Knock on the door from door to door and then talk to these old residents in the yard one by one, don't look at the yard is not small, there are many people to live in. Not counting the main house where Ye Zimu lives, there are six rooms in the east and west wings, five rooms in the backyard, a total of nine families, and the largest hood in the backyard lives in a family of three generations.

The nine families are all old residents, which is longer than Ye Zimu's life, and most of them have lived since the founding of the People's Republic of China. Originating from the clan regional plot in the bones of the Chinese people, once some people in a certain place have lived in that place for a long time, they will form an intertwined interest relationship, so a large part of the reason why Yanjing courtyard houses are difficult to buy is not the price but the entanglement of these interests.

One of the advantages of buying a Yezimu house is that the ownership is clear, but even so, he doesn't dare to take it lightly, in case the residents in the yard don't leave, what can he do. But when he talked about them one by one with 120,000 cautions, he found that these old residents were very reasonable. I thought that maybe it would take a lot of time, and even took Chen Hu to the town, planning to deter them by force in case there were nail households living and not leaving, but when he told people that he bought Ye Zimu's yard and planned to redecorate it for them to move out, he simply agreed, and there was no mess of things he imagined, and finally in line with the concept of life that you respect me and I will return you to you, he immediately made a decision to leave enough time for them to find a house to move, and at the same time exempted this month's rent.

Dealing with the problems of these tenants is a relief for him, knowing that he does not want to force the tenants to leave unless he has to. In this alley, the neighbors are looking at it, and they are the old neighbors who have lived for decades, and there is a saying that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and if there is no particularly big contradiction between the neighbors, the relationship is very good.

Don't think that a little contradiction between each other is a bad relationship, in fact, in the old Yanjing City, many neighbors in the same alley are intermarried with each other, think about the two children play together since childhood, grow up and go to school together, childhood sweethearts can grow up together?

Li Ran bought this courtyard to live in, and he should live in it for at least seven or eight years, as for the smog or something in the future, it is important to deal with the matter in front of him first.

Walking around the yard, he kind of understood why they all agreed to move so happily. The whole yard is basically nothing good except for the bright appearance, and the water and electricity are all unified lines after all, but the house is in disrepair, and the roof tiles have been blowing rain for more than half a century.

This is not the most troublesome, the most unbearable thing is still cooking and going to the toilet. Courtyard houses, especially in the past, large families paid attention to "going to the toilet and going to the kitchen", that is, the kitchen was in the backyard, the east room was in the east room, and the toilet was in the southwest corner. Moreover, there is only one toilet and one kitchen in one yard, how can nine households divide it? The kitchen is okay and says that it can make a stove by itself, but the problem of toilets is too troublesome. There is a night pot at night, but during the day you have to run through the verandah to the front yard to go to the toilet, sometimes the sewer is blocked, and the whole yard is smelly.

Speaking of housing, the main house is tall and spacious, the ventilation and lighting effects are good, warm in winter and cool in summer, but the landlord Ye Zimu lives in others naturally don't have to think about it. The west wing is sunny in the morning, and the light in the house is excellent, and the sun cannot shoot itself into the house at noon and afternoon, but the light is not too dark, which is okay. The main reason why the west house is not as good as the north house is the size of the house, the height of the terrain, and the length of daylight. The east wing is miserable, sitting east and facing west, there is no sunlight in the morning, but in the afternoon, the sun is slanting westward, the sun is shining, especially in summer, the sunshine time is long, making the east house residents extremely hot. The south room is the inverted room, the tide man generally has no windows, it is really not sunny all year round, BJ's summer is rainy, the south house is even more humid, and no one lives in it.

So the courtyard is really good, but at that time, it was a courtyard for each family, so many people were crowded in the yard, and it was not messy. So knowing that Li Ran bought the house to decorate and asked the residents to move out, they agreed with each other.

After turning around, he had a general understanding of the yard, and he also had a plan in mind on how to repair it. It's really good that there is a snake next to him, Zhao Ping doesn't need to use it in vain, let him take Chen Hu to help find a craftsman first, the house in the yard can't be repaired for the time being, after all, people still live there, but the outer wall can be repaired first. When the craftsman came, he painted the exterior wall first, and then replaced the floor tiles in the courtyard with large bluestone slab floor tiles. The pillars of the house had to be freshly painted, and most of the roof tiles had to be replaced, and he still planned to use those small green tiles.

Another important point is the garden, such a big garden, it's a pity not to get up. After clearing the silt in the pond, planting some flowers and plants in the garden to raise some fish and shrimp, plus the rockery and the pavilion connected to the verandah, it is really a beautiful scenery and a good place to go. Thinking about it, I couldn't stop thinking about it, and immersed myself in my imagination until Zhao Ping and Chen Hu came back with the craftsmen.

Zhao Ping said that he was really familiar with this area, and the craftsmen he brought over were all craftsmen in the vicinity, and they had all done the renovation of the courtyard, Li Ran roughly told them what he thought, and the craftsmen and masters could also understand. Repairing exterior walls, roof tiles, and painting are basically not too technical, but they are very cumbersome and have a lot of work, and there is nothing to be explained.

After negotiating the price with the craftsmen, he simply handed over the materials to one of the very prestigious masters surnamed Liu, to be honest, he didn't care about how much money was spent, only about quality. So he made it clear to the leading master Liu in advance, the yard decoration is more than this, the follow-up work is more and more troublesome, he doesn't want these craftsmen to delay the construction period for the sake of wages, so even the decoration behind them is contracted to them, more than 4,000 yuan does not include the cost of decoration materials, hire thirteen craftsmen, each person has more than three hundred or four hundred wages, and it is only about a month, Li Ran gave the money is indeed not low, and I hope they can do a good job.

After telling Master Liu, he led the people to work according to Li Ran's requirements, commanded some people to buy brick and tile materials first, and he took another part of the craftsmen with tools and started working.

Li Ran didn't go to help, just stood by the side to supervise them, and after looking at them for a while, he found that these craftsmen were really good at work, no one was lazy, and they all worked very hard and did it in an orderly manner under the command of that Master Liu.

Seeing this situation, there is no need to continue to supervise here, so he called Master Liu to explain that they were careful and gave a thousand yuan to buy decoration materials, and after the explanation, he took Zhao Ping and Chen Hu to eat, and left the work to the craftsmen to do, and there was nothing to worry about.