Zhou Yang and Zhou Miao are still young and need to be kept away from the stove, so rooms without kitchens should be allocated to them.
Thirty square meters is more than enough to divide into two rooms. Zhou Yang and Huang Zheyue can live together, and their room can be made bigger. Zhou Miao's room will be smaller, but she can still have her own independent room.
In the other room, the kitchen and dining room are connected, and there is more than enough room to partition off a bedroom.
Jiang Ci and Zhou Mingli discussed how to decorate the two houses while riding their bicycles.
“The regulations stipulate that walls cannot be demolished; partitions and area divisions can only be made within the existing layout,” Jiang Ci sighed. “If only we could demolish the walls, it would be much easier to design that way.”
The villa she and Zhou Mingli used to live in was designed by Jiang Ci herself.
Zhou Mingli said quietly, "Now we don't have the same system as in Shanding Brigade, where we can find a few big men to help us demolish and rebuild walls."
Jiang Ci sighed deeply again. Who could disagree? "Then we can separate the sleeping areas for Yangyang, Miaomiao, and Zheyue with a wardrobe. We can disassemble the bunk bed and reassemble it in the new house. Yangyang can sleep on the top floor, and Zheyue can sleep on the bottom floor."
"Mom, I want a new bed!" Zhou Yang suggested unhappily.
Jiang Ci vetoed it immediately, "You don't want to!"
Zhou Mingli nodded thoughtfully, "Our family does need to have more storage cabinets made."
Huang Zheyue said, "Then do we need to bring the big desk over? That way, I won't have to go to your room to read or for Yangyang and Miaomiao to do their homework."
Jiang Ci: "That's right! You can use that desk."
As the family discussed and planned, the new house gradually took shape.
When they returned to the newspaper office's staff quarters, they didn't rush home. Instead, they went to the Cheng family's house and told Cheng Yehan that she had been allocated an apartment.
Cheng Yehan is currently unemployed at home. Apart from continuing his calculations as always, he mainly tends to his flowers and plants. Upon hearing this, he looked at Jiang Ci and Zhou Mingli and said with a smile, "You two can be considered to have established yourselves in Beijing."
"Where is the location?"
Jiang Ci helped him up, "Mao'er Hutong next to Shichahai."
"It's only half an hour away from here, and it's very close to where Mingli and I work."
Cheng Yehan is a long-time resident of Beijing, and he knew exactly where Shichahai was as soon as Jiang Ci mentioned it. He nodded and said, "That place is indeed nice. When are you planning to move there?"
Jiang Ci laughed and said, "Nothing has been tidied up inside yet. Mingli and I both work, so it will take some time to get it all sorted out."
Cheng Yehan waved his hand and said, "If you don't have time, I can keep an eye on things for you."
This old man is almost seventy or eighty years old, and he's still thinking about helping her with everything.
Jiang Ci was somewhat amused and exasperated, and said, "No need, I'll take you there to have a look once everything is ready over there."
Cheng Yehan said, "There's no need for you to rush to pack. Shaotian will be back in the country for a long time. Pack your things before you move in."
Jiang Ci: "Hey."
Jiang Ci talked with Cheng Yehan for a while before going home.
Today took a lot of time, and Zhou Mingli and Jiang Ci didn't cook anything too fancy. Zhou Mingli made hand-pulled noodles, and they had a simple dinner.
After washing up, Jiang Ci sat down at her desk, opened her notebook, and began writing and drawing on it.
When Zhou Mingli returned to the room, he saw her bent over her desk. He went over and saw that she had drawn a simple sketch of the new house.
Although Jiang Ci's painting style is abstract, she can still draw simple horizontal and vertical lines well, creating a simple and clear picture.
"The floor plan of our house?"
"Um."
Jiang Ci leaned against him and said, "Even though we can't move there in a short time, we should still make some plans, right?"
Zhou Mingli chuckled softly, "You've essentially renovated a new home for this."
Yes.
Jiang Ci nudged him, "Take out the money we haven't deposited into the savings account and see how much it is."
"good."
Zhou Mingli took the box made of Phoebe zhennan wood that contained their family's savings and placed it on the table.
Jiang Ci opened it, and inside was a savings book. It was given to them by Cheng Wenyun after he cashed out the three large yellow croakers. There was 8,300 yuan in the savings book.
Jiang Ci and Zhou Mingli's salaries, along with some miscellaneous income items, were scattered in the box.
After deducting the money in their savings account, Jiang Ci and Zhou Mingli originally had savings of nearly 300 to 400 yuan. After deducting the change from their December salaries and the money they hadn't spent in November, Jiang Ci and Zhou Mingli now have 523 yuan in cash.
Jiang Ci looked at Zhou Mingli, then at the money, and asked sincerely, "Is this enough for the renovation?"
Zhou Mingli, feeling her gaze, simply sat down next to her, put his arm around her shoulder, and picked up the drawing she had made from the table.
"According to your plan, we need to build cabinets in three rooms, two desks, and a dining table. The main expenses for this renovation are all on these. We don't have any other appliances to buy right now. Including the cost of hiring an electrician to run the wiring, the lime for painting the walls, and the bricks for the stove, four hundred should be enough."
Zhou Mingli said unhurriedly, "I think the bed in our room can be heated with a kang (heated brick bed)."
Jiang Ci: "???"
This touched on Jiang Ci's area of ignorance, and she looked at Zhou Mingli with a puzzled expression.
"You've experienced how cold it is in Beijing in winter, and it's impossible to turn on the heating anytime soon. It would be best if we made a kang bed."
Jiang Ci patted his abs, "Is the kang bed warmer than yours?"
Zhou Mingli almost lost his composure, but when he met her gaze, his taut expression cracked.
He said helplessly, "I won't warm your bed or let you freeze."
That's good. Zhou Mingli goes to work early, while Jiang Ci gets up almost an hour and a half later than him. Every time she gets up, Jiang Ci shrinks into her little corner and doesn't want to touch any cold place.
Jiang Ci nodded in agreement.
Zhou Mingli took a pen and added and subtracted from the plan, adding another bookshelf and listing the items he needed to buy next to the floor plan.
Just in case, Jiang Ci set aside 450 yuan as a renovation fund, and used the remaining 73 yuan for daily expenses.
If it's not enough, we'll make up the difference when I get my salary next month.
The eight thousand pieces of Jiang porcelain in the savings account are not intended to be used by Zhou Mingli for the time being; they will serve as Zhou Mingli's start-up fund and will be used again when the reform and opening up take place.
Jiang Ci received the keys the next day when she went to work.
Compared to other families who immediately started tidying up after receiving the keys, Jiang Ci and Zhou Mingli's dual-income family took much longer. Zhou Mingli got off work early and didn't take on any private jobs with his master. Instead, he went home to contact carpenters to build cabinets, buy lime, and buy bricks.
Jiang Ci would also go to the courtyard house after get off work to help clean up the garbage.
During this time, Zhou Mingli took Huang Zheyue to the hospital to have his leg checked.
Fortunately, his fracture wasn't too severe. He had the cast on for almost a month before it was removed once he was nearly fully healed.
In the blink of an eye, it's already the Lantern Festival.
Zhou Gou brought Zhou Huai to the city.
He discovered that the Jiangci house had been allocated and was being tidied up, so he immediately rolled up his sleeves and started helping.
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