Sun Dahai said goodbye to Mrs. Charlie, took Sun Weihong with him, and got into a car rented from the hotel with Charlie.
Poor Sun Weihong was still in a daze at this time. His nephew actually gave him such a big surprise in just two months.
This is more than 200,000 U.S. dollars. Sun Weihong is a finance professional. She knows that the RMB is constantly depreciating against the U.S. dollar. The current official price is about two RMB per U.S. dollar.
A normal state cadre's monthly income is 50 yuan, which is 600 yuan a year. He needs to work for 900 years to earn 540,000 yuan, which is 270,000 US dollars.
In the car, Sun Weihong automatically fell into problem-solving mode. Sun Dahai ignored her and talked to Charlie on his own.
Charlie said that it had been almost a month since they returned to the mainland. During this period, they had visited the old house twice.
The first time they went back alone, they almost didn't recognize their own house.
The houses on Hengshan Road, which was also known as Beitang Road back then, were mostly garden houses. His house was one of the few independent villas. The villa had two floors above ground and one underground floor, with a total construction area of more than 600 square meters.
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Although the building area of his villa is not large, it covers a lot of land, covering more than two acres of land. The width of the street is 30 meters, and the path is 50 meters deep.
In their memories, the villa was built inside, and the thirty meters facing the street was a tree wall made of several different types of trees and green plants. It took several years to build a tree wall.
Except for the gate, everything else is full of living plants, full of vitality and endless fun. This was a famous landscape on Petain Road in those days.
What they saw now was a two-story simple building that replaced the original tree wall. There were colorful clothes hanging outside the windows of the small building.
Walking to the back, the original flower beds, fountain pools and swings in the villa courtyard were all gone, and various sundries were piled up in a mess under a few simple greenhouses.
In the villa, the expensive crystal lamps were no longer in the spacious hall, and the hall was artificially divided into several rooms, inhabited by different families.
The old man's cough, the child's cry, the smell of coal stove smoke, when several families are cooking at the same time, all the smells are mixed together, and the originally neat walls are stained by smoke or the waiter's graffiti.
It's out of shape.
Mrs. Charlie couldn't bear to watch any more and took her husband away. After returning, she fell seriously ill and took a week to recover before she recovered.
She and her husband made the decision to sell their house, out of sight and out of mind.
Charlie took the land deed and real estate certificate to the housing authority and asked the government to return his property. At first, the people in the housing authority were bureaucratic and just refused to solve the problem.
Finally, Charlie, who was extremely angry, took out his passport and threatened to find foreign media to accuse them of misappropriating his private property and refused to solve the problem.
Only then did the people in the Housing Authority become frightened. The director personally came forward to comfort Charlie and immediately reported to the district.
After the district learned about it, it took it very seriously and sent the district chief to handle the matter personally. He quickly moved the residents there, made an appointment, organized personnel and vehicles, and helped the residents move for free.
Under special circumstances, the government's work efficiency was extremely high. Charlie was also satisfied with this, but the subsequent matters involving compensation or compensation were stuck again.
Charlie was used to the laws of the Maple Leaf Country. He believed that it would be easy to apply for state compensation based on facts, but he did not know that there had never been such a precedent in the country.
For example, just a large crystal chandelier from the 1920s in his home costs at least several thousand dollars. How could the government, which is seriously short of foreign exchange, easily make such an opening?
You must know that things like Charlie are not accidental. Even if some compensation is made to Charlie privately, it cannot be decided by a deputy district chief.
Fortunately, Charlie and his wife are not banana people with yellow skin and white hearts. They still have feelings for the country.
After they learned about the government's concerns, they took the initiative to propose that instead of direct financial compensation, the government would pay for the demolition of illegal structures and large-scale repairs to the main body of the villa.
In addition, it allows him to trade the house and land title.
The government fully accepted the first condition he proposed. The government's construction company was excellent and could do the job without any problem.
As long as they don't compensate, the government can say anything. They certainly don't have foreign currency. Let's not talk about whether Charlie wants to compensate in RMB. I'm afraid no leader is willing to set this precedent.
As for the second condition, after several government departments met to study it, they decided to reject it because the law currently does not allow private transactions of houses and land.
However, they privately gave Charlie a solution: the simple building that replaced the tree wall would not be demolished, but could be reinforced and renovated according to Charlie's requirements, and given to Charlie free of charge.
Since the building does not appear on the land deed or house deed, it must be re-registered and included in the housing authority's files.
Of course, when registering, the name of whoever presents the house deed and title deed will be registered. As for whether it is Charlie and his wife, the government does not care.
There were many twists and turns here, and Charlie finally figured it out after constant hints from government personnel. At this time, he regarded it as a joke and told it to Sun Dahai.
Sun Dahai knew as soon as he heard it. His family, No. 18, Xihuangcheng Gen, followed the same routine. It can be seen that under the same law, the methods of skirting around are similar.
When the place arrived, the car stopped.
The three of them got out of the car. Sun Dahai looked up and saw the towering chimney in the distance. He knew that it was not far from the Great China Rubber Factory, which later became Xujiahui Park.
Amid Charlie's introduction, the three of them walked around the place from inside to outside.
There are residents who are moving in the house right now, and there is a lot of noise and chaos.
The person who was on hand to direct the move was a staff member from the Housing Authority, who knew Charlie. When he saw the three people arriving, he stepped forward to talk to them.
Through communication, Sun Dahai and the others learned that half of the residents inside had already moved out, and the remaining ones had also arranged a moving date, and the government would move them together.
This era is really good, there are not so many nail-biting households. Otherwise, it would be much more troublesome to solve the problem.
Now designers from the district construction company are also on site, measuring the actual conditions of the villas and street-level buildings, and preparing to formulate a repair plan.
Sun Weihong knew that this place was likely to be her future home, so she happily took Charlie and walked around the villa.
However, Sun Dahai became interested in the simple building on the street. He went in and looked around, asked the designer about the general situation of the building, then stood beside it, gently pinched his chin with his fingers, and started thinking.
In the previous life, Hengshan Road, starting from the 1990s, was the most famous bar street in Shanghai for more than ten years and the favorite place for Shanghai-style petty bourgeoisie.
Although it is not as good as Sanlitun in the capital and Lan Kwai Fong in Xiangjiang, it is still a quite famous bar street. However, it was later diverted from the customer base by emerging high-end bar streets such as "Xintiandi", resulting in a lack of prosperity and a decline.
The free two-story street-facing building is right in front of him. Of course, Sun Dahai will not let go of the prosperous ten years of Hengshan Road.
Of course he wouldn't do this small business. He was just preparing to set up a show and create a way for Sun Weihong to make money.
As long as I do a good job in business these ten years, my aunt will not worry about money in the future.
Sun Dahai thought with satisfaction.
Suddenly, he remembered the innocent and lovely Sun Yuanyuan and the naive Sun Dahe at home.