Siheyuan: Fighting against the beasts under the pressure of the system

When moving, I learned some information about the brothers through asking neighbors. Their parents died early, and Wang Liming and Wang Lizhu took over their parents' jobs.

I work in a machine tool factory. I have an old house at home. It's not too big, just over 20 square meters. The room I exchanged with an old lady is about the same size. If you say you live well in it, why do you want to move?

This has to start with the planning of the Beijing Municipal Government. After liberation, various factories were established in Beijing, but after their establishment, in order to facilitate management, all heavy industrial factories were moved to Dongzhimen.

The machine tool factory also started moving a few years ago and moved to Dongzhimen.

The move made it difficult for the two brothers to go to work, unlike other workers who could buy bicycles or take the bus to work.

After their parents passed away, the little money left behind was spent by these two brothers.

The two worked as apprentices for three years and did not save much money. Their living expenses were barely enough. They had to walk more than two hours to go to work every day and walk another long way after get off work in the evening.

After enduring this for almost two years, the two of them really couldn't take it anymore.

They asked the street office to arrange for a change of house. There were not many houses available for purchase on the market, so they looked at a few and found that all of them were in a similar location to where they lived, so they decided not to move.

It happened that an old lady wanted to find a place that was a little further away, so she went to the street office to register. After the registration, the street office contacted the two young men.

When the two brothers heard Nanluoguxiang, they thought it was a great place! It was not far from Dongzhimen, so going to work was much easier than before.

The two brothers agreed without asking for details and signed a house exchange agreement at the street office.

However, we would have to wait until after New Year's Day to move. My aunt wanted to go back to her hometown, so she agreed.

So, taking advantage of the fact that the machine tool factory was not busy, the two brothers moved their home in a hurry.

Zhang Minghui didn't stay in the middle courtyard for long. He helped move things for a while before leaving. Looking at the two busy people, Zhang Minghui couldn't help but shook his head and sighed.

"Hey, I wonder if these two brothers will regret it in the future. This hospital is not as simple as they think. If you are not careful, you will be plotted against. You have to adapt as soon as possible."

When he got home and saw Doudou writing seriously, Zhang Minghui felt comforted. He went up to touch Doudou's little head and spoke softly.

"Take a break first and go out and play for a while!"

At this time, Doudou put down his pencil, rubbed his sore arms, cheered, and ran out of the house to play with his other friends.

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Intermediate Court

Yi Zhonghai's home.

The two brothers Wang Liming, who had just moved in, were tidying up the house. After putting all the packages in the house, the two brothers sat on chairs to rest for a while, recalling what had just happened.

The two brothers just found the street office to get the key of the house. By the way, they learned about the basic situation of the courtyard. When they heard about the situation of the house, they were a little confused.

After Uncle Zhang from the Street Office asked Wang Liming and his brother the purpose of their visit, he began to introduce them while holding the key.

"This house is the same as yours. It has been bought out. The current house has not been partitioned yet. It is still connected. You will have to find someone to make a partition after the spring."

"Otherwise, the owner of the other half of the house will have nowhere to live when he returns."

The two brothers were stunned when they heard this. They didn't expect that they would have to build partitions instead of moving in directly. Wang Limin smiled and spoke.

"Uncle Zhang, when will the owner of the other room come back? Why is it so troublesome?"

Uncle Zhang looked at the two brothers in surprise and asked puzzledly.

"When you two were switching houses, didn't you find out clearly? You don't even know who the owner of the house is?"

The Wang Liming brothers shook their heads and said with a wry smile.

"Uncle Zhang, you don't know, our home is too far from the factory. We have to walk back and forth for four or five hours every day. We two brothers can't stand it anymore."

"When the subdistrict office contacted us, they said there was a house in Nanluoguxiang that could be exchanged. When my brother and I heard it, we agreed without hesitation. We really didn't know what was going on."

Uncle Zhang looked at the two of them with sympathy, his expression kept changing. Although he was worried about them, he had already moved to a new house, so what else could he do? He opened his mouth and started talking.

"Well, let me talk to you two brothers. Have you heard of the name Yi Zhonghai?"

When Wang Liming heard the name, he felt it sounded familiar, but when he was anxious he couldn't remember where he had heard it.

Wang Lizhu thought for a while, suddenly opened his mouth and began to speak stutteringly.

"Mr. Zhang, are you talking about Yi Zhonghai from Yard No. 95?"

Wang Liming came to his senses immediately, his mouth opened wide, his eyes widened, and he stared at Uncle Zhang, hoping that Uncle Zhang would say no.

Seeing the reactions of the two young brothers, Grandpa Zhang's face became more and more bitter. The current No. 95 Nanluoguxiang courtyard is a well-known courtyard house that is the best in the entire old city.

Since Yi Zhonghai started bullying the families of martyrs this summer, there has been an endless stream of hot news about this hospital, until the incident of broken arms and legs some time ago.

The reputation of the entire compound reached its peak.

In a word, if you have never heard of the name of No. 95 Courtyard in Beijing, it proves that you are an outsider, have only been in Beijing for a short time, and have not yet integrated into the masses.

This courtyard has caused the street office a lot of trouble. Not to mention Courtyard No. 95, even the street office has become famous. The superiors have asked many times why the people in that courtyard have so many problems.

The question left Director Wang of the Street Office speechless and unable to answer.

The people from the street office sit together and often talk about things in that courtyard. The people in Courtyard 95 are becoming more and more tough now. They admit their mistakes when they make them, and even if they make the same mistakes again, they are not the same mistakes.

Director Wang was so angry that he wanted to separate the people in this courtyard and have them live in different places, but people in other courtyards didn't agree!

The superiors also disapproved of this approach, saying that the people in this hospital just wanted to live a better life, and they could still be educated, so Director Wang should put in more effort.

Looking at the reactions of the two people in front of him, he knew how famous the hospital was. Uncle Zhang nodded helplessly, speaking with some guilt.

"You two brothers guessed correctly. It is Courtyard 95, the courtyard you will be staying in."

After saying this, Wang Lizhu sat down on the ground with a sad face and shouted loudly.

"Brother, this is over. We will never get married in this life. Why did you come to this yard?"

After saying that, he slapped himself in the face.

When Uncle Zhang saw it, he hurried to persuade him.

"Lizhu, not really. You're worrying too much."