Chapter 5 Living in the Siheyuan



When Xiao Zhou heard these shameless words, his face turned black with anger.

"This house belongs to the steel mill, not yours. If you continue to act unreasonably, I will go to the security department."

As soon as Xiao Zhou finished speaking, he saw the old lady sitting on the ground, the fat on her body trembling, and she was slapping the ground and howling like a pig being slaughtered.

"Help, robbery, help!"

As the pig-slaughtering screams spread, many people came out to the backyard to watch. It was now working hours at the steel rolling mill, and those who came were all middle-aged women and young wives.

An old lady in the crowd asked, "What's going on?"

Although he was very angry, Xiao Zhou still patiently explained to the old lady.

After hearing what Xiao Zhou said, the aunt said, "Sister-in-law Jia, this is what you are doing wrong. This is the factory's house. How can you occupy it casually?"

Aunt Jia immediately stood up and retorted to the aunt: "You are a dead end. There are only two people in your family. You don't need a big house. But there are six people in my family."

The old lady was so angry that she took a step back, holding her chest and said, "Jia Zhang, how can you talk like that? You shrew."

"Jia Zhang, how can you curse people?"

"That's right, Auntie is such a nice person, how can you say that about her?"

"Yes, they are occupying public housing."

A group of middle-aged women condemned Jia Zhang's words after hearing them.

"Old Jia, come up and take a look. They are bullying an old woman like me and our widow and orphan. Come up and take them all away."

Upon hearing this, the group of aunts condemned even louder.

Listening to Jia Zhang's fuss, Xiao Zhou became impatient.

If he hadn't seen that he was too old to do anything, he would have gone up and slapped him.

"That's enough. Someone go to the steel mill security department. Let's see who dares to be so presumptuous today."

As Xiao Zhou roared, the surroundings fell silent.

Jia Zhang didn't dare to make a fuss anymore. Although she was a shrew, she was not a fool. If they really called the security department, she would definitely be locked up in a small dark room.

Seeing that everyone had stopped making noise, Xiao Zhou pointed at Jia Zhang and said, "Move all your things out and clear the room. When you come back from shopping, if there are still things in the room, I will call the security department to arrest you immediately."

Seeing everyone leave, Xiao Zhou smiled and said, "Chief Zhang, I'm really sorry that this happened. How about I go back and report it and ask the factory to give you a new house?"

"It's okay, I'm very satisfied with this house and there's no need to change it," said Zhang Weiguo.

Zhang Weiguo knew that with such a group of neighbors, his future life would not be boring.

Zhang Weiguo and Xiao Zhou rode their bicycles to the department store and bought bedding and various daily necessities.

I also bought some food, oil and seasonings.

Fortunately, Zhang Weiguo had a ticket.

Because there were too many things, we called a rickshaw and returned to the courtyard.

I refused Xiao Zhou's request to help tidy up the room. Xiao Zhou has been troubled enough today and I can't let him tidy up the room again.

After watching Xiao Zhou leave on his bicycle, Zhang Weiguo waited for the arrival of the human-powered tricycle at the gate of the courtyard.

After a while, a human-powered tricycle arrived at the courtyard. Zhang Weiguo gave the tricycle driver another two cents and asked him to help move the things in.

The two men took their things into the backyard and took a look inside the house.

Wow, they moved it cleanly.

The whole room was empty, with only a bed, an octagonal table and a large wardrobe left.

There wasn't even a chair left.

Anyway, Zhang Weiguo had no intention of keeping these old furniture, so he put all the things on the bed.

Now Zhang Weiguo plans to find a few workers to renovate the house.

Just not knowing whether the toilet can be renovated, Zhang Weiguo plans to go to the subdistrict office to ask.

When he arrived at the street office, Zhang Weiguo asked what procedures he needed to go through when he wanted to renovate his home.

The people at the subdistrict office said that as long as you register with the subdistrict office, you only need to pay one yuan per month for sewage treatment fees.

Zhang Weiguo completed the registration and paid 12 yuan.

Then, ask where there are renovation workers.

The people from the street office gave Zhang Weiguo an address where there were decoration workers.

To express his gratitude, Zhang Weiguo took out a handful of White Rabbit milk candies from his pocket. This is definitely a good thing. It is only eaten during the Chinese New Year, and you need a candy ticket, otherwise you can't buy it.

Zhang Weiguo found the decorators according to the address.

Tell them the requirement to separate two small rooms in the room, one room to be used as a bathroom and the other room to be used as a kitchen.

Build a boiler in the kitchen so that all the rooms can be warm in winter.

The decorator said it was simple and asked whether it was a half package or a full package.

Half package means Zhang Weiguo buys the materials himself, and full package means they buy the materials.

Zhang Weiguo was afraid of trouble, so he chose the all-inclusive package and asked them to calculate how much it would cost.

They calculated that it would cost two hundred yuan, so Zhang Weiguo gave them one hundred yuan and told them to buy the materials now so that they could finish the work in three days.

Now that the house decoration problem has been solved, Zhang Weiguo plans to buy a bicycle. Anyway, he now has a bicycle ticket, so it would be convenient to have a bicycle.

I arrived at the mall, found a shop selling bicycles, and asked how much the bicycles cost.

A 28-inch bicycle cost one hundred and eighty yuan plus a bicycle ticket.

After buying the car, I went to the police station to get it stamped, which cost one dollar.

Zhang Weiguo rode his bicycle back to the courtyard and saw that the decorators had already bought materials and were painting the walls of the house first.

Then, two small rooms were separated on one side of the house, and the inner one was used as a bathroom so that the sewage could flow directly out of the wall.

Dig a sewage pool outside and leave an opening so that someone will come to deal with the sewage every month.

While letting the workers work, Zhang Weiguo put the army green backpack into his personal space. There are medals in it, so he can't lose it. There is a thief saint in this compound. Although the thief saint is still young, he already has the potential to become a thief saint.

Zhang Weiguo went out on his bicycle. It was almost time for dinner, but he didn't plan to cook as the kitchen was not ready yet.

We went to eat at Quanjude, which was a very famous restaurant of ours. At that time, there was only one Quanjude store, which was near Qianmen.

Zhang Weiguo rode his bicycle for half an hour and arrived at Quanjude.

When we entered Quanjude, we saw that not many people went to restaurants in this day and age, and there were only a few people in the entire hall.

"Please choose a duck, sir."

The waiter led Zhang Weiguo to choose a duck and looked at the rows of ducks in front of him.

Zhang Weiguo asked: "How much is one?"

"A small one is 6 yuan, a large one is 8 yuan, and the duck bones are good for making soup."

"Then we can get a big duck. We don't need to cook the duck bones for soup."

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