"No way." This time, before Jiaojiao could answer, Duan Xi coldly refused from the side.
"Brother Xi, donât be so stingy, you and Jiaojiao can live upstairs, and weâll stay downstairs, we wonât disturb you." Lu Zishu said.
"No way!" Duan Xi still coldly refused.
"Then Jiaojiao, you speak up!" Lu Zishu looked at Ruan Jiaojiao: "Can your Brother Zishu and Brother Lei stay?"
Ruan Jiaojiao actually didnât mind, as at home, Ruan Lei often stayed over at the Lu Familyâs, or he slept here. Since they werenât sharing a room, she really didnât think it mattered.
But before she could answer, Duan Xi held her hand, shook his head, and said, "Downstairs is for Rourou and Xiaobai."
"Oh right, it might not work, Xiaobai and Rourou are also coming with us to Beidu." Ruan Jiaojiao said. Sanmao would not go because he had a wife and kids here, and couldnât bear to leave them. Duan Xi had already asked him, but he was unwilling to go with them.
"..." Ruan Lei and Lu Zishu.
In mid-August, both the Ruan Family and the Lu Family held banquets, all organized in several hotels in the city. They also invited school teachers to host a teacher appreciation banquet together.
Unlike Ruan Jiandangâs banquets, whose connections were mainly in the village with gifts ranging from ten to twenty yuan, Ruan Jianguo had many business connections, with gift money over one hundred yuan.
After a banquet, just the gift money alone from the Ruan Family amounted to over two hundred thousand yuan, with Shu Wen and Shu Lang contributing fifty thousand each, and Master Shu contributing one hundred thousand.
All this money, Ruan Jianguo used to buy a house for Ruan Jiaojiao.
In late August, the Ruan Family was about to move to Beidu as a family. Since the Lu Familyâs business was closely tied to the Ruan Familyâs, upon learning that the Ruan Family was moving to Beidu, they began relocating their business there, so this time the Lu Family also moved with them.
The Ruan Familyâs second and fourth branches were temporarily unable to move together due to financial constraints, especially since Ruan Wei and Ruan Qun still had to attend high school here, so they continued to stay. However, the Ruan Familyâs third branch planned to move to Beidu and develop new opportunities.
Ruan Jianjun, who served as the head chef for several hotels within the province, followed the Ruan Familyâs main branch to Beidu. They couldnât buy a house temporarily, but the hotel had staff quarters. He planned to go with Du Qing first, without worrying about Ruan Lei and Ruan Bo, as they were already in college.
Although there were many advantages to moving to Beidu, as furniture and other essentials could be easily purchased, the only challenge was bringing Xiaobai.
Xiaobai had always lived in the front mountain, usually self-sufficient, and went hunting in the mountains when hungry. It had never left this place. When moving to Beidu, although there were places for its settlement and with the Ruan Familyâs current capacity, feeding it wouldnât be a problem, the issue was how to transport it over there?
It definitely couldnât take the train, and if they drove, the car couldnât accommodate it.
The Ruan Family finally decided to have Ruan Jianguo rent a large truck to drive it there.
"..." Ruan Jianguo.
In this scorching weather, having him drive a long truck for several days and nights?
There werenât any highways in those days. Taking detours through various provinces was tough and bumpy. While taking a train to Beidu took thirty to forty hours, driving would take at least twice as long.
Naturally, Ruan Jianguo didnât want to drive alone. This wasnât the kind of task he could ask someone else to do, so he thought of asking a few of the young lads in the family for help, even offering a wage of five hundred yuan for the trip.