Chapter 76: Bought a big house!

Li Long really didn't look carefully when he entered last time, just focused on selling fish. This time when he entered, he saw it, this was at least the standard layout of a Sihe Academy (courtyard house), as for how many entrances, he couldn't see it.

This architectural style was not quite the same as the one here in the Northwest Xinjiang.

Directly north was the room where the old man lived, the foundation alone was more than half a meter higher than the ground in the courtyard, steps up, wide eaves, foundation paved with bluestone strips, similar to the ancient buildings Li Long saw in some tourist attractions in later generations.

The ground in the courtyard was paved with blue bricks, but the snow was heavy, and only a small path from the main room to the gate was swept out.

He could see that when entering the main gate, there should have been a screen wall built, but it was dismantled later.

The small flower garden of a few fen on both sides of the path was now empty and piled with snow.

The wing rooms on both sides of the courtyard were also tall buildings, the pillars were all made of thick solid wood, because they were painted, Li Long couldn't see what kind of wood it was, so he asked the old man:

"Old man, what kind of wood is that pillar?"

"Pine wood, see? This whole courtyard is built with good pine, painted to prevent rot. It's not like that shoddy stuff they make nowadays that warps in less than two years. This wood was treated well; the courtyard has been lived in for decades, and it's still in great shape."

"Then you didn't manage those few rooms?" Li Long pointed to the wing rooms on both sides.

"Where is that effort? It's not bad that I can clean the room I live in by myself." The old man pointed to the inverted rooms on both sides of the gate again, "Don't talk about wing rooms, I didn't manage these inverted rooms either, there are quite a few old things piled inside, if you buy it, they all belong to you."

Li Long smiled and didn't speak.

"I tell you, five hundred yuan is really like picking it up." The old man seemed to have identified Li Long, "My courtyard is a Sihe Academy standard, two and a half entrances, although it's not big, but to tell the truth, the materials used, you can also see, they are all particular, high-gate large-house is not said casually."

Following the direction pointed by the old man, Li Long looked at the auspicious beasts carved from wood on the eaves of the main room, and the mortise and tenon structure on the top of the pillars. He really didn't expect to see such a regular Chinese ancient architectural feature in this Northwest border.

"The backyard is the horse station, originally we were also a rich family, raised horses, had grooms and carriages, just later..."

The old man didn't continue, but Li Long could hear the emotion in it.

"This good day is coming, your son, you went over to reunite, isn't it a happy thing." Li Long smiled and opened up, "Should be happy."

"That's true, it's just that I've lived in this house for a long time and have feelings." The old man took Li Long to the backyard, pointed to the empty large room and said: "Look, that is the horse station, originally our son also tossed a greenhouse before he went to Shanghai, and it was paved with glass on top, it's just a pity that once he left, no one managed it."

Li Long looked, it really was!

A row of large houses, the original roof was lifted, replaced with glass frames, but now most of them were pressed by snow.

"If it weren't for being reluctant to part with this house, I would have left long ago." The old man continued, "It's nothing to hand it over to the street, but you must know the situation of the street, it's impossible to hand over such a large courtyard to one unit.

Just like the Yan'an side now, old Sihe Academy are all lived in by several families."

Li Long listened and knew. The street manages more and more things later, naturally needing more office points, it's impossible to hand over such a large courtyard to one unit.

"Come come come, let me show you my main room again. There are good materials here, if you buy this house, the furniture inside also belongs to you, anyway, I can't take it away..."

Just this sentence, Li Long felt that not to mention five hundred, even one thousand was actually worth it.

Because there was a set of old-fashioned official hat chairs in the main room, even if this thing was just imitated ten or twenty years ago, it wasn't simple.

And looking at the furniture in here, it should be a whole set, just a bit old, some paint was falling off, and some parts were missing.

After the old man showed Li Long once, he said:

"Young man, I see you are also honest, and quite to my taste, if you want it, five hundred yuan, let's go to the street to handle the procedures."

Li Long smiled bitterly:

"Old man, after you led me like this, I really want this house. But I don't have that much money in my hand right now, I have to go back and take it today."

"Alright, I'll wait for you." The old man said happily, and then looked at the surroundings with emotion again, "If you really buy it, I'll be a bit reluctant."

Li Long also smiled.

Human nature. To tell the truth, five hundred yuan is considered picking up a big leak.

But it reached here, the old man was anxious to sell, someone wanted to lower the price to buy, and there weren't many people who could take out five hundred yuan at once in this day and age.

He was considered to have caught a coincidence.

He thought about it, buy it if he bought it, it was cheap enough, he just didn't know if it was safe or not...

"Safe?" The old man smiled, he pointed to the southwest outside:

"Did you not notice what unit is diagonally opposite?"

"What unit?" Li Long really didn't notice.

"Police station, who dares to act wildly here?"

Li Long smiled, this place is really not bad!

Although the decision was a bit hasty, buy it, it was cheap enough.

"Old man, if you want to sell, then I'll bring the money over tomorrow." Li Long confirmed again.

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"Sell sell sell, why not sell? Anyway, I'm leaving, then just cut off the retreat directly." The old man gritted his teeth and said, "Handing it to you is more reassuring than handing it to the street. Those people still count on me to lower the price, five hundred yuan—young man, you picked up a big bargain!"

"Then alright, I'll come over tomorrow to take the money and handle the procedures." Li Long said to the old man, and left.

He vaguely remembered that this place was transformed into a park in later generations, as for whether the buildings inside were dismantled or not, he didn't know.

Leading the carriage back, Li Long was still thinking about whether buying this house was worth it.

After reaching the team, Li Long smiled.

What's worth it or not? It's too worth it, it's just that he might not necessarily be able to buy it even if he took the money, maybe the old man would regret it tomorrow.

Tomorrow's things, tomorrow!

Regarding Li Long going out from time to time, and pulling full things back when returning, the people in the production team were already used to it, the most used to it were the group of dolls playing on the road.

A group of dolls followed the carriage until they reached the Li family before dispersing. Li Jianguo heard the movement and came out, seeing Li Long also smiled.

"Back? What did you pull?"

"Roe deer, hunted by my friend, given to us to eat."

"Roe deer? This thing is rare!" Li Jianguo heard it was a roe deer, smiled, "Said that in the Northeast, it's 'stick hits roe deer, ladle scoops fish', we are not bad here either."

"Still a bit worse, the roe deer here are clever." Li Long said while moving the roe deer down, "I ran into one when I hit wild boars, it ran away before I raised the gun."

Li Jianguo and Li Long moved this roe deer weighing more than thirty kilograms down together and said:

"How to eat this thing?"

"It's the same breed as deer." Li Long heard this from Chen Honggui, "Braised, etc. are all fine."

"Then good, wait until it thaws, let's peel it—by the way, are you going out tomorrow?"

"Go, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are still busy."

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