Guo Lanying took Dongmei to the westernmost side of the courtyard of the technical school, pointed to a row of brick houses under construction behind the wall, and said, "Dongmei, look, a house is being built there." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

It turned out that Guo Lanying was disappointed by this matter, and Dongmei was disappointed and said: "I already knew, the construction behind the wall has been going on for a while." ”

Guo Lanying pulled Dongmei to find a big dirt bag, climbed up, looked at the hot construction site and said: "The brick houses have been built, but there are rows of bungalows, I heard that there are five rows, ten households in each row, a total of more than 50 households." ”

Dongmei knew that the west was under construction, but she didn't know what these houses were going to do, so she didn't care much, just now listening to Guo Lanying's words, she seemed to hear the point of Mingtang, she raised her eyes and looked at the patches of construction land, some of the houses have even been completed, and they are quietly located there.

Guo Lanying saw that Dongmei didn't speak for a long time, pulled the corner of her clothes and said: "Dongmei, why don't you speak, you are smart and confused for a while, these houses are built for employees, although they are bungalows, but they are two-bedroom and one living room, what's the matter, they are a hundred times stronger than our iron houses." ”

At this time, Dongmei really wanted to find a telescope and take a closer look at the house behind the wall, she said to Guo Lanying: "You didn't inquire, these houses are for those people to live in?"

Guo Lanying said: "I heard that the house is for those workers who still live in the eighth team. ”

Dongmei thought for a while and said, "Fifty houses, and there are no fifty families in Team Eight now." ”

Guo Lanying said: "Yes. So I said, we have to find someone to see if we can live in these brick houses. I have lived in these tin houses enough, and I can still do it now, but in a few years, when the children grow up, how can a family of four live in such a small space. ”

Dongmei said from the dirt bag: "Yes." We have to fight for this housing opportunity, in this second yard, we have not built a house for many years, these brick houses are estimated to be the last time that no one has built a house before, and no one has come after. ”

Guo Lanying patted her thigh and said, "Yes." In any case, even for the sake of our children's future, we must strive for this opportunity to live. ”

Dongmei said: "You're right. ”

Guo Lanying said: "Although there are no 50 households in the eighth team, in addition to the people in the eighth team, the people who fight for this house, there are also people who live in the middle of the mountainside, the families of old workers who live in guest houses and wait, young people who have just gotten married and have no house, and many workers who put their wives and children in their hometowns and are ready to pick up the base. ”

Hearing this, Dongmei understood Guo Lanying's anxiety and nervousness just now.

Dongmei looked at Guo Lanying, who was leaving, and asked her, "Lanying, where are you going?"

Guo Lanying said: "I'm going to find Uncle Wan Qing, see if I can help, don't be idle, hurry up and find Section Chief Rao, a fellow countryman of Weiguo." This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and there will be no such shop in this village after that. ”

Dongmei turned around and signaled, thinking that she had just come back from Raoli's house and went to find someone else, which was too much to treat people as outsiders.

Worried, Dongmei returned home and told Wei Guo the good news.

Hearing that there was a house coming down for Wei Guo, he was happy at first, but immediately fell into deep thought.

Wei Guo is an honest person, and the thing he is most afraid of in his life is to find people, especially to find leaders.

I don't know why, as soon as Wei Guo stands in front of the leader, he starts to get nervous, he starts to be embarrassed, and he starts to feel uncomfortable, not to mention opening his mouth to ask the leader to help him do things.

Seeing Wei Guo with a speechless expression, Dongmei was nervous, she just found Rao Li for the matter of Wei Guo's team transfer, and someone else did it, and then found someone for the house, which was too much.

After being silent in the house for a long time, Dongmei suddenly had a plan, she told the silent Wei Guodao: "You sit first, I'll go out for a while." ”

Wei Guo looked at Dongmei's back and said: "Should you go to Rao Li again to help, I think it's okay, although people and we are fellow villagers, but everything has a degree, don't make trouble with others." ”

Dongmei looked at Wei Guo and said: "My men don't do anything, only women are out of the horse, but I won't go to Raoli, I'll go to the property office of the base." ”

Hearing Dongmei complain about herself, Wei Guo sighed, silently got up from the stool, and lay down on the bed.

Dongmei walked out of the yard of the technical school and walked down the slope to the middle of the base, although it has lived in the base for more than two years, it has never been to the property of the base.

Dongmei wandered around the base, like a headless fly, and after looking for a long time, she didn't find the property of the base.

No way, Dongmei can only bite the bullet and ask people everywhere.

Dongmei, who speaks a dialect, still eats in the courtyard of the technical school, because everyone is a family member, so they generally speak dialects, but they come to the middle of the base, which is the main office location, so everyone speaks Mandarin, Dongmei found a passing aunt and spoke the dialect several times, and the aunt barely understood.

The aunt pointed to a low bungalow in the distance to Dongmei and said, "That's it, you go over and ask." ”

Dongmei looked at the low bungalow not far away, and thought to herself that she had really broken through the iron shoes and had nowhere to go, so she turned around, and it turned out that the property office was close at hand.

Dongmei said thank you to her aunt and was about to leave.

I didn't want Dongmei to be suddenly stopped by her aunt and said, "Girl, you are going to go to the property office to inquire about the newly built bungalow in Caogoumen." ”

Dongmei asked suspiciously: "Caogoumen, where is it?"

The aunt pointed to the yard of the technical school at the foot of the mountain and said, "It is the open space to the west of the yard of the technical school." ”

Hearing this, Dongmei suddenly realized that the place where the house was built on the west side of the yard of the technical school was called Caogoumen, but how did the aunt know, she looked at the aunt in surprise and said: "Yes, I did go to inquire about the Caogoumen house, aunt, how do you know?"

The aunt smiled helplessly and said: "My family lives near this property, and every morning and afternoon, the door of the property office is surrounded by a sea of people, and everyone who is here to ask for a house." ”

Hearing this, Dongmei was shocked, she felt that she and Guo Lanying were the first to discover these newly built brick houses, and the most active people, but she didn't expect that there were people who were faster than herself.

Dongmei came to the low bungalow, and the door outside the bungalow had a few big words written on it, "Base Property Office", and Dongmei pushed open the door and walked in.

Dongmei, who entered the courtyard of the gate, was instantly shocked, and there were a lot of people sitting in the gate of the seemingly calm property office.

The door of the room where the property office works is locked, and the working hours are written on it, from 10 to 11 o'clock in the morning, and from 3 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and only two hours a day.

It seems that these people in the courtyard are all people who are fighting a protracted battle and waiting in place.

Dongmei looked at this group of people, there were young people, middle-aged people, and old people.

Dongmei, who couldn't sit still, stepped forward and asked a middle-aged woman with a straw hat: "Sister, what are you doing here at this property?"

The eldest sister took off her hat, squinted her eyes and said, "What else can I do, I want a house." ”

Dongmei nodded and said politely: "Oh, that's it, then are you going to go down the house?"

The eldest sister sighed and said helplessly: "It's difficult, thousands of people are fighting for these dozens of houses, it's difficult." ”

Dongmei asked, "Then where do you live now?"

The eldest sister said: "I took the child last year, followed the old man from the rural hometown, the old man is working in the drill team, I take the child to live in the guest house, this stay is a year, and then I can't divide the house, I think I have to take the child back to my hometown." ”

Dongmei sighed, and couldn't help but sympathize with her eldest sister's experience.

After turning around, Dongmei came to a young man again and asked him, "Young man, you also came here to ask for a house?"

The young man was very polite, sat up, lit a cigarette and smoked, and said, "Yes, I have been pestering the property office for a few days. ”

Dongmei asked, "Is the house entangled?"

The young man took a deep breath of his cigarette, then spit out a long breath and said, "It's okay, my wife is angry and goes back to her hometown." ”

Dongmei said: "The young man doesn't look very old, and he's already married?"

The young man smiled, showed a mouthful of big black teeth and said, "It's not too old to be twenty-four years old, and I just got married a few months ago." ”

Dongmei asked: "My wife is also from our unit." ”

The lad said, " Where can we find a daughter-in-law in the unit, go back to my hometown to get it, the woman will figure out that she can go into the city with us, so she followed us, but we don't have a house, we can only take my wife to live in the camping house of the drilling team, the drilling team moves, the wife also moves, the key to the drilling team is that there is no toilet, every time my wife is in an emergency, she has to travel a long way to go to the toilet, find a place that is inaccessible and has no male compatriots, it is too difficult for her, this is not, my wife sent me an ultimatum, if there is no house in the unit, she will go back to her hometown, and her marriage is in jeopardy. ”

Dongmei was very sympathetic to the young man's plight, and suggested that he said: "Let your daughter-in-law live in the guest house first, and then slowly find a house." ”

The young man sighed and said, "We are single workers, and we are young people, and the money we earn is not enough to spend, so where do we have extra money to live in a guest house." With that, the young man lit another cigarette and smoked depressedly.

Dongmei found a big stone and sat down with a heavy heart, she crossed her legs, thinking about whether she should go to the property office to ask for a house.

At this time, an old man sitting next to him coughed and asked Dongmei, "Child, are you also here to ask for a house?"

Dongmei said: "Yes, I also want a house." Uncle, are you going to go down the house? ”

The uncle said optimistically: "Although the house is not to be built, I think with my old qualifications, he should also give me a house." ”

It turned out that when the uncle was young, he wanted to bring his wife and children out of the countryside, so he asked the unit for a house, and he didn't get a house until he was old, and now he and his wife are almost sixty years old, and the parents at home have passed away, and the children are also married, and it is not a matter to leave the wife alone in the countryside.

Therefore, the old man is ready to fight hard this time, and he also wants to go to the house and take his lonely wife from his hometown to the city and live in the base.

Hearing this, Dongmei couldn't sit still anymore, she decisively gave up her plan to ask for a house, compared with these people, she still has a good and bad life, shelter from the wind and rain, although it is simple, although it is small, although it is inconspicuous, but it is a house after all.