Wei Zimin led Chen Jie and his entourage into the backyard. Qiu Lao Er and his wife followed.

Let's put aside the investigation here, and let's go to the Ran family's compound with Director Zhang to have a look.

There is a lock hanging from the door of the silversmith's shop.

There is an alley on the west side of the silversmith shop, entering the courtyard of the Ran family, there are two paths, one path is the alley in front of you, and the other path is in the hoop bucket alley, there is a small door in the alley, and entering the small door, it is the backyard of the Ran family.

The Ran family compound is divided into a front yard and a backyard, Ran Ruzhai lives in the front yard, and Ran Shixiong, Ran Shijie and Ran Shimei live in the backyard. It stands to reason that Ran Ruzhai should live in the backyard, the house in the backyard is larger and more elaborate than the house in the front yard, but in order to facilitate access to the silversmith shop, Ran Ruzhai often brings the gold and silver jewelry processed by customers back to his bedroom. After two sons and a daughter got married, Ran Ruzhai gave the backyard house to Ran Shixiong, Ran Shijie and Ran Shimei. There are a total of two and eight houses in the backyard, and the three brothers and sisters occupy a total of five, Ran Shixiong and Ran Shijie have two rooms (the location is in the second entry, and there are four rooms in the second entry); Ran Shimei's room (located in the south of the left hand of the third entrance), and the other three houses in the third entrance were handed over to the public during the cultural revolution, and the property rights of the three houses already belonged to the district housing management department.

In 1970, after hearing the news that the state was going to confiscate private property, Ran Ruzhai arranged for his two sons and one daughter to live in five houses, which saved the five houses in the backyard.

Ran Ruzhai regretted very much that he let his eldest son Ran Shikai go to Xinjiang to support the border, otherwise, he would at most give the country a house.

Passing through the alley, there is a relatively large courtyard in front of you, and the east and west sides of the courtyard are high courtyard walls, and a small cloak is set up under the courtyard wall. The small cloak on the east side is the place where we put the sundries we mentioned earlier, and Ran Shixiong arranged his brother and sister-in-law to settle in this small cloak.

The little cloak on the west side is the kitchen.

On the north side of the courtyard there are two wings, and in the middle of the two wings there is an aisle - which can also be called the entrance hall.

When Director Zhang walked into the front yard, there was a strong smell of oil smoke wafting from the kitchen, and a woman was standing on the stove and serving vegetables into the plates.

This woman is Ran Shixiong's sister-in-law Liao Chunhan. Several dishes were already on the kitchen table. The dishes and chopsticks for eating have also been arranged. There was also a bottle of wine on the table, and chairs and benches were already set up on the sides of the square table.

The smell of vegetables fills the air.

"Second brother, you and the third brother each have two rooms, the old man should give me these two rooms, no matter who is called to evaluate, I will take care of it." A woman's voice came from inside the room.

"I still insist on my opinion, these two houses, me and my second brother have one person, Shimei, you should be content, when Dad gave you a house in the backyard, we have always had ideas, but thinking that we have eaten in a pot for more than ten years, forget it, this is really not enough to swallow an elephant, uncle, you give a review, the daughter who married out - spilled water." A man's voice said, "Besides, when you were fifteen years old, you made your mother angry if you hadn't broken your mother's heart, and if your mother hadn't died so early, you wouldn't have reflected on yourself, but you would have been embarrassed here." ”