Siheyuan: Craftsmen of a Great Country

Chapter 3 Director Wang of the Subdistrict Office
  Jiang Chen approached the door and took out the key from his backpack.

Since the lock was a little rusty, it took a little effort to open it.

Entering the house, he took a brief tour.

There are three rooms in this house. The two larger rooms are equipped with beds and can be regarded as bedrooms.

A slightly smaller room is the kitchen, with a stove and kitchen utensils.

There was very little furniture in the room, two wooden beds, a wardrobe, a table in each room, a few benches, and a cupboard in the kitchen, but nothing else.

The furniture, bed, and floor in the room were covered with dust, and the corners were covered with cobwebs.

The iron pot in the kitchen was even more rusty.

Jiang Chen sighed. This house cannot be inhabited unless it is cleaned.

He took out a porcelain basin from the kitchen, went to get water from the faucet outside, and sprinkled it on the floor.

Then I found a broom and dustpan from the corner and started cleaning.

Even if I sprinkled water on it, I still choked.

Fortunately, Jiang Chen was not a person who could not bear hardships. He took out a handkerchief from his bag, soaked it and covered his mouth and nose, which made him feel much better.

Qin Huairu returned home after washing the dishes and chopsticks, and Jia Zhang was working on where to put the insoles.

The income from collecting insoles is all her own, and she does not need to help the family. She is particularly dedicated to doing it.

Qin Huairu put down the basin: "I just met a man who said he was Jiang Hai's son and lived in Jiang Hai's house."

Jia Zhang raised her head and glanced at Qin Huairu: "Alone?"

Qin Huairu has not yet given birth to a daughter. Although Jia Zhang dislikes her rural household registration, she is not too mean.

She also thought that Qin Huairu's belly contained her second grandson.

Qin Huairu nodded: "A man, don't tell me, he is quite handsome, much prettier than his father."

"That house has been unoccupied all year round, so it must be very dirty. It would be difficult for him to clean it alone. There are neighbors on the left and right, why don't you go and help him?"

Mrs. Jia Zhang frowned: "Qin Huairu, are you attracted by his good looks?"

Qin Huairu said nothing and glanced down at her belly.

Do I have your family's seed in my belly? You have to be careful with your words. If you make me angry, there will be a difference.
  Although she comes from the countryside, she is a smart person. Otherwise, she would not have been hanging on a fool's pole for half her life, almost becoming a destitute and still enjoying it.

Jia Zhang also glanced at Qin Huairu's belly: "You'd better stay away from him. That Jiangtou is from the country, and his son is naturally from the country. If we help him, why don't we rush to find a way to occupy our house?" Cheap."

"Today's country people don't know how to be content, and most of them have evil intentions and are cunning. We, Dongxu, are a quasi-third-level worker in the factory, so we can't have too much entanglement with them."

Qin Huairu didn't say anything more.

Jia Zhang didn't want to go, so naturally she couldn't help much because of her big belly.

Through the window, Mrs. Jia Zhang looked at the dusty house diagonally opposite and sighed: "It's such a waste to have such a good house occupied by a countryman."

After saying that, he continued to lower his head and pick up the insoles.

Until noon, Jiang Chen reluctantly finished cleaning the house.

It is indeed much better than when we first came in, at least it can be lived in.

It's quite neat, after all, there are few things in the house.

To say it's clean, it's not really clean. After all, a grown man can't do too fine a job.

After cleaning, he took advantage of the sun to take out the cotton wool from his home and dried it in the courtyard dam.

Bedding that has not been used for a long time will have a peculiar smell after getting damp. It will be much better after it is dried in the sun.

However, after drying, he was not going to use the cotton wool to cover the quilt, and just put it under his body.

As for the quilt, it needs to be replaced with a new one.

After cleaning up, Jiang Chen took out the uneaten dry food from his backpack and drank two mouthfuls of it with cold water.

Under the current situation, it is obviously not possible to open the fire for cooking at home.

After eating, he hurried out and went to the street office first to handle household registration and filing.

The sub-district office here is the most basic management unit in the country and has great power.

All matters within their jurisdiction can basically be handled here.

For example, for the household registration transfer that Jiang Chen is going through, every new resident must go to the street office to register.

However, the sub-district offices will soon become urban people's communes and continue to exercise corresponding rights.

The receptionist saw that Jiang Chen was a technician, an important talent, so he led Jiang Chen to see Director Wang.

Jiang Chen sat opposite Director Wang, who was looking at his information carefully.

Suddenly he said: "Is your father's name Jiang Hai?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "Yes, his and my names are on the land and property ownership certificate."

Jiang Chen's name was given by Jiang Hai after he begged his leader before he left.

And all the certificates were sent by the leaders. Director Wang nodded: "You and your father are equally handsome, it's just a pity that your father is so handsome."

Jiang Chen was stunned: "My father?"

Obviously, Director Wang, as the director of the subdistrict office, knows some things that others don't know.

Director Wang was silent for a while and then said: "He was injured on the battlefield in South Korea. After he came back, he bought the house to recuperate."

"However, our medical conditions are limited and we lack medicine. We struggled with injuries for nearly half a year, but in the end we couldn't hold on."

Although he had suspected it for a long time, now that it was confirmed, Jiang Chen felt the same way and felt sad.

After all, it is connected to this body by blood.

But why wasn't Jiang Hai named a martyr?

In 37, he went out to fight the Sichuan War and participated in the war on the Peninsula and died of injuries. However, he was not named a martyr. This only shows that Jiang Hai most likely made mistakes.

In addition, Jiang Hai did not want to go home and did not contact his family. Jiang Chen had a guess in his mind.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen asked, "Why doesn't he go home?"

Director Wang thought for a moment: "I also asked, but he just smiled. I guess it may be that there were still remaining enemy agents in the Shuchuan area that had not been eliminated at that time, and he was afraid that his identity would harm you two!"

"Besides, it's too far away and his injuries won't be able to withstand the torment of the journey."

Jiang Chen asked slowly: "Then where is he buried?"

Director Wang said: "His name is Jiang Hai. He wanted to return to the sea, so the organization followed his wishes and scattered his ashes in the Yongding River."

"Although your father is uneducated, his ideological consciousness is higher than that of most educated people. He is a young man I admire very much."

Director Wang is in his fifties, Jiang Chen is 20 this year, and Jiang Hai was only about forty at that time, so it's not wrong to call him a young man.

In fact, Jiang Hai is the epitome of countless heroes of that era.

They are willing to sacrifice their lives and blood for the flower growers, and are unwilling to bring any burden to the flower growers in difficulty.

Jiang Chen sighed: "They used their lives to build a flower-growing family, so the best reward we can give them is to use our lives to build a flower-growing family."

"This prosperous age will surely go as they wish."

This is not all official talk. With the Dream Space, Jiang Chen really has the ability to speed up the development of the flower grower.

Director Wang was very impressed by Jiang Chen's words: "I am a hero and you are a good man. You two, father and son, are both great."

"By the way, are you married? Do you have any children?"

Jiang Chen was stunned: "Director Wang, I have just turned 20 this year. I have been busy with work. I have no time to get married and have children."

"Let it go as it comes. If you find someone suitable, get married. If not, it doesn't matter later. You can use more time to improve production capacity and build the country."

Director Wang pondered for a moment: "If you can think this way, your ideological awareness deserves recognition."

"But there is something I want to tell you. The house your father left you has a total of 84 square meters. It is really big for you to live alone."

"Housing in Sijiu City is so tight now. Many families have five or six people crowded into a small house of more than 30 square meters. If you live in such a big house by yourself, it will be in line with the population and may also bring you trouble. of."

After the founding of the New World, as the urban population increased, there was a serious shortage of housing.

As a result, a large number of houses owned by homeowners with poor backgrounds were taken into public ownership, and were uniformly coordinated and distributed to urban workers in need of housing.

Fortunately, Jiang Hai's identity was there and the property was preserved.

But even though the ownership of this house now belongs to Jiang Chen, if he lives in such a big house alone, some people will definitely be jealous.

The best way to solve this problem is to get married, have children, and live with multiple people.

After a long while, Director Wang continued: "Someone came to me more than once, saying that his family has many rooms, small rooms, and crowded living conditions. He wanted to allocate your house to him, but I refused."

"Although you have a good background and private property is protected by the state, there will always be people who are jealous and will cause you unnecessary trouble."

"So don't worry about getting married. If you can get married as soon as possible, it would be best if you have a child, so as not to be missed by others."

Jiang Chen knew with his toes that the person who coveted his house was either the third uncle Yan Bugui or the second uncle Liu Haizhong.

In the entire courtyard, these two families have the most children and the largest population.

But Yan Bugui is most likely, because the house in Liu Haizhong is actually not too small.

Jiang Chen nodded: "Sure, I don't worry about this, but fate is something that can only be met by chance, and I can't guarantee when we will get married."

Director Wang said: "What's the point of fate now? With your looks and the fact that you're a technician, it's not easy to find a wife?"

"I have a grandniece with a city registered permanent residence. May I introduce it to you?"

This is not because Director Wang likes to be a matchmaker, but because Jiang Chen's conditions are really good.

Not to mention that he was handsome and sunny, but he was a technical secondary school student and a technician with unlimited future, making him a worthy son-in-law of that era.

The person was so kind-hearted that Jiang Chen couldn't refuse directly: "Thank you, Director Wang, but don't rush me until I stabilize."

　Please collect, recommend, kneel down, lie down, and all kinds of requests!

(End of this chapter)