When he returned to Huhai, Song Yuanchao first dealt with the work of the next branch, and then freed up time to do other things.

After two busy days, it was Sunday, and he took Lin Yan and the child to Changfeng Park in the morning, and sent Lin Yan and the child home at three o'clock in the afternoon, and Song Yuanchao went to Gu Jie's house.

Gu Jie no longer lives in the original place, as early as more than half a year ago, Gu Jie helped the family buy a house, but unlike Song Yuanchao, Gu Jie bought the first batch of commercial houses in Shanghai.

In 1980, Wannan Overseas Chinese New Village was built, although it is a foreign-related commercial house, but it is also a real commercial house.

In 1982, the city determined the qualification for the construction and sale of foreign-related commodities, and since then commercial housing has begun to appear in Shanghai. Of course, the formal sales of domestic commercial housing will not begin until the year after tomorrow, that is, in 1986, and the commercial housing owned by Huhai is all foreign-related housing, and ordinary people are not qualified to buy it.

Gu Jie now holds a Xiangjiang passport, and he can be regarded as a member of overseas Chinese. So he bought a few houses in the newly built Wannan Overseas Chinese New Village, which was just completed, for his parents and siblings, and also kept a set for himself to live in.

In addition, Gu Jie also took a fancy to the villa that had just been built in Hongqiao Township and pre-purchased a set in advance, but now the house has not been built, so it is naturally impossible to live in it, so he still lives in Wannan Overseas Chinese New Village.

Wannan Overseas Chinese New Village is actually not far from the city, adjacent to the Wanti Museum, but from the geographical point of view, it is outside the Zhongshan Ring Road, which is the inner ring road of later generations.

Now Huhai people also take the Zhongshan Ring Road as the boundary between the urban area and the suburbs, and those within the ring road are called urban areas, and those outside the ring road are called suburbs.

Of course, this statement gradually changed over time, and after the completion of the inner ring road, the outside of the ring road also belonged to the urban area, and when the central ring road and the outer ring road were opened to traffic one after another, the concept of the urban area was further expanded, which is the result of urban development.

Wannan Overseas Chinese New Village, from the perspective of later generations, is just an ordinary six-story building, no different from other ordinary residential communities.

But in this era, those who can live in the upper floors are enviable objects, you must know that among the nearly 12 million people in Shanghai, the vast majority of them have the problem of difficult housing, many people still live in the short and crowded old city for several generations and even "rolling dragons", some young people because they have no place to live at home, even if they get married, they can only go out to rent a house or do a dojo in a screw shell, and try their best to find a place where a marriage bed can be placed in the limited living conditions.

Living in an upstairs house, running water, and a flush toilet is a dream in the eyes of many people, not to mention a high-end foreign-related community like Wannan Overseas Chinese New Village? Ordinary people can't even get in here, let alone live here.

Song Yuanchao went by car, and it was only ten minutes away from home to Gu Jie, and when he arrived at the gate of the community, the strict doorman didn't ask when he saw Song Yuanchao's car coming, and opened the door directly to let him go, which saved Song Yuanchao a lot of trouble.

After entering the community, it was easy to find the location of Gu Jie's house along the building number outside the wall, and parked the car downstairs, and Song Yuanchao went upstairs with two boxes of tea.

"Brother Aid? What are you doing here? When he arrived at the ground, he knocked on the door, and the door opened after a while, and Gu Jie was very surprised to see that it was Song Yuanchao standing at the door.

"What? Don't you want me to come in and sit down? Song Yuanchao asked with a smile.

"Fast forward, come in ......." Gu Jie came back to his senses and hurriedly beckoned Song Yuanchao into the house, Song Yuanchao entered the room, glanced at the waxed floor, and took off his shoes directly.

"Brother Aid...... Actually, it's okay, just step on the floor directly, I don't pay so much attention to it. ”

"Hehe, wouldn't it be dirty to step on such beautiful floor shoes directly?" Song Yuanchao said with a smile, put on the slippers that Gu Jie gave him, and at the same time handed him the gift in his hand: "You kid is really, you don't invite me to drink when you move?" Give, I came in a hurry today, and I didn't bring any good gifts, two boxes of tea at home, which can be regarded as congratulating you on your housewarming. ”

Gu Jie took the tea and looked at it and smiled: "I said Brother Yuanchao, your gift is not a small gift, you can't buy this tea with money outside." ”

"Hehe, tea, it's not a rare thing, people don't know, you don't know? Alright, stop pretending, put it away. Your house looks good, let me visit? ”

Song Yuanchao looked around with a smile, Gu Jie put the tea aside, and took Song Yuanchao to visit his nest.

The houses in this neighborhood are no different from the ordinary residential communities of later generations from the outside, but the interior is very different.

Since when this community was built, it was sold as a foreign-related house, so the standard is much better than the workers' new village and the six-storey ordinary residential community built in the early nineties.

There are two types of house structures in the whole community, one is a 70-square-meter two-bedroom and one living room, and the other is a 92-square-meter three-bedroom apartment.

If calculated according to the area of later generations, the area of the two-bedroom and one-hall house where Gu Jie lives now is close to 90 square meters, and the three-bedroom one is even larger.

The entrance is a corridor of about two meters, and at the end of the corridor is the living room. The living room faces south and has a balcony, the kitchen to the right of the hallway, and the bathroom to the past.

Passing through the kitchen and bathroom, there are two rooms at the end, one is the master bedroom facing south, about 12 square meters, and the other is the second bedroom with a window facing west, which is now renovated into a study by Gu Jie.

The whole house looks neat and tidy, especially the living room area, which is very rare in ordinary public houses in this era. Gu Jie is still attentive to the decoration of the house, although the decoration of the whole house looks simple, but the materials are very good, the floor is teak, the living room is also covered with carpets, two sets of large leather sofas are placed there, and there are fruits and a few magazines on the glass coffee table.

A combination cabinet was made on the opposite wall, a large TV was placed in the center, and there was a set of Sony stereos on the side, as for the bedroom and the study, the style was roughly the same as the living room, but there were not many books on the bookshelf against the wall in the study, but a lot of newspapers and magazines were piled up.

"That's a good job." After turning around, Song Yuanchao nodded with a smile, and returned to the living room with Gu Jie to sit down.

"So-so, just tossed around." Gu Jie smiled, poured two cups of tea and put them on the coffee table, and put the magazine away.

"Why don't you buy an old bungalow?" Song Yuanchao asked with a sip of water.

"There is no suitable one for the time being, but I have a new house in Hongqiao, which will not be built until the end of next year, and I will invite you to come and visit when the house over there is ready."

"It's a deal!" Song Yuanchao smiled and nodded, the houses over there in Hongqiao will also belong to the best area and the most valuable in Huhai in the future, Gu Jie is not bad to start there directly, not to mention that he is right, although there are many old houses in Huhai, but because the commercial houses have not really opened to the inside, plus many old foreign real estate rights are a little troublesome due to historical reasons, and some houses are also involved in the problem of return,

Song Yuanchao was lucky to be able to get that house, Zhang Jianguo and Luo Yang started earlier, but there are not many old houses that can be seen and have clear property rights, especially the houses in the old French Concession are even rarer, but there are a few sets in the Japanese Concession before.

However, compared to the former, the latter is disdainful.

People in other cities may not know, but the old Huhai people are very particular about this, compared with the old French Concession, the former Japanese Concession is called "Xia Zhijiao", and the old Western-style houses over there have a mixed pattern of Western and Japanese, compared with the old Spanish-style old houses with distinctive styles in the old French Concession, the old Western-style houses in the Japanese Concession are a monster that has made do with it, and it is not in the stream at all.

"I heard you had a girlfriend? Ready to get married? ”

"Hehe, Daqi told you, right?"

Song Yuanchao smiled and nodded, Gu Jie got up and walked to the side, taking out a beautiful invitation card from the cabinet.

"I was going to be close to you, but I didn't expect you to come today, but it saved trouble, give, my wedding invitation, the wedding on the 23rd, will be held in Jinjiang."

After taking the invitation, Song Yuanchao opened it and took a look, with the names of Gu Jie and his lover written on it, as well as the words Song Yuanchao and his family.

Song Yuanchao agreed that he had to attend his friend's wedding, not to mention how could he be absent from Gu Jie's wedding?

He put away the invitation with a smile and took the cigarette light handed by Gu Jie.

Song Yuanchao casually asked about Gu Jie's current situation, and the two chatted for a while, and then Song Yuanchao mentioned that he met Li Daqi in Jinling some time ago.

When he heard Song Yuanchao say that Li Daqi's object was actually Zheng Guoyuan's sister, Gu Jie was also very surprised, and at the same time felt funny.

This world is too small, I never thought that the girlfriend Li Daqi met in Pengcheng would be the sister of Zheng Guoyuan, the director of Jinling Quanlin Factory, this is really a fate to meet thousands of miles away!

"Lao Zheng is now the executive vice president of our company, and it is also a good thing for the company to have such a relationship." Song Yuanchao said about Zheng Guoyuan by the way, Gu Jie sighed after hearing it, but at the same time he was happy for Song Yuanchao.

"Congratulations on your aid to Brother Chao, I remember that you recruited Zheng Guoyuan before, and now you have finally got your wish. Zheng Guoyuan is a very capable person, and it will be much easier to have him in the future. ”

"Yes, Lao Zheng's ability is really good, I have officially announced the appointment of his executive vice president before I came back this time, and now he has gradually taken over part of the work, and he has done a very good job, saving me a lot of worry."

Speaking of this, Song Yuanchao glanced at Gu Jie and said meaningfully: "But no matter how you say it, Lao Zheng can't compare with you, Sanmao, you are the brother who fought the world together at the beginning, this time you left like this, I am not used to it without you in the company, and I always feel as if there is something missing around me......." ”

"Brother Yuanchao, don't say that, I'...... Hehe, it's not that exaggerated....... Gu Jie shook his head a little embarrassedly: "I'm just an ordinary director, now the company has become regular, and talents like Lao Zheng have also gone to the company, far better than me, besides, you know the situation in my family, now I am about to get married again, and after so many years of hard work, I should ......also rest." ”

"Sanmao! Do you think I'll believe that? Without waiting for Gu Jie to finish speaking, Song Yuanchao interrupted him and asked: "Sanmao, I have always regarded you as a brother, I always feel that it was not easy for us to share weal and woe all the way, in my heart, I hope we can be friends and brothers for the rest of our lives." Since they are friends and brothers, what can't they say? Do you have to use this as a reason? ”

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"Of course, I didn't think about it before why you want to leave, but now I already know. Sanmao, Sanmao, you keep calling me Brother Aijun, since I am your brother, why don't you have a heart-to-heart relationship with me? Does it seem to you that hard to tell me the truth? Or maybe there's something I'm doing wrong that makes you feel uncomfortable? ”

Gu Jie didn't expect Song Yuanchao to suddenly make things clear, he was stunned for a while, and then showed a ashamed expression.