Chapter 15 Buying a House 3
"There are many scholars living in Huaihua Lane, and over the years, several scholars and talented people have emerged one after another. Everyone says that Huaihua Lane is blessed by the God of Literature and is a blessed place.
If it weren't for the strange things that happened to the previous owner of this house, this house would have been bought out long ago."
Cui Qingyi ignored him.
After passing several houses, the broker stopped in front of a house with a copper lock. Cui Qingyi noticed the rust spots on the copper lock with her sharp eyes.
As the mechanic unlocked and pushed the door, a cloud of dust that had not been occupied for a long time, mixed with a damp and musty smell, rushed out.
“Cough cough cough…”
Cui Qingyi and Konjac simultaneously covered their mouths and noses with handkerchiefs. The dentist touched his nose awkwardly. Thinking of what he had said at the dentist's shop before, he glanced at Cui Qingyi guiltily.
"Hey, come in and take a look, come in and take a look."
Cui Qingyi stepped into the room, and then stepped on a piece of moss growing in the cracks of the bricks with incredible precision. She was caught off guard and fell to the side with a slip of her foot. The broker was startled by this sudden change, but fortunately Konjac was quick-witted and hugged the fallen person directly.
Both the master and the servant were startled. The broker looked at the moss on the ground with annoyance. Why did it have to grow here when there were other places to grow? It almost ruined his business.
Cui Qingyi stood firm with a rather unhappy expression on her face. She quickly overturned her previous opinion of brokers in her heart. Sure enough, brokers in all eras were all of the same character, and could make the dead appear alive.
She looked at the broker and forced a smile: "This house is not as you said, it's just empty for a few days."
In her opinion, it had been empty for at least a year.
Having his trick discovered, the broker smiled awkwardly and hurriedly introduced himself to the people in order to break the awkwardness.
Konjac said with a stern face: "Miss, this house is not suitable. Let's go back first and look for another one."
Upon hearing Konjac's words, the dealer immediately became anxious: "Hey, hey, hey, girl, since you're here, why not take a look first? If you really don't like it, I'll find you something else."
Cui Qingyi showed some reluctance on her face, but still gave the broker face: "Then let's take a look."
"Hey, hey, hey, let me introduce you right away."
The dealer was afraid that the customer he had brought with great difficulty would just leave, so he pointed at the house and began to introduce it, "Look at this spacious yard, the house is well built, and all of it is made of high-quality wood. If you take good care of it, you can live here for decades without any problem.
In the front is the woodshed and kitchen, in the back are two bedrooms, and there are also a living room and an annex, so there is no need to worry about having no place to stay when guests come to the house.
The broker looked at the expression on Cui Qingyi's face as he spoke, but after he finished speaking, there was no expression on her face.
He sighed in his heart. He thought he had met two people who were easy to fool today, but such a big problem occurred as soon as he entered the door.
But after thinking about it, he felt that there was no other way. Dongping County is such a small place. Local people who want to buy a house can find out what the Wang family's house is like just by asking around.
The house had been on the market for over a year, and not only had it been sold, few people even came to see it. As time went by, the people from the real estate agency had no time to come and clean the house.
He had been a broker in Dongping County for several years. As soon as the two people entered the house, he could tell that they were not from Dongping. He thought for a moment and thought of selling the house to people with unknown background, solving this difficult problem and getting some rewards from his superiors.
Forget it, if it can’t be sold, then it can’t be sold.
Cui Qingyi didn't even enter the backyard. She just took a quick look and then asked Konjac to go back.
The broker knew that there was no hope, so he could only take the two of them back to the brokerage shop.
"How much silver does this house cost?" Cui Qingyi asked as if it was a formality, and the broker held up three fingers.
Konjac frowned, his voice filled with undisguised disdain: "How can this house be worth three hundred taels?"
The broker was in this business, so he wasn't annoyed when he heard this: "This house is in a great location, and it's 70% new. If you weren't really interested in buying it, I'd put it up for sale slowly, and it would sell for 400 taels."
Cui Qingyi ignored his nonsense and said, "To be honest, I'm not very satisfied with this house. I'd like to trouble you to find another one for me."
The brothel owner could only nod helplessly: "Okay, then I'll show you the others."
Cui Qingyi brought Konjac back to the inn. They closed the door and sat together before looking at each other and smiling. Konjac smiled slyly, "Miss, how was my performance today?"
Cui Qingyi didn't hesitate to praise him: "Not bad, what do you think of the house we saw today?"
In her previous life, Cui Qingyi worked alone outside and suffered a lot of losses when renting a house because she didn't know the ins and outs of it. So before going out to look at houses, she shared her experience with Konjac.
You must not show your likes and eagerness, otherwise the other party may take the opportunity to raise the price.
Konjac twisted his fingers and said, "Girl, I think this house is actually quite good. The broker said that there are many scholars living in Huaihua Lane. When we entered the lane today, I heard the sound of reading. He didn't lie to us.
While you were talking in the front yard, I went to the back of the house to take a look. There is a well in the backyard. From now on, we don’t have to go outside to fetch water.
There is a small open space in the backyard, which can be used to grow vegetables and raise a few chickens in the future.
As for the moss in the yard and the mildew in the house, I can just clean them a few more times. The most important thing is that this house is cheap, so we can save a lot."
Cui Qingyi was impressed by this girl. She had only given a brief talk yesterday, but she didn't expect Konjac to come up with so many things.
In fact, Cui Qingyi also thought that this house was nice. She herself had suffered a lot. This house was definitely not as good as the Cui or Chen family's houses, but it was already very good in Dongping County.
There are some minor shortcomings that can be dealt with slowly after they move in.
Perhaps because they were determined to buy a house, the master and servant couldn't fall asleep in bed that night. Konjac rolled up the quilt and looked at Cui Qingyi in the dark:
"Girl, are we really going to buy a house? Why do I feel like I'm dreaming? We'll have our own home in the future and won't be kicked out by others anymore, right?"
Cui Qingyi listened quietly, tears welling in her eyes. She reached out and patted Konjac's exposed arm, her tone gentle yet firm: "Yes, we are going to buy a house soon, and from now on no one can kick us out of our own home."
After getting a definite answer, Konjac fell asleep contentedly.
Cui Qingyi, however, couldn't sleep. She had been in this dynasty for nineteen years, from the Cui family to the Chen family. She looked coldly at the injustice towards women in this era.
They are born proletarians, appendages of their fathers, brothers and husbands. The men in power demand that women be submissive, selfless and willing.
Cui Qingyi knows her own weight. She has no ambition to compete with this feudal era. She can ignore anyone else, but she must save herself.
After nineteen years of trepidation and careful planning, fortunately she succeeded.
The broker took Cui Qingyi and her servant to see several houses, but the two found many problems in each house. Just when the broker thought that his work these days was in vain.
Cui Qingyi suggested at the right time that the house in Huaihua Lane was still acceptable.
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After the money was handed over and the house was delivered, and seeing the girl holding the key with a smile on her face, the broker finally realized that the two men had set their eyes on the house in Huaihua Lane from the beginning, but had been fooled by him.
The broker secretly glared at Cui Qingyi and her servant. They clearly looked like they came from a wealthy family, so why were they so cunning?
Holding the freshly-issued title deed, Cui Qingyi and Konjac walked out of the brokerage shop, turned a corner, and then reached out their hands in tacit understanding, and then clapped their hands vigorously.
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