Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 247

"Sister, this is it, welcome home!"

Cao Zhiqiang, who unlocked the door of the veranda leading to the west courtyard, smiled and pushed open the iron fence door, and then took the initiative to invite his sister to come over.

After formally entering the west courtyard, Cao Jiajia was stunned when she saw the brand-new bluestone floor, the flower garden reserved separately, and the wooden gazebo with tables, chairs and grape trellises.

"This is our house?" Cao Jiajia said in surprise, "It feels completely different!"

"Yes, this is our house!" Cao Zhiqiang walked in with a smile, "Sister, take a look around first, I'll put the things in the house, and we'll talk later."

After finishing speaking, Cao Zhiqiang, who had a big bag and a small bag, walked to the main room of the north house first, took out the key to unlock the door, and then opened the door to enter.

As for Cao Jiajia, she walked around the newly decorated courtyard with two children who were also shining with curiosity, looking around.

Especially the two children, very happy.

Because in the small courtyard of Xikuayuan, there is not only a wooden pavilion, but also some fitness equipment such as horizontal bars and parallel bars, as well as a particularly beautiful iron swing and an iron seesaw.

Children don't know how to decorate or not, they know what is fun.

Obviously, that iron swing immediately attracted their attention.

So after obtaining mother's permission, Xia Wenfang and Xia Wenxuan immediately ran to the swing and seesaw, and began to have fun.

As for Cao Jiajia, she went to the gazebo, sat on a chair, looked left, looked right, felt left, felt right.

Soon she discovered that the floor, tables and chairs in the gazebo were all new and made of wood, not only comfortable to touch, but also comfortable to step on.

Look at the surrounding houses, such as the inverted house and the east and west wing rooms. The surfaces have been repainted, and the doors and windows have to be replaced with new ones.

But the most eye-catching thing is the glass house, or glass verandah, that is built in front of all the houses.

Cao Jiajia was actually very curious about these glass houses, but she was embarrassed to look around when she was new here.

Soon after putting away his things, Cao Zhiqiang walked out from the main room of the north house, crossed the glass verandah, walked along the non-slip bluestone road, came to the gazebo, and sat opposite Cao Jiajia.

"How about it, big sister, can you still recognize it?" Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile.

Cao Jiajia sighed: "If you don't tell me, I won't recognize it at all. This is where I used to live. It has changed too much."

Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile: "The original design was not suitable for living, so I asked someone to renovate it as a whole, which made it like this.

Although the appearance has changed and the style of the past has disappeared, don't you think it looks better and is more livable? "

Cao Jiajia nodded: "Indeed, it looks foreign!"

Cao Zhiqiang stood up and said, "Come on, sister, let me show you around and introduce this new house by the way?"

"Okay!" Cao Jiajia smiled and stood up, "I'm planning to do that."

"Come on, let me introduce this gazebo to you first." Cao Zhiqiang walked to the side with a smile, and knocked on the pillars of the gazebo with his hand.

"Sister, these are all made of wood, if you have nothing to do, you can drink tea here, play chess or something.

On the aisle to the south of the gazebo, there are wooden grape trellises, and on both sides of the aisle are flower beds for flowers and grass.

Although there is nothing at present, it is bare and ugly, but once grapes and flowers are planted, it will look very good after a year or two. "

Cao Jiajia stood up and took a look, then nodded slightly: "Indeed, I have put my heart into it."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "It's nothing. The places I'm most proud of in this yard are actually those sunny verandahs."

"Sunshine corridor?" Cao Jiajia was taken aback, "What is it?"

Cao Zhiqiang casually pointed to the glass houses built in front of those houses: "It's the glass houses that are connected in series. These glass houses are connected in series to form a veranda. I specially call it the sun veranda."

Afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang began to take Cao Jiajia to the Sunshine Corridor, and introduced the situation of the Sunshine Veranda in detail.

It turns out that the house across the west courtyard, no matter whether it was the main house in the north house, the east and west wing rooms, or the inverted house in the south house, there was no veranda in the past.

That is to say, in the original house design, you push open the door from the house and directly enter the patio.

If it rains at this time, you open the door, and it will rain outside the door.

Previously, the corridor leading from the west courtyard to the middle courtyard had a wooden brick roof to prevent it from raining.

In the past, the residents of Xikuayuan basically put their bicycles in the covered corridor leading from Xikuayuan to the middle courtyard, so as to avoid the sun and rain.

Of course, because the covered corridor is ventilated on all sides, if there is a heavy rainstorm, it will definitely not work, it will rain.

The reason why the layout was like this in the past is because this courtyard house was originally the house of a wealthy family in the former Qing Dynasty.

In the previous layout, the west-span courtyard was just a simple small garden.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in order to increase the number of residences, the courtyard was remodeled.

The part of the main quadrangle, that is, the place where He Yuzhu lives, can't be greatly changed, but can only be greatly changed, and more houses will be built in the east and west courtyards.

The part that spans the courtyard from east to west is just because it is a temporary house built later, so naturally it is not so particular.

The West Cross Courtyard is actually okay, probably because the overall area is a little smaller, but at least it maintains a basic courtyard structure.

Because of the large size of the Dongkua courtyard, in order to accommodate more people, many houses were built later. That is the real row upon row, and it is a real large courtyard.

The current design is to add a glass house to all the houses here, including the main house in the north, the east and west wings, and the inverted house in the south.

These covered glass rooms are all connected in series to form a veritable glass corridor.

In this way, even if it is raining, if you push the doors out of all the rooms and walk back and forth between each room, you will not be rained because of these glass corridors.

Limited by materials and technology, and of course construction time and other factors.

The main frame of the entire glass corridor is reinforced concrete, and then a large number of large glass windows are added.

Because the frame parts are spaced apart and there are so many glass parts, from a distance, the entire glass verandah seems to be made of large pieces of glass, which is very beautiful.

Most of the glazing, including the massive top glass sunroof, can be opened.

Usually when it is not windy or rainy, or when it is not cold, the glass windows can be fully opened to maximize ventilation.

Once the wind and rain are blowing, or in winter, the windows can be closed, which also increases the heat preservation effect.

Don't underestimate this, it is a very effective design in winter in the north.

The glass verandahs are all electrified and wall lights have been added at intervals.

There are also power outlets in many places.

In this way, in case there is an electric car that needs to be charged in the future, or an electrical appliance that needs to be plugged in, it will be very convenient.

In addition, pipes are reserved at the top and bottom here, so if you install an air-conditioning system, a fresh air system, or broadband, etc. in the future, you can also expand it casually.

The only downside is that the design of this glass veranda destroys the original courtyard style.

But for Cao Zhiqiang, he has always been practical.

And as for the renovation of this courtyard house, he didn't intend to make money at the beginning, he just wanted to live by himself, so he did it as comfortable as possible.

"There are radiators in the glass verandah." Cao Zhiqiang continued to introduce, "With these radiators, it will be very warm here in winter when the doors and windows are closed."

"Isn't it?" Cao Jiajia frowned, "It's enough to install heating in the house, and it's too wasteful to install heating in this glass room? And there are so many radiators, and ordinary stoves can't run it."

"Don't worry." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "There is a part of the inverted room in the south room. I have someone specially modify a boiler room. When the time comes, you only need to buy a high-power boiler, so you don't have to worry about the problem of not being able to pull it up.

Also, if it feels like a waste, that's okay.

In fact, the radiators in the sun porch are connected in parallel with the radiators in the house.

If you don't want these radiators in the sun porch to be heated, you can close the valve here, it's very simple. "

"That's it." Cao Jiajia frowned, "How much coal does it cost to build a separate boiler room?"

Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile: "Sister, the house has been changed, so you still care about the little money?

Don't worry, every year's coal in the future will be covered by me, and you don't need to spend money.

Of course, this is only now.

In the future, when there is central heating here, it is better to connect the central heating pipes. "

Cao Jiajia hurriedly said, "That's so embarrassing."

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "Sister, our family doesn't speak differently.

To put it bluntly, the consumption I just mentioned, to me now, is actually no different from spending a penny.

If you lost a penny, would you care? "

Cao Jiajia laughed and said, "Oh, I forgot, you are a rich man who is not short of money now."

"Maybe a lot of money is barely enough, but it's not bad enough." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "Actually, I'm still very short of money, but that's not where I'm short of money.

So I really don't have to worry about the consumption of this kind of life. "

Cao Jiajia smiled: "Okay, since you've said that, if I push back, it will seem hypocritical."

"It should have been like this a long time ago." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile.

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang said to Cao Jiajia again: "Sister, the situation in the yard is just like that, take a look at it later, let's go back to the living room first, and see how your usual place is?"

"Okay!" Cao Jiajia smiled and nodded.

Soon, Cao Zhiqiang took Cao Jiajia to the original home, which was the East Wing Room.

After entering here, I found that this side has been transformed into a bedroom, study and toilet structure.

In other words, in the east wing, the south part is the bedroom, the middle room is the bathroom and dressing room, and the north part is the study.

In other words, the original set of three has become a layout with a bathroom in the middle and bedrooms and study rooms on both sides.

This arrangement was specially requested by Cao Zhiqiang, but Cao Jiajia felt very strange after seeing it.

"Brother." Cao Jiajia asked Cao Zhiqiang strangely, "Why did you change this to this? In the middle hall, you actually changed it into a bathroom and a dressing room? What do you think?"

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, "Of course it's for convenience."

After that, Cao Zhiqiang explained to Cao Jiajia the benefits of doing so.

According to Cao Zhiqiang, doing so can make it easier to go to the toilet.

In the future, if you sleep here, if you want to go to the toilet, you don't have to run very far, the room next to it is right.

And because it was remodeled from the original main room, the area is large enough, so the bathroom has been separated from wet and dry. There is a special place for going to the toilet and a special place for bathing, and the middle is made of frosted glass for partition.

In the toilet, a flushable squat toilet is installed, and the sewage pipe below leads directly to a septic tank in the outside yard.

Not only the toilets here lead to the septic tank, but the toilets in all other rooms also lead to the septic tank.

In this way, you only need to find sanitation personnel regularly to come and clean the septic tank.

It can be said that if you live here, you will no longer need to empty the toilet every morning.

As for the place to take a bath, it is called the washroom, where a bathtub and a shower are installed.

The room on this side is also equipped with a liquefied gas water heater.

For safety, the liquefied gas water heater is installed in the compartment outside the washroom, where the gas tank is also installed.

The partition between the cubicle and the washroom is a thick concrete wall, and if the compartment explodes, it will not harm the washroom.

And the compartment is also equipped with an electric ventilation fan. Once you need to take a bath, the ventilation fan will be turned on and the ventilation will be forced continuously.

This will avoid gas poisoning.

There is no way, the current gas water heaters are all straight exhaust, not forced exhaust, so for safety reasons, Cao Zhiqiang specially used this compartment to add an exhaust fan.

Outside the bathroom is a dressing room.

Inside are wooden cabinets one by one, with three large dressing mirrors and a leather seat.

Here, you can change clothes as you like.

Whether it is the restroom or the changing room, they are all side by side, and the area is half narrower than the original middle room.

In this case, an aisle can be reserved, and from the bedroom in the east wing, along this aisle corridor, you can go directly to any room.

In short, putting the toilet and changing room in the middle is for comfort, everything is practical.

Not only the east wing room has this pattern, but also the main north room has a similar pattern.

It's just that on the north side of the main room, there is no study room, but a living room instead.

In other words, if you want to entertain guests, go to the living room in the main room of the north house.

If the owner of the main room wants to sleep, he can go to the master bedroom of the main room to sleep.

As for the east and west rooms, they can be used by children.

"Sister, it's just right now." Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile, "When brother-in-law comes, you and brother-in-law will live in the main room, and then you two children will live together in the east wing when they are young, and when they grow up, each of them will live in a wing. How nice."

"Ah?" Cao Jiajia was taken aback, "You want to give us the main house and the east and west wing rooms?"

"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

"Then what do you do?" Cao Jiajia asked, "The main house and the east and west wing rooms are for us to live in. Where do you live?"

"Me?" Cao Zhiqiang was taken aback, then smiled, "I don't live here, this place is reserved for you."

Cao Jiajia suddenly realized, and slapped his forehead: "Look at my brain, I forgot that you have already bought a house outside, so go live with Qinghong."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "That's right."

"But this is too extravagant." Cao Jiajia looked around and sighed.

Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile: "Sister, let me choose by myself. I definitely don't like this place, because it is too old. Even with this level of renovation, it is actually not suitable for living, at least it does not meet the standard of a good house in my mind. .

But after all, this is the ancestral house, the place where we grew up, and I have some thoughts about it, so I have kept it until now, and I have bought all the neighbors' houses and remodeled them.

I just thought, if you come back in the future, at least you can have a home.

After all, this is our common home and our root.

I can go out now, but for you, it's better to come back here for the time being.

Believe that living here, you will no longer feel uncomfortable, right? "

Upon hearing this, Cao Jiajia's eyes immediately became moist: "Zhiqiang, it's hard for you to be so thoughtful! You, you really have grown up!"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Everyone has to grow up, I can't always be that little follower behind your ass."

"Hahaha!" Cao Jiajia wiped away her tears with a handkerchief, "It's true, everyone has to grow up, sooner or later!"

Speaking of this, Cao Jiajia couldn't help crying again: "Thank you, thank you so much, Qiangzi!"

"You're welcome." Cao Zhiqiang smiled again.

"Sister, it's still the same sentence, one family doesn't speak two languages.

You stay here first, take it easy, and get used to it. After two days, I will help you arrange work and mobilize relationships.

When you have a formal job and your files are left behind, you don't have to worry about anything. "

(End of this chapter)