Siheyuan: Xu Damao's New Life

Today is Saturday, Xu Damao had already taken leave yesterday. Coincidentally, Cai Quanwu went to the nearby area to pick up goods last night and sent a message to Xu Damao, saying that Niu Ye had found a few houses and asked him when to go and take a look. Xu Damao decided to take care of his own house in the morning and go to the tavern to look at houses with Niu Ye in the afternoon.

At around eight o'clock in the morning, two staff members from the street office came and were warmly welcomed by Yan Bugui. Yan Bugui had also asked for leave early because he was going to transfer his public business to private business.

When Yan Jiekuang came to inform Xu Damao, Xu Damao had just finished his meal. After cleaning the table, he followed Yan Jiekuang to the front yard.

The people from the street office were measuring the square meters of each house of the Yan family with a tape measure, and a group of elderly people and children who were not working were watching.

The area was calculated quickly, and Yan Bugui counted the money on the spot with some reluctance and handed it over. Two staff members counted the money while the other handled the formalities on the spot.

Yan Bugui looked at the two red notebooks again and again, and finally gave one to Yang Ruihua and Yu Li each.

"Put them all away. This will be our family property from now on."

"Dad, are you really going to give it to us?" Yu Li asked in disbelief.

"You are a good person. Your mother and I have seen everything you have done after you got married. Although we have not separated, since you have reconciled and got married, you should have some assets. You keep your own house, and you want us, old couple, to keep it for you!" Yan Bugui said seriously.

"Woo woo, Dad, you are so good to us. Dad, don't worry, not to mention that there is no separation, even if there is a separation, the two of us will help the family."

Yu Li was deeply moved at this moment. Fortunately, she did not believe the rumors and decisively married into the Yan family. Now her husband has passed the first-level worker exam and won a prize in the competition, making the family life better and better. Now her father-in-law even gave the house to the young couple. You know, a house is the foundation of your life. With a house, you can live even if you do odd jobs.

Xu Damao had to secretly give Yan Bugui a thumbs up. This was a great job! In broad daylight in front of so many people, he not only praised his daughter-in-law, but also gave her the house deed. If his eldest son and his daughter-in-law were not filial in the future, everyone would break the young couple's spine.

In the front yard, only the Yan family handled the transfer from public to private property. The Jia family in the middle yard did not do it because they were reluctant to spend the money. Yi Zhonghai didn't even have a child, so why would he buy a house?

Xu Damao just proposed to handle the transfer of He Yushui's house, but the people from the street office said that the house was originally a private property and he had personally handled the transfer procedures some time ago.

Xu Damao had no choice but to take his people to the backyard and first processed the transfer of his own two houses from public to private, and then to Nan Yi's and Liu Haizhong's houses.

Jia Zhang had been watching the excitement in the crowd, and she was also making sarcastic remarks. "I'm living well even in a public housing unit now, why waste that money? Wouldn't it be better to buy some meat with that money?"

When everyone saw that several households had completed the process of converting their property from public to private, they were tempted. However, after hearing what Jia Zhang said, they felt it made sense, so they all gave up the idea.

Xu Damao didn't say much, but he didn't know if they would regret it when the house prices went up in the future. Seeing that everything was done, Xu Damao simply rode his bike straight to the home of Master Li who renovated his house. Many households in the compound had registered that they needed to repair their roofs, and Xu Damao happened to be free today, so he wanted to take care of this matter.

"Master Li, are you home?" Xu Damao knocked on the door and shouted while standing outside the window.

This was Xu Damao's fourth visit. The courtyard that Lou Xiao'e brought as a dowry had been renovated by Master Li. Now Xu Damao's parents and sister had moved in. As for the house allocated to the cinema, it was temporarily vacant. Xu Damao would go there later to inform his parents to buy the house quickly.

"I'm here, come in." Master Li opened the door from the inside, "Oh, it's Section Chief Xu, are you looking for me or do you want to renovate your house?" Master Li was very impressed by this generous customer. In addition, they all lived nearby, so he was well-informed.

"No, just a few words. I have to leave after that. It's like this. Summer is coming soon, and our compound wants to focus on repairing the roof and replacing some tiles. So I came to ask if you have time!"

Master Li heard that this was not a job, "Yes, of course I have time, when is it convenient for you, I will take someone to take a look?"

"Let's do it tomorrow. It happens that everyone is not at work."

"Okay, I'll go over and take a look tomorrow."

"I may not be free tomorrow. When you enter our courtyard, go to the house on the left side of the door to find Yan Bugui. Tell him that I hired him to repair the roof, and he will know what to do."

"Okay, I'll go there tomorrow."

After the two chatted for a while, Xu Damao said goodbye, as he had to go to his parents' house to inform them. After leaving the alley, Xu Damao turned a corner and went to the supply and marketing cooperative at the corner of the street to make some purchases.

After parking the car, Xu Damao went to the counter selling cigarettes and alcohol.

"Oh, what a rare guest. I thought you looked down on our place now that you became an official! It's been several months since you last came." Zhang Xiaocui behind the counter teased.

"Hey, I'm busy at work, and my wife is pregnant, so I have to go to my father-in-law's house more often. Can you show me anything good?"

"No, it's sold out!"

"Don't worry, you can pick whatever you want from this supply and marketing cooperative. I'll pay for it today."

"Really? Then I won't be polite!"

"It's up to you. Once you say something, it's hard to take it back."

"Sister Liu, weigh two pounds of melon seeds, one pound of sugar, and two pounds of peach cakes to share with everyone. This Section Chief Xu will pay for it."

"Hey, Xiao Cui, this is the person you always left things for before, right? Is he the section chief now?"

"It's him. I've been criticized by the manager several times for leaving things for him." Xiao Cui'er bent down and started moving things from under the counter.

Xu Damao took a look and was surprised. There were so many things. There were five Daqianmen ones, two Zhongnanhai ones, one Huazi one, two boxes of Xifeng, one box of Maotai and one box of Fenjiu. With so many things left unsold, it was no wonder that she was criticized by her boss. It was not a loss for her to buy some things for her.

"Okay, since you've worked so hard, I'll take them all!" It wouldn't be a loss even if I bought these things and left them alone, not to mention there was still a lot of money and tickets in the space.

"Oh, you want them all. Do you have so much money and tickets?"

"The factory is going to entertain an important guest, so it's a good opportunity to buy some cigarettes and alcohol for the factory." Xu Damao lied, and took out a pair of butterfly hairpins from his pocket and handed them over. "Here, this is for you."

Zhang Xiaocui liked it at first sight, and reached out to take it and pinned it in her hair, "Don't think anything of me, I know you're married, be careful or I'll sue you!"

Xu Damao just smiled and didn't care. He went to buy some oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and the like to clear out the portion on the food book. Then after paying the money and the ticket, he went out to find a cart and pulled the things back to the courtyard.

"Hey, Damao bought so many things?"

"They are all daily necessities like oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, as well as some cigarettes and alcohol that are stored for later use." Xu Damao responded to the neighbor aunt and took the cart driver to the backyard. After unloading the things, he gave the cart driver three cents and he left happily.