Although Chen Hong didn't furnish the house with any other furniture, the rental went smoothly. She rented it out to three different families for 15,000 yuan a month, which was much more profitable than depositing money in a bank to earn interest.
Chen Hong was quite satisfied that the rent could offset the mortgage interest!
If she hadn't learned about the real estate market trends in recent years after her rebirth, she would have been like most ordinary people, afraid to take out a loan to buy a house.
During their stay in Beijing, Chen Hong, Director Jin, and Mrs. Guan formed a women's purchasing group.
These women visited almost every furniture and flower market in Beijing, big and small.
I ran around like crazy to get all the furniture in this house in Houhai all set up in just a few days.
The greenery and flowers in the first and second courtyards and the back garden have all been planted. Dean Jin and Madam Guan were a great help to Chen Hong in buying these Chinese-style furniture pieces.
Both of them come from prominent families, so their taste is excellent. The furniture they chose, in terms of both material and style, perfectly matches the decor of the courtyard house.
Of course, the price is not cheap either. Although it is not made of rosewood or sandalwood, it is still the best high-end mahogany furniture that can be bought on the market now.
The purchase of this furniture cost Chen Hong over 300,000 yuan, more than the cost of renovating the entire courtyard.
So, before even buying any porcelain or decorative items, Chen Hong dared not let the two women help her choose.
With their discerning eye, the porcelain ornaments they chose were worth as much as an apartment building, and Chen Hong was unwilling to spend so much money on them.
In the end, the two ladies had no choice but to accompany Chen Hong to the flower, bird, fish and insect market, where they bought a lot of potted plants and bonsai to decorate the house. Only then did the house seem more lively and less empty.
Chen Hong was secretly delighted. All the bonsai and flowers cost less than 10,000 yuan in total, which was something she could appreciate at her level.
Even if she were given those antique ornaments, she would only keep them in her personal space and wouldn't dare to display them openly on the antique shelf in her room.
Chen Hong's display shelf is now used as a storage shelf, displaying some exquisite and interesting handicrafts she bought from craft shops. They are cheap, beautiful, and safe to keep from getting lost.
After arranging everything, Chen Hong clapped her hands, looked at it from different angles, nodded in satisfaction, and smiled easily. This is just fine.
In this way, Chen Hong won't have to worry about thieves in her courtyard house when she returns to her hometown.
In the past few days, Chen Hong secretly checked the prices of orchids at several flower markets. However, the information she gathered was very disappointing.
The orchids sold in the Beijing market are all common, mass-produced varieties, such as Cymbidium goeringii, Cymbidium faberi, and Phalaenopsis orchids, which are readily available everywhere in the market.
The most expensive ones are large pots with several orchids combined, which can sell for a thousand or eight hundred yuan. A single orchid of good quality will only fetch around two or three hundred yuan on the market.
There are even many Phalaenopsis orchids in various colors that cost only thirty or forty yuan a pot. In recent years, the cultivation and development of Phalaenopsis orchids in China has been particularly rapid.
Almost every family that grows flowers will have a few Phalaenopsis orchids at home. Chen Hong remembered that in her previous life, she also bought two pots of purple Phalaenopsis orchids for her home during the Chinese New Year.
Because of the good care, Chen Hong had already divided into more than a dozen pots before her rebirth. There was simply not enough room on the balcony, so she gave many of them to neighbors, relatives, and friends.
If it weren't for her poor health in her final years, which prevented her from doing heavy physical labor, she would have wanted to go back to her hometown to contract land and grow flowers.
Having a space in this life has fulfilled her dream of planting in her previous life. She has planted quite a few vegetables, fruits, and Chinese medicinal herbs in the space.
She only planted flowers, and just three varieties: orchids, forsythia, and azaleas. She transplanted them all from the mountains without spending a penny.
Rongcheng is a small coastal town with a small population, and Chen Hong had never specifically visited a flower market.
I haven't heard of any particularly good flower varieties in the area, after all, the market is relatively small and the purchasing power is limited.
Chen Hong also gained something very important during her trip to Beijing.
When she went to the flower market, she found several places that the flower vendors were using as garbage dumps.
There were broken branches and leaves scattered everywhere, along with various flowers and bonsai.
Chen Hong searched through the small mountains of scrap metal as if she had discovered a treasure.
I secretly smuggled a lot of varieties that I can't find in my hometown into the space.
After returning to my hometown of Rongcheng, I plan to cultivate these flowers properly in the space. When they see the light of day again, their quality will definitely be even better.
With so many properties she owns, landscaping, planting flowers and greenery will be a significant expense in the future.
Even ordinary flowers can be cultivated to be exceptionally lush and vibrant within the space.
Moreover, they sometimes bring unexpected surprises, with new mutated varieties appearing.
Now Chen Hong no longer cares about making money from selling flowers; she's content as long as they're enough to decorate her properties.
Moreover, the process of planting flowers can bring joy and cultivate one's mind and character!
At the time, Director Jin and Mrs. Guan watched from afar as Chen Hong searched high and low on the garbage mountain, laughing at her for not being able to let go of her simple, farmer-like sentiments about farming.
Seeing some withered green plants and flowers, Chen Hongming wanted to bring them home to plant. So he brought more than a dozen potted plants home from the garbage mountain.
In fact, she collected two of every kind of tree she could find that she thought was beautiful and put them in her space.
Chen Hong not only collects flowers, but also flowerpots that are in good condition and not too badly damaged; she has collected dozens of such pots.
After returning home, they were pruned, the soil was changed, they were repotted, and the space was thoroughly watered, and they all regained their vitality.
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