July 25, 1994

"Jia Lei, the house you asked us to build has been built today, when are you going to go to the acceptance?" asked Wang Yidao with a cigarette in his mouth.

"Now that the house has been built, let's go over today!" Jia Lei thought for a while and said.

Then Jia Lei followed Wang Yidao to his own piece of land near the Fourth Ring Road, this piece of land is very large, although there is a factory built next to it, there is still a large piece of empty land, Jia Lei asked Wang Yidao to build a few buildings for him here this time.

"Because of the tight time you gave me, it took less than nine months from the start of construction in October last year to the completion of the entire project in July this year, so I only carried out the most basic renovation of these houses, and I didn't have time to do anything more.

There is nothing in these houses now except windows and doors, and even the floor is a simple concrete floor!" Wang Yidao said with a headache, and the houses in front of him were already simple to the level of rough houses.

"It's okay, anyway, I also use these houses as temporary resettlement houses for demolition, as long as they can live in people!" Jia Lei said with a smile.

"Actually, I don't understand, shouldn't the demolition and relocation be in the hands of the government over there? What are you bothering about? You have been running to the construction site almost every two days in the past few months, and you have been staring at this house for so long before you even leave the country!" Wang Yidao asked puzzled.

"I don't know why, I've been having all kinds of nightmares when I sleep lately, and although I have made black money in my dreams, my hands are covered with blood......," Jia Lei said with a wry smile.

"Come on, you are as soft-hearted as the Virgin Mary, how can you make money with a black heart! It's just a dream, so why should you take it seriously?" said the king, puzzled.

"But sometimes dreams can become reality, maybe I didn't want to make black money at first, but in the end, the money didn't come clean.......

Because sometimes it's not up to me to decide whether it's black or not, it's the world and some unspoken rules that determine this fact.

The only thing I can do is probably try to make up a little more for those who are going to be hurt!" Jia Lei smiled bitterly and looked at the eight 20-storey collective dormitory buildings in front of him, saying meaningfully, he could not stop the wheel of history from moving forward, and could only try to reduce some losses.

Jia Lei hastily built these buildings are boxy and ugly, even the floor is not decorated, but a layer of white paint is painted on the simple cement building, the rooms in these buildings are densely packed together, and each household has no balcony or big windows, only one or two small windows.

"Okay, let's go up and inspect the house!" Jia Lei said with a hard hat on his head and a small hammer in his hand.

"What are you doing with a hammer?" asked Wang Yidao, puzzled.

"Of course it's a house inspection? It is said that as long as you take a hammer and knock it around the building, if you can hear the hollowness and reverberation, you can know the quality of the house when you go down with a hammer!" Jia Lei was particularly happy to shake the hammer and said, there were many such pictures on the Internet in his previous life.

Jia Lei has admired such a hard-core home inspection method on the Internet for a long time in his last life, and he is now eager to try it.

"Bang!"

"I'm knocking you a big ghost? The houses you said cut corners were all changed by the developer for others, but I built this house for you! Did you just mean that I cut corners and embezzled your project money?" Wang said after smacking Jia Lei on the head with a knife.

"I'm sorry uncle, I didn't mean that! I didn't suspect you of cutting corners, I ...... I'm just afraid that the workers below will be lazy and don't cover ......," Jia Lei quickly covered his head and explained, he had to overdo it if he wasn't paying attention just now.

"Alright, don't talk nonsense, let's go up. Wang Yidao said, and then he took the lead and walked into a building.

"Uncle, don't be angry, wait for me!" Jia Lei hurriedly chased after him and shouted, and then the two of them began to carefully inspect the house.

"The first floor here is a reception hall according to your plan, the first room on the left is a small health center, the room behind it is made into convenient lockers and mailboxes, and the right side of the hall is planned to open a convenient supermarket in the future according to your requirements. Wang Yidao pointed to the hall on the concrete floor and said.

"Well, that's good, our house is mainly for people to live in, and we don't need a gorgeous hall or anything, so I won't waste that money to save face." Jia Lei said.

Jia Lei was very satisfied with this plan, and then he carefully looked at the empty room, and personally bent down and knocked on the corner of the wall to see if there were any gaps in the wall.

"Uncle, the foundation of your house is good, and the house has not sunk at all after it was built!" Jia Lei praised.

"I asked someone from the School of Architecture to help design it, and I also had someone to supervise the construction, and I guarantee that these buildings will never have problems within 100 years. Wang Yidao patted his chest and said proudly.

"Hmm...... The property rights of houses in our country are only 70 years, and a 100-year-old house may not live to the end of its life. Jia Lei complained that such a house that damages the city's appearance is estimated to be demolished in less than 20 years.

"I didn't think much about it, your piece of skin is not 70 years old! Have you forgotten that your piece of land is allocated land?" asked Wang Yidao.

"By the way, how did I forget about this!" Jia Lei patted his head and said.

It's really the 70-year property right that impresses Jia Lei too deeply in his mind, so every time someone mentions the age of the house, the first thing that pops up in his mind is the 70-year property right.

"I also built a large public bath on the second floor of this place according to your request, and you can rent out the rest of the space as a hair salon. Wang Yidao continued.

"I also follow your instructions on the other floors, and set aside a floor every few floors as a public floor, which has a public dining room, chess and card entertainment, and a small indoor kindergarten and activity room. Wang Yidao continued to introduce Jia Lei, and Jia Lei also followed him to look at the past layer by layer.

"Your arrangement is very good, the composition of the people we have to receive in the house this time is more complicated, there are many elderly people and children in it, and they need a place for indoor activities. Jia Lei nodded when he saw this, and then he continued to follow Wang Yidao to climb up.

"Uncle, I remember that I installed a large freight elevator in each building, why do we have to climb up one floor at a time?" Jia Lei asked breathlessly.

"The elevator needs a lot of electricity to run for a day, and you are not seventy or eighty years old, so you don't need to waste that money!" Wang Yidao glanced at Jia Lei and said, he felt that Jia Lei did not know how to be diligent and thrifty at all.

"Oh my God, did you actually let me take the elevator to save that money?" Jia Lei asked in disbelief.

"Of course, you've already spent 30 million yuan to build these eight buildings, and you're planning to lend the house to others for free without charging a penny.

If I don't save a little money like you, you will starve yourself to death sooner or later!" replied Wang Yidao.

"You don't have to worry about me! Don't watch me stay at home every day in the last few months, but I've always been trading stocks to make money, okay?

With the earnings I have on stocks and the interest on the cash I have in the bank, I can't spend it all in my life. But I'm not starving to death yet, but you're going to exhaust me first!" Jia Lei shouted in a broken heart.

At this time, he felt that the number of the 20th floor was an impossible task for him, and then Jia Lei simply broke the jar and sat on the steps without moving.

"Hurry up, we have to go to the roof to check the waterproofing upstairs!" Wang Yidao dragged Jia Lei up from the ground and said.

"I'm not going, you can test it yourself!" Jia Lei said.

"Then how can it be done? I built the top floor exactly according to your requirements, and if you don't accept it, won't I be busy in vain these past few months?" Wang glanced at Jia Lei and said, and then he dragged Jia Lei up.

"Huhu! I'm tired of the master, I'm ......" As soon as Jia Lei stepped on the balcony, he was lying on the door frame, and the 20-story building really didn't let people climb with their legs.

"Alright, don't play dead there! Wang kicked Jia Lei with a knife and said, Jia Lei reluctantly raised his head to look over.

"Mom, this is a fairyland on earth, it looks much better than my blueprints!" Jia Lei said in shock.

In the middle of summer in July, the entire roof of the building has been transformed into a sky garden with red flowers and willow green.

"Because the top floor has a limited load capacity, I only made a few rectangular cement troughs on the roof and planted some vines and herbs like grapes and trumpet flowers.

The number of trees planted upstairs is very small in the overall greenery, and most of the trees we choose are species with less developed root systems and then plant them in large vats, so they don't burden the load bearing of the top floor too much.

By the way, the roofs of these buildings are connected by covered bridges, some of which have been made into basketball courts, some into clothes fields, and some into sky restaurants and public gardens. Wang Yidao said.

"I don't care about the layout of the upstairs, I'll just ask you if it's okay to be waterproof, right?" Jia Lei asked nervously, he didn't want to flood the neighbors downstairs.

"There is no problem with waterproofing, the people from the construction institute have already checked it more than a dozen times!" Wang Yidao replied.

"That's good! Since the houses below are fine, do I want you to help me build the hanging garden, mansion, and private parking airport?"

"Of course, this time, in the whole construction project, the private mansion in the sky that you built is the most expensive. It alone spent more than 3 million, and it is about to catch up with the cost of a building. Wang Yidao said,

Because in the whole complex, only the two three-story buildings built on the roofs of the two adjacent buildings are finely decorated mansions, and the cost is completely inversely proportional to the area.

"I'm spending my own money, I can build as many bags as I want, you can't control it!" Jia Lei turned around and scolded Wang, and then he was very happy to get up and accept the results.

"Hahaha! In the future, I will be a man with a rooftop garden mansion and a swimming pool in the fourth ring road of the capital, and this mansion alone will be worth hundreds of millions in the future. Jia Lei said happily.

"I haven't been able to understand, Jia Lei, why don't you build the basketball court and garden on the ground below, and have to spend such a big deal to build it on the roof?

I've been running for half a month just to run this procedure, aren't you doing it too much?" asked Wang Yidao.

"What do you know, the land in the capital is every inch of land, and every square meter below is worth tens of thousands of yuan, how wasteful it is for me to use them as a garden?" Jia Lei glanced at Wang and said, only a few decades later will know how valuable the land in the capital is.

"Okay, my house has been built for you, when will the tenant you said come?" asked Wang Yidao.

"They should be here next month!" Jia Lei said here, and his mood suddenly went down.

"I've always wondered who are these demolition households that you've always talked about? Why haven't I heard of them before?" asked Wang Yidao curiously.

"What's so strange about you, they're just a bunch of poor people, and I'd rather they never show up......," Jia replied.

But the wheels of history are rolling, and some things cannot be changed by human beings alone!

August 8, 1994

The Housing Management Bureau of District X East posted a notice in the residential area of Wangfujing, claiming that it would build a world-class comprehensive modern building here - Oriental Plaza.

The notice announced that all residents within the demolition area of Oriental Plaza must be moved out within 20 days.

The notice was signed by Oriental Plaza Limited, and the Land Resources and Housing Administration of District X East will be responsible for the demolition of the site.

At this moment, there are still more than 8,000 ordinary people living in the courtyard on the demolition plot of Wangfujing, and it is obviously impossible to let them all move out within 20 days.

Although many employees of enterprises, institutions and factories had moved out one after another with compensation money in the six months before that, ordinary people who did not have the shelter of the unit still stayed here.

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