1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 219 Buying a House!!!

"Then let's just take this one. We won't watch this one anymore. This one is pretty good!" Xia Tian said to a friend.

This friend was one of the group that was sent to the southeast during summer. After he came back to open a "supermarket", he never went out again.

Later, Xia Tian saw that he was particularly good at connecting people, so he gave him an advice - to be a broker!

Specifically, it’s a real estate agent!

Although this profession doesn’t do much now, if you plan ahead and get involved in relationships and the market early, you will have great potential in the future!

Whether it’s Lianjia, Woaijia, Beike House Viewing, or Anjiake, they all have to step back a bit.

This guy used to be a hutong hangout, so he has a natural advantage in this regard.

So, I contacted several "properties" for Xia Tian.

From the beginning of the movement to the end of 84, there were very few private houses in Yenching, as they were all given to the Housing Authority.

But at the beginning of this year, they began to be returned to private individuals.

Some people want to get their houses back, but they have to pay some money - the money for the maintenance of the houses over the years.
However, there are also many property rights that are difficult to clarify, such as some slums.

There are more than 10 or 20 families living here. If you want to drive them away just because you have the certificate, you are dreaming! Some people are just arguing!

Therefore, the house must not only be pleasing to the eye, but also require little trouble.

I looked at three houses in one morning in the summer, and the one in front of me is really good. It is located in the north of Houhai, with the front and back entrances being neither too big nor too small, and it is well preserved.

Just a simple repair and connect the drainage, and everything else will be fine.

In the book “Things You Can Encounter But Not Ask for” it says: the yard with trees in Houhai, the jade crafted in the Xia Dynasty, the clouds at this moment, and you when you are seventeen or eighteen years old.

Although there are no trees in the yard, you can plant some yourself!

Plant two crabapples and lilacs, and then get a big tank to raise some goldfish~
Finally, the friend bargained with the owner and bought the house for 43,000 yuan. He even completed the formalities.

In fact, at that time, it was not popular to live in courtyard houses in the capital, and everyone lived in apartment buildings.

The new building has central heating, water and sewage, a bathroom and a kitchen. How convenient!
Most of the courtyard houses are run-down, but there are public toilets and running water...

Who would have thought that thirty years later, courtyard houses would be priced in billions?

To be honest, a courtyard house that occupies a piece of land is called real estate.

That large group of people crowded upstairs can only wait for demolition, and they are moving farther and farther away!
Just like the electroplated stainless steel and artificial leather folding chairs that are popular now, I don’t like the handmade solid wood chairs.

Every era has its own values, which later generations are mostly unable to understand.

For example, when Xia Tian and Milan were upstairs, they had to keep their voices down on weekends and avoid people when they came in and out. If they had a yard with their own door, they could be more relaxed.

I didn't care about those things in the summer. I asked my friends to contact some people and start connecting the yard to the sewer.

There are people everywhere, all you have to do is pay some money, it's quite convenient.

Now that I have this house, I feel really different!

In the summer, I started to visit the Friendship Stores and second-hand stores frequently, and I would buy any old furniture I liked!

Tables, chairs, cabinets, and dressing tables. I bought twenty or thirty chairs alone, from armchairs to cross-legged chairs to armchairs, from huanghuali to red sandalwood, everything looked good!
However, he was still stunned by one thing!
That was a real step-out bed!
The Huanghuali step-out bed from the mid-Qing Dynasty is 3 meters long and 4 meters wide!

The small container houses that were later used as dormitories on the construction site were about this size.

It takes eight steps to walk from one side of the bed to the other.

In ancient times, only the truly wealthy families had this thing.

For custom-made products, the construction period can easily be one or two years.

A luxury item in ancient times, a room within a room, and the most important item in a dowry.

It not only serves as a bed, but also a dressing table and a maid's bed - a maid's bed is placed in the outermost corridor for easy service at night. The saying "a rich lady never gets out of bed" refers to this kind of bed, which is equivalent to a small room with complete functions.

As for some TV dramas in later generations saying that the young lady had not left her bed for several years, it turned out that she was just a bed. Wouldn't her limbs have degenerated if she didn't lie down?
If you don't buy this thing, you will never be able to buy it in the future.

Buy it, although it will require a specialized carpenter to disassemble it, but that doesn’t matter!

Urge the construction team of the courtyard house to speed up the renovation and repair, and then transport the bed in and assemble it!

Xia Tian: You guys work hard, and as long as the quality is up to standard, I will help you form a construction team and introduce you to jobs! I make money from this!

……

The house hasn’t been decorated yet, and here come the guests!
Old Pailo is here~
"Oh, God! I've been thinking about this for years!" Old Pailuo ate Yanjing stewed pork with big mouthfuls while praising God.
In the second year after he returned to the United States, a taste suddenly came to his mind.

At first I didn’t remember what it was, but then it appeared a few times and suddenly I remembered it was the braised pork I ate in Yanjing!

He actually ate it with a frown on his face, but now thinking back on it, why did the taste seem so tempting?
Lao Pai Luo also tried to go to the Chinatown there. He visited Chinatown in several cities over the years, but he couldn't find anything selling this!
Now, it's finally here again!

The taste in his mouth now overlapped with the taste in his mind, and he felt like he was reaching a state of perfection!

Xia Tian looked at him taking big mouthfuls of the braised pork and felt a little confused.

The boss of the braised pork restaurant was so proud that he gave me another bowl for free, and put a lot of gourd heads - large intestine heads~
This time, Lao Pai Luo came for publishing. Although the frequency of writing English short stories in the summer has slowed down in the past two years, I have written more than ten stories. The publisher wants to compile a collection.

Another thing is that summer had already made preparations for Old Palo's arrival - the Plaza Accord that will emerge in the next few months.

By then, the Japanese yen will soar within a few months. If you prepare early and increase leverage to go long, it will not be difficult to get a return of ten or eight times.

Of course it's best to talk about this in person...

In fact, it’s not just Old Palo, there’s also Yu Beibei in the United States - Milan had contacted her by phone some time ago; and there’s also someone in Hong Kong.

There are more people over there!
Lou Xiao'e, who has been following Xia Tian to make money, as well as Huo Lili and some of her friends, have become more trusting of Xia Tian after a wave of wealth last year. The amount of money Xia Tian can invest in this wave has skyrocketed!
……

"In the summer, Shanghai Mei said they want to produce an animated version of 'Calabash Brothers'." Milan came back from outside and said.

In the summer, when entertaining old Palo, many things were handed over to Milan, such as the construction of the courtyard house and many "external relations" matters.

"That's a good thing! Just agree to it." He couldn't give much money anyway.

At this time, old Pai Luo was reading the newly published second part of "The Calabash Brothers", "The Calabash Brothers".

He is considered an expert on China, but he can only vaguely understand the irony of such terms as "the king of asking for money", "being a pushover", "being treated with contempt", and "being in the arms of a gentle woman", and he cannot fully comprehend them.

Classic quotes from the snake spirit:

"The Calabash Brothers have turned into a mountain. They are tightly connected together, as solid as a rock. It is useless to just chop them with an axe. We must first cut off their connection, then use methods such as digging holes, finding loopholes, and shaking their foundations to defeat them one by one and capture them one by one!"

"Red boy, I don't think you can handle this magic weapon of mine. It's called the Money God. Be careful if you fall into the money trap or you won't be able to get out again!"

"The evil winds and evil spirits have blinded me, and the spit can drown me. Hahahaha~"

"No matter how strong you are, I will make sure you can't take a single step once I put these little shoes on you!"

"You are so angry that I throw dirty water on you. If you are so passionate, I will make you cook for me! What does my cold water do to you?"

"Blue boy, you can turn invisible. I'll make a tail grow on your butt. Haha. And you still want to be stubborn. I think you should stop struggling in there. This hat is thick and hard. You can't get out even if you hit your head."

"Bugs, bugs, bite me quickly, bite me hard! Drill a hole through this treasure gourd from the inside~~~"

At this point, all seven gourd brothers were captured by the green snake spirit and thrown into the alchemy furnace, where they were refined into the Seven Heart Pills...

Children watch this work for fun, while adults watch it for society and reality.

Xia Tian has a bit of a bad taste, and he wants today's young readers to indulge in those brilliant imaginations.

But many years later, they will realize that the shady things and methods around them "now" were experienced when they were wearing open-crotch pants.

When the bullet hit the forehead, the education spanning more than ten or twenty years finally completed the closed loop~
(End of this chapter)