A widower's entertainment

Chapter 156 [Siheyuan] (please subscribe)

Beijing.

Lin Youcheng's literary lectures in Yanyuan undoubtedly aroused a lot of discussion, whether it was mathematical formulas like hazy poems, information codes for underground intelligence work, or "Wonderful Things in the World" that Lin Youcheng said "There is more than one foreshadowing in it, which made the students of Yanyuan crazy to discuss and exchange.

But as a literary writer, Lin Youcheng is not busy with literature now, but busy with buying a house.

I don’t know where Zhang Wei learned that there was a courtyard house for Lin Youcheng to take a look at.

"This is what my wife and her aunt told me. There is a family who had their house returned from expropriation and had all the procedures. They want to sell their courtyard house and go abroad."

While Zhang Wei led Lin Youcheng to the Xinghua Hutong alley on the other side of Shichahai, he introduced the courtyard house and said, "Everyone talks about going abroad now. Is going abroad really that good?"

Lin Youcheng smiled and said nothing. He just followed Zhang Wei and walked forward. He had no intention of going abroad.

The alley is not spacious, but the stone bricks give it a quiet and primitive atmosphere. After walking for a while, I arrived at the gate. It was a very primitive gate. Although the eaves of the building were old, it could be seen that they had been taken care of.

At the appointed time, a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses was waiting at the gate. He seemed to be very educated. He looked at Zhang Wei and asked, "Are you Zhang Wei? You are the one who wants to see the house." ?”

"It's not me, it's him. I brought him here."

A pomegranate tree, which symbolizes fertility, is planted in the spacious courtyard. Lin Youcheng is quite satisfied when looking at this well-grown pomegranate tree. The entire courtyard is well maintained, which is really rare. Looking at Zhang Wei, he nodded.

There are two wing rooms on both sides of the main house, symmetrical from left to right, with a kitchen in the southeast and a toilet in the southwest.

Lin Youcheng entered the courtyard and started to take a closer look. This was considered the first courtyard in a courtyard. After entering the door, you can see the courtyard directly, with a central axis running through it. The houses were all single-story, consisting of a reverse room, a main room, and a side room. It forms a courtyard, in which the north room is the main room, and the main room is divided into three rooms. Only the middle room of the main room opens the door, which is the main room. The rooms on both sides open to the main room, forming a spatial pattern of one light and two dark.

The houses in the east and west directions are wing rooms, with three bays in plan. They still have one light and two dark layouts, and the layout is similar to the main house.

The south door opens to the north, which is called an inverted house. One side of an inverted house opens to the south, and its eaves wall faces the alley. Generally, there are no windows.

The man obviously knew Lin Youcheng as a writer. He nodded, walked in with Lin Youcheng and Zhang Wei, and said, "Then see for yourself."

"This is Lin Youcheng, the author of our magazine."

The man glanced at Lin Youcheng, frowned slightly, and seemed a little confused about who wanted to buy it.

When Zhang Wei saw Lin Youcheng nodding, he understood that Lin Youcheng liked it, so he went to ask Lin Youcheng about the price.

Because Zhang Wei knew before that Lin Youcheng was really sincere about buying a courtyard house in the capital.

"Twenty-three thousand?"

When he heard this figure, Lin Youcheng didn't think it was expensive, because he knew very clearly how much the yard would be worth in the future. That is really a price that cannot be looked up to.

"can!"

Seeing Lin Youcheng nodding, Zhang Wei couldn't help but feel a little surprised. After all, it is really rare to be able to directly spend 26,000 yuan to buy a house now!

Twenty thousand yuan in the 1980s!

Obviously, Zhang Wei didn't know that Lin Youcheng was not the only one willing to spend more than 20,000 yuan to buy a courtyard house in the capital.

Just like Sun Guitian, Liu Xing's grandmother in "Family with Children", she spent 26,000 yuan to buy a courtyard house near the Forbidden City in Beijing in the 1980s. The area may be even better. The courtyard behind the key attracted the attention of neighbor Fu Biao. Fu Biao was filming the movie "Party A and Party B" at the time and was looking for a suitable courtyard as a filming location for the movie.

Sun Guitian enthusiastically agreed and even provided the courtyard house as a filming location for free. As a token of gratitude, Feng Xiaogang also gave Sun Guitian some supporting roles, which became an important opportunity for her to become famous with "Family with Children".

However, Lin Youcheng knew that the person behind him had regretted buying a courtyard house more than once. Because of the courtyard house, the family had fallen into disputes and conflicts, and the courtyard house had become the trigger for competition for interests.

Sun Guitian has a son and two daughters, and his family concept is that a bowl of water is balanced. This means that whether they are the eldest daughter or the second and third eldest daughter, she treats them all equally and impartially. When her eldest daughter got married, she gave a commercial house as a dowry. In order to prevent the second and third children from being jealous, she also prepared a commercial house in advance and waited for them to give it away after they got married.

But later there was a battle for the courtyard.

When Sun Guitian's son got married, Sun Guitian gave his son a courtyard house. The second daughter was not willing to give in. When she got married, she also asked her mother for a house. At this time, the eldest son was not happy. How could a married daughter still share the family property? In the future, these should all belong to the son.

Because these families were in a state of turmoil, the younger daughter was not married yet, so she lived with her mother. However, seeing that her older brothers and sisters were allotted a house, the younger daughter felt unbalanced and asked her mother for a house. As a result, The three brothers and sisters fought for property, and the grievances and hatreds were quite fierce. One of the daughters later even severed the mother-daughter relationship with Sun Guitian.

Lin Youcheng thought to himself that he still had six carrot heads, which was twice as many as Sun Guitian.

If he really wanted a bowl of water to be balanced, he still had a long way to go.

Of course, the more important thing is to educate those carrot heads not to do anything treacherous to him. This is the most arduous thing to do.

After the two parties have reached an agreement, they will naturally be busy going through the procedures. Lin Youcheng sees this as very important, because he knows very clearly that the document procedures are not complete, and he does not know what chaos will happen later. of bad things.

Zhang Wei actually didn't really understand that Lin Youcheng spent so much money to buy a courtyard, but looking at the simple and charming courtyard, he felt that if it was well maintained and organized, it would be particularly suitable for literati to live, especially in the courtyard. The tea-making thesis is quite charming.

"Youcheng, when do you plan to come to the capital?"

Lin Youcheng looked at the bunch of keys in his hand. He knew that he might live with Luobotou in the courtyard of Xinghua Hutong for a long time in the future, but obviously it wasn't now.

Lin Youcheng smiled and said, "There's no rush."

(End of this chapter)