Chapter 162: Applying for public housing

Lu Qiaoge said, "As long as you agree, we will try our best to apply to the Housing Management Office."

Qiao Jie on the side let out a sigh of relief.

Her gaze toward Lu Qiaoge was filled with affection.

Fortunately, she brought Lu Qiaoge along today.

If she had come with someone else, under the pressure of these few people in the Ding family, Ding Jianshe would definitely have jumped down just like he did now.

My god, no one else had as much strength as Qiao Ge.

This girl was simply her little lucky star.

Qiao Jie finally regained her calm at this moment: "The two of us will go to the Housing Management Office now. Grandpa, Grandma, will you stay at your second son's house or go back to your eldest son's house?"

She hoped that after they left, the Ding family wouldn't have another dispute.

Old Man Ding immediately said, "My wife's and my things are all at the eldest son's house; we will go there to get our things."

He and his wife couldn't stay here; if they stimulated the second son again, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Then he looked expectantly at Lu Qiaoge and Qiao Jie: "When will there be news from the Housing Management Office? Should we just wait at home?"

Lu Qiaoge told them to wait at home first, and she would notify them once there was news.

Old Man Ding and Mother Ding didn't leave immediately. Old Man Ding, with tears in his eyes, said to Ding Jianshe, "I don't know how your temperament became so stubborn... Forget it, forget it, I won't say anymore. It was I who was muddled, it was my fault. We let you and Chen Ying down, but, no matter how biased your mother and I are, if you really died in front of us, your mother and I wouldn't be able to live either."

After saying this, Old Man Ding hunched his back, pulled his wife, and turned to leave.

He would never come here again.

Meanwhile, Ding Jianshe had recovered quite a bit. He sat weakly on a chair and thanked Lu Qiaoge: "Comrade Lu, thank you for saving my life, thank you!"

Qiao Jie on the side said, "We are going to the Housing Management Office first. Do you two have anything else to say?"

Chen Ying walked forward, took Lu Qiaoge's hand, and lowered her head to look carefully.

Fortunately, there were no injuries, and not even a scratch.

At this moment, Chen Ying was already feeling some lingering fear.

She couldn't say that she would be indifferent if Ding Jianshe died.

Although she hated him in her heart, when truly facing death, she found that she couldn't bear it.

Especially when remembering him crouching on the windowsill, looking expectantly at his most beloved eldest daughter, Chen Ying felt a stabbing pain in her heart.

She didn't expect that Ding Jianshe was really going to jump off the building and commit suicide.

Even now, she couldn't say that Ding Jianshe was a bad person, because he really loved the two children very much.

She also had a workplace.

She knew best what kind of life many female comrades in her workplace lived; many men were just hands-off managers, returning home after work like old masters, waiting for their wives, who also just finished work, to cook and wash clothes for them, and taking care of the children was also the woman's business.

Although they were kicked out of the house by Old Man Ding.

But to tell the truth, she hadn't lived a hard life in those years.

Ding Jianshe was especially good to her.

The two of them quickly started their little life.

After having children, he didn't act like a hands-off manager either.

The eldest son and the eldest daughter were basically raised by Ding Jianshe.

It was also because of this that she had to remit money to the mining area every month for these twelve years.

But who knew how painful her heart was.

So painful and agonizing that she wanted to kill Ding Jianshe.

Chen Ying managed to pull out a smile and said to Lu Qiaoge, "I remembered who you are. You are Lu Da's second daughter. You have such great strength. Thanks to you, otherwise our family would have been finished today.

Your eldest brother has great strength too; you are just like your eldest brother. Your eldest brother is a good hand in the transport team; one person can do the work of three."

Lu Zhiguo's strength was indeed great; it was almost like he was born with divine power. Qin Hengzhi even said it was a pity that Lu Zhiguo wasn't a soldier.

But he had a low starting point and no backing, so he had to work more.

Fortunately, Captain Jin was a reasonable person.

He still had some human relations with her, so the only quota for becoming a regular employee was given to the eldest brother.

It could be considered that the effort had paid 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, the neighbors helped just now; remember to go thank them... Just say he accidentally fell while chasing pigeons. Don't worry, we will say the same thing here."

Ding Jianshe showed a look of gratitude toward Lu Qiaoge.

Since he didn't die, he had to keep living, and living meant living with dignity.

He didn't want people to know he wanted to jump off a building, and he didn't want his eldest daughter to be pointed at when she went out.

This was a very good excuse.

Afterward, Lu Qiaoge and Qiao Jie went to exhort Old Man Ding and Mother Ding.

These two would definitely not go out and talk nonsense.

The eldest Ding brother and his wife were even more so.

With two hours left before getting off work, Lu Qiaoge and Qiao Jie simply rode their bicycles to the Housing Management Office.

The two of them 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 the deputy director her idea.

"Uncle Zhang, their family's situation is a bit complicated. Grandpa Ding and Grandma Ding don't want to live with their second son at all. They have always wanted to rent a house. I looked into it, and they meet the standards. I visited and investigated a few days ago and found that one housing unit is vacant."

How could such a large factory only have one vacant unit?

Back then, more than a hundred such houses were built.

However...

Some people took more than their share, and even unmarried daughters could be allocated a room.

Actually, the leaders above, especially Factory Director Hao and Secretary He, were very upright and honest.

But no one could guarantee that the small fry below were also clean.

It is often said that it is easy to see the King of Hell, but hard to deal with the little ghosts; that is roughly the reason.

This topic was not suitable to be discussed at the Housing Management Office.

Deputy Director Zhang just pondered for a moment and readily agreed.

If someone else had come, he might have made things difficult, to put it bluntly, saying you meet the regulations means you meet them, and saying you don't meet them is definitely not wrong either.

Of course, he wasn't a fool; everything was done within the regulations.

Otherwise, he, the deputy director, would have been removed long ago.

"Actually, there are more than a hundred households waiting in line to apply for housing, and some are really quite difficult. Sigh, come to think of it, it's all because our unit hasn't built houses for many years, leading to a housing shortage."

Although he said so much, Deputy Director Zhang still readily approved this application.

Lu Qiaoge and Qiao Jie went to Old Man Ding's house without stopping, handed them the keys to the house, and then took them to District One.

Old Man Ding and Old Mother Ding were so happy they didn't know what to say, holding onto Lu Qiaoge and Qiao Jie and saying words of gratitude, especially toward Lu Qiaoge.

Lu Qiaoge had nothing to say about these two old people.

Biased when young, and hard to make up for when old.

Anyway, it was just like that.

After all, everyone has their own way of living their daily lives.

This thing has no fixed pattern. ===== CHAPTER 163 =====