Zheng Xudong called the nanny Liu Yan on the shore of Houhai and asked her to pick him up, and it didn't take long for him to hear someone shouting behind him.

Zheng Xudong looked back, and sure enough, the nanny Liu Yan walked towards him while beckoning.

It can be seen from the dress that Liu Yan is working, because she is wearing an old red apron!

When I got to Zheng Xudong's side, I patted him on the chest affectionately, and said with a smile: "You seem to be raised again, and I can't almost pat your shoulder." I reckon you're supposed to be there in the next two days. Because universities are opening one after another. ”

Zheng Xudong also felt very kind when he saw Liu Yan, he took Liu Yan's hand and said, "Sister Liu, I'll introduce you, this is Mr. Liu of my investment company and my girlfriend's mother, Liu Xiaoli." ”

Liu Yan shook Liu Xiaoli's hand very politely and said "Lucky meeting", but there were indescribable things in the eyes of the two women.

Zheng Xudong introduced Tang Luoyong to Liu Yan again, and then Liu Yan led them along Ya'er Hutong.

There is a courtyard house with a very grand decoration in front of it, Zheng Xudong thought it was this one, and when he saw it, he was about to go inside, Liu Yan grabbed him, "This is a Russian who bought it, it cost hundreds of millions, I heard that the decoration cost 300 million, yours is not this one." ”

Hearing that this "Guangliang" gate courtyard is not his own, Zheng Xudong was slightly disappointed, and then walked forward next to the courtyard with the gate just now is a magnificent and luxurious courtyard, the door, the door, the vermilion lacquer gate, "Is this my courtyard?"

"Adong, this is not either, I haven't seen the owner of this courtyard so far!" Liu Yan said.

A courtyard house further ahead is a completely different scene, can not see the vermilion red door is hidden, the door, the household is not one, not to say that there is no, the door frame can still stand there is a miracle, there is a bluestone step at the door, if the bluestone is intact, the pattern on it must be very beautiful, but now it has been broken into one, two... Six truncated.

Zheng Xudong saw this dilapidated appearance and thought: Don't be this, don't be this, this is not inhabitable at all. But God just likes to joke with him, so I heard Liu Yan say: "Adong, here, this is it." ”

"Sister Liu, are you mistaken, is it the one in front?" Zheng Xudong looked at the one in front of him, although it was not as good as the two rooms he saw just now, but at least he could see that someone had cleaned up and renovated it, but this one...

"That's right, that's it. Zheng Xudong heard Liu Yan's words and knew that he couldn't hide, this was his "luxurious" courtyard, carefully stepped on the steps that had been broken into six, and reached out to push open the two wooden doors, "Don't move, be careful!" Liu Yan shouted behind him.

Zheng Xudong thought that there was some mechanism on the wooden door or steps, and hurriedly took two steps back, Liu Yan saw Zheng Xudong's appearance and smiled: "It's not so scary! Just open it carefully, otherwise the door will fall!" It's like it comes with sound effects.

There was a twenty-centimeter-high gap under the door panel, and Zheng Xudong looked at it in wonder, "Aren't you afraid of drilling wild cats, wild dogs, rats or something into such a big crack?"

Liu Xiaoli stood beside him and said: "This should be the threshold of the courtyard in the capital back then, now I don't know if it was broken and removed, or was it stolen by someone?"

"There are people who steal a broken threshold, and this person in the capital is too ignorant!" Zheng Xudong said with some unhappiness.

"This has nothing to do with the people of the capital, the wood used in the construction of this old house was a good material, and now a lot of it can not be found, and the people who built the courtyard here were princes and aristocratic families, and the materials were even more exquisite, so it is not surprising that someone stole it. Liu Xiaoli said a fair word for the people of Beijing at this time.

"Mr. Liu is right!" Liu Yan praised on the side: "When I came here, I heard that if I didn't look closely, these two door panels would have to be stolen! Oh, anyway, I heard that it's also good wood! Let's go inside, this threshold is a trivial matter, and you will know that there are many things that are missing. ”

What else can be said after that, Zheng Xudong had no choice but to go inside.

"Wow! What a delicate courtyard!" Liu Xiaoli sighed after seeing it.

Zheng Xudong's head grew when he heard this, "I said Mr. Liu, where do you see the exquisiteness! Are you kidding? Come, come, come, look, the windows in this room are still the kind of wooden window frames in the early eighties, I don't ask for plastic steel windows, no matter if you install an aluminum alloy! There is also a broken cotton curtain on the door of this room, is this the venue for filming the late Qing Dynasty drama or the Republic of China drama? Look at the roof tiles again, crooked, inside and out, some places seem to be still open! Let's go, since it's two entrances, let's go back and take a look, if it's still like this, next to the Olympics! I'll have to find someone to talk to. ”

Hearing Zheng Xudong's words, Liu Xiaoli smiled and said: "If you can leave the main body of the house to you, you can burn high incense! If I guess correctly, this courtyard house will definitely be used as a miscellaneous courtyard after liberation." ”

"Miscellaneous Courtyard?" Zheng Xudong vaguely seemed to have heard of this word.

"Yes, my lawyer and I came to receive it because we heard from their housing authority. Liu Yan said on the side.

"After the liberation, there were a large number of workers and cadres in the capital who had nowhere to settle housing, so they made use of the courtyard houses left in the past, usually each courtyard house can live in four to five houses, like our two courtyard houses at least six, maybe even eight houses. The vast majority of these courtyard houses are owner-owned, and later the national policy recognized these owner-owned courtyard houses, but the owner wants to clear out the original house that lived here, alas! It is more difficult than the demolition company to clear the nail households! Many people live here for several generations, four generations in the same house, five generations in the same house, it is too difficult to clear them out, the government wants to give them housing, the elderly are settled, the son is settled, the son is settled, the grandson is also settled, in short, as long as the adult is married, the family has to be housed, and I can't wait to give a house in the mother's womb. In those years, the retreat of the courtyard house in the capital was bloodied and died. Liu Xiaoli looked at the old-fashioned houses around her with a gloomy expression, "Adong, you should be content, at least the windows and doors, the main body of the house are still there, and some of the tenants are eager to tear down the walls when they move out." ”

Although Zheng Xudong listened to Liu Xiaoli's words, his heart was still uncomfortable, and it was the same when he walked in to the second entrance, but it was true that there were only half of the windows left in the wings on both sides, and the door of the east wing was the same, and the entire door of the west wing was gone, and the clean thieves in the house had to leave with tears in their eyes.

"No, I can't bear this, I have to find someone to talk to. Zheng Xudong couldn't bear it anymore, so he took out the phone and walked to the west wing house to call.

After the phone was connected, before he could speak, he spoke first, "Ouch, why did Brother Zheng remember to call me today, you should be reporting in Beijing University now!"

"Brother Chen, you are pitting me, I am now in the courtyard house that you guaranteed Zhao Chenglong at that time, my God, this courtyard seems to have just been robbed, and it seems that there are hundreds of people who have not lived in it, and it is so dilapidated that it is worth 50 million!? Zheng Xudong called Chen Weiting, who guaranteed this house at that time.

"Hah... William Chan burst out laughing before he could speak on the other side of the phone.

"You're so happy to see your brother eating turtles!" Zheng Xudong said with some unhappiness.

"Okay, I'm not angry with you! If you regret it, I'll give you 100 million now, how about you transfer the house to my name?"

"What do you mean?"

"The location of your courtyard is to flatten the house, and that piece of land is worth more than 50 million, not to mention that there is a house above, you are picking up a big leak brother, you know that Zhao Chenglong was locked up for a full month after returning home and did not let him out of the house, and his father was so angry that he had a heart attack, I heard that it was sold by an official in the capital to his father Commander Zhao, and let Zhao Chenglong sell it at the price of cabbage, and thanks to your heart at the time, let Zhao Chenglong leave a note, saying that it was sold to you, otherwise, you want to get this set of courtyards, dream, people will give you money and not give you a house, and then they regret when they want to find you againWho would have thought that you would have completed the transfer quickly. If you still lose money, sell the house to me, as I just said, I'll pay 100 million in cash, and pay first. How's that, brother?"

Zheng Xudong knew that he was taking advantage of Chen Weiting halfway through listening to what William Chan said, how could this house be given to William Chan, so he smirked a few times on the phone and said: "Brother Chen, don't joke with my brother, how can my brother give this broken house to my eldest brother, if my eldest brother wants my brother to say anything, I have to prepare a luxurious and high-end apartment for you to live in with your bag, right?"

"Okay, you don't have to be cheap! Let me tell you, with the character of Zhao Chenglong's father and son, it is impossible for them to swallow such a big loss so raw. You have to be careful!" William Chan said on the other end of the phone.

"I'm still afraid that he will bite me! If you have a kind, come and see who has the last laugh!" Zheng Xudong said angrily when he heard this.

"Alright, you just have to know it. Be careful! I'm hanging up!"

"Thank you, Brother Chen, I will definitely pick a good house in the capital and give it to you, thank you for guaranteeing me for such a big thing. ”

"Okay, you kid still have a conscience!" William Chan didn't take this seriously, and hung up the phone.

"How's it going, happy! Who are you calling?" asked Liu Xiaoli.

"The call was to a big brother who vouched for the house at the time, and now it's okay, and I have a balance in my heart. ”

"Then this house can't live in it now, what are you going to do?"

"Cold salad!"