A foreign city, dear you

Ye Lian walked straight into the management office, came to Uncle Lu, and asked him righteously but politely: "Uncle Lu, why did you cut off our water and electricity?"

Uncle Lu didn't even raise his head, and said arrogantly: "You are disturbing the residents too much, and the renovation is illegal."

Ye Lian was angry, but she tried to speak calmly: "No way? Disturbing the neighbors? If it disturbs the neighbors, then renovations are not allowed? Where is this rule? Then houses can't be renovated or renovated in the future? We all live in bare houses? Or live in old and dilapidated houses? It doesn't make sense, right?"

Uncle Lu seemed to realize that this was not acceptable, so he repeated what he had said on the phone: "The main thing is that this is a violation of the regulations."

Ye Lian immediately questioned: "Then I have to ask, what is considered a violation? Is it a violation of the law or a violation of your management regulations? Please point it out to me."

Uncle Lu sat there coldly without moving, looking out the door: "You, I can't do anything about this. Someone complained, so I can only do this."

"Who complained? I'll go find him, he and I..."

As Ye Lian was speaking, she was interrupted by a deep and loud baritone voice, speaking in a dialect that Ye Lian could not understand. Ye Lian could roughly guess that he was asking Uncle Lu if he had had lunch.

Uncle Lu immediately threw Ye Lian aside, put on a smiling face, and started chatting cordially with the man who asked the question.

Ye Lian turned around and saw Cao Xueqin. She didn't know when Cao Xueqin had come to the management office, but he didn't come in.

Ye Lian also saw a couple, both of whom were tall and plump, and it seemed that they ate a lot of meat.

The couple walked in. The woman went to the shelf to buy something, and the man started chatting with Uncle Lu. They were talking in a complicated manner and Ye Lian couldn't understand them.

After a while, the woman came over with a few things, paid the bill, and then they left together.

Ye Lian continued to negotiate with Uncle Lu, but Uncle Lu stood up and said that he was going to eat.

Ye Lian wouldn't let him go and blocked his way at the door, saying, "You can go to eat, but you have to connect the water and electricity to my house first. Our decorator is still waiting."

Uncle Lu seemed indifferent and said, "Impossible, unless you promise to restore the house to its original condition."

Ye Lian was getting anxious, her voice got louder, and she asked rudely: "Why did you cut off my water and electricity? I bought the house, and I have the freedom to decorate it. What right do you have to interfere and stop me?..."

Suddenly a young man came in, pointed at Ye Lian, and shouted at her fiercely: "What are you arguing about? What are you arguing about? It's over, why is it not over? Are you going to let people eat and do business? Get out!"

*

Cao Xueqin had been standing by and watching Ye Lian negotiating with Uncle Lu.

He didn't step forward because he felt that Uncle Lu was an old man and Ye Lian could argue with him alone, so he just needed to wait and see.

He saw the middle-aged fat couple go in, buy something and come out again.

Later he saw another young man coming. The young man stood outside the door and listened for a while, then suddenly walked up to Ye Lian and scolded her fiercely.

Cao Xueqin was not happy with this. His face turned cold, and he walked forward and questioned the young man loudly:

"Who are you? How can you talk like that? How can you bully a woman? She is my wife, my woman! I myself have never been willing to say a harsh word to her, but you come and bully her? What do you want to do? What's the point of bullying a woman? If you have the guts, come at me! How about it? I'll keep you company!"

Cao Xueqin is here to protect his wife!

Ye Lian retreated temporarily and handed the battlefield to Cao Xueqin.

Cao Xueqin did not recognize the young man, but Ye Lian did. He was Uncle Lu's son and seemed to often come and go in this management office.

Uncle Lu's son didn't notice Cao Xueqin just now. He didn't expect that someone would suddenly show up. Seeing Cao Xueqin's angry and fierce look, he was intimidated for a moment, but he was still unforgiving in his words and started arguing with Cao Xueqin.

Cao Xueqin had wanted to lose his temper for a long time, but because Uncle Lu was an old man, he patiently waited for Ye Lian to negotiate with him. Now, Uncle Lu's son made him angry, and he had the perfect opportunity to lose his temper and make a scene in the management office.

"You are just a shabby management office, what's so great about you? You think too highly of yourself! I pay the management fee every month to buy your services, not to pay you to embarrass me!"

"You sit here, I acknowledge you, and if I don't acknowledge you, you're nothing. Do you think you have privileges? I manage my house myself. With your qualities, you are not even qualified to manage my house!"

……

Uncle Lu's son was bombarded with words by Cao Xueqin and had no power to defend himself. He muttered, "You are so arrogant, can I give you water and electricity just because you are arrogant?"

Cao Xueqin's eyes widened, and he slammed the table in the management office in anger, saying fiercely: "I really want to turn on the water and electricity today! You have to turn on the water and electricity today, whether you want to or not! Otherwise, I will sell the house to you, and you give me one million right now! It's up to you whether you want to turn on the water and electricity or not!"

……

Cao Xueqin's influence grew stronger and stronger, causing great uproar in the management office.

A few people heard the noise and came to the outside of the management office to watch what was happening.

Ye Lian stared at Cao Xueqin nervously. She knew Cao Xueqin's temper and he could be impulsive sometimes. She had to make sure he didn't fight with others.

*

"You can't modify this house!" Suddenly another voice joined in: "You are affecting others!"

The person who spoke was the fat woman who had just come to buy things, followed by her fat husband.

Ye Lian didn't know whether they came down because they heard the noise or Uncle Lu called them down, because she just saw Uncle Lu leave for a while.

Ye Lian asked her, "You are also the owner of this place, right? How did it affect you?"

"I live downstairs from you, so it doesn't bother me? It's making so much noise that I can't have any peace." The woman said loudly, with dissatisfaction in her eyes.

Ye Lian now knew who was complaining.

She also began to understand why Uncle Lu was so determined to cut off their water and electricity, because Uncle Lu and the fat couple were from the same hometown, and they seemed to have a special relationship.

Although Ye Lian was not as tall as the fat woman, she was not afraid of her and retorted, "If you want to say that it disturbs you, then there is nothing we can do. Everyone who renovates will disturb others. Didn't you disturb others when you renovated? No one complained about you, right? What right do you have to complain about us?"

The fat man also joined in, warning Ye Lian and Cao Xueqin rudely: "It's not just our family that's complaining, there are other owners complaining too. It's wrong for you to make the changes. If you build the wall like that, it will affect the entire building and make the frame of the entire building unstable. If the house collapses, we'll ask you to pay for it."

Ye Lian felt a little uneasy when she heard the fat man speak so seriously.

She wanted to ask Cao Xueqin whether the situation described by the fat man existed?

At this time, Cao Xueqin was fighting one against three.

Uncle Lu's son, seeing help coming, immediately became arrogant again;

Uncle Lu also joined in;

And that fat man, who also had ulterior motives and was not a good person, came over as well.

Cao Xueqin looked at the situation and felt that it was better to be a wise man than to suffer a loss in front of him. He was here to solve the problem, not to quarrel. Such a messy quarrel would not lead to any result.

Cao Xueqin stopped arguing after a while.

"Okay!" Cao Xueqian declared loudly, "You guys are relying on your numbers, right? I won't keep you company. You won't let me renovate? I don't believe it. I'm calling the police! You guys are conspiring to make things difficult for me."

As Cao Xueqin said this, he really took out his cell phone to call the police.

Things seem to be getting more and more serious.

*

Twenty minutes later, two policemen arrived.

When the police arrived, they asked who had called the police, and Cao Xueqin said it was him.

The police asked why you called the police?

Cao Xueqin told the police everything that happened.

The police asked, who is the manager? Why don't you allow people to renovate? Why do you cut off their water and electricity?

Uncle Lu said that it was him who cut off the water and electricity and prohibited the renovation because someone complained.

The police then asked who made the complaint and why?

The fat man took the initiative to admit that it was them. The reason for the complaint was that he was worried that the entire building would be affected and that the building would collapse.

The police said it was not that serious. As long as the exterior walls were not demolished, the interior could be freely remodeled.

The fat man defended himself by saying that they (referring to Cao Xueqin and Ye Lian) had smashed the wall, and they were actually hitting the load-bearing wall.

The police came back and asked Cao Xueqin, were you smashing the load-bearing wall?

Cao Xueqin said no with certainty.

After hearing this, the fat man and the fat woman immediately objected and said yes.

So the point of dispute now is that one party says it is not a load-bearing wall, and the other party says it is a load-bearing wall.

The police said don’t argue, just go up and take a look and you’ll know.