{"id":658,"date":"2025-08-07T02:34:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=658"},"modified":"2025-08-07T02:34:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:34:33","slug":"he-refused-220k-for-his-home-so-they-built-a-highway-around-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"He Refused $220K for His Home \u2014 So They Built a Highway Around It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In China, the term <em>d\u012bngzih\u00f9<\/em> or &#8220;nail house&#8221; refers to homeowners who refuse to move for construction projects. One such case recently resurfaced: Ye Yushou, a tofu vendor, declined a government offer of 1.6 million yuan (about $220,000) and two new homes in 2022. Instead, he demanded 2 million yuan and three homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government didn\u2019t budge. They demolished neighboring houses and built the G206 highway around Yushou\u2019s two-story home in Jinxi County, Jiangxi province. Now surrounded by dust, traffic, and construction noise, his house sits in the middle of the road\u2014dubbed the &#8220;Eye of Jinxi.&#8221; A special path was even made so he could access his house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project cost around 460 million yuan (about $63 million), and the highway opened just before China\u2019s Spring Festival. Yushou spent $14,000 on legal help, hoping to negotiate a better deal, but many locals say he gambled and lost. As one Reddit user put it: \u201cHe got greedy and FAFO.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In China, the term d\u012bngzih\u00f9 or &#8220;nail house&#8221; refers to homeowners who refuse to move for construction projects. One such case recently resurfaced: Ye Yushou, a tofu&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}