This two-story red brick building was formerly known as Pan's house, and it is one of the Pan's many properties in Peizhou.

Originally, it was used for shipping and office by the leather and mountain goods branches of the trading house, but here is the office area, and the warehouse area is on the side of the steel mill, which is said to occupy a wide area, and is also connected to a special railroad track, and now the special rail for transporting ore in the steel mill is built on its basis.

It can be seen how big the Pan family's business was back then.

Because it is an office building, it is built very tall and spacious, and when you enter the solemn and neat foyer, there are two wide corridors, and there are large offices symmetrically distributed on both sides of the corridor, which is neat and very professional.

Of course, that was before, but now it has long lost its original regularity and seriousness, and after more than ten years of smoke and fire, it has been dyed with a chaotic atmosphere of life.

Starting from the foyer, the former wide corridor was filled with coal stoves, honeycomb coal, halberds, tree bark, cooking utensils, and miscellaneous items, and the hallway became a communal kitchen with their own cooking belongings in front of each house.

Mr. Fan's house is on the east side of the second floor. You have to walk through the foyer and stairs, and you have to walk through a full half of the corridor to get there.

When Zhou Xiaoan followed Teacher Fan into the small building, it was time to cook after work, and as soon as he entered the foyer on the first floor, everyone he met greeted Teacher Fan warmly.

Teacher Fan nodded and had a kind attitude, but he didn't talk much. It wasn't until I walked to the innermost part of the east side of the second floor that I said a few more words to a woman in her thirties and officially introduced Zhou Xiaoan to her.

"This is Sister Ning, a cadre of our factory trade union. Xiao Ning, this is Zhou Xiao'an, the newly transferred officer of the personnel department of our factory, my student. Last time, she sent my wife back, and she liked her and asked her to live in my room. ”

Sister Ning has a square face and big eyes, a big black braid hanging down to her waist, she is a standard middle-aged beauty of this era, and there is a deep dimple on the side of her mouth when she laughs, looking hearty and amiable.

She put down the spatula and wiped her hands on her apron, and when she came over, she shook hands with Zhou Xiaoan, "Xiao Zhou, it's a cold day, but thanks to you for sending your wife back!" Otherwise, you have to keep up with the last time, and you have to choke on the cold! In the future, we will be neighbors, live opposite the door, and if you have something, say hello to the eldest sister, don't be polite! ”

Zhou Xiaoan endured the numbness on his scalp, tried his best to smile sweetly and amiably, and held Sister Ning's hand back vigorously, "Sister Ning, I will definitely have to trouble you in the future!" Don't call me stupid. ”

Sister Ning smiled and patted Zhou Xiaoan's arm, turned her head and smiled at Teacher Fan, "No wonder my wife likes Xiao Zhou, this little girl is really good-looking!" People are also happy, and I like it at first sight! ”

After a few polite words to Sister Ning, Teacher Fan took Zhou Xiaoan to the opposite door and stopped in front of a large dark brown wooden door.

Zhou Xiaoan turned around and glanced at the other doors in the corridor, all of which were different from this one.

Either a dark brown single-opening wooden door, or a more modest single-opening wooden door in a simple wood color.

None of this one looks thick and tall, and the size cannot be compared.

Even the lock on the door is a very strong brass spring lock, which is completely different from the appearance of other doors with iron locks hanging from the nose of the door.

When he saw Mr. Fan take out the brass key with intricate carvings, Zhou Xiaoan became even more interested.

Teacher Fan watched her stare at the door lock and key, and smiled again.

Teacher Fan seemed to be in a particularly good mood today, and Zhou Xiaoan noticed that he had already smiled at himself twice. I have known Teacher Fan for a year, and this is the only time he has smiled at her twice.

"This room is the former manager's room, and the door, lock, and layout inside are different from other rooms."

Teacher Fan twisted a few times before unscrewing the door lock, opened the door and took Zhou Xiao'an in, as soon as he entered the door, there was a corridor about three meters wide, and at the end of the corridor was an open wooden door, and there was a large window on the wall facing the corridor in the wooden door, so that the lighting in the corridor was also very good.

Teacher Fan introduced her, "This used to be the secretary's position, and the door at the other end of the corridor was the bathroom. ”

Zhou Xiaoan was pleasantly surprised, it is too rare to have an indoor bathroom at this time! Even if you live in a building, you can use a spittoon to solve it at night, run a public toilet during the day, and the water is also a public faucet in the yard, so you have to go to the yard downstairs to grab water to wash your face.

On the opposite side of the corridor with a double wooden door, there is a heavy single-opening wooden door, push it open to the room, there is a large room of more than 40 square meters, a wide window, bright glass, there is a wooden door next to the window, you can see that the outside is a wide open balcony!

Zhou Xiaoan couldn't help but run over and push open the door, standing on the balcony more than two meters wide and four or five meters long, his mouth opened wide, "Teacher Fan, this, is this all ours?!" ”

It's really uninformed.

But it's no wonder that Zhou Xiaoan was surprised, after she saw so many families of three generations crowded into a room of more than ten square meters, adults and children crowded and stacked to sleep, and suddenly said that she would be given a big sun room with a bathroom and a wide balcony, and everyone would be surprised like a dirt bun who has never seen the world!

Teacher Fan looked at her surprise and smiled again, "It's all ours, and I'll give you a place to live alone in the future." There's also a small room in there, you go check it out. ”

Zhou Xiaoan pushed away the room that Teacher Fan pointed out like a dream, at the end of the west side of the room, it was really a small room, which could only put down a single bed, a wardrobe and a bedside table, but fortunately, there was a window, and the lighting was good.

However, this is all estimated by Zhou Xiaoan, this room only has a single bed, and there is nothing else.

"This used to be a place for managers to rest, and outside was the manager's office."

Zhou Xiao'an is clear, so there is such a magnificent large wooden door and brass lock, as well as a bathroom and a balcony! There is also a private lounge!

The manager of this trading house is really well treated!

Looking at the layout of the house, there is nothing to see at all about the furniture.

There was only one desk in the outer room, a double desk with two narrow table holes, a long wooden stool, a single bed in the room, and nothing else.

There was an old-fashioned flush toilet in the bathroom, a cement sink under the faucet, and nothing else.

There are too few things, and the whole large room looks unusually empty, but fortunately, the doors and windows look solid and beautiful, so as not to look shabby.

"I used to live here by myself, and there were fewer things." Teacher Fan didn't feel anything about living by herself, and when she brought Zhou Xiao'an to take a look, she felt that it was too simple to live for her.

Zhou Xiaoan didn't care, if he had a room, he was afraid that there would be no furniture?

She was studying the flush toilet with great interest, and when she pressed the tank, it turned out to be able to pump water! What a surprise!

There were a few marks left on the wall of the room, and Mr. Fan sighed regretfully, "It used to be a heating place, and it was all moved away to make steel during the big steelmaking." The boiler in the yard was also removed, and the boiler room is now inhabited by workers. Fortunately, the water is not cut off, and it is more convenient for you to live. ”

Zhou Xiaoan walked all the way from the door of the building to here, and he had already discovered that this room was extraordinary.

The other rooms in the small building are all offices of the same size and configuration, about 30 square meters, and they are installed with the same single-opening brown wooden doors.

After liberation, it will be converted into a residential building, and the middle of each office will be separated by plywood, and it will be turned into two houses of more than 10 square meters.

However, Mr. Fan's room adds up to more than 50 square meters, and there is no cubicle, and all of them are assigned to him as a private room.

"This is the reward of the year, and it was specially approved to me by the leaders of the People's Liberation Army who entered the city." Teacher Fan only said one sentence and refused to say it again, and the expression on his face was complicated and indescribable. (To be continued.) )