Chapter 385: How to Own Five Buildings

The auction of the murder house came to an end.

Just as Yuan Guang and Shi Qian were hanging their heads, they heard the unbelievable figure: "The starting bid for this suite is 300,000."

The two men looked up sharply at the auction stand, and Bai Liu, who had heard the price, looked over with interest.

The auctioneer looked down at the catalogue and read the introduction without emotion: "- This is a 2.45 sqm custom-built house on the 18th floor, on the outskirts of Sunnyside, one of the amenities in Area E, with a physical area of about 2 sqm after sharing the equalization, no toilet kitchen, no electricity, water or gas network, no hospital, supermarket or transport station nearby, for one person."

"The last house slave died suddenly at his job, so the auction was repossessed."

The auctioneer raised his head, his tone indifferent: "The bidding starts at 300,000..."

Yuan Guang nervously held up his $310,000 sign, looking around to see if anyone else was going to compete with him, but surprisingly, very few people raised their sign for such a cheap house, a far cry from the previous fight over the house, and even when people did raise their sign, there was a clear look of fear and hesitation on their faces.

"305,000."

"306,000 ......"

"Thirty ...... sorry I'm not filming anymore, count me out for not shouting, sorry."

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian looked at each other strangely, and after ascertaining the probability that they would be able to win the house, they whispered.

"Why isn't anyone shooting this set? It's cheap, it's only 300,000."

"It's too small, and there's no water or electricity, is that why it's uninhabitable?"

"No way, there was a house in Area B, just a bit bigger than this, 3 square meters, basement, no electricity, and it was sold out for $470,000."

"Is the lot too bad?"

"They've all come to shoot the murder house, I don't feel like they care about the lot ......"

The more Shi Qian looked at it, the more she felt something was wrong: "I feel as if they are afraid of the house."

Yuan Guang became more and more puzzled: "This group of people are all shooting murder houses eh, what other house could scare them?"

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian tried to ask people around them what was wrong with the house, but they were too secretive to talk about it, except for the man they spoke to who kindly advised them, "Don't film it, it's really dead if you live in it."

"The house here that houses the undead?" Shi Qian asked rhetorically in heartfelt confusion.

The man waved his hand, glanced around and whispered close to Shi Qian's ear, "People don't necessarily die when they live in a murderous house, but they will definitely die when they live in this house, don't film it!

But if you don't shoot ......

Yuan Guang hesitated for a moment, then they hadn't captured anything today, and just as these two were considering it, a low male voice came from behind them.

"Thirty-two thousand."

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian subconsciously turned their heads, and when they saw that the person holding the sign was Tang Erda, the tallest of them all, they drew a cold breath and instantly shrank back, turning around and darting into the crowd, covering themselves up with a sunscreen, not daring to breathe.

"Are you still shooting, Shi Qian?" Yuan Guang asks in a whisper.

"What the hell! Bai Liu and their team are here, we'll be seen for sure if we film it!" Shi Qian said glumly, "The house will have to be given to them first."

As if afraid of Tang Erda's remorse, the auctioneer dashed the hammer to the deal: "Will the gentleman please come up and collect this home worth $320,000!"

Tang Erda walked forward with a tense expression, coldly swiped the recruiter's ID card and paid 320,000, then quickly took the property deed and left with Bai Liu, looking from the back with the hasty panic and unnaturalness of a first-time thief.

Yuan Guang, who was hidden in the crowd, glanced at Shi Qian as if she had a heart to heart and asked, "How do you think they got the money?"

"If I'm not mistaken ......" Shi Qian had barely finished his sentence when a scream had already come from the auctioneer's side, pointing in the direction Tang Erda had left, "Patrol! Catch the man who just swiped his card! He swiped someone else's card!"

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian: "......"

Ah, sure enough.

"Luckily we forced those recruiters to write the cheque straight away ......" Yuan Guang patted his chest in fear, "So close, so close, or we would have been caught too."

Shi Qian looked in the direction Bai Liu had left and slowly frowned: "What's going on with that $320,000 house in the E district?"

Zone E.

Bai Liu, with a couple of detours, simply lost the patrol that was following them and headed straight for the location written on the property deeds in Area E.

"......18 Street 444 ......" Mu Sicheng spat as he read the location on the property deed, "That's an unlucky road number. unlucky, right? No wonder it's so cheap."

Liu Jiayi looks at Mu Sicheng for a second: "I don't think something like a lucky road number will affect the price of a house in Sunshine City."

"The people here shouldn't care about such things anymore." Tang Erda looked around in a stony circle, "They should be willing to live anywhere as long as they can survive."

Muke frowned and asked, "But they'd rather live in a murder house than here, a house so cheap that no more than five people have just put up a sign, why?"

Bai Liu was nonchalant: "We'll see when we get there."

Compared to the concrete and steel city centre, the E district is remote and on the outskirts of the city, with potholes and puddles on the road and mud from the rains, and the recreational facilities in the district, such as the walkers and slides, are rusty and collapsed, just like the roads.

Although the buildings in the neighbourhood are also tall, the walls are very old when you look at them, with paint, plaster putty and tiles all peeling off to varying degrees, and some of them are crawling with green cane plants, so it is obvious that they are all a bit old.

An aura of old age and decay pervades the entire E section.

Most of the people who live in these old houses are not young, and those who come out of the windows of the houses to dry their clothes are old grandparents, with white heads, old faces and obvious illnesses, and most of the clothes they hang out to dry are work uniforms that have been washed until they are faded and white, and they have a few patches on them in one way or another.

The buildings are similarly built and there are no landmarks, even the style of each house and the clothes drying on the balconies are similar.

"Just ask for directions." Tang Erda looked around with his property card and he saw a couple of elderly people slowly walking down from the rambler with each other, "Hello, how do you get to 444 E?"

The pair looked up at Tang Erda when they heard her asking for directions, and when they saw their faces, Tang Erda paused for a moment.

The two old men, one male and one female, have cloudy, dead grey eyes, dense age spots crawling from the edge of their mouths to the bridge of their floppy noses, and a stench of decaying organs between their breaths, and a yellow-green, reddish blood pus is flowing from their ears and nasal passages, dripping drop by drop onto the ground, where it is absorbed and lost.

These two elderly people have aged to the extreme of the adjective [old] as normal people can imagine, even making them look like ...... two corpses that can move.

"You are on ......" Tang Erda glanced at the rambler.

The old grandfather replied tremulously, "I am sick and have just been exercising with my wife."

"The old man should rest when he is ill." Tang Erda steadied the two with her upper hand and asked with a frown, "Where are your children?"

The grandmother next to me shook her head, "We can't rest, we have to work."

"Work?!" Mu Sicheng, helping to hold the grandmother, asked incredulously in return, "Granny, you're so old and you have to go to work?"

The grandmother gave Mu Sicheng a strange look: "Yes, if you don't work, you don't get paid."

The old man next to him nodded rather approvingly, "We both have a mortgage to pay."

For a moment, everyone was silent, except Bai Liu who slowly stepped forward to take over and assisted the old man from Tang Erda: "How many years did you take out the loan?"

The old man shook his hand to compare a seven: "I took out a loan with my wife for seventy years, I started working when I was fifteen, and now I have ten years to pay off the loan."

"You have to be fit to continue working and paying off your mortgage." The old man patted Bai Liu's hand holding his own as if he were teaching a young man, "Don't avoid work just because you're sick, it's not right, look, I've worked well for sixty years and I'll finally have my own house soon."

It's a pity that there's nothing left over here in E. In the early days when E was full of young people, it was just as prosperous and expensive as A. Unfortunately, only us old things live here now."

"We're getting older, we don't have the energy to work seven or eight jobs a day as we did when we were younger, we don't make much money, places like hospitals and schools with high spending can't even stay open anymore, they all moved out a few years ago, there aren't even a few restaurants left in this neighbourhood these days." The old grandfather shook his head.

"Do hospitals and schools and stuff move out?" Mu Sicheng was surprised, "You can't rent here, they're supposed to buy storefronts for hospitals and schools and stuff, right? How can they move?"

The old man nodded: "Of course they have to move out if they can't continue, they are doing the hospital and school, although the fees are very high, but we are not unable to understand, the mortgage to buy the facade to do business is very, very high, the people in the hospital and school are also living a very hard life, earning fifty dollars, forty-eight dollars have to be used to pay the mortgage."

"It's hard to do business, it's hard to do business." The grandmother shook her head and agreed, "We are just earning some hard money, if we can't go on and can't pay the mortgage, we have to die, and when we die, the property will be repossessed, isn't that moving away?"

Mu Sicheng opened his mouth to say something, but in the end nothing came out.

Soon the old man perked up again, "But although the amenities in E are less than stellar right now, there is something very nice about the houses in E."

The grandmother's face also brought a grateful smile to her face, "It's a good thing we bought it early, otherwise we would be chewing on the small ones now."

The old man also nodded solemnly and truthfully, commenting rather spitefully, his beard shaking on both sides in anger: "Yes, the current batch of young people, who do nothing, want to live well and want a good house, don't work hard and don't work hard, just know how to gnaw on the next generation, it's really disgraceful!"

"What gnawing little?" Mu Sicheng sounded a little dazed, "What next generation?"

The old man glanced at the young man, who knew nothing, and explained good-naturedly, "It's the number of years of ownership."

"The house in E was bought early and was given a hundred years of ownership, which means you could live in this house for almost a hundred years, so we were able to get a loan for seventy years, but now the real estate agents are not willing to give that long of ownership anymore."

"Yes." The grandmother nodded, "I seem to remember that there is only 20 years of ownership, and after 20 years the estate agent will take it back, so the loan has to be paid off within twenty years, and the mortgage spread to each month is very high, and many young people cannot afford to pay it back at all without nibbling on the small."

Next to her, Tang Erda frowned: "What's a little nibble?"

He had only heard of nibbling on the old not the young.

The old man looked around at this group of young people who knew nothing, hesitated for a moment, but still spoke, "It's an advance on the future, so that your future children can help you pay back the loan, a new repayment model researched by five major developers."

"If you're interested, there's a new property opening in Area C today, so you can go there and ask."

New building in Area C.

As soon as the magnificent property sales centre landed three days ago, countless people have been inquiring about it, and now that it has finally opened, a crowd of people are swarming into it like hungry men who have been starving for ten days and have smelled a feast.

On either side of the entrance stand menacing patrols armed with firearms, high-voltage electric batons and steel forks to maintain order.

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian were swept in by the crowd, and for a few seconds they were dazed and confused, and it took them a while to recover.

The number of people who came to the new development was so great that it was beyond Yuan Guang and Shi Qian's expectation. They had only heard the news and were ready to come and have a look, after all, the price of the new development was so horrible that they could not afford it with only $60 million in their pockets.

But ...... buying new properties should be the surest way to get through this game compared to auctioning off murder houses one by one and not necessarily every single one of them.

Originally Yuan Guang and Shi Qian thought that not many people would come to see such an expensive new property as they could not afford it.

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian saw a mixture of well-dressed, first-class citizens, waxen and wobbly-faced house slaves, as well as a few temporary residents with CV signs on their chests and no clothes.

This extremely mixed crowd structure further confused Yuan Guang and his team.

Why would a first class citizen want to buy another home when they've bought one? Why would a homeowner come to a new development when he or she is paying off the mortgage and can't afford it? Temporary residents can't even afford to pay the mortgage, so why come and see it?

By the time they were swept in by the crowd, before they could recover, an enthusiastic salesperson helped them up and asked politely with a big smile, "Hello, are you here to buy a house?"

Yuan Guang was a little flattered when she was helped to her feet: "Yes, yes."

The real estate related NPCs here are all arrogant and condescending, once you look at your clothes and can't afford the cost of buying a house, they hate to look at people with their noses, waving their hands impatiently and shooing you away like flies.

"The property is not yet open for sale today, would you like to see the lot and location first? I'm Xiaodong, salesperson for Area C, number 1534, you can ask me anything." Xiaodong smiled like a flower, and her hands moved quickly to help Shi Qian and Yuan Guang sit down, "Do you have a drink or tea you would like to drink?"

Yuan Guang said warily, "Coke, is there?"

Shi Qian: "Chrysanthemum tea will be fine, thanks."

Xiaodong smiled and nodded, holding up the mike in his ear, "A coke and a chrysanthemum tea for me please, yes, I'll get them for you, please wait."

Looking at Xiaodong's distant back, Shi Qian and Yuan Guang took a quick look around and noticed that all the salesmen were very enthusiastic about homeowners, slaves and temporary residents alike, as if these were their potential customers and everyone could afford to buy a home.

Shi Qian said calmly, "If you're so enthusiastic, there's a reason why things don't work out.

Yuan Guang gave a heavy nod.

Xiaodong soon came over with a tray, handing Shi Qian and Yuan Guang the Coke and chrysanthemum tea on the tray respectively, and flipping open the map of the property to introduce them, "What kind of rooms do you want to see this time?"

"We have small homes over here, 12-16 sq ft, which are perfect for a family, and when you remove the equalised area, it still comes down to 11 sq ft or more, which is very much an option for a family of three."

"Of course if there is a need to raise more children, a flat like 20-25 sq ft is highly recommended, and with 20+ sq ft removed from the evenly spread area, it's perfectly capable of housing three to four siblings."

"For example, when you do the decoration of this set, you can design nesting two folding beds and an invisible bed, as well as this big bookcase blocking the parents' and children's beds, so you can only see each other's feet and not each other's heads, and you have privacy from each other."

Xiaodong said with a slightly wry smile, "And it won't interfere with your life as a couple."

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian stared blankly at the small house of more than 20, parents and children in the middle of only a hard stuffed down a large bookcase, can see the feet of the opposite, this situation and still have a couple life ......

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian were also looking at the apartment next to a man and a woman and nodded approvingly, "Yes, it's much more private, our previous one was 12 square feet and our three children had to sit on the floor and watch us get under the covers, which was a bit much for my wife and I."

Shi Qian, who was drinking a glass of water next to him, almost spat out a mouthful of water at that.

Brother, three kids watching you and you can still screw your wife, is there something seriously wrong with you?!

It was the salesman's eyes that lit up at this, "You have three children in your family?"

The man gave a slightly reserved nod, "Yes, we came over this time also because of the children ......"

The sale smiled more affectionately, "Since you have three children, you may want to consider this large 28 sq ft home ......"

The two parties exchanged words as they walked further and further away, and Shi Qian looked around in slight confusion when she finally realised what was wrong -

--Most of the people who come to buy a house are a man and a woman, many with several children, few with one or two, and most of the sales presentations focus on the ability to live with children.

Slightly ...... odd.

Here in Sunshine City, Shi Qian asks herself, she is definitely not willing to get married or have children, but the willingness to have children is quite high here, as evidenced by the most popular house types - most people come up asking for a house type that is around 25 sq ft and can accommodate three children.

Xiaodong went through all the house types and her eyes swept back and forth between Yuan Guang and Shi Qian: "Are you two not planning to get married and have children yet?"

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian were both stunned. They had been colleagues for many years, and in reality, because of their overly social animalism and their encounters with rotten buildings and games, they had long since looked away to the point where all four worlds were empty and they had no such worldly desires for the opposite sex.

As close as they were, their relationship turned sour and they jumped from friends to family because they had never considered it and were still a bit bewildered by the steep question.

Yuan Guang was just about to say no, but was stopped by Shi Qian's quick eye to cover her mouth. She had already spotted that the problem was the child and raised her eyes to face the sale squarely, putting on a shy face: "...... Yes, I am going to give him three children. "

Yuan Guang, who had finished an entire can of Coke next to him, let out a long, horrified belch with wide eyes.

Xiaodong understood: "Since the two of you are planning to have children, I would like to introduce you to a brand new loan service that we at Sunshine City Real Estate have developed for your convenience in buying a home - the Sunshine Nursery Loan."

Shi Qian withdrew her hand and asked, "What kind of loan is this?"

"Many people living within the Sunshine City can't afford to earn a down payment for a suite in their lifetime, such as this 25 ping household, according to the current average price of 320,000 ping, or eight million, Sunshine Nursery loans require a minimum of fifty percent down payment, which is four million, the balance to be repaid twenty years to be repaid, not counting interest in the case of 16,000 per month, most families can afford to be able to buy a house."

Shi Qian couldn't help but retort: "How can a loan be interest-free?"

Xiaodong laughed a little: "The Sunlight Seedling Loan that we are implementing under our banner does not require interest."

Yuan Guang shook his head: "Not even if you don't need interest, a four million dollar down payment is too high, how many people can afford it?"

"That's the subtlety of Sunshine Loans." The warm smile on Xiaodong's face deepened, "Sunshine Nursery Loans offers the service of accepting pre-secured loans for children."

Yuan Guang did not respond for a moment: "What mortgage?"

"The child." Xiaodong wordily repeats it again as she pulls out a contract book and introduces it with a smile, "Here's the deal, assuming you can only pay one million down, then for the remaining three million you can have your child sign a labour contract with our real estate company and have him pledge his labour in the future, for example, for three children, they only need to pledge one million in salary each. "

Yuan Guang looked down at the employment contract that Xiaodong had handed him.

[...... Party A promises that when his offspring is sixteen years old and has the ability to work, he will work twelve hours a day in Party B's company, and Party B promises to give him a monthly salary of four thousand five hundred (the average salary level), and at the same time deduct eighty percent of the monthly mortgage payment of Party A's offspring until his offspring has paid off the mortgage debt of Party A until the mortgage debt is paid].

Yuan Guang's spine chilled as he slowly lifted his head, his mind dizzy for a moment: "Eighty percent of his salary is deducted to pay off the loan, and he has to work twelve hours a day with no breaks, so how will the boy live?"

"Then that's not your concern." Xiaodong smiled indifferently and said, "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, you are a parent, didn't you have him so that he could raise a house for you and let you enjoy yourself?"

"Besides, if you're worried about your child living a tiring life, he can have children of his own to enjoy in the future."