Chapter 2 Fundraising and Choosing a New Home
My name is Wang Chengyi, and I am 26 years old.
When I was little, I lived with my parents in a small county town in eastern Inner Mongolia.
After starting high school, due to my father's job transfer, we moved to the city that is now located in the south.
I bought a house and settled down here.
I was originally very happy to move to the new city with my parents.
But less than two years later, a car accident took them away, leaving me alone to cherish the memory of that warm family of three.
I was 18 years old at the time. After my parents passed away, the family house was naturally left to me.
My relatives have used every means at their disposal to seize the only asset in my family, which is the house I live in now.
They feign concern for me only to seize the house in this southern city.
For them, living in a southern city is a prestigious thing.
Once I saw through all of this, I distanced myself from those nasty relatives and lived a hard and resilient life on my own.
Since the end of the world is coming, I need to make a meticulous plan.
But no matter how you plan, the most important thing is—to have money.
Stockpiling food, firewood, and clothes, building a shelter—all of these require money, and I must do everything I can to raise as much money as possible.
I have 460,000 yuan in my bank account and 7,236 yuan in my WeChat Wallet. After paying off Meituan Pay Later and Alipay, I have 5,036 yuan left.
The total assets amount to 465,036.
I spent part of the compensation from my parents' car accident on my college education, and later saved some more while working. In total, I had 460,000 yuan left.
Trembling as she looked at the balance on her phone, she pleaded, "Mom and Dad, I'm so sorry, but for your daughter's life, we have to sell this house, even if we don't want to. Please don't blame me."
I live in a small city, and the house my parents left me should be worth 800,000 yuan according to market prices.
I immediately contacted a real estate agent in the neighborhood.
I told him I was going abroad and needed to sell the house urgently, so I needed cash and was willing to accept a lower price.
The real estate agent told me to wait for his good news.
While waiting for news from the agent, I started planning how to build the post-apocalyptic shelter.
My minimum acceptable price for selling the house is 600,000 yuan. Adding the 460,000 yuan I have on hand, I have a total of 1,060,000 yuan, which I estimate should be enough.
I am ultimately just an ordinary person in reality, not a flamboyant post-apocalyptic novel, and I don't have any cheat codes.
I don't dare to take out loans, nor have I ever paid attention to the lottery, so I don't fantasize about building a post-apocalyptic fortress for millions.
I just want to buy a small, warm house, stock up on all the supplies, and get through the apocalypse safely.
Why must I sell the house instead of living in it? Because the city I live in is in the south and has a high population density.
Once the apocalypse arrives, the effectiveness of the law will only weaken, and those with ill intentions will begin to burn, kill, and loot.
A beautiful, frail woman (who calls herself beautiful and frail, but in reality she can eat two bowls of rice in one meal) traveling alone with a large amount of supplies must be in great danger.
The more people there are, the less I can protect myself.
Therefore, I want to leave this place of trouble and find a secluded mountain forest to live in seclusion.
I had long had an ideal place in my heart, which was my hometown with my parents, a small county in eastern Inner Mongolia.
My maternal grandmother lived in the village before she passed away, and I am very familiar with everything in the village.
The area is sparsely populated, and the distance between villages is so great that even the distance between some households is quite far.
Buying a rural courtyard house in a remote village is perfect for me.
It's May 1st now, and the extreme cold and apocalypse will happen in late July, so I only have two months to prepare. I need to hurry up and start taking action.
I opened 12306 and bought a train ticket back to eastern Inner Mongolia that night.
I boarded the bus that very night, and after a night of travel, I returned to the small county town that I knew so well the next day.
Because my father often went to the countryside for work, I went back and forth with him many times.
Therefore, the understanding of the various villages and towns under the county seat is quite comprehensive.
He then rented a car and began conducting on-site investigations in each village.
See which villages have small populations, sparsely distributed houses, and are relatively secluded.
Ultimately, two villages were selected: Chibei Village and Apple Base Village.
Both villages are very remote, and no one except locals goes there.
Since there aren't many people in the village, if you want to buy a house, you can just ask someone which houses are vacant.
I inquired in two villages about which houses were for sale, and to avoid being targeted by others in their doomsday, I made an excuse that I wanted to buy the houses to film short videos about farming, not that I actually wanted to live there.
There were four empty houses in Chibei Village, all of which were quite dilapidated, but each had a large, spacious courtyard. I looked around but didn't find any that particularly appealing.
We then went to the apple base village, where there were only five empty houses.
The first two were similar to those in Chibei Village, but when I saw the third house, I decided that was the one.
This house is very different; there is no other house within a three-kilometer radius.
It faces south and is nestled in a mountain valley.
The house is surrounded by walls that have been dug out by humans, which suggests that the homeowner deliberately dug a foundation in a mountain hollow to build the house.
The house and a large yard are surrounded by hills.
The main house faces south, towards the entrance of the courtyard. To the west is a row of dilapidated side rooms, which were probably used to store grain and farm tools.
To the east is a low wall, outside which is a threshing ground of about 80 square meters. In one corner of the threshing ground is a dry toilet, and further east of the threshing ground is the wall of a small hill.
The back of the main house, the back of the west wing, and the east side of the threshing ground are all surrounded by small hills, giving a sense of security that is hard to describe.
There is a small slope outside the gate of the courtyard, which is a winding path leading out. If it rains, the water in the courtyard will also flow out through the small slope.
Wow, that's a truly brilliant design.
It doesn't hold water, and outsiders can't see that there's a courtyard here. I was so excited I almost jumped for joy.
They immediately contacted the homeowner.
He was very surprised that I wanted to buy the house.
This place has been abandoned for a long time, and no one has lived here for three or four years. He has never come back.
However, the house is of very good quality, a typical brick and tile house.
The walls were sturdy and solid, the roof tiles were intact, and the courtyard walls were also in good condition.
The only dilapidated parts are the windows and the interior facilities; with a little cleaning, it's perfectly fine for people to live in.
Ask him how much he'd sell it for.
He pretended to think deeply for a while and said, "After all, I put a lot of effort into building this, and it would really hurt to sell it. If you really want to buy it, it will cost at least 80,000!"
In reality, this guy must have been secretly overjoyed.
Who would buy this remote and underdeveloped place? He originally planned to leave the house abandoned like this forever.
Although I knew that houses in the countryside were cheap, I was still a little shocked to hear that it only cost 80,000 yuan.
However, the bargaining process is essential.
I said, "My aunt's house in Chibei Village is much bigger than this one, and it only cost 50,000 yuan. It's still very new, not as old as this one. I'll have to spend a lot of money to repair it. Is 50,000 yuan okay?"
“That won’t do. Besides the house, the land down the slope is also mine. If you buy the house, I’ll give you the land as well.”
No matter how much the price was lowered, the homeowner wouldn't budge, but he was really satisfied with the layout of the house, so he finally bought it for 70,000 yuan.
The homeowner originally said I'd come to sign the contract tomorrow, but I didn't want to waste any more time here and wanted to get it over with quickly.
So I asked him for an address, drove two hours to his house, signed the contract directly, and took possession of the house.
Good things always come in pairs.
Just as I signed the contract and boarded the train home, the real estate agent contacted me.
I told them a client was interested in my house, but was a little short on cash and asked if I would sell it for 630,000.
I immediately agreed to sell!
The market price for this house is at least 840,000 yuan, so he got a great deal by buying it for 630,000 yuan.
The agent suggested I could wait a bit longer, saying the house was too cheap at 630,000, and that I could wait for other clients; selling it for 700,000 wouldn't be a problem.
But I dared not wait. I only had two months to prepare. I had to act as soon as I could, go back to Inner Mongolia to embrace my new home, and stock up on supplies.
This client was just as eager as I was when I bought the house the day before.
I just got back and the client was eager to sign the contract, probably because they were afraid I'd sell to someone who would offer a higher price.
Seeing the 630,000 yuan suddenly appear in my bank account, I finally felt more at ease.
Pack up and mail your clothes and valuables.
I didn't take any other furniture or appliances with me. Shipping them would be too expensive, and they're not suitable for use in the apocalypse anyway, so I might as well buy new ones. Besides, I'm rich now!
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