Courtyard House: Is Xu Damao a childless man? Let me help.

Chapter 265 Solving the Trouble in the Courtyard

At this moment, Ye Jianchuan spoke up again, saying, "Brother Zhu, how many other families are arguing because of this?"

Sha Zhu immediately stood up and called out the names of several more families. Ye Jianchuan nodded and then said, "Since these matters are all of the same nature, let's handle them all together."

I have two options. The first option is to simply demolish the extra parts and have each household build an earthquake shelter in front of their own door.

Another option is that if the two parties involved in the dispute are willing, you can build this earthquake shelter together.

The residents below were now completely bewildered. "Repair together? What does that mean?"

Ye Jianchuan said with a smile, "It's very simple. These earthquake shelters aren't supposed to be very fancy. They're mainly just temporary places to shelter from the wind and rain."

Why don't you just build the shed bigger? Like Xu Damao's side, didn't you build an extra section for Lao Xie's family?

Then you might as well build the shed so that it takes up all of the Xie family's land. Then, on the 27th, you can put up a curtain between your two families, and the space inside will still be divided between the two families.

In that case, we won't need to dismantle the extra parts of the shed. The Xie family can just give Xu Damao some of the material costs, and that'll be settled. What do you think?

Ye Jianchuan's suggestion was very fair, especially the second method, which ensured that those who had previously seized other people's territory would not suffer any losses from having to give up that territory.

So, among these families, two pairs quickly reached a settlement and both chose the second option.

However, it's clear that Xu Damao is still a little unwilling. After all, in Xu Damao's view, as long as he persists, these things might all turn into money in the future!

Furthermore... even though you, Ye Jianchuan, are a deputy factory director, the information you have isn't necessarily all accurate!

Maybe if we make a lot of noise later, the government won't be able to control us anymore? Then the plan to turn these earthquake shelters into houses will come to fruition, right?

However, as the other people in the courtyard who had the same idea all gave up, Xu Damao finally couldn't withstand the pressure under the watchful eyes of everyone in the courtyard.

After successfully resolving this type of dispute, Ye Jianchuan nodded in satisfaction, then turned to look at Sha Zhu standing to the side.

"Brother Zhu, now that we've settled this type of dispute, what's next? Let's try to get it sorted out tonight!"

Sha Zhu nodded, then continued, "The second matter concerns Yan Jiecheng and Yi Zhonghai's family from the Intermediate People's Court. You two come out and tell me what it is!"

At this moment, Uncle Yi stepped forward and said, "On the second day after the earthquake, I went and got some planks and stakes and such."

It wasn't easy to get these things back; it took me a lot of effort to get them back.

"I haven't even used any of these things I brought back myself, and Yan Jie has already used them to build their earthquake shelter."

"In the end, I had to chop up the remaining wooden stakes and planks to barely build the earthquake shelter we have now."

"Tell me, those planks and stakes were all painstakingly brought back by me. How can it be that I can't use them myself, but Yan Jiecheng can?"

Ye Jianchuan looked at Yan Jiecheng with great surprise. Surely the Yan family wouldn't be so short of money? Why would they bother to embezzle such a small amount of planks and stakes?

However, Yan Jiecheng quickly stepped forward to explain, "Uncle Yi, what you said is indeed correct, but have you forgotten to mention something?"

You haven't forgotten how you got these planks and stakes, have you? They were left to our Yan family by someone after my dad made some arrangements.

You saw my dad bring back one batch; the other batch was originally meant for me and Yu Li, but you snatched it away halfway through. What kind of nonsense is this?

"I won't go into those things. Since you're the one who brought the things back, I'll keep some of these planks and stakes as a reward for your hard work."

We've already done more than enough by allowing you to build an earthquake shelter, haven't we? And instead, you're turning around and blaming us?

Yu Li, who was standing next to Yan Jiecheng, also stepped forward and said, "That's right, Uncle Yi, you're shameless. Dad found those planks and stakes for us."

You go to them and say you're a friend of ours, hire a car to tow them back, and then all these things become yours?

So, according to your logic, I could just go to the commune in the countryside, say I'm from the meat processing plant and have come to collect meat, then find a truck to haul two pigs back, and that would be fine too, right?

Yu Li's words were a bit harsh, but the logic was indeed sound. Now, Uncle Yi was left speechless by the two young people's retorts.

At this moment, Ye Jianchuan stepped forward and said, "Alright, alright, let's leave it at that. Uncle Yi, I'm not trying to criticize you, but you've been using this 'sticky joke' for seven or eight years now."

How come it seems that not only have you failed to guide Bang Geng onto the right path, but you yourself have been led astray by Bang Geng?

As the saying goes, "If you don't want others to know, don't do it in the first place!" You'd better refrain from these petty thefts and backstabbing incidents in the future!

267 At this point, Ye Jianchuan paused for a moment, then continued, "Alright, then the dispute between Yan Jiecheng and Uncle Yi can be considered peacefully resolved."

Yan Jiecheng is too lazy to argue with you about these things, so why are you, you old rascal, just stop looking for trouble?

After being ridiculed and mocked by Ye Jianchuan and Yan Jiecheng, Uncle Yi had no face to stay at the hospital assembly. He simply waved his hand and stormed back to his own earthquake shelter in the central courtyard to sulk.

After settling things with Uncle Yi and Yan Jiecheng's family, Ye Jianchuan looked at Sha Zhu again, and Sha Zhu immediately continued to speak.

"Oh... and then the next thing is what happened in your backyard. Liu Haizhong and Liu Guangtian, father and son, insisted on setting up their own sheds separately."

Although your backyard is quite large, if you look back, you'll see that their shed takes up much more space than their house.

Ye Jianchuan hadn't paid much attention to the situation in his backyard before, but now that he looked back, it was indeed the case.

The Liu family built two sheds. One shed on the left completely occupied the land where Qin Huairu used to live, while the other shed on the right occupied a small part of the land where Ye Jianchuan's house was located.

Chapter 266 So it turns out there are family matters involved too.

However, since the Ye family's house was converted from two rooms into one, and the space in front of the old lady's house next door was still empty, He Yushui didn't pay attention to these things when she was building it.

However, it does seem a bit awkward now. Although Ye Jianchuan could choose not to pursue the matter, since it wouldn't have much impact on him.

However, if this matter is not pursued, others might think Ye Jianchuan is easy to bully. If he gives others that impression, it won't be so easy for Ye Jianchuan to say what he means in the courtyard house in the future.

Therefore, even if Ye Jianchuan felt that this matter would not affect him much, he certainly couldn't just let it go.

Ye Jianchuan paused for a moment, glanced at the sheds behind him, and then turned to look at Uncle Er.

"Uncle Er, what's going on with your family? Are you planning to split up the family property?"

Upon hearing the words "separate family property," Uncle Er immediately shuddered as if in response to a stress reaction, then quickly shook his head.

There's nothing I can do; Uncle Er is now terrified of those two words. At first, he thought that having three sons meant he wouldn't have to worry about his retirement.

However, as soon as the eldest son got married, he applied for a transfer to another region. Now, so many years have passed, and he has basically never returned to the courtyard house. To put it bluntly, after getting married and separating from the family, he has never treated him as his father again.

The same thing happened to the third son. After graduating and getting a job, that brat Liu Guangfu also chose to move out and separate from his family.

Moreover, in the years after the family split up, he would occasionally come back at first, but in the last two years, he hasn't even come back for Chinese New Year.

This made Uncle Er realize that although he had three sons, he probably couldn't rely on his eldest and third sons to support him in his old age.

So now his only hope for retirement probably rests on his second son. But Ye Jianchuan immediately asked if his second son had also separated from the family. Isn't this clearly a way to make his old age miserable?

So Uncle Er immediately shook his head and quickly said, "No, no, what division of the family? What division of the family? Our Liu family is doing just fine!"

Ye Jianchuan was waiting for you to say this: "Since your family hasn't split up, why are you building two earthquake shelters?"

"Oh... I see. You must have noticed that some families in our compound didn't have the materials to build earthquake shelters, so you built an extra one for those who are struggling financially, right?"

When Uncle Er heard Ye Jianchuan's words, he was so angry that his teeth ached. He thought to himself, "No way, why did you build two earthquake shelters? Are you still going to divide the family property?"

Since you're going to split up the family property anyway, let me help you with the division process!

You should say it yourself... These materials for repairing the earthquake shelter were also obtained with great difficulty, and before, Uncle Er had also considered taking advantage of the government's cheaper rates, just like Xu Damao.

Moreover, since there are only a few families in the backyard, if this matter in his backyard hadn't been brought up, he might have been able to build another earthquake shelter there in a few days!

Now things are really complicated. Ye Jianchuan has come with a general, and now Second Master is in a dilemma – nodding is bad, and not nodding is bad too.

However, the second son of Uncle Er was not stupid. Liu Guangtian quickly stood up and said, "Deputy Factory Director Ye, what are you saying? Our family just built an extra earthquake shelter. What does it have to do with all this?"

Although it looks like they've set up an earthquake shelter, don't they still need to use electric curtains or something to partition off the space inside?

"We didn't want to partition the space like that, so we simply turned one shed into two. Is there anything wrong with that?"

Ye Jianchuan shrugged and then continued, "If it's really that simple, then naturally there's nothing wrong with it."

But your earthquake shelter seems to be taking up way too much space, doesn't it?

To Ye Jianchuan's surprise, Liu Guangtian spoke up quite confidently, saying, "So what if it takes up a little more space? Look at your house, your shed also takes up a lot of space."

What Liu Guangtian said was true; Ye Jianchuan's shed was indeed quite large, and it contained a lot of things, but that was because quite a few people lived in the shed.

Not only Ye Jianchuan and He Yushui, and their twin siblings, but also Sha Zhu's four children.

Unfortunately, due to various disputes in the front and middle yards, Sha Zhu was in a lot of trouble, but he couldn't find a solution, so he had no choice but to give up some of the 'territory' in front of his house.

The earthquake shelter he built himself was rather 'small,' just big enough for the two of them to stay in.

As for their four children, they could only be left in the backyard to live with He Yushui, their 'aunt,' and Ye Jianchuan, their 'uncle.'

But that's because Ye Jianchuan's house was much larger than usual, and the land in front of the old lady's house was actually part of Sha Zhu's territory.

So although Ye Jianchuan's shed was large, it did not encroach on anyone else's land. Even the piece of land in front of the old lady's house was agreed upon by Sha Zhu.

So, in response to Liu Guangtian's questioning, Ye Jianchuan spoke up again: "Our earthquake shelter is quite large, but it belongs to both Zhu Ge and me, not one family."

The land we used was in front of my house and the land in front of the house that my grandmother passed down to Brother Zhu, so there was no problem with me building such a large area.

But your house is different. Your house is so well-built that (Wang Zhao) has already come to my house. Have you asked my family about this?

And over there, although Sister Qin no longer lives in the courtyard, that house still belongs to her. You built the shed right in front of her house; did you even ask her about it?"

After saying that, Ye Jianchuan paused for a moment, and then continued, "Moreover, the earthquake shelter that our family built is for two families to use together."

So, is your earthquake shelter just for your family, or are you actually two separate families?

Upon hearing Ye Jianchuan's words, Liu Guangtian and Uncle Er's expressions immediately turned ugly. However, Liu Guangtian was still prepared to put up a last-ditch effort, so he quickly spoke again.

"So what if it's a little bigger? Our backyard is so big, it's just sitting empty anyway, why can't it be bigger? It won't bother anyone!"

Chapter 267 Where there's a policy, there's a countermeasure? Just patch it up!

Seeing Liu Guangtian's nonchalant attitude, Ye Jianchuan got a little angry. "Is this a matter of who's in my way? This is a matter of principle!"

You see there's a lot of space in the backyard, so you want to take up more space there? There's still a large area of ​​space at Tiananmen Square, why don't you go and claim some space there?

"You still think no one can control you in our compound, but you can't afford to mess with people at Antianmen Square, can you?"

"Let me tell you, there's no room for discussion. You have two choices: either I'll consider your earthquake shelter a good deed and let the Xue family in the middle courtyard, whose shelter hasn't been set up yet, move in."

"Either you demolish all the earthquake shelters that extend beyond your property boundaries, or I'll get the neighborhood committee to enforce it!"