When Chen Xia saw such accommodation conditions, he felt very disappointed, not to mention comparing it with his plum garden.
His family now consists of a couple, a younger brother, a younger sister, a grandmother, Chen Fang, and Chen Chun who occasionally comes back to live.
Even if he is eligible for two rooms, the total area of 40 square meters is not enough for him to live in. He can't even make the slightest noise when having sex at night. How can you tolerate this?
What to do?
There are two options: either drive for more than half an hour every day to go back to Meiyuan to live, or buy a new house in Yuezhou City.
Given Chen Xia's personality, he would of course choose the latter. After all, this is a regional headquarters. No matter how backward it is, it is still a medium-sized city. Ke Town is just a town after all.
People tend to move to higher places, and city dwellers have a better life.
Fresh milk is delivered in the morning. After leaving the New People's Hospital, you can cross the street to find the largest department store. Further on are the Workers' Cultural Palace, a cinema, and a children's park. Life is quite convenient.
Besides, the schools in the city are better than those in Ke Town after all. For the sake of Chen Qiu and Chen Dong, we should also choose a "school district house".
Chen Qiu had excellent grades and was admitted to Kezhen High School as a freshman. As for Chen Dong's grades, well, they were consistently around 45th in the class, ahem...
Chen Xia handed Zeng Peinong a cigarette and said, "Brother Zeng, you're familiar with this area. I'd like to ask if there are any houses for sale near our hospital?"
"Let me think about it," Zeng Peinong took a puff of his cigarette. "I really don't have any idea in mind. Who would sell a house these days? I'll help you find out later. What kind of house do you want?"
"Of course it's a big house. I'm not considering those old gated houses. There are too many residents in large courtyards, which will cause a lot of trouble. I want a house with its own door and yard. The price doesn't matter, but it has to be big."
Yuezhou city is a typical Jiangnan water town. In 1982, the city mainly retained the Ming and Qing architectural complexes, which were low-rise houses with white walls and black tiles, and looked very poetic.
But it was not comfortable to live in it. It was a bungalow and very humid, especially during the rainy days in the south of the Yangtze River. Even my underwear would get wet and I couldn’t dry my clothes.
In the summer, the house is exposed to the sun all day and is very stuffy. In the winter, it is drafty and very cold.
There is no separate toilet. Men can take a shower in the yard, but women can only buy a large wooden basin and sit in it to wash, which is very inconvenient.
Chen Xia would never want to live in such a house. The thought of it would make him crazy. Seventy or eighty families living in one house would be so annoying.
If he couldn't find a good house, he would rather work harder and commute two hours back and forth every day to live in Ke Town.
Zeng Peinong suddenly had an idea. "You said you wanted a big house, the bigger the better. I remember now. There's no big house next to our hospital, but there's a vacant house called 'Xiyuan' two blocks away from us. The house is owned by the Housing Authority. If you have any connections, you can go and ask."
"Xiyuan?"
Chen Xia was not very familiar with the Yuezhou urban area and had never heard of such a place.
"West Garden is located in the southwest corner of Fushan Mountain, covering an area of about four or five mu. It is famous for its beautiful Jiangnan Garden. Legend has it that it was originally the royal garden of the Wuyue Kingdom. Later, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, it became a private residence. After liberation, it was used as an office space and is now vacant."
Oh, this situation is a bit similar to Plum Garden. The only difference is that Plum Garden was later returned to the descendants of the Li family, while West Garden has always been in the hands of the Housing Management Office.
Since they were already there, Chen Xia decided to go and take a look in person. In order to establish a good relationship with the future section chief, Zeng Peinong took the initiative to act as a tour guide.
Xiyuan is not too far from the New People's Hospital, and it takes about 10 minutes by bike.
Chen Xia and Zeng Peinong walked south along Jiefang Road and then turned onto Renmin Road. They arrived soon.
When he arrived at the place, Chen Xia first looked at the surrounding feng shui.
This is a nice place. To the north is the largest Fushan Park in the urban area, which used to be the palace of the ancient Yue Kingdom and the place where Goujian slept on firewood and tasted gall; to the west is the ring canal; to the south is a road for cars.
In the original history, if Chen Xia had not appeared, Xiyuan would have remained vacant for more than ten years. It was not until the late 1990s that it was transformed into a community park and opened.
When the two arrived, the West Garden Gate was locked. They called out several times but no one answered. Just as they were about to leave, a guard from the Fushan Subdistrict Office approached them and said,
"Hey, I see you two have been hanging around here for quite some time, what are you doing?"
Zeng Peinong pointed at Chen Xia and said with a smile, "We both work in the hospital. We heard that the scenery in Xiyuan is very beautiful, so we wanted to come and see it."
The old man looked at the two men's work IDs and saw that they were both section chiefs, so his attitude immediately changed.
"What's so interesting about West Garden? If you want to see it, wait. I'll find the key for you."
Okay, hurry up, the key is in this person's hand. Chen Xia took out a pack of Daqianmen cigarettes and gave it to the old man, then followed Zeng Peinong into the West Garden.
The gate of the West Garden faces east. The first thing that catches your eye after entering the gate is a large courtyard. To the south of the courtyard is an exquisite small garden with traditional pavilions and rockery.
There was actually a three-story Western-style building on the north side of the yard, which made Chen Xia very curious. He originally thought that the buildings here should be mainly traditional Chinese buildings.
The small Western-style building is made of brick and stone, unlike the domestic style. Minglu is a typical Republican-era architectural style, while the small Western-style building in Xiyuan is very similar to the old houses on Gulangyu Island in Xiamen.
I guess the owner of this house was probably a Chinese from Southeast Asia.
The small Western-style building is very clean and all the floors are made of wood. It feels very special when you walk in, as if all the wealthy families in the Republic of China lived in houses like this.
The house is symmetrical on both sides, with the living room and staircase in the middle, and three rooms on each side. In this way, there are 7 rooms on the first floor. There are only a few people in Chen Xia's family, so if they really buy it, it will be enough for them to live in.
Chen Xia was moved.
For those who have been reborn since 2020, it is estimated that there are few who are not tempted by houses. After all, the housing prices are too high after decades, and housing prices have become everyone's eternal pain.
Chen Xia had his parents' sponsorship in his previous life, so he didn't have much burden when buying a house. But if he wanted to move into a villa, he was not eligible. Even townhouses started at six or seven million, and villas were sold for over ten million.
"Brother Zeng, are there any good schools nearby in Xiyuan?"
"Yes, the elementary school is the best one in the city, Luxun Elementary School. It's 300 meters east. Junior high and high school are both at Yueyi Middle School, which is a little further away. It's about a 10-minute bike ride along Fuzhi Street."
Is this distance far enough? This is a perfect place for a good school in the city center, isn't it?
Chen Xia has already decided that he must buy this "Xiyuan" no matter how much the price is.
After all, garden-style villas like these in the city center will definitely be a scarce resource in the future.
The garden of Minglu is relatively small, but the garden of Xiyuan is definitely large and exquisite.
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