Chapter 315: The community is divided into rooms, and the whole family is excited

afternoon.

Naye Village.

At the doorstep of Deng Yunqiang’s house, two little kids who looked exactly the same were chasing each other and having a lot of fun.

These two little brats were none other than the twin sons of Deng Changfu and Guan Yongying. The older one was called Gou San and the younger one was called Gou Si, which were very typical rural nicknames of that era.

The two brothers are almost four and a half years old, which is the age of "letting go". Unless they are sleepy or sick, they are chasing each other and playing with other children of the same age all day long, and they never have time to settle down.

Guan Yongying sat at the door sewing clothes. From time to time, she looked up at her son who was chasing and playing with each other, and a smile unconsciously appeared on her face.

When she was at her mother's house, their life was not the worst in the village, but they could hardly eat meat once a month. It was already very good to have an egg every ten days or half a month. They usually ate pickles and vegetables with little oil.

However, everything has changed since she married into Naye Village.

Although it was difficult for a while at the beginning, it was only temporary. After the lychees at home started to sell, life started to get better.

Then I started growing watermelons with Jiugong, and our income increased year by year.

When Jiugong took the lead in establishing a passenger transport company, her husband's family and her parents' family jointly acquired 10 shares, making countless people in the clan envious!

Next, Jiugong's entire family raised funds to build a residential community in the county town. Their family made another strong move and acquired three houses. Their lives are becoming more and more hopeful!

Guan Yongying smiled and looked up at her two naughty sons. She saw the second son running and scratching his pants. This was not the first time he had done this. She couldn't help but shout, "Fourth son, come here!"

Dog Four ran over and asked, "Mom, what's the matter?"

Guan Yongying said, "I see you keep reaching into your pants to scratch yourself. Take off your pants and show mom what's going on."

Gou Si said "oh" and then pulled his pants down.

Guan Yongying took a closer look and saw that it was slightly red and swollen, and she could clearly see a small red dot inside. She immediately understood what was going on and said, "Dog Si, there's a little bug. Mom will help you pick it out. Don't move!"

At this time, Dog Three also ran over and asked curiously, "Mom, where is the little bug? Let me see!"

Guan Yongying pointed at the little red dot and said, "Look, this little red dot is a bug. It bites you specifically, so when you play, don't go to the straw pile or weeds. There are a lot of these little bugs there."

Gou San stared at his younger brother and found that what his mother said was right. There really was a little red dot there. He couldn't help feeling a little scared.

Dog Four hurriedly urged: "Mom, please help me pick out the little bugs!"

Guan Yongying nodded, then lowered his head and carefully used a needle to pick out the little red bug (it's called Fengci in Hakka, where Feng is the pronunciation of red, and this thing really does specifically target little boys to bite) from his youngest son.

Deng Changfu came back and saw this scene, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Was he bitten by Fengci?"

Guan Yongying crushed the needle-sized bugs to death and nodded, "It's normal to be bitten by Fengci after running around all day."

Deng Changfu passed over this trivial matter and excitedly said to his wife, "Jiu Gong just called back and said that the community in the county town has been built. The bus company will send a car back soon. Tomorrow morning, each household will send someone to take the company's car to participate in the housing distribution."

Guan Yongying's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this, and he said in surprise, "That's great, Mom is cooking in the kitchen, tell her the good news quickly."

Deng Changfu smiled and said yes, then went into the kitchen to tell his mother the good news.

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at the same time.

Throughout the Naye Deng village, there were special people riding bicycles to inform each member of the clan of the good news.

The tribe members who received the news were all very excited. Since the end of the Spring Festival travel rush at the beginning of the year, the whole tribe began to raise funds to build houses. Now it is the end of September in the lunar calendar, and seven or eight months have passed.

Over the past seven or eight months, the entire clan has been united. Those who stayed at home are working on stone mining, sand panning, and tree cutting. Some even went to the brick factory to help.

Now, it’s finally time to reap the rewards!

"Great! The community is finally built!"

"I can finally get my room tomorrow. If I renovate the room right after it's allocated, I can move in this year!"

"I also want to renovate and move in right away, but the houses in the county are different from those in our countryside. Renovation will probably cost a lot of money. I can't afford to renovate this year. I can only wait for the passenger transport company to distribute dividends next year and then use the money to renovate."

"It shouldn't cost much to renovate it, right? Just paint the walls white, run some wires, and put in a few beds, and that's it!"

"This kind of decoration is indeed acceptable in the village, but it may not work in the county town!"

"What's wrong with that? Can a house in a county town be decorated with flowers?"

"I can't really say for sure right now, but I feel like the houses in the county town shouldn't be that simple. I'll know the details after I go up and see them."

"Okay, then let's ask other people and see how they plan to decorate it."

…

Knowing that they were going to divide the houses, the clan members were very excited, but what they discussed most was how they wanted to decorate the houses and move in as soon as possible.

Even in later generations, rural people who have a house in the county town feel very proud when they return to the village. After all, being able to afford a house in the county town proves that they are doing well outside. In today's era, it goes without saying that the honor of owning a house in the county town is definitely no less than that of owning a house in the capital in later generations.

Therefore, the clan members all want to renovate and move in as soon as they get a house, so that they can show off in front of their relatives and friends!

Although the word "zhuangxiu" (pretending to be cool) only emerged in later generations, the behavior of pretending to be cool has existed for thousands of years.

It is actually human nature to show off. There is no one in this world who doesn't like to show off.

The only difference is that some people do it on purpose, while others do it unconsciously.

That evening, every household began to discuss sending representatives to the county town to participate in the distribution of housing for the entire clan. In fact, many families wanted to go together, but the bus company could not carry so many people, so each family could only send one representative.

If someone has family members working in the county town, there is no need to send anyone up there. It can be directly represented by clan members working in the county town.

Of course, if the whole family wants to go up, it is not impossible, but they cannot take the bus provided by the bus company and have to take other buses by themselves.

Finally, after discussion, it was decided that most families would be represented by their own heads of family, with only a few families where the heads of family were unable to leave due to some unforeseen circumstances, so they sent another representative.

…

The next morning.

Then the representatives of the various families of the Deng family boarded the bus sent back by the bus company and started heading towards the county town.

Deng Shian, Deng Yungui, Deng Yunqiang, Deng Changbao, Deng Changxiong and others were sitting in the same car. They were all prominent figures in the Naye Deng family. They were either elders of the clan or wealthy members of the clan.

Deng Changxiong said: "From the start of construction to the completion of the community, I have never been to the county town to see it, and I don't know what our Deng's community in Naye will look like after it is completed."

Deng Changbao continued, "I haven't been there to see it either, but I heard from the tribesmen who have seen it that the community is so beautiful that I don't know how to describe it. Even the houses where the officials in the county live are not as beautiful as this."

Deng Yungui smiled and said, "I went to see it once three months ago, but the community was still under construction at the time, and it was a mess everywhere, so I didn't see anything."

Deng Yunqiang said: "The tribesmen who came back from the county town recently praised the community to the sky."

Deng Shian said with great enthusiasm: "Whether the community is beautiful or not is secondary. The most important thing is that after the houses are distributed today, we will be no different from the people in the city. This is a major event worthy of being written into the family tree."

Deng Changbao smiled and said, "The secretary is right. Today is a big day that our entire clan deserves to remember. This event must be recorded in the family tree."

…

Ten forty-three in the morning.

Fifteen large buses of the passenger transport company stopped at the south gate of Naye Deng’s community.

In fact, the bus can drive directly into the community, but in order to broaden the horizons of the tribesmen who have never seen the community, the driver took the tribesmen to the south gate and let them get off the bus to see what the main entrance of the community looks like.

Soon, the tribesmen got off the bus one after another.

When you see the gatehouse with "Naya Deng's" inscribed on it in front of you, and then see the layout of the community through the gatehouse's perspective, as well as the seven- or eight-story buildings, you can't help but be amazed.

“So beautiful!”

"Oh my God, this is our home?"

"No wonder the tribesmen who returned earlier praised the community to the sky. It is incredible that a house like this is our new home."

"This gatehouse looks really impressive, and the building is really tall!"

"If we live on the top floor, won't we be able to see the entire county?"

"Why do we need to live on the top floor? Even if we live one floor lower, we can probably see the whole county. Look around here, how many buildings can compare to our community?"

"The clan leader said that the rooms will be allocated by drawing lots this time. I don't know if I can draw the top lot. If someone draws the lot and doesn't want to live there, we can change it."

"I don't want to live on the top floor. If I win the lottery, I'll switch with you."

“…”

As they were talking, a tribesman led everyone to the leisure square in the center of the community.

At this time, there were already thousands of tribesmen waiting in the leisure square.

In fact, these tribesmen also knew that the distribution of houses would not be carried out so early, and it would definitely have to wait until the tribesmen from their hometowns came up. But now that the residential area has been completed, how could these idle tribesmen stay there? They all gathered in the residential area without any prior agreement.

Now, with the arrival of clansmen from the old hometown, after the two parties have reunited, the division of houses can officially begin!

Deng Shirong made a few brief opening remarks and then began to read out the list of villages to be divided into.

As the head of the clan, Deng Shirong naturally had information about the entire clan. There were records of how many households there were in each village and how many houses each household had. He took the time to sort it out and divided the Naye Deng clan into twelve villages. Basically, all those small villages were split up and integrated into these twelve relatively larger villages.

Because Deng Shirong's house was rather special, Naye Village was tied to him and was assigned to the 9th building. He did not have to participate in the lottery. The other 11 buildings would be drawn by the 11 designated villages.

The draw results are as follows:

1 building in Jimaoling Village.

2 buildings in Bangba Village.

3 buildings in Ma Village.

4 buildings are located in Shanggaoxing Village.

5 buildings in Guanchong Village.

6 buildings in Yangdipo Village.

7 buildings in Longjing Village.

Building 8 to Zhang Village.

9 buildings in Naye Village.

10 buildings in Zhadu Village.

11 buildings in Umeda Village.

12 buildings in Shejiao Village.

The remaining small villages were broken up and distributed among these twelve large villages.

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After the twelve buildings were divided into villages, each village organized a lottery again to allocate the houses to each household.

In Naye Village, people are naturally drawing lots as well.

The person who presided over the lottery was Deng Shirong, who occupied the first unit of the 9th building alone, and the remaining two units and 56 apartments were not enough for other people in Naye Village.

After all, Naye Village was the first to be influenced by Deng Shirong. In terms of overall economic strength, it ranked first among all the Deng villages in Naye. Except for a few families, most families in the village chose to have two houses, while Deng Yunqiang and Deng Changping's families asked for three, and Deng Yungui's family asked for four. Naturally, these 56 houses were not enough to be divided.

Therefore, Deng Shirong merged some of the families into Yangdipo Village, which was connected to Naye Village.

Before the lottery started, Deng Shirong looked at Deng Yungui, Deng Yunqiang and others and asked, "Yungui, Yunqiang, Changping, you want more houses. Do you want all the houses to be on the same floor, or do you want to decide directly by lottery?"

Deng Yunqiang said: "I can do anything."

Deng Yungui requested four apartments, which would just occupy one floor. He said, "Uncle Jiu, if possible, I hope my four apartments can be on the same floor."

Deng Shirong said: "Generally speaking, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of residential buildings are the best, because it is not so hard to walk up and down the stairs. The 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th floors are relatively not so good, especially the top floor. Not only is it troublesome to walk up and down the stairs, but in the summer, the weather is still very hot, just like a steamer.

However, the top floor is not without its advantages. The view there is wide and you can see the scenery of the entire county. Moreover, an elevator shaft has been reserved when the house was designed, and an elevator will definitely be installed in the future, so you don't have to climb the stairs so hard.

But then again, it’s unknown how many years it will take to install an elevator. If you choose the top floor now, it won’t be as convenient and comfortable as living on the lower floors.

So, if you want to have all four houses on one floor, you can only choose the top floor. I think everyone agrees with this.”

Deng Yungui smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Forget it, let's just draw lots. I'm already old, and if I live here and climb up to the seventh floor every day, I'll be exhausted!"

Deng Shirong looked at Deng Changping and said, "Changping, do you want the top floor, or do you want to decide by drawing lots?"

Deng Changping said with a smile: "Jiu Gong, then I will go to the top floor!"

The couple are in their prime and are not afraid of climbing stairs at all. It is much more convenient to live in three houses together than to separate them.

Speaking of these three houses, it was all thanks to Jiugong's help, because their family's financial strength is not prominent in the village. After getting two houses, the couple will have to tighten their belts to live. But they have three sons, and they don't know how to divide them if they have one less house.

In the end, it was Jiu Gong who took the initiative to help and lent money to the couple to buy three houses, so that it would not be too late for them to buy the houses slowly after they earned some money.

Deng Changping and his wife were really flattered by this and didn't understand why Jiu Gong was so nice to them.

When the land was first distributed to each household in the village, all the land was given to the couple to cultivate. Later, when a passenger transport company was established, it was with the help of Jiugong that they invested 6 shares in the company. Then when they raised funds to build houses, Jiugong helped them again.

Although many people in the village had received help from Jiugong, none of them had received as much help as Jiugong had given to them.

Naturally, they could never have imagined that the reason why Deng Shirong helped them so much was because in his previous life, he had received a lot of care from them in his later years, so he could take proper care of them after his rebirth.

Deng Shirong smiled and nodded, "Okay, you can choose any of the two units. I believe no one will object."

The others really had no objections. The seventh floor was indeed inconvenient to enter and exit as the clan leader had said, and it was very hot in the summer. Now that someone was willing to take the initiative to choose, it was a good thing for everyone, as this way their probability of drawing the top floor would be lower.

Deng Changping thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll choose Unit 3, 701, 702, and 703!"

Deng Shirong nodded, drew the lots for the three houses and handed them to him, then looked at the other tribesmen and said, "Is there anyone else who wants to choose the seventh floor? If so, please sign up quickly. If not, then let's prepare to draw lots."

It has to be said that everyone has their own ideas. Most people dislike the top floor, but some people like it. Therefore, soon some tribesmen took the initiative to take away the other five top-floor houses.

Everyone can be said to be happy about this.

After the top floor is processed, the formal lottery will begin.

In the end, Deng Yungui's four houses were located on different floors, one of which was on the second floor, which made him very satisfied. When he moved to the county town, he could live on this floor, which would make it very convenient to go in and out.

Deng Yunqiang has three houses, one of which is on the first floor, and the other two are on the fourth and fifth floors, which is considered pretty good.

By noon, all villages had completed the lottery and the houses were officially allocated to each household.

Deng Shirong made the final summary: "Dear clansmen, now the houses have been distributed to each household, and the decoration of the houses in the future is a personal matter, because some clansmen want to decorate them more beautifully, and some clansmen just want to decorate them casually. There is no way to unify the decoration.

Up to now, there are still hundreds of thousands of yuan of funds raised by the whole family that have not been spent. However, this money will not be returned but will remain in the company's account because the company will set up a special department to manage the community. I call this department the Property Department.

Let me tell you about the main responsibilities of the property department here. Simply put, it is to manage the entire community, such as dealing with the community's public health, taking care of the flowers, plants and trees in the community's green areas, maintaining the community's public facilities, etc.

In short, the county town is different from the countryside. If there is no special person to manage such a large community, the disposal of garbage alone will be a big problem. We can't just throw garbage around like in the countryside, right? This is our second home in Naye Deng's house. The house is so beautiful and the greening is so well done. Everyone should take good care of it.

Therefore, the remaining money will be used to pay the salaries of the people working in the property management department for the time being. When all the shops in our community are rented out, the income should be able to cover the salaries of the property management department members."

"Jiugong, I agree with your proposal. Our community is so beautiful, so there must be someone to take care of it. And when you come to the county town, you must pay attention to hygiene. You can't let your children urinate and defecate anywhere like in the countryside, and you can't raise chickens and ducks in the community."

"Indeed, everyone in the county must pay attention to hygiene. If children urinate and defecate anywhere and chickens and ducks are everywhere in the community, then even the most beautiful community will be drastically changed."

"I also support the clan leader's proposal to set up a property management department to manage the community. It is necessary."

“…”

Deng Shirong's proposal was reasonable and all the clansmen expressed their agreement.

Seeing that it was time for lunch, Deng Shirong did not want to delay everyone too much, so he said: "It's getting late now, so let's not waste any more time. For those of you who worked in the county before, if you plan to stay in the county to renovate your own house, the clan will be responsible for paying the rent to you until the end of the year.

If you don't plan to renovate your house this year, then give up the house you are living in now and let other tribesmen who need renovation live in it.

Anyway, let's coordinate well and try to ensure that the clansmen who come to the county town to renovate their homes have a place to live.

Of course, if there is really not enough space, then everyone will have to sleep on the floor in their own house. As for taking a shower, washing clothes, and going to the toilet, there are public toilets in the community that are ready for use.

That’s all for now. We will have some free time. Let’s go eat some noodles first. For those who want to go back in the afternoon, the company will send a car to take you back.”

After the announcement of the disbandment, the hungry tribesmen went out to find noodles to eat, while those who were not hungry went upstairs to see their own houses with great anticipation.

Deng Yungui came over and asked, "Uncle Jiu, let's go up and take a look at your house. I'm curious about what this 640 square meter house looks like."

Deng Yunqiang, Deng Changbao, Deng Changxiong, Deng Shian, Deng Changping and others also came over. No one was not curious about the clan head's huge house.

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "Okay, let's go up and take a look together."

Building 9 was originally located inside the community, very close to the leisure square. In less than half a minute, Deng Shirong brought them to the second floor of Unit 1.

Looking at the house with a very spacious view in front of them, even the few people who had been mentally prepared were still stunned.

Deng Changping exclaimed: "Oh my god, this house is so big!"

Everyone walked around the house in shock, and when they returned to the super large living room, Deng Yungui exclaimed, "Uncle Jiu, your house is really too big. You can even open a basketball court right here in the living room."

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "It would be more comfortable if the living room was bigger. Otherwise, if the place is too small, there would not be much space left if you put any furniture there."

Deng Changxiong asked curiously, "Jiu Gong, how do you plan to decorate this house?"

Deng Shirong said: "I plan to decorate it like an ancient house."

This answer was beyond Deng Changxiong's expectation. He was confused and asked, "Pretend to be an ancient house? What would that look like?"

The others looked at each other in confusion, totally confused as to how this house could be decorated to look like an ancient one.

It is no wonder that they do not understand that in the countryside of this era, the understanding of decoration is to paint the walls and match them with furniture, and that is a good decoration. How can they understand the ancient style, modern style, European and American style? Even the city people are more knowledgeable and have better aesthetics than the rural people, but they are not too particular about the decoration of this era. If they can make a ceiling and lay terrazzo or marble floors, that is the most fashionable decoration.

antiquity?

What is that? Deng Shirong knew they couldn't understand it, so he didn't explain it too much. He just smiled and said, "I have asked the architect in Nanning to help design the decoration plan. When the house is finished, you will know what it looks like."

This undoubtedly shocked the few people again. To renovate a house, you have to ask an architect from Nanning to design the plan? To them, it felt like it was as absurd as asking a master to design a piece of clothing.

Deng Changxiong, who runs the bamboo weaving factory, was the first to react. He said with emotion, "You actually asked an architect from Nanning to design the decoration plan. It seems that you want to decorate the house very beautifully, Jiugong!"

This bamboo weaving is a work of art. As the boss, Deng Changxiong does have better aesthetic taste than the other members of the tribe, so he more or less understands Jiu Gong's approach.

Although other people didn't quite understand, they all understood one thing: to renovate a house they specially went to Nanning to invite an architect to design it, which proved that the house must be decorated as beautifully as possible and it was definitely not the kind that could be decorated casually.

Therefore, several people couldn't help but look forward to it.

Deng Yungui said, "Uncle Jiu, originally I wanted to just paint the house white, put up some electrical wires, and get some furniture before moving in, but seeing that you hired an architect to design the renovation plan, I'll just simply decorate one unit and live in it, and I'll decide on the other three units after I see how you decorate them."

Deng Changbao also nodded and said, "Me too, let me first take a look at how your house is decorated, Jiugong, and then decide how to decorate my house."

"Then I'll give you a sample first, and then you should have a general idea of ​​how to decorate it."

At this point, Deng Shirong looked at the time and invited him, "It's getting late now, let's go to my place for a few drinks!"

Deng Yungui is still running the tile factory with Uncle Jiu, so given their relationship, there is no need to be polite, so he nodded and said, "Okay, I haven't had a drink with you, Uncle Jiu, for a while!"

With Deng Yungui taking the lead, the others did not refuse and nodded in agreement.

So, the group went downstairs and walked towards the Suifeng Hotel.

(End of this chapter)