Chapter 245 Buying a House

"Shengli, what happened?" Han Qiuyun walked out from the inner room.

"It's nothing serious. Aunt Zhao who lives in the wing is planning to sell the house." Li Shengli repeated the conversation he had just had with Aunt Zhao's son.

"One thousand five hundred yuan!" Han Qiuyun was also shocked by the price. "What are they thinking?"

Han Qiuyun was a little confused. Aunt Zhao's family looked very honest, but how could they be so evil?

"I'm used to it." Li Shengli didn't feel that surprised. How could the real good people in this courtyard survive? Sha Zhu was considered a good person, but look at what happened to him.

Aunt Zhao's son also returned home somewhat annoyed.

"What's wrong?" Aunt Zhao asked curiously as she looked at her son's annoyed expression. Could it be that he felt that his quotation was too low and that's why he was so frustrated?

"Lee Seung-ri didn't buy it."

"Then why do you have such an expression?"

Aunt Zhao's son recounted the conversation between himself and Li Shengli.

"Why are you so stupid?" Aunt Zhao said with some disappointment. This is just asking for too much. She has never seen anyone as ignorant as him.

"Then what should we do next?" Aunt Zhao's son was a little dumbfounded, and regretted that he should not have asked for such a high price.

"I'll go talk to Li Shengli in a few days." Aunt Zhao didn't have any good solution. Who made her son so stupid? The courtyard house with more than a dozen rooms and a yard only cost 10,000 yuan, but her son dared to ask for 1,500 yuan for her own house of more than 20 square meters. Aunt Zhao herself couldn't believe it.

"Qiuyun, let's buy a house too." After Aunt Zhao's son came home and said this, it reminded Li Shengli that he now has a lot of money but nowhere to spend it, so Li Shengli also plans to buy a house. Li Shengli doesn't want to live in this courtyard anymore.

"Let's wait and see." Han Qiuyun disagreed with Li Shengli's opinion. Now, people in this yard would gossip about the things his family bought. If he bought a house, the people in this yard would report him.

"You've seen how messy it is outside. Isn't it a bit dangerous for our family to move out?" Han Qiuyun thought a lot. Li Shengli is usually very busy and rarely comes home. It might be dangerous for him and his three children to live in such a big yard alone.

After hearing what Han Qiuyun said, Li Shengli obviously thought of this and thought that what his wife said made sense, so he stopped mentioning the matter of his family buying a house to Han Qiuyun.

There are only a few individual industrial and commercial households out here now, and most of them are handicraft practitioners. If I let others know that my family running a restaurant can now afford to buy a courtyard house, as the saying goes, "money moves the heart", and the people in this courtyard see that I have bought a house, they will spread the news, and who knows what will happen, and some people may have evil thoughts.

Li Shengli also discovered that this guy is now jobless and no one knows where all his money comes from. He must have learned his lesson.

"Then let's talk about it later in the evening." Li Shengli began to think about Aunt Zhao's house again.

"You'd better not think about the house for now. I'll get some glue and you go outside to put up the couplets." Han Qiuyun rolled his eyes at Li Shengli. Today is the New Year, why should he think about so many things? Let's just get through this New Year first.

"Look at my brain." Li Shengli slapped his forehead with his right hand. Why think so much now? The two children don't need the house yet. Am I worrying too much? Besides, the house price will not increase in the near future. Why is he so anxious?

Li Shengli shook his head in amusement.

Li Shengli stood up, took the pot and corn flour from Han Qiuyun, added a little water and started to cook the paste.

"Xiaozhi, Xiaoqin, let's go out and put up the couplets." Li Shengli prepared the paste and began to call his children. The New Year should be lively and fun.

This year, Yan Bugui wrote couplets for everyone in the yard as usual. Li Shengli didn't use his handwriting. There were so many people selling couplets and blessing characters on the street. It would be better to buy someone else's couplets than to give money to Yan Bugui. "Dad, the left side is a little higher." Li Chengzhi stood behind and watched Li Shengli pointing out which side was higher and which side was lower while pasting the couplets to his father.

"Like this?" Li Shengli lifted the upper left corner of the couplet.

"Okay, that's it." Li Chengzhi looked carefully from behind and confirmed.

Then Li Shengli put up the banner and the word "Fu".

"Dad, you pasted it upside down." Li Chengqin watched from behind as Li Shengli pasted the word "Fu" upside down. Li Chengqin felt a little strange. How could an adult like Dad paste the wrong thing? So Li Chengqin stretched out his gloved little hand to correct Li Shengli.

"This word 'Fu' should be pasted upside down." Li Shengli explained to his daughter while pasting the word.

"Why?" Li Chengqin was a little confused.

"Good fortune falls down, good fortune falls down, good fortune comes to the family." Li Shengli told his daughter about this custom.

Aunt Zhao saw Li Shengli pasting couplets at the door of her house, and after thinking for a moment, she came out of her house.

Li Shengli was introducing some customs to his daughter when he saw Aunt Zhao coming towards him from behind with a hesitant look on her face.

"Xiaozhi, take your sister back first." Seeing Aunt Zhao's look, Li Shengli guessed that she came to him about the house, so Li Shengli asked Xiaozhi to take his sister back first.

"Aunt Zhao, what's the matter?" Li Shengli looked at Aunt Zhao with interest. Could it be that she still wanted him to be the scapegoat?
"Shengli, I'm sorry. I didn't expect my son would ask you for so much." Aunt Zhao felt a little embarrassed.

"Oh, nothing." Li Shengli has gotten used to it. Everyone in the yard follows the trend.

"Well, Shengli, do you still want the house?" Aunt Zhao didn't have any good ideas. Li Shengli was the only one who could buy a house in this compound.

"If possible, you have to quote a suitable price." Li Shengli didn't want to be a sucker.

"I know, what my son said just now was nonsense. If you want it, just give me this amount." Aunt Zhao gestured with her hand.

"This price is not bad." Li Shengli looked at Aunt Zhao's gesture, thought about it, calculated it, and nodded, "Then let's go and handle the formalities after the New Year."

Li Shengli was not vague either, and the price of 800 yuan was quite reasonable.

"That's good that you agree." Aunt Zhao heaved a sigh of relief. With so much money, she could buy some big items for the family.

"Then let's put it this way. We'll go and handle the formalities after they start working." Aunt Zhao confirmed the date with Li Shengli.

"Okay, you can just look for my wife when the time comes." Li Shengli nodded. He would not have time by then, so he could just ask his wife to make the trip.

"Okay, but..." Aunt Zhao smiled a little embarrassedly. At the same time, she stretched out three fingers of her right hand and rubbed them vigorously, waiting for the money.

"Aunt Zhao, where is the money for buying the house? I'll let Qiuyun give it to you when you go to go through the transfer procedures." This gesture is universal. Li Shengli had no intention of giving the money in advance. Aunt Zhao was still okay, but he really couldn't stand Aunt Zhao's son.

I had told him before not to ask for too much, but he still asked for too much. It's normal for such people to go back on their word.

(End of this chapter)