Chapter 1194 Barton's Investigation (Part 2)

Old Wang, formerly named Wang Ruian, is fifty-eight years old this year, and he will be able to retire in two years. The old man has never done any great things in his life. When I was young, I dropped out of junior high school and joined my father's class to work in a factory.

However, after the state reformed, many state-owned enterprises went bankrupt. Wang Ruian's factory also went bankrupt. However, Wang Ruian was lucky at the time, unlike those colleagues who had to fend for themselves after bankruptcy and layoffs. Wang Ruian was transferred to the Environmental Sanitation Bureau because of his hard work. To put it simply, it is cleaning and sweeping the streets.

The name doesn't sound good, but it's still a serious job, and I can eat enough and support my family. Otherwise, Wang Ruian was thirty-eight years old when he was laid off, and he didn't have any other skills, and he didn't know what else to do if he wanted to go out to find a job.

I have been doing this for twenty years, and no matter what, I have raised my own children.

Of course, you can't make a fortune doing this job, so Lao Wang's family still lives in the courtyard after so many years. The origin of Dazayuan in the capital is relatively complicated. In the early years, Dazayuan was still a quadrangle courtyard. It is the residence of landlords, compradors, and wealthy families. In the past, these families who could live in two or three courtyards were called Dazhaimen.

Later, New China established a new regime through an armed revolution. In order to realize the promise made during the war, the government subsequently carried out a redistribution of social wealth. Land reform and economic reform were launched, and the 95% of the country's land and wealth originally controlled by 5% of the country's population were evenly distributed to the poor, poor, and 80% of the country's population. In the hands of a nation of small yeoman farmers and small artisans.

At the same time, because New China is a government organization that has gained national dominance through armed and violent revolutions, it is not dependent on foreign forces. It directly confiscated a large amount of foreign capital, and resolutely refused to recognize any humiliating treaties signed by the previous regime.

This is completely different from the former colonial countries in modern society where non-violent revolutions have been negotiated for national independence. These countries are still under the influence of the suzerain country, and the industries and power of the suzerain country have also been well preserved in the former colonial countries, and even go further.

The courtyard where Lao Wang lived used to be the office of the Western Company in the capital of China, and the owner seemed to be a European dignitary named Richard or something.

A few years ago, there was a joke that the descendant of Richard did very poorly in Europe, and his life was not as good as every day. Later, when I searched through the relics of my great-grandfather Richard one day, I actually found Richard’s real estate in a courtyard house in the Chinese capital. This European descendant is smiling.

Who doesn't know how expensive housing prices are in China's capital now, and the prices of high-rise buildings are so expensive. If this kind of courtyard house with more than 400 square meters in the third ring can be sold, it will be a sky-high price, tens of millions of yuan, and rich people are rushing to buy it.

This descendant of Richard hurriedly brought the real estate certificate and various documents left by his great-grandfather back then, and wanted to come to the capital to receive this property that belonged to him.

"If you want me to tell you, that guy called Richard III is also delusional. He wanted to take over the real estate of the new People's Republic of China with a document stamped by the former Qing Shuntian Mansion. He also ate a bear Xin Leopard is terrified. Why didn't he ask Aixinjueluo why his family doesn't live in the Forbidden City."

The old Wangtou Wang Ruian is very talkative, and he seems very happy when he talks about the interesting things about the small courtyard where he lives.

Qin Kuairen asked jokingly, "What happened to Richard III later?"

"Hey, what else can I do? People in the housing management bureau don't like to talk to him. After hanging him out for a few days, he is still not convinced and wants to find a lawyer. Don't tell me, the lawyers in our country are lucky to have no brains. The car was run over, and no one took his lawsuit. But my son said that some netizens on the Internet still support Richard. He said that this is his family's ancestral property, and we should return it to him. Hey, a group of grandchildren who eat inside and outside You bastard, I don’t know my last name after two days of full food. Don’t show up in front of me, I’ll chop them to death with a shovel.”

Old Wangtou spoke directly and vulgarly, but the old men in the capital, especially those who lived at the bottom, really had this temper. If you are interested in his appetite and temper, there is nothing to say about his goodness, and it is a matter of patting your chest to help you with three meals a day.

If you don't have the right temper or even hate you, then don't fight and teach, because you will fight if you can't say a word.

"Come on, Professor Barton. This is the yard where our family lives. It used to be a big family, but Jianguo confiscated the properties of foreigners. This yard was divided among six families. Our family is divided into the south room. A large house is about 20 square meters, and a small house is 10 square meters. The kitchen is shared in the compound, and the toilet was renovated by the municipal government a few years ago to build a toilet for each of us.”

The house type of the courtyard house was originally surrounded by houses, the houses were surrounded by walls, and there was a large empty yard in the middle. Raise fish and flowers in the yard. However, there are many people living in the courtyard, and the living area is not enough for everyone, so everyone will ask for the area of ​​the public space of the courtyard.

The six families built a small house of about 20 square meters in the middle of the yard, which is the public kitchen of the six families. Six stoves, six water pipes, everyone cooks here.

In the westernmost corner of the courtyard is a row of obviously newly built houses. The house looks like a simple mobile toilet that is often seen outside. There are six cubicles in total. This is the new toilet that the municipal renovation gave to the building. It’s not very good, but at least it solves the trouble of going out of the yard to find a public toilet on the road in winter.

Once these two buildings were placed in the yard, there was basically no room left in the yard.

"Old Wang left work so early today, and he brought friends back." A neighbor in the yard who just got off work early in the morning was squatting at the door and brushing his teeth.

"Hey, Lao Huang, you are so ugly. Today I brought two professors from foreign universities to experience the customs and customs of the people in our old capital. You should have a good face." Lao Wang pointed and followed him Behind Barton et al.

Lao Huang, who was brushing his toothbrush with foam in his mouth, glanced at Patton: "Hey, there are foreign friends. Then I'll wipe it off. After finishing speaking, I rinsed my mouth with tap water and spit it out on the only banyan tree left in the yard." underground.

Old Wang looked at it and shook his head. This is an embarrassment to the old capital people. It made the university professor think that the old capital people have this quality.

"Professor Button, don't worry about it. Old Huang is just like that. He's used to being lazy. Aren't all people in the old capital as unqualified as him." Old Wang couldn't help explaining.

Professor Patton responded through Qin Kuairen's translation: "It's nothing, the people's livelihood and people's conditions are different in different places. There is no such thing as quality or quality. I am more curious about how many families you live together are not crowded?"

"Hey, it's crowded or not. The old neighbors of decades are used to it. Come to Professor Button, please come here. Wife, come out and buy some good wine and food. We have guests at home tonight, so make some good ones." Yes!" Lao Wang yelled in the small courtyard, and everyone in the small courtyard found that an unusual guest had come to Lao Wang's house today.