Buying a house

  But thinking back, it's only natural that Dad would think this way. The government's credibility at the time wasn't as bad as in later generations.

  And this year, the real estate industry in Bin City, a small northern city, has just started to take shape. At that time, building houses and requisitioning land were generally done by government units for collective housing. Although the country had already introduced housing reform policies, last year's financial crisis still affected the domestic economy, and the real estate industry in Bin City had not yet truly taken off.

  In this era, land acquisition and house construction were not like the later generations, where forced land acquisition, multi-party collusion, and dark tactics were used to the extreme. In this era, ordinary people did not say that if you don't take out 1-2 million, don't think about using my land. As long as the government and real estate developers showed sufficient sincerity and suitable conditions, most ordinary people were willing for the government to requisition their land, after all, exchanging a flat house for a high-rise building was a dream come true for many ordinary people.

  When Zhang Shu and Zhang Ying mentioned that their family wanted to buy a house, so they wanted to advance the distribution of this year's dividend for the first half of the year, Zhang Ying couldn't help but widen her eyes with suspicion.

  Sister won't really be moved by little brother's words, will she? Now that they want to split the money, could it be that they've heard some rumors and want to cut ties with their own family and go solo? Do they want to use this money to rent a shop selling mutton soup?

  People say that one should take oneself as a measure to infer others. Generally, when ordinary people guess the next move of others, they often start from their own perspective and follow their own thinking pattern to speculate about others. However, using a villain's heart to measure a gentleman's belly is exactly what Er Yi Zhang Ying thought and did at this time.

  "Auntie, don't think too much about it. Our family really is planning to buy a house. My brother will be retiring and coming home at the end of this year. You've seen our living conditions - my brother and I are squeezed into one room, which is really inconvenient. And isn't it just perfect that the landlord is going to renovate the house in a few days? With some free time on their hands, my parents were thinking that they might as well just buy a place first."

  Li Yifan, who was sitting next to her, saw the suspicious look on Erniang's face and knew that the more he explained, the more she would think about other things. She definitely wouldn't think that his family wanted to buy a house, but rather that they were going to rent a shop to sell mutton soup. This would only make her more anxious to reach an agreement with the landlord of the mutton soup shop. Forget it, since she was so eager to seek death, he might as well let them have their way.

  Li Yihua wasn't without thoughts of telling her mother all the things she had guessed, but thinking about how much trust her mother had in her younger sister and the blow she suffered from this incident last time.

  Li Yifan decided that evil people would have their own evil retribution, and since Second Aunt's family had done all the bad things in their past life, it was fine to let them suffer the bitter fruit in this life. As for her mother's emotions... forget it, she'd talk about it later.

  Although very reluctant, after all, this restaurant, Li Liqiang's family is the big head, can be considered a major shareholder. Now that the major shareholder proposes to distribute dividends, as a small shareholder, where can she oppose it?

  However, the 150,000 yuan had to be divided into 90,000 yuan for Li Lianqiang's family, which disrupted Zhang Ying and her family's plan. Originally, they were going to use the 150,000 yuan to negotiate with the boss of Qianji Yangzhaguan and the landlord. With 90,000 yuan less, they could only use their family's previous savings. Fortunately, the restaurant business had been good in recent years, and they had earned a lot.

  If not enough, we can also invite Xiao Mei's husband and his family to join in, the two families can open together. After all, the relationship between the two families has always been good, and Xiao Yi's husband has complained before that he is not doing well in his unit, and after more than a decade, there is no significant improvement. And Xiao Mei's job is also unstable, so it's not bad to let them invest some money at that time.

  This was Zhang Ying's plan, but now she felt that the most important thing was to quickly reach a transfer agreement with the boss of Qian Ji Yang Za Tang and the landlord, so as not to be preempted by her elder sister and others.

  These days, Wang Hu has been secretly contacting the boss and landlord of Qianji Yangzaotang. Both parties have basically reached an intention, but they still want to grind with the landlord on the issue of rent, to see if they can negotiate a bit more. However, it seems that there is no need now, and they should hurry up and sign the agreement, lest they have too many dreams at night.

  In the following days, Er Yi was always absent-minded and worked perfunctorily in the store, while the landlord had basically confirmed that the workers would start renovating on July 20th.

  Although the restaurant business was very busy these days, Li Lisheng and Zhang Shu still went out with Li Yifan whenever they had time to go to Dujiacun to find a suitable house to sell.

  Watching Li Yifan's family constantly going in and out, mysteriously, Zhang Ying was also anxious on this side, urging Wang Hu to hurry up and finalize the rental contract.

  But all of this did not escape Li Yifan's notice, however at this time he was no longer that concerned.

  Dujiacun is a typical early urban village. There used to be a shipyard near here, and most of the residents in Dujiacun were employees of the shipyard. In recent years, with the expansion of the city and the prevention of pollution, the shipyard has moved away, and Dujiacun has gradually declined.

  The village of Dujiacun is located on a hilly area in front of Xinghai Mountain, with uneven terrain and old-fashioned courtyard houses built in the 1950s and 1960s.

  If you tell the locals here that a magnificent leisure square will rise up in two years, they might spit on your face and curse you as a madman.

  Even if you push all the houses here down, you still can't build a square in this place. First of all, the terrain is not flat, and secondly, the area is not big enough!

  The concept of pushing mountains and filling seas, at this time in foreign countries, Hong Kong, and even some coastal cities in the south is not a new thing, but for relatively closed northern port cities, it's still a fresh thing. After all, Bincheng has only been open to the outside world for over a hundred years, and such projects have never happened in its development history.

  There are even many people who don't know what "pushing mountains and filling seas" means!

  So when the indigenous people of Dujiacun heard that Li Yifan and his family actually wanted to buy a house in Dujiacun, everyone couldn't help but look at this family of three with a kind of silly gaze.

  In this day and age, there are so many newly built high-rise buildings in the city that the ordinary people of Dujiacun can't wait to move out and live in them. But this family is like a possessed person wanting to buy a house here, isn't this a mental illness?

  However, this family looks honest, especially their child, who is very honest. He said that they came from the countryside of Lao Longtou and just moved to the city a few years ago. They don't have much money, there are many people in the household, and they can't afford to buy an apartment, so they decided to buy a house in Dujiacun. This way, the original residents here understood this family.

  The buildings in the city are really beautifully built and the location is good enough, but the house prices are indeed expensive!

  Finally, under the enthusiastic guidance of the villagers, they found the house where the original shipyard's old factory director stayed, which was built on a small hill at the foot of Xinghai Mountain, with its back to the mountain and facing the sea. The air is fresh, surrounded by green trees, and standing in the courtyard can gaze out at the distant bay, the environment is really top-notch.

  The small courtyard is a traditional northern siheyuan design, with the main house facing south and two wing rooms on either side. In front of the first courtyard, there is also a screen wall, and inside the courtyard, there is a small garden that is still well-maintained. There is also a backyard for storing miscellaneous items. The total area is almost 350 square meters, which is normal, after all, land was not valuable when houses were built in the past, and even now, houses here are not worth much money.

  The old factory director has passed away, his children are scattered all over the country working, and they rarely come back, so the courtyard left by the old factory director has been empty for a long time. Occasionally, his youngest son who works locally will return every few months to take care of it.

  Someone soon helped contact him, and he came over to discuss with Li Lisheng's family for a few sentences. They quickly reached an agreement. After all, he lived in the city and it was inconvenient to come here normally. The house was left vacant anyway, and his siblings had asked him to deal with it long ago.

  One hundred thousand, that was the transaction price agreed upon by both parties at the time. This price is not considered low for a house in Dujiacun. In the city, you can buy a 50-square-meter apartment for this price. At that time, the average housing price in Binhai City was only around 1,500 to 1,600 yuan per square meter.