readsfreenovel Chapter 28: Educated Youth of the Era (Part 10)
Chapter 28: Educated Youth of the Era (Part 10)
Before boarding the train, Liu Yuxi sent a telegram home from the post office, saying that he was carrying too much stuff, so his eldest and second eldest brothers bought platform tickets and waited at the station.
Before the train even stopped, Liu Yuxi saw her older brothers and quickly greeted them. After the train stopped, Liu Yuxi waited on the train for the others to get off first.
Her two older brothers came to her window: "Little sister, hand us the things, we'll take them down first."
Then Liu Yuxi handed the things to her brother. When they arrived at the commune, she borrowed a few bags to repack the things the villagers had given her, making a total of five large bags. Adding her own two bags of luggage, there were a total of seven large bundles.
Her older brother took the things and asked her, "Little sister, what's all this? Why do you have so much luggage?" "Most of it was given to me by people in the village. I only have two bags of my own luggage, mostly local specialties. I'll take a look when I get home!"
The group, carrying their luggage, left the station, found a rickshaw, and took their luggage home. Knowing she was arriving home today, her second sister also took her child back to her parents' home. The family was naturally overjoyed to see each other, as traveling in the Northeast during winter is too troublesome, many elderly people and children get sick in winter, and the village can't do without a doctor. In recent years, Liu Yuxi hadn't been home to visit her relatives.
Her mother and sister both cried, and her two sisters-in-law also had red eyes and were trying to comfort her. Fortunately, Liu Yuxi has been well-nourished over the years and is now 1.63 meters tall. He is not thin and has not been tanned. Otherwise, his mother and sister would have been devastated.
The oldest child in the family is just over ten years old, and the youngest is still breastfeeding. Seeing her grandmother (maternal grandmother) and aunt (mother) crying like this, she was frightened and started crying too. Only then did her mother and sister stop to comfort the children.
After the initial excitement, they looked at Liu Yuxi's admission notice and told her that her younger brother had been admitted to Shanghai Jiaotong University. Then they started unpacking the package. Liu Yuxi knew what her fellow villager had sent, but her family didn't. When they saw the two large bags containing over 200 kilograms of cured pork, sausages, cured chicken, and dried pheasant, rabbit, and roe deer meat, Liu's family was shocked. These days, who would see so much meat at once? They couldn't help but admire the simplicity of their fellow villager.
The other three packages contained various dried fruits and vegetables. Liu Ma took some out of each package and packed them separately for her to take with her when she went home. She put the rest away. There was so much stuff that the house was almost full.
Then, after eight years, the family finally had a reunion dinner together. It was already very late after the meal, so Liu's mother urged her second sister and her brother-in-law, who had come to pick up her second sister's child, to go back home. After all, the house was too small, and there was really no way to let her second sister's family stay overnight. It was too late, and she was worried about taking the child out to walk. So she could only let them go back early.
Not long after Liu Yuxi went to the countryside, his second sister got married, and his younger brother moved into the room upstairs with her. Now that Liu Yuxi has returned, he can only make do with the small bed in his parents' room at night. Unable to sleep, Liu Yuxi curls up on the small bed in frustration, thinking, "Buy a house, we must buy a house as soon as possible!"
The next morning, Liu Yuxi told her family about her idea of buying a house. After all, her family were native Shanghainese, and she didn't want to live too far from home. She wanted to look for a suitable house near her home.
She also confided to her family that over the years in Northeast China, she had accumulated a considerable fortune. She mainly sought out those who had been sent back to the countryside. Many of them were afraid of being persecuted and wanted to go abroad, so they wanted to sell the houses that had been returned to them. She was looking for houses with complete property rights, preferably small villas.
Then, while the women in the family were preparing for the New Year and chatting with the neighbors, they kept an eye out for any information about houses that wanted to be sold.
Later, he looked at several houses, some were two or three rooms in alleyways with property rights, and some were a floor of a small villa like the one Liu's family owned. Later, Liu Yuxi actually came across a house for sale, a detached villa. The owner was an old professor who had been rehabilitated. He was too old to go back to teaching at the university, and his children had been living abroad for many years. He wanted to sell the house and go abroad to reunite with his children.
His house was originally allocated to a work unit by the neighborhood committee when it was reclaimed, so the layout remained basically unchanged. There were no other tenants, so there were no disputes, and it was also an independent property.
After agreeing on the price with the old professor, Liu Yuxi made a private deal with him using gold, since such a small villa would cost 8 RMB even in this era.
After the house was transferred to the new owner, Liu Yuxi, through his father, found someone to renovate the house. Don't even think about finding any hidden treasures; the secret rooms in this kind of house are very well hidden, and unless the original owner tells you, most people wouldn't be able to find them.
There is indeed a secret room in this house, but the old professor has already taken out the things inside when he returned. Moreover, Liu Yuxi only found out the location of the secret room after the old professor told her about it. If she didn't know, she wouldn't have noticed anything unusual at all.
Liu Yuxi suggested that the family buy the house among the ones they had looked at that had no property disputes, since they had three sons and there would be no place for their youngest son to get married after graduation.
Moreover, this area will be demolished in the future, and with so many houses, the family can become a "second-generation demolition beneficiary." Of course, this was something she secretly thought about and didn't say aloud. She carefully analyzed it for Liu's parents, as well as Liu's eldest and second eldest brothers and their wives.
More and more people are returning to the city, and housing in Shanghai is already quite tight. Moreover, each family has several children. When the next batch of children grows up, there will be even less housing. Housing prices will only continue to rise. It's better to buy a house as soon as possible while you can afford it and there are still options available.
After hearing her explanation, her family thought it made sense. After all, they wouldn't lose money if they bought the houses, and they could rent them out even if they didn't live there themselves. So, they bought three houses, one for each of the three brothers.
My second sister also mentioned that although they are currently living in a house allocated to her by her husband, and there is room for them, they also have three children, two of whom are boys. So, after discussing it with her husband, my second sister bought another house near her home.
After Liu Yuxi's small villa was simply renovated, it was New Year's Eve. The family celebrated the New Year in a lively manner, visited relatives, and then it was time for the start of the university semester.
As a freshman, Liu Yuxi was required to live on campus, so he could only go back to the small villa on weekends. Of course, he would still eat at his parents' house during the day.
Without the pressure of survival, Liu Yuxi's life revolved solely around studying. In addition to economics, which she was studying, she would also look for books on other subjects that interested her in the library. If she didn't understand something while studying, she could ask the professors at the school.
These days, teachers are eager for their students to study hard and diligently, wishing they could cram all their knowledge into their heads before they die. So in the university environment, no matter what you study, as long as you want to learn, you can always find someone to answer your questions.