Siheyuan: Traveling through Cai Quanwu, pretending to be Uncle Shazhu

Early the next morning, Cai Quan had no breakfast. Instead of riding his bike straight to the grain store as usual, he headed to the neighborhood committee.

To handle matters sooner rather than later, go to the neighborhood committee and ask first. If the neighborhood committee doesn't know the policy, you have to seize the time to go down to the street to handle it.

In Cai Quanwu's memory, the time between public and private changes did not last long, so he had to seize the time.

When I arrived at the neighborhood committee, there were already staff coming to work.

After entering the neighborhood committee, I found a staff member and asked, "Comrade, may I ask, is Director Wang here?"

The staff member glanced at Cai Quanwu and asked, "What do you want from the director?"

"Asking about policy issues."

"Wait a minute, the director hasn't come yet, go to the door of the director's office and wait for a while."

The staff member said, pointing to the director's office.

Following the direction of the staff's finger, Cai Quanwu saw a room.

Cai Quanwuxin said that it was still the same room. The third uncle took him to it once last year.

"Comrade, thank you."

I thanked the staff, walked to the door of the director's office and waited.

Fortunately, Cai Quanwu didn't have to wait long. After about ten minutes, Director Wang came to the neighborhood committee.

Seeing Cai Quanwu standing at the door of the office, Director Wang smiled and asked, "Comrade, what's the matter?"

"Hello, Director Wang, I'm here to inquire about the housing policy."

"Oh, come in then."

Director Wang opened the door of the office and walked in with Cai Quanwu.

He came to sit down at his desk, asked Cai Quanwu to sit down, and then asked with a smile:

"Comrade, what question do you want to ask?"

"Director Wang, I heard from Director Ma of our grain store that there is a policy of converting public housing to private housing. I wonder if people like me who don't have a house can spend money to buy it." Cai Quanwu asked the question in his heart.

"Yes, there is such a policy. The notice just issued above usually refers to houses allocated to employees by the company. In your case, if you can buy it, I will also ask the superior department."

"Whether it can be purchased depends on the reply from the superior department."

Director Wang smiled and explained to Cai Quanwu, and then asked:

"By the way, your unit didn't assign you a room? So where do you live now?"

Hearing Director Wang ask himself, Cai Quanwu smiled and said:

"I just joined the unit not long ago, and it's not my turn to be allocated a room. Besides, I live with my nephew in Courtyard No. 95. The unit may not have a house here."

"I was thinking, if it were possible to buy one, wouldn't there be vacant rooms in No. 95? I would pay to buy two of them."

When Director Wang heard Cai Quanwu say that he lived in Courtyard No. 95, he seemed to remember who Cai Quanwu was.

"I remembered, you are that silly Zhu's uncle, right? We just moved here last year. I remember the third uncle in your courtyard brought you here once."

"Yes, Director Wang has a good memory, so I thought about buying two rooms nearby so that we can all live together so we can be taken care of."

"Living at your nephew's house is not a long-term solution."

Cai Quanwu told Director Wang his inner thoughts.

"In this case, you come back tomorrow morning, and I will go to the street to ask today to see what the superiors think about it."

Director Wang did not reply directly to Cai Quanwu, but asked him to come over again tomorrow.

There is no way around it. The policy has not been in effect for a long time, and many things are difficult to grasp, otherwise it is easy to make mistakes.

"Okay, thank you, director, I'll leave first."

Hearing what Director Wang said, Cai Quanwu knew that there was no answer today and could only wait until tomorrow.

Hope there will be good news tomorrow.

Cai Quanwu said goodbye and left, riding his bicycle to the grain store.

Since Director Wang asked to come back tomorrow, it didn't matter whether he went to the sub-district office or not. Going there would most likely be a waste of time, so it would be better to wait for news from Director Wang.

When he arrived at the grain store, Cai Quanwu said hello to everyone and returned to his hut.

When colleagues asked why they came so late, Cai Quanwu responded with a haha.

We still don’t know what the outcome of the house incident will be, but Cai Quanwu doesn’t want everyone to know about it.

Back inside, Cai Quanwu repeated his daily routine.

After finishing his work, Cai Quanwu sat on a stool to rest.

After an unknown amount of time, the door of the hut was pushed open, and Director Ma walked in from the outside.

Cai Quanwu saw Director Ma come in and knew that he probably had some clues about what he asked the director to ask yesterday. He stood up and greeted: "Director, you are here, sit down for a while."

He moved a stool and handed it to Director Ma, preparing to ask the horse owner to sit down for a while.

Director Ma did not take the stool, waved his hand and said, "You're welcome, I'll just say a few words."

"Quan Wu, I went to the institute to ask your question today. There are no vacant rooms in the institute, and you definitely won't go to the dormitory, so I didn't ask."

"Besides, there are quite a few of the dilapidated or collapsed houses you mentioned in our house, but there are none in Nanluogu Lane. There are some not far from there."

"You think about it yourself. I've asked. If you are willing to renovate or rebuild, the institute will support it."

"I have decided to go directly to the logistics department of the institute and find their section chief. You saw him last time."

“The advantage of renovation is that you can choose the location you like, but you don’t get this kind of treatment when you split a house.”

After listening to Director Ma's words, Cai Quanwu thanked Director Ma first and then expressed his inner plan.

"Thank you, Director Ma."

"Director, I went to the neighborhood committee this morning to ask. The neighborhood committee asked me to go again tomorrow morning. If I can buy two suitable houses, I will buy them."

"If I can't buy it, I'll go look at it and pick a suitable place. It can be renovated or rebuilt."

"Just make up your own mind, then I'll leave."

Director Ma saw that Cai Quanwu had already made plans and was ready to leave.

Seeing that Director Ma was about to leave, Cai Quanwu quickly took out cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and handed it to Director Ma.

"Director, have a cigarette."

"Row."

Director Ma took the cigarette from Cai Quanwu and turned around to leave.

After Director Ma left, Cai Quanwu sat down and thought carefully.

If the policy allows you to buy a house, then buy two first.

If it doesn't work, you can only go to the institute to pick a place to renovate and rebuild.

I'll go to the neighborhood committee tomorrow and ask.

If the neighborhood committee says it's okay to buy it, Cai Quanwu hasn't made up his mind yet whether he should choose an area to renovate or rebuild.

One is to really renovate the house. If you don’t live in it, will it cause unnecessary trouble?

Cai Quanwei knew that the state had carried out socialist transformation of private houses several times in recent years.

Of course, that refers to the extra houses in the hands of capitalists that are rented out, and owner-occupied houses are not included.

However, if you don’t move in after the renovation, your employer will find a reason to take it back and you won’t have anywhere to cry.

At this stage, eating more and occupying more is not in line with the current situation.

The second Cai Quanwu was worried that after the wind started, someone would make a fuss about this.

Then I thought about it and realized that I might be a little unfounded.

The unlucky ones after the storm started were the intellectuals and some high-ranking officials, as well as those with bad background.

He, Cai Quanwu, was neither an intellectual nor a high official.

When I first determined my composition, I had nothing, and what I was given was proletarian workers.

As long as you don't show off, nothing should come to you.

There is nothing you can do about malicious reporting, it is impossible to prevent it.

However, his interpersonal relationships are simple, so no one should report him when they are full.

Cai Quanwu would definitely not let the people in the courtyard know that he had a house outside.