Chapter 387: How to Own Five Buildings

At 6pm, it's twilight and there's not much daylight coming into the sunny town with all the tall buildings everywhere, so it's getting dark very quickly.

In District C, the streetlights on both sides of the new buildings are coming on one after another, casting an even and warm orange glow, and the lights on the top floors of some of the buildings are also coming on, shining like diamonds, much brighter than the streetlights, shining like stars in the night, making Yuan Guang and Shi Qian look up at them.

"It's so bright." Shi Qian exclaims, "These penthouses are so bright, I haven't seen such bright light during the day."

"That's natural." Yuan Guang took a packet of bread, a bottle of mineral water and tilted his head to look at those top floors, "That's where the richest people in District C live, usually the whole floor is sold."

"There are more than 320 square feet on the ground floor, and generally more than 300 square feet excluding the average share." Yuan Guang said.

Shi Qian was staggered: "More than 320 sq. ft. for a suite? According to the calculation of 25 square feet here to live in a family of five, this can at least live in 52 people!"

"And the top floor is the most expensive floor, with the pricing for the ground floor going up to 370-400,000." Yuan Guang crunched the information he'd plucked from sales, pausing abruptly to say, "That works out to almost 130 million or so for a floor ......"

Shi Qian, who had been pestered by Xiaodong about Sunshine Seedlings all afternoon, subconsciously started to convert: "They can pledge 50 to 1 million for one child here, so 130 million, which is about 130 children ...... "

The maximum number of people who can live in the house is 52, but it takes 130 children to secure a mortgage for them, and it is clear that these extra children cannot grow up to live in the house, as there is no space reserved for them and their names are not on the property deeds.

According to Xiaodong, these children, who have been given loans by Sunshine, will be asked by their parents to leave their homes and become independent when they are old enough to work, and will work harder to save for their own homes while paying back their parents' loans over the next few decades.

This means that they will live under the pressure of two mortgages for the rest of their lives.

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian both felt a sense of suffocation as they thought of this and fell silent.

Yuan Guang looked down at his 10 yuan packet of discounted bread, his fingers squeezed the greasy bag: "Without [sunshine loan], according to the average salary level of 4500 like that, to live in a penthouse, not counting the interest on the loan, even if you don't eat or drink ...... "

Shi Qian paused for a moment and barely laughed twice: "It seems like you have to work for 2,000 years to live in this 300 sq ft house ......"

Yuan Guang took a bite of the bread and chewed without speaking, the discounted bread tasted like it was going to expire in his mouth as he bit into it, making his stomach turn and he swallowed.

"This bread is expired, don't eat it." Shi Qian hadn't eaten it long ago, just held it.

Yuan Guang bowed her head, "But this bread is a hot product in the convenience store and I see that everyone else is queuing up to buy it."

"Because it's cheap, I guess." Shi Qian sighed softly, "We were late, the eight dollar instant noodles were sold out, a skewer of kanto here costs sixteen dollars, and people here can't afford to eat anything other than the ten dollar discounted bread."

Shi Qian pulled himself together and patted Yuan Guang on the shoulder, "It all tastes good, so don't eat it, I lost a bit of life after one bite, go throw it away."

Yuan Guang took a deep breath and stood up on his knees with a hitch. He looked back into the darkness of the buildings, which looked like a forest of steel, and only the top floor gave off such a hauntingly beautiful glow.

"That salesman said that the top floor houses are the closest to the sun in Sunnyside, so they're always a good sell, and rich people rush to get them."

Yuan Guang whispered in a daze, "It's only after six o'clock and it's all bright as the sun at night, there's no darkness anywhere else, only the top floor is lit, no wonder everyone wants to buy a house here."

Shi Qian walked over to the bins and turned around to follow Yuan Guang's line of sight, her expression hard to hide the complexity: "Because only the residents on the top floor go home from work at six o'clock and leave the lights on, I guess."

"The other floors are occupied by ordinary residents who should still be working overtime at this hour."

Yuan Guang was stunned and her thoughts quickly came back to her: "Yes, they basically work all day without taking any holidays ......"

As Yuan Guang and Shi Qian were about to throw the panel into the rubbish bin together, a man suddenly came out of nowhere and looked at the bread in Yuan Guang's and Shi Qian's hands with glowing eyes, startling Yuan Guang and Shi Qian.

The man whispered, "Can I have the bread you're holding without eating it?"

Yuan Guang saw the woman in front of him, who was dressed appropriately and wearing light make-up, by the faint light of the street lamp, and could not resist raising her voice: " Xiaodong ?!"

The woman in front of them, guarding the bin, is Xiaodong, the smiling salesperson who introduced them to real estate.

Xiaodong was not embarrassed at all and stared straight at the bread they were putting in the trash: "Can I have the bread if you don't eat it?"

Yuan Guang and Shi Qian looked at each other hesitantly, and after Shi Qian nodded, Yuan Guang handed over the bread and asked in confusion, " Xiaodong, you work in real estate sales, your salary is not low, right? How come ......"

Yuan Guang's words stopped as he watched Xiaodong finish a loaf of bread in two large bites, not even taking a sip of water.

...... It had decayed to the point where he and Shi Qian lost their lives eating it. Xiaodong had no reaction to it, as if he was accustomed to such food.

Xiaodong clapped his hands together after eating and gave Yuan Guang another of his standard business smiles, "I'm just a salesman, similar to a receptionist, there are people willing to come anywhere, I'm just lucky that I'm good looking and can talk and was chosen by the recruiter."

Yuan Guang asked, "Would you mind telling us how much you make a month?"

Xiaodong didn't mind at all: "Three thousand five hundred."

Yuan Guang listened to the expression after a hard to say, this world actually can't even buy a building for sale ...... is really too magical.

Shi Qian asks, "Normally, you get a percentage when you buy a building, right?"

"What's a draw?" Xiaodong is slightly confused.

After Shi Qian explained this and that to Xiaodong, Xiaodong suddenly understood: "You are talking about this thing, this thing is the agent of the developer to eat, he can eat every building sold to get 27% of the commission, this profit we can not eat, we just help the agent of the developer to work. "

Yuan Guang frowned and asked rhetorically, "Acting as a developer?"

In the real world he could understand having an agent developer, but now that the land is directly in private hands, what need is there for an agent?

This is not how you can price yourself, how you can rip off, how there is an agent developer in the middle to eat the difference in price.

"Yes, every new development has an agent developer." Xiaodong explained as he wiped his fingers, "The agent developer usually seems to be the top developer, the descendant of the top five developers who hold all the land."

"The big five developers will contract out the development to their own offspring as agents, the big developers never come out, it's the agent developers who do the development, for example, I know ah, the agent developer of this new development in Area C is the grandson of one of the big five developers."

Xiaodong says: "The acting developer is mainly responsible for researching the needs, desires and affordable pricing of Sunshine City residents, allocating floor space and designing a variety of house types to suit the residents."

"Pricing that can be afforded?! A size suitable for residents?" Shi Qian couldn't hold back an expletive, "Fuck, you call that affordable and habitable?!"

Yuan Guang's eyes twitched and he asked, "So that means the ownership of the new property is in the hands of the agent developer, right?"

Xiaodong nodded, "Yes."

"Do you know where he lives?" Yuan Guang carefully inquired, "Or rather, Xiaodong, do you know then that the acting developer of this new development in Area C behind us, will show up tonight?"

Xiaodong pointed back to the brightest top floor in Area C in the night: "No, that's where he lives."

"He's definitely going to show up tonight." Xiaodong pointed to Yuan Guang and then turned to him, "Because this new property is not yet on the market for pricing tonight and we have to wait for him to come over to give pricing."

Yuan Guang repeated in a soft voice: "Pricing?"

Xiaodong said, "Yes, that's how much the house costs per square foot, now he should be on the top floor discussing with other agent developers, almost 7:30 will come over to set the price of the new property."

7:30.

In the bustling, gilded sales hall, the glow of the crystal chandelier suddenly dimmed, accompanied by the sound of a dulcet violin playing at some point, a circle of haloed white light hit the door, and a middle-aged man in a baggy tracksuit, sneakers and slightly wrinkled, flat features appeared in the middle of the light.

Everyone fell silent, respectfully and nervously making a straight path for the man's movement as he stepped inside the hall, the man smiled and greeted those on either side with a fist and a bow, walking leisurely inside with the circle of light that fell on him, until he reached the towering bleachers directly opposite the main doors, turning to all with another owed slight bow.

"Good evening, everyone."

Xiaodong whispered in Shi Qian's ear, "He's the general agent developer for Area C. We usually call him C Dong."

Shi Qian and Yuan Guang looked at each other, both feeling very strange in their hearts.

This C Dong ...... looks like a normal person and is quite polite.

This so-called C Dong stood on a red wooden stand more than a metre above the ground, behind which hung a huge stepped floating climbing painting with a grid of wooden panels rising upwards, all the way to a point where those below could not see them, these panels protruding out of the picture like a ladder, with numbers next to them, ordered from 300,000, 305,000 and so on, all the way up to 580,000.

Each panel corresponds to a number, and the panel corresponding to [320,000] has a blue flag placed on it, which is embroidered with the four big golden letters [Today's Property Price].

This C Dong slowly picked up the small flag from the [320,000] board, and Shi Qian heard the people around him take a deep breath in tense unison, all eyes turning without turning to look at the small blue flag.

A child in the crowd whispered.

"Mum, you're pinching my shoulder."

Shi Qian looked over and saw that it was the couple who had consulted the house with them this morning. The mother knelt down and gave her child a firm hug, with what appeared to be tears in her eyes, and patted him on the shoulder and whispered.

"I'm sorry, it's mommy's fault for treating you badly and bringing you to a place like this."

The child was holding her mother's hand in a daze, still laughing happily, "It's okay, Mum, we're here to buy a new home, there's nothing wrong with it."

This mother took a deep breath, buried her head in her child's shoulder and gave a very soft mmm.

The father next to him looked down at this child, afraid to look at him, and his hand trembled a little as he took the other two children.

Shi Qian withdrew her gaze, and she slowly clenched her hand.

But instead of just dropping the flag, this C director put it down in a playful manner, put it behind his back and looked at everyone with a friendly smile, "I believe we all came here for a home."

"It is our common pursuit to give all people who come to Sunny City a warm home, and the price of housing is also the most important concern for everyone. For this reason, I have been discussing with the agent developers of several other districts for an afternoon, without even drinking any water, just to bring down the price of 320,000 per square foot."

Everyone's eyes started to glaze over, even Xiaodong, who was excitedly tiptoeing around in his heels trying to get a glimpse of the front row.

Some people already couldn't help but start asking, blushing with excitement, "C Dong, are you really planning to lower the price of the new property?"

C Dong smiled and nodded as he spread his hands in a seemingly helpless manner, "Naturally, I already live on the top floor of Sunshine City and make over a billion dollars a month, does it make sense for me to make money from you guys again?"

"Could I earn more and be able to go and buy a house above the sun?"

C Dong this joke all nervous buyers can not help but laugh, the atmosphere can not help but lighten up, some people below have begun to cajole: "C Dong," the first time in the world.

"C Dong the Great Good!"

"I'll definitely try to work in Dong C's company in the future!"

The couple were also so excited that they were whispering to each other, head to head, discussing.

"If it comes down more, let's not take the kids off the table, we can earn it back with a few more jobs of our own."

The man nodded quite approvingly, "This new development is looking for construction workers, and the wage price offered is quite good, I'll go and move bricks, if the price drops to over 200,000 per square foot, you two and I will work 20 hours a day, we might be able to equalize."

Xiaodong was so excited that he was on the verge of tears, but the more Yuan Guang and Shi Qian looked at each other, the more they saw something wrong.

What's the point of having a conscience at this time of year?

C Dong raised his hand and pressed it downwards, smiling up, "Personally, I really don't think there's any need for house prices to rise any further ah, I still hope that everyone in Sunny City can work as hard as I do to live in a penthouse suite in Sunny City."

"So with my fight." C Dong took out that flag from behind his back and slowly lowered it, placing it under the bottom 300,000 grid, "The pricing for this new property has been reduced to 260,000 a square foot."

At these words, the room was silent for two seconds, then everyone shouted out in excitement as if they were mad.

"Oh my God! That's two years old prices!"

"Are you pinching me, am I dreaming?!"

The couple even hugged their children tightly, the man let out a long breath and the wife cried tears of joy straight away, they squeezed into a small home and worked hard to raise their three children, although it was said that at the beginning there were loans in mind for the birth of the children, to the point where now, how they all have feelings.

It has been delayed until now, when the prices have gone up really badly and this new development in Area C has opened, before I came with my children to ask about [Sunshine Nursery].

How can you just so dryly give up a child you have raised for years and send it into the fire.

"But." C Dong's brow furrowed sadly as that little blue flag slowly rose in his hand, "Although the prices have come down, what I've done has made the agents in several other districts very unhappy and they are demanding-"

C Dong lifted his friendly and affable face, "- Raise the commission from 27 percent to 40 percent."

"So the price of the house though is $260,000, plus a forty percent commission, which comes to -"

C Dong unhurriedly raised the small blue flag and put it next to the wooden grid corresponding to [370,000], and let out a long sigh to everyone: "I did my best, the final price is 370,000 per square foot, you won't blame C Dong, right?"

Xiaodong staggered back two steps and suddenly covered his mouth and ran to a rubbish bin, vomiting with a pale face, filling his stomach with expired mouldy bread.

The couple fell to the ground in a trance, hugging their children tightly again as they cupped the [Sunlight Nursery] contract paper in their hands, no light left in their eyes at all, muttering under their breath, "No blame, no blame on C Dong ......"