Under the probing gaze of the neighbors, Chu Heng took out the key and unlocked the door locks hanging on the two vermilion courtyard doors.
He glanced at the areas on the door where the paint had obviously not peeled off naturally, as well as the pit marks that seemed to have been made by heavy hammers. He frowned and said, "Remember!"
An Rongyuan, the most lively man among them, quickly took out his pen and said: "Tell me what you want."
"The door needs to be replaced with a new one. It must be as it is. No changes are allowed!" Chu Heng said slowly, then stretched out his hand to push the door open.
"So big!"
The screen wall at the door had long been smashed, so as soon as the door opened, everything in the front yard could be seen. Xiao Ni stood in front of the door and looked at the yard, his eyes bright.
For her, who has lived in two rooms with a large family since she was a child, to evaluate the quality of a house, she must first decide based on the area. Therefore, this room alone has seven rooms, and there is also a spacious
The front yard of the courtyard had already made her very excited.
"very nice!"
With curved eyebrows, Xiao Ni raised her legs to cross the high threshold. Her eyes kept looking left and right. The more she looked, the more she liked it.
"This yard is really not small!"
"It's bigger than my courtyard!"
"I heard there's a backyard! It's almost twenty rooms if you add one!"
An Rongyuan and the others were filled with envy at this time. The places they lived in were not very spacious, and Fang De even lived in the same house with his two sisters.
Unlike them, Chu Heng, who was accompanying his wife, frowned slightly at this time. He had seen the simple and elegant original appearance of this courtyard. Now, looking at the courtyard that had long since changed beyond recognition, he felt dilapidated and desolate.
The screen wall is gone, the trees are cut down, the small fish pond is dry, and the doors and windows are stained everywhere.
So, he glanced at the screen wall that had disappeared without a trace, thought for a while and discussed with his wife: "I'd better build a new screen wall later, otherwise it will be too ugly."
Xiao Ni looked back at the original position of the screen wall. The base with some traces left looked really uncomfortable, so he pursed his lips and pondered for a while, then asked: "How much does it cost?"
She was a pragmatist, or most housewives at this time were pragmatic, so the first thing she looked at was value and function, and she didn't care about flashy things.
Chu Heng had already expected this. He smiled and looked sideways at An Rongyuan and asked, "How much does this cost?"
An Rongyuan had already been told that whenever his sister-in-law asked for the price, just give him the cheapest price. He smiled and said, "Hey, how much does it cost? We brothers can get the bricks and stones ourselves. We don't have to spend a penny.
Just ask the master to spend some money, it’s only 80 cents a day.”
When Xiao Ni heard this, he nodded with a smile and agreed: "Well, let's do it, otherwise it will look ugly if there is a stubble on the ground."
"What picture should I choose?" Chu Heng asked with a smile.
"Hmm..." Xiao Ni bit her lip and thought about it carefully, then said in a somewhat tangled tone: "Which one do you think is better, Baifu Tu or Songhe Yannian?"
"Songhe prolongs life, this has a better meaning." Chu Heng said.
"That's it." Ni Yinghong said simply. She was still convinced of her husband's vision. After all, he could find such a good wife...
"Okay." Chu Heng nodded and said: "Let's choose Songhe Yannian for the picture. Remember to find a master with good craftsmanship, so as not to make something that looks different and makes people laugh."
"Yeah, I'll remember it." An Rongyuan quickly wrote it down.
Then several people continued to walk inside, watching and discussing.
"Daughter-in-law, you see that many of the doors and windows are broken. How about replacing them all?"
"Doesn't this cost a lot of money? How about repairing it?"
"It doesn't cost a lot of money, sister-in-law. We have all the wood ready-made. Cen Hao's scrap yard has plenty of it. You can just bring it back and use it. There are also carpenters among our brothers."
"That would be so troublesome for you."
"No trouble, no trouble. Anyway, it's just idle time. You can just provide food for me when the time comes."
"Then I'll trouble you."
"It's harmful. This shouldn't be done."
"Hey, by the way, wife, those tree stumps in the yard need to be dug up and new ones planted. What do you think is suitable?"
"Then let's have a pomegranate tree and a jujube tree. I think other people are planting these."
"become."
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After a group of people carefully walked around the front yard, they discussed for a while before deciding on a repair plan, and then went into the backyard.
The backyard area is larger than the front yard, and there are more houses. There are three main rooms, two wing rooms, and three east and west wing rooms. Together, there are eleven rooms in total!
"Such an old house!"
Xiao Ni's eyes widened, and he stepped through the Moon Gate. With the support of Chu Heng, he walked into the east verandah. He looked at each room one by one, repairing those that needed to be repaired and replacing those that needed to be replaced.
After a while, a few people went around in a big circle and checked every room. The result was that basically all of them had to be moved.
Finally, a group of people came to the courtyard. Chu Heng rubbed his chin and looked around, and said: "Daughter-in-law, what do you think of changing the east wing into an indoor toilet? In this way, we don’t have to queue in the public toilets. We can stay in our own home.
It's convenient. It just so happens that you have a big belly now and squatting is inconvenient. Let's just get a toilet seat and sit down."
At this time, there were toilets in China, and there were even factories in Shantang as early as a few years ago. However, the demand for this thing is low now, so there are not many produced, and they are basically supplied to some special units, and ordinary people can make them.
Don't get this thing.
"It would be great if it were like this."
Xiao Ni was immediately excited, but after thinking about it carefully, he frowned and said, "But it's too troublesome to do this, isn't it? Do you have to dig a septic tank? And the toilet is not easy to dig. I heard that you have to dig a septic tank."
Where’s the special batch?”
Chu Heng smiled slightly when he heard this, and said casually: "Hey, what kind of septic tank are you digging? Then it will be directly connected to the city sewer. As for the toilet, that is even simpler. It's just a sentence."
"Isn't that more troublesome than digging a septic tank? Can you tell me how to open the sewer?" Ni Yinghong rolled her eyes at him.
"Yes, I can make it clear!" Chu Heng raised his chin slightly in an awesome voice: "Okay, don't worry about this, just say whether you want to do it or not. If you want to, just nod. The rest
I'm responsible for it."
"Then let's get one." Ni Yinghong touched her belly and said. It was really troublesome for her to go to the toilet now, and she didn't dare to squat down. If there was a toilet with a toilet at home, she would be happy.
"Mark it down!"
Chu Heng turned around and told An Rongyuan: "As for the toilet, go back to Du San and ask him to get one. When the sewer is dug, contact the subdistrict office and ask them to cooperate."
"Okay." An Rong Yuanguai smiled and nodded.
The others also grinned and looked proud.
Others cooperate with the streets when building houses, but when it comes to me, it’s the other way around. The streets have to cooperate with us!
Let me ask, how many of the younger generation in Sijiucheng are like this?
