Lao Wang, formerly known as Wang Ruian, is 58 years old this year and can retire in two years. The old man had never done anything great in his life. When he was young, he dropped out of junior high school and went to work in a factory under his father's class.

However, after the state was restructured, many state-owned enterprises went bankrupt. Mr. Wang's factory also went bankrupt. However, at that time, Wang Ruian was lucky, unlike those colleagues who needed to fend for themselves after being laid off from bankruptcy. Wang Ruian was transferred to the Environmental Sanitation Bureau because of his hard work. To put it simply, it is to clean and sweep the streets.

The name is not good, but it is also a serious job, and I can eat enough and support my family. Otherwise, when he was laid off, Wang Ruian was thirty-eight years old and had no other skills, and he didn't know what else to do if he wanted to go out to find a job.

This is 20 years, and in any case, it is to support his own children.

Of course, you can't make a fortune doing this job, so after so many years, Lao Wang's family still lives in a miscellaneous courtyard. The origin of the capital's miscellaneous courtyards is more complicated, and in the early years, the courtyards were all courtyard houses. It is the residence of landlords, compradors, and wealthy families, and these people who can live in the courtyard are called mansion gates.

Later, the new Chinese established a new regime through an armed revolution, and in order to fulfill the promises made during the war, the government then carried out a redistribution of social wealth. Agrarian and economic reforms were launched, and 95 percent of the land and wealth, which were originally controlled by 5 percent of the population, were equally distributed among the people of the poor, impoverished, small yeoman farmers and small handicraftsmen, who accounted for 80 percent of the population.

At the same time, because New China is a government organization that has gained national dominance through armed and violent revolution, it is dedependent on foreign forces. Directly confiscated a large amount of foreign capital, and resolutely refused to recognize any humiliating treaties signed by the previous regime.

This is completely different from the former colonial countries in modern society where non-violent revolutions were negotiated in exchange for national independence. These countries are still under the influence of the overlord, and the industry and power of the overlord are well preserved in the former colonial countries, and even further.

The compound where Lao Wang lived used to be the office of a Western company in the Chinese capital, and the owner seemed to be a European magnate named Richard or something.

A few years ago, there was a joke that Richard's descendants were very bad in Europe, and they were not as good as one day at a time. Later, one day, I turned over the relics of my great-grandfather Richard, and I actually found that Richard also had a courtyard house in the Chinese capital. This European descendant is smiling.

Who doesn't know how expensive the housing prices in the Chinese capital are now, and the prices of high-rise buildings are scary to death. If this kind of courtyard house with a single courtyard of more than 400 square meters in the third ring road can be sold, it will be a sky-high price, and tens of millions of yuan are rushed by rich people to buy it.

The descendants of Richard hurriedly took the real estate deeds and various documents left by their great-grandfather back then, and wanted to come to the capital to receive this property that belonged to him.

"If you want me to say, that guy named Richard III is also blind. He took a document stamped by the Great Seal of the former Qing Shun Tianfu and wanted to receive the real estate of the New People's Republic of China, and he also ate the bear's heart and leopard gall. Why didn't he ask Aixin Jueluo's family why they didn't live in the Forbidden City. ”

The old king, Wang Ruian, was very talkative, and he seemed very happy to talk about the interesting things about the small courtyard where he lived.

Qin Kuairen asked playfully: "Later, what happened to that Richard III?"

"Hey, what else can I do. People in the housing authority don't like to talk to him. After hanging him for a few days, he was still not convinced and wanted to find a lawyer. Don't say it, fortunately, the lawyer in our country has not been crushed by the car, and no one has taken his lawsuit. However, my son said that there are some netizens on the Internet who still support which Richard. What do you say this is someone's ancestral property, we should return it to him, hey, a group of turtle grandsons who eat inside and out, and they don't know what their surname is after two days of full food. Don't show up to me, I'll kill them with a shovel in front of me. ”

The old king's speech is a little direct and vulgar, but the old man in the capital, especially these old men who live at the bottom, really have this temper. If you have a good appetite for him and a temper, he has nothing to say, and three meals a day to help you is also a matter of patting your chest.

If you don't have the right temper or even hate you, then don't teach, because if you can't say a good word, you will fight.

"Come, Professor Barton. This is the yard where our family lives. In the past, it was a large family, but later the establishment of the People's Republic of China confiscated the foreigners' property. The yard was divided among six families. Our family is divided into the south house, a big house has about 20 square meters, and a small house has 10 square meters. The kitchen is shared in the compound, and the toilet has been renovated a few years ago for each of us to build a toilet. ”

Originally, the courtyard house was surrounded by houses, and the house was surrounded by a wall, with a large empty courtyard in the middle. Raise fish and flowers in the yard. However, there are many people living in the courtyard, and the living area is not enough, so everyone will ask for the public space of the courtyard.

Six families built a small house of about 20 square meters in the courtyard together, which is the communal kitchen of the six families. Six stoves, six water pipes, everyone is cooking here.

In the westernmost corner of the courtyard is a row of obviously newly built houses, which are not large and look like the simple portable toilets often seen outside, with a total of six small cubicles. This is the new toilet that the municipal renovation has given to the building, but it is not very good, but at least it solves the trouble of going out of the yard to find a public toilet on the road in winter.

As soon as these two buildings were placed in the courtyard, there was basically no spare space in the courtyard.

"Lao Wang got off work so early today, and he brought his friends back. In the yard, a neighbor who had just gotten off the morning shift was squatting at the door of his house brushing his teeth, and when he saw Lao Wang coming back, he was full of foam and chatted with Lao Wang.

"Hey, Lao Huang, you quietly look like a bear. Today, I have brought two professors from foreign universities to experience the customs and customs of the life of the people in our old capital. Lao Wang pointed to Barton and the others who were following him.

Lao Huang, who was brushing the toothbrush, looked at Barton: "Hey, there are foreign friends." Then I'll rub it. After that, he rinsed his mouth with tap water, and spit directly under the only remaining banyan tree in the yard after rinsing his mouth.

Lao Wang shook his head when he saw it, this is a shame for the people of the old capital, and it makes the university professor think that the people of the old capital have this quality.

"Professor Barton, don't care, Lao Huang is like this, he is used to being lazy. Not all the people in the old capital are as unqualified as him. Lao Wang couldn't help but explain.

Professor Barton responded through Qin Kuairen's translation: "It's nothing, people's livelihood and people's conditions are different in different places. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm more curious, isn't it crowded when you have so many families living together?"

"Hi, what's crowded and not crowded. Decades of old neighbors, are used to it. Come to Professor Barton, please. Wife, come out and buy some good wine and food, tonight's guest at home, get some good ones!" Lao Wang shouted in the small courtyard, and everyone in the small courtyard found that Lao Wang's house had an unusual guest today.