Chapter 152 After moving and buying stocks, life went on as usual...
After buying the stocks, life went on as usual and Xu Heye did not take it too seriously. After all, the two delivery notes could not be sold for cash until 1992.
The weather was getting colder, and after the winter vacation, Xu Hui bought a ticket and came to Hucheng.
The father and daughter spent several days preparing all the furniture for the new home, and then hired a cleaning company to clean the new house.
On January 23, 1992, the Laba Festival, Dong Taohua also arrived in Hucheng. This was the day they moved into their new home.
Although we don’t plan to hold a wedding banquet to celebrate the new house, we still need to invite relatives and friends to our home for a hot pot meal.
At her grandfather's house, Dong Taohua only planned to invite Dong Xinghua's family and her younger brother Dong Fuyun. On the Ji family side, Uncle Ji, Uncle Ji Si, and Uncle Ji Wu were reluctant to associate with the Xu family, so they only invited Uncle Ji Weimin and his family.
In addition to Lu Jun and Huang Wangcheng, Xu Heye also plans to hire Duan Jie and three other people from the factory, as sales are the backbone of the factory.
The neighbors in Zhangshu Lane only invited the Lian family and Liu Yumei, who worked at the small shop at the entrance of the lane. As for the other neighbors, a family of three came to the door to deliver wedding candy.
After all, the space in the house is limited, and even if all the neighbors are invited home, they can't all sit down.
The first to arrive was my aunt's family. In addition to the usual rice, flour, grain and oil for a housewarming, my aunt also brought a charcoal stove for heating.
Pang Qiao looked at the clean, bright new house, her eyes filled with joy. She touched the wall, its matte finish giving it a fresh, gentle feel. The living room sofa wasn't a Chinese-style solid wood, but a Western-style leather sofa. It felt incredibly comfortable and unique.
There is a balcony on the south side, where you can see the distant scenery.
Pang Qiao walked around the living room and set her sights on Xu Heye's room.
"Cousin, where is your room?"
"This way." Xu Heye brought Pang Qiao to her room.
The room is dominated by beige tones, and a row of wardrobes sits against the wall on the left side of the door. When the doors are opened, except for the top row, there are no partitions inside the wardrobes, but instead a lot of metal rods.
"Cousin, what are you doing with all these rods in the cabinet?"
"It's for hanging clothes." Xu Heye explained, "I don't like folding clothes and I'm too lazy to do it, so I don't need a partition. After the clothes are dried, I can just take them back with the hangers and hang them up."
No girl likes to do housework and fold clothes, so Xu Heye's lazy behavior really touched Pang Qiao's heart.
"Ah!" she screamed, "Cousin, I like your cabinet." Woohoo, she also wanted a cabinet like this. It would be so nice to just hang clothes there instead of folding them.
After looking at the cabinet, Pang Qiao's eyes fell on Xu Heye's big bed.
The solid wood bed, measuring 1.8 by 2 meters, was perfect for a girl sleeping alone, rolling around to her heart's content. It was covered with a new quilt, soft and fluffy, like a cloud. Pang Qiao couldn't help but throw herself on it and roll around on the bed.
She lay on her back in the quilt, looking at the headlight above her head. She reached out and hooked the switch on the bedside table. With a click, the headlight turned on, and with a click, the headlight turned off.
I switched to another switch and continued to press it. The bedside lamp turned on, and when I pressed it again, it turned off. The lamp was very cute, and the power of the bulb was not that high, which made it convenient to use when I got up at night.
Between the bed and the cabinet, there is a bedside table with drawers under the switch and socket, where you can put some small items.
Pang Qiao tugged at the drawer of the bedside table, then climbed out of bed. Her eyes fell on the solid wood table and chairs between the bed and the window. The height of the table and chairs was specially customized according to Xu Heye's height, making it convenient for her to read and study.
Pang Qiao and Xu Heye are about the same height. She sat on the chair, resting her elbows on the table, as if she was reading a book.
It is indeed neither too high nor too low, just right.
Getting down from the table, Pang Qiao looked at the curtains.
The curtains are beige and very thick. Although they are light colors, as long as the curtains are drawn, the sunlight from outside will not come in. When the curtains are opened, there is a bay window outside.
There was a blanket on the bay window, and there was a small square table above it where she could sit and drink tea and read. She climbed up to the bay window again, bent down and lay on the small square table to look at the scenery outside the window.
After a while, Pang Qiao came down from the bay window, took Xu Heye's arm and shook it, "Cousin, your room is so beautiful."
"Tell me the truth, are you the worm in my stomach? Otherwise, why would your room be so to my liking?"
There was simply nothing she didn't like.
Xu Heye: "Do you like it?"
"Yeah." Pang Qiao nodded repeatedly.
"If you like, let my aunt and uncle buy a house." Xu Heye took the opportunity to express her purpose. "Buy a four-bedroom house like ours. You and Pang Wei can live separately, and then you can decorate your room like mine. I know a decorator and can introduce him to you."
"Buy a house?" Pang Qiao was a little tempted.
However, considering the situation at home, she soon became depressed.
"Houses are too expensive. My family can't afford them at all."
"We can buy a cheaper house." In the kitchen, Dong Taohua and Dong Xinghua were also talking about buying a house.
"I can't even afford a cheap one." Dong Xinghua shook her head and calculated. "Even the cheapest house would cost 1,100 square meters. With two children, I need at least a three-bedroom house. A three-bedroom house would be around 100 square meters. So, a house would cost 100,000 yuan."
"Although your brother-in-law and I both worked a few years ago, our family of four needed money to eat, sleep, and sleep, and our two children needed money to go to school, so we didn't save much. It was only in the past year or so that I worked with He Ye and earned some money. It was only 40,000 yuan, less than half of the house price."
Dong Taohua: "If you don't have enough money, take out a loan."
"loan?"
"It means borrowing money from the bank to buy a house and paying back the interest and principal every month."
"Borrowing money? That's not an option." Dong Xinghua shook her head repeatedly. "What if we can't pay it back? Won't the bank just take our house away?"
"Why can't you pay it back?" Dong Taohua rolled her eyes at her. She put the cooked beef stew in a casserole to keep it warm while telling Dong Xinghua about the new policy she had learned about recently. "Pay a down payment of 30,000 yuan, and then take out a loan for the remaining 70,000 yuan. For a 30-year loan, you only have to pay 200 to 300 yuan a month."
"Two or three hundred yuan isn't too much?" Dong Xinghua thought her elder sister was getting carried away. "Sister, your brother-in-law only makes a little over four hundred yuan a month!"
"As for me, I earn more now, more than 600 yuan a month." Of course, she doesn't rely on salary now. It mainly comes from commissions and shareholder dividends.
"Every month, I have to pay back 300 yuan just for the mortgage. How can I even make ends meet? Your nieces and nephews will need money to go to college and get married in the future."
Dong Taohua: "But think about it, three hundred yuan seems like a lot now, but will it still be a lot in ten years?"
"Let's not talk about faraway places, let's just talk about our salaries. In 1985, my salary was only over 70 yuan, but now it's increased to 200 yuan. And this is a small county in Gan Province. Here in Hucheng, the salary increase should be even greater!"
"My brother-in-law makes 400 yuan a month now, and you make 600 yuan a month. What about ten years later? Ten years later, if your salaries both rise to 1,000 yuan a month and you both pay 300 yuan towards the mortgage, will you still feel the pressure?"
"But I can be sure that ten years from now, you won't be able to buy a house for one thousand yuan per square meter. Maybe it will cost three thousand or five thousand yuan." To put it simply, wouldn't the price of her house be more than two thousand yuan?
Dong Xinghua was a little moved. Money aside, her elder sister's new house was simply too beautiful. She couldn't imagine how happy she would be if she had a house like that herself.
Reason and emotion fought against each other, and in the end the temptation of the new house outweighed the worry about having no money.
"Then I'll think about it."
Dong Taohua nodded: "Okay, I'll discuss it with my brother-in-law later and think about what I said."
Xu Heye and Pang Qiao came out of the room and heard Dong Xinghua's words. She immediately gave her mother a thumbs up. Sure enough, it was only effective if her mother came forward.
She tried to persuade Dong Xinghua openly and secretly during this period, but she still couldn't make up her mind.
But as soon as Dong Taohua came forward, she agreed to consider it.
Xu Heye knew Dong Xinghua well. Since she had asked to consider it, she would definitely buy it in the end. Dong Taohua then looked at Dong Fuyun: "Youngest, what about you?"
Xu Heye turned her head and saw that while she and Pang Qiao had just returned to the room, Dong Fuyun, Lu Jun, Huang Wangcheng and Duan Jie had come to their house.
"Do you want to buy a house too? You are almost 30 years old, it's time to think about your lifelong event. If you buy a house, you can ask your second sister to help you introduce you to a partner." The urging for marriage is late but it has come.
Dong Fuyun: “…”
"Xiao Lu and Xiao Huang, you two are not young anymore. People say that once you have a family and a stable job, it's time to consider marriage."
Lu Jun and Huang Wangcheng: "..."
The three of them looked at each other in bewilderment, while Duan Jie and the other two hid aside, covering their mouths and laughing. Dong Fuyun reached out and hooked his arm around Duan Jie's neck, asking in a joking manner, "What are you laughing at?"
"Do you think you can escape? In less than two years, you'll still be pressured into getting married!"
While the quarrel was going on, Ji Weimin and his wife came in with their two sons Ji Jingyu and Ji Hengxing. Soon after, the four members of the Lian family and Liu Yumei also arrived.
Everyone was surprised to find that Ji Jingyu and Lian Yushu were classmates, while Ji Hengxing and Pang Qiao were junior high school classmates.
This couldn't be more of a coincidence.
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