This shop will be worth at least hundreds of millions in the future, and he doesn't want it to cause any rift between his two children.
Although neither he nor his sister were particularly petty, he didn't want any hint of anything that might affect their family relationship to appear.
He took off his white coat and went to his wife's office.
"Huh? Aren't you in the outpatient clinic with your students? What are you doing here?"
"What time is it? There's no one left in the outpatient clinic."
Li Chu plopped down in the chair.
"Chen He just came over. The deal for that shop on Qianmen Street is done. It's $1,000. We'll go to the street office to complete the paperwork tomorrow."
"Huh? How did that person agree?" Ding Qiunan put down her pen and asked, slightly surprised.
She knew she wanted to buy the shop, but the landlord had insisted on a price of two thousand, so she thought the matter was over.
Surprisingly, a month later, the landlord agreed.
“He was forced into it by his wife, what else could it be?” Li Chu shook his head and continued, “I didn’t come here to talk about that. I wanted to ask you, whose name should this shop be registered under? My idea is to register it under your name.”
"Huh? Why don't you put it under any of the children's names?"
At this point, Ding Qiunan realized what her husband meant by putting it in her name.
"Okay, then just register it under my name."
"Okay, then I'll bring your ID card and household registration book tomorrow morning."
Ding Qiunan stared at her man for a long time, then suddenly smiled.
"What are you laughing at?" Li Chu felt a little confused. Why was he laughing at him when he was looking at him so nicely?
"It's nothing, I just wanted to laugh."
Seeing that his wife didn't want to talk about it, he could only shrug and point to the documents on his desk, asking, "What's this?"
With a "whoosh," Ding Qiunan gathered up the documents on the table.
"This is a confidential document; you can't look at it."
Seeing his wife's serious and earnest expression made Li Chu laugh.
"Okay, okay, it's a secret, I won't ask, alright?"
"It's really a secret, I can't let you know yet." Seeing that her husband seemed a little unconvinced, Ding Qiunan became anxious.
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"Of course I believe it! Why wouldn't I believe it? It's just a headcount to prepare for further troop reductions."
"How did you know? Did Dean Shan tell you?" Ding Qiunan asked, somewhat surprised.
"How could that be? Have you forgotten where I've been these past few days?"
"You've been undergoing treatment these past few days... Oh, I know, which old comrade told you that?"
"Don't make wild guesses!" Li Chu waved his hand: "They mentioned it casually during their conversation, and I just overheard it."
Li Chu had been at the sanatorium for the past few days. The next day, he picked up Old Dong and took him there. Soon after, several other senior members of the advisory committee found out and rushed over to ask Li Chu to treat their health.
He originally planned to return to the hospital the next day, but he ended up staying there for another three days before coming back.
When those older comrades get together, they inevitably talk about important matters, and Li Chu, who is right next to them, sometimes can't help but listen even if he wants to.
Moreover, he knows quite a lot of things; for example, the issue of re-awarding ranks is currently being discussed at the higher-ups.
For example, the issue of adjusting salaries has now been basically decided, and adjustments will definitely be made next year.
According to the implications of those older comrades, after the salary adjustment, Li Chu's salary would be around 1,200 yuan.
Of course, it's a combination of the main hospital and the health care team.
In addition, enterprises and institutions are encouraged to build staff housing, but the property rights of the houses still belong to the unit. Those who are allocated housing will have one to five yuan deducted from their salary each month for rent.
Li Chu felt that this was similar to the public rental housing model of later generations.
When the housing reform came in the 1990s, it seemed that by paying a portion of the purchase price, one could obtain the property rights to the house.
But it seems that not every unit is like this, and he couldn't explain the specifics, anyway, it was still early at that time.
The house in the family compound that he gave to Wenhui is now renovated but still empty.
If Shen Yi occasionally goes back to Beijing to attend a meeting, he will stay there if he is too lazy to go back to his grandfather's place.
Someone once approached Wenhui wanting to rent that house, but when she asked her father for his opinion, Li Chu directly refused.
His family isn't short of a pittance, why bother with all that trouble?
"By the way, Li Chu, I was going to ask you before, but I kept forgetting. Where did you get so many US dollars?"
"Uh... I earned it. You don't know who I was dealing with every day for those two years, do you?"
That's nonsense. It's just that those people are no longer in the country, or if someone from the organization were to investigate, would he dare to say such things?
His words startled Ding Qiunan. She glanced at the office door and said in a low voice, "Are you crazy? You'll make money from anything."
"It was just a small personal favor, and that was all the payment they gave me," Li Chu said, lowering his voice as well.
"Don't do anything like that again, okay? We're not short of money."
"I assure you, there will be no more after this."
"So how are you going to pay the landlord tomorrow?"
"I'll get a letter of introduction later. Tomorrow morning, I'll go to the Bank of China to exchange some US dollars, but we won't tell anyone that we're using US dollars when we make the transaction. We'll just say that we're using RMB."
Ding Qiunan shook her head and said, "I don't understand these things. All I know is that we can give up the house, but we must not make any mistakes."
"I understand. Once I buy this shop, I won't buy any more houses."
"Have you figured it out? I remember back then, didn't you point to that huge area to our side and say you wanted to buy the whole thing here?"
"Hey, I was just saying that offhand. How could I possibly buy them all? There are so many properties whose ownership certificates I don't even know where they are. How could I possibly buy them?" Li Chu said with an embarrassed smile.
“I have already built a substantial fortune for my two children, and I feel I have done right by them. I will no longer think about these things.”
“You don’t need to think about it anymore. You often tell me that your children and grandchildren have their own blessings, but you think about it more than anyone else, and you’re afraid that your son and daughter will be missing.”
"Let's not talk about this anymore." Li Chu shook his head and pointed to the clock on the wall, saying, "It's almost time, let's pack up and get ready to leave work."
“Every time you come over, I can’t get anything done, and today’s tasks will have to be pushed to tomorrow.”
As Ding Qiunan spoke, she locked the documents she was holding into the filing cabinet next to her and then tidied up her desk.
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