Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

The construction of the courtyard was initially led by Yan Bugui, and later by the eldest son of Liu Haizhong's family. As a result, the construction of the courtyard became uncontrollable and no gaps were left untouched.

As a result, the current courtyard house is really unbearable to look at. It is much more chaotic than the original scene, and there is almost no place to step.

Courtyard No. 95 is just a microcosm. Almost every courtyard in the old city is like this now.

This year, Lei Daqiang was busy repairing the house first, and then building the house. However, when Zhang Xiuzhi found him, he agreed without hesitation. He asked his apprentice to come over and make preparations first, and he speeded up to finish the work at hand, and came immediately.

"Master Lei, let's not worry about this for now!" Zhang Xiuzhi said with a breath of hot air, "I'll talk to you about other things after you finish eating."

"Okay, you go ahead and do your work, we'll finish eating quickly!" Lei Daqiang agreed.

Outside, Yan Bugui, whose hair and beard were whitened by the snow, hunched over, stepped into the yard, and carefully walked around the materials piled on the ground on the other side of the back building.

But unexpectedly, Yan Bugui's feet slipped and he fell on his butt. In panic, his hands pressed everywhere and touched a wooden thorn, which caused bleeding.

"Ouch... It hurts so much, boss, boss..." Yan Bugui howled twice, but there was no sound in Yan Jiecheng's room.

Helplessly, Yan Bugui climbed up miserably by himself, holding his old waist, and moved step by step to the front yard.

Seeing the bustling crowd outside Zeng's house, Yan Bugui shook his head and went into the house.

There are houses built on both sides of their house, and the flower beds are long gone.

"Old man, what's wrong with you?" When the third aunt saw Yan Bugui like this, she came out in a panic.

"Don't mention it. I'm so unlucky. I fell down. Hurry up and get some iodine so I can wash it..." Yan Bugui talked about what happened in the front yard.

"That's the Zeng family's fault!" Auntie said as she took some things. "If their house wasn't cluttered with things, you wouldn't have fallen. Go to their house later and ask for some medical expenses."

The second son in their family was put in jail, and the old couple said they had no resentment towards the Zeng family, which was impossible.

However, they cannot afford to offend Zeng Wangcai's family because of their current power.

"I'll go talk to him later and see what Zeng Youqian says." Yan Bugui looked at his bandaged hands. "Anyway, their family has money, so they might give me some."

"Then please speak nicely!"

"understood!"

After staying in the house for a while and feeling warm, Yan Bugui said, "I went to the street office to ask, we have no chance of living with Lao Liu's house. The third and fourth sons should forget about it. If they can't make it, they can come back and each of them can have a room on the left and right sides."

"Is it not possible to borrow your place to stay?" Third Aunt complained, "Isn't the street too stingy? No one lives in the house. After the Liu family got into trouble, the house and all their property were confiscated. It will probably be difficult to divide it up for a while. Can't we wait for our third child to take over?"

"Old Third is not doing well himself, what's the point of saying all this?" Yan Bugui sighed, "The world is getting more and more confusing nowadays, there is no humanity at all, no one in the neighborhood will lend a hand when someone has a problem, it's not like before... No, I'll go talk to Old Yi first."

After coming out of the house, Yan Bugui looked at the bustling scene at Zeng's house again. He didn't dare to go over and went straight to the middle courtyard.

The Central Courtyard was even worse. Except for Yi Zhonghai and Sha Zhu who did not need a house, every household had an additional building built.

Take Qin Huairu's house for example. There is only an alley in front of the door. Her house has become a quadrangle courtyard with east and west wing rooms. Qin Jingru, who has no job, lives on one side, and the grown-up white-eyed wolf stick terrier lives on the other side.

Zeng Wangcai has been away for so many years, and the empire he had built up has been completely messed up. All kinds of monsters have returned, and the only one missing is Liu Haizhong.

However, there is also a new person named Bang Geng who hates the Zeng family even more, and Qin Jingru who hates Zeng Wangcai.

"Old Yi..." Yan Bugui opened the cotton curtain of Yi Zhonghai's house and went in. After the death of the first lady, Yi Zhonghai was alone at home, so he didn't have to worry about this. "Drinking alone?"

"Old Yan, what's wrong with your hand?" asked Yi Zhonghai who was drinking.

"Don't mention it, it's bad luck." Yan Bugui found a wine glass and sat down, "I think things are getting worse and worse in this courtyard. Now that Old Liu is gone, we two uncles have to step up and straighten out the atmosphere in the courtyard and establish our prestige.

"Look at my hands. There were materials piled all over the floor behind me. I almost fell down."

"Come on!" Yi Zhonghai had no desires and was not interested in what Yan Bugui said. He took a sip of wine and said, "It was you and Lao Liu who took the lead in this matter. If you two families don't build houses, will others follow suit?"

"Hey, Lao Yi, why are you targeting me?" Yan Bugui said angrily, "Isn't our family in financial difficulty? Zeng Wangcai is so rich, why is he still messing around in our yard? In my opinion, they should just move away."

"If you have the ability, go talk to their family yourself."

"No, Lao Yi, why don't you care?" Yan Bugui was furious. "Why are you trying to squeeze me? I'm telling you, as long as Zeng Wangcai is here, Sha Zhu will definitely go with him. If you don't believe me, just wait and see. Forget it, I can't drink this wine. I'll go to their house myself..."

Yan Bugui's words were like a hammer hitting Yi Zhonghai's heart.

After his aunt passed away, he felt more and more that elderly care was important. Although he was now rehired as a consultant and could come back home after working half a day, leading a leisurely life with no worries about food and drink, people could get sick from time to time. What would he do without someone by his side?

Like Jia Zhang, the woman next door?

I feel lonely all day long. It's as if I don't have a daughter-in-law and grandchildren!

It is said that Yan Bugui failed to convince Yi Zhonghai, which planted a thorn in Yi Zhonghai's heart. He came back in a daze and saw that Lei Daqiang and the others had finished their meal. Zhang Xiuzhi was leading Lei Daqiang to talk, so he followed and listened.

"Master Lei!" Zhang Xiuzhi ignored Yan Bugui and led Lei Daqiang to the south room of their house. "The wall behind our house collapsed in the earthquake and no one repaired it. There is still a section of it on the street outside, which is full of garbage. Please expand this side and push it outwards.

"We'll build a yard behind our house, where my parents can drink tea and stuff. We'll pay for the labor and materials when the wall is rebuilt..."

No, what does this mean?

You think your house is not big enough, so you expand it outside, occupy the outside area, and build a courtyard within a courtyard to plant flowers?

Yan Bugui understood and then became envious. He liked to grow flowers, but after the door was built, there was no space left.

"Xiuzhi, wait a minute!" Yan Bugui interrupted, "Isn't it inappropriate for you to do this? The area outside does not belong to our courtyard. The street office will have to tell you about it later."

"Well, it's not from our yard." Zhang Xiuzhi said calmly, "But it's not from outside either. The section of the wall outside collapsed, and there's already garbage piled up over there. Besides..."

"You can't tell me. Anyway, if your family does this, I will go to the street to sue you." Yan Bugui said while rubbing his abacus, "Also, my hand was injured when I tripped over the materials in your house. The medical expenses..."

"What's the matter, Uncle? Are you trying to blackmail me?" Zeng Wangcai came back.