Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

Just when He Yuzhu was about to get off work, Chen Xueru invited Qiu Guangpu to the tavern to discuss buying a house. Chen Xueru was the first to speak: "Qiu Guangpu, what do you think about the house? A few days ago you said you would think about it for two days, how have you thought about it these days?"

Qiu Guangpu picked up a peanut and put it in his mouth, saying, "Boss Xueru, I haven't made up my mind yet. Selling a house is not a trivial matter. The price you gave is a bit too low."

"Qiu Guangpu, are you going to sell this house or not? You are a grown man after all, can't you just give me a straight answer?" Seeing this, Chen Xueru decided to provoke Qiu Guangpu.

Qiu Guangpu hesitated for a moment and said, "Boss Chen, give me a day. I will give you a definite answer tomorrow at noon. Is that okay with you?"

"Okay, I'll give you one more day, Old Qiu. I really want to buy your house." After saying that, Chen Xueru did not forget to pour a glass of wine into Qiu Guangpu's glass.

By the time He Yuzhu arrived at the tavern on his bicycle, Qiu Guangpu had already left the tavern, leaving Chen Xueru alone in the tavern drinking.

When Zhao Yali saw He Yuzhu coming, she hurriedly smiled and greeted him: "Xiao He, you are here. You must be looking for Manager Cai. I will call him from the back. He just went to the backyard warehouse."

"Thank you, Accountant Zhao." He Yuzhu stood in the tavern and began to look at the layout of the tavern. He inadvertently saw a woman in cheongsam sitting alone in the corner drinking. He Yuzhu glanced at her and did not pay any more attention to her.

After a while, Cai Quanwu and Zhao Yali returned to the lobby of the tavern. When he saw He Yuzhu, Cai Quanwu smiled and said, "Zhu, you are here. Please wait for me for a moment. I will make some arrangements." After that, Cai Quanwu turned to Zhao Yali and said, "Accountant Zhao, I have to go out for a while. I'll trouble you and Cashier Kong to keep an eye on the tavern first."

"Manager Cai, just go and do your work. Don't worry, Yuqin and I are here to look after the pub." Zhao Yali said with a smile.

"Then let's go, Zhuzi." After saying that, Cai Quanwu walked out of the tavern.

"Accountant Zhao, goodbye." He Yuzhu waved to Zhao Yali, then turned around and followed Cai Quanwu out.

After leaving the tavern, Cai Quanwu said, "Zhu Zi, the woman who was wearing a cheongsam and drinking in the tavern just now is Chen Xueru, who wants to buy Qiu Guangpu's house."

"Oh, she is Chen Xueru. I was wondering why she looked like an extraordinary person. Uncle, who is this Chen Xueru? How could she come up with so much money to buy Qiu Guangpu's house?" He Yuzhu asked casually.

Cai Quanwu sat on the back seat of He Yuzhu's bicycle and answered, "This Boss Chen is in the silk and satin business. She owns the largest silk and satin shop near us, but it is now owned by the government. This Boss Chen is a pitiful person. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, her husband abandoned her and her child and ran off to America, leaving her alone with her child to run the silk and satin shop business."

"Then this Boss Chen is so young, has she never thought about marrying again? In this new society, being a widow is not popular anymore."

"I haven't heard any news about this. After all, she's a woman who doesn't often come to our tavern to drink, and I haven't heard anyone in the tavern talk about her. Most of the people who come to the tavern to drink are ordinary people who don't have much money. This is the new society. If it were in the past, she wouldn't even be brought into my tavern. Her family conditions are average. Why is Qiu Guangpu unwilling to sell her house? Besides the fact that they couldn't agree on the price, the biggest problem is that Chen Xueru looks down on people and always looks down on ordinary people. It must be that Qiu Guangpu is in a hurry to use the money, otherwise, with Qiu Guangpu's temper, she probably wouldn't want to pay attention to her."

"By the way, have you found out why Qiu Guangpu is selling the house? I have talked to Qiu Guangpu before. Although he seems a bit cynical, he is generally reliable and not the kind of person who would mess around. Why would he suddenly sell the house?" He Yuzhu asked Qiu Guangpu why he was selling the house.

"Qiu Guangpu said that his family was in trouble and couldn't make ends meet, but I didn't see him as if he was in trouble, so I asked around privately, and I heard from his neighbors that nothing major had happened to his family recently. But his neighbors did tell me a piece of news, that his sons are no longer in the old city. I heard that they went outside the Great Wall. I guess Qiu Guangpu might have wanted to do something but had no capital, so he had to sell the house." Cai Quanwu said the news he had found out.

"In that case, you can buy Qiu Guangpu's house, just don't do it recklessly or ruin your family, then there won't be any trouble if you buy it. By the way, cousin, I'll have to trouble you to cooperate with me later. One of us has to play the good cop and the other has to play the bad cop. This way, Qiu Guangpu won't take the opportunity to raise the price." He Yuzhu thought for a moment and reminded.

"Don't worry, I know how to cooperate with you. You will be the good cop and I will be the bad cop. Just focus on controlling Qiu Guangpu and I will help you get things done." Cai Quanwu said with a smile. "Zhu Zi, the gate in front is Qiu Guangpu's house." Seeing that they were almost at Qiu Guangpu's house, Cai Quanwu quickly pointed it out to He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu parked his bicycle steadily in front of the gate of Qiu Guangpu's house and looked at it. Cai Quanwu got off the back seat of the bicycle and said with a smile: "Zhuzi, what do you think? This house has a magnificent gate, isn't it?"

"It's really magnificent, even more magnificent than the gate of the courtyard house where I live. It's a pity that Qiu Guangpu only sold the backyard and the middle yard. It would be better if he bought the whole thing." He Yuzhu sighed with some regret.

"Let's buy the backyard and the middle yard first. There will be opportunities in the front yard later. Zhuzi, wait for me here for a while. I'll go in and call Qiu Guangpu." After saying that, Cai Quanwu entered Qiu Guangpu's house.

When he walked into the yard, Cai Quanwu called out, "Pian'erye, are you home?"

Qiu Guangpu's wife, who was in the house, heard someone shouting outside. She lifted the door curtain and walked out of the house, asking, "Who is it? Old Qiu is not at home."

"Sister-in-law, it's me, Cai Quanwu from the Daqianmen Tavern. I came to your house last night and looked at your house. Do you remember it?" Cai Quanwu said with a smile.

"I remember now. Old Qiu brought you back last night. What happened? Old Qiu went out and is not at home now." Qiu Guangpu's wife asked curiously.

"Aren't you going to sell your house? I told Pian'erye last night that I would introduce him to a buyer today. Now I'm bringing the buyer to see the house." Cai Quanwu explained.

"Where is the buyer you mentioned? Why can't I see him?" Qiu Guangpu's wife said, looking behind Cai Quanwu.

"He's at the door. I'll call him in." Cai Quanwu said and walked towards the door.

Cai Quanwu came to the door of Qiu Guangpu's house and said, "Zhu Zi, come in with me. Qiu Guangpu is not at home right now, but his wife is. Come in and take a look at the yard first."

He Yuzhu moved the bicycle into Qiu Guangpu's yard, then followed Cai Quanwu to the middle courtyard and met Qiu Guangpu's wife. "Hello, aunt." He Yuzhu greeted Qiu Guangpu's wife with a smile.

"Young man, you've grown so tall. My husband, Mr. Qiu, is not at home right now. How about I take you to see the house first? You two can chat when Mr. Qiu comes back." Qiu Guangpu's wife said enthusiastically.

"Then I'll trouble you, auntie." He Yuzhu responded with a smile.

He Yuzhu, led by Qiu Guangpu's wife, began to visit Qiu Guangpu's house. After visiting all the houses, He Yuzhu returned to the middle courtyard. After this round, He Yuzhu felt that Qiu Guangpu's house was really good. The area was much larger than the courtyard where he lived, and the furniture in the house was all old items. It seemed that Qiu Guangpu's ancestors must have been very prosperous and not ordinary people. So he said, "Aunt, such a good house, you are really willing to sell it. Once this house is sold, it may never be bought back."

"Well, I am definitely reluctant to sell it. Old Qiu married me in this yard, and we have lived here for decades. But now we have encountered problems. There is really no way. I have to sell it whether I am reluctant or not." Qiu Guangpu's wife said as she looked at the house with a melancholy look on her face.

"Aunt, you and Pian'erye have several children. I've been walking around, but I don't see any other people living in the yard?" He Yuzhu continued to ask.

"Old Qiu and I have three sons, and none of them live in the old city. My family has relatives living outside the Great Wall, and the children felt that there was no good livelihood in the city, so they decided to go and live with my relatives. Before my children went outside the Great Wall, they lived in the backyard and the middle yard. Only a few rooms in the front yard were rented out, but now they all go out to work and are not at home." Qiu Guangpu's wife had a happy smile on her face, and was full of love when talking about her children.

After listening to the description of Qiu Guangpu's wife, He Yuzhu secretly guessed that Qiu Guangpu's selling of the house might be related to his son's life outside the Great Wall. Maybe they planned to transport goods from outside the Great Wall to the interior of the Great Wall. After all, the area outside the Great Wall is vast and sparsely populated, and all kinds of supplies are so abundant that it is unimaginable. Thinking of this, He Yuzhu couldn't help but think of an article in his elementary school textbook in his previous life - "The Lovely Grass Pond". There is a description in it: hitting roe deer with a stick and scooping fish with a ladle, pheasants fly into the rice pot. Although this sentence is a bit exaggerated, it does vividly show the abundance of resources in the area outside the Great Wall.

As his thoughts drifted, He Yuzhu seemed to see vast grasslands, dense forests and gurgling streams, which were all treasures bestowed by nature outside the Great Wall. The products there were rich and diverse, not only fat prey, but also countless fish and poultry. And the Qiu Guangpu family may have seen this point, so they chose to leave and sell the house in the Fortress of the City to look for new opportunities outside the Great Wall.

He Yuzhu sighed inwardly that people in this era are always keen to seize every opportunity in life. Whether it is Qiu Guangpu or others, everyone is working hard to improve their living conditions. For Qiu Guangpu, selling the house to He Yuzhu is just the first step towards a better future.

The more He Yuzhu thought about it, the more he felt that his idea was likely the truth. He began to ponder in his mind that if it was really as he thought, then Qiu Guangpu was definitely a very far-sighted businessman. This also made He Yuzhu very interested in Qiu Guangpu.

He Yuzhu thought: "Qiu Guangpu is really hard to figure out!" He couldn't help but think of the few times they met. Every time he met Qiu Guangpu, he always acted cynical and gave people a feeling of being unreliable. But He Yuzhu found through observation that Qiu Guangpu was not as cynical and unreliable as he seemed. On the contrary, he was actually a thoughtful, courageous and resourceful person. This hidden quality made He Yuzhu realize that Qiu Guangpu was by no means an ordinary person.

He Yuzhu thought to himself, "If I'm right, then Qiu Guangpu must be confident enough to do this." He knew that for Qiu Guangpu, this was undoubtedly a rare business opportunity. And for himself, it might also be an opportunity. But the question was, should he get involved? After all, he and Qiu Guangpu were not close enough, and joining rashly might bring unexpected risks.