Stay away from beasts in the world of Siheyuan

In the afternoon, Carpenter Tan brought two people to the courtyard with a cart of cast iron pipes.

It was a holiday, and I heard in the morning that Xu Changping's house was going to be renovated. Now I saw someone pulling materials in, and people who were watching the fun quickly gathered around, looking at the things in the car and started talking about it.

"Old Wang, what are these iron pipes used for?"

"Who knows."

"Isn't this a water pipe?"

"What, is he going to bring running water into the house?"

"he......"

Just as someone recognized the function of the pipeline, Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui, the three giants of the courtyard, appeared in front of Xu Changping's house.

"Xiao Xu, I forgot to ask you this morning, did you get permission from the street office for your renovation?" Yan Bugui was the first to speak up.

"I've told Director Wang from the Street Office."

As Xu Changping answered, he secretly sighed in his heart, fortunately Zhang Xiaolong reminded him in time, otherwise his decoration would have been stopped.

"What is this pipe of yours for?"

Yi Zhonghai walked around the pipe and asked. With his eyesight, he could tell that it was a water pipe.

"Uncle, I'm going to bring tap water into the house." Xu Changping didn't beat around the bush and responded directly.

"That won't work. You need a permit from the street office to do this." Before Yi Zhonghai could say anything, Liu Haizhong jumped out and said.

"Is this it?" Xu Changping was already prepared, waiting to deal with the danger these people faced.

Yi Zhonghai took it and looked at the seal of the street office carefully. He wondered in his heart whether Director Wang had some kind of relationship with Xu Changpo, which was why he was so easy to talk to.

After a while, he said, "You have to fix this quickly so as not to affect the daily lives of the neighbors."

"If it's fast, it will be done in three days."

There was no need for Xu Changping to say anything, as a man who came with Carpenter Tan responded.

"That's good."

After Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, he turned around and went home. In the morning, Yan Bugui told them that the house had been allocated to Xu Changping, and now the street office has agreed to renovate it. What else could he say?

"Dad, go ask Xu Changping later how much his home renovation budget is." Yan Jiecheng saw Yan Bugui coming back from watching the fun, and walked up to him and said.

"Why? You don't want to renovate it, do you? I think he just wants to burn money. It's not his house, but he made it so nice. Be careful that the steel mill will take it back."

Yan Bugui replied somewhat excitedly.

He was afraid of being poor, so of course he was reluctant to spend the little money he finally had.

"Jie Di is old enough to live with you guys. Besides, we need our own room after we get married."

Yan Jiecheng has wanted to renovate this shabby house for a long time. He has no privacy at all living with his younger brothers and sisters, and he dares not use the space he has.

"Don't worry, I'll pay for the renovation, and then I'll say it was your savings from the past few years."

Seeing Yan Bugui's unwillingness, Yan Jiecheng said helplessly.

If it weren't so difficult and conspicuous to buy a house in this era, he would have bought a yard outside long ago.

"Okay, I'll go ask later, but our house is so small that we can't create new rooms no matter how much we renovate it."

When Yan Bugui heard that he didn't have to spend any money, he was immediately stunned. He planned to go and ask when there were no people watching.

After a month and a half, Xu Changping's house was finally renovated at a total cost of more than 1,800 yuan, with the radiator and underground pipes alone costing more than 1,200 yuan.

After paying the final payment to Carpenter Tan, Xu Changping glanced at Zhang Xiaolong who was standing next to him. He had seen this guy running around to help during this period of time.

He took out a porcelain bottle from his pocket and threw it into his arms.

"Brother Xu, what is this?"

Zhang Xiaolong hurriedly picked up the things, took a look and asked curiously.

Xu Changping glanced at Zhang Xiaolong with a smile on his face and said:

"It's good stuff. You'll know if you take one at night. But don't take too much. Only take it once a week. Taking too much is bad for your health."

Seeing that Zhang Xiaolong obviously didn't understand what it meant, Xu Changping waved his hand without saying anything more and said:

"Okay, I have nothing to do here now. I'll treat you to a meal some other day. You've been very busy recently. Go home and take a rest."

After sending Zhang Xiaolong away, Xu Changping began to carry out the finishing work alone.

Although the bathroom's waterproofing was guaranteed by Carpenter Tan, he was still not at ease, so he specially found a kind of transparent waterproof coating in the system space and painted it on the wall of the bathroom.

The furniture in his room before had been taken back to the trust store for consignment. Now the furniture in the room was all made of sandalwood that he asked Carpenter Tan to find specially. After being painted with varnish, it looked black and not expensive at all.

He specifically requested a kang to be built in the bedroom. Sleeping on a bed in winter in this era was too cold, which tortured him last year.

"Why are you back so early today?"

As soon as Zhang Xiaolong got home, his wife asked curiously.

"I'll be back once the renovation is done."

Zhang Xiaolong took off his coat and handed it to his wife, then sat on the chair like an old man.

"He didn't even invite you to dinner or anything, he just sent you back?"

Zhang Xiaolong's wife said angrily. When her man came back, he didn't smell of alcohol at all, and it was obvious that he didn't eat at the table.

"Brother Xu said he would treat me to a meal another day. Today he has to clean the house."

Zhang Xiaolong didn't care about Xu Changping's invitation to dinner. He was planning to renovate his own house after the New Year.

"What is this."

When Zhang Xiaolong's wife was hanging clothes for him, she found a porcelain bottle in his pocket, took it out and asked.

"Brother Xu gave it to me and told me to take one at night."

Zhang Xiaolong said indifferently.

"Take one at night? Are you feeling unwell?"

Zhang Xiaolong's wife asked anxiously.

"No."

Zhang Xiaolong was puzzled by the question, but he no longer thought about renovating the house after his wife interrupted him.

"Then why did he give you the medicine?"

"Medicine?" Zhang Xiaolong stood up curiously and walked to his wife, looking at the pills she poured out from the porcelain bottle and continued.

After thinking for a while, he said, "It may be some medicine to nourish the body. Chinese medicine practitioners always have some strange health-promoting pills."

"Really?" Zhang Xiaolong's wife was a little unconvinced. When she saw Zhang Xiaolong's big face coming towards her, she directly fed the pill into his mouth.

"Well, what are you doing? Are you trying to murder your husband?"

Zhang Xiaolong was startled by his wife's actions and swallowed the pill.

"You said it was a tonic, right? It's all poured out now, so just take it."

Zhang Xiaolong's wife said casually, and then she covered the porcelain bottle and placed it on the table.