In the end, 180 yuan was sold, and the painting of two houses was completed within two days.

Chen Wen paid a deposit of 80 yuan.

As for the key, Chen Wen didn't hand it over to this guy who blindly opened a high price, he found the gate of the community, handed the key to the doorman, and negotiated that the doorman would release it tomorrow morning, and then open the lock for the stucco worker.

Regarding the acceptance time, since the other party is working on Saturday and Sunday, Chen Wen proposed to meet on Monday. The contractor said that he had something to do on Monday morning, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he would inspect the house and paint it, and settle the balance of 100 yuan.

The two sides exchange call numbers and go back to their respective homes.

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Watching Chen Wen leave, Xu Meiyu, who had been a little spy for a day, walked out from behind the big tree where she was hiding, and exhaled vigorously.

Now Xu Meiyu has made a full judgment, Brother Wen and her sister must have bought a house!

It's the housing authority again, it's a well-guarded community, and it's a real estate agent, and Xu Meiyu tracked and saw all the three places Chen Wen set foot in today.

Xu Meiyu exclaimed, Brother Wen is really rich, and he bought a house casually.

In Xu Meiyu's heart, there is an indelible shadow of childhood.

It was when Xu Meiyu was 10 years old, and Xu's mother took her two daughters to a colleague's house as a guest. Xu's mother's colleague also has two daughters at home, who are one round older than the Xu sisters.

The accommodation conditions of the other party's family are exactly the same as those of the Xu family, a two-bedroom unit, but the living room is extremely crowded.

The two daughters of that family were married, and neither of them had a house. In fact, it's not that you can't solve the house, you can get a house very cheaply by taking the ferry to Pudong, but you need a ferry to commute every day.

In line with the Shanghai living values of "I'd rather have a bed in Puxi than a room in Pudong", the family all squeezed into two bedrooms and one living room, because of the close distance to work, everyone's circle is in Puxi.

So, there were three couples living in the two-bedroom and one-living room, namely the old couple, the eldest daughter and the eldest son-in-law, and the younger daughter and the younger son-in-law.

The old couple slept in the living room, slept on the bed board at night, and removed the bed board during the day. The two daughters sleep in two bedrooms with their sons-in-law.

When Xu's mother took her two daughters to visit, the eldest daughter of the family had just given birth, and there were seven people living in two bedrooms and one living room. Newborns were crying and fussing, and diapers were drying everywhere in the house.

Yes, it's 1992, go back 7, 8 years, and there were no diapers at that time in 1985.

There is a reason why Xu's mother took her two daughters to the house where she lived in an extremely crowded house that day.

Mother Xu's teaching and cultivation of her daughter is very Shanghai-specific, and she has used various methods to instill some views on choosing a son-in-law in the future to her two daughters since she was a child.

On the way home that day, Xu's mother said: "You two have to remember, if you are looking for a husband in the future, you must find a house at home, the house must be in Puxi, and the house in Pudong, Jiading, and Songjiang is absolutely not allowed." Even if it is a house in Puxi, it must be big enough. You two saw it today, I found a husband who doesn't have a house, and the house is like that!"

That guest experience frightened the Xu family sisters. Sister Xu Meiyun has no shadow, Xu Meiyu doesn't know about this. But in the bottom of Xu Meiyu's heart, she left an indelible mark.

After entering middle school, and even now studying in secondary school, when Xu Meiyu deals with her classmates, she will subconsciously divide her classmates into two categories: those who have a house in Puxi and those who do not have a house in Puxi.

Xu Meiyu's own home in Puxi has two bedrooms and one living room, which also makes her have a faint sense of pride when getting along with her classmates. Puxi houses do have a lot of convenience in life, and the well-known commercial streets and shopping malls in Shanghai are all in the Puxi area, Nanjing Road, Hubai and so on.

Xu Meiyu also knows that her house is not suitable for a marriage room, and she will definitely find a husband in the future according to her mother's point of view, and the man must find a way to solve the house.

Xu Meiyu sometimes hopes that her sister will find a husband with a house first, so that her sister will move out and get married, and the bedroom at home is her own, even if she recruits a son-in-law, she has a place to sleep.

But she soon had another idea, if her sister found a husband with a house, and she found a husband without a house, then she would definitely be looked down upon. Who looks down on Xu Meiyu? Mom is the first one!

Because she has been influenced by Xu's mother for the past 7 or 8 years, Xu Meiyu always thinks about this matter, and the result is that her thinking about marriage and love is far more advanced than her sister.

Looking at Xu Meiyu from the perspective of God, that is, if there is no person like Chen Wen who has a reborn golden finger to intervene in the life trajectory of the Xu sisters, then Xu Meiyu will grow into a typical mother-in-law in Shanghai who is exactly like her mother in more than 20 years.

Thousands of other typical mothers-in-law in Shanghai have also grown up in this way.

All the mothers-in-law in Shanghai also have a young age, when they are seventeen or eighteen years old, and when they are in their twenties, they are also cute and touching little girls like Xu Meiyu, and they will grow into Xu's mother after 20 years.

But now that Chen Wen has appeared, Xu Meiyun's trajectory has changed, and no one knows how far Xu Meiyu will change.

In 1992 alone, Xu Meiyu was a 17-year-old girl, beautiful, youthful and energetic, with the same ideas in her head as thousands of Shanghai girls, much more pragmatic than most of her peers in the mainland.

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Chen Wen took a taxi and left, Xu Meiyu was reluctant to take a taxi, her pocket money was not much, so she had to take the bus home obediently.

When she got home, Xu Meiyu didn't even want to take a shower, and fell directly on the bed in her bedroom. After a day of being a spy outside, I died of heat and exhaustion.

When Xu's mother came home, she saw her little daughter like this, and thought she was uncomfortable, so she asked for warmth for a while.

In the Xu family, her sister Xu Meiyun is intimate with her father, and her sister Xu Meiyu has a very close relationship with her mother.

Xu Meiyu asked her mother: "What is the price of the house in that area of Yangpu?"

Xu's mother asked rhetorically: "Why are you asking this, who will buy the house?"

Xu Meiyu said nonsense: "I played with a few classmates today, and one of our classmates is over there, let me ask you by the way!"

Xu's mother asked, "Is that classmate of yours a man or a woman?"

Regarding Xu's mother's temper, her sister Xu Meiyun has always dodged or contradicted, and she is a mother and daughter who are completely incompatible. But her sister Xu Meiyu is different, she has been with her mother since she was a billet, so she is very handy when getting along with her mother.

Listening to her mother ask men and women, of course Xu Meiyu knew what the subtext was, and she said directly: "Male classmates!"

Xu Meiyu was sure of Xu's mother's temper, and her mother would never object to her daughter dating a male classmate, but the other party's conditions must be good, and Puxi must have a house.

Sure enough, Xu's mother did not object to her youngest daughter dating this male classmate, she said: "You, a male classmate, have a house in Yangpu, it's okay, it's not too bad." Although Yangpu is on the north side, it is also in Puxi, so you don't need to take a ferry. Let me tell you, your sister's new department is over there, and many units of the financial system have moved there. Housing prices are getting more and more expensive over there. ”

Xu Meiyu waited for her mother to finish nagging before she spoke: "I'm asking about the price." ”

Mother Xu's body straightened, and her confidence in speaking was a little higher: "If the price in Yangpu rises again, it is not as good as ours, and it is almost sixty percent of the unit price of our house! Let me tell you, a house like ours, with a little money, is equivalent to two suites with the same size in Yangpu!"

Xu's mother talked to her daughter again to find her husband to find a good condition, and finally arrested her little daughter to take a bath.

At 10 o'clock in the evening, Xu Meiyun, who had finished the exam, hummed "The Bund" and returned home.

Seeing her sister go home, Xu Meiyu immediately came to her senses, and she didn't feel so tired.

Taking advantage of Xu Meiyun's bath, Xu Meiyu secretly rummaged through her sister's handbag and found the two receipts issued by the Housing Authority from the small compartment to receive the real estate certificate.