Thanks to air conditioners, the Air Conditioner Factory was bringing in a large amount of foreign currency and revenue. It soon began addressing the housing needs of its workers.
Although the new factory and its housing were both in the suburbs, that was nothing to these educated youths who had returned from the countryside, or from places even more difficult to live in.
Wang Fang and Zhou Zhiyuan were assigned a small two-bedroom apartment. The buildings were still under construction, but they were already overjoyed. They began saving money and ration coupons, planning to host a gathering at their new home.
The educated youths were all exceptionally well-informed. They knew they had jobs because Wang Yue had designed an air conditioner. So when they heard that Wang Fang and her husband were hosting a gathering and that Wang Yue would be there, they each brought a gift. They said a few words of thanks, then promptly left. They were all astonishingly simple and sincere.
In fact, Wang Yue had already been rewarded for his work on the air conditioner. Besides money and ration coupons, he had even been assigned a two-bedroom apartment in the new housing complex. They said it would give him a place to stay whenever he went over to provide technical guidance in the future.
Wang Yue didn't move in, of course. He let his grandparents live there instead, so they could finally leave their cramped single room.
At the time, housing was extremely scarce. Even that little single room was immediately snapped up as soon as Wang Yue's grandparents moved out.
One day, Wang Yue was in the classroom at the after-school care center with his grandparents, keeping an eye on the children as they did their homework, when Zhuang Chaoying came to the school.
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