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Chapter 338 Brave New World Ends(1/3)

Chapter 338 Brave New World (End)

"No. 605, Building 204..."

"arrive!"

Stepping out of the elevator, Liu Meizhu found that this house was quite unique. She asked curiously: "Jingcai, are all the houses here like this?"

"It's all like this. All newly built houses have this design." Zhao Jingcai nodded.

The reason why Liu Meizhu was very surprised was because the housing here was indeed unique and very different from that on Taiyuan Island.

In other words, there is a huge difference in concept between the residential building design concept of Homo Sapien Company and traditional commercial housing.

Chen Yanxiu and his family discovered this difference when they stepped out of the elevator.

The first thing that catches the eye is that the house does not look like a high-rise residence, but like a villa, because the houses on this floor do not share walls in the front, back, left, and right.

Pass through a 4-meter-wide corridor and arrive at gate No. 605.

There is a 1-meter-wide small alleyway between the left and right sides of the house and the neighbor's house. Liu Meizhu did not go in first, but walked along the left-hand alleyway.

After passing through the tunnel, it suddenly became clear.

The second half of the house in front of you is also the balcony area facing the outside. The neighbor happened to be having a barbecue on the balcony.

The neighbor's hostess saw her and greeted her in Thai with a smile: "Sawadika..."

"Ah... Sawadika." Liu Meizhu also knows this Thai sentence.

The neighbor also seemed to notice that Liu Meizhu did not understand Thai. He pointed at the back door of his balcony and made a few gestures, and said a few words in halting Chinese:

"Hello...are you new here?...The door at the back is over here...come visit me when you are free..."

But the husband of the female neighbor laughed and said in fluent Mandarin: "Hello, you are the new resident of No. 605. The back door of our house is on the other side. You can go around it from here."

"Thank you, are you Chinese?" Liu Meizhu breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the familiar Chinese.

But the male neighbor shook his head: "I am from Chiang Mai."

"Your Mandarin is so good that you can't even recognize the accent. Thank you for reminding me. I won't disturb you anymore."

"It doesn't matter."

After bidding farewell to her neighbors, Liu Meizhu carried her little daughter around to the back. She discovered that there was also a corridor behind the balcony, but this corridor was about 1.5 meters wide.

On one side is the low wall of the balcony, on the other side is a huge window. Below the window is a hollow stainless steel grid with a height of 1 meter. There is also a layer of gauze on the grid. The top is also stainless steel grid and gauze. In the middle is

It is a single glass window with a height of 2 meters, and the overall height of the three parts is 4 meters.

Liu Meizhu also discovered that the floors of the buildings here are very high.

After standing in the back corridor for a while, I could overlook the lush small park not far away.

She walked in from the alleyway on the other side and saw the side and back door of her house, which could be opened directly.

"The door is not locked?"

After entering, it is a large balcony. The wall on the side of the balcony facing the neighbor we just met is 2 meters high. It is obviously specially designed to block the view.

On the other two sides, there are 1-meter-high low walls, but they are also equipped with 1-meter-high foldable bamboo fences. The fences are covered with gauze to also block the view.

Since she is a family of four, her family has a living area of ​​120 square meters based on internal housing standards of 30 square meters per person.

However, the 100-square-meter balcony at the back of the residence is not included in the residential area. Other front and rear corridors, left and right side lanes, elevator shafts, stairwells, oil fume wells, garbage wells, and cable wells are not included in the residential area.

In other words, the 30 square meters per person specified by the Homo sapiens company is the actual indoor area of ​​30 square meters per person.

The balcony area was still empty at this time, just an open space within the wall.

Through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, she could see the living room and open kitchen in the house, while her husband Chen Yanxiu was packing things.

Open the back door on the side of the floor-to-ceiling window and you can enter the living room by yourself.

Liu Meizhu put her little daughter on the sofa: "This house is so big, but it must have been newly renovated, right? Is there formaldehyde or something like that?"

"Don't worry about this. These walls are all made of environmentally friendly and safe coral diatom mud. The furniture is made of iron bamboo, stainless steel, and aluminum alloy. No chemical glue is used. Once the decoration is completed, it will meet the occupancy standards."

Zhao Jingcai patted the sofa.

Liu Meizhu walked around the room.

This 120-square-meter house has four bedrooms, two living rooms, two bathrooms, one kitchen and one storage.

The master bedroom is 16 square meters, the three secondary bedrooms total 36 square meters, the entrance hall is 8 square meters, the back hall is 20 square meters, the open kitchen is 16 square meters, the two bathrooms are 16 square meters, and the storage room is 4 square meters.

, central axis walkway 4 square meters.

Plus a 100-square-meter balcony at the back of the house.

Due to the open kitchen and back hall, there is no obstruction to the balcony's view, so this 136 square meter area looks very spacious.

"Husband, I feel like this house is so high that you can even have a small second floor."

Chen Yanxiu looked at the ceiling of the living room and found that it was indeed very high.

However, Zhao Jingcai reminded: "The height of this floor is 4 meters, which is indeed higher than ordinary commercial housing. However, I do not recommend that you add a second floor. If there are too many people, you can apply for replacement housing. There is no need for internal partitions."

"And if you do this, the Housing Management Department will not approve it. Do not change the layout of the walls inside the house casually. These walls are specially designed to resist earthquakes. If you change the structure casually, it will destroy the earthquake-resistant structure of the entire building.

, once discovered by the Housing Management Department, heavy fines will be imposed.”

When Liu Meizhu heard that she would be punished, she immediately gave up the idea of ​​rebuilding.

Since the residential buildings of Homo Sapiens Company are only for rent and not for sale, the property rights of these properties belong to the company, and employees only have the right to use them, so they do not have the right to modify them privately.

Even if you want to renovate, you can only contact the Coral Decoration Group, a subsidiary of the head office. There are very few parts that can be modified by private individuals.

Zhao Jingcai continued to remind: "You should pay attention to the maintenance of furniture and electrical appliances. These things have a maintenance fee and an update fee, which are calculated based on their useful life."

"How much does this cost?" Chen Yanxiu asked quickly.

"Furniture usually has a loss-free period of 10 to 15 years, and home appliances have a loss-free period of 5 to 10 years. The so-called loss-free period means that within this period, the company will not replace it with new ones; after this period, if it deteriorates

,Faults can be replaced with the same items by ,trade-in.”

Chen Yanxiu touched his chin: "In other words, if there is damage during the non-damage period, you will have to pay maintenance and update fees?"

Zhao Jingcai nodded: "Yes."

Liu Meizhu turned on the TV, pressed the remote control, and asked with a smile: "Can these electrical appliances be used for 5 to 10 years?"

"Sister-in-law, don't worry. These electrical appliances are produced by the company itself. As long as they are not used violently in violation of regulations, their service life is more than 12 years."

Chen Yanxiu was very surprised: "Will the company not implement the scrap plan?"

"There is no need." Zhao Jingcai smiled and shook his head: "The company does not pursue profits for the products sold by internal employees, so naturally it does not engage in such tricks."

As Zhao Jingcai said, the "profit" that internal employees can provide to Homo sapiens companies is actually their labor.

In this case, it means that the more durable the products sold to internal employees, the lower the company's operating costs will be.

Otherwise, a TV will break down after less than three or four years. If employees continue to buy new TVs, does that mean that the company will have to squeeze out some resources for the production of new TVs?

The scrapping of free market plans is an inevitable choice for companies to maintain product production and profits.

Although planned obsolescence will cause a large amount of resources to be wasted repeatedly, this is the survival status of the free market.

The Homo sapiens company doesn't have that need.

Wouldn’t it be nice to invest these resources into technological research and development?

Therefore, the products supplied internally by Homo sapiens companies are often durable versions.



Liu Meizhu watched the TV program and subconsciously pressed the remote control to change the channel.

"Huh? Why are they all in Chinese? I remember that the official languages ​​of Homo sapiens include Burmese, English, Thai, Malay and Javanese, right?"

Zhao Jingcai was stunned for a moment and thought for a moment: "Nanyang Screening Company should have automatically set Chinese as the first language for you."

Chen Yanxiu, who was making milk powder for his little daughter, glanced at the TV: "This kind of old TV is quite rare nowadays."

The TV in the living room does look a bit like an old TV from the past, but it is actually the latest technology. It uses Homo Sapiens' unique nanostructured light screen, which not only consumes very little energy, but also has a softer image.

The reason why the design is relatively old-school is because this TV is not designed for young people to use, but for the elderly.

This is also the TV standard determined by the Social Research Office of Homo sapiens Corporation after careful discussion.

Many motor manufacturers today blindly pursue so-called innovation, without considering the user's feelings at all, and have a lot of fancy functions.

The elderly don't know how to use it, and young people rarely watch TV. As a result, the use of electric motors in the home is very embarrassing.

The Social Research Office of Homo sapiens saw this problem. After entering the 1920s, with the popularity of smartphones, laptops, and tablets, only middle-aged and elderly people were left with TV sets.

However, TV manufacturers intend to regain the market of young people by adding functions.

There is nothing wrong with this idea in itself, the problem is that their operation is very confusing.

Consumers who embrace the young group have forgotten that the largest user group of TVs, middle-aged and elderly people, have made the functions fancy and even designed many functions that are very difficult to use.

The balance of needs between the young group and the middle-aged and old groups has been handled very poorly, resulting in displeasure for both parties.

The Homo sapiens company learned this lesson and re-adjusted various functions of the TV station.
To be continued...
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