It could be said that he had scored a good deal.
"That way, it’ll be a bit more convenient when you come back."
It really felt like having a bicycle would be more convenient.
Initially at the Zhao Family Village Team, he had wanted to get a bicycle too, but he didn’t know how to explain where the bicycle came from?
Besides, the team already had a bicycle.
Zhao Tianlei had already found out that his university was also in this region, and he didn’t know how long it would take if he cycled there?
He would come home when he didn’t have classes.
Yun Xiaoxiao also joined in tidying up, but a Courtyard House wasn’t something that could be tidied up quickly.
"Wife, sit down and rest a bit; leave the rest to me."
The doors and windows, as well as some of the aged wiring in the house, and the water supply—whether it should be connected—the simple renovations would at the very least cost up to a few hundred.
But these were expenses that had to be incurred.
Zhao Tianlei had cleaned out the room they were to sleep in tonight and the old well in the yard needed a thorough cleaning—who knew what the previous occupant had done?
After cleaning out that room, Zhao Tianlei then cycled to the hostel to retrieve the luggage they had left there and also checked out.
"I’m going to buy some bedding."
Quilts, basins, daily necessities, bed sheets, pillows.
Daring not to buy random pillows, he could only buy cotton pillows.
"Wife, why did you buy so much?"
"Our home is missing a lot..."
This was indeed lacking quite a bit.
"You go ahead and register this afternoon; we both have to start classes tomorrow."
Zhao Tianlei also remembered that he hadn’t registered yet.
After eating lunch, Yun Xiaoxiao sent Zhao Tianlei off to register.
Then she began filling the house with necessary items.
The first item was the bed, on which a cool mat was laid, followed by a desk. They added a table, a wardrobe, some wooden hangers, a few stools, a table in the hall, a long bench for sitting, a solid wood sofa with a high backrest, and a small tea table to their room.
In the kitchen, she added bowls, dishes, a cabinet, a cutting board and knife, and even a stove, iron pot, rice, flour, some spices, a piece of meat, putting all the dried vegetables they brought from home into the kitchen.
They had distributed some to their second brother and Father and Mother Yun, as for which two elder siblings they had not given any.
Zhao Tianlei gave a red envelope to each member of their family, which was the best gesture.
After all, the first time they met Da Bao and Xiao Bao, they hadn’t given them red envelopes.
Zhao Tianlei, who had gone to register, was delayed a bit at the school. He was one of the last students to arrive and, being his first time at the university, spent quite some time finding the registration office and also managed to get his student ID and this month’s stipend.
Upon his return, he intended to put the student ID in his room, only to find that the room had undergone a dramatic transformation.
"All this furniture?"
Yun Xiaoxiao glanced at him briefly then looked away, "I bought it, what, did you think it fell from the sky?"
"You left the house, and I did too; earlier when I went shopping, I saw a Furniture Factory, so I bought some ready-made furniture from there. I haggled a bit and because I bought so much, he gave me a discount."
It certainly made the room look much better, and not as empty as before.
"I also bought a bed for our sons, a small wardrobe, a desk, and two stools."
In this hot weather, it was inevitable that a family of four squeezed onto one bed would feel a bit warm.