Siheyuan: Starting to work in the street office

The next day, after Zhongshan got up, he packed up and went out, when he saw Yan Jiecheng coming out from the opposite side.

"Brother Zhong, wake up."

Yan Jiecheng didn't know that Zhong Shan was the one who did Yan Bugui's crime. His family thought that Liu Haizhong did it, so they were always polite to Zhong Shan's family.

Zhongshan also had a good impression of Yan Jiecheng and his wife. Although the couple were as calculating as Yan Bugui, they were better than Yan Bugui in that they were clear-headed and much better at superficial interpersonal relationships than Yan Bugui.

Moreover, although Zhong Shan and Yan Jiecheng both run restaurants, they are far away from each other and there is no competition, so the two families have gotten along quite well in recent years. Of course, they are both busy and they only see each other very rarely.

"Jie Cheng, good morning to you too. Although we live in the same courtyard, we are both busy, so it is not easy for us to see each other."

Yan Jiecheng nodded upon hearing this.

"That's right. It's common for people in our line of work to get up early and go to bed late. Plus, I'm far from home and don't come back often. Brother Zhong, I just happened to have something to talk to you about. Well, please wait a moment. I'm not good at speaking, so let Yu Li talk to you."

After saying that, Yan Jiecheng turned around and shouted into the room.

"Yu Li, Yu Li? Come out for a moment. Brother Zhong is here."

Not long after, Yu Li came out of the house.

"Hey, Brother Zhong, we've been wanting to see you these past few days, but we were too busy these past two days and didn't have time to come back. It's a good opportunity to meet you today when we came back. Let's go in and talk."

Zhong Shan followed him into the house. They were now living in the earthquake shelter that Yan Bugui had built. The house was not big and there were not many things inside, just a bed, a table and a few chairs.

After letting Zhong Shan sit on the chair, Yu Li poured him a glass of water.

"Brother Zhong, this is what happened. Our restaurant is too far from here. It takes a long time to come back. We, along with Jie Kuang, decided to sell the house so we don't have to travel back and forth anymore. You're the first person I thought of. Do you have any ideas?"

Yan Jiecheng and his team have made a lot of money from their restaurant in the past few years. The house is small, and their previous back house had no sunlight. It just so happened that the house they were currently renting for their restaurant was what they thought of buying.

There is also a small courtyard behind the hotel. The courtyard is not big, but two rooms can be built on the east and west sides, which is just right for his family and Yan Jiekuang to have two rooms each. As for Yan Jiedi, she will get married in the future, so it’s okay for her to live with Yan Jiekuang for two years now. However, after the house is built, the money in hand will be almost used up.

In addition, their elderly parents, Yan Bugui and his wife, and Yan Jiefang, are all in prison. In this era, they are really looked down upon. The neighbors around them all know about their family affairs. Although they don't say it to their faces, they will inevitably point fingers behind their backs.

Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiedi don’t have a partner yet, and they also want to change their environment and leave this place of trouble.

Only then did I think of selling the house in the courtyard and leaving here to start a new life.

If someone wants to sell a house now and there is no conflict between neighbors, they will first ask their neighbors whether they want to buy the house. The Yan family was the same, and the first person they asked was Zhongshan.

Besides, Zhongshan is rich and won't be too fussy about this.

Zhongshan was moved after hearing this.

Now that he has three children, the house is not too spacious, so he even put a bed in the study. The eldest daughter, Zhong Jiahui, lives in the original study because there is a window and a bookshelf there. Zhong Jiahui reads more books because she studies traditional Chinese medicine with her grandmother.

His son Zhong Jiaming lives in another small bedroom, which is big enough for him but not that spacious after all.

Although Zhongshan has a house outside, he has no plans to move there.

It's quite nice to live here, and after so many years of operation, most of the people who like to dance in the courtyard have basically left, and the ones left are either relatives or friends. How can you leave when you are enjoying the fruits of your labor?

Besides, I have my own yard and can’t see anyone usually. It’s too lonely and not good for the child’s growth.

Now that he heard that Yu Li wanted to sell the house, Zhong Shan certainly couldn't let it go.

"Oh, selling the houses? Are you selling all of them? However, I can buy the wing and the back house at the market price. We all live next to each other, so I won't tell you anything. But I can't give you a price for the two earthquake shelters at the back."

The Yan family has quite a few houses, including three west wing rooms and two back rooms where Yan Jiecheng and his family live, a total of five rooms.

In the past, this could be bought for 1000 yuan.

However, with the recent rise of individual businesses, people can make more money, and there are more and more people living in the city, so houses are naturally becoming more and more expensive.

Just these three rooms, plus two back houses that no one wanted before, have now more than doubled in price.

In the end, Zhongshan bought the five rooms of the Yan family plus three privately built houses for 2200 yuan.

If it were in the past, this would be enough to buy a small courtyard, but there is no way, times are different now, and the purchasing power of money is not as good as it was in those years.

Besides, this is Zhongshan's yard and he is used to living in it. Even if someone offers him a small yard outside in exchange, Zhongshan is unwilling to do so.

After deciding, Zhongshan returned home and talked to his wife about buying a house.

Song Lili was also very happy. In a big house, since they had a child, the couple had to be sneaky whenever they wanted to be intimate.

As for the money, she didn't care. It was only more than 2,000 yuan. The daily profit of two restaurants was more than that.

Both families were happy. After writing the transfer agreement, the Yan family got the house deed and the Zhongshan family got the money.

Moreover, the house near the Yan Family Restaurant had been built long ago, and the things had been moved in almost a long time ago. After receiving the money, he happily took his things and left the courtyard.

Zhong Shan and Song Lili took their children to look at the several rooms in the Yan family. The happiest one among them was their son Zhong Jiaming. Now he finally didn't have to live in that dark little house anymore.

"Hey, I've always disliked these houses. Finally, I can tear them down."

Among the earthquake shelters built by Yan Bugui later, no one in the yard looked pleasing to the eye except his family and Liu Haizhong in the backyard.

Now that his family has bought the houses, the first thing Song Lili wanted to do was to quickly demolish these houses.

Zhong Shan nodded.

"We both don't have time either. I'll find the master in the next couple of days to demolish these earthquake-affected houses and renovate those other houses."

The Yan family was moving, and Zhongshan and his friends were discussing the demolition of the house in such a high-profile manner, so naturally the other neighbors in the yard also saw it.

After hearing this, the other family in the back house also came out to "chat" with a purpose.