Could it be that we've run into the legendary real estate speculators?

This is a suburban area that is still under development, and speculators haven't set their sights on this place yet, so the saleswoman didn't think about it in that direction at first.

However, after hearing Tang Xiaoxiao's words, she pretended to suddenly realize that she had hit the jackpot this time. After apologizing to Tang Xiaoxiao again, she went to the side to make another phone call. This time, she returned with undisguised excitement on her face: "Ms. Tang, if you buy more than ten sets, we can give you a discount of at least 20% and give you two underground parking spaces for free."

Upon hearing the price, Tang Xiaoxiao did some mental calculations and felt it was about right.

Developers also need to make money. A 20% discount is already a very high offer, and further negotiation is probably pointless. Moreover, underground parking spaces are not cheap, so giving away two is already a very generous gesture.

Thinking of this, she didn't hesitate any longer and said directly to the saleswoman, "Let's go sign the contract. I want all the vacant suites on floors 8-15 of this building, plus the two on the first floor."

The saleswoman's mouth dropped open. Even though she had some suspicions and was somewhat prepared, she was still shocked by Tang Xiaoxiao's extravagant spending.

Coming to her senses, she hurriedly bowed and said, "Okay, okay, this way please."

Tang Xiaoxiao circled a total of fifteen units, varying in size, totaling approximately 1200 square meters. Because the two units on the first floor included a basement of equal size, the price was higher than the units on other floors. After a discount, the total cost was around 5.6 million yuan.

In Tang Xiaoxiao's opinion, this price was practically a fire sale price.

A few years later, five million wouldn't even buy two of the smallest apartments.

After completing all the formalities, Tang Xiaoxiao was escorted out of the sales center by the saleswoman, whose smile was almost reaching her ears, and the manager who had come to hear about the situation, because it was a pre-sale property and she couldn't get the property certificate yet.

Next, she went to two large residential communities, selecting more than a dozen units in each community. Finally, she went to a shopping mall under construction and applied for two shops in excellent locations at the investment promotion office.

In one day, Tang Xiaoxiao spent a whopping 17 million before finally stopping.

Back in the car, looking at the thick stack of contracts in her hand, Tang Xiaoxiao seemed to see banknotes flying everywhere a few years later.

She breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that from now on she could probably just relax and wait to die...

Tang Xiaoxiao drove home discreetly, without telling anyone that she had bought a large number of properties; even her parents were unaware of it.

The more she said, the more mistakes she made. If her parents pressed her for an explanation, she would find it difficult to explain why she had gone to such a distant city as D to invest in real estate, and why she had made such a large investment all at once.

It's better to keep it a secret for now and gradually reveal your other investments later. As long as you don't disclose everything at once, the impact won't be as great.

Soon, another half month passed, and the villa over the old house was completed.

The original four bungalows of the old house did not occupy a large area. When Tang Xiaoxiao planned it, she expanded the area of ​​the houses. In the end, the villa occupied more than 200 square meters and had four floors. The overall appearance was European style, simple and grand yet with a sense of design.

The yard is big enough, with the front and back yards totaling seven or eight hundred square meters. There hasn't been time to plan it yet. When the Tang family lived in the old house, Tang's mother, like other rural housewives, would grow common vegetables in the yard and raise poultry and livestock such as pigs, cattle, chickens, and ducks. Now those pigsties and cowsheds have been demolished, leaving a vast empty space. Tang Xiaoxiao doesn't want her little home to become a paradise for livestock.

After the villa was completed, the next step was interior decoration. The blueprints had already been designed, but Tang Xiaoxiao did not hire a decoration company. Instead, she asked her high school classmate, Cheng Yiming, who was a designer. Cheng Yiming majored in interior design in college. After graduation, he had not found a suitable company for the time being, so he took on some freelance work. When she asked in her high school classmates' group if anyone knew an interior designer, he volunteered.

The interior design drawings that Tang Xiaoxiao used were done by him, and Tang Xiaoxiao was very satisfied. His aesthetic sense and some of his ideas were quite in line with her preferences. Originally, the designer wouldn't be involved in the subsequent decoration, but Tang Xiaoxiao paid a high price to hire him to be fully responsible for the decoration of the villa. After all, she knew nothing about these things herself, and it was more reliable to leave it to a professional.

Although using a renovation company would be cheaper and less troublesome, Tang Xiaoxiao had her own plans. Renovation companies handle both the project and materials. Putting aside whether the quality of the materials they use can be guaranteed, she wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to purchase materials to contact the Han family. Otherwise, with A City and D City being so far apart, her plan to trick her husband in her previous life would take forever to make any progress.

She took out her phone and dialed "Han's Building Materials" number without hesitation. Her fingers fluently dialed the number she knew by heart, and the call was connected quickly.

A woman's voice came from the other end: "Hello, Han's Building Materials."

It is Han's mother, Guo Mingli.

"Hello, a friend recommended me to come here. My house is about to be renovated and I need some materials."

Tang Xiaoxiao said in a very serious tone.

Guo Mingli responded immediately and asked what she needed. Tang Xiaoxiao didn't answer immediately but asked first, "My home is quite far away, in City A. Can you deliver here?"

Guo Mingli suggested that they could ship via logistics, but Tang Xiaoxiao refused: "I don't trust logistics. I'm afraid there might be some damage or something, and it would be troublesome to return or exchange it. Don't you have a delivery service? I'm willing to pay more, as long as the goods are guaranteed to be intact."

Hearing her say that, Guo Mingli considered it for a moment and agreed. Although the Han family's trucks usually only ran within the city, and out-of-town orders were shipped through logistics companies, City A wasn't particularly far away, and a round trip within a day was no problem. Since the customer had such a request and didn't mind spending more money, she, as a business owner, naturally tried her best to meet the customer's wishes.

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