1979: The child's mother is a celestial being.

Chapter 179 Let's Register It Under Your Name, Wife (Please Subscribe!)

"Honey, how much savings do we have at home right now?"

"Didn't you just ask about this during the Chinese New Year? Why are you asking about it again?"

"Do you remember when I told you about buying a house?" Chen Fusheng asked instead of answering.

"Of course I remember." Liu Xiaoli felt that her husband wouldn't bring this up today for no reason; there must have been progress. So, she immediately asked expectantly, "Have you found a house you like?"

"Hmm." Chen Fusheng nodded and continued, "At my son's one-month celebration, I asked Li Jun to keep an eye out for apartments, and I didn't expect him to be so efficient. He came to see me at noon today, and then I went with him to the Overseas Chinese Apartments to look at apartments this afternoon..."

"The apartments in the Overseas Chinese Apartments must be expensive, right?" Liu Xiaoli interrupted.

"It's not cheap, but the location is excellent. It's located at No. 30 Gongzhuang West Road, Haidian District, near Yuyuantan Park, and right next to Ganjiakou Shopping Mall. It's also close to Diaoyutai State Guesthouse. The environment and security measures in the community are also very well done. It's one of the most upscale communities in China."

How much is the house price?

"Originally, I wanted 200 yuan per square meter, but after talking with the landlord, she was willing to lower it to 190 yuan per square meter if I paid in full at once."

Liu Xiaoli wasn't quite sure if the unit price was high or low; she was actually asking about the total price.

Seeing that her husband had misunderstood her meaning, she changed her words and asked again.

"What's the overall situation?"

"The house is a 180-square-meter, five-bedroom apartment, so the total price is 34200 yuan."

"It's so expensive! Our 300-square-meter courtyard house, including renovations, only cost a little over 20,000 yuan." When Liu Xiaoli heard her husband mention 34,000 yuan, a hint of heartache flashed across her face without any attempt to hide it. At the same time, she felt that living in a courtyard house wasn't so bad after all.

Winter may be a bit cold, but we got through it last year, didn't we?

We can just burn more coal.

Coal is not expensive compared to the price of houses.

“That house was already furnished, and quite luxuriously so, which is why the owner asked for such a high price. This means that if we buy it for 34,000, we don’t need to renovate anymore; we can move in right away.”

Chen Fusheng further explained to his wife that it was actually a form of persuasion, and that he already had the idea of ​​buying it.

In fact, when Chen Fusheng first saw the house in the afternoon, he was already planning to take it, even though the landlord insisted on 200 yuan per square meter.

Because the renovation alone seemed to cost more than 30,000 or 40,000 yuan, I later learned from chatting with the homeowner that the homeowner's father was a Chinese businessman in Southeast Asia in his early years. In the late 1960s, he led his family back to China to invest. At that time, the Overseas Chinese Apartment had just been completed and was "allocated" to their family this five-bedroom apartment.

Of course, while it's called a "split," it's actually half-buy, half-giveaway.

Later, due to the rise of the Hurricane, the landlord's father's "business" failed, and he ended up in prison... Of course, this was all due to the times, and Chen Fusheng did not ask for details, nor did the other party.

However, just as he had guessed, the homeowner's father did spend tens of thousands of yuan on the renovation of the house.

The homeowner's father passed away due to illness before the Lunar New Year. The homeowner was originally a Southeast Asian citizen. After taking care of his father's funeral, he did not plan to continue living in China. However, before leaving the country, he wanted to sell the house.

Actually, according to the homeowner, her five-bedroom apartment was worth far more than 200 yuan per square meter, but no one would buy it if she asked for too high a price, and no one could afford it, so she quoted a low price that was affordable for her.

As for why they were willing to reduce the price to 190 yuan per square meter for Chen Fusheng, it was because they recognized him, liked his movies, and were his fans; and Chen Fusheng could pay the balance in one lump sum.

The latter part is actually the key.

Because if an installment payment plan is signed, it's not certain that the final payment will be received once the homeowners have moved abroad.

So what if it's 200 yuan per square meter?
Chen Fusheng naturally had no need to hide this information from his wife, and he shared it with her one by one.

After hearing this, Liu Xiaoli felt less resistant. Or rather, what she resisted wasn't the idea of ​​buying a house itself, but the heartache of seeing her family's hard-earned assets shrink by half.

Yes, if you spend 34,000 to buy a house, that's exactly half of your family's savings.

"So, you already have 70,000 yuan in savings?" Chen Fusheng was quite surprised.

He remembered asking his wife about this issue on New Year's Eve last year, and the answer he received was that it was still a bit short of 60,000.

Now my wife says that if we spend 34,000 yuan on an apartment, our family assets will shrink by half. Doesn't that mean we already have 70,000 yuan in savings?
"Sixty-eight thousand, that's still two thousand short of seventy thousand," Liu Xiaoli corrected.

"That's quite a lot! It's only been three months, how did you earn so much?" Chen Fusheng's surprise was genuine; he truly hadn't expected that in just three months since the Lunar New Year, his family's assets would increase by nearly ten thousand.

I don't even feel like I've made a large sum of money.

Liu Xiaoli noticed Chen Fusheng's surprise and said somewhat speechlessly, "You don't even know how much money you've made?"

Hearing his wife's words, Chen Fusheng started counting on his fingers: "My salary is 104.5 yuan a month, so three months' salary is only 313 yuan. When I came back from the Berlin International Film Festival last time, the company gave me a bonus of 1000 yuan. There are quite a lot of director's and screenwriter's fees for 'The Man from Earth,' but I remember I haven't signed the papers yet. Oh right, and there's also the royalties for the novel 'The Adventures of Shuke and Beta 2'... how much was it again?"

“Including the subsequent copyright revenue sharing, it's 2178 yuan,” Liu Xiaoli added on behalf of her husband.

Chen Fusheng nodded, then thought for a moment, but still couldn't remember. So he looked at his wife again and said, "That's all? It adds up to less than three thousand five hundred. Where did you get ten thousand?"

At this moment, a sly smile suddenly appeared on Liu Xiaoli's face, "You haven't settled accounts with me yet."

"Your salary is lower than mine..."

Halfway through his sentence, Chen Fusheng seemed to remember something and suddenly said, "I know, honey, you still have the royalties from the script of 'Hachiko,' so that makes sense."

"Hee hee~"

Liu Xiaoli smiled slightly, a sweet smile, very much like her daughter. No, it's more accurate to say that her daughter looks like her mother when she makes that expression.

"So, honey, you really have to buy it, right?"

"I think it's worth buying, otherwise the money will only depreciate if you just keep it."

This time, Liu Xiaoli didn't ask what devaluation meant, because Chen Fusheng had already explained it to her last time.

She thought about it and decided not to stop her husband, but out of caution, she still reminded him, "The landlord wasn't lying, was he?"

Chen Fusheng realized that he had never really questioned this issue before. Now that his wife had brought it up, he felt that in 1982, a sensitive time, it was something that needed to be taken seriously.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "How about this, I'll contact a friend first to inquire. If they have no problem with it, then we'll buy that house..."

Chen Fusheng didn't say the second half of the sentence, but Liu Xiaoli guessed it. She knew that her husband's current position was very important, and there might be some people watching him. This might not be a 'trap', but it was still against discipline for a division-level cadre with a bright future to own multiple properties. So after hesitating for a while, Liu Xiaoli suddenly suggested, "Honey, how about we put the houses in Mom and Dad's names?"

Chen Fusheng was taken aback.

He never expected his wife to have such political awareness!

Actually, he himself wasn't too worried, but since his wife had this concern...

Then let's just...

The next second, Chen Fusheng looked at his wife and said, "I think it would be better to register it under your name."

"..."

(End of this chapter)