Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 246 You Are Rich and Powerful, Everyone You See Is a Good Person
After bidding farewell to Qin Huairu, Cao Zhiqiang took his eldest sister Cao Jiajia and formally walked towards Xikuayuan.

Today's Xikuan Courtyard has been bought by Cao Zhiqiang, so just in case, when Cao Zhiqiang asked people to decorate, he specially asked the master to add a fence gate to the corridor leading from the middle courtyard to the West Kua Courtyard.

This fence gate is a wrought iron fence as thick as a thumb. As long as it is locked, ordinary people can't go to the west courtyard from the middle courtyard.

Of course, when the fence gate was installed at the beginning, it must not be said to prevent other people in the courtyard, but to use the danger of construction and prevent children from entering indiscriminately as an excuse.

With such an excuse, some things are justified.

As for whether to remove the door after the construction is over, that will be discussed later.

Anyway, for things like this, as long as you start with the door and install the door, it is easy to install and difficult to dismantle.

In fact, this is nothing, after all, the entire Xikuayuan now belongs to Cao Zhiqiang.

So in theory, Xikuayuan is the home of Cao Zhiqiang.

In this case, it is reasonable to install a door in the veranda leading to the west courtyard.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang originally wanted to open a door on the west wall of the west courtyard.

This will be more convenient, and there is no need to go through the gate of the courtyard to enter and exit the Xikuayuan.

It's a pity that wanting to open a Ximen is really not an ordinary trouble.

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To put it simply, based on the current situation, if this old courtyard house really wants to open a west gate, it will have to go to many departments and find many people, which is not an ordinary trouble.

Cao Zhiqiang thought about it, if for such a small matter, there is no need to mobilize people everywhere to find someone.

After all, plans are not as fast as changes.

When Cao Zhiqiang first started, he really wanted to make a big change here so that he could live more comfortably.

After all, this is an old-fashioned courtyard house. If it is not remodeled, it will be inconvenient.

But the problem is, he doesn't live here anymore.

Since I don't live here anymore, why bother to make so much trouble?

As for why it came again today.

This is of course because of Cao Jiajia's relationship.

In fact, as of today, Cao Jiajia has been in the capital for seven days.

Seven days was enough for Cao Jiajia, her two children, and of course Qinghong's mother to get used to it.

During this period, Cao Jiajia, her two children, and Qinghong's mother have always lived in Qinghong's house, which is the courtyard house that Cao Zhiqiang bought in Houhai.

It was okay at first, but after a while, Cao Jiajia felt that it was not suitable.

The main reason is that Cao Zhiqiang doesn't live in Qinghong's place recently, and every time at night, he goes back to live in his "unit".

Yes, to avoid embarrassment, and for better work.

Cao Zhiqiang had someone turn the office building of Hongguang Publishing House into a single dormitory by vacating a large empty office.

The office building of Hongguang Publishing House was originally the office building of a glass factory. It was not small in size, and the facilities were quite complete.

After the establishment of the publishing house, although some people were recruited, the departments were small and the number of people was small, and those rooms could not be filled at all.

In other words, the office building of Hongguang Publishing House is actually only a very small part of the building, and most of the rooms are actually empty.

Not only are there many empty rooms, but the size of a single room is not small.

Because this place itself is for office use, and the offices in this period are all large offices where many people work together. The average area of ​​each office is basically more than [-] square meters.

It is equivalent to saying that each room has an area of ​​more than [-] square meters and a floor height of more than three meters. It looks quite empty and definitely not depressing.

If the partition wall between the offices is opened and a door is opened inside, this is a proper suite.

It doesn't matter if you don't get through, and it doesn't take much trouble to go to the next room through the corridor outside.

In addition, the office building of Hongguang Publishing House, except for the lack of gas pipes, is fully equipped with water, electricity, heating, flush toilets on every floor, and even telephones.

Especially the heating, every room and even the aisle has radiators, and there is a special boiler room on the first floor, the heating pipes are kept, you only need to buy a boiler, and you can heat yourself in winter.

Well, there used to be boilers here, but after the glass factory was relocated, even the boilers were removed.

After all, boilers were quite expensive during this period, and ordinary units were reluctant to stay.

Let's put it this way, just add a gas stove and change to a separate bathroom that can take a shower, then the office building of Hongguang Publishing House is actually more livable than many newly built buildings.

At the very least, the lighting of this kind of building is much stronger than that of a courtyard house.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, it's not suitable to go to Qinghong's place, it's not suitable to go to the two sisters' place, and it's even more inappropriate to go to Jin Xiuying's place.

After much deliberation, I chose to live in the office building.

For the time being, I just need to clean up a slightly better empty office, and then arrange everything like desks, sofas, coffee tables, beds, etc., and it will be a very good dormitory for singles.

And Cao Zhiqiang is not alone here, because there is still one person living here, and that is Zhao Shouwen.

The others all have homes in the capital and go home after work, but Zhao Shouwen is different.

It's not that Zhao Shouwen doesn't have a home in the capital, but that his home is too small and there are too many people, and because it also lives in a large courtyard, there are as many bad things in it, even worse than the courtyard house where Cao Zhiqiang used to live. .

So Zhao Shouwen has basically lived in dormitories since he started working, and he will not go home until he can.

Cao Zhiqiang reckoned that what Zhao Shouwen said was just an excuse, and most likely it was due to internal family factors.

After coming to Hongguang Publishing House to work, Zhao Shouwen usually lived in Hongguang Publishing House, and it was good to be able to watch the door at night.

Anyway, it's nice to have someone for company, at least it's not so lonely.

However, for safety reasons, both of them were equipped with sticks, whistles and ropes.

To deal with ordinary thieves, these three things are enough.

In fact, since Cao Zhiqiang moved into the office building of Hongguang Publishing House, Section Chief Zeng originally wanted to send two people from the security department to Cao Zhiqiang to protect Cao Zhiqiang.

It was Cao Zhiqiang who thought it was too much and too eye-catching, so he refused.

In fact, the office building of Hongguang Publishing House was right next to the Hongguang Machinery Factory. The Hongguang Machinery Factory only needed to have people patrolling outside, and the scope of the patrols could be slightly expanded. There was no problem with safety at all.

Instead, two people from the security department were sent to stand guard, which would easily cause criticism.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang's age and qualifications are flawed. He is only 19 years old, and he has been in the factory for less than half a year.

If it weren't for his too low qualifications and too young age.

Well, when Cao Zhiqiang founded Hongguang Publishing House by himself, he would not appoint an old Zhou to be the nominal president and let Cao Zhiqiang be the vice president. This is actually to stop others from talking and try not to provoke gossip. .

Don't underestimate seniority. In this day and age, the phenomenon of seniority ranking is very serious. Many people still look at seniority rather than ability.

In short, after Cao Zhiqiang moved to live in the publishing house, he immediately fell in love with this kind of life.

He usually reads novels and records recordings in his dormitory, or writes some poems and songs. When he is tired, he goes to the shooting range to play pistols to enjoy himself, or he drives around a few times by himself.

The car Cao Zhiqiang drives is naturally the Citroen CX20.

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang wondered how Zhang Qianjin and Li Youfu got their driver's licenses.

I found out later that in these days, as long as you can own a car, it is not difficult to get a driver's license.

Driving licenses in Beijing may be a little more difficult, but driving licenses in other cities are really easy and not complicated.

For example, the driver's licenses of Zhang Jinjin and Li Youfu were issued from other places.

The so-called test means that you can drive in a straight line, turn a corner, and pass the test without hitting obstacles on both sides.

As for the written test, that thing is easier, and it is easy to pass.

In short, that is the current driver's license, which is quite difficult for people without connections.

But for those who are connected, it is quite simple.

Especially for those who have a formal unit, it is even easier to get a driver's license.

For example, the previous stick, he actually went to work as a driver first, learned to drive from the old driver at work, and then directly gave him a driver's license.

In the same way, Cao Zhiqiang doesn’t need to go to Director Li in this case, he can write a note for himself, and then write an application, and then he can take the test directly. He doesn’t need to go to some driving school for a year or two like Yang Ping’an. car.

The kind of people who go to driving schools to learn to drive are ordinary people or people from small units.

If people in large state-owned enterprises want to take the driver's license test, they don't need to bother at all. They can directly take the test with a letter from the unit.

Since it is so convenient, Cao Zhiqiang certainly cannot miss it.

So he quickly sent a letter there in the name of Hongguang Publishing House, and made an appointment for the nearest driver's license test.

It's a pity that Cao Zhiqiang knew too late. The latest exam will be next month, so Cao Zhiqiang can only wait.

However, while waiting for the test, Cao Zhiqiang can still practice driving on the playground of his unit.

Although Cao Zhiqiang can actually drive, the cars of this era are still slightly different from the cars he drove in his previous life, and he needs to get used to it.

In particular, the cars that Cao Zhiqiang drove in his previous life were basically automatic transmissions.

It can even be said that after he obtained his driver's license in his previous life, he directly drove an automatic transmission car, and almost never drove a manual transmission car.

But the domestic cars in this period are basically manual transmission, and it is very hard, even imported cars are the same.

So if he doesn't get used to it in advance, it's really hard to drive.

Having said that, after Cao Zhiqiang went to live in the office, it was not suitable for Cao Jiajia to live.

Although Cao Jiajia is Cao Zhiqiang's biological sister, she is actually a collateral relative, and she has not seen Cao Zhiqiang for many years, and the relationship has long been estranged.

On the contrary, Wu Qinghong, although she has not officially registered her marriage with Cao Zhiqiang, in everyone's eyes, she is basically Cao Zhiqiang's wife, just lacking a title.

This is not given a name for the time being, and everyone understands it.

After all, the two of them are still too young to get married, and Qinghong is going to go to university.

At this time, college students were not allowed to get married, so when Qinghong's mother found out about this, not only did she not blame Cao Zhiqiang, but she felt a little guilty and felt that she owed Cao Zhiqiang.

Well, up to this moment, Qing Hong's mother has actually acquiesced in the existence of Cao Zhiqiang as a prospective son-in-law without saying anything, and is even quite satisfied with this prospective son-in-law.

That's right, Cao Zhiqiang looks good, speaks nicely, has a permanent residence in the capital, is rich and has status, and loves Qinghong very much. Everyone knows that he treats Qinghong well.

It can be said that from the standpoint of Qinghong's mother, even with the harshest eyes, she couldn't find fault with Cao Zhiqiang.

However, in this way, Qinghong became Cao Zhiqiang's prospective wife, and Qinghong's mother became the prospective mother-in-law.

It is of course no problem for the mother-in-law who came from afar to live in her son-in-law's house.

But as a sister, something is wrong at this time.

What's more, it's not that Cao Jiajia doesn't have a home in the capital. If nothing else, just the courtyard, it's Cao Jiajia's natal family.

Therefore, when Cao Zhiqiang came back to Qinghong's place to have dinner with everyone, Cao Jiajia proposed the idea of ​​returning to his hometown.

At that time, when the renovation of the courtyard home was over, Cao Zhiqiang talked with his sister in private, and after understanding the other party's thoughts, he also agreed to let his sister move back.

This is not only for my own convenience, the key is to make my sister convenient and make her feel better.

Because she lived with Qinghong, Cao Jiajia always felt that she was an outsider.

So, Cao Zhiqiang took Cao Jiajia and his two nephews back home today.

Cao Zhiqiang has already made up his mind that from now on, Cao Jiajia's family will live here temporarily.

First, she is more familiar with this place, and second, this is the house of her parents. Even though Cao Zhiqiang bought a few more houses later, in essence, it is no different from her mother's house. My sister lives here without psychological pressure.

On the contrary, it was Cao Zhiqiang who asked Cao Jiajia to live in other places, because those houses belonged to Cao Zhiqiang himself, so it would always make people feel that he, the younger brother, was giving alms.

People in this era are still very particular about these things, and this must be paid attention to.

The reason why Cao Zhiqiang tried so hard to bring his sister's family over was that he was essentially responsible for his predecessor, to make his conscience feel better, and he didn't mean to show off.

That being the case, try to do a good job and don't give people unnecessary bad impressions.

Anyway, Cao Jiajia is also a relative who is related to him by blood.

Especially when the parents are gone, it is also right to help this sister when I can.

When you have the ability, it is more comfortable to be a good person.

In addition, there are quite a few neighbors in the courtyard, and they are basically people Cao Jiajia is familiar with. Letting Cao Jiajia live here can also reduce the feeling of strangeness and adapt to the place faster.

Although this courtyard has always been known as a courtyard full of beasts, but in essence, it is just chickens pecking at each other.

With Cao Zhiqiang's current status and energy, as well as the relationship between Shazhu and the third uncle and himself, I believe that in this courtyard, no one would dare to bully his sister and her two children.

When you are rich and powerful, everyone you see is a good person, and everyone who sees you will say good things about you.

This is what Fu has distant relatives in the mountains.

(End of this chapter)