Zhou Yanfeng said, "Oh, how much is this house for?"

"Fifteen thousand dollars, isn't that cheap?"

"Such a large house can accommodate many families. If we buy the house, we can collect dozens of yuan in rent every month."

Thinking that he was a student from out of town, the clerk took advantage of him!

Zhou Yanfeng was amused: "It's really cheap. If you calculate it all, if you charge 50 yuan a month, how many years will it take to recover the money for buying the house?"

"Fifty a month, six hundred a year, six thousand in ten years, twelve thousand in twenty years, twenty-five years..."

At the end of her speech, the clerk's loud voice became softer.

It takes 25 years to recoup the money spent on buying a house, and there is some liquidity in the process; the house may not be rented out on time every month.

"If I collect 50 yuan in rent every month, it will take 25 years to recoup the money I paid for the house, which is 15,000 yuan. Sister Li, do you think this is cheap?"

"The houses in Shichahai are only selling for 20,000 or 30,000 yuan now, and that's near the Imperial City. They are much more valuable than Bingjiaokou Hutong."

The clerk felt something was not right the more she listened, and she looked at Zhou Yanfeng with wide eyes.

"You know a lot about this, do you really want to buy it?"

Zhou Yanfeng exchanged glances with He Ting and spoke to the clerk: "I do have this plan. I am also from Kyoto and I want to bring my family to school here."

"When I married my wife, the elders in my family took out all their savings. I saw that the yard was well preserved and there were no tenant disputes. There would be no problem of not being able to receive the house after buying it. I plan to go back and discuss it with the elders in my family."

"But 15,000 yuan is too expensive. Bingjiao Hutong is not worth the price."

no!

The clerk was just a blind cat that caught a rat.

Whenever someone came to rent or look at the house, she would take out the key and go fishing.

After all, the boss said last time that whoever can deal with this tricky house will be rewarded with 100 yuan.

One hundred yuan was her salary for several months.

How can I not be tempted?

After trying for a long time, I didn't find anyone who wanted to buy it. I finally grabbed one. The clerk's eyes lit up and she looked at Zhou Yanfeng as if he was a living god of wealth.

She was so excited: "The price is negotiable, what price can you offer? I will talk to the superiors."

Tang Yunling still hasn't figured out how renting a house became the time to buy one.

Zhou Yanfeng said an absurdly low price: "Five thousand yuan."

The clerk's mouth twitched and she couldn't respond for a long time.

But who could have imagined that someone would actually take a fancy to this tricky house?

In other words, I don’t know about the rumor in this area. Some newly enrolled college students are interested in buying this house because it is spacious and well-preserved.

The opportunity cannot be missed, so I have to negotiate the price down.

The clerk took a long time to utter a word.

"Five thousand dollars is too low a price."

Zhou Yanfeng also knew that five thousand yuan was too low, but he didn't have a few thousand yuan in his pocket. After doing business with He Ting and Shen Junqian, and investing in the rabbit farm, he only had more than three thousand yuan in his pocket.

After confirming that this was the house where Professor Gu had lived, he planned to spend 5,000 yuan to buy the house, and he also had to find a way to deal with his family who had just fallen out with him.

He might not be able to raise 5,000 yuan.

As smart as He Ting and Shen Junqian are, they have already guessed Zhou Yanfeng's crazy idea of ​​buying a house from Tang Yunling's reaction that he ignored his wish not to rent the house and was eager to see the house. There must be a reason for it.

Seeing that Zhou Yanfeng really wanted this house, He Ting looked at Shen Junqian inquiringly.

Shen Junqian is smart and good at doing business.

From the clerk's startled expression and the fact that she deliberately led people to see the house, he guessed that there was something wrong with the house, which was why the street leaders proposed renting it out as a whole and also thinking of selling it.

That at least proves that there is no dispute over the ownership of this house.

No one has lived in the house before, so there will be no protests from tenants and no way to take back the house if you buy it.

After receiving a hint from He Ting, Shen Junqian spoke up: "Sister, how about you ask your superior for instructions?"

"My brother could only scrape together five thousand dollars to buy this house."

"If you can convince your superior to buy this house for 5,000 yuan, we will give you a 100 yuan commission privately."

One hundred dollars is really too much.

If the sale of this house was really negotiated, it would mean that she would get nearly an extra year's salary.

Thinking of the huge sum of money that fell from the sky, the clerk was so overwhelmed that she had no idea whether the selling price of 5,000 yuan was too outrageous.

I was afraid that Zhou Yanfeng and the others would change their minds, or go and ask the neighbors for something.

The clerk said urgently, "Come back to the street office with me. I will ask the higher-ups for instructions."

There will always be brave men when there is a big reward!

Under the temptation of Shen Junqian's promise of a huge introduction fee of 100 yuan in private, the clerk returned to the introduction office and rushed into the leader's office in a frenzy.

After a while, Zhou Yanfeng and his group who were waiting outside heard a man cursing inside.

Then the clerk came out from inside, covered in dust and dirt, and shook her head at Lu Baiwei and her group.

"That house is in good condition. The price was set at 15,000 yuan, but you said 5,000 yuan, which caused me to get scolded."

"However, the higher-ups also said that they would take care of the housing problem for college students. Since you, Comrade Zhou, sincerely want to buy a house, our director said that if you are willing to pay 8,000 yuan for the house, their leadership team will hold a meeting and report it to the higher-ups."

"If it's less than 8,000 yuan, he won't ask for trouble."

This means there is no room for negotiation. It seems that the minimum price given to the street office by the higher-ups should be around 10,000 yuan.

The director may be too eager to sell and want to get rid of the hot potato, so he proposed a reduction of 2,000 yuan and held a meeting to discuss the decision.

Perhaps these two thousand yuan are also the maximum room for maneuver for the director of the street office.

Unable to agree on the price, Zhou Yanfeng decided to give up.

Lu Baiwei answered from the side: "Eight thousand yuan is still too expensive, so let's discuss and see how much money we can raise?"

Several people walked to the banyan tree outside the street office.

Now that they are all family, Lu Baiwei asked what was in her heart.

"Tell me the truth, why do you have to buy that house?"

"That's Professor Gu's house in the History Department of Kyoto University."

Whether it is Lu Baiwei and He Ting, or Tang Yuanyang and Shen Junqian, they are all people Zhou Yanfeng can trust.

He did not hide anything from his own people, and told them everything, including that Mr. Zhou and Professor Gu were close friends, and how Professor Gu went to the countryside.

"That house was confiscated from Professor Gu. When we went to see the house, there was still a seal on the door. I went to the house once with my grandfather when I was a child. There were many calligraphy and antiques collected in it."

"If Grandpa Gu had been willing to hand these things over, he wouldn't have ended up unable to return to Beijing."

"He said those things have souls and cannot fall into the hands of people who don't know how to treasure them and ruin them, so he would rather have his bones broken than not protect those things."

"As far as I know, he didn't hand over those things in the end."