Siheyuan: There are seven fairies in my house, I am so busy

Seeing his grandma, elder sister and younger sisters happy, Zhang Jialiang did not disturb them, but lit a cigarette outside the door, feeling a little emotional.

What is happiness?

In this era, happiness means having food to eat, clothes to wear and a house to live in.

It is understandable that a family is so happy about such a dilapidated back house. More than 60 years later, if people own such a house in Beijing, most people would be excited.

Happiness is achieved through comparison. With such a house, their living conditions will be greatly improved compared to before. A better life also means happiness.

While Zhang Jialiang was smoking, the third aunt saw the Zhang family coming in and out of a back room. They looked very happy and were talking about how their home would have more space in the future.

The third aunt's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that someone from the Zhang family had taken control of this back house?

This is bad!

The family has long had their eyes on these two back houses, and the old man is trying to find a suitable opportunity to get one of the back houses.

Could it be that the Zhang family got there first?

This is how to do?

Let’s go and ask first, she swiftly came to Zhang Jialiang.

"Liangzi, why is the door of the back room open?

Seeing your family members coming in and out of this room, isn't this room allocated to your family?"

Zhang Jialiang glanced at the third aunt. He knew that he couldn't hide this matter. Sooner or later, everyone in the compound would know about the division of the house in his family, so he didn't hide it and admitted it directly.

"Yes, Auntie.

Isn’t there a large population in our family?

My eldest sister and little niece came back a while ago. There was too little housing at home, so we went to the street office to apply for housing.

There aren’t many good houses left now. There are only these two back houses in our yard, so I chose this one. I’ll fix it up and live in it. It’s better than squeezing my whole family into one.”

Hearing Zhang Jialiang admit that the back house was really given to their Zhang family, the third aunt became anxious. How come the back house was suddenly given to the Zhang family without any news?

The old man in their family also greeted the people in the street, but they said that the housing situation in the city is tight and the Yan family's housing conditions are not good enough to be re-allocated.

Let them overcome the difficulties and wait until the children grow up a little.

Why is it different here at Zhang’s house?

"Liangzi, talk to your third aunt. We also want to find a house. You see, we have quite a few people and housing is tight, but when we go to the street to ask, people say we don't qualify. How do you do it?"

"I don't know about this matter, maybe it's because our family has more people. There are 6 people in your family, but there are 11 people in our family.

The street office must have taken our family's actual situation into consideration when allocating this house to us.

But you see, this house has been in disrepair for a long time. It has been damaged in many places and needs repairs. But there is nothing we can do. It is good to have a place to live, don’t you think?”

Zhang Jialiang now understood. It turned out that Yan Fugui had been eyeing the house at the back for a long time and had taken action. However, because it did not meet the standards for allocation, or because the person he asked to do the job for was reluctant to give something as a gift, the other party rejected him with just one word.

According to Mr. Yan's stingy personality, the latter possibility is more likely, as Yan Fugui is reluctant to spend too much.

Now that their family has been allocated this back house, the people of the Yan family should be anxious, because there is only one back house left, and there is also a gatehouse next to the gate. There are no other houses in the courtyard.

The area of ​​the gatehouse is too small, only about seven or eight square meters. It is fine for one person to live in it, but it is too small for starting a family.

The Yan family should be looking for a house for Yan Jiecheng. If he wants to get married in the future, this remaining back house is the only choice. Otherwise, they have to look for a house outside the compound, which would be even more difficult. Yan Fugui still has some power in the courtyard, but it is useless outside the courtyard.

"Oh, that may be the case. Yes, your family has a large population, so you should have a separate room.

How much will it cost to renovate this house?

It seems that Old Man Sun has been here before, has he seen it?"

When she heard that it would cost money to renovate the house, Auntie immediately became alert. Whenever money was mentioned, she couldn't help but concentrate.

Her family also has their eyes on the back house, and if they can really get one, they will have to renovate it, so it would be a good idea to inquire about the renovation in advance.

"Grandpa Sun said it would cost about 70 yuan, which is really a lot of money. This is just the cost of repairing the house, plus the cost of buying some other furniture. Fortunately, my eldest sister brought a lot when she moved in, so I don't have to spend much money."

When the three aunts heard that it would cost more than 70 yuan, they felt a little distressed. More than 70 yuan, how much food could she buy?

It’s enough to feed their family for several months.

“It costs so much money?

The house you chose is relatively good, but the other one I saw has more damage, so does it cost more?"

The third aunt became a little anxious again. She asked Zhang Jialiang to pick the better one among the two back houses first, because the remaining one was more damaged.

If their family took the remaining one, wouldn't it cost more money?

Isn’t this a bit of a disadvantage?

She felt very uncomfortable and felt that the Zhang family was taking advantage of their family.

But there was no way to talk about this kind of thing, so she could only respond sullenly with a few words and then turned back to her home to sulk.

When Zhang Jialiang saw that Third Aunt was not very happy, he thought that she was jealous of him getting a house. He didn't know that she had so many thoughts in her mind, and even thought that the Zhang family was taking advantage of the Yan family.

When my mother came home from get off work in the evening, she was very happy to know that their family had been divided into two houses. She finally had a new house.

Since she had so many children, she had long wanted to own another house, but so many years had passed without her realizing it. Now her son finally helped her do it.

Of course she was happy. The family had been earning more and more money in the past two years. The food at home had also improved a lot recently. Now they had an extra room, and life was getting better and better.

After discussion, although grandma and mother felt that Zhang Jialiang’s renovation plan was a bit expensive, they thought that it would be enough to repair the roof and the walls, and there was no need to work on the floor and the windows at the back. They thought it was a waste of money, so they thought every bit of money saved was a bit of money saved.

However, Zhang Jialiang still insisted on his opinion, saying that it would be more comfortable to live in if the house was repaired better, and besides, they would be living there for many years and couldn't be too makeshift.