There is a mystery

  Collect, collect, collect!

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  Actually, Li Yifan's family wasn't without a house either. They had an ancestral home left by their grandfather in Longtou Village, but Longtou Village was located in the suburbs of Bin City, about twenty kilometers away from the city center. It would take over a decade for it to become a new district of Bin City due to real estate development, but at that time, it was still a dilapidated fishing village.

  Moreover, Li Liqiang and his wife did not want their eldest son to return to Longtou Village to farm after being discharged from the army, so they gritted their teeth and stayed in the city to open a restaurant that year.

  In their previous life, the old couple had gone through a family division this year and had been working hard in Bin City. However, what they were about to face was that their eldest son would be returning from his military service to look for work, get married and have children, while their youngest son would go to university, and so on, a series of expensive things. In the end, they still couldn't afford to buy a house for themselves.

  Zhang Shu was even more so because of his depressed mood, overwork and illness, and finally died young. Until the end of his life, he couldn't live in a house that belonged to him, which is also the biggest regret in Li Yifan's heart from the previous generation.

  This life, Li Yifan had the opportunity to restart his life, and he certainly wouldn't let those regrets reappear. Today, his parents were moved by his and his uncle's words, but he wouldn't let them actually rent that money-losing sheep soup shop. That place was a big pit, and it would be better for Second Aunt's family to fill it in instead; there was no need for his own family to follow suit.

  Their family's restaurant was operated together with the second aunt's house, and the general profits were kept in a joint public account opened by both families at the bank, adopting an annual dividend distribution model.

  At that time, Er Yi's family was the first to take action, and Er Yi took advantage of her management of the accounts to transfer all 150,000 yuan from the joint account before the division of the house. Later, under pressure from relatives and friends, my parents were unable to recover half of the money that belonged to our family.

  Now the second aunt and her family must go to fill in the pit, but Li Yifan does not want them to transfer half of their savings from their home again, after all, that is also the hard-earned money of their parents for six months.

  But how to persuade parents to discuss advance distribution with Er Yi? Of course, it's still necessary to turn things around a big spending matter, so Li Yifan thought and thought that he could only convince his parents to buy a house.

  Moreover, buying a house at this time is indeed a good opportunity. It's only 1999 now, just a few years after the Premier announced the housing reform policy. The houses in Bincheng are not too expensive yet. If you wait for a few more years, the housing prices in Bincheng will skyrocket like a rocket, and may even rise to the point where they can't afford it no matter how hard they work their whole lives.

  "Dad, mom is right too. I was also neglectful before. By the end of this year, my older brother will be demobilized and come back home, and next year my sister will give birth. All these things require money. If we invest all our money in Wang Ji's sheep soup restaurant, our family's finances will definitely be tight. Moreover, when my brother comes back, finding him a job is the most important thing. Even if we ask for help from his uncle, it will still cost a lot of money. And my brother is not young anymore, he should also consider finding a partner and getting married. All these things require spending money. So our family really can't afford to take risks now. I was too reckless before."

  Li Yihong's words immediately made Li Lisheng, who was still hesitant about whether to rent a sheep soup, firm up. His son was right, it's better to be safe than sorry.

  However, we also need to consider the primary issue we are currently facing. The landlord of our store is going to renovate it, which will take at least three months. During this time, can't we do anything? At the end of the year, my brother will be demobilized and return home. Can he just live in our current place? He can live with me in one room, but I'm about to enter the most intense period of learning, and I think it's a bit inconvenient! Moreover, why do we have to wait until my brother is demobilized at the end of the year before buying a house? At that time, even if we buy a house, we will still need to consider issues like decoration. You will still be looking after the store, and my brother has no experience. What if the renovation is not done well? I think it's better to take advantage of these few months when the landlord is renovating the house to buy a new one first, and then decorate it. This way, when my brother returns, he can move into the new house, and you can continue with business as usual. Isn't this a win-win situation?

  As soon as Li Yihong said this, Li Lisheng and Zhang Shu also felt that it made sense. They had been trapped in the cycle of the restaurant's year-end dividend distribution all along, originally planning to follow the old rules and wait until after the year-end dividend distribution to buy a house with the dividend. But now, thinking about it, what their youngest son said was indeed reasonable.

  The kids have all grown up, and it's inconvenient to live together. Moreover, Yifan will be in his second year of high school next year and the studies are intense. Yiqiang and he share a room, which must affect Yifan's studies. Now it seems that buying a house at this time is indeed a good choice.

  Li Liqiang glanced at Zhang Shu.

  "What Yip Fan said also makes sense, I think it's just right that we have some free time now, and buying a house is also very suitable."

  "Hmm, I think it's okay."

  Zhang Shu also agrees.

  "Besides, Mom and Dad, it's actually the most suitable time for us to buy a house now."

  "Why?"

  "We can go to Dujiacun to buy a house."

  "Son, are you crazy? That broken-down place, who goes there to buy a house?"

  As soon as Li Yifan made the proposal, Zhang Shu immediately shouted in surprise, apparently frightened by her son's idea. Bincheng is a good port city in the north, with a superior geographical location, but the terrain conditions are not great, and the entire city is built between several mountains, with the whole city divided into a zigzag shape.

  The bustling downtown area is located at the intersection of the horizontal stroke and the dot on top, while Dujiacun is located at the intersection of the vertical stroke and the hook below. The place is nestled in the mountains and faces the sea, which would have been a great place for spiritual cultivation in the past. However, from a modern perspective, it lacks highways and has poor transportation infrastructure. Although it's within the city limits, it's a blind spot for urban development. It's currently an undeveloped urban village where former employees of the coastal shipyard live. Everyone there is eager to move out, so why is Li Yifan desperate to get in?

  And now there are many new buildings in the city that have been developed and are on sale, why not buy a renovated building, but instead go to Dujiazhuang, a place where birds don't even shit, to buy a house?

  Most of them are bungalows!

  So it's no wonder that Zhang Shu was shocked and couldn't understand. Li Liqiang was also stunned by his son's proposal, this child, who doesn't seem stupid, how could he come up with such a strange condition?

  "Dad and mom, don't worry about it, there's a hidden opportunity here! There's a good friend in our class whose dad is a leader at the city's construction bureau. He told me that the new mayor plans to follow the previous leader's idea and turn Bin City into a garden tourist city. So he wants to build several seaside squares in our city, and Dujiacun is one of the places he values. The place has mountains behind it, a rocky beach in front, and then the sea. I heard that the mayor is very ambitious and plans to excavate the mountain and fill the sea to build a leisure square there. Many real estate companies will also move in to build seaside high-rises. If we buy a few houses there now... hehe! When it's time for land acquisition, won't we be able to get more resettlement houses?"

  After beating around the bush, Li Yifan finally said all the little nines in his heart. In fact, from persuading his parents to buy a house, he has been laying the groundwork for this matter.

  Nandu Village, now looks like a dirty and messy shantytown, who would have thought that in a few years it will be built into Bincheng or even nationwide famous Binhai Square?

  And that Binhai Square-side Bin Hai Wang Yue residential area, is even more a landmark building in Binhai City, and has become a model for the national coastal residential areas.

  In the year when Bin Hai Square was built, Li Yi Fan had passed by the square countless times, staring blankly at the Bin Hai Wang Yue residential area behind it. At that time, he even dreamed that if he could have a house in this community, he would be considered successful.

  However, he also knew that it could only be a pipe dream. It is said that in that community, apart from the houses reserved for returning households, most of the other units were sold to various celebrities and wealthy individuals at an astronomical price of 4,000 yuan per square meter.

  It was only in 2001, but not the year of skyrocketing housing prices in 2010. Bincheng was not a metropolis like Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou, just a second-tier tourist city in the north.