Chapter 118
This was the first house Jiang Ning bought in Shanghai. Manager Qian was fully entrusted with the decoration of the house. Because it was Jiang Ning's house, Manager Qian was afraid of making it dirty, so he put many pairs of plastic slippers in the shoe cabinet that covered the entire wall at the door for everyone who came to see the house to wear.
At this moment, Manager Qian took out various plastic slippers that he had prepared long ago and asked them to put them on, just like he had done for every other customer he had brought with him before.
Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai were both embarrassed, but Jiang Bai was better. He often washed and brushed his shoes and washed his socks frequently, so the smell on his feet was not that strong.
When Tong Jingang kicked out, it was really...
He quickly put down his luggage and took the shoes that Manager Qian handed him: "I can do it myself."
So does Tong's father.
Tong's father is a small leader in the system after all. He wore a gray polo shirt with the shirt tucked into his pants, revealing the metal buckle of the small belt in the middle.
He considered himself to be quite knowledgeable. Although Wucheng was an ancient town, he had seen the homes of leaders before, but he had never seen one decorated so well.
Manager Qian placed the key in the empty compartment and said to them, "You can hang your backpacks here."
Tong Jingang and the others were like robots at this time, they did whatever Manager Qian said.
Tong's father put down the luggage in his hands, hung the backpack on the hook above the shoe-changing bench at the door, and looked inside while changing his shoes.
After Jiang Bai changed his shoes, he put his shoes into the shoe cabinet under Manager Qian's instructions without waiting for Manager Qian to help him get them.
Jiang Bai looked up and saw the entrance to the hallway. The entire front was filled with off-white floor-to-ceiling cabinets. There was an empty space in the middle, where a small vase of artificial flowers and the key that Manager Qian had just put down were placed. He then looked around at the shoe-changing stool where he was sitting and the eight hooks on it.
For fear of dirtying the floor, several people changed into slippers and put their shoes in the shoe cabinet.
Tong Jingang looked at the shoe cabinets that covered the entire wall, and suddenly asked curiously, "Are all these cabinets shoe cabinets?"
Manager Qian was used to showing houses to clients. When he heard him ask, he opened the upper cabinet doors one by one and introduced them to them: "You can put some quilts and bedding on top." He looked at the various large and small bags they were carrying and holding and said: "For example, your luggage and bags can be put on top." The cabinets below: "This whole row is for shoes. Put boots here, and put bags here."
When Jiang Bai heard Manager Qian say that he could put all his luggage and bags inside, he held on to the handle of his suitcase tightly and refused to let go.
Jiang Ning brought her suitcase to Jiang Bai this time. It was filled with stuff. In addition to the clothes that Jiang Ning gave Jiang Bai this year, the main things were passbooks and money.
With this big box with a password given by his sister, Jiang Bai feels much more peaceful when sleeping and is no longer afraid of his money being stolen.
However, before leaving, he bought another small lock, also like this one, which he felt more at ease using. He decided to double lock the box.
He didn't dare to open the suitcase, for fear that Manager Qian was a liar. He put the suitcase containing money and passbooks in it, and was cheated by Manager Qian.
Manager Qian did not comment on Jiang Bai's vigilance and continued to introduce: "You can put brooms, mops and other cleaning tools here."
Manager Qian opened the cabinet, and there were indeed some cleaning tools inside. The surrounding area was under renovation, and after the house was renovated, it needed to be ventilated to disperse the formaldehyde, so there was a lot of dust. In order to achieve a better model room effect, Manager Qian would occasionally come to clean the house himself, and occasionally ask Yang Meirong to come and clean the house.
At this time, after Manager Qian introduced that there was a whole wall of cabinets, except for a small cabinet for brooms and mops, the first question that came to Tong Jingang, Tong's father, and Jiang Bai's mind was: Do the brooms and mops also need to be placed in the cabinets?
Then there are a lot of questions in my head: "Do I need to put so many shoes in it? How many shoes can I put in such a big shoe cabinet?"
Even Manager Qian, who personally supervised the renovation, couldn't believe it when he heard what Jiang Ning requested at the time, a shoe cabinet that took up an entire wall, and a huge bag cabinet. He had the same questions as them.
But this was Jiang Ning's request.
The total area of Jiang Ning's house in her previous life was only 90 square meters. Excluding the common area, the actual house area was less than 80 square meters.
She doesn't have high material desires, but when she is busy with work, she doesn't like to clean the house, nor does she like to ask others to clean up her house. She also doesn't like clutter, so she likes to have a lot of storage cabinets, and all things can be stuffed into the cabinets.
Jiang Ning was not wealthy in her previous life, but her hobby of writing brought her a lot of income, so she was not short of money.
But just like everyone's childhood experiences will affect their lives, Jiang Ning, who had experienced poverty, is a person who is very reluctant to throw things away. She still keeps her junior high and high school uniforms and is reluctant to throw them away. The shoes she wore more than ten years ago and the clothes she wore twenty years ago are still in her closet. This leads to her buying more and more things, and she has more and more shoes, but she is reluctant to throw them away and there is no place to put them at home.
So when decorating the house, her biggest requirement was to have more cabinets, whether they were shoe cabinets, wardrobes, or storage cabinets.
It wasn't until last year when Jiang Bai's sister's store bought a large batch of shoes. When his sister matched his clothes, she also matched two pairs of shoes for him. Only then did he own his first pair of shoes that were completely his own.
The shoes he wore from childhood to adulthood were all left over by Jiang Song. There was a big hole on the front of the toe, which was normal. They also had a popular profession here called shoemaker.
A shoemaker is someone who repairs shoes, and Jiang Bai is almost becoming a shoemaker himself by repairing shoes.
Jiang Bai sometimes thought that if he became a shoemaker in the future, he might be able to support himself.
Apart from slippers and sandals, he currently only had two pairs of shoes, which he washed clean, put in a box, and brought to Shanghai in a snakeskin bag.
So he really couldn't imagine how many pairs of shoes could be placed in such a large shoe cabinet.
Does my sister have so many shoes to pack?
They all didn't quite understand why Manager Qian built such a big shoe cabinet for his sister. It was such a waste.
When Jiang Bai and his friends arrived at the living room, they were fascinated by the bookshelf that covered the entire wall.
In order to create the atmosphere of a bookshelf, Manager Qian pulled a truckload of unsold issues of "Wuxia" magazine that had been piled up in the warehouse of his brother's "Wuxia" magazine. He filled all the bookshelves with books and empty book covers. There were glass doors outside, so visually, it was still very shocking for Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang, two little bumpkins from a small town who had never seen the world.
Jiang Bai, in particular, felt that this living room was bigger than the entire house in his hometown.
The wall of the living room facing the Huangpu River is made of glass, which provides excellent lighting. It is summer, and the sun is scorching outside. Large swathes of sunlight shine into the house. Jiang Bai feels that he has never seen such a bright house in his life.
It turns out that the room can be so bright.
Tong's father was also stunned.
His house was allocated by his work unit, with an actual area of 70 square meters. It is quite spacious for his family of three.
It’s just that in this era, colors are generally dark, just like the impression given by the small town of Wucheng, which has a dim and gray feeling.
Accustomed to the dimness of the house, suddenly seeing such a large area of lighting is like stepping from a gray world into another bright world.
So this is the difference between a big city and a small town?
Jiang Bai walked to the bookshelf unconsciously, and looked up blankly at the bookshelf that covered the entire wall and the books inside. When he saw that all the rows were "Martial Arts", he was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.
He put down the bags in his hands and wanted to reach out to see the non-Martial Arts books inside, but Manager Qian stopped him and said, "They are fake, they are just book covers. I decorated this house as a model house according to your sister's request. How could I get so many books? These books are in book covers that I got from my brother. They look like books on the outside, but they are empty inside."
His younger brother is the editor-in-chief of a magazine and knows a lot of booksellers, so it is not difficult for him to get these lifelike book covers.
Tong Jingang also came over at this time. After hearing that there was a book cover inside, he couldn't help but laugh and asked Manager Qian: "Did our sister ask you to put it like this?"
It was a bit hot, and Manager Qian's forehead was covered with sweat. He turned on the large air conditioner provided by their boss and said, "Of course, we will install it the way Teacher Jiang said. We have our own designer and designed a model house, which Brother Jiang has visited."
Jiang Bai thought about the model room he saw when his sister brought him to buy a house. It was completely different from his sister's house.
Oh, not completely different.
He looked up at the large crystal chandelier above the living room. It was the same crystal chandelier, also provided by the big boss of the real estate developer.
Manager Qian said, "The shoe cabinet at the door, this entire glass wall, and the bookshelf were all requested by your sister. By the way." He brought a few people to the balcony and said, "See this balcony? Your sister also requested that it be completely covered with glass, including the top."
It was summer, the hottest time of the year. A few people stood on the balcony, looked at the scene, exclaimed in admiration, and then came back.
At this time, the air conditioner had begun to have some cooling effect. As soon as Jiang Bai and the others returned to the house, they were immediately hit by a cool feeling.
Tong Jingang's family is considered well-off in Wucheng, but there is no air conditioning at home, only an electric fan.
Manager Qian then took Jiang Bai and others to visit the kitchen, bathroom, and cloakroom.
He opened a cabinet in the kitchen and introduced it to them: "This is a dishwasher."
When Manager Qian heard Jiang Ning say that she would reserve a place for a dishwasher in the kitchen, he wondered if he had misheard her, "What machine?"
Jiang Ning was holding a notebook and drawing for him at the time, and repeated: "Dishwasher."
Manager Qian had heard of televisions, washing machines, air conditioners, and airplanes, but he had never heard of dishwashers.
"Are there machines for washing dishes?" He called his big boss in Shanghai at that time. The big boss was a native of Gangcheng and was transferred here by a big boss of Hong Kong businessmen to Shanghai to take charge of a series of affairs in Shanghai.
At this time, the mainland can be seen in only two words in the eyes of people coming from Hong Kong: backward!
But in such a backward place, a little girl from the country actually knew to install a dishwasher in the kitchen? He doesn't even have a dishwasher at home.
When he told the big boss in Gangcheng about Jiang Ning's request, it didn't take long for the big boss to bring over all the things Jiang Ning requested.
Because the houses here are really hard to sell, the big boss in Gangcheng heard that Jiang Ning's house could be used as a model room for their promotion. He was not stingy and provided Jiang Ning with all the subsequent decoration that he could according to the specifications of the model room.
At this time, Tong Jingang, Jiang Bo and others were just as surprised as Manager Qian when they saw the dishwasher in the kitchen.
When he saw that every room was equipped with air conditioners, including a large one in the living room, small ones in the bedrooms, a washing machine, and a 25-inch color TV, he couldn't help but calculate: "Oh my god, how much will this cost?"
Manager Qian smiled slightly and said, "Teacher Jiang is willing to use this house as our model house. These appliances are all given by our boss."
Tong Jingang's mouth suddenly opened into an O shape.
Ever since Jiang Ning's house was renovated, Manager Qian brought groups of guests to visit Jiang Ning's house, and the house that was originally unsaleable has finally become sellable!
Especially locals who do not need a blue-stamp household registration.
At this time, the housing allocated to many families was small and cramped, with several people in a family squeezed into a small house of more than 30 or 40 square meters. After seeing Jiang Ning's large house with bright lighting and luxurious decoration, all those who came to see the house could not help but be moved.
This is simply their dream room!
Especially for female house viewers, when they enter such a house and see so many cabinets for storage, such spacious rooms, and such a large and bright living room, they can't walk anymore and decide on the spot: "We want this house!"
Even though the surrounding area is still under construction, the environment is noisy, and there is nothing nearby, this model house is so attractive to them.
They are really fed up with a family of five or six people living in a house of 30 to 40 square meters. Even the balcony has been separated out for people to live in. Especially now that their son is getting married, there is really no room for them. They don't know when the company will allocate housing for them.
Manager Qian would rub his hands excitedly and say, "I'm sorry, this apartment belongs to our guest, and she also entrusted our decoration team to decorate it for her. If you want, you can buy our house and find our decoration team. We guarantee to bring you the best service at the most suitable price! We will decorate it for you according to her decoration style."
Time and again, he introduced to the customers the boards, floor tiles, wood used for furniture, etc. that he used for Jiang Ning.
Other people's houses may not need such good materials in the future, but in order to give herself a try, Jiang Ning's house is decorated with all the best materials. Even the four-piece set on Jiang Ning's bed, the Simmons mattress and quilt below, and the down duvet above, are all good things provided by the big boss of Hong Kong businessmen.
At least on the surface, this home is warm, comfortable and fashionable, which fully satisfies people's appreciation of European and American styles at that time.
So groups of people decided to buy Jiang Ning's house after seeing it.
Now the existing houses here are basically sold out, and the second phase of pre-sale houses are starting to be sold.
After visiting the downstairs, Manager Qian took them to visit the upstairs, where there was a large study room, her own bedroom, dressing room, etc. for Jiang Ning.
The biggest fear in an apartment is noise, so when decorating, Jiang Ning requested that all of it be soundproofed.
So even though there were all kinds of construction machines outside and it was very noisy, they closed the glass windows and doors inside and it was still very quiet, and they could hardly feel the noisy sound outside.
Manager Qian took a few people downstairs and said, "Upstairs is Teacher Jiang's personal area. I'll take you to the guest room."
The actual area of this house is 156 square meters, with two floors, and a large living room of more than 60 square meters.
The actual usable area of the remaining two floors is nearly 200 square meters, plus the 20-square-meter balcony and 15-square-meter terrace that were given at that time. In addition to the living room, kitchen and public bathroom on the first floor, there is a room reserved for Grandpa Jiang, and the rest are used as guest rooms.
There are also toilets in the guest rooms. After Manager Qian introduced them to them, he left as he had work to do, leaving Jiang Bai and a few other country bumpkins to visit this luxurious house by themselves.
After the tour, the three of them sat on the soft leather sofa in the living room, bouncing their buttocks to feel the softness and touch the leather, fearing that their nails would scratch the sofa leather.
After touching it, Tong's father didn't know whether to ask himself or someone else: "Is this real leather?"
Tong Jingang also felt the delicate touch under his hand and said, "Wow, loud bang! The big bosses in Hong Kong are all rich." After saying that, he felt something was wrong. Damn, isn't our sister the one who has money?
This is our sister's house!
Our sister's!
The three of them sat on the sofa in Jiang Ning's house, enjoying the air conditioning. After a while, Jiang Bai still felt a sense of unreality.
He stretched out his hand and pinched Tong Jingang's strong and thick legs, which made Tong Jingang grit his teeth in pain and glared at him: "Why are you pinching me, kid?"
Jiang Bai blinked: "It hurts, it seems it's not a dream."
"Damn! You suspect you are dreaming. You don't pinch yourself, you pinch me!" Not only Jiang Bai seemed to be dreaming, Tong Jingang also seemed to be dreaming. He walked to the balcony, looking at the Huangpu River outside and the messy construction sites around him. Suddenly, he remembered something and went into the house to ask Jiang Bai and Tong's father: "By the way, what are we having for lunch?"
They came to Shanghai by bus in the morning. As soon as they arrived in Shanghai, they went to Jiang Ning's house first, hoping to find a place to stay for the night before going to the school to register.
But when Tong Jingang looked down from the balcony, he found that there were no chickens laying eggs and no birds pooping around. There was not even a place to buy vegetables, let alone any restaurants.
Jiang Bai said, "Let's go down and ask Brother Qian later."
When he sat here, he always felt uncomfortable sitting in someone else's house.
I feel like I don't fit in here.
What made him feel even more strange was that in the future he might also have a house similar to his sister's. Whenever he thought of this possibility, he felt so weird.
Is this a nice house that he deserves?
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