Chapter 881

New Industry News: "Princess Suspected to be Getting Married Soon, Capital Decoration Prices Skyrocket"

Financial Times: "Princess's Relationship Stable, Laien Arms Suggests Long-term Holding"

The Sun: "Character Interview - Princess: The Best Companion is a Friend of the Other's Soul"

Entertainment News: "Central Cross Theater New Play - 'I Fell in Love with a Bobby Laien'"

"……"

No... what is all this?

Although he already had some psychological preparation, after getting off the public carriage and walking on the way home, looking at the promotional posters posted outside the newsstand on the side of the road, Li Ang still couldn't help but feel a toothache.

Since the "Wang Gong Incident", although Princess Veronica has been busy stabilizing the situation, constantly trying to suppress the old nobles, and trying to take power from the old King as smoothly as possible, she has been so busy every day that she has no time to harass him at all.

But although her person didn't come, she has been constantly "showing love" while working, seizing every opportunity to chat about this, and then hiring people to post news, starting to crazily hype up the heat and show affection.

Clearly, in the past week or so, he hadn't even seen her half a time, but it seemed like they were in a passionate love affair, making most of the people in the capital think that he was about to marry her...

It's outrageous.

Clicking his tongue in extreme speechlessness, Li Ang turned the street corner and walked toward the Happiness Apartment, and the strong old man, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, also refreshed from the small garden by the building in time, carrying that astonishingly long gardening shear.

"Good evening."

After politely greeting the strong old man, Li Ang stepped into the lobby on the first floor of the apartment under the strong old man's menacing gaze.

After two months of repeated confrontations, and the experience of being tied up with yarn and hung for a night once he made a move on Li Ang, the strong old man's not-so-good brain finally barely remembered the new rules of Happiness Apartment—

Bad guys cannot enter, but a certain "evil demon cub" is the only exception and can enter and exit normally.

Although he was worried about the safety of the residents, he would still drag a lame leg and occasionally happen to pass by behind Li Ang, or carry a pair of large shears polished to a snowy brightness, squatting outside Li Ang's bedroom window in the middle of the night and peeking, but he really hadn't made a direct move again.

"Hmm?"

Through the large window of the administrator's room, after seeing Li Ang entering the building, the administrator aunt, who was knitting, raised her head and asked with some surprise:

"Why so early today? Don't you usually come back at night?"

"Hehe, the situation is special today... This is a gift for you."

After opening the small window of the administrator's room and handing over the deluxe yarn he bought on the way, Li Ang explained with a smile:

"Work has been going okay recently, and I'll be going on a business trip in a few days, which might last for a while, so the Bureau gave me a few days off to let me rest early and spend two more days with my family... By the way, where are Anna and the others?"

"They'll be back soon."

The administrator aunt took the yarn with some surprise:

"It's time for school to end at the Public School now. Anna should have already picked up the two children and is on her way back... Oh my, this yarn is not cheap! I can't accept it!"

"Actually, it's not that expensive, just a small gift. You should accept it."

After pushing back the yarn handed over by the administrator aunt, Li Ang thanked her earnestly:

"My work is quite busy, and I'm not home all day and night. Anna can only take William and Melanie by herself. You and Uncle John have helped her a lot, and I remember all these kindnesses in my heart.

Compared to the care you and Uncle John have given our family, this is just a small gift, not even bought specifically, just happened to see it on the way back and thought you might like it, so I bought it by the way... By the way, there's also Uncle John's."

While Li Ang was speaking, he reached out and touched the mirror-surface cufflinks, took out two large whetstones and a bag of selected flower seeds from the mirror world, pushed the things back together with the yarn bag, and insisted earnestly:

"Aunt Mary, you should accept it. The Cleanup Bureau's salary is quite good, these things really don't count for much to me."

"This... then okay."

Seeing Li Ang's repeated insistence, the administrator aunt didn't continue to refuse, but first accepted the yarn bag, intending to knit two pairs of gloves and hats for the two children of the Laien family, and then return the favor.

And after accepting the gift, she seemed to suddenly remember something, and then asked with some worry:

"By the way, people from the Municipal Department came in the past two days, saying they are preparing to renovate Happiness Apartment and then expand the scope. Do you know about this?"

Renovate Happiness Apartment?

Hearing the administrator aunt's question, Li Ang was slightly startled.

Indeed... although it was carefully managed by the administrator aunt and the strong old man, the predecessor of Happiness Apartment was, after all, a poorhouse from more than ninety years ago, and it was already a hundred-year-old building.

And according to the Kingdom's "Building Renovation Law", all mid-to-high-rise buildings facing the street in the capital must be inspected every ten years, and repainted and renovated on a large scale every fifty years. It seems that it is just the renovation period for Happiness Apartment.

However, there are policies above and countermeasures below, which is an unbreakable truth everywhere.

Although the Kingdom's laws are stipulated very strictly, whether it is inspection or renovation, it requires money and people to be able to do it.

And given the Kingdom's rather strained financial situation in recent years, where even military pensions can be deducted, the Municipal Department naturally doesn't want to do such thankless things. Only buildings in wealthy areas and noble areas are likely to receive qualified maintenance.

After all, if it collapses and hurts people, it's the building party's business. The Municipal Department at most is just maintaining it unfavorably. Considering that the funds are indeed limited, even if they are implicated, it's the limit.

But if the laws are strictly enforced, and inspections and renovations are frequently carried out on a street-by-street basis, then the person in charge, let alone being promoted, as long as they have let go and renovated and repainted once, their second half of their life would probably only be able to continue to let go and brush the toilet in the Municipal Bureau's toilet.

So let alone repainting and renovation, even the inspection that only happens once every ten years, the people in the Municipal Bureau haven't done much. Basically, they just come and shake around, blindly fill in two maintenance items and report them up, and eating some maintenance funds is enough.

And although the Municipal Department is inactive, the residents dare not let it go. After all, safety is their own business. So in recent years, the renovation of Happiness Apartment has always been managed by the administrator aunt spending money, making her and the strong old man work for almost a hundred years without saving any savings.

But even so, with their meager salaries, even adding the money raised by the residents, they can only carry out some most basic maintenance. Therefore, many places in Happiness Apartment are already very dilapidated, basically just barely maintaining, and even the handrails in the corridor are missing several sections.

If it weren't for the strong old man who had cultivated an astonishing maintenance skill after doing maintenance for almost a hundred years, whether this happy apartment building could continue to hold on is probably a question...

……

"This is a good thing!"

After recalling the situation of Happiness Apartment, Li Ang congratulated her with some surprise:

"The apartment really needs to be repaired. If the Municipal Department is willing to undertake the renovation work, then you and Uncle John can be much more relaxed."

"This is indeed..."

The administrator aunt nodded when she heard this, but couldn't help but whisper with some worry again:

"But John and I are actually part of this apartment. If Happiness Apartment is renovated and expanded... can we continue to exist?"