Chapter 23 I want to live in a single room

Hu Meili was so angry that she laughed at Liu Hongying’s words, “Okay, you have nothing to do with me anyway, I’m too lazy to say more to you.”

When Liu Hongying was younger, their relationship was okay, but since she came back from the countryside, her personality had become strange.

She didn’t even think about why Hu Meili was trying to trick her.

Before the divorce, they were still a family, if Liu Hongying was having a hard time, wouldn’t the family help her?

Although Hu Meili disliked her for eating for free at home and wanted to marry her off, she didn’t dare to let her marry recklessly, lest she drag the family’s children down.

Hu Meili never brought any men who were really poor and wanted to take advantage of her to Liu Hongying.

But Liu Hongying didn’t care about her reputation, other flies would smell the scent and flock to her, there would be no shortage of hidden trouble.

Hu Meili was no longer even a stepmother, she didn’t even have the energy to scold her, she just urged Lin Xiangnan, “What are you looking at, look at what you’re looking at, go pack your things.”

Lin Xiangnan returned the divorce certificate to Hu Meili and asked expectantly, “After the rooms are divided, can I live in a room by myself?”

“What are you dreaming of? This place is so small, you’d be lucky to have a bed to sleep on, you still want a room to yourself.” Hu Meili grumbled, “Your two cousins are sleeping on a makeshift bed in the living room. You’re dreaming.”

Lin Xiangnan sighed sadly.

She had worked so hard, and she didn’t even get a room to herself.

Lin Xiangnan tugged at Hu Meili’s sleeve and asked, “Can’t you talk to the Housing Management Office, rent a bigger house? Or we can move to a different courtyard, otherwise, we’ll be bumping into the Liu family all the time, it’s so awkward.”

Hu Meili said perfunctorily, “Okay. Anyway, you have nothing to do, I’ll assign this task to you. If you can find a bigger house for the family, I’ll get you a small room, alright?”

Housing resources were really tight now, families like the Liu family and the Hu family, their hometowns were in the countryside, they were lucky to find work in the city and the factory arranged housing for them.

But this house wasn’t theirs, it was property confiscated from others by the state. Although they lived there, the Housing Management Office would come to collect rent every month, the rent was over two dimes per square meter.

The factory had its own dormitory building, but the number of people who could live there was less than twenty percent of the total number of employees in the factory, the rest could only rent rooms in large courtyards, those who were really poor and couldn’t afford the rent would build shacks on the outskirts of the city.

More than ten years ago, it was still okay, there were fewer children, they could live comfortably for now, but now, everyone was crammed together.

The last time the factory distributed houses, everyone almost fought over them.

Not to mention that the steel mill hasn’t built any new dormitories, even with Hu Meili’s current situation, it’s unrealistic to expect to get a house.

Factory leaders, technical personnel, and model workers were the priority for housing allocation. Hu Meili is now divorced, she’s not even a dual-income family.

Over the years, all the old houses that could be allocated in the city have already been allocated.

The only way to live in a spacious place is to exchange rented houses with others, or get a permit from the Housing Management Office and find an empty plot on the outskirts of the city to build your own house.

When renting, everyone wants to live comfortably, it’s not easy to exchange with someone for a bigger house.

The cost of building a house is not expensive, it can be done for about two thousand yuan, but building materials like cement, bricks, and glass, Lin Xiangnan can’t just conjure them out of thin air, they have to be legitimate.

But as long as she could live in a single room, Lin Xiangnan felt that she could overcome these difficulties.