Grandpa, your granddaughter and her grandson-in-law are wearing it back.

Although the Zhang family helped to look after the house and had made some repairs to it, it had not been occupied for many years. If they were to live there now, they still had to clean it up.

The courtyard with four entrances is very large, but if you want to live there, you can only live in the courtyard with three entrances. The courtyard with one entrance is the back house, gatehouse and garage.

After entering the hanging flower gate, there is the second courtyard. The main room is the reception room, the left is the ear room, and the right is the door leading to the third courtyard, which is the inner courtyard.

The east wing of the second courtyard is a study and tea room, and the west wing is used as a pharmacy and a small clinic. After all, the Ji family is a medical family, so they still need a place to see a doctor and get medicine.

The entire courtyard showed signs of renovation, but except for the exquisitely carved screen wall at the entrance, which showed that this was once a house where a very respectable family lived, everything else was dilapidated.

Restoration is not something that can be completed in a short time. Ye Jinhua and Mu Yunzheng can only go and see if the inner courtyard can be cleaned up and lived in. If not, they can only look for other courtyards, and the old house will be uninhabitable.

Fortunately, the rooms in the inner courtyard are still intact, with three main rooms and two east and west wing rooms. The east wing can be lived in, and the west wing has been converted into a small kitchen and dining room.

It’s not a problem to clean up a few rooms to live in. Even the floor heating is in good condition. However, it’s not winter now, so it can’t be used for the time being.

Ye Jinhua and the other person started to clean up, taking out cleaning tools from the space. They first swept away the cobwebs and dust on the beams, and then cleared all the damaged furniture out of the room and piled them in the yard.

Then he used water to wipe the doors and windows inside and outside the house, as well as the remaining usable tables and chairs. After cleaning up the dust, Ye Jinhua took out new furniture and beds from the space.

These things were picked up from Wang Chunsheng before, and they came in handy now.

These tasks could not be completed in one day by two people, so Mu Yunzheng took two more days off and cleaned up the entire three-courtyard together with Ye Jinhua. Looking at the brand new courtyard, Ye Jinhua felt extremely satisfied and was looking forward to reuniting with his family as soon as possible.

During this period, Mr. Song came to the old house once. He came here specifically because he heard that people were coming in and out frequently recently.

Seeing the place where he used to live, now in such a dilapidated state, filled him with mixed emotions. He had grown up here, and recalling the time he spent with his master and fellow apprentices as a child, tears welled up in his eyes.

"Grandpa Song, don't be sad. My grandparents will be returning to Beijing soon, and you will be able to reunite then."

"Yes, yes, that's good. Junior brother and sister are finally coming back. That's good." Old Song wiped away the tears that rolled down his eyes and said happily.

"By the way, if you want to renovate this house, I'll find someone for you. His family has been making a living by renovating yards for generations. It's a family craft."

"That's great! I was just wondering where to find a craftsman like this." Ye Jinhua was very happy to hear that. They lived in the third courtyard at the back and could go in and out through the back door without delaying the renovation of the front courtyard.

Old Song arranged for the time for people to come and then went back. His junior brothers and sisters were coming back, and he still had a lot of things to prepare.

Originally, he planned to introduce his eldest son to Jinhua and talk about pharmaceutical matters, but Ye Jinhua got busy and delayed it.

Grandpa Ye is coming soon, so let's meet then. By the way, Baozhu also said that he will come back to visit relatives in a few days, so it's a good opportunity to meet him. He heard that the Ye family will bring a grandson over.

Ye Jinhua never thought of telling Old Song that they knew Song Baozhu. One reason was that there was no connection between Song Baozhu and her elder brother, so she couldn't tell him. The other reason was that she had a lot of things to do and really forgot.

A few days later, the craftsman introduced by Mr. Song came to the door.

Ye Jinhua looked at the three generations of people in front of him and sighed, "It's indeed a family craft." Old Song said that the family's surname was Fang.

The old man looked older than Grandpa Ye, but he was in good spirits. The middle-aged man looked to be around fifty years old, and at first glance he was an honest man. The young man was probably only twenty-five or twenty-six years old at most, and very steady.

"Old Song said that you don't need to rush to build this house, and you can just take your time to finish it. I didn't bring too many people with me, as this matter is not something that should be publicized, so only a few of us came."

After hearing what the old man said, Ye Jinhua understood. After all, the event had not yet passed, and there was no telling when chaos would break out again. It was always better to be careful.

Originally, Ye Jinhua was worried that it would be difficult for Mr. Fang to do this job at such an old age. But after he started working, Ye Jinhua realized that he was short-sighted.

She thought that repairing a house meant just patching up the damaged parts, but professionals didn't realize that repairing means restoration, which means basically returning the house to its original state after repair.

They are skilled workers, not simple craftsmen.

Old Master Fang said that he came to the Ji family to renovate the house when he was young. It seems that he knows this house better than Old Master Song, Grandpa Ye and Grandma Ye who have lived here for more than ten or twenty years.

Old Man Fang remembers everything clearly, including what tiles are used in each house, what paintings are painted on each wall, and what flowers and plants are planted in each garden.

Ye Jinhua was simply full of admiration.

"Haha, the ability to eat is no big deal, haha, no big deal." Although he said it was no big deal, the proud expression on his face did not seem fake.

Old Master Fang also told Ye Jinhua that as long as it was a house with a name in the capital, he knew everything about it.

Ye Jinhua wanted to make friends with him. After all, there would be a lot of work to do in the future to renovate the house. There were several houses in their own family, so she decided to let this family do it slowly.

So he paid the three of them 200 yuan a month, with working hours according to that of a normal factory. Ye Jinhua also paid for the materials separately, and would provide them with three meals a day after they moved in. They had to take care of their own meals for the next few days.

Yes, Ye Jinhua also cleaned up a room for himself and decided to live there during the time when his grandparents were around and he didn't have to go to the military area.

Mu Yunzheng also agreed. He has been very busy recently and doesn't spend much time at home. In a few days, after picking up a few elderly people, he will have to go to Tang City and Jin City to take part in the national earthquake drill.

He and Ye Jinhua both attached great importance to this matter. In the last letter home, Liu Guiying said that she had reproduced the recipe of instant noodles. Now it was a problem of equipment. Ye Jianguo and Ye Jinyi were already researching it.

Everything is moving in the right direction.

Ye Jinhua thought of another important strategic material, compressed biscuits. He would find time to go to the biscuit factory to see if current technology could achieve this.

Ye Jinhua felt that no matter what it was, she had to first dare to think about it, and then do it in combination with reality. As long as she had a clear goal, she believed that nothing would be difficult for her, not to mention that she had Mu Yunzheng and her family behind her to support her.