Chapter 129 Strong Translation Accent
On Sunday, the two of them slept until eight or nine o'clock.

For Wang Yuanchao, sleep is the most cost-effective way to restore physical strength.

The two went to see the house first, which was a small courtyard with two entrances.

The main gate is located in the southeast corner. After entering the gate, you will face the screen wall inside the gate.

Turn west from the front of the screen wall and you will arrive at the long and narrow front yard.

To the south of the front yard is a row of reversed houses, facing north with their back walls facing the alley.

The back house is a room near the gate, which was used as a gatehouse in the past. The other rooms can be used to receive guests in the future.

The west of the back house is a toilet, and a small independent courtyard is separated by a wall. There is also a small cross-courtyard on the east side of the gate, which can be used to store sundries and serve as an auxiliary room.

The front yard and the inner yard are separated by a wall, with a hanging flower gate in the middle.

After entering the hanging flower gate, you will arrive at the spacious inner courtyard, which is the main living place.

On the north side of the courtyard is the tall main house, with the east and west ear rooms on both sides of the main house respectively. On the east side of the courtyard is the east wing room, and on the west side is the west wing room.

There are two more cellars:

A shallow vegetable cellar is about 10 square meters, the size of a room; a deep ice cellar is the size of two rooms, the upper one is about 3 meters deep, and the lower one is about 5 meters deep. The lower one can hold about 20 cubic meters of ice.

Okay, when the time comes, we'll ask outside people to come over and dig the cellar deeper and wider, and dig a passage on the deep side to under the firewood pile in the kitchen. The cover on the cellar entrance can be removed directly and the hole can be filled up directly.

The deep one is used to store valuable things, and the shallow one can be used for daily use.

The North China Plain is very suitable for digging cellars.

However, after the cellar has been dug, the four sides still need to be reinforced, the tunnel needs to be supported by beams, and some storage racks and storage boxes need to be built.

He has plenty of time to arrange it slowly.

It’s great to have your own independent courtyard.

The house suddenly became so much bigger that Wang Yuanchao didn’t know what to do with it.

It's mainly about this house. Only Lou Xiao'e and he live there, and he doesn't live there permanently.

However, the house should have been maintained by someone, especially the west wing, which clearly showed signs of someone living there.

Wang Yuanchao said:
"It's so big, if you live alone, won't it exceed the limit?"

In 58, the capital city implemented a "managed rent" policy for private rental housing in the city, which included rental houses with 15 rooms or a building area of ​​more than 225 square meters in the urban area and rental houses with 10 rooms or more than 120 square meters in the suburbs under the unified management of rent collection and repair by the state, and paid the landlord a fixed rent equivalent to 20% to 40% of the original rent on a monthly basis.

Wang Yuanchao just checked this quadrangle with two entrances. It has 19 rooms of various sizes! It must be over the limit!

Lou Xiao'e said:

“When the policy was first introduced, my mother had the side rooms on both sides demolished, as well as the warehouse at the door, so there were only 14 rooms left.

What you see now was restored in recent years.

I have lived in a courtyard house for several years, so when I saw this house, I asked you the same question. "

Good boy, yes.

"Did people live here?"

"It can't be left empty. A house without people will quickly fall into disrepair. Besides, the neighborhood and community will come to check on the situation sometimes. Anyway, my family has moved them to another place. Don't worry."

"Then you live here, and the community won't come to check on you?"

Lou Xiao'e was not impatient with Wang Yuanchao's questions. On the contrary, she knew that he really cared about her, otherwise he would not ask these questions, because these were all specifically instructed by her parents.

"I was going to move out of the courtyard house after my divorce, so I rented this place. I just needed to transfer the food supply from Beixinqiao Street.

Besides, this house is privately owned and the title deed is in my hands."

Wang Yuanchao nodded, and the Lou family obviously understood everything.

It is normal for the Lou family to have several houses outside that are registered under other people's names. It would be abnormal if they didn't have any.

The more I looked at it, the more surprises I found. The main house of this courtyard house actually uses a fire wall for heating the bedroom. It is more advanced than the brazier, coal stove, and heated kang, and second only to floor heating.

Apart from wasting coal and firewood, there are no other disadvantages.

Wang Yuanchao, the interior designer, could hardly contain his soul.

But he didn't dare to give it a try, or rather, he didn't dare to give it a try at all.

The old gate was still old. Lou Xiao'e wanted to replace it, but Wang Yuanchao disagreed. It was almost a different era now, so why should we get a new gate?

Not only that, he also refused to allow the renovation of some broken doors and windows, and only agreed to cover them with some wooden boards and tarpaulins.

Good god, it would be better not to block it.

Lou Xiao'e just pouted her lips when Wang Yuanchao calmed her down on the grounds of safety.

Finally, the back house and the east and west wing rooms were kept as they were, and the bedrooms, halls, and kitchens in the main house were renovated. Anyway, there was nothing wrong with the interior.

He told Lou Xiao'e to go to the trust store to buy some huanghuali and red sandalwood furniture, as he liked those wooden furniture.

Of course Lou Xiao'e obeyed. She just needed money from her family anyway, and she didn't need any tickets for the furniture.

At noon, the two of them invited Teacher Delia and her husband to have a meal at Lao Mo.

Teacher Delia's husband, Howard Wood, is a third-class secretary at John's Mission in China.

On June 54, 6, the two countries issued a joint communiqué and sent chargés d'affaires to each other, which established diplomatic relations at the chargé d'affaires level.

Howard also heard from his wife that she had two interesting non-curricular students who got along like friends.

Nowadays, Lao Mo’s restaurant no longer requires a permit, you can enter as long as you pay money.

Wang Yuanchao spoke English, Lou Xiaoe mixed a few words in Chinese, Delia taught them in English, and Howard spoke Chinese the most.

Considering that one of them is an artist and the other is the daughter of a capitalist, they are considered to be the most open-minded people. Even though they were cautious, the Wood couple got along well when they talked.

They have come into contact with many other Chinese people, including students, diplomats, passers-by in daily life, etc. To be honest, none of them are as comfortable as getting along with these two.

This is also why Delia was able to accept Wang Yuanchao, a non-staff student, and gave him a lot of English books. She was also very considerate and accepted Lou Xiaoe as a student, and even persuaded her husband to come to the meal.

The Woods' home is in the embassy district, which is quite sensitive, so they did not invite the two to their home, but they made an appointment to go ice skating together next time.

Before parting, Howard said sincerely:

"Wang, your English is very standard, but it feels to me like you are reciting a professional paper when you speak.

It's understandable, but very strange.

It doesn't conform to the daily speech of us John people.

For example, if I say: What a feast, it made me salivate before I even ate it.

how are you feeling? "

Wang Yuanchao was stunned. Howard's analogy just now made him feel the strong translation accent when he watched foreign movies in the past!
So embarrassing!

Delia laughed and said:
"Wang always speaks according to what's in the book, hahaha. In fact, this is not just his problem, all my students have this problem.

And Wang has performed very well among these students.

Many students couldn't even open their mouths.

This is why they need me as an oral English teacher.

They need me to understand how John’s people communicate.”

Wang Yuanchao suddenly realized that what he had memorized were all written expressions, damn!
Isn't this the same as the Chinese people who speak with a lot of nonsense?

But he was not embarrassed, at least his English level was much higher than in his previous life, and he could communicate with foreigners normally. In his previous life? Unfortunately, he could only speak poor English.

As for spoken English, he practiced slowly. With the support of "knowledge gem" and equipment bar, his learning ability was amazing.

(End of this chapter)