Chapter 427 The First Commercial Housing Community

Everything is going according to plan at the clothing store, and Chen Qi is also doing a good job at the snack bar in the county town.

Now the store's main business has gradually developed into two parts. One part is for customers who are in a hurry, mainly selling large steamed buns, white flour steamed buns, mixed grain steamed buns, and various pickled vegetables pickled by Chef Liu.

The other part is for customers who are not in a hurry, and there are dishes like fresh meat dumplings, scallion oil noodles, Yangchun noodles, as well as halved beef, halved lamb, lamb soup and the like.

Chef Liu has excellent skills and fair prices. Manager Chen Qi also serves as a waitress and has a good attitude, so the restaurant is better than the state-owned hotel next door.

Now, the state-owned hotel is even less visited, while here there is an endless stream of guests, which is driving the hotel staff crazy.

Xia Juanjuan still comes over regularly to supply fresh meat, vegetables, rice, noodles, etc. to the small shop and Li Jie's snack bar.

Lijie's business is pretty good. He usually sells steamed buns, pancakes, fried dough sticks, and millet porridge in the morning, and mutton soup, boiled mutton, and dumplings at noon and in the afternoon.

After school, Yingying and Huanhuan brought Dongbao and another younger brother to the store to help wipe the tables and wash the dishes. They were very diligent.

The profit for that day was more than ten yuan, which was enough to cover one-third of Qiuhe's monthly salary last week.

Zhou Qiuhe worked in a department store, so she certainly couldn't take care of the store. She just accompanied Li Jie in the evening to make noodles, bun fillings, dumpling fillings, steamed buns, and made dumplings.

But the one who worked the hardest was Li Jie.

Zhou Qiuhe wanted to quit her job at the department store and move to her own store so that Lijie could relax a little.

Li Jie still disagrees.

"It's so hard to get a stable job. I'll work hard for a while, and then see how things turn out in two years. There are more and more small stalls and hawkers now. Our store is booming now, but it doesn't mean it will be booming in the future. In two years, if the business is still good, you can quit."

After hearing this, Zhou Qiuhe had to temporarily give up the idea of ​​resigning.

Another reason why she has been hesitant to resign is because of housing issues.

However, her rural household registration was gradually changed to a formal salesperson, and her household registration was also changed to a commodity grain household registration. The accumulated years of service after becoming a formal worker were actually only about one or two years. If she wants to wait for housing allocation, she will probably have to wait another three to five years.

But even if you have to wait three to five years, old houses in the county town are sold privately, but there is no way to buy and sell those staff buildings in the new city area, and you can only wait for the unit to allocate housing.

If she quits her job, she will become a self-employed person and will have no hope of getting a house.

Although I moved to the city, I don't even have a house in the city. I have been renting a house and I have a sense of belonging.

When Xia Juanjuan came over, Zhou Qiuhe also told Xia Juanjuan about her concerns.

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said, "Actually, you don't have to worry too much about the house. Maybe in a few years, you won't have to wait for the company to allocate housing. There may be houses for sale, and there will be no restrictions on the identity of the buyer. As long as you have money, you can buy it."

Zhou Qiuhe and Li Jie looked at each other, both somewhat unconvinced.

"Juanjuan, you studied at Beijing University, you know a lot, what you said... is it really possible?"

Xia Juanjuan nodded affirmatively and said, "It's possible. The kind of house that can be bought with money is called commercial housing. The idea of ​​building commercial housing was proposed last year. Apart from other things, Guangzhou is already negotiating cooperation with companies in Hong Kong. If the cooperation is successful, the companies in Hong Kong will invest in building houses and then sell them to citizens."

The first commercial housing estate in the country was built in Donghu District, Guangzhou. The project was negotiated with Hong Kong businessmen in 1979, construction started in December, and was completed by the end of 1982.

This community is approximately 60,000 square meters, 20,000 square meters of which are used as resettlement housing, and the remaining 40,000 square meters are sold by Guangzhou and Hong Kong businessmen, with 20,000 square meters each sold at a price of 800 yuan per square meter.

In addition to Guangzhou, commercial housing also appeared in Shanghai in 1979. The commercial housing estates in Beijing came later, in 1986.

The booming real estate industry of the next forty years began in these two years.

However, Xia Juanjuan did not intend to reveal too much of this to Li Jie and Zhou Qiuhe.

After all, Guangzhou and Shanghai are the pioneers, and it will take several years for the fire to spread to the small county of Mo County.

Rather than waiting to spend your own money to buy a house, it might be faster to wait to share the house.

Moreover, the price of commercial housing is astronomical for ordinary workers. It costs hundreds or even thousands of yuan, and it is not really that easy to afford it.

Xia Juanjuan continued, "However, I think this is the general trend. Individual business owners may be looked down upon and feel ashamed now, but this situation will definitely change in the future. I support you resigning, Third Sister-in-law. However, as Third Brother said, you can wait a year or two."

After hearing what Xia Juanjuan said, Zhou Qiuhe nodded solemnly and said, "Juanjuan, now that you say that, I have a clear idea in my mind. I will try for another two years. If there is no news about the distribution of houses, I will resign and open a store with Lijie."

A week passed quickly. Xia Juanjuan went to Guangzhou again and met Chen Rongsheng.

This time, she asked for five refrigerators and ten single-drum washing machines, in addition to watches, wallets, belts, tape recorders, singers' tapes, posters and the like, things that young people tend to like.

The refrigerator is still $600, and the single-cylinder unit is $100, so the total for these two items is $2,200. The other items, such as watches and tape recorders, cost about $1,000, so the total is $3,300. At a conversion rate of 10 to 1, it is $330 US dollars.

Xia Juanjuan directly gave three hundred and fifty yuan, but Chen Rongsheng still returned the twenty yuan.

The price he gave to Xia Juanjuan actually included his own remuneration, so he did not ask for any commission. The main reason was that he felt that Xia Juanjuan was capable and wanted to continue the long-term cooperation.

Seeing that he refused twice, Xia Juanjuan knew what he meant and did not give in, so she took back the twenty dollars.

After finishing the business here, Xia Juanjuan called the Guangzhou office left by Smith.

Unexpectedly, this time it was Smith who answered the call himself.

"Miss Xia, you finally contacted me! I've been waiting so hard!" Smith said anxiously on the phone.

Xia Juanjuan couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and replied in a foreign language: "Don't be so ambiguous, I'm married and have a husband."