Chapter 40 Let Zhu Lin write for me

Lying on the bed, Li Changhe was thinking seriously about buying a house.

In this era, most houses cannot be bought or sold, as they are all public property.

The first batch of commercial housing sold to the public in Beijing would not be until 80. Li Changhe remembered that it should be in the Tuanjie Lake area.

It seems that there will be a batch of houses there for trial sale, but the price is not cheap, 400 yuan per square meter.

In the 80s, the price per square meter was 400 yuan, and a house would cost about to yuan, which was quite difficult for ordinary people.

Just like Li Changhe now, he can earn a few hundred yuan a month from royalties, which is only a few thousand a year.

There were still three years until 80, and by that time I would have at most ten thousand yuan in my hands.

It was still 77, and the only kind of house Li Changhe could buy was private property in Beijing.

To put it bluntly, the so-called private real estate refers to the houses purchased by ordinary people in the capital before the founding of the People's Republic of China. As long as there is a certificate from before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state will still issue a property certificate after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Another advantage of this type of house is that the land is also owned by the individual.

Therefore, the sale and purchase of this type of house has never been prohibited, it all depends on the personal wishes of the people.

But there is a disadvantage to buying this house now, it is too dilapidated!
Most of these private properties are old houses, or they are slums, or at most they are elementary courtyard houses.

Because the more advanced ones were confiscated in the past few years due to identity issues, and they were not returned until the 1980s.

Many of those who received their returned properties actually sold them. Many of them saw that the country had relaxed restrictions after the reform and opening up, and in order to leave or go abroad, they sold their returned ancestral property at a low price.

There are many courtyard houses of good value, and the prices are not high.

But those are too far away for Li Changhe. They may be good as investments in the future, but now he wants to live there himself.

The remaining large tenements or single courtyard houses can probably be bought for less than 2000 yuan, but they are too shabby.

The families who were able to keep their houses were ordinary families. They were lucky enough to have purchased the property before the founding of the People's Republic of China. However, it has probably been sixty or seventy years since they were renovated.

Siheyuan houses are not very comfortable to live in these days, with dirt roads, old houses, leaks, and many of them don’t even have toilets.

Think about it, in the future, even if a certain queen had a net worth of tens of millions, she still had to come out in the morning to empty the urinal. That was in the 1990s.

All I can say is that in front of the old courtyard house, all beings are equal!
The courtyard houses will certainly be priced sky-high in the future, but the living experience of these courtyard houses in this era is really far inferior to that of buildings.

It seems that I have to look for it carefully, and first look for those with nice interiors and the best living conditions possible.

We’ll talk about investment later.

Li Changhe made up his mind and planned to find an opportunity to go out and take a look tomorrow.

These days, apart from the courtyard houses in Nanluoguxiang and Houhai within the Second Ring Road, which he is sure will not be demolished in the future, Li Changhe has no way of judging whether the courtyard houses in other places will be demolished.

Just like the area of ​​Zhongguancun today, there are also some courtyard houses, and the large house of the Yangshi Lei family is still here.

In another ten or twenty years, all the buildings will surely be demolished.

With this thought in his mind, Li Changhe fell asleep in a daze.

Perhaps because he was tired from opening letters yesterday, Zhu Lin came very late in the morning, and didn't come until after nine o'clock.

“Are you going to reply to these readers today?”

After Zhu Lin came in, he asked Li Changhe softly.

Li Changhe shook his head: "It's not me, it's you!"

"Just write for them. I still have to write the manuscript!"

"I wrote?"

"Yes! You write it!"

Li Changhe didn't mind letting Zhu Lin write for him, since no one else would know about the reply anyway.

"This is simple, it's all clichés, just thanking the other party for the letter, encouraging their revolutionary enthusiasm, and telling them to work together for the country."

"Writing this kind of reply is a waste of my time. After all, a manuscript costs more than 100 yuan."

"These are all minor matters. I have something else to discuss with you now." "What is it?"

Zhu Lin asked back curiously.

"Now that I have some money, I'm thinking about buying a house."

"After all, with our situation, it's impossible for us to have separate rooms for the time being."

Li Changhe spoke softly to Zhu Lin.

In this era, most housing is allocated by work units, just like the one Li Changhe lives in now, which was allocated to his parents and he has to pay rent every month.

It's just that the rent is very low.

Li Changhe's idea of ​​going to college is a good one, which is in line with the progressive thinking of this era, but there is one thing: universities do not have separate housing units.

Zhu Lin is also a college student now. Even if she graduates next year, it is hard to say whether she can get a house immediately after returning to the company. After all, she is just a young girl, and at most she can be arranged in a single dormitory.

"You don't want to live at home?"

When Zhu Lin heard what Li Changhe said, he looked at Li Changhe curiously and asked.

In this era, many people who get married but have no house to live in live with their parents.

Just like Li Changhe has two rooms in his house now, one for his parents and one for him and Zhu Lin, which is completely comfortable for them to live in.

Li Changhe shook his head: "It's not that I don't want to live here, but I don't think there will be enough space."

"If my eldest sister is admitted to the capital next year, she will most likely bring her husband and children with her."

"Even if my eldest sister lives in the school dormitory, what about my brother-in-law? What about the children?"

"The best way is to live at home. I don't want to make it as hard as my parents do. After all, my eldest sister has suffered more than me. She has been through a lot."

"Besides, I really don't like living together with so many people. I prefer to have our own independent space."

Li Changhe expressed his considerations. In fact, it was not because he was a gentleman, but because Li Changhe himself was not used to it.

After all, he is a person of the future, and many of his living habits and daily routines are not consistent with those of this era. This is also the reason why Li Changhe is unwilling to go out to work first.

Many differences in behavior and speech will be manifested unconsciously in daily life.

Besides, he was used to living alone when he was writing in the later generations, and at most he would add a girl. After all, he had too many secrets compared to his age.

This was in the late 1970s. If it had been ten or twenty years earlier, Li Changhe's abnormal behavior would have led to him being reported as a suspected spy or something.

After listening to Li Changhe's words, Zhu Lin also sat down and began to think seriously.

When she first heard Li Changhe say that her eldest sister and her family would come back to live with her, she thought that at most they could just stay at their house.

Their house also has two bedrooms, and the upstairs and downstairs are close.

But judging from Li Changhe's final intention, he wanted to buy a house alone.

"Where should we buy a house, in the countryside around Haidian?"

Zhu Lin didn't know much about buying a house. After all, she had always lived in the house assigned by her family in Beijing. It used to be a tube-shaped building, but later it was changed to this two-bedroom apartment, or else she lived in a dormitory at her company.

"I'm planning to see if there are any private houses that were built before the founding of the People's Republic of China, or well-maintained courtyard houses. We can buy one and then ask a construction team to help renovate it. What do you think?"

Li Changhe expressed his plan.

Zhu Lin didn't know whether this approach was appropriate or not.

"How about we go out for a walk this afternoon?"

It's too hot in the morning, she definitely doesn't want to go out.

"to make!"

　As for the update time, I don’t have any drafts on hand, so I can only write according to my actual time. Sometimes I write one more chapter at night and post it all in the middle of the night. Sometimes something unexpected happens and I have to write during the day. I try my best to update all together at night!

　　
　
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