The reason why I sold the bicycle in the countryside was not because I would not need it anymore, but because it was inconvenient to carry. Even if I put it in a space and brought it to the capital, others would easily be able to tell that it was the same bicycle when I took it out and used it again.

Thinking that Yun Guyuan could assemble bicycles, Yi Qingqing didn't sign a few more bicycle tickets and leave them on the sign-in ground on the loess road.

However, after arriving in the capital, I lived on campus most of the time and could take the bus when leaving school, so I never mentioned this matter.

When they went to see the small red brick house, Yi Qingqing remembered this matter, but before she had the chance to mention it to him, he told her.

But why do we say that we are assembling “a” bicycle from parts?

At first, he found parts for five bicycles in a scrap yard in a county. Now in a big city like the imperial capital, factory workers each have a bicycle to ride on and off, and there are so many scrap yards, how can he not find parts for two bicycles?

Yi Qingqing glanced at Comrade Yun suspiciously, but he seemed very calm. Was she overthinking?

"What's wrong?" Yun Guyuan bent his fingers slightly, a little nervous.

"I've always been curious about something... Are there really that many abandoned bicycles in the Tieling County scrapyard? Can so many parts be gathered together?" Yi Qingqing asked: "If there are really that many, there should be more in the Imperial Capital scrapyard, right? Can't we get two?"

Yun Guyuan stared at her and said slowly, "It's not possible to put together all the parts. I bought those half-used parts in Yin Yang Pavilion. It's more cost-effective to sell the old bicycles for parts than to directly exchange the ghost money for RMB. And I wanted you to come to me to order a bicycle, but I didn't expect you to buy a brand new one. But now we can save ghost money, so one bicycle is enough for the two of us."

Yi Qingqing still remembers that she once lost 50 yuan because she bought a bicycle too quickly. She was so embarrassed that she didn't hear the second half of Yun Guyuan's speech, which became faster and faster and softer. She thought he was talking about not being able to find so many parts, so she nodded and said, "So that's how it is. Let's do it this way!"

Yun Guyuan's fingers relaxed and he was secretly happy.

Afterwards, Yi Qingqing searched the remaining houses in Luoguxiang.

Luoguxiang looks like an alley as its name suggests, but in fact the roads outside the houses are made of solid and flat bluestone bricks. In the past, horse-drawn carriages could pass through it, but now cars can too. The alley has nothing to do with it and it was a wealthy area before liberation.

However, Yi Qingqing and her family have lived here for quite some time. Some of the houses are now vacant, while some are occupied. Most of the houses are occupied by multiple families, and there are many additions and renovations.

However, because the courtyard gates are all located in the southeast corner and each gate is quite far apart, it is still very quiet.

Yi Qingqing had seen on the map of the imperial capital before that all the courtyards in Luoguxiang were three-story courtyards, but there were only eighteen in total.

I have never understood why there are only eighteen houses, but her and Ayuan's house is number 40.

Now that she had the property manual, Yi Qingqing searched it and found out that when numbering, the courtyard houses with people living in them were counted as households, and only the uninhabited ones were counted as houses.

The eighteen three-courtyard courtyards are numbered from No. 1 to No. 62 Luoguxiang.

Among them, only nine courtyard houses are in their original complete state, including No. 45 owned by Yi Qingqing, No. 44 owned by Yun Guyuan, and No. 13 owned by Wang Jingyi.

In addition to these three buildings, there are six other empty buildings. The owners of two of them cannot be found, and the situation of four buildings is similar to that of Wang Jingyi. They have been taken over by the state. Some are temporarily kept waiting for the owners to return and take over. Some have no descendants and have become state-owned.

The remaining nine houses were all fully occupied, with more than one family living in them. The one with the least number of families housed in it had two or one house. The one with the most number of families housed in it had eleven families living in it. Basically, each family had only one or two rooms, and many kitchens, toilets, etc. were also added.

This means that the nine houses share the burden of 53 households.

There are actually some homeowners here who have potential intentions to sell, and Yi Qingqing paid special attention to them.

Forget about those that have been demolished beyond recognition. The three-courtyard houses whose layout has remained basically unchanged, and those with two and one courtyards that have been slightly modified and divided but whose environment is still well maintained are still worth buying.

If there is a chance, even if she doesn't buy it, she can remind her sisters in time.

Li Mengxue will definitely take over Wang Jingyi's house. If Lingling and Lailai can also buy properties in Luoguxiang, it would be great if all the sisters can live in the same area in the future.

Yi Qingqing was not worried that they could not afford it. They could not afford it now, but they would wait until the end of the year when individual businesses were allowed to operate. Comrade Da Jinhua's entrepreneurial idea required help, and she had also decided to let her sisters join in. As long as they joined in, they should be able to earn enough money to buy a house.

Moreover, Yi Qingqing even wanted to snatch the person from Comrade Da Jinhua, and even Comrade Da Jinhua wanted to snatch her away.

By the end of the year, individual business operations will be completely liberalized. With fewer restrictions each year, there will be many opportunities and many chances to get rich.

Yi Qingqing has often been hesitating recently whether she should seize this opportunity, how to seize this opportunity, or whether to seize this opportunity without violating her original intention of deeply studying traditional Chinese medicine.

First of all, she definitely doesn't want to be in charge of the company herself and be so busy, nor does she want to spend so much time making money.

But she has learned so many skills, it would be a shame not to cash in. She is not short of money and will never be short of money, but there are still many people who are short of money and there are many things that require money to do.

Many of the skills she learned, especially those of her masters who had level 5 skills, all had unique secret recipes, some of which had even been lost. Especially for incense making, Chinese medicine, cooking, and sewing, it would be amazing if many of these things could be improved to be suitable for industrialization.

She needed both time and the ability to make money. She felt that she could provide the capital, secret recipes, and ideas to start a company, and then let her sisters invest in it. They could work while she was lazy, and everyone could make money together. Her sisters should be able to accept that, right?

At that time, she would use a small portion of her earnings for living expenses, and use the rest for nothing else. She would use it to support the development of traditional Chinese medicine and do various charities to accumulate merit. This would definitely be much more cost-effective than making money by signing in herself.

This way she would have money and leisure time to study pharmaceuticals and traditional Chinese medicine, learn her own skills, and have time to travel around the country and even the world, while earning merit at the same time.

Although these are just an initial concept and need more refinement and consideration, Yi Qingqing already feels that it is wonderful just by thinking about it!