In the blink of an eye, it has been the past week, and during this period, Qi Peixuan and his wife have accompanied Qi Peiyun and his wife in addition to work. Qi Peiyun also came to the labor market not far from home after her brother and sister-in-law went to work, to see if she could find a job, but it often backfired. Qi Shaoling's side is even more difficult, although he looks taller and burly than his peers, but he can still see his actual age from his childish face, so many jobs are not suitable for him, even if he swears that he is already twenty, but the other party offers to take his ID card to see, he has no choice. According to the regulations, he will have to wait at least until March and April of the following year before he can apply for an ID card.

In this way, Qi Peiyun couldn't help but be a little anxious, seeing that the school's winter vacation was coming, and Qi Xiaoxi would come back at that time, it would be even more difficult. What's more, although her sister-in-law didn't say it explicitly on the surface, she still heard some of the conversations with her brother behind her back, and knew that her brother was very embarrassed in this matter, so after discussing with Qi Shaoling, the two decided to find a house to rent outside first, and as for finding a job, they could only take their time.

At first, Qi Peixuan and his wife tried their best to stop it, but seeing that Qi Peiyun and his wife were very resolute, they no longer insisted, so Qi Peixuan came forward, and asked a few friends to introduce them, and rented a bungalow for Qi Peiyun and his wife not too far from his home. On the day of the move, Qi Peixuan deliberately asked for leave at the unit, and asked a friend to drive a car, just so that he could personally arrange it for Qi Peiyun and them. The car stopped at the entrance of an alley in a bungalow area, and the car could not drive in further, this is the kind of typical civilian gathering area, the houses are all next to each other, and there is almost no space in between. Qi Peixuan and Qi Shaoling walked in front with suitcases, while Qi Peiyun and his sister-in-law walked behind. After walking through the alley in front of me for about five or six minutes, the two people in front of me stopped.

In front of Qi Peiyun's eyes was a two-bay house, Qi Peixuan took out the key, opened the door lock, opened the door welded with iron bars, and walked in with the box, and the rest of the people also followed into the courtyard. The small courtyard is not big, and the area is five or six square meters, but it is very tidy, and there are no weeds and garbage. There is a hand-pressed well near the window, there is no running water here, and most residents dig a well in their own yard, which is convenient and hygienic. Qi Peixuan took out another key, opened the wooden door to enter the room, and carried the box into the house.

The house is a two-bedroom layout, with an aisle in the middle, with a width of about one meter six or seven, which can only accommodate two people walking side by side, and one more is a bit narrow. There is a living room on the left and right, the area should be the same, there is still a door at the end of the aisle, push the door open, you will see the kitchen on the left, a meter back on the right, a door, behind the door is a small bathroom, the old-fashioned kind of squatting. There is a large bucket of water in one corner of the bathroom, which seems to be used to flush the toilet. The toilet has a small, airy window in the wall and is inlaid with illuminated frosted glass.

The kitchen is not big, but it is very clean, apparently because there has been no fire for a long time. A liquefied gas tank, a double-burner gas cooktop, and nothing more.

The two bedrooms are very tidy, they are all south-facing sunrise houses, and the house is also very dry, but the temperature is a little low, presumably no one has lived here for a long time, and it lacks popularity. There was a single bed in each room, and the bed was covered with a bad old sponge cushion that smelled faintly musty. Qi Peiyun frowned, fanned his nose with his hand, hurriedly walked to the window, pushed the window open, and gasped. Seeing this, Qi Peixuan hurriedly said, "This house belongs to a colleague relative in my unit, his relative lived in a building a few years ago, and these two bungalows have been empty, I will go to the furniture store to help you get two new mattresses, and add some commonly used furniture and kitchen supplies, you two will clean up here first, Shaoling will follow me." After speaking, he and Qi Shaoling removed the two old mattresses and carried them to the garbage dump outside and threw them away.

The two drove to the furniture store and bought two new mattresses, two sets of bedding, a few chairs, two long tables and a square dining table. I bought some pots and pans, chopsticks and other kitchen supplies at a nearby hardware and kitchenware store, hired a rickshaw, and pulled them back to the small bungalow. When they returned to the bungalow, the two had already borrowed a basin from a neighbor, and bought some disinfectants, washing potions, towels, brushes, etc. from a nearby shop, and sprinkled some inside and outside the room, which can be regarded as a complete disinfection!

After laying the mattress, setting up the table and chairs, and hanging the curtains, the whole room suddenly becomes different, at least like a simple home. Qi Peiyun wiped the sweat from his sideburns, looked at the warm scene in front of him, and showed a long-lost smile on his face.

Qi Peixuan came to the house, he was busy in the kitchen with Qi Shaoling just now, and he taught Qi Shaoling how to turn on and off the gas tank, how to light a fire, boil water and other simple kitchen knowledge. When all this was done, he returned to Qi Peiyun's room and handed over the door and the key to the door. At the same time, there is also a small fold for paying electricity bills, telling the two of them to deposit electricity bills at the Electricity Bureau before the 15th of each month. Then he looked around the room and said, "It's almost, you don't have a TV here, tomorrow I'll ask someone to bring you the TV that my unit has eliminated, you will watch it for a few days, and then buy a new one after a few days." "That's good, don't be so troublesome," Qi Peiyun said with great satisfaction. "Well, don't bother, girl, what are you polite to your brother? Xie Yunqing put down the rag in his hand and said, "That's it for today, tomorrow my sister-in-law will accompany you to the street to buy some household items, these things, the two of them don't understand, if you want me to say, you still lack a lot of things here!"

Qi Shaoling saw that he couldn't help much here, so he walked out of the house and came to the courtyard. When he first entered the courtyard, he didn't notice it because it was facing away from the gate, but when he walked out of the house, he saw a plane tree with a thick bowl in the southeast and southwest corners of the courtyard. The season is approaching winter, and the leaves on the trees have almost fallen off, leaving only a few dark red fruits on the trees, some of which hang lonely on the branches, swaying gently in the breeze, looking a little bleak. The two ends of the main trunk, which is more than a meter above the ground, are tied by a plastic rope the thickness of chopsticks, presumably used to dry clothes and bedding on sunny days. Due to the passage of time, the plastic rope has weathered a little, and the surface of the rope has some burrs, and even the wire has been opened in some places. Qi Shaoling returned to the house and found the rope that had tied the mattress before and replaced the original rope, so that he was not afraid that the rope would suddenly break when drying clothes.

Qi Shaoling was standing under the tree, carefully looking at the plane tree in front of him, and suddenly a girl's timid voice came from the door, "Hello, may I ask if you have used up my basin?" Qi Shaoling turned his head and saw a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl standing at the door. Thin, not too tall, with a ponytail, his appearance is very ordinary, and the characteristic is that on both sides of the bridge of the nose, there are freckles, which affects a face that is already delicate. The little girl wore a white shirt and blue pants, which seemed to be the uniform dress of a certain school. Being stared at by Qi Shaoling like this, the little girl was a little shy, her face was red, and she stood there and didn't know what to say for a while. At this time, Qi Peiyun heard the sound in the yard, walked out of the house, held a basin in his hand, and said very apologetically, "You are the child of Sister-in-law Li's family next door! I'm really sorry, we patronized the cleaning, so we forgot to borrow your basin, and now we also buy a basin, and your family will return it to you, thank you mother for me!"

The girl took the basin and hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No need Aunt Xie, if there is nothing to do, I will go home, goodbye Auntie!" After speaking, she trotted away. Looking at the back of the girl leaving, Qi Shaoling was in a trance for a while, as if he saw Qin Ning's back, the same ponytail, and the same thin figure. He didn't know what was wrong with him, and suddenly he thought of Qin Ning, I don't know how she is now?

Qi Peiyun patted Qi Shaoling, who was a little distracted, and said, "This girl is from the family next door, and she looks beautiful, are you in love with someone else?" Hey---, Mom, you can really joke, she's just a little girl, not yet an adult, where do you think you're going? You're so funny! I just saw her back very familiar, very similar to Sister Qin Ning, that's all. "Oh, that's right! Since it's okay, let's go back to the house, it's almost time to clean up again, hurry up, your uncle and aunt have been busy all day, and they won't be cooking at home today, and after cleaning up the house, let's go out to eat and celebrate our housewarming!"

Dinner was eaten in a small restaurant nearby, the four of them simply ordered a few dishes, and Qi Peixuan also asked for a glass of liquor for the first time, and poured some for Qi Shaoling by the way, this is the first time Qi Shaoling has drunk in his life. The spicy liquor slid down his throat, the pungent alcohol pounding his nerves, and a sensation that had never been felt before drifted through his brain.