Avoid detours, start by running a nursing home.

"Wait a minute..."

In the director's office, Zhang Yang frowned as he looked at Li Xiaoyun: "I just heard Director Liu say that the nursing home receives subsidies, so it should be able to maintain normal operations, right?"

"Maintaining daily operations is no problem at all, and we can even have a surplus every month."

Li Xiaoyun said seriously, "But it's not enough in some special situations."

"Special circumstances?"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Yang blinked, looking quite puzzled: "What could be so special about this nursing home?"

"You~"

Li Xiaoyun rolled her eyes at his bewildered expression: "This house is over seventy years old, you know!"

"It can break down and needs repair!"

"Huh? We need to fix it?" Zhang Yang was even more confused. The house looked perfectly fine, so what needed fixing?

"Yes, it needs to be inspected almost every year, and that expense alone is about ten thousand yuan."

Li Xiaoyun shook her head and began to calculate for him on her fingers: "Also, Songhai will enter the plum rain season at the end of June."

"With more rain, the waterproofing layer of the house needs to be repaired every few years, otherwise the whole building will get moldy if it leaks."

"Unfortunately, the repairs in the past few years have been minor, but next year it will be a major overhaul."

"And then there's the fact that all the houses here are made of wood, so we have to deal with termites every spring, which is an extra expense..."

"at last……"

The little girl counted them, then looked up at Zhang Yang, biting her lip: "Although the old house has pretty good insulation, there are always periods of extreme cold and heat every summer and winter."

"We staff members are okay, but many of the elderly people are having a harder time."

"So it would be best to install air conditioning as well..."

"Let's put the air conditioning aside for now..." Zhang Yang frowned as he looked at her. "But for leaks, termites, and the like, shouldn't we contact the property management first?"

"You used to go to the housing management office, but now that the house has been sold to you, right?"

Li Xiaoyun tilted her head and looked at Zhang Yang with a strange expression.

It's like saying, didn't you consider these things before buying the house?

Zhang Yang was speechless upon hearing this.

Oh right, this house is mine now...

What a load of rubbish!

I thought it was a reward from the system, but it turned out to be a trap?

Repairing the house? No money?

Where did I get the money?

Do you want the 5000 yuan left in your card?

The thought of his own card and his own money made his temples throb, and he couldn't help but raise his hand to rub them.

"So, how much will it cost for waterproofing, termite prevention, and the new air conditioning...?"

Several thousand dollars? Or tens of thousands?

The thought of those adorable little ones growing wings and flying away made Zhang Yang feel a tightness in his chest.

Distressed!

"Save where you can, spend where you can!"

He kept muttering to himself, "Three hundred million, three hundred million! For this house, there's no other way but to bleed a little money out of it..."

"Including air conditioning installation, it will probably cost..." Li Xiaoyun looked up cautiously at Zhang Yang, "...over a million..."

"What?! Over a million?!"

Upon hearing the number, Zhang Yang nearly jumped off the sofa: "How could it possibly cost so much?!"

As he spoke, he looked at Li Xiaoyun warily: "I'm warning you, don't think you can fool me just because I'm young and easy to bully!"

"No way!"

A million? You're kidding me!

"Who would want to scam you out of your money!"

Hearing this, Li Xiaoyun became anxious: "The waterproofing of the entire house will need major repairs next year, plus termite control and all that, it'll definitely cost over 200,000 yuan!"

"A typical central air conditioning system costs around 400 yuan per square meter!"

"This building is a well-known historical building. The installation plan will need to be approved, and the construction requirements will be different, so the price will only be higher."

"I was underestimating the amount, even at over a million. How could I possibly be trying to scam you!"

"I don't have any money either!"

Zhang Yang simply shrugged, sat down on the sofa, and remained silent.

"How could you be like this!"

Li Xiaoyun stomped her foot in exasperation at his lazy demeanor: "Director Liu said you spent hundreds of millions to buy this house, how come you can't even come up with a million to install an air conditioner?"

"Yeah, we spent all our money on the house."

Zhang Yang replied to her irritably.

Several hundred million?

The house was bought by the system; if you're so capable, go ask it for it back.

As for the one million yuan for repairing the house and installing air conditioning...

The system gave me a house, but not any money. Where am I supposed to find that much money?

"That's not right..."

Hearing the other person mention Liu Jing, he felt something was off and sat up abruptly: "This nursing home didn't just open this year, did it?"

"Why are you only thinking about installing air conditioning now?"

"Um... didn't these large expenditures used to require funding from higher authorities because the amounts were too large..."

Li Xiaoyun said, a little embarrassed, "It's been dragging on until now."

Zhang Yang was speechless after hearing this.

Well, are you trying to take advantage of me?

Do you think I can spend hundreds of millions to buy a house, so I won't care about small expenses like installing an air conditioner?

Thinking about how he had just respectfully seen Liu Jing off, he couldn't help but feel so angry that his teeth itched.

Old Zhang, Old Jiang, Director Liu... they're all cunning old foxes who don't show their true colors!

They're always digging their own graves and waiting to fall into them; none of them are easy to mess with.

He was angry, but after he calmed down, he started to worry.

Now the system has tricked me so badly that I can't go back. The house has already been transferred to my name, and the system has even signed the agreement for me...

If you do nothing, the only consequence will be that the house is taken back and you end up owing another 100 million.

The only options are to go bankrupt and become a defaulter, or to become an unregistered resident.

Otherwise, we'll have to do everything we can to earn money to repair the buildings and keep the nursing home going...

Hey~

Just as he was thinking this, he heard a familiar soft sound again.

A new mission has been triggered...

Task: Routine maintenance of the nursing home.

Type: Time-limited task, incomplete.

"Maintaining the nursing home requires a significant amount of capital. Please raise at least 200,000 yuan by May 1st of next year to renovate and maintain the buildings."

Failure penalty: All residents of the nursing home lose 30 points of favorability; the value of the property owned by the resident decreases by 20%...

『Quest Reward: Time Capsule *1...』

A new mission has been triggered...

Task: Improve living conditions in nursing homes; Current status: Incomplete.

"Summers in Songhai are unbearably hot, and winters are bitterly cold. Please install an air conditioning system for the nursing home as soon as possible."

The reward for this task will be adjusted based on the completion time and the quality of the completion...

Basic Rewards: Skill Upgrade Cards; Auxiliary Buildings;

When Zhang Yang saw the new task that popped up in front of him, he felt his vision go black.

Regardless of which task it is, the task requirement in his eyes can be summed up in just two words: make money!

Just a few minutes ago, he was smugly thinking that he could start living a life of retirement ahead of schedule.

A few minutes later, he was kicked into a deep pit by the system.

It's true that they gave me a house, but the annual maintenance cost alone is tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan.

What will prices be after a few years or a decade or so of inflation?

Do you have to spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars every year to repair your house?

Isn't this turning into a bottomless pit?

And what are the rewards for this task?

The task that Elder Jiang gave me before at least included 5000 yuan and a skill pack.

What now?

Skill upgrade cards are easy to understand, but what exactly is this Time Capsule?

And what about that auxiliary building?

What is that for?