Three large gold-lacquered plaques hang very eye-catchingly on the door. The two vermilion doors directly indicate the lofty status of the owner of the house. They are neatly inlaid with rows of golden bubble nails. Not only the front door, but also the side
The side door is also unambiguous, with a row of eight red sticks
The colorful pillars silently tell the majesty and courage of this place. The two stone lions in front of the door are guarding the door.
The top wealthy families show their style. Net
The grandeur of the palace instantly shocked the group of country bumpkins brought by Lin Tao. Zhang Xu opened his mouth and it took him a long time to recover. Then he touched the stone lion in excitement. When he turned around, he had already
Feeling a little messy, he stammered to the tour guide girl: "This...such a big house really only costs fifty kilograms of rice per month?"
"Haha~ Of course it's only fifty pounds! But brother, don't be too surprised. This house looks great on the outside, but it's not as big as you think on the inside, because it's just a look-alike for filming.
So there are only two rows of houses in the front and back, and they are not built according to the regular royal palace, but the furniture is all ready, so it is more cost-effective not to buy additional ones!" the girl explained with a smile.
"As long as the appearance is impressive enough, don't you just have a face?" Zhang Xu's eyes suddenly lit up, he patted the big front paw of the stone lion with great excitement, turned to Lin Tao and said with a smile: "Haha! Brother Lin
, I think this is it, let’s have a taste of what it’s like to be a prince!”
"Okay, anyway, you have a share in going out to look for food in a few days. Just don't complain and feel tired then!" Lin Tao smiled and nodded. The woman standing behind him also ran up excitedly and wanted to open the door, but no matter
Regardless of whether it is the main entrance or the side entrance, General Iron will guard the door.
"Don't worry, I'll call the people from the housing management office. If you give me rice, the house will be opened!" The tour guide said and ran away in a hurry. After a while, he brought two middle-aged men and women with name tags.
, one of the women walked up to Lin Tao carrying a bunch of keys, and said very politely: "Sir, the rent is fifty pounds per month. At the beginning of each month we
They will come to collect the rent. If you don't want to rent, you must tell us in advance. The rent for that month is non-refundable, and the original furniture cannot be taken away when you leave. Also, because this is a wooden structure house, you must
Be prepared for fire prevention. Once a fire occurs, you will not only be fined, but in serious cases you may face eviction from the city..."
The woman with the name tag politely told Lin Tao a lot of precautions, without showing any impatience from beginning to end. She also informed them of the responsibilities of the housing management office and waited for them to hand over the keys to Cao Cao.
When Mei held his hand, everyone except Lin Tao looked at the two people from the housing management office with strange eyes. They saw Zhang Xu picking his chin and couldn't help asking: "You two, are you the best in this city?"
A civil servant here, right?"
"Of course, we passed three written tests and interviews, and finally got this position with the personal confirmation of the deputy mayor in charge!" The man with some balding hair proudly raised his chest and pointed beside him.
The middle-aged woman introduced: "This is Director Li of our management office!"
"Haha~ Hello everyone, if you have any problems with housing in the future, feel free to come to me and I will do my best to solve it for you!" the middle-aged woman said with a kind face.
"This is wrong!"
He never expected that a random girl would turn out to be the director of the department. Zhang Xu looked at the two of them in extreme confusion and said, "We are renting your official house, shouldn't we be asked to come to find you? Then let us look for this one again.
Well, is it correct to put on seven or eight red seals and sign a dozen or so names? How can there be any reason for civil servants to come to serve in person? Especially since you are the director of the department! You are not pretending, are you? Bring me your ID.
have a look!"
"No, no! This civil servant dares to impersonate. If he is caught, he will be deported!" Director Li immediately raised his hand quickly and said with some embarrassment: "If you don't want to believe it, you can ask Xiao Jin to check the fine police
Call me here to prove it, and you should believe it, right?"
"Don't say we are deliberately looking for trouble. To tell you the truth, you are so polite that even I feel that you don't look like civil servants!" Bingbing also looked puzzled, then turned to look at the little tour guide and said: "Guide Jin Yan, it's you who
Are all civil servants like this, or did we just happen to meet two people who are easy to talk to?"
Jin Yan was the name of the little tour guide. When she heard Bingbing's question, she and the two people from the housing management office laughed. It was Jin Yan who explained: "Sister, that's all in the past tense. It's different now."
, Our civil servants here are considered real civil servants, and they will never ask for a grain of rice. Otherwise, as soon as you complain to them, an investigation team will come down to investigate them. As long as the situation is verified, not only will you not be able to become a civil servant,
From now on, even road sweepers won’t accept them!”
"Yes, serving the people is no longer empty talk. To put it bluntly, we serve you. You are the ones who pay to support us. If we don't try our best to serve you, which of you will willingly pay for it? Yes.
Right?" Director Li also had a smile on his face, and his smile was very sincere.
"Hey~ It's amazing, I really feel a little flattered! If we can keep it like this forever, I think our life will be better than that of the Americans!" Zhang Xu looked at the two serious civil servants and shook his head.
His face was full of disbelief.
After a few more nonsense words, after the people from the management office handed over the keys and left, Lin Tao and the others began to move large and small bags of things into the house. With the unanimous consent of everyone, Lin Tao took his three women and rice
Jialeb and Axue moved to the big house in the backyard together. Jiang Yan also insisted on being a servant and dragged No. 6 with her, while the rest of the people all lived in the small house in front.
In the house, only after entering the palace did everyone realize that what Jin Yan said was indeed true. The palace was really just a show-off. Apart from the facade, the rest of the palace was not as big as a three-story villa.
Things were placed one by one, and everyone gradually began to feel at home. Everyone's face was filled with happy smiles. Even if they were sweating profusely from work, everyone was happy. Only just now
Gao Yuanyuan, who lost her father, made everyone have a headache. The little girl was so stimulated that she seemed to be stupid now. She would eat when told to eat and sleep when told to sleep. But she didn't cry or laugh.
No. 6 still looked like a robot, so everyone had no choice but to arrange for Chen Jie, who was closest to her, to sleep in the same bed with her, and to enlighten her from time to time, hoping that she would recover soon.
As for Li Li, who had just lost a man, she actually cried for a long time, but after she finished crying, she felt fine again. In her words, two men died in a row, including her own husband.
It didn't matter that a wild man died, he was basically completely numb. After she added the last handful of soil to Boss Hu's grave, she seemed to have put all the sadness behind and started living a life of eating and drinking again!
"Brother Lin, do you think we need to find a janitor here?" Jin Yan saw that Lin Tao and the others were almost ready to go out, so she cautiously came closer and said with a smile: "Although the security here is pretty good,
But theft still happens from time to time. I suggest you find a caretaker. Firstly, he can look after your home when you go out together. Secondly, you have relatively few men, so he can do some heavy work. Anyway,
The concierge’s room is also empty!”
"What? Xiao Jin, do you have any acquaintances you would like to recommend?" Lin Tao turned to look at Jin Yan and asked with a smile.
"Yes... it's my dad!" Jin Yan saw that Lin Tao had revealed her little thoughts with one word, and immediately blushed and said coyly: "Because he is too honest, he can't even get the chores, and he has to
You rely on me to support you. Brother Lin, if you are short of a caretaker here, I can call him to show you. He doesn’t need any extra food. I can only give him one meal a day to prevent him from starving to death.
!”
"Okay, we are going to go out for a walk later. We really need someone to watch at home. You can call your father!" Lin Tao smiled and nodded. He didn't care about the many pairs of chopsticks at home. Given the wastefulness of those women,
Look, the food leaking out of their mouths is enough to feed two of Jin Yan's fathers!
"Hey! Thank you, thank you Brother Lin!" Jin Yan immediately bowed to Lin Tao excitedly, with the black ponytail on the back of her head sticking up. After saying that, she ran out of the courtyard and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
In the alley.
It was only about ten minutes after Jin Yan returned again. Lin Tao, who was leaning against the red painted door frame and smoking, could hear Jin Yan instructing her father from a distance, but it was just to ask him to be more diligent and don't do anything.
It is annoying to others, and there are many women in his family, so his father should be more careful and don't do anything rashly.
"Brother Lin, this is my dad, do you think it's OK?" Jin Yan said and pulled a timid middle-aged man through the door. This man had a pair of very rough hands and his skin was tanned.
He is a farmer who often goes to the fields to do farm work. He wears a navy blue coat with holes and patches on it, and he cocks his head in an honest and humble manner.
"Haha~ Uncle Jin, you don't need to be so restrained. Just treat this place as your own home from now on. We don't actually have much work for you to do here. There are women who do the laundry and cooking. Your task is nothing more than sweeping the floor.
Dust off the dust and run around more at night to pay attention to fires. You usually rest in the concierge. If anyone comes to us, just shout for us!" Lin Tao looked at Jin Yan's father and said,
He walked over with a warm face and said.
"Hey, you...don't worry, I...I will definitely do the job well!" The man immediately bowed in fear, and Jin Yan helped him up with a smile and said: "Dad, Brother Lin is a
Good man, you have to do your best to help him work, and there are a lot of three hands in the city, so you have to patrol the yard more often!"
"If those three hands dare to come, I...I will fight with them!" Jin Yan's father clenched his fists and said with a fierce look on his face. Honest people naturally have the anger of honest people.
"Dad, Brother Lin has a big dog at home. If someone really dares to steal something, don't rush up to them stupidly and just let the dog bite them. I look at the size of that dog and can kill it in one go.
It won't be a problem for two or three people!" Jin Yan reminded with a smile, but just as she was talking, she saw Michael coming out of the house with his head held high while being ridden by Axue, and Jin Yan looked at Ah Xue, who was similar to her in age.
Xue held a sauced chicken leg and was eating it with the dog one bite at a time. The affectionate look made Jin Yan instantly feel a wasteful and weird feeling.
Everyone probably cleaned up and then rushed out to go shopping. Jin Yan was still accompanied. As for the rest of the work in the house, her father naturally cleaned it, and Jin Yan also solved her father's food and clothing problem.
The introduction is very accurate, and the nimble little mouth wants to spit out fresh topics like a machine gun.
A place where nearly 100,000 people live is naturally different from a small gathering place of 5,000 or 6,000 people. Although it cannot be said to be a world of difference, the difference is still quite huge. Just like the use of electricity, it is not entirely dependent on generators.
, many solar panels obtained from unknown sources have been installed on the roofs by professionals. As long as part of the installation and wiring fees are paid, the electricity can be used for free. Of course, the only people who use electricity are those wealthy families.
, basically the shops are in use. As for the poor, they are poor everywhere, and luxury will never be with them!
Before going shopping, Lin Tao and the others listened to Jin Yan's suggestion and pushed two carts of rice to the grain station to exchange for 500 kilograms of food stamps. The only grain station here was set up in a very spacious courtyard on Guangzhou Street.
, behind is a row of cement houses used as warehouses, with four armed guards taking turns guarding the door.
There is a special food stamp exchange office in the grain station. There are people queuing up outside the eight windows. Most of them come here to exchange rice and grain. A small number of people come here to exchange large-denomination food stamps.
The ticket was changed to zero, and there were six huge water tanks placed in the middle of the courtyard. People carrying water bottles and plastic buckets lined up in a long line, using their identity certificates to receive the drinking water they deserved that day.
"I'm sorry, madam, we don't count vacuum-packed foods such as ham sausages by roots or packages. We count them by grams after peeling, and we will have a dedicated actuary to calculate the cost of your food and other foods.
The exchange ratio and food are also graded. Food that has not spoiled within the shelf life is considered a high-quality product. Food that has not spoiled after the shelf life is considered a medium product. Food that has spoiled but can still be barely eaten is considered a defective product. If
We will not accept anything that is completely rotten, and what you get will be meat stamps, not food stamps!"
After dumping half a catty of rice and going out, the first man in line immediately gave up his seat to Cao Mei in surprise. A young girl in the window saw that Cao Mei didn't understand anything, so she politely told her about the situation here.
After hearing it again, Cao Mei and Jiaojiao, two women who wanted to be housekeepers, only heard vague and confused things. Cao Mei could only frown and said: "We don't have spoiled food. Even the dogs have spoiled food in our house."
If you don’t want to eat it, just tell me the ratio of meat stamps to food stamps!”
"Food stamps are not graded, and rice and millet are the same. Our high-quality meat stamps have a food stamp exchange rate of 1:5, medium-quality products have a food stamp exchange rate of 1:4, and inferior products have a 1:2 exchange rate. As for snacks,
The exchange rate is more complicated. The specific information is written on the public notice board at our gate. For example, for a 350-gram can of eight-treasure porridge, you need to exchange twice as much rice!" After saying that, the girl gave Cao another
Mei gave her a very sweet smile and handed her a stack of colorful plastic bills, then said: "The food stamps you exchanged totaled 500 kilograms, and the meat stamps totaled 80 kilograms. We have already deducted the relevant handling fees.
Please take stock!"
Cao Mei picked up the food stamps without even counting them and left. She handed the pile of colorful plastic tickets to Lin Tao and said with a smile: "Master, this is much more convenient, and there are people who are free."
Use the refrigerator to help us store food. I think we don’t need to put the food at home here, but we can bring all the meat!"
"What are you doing for me? These things must be a mess for me. From now on, you women will take care of them!" Lin Tao immediately shook his head. Just thinking about these housework and other things made his head grow bigger.
lock up.
"Sister Ru, take it, you are the well-deserved lady of our family!" Cao Mei turned around and handed the food stamps to Bai Ru, and flattered Bai Ru, and Bai Ru also shook her head and said:
"These food stamps are shared by everyone, and we have to distinguish between public and private. Let's do this. From now on, I will be the host and you can be the cashier. I will keep the accounts and you will be responsible for keeping them. We can just reconcile the accounts every night, so that everyone can rest assured!
"
"Sister Ru, what are you talking about? This food belongs to your family. Brother Lin just let us eat it. You ladies can spend it as you like, hehe! As long as we don't starve.
Just die!" Zhang Xu waved his hands carelessly, and just as he was about to light a cigarette, a guard carrying a gun ran up and told him that smoking was strictly prohibited in the area of the grain depot, otherwise he would be shot on the spot.
Zhang Xu looked at this young guard in his early twenties with disgust. The young man's face was covered with pimples, which were all shiny, giving people the feeling that they might burst at any time. However, although the other guy looked depressed, his expression was
But he was meticulous and serious, as if he was guarding the Tiananmen. This directly reminded Zhang Xu of the recruit eggs he brought when he was the squad leader, so after thinking about it, he still didn't care about him. After all, it was not just food for his family.
Inside, if it was really set on fire, everyone in the city would fight to the death with him.