Siheyuan: I stand for Xu Damao because he is my brother

"That's right. Look at our neighbor. He's so unlucky."

Of course, his house and Liu Haizhong’s house are separated by only a wall.

I wonder if you still remember that in the past, the women of the wealthy families in this courtyard all lived in the last courtyard, and those who were particularly wealthy would even build a back building.

But their courtyard was built in the style of No. 51 in Shijia Hutong, with an extra row of houses built inside the third courtyard.

So strictly speaking, their yard should have four courtyards.

That is to say, the backyard is not symmetrical like the central courtyard of Sha Zhu and his family. It has a main house, an ear room, and east and west wing rooms.

Their backyard is actually two rows of houses.

The row of houses in the middle is actually the real three-courtyard house, and Xu Damao's family lives in the northern house.

Next to them lived Yang Sao, Lao Qi's family, Liu Gen...

Later, when Xu Dacan got married, Lou Xiao'e used houses elsewhere to exchange for these three houses and gave them to Xu Dacan and Liu Yueru as their wedding house.

When the earthquake occurred in 77, Xu Dacan expanded the house further and connected it directly with the three northern rooms of Xu Damao's house.

They occupied a section of the corridor and built an extra kitchen on the vacant space.

"..."

On the right side of this row of houses, there is a corridor, and from here is the last row of houses adjacent to the alley outside.

That is actually the four-courtyard house.

This row of houses is inhabited by Liu Haizhong's family and Liu Yuanyuan's family. At the beginning, it was similar to Xu Damao's row of houses, with several families living there, but later they all moved away one after another.

Who would want to be Liu Haizhong's neighbor if he is a good person?

His reputation had long been tainted, stinking throughout the steel mill, the streets, the alleys, and the entire compound...

And his two sons, the eldest has been in jail, and the second one is a swindler!

If Liu Yuanyuan's family hadn't been really short of money, they would have moved out long ago.

Now, apart from Fang Rou who lives in the ear room in the backyard, there are only four families left: Xu Damao, Xu Dacan, Liu Haizhong and Liu Yuanyuan.

Especially Xu Damao's family, it can be said that they almost monopolized the entire three courtyards.

There is no need to say much about the relationship between Xu Lao Da, Xu Lao Er and Liu Haizhong. From 66 to now, they have been shitting on Liu Haizhong's head.

Liu Haizhong was frightened by the two brothers, so he learned his lesson and kept silent; but he dared to provoke Liu Yuanyuan's family. He has two sons, each one is worse than the other, and they have bullied his family over the years!

"..."

Liu Yuanyuan's family discussed: "Should we ask Liu Yueru if she likes our house? If not, we can take a loss and sell it to her for 1800 instead of 1700!"

To be honest, when their family came to see Liu Yueru, she was a little confused.

As the saying goes, you can't write two Liu characters with one stroke, but there are too many people with the surname Liu in their backyard.

But unlike the weeds in the bangs, Liu Yuanyuan's family has a pretty good relationship with Xu Dacan's family.

Liu Yuanyuan and Liu Jiacheng, the brother and sister, also grew up under Xu Dacan's care.

Today, Lao Liu suddenly came to her and said he wanted to sell the house. Liu Yueru thought that their family had encountered difficulties, so she hurriedly comforted him and said, "Lao Liu, don't worry, tell me if you have anything to say."

Old Liu scratched his forehead embarrassedly: "Nothing else, I just heard that you bought Yan Jiecheng and He Yushui's houses, so I wanted to ask you what you think of our two houses..."

Liu Yueru understood now that they simply wanted to take the money and leave.

Their two houses are real big houses, with the same area as Liu Haizhong's house. They are not the "wide houses" surrounded by four pillars like Yan Jiecheng's.

Do you remember the concept of width? It means the space between two pillars when standing outside the house. This is called "2 room".

So why do people always ask how so many people can live in such a small courtyard?

2 pillars make up one room. How many houses can be counted in this row of houses?

For example, Yan Jiecheng and his family live in one room, so why can't it accommodate so many people?

Strictly speaking, Liu Yuanyuan's house should be called "two and a half rooms".

If Xu Dacan wants to take over the entire yard, he must take over all the big houses of five families, including his, Liu Haizhong, Sha Zhu, Yi Zhonghai, and Qin Huairu. Only then can this yard be truly in his hands.

As for that old fellow Yan Bugui, the house converted from a shabby private school could not influence the situation at all.

Liu Yueru appeared calm on the surface, but her heart rate was actually very fast.

She made a cup of tea for Lao Liu, forced herself to calm down, and asked casually, "Name a price."

Old Liu held the teacup in his hand, not daring to look Liu Yueru in the eye, and said hesitantly, "Yes, or how about we go with Yan Jiecheng's price? What do you think?"

Liu Yueru hesitated for a moment and decided, "Okay, 2000. I'll give you 4000 in total. Don't think I'm taking advantage of you, okay?"

If she were to check Lao Liu's pulse right now, she would definitely be able to hear a "General's Order" from his pulse...

Old Liu was so nervous that he couldn't speak: "This, this, you are not considering it, ah, have you considered it? Do you want to discuss it with Xu Dacan again?"

His psychological price is 1700...

Liu Yueru smiled and said, "We have lived next door to each other for so many years. It would hurt our relationship if we were to calculate it clearly. It's 4000. I'll decide! If you think it's appropriate, feel free to come with me to complete the formalities."

"..."

A few days later, the situation that Liu Hai least wanted to see happened.

Liu Yuanyuan's family started moving happily!

He hurriedly went to ask someone and found out that his family had sold the house to Liu Yueru for 4000 yuan!

When Liu Yuanyuan's father saw Liu Haizhong, he made a disgusted "Pah". He had endured it for so many years and finally he didn't have to endure the bullshit of this bastard anymore.

Liu Yuanyuan's family moved in the morning, and in the afternoon Liu Yueru came with the property title deed to take possession of the house.

Liu Haizhong watched helplessly as Xu Dacan, Liu Yueru, Xu Yao, Xu Fei, Xu Wenwen, and Xu Wenyue; and that "little chicken" held his and Xu Yao's son...

With this big family coming at him with such force, Liu Haizhong felt that his later years were going to be more miserable.

It is said that raising sons is a good way to prepare for old age. He has three sons, but what is the result?

If parents are not kind and children are unfilial, there will not even be anyone to carry the coffin in the future. The deaf old lady's words came true!

Seeing Xu Dacan and his family inspecting the house, the second aunt was very anxious: "Why don't you say something!"

Liu Haizhong was very annoyed: "I say, what are you talking about? Look at other people's sons, and then look at what I gave birth to?"

The second aunt was speechless...

They couldn't beat them. In 66, all their family members, young and old, couldn't beat Xu Dacan and Xu Damao.