Chapter 189: Asking for a Room
Afraid that the suddenly grown big tree would scare the people around, Lin Qi could only wait until dark to stimulate the growth of wood.
"I went out today and found that the living conditions of nearby residents are not very good. Many families have seven or eight people squeezed into two small houses. We have too many empty rooms here, and I'm worried that the street office will arrange for the residents who can't accommodate them to come here," said Xu Hexiao.
Lin Qi was surprised. "This is a house under our name. Can the Street Office still have the final say over us?"
"Sure." Xu Hexiao nodded. "They will say that we are wasting resources and will ask us to make selfless contributions. I heard in a state-owned restaurant that someone else moved into someone else's idle house."
Lin Qi was stunned: "........"
Is this possible?
"So I'm afraid a lot of our rooms will have to be demolished." Xu Hexiao said. If they are demolished, those people will have nowhere to live when they come.
Lin Qi wiped her face and said, "Then tear it down. Just leave three or four rooms."
Xu Hexiao smiled, "Okay, let's do it now?"
Lin Qi nodded, "Let's do it now."
She couldn't imagine how she would live if a bunch of strangers came to live in her house.
Lin Qi was too lazy to climb the wall, so she controlled the vines to take down the tiles on the roof, and the same was true for the beams. When the walls were pushed down, it was also Lin Qi who operated.
"These bricks are brittle." Xu Hexiao said. Even if they are not pushed, they will not be able to hold out for long.
Lin Qi hummed, "I can make them even crisper and use them to fill the pond directly."
"This house is old, and the road outside is higher than the house. When we build a new house, they can be used to lay the foundation and raise the foundation higher." Xu Hexiao said. With so many rooms to be demolished, there should be a lot of discarded bricks and stones, which can come in handy.
Lin Qi was demolishing the house with great fanfare, and Xu Hexiao, who was unable to help, went to take care of the children.
Lin Qi was worried that the dust would drift into the bedroom, so she built a few vine walls outside the bedroom to block the dust.
Lin Qi demolished a total of 28 rooms for the night, leaving only four. Three of them were relatively well preserved, one was a bedroom; one was used as a study, but now there were no books, so it was temporarily used to store the family's clothes; one was used as a warehouse, and in the future it would store food such as grain and oil, as well as some tools; and the other was used as a restaurant, which was used for eating and receiving guests.
"Is that enough? Do you want to continue demolishing?" Lin Qi asked.
"That's enough. There are only four rooms. If someone wants to move in, I'll be tough. It doesn't make sense for them to ask us to contribute four rooms." Xu Hexiao said.
That night we were only busy dismantling the house, so the matter of growing wood had to be left until the next day.
What Lin Qi didn't expect was that the day after they demolished the house, people from the street office and nearby food factory and match factory came.
After Xu Hexiao opened the door, these people rushed in regardless of whether he was willing or not. When they saw the broken bricks and tiles all over the floor, their faces turned extremely ugly.
"What are you doing with this house?" A middle-aged man pointed at Xu Hexiao, furious.
Xu Hexiao raised his eyelids lightly, "It's my house, what do I want to do with you?"
The person who came in choked, as if something was strangling his neck.
"It's true that the house is yours, but you can't live in it. Why don't you let others move in? There are so many families in our area, and seven or eight people are crowded in a small room. Don't you feel sad when you see this?" A woman questioned Xu Hexiao.
Xu Hexiao thought, why should I feel sad? I have lived in a cowshed myself. His expression was indifferent, and he was unmoved. "When the higher-ups gave us this house, they never said that we should share it with others, and they certainly didn't say that I couldn't touch anything in this house."
People from the street office and several units looked at each other in bewilderment. They had long had their eyes on this house and had even thought about how to distribute it. They did not expect that their application would be rejected.
above?
How high up is it?
"It says above that this house is only for your family to live in?" The middle-aged man was not giving up.
"What else? Isn't the title deed newly issued? I went to the Housing Authority to ask yesterday, and they said that the house belongs to my husband and me, and there is no third person." Xu Hexiao said.
The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and finally asked the question in his heart indignantly, "Why did the higher-ups give this house to you!"
With such a location and such an area, even their director cannot get it if he wants it, so why should it be given to two young couples from other places?
"Then why don't you go ask the higher-ups?" Xu Hexiao sneered.
If they wanted to, he and Qiqi would not come here if possible.
The middle-aged man was humiliated. If he had been able to get in touch with anyone above him, he would have gone there to cry poor and would never have come here.
A group of people came in a threatening manner and left in disgrace.
“Why?”
“Perhaps they have made outstanding contributions?”
"There are so many people who have made great contributions. They are people of high moral character and would not occupy such a large house alone."
"Our Xu Hexiao seems to be so unscrupulous, so there should be no problem with where this house came from. Maybe he used something in exchange with the higher-ups."
"It's no use saying more. They demolished the house and our people can't live in it."
"What should we do? So many people have nowhere to live."
"Move the factory to the suburbs and build dormitories for employees in the suburbs."
"I'm just afraid that they won't be willing. And where will the money for building factories and dormitories come from? In my opinion, there are too many people in the city, so we should move some of them to the countryside."
"I'm afraid this is the only way. There aren't enough jobs in the city to support so many people anyway."
“........”
After seeing these people off, Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao started to eat breakfast.
"Fortunately we acted quickly." Lin Qi breathed a sigh of relief.
Xu Hexiao nodded, "You're quick." They demolished the house last night and used vines to build a chicken coop, rabbit hutch, and deer shed at the back. Otherwise, if those deer were seen by people who came in, it would be even more trouble.
"Have we offended those people?" Not to mention what factory it is, they are just afraid that the street office will make things difficult for them in the future.
"The street office is just a connective tissue. They should not need to arrange houses for their employees." Xu Hexiao guessed that when he went to register the information yesterday, the people from the street office learned that the house was under their name and, apart from curiosity, did not show much hostility.
"That's good." Lin Qi said. After all, a lot of their votes were issued by the street office. It would not do them any good if they offended the people in the street office.
On this day, Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao did not go out. They filled the pond and filled every corner and low-lying area.
"The lowest place on the ground now, besides the rice field, is that room. Can we fill them up a bit and then lay bricks on them?"
"OK.
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