Chapter 25 Renting
"Brother, are you staying in a hotel? It's easy to stay and fun!"
Tang Lei was sighing at the scenery of Jiang City in front of him, and a male voice came from his ears.
Tang Lei turned his head to look at the middle-aged man and said in Jiangshi local dialect: "Where do you come from, where do you go!"
The middle-aged man glanced at Tang Lei, turned his head and said, "Go~"
In the late 1970s, after an old man drew a circle in a fishing village in the south last year, he became a mixture of dragons and snakes. Experts from all walks of life showed off their skills in the crowded train station. Tang Lei also found out after checking the information in advance.
Tang Lei no longer paid attention to all the experts, turned around and walked straight towards the bus stop. He wanted to take the bus to the National University of China.
After getting on the tram with two braids hanging above his head, Tang Lei was a little surprised.
Tang Lei found a seat by the window and sat down. Looking at the scenery outside the car window, Jiangcheng in the context of the times made Tang Lei, who was in it, feel a little complicated.
It’s like you were in the museum yesterday, watching the peerless masterpiece, along the Qingming River through the bulletproof glass, you will be amazed at the prosperity and prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty in the painting!
But today, you suddenly came to the Northern Song Dynasty in the Qingming Festival Shanghetu. In addition to continuing to pay attention to its superficial prosperity and prosperity, you will also pay attention to its undercurrents and crises that were ignored by you yesterday!
40 minutes later, Tang Lei met the National University Gate that he was familiar with again. Although it was 1980, the familiarity that came to the school gate and nearby streets still made Tang Lei feel much more at ease.
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"Sister, this is my student ID. Do you have a house for rent here?" Tang Lei asked at the woman in front of him.
The woman in front of Tang Lei is a legend of the National University of China. Tang Lei only heard her story during the school anniversary last year.
Who would have thought that this woman started to run a rental house outside the National University of China since 1978, and since 1995, she has sponsored more than 500 poor students from the National University of China. Until 2018, she and her family had settled abroad, but as always, she has never stopped!
Her deeds moved many Chinese college students, including Tang Lei.
After taking Tang Lei's student ID, the young woman looked up and looked at Tang Lei and asked, "Why don't you live in the dormitory? You just stay for the winter vacation or stay there?"
"If you don't want to live in the dormitory, just stay for a month and a half." Tang Lei replied with a smile.
"5 yuan per month, one deposit will be paid for one, and the half-month house will not be refunded!"
"Now there is a single room that can take a bath but cannot cook. Do you want it?" After the young woman finished speaking, she continued to knit a sweater without waiting for Tang Lei to answer.
"Yes!" Tang Lei continued to smile.
"Bring the bag on your back and come with me!"
"My surname is Liu, just call me Sister Liu! You can't fire in the room. If you want to go out to eat, you can pay me a pound of food coupons one night, and I don't want your money. I'll let you get a partner." Liu Xiufen said while taking Tang Lei.
"Then the relationship is good! Thank you Sister Liu." Tang Lei immediately smiled and thanked.
Liu Xiufen suddenly stopped, turned her head and frowned and said, "Are you a student of the National University of China? You are full of greasy words and are only allowed to call Sister Liu, not Sister Liu!"
"Yes, Sister Liu." Tang Lei replied with a smile.
"I'm here, I'll give you the key! After putting down the things, I'll come down and register." Liu Xiufen said with a frown and looked at Tang Lei.
"Okay, Sister Liu! I'll put down my backpack and go down!" Tang Lei replied with a smile.
"Um!"
Liu Xiufen agreed, walked out of Tang Lei's room, and brought the door to the room.
Tang Lei looked at Liu Xiufen with a smile on his face and turned around and lay on the bed, exhaling a long breath.
Tang Lei lay on the bed and glanced around the room. The room that Tang Lei rented was not big, with a straight-through room and a bathroom, which was only about ten square meters.
On the left side of the door is a bathroom with an area of about 2 square meters. There is only an iron squat toilet in the bathroom, a sink made of an iron rack, and an iron bucket. I don’t know if the faucet on the sink can get out of water. Tang Lei hasn’t tried it yet.
After passing the bathroom, the bedroom is the bedroom. White putty powder is scraped around the wall of the bedroom. However, Tang Lei’s opinion, the putty powder on the wall seems to have not been scraped for long.
Tang Lei was lying on the bed, with the head of the bed against the bathroom wall, and it was a single bed of about 1.4 meters. The sheets and quilt covers on the bed were made of white coarse cloth.
Opposite the single bed is a desk with a thermos bottle on it and a backrest chair below it, but Tang Lei feels that this table and backrest chair should be a bit old.
Tang Lei also saw a wire-pull-type light switch beside the bed, but what Tang Lei liked the most was that he saw the socket in the room, which made him a little happy.
Holding the iron bucket in the bathroom, Tang Lei went downstairs to register. After Liu Xiufen saw Tang Lei coming down, she took out an old-fashioned homework book from the drawer beside her and handed it to Tang Lei and said, "Write your name, hometown, unit!"
"You are a student of the National University of China now, and your household registration should be transferred to the National University of China. Then write the address of the National University of China. For the unit, you can fill in which class of your major and who is the teacher."
"I understand, Sister Liu." Tang Lei replied with a smile.
"Where is Sister Liu's hot water room? I'll go and get some hot water to wash it. I just got off the train and felt so uncomfortable." Tang Lei said while filling in the information.
"The last room on the left side of the first floor is only half a bucket!" Liu Xiufen said with some concern.
Tang Lei did not agree, but replied with a smile: "Sister Liu, look at the registration book. I will go up first if there is no problem."
"Yeah, go up."
"By the way, lock the door at 10 o'clock in the evening, it will be expired!" Liu Xiufen raised her head and looked at Tang Lei and said.
Tang Lei agreed with a smile, turned around and prepared to go to the hot water room.
"Tang Lei, right? Will you eat tonight?" Tang Lei was stopped by Liu Xiufen before he took a few steps.
"Eat!" Tang Lei said with a smile.
"Remember to bring food coupons if you eat it!" Liu Xiufen said loudly to Tang Lei.
Tang Lei replied loudly: "Okay!"
Tang Lei brought a full bucket of hot water and returned to the room. After taking a comfortable hot shower, he changed into new clothes, went downstairs to say hello to Liu Xiufen, and then went out.
"The meal starts at 6 pm, and it's time to go out!" Liu Xiufen's voice sounded behind Tang Lei.
"OK!"
Tang Lei waved his hand and replied loudly, indicating that he had heard it.
The place Tang Lei is going to is an "underground" trading market called Jiangjiao Alley.
What is an "underground" trading market? It is naturally a matter of trading shameful things, such as food coupons, materials with tickets, some people fiddled with the unit, shameful things, etc.
At this time in 1980, food coupons could not be bought and sold publicly because if they were discovered by public security and police, they would be detained.
Tang Lei learned this information online from an elderly netizen in Jiangcheng.
But Tang Lei didn't know whether this place really existed or was fabricated by that netizen. In order to figure out this matter, Tang Lei had to check it out on the spot.
Jiangjiao Alley is about 20 minutes’ walk from Guoda University.
According to a netizen, Jiangjiao Alley was the name of that street at this time. It was not until the food coupons were withdrawn from circulation that Jiangjiao Alley slowly fell into loneliness, and Jiangjiao Alley behind it was also changed to Jiangjiao Street.
Tang Lei had already checked the map of Jiangjiao Alley before crossing the journey and asked Yiyi to store it.
"Yiyi, I'm going to Jiangjiao Alley and navigate." Tang Lei said in a low voice as if he was looking around.
Yiyi replied: "Yes! Boss."
"Turn right at the intersection 50 meters ahead."
Tang Lei followed Yiyi's navigation and walked towards Jiangjiao Alley while observing the pedestrians and traffic on both sides of the road.
Tang Lei observed that there were very few pedestrians on both sides of the road at this time, most of the lanes were bicycles and horse trailers, and an occasional motorcycle, and a bus with two electric poles hanging above his head.
After about ten minutes of walking, Tang Lei finally saw several jeeps, Shanghai-brown sedans and brown-green Dongfeng Jiefang Truck passing by on the road.
You know, Tang Lei is now walking this road. In 2018, he was one of the main roads in Jiangcheng. He was traffic jams for a long time when he was commuting and getting off work, and he was unable to move!
After a 20-minute walk, Tang Lei came to the "underground" trading market of Jiangjiao Alley as netizens called.
Jiangjiao Alley is an alley more than one meter wide, slippery and muddy, and its structure is exactly like a small path in the villages in later cities.
But what disappointed Tang Lei was that he did not see anyone in the alley, which made him very disappointed. He also cursed the elderly netizen!
"It seems that I can only ask an old Jiangcheng person like Liu Xiufen." Tang Lei said in a low voice.
Tang Lei was unwilling to give up. After walking around Jiangjiao alley for a while, the emperor finally paid off.
Tang Lei was stopped by an old man.
"Does the young man want to buy a ticket? I see that you have been walking around and you have no intention of leaving!"
"You want to come here to buy things, you will come before dawn, and it will be dispersed as soon as dawn."
The two quiet words of the troublesome old man made Tang Lei's mood cloudy and clear. Tang Lei hurriedly thanked the old man and left the slippery and muddy Jiangjiao alley.
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When Tang Lei returned to the rental house of the National University, it was already around 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Tang Lei greeted Liu Xiufen, who was knitting a sweater, and then went upstairs to rest.
Tang Lei returned to the room and sat in a chair for a while, then stood up and closed the doors and windows, and pulled the curtains on them, and asked the Teng number to open the "white hole" storage space.
After Tang Lei prepared everything he needed tomorrow, he rested in the room for a while, and it was almost 6 o'clock in the evening. After getting up, he took out the aluminum lunch box from his backpack, he prepared to go downstairs to Liu Xiufen for dinner.
Tang Lei looked at the aluminum lunch box in his hand and couldn't help but smile. This was what he bought in the art trading market for 50 o'clock!
After buying it, Tang Lei boiled the lunch box in a pot with boiling water for seven or eight times, and then used an ultraviolet lamp to sanitize it. Only now did he dare to use this antique.
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