfying.
Seeing this, Zhang Yunlong did not hesitate and started eating noodles. Some people around him stood by their tables and didn't leave. He looked at them eating constantly and swallowed their saliva.
Zhang Yunxiu was not easy to drive away, so she pretended not to see it. She ate all the noodles and dishes and took another sip of the soup before burping with satisfaction.
Chapter completed!