Rebirth of the Legend of the Red Age

Chapter 35, Being Reported

A few days after cleaning up his classmates, Wang Li, his father and Lai San were digging an underground warehouse in the vacant space of the main house.

Then I saw my mother coming over in a hurry and said to my father: "Master, there are policemen coming to our house and asked you to go out, saying they have something to ask you."

Wang Li and his son and Lai San were all very surprised. Nothing special had happened recently, so why would the police come to see them?

The three of them arrived at the gate together and saw two members of the Military Control Commission and four patrolmen standing outside the gate.

In fact, what they didn't know was that there were four patrolmen outside the garden gate, lying in ambush to prevent them from escaping.

After Wang Li and the other two walked out of the door, the people from the Military Control Commission said: We have received a report that your family is engaged in secret activities and we suspect that you are enemy agents, so we came to verify and inspect.

Wang Li’s family was speechless and hurriedly explained: Comrade Leader, our family has not done anything. We just wanted to repair the house and build a cellar to store vegetables and other sundries. We have not done anything illegal.

The military control commission staff said: Please cooperate with our inspection.

After saying that, he walked towards Wang's house. Several people from the Wang family followed closely behind him and walked into the courtyard.

After entering the courtyard, except for the two military control committee members, the other four patrolmen were searching for something in Wang's house. After about 4 minutes, the four patrolmen walked up to the military control committee members and reported: no contraband was found, but a deep pit was dug in the backyard, which seemed to be used to lay the foundation for the house.

After hearing the report from the four patrolmen, the military control commission personnel said to Wang Li’s family: Thank you for your cooperation. Let’s go to the backyard and take a look first.

After entering the backyard and seeing the foundation of the main house, the military control committee officer asked: Although your family does not have any contraband, according to regulations, private individuals are not allowed to dig such a deep basement. Have you reported it? Have you received approval?

His words surprised Wang Li's family. They had never considered this.

After seeing their expressions, the military control committee staff smiled and suggested: You should suspend construction, report to the relevant departments first, and then continue construction after obtaining approval. If there is no approval, you will need to fill the hole and build a normal house.

Okay, I will inform the relevant departments of the situation when I return. I apologize for disturbing you today. The military control committee member politely said goodbye.

After the military control committee and the police left, Lai San also went back. The three Wang family members were all worried, not because they were reported as enemy spies, but because they were not allowed to dig their basement. They had been digging for so many days, and if they were not allowed to continue digging, all their work would be in vain.

Wang Li was thinking: If I am not allowed to dig up my collection, where will I put it? Besides, how can such a large courtyard house not have a basement? That would be too low!
Wang Li’s father suggested: No, I will go find Zhao Qiang tomorrow to see if he has any friends who can take care of this.

Wang Li suggested: Don't go to him for everything, that would be too much trouble. Father, you should go to the department in charge of building construction tomorrow to ask, just in case it is approved.

The father nodded in agreement, and the next morning after Wang Li went to school, he assigned the job of the purchasing station to Lai San and went to the housing management department in the district.

After arriving at the management department and consulting the staff, I got the explanation that it is normally not allowed to dig such a deep basement.

Although the new Dragon Kingdom has just been established and some policies are still imperfect, digging such a deep basement requires approval and reporting. Only in the future can they be issued with a legal property rights certificate. Otherwise, what they do may be illegal.

When my father asked how to go about the formalities, the person in charge said that it might take some time because the new policy had not yet been introduced.

Wang Li's father returned home with news that he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

When Wang Li got home that night, he heard the news. He was also very depressed. Even if the policy allowed it in the future, it would delay the progress of their project. If it was not allowed, it would be even worse. They would have to fill the hole, and all the previous work would be in vain.

Finally, the three of them decided to invite Zhao Qiang to their home this Sunday to discuss this matter.

After finishing the research, the three of them went back to the house to rest in a depressed mood.

(End of this chapter)