Chapter 356 Why not sell it to me?
Lin Siqiao paused, thinking about Aunt Qiu's resignation, she guessed that the Qiu family might leave Shanghai, but it was not surprising when she thought about it.
For the Qiu family, the Shanghai Stock Exchange is their sad place. Even though they have been rehabilitated now, they still feel subconsciously fearful when living here.
Otherwise, there would not have been such a large-scale immigration wave after the reform and opening up.
All I can say is that unless the knife falls on yourself, others will not be able to empathize with you.
This was the Qiu family's choice. Lin Siqiao had nothing to say, and would not ask too much.
But Father Qiu did not hide it and spoke frankly in front of Lin Siqiao.
"Xiao Lin, our family is planning to leave Shanghai, and your Aunt Qiu will go with us."
"We will go to Hong Kong City first. We have some industries to deal with there."
"After we finish our work there, we may go to California, and we probably won't come back in the future."
Lin Siqiao was surprised at the other party's honesty. In fact, he didn't need to tell her about this.
Father Qiu understood the surprise on her face and said with a smile, "If even you are not trustworthy, who else can we trust?"
For a moment, Lin Siqiao didn't know what to say.
After a moment's silence, she went to the yard and took the luggage bag off the bicycle.
Lin Siqiao did not beat around the bush. She knew that since the Qiu family had decided to go to Gangcheng, they should be able to take these things away.
"Uncle Qiu and Aunt Qiu, I have kept these things for you for a long time. It is time to return them to their original owners."
Mr. Qiu and Mrs. Qiu looked at each other and shook their heads at the same time.
"Xiao Lin, when we gave these things to you, we had no intention of taking them back, otherwise we wouldn't have written that letter."
"Take these things and consider them as wedding gifts from our Qiu family to you."
Lin Siqiao knew what they meant, but still shook his head, "Uncle Qiu, I appreciate your kindness..."
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door, interrupting what Lin Siqiao was about to say.
"Ah Cheng, open the door."
Qiu Ya hurried out when she heard this, "Uncle Zhang, come in and sit down."
The two of them walked into the living room together. Uncle Zhang wiped his sweat and said excitedly.
"Ah Cheng, A Ya, there's a chance that your house will be available this time. A few days ago, that person came to take a look, and yesterday he brought a cadre-looking guy to take a look for the whole afternoon."
"I saw that he wanted something, so I asked him a few more questions. This time they told me the truth."
"They said they were quite satisfied with the size and location of the house, and they really wanted it, but they just wanted to see if the price could be lowered a little."
Qiu Ya said in embarrassment, "Uncle Zhang, the price we offered for that house is already the lowest."
"You can ask them around to see how much people are selling the same house for privately."
"Yes, they did. They know your house is cheaper than the surrounding houses."
"But they also said that your house is next to the river and the park."
"The noise from the ships is loud on weekdays, and it's even louder in the park on weekends."
Uncle Zhang said frankly, "It's mainly because you guys are in a hurry to sell. Otherwise, if you wait a few more months, the price will definitely be more suitable than it is now."
"But you also know that, apart from government units, basically no one comes to Pudong to buy houses now."
"I asked around and found out that they are from the Second Daily Chemical Factory. There is no such thing as holding back on paying. As soon as the agreement is signed, they will pay immediately."
Father Qiu thought for a moment and asked, "Uncle Zhang, did they tell me their target price?"
Uncle Zhang hesitated for a moment and stretched out five fingers.
"5,000. They said if it's 5,000, they'll come over with the money in the afternoon to sign the agreement."
When Qiu Ya heard this number, she was shocked.
"Who would bargain like that? Our house, including the front and back yards, is over 1,800 square meters, and he only offered 5,000 yuan? How is this price different from taking advantage of someone's misfortune?"
Mr. Qiu also felt that the price given by the other party was a bit outrageous.
The price of a house in a better location in Puxi is 20 yuan per square meter, and that in a worse location is 10 yuan per square meter.
Although Pudong is not as good as Puxi, the price per square meter is not more than 2 yuan.
"Uncle Zhang, please tell them that this price is too low. We won't discuss anything else. It's just 10,000 yuan. We'll keep everything in the house."
Uncle Zhang sighed, thinking that the other party would not agree, but in the end he nodded.
"Okay, I'll talk to them again."
"Sorry to bother Uncle Zhang."
Uncle Zhang said all he needed to say, and without staying any longer, he waved his hand and left in a hurry.
Qiu Ya guessed what Uncle Zhang had said, "Brother, if the other party is only willing to offer 5,000, should we still sell it?"
Father Qiu sighed, "There is no other way but to sell it. We can't take these things with us. If we leave them like this for two years, the house will be occupied by someone else."
"We'll sell as much as we can. This is all we can do now."
Father Qiu did not talk about this topic anymore, but looked at Lin Siqiao.
"Xiao Lin, don't say anything. Maybe you think you didn't do anything."
"But the fact that our family was able to walk out of the island safely is the luckiest thing in the world for us."
He touched Qiu Mingze's head and said, "In Xiaoze's words, your appearance is like a ray of light, giving our whole family hope to live."
What Mr. Qiu didn’t say was that after his son came back that night, he secretly cried for a long time.
Even when he was dreaming in the middle of the night, he kept talking in his sleep, saying that he didn't want to crawl, he didn't want to!
Regarding the current situation, Mr. Qiu is nothing but grateful.
"Sister, please accept it." Qiu Mingze pleaded.
But in the end, Lin Siqiao still shook his head and said, "Uncle Qiu, the gold in Hong Kong is more useful than the Chinese currency. You can take these with you and use them in the future."
"Give it to me. I can only find a place to hide it. If such a big bag of gold is discovered by someone, I really won't be able to explain it."
Father Qiu opened his mouth and wanted to say something.
Then I heard Lin Siqiao continue, "Uncle Qiu, if you really want to sell your house, why not sell it to me?"
Father Qiu was surprised, "You want to buy it? If you want..."
Lin Siqiao waved his hand and made his point clear.
"Uncle Qiu, I majored in economics at Peking University. I feel that Pudong will not remain so quiet forever."
“It may not be long before this place develops like Puxi, or even better than Puxi.”
"So, I didn't lose anything by buying this house. I don't have any other requirements. I'll pay the price I want."
"Otherwise, I would feel uneasy if I bought it."
When Mr. Qiu heard this, he was actually shocked, because he had the same idea in his mind, but no one was willing to believe it when he said it out loud.
After a while, he said.
"Okay, we'll take back the gold, and we'll give you the house for 10,000 yuan."
"In addition, we have several smaller houses in other parts of Pudong. These ones can be considered as gifts from us..."
"No, Uncle Qiu, let's get this one thing together."
Lin Siqiao's eyes lit up. It was already a lucky thing to be able to buy the land in the Oriental Pearl Tower, where every inch of land was worth a lot of money. What would it be like to get it for free?
Mr. Qiu talked for a long time but still couldn't give the house away. Finally, he agreed reluctantly.
That afternoon, Father Qiu took all the land deeds and went back to Puxi with Lin Siqiao. There were six houses in total, with a total price of 22,000 yuan.
Lin Siqiao paid the full amount, bought some things, and took care of the people at the Housing Authority.
Soon, the procedures for changing the ownership of these houses, including the wedding house on Changle Road, were completed.
When Lin Siqiao got home and was sorting out these things, he discovered that a thick red seal had been stuffed into the brown paper bag.
In addition to the four big words "Peace and Joy" written on the outside of the red envelope, there was also a string of numbers. Judging from the area code in front, it should be a phone number from another country.
If Lin Siqiao was still in China, the Qiu family would not have left their contact information.
Because it's useless even if given. At present, ordinary people cannot make or receive calls to the country's telephone.
But Lin Siqiao is going to the country, so she can contact him anytime she wants.
The moment Lin Siqiao saw the phone number, an idea suddenly flashed through his mind.
This stock market crash affected the whole world and was also a rare downturn on Wall Street. Almost all investors were selling their stocks.
But Lin Siqiao knew that the country's stock market would recover by the end of next year at the latest, and the price of the world's number one stock had already dropped to a historical low.
Today it is 610,000 US dollars. This magical stock is not Apple or Coca-Cola, but an investment company that mainly engages in insurance business.
At the beginning of the year, its stock price was around US$7 per share. However, after experiencing this stock market crash, its stock price began to grow in retaliation.
In just a few years, it soared to 4,000 US dollars, and has been out of control since then.
Lin Siqiao remembered that her father bought shares in 2003, when the price per share was almost US$50,000.
This price was extremely outrageous at the time.
But what's even more outrageous is that he held it for less than ten years, and finally sold it at a staggering $520,000 per share, making a net profit of $470,000 per share.
Relying on this round of accumulation, Lin Siqiao's wealth also increased.
After all, she is the only heir.
When Lin Siqiao had the idea of investing in stocks before, this was the first thing she thought of, but didn’t she have the opportunity to go abroad?
Now that Uncle Qiu and his family were planning to immigrate to the country, this was a good opportunity for her.
But then again, Lin Siqiao really can't come up with any money right now.
She and Lu Jianchuan exchanged most of their savings for pounds, leaving them with less than 20,000 in cash.
If her mother-in-law hadn't given her some money yesterday, she wouldn't have enough money to pay for the house today.
Lin Siqiao counted and found that she and Lu Jianchuan only had a few hundred dollars left of their combined belongings. All she could count on now was the 30,000 pounds in her hand.
It would be best if the price could multiply several times before she returns to China next year, and then she can buy all of that magic stock.
Lin Siqiao was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't even notice when Lu Jianchuan came in.
Lu Jianchuan took a look at the bed and saw money, notes, and various documents.
"Wife, what are you sorting?"
While speaking, Lu Jianchuan put his arms around her waist and brought her into his arms, with his chin resting on her head.
Although he didn't do anything, Lu Jianchuan still felt satisfied from the bottom of his heart.
In the middle of summer, Lin Siqiao didn't like to be so close to him, but she was in a particularly good mood today, so she just went along with him.
Taking the sorted title deed, Lin Siqiao showed it to him page by page.
"This is what I bought today. Together with the one in Beijing and the one given by my grandparents, we now have a total of 8 houses."
As he spoke, he raised his chin and motioned Lu Jianchuan to take a look at the banknotes, "This is all the money we have left."
Lin Siqiao thought that Lu Jianchuan would be very surprised to hear this news.
Tens of thousands of dollars is not a small amount of money, but he bought it without even mentioning it.
He might even ask himself why he bought so much.
After all, people at that time did not have the idea of speculating in real estate or making money from houses. Most people just wanted a house to be enough to live in.
In the eyes of others, people like her who buy several houses at one time simply have money but nowhere to spend it.
But Lu Jianchuan didn't ask anything, because he had discovered a long time ago that his wife was different from others.
She likes to make money, but she doesn't spend much of it.
Lu Jianchuan has known her for such a long time, but he only found that she was a little interested in bags, and nothing else but houses.
Whenever she mentioned the house, there was obvious excitement in her eyes, just like now.
"Wife, are you happy?"
Lin Siqiao nodded. Of course she was happy.
Lu Jianchuan rubbed the top of her head and said, "As long as you are happy."
Lin Siqiao patted his hands, told him to stop messing around, turned around and spoke seriously.
"Why don't you ask me why I bought so many houses?"
Even if he didn't ask, Lin Siqiao would have told him.
The reason was the same as what she had said before when she was at Qiu's house. She bought these simply because she saw the future development of Pudong and these lands would be of great use in the future.
After hearing what she said, Lu Jianchuan's heart suddenly softened a little.
"Wife, you don't need to explain to me what you do. Don't I know what kind of person you are?"
"So just do whatever you want to do. If you run out of money, I'll go earn more. Anyway, I won't let you go hungry."
But buying a house is not as simple as transferring ownership. What’s complicated is the series of things that come after that, Lu Jianchuan reminded.
"Wife, these houses cannot be left vacant for too long, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble in the future."
Lin Siqiao nodded. Of course she knew this.
While she was not sleepy yet, Lin Siqiao expressed her plan. She wanted to rent out these houses, but she did not want to rent them to individuals, but to the public.
In the morning, she heard from Uncle Zhang that the two people who wanted to buy the house were from the Second Daily Chemical Factory.
This piece of land is only a little over a thousand square meters, which is far from enough to build a factory. Lin Siqiao guessed that the other party was most likely going to build employee dormitories or something.
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