After saying goodbye to Qin Huairu, Cao Zhiqiang took his elder sister Cao Jiajia and officially walked across the courtyard westward.

Now, the West Cross Courtyard has been bought by Cao Zhiqiang. In case, Cao Zhiqiang asked his master to add a fence door to the veranda leading to the West Cross Courtyard just in case.

This fence door is a wrought-shaped fence as thick as a thumb. As long as it is locked, ordinary people cannot go to the West Cross Courtyard from the Intermediate Courtyard.

Of course, when the fence door was installed, it was definitely not said that it was to prevent other people in the courtyard, but to use the construction danger and prevent children from engaging indiscriminately.

With such an excuse, some things are just overwhelmed.

As for whether to remove this door after construction is completed, I will talk about it later.

Anyway, if things like this start and install doors, it will be easy to install and dismantle.

Actually, this is nothing, after all, the entire Xishuoyuan is now owned by Cao Zhiqiang.

So theoretically, Xiquyuan is Cao Zhiqiang's home.

In this case, it is reasonable to install a door in the veranda leading to the west cross 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, and you don’t have to pass through the gate of the Siheyuan when entering and exiting the West Courtyard.

Unfortunately, the neighborhood committee and the street office do not allow it.

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

It’s not impossible to open a Ximen. You have to find a higher-level leader. At least you have to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to get the director of the Civil Affairs Bureau to agree.

The leaders of the Civil Affairs Bureau agreed and had to go to the Construction Bureau to stamp it.

The leaders of the Construction Bureau agreed and had to go to the Public Security Bureau to stamp it.

The Public Security Bureau agreed and had to go to the fire department to stamp it.

The fire department agreed and had to go to the power bureau to stamp it.

The Power Bureau agreed and had to go to the Water Conservancy Bureau to stamp it.

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Anyway, as the current situation is, if the Siheyuan really wants to open a west gate, it will really have to run to a lot of yamen and have to stamp it with a lot of seals. It is not an ordinary trouble.

Of course, if you directly look for a big leader and press from top to bottom, it should be solved quickly.

But Cao Zhiqiang thought that if he was wasting Mr. Xu's energy for such a little thing, or mobilized people to look for people everywhere, there would be no need.

After all, plans are not as fast as changes.

At the beginning, Cao Zhiqiang really wanted to make a big change to make it more comfortable to live.

After all, this is an old courtyard house, and it will be inconvenient if it is not renovated.

But the problem is that he no longer lives here.

Since I can no longer stay here, why bother so much trouble?

As for why it is coming again today.

Of course, this is due to Cao Jiajia's relationship.

In fact, until today, Cao Jiajia has been to the capital for seven days.

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

During this period, Cao Jiajia, her two children, and Qinghong's mother, always lived in Qinghong's house, which is the courtyard that Cao Zhiqiang bought in Houhai.

It was fine at the beginning, but after a little time, Cao Jiajia felt it was inappropriate.

The main reason is that Cao Zhiqiang has not lived in Qinghong's place recently, and every time he goes back to his "unit" to live at night.

That's right, to avoid embarrassment and to work better.

Cao Zhiqiang asked someone to free up an empty large office in Hongguang Publishing House's office building and transform it into a single dormitory.

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

After the establishment of the publishing house, although it recruited some people, there were few departments and few people, so it could not fill the rooms at all.

In other words, the office building of Hongguang Publishing House is actually only used in a very small part, 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 is for office use, and the offices during this period were large offices where many people worked together, and the average area of ​​each office was basically more than 60 square meters.

It 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 empty and will never be depressed.

If you open the partition wall between the office and open a door inside, this is a complete suite.

It doesn't matter if you don't open it up, and it's not a problem 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, and there are flush toilets on each floor and even telephones.

Especially heating, each room and even the aisle has radiators, and there is also a special boiler room on the first floor, with heating pipes left. You only need to buy a boiler and you can burn the heating yourself in winter.

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

After all, boilers were quite expensive during this period, and ordinary units were reluctant to stay.

Let’s put it this way, you only need to add a gas stove and then change it to a separate bathroom that can take a bath. Then the office building of Hongguang Publishing House is actually livable than many newly built buildings.

At least, the lighting of this kind of building is much better than that of courtyard houses.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, it is not suitable to go to Qinghong, it is not suitable to go to the two sisters, and it is even more inappropriate to go to Jin Xiuying.

Finally, after thinking about it, I chose to live in the office building.

For the time being, I just need to clean a slightly better empty office, then buy all the desks, sofas, coffee tables, beds and other things, which makes it a good single dormitory.

Moreover, Cao Zhiqiang is not alone here, because there is still someone living here, that is Zhao Shouwen.

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

It’s not that Zhao Shouwen has no home in the capital, but that his home is too small and has too many people. Moreover, because he also lives in a large courtyard, there are as many miscellaneous things as there are, even worse than the Sihe Courtyard where Cao Zhiqiang lived.

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

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

After coming to work at Hongguang Publishing House, Zhao Shouwen usually lives in Hongguang Publishing House and can still see a door at night, which is quite good.

No matter what, it is still good to have a personal company, at least, it is not so lonely.

It's not afraid.

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

Originally, Cao Zhiqiang had no guns, and he was not qualified to have it.

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

Because this comprehensive business group of the factory director's office is a security position in the name of the external, it has the right to directly transfer the security department and the 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 Zeng of the Security Department, Cao Zhiqiang was recorded in the factory armed forces department and the security department, and then equipped with a gun.

During this period, ordinary residents were not allowed to have guns in China, but units like large state-owned enterprises, if they want to assign guns to internal employees, it is not complicated, just fill out a form.

As for guns, they are all ready-made, and there are still a lot of factory warehouses.

As long as they are real men, few people don’t like guns.

Cao Zhiqiang is no exception.

So after having the gun, Cao Zhiqiang set up a shooting range in Hongguang Publishing House, and shot twice when he had nothing to do at night.

As for Zhao Shouwen, he also wanted to match the gun, but unfortunately he was not qualified.

Because he is not a formal employee of the machinery factory, he cannot register in the factory armed forces department and security department, so he naturally cannot be equipped with guns.

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

These three are enough to deal with ordinary thieves.

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

It was Cao Zhiqiang who thought this was too much and too eye-catching, so he refused.

In fact, the office building of Hongguang Publishing House is already next to Hongguang Machinery Factory. Hongguang Machinery Factory only needs to expand the scope slightly when patrolling outside, and there is no problem with safety issues.

Instead, two gun-carrying militias were sent to stand guard, which could easily cause criticism.

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

If it weren't for his lack of qualifications and his age was too young.

Then when Cao Zhiqiang founded Hongguang Publishing House alone, he would not have specially sent Zhou Huaienlai to be the nominal president and let Cao Zhiqiang be the vice president. This is actually to block others' mouths and try not to make people gossip.

Don’t underestimate the quality of seniority. In 1983, seniority ranking was very serious. Many people still look at qualifications, not abilities.

In short, after Cao Zhiqiang moved to the publishing house, he immediately fell in love with this kind of life.

He usually recites novels and recordings in his dormitory, or writes some poems and songs. When he is tired, he goes to the shooting range to play pistols and enjoys it, or drives around by himself.

The car that Cao Zhiqiang drove was naturally the Citroen CX20.
To be continued...