The so-called "tenement buildings" in this era are actually common residential houses in Hong Kong. The highest is only five floors, with all water and electricity installed. The first floor is only about 1,000 feet. So renting a one-story tenement house sounds like an exaggeration, but it is actually not.
I just rented a house of over 100 square meters.
But the concept of buying a tenement building is different. It means buying all five floors from top to bottom, including the front house at the bottom.
This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the owner of this building has a lot of power, including water supply and electricity supply, just like the charter woman in Xingye's "Kung Fu" or the male landlord in "Seventy-two Tenants"
, can influence the "life or death" of the tenant. If you are not satisfied, you can be kicked out. A lease contract is almost like a piece of waste paper.
The British pay attention to the "spirit of contract", but this does not apply in Hong Kong. Hong Kong follows the "spirit of landlord" - if the landlord is happy, he can continue to move in; if he is not happy, he will kick you out!
Therefore, whether it was Deng Jiugong, the male duck, or Zhang Alian, the third-eighth mother-in-law, they all respected Shi Yufeng.
They have lived in this tenement building for many years. Not to mention the cheap rent, they are already familiar with the surrounding environment. If they are really kicked out, where can they find such a cheap house in such a good location?
Shi Yufeng took Jiang Meibao into her new home. Although she was prepared, she was still shocked by the decoration and layout of the new home.
Thousand-foot bungalows are not a simple concept here. Hong Kong is a small place and the living environment is poor. Many people, a family of more than ten people, can only live in a ten-square-meter place for their whole life. It is difficult to even turn around, and they have become "cage houses".
, "subdivided houses" and other incredible living environments.
Therefore, when Shi Yufeng walked into her new home and saw this thousand-foot-large room, her eyes turned red and she choked up while holding Jiang Meibao.
Shi Zhijian was startled, thinking something had happened to his sister, so he stood up to comfort her.
Shi Yufeng wiped her tears and said that she was satisfied with living in such a house for the rest of her life. She also said that this was not a dream and she insisted on letting Shi Zhijian pinch her.
Shi Zhijian did as he was told and pinched her face. As a result, Shi Yufeng shouted, "You're going to die." She immediately raised her palm and chased Shi Zhijian.
When Baoer saw his mother beating his uncle, he jumped up and clapped his hands: "Okay, uncle is awesome! Come on, mom!"
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Since she moved and bought the entire tenement building, Shi Yufeng felt that she had become the "tenant" here. At noon, Deng Jiugong, Zhang Alian and others flattered to send them housewarming gift packages, plum wine, pig's trotter soup and so on.
Shi Yufeng refused.
Now she no longer looks down on such small favors, nor does she like taking advantage of such small things.
Shi Yufeng occupied the master bedroom of her new home, a large room of nearly 20 square meters. According to her, it was more than enough to do somersaults in it and get a big roof.
Bao'er ran around the house with bare feet, rubbing the ground with her little feet from time to time. She felt that the floor tiles were really smooth and cleaner than the school slide.
She had a small room by herself, placed her favorite toy Barbie in the most conspicuous place, hung her schoolbag and bag next to the desk, and then jumped onto the bed with a giggle.
After the elder sister and Baoer chose a room, it goes without saying that the remaining room belongs to Shi Zhijian. The interior is also very simple, with just a bed and a small bookshelf.
When placing the furniture, Shi Yufeng realized that the things she moved from Shek Kip Mei didn't seem to be of much use. As her brother Shi Zhijian said, this place has everything you need and you can move in with your bags.
But whether it's a wardrobe, a dressing table, or a small dining table for eating, those things are all her "hard work" accumulated over the years. Even the tattered pots and pans that she couldn't bear to throw away, but now they all seem to have become useless.
A burden.
No matter what, you can't forget your roots even if you have a new home.
Shi Yufeng asked people to stuff wardrobes and other messy things into Shi Zhijian's room to see who could make his room the brightest.
In response, Shi Zhijian expressed his protest, but Shi Yufeng directly pulled his ears, and the protest was ineffective.
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After simply tidying up his new home, Shi Zhijian took a quick glance and felt that something was missing.
Suddenly I remembered that I was missing a refrigerator and a TV.
The refrigerator is easy to say, just buy one and move it here when the time comes, but the TV is a rare thing.
Hong Kong established its first TV station called "Lai's Voice" in 1957, and the TVs they sold were also called "Lai's TV".
This is a cable TV station that charges a monthly cable TV fee of HK$25 to watch their Cantonese programs.
Now ten years later, Hong Kong's second TV station TVB just opened on the 17th of this month. The Lee family and Shaw Brothers invested in this station together and took the wireless free route. In other words, if you buy a TV now, you can
Choose TVB to watch TV for free.
Therefore, at present, the TV ownership rate among Hong Kong people is not very high, and most of them are wealthy people who will buy one.
For Shi Zhijian, television is an indispensable necessity of life and the main tool for collecting information in the future.
After making up his mind to find an opportunity to buy a TV, Shi Zhijian told his elder sister Shi Yufeng that he would go back to work in the factory and come back to have dinner with her in the evening.
When you move to a new place, you must have a good meal together to celebrate.
After Shi Zhijian left, Shi Yufeng looked at the layout of the room again, and then went outside the floor to see if there was a small room left next door.
This room was originally intended for Shi Zhijian to store miscellaneous items, but Shi Yufeng thought it was too wasteful, so she held her chin and looked for an opportunity to post a rental advertisement, renting out this small room, and earning every extra point.
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Shi Zhijian rushed back to the Yuen Long factory and found that the atmosphere was not right.
After asking Dao Daoxiong, he found out that Dai Fengni sent people to poach people, and more than thirty people were poached from the factory at once. Fortunately, those thirty people were not technical backbones, and their jobs on the production line were not very big.
It's important, you can definitely find someone to replace you.
In addition, if Shi Zhijian had not made preparations in advance and gave those workers "ideological and moral lessons" in time, I am afraid that even more people would have been poached.
Shi Zhijian was not too surprised by this. The most hard-to-retain people in this world are those thoughtful workers who always think they can get more money elsewhere. After they go there, they realize that this world is not that good at all.
Cheap things, if you are not willing to work hard, there will be no paradise anywhere.
However, this also reminded Shi Zhijian that it seems that the ideological work of workers is not enough, and an enhanced version 2.0 is necessary.
So Shi Zhijian asked Dao Daoxiong to summon the management of the ten workshops of the factory and ask them who was the most serious and active in working in the factory.
Everyone jointly recommended one person, and not surprisingly, that person was Su Youwei.
Others come here to work to make money to support their families, but Su Youwei comes here to work to repay a favor.
With this kind of thinking, of course she worked harder than anyone else, and everyone could see it.
After getting this result, Shi Zhijian immediately decided, "Su Youwei is this month's 'production pacesetter'!"
According to Shi Zhijian's design, the "production pacesetter" is a role model! A benchmark! Let Su Youwei wear a big red flower on her chest, take a big photo, and post it on the honor list column, plus the rewards that the pacesetter will receive, one hundred
A bonus of 50,000 yuan, 50 kilograms of rice, 30 kilograms of cooking oil, etc. immediately attracted the owners of the factory.
In this way, it will not only increase workers' enthusiasm for production, but also give them new goals to strive for. They will not just drive away as soon as they are poached.
Shi Zhijian is even considering setting up a workers' kindergarten after the factory's performance stabilizes at the end of the year, and finding people to help take care of the children to solve the workers' worries. In this way, the factory will feel more like home!
