Chapter 118

This is the first house that Jiang Xi bought in Shanghai. He entrusted the renovation to Manager Qian. Because it was Jiang Xi's house, Manager Qian was afraid of dirtying it. He put a lot of plastic slippers in the shoe cabinet that covered the entire wall at the entrance for everyone who came to see the house to wear.

At this moment, Manager Qian took out the various plastic slippers that he had prepared long ago and asked them to change into them, just like he had done for the customers he had brought before.

Tong Jingang and Jiang Bai were still embarrassed. 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 Jin Gang's foot came out, it was really...

He quickly put down the luggage in his hand and took the shoes that Manager Qian handed to him: "I can do it myself."

Tong's father did the same.

Tong's father was at least a small leader in the system. He wore a gray POLO shirt on his upper body, which was pressed into his pants, revealing the metal buckle of the small belt in the middle.

He thought he was quite knowledgeable. Although Wucheng was an ancient small city, he had seen the leaders' homes, and he had never seen such a good decoration.

Manager Qian put the key on the empty grid and said to them: "You can hang your backpacks here."

Tong Jin Gang and the others were like robots at this time. They did whatever Manager Qian said.

Tong's father put down his luggage and hung his backpack on the hook on the shoe bench at the door. He looked inside while changing his shoes.

After Jiang Bai changed his shoes, he put his shoes into the shoe cabinet under the instruction of Manager Qian without waiting for Manager Qian to help him get his shoes.

Jiang Bai looked up and saw the entrance of the hallway. The whole front was a beige floor-to-ceiling cabinet. 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 looked around at the shoe bench where he was sitting and the eight hooks on it. A

few people changed into slippers for fear of dirtying the floor, and then put their shoes in the shoe cabinet.

Tong Jingang looked at the shoe cabinets that covered the entire wall, and suddenly asked curiously: "So many cabinets, are they all shoe cabinets?"

Manager Qian was used to introducing houses to clients, so when he heard him ask, he opened the upper cabinet doors one by one and introduced them to them: "You can put some quilts, bedding and other things on them." He glanced at the various large and small bags on their backs and in their hands and said: "For example, your luggage and bags can be put on them." The cabinets below: "This whole row is a shoe cabinet, boots are put here, and bags are put here."

When Jiang Bai heard Manager Qian say that the luggage and bags could be put inside, he grabbed the handle of his suitcase tightly and refused to let go.

Jiang Xi's suitcase was brought to Jiang Bo this time. It was filled with stuff. In addition to the clothes Jiang Xi gave Jiang Bo this year, the main things were passbooks and money.

With this big suitcase with a password given by his sister, Jiang Bo felt much more secure when sleeping, and he was not afraid of his money being stolen.

However, before leaving, he still bought another small lock. He felt more at ease with this kind of lock. He decided to install a double lock on the suitcase.

He didn't dare to open the suitcase, for fear that the money manager was a liar. He put the suitcase with money and passbooks in it, and was cheated by the money manager.

Manager Qian did not say anything about Jiang Bai's vigilance, and continued to introduce: "You can put brooms and mops and other cleaning tools here."

Manager Qian opened the cabinet, and there were indeed some cleaning tools inside. The surroundings here were being renovated. After the house was renovated, it needed to be ventilated to disperse the formaldehyde, so there was a lot of dust. In order to have a better model house effect, Manager Qian would occasionally come over to clean himself, and occasionally ask Yang Meirong to come over to clean.

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 in Tong Jingang, Tong's father, and Jiang Bai's mind was: Do brooms and mops also need to be placed in the cabinet?

Then there were a lot of questions in their heads: "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 Jiang Wu's request for a shoe cabinet that took up an entire wall and a cabinet that big. He had the same doubts as them.

But this was what Jiang Wu asked for.

Jiang Wu's house in her previous life had a total area of ​​only 90 square meters. Excluding the public stall, the actual house area was less than 80 square meters.

She didn't have high material desires, but when she was busy with work, she didn't like to clean the house, nor did she like to ask people to clean up the house. She also didn't like clutter, so she liked to have a lot of storage cabinets, and all things could be stuffed into the cabinets.

Jiang Wu was not rich 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 experience will affect their life, Jiang Wu, who had been poor, was very reluctant to throw things away. She still kept her junior high school and high school uniforms and was reluctant to throw them away. The shoes she wore more than ten years ago and the clothes she wore twenty years ago were still in her closet. This led to her buying more and more things, more and more shoes, but she was reluctant to throw them away, and there was no place to put them at home.

So when decorating this house, her biggest requirement for this house was to have more cabinets, whether it was a shoe cabinet, a wardrobe, or a storage cabinet.

Jiang Bai didn’t have his first pair of shoes until last year, when his sister’s store bought a large batch of shoes. When his sister matched his clothes, she also matched two pairs of shoes for him. That’s when he finally had his first pair of shoes that were completely his own.

The shoes he had worn since he was a child were all Jiang Song’s leftovers. There was a big hole on the front of the toe, which was normal. They also have a popular profession here, called shoemaker.

A shoemaker is someone who repairs shoes, and Jiang Bai is almost a shoemaker himself.

Jiang Bai sometimes thinks that he might be able to support himself by being a shoemaker in the future.

At present, he only has two pairs of shoes, besides slippers and sandals, which he washed clean, packed 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 big shoe cabinet.

Does my sister have so many shoes to put in?

They didn't quite understand why Manager Qian built such a big shoe cabinet for my sister. It was such a waste.

When Jiang Bai and his friends came to the living room, they were fascinated by the bookshelf that covered the entire wall of the living room.

In order to create the atmosphere of the bookshelf, Manager Qian pulled a lot of magazines that were not sold in the early 1990s from the warehouse of Wuxia magazine where his brother worked. He filled all the bookshelves with books and empty book covers. The outside was a glass door, so visually, it was still very shocking for Jiang Bai and Tong Jingang, two country bumpkins from a small town who had never seen the world.

Especially Jiang Bai, he felt that this living room was bigger than the whole 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 blazing outside. Large swathes of sunlight pour into the house. Jiang Bai feels that he has never seen such a bright house in his life.

It turns out that a house can be so bright.

Tong's father was also stunned.

His house is a unit-allocated house with an actual area of ​​70 square meters. It is quite spacious for their 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, with 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.

Is this the difference between a big city and a small town?

Jiang Bai walked to the bookshelf unconsciously, staring blankly at the bookshelf that covered the entire wall and the books inside. When he saw that the whole row was full of "Martial Arts", he was stunned for a moment, then smiled.

He put down the big and small bags in his hands and wanted to reach out to see the books that were not "Martial Arts". Manager Qian stopped him and said, "It's fake, they are just book covers. I decorated this house as a model house according to your sister's request. Where can I get so many books? These books are all in book covers that I asked my brother to get. They look like books on the outside, but they are empty inside."

His brother is the editor-in-chief of a magazine and knows many booksellers. It is not difficult for him to get these fake book covers.

Tong Jingang also came over at this time. After hearing that there were book covers inside, he couldn't help but smile and asked Manager Qian: "Did our sister ask you to decorate it like this?"

The weather was a little hot, and Manager Qian's forehead was sweating. He turned on the large air conditioner provided by their boss and said, "Of course, we decorated it the way Teacher Jiang said. We also have our own designer who designed the model house. Brother Jiang has seen it."

Jiang Bai thought of the model house he saw when his sister brought him to buy a house before. 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. The crystal chandelier was the same, also provided by the big boss of the real estate company.

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 took a few people to the balcony and said, "See this balcony? It was also your sister's request to cover it all with glass, including the top."

It was summer, the hottest time of the year. A few people looked at it on the balcony, praised it, and then returned.

At this time, the air conditioner had begun to have some cooling effect. As soon as Jiang Bai and his friends returned to the house, they immediately felt a cool feeling.

Tong Jingang's family was considered wealthy in Wucheng, but there was no air conditioner at home, only an electric fan.

Manager Qian took Jiang Bai and his friends 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 Xi say that he would reserve a place for the dishwasher in the kitchen, he suspected that he had heard it wrongly, "What machine?"

Jiang Xi was holding a notebook and drawing for him at the time, and repeated it again: "Dishwasher."

Manager Qian had heard of televisions, washing machines, air conditioners, and airplanes, but he had never heard of dishwashers.

"There are machines for washing dishes?" He called his big boss in Shanghai at the time. The big boss was a Hong Kong native, and was transferred here by a Hong Kong businessman to Shanghai to take charge of a series of things in Shanghai.

At this time, the mainland, in the eyes of people from Hong Kong, could only be described in two words: backward!

But in such a backward place, a little girl from the countryside actually knew to install a dishwasher in the kitchen? He didn't even have a dishwasher at home.

When he told the big boss in Gangcheng about Jiang Wu's request, it didn't take long for the big boss to bring all the things Jiang Wu asked for.

Because the houses here were really hard to sell, after hearing from the big boss in Gangcheng that Jiang Wu's house could be used as a model room for their promotion, he was not stingy and gave Jiang Wu all the money he could pay for the subsequent decoration according to the specifications of the model room.

At this time, Tong Jingang and Jiang Bo were just like Manager Qian at the time, and their eyes were opened when they saw the dishwasher in the kitchen.

When he saw that every room was equipped with air conditioners, including a large air conditioner in the living room, a small air conditioner in the room, 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 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.

Since Jiang Liu's house was installed, Manager Qian brought groups of guests to visit Jiang Liu's house. The house that was originally unsaleable finally became sellable!

Especially for locals who do not need a blue-stamp household registration.

At that time, many families' units were small and cramped, with several people in a family squeezed into a small house of more than 30 or 40 square meters. After seeing the brightly lit and luxuriously decorated large house like Jiang Gui, all the people who came to see the house couldn't help but be moved.

This is simply their dream house!

Especially female house viewers, when they entered such a house, saw so many cabinets for storage, saw such a spacious room, and such a large and bright living room, they couldn't walk immediately and decided on the spot: "We want this house!"

Even though the surroundings are still under construction, the surrounding environment is noisy, and the surroundings are still desolate with nothing, this model house is really too attractive to them.

They are really fed up with a family of five or six people squeezed into a house of 30 or 40 square meters. Even the balcony has been separated for people to live in. Especially now that their son is getting married, there is really no room

for them. It is not known when the company will allocate housing. 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 provide you with the best service at the most suitable price! We will decorate it for you according to her decoration style."

He repeatedly introduced to the guests the boards, floor tiles, wood used for furniture, etc. that he used for Jiang Gui.

Other people's houses may not need such good materials in the future, but in order to give himself a slap in the face, Jiang Liu's house is decorated with all good materials, even the four-piece set on Jiang Liu's bed, the Simmons mattress and quilt below, and the down comforter 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 batches of people decided to buy houses after seeing Jiang Liu's house.

Now, almost all the existing houses here have been sold out, and the second phase of pre-sale houses have begun to be sold.

After visiting the downstairs, Manager Qian took them to visit the upstairs, where Jiang Xi had a large study, her own bedroom, a cloakroom, etc.

The most feared thing about an apartment is noise, so when decorating, Jiang Xi requested that all of them be soundproofed.

So even if there were all kinds of machines and construction outside, it was very noisy, they closed the glass windows and glass doors inside, and it was still very quiet, and they could hardly feel the noisy sounds outside.

Manager Qian took a few people downstairs and said, "The 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 remaining two floors had a practical usable area of ​​nearly 200 square meters, plus the 20-square-meter balcony and 15-square-meter terrace that were given to them at the time. In addition to the living room, kitchen, and public bathroom on the first floor, there was a room reserved for Grandpa Jiang, and the rest were all guest rooms. The

guest rooms also had bathrooms. After Manager Qian introduced them, he left first because he had work to do, leaving Jiang Bai and a few other old-fashioned people to visit this luxurious house by themselves. After

the visit, the three of them sat on the soft leather sofa in the living room, bouncing their butts to feel the softness and touch the leather, fearing that their nails would scratch the sofa leather.

After touching it, Tong's father asked himself or someone else, "Is this real leather?"

Tong Jingang also touched the delicate touch and said, "Wow, boom! Hong Kong's big bosses are rich." After saying that, he felt something was wrong. Damn, isn't it our sister who has money?

This is our sister's house!

Our sister's!

The three of them sat on the sofa in Jiang Xi's house, enjoying the air conditioning. For a while, Jiang Bai still felt unreal.

He stretched out his hand and pinched Tong Jingang's strong and thick thigh, which made Tong Jingang grit his teeth in pain and glared: "Why are you pinching me, kid?"

Jiang Bai blinked: "It hurts, it seems I'm not dreaming."

"Damn! You suspect you are dreaming, you don't pinch yourself, but you pinch me!" Not to mention 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 Bai's house first. They wanted to find a place to stay for the night before going to register for school.

But when Tong Jin Gang looked down from the balcony, he found that there were no chickens laying eggs or birds pooping around, and there was no place to buy food, let alone any hotels or restaurants.

Jiang Bai said, "Let's go down and ask Brother Qian later."

He always felt uncomfortable sitting here, as if he was sitting in someone else's house. He

felt out of place 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.

Such a good house, is it his own?