Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 857 Renovation Trouble
The formalities for the yard have been completed, and Master Lei's team has also entered the site. When everyone thought that everything would go smoothly according to Wang Zhan's idea, a troublesome incident occurred first, and the cause of this incident was Sha Zhu.

After finishing the formalities that day, Wang Zhan thought about the lunch for Master Lei and his apprentices, so he mentioned it casually during lunch. When Sha Zhu heard it, he knew that Master Lei was no ordinary person, and that ordinary people could not invite such a person, so he made a promise and said that he would take care of the lunch, without asking for any wages, just a meal. It happened to be his break at noon, so it would not be a problem for him to come out and cook a meal.

Wang Zhan thought about it and realized that it was true. Sha Zhu really had nothing to do at noon, so it was just right for him to come out and cook a meal. He asked Wu Yong to buy some vegetables and then send them to the East Courtyard, and they would settle the payment later.

Wu Yong was a brainless man. He always thought that the person Wang Zhan specifically instructed must be a big shot, so he arranged chicken, duck, fish and meat. Sha Zhu was also a fool. He just cooked whatever dishes were available and didn't ask anything, so Wang Zhan never knew.

But No. 95 Courtyard was unhappy. First of all, the Jia family. Jia Geng, the third generation of the Jia family, a child who never left the yard, ran out of the yard. The main reason was that Sha Zhu built a stove in the yard, and the fragrance of food filled the whole street when he cooked.

Sha Zhu now dislikes the people in Yard No. 95, especially the people from the Jia family. Now it should not be said that he dislikes them, but he hates the people from the Jia family a little, and he also hates Yi Zhonghai. Now Sha Zhu hardly talks to the people in the yard.

The East Cross Courtyard is currently doing some cleaning work and ground repair, so there are about a dozen workers. In order to facilitate construction and cleaning, the door on the corner gate has been removed, mainly to facilitate garbage removal.

But unexpectedly, this made things convenient for the children in the yard. Today was the first time Sha Zhu cooked lunch, and he prepared all the ingredients that Wu Yong brought on the first day. After that, Sha Zhu directly stewed three chickens. The fragrance soon spread out, and all the children in the yard came at once. Not only the children, but also several aunts and the third uncle Yan Bugui and his wife showed up.

They walked into the yard without saying hello, and Master Lei was unhappy. The yard was in a mess, with rotten wood, broken stones, and broken glass everywhere. What if someone got hurt? Master Lei asked his apprentice to stop them. Master Lei shouted, "Everyone, the yard is in a mess now, and there are many dangerous places. Can you please get out first? This is not a place for fun."

In fact, Sha Zhu saw this group of people as soon as they appeared, but he didn't care. He just wanted to make these shameless neighbors jealous, so he let you smell the food but didn't let you eat it, just to make you angry to death.

Yan Bugui obviously didn't want to leave like this, and said, "Master, we are all neighbors of Sha Zhu. We watched him cook and thought we could help. The children might be greedy, so let's see if Sha Zhu can give them some so they can have a taste."

Sha Zhu chuckled and said, "Third Uncle, you are so shameless. Look at your child, he has brought the pot. He wants to eat it all at once. My dish is for the chefs. You guys, just think about it. Okay, get out now when you smell the aroma."

Yan Bugui suddenly became unhappy and said, "Shazhu, where are you from? After all, we are neighbors. How can you talk like that? Don't you know the difference between relatives? What's wrong with trying it? You have such a big pot."

Sha Zhu said disdainfully: "Don't talk about that. This is someone else's opening banquet. The ingredients belong to them. I have no right to share them with you. Take these little beggars out quickly."

Several aunties also came with their children. When they heard Sha Zhu say that their children were beggars, they were immediately unhappy and started to scold Sha Zhu. Sha Zhu was also a person who would not suffer any loss. He put down the ladle and started to scold them. Master Lei saw that this was not acceptable, so he quickly pulled his apprentice over and whispered a few words to him, and the apprentice ran out. After a while, Director Wang came with a few people. After seeing the situation on the scene, he scolded Yan Bugui. Yan Bugui kept his head down and accepted Director Wang's criticism. He didn't dare to run away. When he raised his head, he found that he was the only one left in the yard facing the street. Even his wife and children had run away. After accepting the criticism, Yan Bugui returned to the yard depressed.

Yan Bugui couldn't swallow this humiliation, so he waited at the door, planning to have a good talk with Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong after the steel mill got off work. No matter what, he had to hold a meeting to criticize Sha Zhu.

Wang Zhan had no idea about this. He was drawing the architectural drawings of the courtyard in his study. The original east wing had a moon gate between the front yard and the hall. Wang Zhan planned to make this gate into a heavy iron-clad wooden door, which would be kept locked at all times and no one would go through it. There was also a corner gate on the east side near a small alley, close to Maoer Hutong. Wang Zhan planned to make it a double door, so people would usually go through it.

The new courtyard designed by Wang Zhan, in addition to a small garden in the front, had three main rooms and two side rooms on the north side. One of the two side rooms was a kitchen and the other was a toilet.

There are three rooms in the east and west wing. The west wing is used as a study, just like Wang Zhan's own house. The left side is a studio, and the right side is a place to store books. The east wing is used as three guest rooms.

The front garden is also very simple. In the middle is a Feng Shui fish tank moved from the original yard. On the left near Yard No. 95, there are low shrubs planted. There is also a semi-circular vegetable plot in the corner near the moon gate. Now nothing is planted and it is empty. There is a pond on the west side with a small bridge on it. It is also connected to the water supply and drainage for convenient water changes.

To the east is a row of fruit trees, which were also transplanted from the original yard, but Wang Zhan wants to buy some more and plant a few more. The cobblestone path extends from the corner gate to the main house, and also leads to the moon gate and the small bridge. In front of the main house in the backyard is a small square with bluestone slabs and a crabapple tree in each of the four corners.

Wang Zhan estimated that the renovation of the entire house would take more than two months, so he planned to ask Wu Yong to come over and help look after it. It was also for this reason that until the completion of the project, no one in Yard 95 knew who bought the yard. This is a story for later.

After Wang Zhan handed the matter over to Wu Yong, he no longer cared about it and focused on preparations for the start of school. He took the two girls to bookstores and department stores to buy things.

The most important thing was that the two girls seemed to have grown taller, and he didn't know how to make clothes, and neither did the two girls, so he could only take them to buy ready-made clothes, as well as stationery, school bags, reference books, various notebooks, etc. It took him nearly five or six days to buy everything.

The two girls were also very excited when looking at the new clothes and shoes. Which woman doesn't like to make herself more beautiful, even if she is still a child.

(End of this chapter)