It was not until eleven o'clock the next morning that Lian Xiaomin woke up from her sleep. After sleeping for seven hours, she finally recovered.
After taking a shower, I ate a bowl of rice with braised pork ribs and burped with satisfaction. It felt so comfortable.
Today is the sixth day of the Chinese New Year. Go check on your own yard, then go for a stroll in the old city and feel the atmosphere of the capital of this era.
She found some new clothes and put on a pair of army green cotton pants and a dark red sweater.
Haha, this is also red and green, but it's quite retro.
Put on a long gray down jacket, put on a hat, and set off.
He took a 26-inch bicycle and left the space, riding straight to Dongsishi Street, and first went to check out the yard he had just acquired.
After riding for about twenty minutes, I quickly found No. 27, opened the lock on the gate with the key, and pushed the bike in.
She parked the car aside and turned around to lock the door. It would be better for her not to be seen by the neighbors as she had no household registration and no letter of introduction.
Only then did he look at his new property and felt excited. This yard is really nice!
I had never bought a house in my previous life, but I didn’t expect that in 1970 I would own a yard in Beijing.
I ran excitedly to check around. There were four rooms in total, with a front and back yard. The area was not as big as my aunt's house in Sandaogou, but that was certain. I was content with it.
After all, it is difficult to find a house in the current urban area. Many families live in crowded places, and if the company cannot allocate a house, it is difficult to live there.
The Ma brothers are extraordinary to have such a courtyard.
However, anywhere, people with means and abilities will definitely have good living conditions, which ordinary people cannot compare to.
The front yard here is about 100 square meters, and the back yard is smaller.
There is an old locust tree planted near the west wall of the front yard, but it is bare in the winter.
There were two carts parked under the tree, and I didn't know who left them there.
There is also a toilet in the yard, so it’s really nice that we don’t have to go to the public toilet outside.
She turned to the backyard and found a cellar next to two date trees, the entrance of which was also locked.
I tried each key one by one and it was quickly opened. I looked down and saw that the room was quite large, but there was nothing inside. It looked like it had been carefully cleaned.
I opened the doors of the four rooms one by one and went in. I saw that the first room was a storage room. It was not small, but it only had two wooden shelves and nothing else.
In the second and third rooms, the floor was filled with bundles of sacks.
These black market people acted pretty quickly. They put the sacks here immediately after I told them.
Lian Xiaomin closed the door and put all the sacks into the room. She didn't check the number carefully, but there were probably about eight hundred of them.
Okay, at least take back half of it.
After the sacks were collected, the two rooms were completely empty. There were not many pieces of furniture, but they were all new, just simple cabinets, dining tables, desks, etc.
I went to the east room and saw a large kang with a new kang mat. It was quite clean and didn't need to be wiped. There was no dust at all. It was obviously cleaned.
In that case, she directly took out a set of bedding and pillows from the space and placed them on the kang.
There were two kang cabinets at the end of the kang, in which she placed a set of spare bedding and pillows, as well as some simple daily necessities.
Whether you live there or not, just put some things in your house so that it has a home atmosphere.
No other things will be added for the time being.
There is also a kitchen in the southeast, which contains nothing but an iron pot and a wooden bowl rack.
I didn’t even go to heat Xiaomin’s kang. After seeing this place, I didn’t plan to stay any longer. I also wanted to take a stroll around Qianmen and Wangfujing Street. I’ll talk about it when I come back in the evening.
All the locks need to be replaced as well. In the future, I plan to store some supplies in the cellar of this house, mainly food, and stockpile some for Qian Ye and his men. They can come and get them when they need them, and then exchange them for antiques.
She released her mental power to feel that there were no neighbors walking outside the door. She left the yard quickly like a thief, locked the door, and rode her bike to go shopping.
I first rode to Qianmen Street, passed by Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant, went in and bought two ducks and a few pancakes. I asked the chef to slice the duck for me and put it in a lunch box along with the sauce to take away.
Put them all into the big shoulder bag you bring with you and store them directly into the space. You can enjoy them slowly when you get back.
I strolled along and arrived at Wangfujing Department Store, which is also a place I have to check in. I locked my bicycle and walked in.
Wangfujing Department Store was built in 1955 and was known as the "No. 1 Store in Xinhua Country." It is said that at the end of the first day of business that year, the sales clerks cleaned the store for more than an hour at night and picked up two large baskets of lost shoes.
Lian Xiaomin felt the atmosphere of this era and didn't care whether she bought anything or not.
It's the sixth day of the Lunar New Year and there are quite a few people here today, especially in front of the shoe and hat counter and the knitting counter on the second floor. Iron bars have been installed to prevent the counters from being damaged by the crowd.
It's always a seller's market here.
She didn't push forward, but chose a counter with fewer people.
He came to the place where cigarettes were sold, took out a stack of cigarette coupons, and bought ten boxes of "Da Qianmen" cigarettes at 3.40 yuan a box, a total of 3.4 yuan plus ten cigarette coupons.
The ticket was obtained when she was selling watches at the black market last night. Later, she saw a ticket seller squatting next to her. Since she had nothing to do, she asked the man and found out that he really had a cigarette ticket.
He took out a small bag of two pounds of flour from his backpack and exchanged it for ten bills.
She remembered that when she was in Hong Kong, she bought several packs of Zhonghua cigarettes for Lu Guanjie. These Daqianmen cigarettes were quite interesting. They were genuine products from 1970. The design and packaging seemed very retro and beautiful to her.
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