Era: Starting from divorce from female college student

Chapter 85, House Problem

In Courtyard No. 18 of Huguo Temple, Zhao Mancang pushed his bicycle into the yard.

After he sent Lin Wan home, he was praised by the neighbors in Heizhima Hutong.

If you don’t know, you would think he has a very good relationship with these neighbors.

After wasting some time in Heizhima Hutong, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening when Zhao Mancang returned to Huguo Temple.

Even though it was so late, Courtyard No. 18 was still quite lively.

Zhao Mancang thought it had something to do with him, but when he came over from the main hall and stood on the corridor at the edge of the central courtyard, he listened to the neighbors' discussion for a while and found that it had nothing to do with him.

It cannot be said that there is no connection at all, because Aunt Luo, Wei Hongzhou, and Uncle Feng were discussing the issue of housing.

The situation is that housing in Beijing has become increasingly tight in recent days.

Today, the subdistrict office also sent people to the Huguo Temple. All the courtyard houses near No. 18 Courtyard, as long as they were still vacant, were arranged to have people move in.

Since 1949, houses in Beijing are basically divided into public housing and private housing.

Let’s not talk about public housing, let’s talk about private properties. As long as you can produce property certificates from before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Housing Management Office will reissue a new property certificate.

These private properties can be bought and sold freely and are not regulated.

And the land as well, all belong to individuals.

However, the current situation is that many of these private properties have been "persuaded" by the street office to rent instead of sell, and the houses have been arranged clearly.

The reason is very simple. Houses are very expensive and many people today cannot afford them.

The price of a courtyard house of one or two hundred square meters is at least one thousand yuan, and it also depends on the location, decoration, etc.

Today, when the average salary is only 30 or 40 yuan, not many people can afford it.

People in high-income groups like writers and professors bought houses early on, so they naturally have no shortage of housing.

But the problem is that after 1953, the domestic industrialization process accelerated rapidly, and the population of Beijing has increased rapidly in the past five years.

An increase in population will naturally lead to insufficient housing for many people.

Even so, many professors and experts were forced to live outside the city, such as Peking University. Otherwise, houses in the city would be even more scarce.

The contradictions are increasing and becoming more prominent. When something like this happened today, the neighbors who like to gossip gathered together to discuss it.

Zhao Mancang had long wanted to buy a house and renovate it because of the toilet problem.

Compared with those tube-shaped buildings, cadre buildings, etc., Zhao Mancang prefers the courtyard house.

Not to mention the tube-shaped buildings, the cadre buildings are actually I-shaped buildings full of Moscow style, a bit similar to the university teaching buildings and dormitories of Harbin Institute of Technology in later generations.

The corridor is in the middle of the building, with dormitories or classrooms on both sides. In this way, once the heating is turned on, the whole building will be warm.

Zhao Mancang is from the south, so of course he is not used to such buildings.

However, he still likes the courtyard houses in Beijing very much. Apart from the extraordinary value that has been touted in later generations, it is also very good because it is like a house in the countryside.

Therefore, the courtyard house in Beijing is definitely the most suitable house. Whether in this era or in the future, it is a very good house.

Except that the south-facing house has poor lighting, the lighting of other houses, as well as the layout of the yard, are definitely very attractive.

After listening for a while, Zhao Mancang felt a little anxious. It seemed that he could not delay any longer and had to buy a house as soon as possible.

However, the problem is that he has no money at all now.

What to do? Although his current salary is 148.2 yuan per month, it is not even the 24th yet. Even if he receives this month's salary, he still needs at least 1,000 yuan to buy a courtyard house.

Based on his current salary, it would take at least seven or eight months to save up one thousand yuan.

"Fuck, why is it so hard for me to just lie down and do nothing?"

In order to avoid trouble, Zhao Mancang never thought about going to Pigeon City.

But now it seems that I have no choice but to go.

And he has to spend some experience points to do it.

"Full warehouse is back"

It was not until Zhao Mancang pushed his bicycle and asked his neighbors to lend him space that everyone realized he had returned.

For a moment, no one discussed the house, but instead enthusiastically tried to please Zhao Mancang.

Wei Hongzhou was originally a seventh-level mechanical worker at the steel plant. He only found out this afternoon that his neighbor Zhao Mancang had become a tenth-level attending physician and was receiving two salaries.

This news was truly unbelievable for Wei Hongzhou.

However, when he returned to Courtyard No. 18, he still informed everyone of the news.

After a few perfunctory polite remarks, Zhao Mancang hurried back to his room to wash up and go to bed.

He had nothing much to talk about with these neighbors.

Even if he doesn't speak, as long as it involves his affairs, his neighbors will become experience value tools.

However, he has no intention of earning experience points now, because the experience points gained by his neighbors are just a drop in the bucket and not enough!
His mind is now full of making money to buy a house.

If you go to Pigeon Market to do business, in this era it means speculation, which is a crime.

Therefore, if he wanted to try his luck in Pigeon City, he not only needed to conserve his energy, but also needed to give himself some points and increase his fighting power first.

For him, who had never been to Pigeon City, Pigeon City was still a little too unfamiliar.

In order to avoid trouble, to avoid being caught or discovered, he had no choice but to resort to this last resort.

Improve your military strength to be prepared for any eventuality!

"What are you bragging about? It's just two salaries. Look how cocky he is."

Outside the door of the east wing, Jin Wendong, who was already envious and jealous, saw that Zhao Mancang didn't pay any attention to anyone, and immediately said indignantly.

The Jin family has a grudge against Zhao Mancang. Jin Wendong’s younger brother Jin Wenliang is still in labor reform and is expected to be released in two months.

Unlike the Huang family, the Jin family is not so reckless as to keep provoking Zhao Mancang.

Like Jin Wendong, although he was also unhappy with Zhao Mancang, he remained calm and did not easily conflict with Zhao Mancang.

Mei Chunyan snorted, "If you have the guts, why don't you get two salaries like Brother Zhao?"

She was very protective of Zhao Mancang, and everyone in the yard knew about it. Jin Wendong was so angry that his face turned pale and blue.

If he had such ability, why would he squeeze into the west wing of the backyard with his parents and brothers?
Zhao Mancang fell asleep as soon as he got into bed and had no idea about these things. At 3:30 in the morning, the alarm clock woke him up on time.

After getting up, he washed up simply and looked at the yard. It was unusually quiet.

Without staying for long, Zhao Mancang pushed his bicycle and went out quietly.

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