Chapter 304 Housing Prices in Shanghai
The trip was planned to last five days and four nights. One day was specifically for shopping. The day after shopping, they would send Lin Shuying to school to register. Then the remaining six of them would take the train back. Within two days of returning, the other three would have to start school.
The day before shopping, Chen Chunhua took everyone to Guhua by ferry and had a meal at Donghua's house.
Grandma Donghua held Chen Chunhua's hand and said it was really nice.
"I thought Donghua was so pitiful. It's great that she has a sister from her mother's side... You two should visit each other more often in the future. Did your eldest daughter get into a university here?"
Chen Chunhua smiled and nodded, "Yes, in the urban area of Hudong."
"The city is good, it's bustling." Grandma Donghua patted Shuying's hand again, "If there's anything, you can bring a message to your aunt. Although our country is a bit far from the city, it's at least faster than your parents can get here.
You can come to my house if you have nothing to do. Your aunt’s cooking is delicious, right? You can ask her to cook for you! "
Lin Shuying grinned politely and replied, "Yeah! I think my aunt cooks better than my mom. If I get tired of eating in the cafeteria, I will definitely come here shamelessly. I won't be polite."
"Hahaha, this kid is really good at talking!" Donghua laughed so hard that tears came out, and she kept laughing.
Before they returned to the city, Chen Chunhua pulled her over and whispered something to her.
"Donghua, if you two save enough money, go to Hudong and buy a house. It would be better if you buy two more houses for your two children. This will make it more convenient for them to go to school in the future."
Housing prices in Shanghai skyrocketed every year. If only Shen Chunhua could buy a house here. She wasn't sure if outsiders like her could afford to buy a house now, but she thought Donghua's family should be able to. If Donghua could, then Shuying could too.
"Oh, Third Sister, you think too highly of me. Can we afford the house in Hudong?" Donghua looked at me with a look of "What are you thinking about?"
"There's a family in our village who bought a 30-square-meter house in Old Minhang last year. Guess how much it cost?"
"How many?"
Donghua held up two fingers. "He hired a black market agent and spent a total of 20,000 yuan. It's about the same size as the two main rooms in my house now, and a family of three can't even turn around in it. And they want 20,000 yuan!"
Chen Chunhua also gasped. She had thought that even if housing prices in Shanghai were more expensive than elsewhere, a small house like this would probably sell for a few thousand or ten thousand yuan. But it turned out to be only 20,000 yuan!
"I was thinking about opening up my little shop. I made 4,000 or 5,000 last year, which was amazing! But it turns out that even with that much money, I can't even afford a house..."
"It's so expensive I can't afford it..."
"Who says it's not?" Donghua curled her lips, and her tone couldn't help but take on a hint of sourness. "Sometimes a person's destiny is already there when they are born. People in Hudong can drink milk and live in high-rise buildings as soon as they are born, but we have to learn how to survive from the moment we are born."
"That's not the case," Chen Chunhua whispered in a soothing voice. "Our efforts haven't been in vain. The life we have now is something we couldn't even imagine when we were little. Who can guarantee that things won't get even better in the future?"
Donghua burst out laughing. "Yeah! It will definitely be better in the future. Third sister, let me tell you, this year my husband's factory asked me to run the canteen. I've already been working there all summer and even hired several people. I'm sure I'll make more this year than last year!"
She didn't know when she would have enough money to buy a house in Hudong, but she would work towards this goal. Just like Chen Chunhua said, who could guarantee that she wouldn't be able to afford it in the future!
"Of course! I've been doing pretty well this year. If I work hard, maybe I can buy Shuying a big set before she graduates!"
"Oh my~ Your conscience is even worse, you want to buy a bigger one..."
The two sisters chatted with each other for a while, and then went back on time.
Lin Guoqing said that we must have a good rest tonight, because tomorrow will be the real tough battle!
Except for Chen Chunhua, the others didn't quite understand what he meant. Until the next day, when Liang Shengdi was squeezed in the huge crowd with bags of all sizes, she regretted not eating two more shengjian in the morning.
"Is there anything else you haven't bought? Have you counted?" She sat down on the steps. At her feet was an enamel washbasin with "Double Happiness" printed on it. Inside was an enamel teacup, a thermos and a new large lunch box. In her hand was a bag of daily necessities, including toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, vanishing cream, shampoo, shower gel, and even a bottle of hair conditioner.
Lin Shuying was holding a bag containing a mosquito net, which the salesperson said was the exact same size as the ones in her school dormitories. She had a formal backpack slung over her shoulder, also newly bought. Inside was a shirt and skirt her mother had picked out for her, along with a pair of white sneakers.
Chen Chunhua took her notebook and ticked on it.
"I still bought a radio and English tapes there during the National Day holiday."
The tape radio was prepared for college student Lin Shuying, but the English tape was for Sanni.
After getting married, the girl officially started working in the county's cloth street. She also rented a small shed, which was only about one or two square meters in size. She put a pot of tea eggs under the shed. When someone asked her to translate, she asked the owner of the shop next door to help her watch the pot. When no one asked her to do it, she would sell tea eggs while reading a book.
She had even started learning English, but Sanni felt that English was much more complicated than Japanese, so she wanted to buy two tapes to listen to. On the day of their wedding, Qi Jinzhou brought a radio to the new house, so she only needed basic English tapes.
As for what kind of tapes Shuying needs in the future, she will have to wait until school starts and buy them herself.
Chen Chunhua looked at the page full of ticks and nodded with satisfaction.
"Dannan, do you want to buy another pen?"
Lin Shuying exclaimed, "Ah!" "I have a pen..."
"That's just the cheapest one. You've been using it for three years. Now that you're in college, do you want to buy a better one?" Chen Chunhua was a little obsessed with spending money today. Anyway, this amount of money couldn't buy a house, so she might as well improve her quality of life.
As the first college student in her family's two generations combined, she had to spend a lot of money on her, both as a reward for Lin Shuying and as an encouragement to her three younger children. She wanted to show them that as long as they studied hard and got into college, they could have whatever they wanted!
Of course, this is based on the premise that her family has some money now.
Lin Guoqing had just squeezed out of the crowd and raised his hand to show Chen Chunhua the packaging box in his hand. The steel watch on his hand collided with the slanting sunlight, which made Chen Chunhua close her eyes.
"Why don't I buy you a watch?" she said, patting the notebook. She hadn't even remembered this thing before!
Lin Shuying opened her mouth, but before she could say no, her parents had already started talking.
Lin Guoqing exclaimed twice, took the money from Chen Chunhua, turned around and squeezed into the crowd again.
Lin Shuying: ...
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