Chapter 413 Buying a House for My Parents
“Come and see how I feel... when I put it on?”
When Chang Jiayao couldn’t wait to tie the belt around her waist, she walked out of the house. When I came out of the bedroom again and excitedly wanted to show off my figure to my family, I saw such a strange scene of three people staring at each other.
This made her confused for a moment, so she had to hold back the second half of the question.
“Brother?”
"Dad?"
"Mom?"
She tentatively called three people respectively.
"Ahem..."
In the end, Chang Haonan was the first to react and spoke out what he had been thinking:
"The conditions of this Tongzi Building are still a bit poor after all. There is not even a separate kitchen and toilet. My mother has been cooking on the balcony with a small gas stove. Hygiene and safety are not good at all..."
Actually, it doesn’t matter how bad the conditions in this place are now. After all, in the previous life, the family lived in such a building until the new century.
At the end of the 1990s, Tongzi Tower was far from the level of urban legend it would become later.
After all, it is a family home. Most of the residents live in the same unit, and the neighbors are all familiar with each other.
It wasn’t until about 2003 that the employees of the original units moved into new residential areas on a large scale, so they rented them out at low prices to many idle people in society, or even premeditated criminals, which led to the original The Tongzilou area gradually formed an area similar to a shanty town or a slum area, and the public security situation plummeted.
After this situation lasted for several years, it gradually disappeared with subsequent demolition and resettlement.
So now when Chang Haonan first proposed to buy a new house, the first reaction of Chang Yuanchao and Zhou Li was that it was unnecessary, both from a rational and emotional perspective.
“You’ve been here like this for so many years. Besides, Jia Yao has gone to school in two months. Your mother and I probably can’t cook a few times a week.”
< br>Chang Yuanchao gently touched his already somewhat white temples and replied:
“This place is a bit old now, but the neighbors are all familiar with it, so suddenly I moved to a new place. We may not be used to it yet.”
"Yes, yes, your father and I will retire after working for more than ten years. By then, we may move to the place where Xin or Jiayao works and help you take care of your children. Why bother buying from our local place?" A new house..."
Zhou Lizhai nodded in agreement and said:
"Eat the noodles first, it will be time to eat."
Chang Haonan picked up a piece of noodles with chopsticks and couldn't help but smile bitterly.
For my parents' generation, it is indeed difficult to imagine what kind of earth-shaking changes China will see in the next ten years.
Not to mention more than ten years later, in another five or six years, most of the residents in this Tongzi Building will have moved out.
Neighborhood is indeed very important, but in this county where the total population is less than one community in Beijing, there is no sense of distance no matter where you move.
“We are just moving, and we won’t move too far away. It’s not like we won’t live locally anymore. These old neighbors can still keep in touch.”
He put a few pickles into the bowl, ate it with the noodles, and then continued to persuade:
“I just asked briefly on the way from the airport, there is one two or three kilometers away. It’s a new community that has just been built. It has very convenient transportation and is even closer to your workplace.”
"Besides, even if Jia Yao and I go to school, we always have to go home during holidays and festivals. It's really hard to live like this now. Isn't it a good idea to put a bed in the living room?"
Chang Yuanchao obviously began to waver.
Obviously, the effect of the second paragraph is quite obvious.
As parents, it’s generally okay to make do with things on your own, but you will pay more attention to your children’s problems.
“Well...”
But Zhou Li is still a little hesitant:
"It will cost a lot of money, Xiaonan, you are already 22 this year. If you get married in the next few years, why don't you also have to buy a new house? That's still in the capital. , even if you have some money in your hand now, you still want to keep it..."
She is indeed thinking in the long term.
The problem is, it’s too long-term.
In her previous life, she saved money for Chang Haonan’s wife until she retired, but it was useless...
Although there is no guarantee that Chang Haonan will repeat the emotional experience of his previous life in this life, after all, he is now considered to have a small status, and his parents should not need to worry about this anymore.
"You don't have to worry about things in Beijing. We...well, the research institute where I am interning has already given me an apartment as a dormitory. It will be officially assigned to me after I graduate. Besides, we There will also be state subsidies and project allowances for later PhD studies, so there will definitely be no shortage of money..."
Chang Haonan's brain was spinning rapidly, and he came up with clever names for his income.
Now his largest source of recurring income is undoubtedly the salary from Torch Company.
The rest is the subsidies and bonuses in some projects.
Mainly horizontally.
For large projects such as Turbofan 10 and Project 10, the restrictions on the use of funds are often quite strict. In addition, the larger the scale of the project, the more people will be involved in it, and personnel subsidies are a matter of , it must be something that everyone sees. Even if there is a graded distribution system, the gap will not be too obvious, so what finally falls into the hands of Chang Haonan can only be regarded as drizzle.
But Chang Haonan is not ready to tell his family about the Torch Company yet.
At least I am not planning to tell Chang Yuanchao and Zhou Li. Judging from the experience of the previous life, neither of them has the personality to hide things in their hearts. Although they will not deliberately publicize it after knowing it, it may be difficult to keep their mouths shut for a long time.
On the contrary, Chang Jiayao, although she seems careless and heartless now, is actually quite thoughtful.
And in the past few years, there have been major layoffs. If people around me really knew about this, just think about it, how many relatives, friends and colleagues would come to me to ask for help to arrange work.
Chang Haonan's plan for Torch Company was originally to be a small but sophisticated core technology enterprise, so it was naturally impossible for him to take the lead and stuff some idle people into it.
But it is easy for him to refuse, but it is difficult for Chang Yuanchao and Zhou Li to refuse.
Maybe it will destroy their social circle.
So it is better to contain the problem at its source.
"How much subsidy can you get for studying..."
Chang Yuanchao was a little disapproving at first, but then he suddenly realized:
"No, you said you would To buy a house in our county, how much money do you have now?"
Chang Haonan hesitated for a moment and pointed out three fingers.
"Three thousand...Then if we add some more money we have saved over the years, it might be about the same..."
Obviously Lao Chang has not realized the seriousness of the matter.
"Dad, if I only had three thousand yuan, how could I possibly mention buying a house to you..."
Chang Haonan interrupted Chang Yuanchao's account settlement with his head full of black lines. schedule.
He did not dare to say that the handmade Sichuan brocade dress that Chang Jiayao is currently wearing would probably cost more than half of that amount if it were commercially available.
"Thirty...thirty thousand?"
After a second of silence, Zhou Li asked tentatively with a trembling voice.
In 1997, in first-tier cities, housing prices in good locations ranged from a few thousand to tens of thousands. In places like Beijing, Shanghai, or Pengcheng, 30,000 yuan was not a big deal. Not a small amount, but certainly not a huge amount of money.
However, in an inconspicuous small northeastern county, the house price in the central area is about 300 yuan per square meter. Even for the largest apartment, a room costs just over 30,000 yuan.
If the location or area is slightly downgraded, it is not impossible to buy a house for more than 10,000 yuan.
At this time, there is no overwhelming mobile network and self-media to tell you what the life of rich people in big cities is like.
For the couple who have lived locally all their lives, this county, and at most Liucheng City, is basically their entire world.
The incomes of Chang Yuanchao and Zhou Li are not low in the local area. They add up to several hundred dollars per month. Thirty thousand yuan is not enough to break the upper limit of imagination.
But they are very sure that just a year ago, their son still had to take care of their living expenses.
In other words, Chang Haonan saved the money in less than a year.
This is a bit scary.
"Uh...right."
Looking at his mother's reaction, Chang Haonan didn't dare to say that he actually had almost 300,000 yuan in hand.
On the other hand, Chang Jiayao next to her saw some clues from Chang Haonan's expression.
And she can also feel that the clothes on her body are definitely worth a lot of money.
Apart from anything else, even though there was no way to tailor the dress and I only asked about basic measurements such as height and measurements over the phone, the dress still fit the figure almost perfectly.
She even felt that after wearing this set of clothes, it would be a sin for her to be a little fatter.
In short, after a comprehensive judgment, I am afraid that these three fingers mean more than thirty thousand.
"Mom, since my brother is not short of money, let him buy it. Didn't you also say this winter that the heating pipes in this old house are aging and the effect is getting worse and worse? If we move to The new house can be better."
So she said and came to Zhou Li's side to help and persuade her.
"You said it lightly, but it's not your money."
The latter raised his hand and knocked Chang Jiayao on the head:
"Our cheaper building also needs one." Wan Daji is enough for your father and I to go without food or drink for three or four years..."
Having said that, she did not refuse anymore.
After all, which parent really doesn’t want the things bought for their children.
It's nothing more than worrying about money.
There will be more later
(End of this chapter)