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Chapter 458: One acre and three points of land!

Hearing Wang Zhuzi's question, Zhang Shenfei replied: "Isn't this a transportation company?
I don’t know how their deputy factory director Jian found out about my relationship with Uncle Wang, and he insisted that I come here to lobby for him…”

Zhang Shenfei was also very upset. He now even suspected that the man surnamed Jian actually knew how he had offended Wang Mantang.

But he didn't dare to come, so he was set up a trap for him on purpose.

Wang Zhuzi sighed after hearing this, and after a while he said, "I've also heard about what you said. I've also taken people to look at their Building No. 5 before..."

Zhang Shenfei looked at him and waited for him to continue.

Wang Zhuzi drove his two younger brothers out, and then continued: "I took people to check twice, but I couldn't find the problem. Someone from the ancient building team said to ask Uncle Xiao to come out..."

Having said this, he suddenly swallowed back the rest of his words.

These days, there are some things that shouldn't be said.

He didn't say anything, but Zhang Shenfei already understood: "Are you sure it's about that?"

"Who knows? These things exist if you believe them, and don't exist if you don't believe them." Wang Zhuzi poured two cups of tea, one for Zhang Shenfei and one for himself.

While drinking tea, he told Zhang Shenfei some details.

According to him, there are no problems in other places where the transport company builds houses.

However, the location of Building No. 5 exactly overlaps with the white house before liberation.

The White House was actually where the lowest-class prostitutes stayed before liberation, and it was much lower-class than the Eight Great Hutongs.

The women here have no clothes to wear in the summer and are naked, and in the winter they hide in their beds waiting for people.

The so-called white house is not their residence, but just a nickname.

They all lived in thatched huts without even doors, and they were hung with straw curtains.

The women who stayed there earned little money to begin with, and were also tortured and abused by the old supervisors.

When life becomes unbearable, they will hang themselves in the woods with a straw rope, ending this miserable life like that of an ox or a horse.

I don’t know how many women’s blood, tears and wronged souls were shed in that small woods.

After liberation, although girl J was liberated, those in the white house were also educated, assigned jobs, and lived a happy life.

But the wronged souls in the woods could not be resurrected, so the place became a forbidden area. Some people said that they could hear women crying at night.

People would rather take a detour than pass by there.

"The transport company's building No. 5 is right at the edge of the forest. When they chose this location, some people in the ancient construction team were worried...

Oh, yes, it is said that many workers in the transport company are also unhappy and feel that the position should not be included. But once their manager shouts the slogan, who dares to say otherwise? "

Wang Zhuzi sighed again and said, "How could it be a coincidence? In the end, all other locations were fine, but the accident happened in Building No. 5!"

Something happened to the factory house, and Deputy Director Jian and others placed their hopes on Wang Mantang, or should I say, Lao Xiao.

Lao Xiao and Wang Mantang are like Meng is inseparable from Jiao, and Jiao is inseparable from Meng.

It’s just that Lao Xiao used to be a Feng Shui master, and his identity was sensitive, so they clamored to find Wang Mantang for help.

In fact, the person they really wanted to invite was Feng Shui Master Lao Xiao.

I thought Wang Mantang and Lao Xiao could resolve the problem, but who would have thought that the Dongzhimen incident would happen again.

Not to mention Lao Xiao, even Wang Mantang didn't want to see them and turned them away.

"I guess they actually knew about your relationship with my father a long time ago, and that's why they found you." Wang Zhuzi said, "My father is now focusing on Dongzhimen and has no other thoughts."

"Besides, the transportation company is now a thorn in his side. I don't think your case will be easy to handle."

Zhang Shenfei could only say that it was fate. He did not agree with the demolition of Dongzhimen, but he also knew that it was useless whether he agreed or not.

After all, this is not the time for ordinary people to have a say.

Even though he is a deputy director now, this city is full of hidden talents and a deputy director level position is really nothing.

Dongzhimen can’t do anything about it, the transportation company has to find a way.

There are so many workers waiting for the house, let’s solve this problem first.

I will go find Old Jian again. If that guy really hides the truth from me and tricks me into coming here, I will definitely give him a good beating!!!

Zhang Shenfei knew that the people who knew Wang Mantang best were actually Lao Xiao and Wang Zhuzi.

Now that Lao Xiao and Wang Mantang are on the same front, he can only ask Wang Zhuzi how to invite Wang Mantang.

Wang Zhuzi sighed for a while, and suddenly a bright idea came to him. He came up to Zhang Shenfei and whispered something.

"Will this method work?" Zhang Shenfei was a little skeptical.

"It must work. He's my biological father, how could I not know him? He's a very kind person." Wang Zhuzi patted his chest loudly, "If this method doesn't work, just come to me and spit in my face!!"

In fact, what he taught Zhang Shenfei were also what he wanted to say to his own father.

But his father gets annoyed when he sees him now. He won’t talk to him at all and won’t listen to anything he says.

There are more than two. Now one is water and the other is fire. It is impossible for them to melt together. They will fight as soon as they meet.

Compared to him, it was obviously much easier for Zhang Shenfei to talk to his father.

Zhang Shenfei obviously understood this truth.

He thought for a moment and gave a thumbs up: "How about that? Father and son fight together in battle. Brother Zhuzi, you have worked with Uncle Wang in the civil engineering industry for so many years, and you know his temper very well."

"Okay, if this can be done, not only will it solve the transportation company's urgent needs, but it will also ease the relationship between you and your son."

"Really?" Wang Zhuzi poured another cup of tea for Zhang Shenfei.

……

A few days later, one afternoon,
After receiving the news from Wang Zhuzi, Zhang Shenfei left work early and went to Dongzhimen.

The demolition work at Dongzhimen has been going on for several days, and everyone has to take a detour when going to and from get off work.

Looking at it again, Zhang Shenfei realized that this place was basically nothing like what he remembered.

Amid the roar of excavators and other machines, workers were pushing carts, holding various tools, and doing their jobs, and the scene was filled with dust.

The workers' faces were covered with dust and their blue work clothes were soaked with sweat, but they had excitement on their faces.

They had no idea that the buildings being demolished now were any different from the previous ones.

I also don’t realize what this Dongzhimen Gate represents.

Zhang Shenfei walked around the construction site for a long time, and finally found Wang Mantang sitting on the ground at the only place in the city gate tower that had not been demolished.

Wang Mantang leaned against the wall, looking at the busy workers, including his apprentice, his son, his grand-apprentice, and the workers of Longji.

Now, they are demolishing Dongzhimen, which is what he values ​​most...

There was a hint of moisture in the old man's eyes. When he saw Zhang Shenfei appear, he turned around and quickly wiped off the traces.

Zhang Shenfei pretended not to notice his actions, moved closer, and sat next to him, not minding the dirtiness, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and handed it to him. Wang Mantang wiped his face with his hand, looked at the cigarette and chuckled: "I still remember that you smoked eight-cent economy cigarettes ten years ago. Now, you smoke Zhonghua."

Zhang Shenfei lit a cigarette for him, then lit one for himself, blew out a smoke ring and said nothing.

Wang Mantang murmured to himself again: "That's right, it's been ten years... A lot of things have changed. You were just a kid in the alley before, who would have thought that you would become a leader now?
If your parents were still alive, they would be so proud of you...

Do you still remember Dafei?
In the winter of 1952, when you had just rented a courtyard house and I was helping you renovate the house, we received a notice from above requiring the restoration of Dongzhimen.

I was so happy at that time!!!
After several years of war, Dongzhimen had been in ruins for so many years, and it was finally repaired.

At that time, I felt that it was great that the spirit of the city was restored, and it was restored by my hands. Longji and I were able to show our faces!!!
My father-in-law built the Imperial Garden of the Forbidden City, and I built Dongzhimen Gate. I am no worse than him!!”

but,

Who could have imagined that ten years later, the Dongzhimen Gate, which he had renovated himself and represented the feng shui of the city, would be demolished by his own son, Longji?
Wang Mantang thought this was a shame, but his son said he was out of date...

"Da Fei, is your uncle Wang really an old-fashioned person?" He looked at Zhang Shenfei, "If we don't keep up with the times, will we really be abandoned?
After Zhuzi finished speaking that day, I was thinking that life is actually quite boring. Seeing such a beautiful Dongzhimen Gate standing majestically, and then seeing it destroyed in an instant..."

Wang Mantang remembers that when he was a child in his hometown, there was a troupe from western Shaanxi Province performing opera.

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Seeing him rise up tall buildings.

I watched him entertain guests, and then I watched his building collapse.

It's not appropriate to use it at this moment, but he just thought of it.

Zhang Shenfei didn't answer him, but pointed to a group of people under the city gate tower: "Uncle Wang, look at them."

Wang Mantang looked over and saw a group of people picking up bricks from the old city: "What's wrong with them?"

Every time a building is demolished, there is always such a group of people.

Zhang Shenfei said, "They picked up the old bricks and took them back. Do you know what they did with them?"

This was not a problem for Wang Mantang. Although he didn't know why Zhang Shenfei said this, he still said honestly: "Pick it up and build a kitchen. If there is enough space, maybe we can even build a small house."

Housing is so tight in Beijing that every household seems to be living in a rat hole.

It is difficult to rent a house on the street, and the housing purchase policies have been tightened in recent years to the point where it is almost impossible to buy one.

There is nothing we can do but work hard on the existing piece of land.

Wang Mantang worked in the civil engineering industry his entire life, but not all of his work was on large projects for royal palaces or the government.

I don’t know how many kitchens and small houses of five or six square meters he built.

Zhang Shenfei nodded: "Uncle Wang, you asked me just now if we don't keep up with the times, we will be eliminated.

But I think that ordinary people don’t consider this issue at all.

For them, having a meal to eat and a place to sleep at night is already very good.

What you said is too far-fetched. They can’t think of it, nor do they dare to think of it. Of course, even if they thought about it, it would be useless.

They are all like little ants. As soon as they open their eyes every day, they think about their three meals a day and whether they have a roof over their heads.

What's the point of thinking about things you have no control over?"

Wang Mantang was silent, and Zhang Shenfei paused and said, "Brother Zhuzi said before that we should keep up with the times and not go backwards, but I don't think that's right.

In the context of the times, there is no question of whether you should follow or not, everyone is being pushed forward.

We have no say in whether to go left or right, forward or backward. If the times ask you to retreat, you must retreat; if they ask you to move forward, you must move forward. "

Haven’t you seen that even if a family has struggled for several generations and thought they had finally made it, it only takes one sentence to bring everything back to the starting point.

In that case,

Just look at what’s in front of you.

After Zhang Shenfei finished speaking, he stopped talking and just watched those people fighting for the old city bricks.

In the era of planned economy, bricks could not be bought with money, so when people heard that there were bricks somewhere that were free and did not require a ticket, they would naturally rush to grab them.

After all, only with bricks can we have a kitchen and a cabin.

The kitchen can be used to cook, and with the small house, the son of the family may be able to marry and start a family.

Wang Mantang finished smoking a cigarette, declined the second one handed over by Zhang Shenfei, stood up, patted his butt and said, "Da Fei, do you know anyone at the transportation company?"

Zhang Shenfei did not hide it from him: "I am quite familiar with their Deputy Director Jian. Didn't I work as a secretary for Director Yang of the steel mill before? At that time, he was the secretary of the manager of the transportation company..."

"Uncle Wang, the foundation of the No. 5 building of the transportation company has not been laid. When the building was raised for fundraising, 80 households of workers took the money. That is their home, and they are extremely worried."

Wang Mantang sighed: "The place we chose is wrong!"

When choosing the site, Zhuzi casually mentioned it when he went home for dinner. At that time, Lao Xiao and he both opposed it and asked Zhuzi to talk to the transportation company and change the location.

But Zhuzi said that the current manager of the transportation company is a staunch materialist and it is impossible for him to change locations.

"Now that things have turned out like this, the common people are the ones who suffer." He finally said in a low voice.

Zhang Shenfei also sighed: "I still remember that after the collective housing of our steel rolling mill was built, our factory held a moving ceremony for 10,000 people...

I didn’t move myself, but seeing their smiling faces, I was also infected and happy.”

Some children are happy that they finally don’t have to share a bed with their parents, and some old people are sighing that after a lifetime of hard work, they finally have their own little house.

There are also young couples waiting to get married, and young couples who are afraid to have children because they don’t have a house.

When they moved into their new home, they had the capital to start their life anew.

"I still remember that Uncle Wang, you praised me at that time, saying that I had accomplished a great thing. I felt embarrassed by your praise..." Zhang Shenfei smiled, not showing any sign of embarrassment.

Wang Mantang complained: "Nonsense, you don't even know how to write the word 'embarrassment'!!

However, you did do one great thing, which, in my opinion, is better and more impressive than anything else you have done!"

Helping so many families live in new houses is a good deed.

Zhang Shenfei struck while the iron was hot: "Master Wang, don't you want to accumulate virtue? Now there is a good opportunity..."

Wang Mantang knew what he was talking about. He patted his butt and stood up: "Let's go and take a look."

Zhang Shenfei stood up and said with some concern: "What about Mr. Xiao?"

Wang Mantang alone is not enough, but Wang Zhuzi didn't tell him how to deal with Uncle Xiao.

Wang Mantang's face was full of confidence: "My agreement is equivalent to his agreement. I will go with you to check out the construction site today, and tomorrow I will take Lao Xiao directly there.

If the old man dares not to go, I will punish him."

Zhang Shenfei felt relieved now and followed Wang Mantang downstairs.

When the two men passed by the group of people fighting over the old city bricks, they bent down at the same time and each picked up a piece.

(End of this chapter)