1979: Literary Master, Starting from the Return of Educated Youth

Chapter 31: A hidden treasure in a golden house!

"Okay, where shall we meet?"

Xu Yuexin asked.

"It's the small restaurant opposite our school, where You Peiling's father is the manager."

"I heard that You Peiling's family has become better off in the past two years. Everyone has more money in their pockets, more people go to restaurants, and her father earns a lot of bonuses every year."

Wang Youle said with envy in his tone, "I see that now individual businesses are allowed to open restaurants, so I might as well open one someday."

"No problem at all. As long as you do your research in advance and understand the market direction, you can definitely make money."

Xu Yuexin understood and supported his childhood friend’s idea.

Since the conference last year, the business of individual businesses has loosened up. If you are brave enough to open a store and do business, you may earn more than a university professor.

If Wang Youle really dares to open a restaurant, he will be a pioneer of this era.

After talking about opening a restaurant, the two chatted about the interesting experiences of the educated youth when they went to the countryside. It was almost noon before Wang Youle said goodbye and went home.

Xu Yuexin tried to invite Wang Youle to have dinner but failed because his uncle was coming to see him at noon.

After seeing his childhood friend off, Xu Yuexin returned to his bedroom to open the letter.

He stuffed two of the three large sacks of readers' letters under the bed, and the remaining one was difficult to stuff under so he placed it against the wall.

The bedroom, which was originally quite spacious, seems small after this arrangement.

“I have to buy a house in the future, otherwise I will have nowhere to put the letters from readers.

Xu Yuexin picked up the letter from People's Literature and muttered to himself while sitting at his desk.

The last time he visited Wang Meng's home, he thought it would be nice to have a big house.

The desire to buy a house slowly took root in his heart.

I opened the envelope from People's Literature and a remittance slip fell out with a few lines of words written on the paper.

"Comrade Chunyu, congratulations. Your work "Horse Herder" has been accepted by our journal and will be published later."

"I am now paying you the manuscript fee: 130 yuan, 98 cents. Please go to the post office to collect it with the remittance slip."

“People’s literature.”

There is a bright red seal on the signature.

I finally got paid for my second novel.

Xu Yuexin took the remittance slip and went to the post office to get the money back. After returning home, he packed up the 130 yuan in royalties and stacked them neatly on the table.

After sorting out the money, Xu Yuexin opened the drawer and took out the royalties from "High Mountains", the royalties from writing songs for Chen Yixue, and the money given by his mother, and put them together to count.

Some of Gao Shan's royalties and royalties were spent before, and there is still 702 yuan left. Chen Yixiu gave him 8 yuan in royalties, and his mother gave him 80 yuan. Together with today's royalties, the total is 300 yuan.

This is Xu Yuexin’s income from writing in less than a month, which is equivalent to two years’ income for an ordinary worker in Beijing.

You can really make a fortune by typing!
Looking at the stack of banknotes on the table, Xu Yuexin got a little excited and began to look forward to his own house-buying career.

He briefly reviewed the history of real estate development in Beijing. As far as he could remember, the first commercial housing project in the city after the reform and opening up was Tuanjiehu Building 400 and Building 1. Regardless of the floor type, the price was 3 yuan per square meter. There was no public area, and the average price of a single unit was around yuan.

The houses sold poorly, and it took more than half a year to sell all 160 houses. The reason was that compared with the average salary of employees at that time, the houses were too expensive.

Therefore, buying commercial housing these days is definitely not a rational choice.

In addition to commercial housing, there are currently two other types of housing in Beijing: public housing and private housing.

Public housing, as the name implies, is owned by the government, and residents only need to pay a nominal monthly rent. Before the housing reform in the 90s, this type of house could not be bought or sold.

The property rights of private houses belong to individuals and can be traded privately. When the housing policy was later relaxed, the government recognized all private house transactions between individuals in the early years and issued unified house certificates.

The price of private housing is cheaper than commercial housing because it is an individual transaction and the price can be set freely.

Code and buy a house, the golden house is full of hidden tricks!
When Xu Yuexin thought about owning his own house one day, where he could live as happily as he wanted with Chen Qiaoqiao, he suddenly became motivated to write.

Bedroom, bathroom...well, the kitchen is nice too!

With a vision of life after owning a house, Xu Yuexin carefully put away the savings and the remittance letter from People's Literature, closed the drawer, and opened the envelope from You Peiling.

The letter from You Peiling was an invitation to him to attend a class reunion, and included several postcards of scenic spots from various places.

Xu Yuexin already knew the time and place of the class reunion, so he glanced at it and put it in the drawer.

……

Two days later in the afternoon, Xu Yuexin wore a Shanghai brand watch, a newly bought short-sleeved white shirt, the famous brand Hongdu trousers he wore, and the three-joint leather shoes bought by Chen Qiaoqiao, and went downstairs to find Wang Youle.

Wang Youle had been waiting for Xu Yuexin since early morning, and when he saw his outfit, he praised it.

"Lao Xu, tell me the truth, are you thinking about a girl in our class, that's why you dress like this?"

At the end of the praise, Wang Youle asked with a mysterious smile.

"Don't guess blindly, I already have a partner."

Xu Yuexin immediately clarified, "But you, aren't you dressed very decently as well?"

"Hey, let me be honest, we haven't seen each other for many years, and we don't want others to think that we are not doing well."

"A tree lives by its bark, and a man lives by his face."

Wang Youle held the leather belt around his waist and spoke frankly.

Friendship is friendship, but it is inevitable that some students will compare themselves with others.

Like Xu Yuexin, Wang Youle wears nice clothes to avoid being looked down upon.

Xu Yuexin and Wang Youle were chatting as they walked towards the high school. At this time, several male classmates who had arrived early were already sitting in a private room in the restaurant opposite the school.

"Lao Gao, how is Xu Yuexin, who used to be the tallest in our class, doing now?"

A male classmate asked in the smoke-filled box.

"My dad told me that he resigned from the mine and is probably unemployed at home."

In the private room, the male student called Lao Gao mentioned Xu Yuexin and immediately held a cigarette between his legs and said with regret, "It's a pity that he had the best grades in high school, but he ended up like this today."

(End of this chapter)