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Chapter 1106: Living in Shanghai is Not Easy
Coming out of the courtyard, Li Jia saw Qin Hao laughing behind her and couldn't help but get angry: "What are you laughing at! Stop laughing."

"You are too overbearing. You control everything and even whether others cry or laugh."

Li Jia turned around angrily and walked towards the alley entrance. Qin Hao chased after her and asked, "How do you feel?"

"What's going on?" Li Jia asked knowingly.

Qin Hao smiled evilly and said, "Aunt Song and Uncle Lin get along well, you don't have to worry."

"Why should I worry about anything? You should be the one who is worried." Li Jia raised his chin and snorted.

"What am I worried about?"

"Humph, my parents are not as easy to talk to as Aunt Song and Uncle Lin."

"Don't worry, there's no mother-in-law I can't get."

"Pfft, who is your mother-in-law, you rascal."

The two of them chatted with each other and slowly walked out of the alley under the moonlight.

Li Jia stayed in Suzhou for about ten days. Before she left, Song Ying bought her many Suzhou specialties. If she hadn't been afraid that Li Jia couldn't carry them, Song Ying would probably have filled up both suitcases.

Huang Ling joked: "You've invested so much money, aren't you afraid that she will break up with Haozi and all your efforts will be in vain?"

"No, Haozi said that he likes this girl and he won't change his mind."

"If that's the case, I'm looking forward to the wedding banquet."

"Then you have to prepare a big red envelope."

"miser."

Speaking of red envelopes, Huang Ling lowered her voice and said to Song Ying, "By the way, how much red envelope do you plan to give to Yiming when he gets married?"

"Six bucks, for luck."

"so much?"

"Not much. Over the years, Yiming has always settled the bills for us on the spot for our handicrafts, and has never owed us a penny. We have to repay this favor, right?"

"Well, I'll pack six too."

A week later, Li Yiming got married, and the cotton mill family lane became particularly lively.

"Lin Dongzhe, wait for me."

Li Yiming followed the trend when he got married and held a Western-style wedding. The bride wore a wedding dress and was picked up in a car. The scale of the event stunned many people.

Zhuang Xiaoting couldn't squeeze into the crowd, so she quickly called Lin Dongzhe. Lin Dongzhe had no choice but to turn around and pull Zhuang Xiaoting in as well, and only then did they enter the door of Li Yiming's house.

"Wow, the bride is so beautiful." Zhuang Xiaoting looked at the bride in a white wedding dress, her eyes full of envy.

Not only Zhuang Xiaoting, but also Huang Ling and Song Ying were obsessed with wedding dresses.

"What material is this made of? How can it be so white?"

"It looks like plastic, but it's definitely not just any plastic."

Zhang A-mei, who was standing by, was shocked: "A wedding dress like this must cost a lot of money, right?"

The bride just smiled and had no intention of showing off. Li Yiming greeted her from the side.

"Dear uncles, aunts and elders, let's go sit in the courtyard. The feast will start soon."

Just as Song Ying and Huang Ling were about to stand up, Li Yiming called them back: "Where are Haozi and Tunan? Why don't we see them?"

"They should be outside and didn't squeeze in. There are too many people today." Song Ying pointed outside the window.

Li Yiming quickly squeezed through the crowd and pulled Qin Hao and Zhuang Tunan in.

"Xiaoyue, these are the Qin Hao and Zhuang Tunan I've been telling you about. They are famous university students who graduated from our alley."

The bride greeted them gracefully and enthusiastically stuffed candies into their mouths.

"It's really a great honor for you to come here today. I'll let Yiming have a few drinks with you later."

At the wedding banquet, Zhuang Tunan whispered to Qin Hao: "Brother Yiming married a good wife."

"Well, Yiming is lucky." Qin Hao nodded in approval.

After the wedding banquet, Zhuang Tunan felt inexplicably moved. Before going to college, he was completely focused on studying. Later, in addition to learning new knowledge, he also had to give tutoring to subsidize his living expenses. He had even less time to think about these things. But today, Li Yiming's wife made him feel a little yearning for marriage.

"What, are you excited?"

Zhuang Tunan blushed: "What nonsense are you talking about? I was just saying it casually."

"Okay, stop pretending with me. I still say that women in our construction industry are a scarce resource. If you don't seize the opportunity in college, it will be even harder to meet one after you graduate and start working. Don't listen to the counselor's nonsense. Talk about love first, whether it will work out is another matter."

Zhuang Tunan didn't say anything, but Qin Hao knew that he must have heard it.

The happy time of summer vacation is always short. Since Lin Dongzhe and Zhuang Xiaoting were attending key high schools, school started half a month earlier. Qin Hao and Zhuang Tunan also went to Shanghai a week later. Xiang Pengfei was sent back to Suzhou in advance by his mother Zhuang Hualin. Zhuang Tunan made up a week of classes for him and was almost angry to death.

Many questions that could be explained clearly after one or two times to Lin Dongzhe and Zhuang Xiaoting, would be confused again after five or six times of explanation to Xiang Pengfei. To use Lin Wufeng's previous words to describe Lin Dongzhe, some people are born not to be able to study.

The first semester of the junior year is extremely painful for students in the Department of Architecture. In addition to learning a lot of theoretical knowledge, various extracurricular assignments are also endless. During this period, the university still pays great attention to students' practical ability.

Time flies, and winter has arrived. The leaves of the sycamore trees on both sides of Tongji campus have turned completely yellow.

Just the day before the school holiday, Li Jia received a phone call and she tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep. In the words of her roommate, a girl from Henan, Li Jia was like making a pancake all night.

"My parents and brother are coming to Shanghai."

Seeing Li Jia's worried face, Qin Hao pretended to be puzzled and asked, "Is this a good thing? Why do you look so worried?"

"It may not be a good thing. My dad said he wanted to send Xiaowen to Shanghai to study." Li Jia seemed to be afraid that Qin Hao would not understand, so she added.

"Grandpa and grandma and my second uncle and aunt will definitely not agree. They are afraid that Xiaowen will compete with them for the house after he settles down."

Qin Hao patted Li Jia's hand and said, "Are you afraid that your parents will get into a fight with your grandfather and others and suffer?"

Li Jia shook her head: "I don't want to see them throw their dignity to the ground and let others trample on it again for Xiaowen. In order to let me go back to Shanghai to study, my parents knelt down in front of my grandparents on the spot. I will never forget that scene."

As she spoke, Li Jia couldn't stop her tears from falling, and Qin Hao gently patted her back to comfort her.

Qin Hao thought for a moment and said, "Now as long as you own a house, you can get a resident permit in Shanghai?"

Li Jia was stunned for a moment, then shook her head and said, "That's not the case. My parents were educated youth. As children of educated youth, Xiaowen and I can settle down there through the policy as long as we have a household registration."

Qin Hao smiled: "Hey, I don't care. It's just that I don't have a house. I can buy one later."

"Buy a house?" Li Jia was shocked by Qin Hao's "bold" idea. This is not the 21st century. Buying and selling real estate is not a simple commodity transaction. There are many policy barriers. Just like the house where the Zhuang family and the Lin family live, the property rights are not theirs, but belong to the cotton mill.

Qin Hao tapped Li Jia's forehead gently. "It's obvious that you don't pay attention to current affairs. As early as five years ago, the policy allowed the sale of houses. As long as it is a house with personal property rights, it can be sold privately."

"Really?" Li Jia's eyes lit up, and then he asked timidly, "That should be very expensive, right?"

"The price shouldn't be too expensive. The main thing is to find someone who has the property rights and is willing to sell. I'll keep an eye out for you."

As soon as Qin Hao finished speaking, Li Jia suddenly ran towards the dormitory. A few minutes later, she handed a passbook to Qin Hao, panting.

"This is the money I saved in the past two years, a total of 23745 yuan. If it's not enough, just consider it as a loan from you. I will pay it back to you slowly later. The password is my birthday."

Qin Hao took the passbook, opened it and looked at it, then teased: "Not bad, the little rich woman has a lot of money hidden in her piggy bank. Aren't you afraid that I will take the money and run away?"

"Hmph, the monk may run away, but the temple cannot." Li Jia wrinkled his nose.

After the joke, Qin Hao still put the passbook away.

Li Jia looks weak, but she is actually a very strong-willed girl. In the original drama, in order to bring her parents and younger brother back to Shanghai, she has been working hard to save money after graduation. When her colleagues suggested that she marry a Shanghainese who has a house so that she wouldn't have to save so hard to buy a house, she still went her own way because she knew very well that a house that is not hers will always be dependent on others, and she didn't want her parents and younger brother to suffer the same pain she had suffered.

"Then wait for my news."

"Ah."

Two days later, Li Jia's parents and younger brother arrived in Shanghai.

In the surging crowd at Shanghai Railway Station, Li Jia rushed towards his parents from a distance.

"Dad, Mom, Xiaowen."

The family of four was pushed out of the train station by the crowd before they had time to hug and cry.

As soon as Mr. Li stood firm, he shouted that he wanted to go to his parents' house. Li Jia had to persuade him to take them to have breakfast first.

The family of three ate eight bowls of wontons in a row, and Father Li said with satisfaction: "Shanghai wontons are still the best."

After eating and drinking, Father Li took the whole family to take the bus again.

"Dad, you haven't slept well for two days and two nights. Why don't you go to the guesthouse to rest for a night and then go to grandpa and grandma's house early tomorrow morning," Li Jia suggested.

Father Li shook his head when he heard this: "Kid, why are you staying in a guesthouse? It's quite expensive. You should just go to dad's place and make do with a bed."

"Dad, the guesthouse doesn't cost much..." Li Jia could foresee the disgusted looks on her uncle and aunt's faces when they saw their family. To be honest, she didn't want to see their looks at all.

"You kid, you feel so proud just because you made a little money. Your father and I work so hard on the farm in Northeast China, but we can't save much money all year round. You have to be frugal when you have money." Mother Li impatiently snatched the luggage from Li Jia's hand, and dragged her son Li Wen towards the bus stop.

There was no choice but Li Jia could only follow behind.

After taking two buses, the family finally arrived at their destination.

"Hey, Jiajia, your whole family is back to spend the New Year with grandpa and grandma."

"Tsk tsk, how filial! You come all the way back to pay New Year's greetings."

Listening to the neighbors' slightly sarcastic words, Li Jia clenched his fists, but his parents kept smiling the whole time, which made Li Jia feel powerless.

Go upstairs and knock on the door.

"Sister... Uncle... You are here."

My cousin looked a little unnatural. She said hello and went back to her room to call her parents.

A few minutes later, the small living room was packed with people. Li Jia's family didn't even have a chair and could only squat on a small stool.

"Brother and sister-in-law, you come quite early. It's still a long time before the New Year." Li Jia's second aunt said with a wry smile.

Father Li could only smile and say: "The ground in Northeast China has been frozen for a long time now. Xiaowen happened to be on winter vacation, so I thought about bringing him back to see his parents as soon as possible."

Li Jia's second uncle rolled his eyes: "What's so good about it? My parents are still in good health..."

For a moment, the atmosphere at home dropped to freezing point. Li Jia clenched his fists and was about to speak, but was stopped by Li's father.

"It's mainly for the sake of the child's schooling next year. The child is already grown up. Mom and Dad, the education in the village in the Northeast is really too poor. If Xiaowen continues to study, it will be difficult for him to get into university in the future. Can you see if Xiaowen can transfer his household registration back..."

Before he could finish his words, Li Jia's second aunt interrupted him rudely: "Brother, you are making things difficult for us. Look how crowded our house is. There is no place for people to live. He is in junior high school, so it doesn't matter where he goes to school. You just need to spend more time to help him with his lessons."

The old couple of the Li family felt sorry for it, but as soon as they met the eyes of the second son and his wife, they immediately gave in. After all, they still had to rely on the second son and his wife for their retirement. It was not worth it to offend the second son and his wife for the sake of their eldest son's family who was thousands of miles away.

Upon hearing this, Father Li could only beg: "Dad, Mom, this is how Guifang and I will live our lives, but Xiaowen is also your grandson. We have no other ideas but to let Xiaowen go back to Shanghai to study. We will pay for his living expenses, just like we did with Jiajia. We can just make a bed for him in the kitchen at night."

The old couple of the Li family were somewhat moved, but Li Jia's second aunt refused in a firm attitude.

"Brother, sister-in-law, it's not that we are unkind. Jiajia and Xiaowen are in different situations. Jiajia is a girl after all and will get married in the future, but Xiaowen is a boy. If he fails to get into college in the future, he won't be able to move his household registration..."

The second uncle also agreed, "The key is that there is no room for us to stay. It's such a small place. Big brother and sister-in-law, you should find another way."

Li's mother tearfully said, "If we hadn't gone to work in the countryside, you wouldn't have such a stable and good life. Logically, we should have half of this house..."

It would have been better if they hadn't said this. Now Uncle and Aunt were even more afraid that they would come to fight for the house. They refused to let Li Wen settle down there. They quarreled so much that the old couple could only cry silently and couldn't utter a word.

Seeing that a fight was about to break out, Li Jia quickly stepped forward to pull her parents apart.

"Dad, Mom, let's go. I'll figure out what to do with Xiaowen."

Hearing this, Second Aunt said sarcastically, "That's right. Jia Jia is now a top student at Tongji University. She must have more options than ordinary workers like us. Brother and sister-in-law, you can just wait to enjoy a comfortable life in the future."