Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

Chapter 78 Buying a House
"What are you looking at?"

When Zhu Wanling came home from get off work, she saw Kang Qirui reading a newspaper very seriously in the room and taking notes while reading. He didn't even notice that she came back, so she asked him a question.

Seeing that Kang Qirui ignored her, Zhu Wanling stepped forward and took the newspaper from her husband. "Hey," Kang Qirui then noticed that his wife had returned from get off work. Zhu Wanling frowned and asked, "Why are you looking for a house? Do you want us to move out?"

"No." Kang Qirui replied. Zhu Wanling breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't want to move. It was good to live here. Her parents' house was next door, so it was very convenient for her to do anything. So she said in a lighter tone: "Then why are you looking at these sales information?"

Kang Qirui said seriously: "B shares started to fall in the past two days, so I liquidated my position. The A shares are also in general market right now. I thought that if I withdraw this money and deposit it in the bank, there won't be much interest, so it's better to buy a house as an investment." Kang Qirui bought 120,000 Hong Kong dollars in B shares in the past half month. After liquidation today, the amount has rolled up to 180,000. Together with the 130,000 Hong Kong dollars that he did not buy, he now has a total of 310,000 Hong Kong dollars in his hands, which is more than 330,000 yuan when converted into RMB.

"Oh." Zhu Wanling nodded and asked curiously, "Do you have any favorites?"

Kang Qirui got excited when he talked about this. He pointed at the newspaper and said to Zhu Wanling, "Look at this. It's a shop on Tianhe South Second Road. It's 900 square meters and the selling price is 140 yuan per square meter. Let's talk about it. I think we can get it for to yuan."

"Tianhe South 2nd Road? It's quite remote." Zhu Wanling frowned.

Kang Qirui waved his hand and said, "That's why it's so cheap. It doesn't matter if it's a little off the beaten track now, it will be fine as long as it's prosperous in the future. It's located in the Pearl River New Town."

"Tsk, it's been almost ten years, and it's still the same." Zhu Wanling didn't seem to be interested in Zhujiang New Town, and it was no wonder. Zhujiang New Town was planned in 92, but now it's 01, ten years have passed, and the development is slow and there is no improvement. It was not until the "Planning Review" was issued in 03, which clarified the CBD positioning of Zhujiang New Town and strengthened its unparalleled "center" status in the urban landscape, that Zhujiang New Town began to take off, truly realizing a small change every year and a big change every three years.

The shop that Kang Qirui was interested in was located on Tianhe South Second Road, which was the road opposite Grandview Plaza and Wanlinghui. The price of 140 yuan per square meter was simply great value. Kang Qirui wanted to pay the money and transfer the ownership right away.

"You haven't seen anything else yet?" Zhu Wanling asked. She knew that her family could definitely come up with more than a hundred thousand.

康祈睿拿着报纸就开始数了：“这个体育东路华康小区的，78方售价29万。还有这套天河东路天晖阁80方34万。以及这个金燕花园62方17万。”康祈睿越说越兴奋。

Zhu Wanling waited until Kang Qirui finished speaking before asking doubtfully, "This adds up to one million. How can we have so much money? And this is all over Tianhe. Are you so optimistic about that place?"

Kang Qirui thought for a while, organized his words and said, "Northern optimization, southern expansion, eastern migration, western integration, this is the planning and development strategy released by Guangzhou last month. In a sense, this is actually saying that Guangzhou will use Tianhe as its new center. So investing in Tianhe now is absolutely a bargain. And don't worry about the house, you won't lose money."

Zhu Wanling thought about it and realized that housing prices have been rising. She knew that at the very least, they would outperform inflation. So she nodded and said, "Then buy it, but we don't have that much money."

"We won't buy it in full, we'll take out a loan to pay for the mortgage." Kang Qirui offered a solution. Only a fool would pay in full. Now the mortgage payment is only a small amount per month, and there is no pressure at all. It's better to buy two more houses with the down payment.

Zhu Wanling was also very happy to see this, and said with a smile: "Take me with you when you go to buy a house, so that I can also experience the joy of buying a house." Kang Qirui hugged Zhu Wanling with his backhand, "Then we must go together. It's not a big deal to buy a house if the hostess doesn't go."

Zhu Wanling rolled her eyes, broke away from Kang Qirui, and said, "Stop making trouble. I'm going to help grandma cook."

Kang Qirui followed him out of the room. He went to the living room to watch the evening news. As soon as he sat down, A Zu walked into the house with his head down. He asked, "Fourth brother, why are you sighing?"

"That's it. Never mind. I won't say any more." A-Zu originally wanted to say it, but after thinking about it, he decided not to say it.

This aroused Kang Qirui's infinite curiosity, and he asked, "Tell me about it, maybe I can help you solve it." "This is what I mean, didn't I have a company team-building party last night?" A Zu said.

Kang Qirui nodded and complained, "You didn't come back until midnight. The old lady was so anxious that she woke me up in the middle of the night and asked me to go find you."

"Hey, listen to me." A-Zu said depressedly, "Last night, my boss Miss Tang got drunk, and I was forced to send her home. She even went crazy, and it didn't make sense for me to just leave and ignore her. I took care of her until she fell asleep in the middle of the night before I came back. And now she thinks I like her, and now she flirts with me as soon as I get to work."

"Hahahahahaha." Kang Qirui found it interesting after hearing it.

"Hey, stop laughing. I'm telling you, even Diana knows about it now. Didn't you say you would help me solve it? Hurry up and help me think of a way to get rid of that old woman." A Zu said angrily.

Kang Qirui thought this was a minor issue and said, "Why bother about this? Why don't you just tell Miss Tang that you don't like her and that you and she are in a boss-subordinate relationship."

"Explain it clearly to the old aunt? Do you want me to die? What if she gets angry and fires me?" A Zu disagreed with Kang Qirui's suggestion.

"If she fires you, you can just go work in our company. What are you afraid of?" Seeing that A Zu wanted to refuse again, Kang Qirui said, "Even if you don't want to come to me, with your academic qualifications and abilities, are you afraid that you won't be able to find a job?"

Kang Qirui really couldn't understand what A Zu was afraid of. If the boss doesn't fight the boss, then he will fight the boss. With his bachelor's degree from a 211 university, it would be easy for him to find a job these days, even if he doesn't have a lot of money.

"You don't understand. This company is very good, a foreign company, not much work, high salary and good benefits. My colleagues are also very nice. As for the old aunt, even if she doesn't like me, she is actually not bad. She is quite tolerant and respectful to her subordinates." A Zu sighed. If possible, he really didn't want to leave.

Although he kept saying that the old aunt was not good in this or that, it was good that she always called him "Kang Sheng". If it were any other leader, they would not be so polite and respectful.

Kang Qirui thought for a moment and said, "Then let Miss Tang dump you first."

"Why take the initiative?" A Zu looked at Kang Qirui and said, "She likes me very much now."

"It's simple. She likes you because you took care of her for a long time last night, right? That is, she likes your gentlemanly demeanor. Then you should do the opposite and make her feel that you are not a gentlemanly man. Naturally, she will no longer like you." Kang Qirui analyzed.

A-Zu nodded and said, "That makes sense. So what should we do?"

"The opposite of gentlemanly manners is barbaric, rude and dirty." Kang Qirui said, "Tomorrow you won't take a shower, brush your teeth or shave, and go to work as sloppily as you can. Then you deliberately speak loudly, are unreasonable to your colleagues, find fault with them, and argue with them as rudely as you can."

"In this case, Miss Tang will think that you are neither gentlemanly nor graceful, and naturally she will no longer like you."

The more A-Zu listened, the more excited he became, and he said happily, "Great, this method is great. This old lady won't die this time, hahahaha."

"Take it easy. Don't overdo it." Kang Qirui saw Zhu Wanling come out to call them to eat, and gave them another instruction before going in to eat. A-Zu waved his hand indifferently.

All the housing price information in this chapter comes from a well-preserved newspaper from 2001.
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