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The bus that Qi Yuan was riding on was heading towards the old school campus to send off the new students. There were already quite a few cars going towards the new students' bus, and this one wasn't full yet. One of the new parents in the back row complained, "If we had known this would happen, we would have taken the next bus." A senior sister who was following the car said with a smile, "Uncle, that car is going to the new school district. We freshmen are at the old school district. The old school district still has four departments. There are less students than the new school district." After the new parents received their reply, they did not say anything else.

After a while, when the bus seats were full, they slowly exited the train station square, and chattering could be heard from inside the coach, mostly about the buildings on both sides of the road or the specialties of the city. As the bus passed from the south to the west, the old university campus of F City was busy expanding and renovating its main street, large cars were not yet passable, and the small reservoir on the upper reaches of the old city's moat was near the south outer ring. The eight or nine o'clock sun was already very high.

In the end, he found his aunt at a row of tables not far from the school gate. She was happily chatting with a boy who had nothing to do, and Qi Yuan could not help but sigh in his heart; this was his own hot, lively, and passionate aunt. In the eyes of outsiders, this aunt did not seem like a parent who accompanied a new student to report to the school.

Seeing the bus enter the school, my aunt quickly stood up and stared at the people getting off the bus. She saw Qi Xiang coming down with a big backpack in one hand and a big woven bag in the other. When she saw my aunt coming over, she called out to her first, "I've been waiting for you. Why did you come here so late?"

Qi Xiang said, "The car was stuck on the road, so I guess you must have been waiting for a while. You must have been here for a long time. Hehe, sorry about that."

The aunt said, "What's there to be embarrassed about? Let's quickly go and handle the formalities."

There were students from the other departments who were responsible for taking care of the freshmen, and they all raised their department signs when the bus came in. Qi Zhengyuan showed his admission notice to the boy who was holding up the information department sign, and the boy found someone to bring him to his class on the wall next to the school building. When he found his room, it was still the same 109, and after looking at the names of the staff members and the eight familiar names, he couldn't help but get excited and said to the girl, "Little nun, let's put the things in the dorm first before paying the fees."

The young girl said, "Alright." She told the boy who was leading her and her sister-in-law, "Classmate, take us to the dormitory and put our stuff there first, then we'll pay the fees to get the stuff back!" The boy agreed, leading them through the school building, past the basketball court, to the dormitory. People were coming and going, and the new parents were hurriedly coming and going under the guidance of their senior brothers and sisters, who were picking up new students.

When they entered the dormitory, they climbed two steps, and then turned right in the corridor on the first floor. The second door led to dorm 109, which was opened wide, and there were less than thirty square meters of crowded rooms filled with new students, parents, and senior brothers and sisters who were helping to run Li. When they entered the door, they saw that six of the eight beds had been made up with bedding.

Qi Xiang said, "Aunt, how quiet the top bunk is, I'll just sleep on the top bunk." Hearing this, the sister-in-law didn't say anything else, but went along with Qi Chang to put the woven bag filled with bedding onto the bed. In his haste to pay the bill for the items, Qi Yuan didn't carefully look at his sister, who had lived together with him for four years, and instead went to the place where the new students were to pay their tuition fees.

After paying, sealing, receiving the meal card, leading the bed and mosquito net, the mattresses were all worn out by now. After a few people were exhausted and out of breath, they all went back to the dorm, where there were many people watching. Qi Chang took his things and sat down on the bare bed board where no one had left anything, and thanked the boy who had accompanied him on his journey. After seeing that he had left, he quickly climbed onto his own bed, examined the items on his bed, hung up the mosquito net, spread the mattress on his bed, made the sheets for his mother, and placed a new blanket on his bed. He came back to lock the cupboard and looked at his watch. It hadn't been half an hour, so he said to his aunt, who was chatting with the new students' parents, "OK, Auntie. Let's go have some food when the time comes."

A parent who was chatting with his aunt said, "Your family's girl is really amazing. She managed to pack her luggage in such a short time. Our child's father and I have been doing this for almost the entire morning."

The aunt said humbly, "The children of the manor only have nimble hands and feet. How could they compare to your young lady? She is so pure and clean that it makes people feel that it's rare to see her there." Qi Xiang's sister-in-law pouted, expressing her dissatisfaction. Seeing this, a few parents laughed. Qi Yuan stood up and politely greeted his sister, who was about to live together for the first time in four years, and the parents. He went to the school gate and waited for his husband and his cousin Dou Dou to have lunch together.

The aunt asked Qi Zhengyuan, "Last night, your mom called me and told me that something happened to the Deming family. She went over to help make you come here by yourself. What happened to the Deming family?"

"Deming's Mid-Autumn Festival. Sleeping down from the bungalow. Gone."

"Gone? The bungalow is not very tall, how could it be gone? " the aunt asked in surprise.

"Deming went to the bungalow to carry the dried peanuts. He missed his footing and fell headfirst."

His father's health has never been good, and he's been working hard at home since he was young, and he hasn't even been to school for a few days. His father's been hospitalized several times and spent all the money at home, so he helped his mother to drag his sister into marriage with great difficulty.

Qi Xiang said, "Yesterday, the villagers were busy helping my grandpa get money from his house. They said that the Deming family didn't have much money, so the expenses for today's funeral were all collected by my grandpa and a few neighbors."

The aunt said, "His family has always been digging and feeding, and the amount of money he collects every year is known. His father spent a lot of money in the hospital, and Deming also borrowed a lot of money to marry his wife. He's been living a tight life, and with this and Deming's wife's stomach, he really must have eaten and eaten."

As he was talking, he saw his uncle riding a bicycle over with Dou Dou. Dou Dou was in her first year at the nearby primary school on Liberation Street. She had to go to school in the afternoon after dinner.

The little uncle-in-law had already booked a table early on, so when they entered the school, Qi Zheng was impressed by the little uncle-in-law's foresight. Because the new students had entered, everyone was eating in a restaurant near the school, and the restaurant was packed with people, because the little uncle-in-law had reserved a small private room so that they wouldn't have to wait in line.

As today was a day to rest, my aunt's husband was now an associate professor at the F City Medical School. Every week, he would visit the F City People's Hospital and pick up Dou Dou for school in the afternoon.

He would talk about how his grandma had gone to catch a lot of sea crabs with his older brothers along the beach during the summer vacation, and then talk about how his new teacher had never stayed over until dinner time. He had always liked this cheerful little cousin of his, and had always listened to his grandma say before his rebirth that his cousin had always been studying very well, and had always wanted to send him to university. The cousin had never agreed, saying that with his ability, he would take him to a school, but the brother-in-law didn't say anything, except smiling at his wife and niece, and then bringing him along to the street to buy some clothes.

The two of them stood at the entrance of the Fanhua district and watched as the young husband rode his bicycle away with Dou Dou. Qi Yuan said to the young aunt, "Auntie, I have something to tell you."

The aunt said, "What is it? Look at your serious expression."

At around one in the afternoon, other than a few cars entering and exiting the university, there were only a few cars on Liberation Street. At this time, there were a lot of cars used by the government and it was pretty rare to find one with a private car.

Qi Xiang said, "Come with me, I'll take you to see a place first."

Leading the nun into the residential area, the nun suspiciously followed him as she looked around and said, "This neighborhood is not cheap. It's said that each square meter is more than 1000 square meters. Your husband and I can't buy more than 1000 square meters without eating or drinking."

Qi Xiang said, "Aunt, do you have anyone buying a house here?"

The aunt said, "Yes, why not? "Your little uncle and I are currently living in the same house that was assigned to us by our previous unit. After the house was renovated, how could the matching facilities of the household model be comparable to the one we have now? Besides, this district is also not that bad; the nearby junior high and junior high schools are not too far away, and the newly opened Jiale Supermarket is also not too far away. My colleague just bought a house here, it's not that big, we're all very envious of it."

Qi Xiang said, "Aunt, what would happen if you had a set here?"

"What can I do? He'll probably wake up smiling. "

When they reached the entrance of the unit, Qi Zheng said, "Let's go and see what a house that can wake up from its slumber is like now."