Chapter 7 Buying
a House The room was flooded everywhere, so Gu Xuelan didn't want to go in and take a look. She also lost all her good impression of the house.
Liu Wangxue was still thinking about this small courtyard and said, "Mom, how about we wait for the owner to deal with it first and come back tomorrow?"
Gu Xuelan wanted to refuse, but before she could say anything, an old man came over and asked, "Is Qingsong here?"
The old man has a kind smile, which makes people feel good about him.
Liu Wangxue smiled and nodded.
The old man took a quick look and exclaimed in surprise: "Wow, how come it's flooded like this!"
Xu Qingsong heard the voice and came out to see: "Second Master, why are you here?"
The old man ignored him and asked Liu Wangxue's family with a smile: "Are you here to see the house? It's flooded like this. It's definitely uninhabitable without major repairs. Why don't you come and see my house?"
Xu Qingsong was a little embarrassed, so he interrupted the old man and said to Liu Wangxue's family, "I'm really sorry, the water pipe may be a little old. I have called the owner and asked him to send someone to fix it."
"So, let's go take a look at my house." The old man suggested sincerely, "This community is old, the circuits and water pipes are all aging, and it will be troublesome to live in the back. My house..."
Xu Qingsong locked the door, apologized again, and pulled the old man out of the unit: "Second Master, what do you want to see me about?"
The old man clapped his hands and said, "I just want you to help sell the house. You were not at home, and your mother asked you to bring people here to look at the house, so I came here."
Liu Wangxue and her parents also came out. The old man looked at them sincerely and said, "My house also has a yard. Although it is also an old house, it was renovated two years ago. The water pipes were all replaced with new ones. My yard is even bigger than this one. Do you want to go and have a look?"
Liu Wangxue couldn't resist the temptation of the yard and wanted to go see it, so Gu Xuelan had no choice but to agree. But Liu Nanshan's shoes were wet, so they had to go back to the hotel first. Liu Wangxue asked for the address and said, "Let's go there directly in the afternoon."
But Xu Qingsong said that there was no public transportation and it was a bit far to walk there. He asked: "If it is convenient, tell me which hotel is and I will pick you up in the car this afternoon."
Liu Wangxue told the name of the hotel and made an appointment.
On the way back, Gu Xuelan couldn't help but blame her: "How could you trust strangers so easily? Going to see a house you don't know where it is, what if they have bad intentions? What will you do?"
"Oh," Liu Wangxue said coquettishly, "You and Dad are here, right, Dad?"
Liu Nanshan was very confident: "With me here, who dares? My daughter can do whatever she wants."
Suddenly, Liu Wangxue's phone rang. She saw that it was the house location that Xu Qingsong had sent her. She immediately handed it to Gu Xuelan and said, "Look, you're really not a liar. Besides, what can I cheat you about?"
Gu Xuelan really couldn't do anything about her.
Then, Xu Qingsong explained the general situation of the house to Liu Wangxue. Typing could ease the embarrassment a little.
Xu Qingsong: [The house is a self-built house on state-owned land. It is a bungalow with a yard of about 90 square meters, and there is less than two mu of vegetable plot.]
Xu Qingsong: [There are few residents around, and it’s basically farmland, so it’s very quiet.]
Xu Qingsong: [Anyway, why don’t you go and take a look first. ]
Willow Catkins: [Okay. Thank you]
Actually, it’s a long story to talk about the house.
Xu Qingsong's family moved to Qiu Shui Town starting from his great-grandfather's generation.
On the side of Xu’s great-grandfather, a more retro name is the Xu family’s eldest branch.
The Xu family has many businesses, some of which are even the leading companies in their respective industries. When my great-grandfather's father was critically ill, the fight for the family property became fierce, and my great-grandfather was the only one who truly stayed with my father and served him.
The old man loved this son and left a will that favored him. But the great grandfather was indifferent to fame and fortune and was not interested in business, so he only asked for some money and some real estate, and even refused the shares.
But who knows, the other two families are not satisfied, and they suspect that the old man has given the first family something more valuable. After the old man passed away, the two families united and pressed forward step by step.
In desperation, my great-grandfather sold his house and brought his wife and two sons to Qiu Shui Town. He bought a piece of land through state-owned land transfer, built a house, and started a small life.
It can only be said that like parents, like children. My great grandfather's two sons also regarded money as dirt. The elder son was fascinated by archaeology, and the younger son was fascinated by wood carving. They were all people with their own pursuits in life.
After settling in Qiu Shui Town, my great-grandfather no longer had contact with the Xu family, but he still kept in touch with his maternal family.
Later, when the two sons grew up, the old house was demolished and rebuilt, dividing it into two courtyards.
The youngest son is naturally Xu Qingsong’s second uncle.
The year before last, my second uncle’s son bought a villa in the city, which was only renovated at the end of last year. He wanted to bring his parents there to spend their retirement, and they didn’t plan to come back in the future.
The original plan was to transfer the house and land to Xu Qingsong's name, but Xu Qingsong refused because he thought it was too troublesome.
His original words were: "I just came back to rest, I don't want to worry about that."
The second master said, "Why should you worry about it? Just rent it out and take a look at it from time to time."
Xu Qingsong still refused: "There is a rural area next to us, who doesn't have land? Who in the city is willing to rent land in the countryside to grow crops?"
The second master had no choice but to give up.
Later, Xu Qingsong's college roommate brought a few people to visit. One of them liked the life here and asked him to help keep an eye out for houses to buy.
In this way, Xu Qingsong helped the town residents make their first business.
No one could have imagined that someone would be willing to buy this old house with thirty or forty years of ownership left. Those who wanted to sell their houses came to Xu Qingsong one after another.
Xu Qingsong had nothing to do anyway, so he started making a short video and also persuaded the second master to transfer the house and land.
The second master's son also agreed, but the second master and the mistress were reluctant.
After hesitating for a long time, and seeing that Xu Qingsong really had no intention of taking over, he made the decision just before moving.
In the afternoon, when Xu Qingsong arrived with Liu Wangxue and her parents, the door of the Second Master's house was wide open, and a breeze blew through the hall, bringing with it a faint fragrance.
The old couple were packing up their things together. The mistress was wearing a casual cheongsam, with a slim figure, a jade bracelet, and her hair was tied back with a wooden hairpin. When she saw the visitor, she smiled a little, and even her wrinkles were elegant.
Liu Wangxue admires this kind of people the most. The beauty in their bones will not fade with the aging of their bodies.
After looking it over inside and out, Liu Wangxue liked it very much.
The bungalow is built relatively high, the space is transparent and spacious, the kitchen and bathroom are modern, and the interior furniture is antique style and made of solid wood.
And they were all made by the second master himself.
What surprised Liu Wangxue and her parents the most was that the bed in the master bedroom was a carved canopy bed, and the bed in the second bedroom was a embossed Arhat bed, which made people unable to take their eyes off at first sight.
Gu Xuelan is a history teacher at a junior college. She loves retro and antique things. She wanted a carved canopy bed in her early years, but her family conditions did not allow it.
(End of this chapter)
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