Siheyuan: Game of Red Dust

Chapter 97 Planning of the Siheyuan
"Brother-in-law, when did you buy the courtyard house? Where is it? Take me to see it!" Zhou Xiaobai said impatiently after hearing what Li Weidong said.

"I was just about to take your sister there. I just bought it and haven't packed it yet." Li Weidong said.

"Brother-in-law, let's go quickly. There will be more of us there, so we can clean up quickly." Zhou Xiaobai urged.

"Okay, let's go now. Let's go to the courtyard and take a look first." As he said that, Li Weidong pushed his bicycle out of the guard group, and Zhou Xiaolin and other girls followed him.

Li Weidong led the women in front, and soon they arrived at the gate of the newly purchased courtyard house. Li Weidong got off his bicycle, opened the door, and pushed his bicycle inside. Zhou Xiaolin and the others followed him in.

After entering the gate and parking the bicycle aside, Li Weidong took the girls on a tour.

After the tour, Zhou Xiaobai couldn't wait to say, "Brother-in-law, I want to pick a house to live in."

Li Weidong nodded in agreement and said, "Okay, no problem, you can pick one yourself when the time comes."

At this time, Wang Xinyi and Yang Ruoxi said in unison: "I want one too!"

After the two exchanged glances, Wang Xinyi said to Li Weidong, "Head, we don't need to allocate rooms later. We can just pick a room each from your yard. That's equivalent to allocating rooms."

Li Weidong quickly said, "No, this is something I bought privately, not from our institute."

"Then we won't care. You figure it out yourself. If it doesn't work, you can just deduct the money for the two of us from the money allocated for housing at the institute. Don't worry, I'll ask the finance department to deduct it for you when we get here. It's settled!" After Wang Xinyi finished speaking, she took Yang Ruoxi to choose a room.

Zhou Xiaolin walked up to Li Weidong and twisted his waist.

"You just want to attract attention. Humph!"

Zhou Xiaolin also followed him in to find a room.

"Hey! No, what does this have to do with me! Alas, excellent men are just so troubled!" Li Weidong said aggrievedly, and then became narcissistic again.

"No, don't go in and choose yet. I haven't told you about the renovation plan yet! It won't be like this after the renovation. What's the point of you choosing now?" Li Weidong quickly stopped them.

"Brother Dong, let's forget it. I think this house is pretty good. Let's not waste that money." Zhou Xiaolin turned around and said with a distressed look on her face.

Li Weidong said seriously, "Xiaolin, how can that be? This is where we'll be living for the long term, so we definitely need to renovate it. These rooms haven't been occupied for a long time, and we don't know if there will be any problems. We need to renovate them to be safe and comfortable. Listen to me on this matter."

Wang Xinyi, Yang Ruoxi and Zhou Xiaobai also ran out and listened to the conversation between Zhou Xiaolin and Li Weidong.

"Yes, Xiaolin, you have to listen to Weidong on this matter. If the money is not enough, I still have some. I will give it to you when the time comes." Wang Xinyi said.

"I have it too, but I don't need it for now. I'll give it to you when I get back." Yang Ruoxi also said.

Seeing this, Zhou Xiaolin quickly waved to the two of them. "Thank you, Sister Xinyi and Sister Ruoxi, but it's not necessary. We have money. I just feel a little bad about it. It will cost a lot of money." Zhou Xiaolin quickly explained.

"Sister, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you're just stingy. When you're at home, you never buy me anything. Even when we're at my brother-in-law's house, you're reluctant to let him spend any money. Why do you keep so much money? Isn't money meant to be spent?" Zhou Xiaobai said to Zhou Xiaolin in an educational tone.

As soon as Zhou Xiaobai finished speaking, Zhou Xiaolin exploded.

"You silly girl, try saying it to me again?" Zhou Xiaolin said as she walked towards Zhou Xiaobai.

Frightened, Zhou Xiaobai quickly hid behind Li Weidong, hugged Li Weidong's arm, and said coquettishly, "Brother-in-law, please take care of my sister. She wants to bully me again."

Li Weidong watched the two sisters' quarrel with a smile and said, "Okay, Xiaolin, the little girl is still young, what does she know? Is our Xiaolin stingy? She knows how to manage life. I am lucky to marry a wife who knows how to manage life so well. Come, let me tell you what this yard looks like after the renovation."

As he said that, he pulled Zhou Xiaolin to the front yard, and Wang Xinyi, Yang Ruoxi, and Zhou Xiaobai followed.

"Xiaolin, I plan to renovate the back house in the front yard into six guest rooms. There will be a small bathroom behind each guest room. This way, when friends come to our house in the future, they can stay overnight." Li Weidong took out the design drawings that had been prepared long ago from his briefcase, told Zhou Xiaolin about the plan for the front yard, and then took Zhou Xiaolin to the middle yard.

"Xiaolin, look at these east and west wing rooms and the side room. I plan to connect them. Enter through the doors of the east and west wing rooms, then the living room, and then build two bedrooms on each side, and then build a bathroom here in the side room.

Next, I plan to connect the main house with the east wing. The living room is right after the main door, and the west wing will be converted into a study, and the east wing will be converted into our bedroom. I'll also build a bathroom in the east wing. The west wing of the main house won't be connected, so I plan to build a kitchen there, and we can cook there.

As for the backyard, we'll renovate it into seven rooms, each with a small bathroom behind it. "When our children grow up, they can live there, or when our parents come over, they can stay there too," Li Weidong explained to Zhou Xiaolin.

After listening to Li Weidong's introduction, Zhou Xiaolin felt that Li Weidong's design was very good, but then she thought of something and asked Li Weidong:
"Brother Dong, why are there so many bedrooms in the east and west wings? Who wants to live here?"

"Hehe, this is not the house we buy. Do Sister Xueru and Sister Huizhen know about it? They told me on the day we bought the house and asked me to leave two rooms for them." Li Weidong touched his head and said softly to Zhou Xiaolin.

Zhou Xiaolin rolled her eyes at him, knowing this would happen. She then turned to Li Weidong and asked, "Brother Dong, when are you going to start the renovations? And who are you going to hire to do it?"

"I haven't decided yet. I plan to go to Mr. Niu and ask if there is anyone who specializes in repairing this kind of ancient building. If not, I can only find the street engineering team." Li Weidong replied.

"Brother Dong, then you go ahead and let's clean up the yard." Zhou Xiaolin said.

"Okay, then you just need to pack up simply. Be careful and don't move big things. Wait for me to come back. I will be back soon." Li Weidong said.

"Okay, don't worry. Go quickly!" Zhou Xiaolin said.

Li Weidong nodded and pushed his bicycle to find Uncle Niu.

After Li Weidong left, Zhou Xiaolin and the others started to clean up the yard.

(End of this chapter)