Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

What Hou Mingjun said was actually what he had been thinking about recently.

In other courtyards, there is harmony. You help me, I help you, and the relationship is better than that of relatives.

It's not like if you eat something delicious today, I have to come to you and order it.

Hou Mingjun envied this atmosphere very much. In contrast, in his own courtyard, people had to be sneaky to eat something delicious.

I have wanted to get closer to Chen Changan several times, and I want to buy some meat. Let Nan Yi, the ready-made chef, cook a dish, and the three of us sit together and eat and chat. What a great thing.

I was at a low level before, so that was fine. Now I am the workshop director anyway. Look at Shi Heping and Hou Yan, they were at my level before.

Others who want to get closer to Chen Changan have no chance.

He had the advantage of location and had known Chen Changan for a long time. He had such an opportunity but was delayed by the mess in the yard.

Hou Mingjun had always been feeling angry and pent up in his heart.

After thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn't find a good solution. After all, these residents have lived here for decades.

How could I, who had just moved here, shake these people? What should I do? The only way is to borrow their strength.

Whose strength should he borrow? Who has the greatest power on his side? Of course it is Chen Changan, but it is not realistic for Chen Changan to fight against so many neighbors alone.

Chen Changan is smarter than you, Hou Mingjun. If you want to use Chen Changan as a gun, it will definitely not work.

It just so happened that the family living in the west hall opposite his house had moved away. Hou Mingjun suddenly realized that this was an opportunity.

My own house used to belong to Yan Fugui, the third uncle in the yard, but he moved out because of the rumors.

Nan Yi's house is similar to his own. He moved in after someone else moved out.

Similarly, if my neighbors move away, can I also let the people from the motorcycle factory move in?

Then all the residents in the entire front yard are people from the motorcycle factory.

The entire courtyard is not a monolithic entity. Even if there is a retirement group and a group of old men around, they cannot occupy the entire courtyard.

With the front courtyard as the foundation and Chen Changan as the backing, they began to divide and disintegrate the other residents in the courtyard.

Gradually start to replace the residents of the motorcycle factory, and if that doesn't work, find someone to exchange houses with.

Hou Mingjun believed that if he could exchange a bigger house for the house where Chen Changan lived, there would be people willing to do so, even if the house he exchanged for was smaller.

Gradually, more and more people from the motorcycle factory came to the courtyard. The second uncle was easy to deal with, just use his status to pressure him.

Aren't you a level 7 worker? I'm the workshop director! Are you not listening to your leader?

As for the retirement group, it is more troublesome. Several families are almost tied together by retirement and interests.

However, Hou Mingjun believed that once there were more people in the motorcycle factory, it would not be difficult to drive them away or force them to leave.

So taking advantage of the opportunity of the three families having dinner together today, Hou Mingjun called Nan Yi and Chen Changan to his home and told them this idea directly.

After giving cigarettes to the two of them, he was also waiting for Chen Changan and Nan Yi's thoughts. In fact, it mainly depends on Chen Changan.

If Chen Changan didn't have this idea and said hello to the housing management department of the factory, there would basically be no one from the motorcycle factory in this yard.

Chen Changan thought that this idea was actually not bad.

Although since he became the factory director, basically no one in the yard has come to trouble him anymore.

But isn't there a deaf old lady in the backyard? A few days ago, I just got myself into trouble in order to help an old man, although it was a bit anticlimactic, I just wanted to borrow some strength.

But Chen Changan still felt that everyone would be happier living in the motorcycle factory.

According to Hou Mingjun's description, this method is feasible, but it will take a long time.

Of course, Chen Changan didn't care too much about the length of time. But according to Hou Mingjun, Chen Changan also had a bold idea.

Chen Changan was a landlord in his previous life. He actually had some knowledge about houses.

In later generations, such a courtyard house with three entrances would be priced at a sky-high price.

Perhaps by the time the price reaches a sky-high level, he may no longer be around, but Chen Changan feels that he needs to leave something for his descendants.

Maybe in a few decades, I will go into business, and the money I earn may be more than I can spend in several lifetimes, so I won’t care about a few courtyard houses anymore.

But who can predict what will happen in the future? This is where things ended, and it can be considered a casual move.

Chen Changan’s idea is that if Hou Mingjun’s idea can succeed.

Suppose it was only in the 1970s or 1980s that the residents of the entire courtyard were all from the motorcycle factory.

By the time the motorcycle factory develops, it will definitely build its own residential area and its own family compound.

In my own plan, it was not a tube-shaped building.

At least it should be a real building with a separate kitchen, bathroom, living room, central heating and natural gas.

At this time, would the people at the motorcycle factory, including those in this courtyard, want to move to the staff quarters?

That was the house that people of this era envied the most. It was not small in size, had upstairs and downstairs, and had central heating.

Chen Changan just didn’t believe that in this era, there would be someone who didn’t like that kind of house.

In addition, there are supermarkets, bathhouses, restaurants, kindergartens, schools and hospitals envisioned by Chen Changan.

If someone really gives you a house like this and you are unwilling to live there, then you must be a time traveler.

By that time, the policy of free buying and selling of houses will most likely be relaxed. By then, when these residents move out, can the house be sold to Chen Changan?

Of course, it is still hard to say when the policy will be relaxed, whether Chen Changan's idea can be realized, or even whether Hou Mingjun's precondition can be realized.

This was just an idea Chen Changan had after hearing Hou Mingjun's plan.

It would be great if it could be realized. I will definitely have more than one child in the future. When I retire, I will live in this yard.

When the time comes, we will renovate it to make this yard more livable.

Your own children, your own children's children. Even the fourth generation.

Watching them cooking, eating, chatting in this house where I have lived all my life, and watching the children running around, laughing, and playing.

Maybe this can also be considered as family happiness.

Of course, the same thing applies. Such a distant thing may not be smooth sailing, and may not turn out as Chen Changan expects.

It is very likely that by then you will have made too much money and you won’t even care about this yard anymore.

It's just a casual chess game anyway. If it succeeds, that's the best. If not, it doesn't matter.

So Chen Changan took the cigarette from Hou Mingjun, lit it up and took a puff before saying, "It's a bit difficult. This is not something that can be accomplished in two or three years, or three to five years.

Maybe in a few years, as our factory continues to grow and develop, we may even be able to complete our own factory community.”

Hou Mingjun didn't care and said, "As long as you don't object, it's fine, just like you said. It's very difficult, but who can tell what will happen in the future?

If what you said is really true, our factory will build its own community and we won't live here anymore.

I wouldn't have to run into these neighbors, and there wouldn't be all these messy things. These fights with neighbors can just be memories, right?"

Chen Changan smiled at Hou Mingjun's statement and said, "If you like, just do as you like."