20. Tenants
There are two main features of the courtyard: the shadow wall wall and the hanging flower door. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The shadow wall wall is an important decorative wall inside and outside the courtyard gate, the main function is to block the messy and rigid wall and scenery inside and outside the gate, beautify the population of the gate, when people enter and exit the house, the first thing they see is the wall that is stacked and exquisitely carved and decorated.
The hanging flower door is the ancient saying that the gate does not go out of the two doors and does not step into the two doors inside.
The house is generally divided into the main house, the wing room, the inverted seat, etc. The planning is neat.
Courtyard building, "four" east, west, north and south four sides, "together" is to combine in the beginning, forming a mouth glyph, but now the courtyard in the capital has been difficult to show the original appearance of the mouth glyph.
This courtyard can almost be described as "dilapidated", with dark red paint on the carved beams, and grass sticking out of the tiles.
As more and more people live in the courtyard, more and more houses are built, and the houses become less and less in shape.
Slowly, there was no "shape", first one family set up a temporary house in the vacant land, and soon a few more families came to join in the fun, and slowly formed a yard.
The privately built huts occupy the courtyard, and you can touch the adjacent buildings with your hands straight, and the breath accumulated in those distant years is gradually drifting away.
The small shed built at the entrance is the kitchen of each house, which can only accommodate one person, and it is difficult to even turn around.
Small sheds have also been built on both sides, but the main house without a shed is the main house, because there is really no land to build.
However, even the main house was forcibly divided into two households by the residents.
On the roof, a Persian cat with blue and green eyes jumps up and down as if it were walking on the ground.
Li He stretched out his arm and could touch the small shed that was only leaning on both sides, except for walking back and forth, the small shed had occupied the courtyard without any room.
The courtyard became a miscellaneous courtyard, and Li He couldn't help but feel a pity in his heart.
"You are waiting here, I will go to call people from house to house, and you will know each other in the future, the rent is handed over to the Housing Authority every month, and you need to go to the Housing Authority every month to receive the rent" Old man Li asked Li He to wait in the open space of the sink, and he began to call people from house to house, knocking on the door, "Come out, there is something to know"
Under the jujube tree in the yard, girls jump rubber bands and kick shuttlecocks, boys play glass balls or draw paper, everyone plays hide and seek together, and Li He smiles when he sees it.
I looked around the yard again, and the more I looked at it, the more I felt that it was a good deal.
The old city is basically within the second ring road, which is not artificially stipulated, but because when the second ring road was built, it was built along the moat of the past.
The capital is walled, the inside of the city wall is the inner city, out of the city wall is outside the city, you don't look at what Zhongguancun, the embassy area, the Jianguo Gate outside, and the CBD are all prosperous areas, which were all wastelands or cemeteries outside the city at the beginning.
In fact, you only need to listen to the names of these places to know what they were like in the first place, Zhongguancun is a village, it should have been called Zhongguan Village, this Zhongguan is another name for eunuchs, and that place was originally a retirement home for those eunuchs in the imperial city after they retired.
And the inside of the city wall is different, there is a saying that the east is rich and the west is expensive, the south is poor and the north is cheap!
The east and west directions here are the two areas of Dongcheng and Xicheng, Dongcheng gathered a large number of wealthy merchants in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China era, and Xicheng is the residence of officials, so it is called Dongfu and Xigui.
As for the two directions of north and south, it does not mean that there are two urban areas in the north and south, but specifically refers to the area outside the front gate and the drum tower, and the north to the vicinity of Desheng Gate.
At that time, most of the people living south of Qianmen were three religions and nine streams, and the working people, so they were called Nan Poor, and they were relatively poor. And living in the north of the drum tower to the vicinity of Desheng Gate, the family members of the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, although they are not too poor, but their status is relatively low, they are called Beibei.
Li He knew that the price of the courtyard would soar, and the magnitude was extremely large, after a regular courtyard house arrived, the price had reached 8 figures, and it was priceless and unmarketable, and you couldn't buy it with money.
The reasons for this are complex, including the demolition of a large number of original courtyard houses due to urban renovation, and the fact that some people who became wealthy first deliberately purchased these courtyard houses and used them as residences after resting in order to miss their childhood or to be different.
And in my heart, the courtyard is indeed more suitable for people to live, in this courtyard there is a house and land, both to live and to do some appropriate entertainment activities, and the closure is good, unlike living in a building, is a bird cage.
If it is a few years later, when housing prices really start to soar, even if there are still remnants of the courtyard, even if Li He has the financial ability, it is estimated that it will cost a lot of money.
There were many people standing in the courtyard one after another, some adults and children, and some people muttered to Old Man Li, "Old Man Li, your house will be transferred to people without making a sound, and you don't take us seriously."
"My own house, I can do whatever I like" Old man Li said proudly, and pointed to Li He and said, "Besides, now this house is not mine, you can't tell me, now this house belongs to this young man"
Everyone looked at Li He again, and an old lady in a big blue jacket shouted and scolded Old Man Li, "You are taking the road of exploitation, capitalism is restored, I want to go to the street to report you"
Old man Li said nonchalantly, "I have been approved by the Housing Authority, one is not illegal, the other is not violated, you can do whatever you like, I thought I wanted to be back then."
Li He couldn't stand it anymore, if they didn't embarrass themselves, let them continue to live, and collect their own rent, it didn't matter.
If they are vexatious, you will have to do some hard work to get them away.
Just because Old Man Li can't get rid of them doesn't mean that he can't get rid of them.
Li He took out the deed, deliberately showed the bright red official seal, and said, "Everyone, I am the deed, you have good eyes, just take a look." This means that this will be my private property from now on."
A young man gritted his teeth viciously and said, "All the money we earned is given to you!"
This sentence made Li He feel guilty of the exploiting class, and Huang Shiren was not easy to do.
Li He said slowly, "Yes, you really don't have the money to pay the rent, I understand, then you have to consider moving to a smaller house to live, to reduce the burden a little." I also borrowed money to buy this house, so it's hard for everyone to ......."
The young man swallowed the billowing eyeballs into his stomach and said nothing.
The aunt in the big blue jacket said, "Young man, our rent is handed over to the Housing Authority, and the contract is also signed with the Housing Authority. You, at most, have a name on the deed."
Li He said with a smile, "Now that the house belongs to me, the entrustment contract between Master Li and the Housing Authority is valid or not, or not." I checked the files of the Housing Authority, and the contract you signed with the Housing Authority is 15 years, and it just expires this year. I suggest that everyone should make plans to move early, and my house is ready to be used for my marriage."
After Li He finished speaking, he didn't care.
Leaving a group of old and young masters in the yard, the old mothers scolded and scolded.
Out of the house, Old Man Li said with a smile, "You kid is more courageous than me, this is a relief, when the time comes, you can not sign the entrustment contract of the Housing Authority, you are a college student and a poor middle peasant, they can't do anything to you, I am a black five category, then it will not work, they force me to drink water, if you don't bow your head, you have to bow your head."
After speaking, he sighed heavily.
Li He said, "Master Li, don't move, just continue to live, I can't live in this house for the time being, and it's troublesome for you to move around."
Master Li shook his head, "I'm too lazy to mix with these pickles, and hide far away." In this compound, before liberation, some of them were my family's buddies and some maids, and my family treated them very badly back then. The old woman in the blue jacket, my father rescued her from human traffickers back then, you see, the result is that she criticized me the most ruthlessly, and I feel chilling when I think about it."
"So what are you going to do?"
"My ancestors left a lot of things, when they were confiscated, there was no whereabouts, recently someone told me that I had seen it in the glass factory, I was ready to use the money in my hand, how much I could buy, even if I looked at it before I died, I was satisfied"
Li He asked curiously, "Master Li, do you know antiques?"
When it comes to antiques, Master Li's face is full of smugness, "My ancestor is a big official in Beiyang, I have been mixed in the city since I was seven or eight years old, and I don't know how many good things I have ever used, although I don't have any culture, but this gentleman's talent is there, walking birds and dogs, appreciating treasure collections, in this glass factory, I say ten sentences of top people, he Zhang Boju, Ma Dingxiang also has to write me a word"
Hearing this, Li He felt like he was bragging, you can't look down on the four major collectors, and there is really no one in your eyes.