Chapter 219: My dream came true, I bought a courtyard house
Bai Zhengshan really admires his in-laws’ cooking skills!
He suffers from summer heat and has no appetite when it comes.
But after eating one bowl of Dong Yulan’s cold noodles, he wanted a second bowl.
After eating the cold noodles, everyone went for a walk in the yard.
Bai Zhengshan and Su Qingshan continued their vegetable growing business.
Before dark, the land was leveled and the vegetable seeds were sown.
While they were watering the vegetable garden, Gu Qiqi added a lot of spiritual spring water into the bucket.
The nights in Beijing in the 1970s were just like those in the south. It was pitch black everywhere and there were no entertainment activities.
Everyone went to bed early.
Early the next morning!
Su Qingshan and the others got up before dawn.
Dong Yulan and Sister Lin went out to buy groceries together.
Su Qingshan continued to turn the soil in the yard with a shovel.
For him, moving from Nanshi to Jingshi was just a change of place to farm.
I brought a lot of vegetables from home when I came, so I only needed to buy some pork and so on.
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After returning from a trip to the vegetable market, Dong Yulan sighed.
"The capital is different. The food sold in the vegetable market is much richer than in our South City. There are so many people. It's really lively in the morning!"
Fortunately, she and Sister Lin went there early, because if they went late, everything would have been sold out.
I bought a pound of fresh pork, a piece of tofu, and two sheets of thousand sheets in the morning.
I also bought ten fried dough sticks.
It’s a pity that there is no stone mill at my in-laws’ place, otherwise I would ask my wife to grind some soy milk to go with the fried dough sticks.
There are still quite a few vegetables brought from Nanshi.
Dong Yulan planned to cook some tomato and egg noodles for breakfast.
Tomatoes and eggs were also brought from home.
Bai Zhengshan usually likes to eat fried dough sticks.
Today we have tomato and egg noodles, he doesn’t even want to eat fried dough sticks!
At the dinner table, Dong Yulan excitedly talked about what she had seen and heard this morning, and her tone was full of praise for the Beijing morning market.
"Aunt, after dinner, I'll take you around!" Bai Xiumei said to Dong Yulan, "Leave the cooking to Aunt Lin. You didn't come all the way here just to be our cook!"
"Xiumei is right. I'll ask Xiao Zhang to call two cars later. You can go wherever you want. Now that you've come to Beijing, you should go around and have a look!" Bai Zhengshan agreed.
Although he was quite envious of his in-laws' cooking skills.
But his in-laws are guests, so he can't always let them busy in the kitchen.
"Qibao, where do you want to go?" Xiao Mo looked at Qibao and asked for her opinion.
Gu Qiqi thought for a moment and said, "Beijing's hutongs are the most famous. Why don't we go for a walk in the hutongs, or stroll around a square..."
[I just wonder if there are any houses for sale in the alley. If they are selling cheaply, maybe I can grab a bargain? ]
Gu Qiqi slurped the noodles while thinking happily.
Selling a house? Picking up a bargain?
Everyone in the Gu family looked at Qibao, and even Xiao Mo at the side couldn't help but look at her with narrowed eyes.
Su Mingmei was stunned when she heard her daughter's thoughts.
Qibao actually wants to come to Beijing to buy a house?
Could it be influenced by Uncle Bai’s small Western-style building?
But Su Mingmei also noticed what Qibao said about picking up a bargain...
"Then let's go to Dongcheng District!" Xiao Mo made the final decision.
Bai Zhengshan nodded: "It's nice over there, Xiumei, you and Mo'er take your in-laws for a good look around, and take them to taste Peking duck!"
"Aren't you coming with us, my dear?" Dong Yulan looked surprised.
"I won't go. I have some things to deal with." Bai Zhengshan shook his head.
The group set off.
Two military jeeps drove out of the compound.
In the car, Gu Jinan and Gu Jinchen were very excited!
Gu Qiqi and her elder brother Gu Jinze sat quietly, looking outside through the open car windows.
The capital city in the 1970s was far less prosperous than it is today.
The jeep drove to the main street of Dongcheng District and stopped.
Bai Xiumei brought everyone to a square, felt the crowd, and asked people to take a group photo.
Xiao Mo led the way behind, taking everyone through the alleys.
The alleys are full of the style of old Beijing.
The large and small courtyards, gatehouses, stone steps and other architectural elements inside constitute a unique urban landscape!
Gu Qiqi enjoyed the shopping very much.
Unfortunately, I didn’t come across any houses for sale.
It seems that her plan to take advantage of the situation has failed...
Of course, if she really wanted to buy it, she could go to a specialized housekeeper to ask...
Fangyazi is equivalent to the real estate agent in later generations. Its main business is to help people change houses, buy houses, borrow houses, rent houses, etc.!
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Go out during the day and return home in the evening.
In a blink of an eye, Su Mingmei and her friends had been in Beijing for a week.
There were alleys of all sizes, as well as various palaces and city towers. I visited almost all of them and took a lot of photos as souvenirs.
The good news is that the vegetable seeds sown by Su Qingshan have sprouted.
Under his careful care, and with the high temperature in the summer, the vegetables change every day. Now they are half grown. The family is now self-sufficient in vegetables and does not need to buy them outside.
Bai Zhengshan was so fond of the vegetable garden that he would spend half a day around it every morning and evening.
Perhaps encouraged by these green vegetables, Su Qingshan simply did not leave the house for the next few days, and was keen on clearing the yard for his in-laws.
Su Qingshan opened up two more plots of land.
I scattered seeds of cucumbers, eggplants, beans, and tomatoes.
Sow the seeds and water them in the morning.
Three days later, the seeds sprouted and grew well.
After seven days, the vegetable seedlings have grown very well and can be transplanted.
Su Qingshan asked Bai Zhengshan to prepare bamboo in advance to build a trellis for the seedlings...
In a blink of an eye, they had been in Beijing for half a month.
Dong Yulan misses home!
I don’t know how the vegetable garden is doing at home, and I don’t know if Xiuli can handle the chickens and rabbits by herself.
No matter how good Beijing is, it is not home after all.
Dong Yulan was eager to return home.
Xiao Mo and Qibao have been going to the alleys all day recently, and they actually ran into a family who were in a hurry to sell their house.
The house is a courtyard house and it is quite large.
The owner of the house is an old man.
The old man has four sons and one daughter.
My daughter died in an accident, leaving behind a granddaughter who just turned eighteen.
The remaining four sons were useless and were always thinking about his little property. What made him most angry was that his second son's family had registered his granddaughter to go to the countryside as an educated youth without his permission.
The old man was disheartened and planned to sell the house and give all the money to his granddaughter.
As for the four good-for-nothing and prodigal sons, don’t even think about getting a single point.
Security guard Xiao Zhang ran around and contributed a lot to the house issue, and finally the courtyard house was smoothly transferred to Qibao's name.
On the day of the transfer, when returning to Bai Zhengshan's small western-style house, Gu Qiqi clearly felt Grandpa Bai's gaze on her.
But there was no malice in that look, so she didn't take it to heart.
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