Chapter 397 Preparing for Marriage
After the summer rain, everything is clean, the sky reveals its original azure blue color, and the cool breeze blows towards you, bringing with it a refreshing smell that makes your head feel light.
Li Ye and Wen Leyu were walking in an alley not far from the west side of the Forbidden City. Looking at the mottled blue bricks washed clean by rain under their feet, they seemed to see the historical traces of the changes in this residential area over the past hundred years.
Some time ago, Wen Leyu told Li Ye that there was a yard for sale that "fully met" Li Ye's requirements, but the price was a bit expensive, so he asked Li Ye if he wanted to take a look.
When Li Ye asked about the location, he was told that it was near Fuyou Street. Without even a fraction of a second of hesitation, he let Wen Leyu take it immediately.
Now when you stand at the street corner and turn your head, you can vaguely see the shadows of red walls and yellow tiles. This location couldn’t be better!
With this location, only Wen Leyu can come forward to buy it. Li Ye himself doesn't have to go through this trouble. When the time comes, a bunch of old men will come to buy your house. Will you be annoyed or not?
But after arriving at the place, Wen Leyu looked left and right, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Li Ye, this alley seems to be narrower than the alley near Zaojun Temple!
If Sister Xiaoyue comes to visit us in the future, she will park her car and block the road. Why didn’t I notice it before?”
"That depends on your parking skills, sister," Li Ye said with a smile, "and the most important thing about a house is the right location. From here to your house, it's three times closer than Zaojun Temple. Tell me, is it worth it?"
“Oh~~”
Wen Leyu suddenly realized and nodded repeatedly, saying, "Now that you mention it, it's really worth it. I'll have to let my sister practice her parking skills later."
What girl doesn’t want to be closer to her parents’ home? It would be great if she could go back to her parents’ home and have a meal just 20 meters away!
So when Li Ye gave this reason, Wen Leyu suddenly felt that the narrow alley was not a problem of the alley, but a problem of parking technology.
But what she didn't know was that the location Li Ye mentioned was actually very close to the center of the capital.
Because in Beijing's housing market, location is everything. The condition of "I have a room in the second ring road" is more attractive in the blind date market than "I have a three-bedroom apartment in Yanjiao".
So, which of the local drivers in the Beijing alleys in later generations did not "make up for the lack of width with technology," and try hard to overcome the difficulty of the narrow alleys?
Wen Leyu led Li Ye to a house, and his face suddenly looked a little strange.
Li Ye was also quite puzzled: "Xiao Yu, is this the house? The house number is correct! Why is the door still open? Did Tan Qin come here first?"
"It's number 17! Let me see."
Wen Leyu took a few steps into the yard cautiously, then stepped back out.
"It shouldn't be Sister Qin. I see some furniture still in the yard. It looks like they haven't finished moving yet."
"Not finished moving? That's not right! Look what this is?"
Li Ye had sharp eyes. He took two steps forward and pointed to a padlock on the gate tower behind the gate.
The lock looked like a new lock, but it had been smashed into pieces.
"What should I do about Sister Qin?"
Wen Leyu was unhappy because Tan Qin clearly told her yesterday that the previous residents here had moved out and the door chains had been replaced, so she excitedly called Li Ye to come and see the house early in the morning.
The result was that Li Ye saw this?
Li Ye finally asked me to do something for him, but this is really not giving me face.
"Don't touch the lock, wait and see!"
Li Ye looked around, found a dustpan, covered the broken padlock, and then pulled Wen Leyu away from the door of No. 17 Yard.
A few minutes later, Tan Qin also arrived.
"Xiaoyu, you guys are here early! My son made a fuss all night last night, which really exhausted me. It was already eight o'clock when I opened my eyes this morning. I'm sorry to have kept you two waiting for so long!"
Tan Qin got out of the car in a hurry and greeted Wen Leyu with a smile from a distance.
Li Ye looked at Tan Qin, whom he had met once, and couldn't help but feel a little surprised.
Li Ye had met Tan Qin before. When he first came to Beijing, he had a minor conflict with the second son of the Bao family. In order to mediate, Tan Qin took Li Ye and the Wen brothers and sisters to watch the model team training, and later he met Ning Pingping, Kong Moli and others.
Because they had only not seen each other for two years, Li Ye discovered that Tan Qin had changed from a young and energetic girl to a shrewd and capable young woman.
The former tenderness is gone, replaced by a noticeably larger body, a completely different charm.
[Marriage is really a woman’s third transformation! ]
Li Ye looked back at Wen Leyu and couldn't help but look forward to the future.
Now, under Li Ye's training, Wen Leyu has shown signs of bearing fruit, and she will become even more plump in the future. I am looking forward to it.
Tan Qin walked up to the two of them and said with a smile, "Let's go, great writer. I just heard Xiaoyu say a few days ago that you wanted to buy a yard. If you wanted a yard like this, you should have told me earlier!
What do you think of this courtyard? Although the gatehouse is not high, it has three courtyards.
A few decades ago, this was a standard wealthy family. You two will raise children in the future. Hmm? What's going on?"
Tan Qin also saw the open door and the furniture placed in the patio.
At this time, Tan Qin realized that Wen Leyu's unhappy expression was not because she was late, but because something went wrong.
Tan Qin's face turned cold instantly and she walked into the yard.
"Whose furniture is this? Why is it placed in someone else's yard? Move it out now!"
As soon as Tan Qin opened her mouth, Li Ye felt a familiar feeling, the kind that even if you have a thousand reasons in your heart, other people's "rules" can kill you.
Li Ye asked Wen Leyu in a low voice: "What level is she now? She is quite impressive!"
Wen Leyu whispered, "Sister Qin is two levels lower than my brother, but sometimes you do need to show off to certain people."
"Oh~"
Li Ye felt a little emotional. The speed of rise of a young man like Wen Guohua, who was trained by his family with all his strength, was not something that ordinary people could understand. He returned to the capital late and started at a lower level than Tan Qin, but now he has surpassed him.
Of course, the huge success of the Xiushui Street renovation plan was also contributed by Li Ye.
Tan Qin was holding a small satchel and standing in the patio and she shouted, which immediately attracted seven or eight people.
These seven or eight people have louder voices than Tan Qin and a more domineering aura than Tan Qin.
"Who are you? What are you yelling about?"
"Did you walk into the wrong door so early in the morning? Do you think you can take care of our yard?"
“.”
Seven or eight people surrounded Tan Qin, some pinched her waist, some rolled up their sleeves. If this scene happened to an ordinary woman, she might be scared to tears.
But Tan Qin is not an ordinary person. She smiled coldly and took out a bunch of keys from her bag.
"Whose yard do you say this is? Tell me again?"
“.”
Everyone was stunned when they saw the bunch of keys in Tan Qin's hand.
Li Ye and Wen Leyu also noticed at this time that there was a new lock hanging on the doors of all the rooms in the yard, and what Tan Qin was holding in her hand were naturally the keys to these locks.
A fifty-year-old woman stood up and asked in confusion, "Who are you to Liu Laoer?"
Tan Qin glanced at her and said coldly: "Don't ask who I am. I just want to ask you if you can move the furniture out now."
“We can’t move!”
An old man with completely white hair almost jumped up and said angrily: "We want to see Liu Laoer. That grandson cheated us and we will never let him go."
"Yes, we agreed to have the same price for the whole hospital. Why are our two families charging lower prices than others? We will never forgive him."
"Call Liu Lao Er out. If you don't give us an explanation, we won't move."
Li Ye looked at the two families who were full of reason and guessed the reason with a high probability.
This house used to belong to the housing management department, and it seemed that nine or ten families lived in it. Later, the house was returned to its original owner, a man named Liu, according to policy, and then sold to Wen Leyu and Li Ye through the help of Tan Qin.
However, it was agreed at the beginning that the transaction could only be completed if the original owner vacated the house. Li Ye and Wen Leyu did not deal with these original tenants, and for this reason they had not yet lowered the price with the original owner.
Wen Leyu grumbled about this matter for a long time.
Many people know that it is very difficult to vacate a large compound where multiple families live, so wouldn’t it be a good opportunity to lower the price?
Others are afraid of trouble, but Wen Leyu is not troublesome!
Tell your brother to ask someone with connections to make a few phone calls. Who would dare not let her move?
But in the end, Li Ye felt that if the problem could be solved with money, then one should not use connections to "bully others". It might not be worthwhile to owe favors to several people just to save a few thousand dollars.
Moreover, if there is a "minefield" with connections buried among the tenants, it would be more trouble than gain!
But at this moment, Li Ye knew that he had won the prize. He actually met a "demolition household" with some ideas.
The problem can certainly be solved, but isn't it disgusting to have a toad lying on your feet?
"You don't want to move, right? Then just wait!"
Faced with the seven or eight agitated tenants, Tan Qin did not say a word and just turned around and walked out of the yard.
"Well, we'll just wait. If you don't give us an explanation, we'll wait till the end of time."
"It's so big, I thought it was from some important family! But it turns out it's made of paper!"
"No matter how powerful you are, you still have to be reasonable. We are living here well, but you want to kick us out? Why?"
When they saw Tan Qin turned around and left, everyone thought that their "strength in numbers" had worked, and they were all very proud of themselves.
But an hour later, Tan Qin came back.
The original landlord Liu Laoer also came, along with people from the street, the police station, and the housing management department.
Li Ye approached Wen Leyu, tilted his head and whispered to her, "I have troubled so many people, how do I calculate this favor?"
Wen Leyu said calmly, "It's her fault. If this thing goes wrong, it will be Tan Qin's face that will be lost. She is even angrier than me now!"
Li Ye thought about it and it made sense. Wasn't it just for a favor that Tan Qin rushed to help find a house for Wen Leyu?
As a result, she even took the room key, but someone broke the lock. Do you think she was angry?
"Xiaoyu, are you angry?"
Seeing Wen Leyu's unhappy face, Li Ye had to comfort her: "Okay, don't be angry, I really like this house. For a good house, a little twist is worth it."
"Well, as long as you like it, after I sort out the mess, I will ask someone to find a company that specializes in repairing old houses like this, and repair it well. I will build you a special study room and add a bathroom over there, just like the Zaojun Temple."
Women naturally love to design houses. With so many people in the yard gradually becoming noisy, Wen Leyu and Li Ye started discussing the planning of their future home.
Wen Leyu must have planned it carefully, and even had his own ideas for the child's room.
Li Ye believed that she was really preparing seriously for the plan of "getting married after graduation".
As Wen Leyu described, Li Ye seemed to see his own future.
On a recliner, the bearded Li Ye was taking a nap comfortably, but a naughty child took a piece of dogtail grass and sneaked over to poke Li Ye's nose.
Li Ye pretended to hit the child, but the child ran into the kitchen giggling and complained to Wen Leyu in vivid detail about how his father abused the child.
[Alas, a happy life starts with having a small home! ]
However, while Li Ye and Wen Leyu were fantasizing about this, the "toughness" of the seven or eight tenants in the yard was beyond Li Ye's expectations. It seemed that they were three times tougher than those "capable people" who occupied seats on high-speed trains in later generations. After a few words, the situation really became lively.
I have something to do at home today, so the next chapters will be updated a little later, but it will definitely be the third update. Lao Feng will update the second and third chapters together in the second half of the night, which will look smoother and it will be better for everyone to read it tomorrow morning.
(End of this chapter)
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