Chapter 162: Applying For Public Housing
Lu Qiaoge said: “As long as you agree, we’ll try our best to apply at the Housing Management Office.”
Sister Qiao over there breathed a sigh of relief.
Her glance at Lu Qiaoge was filled with affection.
Fortunately, she had brought Lu Qiaoge along today.
If it had been with someone else, under the pressure from these Ding Family members, Ding Jianshe would definitely still jump down just like now.
My goodness, no one has strength like Qiao Ge.
This girl is simply her little lucky star.
Sister Qiao had finally regained her composure by now: “We’ll go to the Housing Management Office right now. Grandpa and Granny, are you staying at your second son’s home or going back to your eldest son’s home?”
They mustn’t let the Ding Family members start arguing again after the two of them left.
Old Ding Man immediately said: “My things and my old partner’s are all at the eldest son’s home. We’ll go there to get our things.”
He and his old partner couldn’t stay here anymore. If they stimulated the second son again, the consequences would be even more unimaginable.
Then he looked at Lu Qiaoge and Sister Qiao eagerly: “When will there be news from the Housing Management Office? Should we just keep waiting at home?”
Lu Qiaoge told them two to wait at home first, and she’d go notify them once there was news.
Old Ding Man and Old Ding Woman didn’t leave right away. Old Ding Man had tears in his eyes as he said to Ding Jianshe: “I don’t know how your temperament became so stubborn… Never mind, never mind, I won’t say it. It’s me who’s muddled, me who’s wrong. We’ve let down you and Chen Ying. But even if your mom and I are biased, if you really die in front of us, your mom and I won’t be able to live either.”
After saying that, Old Ding Man hunched over, pulled his old woman, turned around, and left.
He wouldn’t come back here again.
Ding Jianshe had mostly recovered by now. He sat weakly on the chair and thanked Lu Qiaoge: “Comrade Lu, thank you for saving my life. Thank you!”
Sister Qiao over there said: “We’ll go to the Housing Management Office first. You couple, do you have anything else to say?”
Chen Ying stepped forward, held Lu Qiaoge’s hand, and lowered her head to look carefully.
Fortunately, there were no injuries, no scrapes.
Chen Ying was already feeling some lingering fear by this time.
She couldn’t say that if Ding Jianshe died, she’d be unmoved.
Although she hated him in her heart, when truly faced with death, she found she couldn’t bear it.
Especially thinking of him squatting on the window sill, looking eagerly at his most beloved youngest daughter—Chen Ying’s heart ached too.
She hadn’t expected Ding Jianshe to really jump off the building to commit suicide.
Even now, she couldn’t say Ding Jianshe was a bad person, because he really loved the two children dearly.
She also had a work unit.
She knew best what kind of lives many female comrades at the work unit led—many men were just shopkeepers, coming home from work like old lords, waiting for their wives, who also got off work, to cook and wash clothes for them, and then taking care of the children was all the women’s job too.
Although they had been swept out by Old Ding Man.
But to tell the truth, she hadn’t lived hard days those few years.
Ding Jianshe was especially good to her.
Their little family life quickly got going.
After having children, he wouldn’t become a shopkeeper either.
The eldest son and youngest daughter were basically raised by Ding Jianshe watching over them.
It was also because of this that for these twelve years, every month she had to send money to the mine.
But who knew how uncomfortable her heart was.
The painful discomfort made her wish she could kill Ding Jianshe.
Chen Ying forced a smile and said to Lu Qiaoge: “I remember who you are now. You’re the second daughter of Lu Da’s family. Your strength is really great. Thanks to you, otherwise our family would be done for today.
Your older brother has great strength too. You’re just like your older brother. Your older brother is a good hand in the Transportation Team, one person can do the work of three.”
Lu Zhiguo’s strength was indeed great. It was almost like innate superhuman strength. Qin Hengzhi even said it was a pity Lu Zhiguo didn’t become a soldier.
But his starting point was low with no backing, so he had to do extra work.
Fortunately, Captain Jin was a reasonable person.
He had some personal ties with her, so the one permanent position spot went to her older brother.
It could be considered as effort paying off.
Lu Qiaoge said: “Aunt Chen, don’t be so polite. This is what I should do.”
After a pause, Lu Qiaoge continued: “Aunt Chen, just now the left and right neighbors all helped out. Remember to go thank them… Just say you accidentally fell down while chasing pigeons. Don’t worry, we’ll say the same on our side.”
Ding Jianshe showed a grateful expression toward Lu Qiaoge.
Since he hadn’t succeeded in dying, he still had to live, and living meant keeping face.
He didn’t want people to know he tried to jump off the building, didn’t want his youngest daughter to be pointed at when she went out.
This was actually a very good excuse.
Afterward, Lu Qiaoge and Sister Qiao went to exhort Old Ding Man and Old Ding Woman again.
These two definitely wouldn’t go out blabbing.
Ding Laoda and his wife were even more so.
There were still two hours until getting off work, so Lu Qiaoge and Sister Qiao simply rode their bicycles to the Housing Management Office.
The two weren’t familiar with the Housing Management Office.
But the deputy director of the Housing Management Office knew Lu Qiaoge.
He had a good relationship with Lu Qiaoge’s fourth uncle.
So Lu Qiaoge told her idea to the deputy director.
“Uncle Zhang, their family situation is a bit complicated. Grandpa Ding and Grandma Ding fundamentally don’t want to live with the second son. They’ve always wanted to rent a house. I took a look, and these two also meet the standard. A few days ago during my visit investigation, I found one household’s housing was empty.”
How could such a huge factory have only one empty household?
Back then, more than a hundred such houses were built.
But…
Some people took more than their share; even unmarried daughters could get a room.
Actually, the leaders above, especially Director Hao and Secretary He, were very upright and honest.
But no one could guarantee the little fish and small shrimp below were all clean.
They say it’s easy to see the King of Hell but hard to deal with the little ghosts—that’s pretty much the reason.
This topic wasn’t suitable to discuss at the Housing Management Office.
Deputy Director Zhang just pondered for a moment, then readily agreed.
If it were someone else, he might make things difficult, to put it bluntly—if he said you meet the regulation, you do; if he said you don’t, that’s definitely not wrong either.
Of course, he wasn’t a fool; he handled everything within the regulations.
Otherwise, he’d have been removed from his deputy director position long ago.
“Actually, there are more than a hundred households queued up applying to rent houses. Some are really in difficulty. Sigh, speaking of it, it’s because our work unit hasn’t built houses for so many years, leading to the housing shortage.”
Although he said all that, Deputy Director Zhang still readily approved this application.
Lu Qiaoge and Sister Qiao then hurried nonstop to Old Ding Man’s home, handed the house key to them, and then took them to District One.
Old Ding Man and Old Ding Woman were so happy they didn’t know what to say, pulling Lu Qiaoge and Sister Qiao and thanking them nonstop, especially toward Lu Qiaoge.
Lu Qiaoge had nothing much to say to these two old people.
Biased when young, and hard to make up for when old.
Anyway, that’s just how it was.
After all, living family life each has their own way.
This thing has no fixed pattern.
