"What, I'm the only one who's happy, but you're not?"
Lu Xianghong glanced at Xu Fengjiao and teased her with a smile.
"I'm so happy! I'm so happy today!"
Xu Fengjiao didn't mind Lu Xianghong teasing her and said with a smile.
Although Lin Qing and Zhao Xi didn't respond, their bright smiles showed that they were also in a very good mood.
The group chatted and laughed as they quickly arrived at the housing management bureau.
The Housing Management Bureau is located together with other offices. As soon as you enter the Housing Management Bureau, you can see that there are crowds of people inside, and many people are queuing up to handle their business.
Lin Qing carefully looked around the housing management bureau before finally spotting an office in a corner with a sign that read "House for Sale".
Lin Qing and her friends walked to the office door in the corner. The office door was ajar.
"Knock knock knock..."
Lin Qing gently knocked on the office door.
"Please come in!"
A middle-aged man's voice came from inside the door.
Lin Qing gently pushed open the door and walked in. The office wasn't big, and after the group of them went in, it almost filled the entire office.
There was a long table in the office, and two men were sitting on it: a middle-aged man wearing glasses who was slightly overweight, and a younger man who looked to be in his early twenties. The one who had just spoken was probably the older man.
Lin Qing glanced at the sign in front of the older man, which read "Director Li".
The sign in front of the young man read "Clerk Wang".
Upon seeing Lin Qing and his group enter, Director Li looked up and asked them with a smile, "Are you all here to buy a house?"
Lin Qing nodded and replied, "Yes."
The man nodded and said with a smile, "Go ahead, I'll show you the property certificate!"
After saying that, he turned to the young man and said, "Xiao Wang, give them the property certificate."
Clerk Wang, nicknamed Xiao Wang, found a folder in the drawer and handed it to Lin Qing.
"The housing market has just reopened, so there aren't many houses for sale yet. All the existing ones are here. You can take a look first, and if you find one you like, I'll have Xiao Wang take you to see it."
Lin Qing nodded. She was familiar with these things, since the housing market had just opened up and many people didn't know they could register to sell their houses here.
Some of the properties here belong to the state, while others were previously confiscated but have now been returned by the state. However, the owners of these properties are no longer in Beijing, which is why the housing management bureau was asked to sell them. Lin Qing had already seen this information on the system's map yesterday.
Lin Qing pretended to open the documents and start reading, and Lu Xianghong, Xu Fengjiao and Zhao Xi also joined in.
There weren't many properties available, only about thirty, and the group quickly finished looking at them.
"Qingqing, where should we go first?"
Xu Fengjiao looked at the thirty-odd houses listed in the documents and asked in confusion.
The information provided is incomplete and lacks any clear indication. It only includes the location, size, price, a simple floor plan, and a few minor notes about the property's condition. They have no idea what the property is like or not.
Lin Qing studied the houses carefully and found that most of them were small rooms partitioned off from the tenement buildings. Lin Qing guessed that these might be houses that the government had not allocated, but that was not necessarily the case. The prices of these houses were mostly around 1,000 to 1,500.
However, the friends wanted to buy a house with a yard, so Lin Qing removed all of those houses. Then, she also removed some slightly more remote bungalows without yards.
Finally, combining the information I saw yesterday, I added some houses near the houses I had selected yesterday, and circled 7 houses in total.
“I’ve removed some small apartments in tenement buildings and bungalows without yards. What’s left are seven apartments that I’ve selected. Take a look. If you have any apartments you’d like to see, you can add them, and we can go see them together.”
Lin Qing handed the house she had circled, along with its information, to her other friends.
After Lu Xianghong and Xu Fengjiao finished looking at the houses, they each selected one more house to add to the list, resulting in a total of nine houses being circled.
"Director Li, these are the houses we've selected. Could you please show them to us? There are quite a few, as several of our families want to buy them."
The information about the houses that Lin Qing and the others had selected was handed over to Director Li.
Director Li picked it up and looked at it, then nodded, "You've picked out quite a lot; we probably can't show you all of them in one day."
Lin Qing nodded and said with a smile, "It's alright, we're on holiday now and have time every day. It's just that we're troubling you."
"Are you all from Peking University?"
Director Li asked curiously, "This area is an office near Peking University, and most of the properties are also located near Peking University. Since these people are buying houses here, and they just said they were on holiday, Director Li made this guess."
Lin Qing smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, we are all students at Peking University, and we want to buy a house here for the convenience of going to school."
Director Li nodded upon hearing this, then turned to Clerk Wang and said, "Xiao Wang, why don't you take these comrades to these places for a look over the next few days?"
"Okay, Director Li."
Xiao Wang nodded in agreement, then looked down at the houses Lin Qing had circled, and said, "Alright, come with me!"
Xiao Wang led everyone out the door, then found his own bicycle and unlocked it.
Which set would you like to go to first?
The group exchanged glances, unsure which set to study first, as they were unfamiliar with none of them. Finally, Lin Qing thought for a moment and said, "We are students from Peking University, so let's start with the one closest to Peking University!"
"Yes, yes, let's start with the one closest to Kyoto University!"
Seeing this, Xu Fengjiao nodded repeatedly, and the others, though silent, also nodded.
Xiao Wang nodded. "Okay, let's start with the area near Peking University. I'll take you to see some houses first, and if you like any of them, I'll take you to find the landlord."
The group rode their bicycles and followed Xiao Wang to a house near Peking University. It was a courtyard house with one entrance, the one that Lin Qing had her eye on yesterday.
Upon entering the courtyard, one finds it overgrown with weeds, some as tall as knees. However, aside from the weeds, the structure of the house remains relatively intact, except for some damaged roof tiles, which could be easily repaired.
"This house belonged to one of your professors at Peking University. It was just returned to him. That professor died in the countryside, and this house was put up for sale by his son. Although the house is relatively small, the structure is still quite intact."
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