After bidding farewell to Qin Huairu, Cao Zhiqiang took his eldest sister Cao Jiajia and officially walked west across the courtyard.

Today, the entire West Cross Courtyard has been bought by Cao Zhiqiang, so just in case, when Cao Zhiqiang had someone renovate it, he specifically asked the master to add a fence gate on the verandah from the middle courtyard to the West Cross Courtyard.

This fence gate is a thumb-thick wrought iron fence. As long as it is locked, ordinary people cannot go to the west courtyard from the central courtyard.

Of course, when this fence gate was originally installed, it could not be said that it was to prevent other people in the courtyard, but because the construction was dangerous and to prevent children from entering.

With such an excuse, some things will make sense.

As for whether to dismantle this door after the construction is completed, we will discuss it later.

Anyway, for something like this, as long as you start and install the door, it will be easy to install but difficult to remove.

In fact, it doesn't matter, after all, the entire Xikuayuan now belongs to Cao Zhiqiang.

So theoretically speaking, Xikuoyuan is Cao Zhiqiang's home.

In this case, it is reasonable to install a door in the verandah leading to the west courtyard.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang originally wanted to open a door on the west wall of the West Cross Courtyard.

This will be more convenient, as there is no need to go through the courtyard gate when entering and exiting the West Cross Courtyard.

Unfortunately, neither the neighborhood committee nor the street office would allow it.

It is said that ancient buildings cannot be destroyed without special permission.

It's not impossible to open a Ximen. You have to find a higher-up leader. At the very least, you have to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau and get the approval of the director of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

The leader of the Civil Affairs Bureau agreed and had to go to the Construction Bureau to get a seal.

After the leaders of the Construction Bureau agreed, they had to go to the Public Security Bureau to get their seals stamped.

The Public Security Bureau agreed and had to go to the Fire Department to get it stamped.

The fire department agreed and had to go to the electricity bureau to get it stamped.

The Electric Power Bureau agreed, and they still had to go to the Water Conservancy Bureau for a seal.

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Anyway, given the current situation, if the Siheyuan really wants to open a west gate, it will really require a lot of visits to the yamen and a lot of stamps to get it stamped, even if one is missing, it will not be an ordinary trouble.

Of course, if you go to the big leaders directly and apply pressure from top to bottom, you should be able to solve it quickly.

But when Cao Zhiqiang thought about it, it was really unnecessary to waste Uncle Xu's energy or mobilize troops to find people for such a small thing.

After all, plans are not as fast as changes.

When Cao Zhiqiang first started, he really wanted to make a big change here to make his stay more comfortable.

After all, this is an old-fashioned courtyard house. If it is not renovated, it will be inconvenient.

But the problem is that he no longer lives here.

Since you don't live here anymore, why bother with so much trouble anymore.

As for why we are here again today.

This is of course because of Cao Jiajia's relationship.

In fact, as of today, Cao Jiajia has been in the capital for seven days.

Seven days is enough time for Cao Jiajia, her two children, and of course Qinghong's mother to adapt.

During this period, Cao Jiajia, her two children, and Qinghong's mother had been living in Qinghong's house, which was the courtyard house Cao Zhiqiang bought in Houhai.

It was okay at first, but as time went on, Cao Jiajia felt it was inappropriate.

The main reason is that Cao Zhiqiang doesn't live at Qinghong's place recently, and goes back to his "work" every night.

Yes, to avoid embarrassment and for a better job.

Cao Zhiqiang had a large empty office vacated in the office building of Hongguang Publishing House and transformed into a single dormitory.

The office building of Hongguang Publishing House was originally the office building of a glass factory. It was originally quite large and had complete facilities.

After the publishing house was established, although some people were recruited, the number of departments and people was small, and it was impossible to fill those rooms.

In other words, only a very small part of the office building of Hongguang Publishing House is actually used, and most of the rooms are actually empty.

Not only are there many empty rooms, but the area of ​​a single room is also not small.

Because this place itself was used for offices, and the offices in this period were all large offices where many people worked together. The average area of ​​each office was basically more than 60 square meters.

This means that each room has an area of ​​more than 60 square meters and a floor height of more than three meters. It looks quite spacious and will definitely not be depressing.

If the partition wall between the offices is opened and a door is opened inside, it will become a proper suite.

It doesn't matter if it doesn't get through. It's not troublesome to go to the next room through the corridor outside.

In addition, the office building of Hongguang Publishing House has complete water, electricity and heating, except for the lack of gas pipes. There are flushing toilets on every floor, and there are even telephones.

Especially for heating, there are radiators in every room and even in the corridors, and there is a special boiler room on the first floor. The heating pipes are all preserved. You only need to buy a boiler and you can heat yourself in winter.

Well, there used to be a boiler here, but after the glass factory was relocated, the boiler was also moved away.

After all, boilers were quite expensive during this period, and most units were reluctant to keep them.

Let's put it this way, as long as a gas stove is added and a separate bathroom can be used for bathing, the office building of Hongguang Publishing House is actually more livable than many new buildings.

At the very least, the lighting in this kind of building is much better than that in a courtyard house.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, it's not appropriate to go to Qinghong's place, it's not appropriate to go to the two sisters, and it's even less appropriate to go to Jin Xiuying's place.

Finally, after much deliberation, I chose to live in an office building.

For the time being, I just need to clean a slightly better empty office, and then buy everything like a desk, sofa, coffee table, bed, etc., and it will be a good single dormitory.

And Cao Zhiqiang is not alone here, because there is still another person living here, and that is Zhao Shouwen.

Everyone else has a home in the capital and always goes home after work, but Zhao Shouwen is different.

It's not that Zhao Shouwen doesn't have a home in the capital, but that his home is too small and has too many people, and because he also lives in a large courtyard, there are just as many bad things in it, even worse than the courtyard where Cao Zhiqiang originally lived.

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Therefore, since Zhao Shouwen started working, he has basically lived in dormitories and would not go home if he could.

Cao Zhiqiang estimated that what Zhao Shouwen said was just an excuse, and it was most likely due to internal family factors.

After coming to Hongguang Publishing House to work, Zhao Shouwen usually lived in Hongguang Publishing House, and he could also visit the house at night, which was quite good.

No matter what, it's nice to have someone to keep you company. At the very least, you won't be so lonely.

It's not enough to be afraid.

The reason is very simple, Cao Zhiqiang has a gun - the May Fourth Black Star!

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang did not have a gun, and he was not qualified to have one.

However, since Cao Zhiqiang was appointed as the secretary to the factory director of Hongguang Machinery Factory and the leader of the comprehensive business group of the factory director's office, he became qualified.

Because the comprehensive business group of the factory director's office is known to the outside world as a security-related position, it has the right to directly transfer the security department and transportation department.

With this identity, coupled with the special environment of Hongguang Publishing House, and the importance of Cao Zhiqiang, at the suggestion of Chief Security Officer Zeng, Cao Zhiqiang was registered in the factory's Armed Forces Department and Security Section, and then

Equipped with a gun.

During this period, ordinary residents were not allowed to own guns in China, but if an organization like a large state-owned enterprise wanted to equip its internal employees with guns, it was not complicated, just fill out a form.

As for the firearms, they are all ready-made, and there are still a lot of them in the factory warehouse.

As long as they are real men, there are few who don't like guns.

Cao Zhiqiang is no exception.

So after getting the gun, Cao Zhiqiang even set up a shooting range at Hongguang Publishing House, where he would shoot a few shots at night when he had nothing to do.

As for Zhao Shouwen, he also wants to be equipped with a gun, but unfortunately he is not qualified yet.

Because he is not a formal employee of the machinery factory and cannot register with the factory's Armed Forces Department and Security Section, he cannot be equipped with a gun.

However, for safety reasons, Zhao Shouwen was equipped with electric batons, handcuffs and whistles.

To deal with ordinary thieves, these three items are enough.

In fact, since Cao Zhiqiang moved into the office building of Hongguang Publishing House, Section Chief Zeng originally wanted to send two armed militiamen from the security department to Cao Zhiqiang to protect Cao Zhiqiang.

Cao Zhiqiang thought it was too much and too eye-catching, so he refused.

In fact, the office building of Hongguang Publishing House is right next to the Hongguang Machinery Factory. The Hongguang Machinery Factory only needs to slightly expand the scope when patrolling outside. Safety issues are not a problem at all.

Instead, two armed militiamen were sent to stand guard, which would easily arouse criticism.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang's age and qualifications are both flaws. He is only nineteen years old, and he has been in the factory for less than half a year.

If it weren't for the fact that he was too junior and too young.

Well, when Cao Zhiqiang founded Hongguang Publishing House on his own, he would not appoint Zhou Huaien as the nominal president and Cao Zhiqiang as the vice president. This was actually to silence others and try not to cause gossip.

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Don't underestimate qualifications. In 1983, the phenomenon of seniority ranking was very serious. Many people still looked at seniority rather than ability.
To be continued...