Spring Breeze Twenty Years

Chapter 186 Dormitory Solution (My Girl's Dad +9)

Chen Hui and Chen Xiao stepped forward and called out, "Uncle Li." Xiao Wei and Xia Maosheng also smiled and nodded in greeting.

Chen Hui said, "It's perfect to run into you, Uncle Li. I'd like to ask, what's that row of buildings along the stairs for? There are no doors inside."

Director Li looked up and said, "These doors are in the side corridor, over there." He pointed to the right. The entire building is a right-angled structure along the intersection; he meant the other side. "What? Why are you asking this? Is something wrong? This whole row of restrooms..."

Chen Hui scratched his head and said, "I saw there was an empty space at the back and thought I could use it. I had to make a dormitory room for it."

Director Li thought for a moment and said, "How big do you want it to be?"

Chen Hui looked at Xiao Wei, who then glanced at Xia Maosheng. Xia Maosheng scratched his nose and said, "It should be able to accommodate at least ten people, right? We'll have to separate men and women, with more women and fewer men."

Director Li placed his right hand over the back of his left hand, crossed them on his stomach, looked up at the building and pondered for a moment, then said, "The bottom floor is the storage room, and the first-floor restroom is over there. But how are you going to use it? You can't open the door, you can't open it into the yard, that would be ridiculous. It's inconvenient to go that way, and you even have to separate the men's and women's restrooms."

Xiao Wei asked, "How big is it inside?"

Director Li gestured and said, "From the wall in the stairwell all the way to this wall, it's about four meters wide, more than a hundred square meters."

Xiao Wei asked, "Can we use it?"

Director Li said, "There's just a bunch of random stuff piled up inside. You can use it, but you should clean it up yourselves. How are you supposed to use it? The original tenants wanted to use it at first, but then they gave up because it was inconvenient."

Xiao Wei said to Chen Hui, "Open the door and go inside. Leave a corridor this way from the food service area. It doesn't need to be very wide, about a meter is enough. You can't make a difference with just one meter on the whole first floor. Then people can come in from the food service area. That's all. It's about a hundred square meters, enough for a dozen or twenty people."

Chen Hui frowned and thought for a while before saying, "There's not enough room. How are we supposed to stay?"

Chen Xiao kicked him and said, "Just put down bunk beds, you pig."

Xiao Wei said, "Make four rooms, two small rooms and two large rooms. The small rooms are for Sister Jin, Li Na, and the chef. The large rooms can be divided according to the number of men and women and how many people can fit in. That should be enough."

Someone called out, "Director Li, the car is here." Director Li said to Chen Hui, "Alright, Xiao Hui, my car is here. You guys take your time figuring it out. If you need this, just take it. Just pry open the door and replace it." He waved his hand and hurriedly walked over to the group of people, got into a Hiace. This car was quite popular in the 90s, and there were them all over Fengtian. Most government agencies or factories had one.

Chen Hui asked Xiao Wei, "What do we do? Pry it open?"

Xiao Wei said, "Why bother prying it open? We can just open the door from the inside when we're renovating. We won't touch the other door; we'll just seal it off from the inside."

Chen Xiao said, "Would that work? What if people don't know? They'd be shocked if they opened the door one day."

Xiao Wei said, "Then let's take that door down before the renovation, and put bricks in it. Anyway, the things inside aren't very useful, and it's pointless to look at them now."

Xia Maosheng said, "Anywhere is fine. Let's go inside, it's cold."

Several people came in through the back door, went through the stairwell to the first-floor lobby. When the more than 500 square meters were empty, they didn't actually look that big to the eye. Human visual judgment is not very reliable when it comes to space and distance.

Xiao Wei went inside and pointed to the back wall, saying, "Open the doors here, open four doors, and then build a toilet about a meter wide from the back door to this side."

Chen Hui said, "This toilet is so small? How are they separated for men and women?"

Chen Xiao said, "It's for our own staff, so there's no need to distinguish between men and women. Just go in and lock the door."

Xiao Wei glanced at Chen Xiao and said, "Yes, just one. No need to separate men's and women's areas. Just put a washbasin outside. The basin needs to be several meters long and can accommodate about ten people."

Xiao Hong said, "Can one toilet really do the job? Where are all these people?"

Xiao Wei said, "This is just for emergencies. I'll use it at night, and if there are more people, or during the day, I'll go to the bigger one over there. It's just a few steps away."

There are large bathrooms on the first and second floors, although they are old-fashioned squat toilets with sinks, they are big enough.

After walking around for a while, they had a general idea of ​​where they were going and had also solved the dormitory problem. Everyone was in a good mood, so they went out, locked the door, and headed back. Sister Jin and Li Na took a taxi directly back to the Cultural Palace, while the five of them took a taxi to Old Chen's place. Old Chen was about to go to Beijing, and they needed to talk to him quickly.

When the car arrived at the power company building, Xiao Hong went back to school, and the four of them went straight upstairs. As usual, Lao Chen was behind his desk reading documents. The group greeted each other and sat down. Lao Chen smiled, put down his documents, and came over: "Where have you all been?"

Chen Hui said, "Yesterday we went to Dadong and clarified the matter of the pig farm. We'll prepare the land and get everything ready so they can move over. They'll take care of everything, from catching piglets to feeding them. We'll just manage the mess. Xiao Wei's idea is to get an agreement to sign. Oh right, Xiao Wei got the land where his family used to raise pigs along the riverbank, and they agreed. It needs to be written in the agreement, and we'll also help them with the paperwork."

Old Chen asked, "What are the specific conditions?"

Chen Hui said, "We'll get the land and start the business, they'll manage the raising and slaughtering, the pig price will be 10% higher than the market price, then they'll take half the shares, and we'll take half the shares, okay? We'll be the ones who call the shots."

Old Chen thought for a moment, then slowly nodded and said, "Xiao Wei talked to him, right? You wouldn't have come up with this idea either. It's a win-win situation. Pig farming is a technical job, and they have the skills. We don't have to worry about it. We're breaking even. Okay. What does Xiao Wei need the land for? How big is it?"

Xiao Wei said, "He said he has more than an acre. Uncle, how much does an acre of land cost these days? It's his own land, he has a house, and his pig farm has a license."

Old Chen thought for a moment and said, "That area, including the houses and such, if the government takes it, they can get about 18,000 yuan in compensation. If it's privately owned, including the pig farm, it'll only be about 15,000 yuan, which is not bad. What are you going to do with the land? An acre isn't much, and it's such a small place."

A mu of land is indeed not much, measuring 20 meters by 33 meters square. This price was considered expensive in those days. Further out of the city, a mu of land would cost at most 3,000 yuan. It wasn't until the late 1990s, when the real estate market started to take off, that land prices in Fengtian skyrocketed. In 1998, a mu of land in Yushutun, Dongling, was worth tens of thousands of yuan.

Xiao Wei was a little embarrassed and said, "I'm just thinking about transferring my household registration here, and I need a place to settle down. This is a piece of land, so I thought I'd buy it. In the future, I can demolish the pig farm and build a few houses, which will be enough."

Old Chen suddenly realized and nodded, saying, "Right, right, you're very thoughtful. Okay, I'll help you with this, it's no big deal. To be honest, that place is a bit remote. How about I help you find an apartment here? It has heating, which is better than that place."

Xiao Wei said, "Let's do this. We'll build a few rooms ourselves, with a yard, so it'll be more comfortable to live in. My parents will also be coming to live here in the future. They live in the countryside, so a single-story house might be more suitable. Uncle, I'll have to trouble you with this. Just tell me how much it costs, and I'll pay you later."

(End of this chapter)