Shadow Spy

Chapter 97 The big villa on Yuyuan Road

Li Junhao took people back to Dequ Building first, picked up Xiaoyu, Xiaohu and Li Xiaoyu who had packed their things, checked every part of the house, turned off the water and electricity, locked the room door, building door and courtyard door, and drove to the new home.

Ten minutes later, the two cars arrived at their destination. Li Junhao signed the receipt and sent away the two workers who had been arranged by Dahua Company to keep watch. Each of them gave a tip of 10 French currency and led everyone to inspect the new home.Except for him and Xiao Yu, everyone else was a little dumbfounded. How much does this house and the things inside cost?

His villa is located at No. 525 Yuyuan Road, facing south. It is a garden villa with a single courtyard. It covers an area of ​​1000 square meters. The main building is a three-and-a-half-floor European neo-minimalist building with a construction area of ​​870 square meters. It has a brick-concrete structure and a red flat floor. The tiled roof is equipped with shed-style dormer windows; the gray cement brushed exterior wall, and the windows above the second floor are all equipped with stained glass, which is extremely beautiful; the south side of the first floor is a long floor-to-ceiling window, and the outside is made of four Baroque marbles. The arcade supported by columns faces the courtyard on the south side.

The courtyard is a large lawn, with four-meter-high walls on the east, west, and north sides, covered with iron thorns. Inside the walls are two rows of tall plane trees. Now is the time when their branches and leaves are first unfolding, and they are full of green; the south wall To the east is the gate, which is different from the common fence gate, but two large iron gates that are also four meters high and open inwards. There is a driveway paved with tiles inside the gate, which passes through the villa gate in a semicircular arc. Turn to the west side of the gate.

To the west of the gate is a row of four slightly low, concrete-roofed bungalows just three meters high. There is also one to the east of the gate. The one on both sides of the gate is used as a guard room, and the other three on the west side can be used as warehouses or warehouses. It's a garage.

The interior of the villa, not counting the oversized basement, has a usable area of ​​nearly 700 square meters, all with teak floors, elegant wallpapers on the walls, and many oil paintings hanging on them. The lower 1.2 meters is equipped with maple-colored wainscoting, and the ceiling It has a gypsum roof and decorative lines on the corners. There is also an exquisite large fireplace in the lobby on the first floor.

In the middle of the first floor of the villa is the large living room, with stairs leading upstairs. On the west side are the dining room, kitchen, and storage room, and on the east side are two servant rooms and bathrooms; on the second floor are six bedrooms with bathrooms, and on the third floor It is the master area, which contains the master bedroom, living room, and study room; there are also two and a half rooms in the attic above, which are children's rooms and leisure rooms.

In addition, there are two oversized basements below the villa, one is a 50-square-meter wine cellar, and the other is a 150-square-meter storage room, which is where he obtained a large number of weapons.

Now, all the furniture in the villa has been replaced. Except for a small amount of cherry wood furniture that Europeans like, most of it is mahogany furniture selected according to Li Junhao's requirements. Except for the kitchen, storage room, and bathroom, which are equipped with ventilation fans, all other rooms They are all equipped with air conditioning, and there are refrigerators in the kitchen and storage room; even the concierges on both sides of the gate are equipped with ceiling fans and fireplaces.

Soon, the two new bodyguards who took the initiative to guard the door took Wang Bao and the two waiters who delivered food to the restaurant. Four large food boxes, 12 dishes, 2 soups, a wooden barrel of rice, and three kilograms of rice were brought to the restaurant. Shaomai and five small jars of old wine filled the dining table!
Xiaohu sent the waiter out and paid for the food and drinks. This table costs 110 French currency, which is really not affordable for ordinary families.

Li Junhao, Xiaoyu, Xiaohu, Li Xiaoyu, Brown, Milia, Captain Watt, Sergeant Hall, Corporal Jacky, and Private Nick all sat around the dining table to celebrate moving to their new home.

Everyone in the Consulate General was convinced. They didn't know how much money Li Junhao had, but what was certain was that he was definitely richer than most people in the Consulate General!The warm-pot banquet lasted until nine o'clock. Everyone was full of wine and food. After a short rest, Watt and others said goodbye. After all, they had just moved to a new house and there were many places to clean up. Qualified guests would not affect the host.

After a while, Sergeant Hall drove away in the jeep. He and Watt would take Brown and Miliya home first, and then return to the Consulate General.
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After seeing off Watt and others, everyone began to allocate rooms. Of course, the third floor was Li Junhao's territory. Xiaoyu and Li Xiaoyu lived in the two bedrooms on the east side of the second floor. Xiaohu originally wanted to live on the first floor, but Li Junhao didn't agree and asked him to go to the west side of the second floor. One of the three rooms on the side, the two rooms on the first floor accommodate two marines.

However, Jackie and Nick discussed it and decided to stay with the concierge. They believed that as bodyguards, they could not occupy the bedroom in the main building, so they just had to let them go. Anyway, the conditions of the concierge were now very good, better than those of ordinary hotels. The guest rooms are much better.

At around eleven o'clock, everyone had packed up the rooms they were going to stay in. Li Junhao waved his hand, washed up and went to bed. As for other things, he would take his time later.

Li Junhao went upstairs alone. The bedroom was the first room that Xiaoyu sorted out. As for the other rooms, he didn't let her do anything. At this time, he took out things from his personal space and simply decorated the living room, then sat on the sofa and started drinking tea.He had overlooked an issue before, which was the special situation of Yuyuan Road. This time he needed to think about it carefully.

Yuyuan Road was a very famous road in his previous life. It has not changed its name since it was built. It is a road with unique memories. These circumstances gradually emerged in his memory.

Yuyuan Road is in the west of the concession. It starts from Jing'an Temple Hede Road in the east and ends near Zhaofeng Park on Baili South Road in the west. It is more than 2700 meters long. It was built by the Ministry of Industry and Industry Bureau's cross-border reclamation in the third year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty (1911). The famous garden "Fool's Garden" was named.There are many apartments and new-style lane houses and shops along the road, including Global World Tower, Paramount Ballroom, etc. There are more than 1600 lane numbers from east to west, and there are thousands of private houses inside.

The so-called new-style lane is a kind of Westernized building that combines Chinese characteristics that began to appear in Shanghai in the early 20th century. The buildings are connected in a row to form a whole, and the single-family houses are divided into multiple houses. Each house usually has three floors and a small room on the ground floor. The garden, second floor and third floor are divided into separate parts and have their own functions. The whole building is somewhat similar to the townhouses of later generations.

Because this is a cross-border garrison area, although the public concession has always emphasized that it has jurisdiction over this area, the legal theory is actually very vague. It is neither recognized nor denied by the National Government. Basically, it is tacitly accepted by all parties. In public concession management, the power of the public security police is exercised by the Jing'an Temple Police Department.

Relatively speaking, the security environment here is still very good. No. 172 Yuyuan Road at the east end is the Jing'an Temple prison house in the public concession. In the northeast, there is an Italian military camp (the [-]st Battalion of the [-]th Savoia Granadiers Regiment) guarding the west of Shanghai. , Therefore, various forces dare not cause trouble on Yuyuan Road.

(End of this chapter)