After Chu Heng sent Chu Zhecheng back, he set off from home and arrived at Qinlao Hutong in more than ten minutes.
"Court No. 21..."
He had never been to this place before, but he had heard Du San mention it before. He drove in from the alley entrance and slowly started counting from the beginning. Just when he was about to arrive at No. 21 Courtyard where Du San and the others rented,
Hearing the sound of the engine, Du San led four young men out of the yard not far ahead.
"Here it is, Master Chu!"
He waved his hand under the headlights, and behind him were four tall, rounded men standing there like four iron towers, which was intimidating.
Seeing this, Chu Heng lightly stepped on the accelerator and quickly came to park the car.
After getting off the car, he smiled and took out cigarettes and distributed them to several people: "You're in a hurry."
"No rush, we were playing cards in the courtyard just now." Du San happily took the cigarette.
"Master Chu!"
The four men behind him greeted him respectfully.
Chu Heng nodded lightly to the four of them, and then Du San quickly stepped forward to introduce their situation.
These four people are all brothers who have been with Du San for many years, and they all already have families and businesses. When Chu Heng takes over the basement, the four of them will bring their families to live in this courtyard and help him look after it.
He lives in the basement, and Chu Heng is responsible for the rent. He will also give him some rice, noodles, beef and mutton every month, which is a nice thing.
"Come on, Master Chu, let's go in and take a look."
After introducing the situation, Chu Heng chatted with them for a few more words, and then entered the courtyard accompanied by Du San.
Because there were too many people living in it and the housing management office did not maintain it properly, this originally grand courtyard has now become dilapidated. The paint on the two vermilion doors was severely peeled off, and even the door nails were knocked off at some point.
The screen wall at the entrance has long since disappeared.
Walking inside, there are privately built houses everywhere. Many of the old houses in the courtyard have been changed beyond recognition due to years of careless maintenance. Some doors and windows have been replaced, and some roof tiles are covered with linoleum paper or plastic sheets.
The entire courtyard gave Chu Heng the feeling of a dying beauty whose body and face were covered with age spots and dog skin plasters.
"What a pity."
He looked at the remaining traces of the old days in the yard with regret and shook his head. Accompanied by Du San, he walked through the hanging flower door and walked into the backyard. This yard was much smaller than his yard. There were only thirteen rooms in the front and back yards. Even with the addition of
Those few privately built small houses only numbered sixteen or seventeen, and including the yard, which covers an area of more than 400 square meters, it would be a bit crowded for eleven families to live in, but it is a microcosm of the current living conditions of the people.
Many people who have not been allocated a house have to rent a house here at the housing management office. The price is much higher than that of welfare housing in units. Most people are reluctant to rent a house that is too big. They think of renting one or two rooms first and make do with it later.
Just share rooms.
But many people have been waiting for more than ten or twenty years...
"This way, Master Chu."
Soon, the two of them arrived outside the west room of the main house in the backyard. Du San took out the key to open the door, entered the room and turned on the light.
The house was empty, with only an old pinewood table and a rough-made solid wood bed, and nothing else.
The entrance mechanism is just under the bed, and the design still follows the entrance style of the previous basement in Zuojiazhuang. It can be seen that it was created by Zhang Yiyan.
After opening the lock at the entrance, the two of them went down one after another.
This basement is about 300 to 400 square meters, which is not too big. There are rows of ancient bookshelves scattered inside. There is nothing on them, and nothing is placed there. After all, his second basement is not full yet.
, so this is not used yet.
But it's coming soon. According to the speed of receiving goods from the scrap yard, it won't be long before the basement is filled to the brim.
"Okay, it's pretty good. Let's go."
After checking around the basement and seeing that there were no problems, Chu Heng took Du San up from below.
After coming up, the two of them rebuilt the entrance and locked it. Chu Heng put the key Du San gave him into his pocket and raised his hand to the Eight Immortals table in the room: "Sit down and say a few words."
"well."
Du San walked over quickly and came to the Eight Immortals table before him. He took out his handkerchief and wiped the long bench with a layer of dust on it clean.
"Sit down, Master Chu."
Chu Heng sat down with his back to the table, Da Ma Jin Dao, took the cigarette point from Du San, and said slowly: "The furniture is the same as last time, go to Sijiucheng Furniture Factory to find Old Man Xing in the warehouse.
Ask him to pick something good and bring it back, and remember to tell the four brothers who live here to be careful with me."
"I understand." Du San responded and sat next to him, saying: "The other basement will be completed in half a month, so we can just go and clean it right away, okay?"
"Okay." Chu Heng smiled and nodded, then asked: "How is the business at the scrap yard now?"
"It's good." Du San couldn't help but get excited when he raised this one, and said with joy: "Compared with last year, business is at least 20% better."
"Yes, but remember to pay attention to safety."
"I know this. I have been paying attention to this matter."
"By the way, what are you going to give Han Xu when he gets married? I'm a little worried now. I don't know what to give. Please give me some advice."
"Oh, I'm worried too. He doesn't need anything now, and he doesn't have anything to give as a gift."
The two chatted like this for a while, and finally agreed to deliver the goods around 11 o'clock at night, and Chu Heng patted his butt and left.
It was just after nine o'clock. It was too troublesome for Chu Heng to go home, so he simply drove out of the city, found a secluded place, and got into the portable warehouse with Volga under his buttocks.
His warehouse is now divided into two areas, one is used to store beef, mutton, rice noodles, red and white sugar and other supplies, and the other is used to store the antiques, gold and various odds and ends he collected.
After coming down from Volgari, Chu Heng raised his eyes and looked at the huge fire dragon and water dragon hovering over the warehouse, then strolled towards the place where the antiques were stored, with his hands behind his back, and started to admire them one by one.
People always fly by when they are doing things they are interested in. Before you know it, the time is almost eleven o'clock.
Chu Heng, who was selflessly holding a golden Buddha and admiring it over and over again, accidentally glanced at his watch. Then he remembered that he had to deliver goods. He hurriedly walked out of the warehouse and thought about a large truck full of supplies.
Appeared in front of me out of thin air.
Remembering this, he quickly started the car and drove the truck to the scrapyard.
At around 11:10, Chu Heng arrived late. Du San and Han Xu had already led others to wait for a long time.
"Tu tu tu tu."
After parking the car, Chu Heng got out of the car and didn't explain anything to them. He stood aside with a cigarette in his mouth and waited for them to finish delivering the goods, then got in the car and continued to collect the goods.
He went back and forth three times in this way and after pulling three carts of goods, he stopped.