The Wang family, who sold the house back then, are now filled with regret.
Who could have known that there would be so many workers in this factory one day?
Even the apartments above He Wenlin's fast food restaurant are very easy to rent out; they are almost never vacant, and the residents there are unlikely to move out easily.
Because He Wenlin's family climbed up from the bottom, and they had experienced the hardships themselves, they understood the plight of ordinary people who came out to work. Therefore, they wouldn't easily raise the rent. Now, other people's garages, after being renovated, are renting for 280 yuan, and they are still very small and have nothing.
But He Wenlin's room is large, with a private bathroom and simple furniture, and it only costs 290 yuan a month. Only the third floor is a bit more expensive, at 320 yuan a month.
During the Spring Festival, each household was also given two packs of laundry detergent and two bottles of shampoo. If the tenant was from Hunan Province, in addition to the laundry detergent and shampoo, they would also receive two packs of toilet paper.
The items aren't worth much money, but it's the thought that counts.
Tenants will not easily move out of a landlord's home.
Some tenants even asked if they had any houses available for rent locally, as they had fellow villagers and friends who also wanted to rent their houses.
“I have a house in Zhenzhou, and our house in Tingjiang will probably be available for rent around this time next year. If you don’t mind the distance, you can live in Tingjiang,” Mr. He said with a smile.
The land in Tingjiang is quite large, covering 27 acres. Construction began at the beginning of last year and is now almost complete, but it still needs to be decorated. After that, for safety reasons, it will be left vacant for two months, so it will be available for rent around this time next year.
Because it was built specifically for rental, there is relatively little greenery. However, there are more and more electric bikes now, and there will be even more in a few years. Each building there is seventeen stories high, so there is enough space around the perimeter for bike sheds and charging, so that people don't have to push their electric bikes upstairs to charge them.
Therefore, there are only fifteen buildings in total over there.
The following year, when the area started to be rented out, quite a few long-time tenants introduced their friends to rent there.
They also hired two fellow villagers to be in charge of cleaning the public areas, and two others to handle the rental and rent collection.
By 2009, including the buildings in Zhenzhou, He Wenlin had 28 buildings for rent.
Other scattered houses, some in one place and some in another, haven't even been included yet.
He Wenlin herself doesn't know how many sets there are, because there are just too many.
He Wenlin has four dedicated bank accounts for collecting rent. She calculated that by the end of 2009, she was earning over a million yuan a month from rent.
Buildings are still under construction in Zhenzhou, Dongguan, my hometown provincial capital Wenxi City, and Chengdu.
He Wenlin has now stopped buying land; once these buildings are completed, that should be enough.
In 2010, He Wenlin spent 30 million to buy a yacht and took her whole family out to sea for fun.
She also wanted to buy a private jet, but the villa in Shaocheng was too small and there was no place to park it. Moreover, her family felt that a private jet was unnecessary and disagreed with the purchase.
That year, my younger brother He Wenjun was admitted to Fudan University.
Actually, his academic scores weren't high enough, but he won first prize in the New Concept Writing Competition last year, which added to his score; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to get into this school.
His grades are worthy of the tutoring fees He Wenlin has spent on him over the years, and all the extracurricular books she has given him have truly been worthwhile.
When he won the award, Mr. He almost jumped for joy and even wanted to host a banquet at a hotel.
He Wenlin smiled and said, "Dad, do you think my brother has a chance to become a writer?"
Mr. He's face stiffened, and he suddenly remembered what he had said many years ago: that if his son could become a writer, he would lick the front door.
"He's not a writer yet. Let's talk about it when he's made a lot of money."
At this point, Mr. He already felt that his son could make a living from this in the future, but he did not expect that day to come so soon.
I just finished my freshman year of college, and my first historical web novel, "The Great Landlord of the Tang Dynasty," earned me three million yuan in royalties!
The younger brother immediately transferred one million to He Wenlin, saying that without the ideas He Wenlin shared with him, he wouldn't have achieved such great results!
In fact, the general ideas and opinions that He Wenlin told him were written by him in his previous life. It's just that historical online novels are not as abundant at this stage as they will be a few years later.
Moreover, He Wenlin paved the way for her younger brother in advance, cultivating his extracurricular reading and writing skills, enabling him to achieve better results earlier.
He Wenlin accepted the million, but transferred a large apartment to her younger brother's name.
She owns so many properties now, all belonging to her siblings. It's just one house, nothing to her. If people call her a Voldemort because of this, she'll accept it.
When they learned that their younger brother had earned three million yuan in royalties, Mr. and Mrs. He, along with a host of relatives and friends, were all dumbfounded!
Nineteen years old, earning three million from writing novels?!
Everyone praised Mr. and Mrs. He for their good fortune and their capable children.
When the family was alone, Mrs. He would jokingly ask Mr. He, "When are you going to lick the front door?"
Mr. He said angrily, "Without my encouragement, would he be where he is today? You want me to lick the front door? You're going against the grain."
The whole family burst into laughter.
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