Extra: Chu Hong
Chu Hong had a great time in college.
It’s just that the learning atmosphere in school is too intense, which makes her a little uncomfortable.
Being a doctor is good, as it helps save lives, but it is too hard work, so Chu Hong never thought about choosing medicine as her major again.
On the contrary, she was good at English and it was easy for her to find a job after graduating from university.
With the reform and opening up, finance and education, as well as normal schools, will need specialized English teachers.
There will be more and more foreign trade companies, and the demand for foreign language talents will also be great.
Foreign-funded enterprises will also emerge in large numbers like mushrooms after rain.
The demand for professional translation services is also growing.
The best ones are of course government departments dealing with foreign affairs, which definitely need foreign languages for international communication.
The most important thing is that most people now stay away from foreign languages, fearing that their superiors will investigate their foreign relations.
This gave Chu Hong an advantage. As the tallest among the short people, she could be considered the professor's favorite student and a great general.
There is no requirement for college students to live on campus now, and both Grandpa and Grandma Chu were hired back to the university as professors.
The old couple also specially applied for a dormitory each.
The early dormitories built in the university all had a stove at the door for cooking, and the inside could be divided into two rooms and a small hall.
It was just right to divide the extra room into two rooms for Gu Ci, Chu Hong and Chu Yan to live in.
Coincidentally, Song Dongzheng's home is not far from the university, just over three miles away, and it takes less than ten minutes to ride there at a fast speed, so Song Dongzheng always rides his bike back home.
The Chu family's small villa is about ten miles away from the university, and a round trip takes at least forty to fifty minutes, so they live in the school most of the time.
Chu Hong’s eldest child is already in the first grade, and her youngest son is also in nursery school. The primary school is closer to Uncle Chu’s home, so the children usually live in the small villa.
Anyway, both the parents and the sons are in school, so they can only meet on Saturday and Sunday.
Today’s college students are eager to make every minute of their time count, and they study hard even when others are not in class.
When Chu Hong is not in class, she likes to ride her bike around to find the housing management office.
Unfortunately, housing is in short supply nowadays, and most people have to squeeze more than a dozen people into two or three rooms.
Even if there were people selling houses, there were too many people and too few houses to sell. By the time Chu Hong heard the news, the house had already been bought by someone else.
Chu Hong could only ask her relatives and friends to pay more attention to her.
He gave his classmates another excuse, saying that his eldest sister wanted to buy a house, and if anyone had any information, please let her know. If successful, he would naturally reward her handsomely.
In fact, people nowadays don’t have much obsession with houses.
Not to mention that the factory has dormitories, but college students like them will be assigned to apartment buildings when they go to work in the future. Why bother spending money to buy a house?
I just heard from Chu Hong that her eldest sister had a large family and many children, and there was no room at home, so she had to buy a house.
Therefore, they all agreed to find out the news for her.
When the university was about to have its winter break, an enthusiastic classmate said to Chu Hong, "Didn't your elder sister want to buy a house? I went to buy a cool mat and heard that there was a house for sale on Ping'an Street opposite our school. You can go and take a look."
"That's great. We'll treat you to a meal when it's successful." Chu Hong was overjoyed when she heard the good news.
After class, I went to find Gu Ci and asked him to accompany me to inquire.
In fact, the universities in Shanghai are not in the city center, but on the edge of East City. This area is not very lively, and most of the houses are blue bricks, and you rarely see red brick houses.
After they found out the location, they learned that the original owners of the eight houses had returned from the countryside, and the eight houses that had been converted into purchasing stations were returned to them.
They just moved into the houses allocated by the factory and planned to sell all these houses.
The houses are all connected together. The landlord doesn't want to buy them separately, so he offers a fixed price: "Eight rooms facing the street, with a small yard in the back, for a total of 6,000 yuan."
Gu Ci really felt that it was not worth it: "This place is remote, and your house is too old. You can't do business now. Houses facing the street are dusty, and there are no other advantages."
What he didn't say was that if it were in the countryside, you could build such a house yourself. Eight brand new blue brick and tile houses would cost no more than 500 yuan.
He asked for six thousand yuan right away and suspected that he was being taken advantage of.
He also advised Chu Hong: "Let's look for one later. It would be best if it's in the city center. This place is really too remote."
Chu Hong walked around the room and felt very satisfied.
The two-story, eight-room blue brick and tile house, plus the backyard, covers more than an acre of land.
It is a storefront facing the street, and the street is a newly built cement road that is about six or seven meters wide.
There are hills behind us, so we don't have to worry about being seen even if we do something.
Others may not know, but she knows that private transactions will be allowed in a year or two.
Now is the early stage of reform and opening up. Although the planned economy has not yet been completely liberalized, the control over individuals is relatively strict, and private enterprises and individual economies face many restrictions.
But if she remembered correctly, someone had obtained a business license this year.
Therefore, she was determined to buy the house, but she didn't have enough money, so she wanted to bargain for it: "Uncle, my family is so big that it can't accommodate them all. If you can give me a thousand yuan discount, I will buy it."
The landlord hunched over and shook his head: "Comrade, you're bargaining too hard. Three rooms in the city center cost five thousand yuan."
"If we weren't in urgent need of money, I wouldn't have bought it."
Gu Ci also smiled: "Uncle, if your house is in the city center, it will be more than this price. Our place is too remote, so the price is indeed a bit high."
Of course the landlord knew this too, so he said helplessly, "Then I'll give you another 200 off."
Chu Hong thought: If I could work in the Housing Authority or the Planning Bureau in the future, I wouldn’t have to worry about not having any news when buying a house.
What a pity that I have to wait two years before I can graduate from college?
Besides, if you really get a stable job, the salary is not high and you cannot afford to buy a house.
Thinking about the ever-increasing housing prices in the future, Chu Hong really doesn't think the price offered by the landlord is too high.
Unfortunately, after all these years, the couple has only saved about two thousand yuan in total.
Chu Hong was already thinking about who to borrow from.
After Grandpa Chu and his family came back, they gave them some extra money. It is said that the old couple got five or six thousand yuan.
Chu Hong sighed: "This is a big deal, we have to go back and discuss it with our family."
Then he asked the landlord, "Uncle, will you be home tomorrow?"
The landlord shook his head and said, "You can go to the printing factory in front to find me. My son is working there now. I am also guarding the gate at the factory. We both live in the factory."
Chu Hong secretly gave a bag of brown sugar to the lady next door. After asking around, she found out that the printing factory was originally run by the landlord, and it was also the printing factory that caused them to suffer for several years.
Now that they are back, their leaders have arranged for them all to work in the printing factory.
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