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Wealthy people have access to a multitude of information channels. It should be said that Aunt Qiu had noticed the house the Gu Family bought only because she had heard about it when they made the purchase, and just like Wa Zicong and the others, she had shown utter disdain.
Back then, Aunt Qiu thought the Gu Family had bought a piece of junk for their daughter and were just waiting for its value to continue to depreciate. Among relatives, there's inevitably the spirit of comparison. Aunt Qiu really wanted to see the Gu Family's real estate devalue just as she had imagined, which would, on one hand, prove her own investment expertise and give her the opportunity to ridicule them. If they wanted to invest, why didn't they ask her, Aunt Qiu.
Who would have known that three years later, the Gu Family's return had more than doubled, and now it was Aunt Qiu who was green with envy.
Gu Nuan only knew one thing, greedy people are never satisfied with their wealth in their lifetime.
Even if Aunt Qiu owned Jinshan, knowing that the Gu Family had unexpectedly made money, she would feel jealous and envious, because Aunt Qiu was a typical greedy person.
How could she know anything about investment? Faced with Aunt Qiu's probing, Gu's mother could only, with a glance, indicate her daughter.
The Gu Family couple definitely hadn't bought the house with any investment purpose in mind; it was purely for their daughter's dowry.
The selection of the house was most important to the liking of their daughter and son-in-law. Therefore, the task of choosing a house was entirely left to their daughter. The elderly couple simply provided the savings.
Could it be that their daughter was so skilled at buying houses?
They knew their daughter studied Finance, but what finance was and what it was for, given the Gu couple's own primary school education level, they simply didn't understand. They couldn't understand the explanation from their daughter either. Now with Aunt Qiu's comments, could it be that their daughter was studying a major related to buying houses?
Gu's mother was utterly confused. While Gu's father stepped forward to talk with Aunt Qiu, she pulled her daughter aside in a corner and, writing on her daughter's hand, asked, "Has the price of the house in the city gone up?"
"Yes," Gu Nuan nodded.
"When did that happen?"
"Just in the past week or two," she replied.
Aunt Qiu had gotten the news faster than the Gu parents; Aunt Qiu had heard someone mentioned it in the city. But when had Aunt Qiu started to pay attention to the Gu Family's house?
Gu's mother was full of doubts and asked her daughter, "What do you think we should do now?"
She wasn't sure if her daughter truly knew how to buy a house, as she had never heard before that her daughter was particularly good at it. What if they give rash advice to the relatives who then turn around and hold the Gu Family accountable?
Gu Nuan, however, felt that someone like Aunt Qiu wouldn't really have respect for the Gu Family. She was just momentarily upset and looking for some comfort by coming to their house. With that in mind, not giving any advice and listening to what Aunt Qiu actually had to say was better than potentially dealing with endless trouble from her.
Aunt Qiu said to Gu's father, "I have a house in the West Suburb, you remember it, right?"
Gu's father didn't quite recall this matter. Aunt Qiu's family had plenty of money and wealth. He only knew that Aunt Qiu's husband was a factory owner with a large annual sales volume, which naturally meant they had a lot of money. As for Aunt Qiu's husband spending money on buying a house, that was not surprising in the least.
Seeing that Gu's father was listening but not fully understanding, Aunt Qiu said, "That's the house left by my father, not my husband's."
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Gu Dad grunted, "That piece of land, have you renovated the house?"
Although rural land is collectively owned, each household still gets a plot of land based on quotas. Like Qiu San-gu's parental home, Qiu Dad received a piece of land. After Qiu Dad passed away, this land ended up in the hands of his only daughter Qiu San-gu. Both Qiu San-gu and her husband's household registrations remained in the countryside and were never transferred to the city. Precisely because of this, Qiu San-gu undoubtedly hit the jackpot just as the domestic real estate development boom needed land.
Nowadays, farmers are not fools; they know that land is valuable and won't sell it off easily.
Gu Nuan thought, Qiu San-gu's dilemma should not be whether to sell or not, but rather how much to sell it for.
Just like buying a house in the city, purchasing and developing land in the countryside also depends on its location and the potential for appreciation. Therefore, rural land in good locations commands a high price. Conversely, land in poor locations with no popularity has low prices to the point where no one wants it, which is quite normal.
The land that Qiu San-gu inherited from her father is collective land and definitely cannot be traded privately; it can only be contracted out.
Who would want to buy Qiu San-gu's house? Both Gu Dad and Gu Mom couldn't help but feel a bit puzzled upon hearing this. Houses built on collective land are called "small property rights houses," like the one they live in; such houses can't be issued property certificates, have no property rights, and are now unwanted by many people.
With her daughter's reminder, Gu Mom didn't rush to refuse and asked Qiu San-gu, "Who wants your house? Is the offer high?"
Qiu San-gu frowned and said, "It's hard to say whether the offer is high. But my house, it has always been unasked for. I originally planned to renovate my dad's house, so that I could live there as a rural retreat whenever I got tired of living in the city's residential community. However, I've been too busy with things in the city and never found the time. The house was expensive to build back then; I spent tens of thousands on materials and labor. It has three floors, like a small villa. It's a waste to leave it empty and I feared it would deteriorate, so I decided to rent it out."
Rich people really have too much spare cash. Even a house in the old home can be transformed into a villa. To think, she can even rent out a villa. Gu Mom and Gu Dad exchanged glances. Considering Qiu San-gu's level of wealth, now she was coming to their poor family for ideas, wasn't that laughable?
No matter how much Qiu San-gu wrestled with it internally, what she said indicated that she had finally managed to rent out the house, and that tenant astonishingly expressed a desire to buy her house.
"He offered this number." Qiu San-gu raised eight fingers.
"Eighty thousand?" Gu Mom, based on her understanding, could only think of this figure. Qiu San-gu herself had said the house was unwanted.
Qiu San-gu immediately rolled her eyes at her aunt, "What eighty thousand? That's not even enough to cover the construction costs. It's three hundred and five thousand."
You raise eight fingers, how is anyone supposed to know it's three hundred and five thousand? Everyone would think it's eighty thousand. Gu Mom complained internally.
What was curious was why it wasn't a flat three hundred thousand but three hundred and five thousand.
Qiu San-gu divulged the reason, "Because he said three hundred thousand, I asked for a bit more, so he added another five thousand."
Gu Mom was utterly speechless. This person buying the house was quite stingy.
In the end, who took a fancy to the rural small villa that Qiu San-gu built for herself?
"He said living in my house feels like it has good feng shui and brings him luck, that's why he wants to buy my house. Knowing that I only spent about a hundred thousand building it, offering this price is quite generous," explained Qiu San-gu.
Is he really just an ordinary tenant? Gu Nuan's eyelids drooped slightly.