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Chapter 339: Chapter 339: Does Your Husband Still Live in an Earthen House?
Just because Si Chen is handsome and knows Professor Qu, he thinks he’s better than others?
She doesn’t accept it, her family must get the quota for the house this time.
She has received the news that this will be the last housing distribution. If they don’t get it, the policy will be cancelled, and they will have to buy their own house.
According to her husband’s salary, when can they afford to buy a house?
A commercial house costs more than a thousand per square meter, equivalent to her husband’s annual salary. So, even if her husband doesn’t eat or drink for seventy or eighty years, he still couldn’t afford a house.
The woman chatting with Liu Qing was also one of those seeking the house. With one fewer person competing, her chances increase, so of course, she didn’t want Si Chen to get a house. She was just about to agree with Liu Qing when she glimpsed Tong Yao. However, she did not alert Liu Qing.
At this moment, she wanted Liu Qing and Tong Yao to fight, so both of them would lose the qualification to buy the house and she could benefit.
However, Liu Qing, oblivious to the woman’s malicious intentions, kept complaining. Just when she was getting carried away, she turned around and saw Tong Yao and a beautiful and elegant woman standing behind her.
Caught red-handed gossiping behind someone’s back, Liu Qing felt guilty and prepared to argue. But then, Tong Yao merely glanced at her lightly and walked past her.
Liu Qing was just sighing in relief when she heard the sister-in-law next to her sarcastically say, "No wonder Tong Yao doesn’t want to interact with us. Turns out she thinks we’re beneath her. Look at her friends, they are not only beautiful but you can immediately tell they are wealthy. Their outfits alone are worth our annual salary."
Liu Qing, with a grimace on her face, sneered, "What’s there to be conceited about making money by shady deals?"
The sister-in-law smirked slightly, thinking that Liu Qing would be as ruthless as anyone if she had the ability to do business and earn money.
"Yaoyao, who was that woman just now? She was talking about you behind your back, she’s so low. I hate this kind of person the most, does she often bully you?" Walking a good distance away, Wang Chun still couldn’t help but frown thinking about Liu Qing’s behaviour.
Tong Yao was still thinking about Liu Qing’s words when Wang Chun’s voice brought her back to reality. She faintly replied, "She dares only backbite me. I can’t be bothered to deal with her. Simply put, she is envious of my milk tea shop making money and jealous of Ahchen’s abilities, fearing that we might take the hospital’s house quota. Additionally, I had some small conflicts with her before, so she has never spoken well of me."
If she hadn’t heard Liu Qing’s words, she wouldn’t have known that the hospital had allotted a few more houses.
Before this, the hospital did distribute houses once, but that was many years ago. As far as she knows, this is the second time, and also the last.
Truthfully, Si Chen had only recently joined the job, so Tong Yao didn’t plan to depend on the hospital’s house distribution. Most likely Si Chen didn’t have this idea either, that’s why he didn’t tell her about it.
Actually, what Tong Yao didn’t know was, the approval for housing had just been confirmed. Even Si Chen hadn’t received the news yet. Liu Qing’s husband only found out ahead of time because he had been in the hospital for a long time and knew many people.
This information was not a secret anymore, most people knew about it. However, since Si Chen didn’t like to gossip, he hardly ever had casual chats with his colleagues outside of work, hence he didn’t have the chance to know this information.
Just like Tong Yao said, even if they knew, they wouldn’t go out of their way to compete. As they wouldn’t have the chance anyway, why waste effort?
Unfortunately, not everyone understands this principle. With benefits in front of their eyes, very few can stay still.
After all, these days many people couldn’t even have a full meal, in the countryside, people fight for every piece of land. When it comes to houses, it would be surprising if no one backstabs and schemes.
Wang Chun surprisedly asked, "Yaoyao, you’re usually straightforward and daring in your actions, how can you tolerate someone talking about you behind your back? Besides, you plan to buy a house anyway, why would you go after hers? How good can the houses from the official distribution be?"
Knowing that Wang Chun comes from a good family and unaware of the hardships of the lower classes, Tong Yao said with a crisp laugh, "Achun, you might not be familiar with the lives of common people. In the countryside, many people still live in mud houses, even my mother-in-law’s house is a mud house. The houses in the cities are better, but there are not enough houses and it’s normal for a family of five to six, even eight to nine people, to live in houses of a few tens of square meters. Now with the hospital distributing houses, of course, many people are fighting tooth and nail, unwilling to give up."
"Your husband’s house is still a mud house?" Wang Chun’s clear eyes filled with surprise. "Yaoyao, what made you like him? Your husband must be very outstanding, right?"
Wang Chun suddenly grew curious about Si Chen. What kind of person was he that made Tong Yao, a girl from a decent Kyoto family, willingly marry into a remote countryside like Li City.
Tong Yao, with her beauty and intelligence, and business acumen, would shine anywhere. Even with her eyes closed, she could find a good man in Kyoto to marry. Not necessarily rich, but at least a hundred times better than the circumstances of Si Chen’s family.
Yet, she willingly married a country doctor like Si Chen. Wang Chun felt that there must be a heart-touching story here and she suddenly wanted to hear the love story between Tong Yao and Si Chen.
Speaking about how she met Si Chen, Tong Yao laughed heartily, her eyes curved as she said, "This is a long story, we didn’t have any ground-breaking incidents between us. It was primarily an arranged marriage set up by my dad. Simply put, it was a traditional arranged marriage. My dad forced me to marry him and I hadn’t even met him once before the marriage. I only saw him for the first time half a month after getting married and even misidentified him, it was a big blunder."
Wang Chun became more interested and incredulously asked, "Yaoyao, I always thought you’re a decisive person, how could you agree to an arranged marriage? How did you develop feelings for him? It can’t be that he’s very handsome and it was love at first sight, right?"
Tong Yao was beautiful and had a good personality, hence it was natural for Wang Chun to believe that Si Chen liking Tong Yao made perfect sense and didn’t require any particular arrangement. But for Tong Yao, such an outstanding girl, to take a liking for Si Chen, there must be something extraordinary about him.
Recalling the first time she saw Si Chen, Tong Yao laughed foolishly, "Although it wasn’t love at first sight, it was quite similar. When I saw him for the first time, I was quite shocked by his appearance. He’s handsome and has a good bearing, completely different from what I expected."
