Years: Salted fish life since going to the countryside.

Chapter 842 The House That Will Disappear in the Future
Happy times are always short. Han Li has rested for more than two weeks without realizing it. It would be really unreasonable if he didn't go to school and show up in front of the teacher this week.

On Monday morning, Han Li came back from practicing boxing outside and had breakfast with his family. He rode his bicycle with Yun Yingying, followed by He Mi and Hou Yuhua, and the four of them started going to school together again.

Han Li arrived at school and met with Teacher Niu first. After receiving some instructions, he returned to the classroom.

After returning to the classroom, the classmates naturally greeted each other for a while. Finally, Han Li once again rejected the deputy monitor's suggestion to hand over the class affairs to him, saying that he had to review and prepare for the exam.

From that day on, Han Li, apart from listening carefully to the public classes and taking complete notes, spent most of his time mechanically flipping through books.

(In this era, you must listen carefully to public courses regardless of whether you are preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination or not, and make sure your score is not too low.

Because this course mainly talks about **selected topics, the latest current political affairs and related policies. If you don't listen carefully and get a bad grade, it means that your thinking and cognition are not up to standard, and at the very least you will be reviewed again)

Every morning, Han Li would be in the classroom. After having lunch with Yun Yingying, He Mi and others, he would move to the library. No matter whether he was sitting in the classroom or the library, he would basically hold a book, lower his head and read very seriously.

In fact, Han Li was in this state because he put his mental energy into the more than 30 square meters of yellow sand in the vast peach garden.

Here, firewood, charcoal and medicine pots are controlled by mental power to prepare the medicinal materials for commonly used items such as "Stretching Pain Relief Ointment", "Skin Rejuvenation Cream" and "Strength Pills" bit by bit.

When the school bell rang, Han Li reunited with Yun Yingying and the others, chatting and laughing as they went home together.

But the days of riding a bicycle happily and freely through the streets had to come to an end as the wind and sand became increasingly strong.

Once the yellow sand in the old city blows up, even if you are fully equipped with sunglasses, headscarf and mask, you will be covered in sand after riding around. To exaggerate a little, there will be two cents of sand in your saliva, and if you blow a big nose, it can be used to build a flight of stairs.

Not only is this dirty and tiring, the key is that they can't ride their bikes and chat like they used to. All they can do is pedal hard to get on with their journey.

So Han Li and his friends changed to taking the bus to school, and each of them bought a monthly ticket.

The monthly tickets in this era were also very simple, divided into four types: city, suburban, student, and employee.

The monthly pass for students in the city is 3 yuan per month, and the monthly pass for employees is 4 yuan per month.

In order to make it easier to distinguish between the two monthly tickets, urban and suburban, the monthly tickets for suburban buses are printed with the word "General". The monthly ticket price for students is 4 yuan per month, and the monthly ticket price for employees is 5 yuan per month.

Although Han Li and other college students are big and old, they can still enjoy the benefits of student monthly tickets with their student ID cards.
In this way, Han Li and his friends began to squeeze into the bus every day, riding two super-large buses connected together to travel between Mianhua Hutong and Yanda.

But there are all kinds of situations on suburban buses. Passengers with chickens, ducks, cats, sheep, and dogs are also allowed to get on the bus, which makes the bus smell very bad. Fortunately, the temperature is still low and it is not the worst season yet.

However, Han Li and his friends had arranged to stagger their school hours slightly with the peak travel times, and as the bus was heading to the suburbs, they did not encounter any overcrowding.

But since they started taking the bus to school, they spend more time commuting on the road every day.

They could ride bicycles through the streets and alleys to get home (to school) in less than an hour, but now it takes at least an hour and a half to take the bus. If something else happens, the time will be longer, and this does not include the time for reversing.

Even if you ride a bicycle and take the bus on the same route, the bus cannot catch up with the bicycle.

Not to mention that it costs 16 yuan per month for four people to go to school by bus. With this money, according to the current rent, you can rent a very nice small Western-style house even in Dongjiaomin Lane. So after taking the bus for two days, Han Li became more and more unhappy.

So during class time, Han Li once again went to the supply and marketing cooperative he had been to some time ago and found the saleswoman who had promised to help him find a house last time.

Last time Han Li was trying his luck, simply relying on his appearance and his good words. This time when he came, the saleswoman brought a cloth bag of dried black fungus, hazel mushrooms and other mountain products.

With the triple attack of face recognition, sweet talk and gifts, the saleswoman helped Han Li find out the information about the two houses on the third day.

One is a dilapidated two-story building on the east side of the north road of Yan University. It is said to have been built by a very famous professor in the 30s. The house is large and the courtyard is large, but the disadvantage is that it is too remote and requires major renovations if you want to move in.

The second one is the south gate of Yanda University, a small courtyard at the west end of Laohudong Hutong, southeast of Junjichu Hutong. The three small rooms in the north and the two large rooms in the east were originally the storefront. There is a shed to the west, and there is a dry toilet in the courtyard, so you don’t have to squeeze into the public toilet with others every day. (Don’t check, these two alleys are almost gone now, and even if there are still remnants, the layout has changed a lot.)
Junjichu Hutong and Laohudong Hutong have some history. During the reign of the former Pseudo-dynasty Emperor, a royal garden called Changchun Garden was built near the current Yanda University to "avoid the hustle and bustle and govern the country."

During the tenth year of the Tang Dynasty, the Eight-Nation Alliance burned down not only the Old Summer Palace, but also Changchun Garden, a place where people could avoid the hustle and bustle of the country and govern the country.

In the previous pseudo-dynasty period, when the emperor came here to "avoid the hustle and bustle and govern the country", the royal relatives, loyal farmers, and important ministers had to follow him so that they could enjoy the grace of heaven at any time.

However, the royal relatives and Manchu ministers built large courtyards here.

But the Han officials could not do that. They could only build a small courtyard so that they could respond to the emperor's call at any time. The alley where these Han officials built the courtyard was called Junjichu Alley.

There were royal relatives and some ministers here, and many merchants opened shops here. This place is called Laohudong Hutong, but it got its name because those merchants placed a tiger statue at the entrance of the alley to ward off evil.

At the beginning, there were really many businesses on both sides of the Tiger Cave, including all kinds of tea houses, teahouses, wine shops, cake shops, pharmacies, and restaurants, and high-end shops occupied the majority.

After listening to the saleswoman talking about the two houses, Han Li thought that he should not buy the run-down two-story building, as it was different from buying a courtyard house in the city.

After Han Li buys the courtyard house, he can leave it there. After the country introduces housing commercialization in two years, he can decorate and tidy it up however he wants.

However, Han Li wanted to move into the house near Yan University immediately, and buying and renovating the house together would be a bit too eye-catching.

Now all that’s left is this small courtyard in Laohu Hutong. Although this place will be demolished in the future, I won’t need to live here anymore by then, and I can rent out a few houses when the house is demolished.

So Han Li followed the saleswoman to Tiger Hutong to take a look at the house. How should I put it? The layout of the house was similar to the one he bought when he worked at the Northeast County Hospital. The yard was incomparable, except that there was an extra water pipe here.

However, this house is really close to Yanda University. It only takes a few minutes to walk home after exiting the South Gate.

Moreover, there was actually a kang in the house, which surprised Han Li very much.

You know, although Sijiu City is in the north, there are not many rooms with kangs.

This is because the coal quota allocated to each household in previous years was too small. In the two years with the lowest quota, it was not easy to keep warm at night, except for the daily cooking needs. People could only watch the stove go out in the middle of the night.

After that, there were several consecutive rat extermination activities. The kang that could not be burned became the best hiding place for rats, which led most people to dismantle their kangs.

Why not burn firewood? Since the pseudo-dynasty period, except for those owned hills and royal gardens that could barely remain green, the rest of the city was almost completely bare, including the hills on the other side of the Badaling Great Wall, because most of the trees in other places were cut down and used as firewood.

As for those royal gardens and main hilltops, who dares to go in and chop wood? If you are caught, your entire clan will be killed without any discussion.

During the reign of Little Red Dot and Bald Man, these royal gardens were also treated as places for their own enjoyment, and no one dared to come and chop wood.

If ordinary people want to make a fire and cook, they can only buy it. Whether it is selling coal or firewood, the owners behind it are not ordinary people.

Even if the former pseudo-dynasty was changed to a little red dot and then to a bald head, the same principle would apply. These businesses are simply not something that ordinary people can interfere with. They would not allow an ordinary citizen to cut down trees in their own homes or dig coal in their own mines at will.

So, those big men who traveled through the city of Sijiu in certain eras would go into the mountains to hunt at any time? Where did the mountains and prey come from for you to hunt? Are you a hardcore farmer? A wealthy businessman? A running dog of Little Red Dot, or a J official under the leadership of the bald man?

Later on, those who understand will understand.

Fifty years later, the commander-in-chief ordered the large-scale planting of trees, and the surrounding hills gradually began to turn green.

Therefore, the kang in Laohu Hutong has been preserved, probably because of its location in the rural suburbs. Even though there are not many trees to cut down, there are crop stalks in the fields, and people can also pick up some branches and cut some weeds in the wild, which can keep the kang warm.

After looking around, Han Li pulled the saleswoman aside, away from the original owner, and started discussing in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)