"Ah, it's a big house, mom, you see, there's a big balcony, and you can see the sun go down from here. As soon as Xiao Ying entered the room, she jumped up with joy, she was lying on the glass wall of the balcony, looking at the sunset in the distance, her little face was illuminated by the afterglow of the sunset, and the sunshine and joy were mixed together, so that Zhuang Yan was also happy in her heart.

And Chen Jiaqing was stunned in the living room, Zhuang Yan only told her the location of the house before, but he didn't tell her that her house was like this, she didn't need to look at it, she could know that this house was definitely not small at a glance.

She glanced at Zhuang Yan and motioned for him to take a step to speak, but Zhuang Yan didn't seem to see it, pulled Xiaoying to the door of one of the rooms and said with a smile: "Xiaoying, this is your room in the future." ”

Xiaoying was pleasantly surprised: "Ah, I still have my own room, and there are bookshelves here, and I have brought all my books." ”

Chen Jiaqing looked at Xiao Ying's happy appearance, and her heart was a little sour, before they lived in that small house, Xiao Ying never complained, she thought that the child was still young and didn't care about these things.

But now she knows that Xiaoying is just more sensible than other children and knows how to take care of her emotions, so she never complains, but now the excitement of seeing the big house reveals that she actually cares a lot.

At this time, Zhuang Yan saw that Xiaoying was fiddling with the small bookcase in her room, so she walked up to Chen Jiaqing and asked, "Sister Chen, did you have something to tell me just now?"

"I ......" Chen Jiaqing sighed silently, now that she couldn't open her mouth, she couldn't bear to deprive Xiaoying of her happiness.

"It's okay, I just want to ask you how much the rent is, and I'll give you the money. Chen Jiaqing said that she decided that no matter how much the rent was, she would grit her teeth and live, and the reason why she wanted to move was not to let the court know that she also had the ability to give Xiaoying a better life?

Zhuang Yan said with a smile: "It's a total of two thousand yuan, half of us, you just give me one thousand." ”

"A thousand, how is it possible!" Chen Jiaqing said in surprise.

The room they rented before was bigger than Zhuang Yan's, so the rent was also higher, costing 800 yuan a month, but that room was old and dilapidated, and the simple decoration many years ago was so mottled that it was impossible to see the original state in some places.

With the previous comparison, now when Zhuang Yan told her that the rent of this house was 2,000 a month, and each of them was 1,000, she really couldn't believe it.

However, Zhuang Yan said as a matter of course: "What's impossible, this is a friend's house of mine, I can't rent it here, I can rent it for two thousand, which can be regarded as a great help to him." ”

Chen Jiaqing is not a little girl who has just entered the society, of course she doesn't believe his nonsense, if it is really his friend's house as he said, then he will not say anything about finding a house before.

"Xiaozhuang, you show me the contract. Chen Jiaqing said.

Zhuang Yan shrugged his shoulders, "I told you, it's my friend's house, what kind of contract do you sign, you need to notarize to sign a contract, you have to pay taxes, why waste money." ”

That's right, in this world of China, because of the tax system, the contract of renting a house needs to be notarized and remarked by a special department nearby, so that the income from renting a house will be recorded in the national tax system and will also be listed in the tax list.

Although Chen Jiaqing felt that Zhuang Yan was fooling her, what he said was reasonable and could not be refuted, but she still did not give up and said: "You always have the landlord's phone number, you give me his phone, I will ask." ”

Zhuang Yan didn't refuse, he gave her the phone directly, and then Chen Jiaqing called the landlord in front of him.

The two said a few words, and Chen Jiaqing hung up the phone suspiciously, "It's really your friend?"

Zhuang Yan smiled: "Of course, do you think I lied to you, okay, just a thousand yuan, let's not talk about it, I'll take you to see your room." ”

After speaking, he led Chen Jiaqing to the room next to Xiaoying's room.

With a total of four rooms, Zhuang Yan did not treat himself badly, and gave himself the master bedroom. The four rooms have two pairs of doors, and a communal bathroom is sandwiched in between.

Next to Zhuang Yan's room is the study, opposite is Chen Jiaqing's room, and opposite the study is Xiaoying's room, and the general layout is like this.

Chen Jiaqing looked at her room, although it was not very big, but it was neat and bright, she was very satisfied, looking at the quilt on the bed, she smiled: "Xiaozhuang, you also helped me lay the quilt, oh, by the way, the quilt is spread on my side, and Xiaoying is ...... there."

"Xiaoying, I bought a new quilt over there. Zhuang Yan said.

Chen Jiaqing looked at Zhuang Yan, and finally said, "How much money I bought, I will give you the money later." ”

Zhuang Yan shook his head and didn't say how much the quilt was, but said with a smile: "Why don't we go and look at the kitchen to see if it's better than the kitchen you had before." ”

"I think you're hungry. Chen Jiaqing also smiled.

"Of course. Zhuang Yan generously admitted.

……

Of course, the kitchen of the new house is much better than the previous kitchen, not to mention the others, just say that the area is several times the size of the previous small kitchen, and in the end, Chen Jiaqing quickly fried a few dishes, hurriedly finished eating and left.

She also had a part-time job in the evenings, so she couldn't delay it too long.

There is a small dining room next to the kitchen, and there is a rectangular dining table in the small dining room, and as soon as Chen Jiaqing leaves, he leaves Zhuang Yan and Xiaoying to sit at the dining table to eat.

Xiaoying was too short to reach the table when she sat on a chair, so Zhuang Yan thought of a way for her to put a small wooden box under her buttocks, so that she could reach the bowl on the table.

Zhuang Yan smiled and gave Xiao Ying a chopstick dish and asked her, "Is it uncomfortable to sit like this?"

Xiao Ying shook her head and said, "It's not uncomfortable, eating at the big table is much better than before." In the past, when we ate, we had to eat on our stomachs. ”

Zhuang Yan went to eat with them, and of course she knew what she meant by eating on her stomach.

The planks that served as tables in their rooms were placed on small chairs, which were not as high as the chairs they sat on, so they had to eat on their stomachs.

When the meal was about to end, Zhuang Yan received a call from Wang Lijian.

"Hey, Mr. Wang, I don't know what to do by calling me. The two talked on the phone many times, and they were acquaintances, so Zhuang Yan spoke a little more casually.

Wang Lijian is not a dull person, and he also said with a smile: "I just came to ask the writer Zhuang University if he had dinner." ”

"I'm eating. ”

"Oh, why don't we talk when you're done?"

Zhuang Yan smiled: "No need, let's talk about something." ”

Wang Lijian didn't shirk either, and said directly: "I didn't tell you about sales two days ago, and I've been almost busy with things in the past two days, so I'll report to you." The sales are very good, in the past two days, Yanjing alone has sold 60,000 copies. We have reprinted a second batch, for a total of 200,000 copies, ready to start selling nationwide. ”

Zhuang Yan nodded: "It's a good thing, Mr. Wang is here to report the good news to me?"

Wang Lijian said with a smile: "It seems that you are quite calm, of course I am not just here to report the good news, this national sale, Jinling is one of the more important cities, you are in Jinling, so I will ask you, are you willing to get a signing meeting, with the sales." ”

"Signing?" Zhuang Yan groaned, and finally shook his head: "Wait for next time." ”

"Next time?" Wang Lijian paused for a moment, and then said, "Okay, I know what you mean, next time, next time." ”

Hung up Wang Lijian's phone, Zhuang Yan thought about the signing again, the main reason why he didn't agree was that he didn't want to be too tired, and he was just a little famous now, and it always felt a little weird to do the signing.

And subconsciously, Zhuang Yan always doesn't want to show up.