Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

After the design institute sent two experts to follow Cao Zhiqiang to the newly purchased courtyard house for actual inspection and investigation, Cao Zhiqiang left the key and asked the two experts to stay for a casual look and evaluation. After that, he locked the door and returned to the design institute.

Just fine.

As for Cao Zhiqiang, he did not stay to cause trouble, but asked Yang Anping to take him home.

Leave professional matters to professionals. This is the correct way to use talents.

When Cao Zhiqiang asked for leave at the factory before, he issued a sick leave note and asked for three days of leave. Today is only the second day, so there is still plenty of time.

Today he officially bought a courtyard house and booked a high-end decoration company like the Design Institute. He was in a good mood and naturally hurried home to copy some books and code.

Each word is worth a dollar.

When it comes to making money, you don’t have to be squeamish, of course you have to race against time.

"Boss, there's something I don't quite understand."

The person who asked the question was Yang Ping An, the chauffeur and assistant who was riding a three-wheeler.

If at the beginning, Yang An'an was a little cautious when facing Cao Zhiqiang, but as he got a little more familiar with it, especially after he realized that Cao Zhiqiang's personality was more casual, he was able to relax a little.

At the very least, you can take the initiative to ask questions like you do now.

"Oh? Lao Yang?"

After listening to the other party's question, Cao Zhiqiang, who was sitting in the back seat of the tricycle with his eyes closed and concentrating, said casually without opening his eyes: "What don't you understand?"

Yang An'an said: "I just think, why did you spend five thousand yuan to ask those people to design something?

And this five thousand yuan is just to buy them a design plan?

In fact, if you had said earlier that you wanted to renovate your house, I would advise you not to go to that design institute.

To be honest, I know a group of people who are very good at their craftsmanship and they design for free. They will give you whatever style you want.

It costs less, the work is done well, and the decoration materials are available, so why waste money by looking for those experts who look down on others?

No matter how they design, don't they just draw pictures and do the final decoration work, don't they have to find someone else?

If you give the five thousand yuan directly to my friends, I can definitely decorate it properly for you, so why waste it on the design institute?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly, opened his eyes and said: "Old Yang, I understand what you mean, but as the saying goes, you should take a long-term view. Sometimes when you are doing things, you need to have a long-term view, and you can't just focus on the small profits in front of you."

After a pause, Cao Zhiqiang continued to explain: "Do you think I don't know that it is more cost-effective to hire someone else to decorate and design for free?

The problem is, I spent the five thousand yuan not only for the design level of those people, but also for the brand name of the design institute."

"The design institute's sign?" Yang Ping'an was confused, "What does it mean?"

"Literally." Cao Zhiqiang said, "The current Peiping Design Institute is indeed in a state of collapse, but its level is there, its history is there, its honor is there, and its brand name is there.

Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s just talk about the Great Hall of the People, the Museum of History and Revolution, and the Workers’ Stadium. Which one of these buildings does not have a well-known name?

In the past, or in the future, we probably wouldn’t have had the chance to find someone to design an ordinary courtyard house for us, and they wouldn’t even bother to do it.

But now, it is when they are at their weakest, and I would be a fool if I did not take advantage of this opportunity.

Think about it, if people know in the future that the restaurant my family owns was designed and decorated by the Peking Design Institute.

Doesn’t that mean that my restaurant is the same family as famous buildings such as the Great Hall of the People, the Museum of History and Revolution, and the Workers’ Stadium?

Can the cards be the same?

When the time comes, even if my food is a little more expensive, will it still taste like it’s worth it?

If tourism is opened to the outside world in the future, all Hong Kong and foreign businessmen will have to come to my place for a meal first. Otherwise, their trip to the capital will be in vain and they will not have a real taste of authentic Chinese food.

I've already thought about the slogan. It's a pity not to visit the Forbidden City. There's nothing you can do if you don't eat.

Oops, I haven't decided on the name of the hotel yet. I'll think about it later and don't be in a hurry.

In short, if you do this, will you instantly feel superior?

By then, our restaurant will be full of rich people chatting and laughing, and there will be no idle business.

Let’s get some special menu, just to scare people, some palace jade liquor, one hundred and eighty cups.

We must make people who come to our restaurant feel that this place is very high-end and very high-end.

In this case, coming to our restaurant is not just for eating, it is a symbol of proving one's identity and status!

Do you think making money in a hotel like this is not trivial?

What's more, when it comes to renovations these days, it's hard for ordinary people to get steel, concrete and glass.

But the design institute is a professional institution with the same professional requirements. It is very easy for them to obtain the specifications for reinforced concrete.

If I ask your little brothers to decorate it, just get me some wood, or just put some paste and mud bricks, can it be compared with reinforced concrete?"

"So that's it." Yang An'an suddenly realized, "Boss, that's what you plan to do. It's high. It's really high.

It just costs a little money, five thousand yuan."

"Money is actually not that important." Cao Zhiqiang said lazily, "As long as the money is spent well, that's enough. If you really want to make money, isn't it easy?"

Yang An'an was dumbfounded: "It's easy to make money? Why didn't I feel it?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "Of course it's because you are too honest.

But people are different. Although you are too honest and not good at starting your own business, as long as you know how to behave and work with the right people, you won’t have to worry about money in this life."

"Yes." Yang An'an smiled, "Just like following you, boss?"

Cao Zhiqiang yawned and closed his eyes again: "Absolutely."

Speaking of which, Cao Zhiqiang has said all he can.

After all, the relationship between him and Yang An'an was just an employment relationship, so it was impossible for him to talk about everything.

Could it be that Cao Zhiqiang would tell him how awesome the design institute will be in the future and how beneficial it is to pick up leaks now?

Furthermore, the design institute is now a public institution. What are the benefits of having a good relationship with such an institution?

The group of experts and professors who have survived to this day, no matter how poor they are now, the power of their connections is definitely not what you, a tricycle puller, can imagine.

Money is not important, what is important is relationships.

Finally, Lao Yang asked this, seemingly unintentionally, but most likely he was thinking about the renovation fee and wanted to do this job himself to at least earn an introduction fee.

This wind cannot last long.

The driver should do his job well and don't have too many ideas, otherwise, we really won't be able to use you anymore.

Next, Cao Zhiqiang continued to close his eyes and rest, while Yang An'an stopped talking and continued to pedal three wheels silently.

However, just when Cao Zhiqiang was about to fall asleep, he suddenly noticed that the tricycle braked suddenly, shaking Cao Zhiqiang, and he suddenly woke up.

"What's going on?" Cao Zhiqiang, who had regained his seat, asked quickly.

Yang Ping'an looked serious: "Report to the boss, someone has robbed you!"

Cao Zhiqiang was stunned, quickly opened his eyes, and looked forward.

Sure enough, I saw five young men and women with different clothes and evil eyes in front of me, standing or squatting in the middle of the road.

"Who are you?"

Yang Ping'an suddenly jumped down, pulled out a thick galvanized water pipe from the bottom of the tricycle, pointed it forward in his hand, and shouted loudly.

"What do you want to do when you block the road in broad daylight?"

“Hi hi hi hi!”

The young man in the middle with a dark complexion and a slightly chubby figure, with toad glasses on his eyes, a slicked back hairdo, a wrinkled jacket on his upper body, and bell-bottom pants on his lower body, suddenly looked fierce.

Laughed.

"I said, you're a rotten three-wheeler, why don't you get so excited?

What's the matter with you here?

Can you please stop putting gold on your face?

We are not here to see you, we are here to catch up with our brothers.

Hurry up and get out of the way!

Don't dawdle a broken pipe in front of your brothers.

You really pissed us off, I’ll take care of you too!"

"That's right!" A long-haired young woman wearing a butterfly shirt, bell bottoms and high heels next to Toad Mirror said with a smile, "Don't get me wrong, brother, we are good people and we are not here to cause trouble. Don't be nervous, hee

laugh."

"Hello!"

At this time, the girl next to the long-haired girl had a short crew cut. She was wearing a blue cotton-padded jacket, military green pants, and a pair of military green rubber-soled shoes. She was squatting on one side in a standard Asian squat, with a cigarette in her mouth and a cigarette in her right hand.

The young woman who had been playing with a butterfly knife suddenly squinted and said coldly:

"Tricycle pedaler, this matter has nothing to do with you, get out of here and mind your own business!"

"Hadron!" At this time, the fat young man who spoke first, with a big back and a toad mirror, who was obviously the leader, suddenly said loudly.

"Stop pretending to be dead and get out of the car!

What's the matter, you didn't come to say hello to your brothers when you met them?

Are you really planning to break off our relationship?"

Well, as soon as I heard this, I knew that these people came with bad intentions.

However, Cao Zhiqiang sighed softly and then smiled.

The day finally came.

Sure enough, you can't take any chances.

It is impossible to forget history, because history will come to you on its own initiative and will not cease to exist just because you pretend not to see it.

Yes, in fact, when he saw these five people, three men and two women, Cao Zhiqiang recognized them. They were acquaintances of Cao Zhiqiang's previous social life, or a gang.

However, after Cao Zhiqiang traveled through time, he took the initiative to cut off contact with them and went to work in the factory.

But this disconnection was only unilateral on his part.

In other words, it was just that he no longer went to hang out with those people, and there was no formal procedure or procedure for leaving.

Well, actually, they got together because they had similar interests, and there were no formalities.

To put it bluntly, this group of people is just a bunch of fun-loving hooligans who get together because they all like to dance black dances and often play together.

If it were the 21st century, it would be called dancing friends, and then they would get to know each other because of dancing and form a disco association or something like that.

But in this period, their behavior is just like second-rate people and street gangsters.

In fact, this is indeed the case.

Because these people not only love to dance, they also extort money.

It's just that what they are extorting is not big companies, but some self-employed people setting up stalls.

To be precise, they are those gray self-employed people who do not set up stalls in the open, but in the alleys of the black market.

For example, those who sell foreign tattered clothing, those who sell smuggled foreign junk commodities, and those who sell pirated audio tapes are basically their targets for blackmail, and these people have to pay them protection fees.

If you don't pay, they will keep an eye on you, follow you, and then find an opportunity to block the road and beat people and steal things.

After a few times, those small self-employed people with no backing can only give in and pay the money.

Call the police?

That's something you don't dare to do.

It’s no use at all!

They are very smart people, and they target people who sell less serious goods, such as pirated Hong Kong and Taiwan audio tapes, or foreign rags imported from the south. I heard that many of them are clothes from dead people abroad.

Self-employed people who do this are breaking the law, and they don't dare to call the police.

And even if you really call the police, you have no evidence for such a thing.

As long as you don't catch him, as long as you refuse to admit it, the police can't do anything to you now.

But afterwards, they will continue to retaliate against the person who called the police.

So over and over again, no one dared to call the police, and no one dared not pay the protection fee.

But those local middle-aged and elderly people who cannot afford to go to the south to purchase goods and just sell some snacks to support their families will not move.

This is not because they have good intentions, but because the impact on such vulnerable groups is too bad. Once something happens, not only the relevant departments will not let them go, but other gangs will not let them go either, because it breaks the rules.

Therefore, this is actually a group of small street gangsters who are a little clever and have their own way of survival.

The predecessor, Cao Zhiqiang, actually did a lot of this kind of extortion. Otherwise, where did he get the money to go around eating, drinking and having fun with others?

Why was Cao Zhiqiang so scared and went to work as a worker early after he traveled through time?

Don’t you just know that your predecessor has such a dark history?

He originally thought that as long as he cut off contact with these people and went to work in the factory, he would be fine.

There was really no problem before. He has been working for so long, and these people never come to him again.

However, because of his dark history, he never really relaxed his vigilance and never felt that there would be no problem.

Now it seems that my worries are not unnecessary.

It seems that the long-planned plan is still going to be used.

never mind.

Anyway, I have made a lot of preparations for this day.

Even if you don't come, I will come to find you.

Now everything is ready, all it takes is time.

It just so happens that you are here at this time. I have the advantage and it saves me a lot of trouble.

Since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust!

If you are seeking death, don't blame me for being cruel!