Chapter 177 Dare to Reach Out and I'll Chop Off Your Hand
Lu Xiangyang was also deeply impressed by that detached villa.
Of course, I was even more impressed by the price of the villa.
When Jiang Jiani mentioned the villa, he couldn't help but fall silent.
After a while, Lu Xiangyang asked, "Do you really like that villa that much?"
Jiang Jianni replied without hesitation, "Of course!"
"That's a villa!"
"Did you see that master bedroom? Just that one master bedroom has a study, a lounge, a dressing room, a dressing room, a bathroom, and a shower room."
This master bedroom alone is over 80 square meters; it's practically a small suite.
Jiang Jianni had only ever seen such a large room in videos.
The idea of taking it for myself came to mind immediately.
However, it's really too expensive.
"There are other rooms as well, five or six rooms with ensuite bathrooms besides the master bedroom."
She looked intently at Lu Xiangyang: "If we could buy a house like this, with so many rooms, even if we had four more children, let alone just the two of us now, we could still fit them all in."
"It can not only accommodate us and the kids, but also our parents."
The "our parents" she was referring to were the Lu family and the Jiang family.
"When relatives and friends come, we have enough rooms for them to stay in, so they don't have to stay in hotels."
To be honest, just hearing Yang Anni describe the hotel's hygiene conditions made her feel nauseous, let alone actually staying in such a room, sleeping in such a bed, and using such bedding.
Of course, this is the capital city after all, so there are also high-end hotels with good hygiene and other amenities.
But that price is simply unaffordable for ordinary people.
A standard room in a three-star hotel costs several tens of dollars per night, while a good suite can cost over a hundred.
Her salary is only a little over a hundred yuan a month, and she can only stay in a regular room for three or four nights at most.
Their money doesn't grow on trees, who would be willing to spend it like that?
Lu Xiangyang: "..."
He stroked his chin, deep in thought: "The speed at which we make money probably can't keep up with the speed at which the price of this villa is rising..."
Jiang Jiani was speechless.
She glared at him fiercely, stomped on his foot, and stormed off.
Lu Xiangyang: "Hey, hey, don't be angry. I was just telling the truth."
Jiang Jianni glared at him again: "Who told you to tell the truth? Can't I hear lies, sweet words, or flattering remarks?"
Lu Xiangyang chuckled: "Of course."
"What I mean is, at the rate at which we make money, we'll probably only ever be able to watch other people live in villas for the rest of our lives."
Although their family has bought two houses, one of which is in the capital city.
However, apartments and villas are fundamentally different, not to mention their vastly different prices.
"Old Zhao and the others have tried to persuade me to do business with them several times. What do you think? Should I quit my job and go into business with them too?"
Jiang Jianni was shocked: "No way, are you crazy?"
"Why would you give up a perfectly good official position to go into business? Have you lost your mind?"
Lu Xiangyang asked in bewilderment, "Didn't you want to live in a villa?"
"Villas are so expensive, you can't just rely on the money you earn from writing novels to buy one, can you?"
He's a man too, he has self-respect too!
Jiang Jianni slapped his wishful thinking away and said expressionlessly, "Don't even think about it."
"Is business so easy?"
"Don't be envious of Zhao Nanguo just because he makes a lot of money. Not to mention the wedding dress shop, you know what his factory has been going through this year. It's been so troublesome."
Wedding photography is really profitable now, extremely profitable.
Zhao Nanguo's photo studio is not only large in scale and has a wide variety of costumes, but also has professional photographers, makeup artists, and stylists. The facilities inside are obviously high-end.
Although their group-buying deals and packages are more expensive than the wedding dress shop across the street, their photos are better, they have more clothes, and their makeup is better. It's not just about putting on a white face, red cheeks, and caterpillar eyebrows.
Besides, they charge high prices, but they also give away a lot of freebies.
Not only are there photo albums, but also photo frames on the desktop, and even small group photos for you to put your wallet in.
The catchy slogan was also wonderful: A once-in-a-lifetime treasure, you deserve it.
Who doesn't think of their wedding as a once-in-a-lifetime event?
You won't even let me have this once in my life. Do you even want to spend your whole life with me?
Most young men who are about to get married can't stand their partners questioning them like that, so they just take the picture, since it's a once-in-a-lifetime event anyway.
So much so that in Pingyang City that year, in addition to televisions, watches, sewing machines, and washing machines, a wedding photo was added as an essential item for weddings.
It's as if you're having a fake marriage if you don't take wedding photos.
This trend even began to spread outwards, not only to other prefecture-level cities and counties, but even to the provincial capital, where people heard about the reputation of Paris Spring Wedding Photography and made special trips to Pingyang City to take photos.
Zhao Nanguo made a fortune in just one year after opening his wedding photography business.
The year-end bonus he gave Jiang Jiani alone was 120,000 yuan, which shows how much he earned that year.
But for every penny he made from wedding photography, the printing factory he had initially contracted suffered massive losses.
It's not that we don't make money.
The printing factory made far more money than the wedding dress shop in the beginning, which aroused a lot of envy.
Then, piracy appeared.
There's no way around it. Let alone now, when the market economy is just beginning, even in twenty or thirty years, when you've made so much money that others are envious, they'll have plenty of ways to make your business fail.
Not to mention that what everyone is best at is piracy.
Your products are exquisite, beautiful, and well-made, but that can't compensate for your high cost and high price.
Although pirated copies are rough, with typos and blurry patterns, they are cheaper.
Given that everyone's income is limited and many people lack awareness of copyright, their low prices are their biggest advantage.
And so, the printing factory's prosperity lasted only a few months, roughly enough to cover the money Zhao Nanguo spent on buying the factory, before its profits began to decline.
It's not that we're not making any money now; we're still profitable. It's just that it's not comparable to the previous months, and the gap is too big for everyone to accept.
Lu Xiangyang smiled and sighed, "But you want to live in a villa."
Jiang Jianni kicked him twice more: "I'd rather be an official's wife."
"So when are you going to let me be the captain's wife? What about the bureau chief's wife? When can I become one? If you do a good enough job, I wouldn't mind being the minister's wife either."
Lu Xiangyang looked at her speechlessly: "You're even more daring than me..."
minister?
He didn't even think about it.
Jiang Jianni arrogantly turned her head away: "I don't care, I just want to be an official's wife."
"You're my man, you have to fulfill my wishes."
“When we got married, we agreed that you would take care of external affairs and I would take care of internal affairs; you would handle the big things and I would handle the small things.”
"Your promotion will make me Shangguan's wife, that's a big deal."
"As for buying a villa, that's a small matter, it's my responsibility, don't worry about it."
She glared at him warningly: "If you dare reach out, I'll chop your hand off!"
Lu Xiangyang: "..."
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