SIAS Chapter 291.1

Yi Qingqing removed the cloth from her eyes and, seeing the scene before her, felt a surge of urge to run.

“Happy 21st birthday to our Little Golden Flower, Comrade Yi Qingqing! This is a special commemorative birthday card issued by the organization. Hooray!”

??ヽ(°▽°)ノ? (Colorful paper scraps rained down from her.)

Yi Qingqing already had three of these red paper poster cards; this was the fourth. Compared to the previous three, the content was slightly different.

The age for the birthday wishes had changed, and the signature was now ‘Jointly Issued by the Four Golden Flowers and Their Families’.

The familiar cheesy vibe arrived, albeit belatedly.

She thought that there was nowhere for her friends to embarrass her this time, but she still couldn’t escape it.

Next, she was adorned with a large red flower like a zombie and received a vintage birthday souvenir.

“Ta-da!” Li Mengxue presented her with a birthday gift—a big red enamel basin.

“Considering you probably already have enough enamel mugs, this time, we upgraded to an enamel basin. How about that? Isn’t it a pleasant surprise?”

“A surprise, a very pleasant surprise! Thank you for the organization’s arrangement!” Yi Qingqing said with a smile.

“I thought I wouldn’t be able to celebrate my birthday like this this year!”

“You know, it’s just the right time! Last week, the housing authority reopened the housing market, so I quickly bought a house. That’s how we were able to celebrate your birthday properly. You’re so lucky! Our organization’s birthday tradition has been perfectly maintained!” Li Mengxue said proudly.

She had finally become a member of the Beijing family with a house!

This courtyard house now belonged to the Li family!

Yi Qingqing felt that her luck was a bit bad, but she didn’t expect the problem to be here.

Li Mengxue had actually bought a house!

And because she hadn’t wanted to spoil the surprise, she hadn’t looked at the golden book, which was why she hadn’t discovered it.

Forget it; whether it was cheesy or not didn’t matter anymore. What’s more important was to look at the house she got and find out about the housing market.

Yi Qingqing looked around.

The house, though small, was fairly tidy, except… It was incredibly dilapidated. The weeds in the courtyard were already knee-high!

The doors, windows, beams, and eaves—where there used to be patterns—were worn smooth or sawn off.

“Well, it is a bit dilapidated! The policy only recently opened up, and there are very few houses for sale. This house is the best of the worst. It’s just that no one has lived here for a while. The key is that it’s in a good location. I don’t have to transfer buses to get to the school. It looks a bit dilapidated, but the doors and windows are not damaged. I can clean it up, and it’ll be habitable. The main thing is that the seller needs money urgently, so the price is cheaper. Once this opportunity is gone, it’ll be gone.” Li Mengxue said.

She had initially wanted to buy a traditional, well-preserved courtyard house.

But although houses can be bought and sold now, the houses listed for sale by the housing authority are all already owned by other homeowners.

These days, there are no commercial housing units; all the houses were allocated in the past, and very few families have vacant properties.

Some houses that were confiscated before have now been returned, but it’s been too short a time; those people are still in the countryside and haven’t had time to return to Beijing, so how could they have time to deal with the houses?

So if you really want to find a good one, you have to wait patiently and need some luck.

This one is a bit small, only one courtyard, and looks a bit deserted, but it’s in a good location, and the price is cheap. Buying it as a temporary solution and waiting for it to appreciate in value later isn’t bad either.

 

 

 

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