Chapter 143 It’s still early
"Five hundred," An Zhixia smiled foolishly and retorted quickly.
Five hundred? Everyone was almost choked to death. How could they send away beggars? Although the housing prices in Kyoto were not ridiculously high at the moment, the problem was that there were no houses to sell. Even if they couldn't sell the houses they had, they definitely couldn't accept this price!
"Are you two teasing us?" the man asked with a gloomy face.
"No," An Zhixia said seriously, "My grandma said that since you are willing to bargain, you can definitely lower the price. You just wanted 13,000, and now you want 6,500. I'm still asking for 500."
Everyone was stunned again, looking at each other, with a gleam in their eyes.
"You can buy my house. It's also a large compound near the alley entrance. It can be transferred directly for 3,000 yuan. I even have the property certificate with me!" A woman patted her bag, squeezed in front of the crowd and said with a smile.
"Hey, Sister Zhang, we have to follow the first come first served principle," the man pulled the woman back, "We haven't finished discussing the house yet. Besides, your yard is too small. It's the servants' yard of the palace. There's one main room, one east and one west wing room, and three back rooms. Six palm-sized rooms in total cost three thousand. How can it be affordable?"
"Li Laoer, how can you talk like that? What's wrong with the servants' yard? Isn't it also a nice house with blue bricks and green tiles? Is this what Comrade Xin Xiahua thinks? If you are reluctant to sell it for 3,000 yuan, I will sell it," Sister Zhang pushed Li Laoer away dissatisfiedly and continued to promote her own house. "My young comrade, although my house is not big, it is comfortable to live in. The house is compact and it is close to the police station. It feels especially safe."
"Three thousand?" An Zhixia stretched out her carrot hand and broke it, muttering to herself, "One seven equals seven, two sevens equals forty-eight, March 8th is Women's Day, May 1st is Labor Day, June 1st... Well, it's not worth it, it's small!"
Sister Zhang took a deep breath and was about to ask, "How do you know it's small if you haven't seen it?" But she didn't have the confidence to do so. No one present had the confidence to take someone to see a house. "Well, then how much do you think is appropriate? Our house is not too big, but the yard is not small. We can grow two acres of vegetables!"
An Zhiqiu fell in love with the small courtyard house in Sister Zhang's hands at first sight, mainly because the house was small and not so eye-catching, suitable for three people to live in, even if they had children in the future, it would be completely sufficient. Moreover, the information stated that the small courtyard had two doors, one was the main door newly opened at the entrance of the alley, and the other was the door originally used for servants to enter and exit, which was opened in the dead end. It can be said that the alley with a width of two and a half meters and a depth of fifteen meters belongs to their family.
"You are more honest than him. I'll pay one thousand yuan and we can go transfer the ownership now!" An Zhixia smiled foolishly and said sincerely, reaching out to pull the person away.
Sister Zhang dodged and said, "Young comrade, that yard is really nice. If my family wasn't in urgent need of money, I wouldn't be willing to sell it. Can you raise the price a little bit? One thousand yuan is enough to buy two small houses."
"One thousand and one?" An Zhixia stretched out a carrot finger in confusion.
"I have an 80-year-old mother and hungry children. Young comrade, you don't look like someone who is short of money. So, 2,800 yuan, and all the furniture in the house will be given to you!" Sister Zhang pinched An Zhixia's clothes with two fingers and said pitifully.
"Eighteen hundred," An Zhiqiu took out a toothpick from somewhere and held it in his mouth, pretending to be cool and handsome, but his dark face was hard to look at. "We are not short of money, and we don't want to be taken advantage of! Besides, don't think we don't know that we need to pay taxes for the transfer just because we just returned to the city! If you agree, we will transfer the ownership, if not, the next person will be accepted."
Sister Zhang pursed her lips and thought about it. Eighteen thousand was two hundred less than the two thousand she could accept. But if she missed this opportunity, she would miss it. This was the first time in all these years that she met a fool who bought a house without seeing it. "Okay, I'll sell it!"
An Zhiqiu took out a contract from his bag and said, "If you sign it, we'll give you a deposit of 200 yuan to save you from raising the price when you get to the Real Estate Bureau! People in the city are not honest, and we can't trust them."
Sister Zhang took it and read it word by word with everyone to confirm that there were no traps, and then wrote on the note and put her fingerprint on it.
An Zhiqiu took it and signed and put his fingerprints on it. Then he turned around and took out a thick stack of money from the sack. He spat on his fingers, counted out twenty bills carefully, closed his eyes, turned around and handed them over with great pain: "Here!"
When he opened the sack just now, everyone saw that it was full of money!
Everyone immediately started to promote their own houses as if they were injected with chicken blood. With the An brother and sister acting foolishly and naively, they quickly signed contracts for two houses with five courtyards, two houses with three courtyards facing the street, two houses with two courtyards facing the street, and one house with one courtyard, at a price slightly lower than what was indicated in the information.
Because they had acquaintances among them and the information provided by the An brothers and sisters was true, the transfer procedures went very smoothly and a sack of money was exchanged for seven real estate certificates.
Holding the newly issued property certificate, the brother and sister were quite excited. After looking at it for a while, An Zhixia took out two more stacks of money from her bag and said to the seven former owners who were nervously holding the money in a normal tone, "I'm sorry, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, my brother and I don't have any acquaintances to support us. We are afraid that someone will deliberately raise the price, so we deliberately act ugly and stupid. This money is compensation according to the lowest price you quoted to others before.
We will be neighbors from now on, and I hope you will take good care of us! I also hope you can keep our purchase of a house a secret for the time being to avoid unnecessary trouble."
The former homeowners felt a little embarrassed holding the money they had received, but then they thought that since the other party knew everything about the house, they should be aware of the deadbeats' affairs, so they made a solemn promise and happily went together to deposit the money.
"Are we going back?" An Zhiqiu looked over and over the property certificate with his and Fang Hongye's names on it. A three-yard house and a two-yard house facing the street had used up all his 9,000 yuan savings. Fortunately, his wife and mother-in-law had foresight and stuffed him with New Year's goods and daily necessities, otherwise he would have to ask the girl for money.
"It's still early, let's go look at the house first," An Zhixia handed her property certificate to the supermarket, clenched her fist and said with a smile.
Sister Zhang’s house has six small rooms in the courtyard, but five families live in it!
While riding her bike, An Zhixia went over the information of the five families in her mind.
Just like what Mr. Yang said, these families also have houses in other places, but the houses are small and the people are large, so they don't want to squeeze in one place, so they plan to stay here forever. With the mentality that the law cannot hold everyone responsible, they are extremely united with each other, and they strangle each other in groups. Their shameless and desperate attitude alone makes it difficult for people to start.
(End of this chapter)
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