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In April, the city of Beijing is warm and cold, and although it is spring, the cold wind blowing on the streets is still unbearable. The full-text and ad-free novel is all in Aishang Novel.com biquge.info those city dwellers who have prematurely lost their leather jackets have to curl up and trot through the streets and alleys, or just cling to the walls of large homes and carefully walk with their backs to the wind.

——In Xuanwu Gate, Nancheng Gen'er, most of the people in the vicinity are this kind of people. Saying that you are poor is not so poor that you can't open the pot, you can always fill your stomach with two meals a day, and if you are extravagant and have a supper at night, you can still afford anything. In addition to the wife and children in the family, the servant Yahuan always has to raise one or two, otherwise it will be difficult to see people without anyone when they go out.

But it is impossible to say how rich they are - every year in the winter they have to send the light silk clothes of the summer to the pawnshop, redeem the fur and cotton jackets, and wait until the weather is warm, and then do the opposite, so as to support the family, especially the image of the man in charge of the family can still maintain the appearance of the bright and decent outside.

Of course, a large part of it will be swept away by the pawnshop, which can only be supplemented by the dowry of the wife of the family, and even head jewelry. At the same time, I hope that the man in charge can work hard to climb up and earn more extra blocks, so as to change this state of not being up or down as soon as possible. However, in today's age, it is often worse every year, and there are fewer and fewer things that can be redeemed......

- This is the current situation of the life of the "middle class" of the Ming Empire. They are not poor, they all have regular jobs, some of them are still small officials in the government, they have a fixed salary, and they can get some extra money to support their families. However, on the whole, it is still in a state of precariousness, and no one knows what will happen in the future, so they can only live one day at a time, and one year at a time......

The property that Chen Tao and Chen Dalei bought together was located in this area, and when they first chose a house, they mainly looked at it as a gathering place for Catholics in Beijing, which was important for the Catholic Chen father and daughter - not far from the house they bought was the Jesuit Catholic Church, which is currently presided over by the German John Tong, and Chen Yue'er often went to worship...... For the same reason, the temporary residence of Xu Guangqi, the new university scholar, in Beijing is not far away.

Due to the special status of the city of Beijing, housing prices here are much higher than normal, and the phrase "it is not easy to live in the capital" applies to all capitals of all dynasties, and most of the officials who come to Beijing only choose to rent rather than buy. However, Chen Tao and Chen Dalei are not people who are short of money - Chen Dalei, as the helmsman of the Chen family in Luzon, came to Beijing this time to open up a new road for the family, and originally had the intention of spending money to pave the way.

And Chen Tao, who is accustomed to the Qiongjun big pot rice system, has no concept of money, and listens to the middleman who reports that the house price is only in "thousands", and it has not yet broken 10,000. I was satisfied with the layout of the courtyard itself, so I didn't even pay back the price and agreed, but the broker who sold the house secretly regretted it, and said that I knew that this southern guest was so arrogant, and it was estimated that I would quote one or two more, and people would not frown......

They bought the house before the New Year, and they always had to clean it up after they bought it. The so-called "tidying" of Chen Dalei's house next door is nothing more than repairing the corner of the roof, not having a leaky place, cleaning and cleaning, and you can almost move in. If the requirements are higher, then the interior walls are powdered and the wooden floors are re-paved...... That's a big toss.

But the courtyard that Chen Tao bought is completely different - most of the modern people's concept of a new house is that after buying it, they must build a lot of construction and engage in a round of decoration to move in. Moreover, with the conditions of Beijing residential houses at that time, Chen Tao, as a modern person, was indeed difficult to adapt. Not to mention anything else, just going to the toilet every day is enough to make him miss the public health system on Lingao Street immensely, not to mention the private washroom in the Baiyan stall owner's base.

The Yi Hotel where they lived before was a unit specially used to receive foreign guests in the Ming Dynasty, and the thatched toilet was still dirty and smelly. It's okay during the day, but you have to be especially careful when you go to the toilet at night, and if you accidentally step on it, you will get dirty, which is extremely bad for people. Chen Tao has put forward several opinions to Na Yicheng on this, but he has been ridiculed - are you kidding, when have you ever seen a clean latrine since ancient times?

The concepts of the two sides are too far apart, and Chen Tao has nothing to say, so he can only endure it for the time being. To this day, of course, the house he bought with money must be done according to his own wishes, and this is not his request alone - this property will also be used as the office of Qionghai Town in Beijing in the future, and in the future, when the rest of the Qionghai Navy comes to the capital, this is their foothold. Therefore, the telegram sent from the headquarters of Hainan Island also asked him to make the house better, and specially dispatched construction personnel, materials and equipment from the civil engineering team, and came with the fleet to transport supplies to assist Chen Tao in decorating the new house.

According to the construction of Pang Yu, Chen Jun and others at the Hainan headquarters, it would be best to simply tear down the house and start it again, but Chen Tao was in a hurry to use it here, so he didn't make much of a big deal...... It's nothing more than replacing the windows with glass; The walls around the room are covered with a layer of wood chips insulation mortar inside and outside; Install a suspended ceiling above the room; A floor trench is laid under the floor – so that heating can be brought in in the winter, and in the summer, it is connected to the cold water well, and the air duct is used to cool down.

All the floors in the residential rooms have been replaced with teak, and the non-living rooms have been tiled – most of the materials and equipment for this renovation have been transported from the south, because they will certainly not be found in Beijing. However, the only floor tiles used are provided by a local shop, and it is said that it is still the "gold brick" technology used to pave the floor of the inner court when the Forbidden City was built.

In addition, Chen Tao is most concerned about the water supply and water problems: tap and toilet are definitely there. In addition, in consideration of the needs of future guests, a separate bathroom is set up next to each bedroom according to the layout of the hotel room. However, there are no corresponding municipal supporting facilities in Beijing at present, so the water supply can only be solved by digging a deep well in the yard and using animal power to lift the well water to the water storage tank located at the highest place. In the sewerage, septic tanks are set up away from the water intake well, and the guò is regularly cleaned to keep it unblocked. Because this house also has a small garden, the sewage can be directly used to raise flowers and vegetables, and it will not cause pollution to the outside world at all.

…… After such a "decoration", Chen Dalei's father and daughter next door were amazed when they came to visit, in their opinion, this house has not been moved except for the shell and courtyard wall, and it is almost equivalent to rebuilding it from the inside out. Chen Tao agreed. However, I can't agree with the view of Chen's father and daughter that he spends too much, and I said that we are frugal enough, and we are still doing it on the original basis. If you follow the opinions of the "professionals" of the civil engineering team, the first step in the decoration of the house in the Ming Dynasty is to smash the wall, demolish the house, and pick up the house!

Later, under Chen Dalei's signal, Chen Yue'er found an opportunity to pretend not to care and quietly asked Chen Tao: How much did it cost to renovate the yard of the house so completely? Chen Tao waved his hand very lightly: It's not expensive, it's not expensive, even the furniture and everything added up to less than 20,000 yuan, it's a little meaning.

Hearing this number, Chen Yue'er was stunned, she was born in a rich family, she was used to brocade clothes and jade food since she was a child, and she was relatively open to money, but at this time, she was still startled when she heard this number - it only cost a few thousand to buy a house, and it cost tens of thousands to renovate it like this? Also said it was cheap...... Although I knew that these shorthairs were very rich, they didn't waste them so casually.

Seeing her look of surprise, Chen Tao sighed in a very nostalgic tone: "This is next to Xuanwu Gate, a house within the second ring road, or a small courtyard with a single door and a single building!" I think that my brother wanted to buy a house in Beijing, and the whole family scraped together and borrowed hundreds of thousands from the bank, and they were all about to buy it in Tongzhou......"

Seeing that Chen Yue'er was becoming more and more puzzled, looking at him stunned with a pair of beautiful big eyes, Chen Tao smiled dumbly: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just remembering some things in the past...... Don't get me wrong, I don't have any relatives here, and my brother didn't come...... I'm really single! Hey, don't go! ”

It took more than three months to finally renovate the house. In April, the spring of the third lunar month is a good time to move to a new home. On the other hand, Chen Tao stayed in the capital for a long time, and the position arranged for them by the Ming court was finally decided. Chen Dalei received the name of a housekeeper in the household department, which is regarded as an official royal supplier, similar to the Xue family in "A Dream of Red Mansions", which is very popular among the merchant groups.

According to Xu Guangqi's recommendation, Chen Tao hung up a position in the Qin Tianjian of the Ministry of Rites, which sounded more glamorous and decent, but there was no oil and water. However, Chen Tao is very satisfied with this, and he doesn't expect to make money from this, as long as he has an official position in Beijing to ensure personal safety and dignity, plus enough free time at his disposal, it is enough.

And since they have an official position and are no longer guests of the Ming Dynasty, it is not easy for them to stay in that Yi Hotel for a long time, and they should move out as soon as possible. And Chen Tao and they are not used to living, so they don't need to be urged to leave. According to the customs of the time, Chen Tao and Chen's father and daughter set up a large table in the courtyard of the new house and invited the neighbors to have a big meal together to celebrate the housewarming.

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