National Tide 1980.

Chapter 147 Tragic Comedy

In April 1981, relocation suddenly became the most eye-catching living phenomenon in Beijing.

Almost everywhere in the capital, people can be seen leaving their narrow old residences and moving into newly built apartment buildings.

For this reason, the furniture stores in the downtown area became more and more prosperous and crowded.

There are also those individual "banner masters" who ride tricycles, who are almost too busy to make up.

They also began to become as popular as carpenters who beat furniture and chefs who turned spoons, and they made a lot of money.

The reason for this is two main reasons.

On the one hand, the number of new houses built in the capital is increasing and continues to increase.

On the other hand, under the urging of the state, the ownership of these houses has to be determined as soon as possible in the short term.

Dare Last year in response to the proposal of the "Great Man" "Talking about the Construction Industry and Housing Issues".

A considerable part of the first batch of residential quarters funded and constructed by government agencies, enterprises and institutions are ready to be completed and used.

During the five years from 1976 to 1980, the area of ​​housing and residential buildings was successively built in Beijing, reaching a total of 1126.4 million square meters.

However, the occupancy rate of these houses has always been unsatisfactory.

Due to the housing allocation standards within each unit, it is seriously disturbed by various personnel relations.

The houses were robbed and wrangled everywhere, and most of the houses were still unable to be put into normal use.

So in order to solve this problem, the country issued a strict order in February this year.

All government agencies and units are required to live in the houses that have been built within three months, otherwise the vacant houses will be confiscated by the Beijing Municipal Government.

So you can figure out the time. Now that two months have passed, the time window is almost approaching.

So can the units that own these houses not be in a hurry?

Of course, the house should be distributed as soon as possible. It can't really be confiscated, right?

As a result, it was inevitable that there would be a concentrated wave of relocation in the entire capital city.

All units drove people into the house in a hurry like driving cattle and horses.

But in any case, even if they are "horses and cows", those who can be "driven" into a unit at this time are definitely the lucky ones of this era.

Because compared with the past, the public facilities and living facilities of these newly built houses are relatively complete.

Residential building standards have also improved considerably.

People no longer have to worry about the inconvenience of using gas for heating and going to the toilet to take a shower like living in a bungalow.

Like this month, playwright Su Shuyang bid farewell to the alley where he has lived for more than 20 years and moved to a new house.

It was with a very happy mood that I started writing the screenplay "Sunset Street".

Perhaps it is also because of the influence of real life that I am extremely satisfied with the conditions of the new house.

At the end of the film, the residents of Xizhao Street he described are just like himself.

They also bid farewell to their ten-year past life, and happily moved into a bright and clean apartment.

It's just that the good wishes expressed in the movie are just wishes after all.

In reality, urban construction has stopped for ten years, and there are too many people who lack housing these days.

Poor living conditions are a problem that almost every household is facing.

No matter how many houses are built, it will be a drop in the bucket compared to the hundreds of thousands of people returning to the city every year during the peak period of returning to the city.

So this is like a food chain, and it is doomed that it is impossible for everyone to have this kind of blessing.

Needless to say, under such circumstances, there must be some people who are really short of housing to the point where they cannot continue to wait.

Then there is no other way, it can only be another workaround to solve the problem.

For example, allowing young couples to live in Tongzilou is a good way to temporarily alleviate the housing difficulties of their units.

Also this month, artist Yang Lixin also shared a hut with an area of ​​less than [-] square meters on the third floor.

He and his wife lived backstage at the Capitol Theatre.

Even though the room is too small to fit anything.

Put in a double bed, a large wardrobe, and a tea cabinet with sliding door glass, and there is no place.

But compared with those who still haven't been assigned a house, Yang Lixin is already deeply satisfied.

The only thing that made him feel uncomfortable and a little embarrassed was that the new life was full of uneasy and hasty colors.

You know, living in a tube building, most of the privacy and habits in life can only be exposed to the view of neighbors.

Whose family's business, other people's family will soon know.

Everyone has no special privacy. You sleep with the door closed, and you can walk around in each house when you open the door.

It is purely a coincidence that the movie "Neighbors" released this year just reflected the contradiction and reality of social housing tension.

At the same time, there are long corridors, toilets, water rooms, and kitchens in this kind of shared tube building.

One light per household, one faucet per household, and one electric meter lifestyle are reflected in more detail.

This makes this movie an alternative record of the living conditions of Chinese people in this period.

So that people in the future can still have a well-documented account of what kind of lifestyle it is like to live in a large corridor with multiple families.

But to be honest, even such a tube building is not the worst solution.

More ordinary people who have no hope of housing can only find a way based on the 1976 earthquake shed.

Just like a bird's "fluffy nest", continue to build small houses of various materials, styles and sizes.

It is not limited to the southeast, northwest, triangle, trapezoid, everything.

Neighbors don't talk to each other as long as they can push a bicycle in the corridor between the houses.

"Miscellaneous" is inevitable, and even such a situation can be divided into different categories.

Some people are lucky, the yard is still big, and there is a place to pick up and change the house.

Relying on the bricks picked up from everywhere, we can do it first, and when it is done, we can build a [-] square meters high enough and regular.

But follow the people behind, so the conditions faced will inevitably become more and more difficult.

Some people tried their best, but in the end they could only make do with building an eight-square-meter "burrow" with an asbestos tile roof.

It can only guarantee a double bed and no rain leakage.

But this is still not the most disturbing situation.

For example, some girls can't stand the days of frequent quarrels and lying on the floor for a long time because of the tension in the house at home and the conflicts between brothers and sisters.

And hastily married herself, even if the other party is not the person she is most satisfied with.

Some people even changed their household registration and left the capital for the sake of the house.

It can be seen from this that in the era of housing shortage, it is only for a small shelter.

What a price many ordinary people would pay for it.

This is really an extremely cruel and helpless choice.

All in all, in the capital city this month, the house affects the hearts of thousands of households.

Around this theme, countless human tragedies and comedies have also been performed, and the quality of life of many people has begun to be very different.

Those who can obtain improved living conditions and move into unit houses.

Naturally, they all have beaming faces, and they have no regrets and smile the brightest.

Those who move into Tongzilou are happy, but they are equal parts.

However, there are some regrets in the expression, as well as the embarrassment and anxiety of needing to adapt to the new environment again.

People who have built small houses have more bitterness in their smiles.

There is only relief and happiness in my heart like the rest of my life after a catastrophe.

As for those who still have to stay in the snail house and have to continue to work hard to change, the state of mind can be directly classified as a negative category.

Or annoyed, or envious, or angry, or depressed, or self-pitying, or cursing behind your back, the list goes on.

There are also those who have to make compromises, get married hastily and leave their hometowns, and it is inevitable to fall into pessimism.

In many people's hearts, even things related to the house have become knots, and it hurts when they think about it.

And in such a background of the times, don't forget that there is one more special and unusual case.

That is Ning Weimin who shoulders the heavy entrustment of Kang Shude.

Although he is also running around for the house, his mental activities are the most interesting one.

On the one hand, he was deeply encouraged by the old man.

Whether it was because of generous material encouragement or because of his longing and desire for the mansion, he wanted to help the old man get things done.

Followed by Hou Men's sea-like addiction.

But on the other hand, the difficulty of this matter is indeed beyond imagination.

After many days of visits, he found that the actual conditions did not leave him much room to operate and maneuver.

Wanting to get the house back is like a dog bites bastard—no way to start.

The most important thing is that the more he looks at this mansion, the more he loves it, and the more he understands the details, the more surprised he becomes.

So knowing that this matter is difficult to handle, there is even a big thunder hidden in it, and if it is not done well, it will be bombed.

But fear is fear, boredom is boredom, and I am really reluctant to give up, unwilling to let go, let alone thinking about and thinking about that house.

To put it bluntly, he was like a donkey who was driven to death by a carrot.

Seeing that your eyes are greedy, but you can't reach it, and you can't rest, just say it's uncomfortable or not.

But no way, who made that house so extraordinary and outstanding.

It can be called the ideal of life shared by rich people in ancient and modern times, and it is also the best private garden he has ever seen in his life, not one of them.

He was really not afraid of being tongue-twitted by the wind, so he dared to say that.

If the old man's house can be brought back and repaired properly, it will be the No. 1 courtyard house in the capital.

The Forbidden City is incomparable, but the backyard of Prince Gong’s Mansion...

Hey, maybe you can't suppress it.

(End of this chapter)