After the Mandarin and Roujiamo shops became popular, the houses on this street were rented out one after another. Xibao Furniture City opened nearby and is also close to the department store. With more people rushing to rent houses, the house prices naturally went up.
The annual rent is several hundred dollars. For a family that is not short of money, a few hundred dollars would be enough. Why would they sell their ancestral property?
Those willing to sell will naturally ask for a high price, and some will even raise the price arbitrarily, taking it or leaving it.
Ge Lanzhi is a local and knows the market, which is why she was able to negotiate the price down. If Deng Fangping were to go, people would know that she does business in this area and is not short of money, so she wouldn't be able to buy it for seven thousand.
Chu Yu bought his first house for only three or four thousand. Deng Fangping felt bad about the price difference of several thousand. Fortunately, she could afford seven thousand. The longer she waited, the more expensive it would become, so she might as well grit her teeth and buy it, which would put her mind at ease.
"Chu Yu, go with your aunt and help her see if this house is worth buying."
After lunchtime, the shop wasn't too busy, and since Yunyun, Chuxiang, and the others could lend a hand, Deng Fangping took Shulan and Chuyu to see the house. The house was just a street away, only a few steps away, but even from that short distance, Chuyu hadn't heard anything about it being for sale.
Ge Lanzhi was capable.
Ge Lanzhi stood at the door and glanced at Deng Fangping's clothes from afar. She thought to herself that people are different when they have money. With Chu Yu's help to dress her up, Deng Fangping had long lost the rustic air she had when she first came to Deyang. She had become more confident, and her tone of voice and actions had changed.
"Sister Deng."
"Lanzhi."
Deng Fangping and Ge Lanzhi were quite familiar with each other. After exchanging pleasantries, they went into the house.
This house is bigger than the one Chu Yu and Shen Zhuyu bought together. There are four rooms on the third floor and a terrace. If you want to keep it warmer in winter, you can install glass in the corridor.
The layout of the first and second floors is similar to that of a roujiamo (Chinese hamburger) shop. In fact, all the houses in this row have a similar layout; there's no way around it, this kind of design is just popular.
Back home, they're building houses. Even a tiled house costs two or three thousand yuan. With seven thousand yuan spent here, Deng Fangping will have to spend almost ten thousand yuan on the house.
In an era when even households with 10,000 yuan were rare, and buying a house wasn't common, Deng Fangping felt guilty about spending the money.
Is it worth spending so much money on a house?
Deng Fangping looked at Chu Yu, who knew what she was thinking and smiled:
“I think it’s pretty good. It’s a bit expensive, but there’s no better option right now, so I might as well buy it and then buy another one when a suitable house comes along.”
Why buy another one? As long as we have a place to live, that's enough. The house in our hometown can go to Xiao Jiang, and this house, can't Yunyun and Shulan each have a floor? It's better to keep the money in the bank and earn interest.
Deng Fangping thought this to herself, but she dared not disobey Chu Yu.
She was just a rural woman with little experience, but Chu Yu was the Shu family's cash cow, and Chu Yu's knowledge and ideas were far beyond her reach.
If you don't have the ability, you don't have the ability. You can't go wrong by following someone who does, right?
Chu Yu said, "Let's buy another one then."
"If Chu Yu says it's okay to buy, then I'll buy it!"
Shulan didn't expect her mother to agree so readily; that was seven thousand yuan! Even if Ge Lanzhi could help them bargain, it would still be more than six thousand, a sum most people would never have seen in their entire lives.
In the past, my family couldn't even come up with 100 yuan, but now we can buy a house for 7,000 yuan without hesitation.
The real estate boom occurred a decade or two later. Chu Yu asked Deng Fangping to buy a house because Xiao Jiang and Yunyun were studying in Deyang, and Deng Fangping and Shu Aiguo also ran a shop in Deyang. Since it was a necessity, it was better to buy sooner rather than later.
Having a house means having a home, and the children's mentality is different.
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