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Cao Xueqian said: "Our house is big, and it already has two bathrooms and two balconies, so it won't be a big problem to modify it."

"Will it work? How to change it?" Ye Lian was puzzled. She had never thought about this question before.

"Why don't we go to the house and take a look?"

"Then shall we go and have a look tomorrow?"

"Okay, if you want to revise it, do it before I go to work. Otherwise, I will have to start looking for a job later." Cao Xueqin picked up the last bun skin.

"Okay, then I'll make good use of your labor." Ye Lian smiled and started to wrap the last bun.

*

The next day, Ye Lian and Cao Xueqin came to Yuntao Building.

The four-bedroom house is on the fifth floor of Yuntao Building.

Ye Lian took the key, opened the door, and walked in with Cao Xueqin.

The living room is really big and bright, and the four rooms are also big and bright, with a living room balcony, a master bedroom balcony, a guest bathroom, and a master bathroom.

Ye Lian sometimes thought that if there was no house in Jinjinghuayuan, she would most likely choose to live in this house, which has good ventilation and lighting.

Of course, in terms of environment, it is far worse than Jinjinghuayuan.

The two looked around the house.

Ye Lian asked Cao Xueqian: "How do you think we should change it?"

Cao Xueqin stood about four or five meters away from the living room door and told Ye Lian how to partition the living room, how to enclose a corridor, and how to build a small living room in the living room... In the end, this four-bedroom, one-living-room house was turned into a three-bedroom, one-living-room house and a one-bedroom, one-living-room house.

After asking around and finally understanding what Cao Xueqin meant, Ye Lian said, "Isn't this a typical room within a room? The light is affected, and building a corridor wastes the usable area. Besides, the two residents will affect each other."

"That's the only way to change it. Is there any other way?"

"I have another idea."

Ye Lian said this and took Cao Xueqin's hand and walked into the master bedroom.

Ye Lian pointed to the wall between the master bedroom and the living room and said:

"Look, this master bedroom is so big. If we move this wall a certain distance away from the living room, there will be an extra room. Can't we change it into a one-bedroom and one-living room?"

Cao Xueqian immediately understood: "This is possible, but how do we get in and out?"

Ye Lian pointed to the wall that separated the corridor outside and said, "We can find a place to open a door on this wall so that we can go in and out. In this way, this small house will be independent, right?"

Cao Xueqian nodded and said, "That's fine, and it's even easier to change."

Cao Xueqin walked out again and came to the corridor outside to judge whether it was feasible to open a door on the wall of the master bedroom and where it would be located.

Ye Lian had always only proposed a general idea, but whether it was feasible, where to open it, and how to open it were all up to Cao Xueqin.

Cao Xueqin ran to the corridor and then ran back to the room, and finally confirmed: it can be opened.

Cao Xueqian praised with satisfaction: "Okay, wife, you are really a house structure remodeler."

Ye Lian smiled, a little proud.

This was the second time she had modified the house, and she felt that she did have a bit of talent in remodeling the structure of a house.

Now that you have decided how to change it, let’s change it.

I didn't expect that this change would cause such a big storm.

*

Once the renovation plan was finalized, the rest of the work was left to Cao Xueqin.

Whenever Ye Lian had some sudden ideas, it was Cao Xueqin who helped her realize them.

It was still Cao Xueqin's usual approach: Ye Lian only raised questions, and he, Cao Xueqin, was responsible for solving them.

Find a decorator, communicate with him, report to the management office, and then officially start work a few days later...

The project was not big. Fortunately, the master had already helped Cao Xueqin renovate several houses, otherwise he would have looked down on this job.

The first step of the project is to build the wall.

The decorator picked up a big hammer.

"Bang——" "Bang——" "Bang——"

The sound of hammering on the wall was so deafening in the corridor that the entire building seemed to tremble.

Cao Xueqin saw the decoration master start work, explained some matters again, and then left Yuntao Building.

According to his estimate, if everything goes well, the transformation can be completed in three to five days at most.

But this matter just doesn't go smoothly.

*

On the second day after the renovation began, around nine o'clock in the morning but not yet ten, Cao Xueqin received a call from the decorator at home.

The decorator said, Boss Cao, your house cannot be renovated.

Cao Xueqin asked in surprise why?

The decorator said that the management office didn’t allow it. Didn’t you inform the management office?

Cao Xueqian said, "How is that possible? I have already reported this to the management office."

The renovation master was puzzled and said, "I don't know. Anyway, they don't allow renovation. So what should we do now? Should we start the work?"

Cao Xueqin said, then wait a moment, let me ask what’s going on?

After Cao Xueqin hung up the phone, he asked Ye Lian to call Uncle Lu and ask what was going on.

Ye Lian called Uncle Lu and asked him why he stopped the renovation for no reason?

As a result, Uncle Lu said that your renovation was too noisy and some residents had complained, so you'd better not make any changes.

Ye Lian argued with him, saying, "How can renovation not be noisy? Who hasn't renovated their home before? We didn't renovate during our break time."

Uncle Lu said that yours is different and it is an unauthorized and illegal modification.

Ye Lian asked us in confusion, "How did we do it without permission? Didn't we report it? What's the violation? Why didn't you tell me about it earlier? Now that my wall has been built, what should I do if you tell me it's a violation?"

Uncle Lu was getting impatient, and he finally said to Ye Lian: Stop the renovation and restore the house to its original state! Then he hung up the phone.

It's done.

It was unexpected.

The wall that needed to be destroyed was completely destroyed yesterday, but they forbade further modifications and ordered us to restore it to its original state?

Isn't this embarrassing?

Ye Lian stood there blankly with a cell phone in her hand, seemingly unable to understand how such a difficult problem suddenly popped up out of nowhere.

Ye Lian told Cao Xueqin what Uncle Lu said and asked him what to do.

Cao Xueqin thought for a moment and said, "Don't pay attention to him, we will continue the renovation as usual."

Ye Lian had no other choice but to think that the renovation had to continue. It was impossible for the building to rot there, right?

Cao Xueqin then called the decorator and told him to ignore him and continue with the renovation.

Then the decoration master said to Cao Xueqin, "Boss Cao, you have to think carefully. If you force the decoration, the management office will block you in many places."

Cao Xueqin said, let’s ignore him for now and take it one step at a time. What can he really do?

The decoration master said, OK, then I will continue the work.

After a while, the decorator called Cao Xueqin again and said, "I said it's not possible, right? The management office has blocked you in many places. Now you are in trouble. The water and electricity have been cut off."

Cao Xueqin got angry when he heard this. He asked, "What? The water and electricity are out? We'll go there right away. This is outrageous! How can he cut off my water and electricity? Who gave him the power to do this?"

*

Cao Xueqin hung up the phone and immediately took Ye Lian to Yuntao Building.

On the way, Ye Lian sent a message to Cao Lanshan's class teacher, asking him to tell Cao Lanshan to have lunch at school this afternoon.

Because it was almost noon, and today's matter seemed very difficult. I didn't know if it could be solved? How long would it take? I might not be able to make it back in time to make dinner.

As for her and Cao Xueqin's lunch, she couldn't take care of it for the time being.

Yuntao Building is in Xiangyang Town, a little far from Jiayuyuan, and there are many traffic lights on the road. It took half an hour of driving before I saw Yuntao Building.

It was difficult to park near Yuntao Building, so Cao Xueqin asked Ye Lian to get off the car first, and then he went to find a parking place.

*

After getting off the car, Ye Lian walked towards Yuntao Building. As she walked, she thought, Uncle Lu, isn't he a very kind person? Why is he so rude and unreasonable? If you had told us earlier that you didn't agree with our renovation, we would have given up the idea of ​​remodeling. Now that we have built the wall, you suddenly come to stop us. What should we do? Once the arrow is shot, there is no turning back. We must remodel well.

Ye Lianlai saw the Yuntao Building Management Office.

The Yuntao Building was originally managed by a special property management company, but was later driven away by the owners of the Yuntao Building and was managed by Uncle Lu and his family.

Since Ye Lian doesn't live here, she is not very clear about the process of the struggle.

From the outside, the management office is also a small store with shelves filled with various daily necessities and some packaged foods for the convenience of residents of Yuntao Building to purchase.

The management office's desk is facing the door.

Ye Lian saw Uncle Lu.

Uncle Lu also saw Ye Lian, but pretended not to see her.

Cao Xueqin hasn't arrived yet.

Ye Lian didn't wait for him and went to find Uncle Lu alone to reason.

Ye Lian is no longer the Ye Lian who ran the bakery before. She is no longer a timid person.

Although she still doesn't speak much in many occasions, it's only because she feels there is no need to speak, not because she dares not speak.

As long as she is not in the wrong, she is not afraid of anyone.

This self-confidence comes from her own growth, but more importantly, from the nourishment of Cao Xueqin's love day by day, and from Cao Xueqin's consistent tolerance and heartfelt appreciation of her.

Unconsciously, Ye Lian was reshaped in Cao Xueqin's love and slowly transformed.

Ye Lian saw that Uncle Lu saw her but pretended not to see her, and knew that she was now someone he didn't like to see. So what? You didn't see me, but I saw you.