Siheyuan Shangpeng

"Ka..." This interrupted Jia Zhang's spell. Jia Zhang was out of breath for a long time. She panted for a long time before she said to Director Wang timidly, "Director Wang, the uncle in our courtyard said that the house was allocated to our family, so I changed the lock and asked me to throw away the old lock..." Her voice became smaller and smaller as she spoke.

At this time, Auntie said, "Sister-in-law of the Jia family, our Lao Yi said he would ask for you, but he didn't say it would be distributed to your family. Didn't you say that the street office distributed it to your family? Our Lao Yi advised you not to do so when you changed the locks."

At this time, another young woman came out of the Jia family. Seeing this situation, she hurriedly said to Director Wang, "Director Wang, my mother-in-law may have misunderstood. Please don't punish her. She is also worried about my family of four being squeezed into one room.

Also, the lock was broken at the time, and my mother-in-law was well-intentioned, fearing that a child might break something if they entered. Please forgive her this time, as she is willing to protect public property."

The one who is speaking is Qin Huairu, the White Lotus of the Prosperous Age. Now Jia Dongxu has not been hung on the wall yet, so the white lotus has not yet fully bloomed.

"Qin Huairu, you are quite good at talking. Do you want me to give your mother-in-law a certificate of honor?" Director Wang almost laughed out of anger.

"That's fine too..." Jia Zhang was still mumbling, but Director Wang glared at her and made her shut up.

"Okay, we'll discuss Jia Zhang's matter during the general staff meeting tonight. Now, Jia Zhang, go open the lock and divide the three rooms among the people." Director Wang said, looking at Jia Zhang with disgust.

Seeing that there was no other way, Jia Zhang had to get up and go back to the house to get the key. She handed the key to Qin Huairu and said, "You go open the door. I'm going to see my eldest grandson." After that, she glanced at Director Wang and hurriedly hid back into the house.

Qin Huairu had no choice but to take the key and go to the front yard with Director Wang to open the door.

Everyone followed Director Wang into the house. The larger room was over 40 square meters, and the other two rooms were over 30 square meters each. The furniture in the room was quite complete.

“These three rooms originally belonged to three families in different units, but they all moved out recently because their units allocated housing.

The furniture inside was purchased by our street office. If you need anything else, you will have to buy it yourselves.

There is one more thing I need to discuss with Director Shang, which is…” Director Wang felt a little embarrassed at this time.

"Director Wang, you said that you have helped us so much since you arrived. If there is anything I can do for you, I will do it without hesitation." Seeing that Director Wang was embarrassed to continue, Shang's father continued with what Director Wang said.

“Okay, then I’ll tell you.

You just saw the lock of this house. This matter can be a big deal or a small one. On a big scale, it is an infringement of public property. On a small scale, it is just a trivial matter of an ignorant woman.

I think this: you just moved into this yard, and it would be bad for your reputation if you got your neighbors into the fence because of this. The most important thing is...

I'll be frank. This is not a good thing for our street office. It's possible that we..." Director Wang wanted to continue, but Shang's father interrupted him and said, "Director Wang, I don't understand. Didn't you open the lock just now? Is there anything I didn't see just now?"

Director Wang was stunned, and immediately said, "Yes, Director Shang is right. Look at my head, it's all confused. Then you go ahead and take care of the housing contract and other formalities. I have work to do so I won't bother you. I'll come back to introduce you to the people in the courtyard in the evening."

After saying that, Director Wang left.

After seeing Director Wang off, the family began to clean up the house. After more than an hour of hard work, they finally finished cleaning it up. The family sat together and rested for a while.

Mr. Shang said, "Mother, did you find anything? This Director Wang is quite interesting. If it were us, I would be taken away directly for occupying state property. You see, Director Wang is also an interesting person. He first said that it was bad for our reputation, and then talked about the difficulties of the street office, haha...

I think Director Wang might be really afraid that reporting the incident would affect his career.

The other possibility is that this Jia Zhang has some kind of relationship with Director Wang, and Director Wang should not get angry. If it is the second possibility, we have to be careful. It is better for the county magistrate to take charge now. I hope it is not what I think..."

Shang's mother also agreed: "Let's just live our own lives and don't worry about what others have to do with us.

Let’s discuss how to allocate these three rooms.”

"Here's what I thought. We'll live like this for the next few days. Xiaoxue (Shang Peng's sister Shang Xue) will live in the middle room, Xiaoliang (Shang Peng's brother Shang Liang) will live with us in the big room, which just so happens to have a bedroom separated out, so we'll live in the middle room. As for Xiaopeng, he'll live in the side room. We'll live like this for the time being.

I'll find someone to clean up the house in a few days, and separate the small house into a room so that the two boys can live together. As for your eldest brother... don't worry about him for the time being, wait until he comes.

I also noticed that every house in this yard has a small shed outside, which is probably used for cooking. I also noticed that there is some open space next to our house. I will go to the street office and ask them to build a small shed for cooking as well."

In this way, the house was settled, and we discussed what else was needed. Then we agreed to go back to the house to rest for a while, eat the dry food we brought with us at noon, do some shopping in the afternoon, and have a good meal outside in the evening before going home.

Shang Peng and the others returned to their rooms and lay on their beds. Only then did Shang Peng have the chance to sigh that he had adapted to this world so quickly after arriving. It was only because he had a fever and was a little lethargic in the past few days, otherwise he would have been discovered to be abnormal along the way.

Shang Peng fell asleep again in a trance. In his dream, Shang Peng lived the short 15-year life of his previous incarnation again. Only then did he truly integrate into this body. He also inherited some small details of the original incarnation. It can be said that except for himself, no one else could tell that the original incarnation had been replaced by a different person.

If there is any difference, it is that Shang Peng, as a person from later generations, has some views that are a bit out of tune with this world, but one can also think of this as a change brought about by a young man coming to a new environment and leaving his good friends.

Shang Peng was shaken awake from his sleep. He opened his eyes and saw that it was his brother calling him. He got up, washed, ate some dry food, and set off with his family.

As soon as they went out, they found a little girl secretly looking at their family through the hanging flower gate between the front yard and the middle yard.

"Huh..." Shang's father asked in doubt.

"What's wrong?" Shang's mother asked.

"Mother, do you think that little girl looks like Xiaoxue when she was a child?" Shang's father asked Shang's mother.

"Where? Let me see... You know what, they really look alike. Let me go over and ask." After looking at it, Shang's mother walked towards the little girl.

When the little girl saw Shang's mother walking towards her, she was so scared that she turned around and wanted to run back to the middle courtyard.