Jiang Pengtao was surprised and said “Ah?”

He was surprised, not that Sheng Weixia could guess that they would look at houses today, but that she, as her father said, would decisively abandon this one.

Gu Desheng clicked his tongue and persuaded, “This child is still inexperienced, the 80 square meter house is obviously the best, why don’t you take a look?”

Sheng Weixia smiled with unclear meaning, “Buying a house has to be auspicious, one is for marriage, one is for reunion, it shows that the feng shui is good. Besides, isn’t the bigger house more expensive?”

She couldn’t explain that this kind of house without a property title would be very troublesome when making a transaction, it was very likely that she would end up with nothing in the end.

Gu Desheng saw her say this, he didn’t say anything else.

Her faint smile disappeared in a flash, but Jiang Pengtao remembered his father’s words:

“This house doesn’t have a property title, even if you sign a private contract, there will definitely be trouble, what if the price goes up in two years, the seller might be willing to lose some money and take the house back. Your cousin won’t want it.”

As expected.

“It’s fine, Uncle.” Jiang Pengtao sent them to the hotel they booked in advance, “My dad also said that the house will be troublesome with the procedures later. Then we’ll go look at the other two houses together tonight, I’ll go back to the unit and make an appointment with those two families, after work I’ll come with my dad.”

Gu Desheng naturally couldn’t be happier.

The hotel’s location was good, next to it was Beijing’s famous ancient architectural group, but the couple didn’t sleep well last night, they had been traveling all day and needed to catch up on their sleep, Sheng Weixia didn’t want to go out because of the heat, so she went back to her room and took out the novel she hadn’t finished and continued reading.

It was just past five, Jiang Mingzhi and his son came together to pick them up for dinner.

“I made an appointment with both families, one at six, one at six thirty.” Jiang Pengtao reported while eating.

Jiang Mingzhi nodded, and said to his sister and brother-in-law, “It’s not suitable to have too many people when looking at houses, Pengtao will be responsible for driving so he won’t go in, which one of you two will go in together to look?”

“I’ll go.”

Sheng Weixia wiped her mouth with a handkerchief, “Dad, bring money, five thousand isn’t too little, ten thousand isn’t too much.”

Gu Desheng’s hand paused, “Why bring so much money?”

“If the house is suitable, we’ll sign an intention agreement and pay a deposit on the spot.”

The houses that Jiang Mingzhi had selected would definitely be better than the ones that she or Gu Desheng would find, it was very likely that they could finalize it today.

Gu Desheng mumbled, “Isn’t this like buying a new house? It’s not necessary, right?”

Jiang Mingzhi gave his niece a look of admiration, “That makes sense.”

He explained to his brother-in-law, “I can get this house information, other people can too, what if someone else looks at it tomorrow and offers a higher price than us?”

Good things are always scarce, now the government is discussing the housing reform policy, some people have already started to act because of it.

So, Jiang Mingzhi accompanied Gu Desheng and Sheng Weixia to look at the first, smaller two-bedroom house.

The house was a tube building, a welfare house allocated by an electronics factory over ten years ago.

The property title was clear, it was under the name of the elder who just retired from this family, and they just paid for the property title at the beginning of the year.

Sheng Weixia didn’t have any requirements for the size of the bedroom, she only regretted that this house didn’t have a decent living room.

Actually, the total price was only over thirty thousand, even if she didn’t live there herself, it was a very suitable investment—according to this location in the second ring, and the school district status with all the famous schools, it would skyrocket in ten years.

It was suitable for renting, but if she lived there herself, there wouldn’t be enough space to move around.

Jiang Mingzhi saw her expression, he knew that she didn’t like it, he decisively took them to the next house.

“The next house is by the Nanhai Lake, but it’s a big courtyard, there are many people living there and it’s a little noisy, you’ll have to spend effort cleaning it yourself.” Jiang Mingzhi listed the advantages and disadvantages, Sheng Weixia listened carefully.

Decades later, many people now don’t like big courtyards, but if they are cleaned up, they can be sold for one or two small goals.

But when they arrived at the location, the condition of the house was much better than she imagined.

It was a house in the back of the courtyard, there was a wall across the front door, and another entrance was opened on the wall, it became a small courtyard with its own door and yard.

The owner was an old intellectual, wearing thick glasses, he let them look around freely, he sat in the courtyard drinking and eating peanuts.

Gu Desheng looked down on it, “Isn’t this like a flat house in the countryside? I’d rather have the apartment building.”

Sheng Weixia’s eyes got brighter and brighter as she looked.

She thought that the yard was already the biggest plus, but she didn’t expect that the rooms inside were neat and tidy, the doors and windows still retained the exquisite carvings.

“You like it?” Jiang Mingzhi saw her gaze.

“I like it!” She touched the door frame, “Uncle, ask how much this house is?”

Three spacious rooms, with a small kitchen separated, it would definitely be more comfortable to live in than the previous house.

She roughly estimated that the total interior area would be over sixty or seventy square meters.

“Okay!” Jiang Mingzhi went forward and chatted with the old man for a few sentences, he gave her a gesture of eight.

Gu Desheng was unhappy, “This house is eight ？”

Seeing that the owner was about to show an unhappy expression, Sheng Weixia decisively said, “Eight is eight ，but we’ll pay the deposit first, is it okay if we do the procedures at the end of the month?”

The old man pushed his glasses, “You little girl, can you make decisions on your own?”

“I can.” Sheng Weixia turned to Gu Desheng, “You said I could choose myself.”

In front of Jiang Mingzhi and outsiders, Gu Desheng unwillingly gave in, he waved his hand and said, “Okay, listen to you.”

But Jiang Mingzhi pondered for a while, “Xia, you need a Beijing hukou to do the procedures, your hukou is still in Tianzhao Village, right? Will it be okay at the end of the month?”

He had seen this kind of scoundrel like Sheng Daren before, he wouldn’t let go until he got something good.

However, Sheng Weixia smiled sweetly, “I’ve taken care of it. I’ll have a Beijing hukou after I hand in the proof of my hukou transfer to the school at the end of the month.”

“You, you’ve taken care of it?” Gu Desheng stuttered, “When did you take care of it, so fast?”

“I start school on September 1st, it’s not fast.” Sheng Weixia didn’t want to continue talking about how she went to Tianzhao Village and secretly got the hukou book from the Sheng family, she looked at Jiang Mingzhi, “Uncle, can we sign a flexible agreement with him, for example, we’ll pay half at the end of the month when we sign the formal contract, and we’ll pay the rest before the transfer, is money a problem?”

This was the last question, she asked Gu Desheng.

What else could Gu Desheng say? He naturally agreed.

Seeing that they didn’t bargain, the old man’s attitude softened, he immediately wrote a house transfer agreement, Gu Desheng took out eight thousand cash and gave it to him as a deposit.

The house was basically finalized.

Sheng Weixia held the draft agreement signed by both parties, she smiled.

On the short road back to the car, Jiang Mingzhi lightly patted her shoulder, “Child, you’ve suffered.”

Whose child has to worry about transferring their hukou themselves?

At this time, the moon was hanging high in the sky, the alley was filled with various sounds, there were crying and sobbing of lovesick men and women from the TV drama, adults were scolding children for not finishing their summer homework, and there was the sizzling sound of someone coming home late and starting the oil pan.

The world was noisy, it was soaked with all kinds of flavors of life.

Sheng Weixia listened and felt fascinated.

She raised her head to look at the moon, the full moon was reflected in her clear eyes, “The house is real money, as for other things, if there wasn’t any expectation, how could there be disappointment? Uncle, I don’t feel wronged, because I don’t care.”

The life lesson that she learned from death was that people have to take themselves seriously, you deserve everything good.

People and things you don’t like, how could they deserve to make you feel uncomfortable? If you think about it in a small way, it affects your sleep, if you think about it in a big way, it shortens your lifespan.

This life is like a chance for the heavens to let her replay the game, she has to live her life to the fullest.

So, the best way to deal with it is to stay away.

For example, next, she’s going to Beijing.

After returning to Jinzhong, she started to pack the materials for her school registration, she had seven or eight days left before she could go to register.

This night, Jiang Xiuhou and Gu Desheng went upstairs together to find her, “Xia, look, you took care of your hukou yourself, your mom and dad really didn’t expect that.”

The two of them had a little embarrassment on their faces.

They thought about how they had been busy taking care of Gu Qingwei’s going abroad, and they were also afraid that Gu Qingwei would feel bad, they didn’t pay attention to their own daughter.

Sheng Weixia looked at them, she waited for them to get to the point.

“Then we thought, should we change your name too?” Jiang Xiuhou’s fingers were nervously pinching the seam of her pants, she looked at her anxiously.

Gu Desheng propped his elbows on his knees, “If you want to keep your original name, then just change your surname, if you don’t want to keep it, then we’ll change both your name and surname together, okay?”

She heard Xiao Cui say that her name was given by the blind old man at the head of the village.

After returning home from the hospital, Sheng Daren was unhappy that she was a girl, he gave her the name Zhaodi, hoping that the next child would be a boy.

The village women’s director came to Xiao Cui’s house to register her information, and at the same time urged them to register the child’s hukou, the blind old man at the head of the village happened to be walking by their house.

The old man took the initiative to talk to them, he said that this child’s fate was heavy, she couldn’t be called Zhaodi.

Sheng Daren was half-believing, he asked him to calculate a name, the old man made a big show of it for a long time, he grabbed two characters from his pocket and gave them to them.

The name Weixia came like this.

But Sheng Daren still called her Zhaodi.

But she died young in her previous life, and it had nothing to do with the saying that her fate was heavy.

It seems like the name isn’t that important.

Sheng Weixia looked at the couple’s expectant expression, she smiled, “Okay, we’ll do it after the house procedures are finished.”

After dealing with her parents, she took out the business card that Yu Shi gave her, she was ready to ask him about something.