Chapter 142 Can You Afford It?
It is impossible for one person to compile such a huge amount of information, and this is just one area. An Zhixia wrote Jing Xiaosheng's name in the notebook. She had a hunch that they would have a lot of cooperation in the future.
The brother and sister took paper and pen, studied the information bit by bit, and first chose the house they liked.
"We two brothers and sisters don't need to pick a too big one. I think the courtyard at the entrance is quite comfortable to live in," An Zhiqiu said, pointing at the blueprint. "There is a main house, east wing, west wing, and a row of back houses. There are enough houses, and the yard is not small. We can grow two mu of vegetables."
An Zhixia chuckled and nodded, but she was thinking about the future. "We can buy a house with a yard and live there first," she pointed at the yard facing the street with her white fingers. "Our country will definitely develop better and better in the future. Who knows when we can restore the free trade model we used to have. We have to prepare in advance and buy a yard facing the street so we can open the door and do business.
Isn't my brother going to be a chef? It's a good opportunity to open a restaurant. There is a lot of traffic here, so there is no need to worry about lack of business.
While the housing prices are not too high and we have some money, it won’t go wrong to buy more.”
An Zhiqiu was moved by what he said, "Okay, as long as you like it."
"We Xia people are nostalgic, and we will definitely miss the prince's mansion in the future, so we have to buy two sets of five-courtyard houses as reserves," An Zhixia said while stroking the map.
Although An Zhiqiu was somewhat surprised at the girl's lavish spending on houses and cars, he did not say anything. He just silently calculated that the 9,000 yuan he had saved could buy two one-yard houses facing the street, or a four-yard house.
This price is really unique in Kyoto. Even an ordinary family can save money for a yard by living frugally for ten years, instead of having to squeeze a large family into a few small houses. However, such a low price is because the tenants in the house are reluctant to leave, and the owner is eager to sell it and keeps lowering the price.
"Xia Xia, do you have any idea?" An Zhiqiu couldn't help but ask.
An Zhixia smiled and said, "Not yet, let's wait until we transfer the house to another owner."
She was always decisive in her work, and the next day she and her brother went to check out the house. Its age, layout and location were all consistent with the information. She also caught some information with her ears, and the information of those residents was also almost accurate.
That afternoon, the An siblings dressed up as poor, uneducated, simple-minded educated youth who had just returned to the city and had been out of touch with the outside world for a few years.
An Zhiqiu was wearing a brand new iron-gray Zhongshan suit and black leather shoes. His face had been painted by An Zhixia to look as dark and ugly as when they left Beijing, but he raised his chin and showed his nostrils to others.
An Zhixia wore a red woolen coat, black wide-leg pants, and a bulky cotton coat that stretched the coat out of shape. Her black leather shoes were seven centimeters high and covered in mud. Her two braids were shiny with oil as if they hadn't been washed for a long time, tied with two bright red hairbands. Her face was covered with black wrinkles, and her front teeth were missing a hole. One of her eyes was as big as a copper bell, and the other was as small as a crescent moon on the first day of the lunar month, which was particularly eye-catching.
The two of them changed their clothes and went out of the house. When An Zhiqiu saw the girl's appearance, he burst into laughter and sat on the ground against the wall, pounding the ground with his fists, making a series of magical "goose, goose, goose" sounds.
"Brother, is it funny?" An Zhixia asked with a big blood-red mouth.
Although her front teeth are plated, she can still imitate the vague pronunciation of a person with real gap teeth.
An Zhiqiu was stunned and felt a chill all over his body. Then he burst into earth-shaking laughter, and finally laughed so hard that he got a stitch in the side and rolled on the ground. Even the guests and staff of the hotel came over to see what was going on.
An Zhixia used her sleeves to cover her eye-catching makeup to avoid everyone's sight. She kicked her brother and said in a normal voice, "Whether we can get the house at a low price today depends on whether you can act like it, brother!"
An Zhiqiu climbed up with difficulty, turned his face away and dared not look directly at the girl. He tried hard to recall Fang Hongye's sweet appearance in his mind, straightened his twitching expression, picked up the sack handed to him by An Zhixia, and went out side by side.
They had someone notify the homeowners last night and met together in a small garden near the Real Estate Bureau. More than a dozen homeowners were a little stunned when they met. They were all neighbors, so they smiled and asked a few questions. They found that the other party was invited by someone, and they couldn't help wondering if the buyer was playing a trick on them, and they immediately felt unhappy.
But thinking about the house being occupied and not being returned, they are unwilling to leave. What if, what if they can sell it this time? Some of them have a large family living in a few small houses, and some even rent houses. They are not well-off, so they hope to sell the courtyard house to give their family a better living environment. After all, after several years, they still can't see the hope of getting it back, so they can only lower the price again and again.
They didn't have to wait long before the An siblings appeared in front of everyone.
The two men were tall and strong, and looked extremely rough and different, which made everyone's minds go blank for a moment. Then their whole bodies began to shake like sieves, and the muscles on their faces trembled.
"Ah, are you all here?" An Zhiqiu followed the girl's instructions, sat on the bicycle, put one foot on the ground, and said arrogantly with his neck raised: "We are planning to buy a few courtyard houses to live in. The buildings are too small to turn around, and we can't farm. How big are your courtyards, and how much do you sell them for?"
As he spoke, he showed the Swiss watch on his wrist, and straightened his chest to draw attention to the Hero gold pen in his pocket that was shining with a beautiful metallic luster.
An Zhixia also raised her chin arrogantly: "We have plenty of money, but we're worried that your house isn't big enough to grow fruit trees and vegetables."
The homeowners looked at each other in bewilderment. Where did these two fools come from? Buying a house is like buying cabbage, picking and choosing. They understand that they want to buy a courtyard house because they think the building is too small, but it is unreasonable to spend so much money on a house just to grow vegetables, right?
"Two young comrades, are you really buying a house? You are not kidding us, are you?" an old man couldn't help asking.
"Do I look like a poor person?" An Zhiqiu patted the handlebars, angrily saying.
"My house has a yard facing the street, and it costs 13,000 yuan," a middle-aged man sneered, "Can you afford it? This is a yard facing the street, which is convenient for entering and exiting. There is a place to park a car outside the yard. I wonder if you don't have one?"
An Zhixia frowned and counted on her fingers for half a minute, then stretched out her two chubby hands and said indistinctly, "I'm definitely going to buy the sedan, but aren't you asking too much? Three thousand yuan. If you sell it, we'll go and transfer the ownership right away."
"Really?" The man hesitated, looked at his neighbors, and tried to say, "You're too good at bargaining. At most, I'll give you half of it, six thousand five!"
(End of this chapter)
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