Chapter 38
"Uh, wife, you still dare to say you haven't fooled me? Let's not talk about whether the money is enough or not. Where did you see this single-family house?"
"I saw it on a calendar, and then I dreamed about it. The whole building was mine, and there were more than a dozen cars in the garage. I could drive any car I wanted when I went out. I had everything in my dream."
She saw the calendar while shopping at the market a few days ago and was curious at the time.
She thought the calendar was very representative of the era. It was quite large, with thirteen pictures in total, including the cover. The themes were all beauties, cars, bodybuilders, landscapes, etc. Each picture had a month's calendar printed under it. She happened to see one with a villa or small house.
"You're just daydreaming. Wake up and get down to business. Stop talking nonsense. How about buying a suite?"
What about villas? Many people don’t even know how to read, but they still call it Dabieye just by looking at the calendar.
The suite that Pei Ze mentioned is a two-bedroom, one-living room apartment, and a single room is a one-bedroom, one-living room apartment. At that time, there were more single rooms and fewer suites, and even fewer three-bedroom houses. Even in the city, there were not many families who could afford a three-bedroom house.
Zhong Miao moved his somewhat sluggish brain, and his thoughts became clearer and clearer.
"Will you have any money left after investing in the furniture factory?"
“There should be some left.”
"It might be a bit of a loss to buy a house now." Zhong Miao straightened his expression, pushed Pei Ze away a little, and touched his strong muscles, which made Pei Ze laugh.
"Don't laugh, be serious." Zhong Miao stretched out her little hand and pulled his ear.
Pei Ze held the rebellious little hand in his palm, stroking it bit by bit, "Well, don't laugh, just talk, I'm listening."
"There are too few new buildings now, so there aren't many options. If I want to upgrade to a better house when one is built, I'll have to sell it and buy another. Even if prices go up, I won't be able to get a good price with the new houses behind me. It's a hassle."
This type of apartment building is the old, dilapidated and small house of the future. Zhong Miao does not like this type of house. She might be a little interested in old, dilapidated and large houses, at least the large area is an advantage. But there are too few large houses now, and they are expensive.
Pei Ze didn't expect her to see it this way, "Then what do you say we should do?"
"How much does a bungalow in the city cost?"
"A bungalow isn't expensive, around 500 yuan, and a bigger one costs 600 to 700 yuan, or even over a thousand yuan. But the conditions there aren't good. Dozens of families share one public toilet. Can you stand it?"
"Ah? Isn't there a water supply and drainage?"
"Not all of them do. Those houses are not big, just a single room of about 10 square meters, with a kitchen of 7 or 8 square meters outside. On one end of the kitchen is a sink with water supply and drainage, and on the other side is a stove, the kind you use for heating at home. You can only use a gas cylinder to cook, and you can't cook on the stove."
The bungalows in the city are not as comfortable and cozy as the courtyards in the village. They are crowded and the heating is not connected to the municipal heating like in the buildings. The broken heating is connected to the stove in the house, and you still have to burn fire in the winter.
"Does that kind of house have a toilet?"
"No, there are dozens of households using one public toilet. If you live close to the toilet, the smell is strong, and if you live far away, it's inconvenient to use the toilet."
"That's not a big deal. As long as there's water and sewage, I can ask someone to connect it to the kitchen and build a toilet in the yard."
"Your idea is good, but wife, that kind of house is really not good. It's not as comfortable as the one we have now. Be good and buy a building. I don't care whether the price goes up or not. As long as you live comfortably, that's all that matters."
"You're so stupid! Ten or twenty thousand yuan for an apartment building can buy dozens of bungalows. Do you know there's a term called demolition?"
The last time Pei Ze suggested buying a house, Zhong Miao didn't have any idea at that time. Later, she occasionally thought about the house and felt that buying it was not impossible, but there must be a profit, and the investment cannot be too large, so as not to delay Pei Ze's investment in the furniture factory.
The current economic development is much faster than expected. Doing business is more profitable than real estate, and the money comes faster. Although buying a house can also make a lot of money, it requires waiting. After all, she doesn't have a golden finger to know which area will be developed first. It all depends on luck.
"You mean, buy a bungalow and wait for it to be demolished?"
"Yeah, if there's no toilet, we can just partition off the space and add one. If the house is small, we can buy a few more sets. Choose the big and good ones. Don't buy the ones that are too shabby. We can still live comfortably after renovating them."
"If you have a good apartment with a large area, you can just create a partition in the house. The pipes don't need to be too long."
Pei Ze was thinking.
"It also depends on the location. Try to find one in a bustling area. That way it won't cost much, won't affect your business, and you might even make some extra money someday."
Zhong Miao opened her little hand held by Pei Ze a little, touched the lines on the palm of his hand, and stroked the calluses on his hand.
Pei Ze's thoughts were confused by her little action.
"Wife, why do you always think differently from others?"
Pei Ze sighed in his heart. He understood what Zhong Miao meant, but he felt even more sorry for her. How did his wife develop such a rational personality that always put her own interests first?
Nowadays, who would want to live in a bungalow when they have an apartment? Those who are allocated a house in the factory are all very arrogant. Which girl would look at apartments and bungalows from this perspective?
"I am not someone else, so of course I am different from others."
Pei Ze felt soft-hearted when he saw her delicate little appearance, and couldn't help but kiss her rosy little face a few times.
"You come again, aren't you annoying?"
"After the New Year, my husband will go and take a look. If there's anything good, we'll buy it."
"Yeah, since you're paying, it doesn't matter whether you buy it or not."
Zhong Miao's restless little hands didn't care about the serious things they were talking about at all. She played with Pei Ze's Adam's apple, which moved with his swallowing movements, and also vibrated a little when he spoke.
"Wife, you don't have to think about saving money for me in the future. Even if you spend it all, I can still earn more."
Pei Ze lost his father at a young age, and lost his older brother and sister-in-law while he was studying away from home. In his heart, no amount of money can bring his family back home.
He loves Zhong Miao and his family in his heart. He doesn't need to learn the principle of cherishing the people around him. It is an instinct engraved in his bones.
Business and money are tools to serve people, not as important as his wife. This girl didn't think about living comfortably when buying a house, but how she could get greater benefits. It's really heartbreaking.
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It snowed again during the New Year period, but fortunately there wasn't much snow and it didn't affect walking.
The family has been particularly quiet these days. They didn't go out to visit anyone until the fifth day of the New Year, and likewise, no one came to visit.
Zhong Ming has lived here for several days, and he has integrated into this small family without any sense of incongruity.
After breakfast, Pei Ze saw that Zhong Miao was absent-minded and asked, "Wife, what are you discussing?"
In reality, Zhong Miao was thinking about today's plot. Someone was supposed to be coming home, and there was no way to avoid them. "Nothing, I'm just curious. Why didn't our family go out to visit relatives during the New Year? Don't we have any relatives here?"
Zhong Miao didn't let her father go home. One reason was that she wanted to keep him to take care of him and recover from his injuries. The second reason was that her father could help her when the plot was going on. Another reason was that she was afraid that her father would be visited by his relatives from his mother's side if he went home alone.
Anyway, the plot didn't mention anything about her mother's family. As long as her father was not at home, no one would come to her house to see her. She would hide if she could to avoid exposing herself. Zhong Cheng was afraid of Pei Ze, so he probably wouldn't dare to come to her husband's house to cause trouble no matter what.
When Pei Ze heard Zhong Miao ask this, he introduced her to the situation at home.
Zhong Miao listened carefully. Her mother-in-law's relatives had been separated when they fled. Her father-in-law had an older brother and a younger brother, but they rarely interacted after the separation and only saw each other once a year. Since her father-in-law passed away, her mother-in-law had never taken the initiative to look for these people.
But Uncle Pei Ze and his uncles would bring their children to visit every Chinese New Year, which annoyed Pei Ze very much. Although they were not the ones who made the family extinct, they had a similar mentality and often had their eyes on his orphan and widow.
I have to say that it was useful for Pei Ze's family to live a low-key life. Knowing that they were poor, I stopped thinking about them.
It was precisely because of Pei Ze's presence that they didn't gain much advantage. They were just given some lucky money and some cheap things to get away with.
For the mother-in-law, for the sake of her husband, I will invite you in if you come, and I won’t look for you if you don’t come. Since the accident between Pei Ze’s eldest brother and his wife, no relatives have come to visit the family.
"Why do you think of asking this?"
"Nothing, just asked when I remembered."
Pei Ze was bored, so he took Zhong Miao out for a walk. In fact, he wanted to spend some time alone with Zhong Miao.
He felt that it was not enough even if the person was right in front of him, and no matter how close he got to her, it was not enough. He wished he could put his wife in his pocket, but putting her in his pocket was not enough, and he wanted to get closer and closer.
Zhong Miao thought it was still early, so she followed him out for a stroll along the paths in the village.
Not long after the two of them came out, Zhong Miao saw a group of people in the distance, "Who is that?"
Pei Ze was tall and could see far, so he recognized it after just a few glances. "You're such a badass! You're the one who said so and so. Let's go home quickly."
Haha, it was just as she thought. Zhong Miao followed Pei Ze home.
"Why are there so many people?" Zhong Miao compared the heads she had just seen with the plot. Didn't it say there were two adults and the rest were children? Did she remember it wrong?
"Yes, it's my great-grandfather and my uncle. They both have many children. If I'm not mistaken, I haven't seen the one my great-grandfather is holding in his arms. I don't know which grandson he is."
Zhong Miao wanted to laugh when she heard Pei Ze calling her father's brother "uncle". At this time, she called her father's brother "uncle". In Zhong Miao's impression, she would only call an old man she didn't know "uncle" when asking for directions, or say "your uncle" when she wanted to curse someone.
What’s even more interesting is that the eldest uncle’s wife is called auntie, and if the uncle is the second child, she is called second uncle or second auntie. In the previous life, there were only aunties working in the vegetable market and aunties working in the square dance. Well, it’s hard to get used to this kind of address.
"Oh, the children are that big now?" Judging from their figures, I thought they were four adults.
"Haha, my uncle's eldest and second grandsons are already in their teens and have grown up."
When they got home, Zhang Weilan heard that the two old guys had come, and she immediately went back to the main house and asked Zhong Miao to take all the delicious and expensive things in the cabinet back to her room.
For Pei Laogui's sake, Zhang Weilan felt it would be impolite to refuse to let them in. In the past, whenever they came during the Chinese New Year, she would just give them some New Year's money and cry poor and send them away.
When Zhong Ming saw his sister-in-law's attitude and his daughter's previous greeting, he knew that the person who came was not a good person.
An An didn't know what was going on, so he took a small snack from his mother's hand and ate it.
Zhang Weilan didn't want Zhong Ming to get involved, so she asked him to go back to the side room to rest. There was a whole family, and they were all children. The words "Happy New Year" were not said in vain. It would not look good if you didn't give them New Year's money. Even if you gave them, they were just relatives who didn't visit each other often and had nothing to do with Zhong Ming, so there was no need.
After a while, everyone arrived. Zhong Miao and Pei Ze were waiting in the main house, and the mother-in-law went to open the door.
After the two families, a total of eleven people, entered the house, Zhong Miao was still stunned. The village next door where they lived was not the one with a market that could be walked to in more than 20 minutes. It was a village on the other side, which took more than 40 minutes to walk to.
She really couldn't understand why someone would bring so many children so far in such cold weather just to take advantage of others.
Zhong Miao could tell the identities of the two men from their ages. Pei Ze's uncle took a bag of vermicelli noodles, and his uncle took a few pieces of frozen tofu. Zhong Miao couldn't believe her eyes. Was it so perfunctory to pay New Year's greetings?
More than a dozen people were all cold, and some children were sweating and still smelled of sweat. For a moment, the heat in the room disappeared, and the mixed smells in the air made Zhong Miao a little uncomfortable.
There are nine children. The oldest one is in his teens, just as Pei Ze said, and is about 1.6 or 1.7 meters tall. The youngest one is still in his arms and is smaller than An An.
A large group of children came in and greeted Zhang Weilan, calling her "Second Aunt" and "Auntie" and "Grandma", and everyone was saying "Happy New Year".
Pei Ze stood up and called out "Uncle Grandpa" in a nonchalant manner.
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