On this day, the weather was neither hot nor cold, and the sky was blue.
Wu Jianye got up early. Yan Wen had officially flown to Xiangjiang two days ago, which made my mother feel reluctant to leave. She complained that Wu Jianye had allowed Yan Wen to go to such a far place alone, but she thought that this was the job Zhou Tao had found.
Opportunity, she also had expectations for Yan Wen's future in her heart, so she put Yan Wen on the plane with reluctance and expectation.
As for the matter of asking Wu Jianye's brothers to come to Yanjing, Wu Jianye was originally going to send a telegram to his family, but later my mother said that she would tell them from house to house after she returned.
Wu Jianye thought about this and followed my mother's advice.
Zhu Xian comes to the courtyard every day now. In addition to not living here, Zhu Xian's parents also know about my mother's arrival and insist on making arrangements to treat her. Wu Jianye knows that this obstacle will definitely be difficult to overcome, so he happily agrees.
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But the most important thing today is not these things, but that Zhao Lei has contacted more than a dozen people who want to buy a house, and today is the day to go to the housing management office to go through the procedures.
Wu Jianye walked out carrying a bag with cash, household register and other procedures in it.
"Let's go!"
Said to Zhao Lei who was standing in the yard.
"What are you doing in the early morning?" I asked, wearing an apron and holding green onions in my hand.
"I went out to do some errands, and I won't be back at noon today!" Wu Jianye waved his hand. I definitely can't tell my mother about buying a house now, because I can't explain these things clearly at all. It's better to wait and deal with it later.
Let her get used to it.
"This kid doesn't eat even though the food is ready. Isn't this a waste?" the old lady muttered.
"Mom, let's go!" Zhao Lei said hello with a smile and left. Looking at Wu Jianye's behavior in front of my mother during this period, Zhao Lei knew that he must take good care of me. This is the emperor.
Queen Mother.
The two of them left the courtyard, each with a bicycle, and headed to the housing management office.
The housing management office in Sicheng District is an old two-story building with obvious Soviet style. In the early days of liberation, the Chinese architectural design team had not really grown up. At this time when everything was waiting for improvement, the practice of imitating the Soviet model was adopted in the construction.
The world is more obvious. During this period, a large number of Soviet-style buildings were left on the land of China.
Typical Soviet-style buildings have two major characteristics. First, they are symmetrical about the left and right central axis, with regular planes, high in the middle and low on both sides. The main building is tall and the corridors are wide and slowly extending; second, they have a three-section structure. The three sections refer to the eaves, walls, and walls.
There are three parts to the leg binding.
These buildings were designed or participated in the design by Soviet experts, such as factories aided by the Soviet Union, and some were designed and built by Chinese architects in imitation of the Soviet style, including tube-style dormitories and many government buildings. Soviet-style architecture is of such a special era and style.
The representative of "red building".
When the two came here, they already saw more than 20 people waiting here.
Zhao Lei introduced Wu Jianye that these were the houses sold to Wu Jianye.
Wu Jianye was very grateful to these kind people and kept saying thank you to everyone. But when these people gathered at the housing management office, they realized that the houses they were selling were all to the same buyer, and they all expressed surprise. They didn't understand.
Who is so rich and dares to buy so many houses at once?
Isn’t this a waste of money?
Decades later, when their descendants tell themselves how much money can be made in the entertainment industry, and how much money a star has made, and how it is not as good to make money as a star as a director, they will beat their descendants and say, that is
You don’t know that the top director in China is the real invisible rich man.
A set of courtyard houses worth hundreds of millions, people bought more than a dozen of them at that time, and I heard they bought more later.
Now they naturally don’t know what the price of a courtyard house that costs several thousand yuan will be in a few decades. A few thousand yuan is already a sky-high price to them, and this person can buy more than a dozen units at once.
Then it would cost less than 50,000...
Someone did a mental calculation and became even more surprised when they saw Wu Jianye's eyes.
Facing the eyes of everyone, Wu Jianye also felt a little regretful. At first, he only thought about solving these things at once, but he forgot that he had spent so much money at once. These people must be suspicious. Fortunately, none of us
I don't even know anyone, at most I think he looks familiar.
Zhao Lei was familiar with the road. Unlike Wu Jianye who bought so many at once, he had bought a set before, so he came here once.
A group of people followed Zhao Lei and listened loudly at the door of an office on the second floor.
Zhao Lei knocked on the door and walked in. Wu Jianye also followed him.
There is a desk in the room and a file cabinet in the corner, which is full of stuff.
There are several picture frames and slogans about serving the people on the wall. A man in his thirties is sitting behind the table, holding an enamel teapot.
The visitor looked up at Zhao Lei and smiled, obviously having an impression of Zhao Lei.
Zhao Lei walked over with a smile, holding ten yuan in his hand, and shook hands with the man without leaving a trace.
"Director Zheng is busy!"
"I'm not busy. Are the buyers and sellers here?" Director Zheng said with a smile.
When he arrived, Zhao Lei had already told Wu Jianye that Zhao Lei had met Director Zheng through the sale of his courtyard house. After a few meals, they were now like close buddies. However, in the unit, the two of them
Still not that intimate.
"Come here, come here, Director Zheng, this is my brother, he wants to buy a house!" Zhao Lei pointed at Wu Jianye and said.
With Zhao Lei's relationship, Director Zheng naturally did not show any arrogance. He smiled and asked Wu Jianye if he had taken all the procedures.
Wu Jianye had his household registration book in his bag and handed it to Director Zheng: "Here you go, this is my household registration book. The household registration file is in the school. You can check it at any time!"
Archives are a very serious thing.
It is a portrayal of a person's life, his study status, his work status, and some aspects of his relationship with the party organization, which will be preserved in the form of documents in the archives until his death.
Officer Zheng was slightly surprised when he took Wu Jianye's household registration and looked at it. He didn't expect that the other person was a student who had just graduated from the film school. Looking at the record, he had already stayed in school as a teacher.
Looking at Wu Jianye's appearance again, he suddenly said: "Are you Prince Zhaoshutun?"
Wu Jianye knew that the other party must have seen it, so he smiled and said: "It's me, but my name is not Zhao Shutun, my name is Wu Jianye!"
"Haha, I thought why does it look so familiar? It turns out he is an actor. Let me tell you, whose house you want to buy, has the head of that house come?" Officer Zheng said with a smile.
"Here we are, just waiting outside."
"Sure, let's get started!" Director Zheng sat in his seat and said with a smile.
But soon his smile disappeared and was replaced by a look of surprise. He looked at the more than 20 people who came in one after another. Is this buying a house? Is this buying groceries?
How long will it take for so many people to be busy? Director Zheng looked a little embarrassed when he thought about this.
Zhao Lei looked at Director Zheng's expression from the side, and quickly leaned over and whispered: "Brother Zheng, I have reserved a place at Hongxing Building tonight, and you will be honored to be there when the time comes!"
Director Zheng's face became relieved, but the jealousy in his heart did not disappear so quickly.
A few years ago, his wife from the countryside came here with several children to join him, but she couldn't get a household registration despite all her efforts.
As a result, a college student got a household registration in Yanjing without any effort. It was really irritating that people were more popular than others. Now he bought so many yards at once. How could he not be envious and jealous?
However, these can only be suppressed in my heart. Since I have received the other party's money, then I will do the work honestly. I can have a meal at Hongxinglou in the evening. It is a good place. How can I just have a meal?
I got more than ten yuan, which is almost half a month's salary.
Zhao Lei took Wu Jianye to the financial office next door and paid property rights taxes and fees according to the area of each courtyard house, ranging from 3 to 5 yuan.
Then he went back to Director Zheng's room to get the official house deeds and pay the original homeowners. In less than a morning, the procedures for more than a dozen households were completed. Wu Jianye instantly felt that this was too efficient.
Wu Jianye spent less than 50,000 yuan to buy a total of 16 courtyard houses. Thirty years later, the value of these courtyard houses alone will exceed 1 billion!
A thousand times the profit!
So scary!
I would like to advise all those who are born again, if you go back to the 1980s and don't remember the development trends of various economies, then buy a house or a courtyard house and live a life of winning, which is so unpretentious and boring.
Of course, this is only a theoretical return. With the planning of Yanjing City, it is still uncertain how many of these courtyard houses will be left in the end.
Wu Jianye was happy, and those who had received the house payment were also very happy. Even if their courtyard house had a market value of over 100 million thirty years later, that would only be thirty years later.
If they had not used the money now, they would not have bought a house. Maybe thirty years later they would regret their actions today and beat the wall. But some sensible people also know that if they could not get these thousands of dollars at that time, they would not be able to buy a house.
Maybe I won’t be who I am thirty years from now.
Therefore, this kind of long-term investment industry is only suitable for those who have spare money, not those who are in urgent need of money.
At noon, Wu Jianye and Zhao Lei casually found a place to have a bite. There was nothing going on in the afternoon. Wu Jianye wanted to inspect the courtyard houses he had just bought. These courtyards were not all empty now, but there were many people living in them.
As for the people, at first, their rent was paid to the Housing Authority, and then the landlord went to the Housing Authority to collect the money. But now that these courtyard houses have been bought by Wu Jianye, the rents naturally belong to Wu Jianye.
It just satisfies Wu Jianye's bad taste of being a charterer.
But when Wu Jianye walked to the first courtyard, this full of bad taste was filled with other emotions.
The courtyard has two main features: the screen wall and the hanging flower door.
The screen wall is an important decorative wall inside and outside the courtyard door. Its main function is to block the messy and dull walls and scenery inside and outside the door, and to beautify the entrance to the door. When people enter and exit the house, the first thing they see is a wall with exquisite stacking and exquisite carvings.
noodle.
The Chuihua Gate is what was said in ancient times as the two gates inside which do not go out.
Houses are generally divided into main rooms, side rooms, side rooms, etc. The planning is very neat.
Siheyuan buildings are composed of "four" (four), east, west, north, and south, and "he" means joining together to form a "k" shape. However, it is difficult to see the original appearance of the "kou" shape in today's courtyards in the capital.
This courtyard can almost be described as "dilapidated". The carved beams are darkly painted in red, and green grass can be seen on the tiles.
As more and more people live there, more and more houses are built in the courtyard, and the houses become more and more unsightly.
Slowly, the "shape" disappeared. First, one family built a temporary house in the open space, and soon several more families followed to join in the fun, and slowly a yard was formed.
Privately built shacks occupy the courtyard, and you can touch adjacent buildings with both hands stretched out. The atmosphere accumulated in those distant years is gradually fading away.
The small shed built at the door is the kitchen of each house. It can only accommodate one person, and it is difficult to even turn around.
Small sheds were also built in the wing rooms on both sides, but the main house did not have a shed because there was really no space to build one.
But even the main house was forcibly divided into two households by the residents.
The courtyard has become a large courtyard!
"It's no match for where you used to live!" Wu Jianye looked at the situation in front of him and complained to Zhao Lei.
Zhao Lei smiled, he had lived in this kind of environment for more than 20 years, and there was nothing he was not used to.
The original landlord of this courtyard house also came here at this time, and said with a smile: "You guys wait a minute, I will call them out!" After saying that, Wu Jianye and Zhao Lei were asked to wait in the open space of the water tank, along the front and back,
He started knocking on doors and shouting: "Come out, let me know if something happens!"
Under the jujube tree in the yard, girls danced with rubber bands and kicked shuttlecocks, while boys bounced glass balls or patted drawing paper. Everyone had a great time playing hide-and-seek, and Wu Jianye smiled knowingly when he saw it.
At the same time, the sound of a flute even came from one room, which was melodious and sweet.
I looked around the yard again, and the more I looked, the more it seemed like a good deal.
The old city is basically within the Second Ring Road. This is not a man-made rule, but because when the Second Ring Road was originally built, it was built along the old moat.
The capital city has a city wall. Inside the city wall is the inner city, and beyond the city wall is the outside of the city. Don’t look at Zhongguancun, the embassy district, outside Jianguomen, and the CBD are all prosperous areas now. At the beginning, they were all wastelands outside the city.
Or a cemetery.
In fact, you only need to listen to the names of these places to know what they were like in the past. Zhongguancun is a village. It should have been called Zhongguan Village. Zhongguan is another name for eunuchs. That place was where the eunuchs in the imperial city retired.
Then a nursing home.
But it is different inside the city wall. There is a saying that the east is rich and the west is noble, the south is poor and the north is humble!
The east and west directions here refer to the two areas of Dongcheng and Xicheng. Dongcheng gathered a large number of wealthy businessmen in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, while Xicheng was the residence of officials, so it is called East Rich and West Exquisite.
As for the two directions of north and south, it does not refer to the two urban areas of north and south, but specifically refers to the area outside Qianmen and Drum Tower, north to the vicinity of Deshengmen.
At that time, most of the people who lived south of Qianmen were from various religions and worked hard, so they were called Nanpian because they were relatively poor. Those who lived north of Drum Tower and near Deshengmen were named after the eunuchs and maids in the palace.
There are many family members, although they are not too poor, but their status is relatively low, they are called Beijian.
The reason why the value of courtyard houses has soared so high in later generations, and even in later generations, is that they are simply priceless but not marketable. The reasons are still very complicated.
This is due to the urban reconstruction that demolished a large number of original courtyard houses. It is also due to the fact that some people who got rich first deliberately purchased these courtyard houses, renovated them and used them as residences in order to miss their childhood or to be unconventional.
And honestly speaking, the courtyard is indeed more suitable for people to live in. There are houses and land in this courtyard, which can not only live in but also do some appropriate entertainment activities, and the sealing is good. It is not like living in a building, which is just a
Bird cage.
Soon everyone in the yard was called out by the original landlord, but the expression on everyone's face was not very satisfied, and even a little angry. It was obvious that they were very dissatisfied with the landlord's sale of the courtyard house.
At the same time, a young man came out of the room where the sound of the flute was heard...