Chapter 278 70 The Educated Youth Heroine's Excellent Sister-in-law 63
Chapter 278 70 The Educated Youth Heroine's Excellent Sister-in-law 63
After Li Xingzhi said this, they knew how to deal with their neighbors. If they were not familiar with each other, they could just get along with each other and there was no need to pay too much attention.
After chatting for a few more sentences, the family went back to their rooms to rest. Except for little Hanfei who was soundly sleeping, no one else got a good rest along the way.
It was because Xiao Yun secretly set up a barrier for him, otherwise he would have been unable to sleep because of the smoke.
Xiao Yun and Li Xingzhi slept until noon, put the child in the grandparents' room, said goodbye and went out.
He planned to take Xiao Yun to the nearby area to familiarize himself with the route first, and then go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables. There was no vegetable market at the moment, so if they wanted to buy vegetables, they had to go to the vegetable market next to the supply and marketing cooperative.
There is a morning market every morning on the main road across two alleys. It starts at around five in the morning and closes at around eight or nine in the morning.
The vegetables and fruits sold there are all grown by farmers in the suburbs of Beijing. They are fresher than those sold at the vegetable market. He can bring his grandparents there to have a look tomorrow.
The suburbs of Beijing at that time were not the areas beyond the Fifth and Sixth Ring Roads of later generations. Now the Third Ring Road is the suburbs of Beijing. There are large fields there, which are not far from here. People come here carrying loads on their shoulders or pushing carts.
Of course there are buses, but there are fewer of them now, and they are difficult to wait for and cost money, so many people are reluctant to take them.
When they rode their bicycles to the vegetable market, they found that there was no customer inside. Well, no one would come to buy vegetables just before cooking. They had all bought them in advance and were cooking at home at that time.
Looking at the wilted vegetables and a few old cucumbers on the table, I really have no appetite at all.
Forget about meat and fish, they have long been out of stock. Although the market is now open for business, the output has not increased. There are only a few items available, and they are still not that abundant.
There was no choice anyway, so I could only buy whatever I had. I bought a bunch of green vegetables that were not so yellow and two of the thinnest cucumbers, and then went to the Grain and Oil Department to buy five kilograms of rice and five kilograms of flour.
There is no need to buy more of this. They have already sent the food from their homes by mail before coming, and it should arrive tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
They are all new grains harvested this year. I also bought some from the village. Although the postage cost a lot, it is better than buying them here.
There are plenty of things in Xiao Yun's space, but it's not easy to take them out. I will take things out slowly after I have settled everything here.
Li Xingzhi thought the meal with only vegetables was a bit too plain. This was the first meal he cooked at home and it was too shabby. So he took Xiao Yun to the state-owned restaurant and ordered some braised pork and chicken stewed with potatoes before going home.
The first meal in the new home was a combination of meat and vegetables. As expected of a chef from a state-owned restaurant in the capital, his cooking skills were quite good. The braised pork was fatty but not greasy, and the taste was very authentic. The chicken nuggets and potatoes were soft but not mushy. Little Hanfei even ate a lot of mashed potatoes.
It may also be because the food ingredients nowadays are better. Nowadays, pigs and chickens are mostly raised at home. Even in pig farms and chicken farms, they don’t use feed, but straw and grain.
After dinner, they left the child with his grandparents and went to the street office to finalize their household registration. Only after getting a certificate from the street office could they go to the household registration office to register their household registration in this house.
They still rode a bicycle. The street office was not far away, just at the entrance of the next alley. The people there were much more familiar with Li Xingzhi. Most of them greeted him, especially two middle-aged women. They were very enthusiastic towards them and even took them to the office next door and poured them some boiled water.
Li Xingzhi introduced them to each other. The two middle-aged women were named Lin Fang and Yang Huiru, both directors of street offices.
One is in charge of housing, and the other is responsible for mediating conflicts between neighbors, which is almost the same as a mediator.
At this time, if there are some conflicts at home or between neighbors, they like to go to the street office. For example, if the children at home are unfilial, there are conflicts between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law, or there are quarrels between neighbors, the street office will mediate.
The police will only be alerted when the situation cannot be mediated or there are serious injuries. Therefore, the street office still has great power.
Obviously, Director Lin Fanglin, who is in charge of the house, is more familiar with Li Xingzhi. She was the one who sent rent to Li Xingzhi regularly before.
"You are so lucky, you have a wife and a son. Your wife is so beautiful and a perfect match for you. You should live a good life in the future.
By the way, how are you going to arrange your work? Didn't you say you were going to the station? Have you decided yet?"
Hearing his wife being praised, Li Xingzhi's smile deepened. "It's settled. My buddy has made the connection. We can go there to register tomorrow. So we have to hurry and get the household registration done today. We just got off the train this morning, so time is tight and the task is heavy..."
Lin Fang, who originally wanted to chat with him, smiled unhappily and said, "I understand, I understand. I'll issue you a certificate right away. It won't take up your time."
Li Xingzhi replied with a playful smile, "Oh, Aunt Lin, that's not what I meant. You misunderstood me."
Lin Fang and his mother were classmates and they had a good relationship. She took good care of him and his sister after his parents passed away. Otherwise, he would not have been so confident in entrusting the house to her, and she would not have been so dedicated to sending him rent while he was far away.
Yang Huiru was nice to Lin Fang because she had a good relationship with him. While Lin Fang was getting the certificate, Yang Huiru chatted with them for a while.
"Didn't you say the child is only a few months old? Is there anyone at home to look after him?"
Li Xingzhi nodded. "My wife's grandparents came back with us. My brother-in-law used to go to college here. He graduated this year and stayed here. It's good for the grandparents to come with us so they can take care of each other."
"Oh! That's incredible. There are quite a few college students in recent years, but only a few can stay in Beijing. Most of them are assigned back to their hometowns. Only those who are very outstanding can stay."
Yang Huiru said this to Xiao Yun. Xiao Yun felt the other party's kindness and returned a kind smile.
"He's not outstanding, but he's a sports student. He wants to be an athlete, which also requires physical strength. Children from rural areas may not be good at other things, but they have better physical strength. They have been running up and down the mountains since they were young."
Yang Huiru disagreed, "You can't say that. It also requires talent. There are so many people in the country, and only a few athletes can be selected. It takes one in ten thousand, no, one in a hundred thousand..."
The reason why he can be the director is that he can talk. When they left with the certificates, Xiao Yun and Li Xingzhi both had smiles on their faces. It was a pleasure to chat with someone who could talk.
They didn't know that after they left, other people from the street office were also talking about their family affairs.
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