CHAPTER 11
“Uncle, is your house for sale?”
The old man straightened up at the sound, looked at her and waved for her to come in. “Not me, I’m looking after the house for my nephew.”
“So, is this house for sale?”
“Yes. My nephew needs money urgently, so he wants to sell the house.” The old man looked her up and down, as if assessing her ability to buy a house. “Sell the whole yard, I want cash.”
“How many?”
Seeing her expression, the old man hesitated for a moment and held up two fingers. “Twenty thousand.”
“It’s too expensive.”
At that time, it would cost about 2000 to 3000 yuan to build a neat bungalow in the countryside. With the ceiling, flooring, window glass, etc., it would cost less than 5000 yuan. Even if this is a provincial capital, it is incomparable to the countryside, but 20000 yuan is really too high. After all, it was just the beginning of the opening up, and people could not see the advantages brought by the geographical location, and the housing prices were not high at all.
“My nephew said that the price of this land will definitely increase in the future. Also, look at the surrounding area. There is a street outside the south house. We can do business there once it is open. Such a good location is hard to come by.”
What the old man said was true. She was delighted with the location just now. The yard was close to several schools on the street. With the expansion of universities, the consumption in this place would definitely be extraordinary in the future. No matter what business she did, it would be fine.
“That 20,000 is too high. Not to mention the provincial capital, even the capital doesn’t have such a high price.” The golden age of real estate is after the millennium. How much can you earn by doing business with money for such a long time? She choose long-term investment for insurance.
“This is the price my nephew mentioned. If you really want it, just name a price. I’ll tell him when he comes back.”
Li Xia thought about it and said a middle price. “Five thousand.”
The old man shook his head and smiled without saying much, waving his hand to see the guest off. She came out of the yard feeling uneasy, wondering if she had paid too low price. Good houses are hard to come by, and buying one is definitely more cost-effective than saving money in the bank in the long run. Real estate prices will rise in the future, and it will be hard to find another one if you miss it.
She was doing the math while riding her bike. In 20 years, the price of housing in the provincial capital will be around 2,000 per square meter, but that is for a building, not this kind of private courtyard. This courtyard, including the house and the courtyard, is about 400 square meters, and the area of the house alone is about 250-260 square meters. She heard that the demolition of the house is based on the same area, and the courtyard is based on half the area.
This condition is that the buildings are in the same geographical location. If you calculate this way, you can get two buildings and a shop in the city center. If it is a little further away, it may be doubled. 20,000 US dollars can be exchanged for nearly 200,000 at that time, plus interest, it is about 200,000. If it is exchanged for a house, it will be worth at least 700,000 or 800,000.
This means you have made a profit, and the housing price will continue to rise over time. You can live in the house for more than ten years, or rent it out to earn rent, which is also an invisible profit. In the future, if you replace the building with a new one and the upper floor can be rent out, which is also a profit.
She will come back tomorrow. If she can lower the price, she will make more money. After all, few people can afford to buy a house now. If he insists on 20,000, it will be difficult to sell. It’s okay. After doing this calculation, she has a bottom line in her mind.
In fact, she only lived to 2006 in her previous life. If she had lived a dozen years longer, she would have understood that housing prices had only skyrocketed since the millennium. Even if she bought it for 20,000 now, it would definitely be a big profit.
There were only a handful of people who could come up with tens of thousands of dollars at once during this period. She rode home with confidence, and when she entered the yard, she saw her ex-mother-in-law standing. The old lady was telling the neighbors something and when she saw her coming back, she raised her voice to reiterate it.
“Look, see. She sells buns every day, yet she still asks for money from her child for the bun. Have you ever seen a mother like this? Even if they are divorced, the child is her own. She asks for money just for a bun. Isn’t that too much?”
So that’s why, Li Xia got out of the bike and parked it, and then she asked indifferently, “Do you know how much a bun costs?”
The old lady was stunned for a moment and replied: “1 dime.”
“How much pocket money did you give Yi Yi?”
“I don’t remember this clearly.”
Li Xia rolled her eyes at her, went into the house and took out a handful of banknotes. “Count them.”
She took it and everyone saw that most of them were one or two cents.
As expected, she counted them one by one, and the total was 44 cents.
Her grandson came to his mother every day, and she knew it very well. Even if there was one a day, that would be more than 30. There were no tickets at all, and the difference of one dime was too much. After counting the money, she was too embarrassed to say anything. How could Li Xia let her go? She asked directly in front of the crowd of onlookers.
“How many?”
She didn’t say that someone who saw it said, “44 cents.”
“From the time I started selling buns to now, do you think this money is enough? The child said he loves his mother and hence gave the money, so I can’t refuse it. Why do you think I’m selling buns to my son? We don’t live far away, and even though we’re divorced, the child is still mine ?”
Facts speak louder than words. The ex mother-in-law was immediately furious when she was hit by this fact. Fang Zhongcheng never gave Huihua anything, but Yi Yi often came to his mother’s house. What they eat is more than just buns.
“The Fang family is really stingy. They come to look for trouble even for such a small matter. Can you really separate a mother and her son?”
“What? You don’t know.” An insider began to reveal: “They want to push the child to Li Xia and not care about him at all. I heard they are introducing a girl to Fang Zhongcheng. Having a child is a burden.”
“That’s too much. Li Xia is exhausted to death because she has one child each. The children are not born by her alone, so of course the father has to be responsible.”
“Don’t talk nonsense.” Old Lady Fang interrupted the crowd and tried to make amends. “We raise our grandchildren ourselves. We didn’t say we don’t care. We each have one child and we each have our own responsibilities.”
After she finished speaking, she pushed through the crowd and fled in dismay. Everyone pointed and laughed at her behind her. “Then don’t come to trouble the child’s mother. It’s just a few cents of pocket money for the child, and you’re still worried that the child’s mother will take advantage of it. A few cents, not tens of dollars.”
“Really. A penny is as big as a millstone. Li Xia is raising three people by herself, and her husband is a vegetative. He has no end in sight for his life. Who wouldn’t feel sorry for him? She said she was raising a grandson, but in fact she let the grandson run to eat at his mother. Otherwise, could she sell the buns for money.”
“Of course. She’s less than 30 years old, and she’s supporting three people alone. It’s pitiful for her to be a widow at such a young age.”
“That’s right. If Shen Haiyang doesn’t wake up, her life will be ruined.”
“She might be even more pitiful if Shen Haiyang wakes up.”
Whether it was her ex-mother-in-law or outsiders, they were enough to make her speechless. Most importantly, her neighbors all pitied her, and she wanted to retort but they seemed to be ungrateful, so she simply never listened.
The crowd was gossiping, Li Xia was busy packing up her things and didn’t pay attention to others. It’s useless to talk about different values. Why pity her? She thinks she lives a good life.
She shook my head and went home to pack up the things she had sold. After that, she fed the man in bed through a nasogastric tube, talking to him while feeding him.
“I found a very suitable house. Even if I buy it at the price they offer, I will definitely make a profit. But I want to stretch it a little bit, the less the better. Huihui and Huihua have started school. They are in kindergarten this year and will be in the first grade next year.
I think Huihui will be able to study well in the future. Now we can see that he has a very good memory and reaction. He can memorize the text that the teacher asks him to recite after reading it twice, but huihus hasn’t memorized even one word from a book. Alas, this girl is only good at drawing, and she can do color matching without being taught, but she is doomed when asked to recite a book or do math problems. ”
She talked to the man about some trivial matters in life, and when she was done, she wiped his face clean, changed the basin and towel to wash his feet. After she was done, she called the two children over, she helped the man up, and the two children quickly changed his bed sheets and pillowcases.
“Okay, I’ll give Dad a massage, you two can go play.” The two children responded and prepared to leave. She remembered about buying a house and called Huihui back. She started talking to the children about buying a house.
“With your dad being like this now, Mom has to discuss things with you. I think buying a house is definitely better than keeping money in a bank. Are you willing to buy a house?”
“I’ll listen to you.” The little guy smiled, “Uncle Han said that you are my guardian now, so I should listen to you.”
“Then buy it. I’ll take you there when the transfer is completed.”
Han Jun and his uncle, needless to say, are also people who supervise her. However, Han Jun is positive. As long as she has the right mind, he will take care of her in all aspects of life.
The uncle is two-faced, causing her troubles and also acting as a supervisor, but as long as she has the right intentions, he can do nothing about it. To put it bluntly, she has nothing to fear as long as she is upright.
She liked the house and went to look at it every day. She talked to the old man day by day, making it seem like she was interested in buying a house but didn’t have enough money.
“My nephew said he can’t sell it at your price. The house will definitely be worth more in a few years, and it would be a loss for him to sell it too cheap.”
“Uncle, this business is all about asking for a high price and paying back the money. Your nephew said that the housing prices will double in a few years. Hasn’t he thought that in a few years, prices will rise and money will not have the purchasing power it has today?”
These economic terms were all learned from TV in her previous life, and she was learning and applying them to the old man now. The old man didn’t understand this either, after all, the prices in the country hadn’t changed for many years.
Under the planned economy, there was a shortage of materials but stable prices. When it suddenly changed to a market economy, many people could not think straight and never thought of exchanging money for materials to prevent inflation. In her previous life, there was a family of four men in her village who farmed and worked as laborers during the slack season. They saved money in the bank anyway. But after saving for more than ten years, they found that the money that could build a two-story building was not enough to buy a bungalow.
“This old man doesn’t understand. Wait, I’ll tell my nephew what you said.”
Shebcame here several times, but she didn’t even see the owner. But according to the owner’s speculation, he should be a knowledgeable person. The planned economy is changing to a market economy, and it is gradually integrating with the international standards. If you don’t have knowledge and courage, and only rely on decades of experience, you will not only fail to make a fortune, but also suffer a great loss.
“Okay, I’ll come back the day after tomorrow.”
After bidding farewell to the old man, she returned home. The two children were not yet out of school. She cleaned the house as usual in the morning and then prepared the dumplings. Before she knew it, it was noon. Today, she made some extra radish and tofu stuffing and made dumplings for the two children.
“Mom, we’re back.”
She leaned over and smiled at the two children, “Be good, go wash your hands and get ready for dinner.”
Dumplings, although they were vegetarian, the two children still enjoyed them. Li Xia subconsciously looked outside. Her son hadn’t come in the past few days. Was it because the old lady at home was up to something? She couldn’t control her so Would she bully her son behind his back?
“Huihui,”
She was worried about her son when a woman stood at the door called Shen Hui. Li Xia immediately recognized the her. No wonder the woman looked so familiar. It turned out to be Shen Hui’s biological mother. She had seen her photo in the album.
The woman at this time was more fashionable than in the photo, wearing high heels, straight trouser seams, a woolen top, and bright and aggressive facial features. She was completely different from Li Xia’s simple dress.
“Huihui, come quickly, it’s been such a short time, don’t you recognize your mother?”
