Chapter 312 On-site Inspection
As soon as Ah Ling got the elders' permission, she immediately notified An Songyu.
So, early the next morning, the same group of people went together to Ah Ling's three-acre plot of land.
The homestead is located in Rongdi, and it only takes An Songyu half an hour to get there from Xingfu Garden.
However, it was indeed as originally reported.
Forget about getting a car in here.
As one of the oldest districts in Yung Tei, the streets here were originally designed only for pedestrians and bicycles.
Walking in the narrow alley, barely two meters wide, on the worn-out bluestone pavement, the shops on both sides were still bustling with activity.
There are quite a lot of people in the alley, and bicycles and motorcycles occasionally glide by slowly.
Walk through this main street, which, although it has lost its former glory, still retains a certain degree of prosperity.
They turned into two more alleys before finally reaching their destination.
"You're saying this is an old house that's uninhabitable?" An Songyu stared blankly at the row of neatly built two-story tiled houses in front of her, asking in disbelief.
She has seen countless self-built houses recently.
Aside from being an early brick-concrete structure, An Songyu didn't think it was necessarily much better than the house in front of him.
"Of course!" Ah Ling searched through a bunch of keys for a while before finding the right one.
After opening the rusty lock with some difficulty, the group entered the house.
The house did indeed look old.
The plaster on the wall was peeling off in patches, here and there.
Some of them have already fallen off, and you can see the bricks and yellow sand inside.
Some still had old, moldy, and yellowed newspapers clinging to them.
Some of them reveal the original material of the wall plaster.
The house occupies a considerable area, and the ladder leading upstairs in the corner looks quite sturdy.
However, some of the few pieces of furniture in the room were clearly rotten.
Some of them still retain some of their original appearance.
But because it hasn't been cleaned for a long time, not much is visible.
The group then went to check out a few more rooms on the first floor.
Apart from the kitchen stove, which was completely overturned and looked the messiest, the other rooms were passable because they didn't have much furniture.
But it's not easy to put your foot down.
There was plaster that had fallen from the roof on the ground.
Some rooms also had obviously leaking windows.
After looking around, An Songyu had to admit that it was indeed Ah Ling's old house.
"Can we go upstairs?" An Songyu asked, testing the sturdiness of the stairs.
Ah Ling hesitated.
She hadn't been here for a long time.
I didn't even grow up here when I was a child.
So I don't have much of an impression or curiosity about this place.
In addition, since the house had been uninhabited for a long time, she was not comfortable with everyone climbing the stairs again.
An Jianmin, wearing work gloves, walked over and gestured for the group to step back.
Then, he gripped each step of the staircase to check its sturdiness before saying, "The material used to make this ladder is quite good; a person can definitely climb up it."
"But be careful, nobody knows what's going on upstairs."
After all, the house's water and electricity have been cut off for a long time.
Although they had flashlights, this house had been uninhabited for a long time, and they didn't know if snakes or rats might have made their home there!
Because of everyone's serious attitude, An Songyu also hesitated.
But after Ah Ling nodded in agreement and An Jianmin climbed up the ladder to check it out, the others climbed up the ladder one by one.
The ceiling height on the second floor is naturally not particularly high.
The natural light coming through the lattice window wasn't very bright.
But you can tell that this upstairs used to be where they stored their things.
You can still see quite a few jars, pots, cabinets, and boxes.
Furthermore, unlike the separate rooms on the first floor, the entire second floor is completely interconnected.
It looks particularly spacious.
Except for the highest point of the roof ridge, other places, especially those near the windows, are almost unsuitable for tall people to move around on.
"This house must have been quite nice back then," An Songyu remarked as she came downstairs.
After all, there are other old houses like this around here.
There are probably very few companies that can reach this level.
However, the newly built two-story or two-and-a-half-story buildings seem to surpass it by a little bit.
This was the first time Ah Ling had ever looked closely at her old house.
After looking at several houses with the group, he couldn't help but nod in approval.
My grandfather and his family really put a lot of thought and effort into building this house back then.
It looks sturdier and more spacious than the surrounding houses of the same age.
After the group carefully walked around the area, Ah Ling began to understand why the elderly people wanted to rebuild here.
Just like her feelings for her current home, it probably holds too many memories for her.
But now, the family doesn't even feel comfortable letting them come back to visit the house.
So what else can be done besides rebuilding?
"Ah Yu, could you give me a copy of the photos you took?" Ah Ling asked earnestly before leaving.
She had already noticed that the two men who came with her never let go of their cameras from beginning to end.
Sometimes I'm photographing the original house, and sometimes I'm photographing traces on the original house.
Those places that she hadn't noticed before, were noticed by Ayu and her group.
Even when they reached the open space behind the houses, they would take pictures of the existing pond and trees.
Ah Ling didn't know if such original data would be useful.
But the moment she discovered it, she wanted to keep a copy of these things.
Or you can give it to your grandparents when you go to chat with them.
An Songyu first looked at Jian Ziyu and the other person, and only after receiving their approval did she say:
"Giving you a photo is no problem, but you might need to organize it first."
Wang Henian clearly understood Ah Ling's desire for these interactions, and he took the initiative to say:
"I will come here again in the next two days to record some raw data."
"We'll take even more photos then."
"We'll send it to you once it's all sorted out, okay?"
“Okay!” Ah Ling nodded immediately.
Sure enough, for the next few days, Wang Henian either alone, or with An Songyu, or whenever Jian Ziyu had free time, meticulously recorded all the original data about the three acres of land.
When An Songyu finally received the things he could give to A Ling, he realized how meticulously he had organized them.
"Was this actually organized according to the original houses, one by one?" An Songyu asked, flipping through the photo album, which was clearly printed out on purpose.
Wang Henian nodded with considerable pride.
Then, pointing to the first photo that An Songyu had just opened, he said, "Look at this house, what does it resemble?"
An Songyu looked at it carefully for a while but still couldn't figure it out.
Wang Henian couldn't help but feel disgusted.
But he quickly flipped through two pages and showed An Songyu a close-up photo of that spot.
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