Siheyuan: I have a small world

"Director Wei, how do you know? Could it be..." Wang Yu looked at Wei Heping in disbelief.

"Haha, sure enough, you are Wang Guo's nephew. I know that the battalion commander has four brothers, and he is the youngest. Are you from the same family?" Wei Heping suddenly laughed and asked him very confidently.

"Yes, yes, Director Wei, do you know my fourth uncle? My father ranks third." Wang Yu had already guessed Wei Heping's situation, but he confirmed again with some uncertainty.

Mainly, it was such a coincidence that I didn't expect that my fourth uncle's old comrade would be mentioned after just a few words.

"Hey, I originally thought that I would wait for me to settle down before looking for your fourth uncle, but I didn't expect to meet his nephew here. I am your fourth uncle's old subordinate. We have been in contact with each other intermittently in the past few years, mainly because we are stationed away from home. Sijiucheng is too far.

After the troops returned to China in 52, your fourth uncle filed a demobilization report, and then we were transferred to Guangnan. Until this year, we were transferred to the Garrison Military Region, and then transferred to this place. In the blink of an eye, seven years have passed! "

Wei Heping looked at Wang Yu's young face and said with emotion, if the battalion commander did not change his profession, now he would at least be a division and brigade level cadre!

With this relationship, the matter of Wang Yu's house was completed smoothly. It was not settled in his name, but it was just a case filed in the street, so it was not that troublesome.

Then Wang Yu and Wei Heping made an agreement to go to his hometown Liujiazhuang in the countryside together this weekend to visit his fourth uncle.

Wei Heping sent Wang Yu to the door before returning to the office.

The doorman, Uncle Chen, was surprised to see it.

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After finishing the work of settling in the house, it was only half past twelve.

After Wang Yu found a street shop for lunch, he went to Shinglei's house near their courtyard.

"Is Master Lei here?"

The style of the Lei family is a single-family courtyard with one entrance. The Lei family is considered to be a master builder of palaces. It is said that the ancestors of the Lei family were involved in the royal gardens such as the Old Summer Palace.

Therefore, Wang Yu came to the door and wanted Xiang Lei to help renovate the two inverted rooms.

"Who?"

"Crench!"

The wooden door opened, and a man in his forties came out, looked at Wang Yu and asked: "Comrade, who are you?"

"Master Lei, I am from No. 95, Luogu Lane. The factory has just divided into two rooms with reverse seats. I would like to ask you to help with the renovation. Open two windows on the side facing the street and clean up the interior of the room. Do you have time to take a look now?"

Wang Yu told Xiang Lei about his intention.

"Yes, yes, comrade, wait a moment, I'll get something." When Xiang Lei heard that Wang Yu was looking for a job, he immediately responded happily.

"Okay, then go quickly, I'll wait here." Wang Yu smiled and nodded.

After a while, Wang Yu brought Xiang Lei to their courtyard.

"Hey, Wang Yu, is this a new bicycle you bought?" This is the third aunt.

"I think it may be a reward. I heard that more than a dozen children were rescued this time. This is a good thing with immeasurable merit. No reward can be exaggerated." This is an aunt.

"I think it's also a reward. Didn't the policeman mention the reward in the morning? I heard it from the side." This is the second aunt.

"Boy from the Wang family, when are you going to get some meat to share with everyone..." Wang Yu didn't even have to tell, he knew it was Jia Zhang, the summoner of the undead next door!

As soon as Wang Yu entered the courtyard, he was surrounded by a bunch of ladies and aunts. Their words made Wang Yu's scalp numb.

"Stop, stop, ladies, I just bought this with the bonuses and bills awarded by the factory and the police station. I'm going to let Master Lei take a look at the renovation of the house later, ladies and gentlemen, please give me a break." Just in case. They spread random rumors, and Wang Yu just blurted out their words.

"Wang Yu, do your two houses need to be renovated?" the third aunt asked after hearing about the houses.

“Third aunt, my family has so many people, the sixth is five years old, and she still lives with my parents, it’s too crowded.

So when the factory asked me what difficulties I had, I casually mentioned the house matter, not expecting Director Yang to directly decide and solve it for me.

The two back-to-back rooms in the back will be where I live from now on. The houses are all ready at the street office, and I’m just waiting for Master Lei to help me open the windows and decorate them. "

"What, those two empty houses were given to you?" As soon as Wang Yu finished speaking, Jia and Zhang immediately exploded, "Wang Yu, one house is enough for your family. Aunt Jia can discuss something with you. For the sake of Aunt Jia, you lent me a room. As you know, since Xiaodang was born, my family of five has been crowded into one room, which is very inconvenient. I will pay you rent, one yuan a month. How about it?"

"Not so good, Aunt Jia. After my family has these two houses, it is just enough for our family of eight. I can't borrow them from you. Please give in."

After hearing what Jia Zhang said, Wang Yu almost choked at her shameless look and quickly pushed her away, "Master Lei, please come this way."

As he said that, he didn't care what Mrs. Jia Zhang said, but just didn't let go. If it hadn't been for the delivery of the meat the day before yesterday, Mrs. Jia Zhang would have wanted to point at Wang Yu's nose and yell at the little boy for his ignorance.

But seeing that Wang Yu was out of luck, he could only follow along with other aunts to watch the excitement.

The group of seven or eight people quickly attracted the attention of the other two families living in the opposite house, namely Wang Yu's neighbors on the right, the Feng Hua family and the Han Jing family.

"Third aunt, what's going on with you?"

Feng Hua's wife Liu Feng came out holding her child and asked.

"Well, those two houses were allocated to Wang Yu by the leader of the steel rolling mill. Now he is taking Xiang Lei to look at the houses. They will probably be renovated next." The third aunt said, pointing to Wang Yu in front.

"What?" Liu Feng frowned when he heard this.

In the front courtyard, her house only has one room, which is inferior to the two rooms of Han Jing's house next door.

Therefore, her family also has some ideas about the two vacant rooms next to it.

It's just that her husband Feng Hua was transferred from the Lower Machinery Factory last year. They are a family of four, and their two children are still young. They are not too nervous about housing for the time being, and they just want to take care of things.

I never thought that now the house was cut off by Wang Yu. Although I felt a little unhappy, it was hard to say anything.

She has been in this courtyard for more than a year, but she knows that the Wang family in the middle courtyard is not easy to mess with. Even the three stewards in the courtyard dare not provoke the Wang family for nothing, not to mention that their family has only moved here for more than a year and has not yet established a stable footing.

On the side, Aunt Chen of the Han Jing family and her daughter-in-law Fang Yun had no idea after hearing what the third aunt said. Their two houses were enough for a family of six and three children.

Wang Yu, on the other hand, had a sharp ear and eyes, so of course he heard the comments from everyone behind.

But the house has already been allocated to him, so there is no point in talking more. As long as it does not infringe on his interests, he is too lazy to take care of it.

Soon, the news spread that Wang Yu had obtained two reverse houses in the courtyard.

Wang Yu's mother, Chen Chunhua, was mending clothes for Lao Liu. This brat went out to play in the morning and scratched his undershirt.

After hearing that the second aunt came to tell her this, she was stunned at first, then she was happy, put down her work and ran to the front yard.

Fortunately, Wang Jing, the sixth child, is taking a nap now, so she doesn't have to worry about it.

When Chen Chunhua ran over, he happened to hear his son Wang Yu talking to Xiang Lei about the renovation.

After greeting the neighbors in the courtyard who were watching, Chen Chunhua did not affect his son Wang Yu, and stood aside looking at the two reversed rooms with a happy face.

Although the inverted house faces south and faces north, it cannot see the sun all year round.

But as long as it is renovated and a window is opened, it will be a little noisy facing the street, but it can still be lived in.

It can just relieve their family's housing pressure.

After all, three sons and two daughters are all grown up, so they need some private space, not to mention the couple.

Wang Yu also met his mother Chen Chunhua, said hello, and continued to introduce his ideas for remodeling the house to Xiang Lei.

"Master Lei, there needs to be a window at the back of these two inverted rooms. In addition, it is best to design it cleverly so that it can be soundproofed and protected from prying eyes when closed. In addition, please see if you can also open a window on the west wall of the innermost room. .”

"Besides, the maximum height of this house is more than four meters, and the minimum is three and a half meters. Can you see if you can make me a little taller and get an attic."

"Also, it's too cold in the winter in Forty-Nine City. Please give me a kang in both rooms, and put the fire place in the next courtyard."

Next door is the original left-crossing courtyard.

However, the courtyard next to this room turned out to be an independent small courtyard in the left courtyard.

Now the house has collapsed and is abandoned, with a pile of debris piled up in the yard next door. That space is not occupied. It is a matter of opening a small door in the wall next to it.

Wang Yu mentioned the matter of opening the door on the wall and occupying the burning kang in the abandoned courtyard next door to Wei Heping, asking him to help say hello to the courtyard next door. Anyway, he was an abandoned dean and had no interests in the courtyard next door.

If there is a chance in the future, Wang Yu will have to see if he can get the small courtyard next to it, and form a small single-family courtyard on both sides.

Wang Yu told some of his ideas to Xiang Lei, and Xiang Lei carefully recorded Wang Yu's requirements. After a while, he finished measuring with tools and came to Wang Yu and said.

"Comrade Wang Yu, I've taken note of what you said. It's no problem to open the windows, and it's no problem to soundproof and prevent prying eyes. If it's the attic, the walls need to be strengthened. Even if they don't increase the height, I'll dig thirty holes into the house for you. It's enough centimeters, so it's not a big problem.

There needs to be a door in the wall. If the kang is to be installed in the attic, it needs stone slabs with steel bars, otherwise the wooden one will easily collapse. Also, are you going to give me the entire renovation of this room, or are you going to prepare it yourself? Give me half a package of materials? "

"It's all included. The materials are good. Master Lei, just watch and do it for me." Wang Yucai was too lazy to get the materials himself, so he simply gave them to Shi Lei.

"It's all-inclusive, okay, let me calculate the approximate material and labor costs first." When Xiang Lei heard that Wang Yu wanted to give him the all-inclusive package, he immediately smiled. The all-inclusive package is highly profitable.

He does not have a formal job and relies on this kind of construction work to support his family.

According to his rough estimate, Wang Yu would be able to earn at least a few dozen yuan if he bought all these two rooms and spent at least 300 yuan on them.

I sighed in my heart that Wang Yu was so generous.

Most people don't pay so much attention to decorating their houses. They basically just paint the wall, or even put a newspaper on it and pull it down. It only takes a few dollars or a dozen to get it done.

It's not as big as Wang Yu's changes. They have greasy walls and cement floors, and they also need to build a higher ceiling and a kang in the attic.

After completing each of these rectification projects, even if he made a reasonable estimate, the overall decoration price would be nearly 300 less!

It's said to be a calculation, but in fact, when I was measuring just now, I had already made a rough estimate in my mind.

Now it's just a detailed calculation, you have to pretend, don't let Wang Yu think it's too simple and easy.

After a while, Xiang Lei made a list of the required materials and prices, and gave Wang Yu a rough all-inclusive price of 282 yuan.

Wang Yu took the order and made an estimate. He didn't refute it and just took out a deposit of ten yuan.

"Master Lei, this ten yuan will be used as a deposit. Half of the house renovation is completed, and I will pay you half of the labor. When the house is 70% completed, I will pay you 80% of the money. When the house is completed, the remaining 10% will be used as a deposit. , the other 10% will be paid to you, and the house will be fine after half a year, and I will give you the last 10%, how about it?"

"Okay, no problem. However, Comrade Wang Yu, can you give me an extra twenty as a deposit? I need to order materials and recruit labor. Ten is not enough, I'm afraid, because some cement and steel prefabricated panels are quite expensive and in demand. .”

Xiang Lei agreed with Wang Yu's settlement and money pressing methods, but had some objections to the deposit.

"Okay, no problem." Wang Yu took out another twenty and gave it to him.

After the two discussed it, Wang Yu asked Xiang Lei how long it would take to renovate the two houses.

To get the answer, because it requires a lot of changes, it will take at least half a month. If the labor force is sufficient, it can be completed in about ten days.

When Wang Yu heard this, he directly took out another twenty yuan and gave it to him, telling Xiang Lei to finish it in about ten days.

After renovating the house in this way, he would be able to move in during the National Day after letting it dry for ten days and a half.

In this regard, Shanxi Lei is confident that the house will be renovated as soon as possible to ensure quality and quantity.

Wang Yu gave him a key so that he could enter and exit easily later.

After sending Shi Xianglei away and sending away other neighbors in the courtyard, his mother, Chen Chunhua, came over to ask about his situation.

After Wang Yu explained to his mother, Chen Chunhua couldn't hold back the joy on his face.