Chapter 247 Tooth for Tooth
After the New Year, when the street office was back to work, Han Qiuyun and Aunt Zhao went to the street office to handle the house transfer procedures. Li Shengli now had two houses in the courtyard, but the two children did not live there. Xiaoqin did not want to leave her father, and Xiaozhi wanted to help her mother take care of her younger siblings.

Li Shengli didn't care whether he lived in the house now or not. The value of the house would eventually appreciate, and buying a house would not be a loss no matter how you calculated it. Moreover, the house in this compound that he bought could be rented out to others in the future.

"Shengli, you said the two children are not going to live there, why did you buy that house?" In the evening, Li Shengli and his three children were sitting together watching TV and chatting. Han Qiuyun remembered that she had bought a house but her own children were not going to live there.

After buying the house, Han Qiuyun felt a little regretful. She had wasted hundreds of dollars.

"It doesn't matter. Let's put it this way, the more houses the better." Li Shengli began to persuade Han Qiuyun.

In Han Qiuyun's opinion, it is better to deposit the money in the bank than to waste it on buying a house.

"I might be able to apply for housing in our factory." Han Qiuyun shook his head and did not believe what Li Shengli said. Now everyone has houses allocated by the factory. There are very few people like Li Shengli who buy houses with their own money, and those courtyard houses outside are not easy to sell.

"It doesn't matter. Our family has plenty of money. These few hundred dollars are nothing to us." Li Shengli has no hobby of saving money. The money will become less valuable as time goes by.

Han Qiuyun rolled his eyes at Li Shengli, saying that even if you have money, you can't waste it like this.

"Why don't we use that house as a storage room?" Li Shengli thought of a good idea. There were a lot of miscellaneous things in the house he lived in now, and many of them were placed under the corridor outside the door. Wouldn't it be perfect to have a house as a storage room now?

Just do it if you want to. Aunt Zhao and her family will move out in two days.

"Hey, Aunt Zhao, are you moving away?" Yan Bugui saw a group of people busying around and couldn't help but come over and ask.

Yan Bugui had nothing to do all day, and that day happened to be Sunday. Yan Bugui went out for a stroll, and when he came back, he found that several carts had come to the Zhao family behind his temporary building, and several people were constantly moving things out of their house and putting them on the carts.

Yan Bugui was a little surprised. This seemed to be the first family to move out of the compound.

"Yes, his third uncle, Baosen, was allocated a house at the company and is going to pick us up now." Aunt Zhao and Yan Bugui gave two fake smiles.

Ever since Yan Bugui built these two temporary buildings, Aunt Zhao no longer likes to deal with their family. This house blocks the sunlight in the morning, and every time she looks out the window, all she sees are bricks and tiles, and nothing else.

When Yan Bugui heard Aunt Zhao say that their family was moving away, his eyes rolled.

"Your son was allocated an apartment building, right?" Yan Bugui thought about it. The courtyard house under the name of the steel rolling mill was no longer there. Most of the buildings allocated now were apartments. Moreover, young people like to live in apartments. Going to the toilet and other things are much easier to solve than in a bungalow.

"Yes." Aunt Zhao nodded, not knowing what Yan Bugui was planning.

"Aunt Zhao, you are moving away, so what should you do with your courtyard house? Just leave it like this." Yan Bugui began to inquire about the house.

"Why don't you go to the street office and put up a sign, and then rent out the house." Yan Bugui began to calculate the cost for Aunt Zhao's family. "Your house can be rented for 60 yuan a year, which is not a small amount. When the time comes, it will be difficult for you to come back. I can help you look after the house, and you only need to pay a little labor fee."

When Yan Bugui was speaking, Aunt Zhao tried to interrupt him many times but failed. After Yan Bugui finally finished speaking, Aunt Zhao finally understood what Yan Bugui meant.

Aunt Zhao shook her head after hearing what Yan Bugui said. This was too calculating.

"Don't bother, I'll just sell the house." Aunt Zhao didn't want to listen to Yan Bugui anymore.

"Sell, sold?" Yan Bugui was a little confused for a moment. He had just analyzed such a long string of things, but the other party just said it was sold lightly.

"Who did you sell it to? You can't just come in and out of this compound as you please." Yan Bugui got anxious and started to act like an uncle.

Why didn't this person discuss the sale of the house with me? Yan Bugui was still thinking, if I buy this house and then rent it to my son, I will not only make money but also have someone to take care of me in my old age. "Oh, I didn't sell it to anyone." Aunt Zhao thought Yan Bugui didn't want her to sell the house when she first heard what Yan Bugui said. She didn't understand what Yan Bugui meant. "I didn't sell it to anyone. Li Shengli bought it."

"Who? Li Shengli!" Yan Bugui was shocked. He didn't expect that it was Li Shengli who bought the house.

It's strange. Didn't Li Shengli always plan to move out? Why did he buy a house in this compound?

"Yes, it was sold to Li Shengli."

The corner of Yan Bugui's mouth twitched. He couldn't take advantage of him this time. This Li Shengli was smarter than a monkey.

Yan Bugui has no idea for the time being.

At night, when Li Shengli returned to the courtyard, he found that Aunt Zhao's family had moved out and the room was empty.

Li Shengli was speechless. He didn't even want those broken tables and benches given to him. His family was really penniless.

Li Shengli didn't say anything but just bought a big lock and locked the house tightly.

After a few days, Yan Bugui discovered that Li Shengli had simply locked the Zhao family's house and no one was living there.

Yan Bugui is still complaining about Lee Seung-ri's extravagance, as he spent money to buy a house but left it empty.

Li Shengli specially found a bricklayer to slightly renovate Aunt Zhao's house that day. Li Shengli decided that his family would live in the east wing. He divided the house into two rooms, using the inner room as a storage room and the outer room as a kitchen.

After the renovation, Li Shengli moved his gas stove in and locked the door when cooking dinner. The window of the renovated kitchen faced directly to the temporary building of Yan Bugui's house.

"Huh, huh."

The smoke from Li Shengli's cooking drifted straight towards Yan Bugui's house. It was winter and the windows of Yan Bugui's house were closed, so the smoke drifted into Yan Bugui's house through the windows.

It was okay the first or second time, but eventually, every time Li Shengli cooked, the smoke from his kitchen would flow through the exhaust vent to the vicinity of Yan Bugui's house.

"Li Shengli, can you please not have your window facing the front yard?" Summer is almost here and Yan Bugui finally can't stand it anymore. Now that the weather is hot, his family has to open the windows for ventilation every day. Every time he cooks at Li Shengli's house, the smoke floats into his own home through the window.

That day, Yan Bugui finally found Li Shengli.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Teacher Yan, I've already built it and there's no way to change it." Li Shengli leaned against the door of his house with a forced smile and looked at Yan Bugui with amusement.

"Your smoke has even drifted into our house." Yan Bugui was so angry that he jumped up and down when he saw Li Shengli's expression that refused to change.

"Then I can only say that your family is unlucky." Li Shengli sneered. That's what you said when Yan Bugui occupied the land to build a temporary structure. Now that I have bought this house, you will have a hard time from now on.

"Teacher Yan, don't forget what you said when you built this temporary building." Li Shengli thought to himself that it is never too late to take revenge.

Yan Bugui was speechless now, but it was impossible for him to demolish the temporary buildings. Yan Bugui had no choice but to close the windows of his house when he cooked at Li Shengli's house every day.

(End of this chapter)