Chapter 121 Chapter 121 1st update

Secretary Yang felt the silent and stagnant atmosphere at the scene. He was actually a little confused, but his imagination was not broad enough to imagine that the two people in front of him knew each other, or even were husband and wife. He just thought that one wanted to buy and the other didn't want to sell, and he was frozen for a moment.

So he quickly spoke to ease the atmosphere: "This is Professor Zeng's home, right? Is Professor Zeng not at home? We were introduced by Minister Wang Qingshan, and he said he had already made an appointment with your family. Comrade, do you think there is any misunderstanding?"

How come you said you wanted to sell the house, but suddenly you don’t want to sell it?

Fu Mingze blinked, and his frozen thoughts finally began to move with difficulty.

Professor Zeng?

Where did Professor Zeng come from in their family?

It seems that I really went to the wrong door.

But it was his wife who went to the wrong door...it doesn't seem like a wrong step, right?

"Xiao Ze, is someone looking for Professor Zeng? Tell them you've got the wrong person. Professor Zeng lives in Courtyard 19." The old lady's voice rang out in the room. "Oh, why can't I find the scarf that Moer gave me..."

Fu Mingze subconsciously looked at Shen Moer. Shen Moer blinked and looked at her husband again. Well, he was in a suit and tie, obviously going out.

She said, "Secretary Yang, it seems we made a mistake. Since Professor Zeng is in Courtyard No. 19, let's go to Courtyard No. 19."

After saying this, she turned around swiftly.

No matter what the current situation is, now is definitely not a good time to face my in-laws...If we really meet them, it will only make things more complicated.

"Ah, oh, oops, it's my fault. It's all my fault for not asking clearly. Comrade, I'm sorry, we went to the wrong door. Sorry for disturbing you!" Secretary Yang also reacted, apologized to Fu Mingze with a smile, turned around and hurriedly caught up with Shen Moer.

Fu Mingze watched his wife walk away without even saying hello: "..."

Obviously, there was a major crisis of trust between the couple.

His wife saved up her own money to buy a house without his knowledge, and he hid from her the fact that his family was wealthy bourgeois... It seemed, as if his nature was even more serious.

Fu Mingze had a headache and shouted, "Grandma, please let Mingzhuo accompany you to Grandma Qiu. I have something urgent to do."

After saying this, he didn't wait for the old lady to react and quickly walked out of the house.

The old lady poked her head out of the house: "What?"

Fu Mingzhuo, who was sitting in the living room reading a book, said, "My eldest brother said he has something urgent to do and will not accompany you to Grandma Qiu's house."

The old lady glared at him: "He also said that he wanted you to accompany me."

Fu Mingzhuo: “…”

Helplessly putting down the book, he muttered, "Brother is really something, grandma, just now a beautiful girl walked into the wrong door, brother stared at her for a long time, and when she left, he immediately abandoned you and followed her. Could it be that my brother has fallen in love with someone else and wants to abandon my sister-in-law and become Chen Shimei?"

The old lady frowned: "How is that possible? Your eldest brother is not that kind of person."

Fu Mingzhuo: "That's because you didn't see the way he looked at that sister. It was so staring."

The old lady: "...You are just a little kid, what do you know? Stop talking nonsense."

Over there, Shen Moer and the others hurried out of Courtyard No. 9. Secretary Yang apologized as they walked, "Comrade Shen, I'm so sorry. I made a mistake in the address due to my negligence, but fortunately I figured it out and there was no big misunderstanding. Courtyard No. 19 is not far away, we can just go there right now."

There really wasn't any major misunderstanding.

It just felt like some big lie had been exposed.

Shen Moer kept smiling: “Well, it’s okay, thank you Secretary Yang for your help.”

If it were someone else, today's incident would be as simple as accidentally getting on the wrong bus and hopping on to the next stop. It's just that today's mistake was too coincidental, and it caused trouble that Secretary Yang could not even imagine.

Of course, this cannot be blamed on others.

Shen Moer's mind was actually still a little confused, but she was not a girl who was not willing to take responsibility, so she quickly calmed down.

Let’s talk about other things later, the most important thing is to buy the house first.

The two walked quickly towards Courtyard No. 19. Not long after, they heard footsteps behind them. Fu Mingze caught up with them: "Moer."

Secretary Yang looked at Fu Mingze in surprise, then turned back to look at Shen Moer, hesitated, and asked: "Comrade Shen, so you two know each other?"

Shen Moer was silent for two seconds, and said: “Well, I know her, but not very well.”

Fu Mingze: “…”

Shen Moer looked at Fu Mingze: "Comrade Fu, I have an appointment with Professor Zeng. Let's talk later if there is anything."

Fu Mingze: "...I'll accompany you."

Shen Moer thought about it and said, "Okay, let's go."

Secretary Yang glanced at the two of them secretly, curiously guessing their relationship, but no expression appeared on his face.

When we arrived at the No. 19 courtyard, the gray-haired Professor Zeng was already waiting at home. The old man's face was covered with frost. He looked at the slightly bleak courtyard in winter and sighed, "My children have been sent to Guangshi and have settled down there. I don't want to go back to the capital. I'm old now. If I can hold on, I can go back to work. Unfortunately, my body is not so strong. I'm thinking of selling the house and going to Guangshi to reunite with my children."

"This house is our ancestral home. Logically, the inheritance left by our ancestors should not be sold easily. However, these things left by our ancestors have caused our family a lot of suffering. It's okay to sell it. What is more important than a happy family reunion and peace?"

Professor Zeng knew Secretary Yang. He passed Secretary Yang and looked at Shen Moer and Fu Mingze: "I see that you two young couples are both very talented. I heard from Old Wang that you were successfully admitted to Capital University this time. It's not bad for me to sell this house to you."

Before Shen Moer and Fu Mingze spoke, Secretary Yang quickly clarified for them: "Professor Zeng, you misunderstood. It was Comrade Shen who wanted to buy a house. Mr. Fu is her friend and lives nearby, so he came to take a look."

Fu Mingze: “…”

He glanced at Shen Moer, who did not deny it.

Professor Zeng looked at Fu Mingze carefully and said, "Your surname is Fu. You are from the Fu family in No. 9 Courtyard, right? I know the elders in your family, but I don't recognize the children at all. Are you from the Zhiyuan family or the Boyuan family?"

Fu Mingze replied: "My father is Fu Zhiyuan."

Professor Zeng sighed, "Your parents must have suffered a lot in the past few years of being sent down to the countryside. It's not easy for the whole family to live well. I heard that the old man and the old lady have been staying with your uncle in the frontier these years? Your uncle is a nationally protected oil talent. The frontier is quieter than the inland, but the living environment is difficult. Well, it's good enough that you can make it through."

In terms of background, the Fu family is probably the worst in the area, but their Fu Boyuan is a nationally protected oil talent, and his family members did act decisively. Before anyone could react, some of their family members had already left or dispersed, but in the end the whole family was saved.

Unlike some families, who stayed in the capital during the most chaotic times and ended up...

Shen Moer glanced at Fu Mingze indifferently.

What happened to the ordinary working-class family that was supposed to be in the capital? What happened to the mother who was supposed to be in poor health, the younger brother who was not very old, and the grandparents who were often sick, who were struggling to make ends meet with their meager wages? What happened to the uncle’s family that was supposed to be the only oil workers in the frontier?

Fu Mingze's scalp tingled, and he gritted his teeth and answered Professor Zeng: "It's all luck."

Shen Moer smiled and said, "Not only luck, but also the wisdom to judge the situation, right?"

The word wisdom is emphasized.

Fu Mingze: “…”

Professor Zeng smiled and said, "Comrade Xiao Shen is right. Judging the situation and assessing the situation, these four words are not something that ordinary people can do."

Fu Mingze had lost his temper, and the look he gave Shen Moer was pleading for mercy.

Professor Zeng did not continue to nag Fu Mingze about his family affairs. After all, the main task today was to sell the house. He changed the subject and introduced his own house to Shen Moer.

After showing Shen Moer around, Professor Zeng said, "Houses are like this. You may need to renovate them after you buy them, but this kind of old house used very good materials before. If you take good care of it, it can be passed down from generation to generation. I want 20,000 yuan. Someone gave me 18,000 yuan two days ago, but I didn't agree. I think Comrade Shen is a good person, and I feel relieved to sell the house to you, so I won't say much. I'll sell it to you for 18,000 yuan."

This price sounds like a sky-high price, after all, the small courtyard that Shen Moer bought before was only 800 yuan.

But the sizes of the houses are very different. The small courtyard over there is just an ordinary small house, while this side is a large courtyard with three entrances inside and outside. The area of ​​the houses is much different, not to mention that the geographical location here is much better. It is said that this side is not far from the former imperial palace.

This location is similar to the palace where Chen Moer lived in Daliang. This kind of location has always been extremely valuable throughout history, so Chen Moer can naturally understand that.

Old Wang had estimated the price for them in advance and said it was around 20,000. Now they themselves said they would give them 18,000, which was really fair.

Strictly speaking, they are getting a bargain at this price.

So Shen Moer didn't bargain anymore, but talked about the payment: "We can probably take out 10,000 in cash, and there are still 8,000..."

Fu Mingze said quickly: "I'll go home and get it."

Shen Moer looked at him and didn't answer. Instead, she asked Professor Zeng: "There are 8,000 left. I wonder if I can give you the equivalent in gold? I have correspondence with a friend in the United States. He told me that the price of gold is now linked to the currency of the United States. The international gold price is relatively stable. And as far as I know, Guangzhou is close to the port city, and people there prefer gold to currency."

"Don't worry that I'll use fake things to deceive you. We can find professionals to appraise it. Besides, I bought your house. People can run away, but the house can't run away."

Fu Mingze looked at Shen Moli, and at this moment his mind was a little confused. Not only could his wife take out 10,000 yuan in cash, she also seemed to have a lot of gold in her hands.

Where did she get so much money?

Where does the gold come from?

Wasn’t her family a family of poor peasants for three generations, so poor that they almost starved to death?

It is impossible that she earned it in the past few years. Even if she was doing black market business, she couldn't make so much money. It is even more impossible to earn it from the embroidery factory. She has always set an example and would not even report a penny more for business trip reimbursement.

Fu Mingze looked at Shen Moer with a rare confused expression.

The person in front of him was obviously his wife, but for some reason, he felt a little strange about her.

When Professor Zeng heard Shen Moer say that she wanted to use gold as collateral, his expression was slightly surprised, but he quickly nodded: "It's okay, I believe you."

In fact, if he uses gold at a discount, he will actually get the upper hand.

Just as Chen Moli said, people in Guangzhou prefer gold to currency. Her son once wrote to her and said vaguely that in recent years there have always been people sneaking across the border to the port city opposite. Since the end of last year, the number of people fleeing to Hong Kong has suddenly increased sharply, and the price of gold on the black market has risen a lot.

If I take the gold to Guangzhou, maybe it will be more than eight thousand.

The two parties quickly reached an agreement and agreed to pay the money and transfer the ownership in the afternoon. Shen Moer and the others said goodbye and left. Professor Zeng also happily said that he would call his son to pick him up.

Walking out of the alley, Secretary Yang sensitively realized that his presence seemed a little redundant, and said very tactfully that he had to go back to work first, and said that he would come back in the afternoon to accompany Shen Moer to handle the formalities. Fu Mingze directly refused and told him that he didn't need to come in the afternoon, and he would just accompany her to handle the formalities.

Secretary Yang looked at the handsome man in front of her with outstanding temperament, and complained in her heart that he was so arrogant before, as if someone was short of money and asked her to go back, but why was he like a sticky candy now? At the same time, she looked at Shen Moer with a smile, waiting for her reply.

Minister Wang assigned him the task of helping Comrade Shen, so of course he listened to Comrade Shen.

Shen Moer smiled and said, “Secretary Yang, I’m really sorry to bother you today. I won’t waste your time any more in the afternoon. The transfer procedure is not difficult. I can do it myself.”

By listening to the words and the tone, Secretary Yang could tell that Comrade Shen felt that he could handle it and did not need anyone else to accompany him at all.

He didn't force it, and said, "If you have any questions, feel free to call our office. I'm not busy these two days, so I can help you anytime."

Shen Moer thanked him again, said goodbye to him at the entrance of the alley, and walked towards the bus stop at the other end.

Fu Mingze followed silently, asking as they walked: "When did you arrive in the capital? Are your father and daughter here too? Why didn't you call me when you arrived in the capital so that I could pick you up?"

Shen Moer paused slightly and said, "Didn't you say the phone number was from your father's workshop? I'm afraid that calling would delay his work."

Fu Mingze: "...It's a call from home. I wanted to wait for you to call me and then talk to you in person after I pick you up."

Shen Moer turned her head to look at him, smiling: "What are you talking about? Your father is not actually a worker, and your family is not poor. You said that the tattered clothes you wore in Yangliu Brigade were bought from beggars on the street?"

Fu Mingze: "...Those are my own clothes, just with a few more patches on them."

Shen Moer: “Oh.”

It turns out to be a specially made "costume".

They walked to the bus stop and suddenly someone shouted, "Fu Mingze, what are you doing?"

Fu Mingze looked in the direction of the voice and saw Dai Mingxuan riding a bicycle over. "What are you doing? You're wearing this to squeeze into the bus. Are you crazy?"

Fu Mingze: "Don't worry about it."

Dai Mingxuan: "What do you mean by no matter what? I saw you following a pretty girl from a distance. You can't do this. My sister-in-law will be coming to the capital soon. Are you so tempted by something else that you want to be Chen Shimei?"

Dai Mingxuan was riding his bicycle when he was stopped by Fu Mingze. He said righteously: "Fu Mingze, even if my sister-in-law is a country girl, since she was admitted to Capital University, she must be a cultured and intelligent girl. She is also very outstanding. You can't be a heartless and unfaithful man. I must take good care of you for my sister-in-law!"

The bus had already arrived, and Shen Moer quickly squeezed onto it. She turned around and saw that Fu Mingze was entangled by Dai Mingxuan, who looked like he wanted to get over but couldn't. She couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Soon, the car started and drove away slowly. Shen Moer leaned out of the window and shouted:

"Comrade, I thank you on behalf of your sister-in-law!"

Dai Mingxuan looked back and was immediately happy: "Look, look at this girl's awareness!"

Fu Mingze, who was stopped by bicycles and people and watched his wife being taken away by the bus, said: "..."

He stared at the idiot in front of him and said coldly, "That's your sister-in-law."

Dai Mingxuan: “Ah?!”

He turned around and looked at the bus that was getting farther and farther away: "..."

He quickly turned the handlebars of the bicycle, pedaled with all his might, making it spin like a Hot Wheels, and quickly fled the scene.

For a moment, Fu Mingze's eyes told him that if he stayed there any longer, Fu Mingze might kick him under the wheels of a bus.

No, your wife dumped you, go find your wife!