HBWnovel Chapter 201 Building Public Housing
Chapter 201 Building Public Housing
"Thank you, Mr. Tian. I have something I want to discuss with you."
"Please go ahead."
"In fact, every winter when it snows, many old people in the village will freeze to death. Everyone is open-minded and mentally prepared. But I just can't accept it for a while. I was about to have a good life, but this happened.
Oops, I've gone off topic. What I want to say here is, could you please, Mr. Tian, talk to the manager here and ask us not to move out for the time being? I hope we can stay here until the end of the winter.
Mr. Tian, you also know that it snowed so heavily that we don’t have much savings left after building a house. Firewood for the winter will become even more scarce because of the snow. We are afraid that after we move into our own house, we won’t have enough firewood and will freeze to death in our own home.”
Old Man Gao also understood that his request was a bit excessive. Normally, they should have moved out in half a month. However, after experiencing the sudden heavy snowfall last night and the death of relatives and friends, he understood that they were all able to survive thanks to the public housing on Baixing Street.
If I leave here and move to my own house, I don't know whether my father can survive, and what will happen to me, as well as those families with elderly and young children.
We are not rich people, so how can we afford to burn wood to keep warm every day?
They had originally planned to go to the Tian Mansion today to ask for help from the Tian brothers and sisters, but they didn't expect them to come, so this happened.
Tian Yuheng looked at his sister, then at the people around him. Because of the war outside, more and more people have been coming to Yingzhou Prefecture recently. He is afraid that it will be difficult to find a house here. Old Man Gao and his family should move out and cannot continue to live here. Otherwise, what will happen to those people who have no place to live?
Tian Yuheng had a headache about this matter.
"Please allow me to discuss this with the steward here. We need to see if there is any space. If there is no space, we will help you think of other ways."
Seeing that Tian Yuheng did not refuse directly, Old Man Gao thanked him happily, "Thank you, Mr. Tian, Miss Tian, thank you, thank you very much."
"Uncle Gao, you don't have to thank us. We will do our best to help you. You can go back first. We will notify you when we have the result."
"Okay, okay, then I'll go back first." Old Man Gao wanted to ask when the soonest result would be, but he knew that this would be too much of a pressure on the other party, so he didn't dare to say it out loud.
"Brother, let's go check out the situation here first. This may be a bit difficult. I heard that dad brought a lot of people back to the public housing, and the supply of public housing is tight now." When his second brother was busy, Tian Xing'er went with Tian Zhenwei to help move things.
She asked the manager here, who said that there was a shortage of supplies here and that the Tian family might be needed to provide more cotton clothes, firewood and the like.
"Okay, let's go check it out."
A few people first went to take a look around the public housing. Previously, they arranged for a room to accommodate a maximum of 4 people, but now it has become 8 people. A kang can only accommodate so many people at most. If there are more, they will not even have space to turn over.
Although public housing is free, there are also paid public housing here, which is for those who have a little money and want privacy to live with their family. It comes with a small courtyard. Since it has been negotiated long ago, it is not easy to add more people. But looking at the current situation, perhaps they may have to refund the money and let them accommodate more people.
"Fortunately, Dad listened to you, Xing'er, and built fire walls in each room. This room was also connected and all had kangs for heating. Otherwise, I'm afraid many people would have died in this public housing."
"Well, I'm mainly afraid of the cold. I think it snows a lot in the north. We used to live in the south of the Yangtze River. Even if it snowed, it was only a little bit. It can't be compared with here. It's really too cold here. Second brother, how did you spend last winter?"
“Last year, not only did it not snow, but the weather was also very good. At that time, people all said that Dad brought good luck to the North. It’s a pity that we can’t continue last year’s good luck this year.
This is the first time that everyone has encountered this this year. I am afraid that even my father was caught off guard. Hey, looking at the current situation, it may be difficult for Old Man Gao and his family to continue living here. "Tian Yuheng is very worried now. How can he help Old Man Gao? They have at least a dozen households, and each household has more than 10 people. So, they need a lot of houses. Even if they give money to the residents of the public housing that charges fees, they still need a whole small courtyard.
"Or, second brother, we can build a few more public houses so that we can accommodate more people. But if they want to continue living here, we have to let them help collect more firewood outside. The current situation cannot let anyone sit idle like this, it would be a waste of resources."
Tian Xinger's words made Tian Yuheng think a lot more. Although his sister's idea was a bit too inhumane, the people living here should have been free and they were not required to pay anything, but the current situation in the city made it a bit of a waste for them to just sit there doing nothing.
After all, there are specialized contractors for building houses in the city now, so they don't have to worry about anything themselves. At most, they have to cook for the workers every day. And as long as the family can provide a few wives, there is really no need for those grown men to supervise the work.
"Well, that's what Big Sister said. You're just afraid that the people living here might be interesting?"
"Brother, it's okay. If you have any objections, just ask them to move out. Don't be too particular at this time. Without firewood, everyone will freeze to death, so every family has to go out to find firewood. Or do something else to help reduce the burden.
If we build more public housing, we can also prevent others from making comments, saying that since Mr. Gao and his family can stay, then others can too.
If they want to stay longer, they should make an effort.”
"I understand what you said, elder sister. I'll do as you say."
The two siblings finalized matters regarding the new public housing in just the morning. This Baixing Street was originally built for public housing and there is still a lot of vacant land here, so there is no need to find another place to build a new house.
Tian Xing'er and the others went straight to find the person in charge and asked them to notify everyone who knew how to build houses and who were carpenters to sign up. They would receive wages and would not have to go around collecting firewood.
They asked the manager to count the number of people in advance, and then went to find their father to check what the situation was in the city and how many victims needed help.
"Why are you two here? Why are you running around in such a cold day?" Prefect Tian had just returned from the surrounding villages. He was having a headache after receiving reports from various counties, when Tian Xing'er and Tian Yuheng came in.