Siheyuan: If I marry Qin Huairu, I will become stronger by showing off.

Chapter 299 Life can’t be improvised, it must be enjoyed!

Turn the middle courtyard into your own private territory,
Then privacy will be protected to the greatest extent, and others will not be able to criticize, or it will be difficult to criticize.

For example, drying bed sheets.

In the past, after Qin Huairu washed her clothes, she would spread them out and put them in the house to dry. The fire in the house was warm, so they dried quickly.

But it's okay once or twice, but it's inevitably a little inconvenient if it happens every time.

Even if there are earth dragons to keep you warm, it is not as good as the sun for drying! Sunlight has ultraviolet rays and can sterilize!

But no!
There are so many people living in the middle courtyard. If they see me washing and drying the sheets every day...

That pig can guess what's going on!
Either they envy themselves for being capable, or they laugh at Qin Huairu for being useless, or they say that they are both shameless and shameless, and sooner or later they will ruin their bodies to the point of ruin!
Never underestimate the mouths of aunts, they are the most vicious things in the world.

From now on, we will no longer have these worries. We will seal the door and add another door, and the middle courtyard will be self-contained. No one else can enter except for our own family.

You can dry the sheets in the yard openly every day.

It can also dry clothes, colorful omens and stockings...

This is very convenient!
……

Besides changing the door, all that's left is to fix up the house.

Except for the two rooms where he lives now and the one where He Yuzhu lives, all the other rooms in the entire middle courtyard have been renovated.

Repair the roof, dig the floor, lay the floor tiles, and paint the walls flat.

Ceiling, replacement of doors and windows.

That's right, Wu Youde plans to replace all the doors and windows.

Nowadays, these rooms all use wooden doors, and the windows are covered with a layer of window paper. Not only is the sealing poor, it is also ugly and looks very low!

The wooden door also had many stains and missing corners and faces.

A hole was broken and plugged with rags. There are also ones used by cats to practice their claws, with dense scratch marks on them. There is also a blackboard used by children with all kinds of messy graffiti.

Messy and ugly.

Wu Youde planned to ask the carpenter to make a new set and replace them all.

Wooden doors and wooden windows are equipped with glass inside, which has good light transmittance and is tightly sealed. Then, curtains are added above the glass so that they can be opened or closed at any time.

In fact, there is no need to replace everything.

It's now 1953...

Wu Youde also thought about staying.

But the next moment, he gave himself a big mouth! !

I can't think about it, I'm still crazy...

He is now a great writer and composer!

In other words, he will definitely run away in the future...

Then when you run away, these houses that have been renovated with great effort and money will be cheaper than others, so why bother?

Besides, there are only three people in his family now, and they can't live in these ten rooms.

Why do so much decoration?
It is better to just decorate and tidy up the three main rooms and two side rooms, which is enough for living.

No need to go to all the trouble.

At first, Wu Youde did think so.

But then he thought again, Mud, can’t we stop eating because of choking?

Even if I have to run away in the future, it will be more than ten years later. Will my family always be the same three people?
This is impossible!
and,

I live in this courtyard every day, and seeing that all the rooms in the courtyard are dilapidated and dirty, it affects my perception and ruins my mood!

Well, the layout is smaller.

At least I will live in this courtyard for a long time. There is no need to lower my quality of life just because I save a little money.

That little money is nothing!
Wu Youde suddenly woke up!
Do it!
Do it all again! Renewed! Replaced!

In addition to decorating each room, Wu Youde also plans to renovate a bathroom, like the one in Yunju Hutong.

The bathtub should be big enough for three people to swim together.

There also needs to be a bed to rest on.

In addition, he also plans to transform a modern toilet.

The kind with a flush toilet.

That's right, a flush toilet.

Wu Youde was really fed up with the public toilets in the alley. Now that he had only one courtyard, of course he had to use the entire private toilet.

But he didn't want to use the dry toilet either. It couldn't stop the smell and made him fume!

It's better to use a flush toilet, which is odorless and clean.

In fact, there was already a flush toilet in this era, and Wu Youde had used it before at Lou Zhenhua's house.

Speaking of which, toilets existed in ancient China.

(Toilet used by women in ancient China)
In the late Qing Dynasty,
A flush toilet was once installed in the courtyard provided by the Qing government to the Chief Tax Officer Hurd.

Jin Dengqian, director of the Qing Dynasty Customs Office in London, specially customized it for Hart and sent it to Beijing all the way.

However, the above situations are rare!

It was during the Republic of China that flush toilets really appeared in the public eye and became popular for civilian use. In 1889, Tangshan Qixin Cement Company (China's first cement factory, built in ) hired German Hans Kunde and his son as technicians, imported raw materials from Germany, and began to produce sanitary ceramics.

The first flush toilets in the country were born.

This Qixin company was founded by Jews. After producing flush toilets, it was the first to adopt this technological revolution in new buildings in Shanhai.

Since then, Jews have rapidly popularized flush toilets in high-end buildings in Shanhai.

Known as the country of porcelain, porcelain is famous all over the world, but the first flush toilets in China were not produced by Chinese people. This is a bit ironic...

But the reality is that even Jingdezhen cannot produce flush toilets.

Not only that, after Qixin Company produced the flush toilet, it was still difficult for the country to independently produce sanitary porcelain including flush toilets for a long time!
This is because the porcelain used in flush toilets is different from the porcelain used in general daily necessities (such as dishes) and decorative porcelain (such as vases).

Sanitary porcelain, such as flush toilets, needs to be soaked in water for a long time, so the water absorption rate must be very low!

As a sanitary ware, the foreign matter adsorption rate on the surface must be very weak!
It must bear the weight of a person and must have considerable strength!
None of the domestic porcelain workshops and master craftsmen in Jingdezhen can handle these!
Wu Youde sighed with emotion. Fortunately, this was in the capital and there was already running water.

If you are in another city or in the countryside, there is no running water, even if there is a flush toilet, it will not work.

Wu Youde planned to go back and ask someone where there was a flush toilet in Beijing and buy one.

However, although the toilet was not purchased, the pit can be dug first and the underground pipes can be laid without any delay.

all morning,

Wu Youde was explaining his design concept to the masters, what should be done here, what should be here...

He didn't even spare the yard.

The yard is big enough. A small pond was dug in the south of the middle yard and a small rockery was built inside.

Build a small waterwheel to divert water up the mountain, with waterfalls pouring down. Dozens of koi carp are raised in the water below, two turtles are fed, and some lotus flowers are planted.

You can usually feed the fish, play with the turtles, and enjoy the flowers.

On the east side of the yard, you can set up a grape trellis to enjoy the shade in summer and eat grapes.

In this way, the yard adds a lot of interest, is full of vitality and full of life!
The yard is large, there are many rooms, and there are many requirements. It is a big project. However, Wu Youde has the ability to make money, so the problem is not big and can be easily solved.

In addition to those who cleaned up the yard in Yunju Hutong last time, Wu Youde also asked them to call some familiar masters to come over and help them work together.

There are so many people so we can work faster!

In the end, there were twelve people in total, three carpenters, five masons, and the remaining four handymen, all of whom were good at everything.

He can criticize walls and build walls.

The transformation of the middle courtyard has begun in full swing...

……

In a blink of an eye, March has entered.

On March 1st, Wu Youde took Qin Huairu and Xue Chunmei out, pushing two bicycles.

"Flying Fox Gaiden" was officially completed yesterday. The book has a total of 620,000 words and the writing period was two and a half months.

Two-thirds of this book was written by three people.

Wu Youde decided to take the two of them to the post office to submit the manuscript, so that they could feel a sense of participation. After all, each word was written by the two of them one by one.

When we arrived at the post office, as soon as they saw it was him, the staff at the post office knew why he was there.

"Great writer, are you here to submit your manuscript again?"

"You came just in time. There is your letter here. Take it with you."

Wu Youde was very busy, first instructing Qin Huairu and Xue Chunmei on how to mail packages and letters, and then letting them see how to pay remittance orders.

The second payment for "Flying Fox Gaiden" has also arrived. Last time, a total of 300,000 yuan was paid.

Twelve thousand words, the total manuscript fee is as high as 3,600 yuan!

When they saw Wu Youde cashing in 3,600 yuan, everyone in the post office, whether they were customers or staff, counted them one by one.

numb!

All numb! !
Three thousand six hundred yuan!

In this era when the per capita monthly income is only 20 to 30 yuan, this is a huge sum of money!

It might take an ordinary person nearly ten years to earn this kind of money without eating or drinking!
But Wu Youde only took half a month.

"Great writer, you are so amazing...so amazing..."

The staff member who helped Wu Youde withdraw money looked at Wu Youde with water in her eyes, her voice trembled, and her body trembled.

I don’t know, what do you think happened to her?

'Whose little daughter-in-law is this? She's so plump~'

Wu Youde glanced at it twice, murmured in his heart, and said with a smile: "It's hard money, eldest sister, I am only twenty, and my hair has already turned gray."

White hair?
where? Why did not I see? ? ?
The young daughter-in-law's eyes wandered around Wu Youde, but before she could find the white hair, Wu Youde was pulled away by Qin Huairu who had finished sending the package.

Before leaving,
Qin Huairu still had a sullen face, and stared at the other party fiercely with her eyes wide open.

As soon as I left the post office,

Qin Huairu's fierce look was swept away. She looked around, alert and nervous, and whispered: "Brother Wu, how about... let's go home?"

Eh?
Wu Youde was stunned and said in surprise: "Are you hungry again so soon? Didn't I just feed you this morning?"

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(End of this chapter)