"Lu Shurui, Lu Shurui..."
"Here I am, what's wrong?"
Lu Shurui ran downstairs looking completely bewildered, not knowing what had happened.
"hehe……"
Yu Yin was all smiles, feeling wonderful at the thought of buying a villa.
Lu Shurui reached out and touched Yu Yin's forehead; she didn't have a fever!
"Ugh, when Brother Liang was buying a house, he came across some garden villas for sale. I'll ask you to come and check them out when I get back."
Where is it?
“It’s near Shanghai University. We’ve been wandering around there before.”
Lu Shurui understood immediately; it was a place his wife had longed to visit for a long time and had seen it more than once.
The two went to meet up with Brother Liang and go look at the garden villa!
Liang Chao led Yu Yin and her husband to the door of a Western-style house and rang the doorbell.
This area is full of garden villas, forming a distinct district. Judging from their appearance, they are likely buildings from the Republican era.
Who are you looking for?
Through the openwork iron fence, Yu Yin saw a man in his fifties walk out.
"Mr. Wang, I am Liang Chao, the buyer of your house. We agreed to transfer the ownership tomorrow."
"Isn't it tomorrow?"
"I overheard you were selling your garden villa. My friend is interested and wanted to ask if it's been sold yet?"
Mr. Wang looked outside and opened the door.
"You really want to buy it?"
Yu Yin was baffled by the question. If she wasn't genuinely interested in buying, why was she here to amuse herself?
"I really want to buy it, if I like it."
"The house is a good house. It was agreed beforehand that the price would be fixed and not negotiable."
Mr. Wang has been extremely annoyed these past few days. Several groups of people have come, immediately trying to negotiate the price, and offering outrageous amounts.
"If you like it, the price is reasonable."
Yu Yin wanted to buy a villa, but she couldn't afford to be ripped off.
"Come in and take a look, the price is lower than the market price, if not higher."
Seeing that they genuinely wanted to buy a house, Mr. Wang stepped aside to let them in and then closed the door behind him.
When Yu Yin and the others entered, the first thing that caught their eye was a simple and grand building. It had one floor, two floors, and three floors, but it wasn't exactly three floors. Half of the third floor looked like a terrace, which was not very clear.
The yard is quite large; it used to be a lawn, but now the grass has withered, leaving only a bare, gray patch. There are a few trees on the east side, their species unclear. They haven't been tended to in a long time, growing haphazardly with sparse foliage. The front yard is empty; I wonder what the back yard is like.
"Let's go inside and take a look. This house hasn't been lived in for a long time; it's lost its former vitality."
Mr. Wang sighed silently, it was unclear whether he was lamenting his own fate or the fate of his house.
Pushing open the door, I finally realized what a big house really is!
The living room is very large, more than 100 square meters!
“My house is over 200 square meters per floor. The first floor has a kitchen, dining room, study, bathroom, storage room, and two bedrooms.”
Yu Yin looked at each room one by one. The study was large, with bookshelves and a desk still there, but covered in a layer of dust. The bedrooms were large and small, with furniture also there, covered in a layer of dust, making it impossible to tell what materials they were made of.
I went up the stairs to the second floor, where there was also a living room, though it wasn't as big as the one on the first floor.
"There are also two bathrooms on the second floor, as well as five bedrooms and a study." Mr. Wang touched the wall, and many memories came to mind.
Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore. Things have changed, and I'm leaving soon. Whether I can come back in this lifetime is another matter entirely.
After a quick look at the second floor, we went up to the third floor. The third floor was a large open space, over 100 square meters. There was a piano in the corner, I didn't know if it was working or broken, and some other musical instruments were scattered on the floor.
"The third floor is a banquet hall, which only occupies half of the area, and there is a terrace outside."
This place was once a place of singing and dancing, where revelry lasted every night...
Pushing open the door, you're greeted by a large terrace with a wide-open view that soothes the soul.
“This house was built in the late Republican era, a few years later than the others in the area. It was relatively new when our family took it over. The furniture inside was all purchased at that time, and there are not many valuable pieces left. The remaining materials are of good quality, so you can decide how to handle it.”
Mr. Wang is going abroad and can't take these things with him, so he'll leave them to the next homeowner.
"Mr. Wang, to be honest, I really like this house. I felt comfortable as soon as I walked in! How much are you asking for?"
Yu Yin and Lu Shurui both liked it, not only because it was a garden villa.
Sometimes it's just a feeling. You enter a place and feel comfortable and happy. Other places, you enter and feel stuffy and uncomfortable.
"That means you're destined to have this house. It's a good house, and I won't ask you for an outrageous price. 120,000 is not negotiable."
"Wow!"
Liang Chao knew the house couldn't be cheap, but he didn't expect it to be this high! His own courtyard house only cost five thousand yuan, and he still thought it wasn't cheap.
Yu Yin wasn't surprised; this was practically a steal. In later years, what old-style house wouldn't cost tens or hundreds of millions? Although prices rose later, nowadays even those who could easily come up with ten thousand yuan were few, let alone one hundred and twenty thousand.
"Mr. Wang, how should we calculate the cost of the items inside the house?"
"I'll leave everything that's currently in the house. I'm not taking anything with me, and I can't take anything with me anyway."
It sounds very sad, and I wonder what the story is behind it.
“You should cherish this house. If I am able to come back in my lifetime, I will come and visit. I hope that I can move in then.”
"No problem, we'll continue to live here unless something unexpected happens. But, are all the paperwork for the house complete? Can the ownership be transferred?"
This is what Yu Yin is concerned about. It's okay if the price doesn't drop, but the procedures can't be problematic.
"All the paperwork is complete, I am the sole owner of the property, and the transfer of ownership can be completed at any time."
“Okay, Mr. Wang, we’ll go with Brother Liang tomorrow to the housing management office to transfer the property. I have relatives there, so it won’t cause any problems.”
Yu Yin and Lu Shurui have discussed it and they both like the house. They can live there until their child grows up and gets married.
Lu Shurui loved that study, loved it so much that she could ignore the price of the house.
When he heard "120,000," he took a deep breath. It was too much; it could bury him alive.
They agreed to meet at the housing management office at nine o'clock tomorrow morning. All the paperwork was ready, and Yu Yin and the others also needed to bring their money, in cash.
After Yu Yin and Lu Shurui got home, they didn't care about anything else and went straight to their room to count the money.
Ten thousand yuan requires a thousand large ten-yuan bills. Some of their money is in the bank, but most of it is in Yin Space.
The two sat on the bed and began counting the money. Previously, it was always bundled together in 1,000-yuan notes. This time, they had to double-check to make sure there wasn't an extra or missing bill.
The two of them worked for more than an hour, checking several times to make sure everything was correct, before finally putting the money into a black canvas bag. There were 120 bundles in total, each bundle containing a thousand yuan!
"Yinyin, if you spread this money out, it could bury me!"
"Ugh, what are you thinking about!"
"Hehe... I miss that study!"
"Ha ha……"
The couple lay on top of the pile of money, laughing heartily...
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