ebookland Chapter 161 I Want to Be a Landlady
Chapter 161 I Want to Be a Landlady
Meanwhile, after thinking it over all night and discussing it with Li Liangping and Li's mother, Hua and Qiu decided:
“Pear, I’ve thought about it, and I still feel that the house isn’t very comfortable.”
I plan to take out a bank loan to make a down payment and buy the courtyard house over there in the square that's asking price at 10,000 yuan.
Hua Lichu expressed her understanding and support for her decision.
but,
"Auntie, could you please introduce me to the landlord of this dilapidated courtyard? She's the Chunxiang that Aunt Lian mentioned."
Hua and Qiu asked in bewilderment, "Why are you looking for her?"
"I plan to buy that courtyard!"
Hua and Qiu hesitated: "Lizi, that house... it's really not comfortable. Don't you have money? Why don't you buy an apartment? Have you discussed this with Taozi and my dad?"
Hua Yuansheng happened to walk into the room and, upon hearing the question, replied, "This is a decision made by the three of us."
“Dad…you…”
Instead of offering advice, they just make things worse.
Before the holiday was over, Hua Lichu immediately dragged Hua and Qiu to find Chunxiang.
When Chunxiang heard that Hua and Qiu weren't buying a house, her smile vanished instantly. But when she heard that Hua Lichu wanted to go house hunting, her face lit up with a wide, almost magical smile.
"You want to look at houses? Of course, of course! Look around as much as you like, however you like!"
The house is right by the roadside. Coming from the rental house, you walk past a large vegetable field and you'll arrive.
Because no one has lived here for many years, the lock on the front door is covered in rust.
Pushing open the gate, the yard was quite large, about forty or fifty square meters, but it was overgrown with grass.
Upon entering, directly opposite are five rooms.
When Old Man Xu built the house, he planned for his descendants to live there, so he built each room to be large and deep.
Even the kitchen on the left is larger than that of an average family.
The entire room, including the yard, is at least 300 square meters, but in Hua Lichu's eyes, it still feels insufficient.
"Aunt Chunxiang, whose vegetable garden is that in front of the gate? And that house next door, it looks pretty dilapidated, does anyone live there usually?"
Chunxiang paused for a moment: "The vegetable garden by the door? That's my family's. As for the house next door, someone lives there. But don't worry, they won't make any noise."
"them?"
Chunxiang pursed her lips, thinking that Hualichu had discovered something, and sighed:
"Don't underestimate them just because they are a group of little beggars. They are all good kids. They don't steal or rob; they just make a living by scavenging."
"Little beggars? A group of them? Could you tell me more?"
Chunxiang hesitated for a moment, but because she really wanted to sell the house, she answered honestly:
"The house next door was originally lived by an old woman. Her husband passed away when she was young."
She raised her only son all by herself, and after much difficulty, she managed to get him married and have a grandson. But then, her son had an accident on the mountain and passed away.
Her daughter-in-law, who was looking after two children, one just over a year old and the other only a few months old, ran away with all the family's money.
The mother-in-law had no choice but to start raising her grandson again. In the early years, when everyone ate from the same pot, things were alright; at least they wouldn't starve.
But later, when the land was distributed to individual households, her family of three didn't get much land. She was also getting old and couldn't work anymore, so she could only pick up garbage everywhere and sell it for money.
Unfortunately, the mother-in-law was a kind person. While collecting garbage, she found several abandoned children, including disabled ones and baby girls, all of whom had been abandoned by others.
We all tried to persuade her to leave it alone, but she couldn't bear it and brought it back.
They sent him to the J Bureau, but they couldn't do anything about it, so they sent him to an orphanage. However, the orphanage had limited resources and many children, so they had to fight for everything!
These children, the youngest being small and the older ones all having some kind of disability, couldn't compete with others and were always hungry. The grandmother couldn't bear it, so she brought them back.
Two years ago, my mother-in-law passed away, leaving behind these children in the house. They couldn't afford to go to school, so they survived by collecting scraps.
Actually, this is one of the reasons why she can't sell her house.
Many people are bothered by the fact that their neighbors are a group of beggars or disabled people, fearing that they might be dishonest.
Chunxiang was afraid that Hua Lichu would also mind, so she tried her best to explain: "Although they make a living by collecting garbage, I can assure you that they are good kids. They don't steal or rob, and they even help the elderly in the village with their work!"
Over the years, villagers have helped these children in various ways, giving them vegetables and rice.
But every household is not well-off; they all have children, and they can't afford to have any more.
Hua Lichu became increasingly certain that the noise in the house at midnight was because Old Man Xu and his son were feeling guilty!
After all, these two courtyards are so close together. If there's a real disturbance, how will the children live?
Chunxiang's courtyard is only 300 square meters, and the vegetable garden in front of the gate, which belongs to Chunxiang's family, is not very big, probably only about 100 square meters.
She wanted to buy the house for two reasons.
Firstly, something happened in the village, and everyone in the village knew that they owned shops in the city and had money. She was afraid that they would all flock to her to borrow money.
If you're from the same village and have money in your own hands, it wouldn't be right not to lend it to someone.
She was reluctant to lend it out, since the person who owed the money was the boss, and what could she do if they delayed paying it back?
We're all from the same village, we can't just sue them, can we?
But she worked so hard to earn this money, why shouldn't she take it?
The most important questions are: How much should I lend? To whom should I lend? And to whom should I not lend?
So, I might as well just spend all the money I have.
I'm out of money, how can I borrow some?
After buying the shop, she still had 10 yuan left, so she decided to use it to buy a house!
Secondly, having been reborn, who wouldn't want to be a landlady?
She can buy a 300-square-meter house with a yard for just a few thousand dollars. If she doesn't take advantage of this bargain, she'll regret it and cry her eyes out later!
She plans to buy the yard, demolish it, and rebuild it.
The ground floor is used as a storefront, and the upper floors are rented out.
But she asked around and found that private houses are usually not allowed to exceed three stories, and even in special circumstances, they can only be built to a maximum of six to eight stories.
Therefore, the larger the area, the better.
She felt that 300+100 square meters was a bit small.
Although the yard next door is dilapidated, it looks a bit bigger than this one. If we could buy both of them and make up an acre of land, that would be about right!
As for the money to build the house? Doesn't she still have half a warehouse of goods that haven't been sold?
With the 100,000 or so yuan she has, that should be enough, right?
Hua Lichu had never built a house before, but she knew she could deal with whatever came her way.
She's a woman who owns nine shops; how could she possibly suffocate like that?
"Is the yard next door for sale?"