Xiao Zhu led Lu De Min into the backyard.
Several aunties were enjoying the cool air. Seeing a strange young man enter the courtyard, they looked over curiously.
They were old hands at this.
Seeing Xiao Zhu from the Military Control Committee and the grim-faced Jia Dong Xu and Qin Huairu following behind, they more or less guessed what was going on. They exchanged glances and approached.
Xiao Zhu brought Lu De Min to the front of two rooms, one big and one small. He glanced at the onlookers and said loudly:
“Comrade Lu! The Military Control Committee has assigned these two rooms to you. From now on, this will be your home. Tomorrow, you’ll go to work at the Red Star Military Control Station. We will be colleagues. With a home and a job, and a wife, your life will get better and better!”
Hearing Xiao Zhu’s words, Lu De Min felt warmth in his heart and was quite moved. He understood that Xiao Zhu was deliberately saying these things in front of everyone. His purpose was simple. As an outsider, newly arrived in this unfamiliar courtyard with no relatives to help, and being young, he was easily bullied.
Therefore, Xiao Zhu directly mentioned that he would be working at the Military Control Committee. This would make a difference. The Military Control Committee was currently very powerful. Anyone with a brain wouldn’t dare to casually bully someone with connections to the Military Control Committee.
Sure enough, after hearing Xiao Zhu say that Lu De Min was not an ordinary new resident but someone from the Military Control Committee, the neighbors’ gazes towards Lu De Min instantly changed. They were no longer looking at a helpless outsider with no support.
The most significant change was in the expressions of Jia Dong Xu and Qin Huairu. Their faces instantly turned ashen, their expressions like they had been force-fed dung in public.
They desperately wanted to own the two rooms in the backyard, but even if they were bold, they wouldn’t dare to openly snatch a house from someone in the Military Control Committee. That would be suicide.
It seemed that this matter could only be considered in the long term.
Jia Dong Xu held his wife’s hand and whispered, “Let’s learn more about the situation first, and then make plans later!”
...
The door wasn’t locked.
Lu De Min pushed the door open and walked in.
There was no unpleasant musty smell. It seemed that the house had been vacant for not long.
Lu De Min excitedly began to examine the place.
The main room should be less than sixty square meters. This kind of space was already very good.
He hadn’t gone into the small room next to it yet. It looked like it was probably less than thirty square meters.
The walls of the main room seemed a little old, with peeling paint and small holes on the floor. Except for a broken bed that could barely be slept on, there was only one decent stool.
It was truly bare.
However, Lu De Min was very satisfied.
He knew very well that the house in front of him was a valuable school district house in the future.
Many people in Beidrift worked hard their whole lives and still couldn’t get a place the size of the small room.
But he had suddenly obtained a Beijing hukou and a total of almost one hundred square meters of housing. What was there to be dissatisfied with?
Lu De Min smiled and said that he liked the house very much. He expressed his gratitude to Xiao Zhu and said he would treat him to a meal another day.
...
After seeing Xiao Zhu off, Lu De Min returned to the house and started cleaning.
During this time, many enthusiastic neighbors came over to chat.
One neighbor even sent over a clean mat.
Lu De Min was touched.
It seemed that there were still good people in this courtyard.
...
At this time, Jia Zhang Shi returned to the courtyard after selling the handmade shoe soles she had made.
“What? Our house was taken over?”
Upon hearing this news, which was like a bolt from the blue, Jia Zhang Shi, just entering the front courtyard, went crazy. She yelled and rushed into the backyard like a whirlwind.