Even Director Jin and Mrs. Guan were amazed when they saw it, saying that Chen Hong was a farmer-horticulturist.
Not only are they skilled at farming, but they are also experts at cultivating and arranging flowers and green plants.
Chen Hong chuckled upon hearing their words: "What expert? She just has spatial abilities and the blessing of spatial water."
Having seen many different shapes of green plants and flowers in my past life, I dared to cut them with shears. However, the final product was refreshing and had an indescribable beauty.
Just as Chen Hong, her sister, Director Jin, and Mrs. Guan were enthusiastically planting flowers and vegetables in Houhai and enjoying the fun of being farmers, they unexpectedly received a phone call from a friend in Jinan.
Chen Hong never expected that she would encounter the dark events that were frequently exposed in the media in her previous life in this lifetime.
After hanging up the phone, she told Director Jin and Mrs. Guan that she would be leaving Beijing to go back to her hometown the next day.
Something came up at home that required her to go back and handle it. Chen Hong handed the keys to the courtyard house to her younger sister, telling her to come and visit the courtyard house more often when she was at work.
You can tend to the vegetable garden, and if it gets windy or rainy, you can stay overnight in the courtyard. There are no problems with food and lodging here.
He then called Fang Yitong to explain the renovation arrangements for the two newly purchased courtyard houses, and gave him an initial payment of 300,000 yuan to hire a construction team and purchase materials.
Fortunately, Fang Yitong and Director Guan didn't have much to do lately. The shop they bought was still being operated by the previous tenant, and the lease hadn't expired yet, so they weren't in a hurry to renovate it.
When Director Jin heard that Chen Hong had called Fang Yitong, he laughed and said, "Your Uncle Fang already said that he would still be needed to help with these two courtyard houses. Even if you hadn't called him, he had already arranged a construction team for you."
Don't worry, go back and take care of your business. If anything happens in Beijing, we'll call you to let you know.
If you encounter any problems back home that you can't resolve, please call us back. Your Uncle Fang and I have several close friends and classmates in Jinan.
Don't worry about bothering us. If we have connections, we should use them. The more we use them, the closer we'll become. If we don't keep in touch for a long time, our relationship will grow distant.
Chen Hong hugged Director Jin with emotion. They had extended the same care and love they showed to her sister to her. They had helped her even more than her own family and parents.
Chen Hong was extremely grateful and resolved that in the days to come, no matter what happened, the families would help each other.
Although I am just a fisherman, I am certainly not a useless person because I have access to space!
The next morning, Chen Hong arrived in Jinan by plane. After leaving the airport, she took a taxi straight to her friend's house.
Chen Hong has entrusted her friend Liu Shaolong to manage and rent out the two houses she bought in Jinan.
Among them, the school district property near the key high school was already built when it was purchased. Liu Shaolong helped rent it out within a week of buying it.
The monthly rent is 1,200 yuan. Although it is not as high as the rent in Beijing, it is still among the highest in this inland city where the average salary is 4,000 to 5,000 yuan.
This is also thanks to the school district housing; in other areas, you can rent an apartment of the same size as Chen Hong's for only seven or eight hundred yuan.
When Chen Hong bought this apartment near the city's key junior high school, it was still under construction and hadn't been handed over yet; it was a pre-sale property.
When the contract was signed, the reservation was for delivery in December 2006, but the developer didn't deliver the house until March 2007, which was more than three months late. They waived the property management fee for a year, which was reasonable.
After the Spring Festival, Chen Hong also came to Jinan to complete the property ownership certificates for both properties and received them.
Because this apartment is close to a key municipal middle school, it's also in a good school district. Chen Hong bought it as a bare shell. When she returned to Rongcheng, she asked Liu Shaolong to do some simple painting and install doors and windows, preparing to rent it out directly.
It was this house that caused Chen Hong trouble. When she arrived at Liu Shaolong's house, only his wife was home; Liu Shaolong had not yet returned.
Liu Shaolong was a friend Chen Hong met when they were both working as passenger transport drivers; they both ran the Jinan-Tai'an route back then.
Chen Hong has been married and left Jinan for more than seven years, while Liu Shaolong is still doing the same old job, but he has changed his vehicle to a 19-seat Yutong minibus, which is much better than the second-hand Jinbei vans that were discarded by various units a few years ago.
He has another passenger trip from Jinan to Tai'an tonight, and he probably won't get home until 5:30 pm.
I delivered some dried shrimp, dried fish, and fruit to Liu Shaolong's family, and also bought a case of milk and a case of Taishan Special Qu liquor from the supermarket downstairs.
Chen Hong went out and found a hotel, then checked in. She was just waiting for Liu Shaolong to come home from work that evening so she could get more details about the situation and plan her next move.
Having nothing to do in the afternoon, Chen Hong first went to the vicinity of her high school apartment, took a stroll, and inquired about the current state of the Jinan real estate market.
She discovered that although Jinan's real estate prices were not as high as those in Beijing, the rate of increase in housing prices since 2007 was no less than that in Beijing.
Chen Hong bought her house last year for 3,500 yuan per square meter. Now, houses in the same complex, on floors not even as good as Chen Hong's, are already priced at over 5,000 to almost 6,000 yuan per square meter.
This surge caught many people off guard, and Chen Hong vaguely understood the origin of this trouble.
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