Literary Master 1983

Chapter 104 Where He Used to Live
After figuring this out, Yu Qie asked Zhang Shouren to help him with this matter, and in less than a week, he found a house.

There are two, one is in the former Jingshan Park and Jingshan Front Street, and the other is in Gulou Street East Street. The relationship of this family is particularly simple. The head of the household is a university lecturer who has always had a dream of going abroad.

Yu Qie was excited and pedaled his bicycle very fast.

This house is the ancestral home of the householder. Originally, he and a group of people lived in the courtyard, but after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the house became public property.

A few years ago, China announced the reform and opening up, and began to contact the West. In order to show our sincerity, there was a promise: if the overseas Chinese who were originally abroad for some reason had definite evidence of their property in China, they could return it appropriately or even in full after research.

The homeowner discovered that he had an Italian cousin, who sent him a letter verbally promising to give him the property rights of the house. The housing management office was dumbfounded when they saw an Italian, and began to mobilize the people in the house to move out and return the "private property" of the Italian Chinese.

No matter how the families in the house got into a mess, with the help of their superiors, the house became the property of the owner alone, and it was about to become Yuqie's.

The owner of the house was ecstatic. As soon as he got the house, he planned to sell it and go to Italy to live with relatives and friends and start a new life.

Shit, isn't this a standard hell joke?
He sold his Siheyuan and went abroad to work hard. Forty years later, he saved up a million euros and returned to visit his family. He found that the Siheyuan was listed for 200 million yuan...

This kind of advantage is unacceptable. He must be fulfilled!
Zhang Shouren was afraid that Yu Qie was being cheated, so he went to see the house with Yu Qi himself, and then bargained with the university lecturer.

"Your house is over 300 square meters, which is too big. It's hard to sell if it's too big. Although the house has good lighting, it's too cold in winter and the wind will blow in...Also, although it's on the central axis of Yanjing City, it's a bit far from our magazine, about 30 to 40 kilometers...It's also a bit far from Yan University."

Zhang Shouren asked Yu Qie to help him bargain: "Look, if you buy this courtyard house, it will be inconvenient to ride a bicycle to school in the future. It's more than ten kilometers. You have to buy a motorcycle, right?"

"If you buy a motorcycle, you still need to get a license, which costs you time and money..."

“Although it is very close to places like Shichahai, the Bell and Drum Tower, and Guanghua Temple, making it convenient for sightseeing, it is too deserted and not suitable for human habitation.”

Yu Qie followed suit: "Indeed, no wonder this house is hard to sell, it has too many shortcomings."

The owner is also an open-minded person: "I heard that you are a writer. This kind of house is suitable for writers. It is quiet in a bustling place."

“I’m still a student!”

The householder said, "My place is in Doufuchi. Do you see the house across the street? It was originally the place where the great man's father-in-law lived. When the great man came to Yanjing when he was young, he lived here. It has a connection with your Yanjing University."

What? Great man?

When Yu Qi heard this, he felt his forehead burning with excitement and he wished he could throw away all his money and make the deal immediately.

When Zhang Shouren saw Yu Qie's expression, he knew it was all over. The young man still lacked strategic determination. When someone gave him a sugar-coated bullet, Yu Qie swallowed it all.

"Then your house has to be cheaper, because you have to pay the full price in one lump sum, which is more than 20,000 yuan... Where can you find such an expensive house?"

Zhang Shouren wanted to help Yu Qie cut a few more pieces. "In 80, Qiao Gong visited Singapore and said he wanted to buy a house for his children after he came back. He always said, 'I have saved some money, can I buy it?' - Your house is so expensive, even if a big shot came, he would be short of money."

The householder refused to budge and told his own difficulties: "A flight from China to Italy costs about 10,000 yuan. I have to save some money to survive when I get there. 21,000 yuan, not a penny less."

"Really can't miss it?"

"Not a cent less."

Zhang Shouren pulled Yu Qie away and whispered to the entrance of the alley, "Do you really want to give up this house?"

"It has to be this way." "Why?"

"Because he used to live around here."

Then, Zhang Shouren still managed to cut the price. When Yu Qie went to the Housing Management Office to register the certificate, he did not pay the money and let the household owner pay for it himself.

"Pah!" A small blue certificate fell in front of Yu Qie. This was the first generation of property rights certificate. Originally, the residential property rights of residents could only be registered at the end of this year. Because this matter involved the residence of overseas Chinese, it was specially registered.

Yu Qie thus became one of the first people in the country to obtain a real estate certificate.

Goodbye, uncles and nephews in Italy, I hope you can beat the house inflation in Italy and don’t end up like Uncle Jules.

After buying the house, Yu Qie had little money left. This house still needed to be renovated, so it was impossible to move in right away. It was a combination of two courtyards, with a total of nine rooms and two gardens. To modernize it would take at least half a year and would cost a lot.

Yu Qie simply moved the letters he received from readers all over the country from the editorial office of October and Yenching University. Zhang Shouren also moved a lot of letters addressed to Yu Qie from his home.

These letters almost filled up an entire room.

Many of the letters were written with "Yu Che, Yenching University" or "Yu Che, October". Readers had no idea where Yu Che lived, but these letters still managed to reach him.

Zhang Shouren was even happier than Yu Qie when he saw that he had a house in Yanjing. He said, "After you graduate, you must come to our October magazine to work as an editor for a while. I will try to find a way to help you get your household registration."

Yes, I don’t have a household registration in Yanjing yet.

At this time, Yanda graduates had to find a Yanda unit to settle in Yanjing. If they were assigned to other places, they would not be able to get a Yanjing hukou. Zhang Shouren's words were so important that he had already found a new employer for Yu Qie.

The more important the magazine is, the more famous people it involves, and so it is actually more difficult to get the household registration.

Feng Jicai was originally spotted by People's Literature, which wanted to move his household registration from Heilongjiang Province to Yenching, but the publishing house had no household registration at the time, so they had to find a roundabout way to save the situation. They first let Feng Jicai go to China Youth, which had just resumed publication.

Yu Qie bought a few big locks and locked up his courtyard, and came to see it every few days. He went back to school and wrote a letter to his family and Zhang Li.

Zhang Li received his letter, opened it and read it, she was puzzled: "Why does Brother Yu need so many houses?"

"Two people, do we need nine rooms?"

"Even if I bring in his family and my family, there won't be enough people to live here... Unless I try my best to have children, I'll be exhausted to death. I can't have enough children."

In the crew of "Dream of Red Mansions", the actor who played "Lin Daiyu" was an actor named Chen Xiaoxu, who got along well with her.

After hearing about this, Chen Xiaoxu said to Zhang Li: "I heard that writers have some strange habits. Your partner may like houses. He likes very big houses."

"Bigger than the Grand View Garden?"

Chen Xiaoxu smiled and said, "The Grand View Garden is too big, and it will be deserted if there are too few of you."

Zhang Li said, "It's too deserted... When Brother Yu finishes renovating the house, I'll take you there to see it and make it more popular."

Chen Xiaoxu thought it was strange to say this, but she didn't think too much about it. Instead, she suggested that Zhang Li should start a real estate business when she makes money in the future: "Don't you want to be a strong woman? Build a house for him to live in, and give him as many as he wants."

(End of this chapter)