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Chapter 356 - 356 346 Renting a House

?Chapter 356: Chapter 346 Renting a House Chapter 356: Chapter 346 Renting a House The young man paused for a moment when he entered the room and saw a stranger, edged over to the side, and once he learned the visitor was his dad’s comrade and also a soldier, he opened up and began circling around Li Hongjun, asking one question after another.

He was quite interested in the little chubby kid who kept looking up and calling him “brother,” but he wasn’t at all impressed with the little brat sitting on the bed, staring him down with big eyes.

After the two children finished eating, the older one took the younger out to the yard to dig for ant nests. The adults stayed in the house to chat.

Li Hongjun and his wife also learned about Chen Jing’s situation over the past few years.

Chen Jing had been discharged from the service three years ago, and the army had arranged for him to work in a TV factory. His initial job was in the factory security department, but Chen Jing, perhaps too accustomed to the military life of being straightforward in everything, had a working style that many didn’t like and didn’t appreciate in a person who didn’t know how to beat around the bush, which led to frequent changes in his position. He had now been reduced to night watchman in the storeroom.

Seen through modern eyes, being a night watchman was a good job since it wasn’t physically demanding and involved a rest day after night shifts. But people from that era looked down upon such work because the TV factory’s salaries and bonuses were based on the number of hours worked.

Those who worked day shifts without a break could earn around thirty yuan a month, while those like Chen Jing, working one day and resting the next, would only make twenty-eight or twenty-nine yuan.

Do not underestimate those eight or ten yuan, their purchasing power was astonishing at that time.

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