Mr. Ma first introduced the first thing, the situation of Mr. Qin, the owner of the front yard in Chen Wenmai's Jianchang Hutong this afternoon.

Mr. Qin's child studied in the United States a few years ago, and I don't know whether he studied for a master's degree or a doctorate in college, but he didn't come back after graduation, and he got a green card last year. At the end of last year, Mr. Qin's lover also went to the United States, and he didn't want to return to China after the pass, so Mr. Qin was the only one left in the country.

Mr. Qin originally didn't want to go to the United States, but he couldn't stand being too lonely in China alone, and after half a year of ideological struggle, he was persuaded by his wife and children for a long time, and finally made up his mind to go to the United States to get together with his wife and children. The family's only remaining asset in China is the yard that Chen Wen bought.

Today's transaction price is 560,000 yuan, which is slightly higher than the market price, about 60,000 yuan higher. But Mr. Ma knew that Chen Wen was not very bad at money, and tens of thousands of yuan was not a problem.

Then Mr. Ma said another thing that was quite tortuous, which made Chen Wen suddenly feel that spending an extra 60,000 yuan was nothing, and there was a taste of picking up cheap.

The front yard of Chen Wenmai, together with another courtyard house in the north, was originally a whole, belonging to a Manchu official surnamed Fu during the former Qing Dynasty. Including the surrounding courtyards, there are many courtyards, all of which are the big courtyards of the Fu family.

After a hundred years of changes, the large courtyard of the Fu family has been split and split, and the owners of each yard have changed one after another. By 1992, only two courtyards had been preserved intact, one was the forecourt and the other was the main courtyard to the north.

As soon as Chen Wen heard it, he came to the spirit, the main courtyard, that is the living environment of the owner of the large courtyard in the former Qing Dynasty, this is the core part of the authentic courtyard.

Teacher Ma waved his hand and asked Chen Wen not to make noise, and he continued to introduce.

The owner of the front yard is Mr. Qin, and the main courtyard in the north belongs to a family surnamed Wang, and the owner is the old man of this family, the old man Wang.

Old man Wang is in business, he used to have a little money, and he is a person who is obsessed with courtyard culture. In the beginning, Old Man Wang only owned a small courtyard of bungalows, which was one-eighth of the main courtyard.

Later, Old Man Wang continued to invest the money he earned from his business into the acquisition of courtyard houses. He specialized in buying the houses of the neighbors around him, which was the remaining seven-eighths of the main courtyard.

Since Old Man Wang bought it at a fixed point, the price he bought was not cheap. According to Chen Wen's understanding, it is a premium.

It took about seven or eight years for Old Man Wang to finally buy all the properties in the original part of the main courtyard of the Fu family, completing the first step of his obsession with the courtyard.

In the following year, the old man Wang began to rebuild. He demolished almost all the old building structures, used the demolished materials, bought a large number of old bricks and old wood from the outside, and hired people to rebuild all aspects of the main compound.

In order to restore the original historical appearance as much as possible for the construction, the old man Wang did not know where he found the drawings and materials of the old courtyard, and invited someone to design it, and finally it took more than a year to restore the original main courtyard of the Fu family

, seventy percent of the style.

After completing this step, Old Man Wang continued to consider expanding his courtyard, but the opportunity was difficult. The other buildings around it have either been completely bulldozed and rebuilt into other unrelated properties, or they are public land, such as the land in the partial courtyard in the east has long been zoned into the Guozijian Scenic Area.

Looking left and right, looking at the front and picking and choosing, Old Man Wang found that there was hope for the front yard of the Fu family. This incident is also a coincidental opportunity, the front yard originally belonged to two families, one of which was Mr. Qin, and the other was a retired official.

Ten years ago, Old Man Wang once wanted to buy two houses in the front yard, but the owner resolutely refused to sell it, and Old Man Wang couldn't afford to provoke the official family in the front yard, and the matter was shelved for many years.

A few years ago, the retired official died, and his children sold half of the yard to Mr. Qin, so Mr. Qin's family owned the entire front yard for themselves.

The front yard has changed from two families to Mr. Qin's family, and this Mr. Qin has no official background, so Old Man Wang dared to have the courage to start the idea of begging for purchase.

Old man Wang approached Mr. Qin last year and expressed his willingness to buy a yard, but at that time, Mr. Qin did not make up his mind to go abroad and rejected Old Man Wang's intention to buy.

After half a year, Mr. Qin couldn't stand missing his wife and children, and decided to go to the United States. Not long ago, Mr. Qin went to find Old Man Wang and said that he wanted to sell the front yard, but at this time, Old Man Wang had no money.

In the past ten years, Old Man Wang has been playing deeper and deeper in the courtyard matter, and his originally good business has also been neglected, resulting in his own business getting worse and worse. By the first half of 1992, the once rich man had already incurred a lot of debts and had become a veritable loser.

Chen Wen listened to Mr. Ma's story, sighed and said that Old Man Wang is playing the courtyard house and playing a loser.

Mr. Ma continued. Old man Wang is now hiding at home every day and does not dare to go out, and almost every day, creditors come to collect debts. Mr. Qin's front yard, Old Man Wang dreamed of buying it and combining it with his main courtyard into a relatively more complete courtyard, but Old Man Wang really didn't have the strength to buy it again.

It is said that Old Man Wang's debts outside reached several million. Chen Wen was surprised, this is a few million in 1992, and its purchasing power is no less than hundreds of millions in 2019, or even hundreds of millions.

After listening to Mr. Ma's introduction, Chen Wen sighed: "I understand! Old man Wang not only has no financial resources to buy a yard now, but he may not be able to keep the yard in his own hands." ”

Teacher Ma said: "Those creditors are now crazy, and they can't wait to arrest Old Man Wang and go to the court to fight a lawsuit." ”

Chen Wen asked: "If I buy Old Man Wang's yard now, will I be suspected of falling into the well?"

Teacher Ma glared at Chen Wen: "You can also not buy it, no one forces you!"

Chen Wen was silent.

It seemed that he realized that Fang Caixun Chen Wen's tone was a little heavier, and Teacher Ma softened

After a pause, he said: "Chen Wen, if you really can't bear it, then after the creditors sue Old Man Wang, the court will seize his yard, and at the time of the auction, you will go to the auction." But at that time, I'm afraid you may not be sure to win, there will be a lot of competitors, and the price will be very high. ”

Chen Wen thought for a moment and felt that he should take advantage of the current opportunity to buy it directly from Old Man Wang.

Chen Wen asked, "I'm going to find Old Man Wang now, will he sell it to me?"

Teacher Ma said: "I don't know about this, it may or may not be sold, it depends on how the two of you meet and talk." ”

Chen Wen nodded and said, "Since this is the case, then take a trip to Teacher Ma and take me to meet Old Man Wang." ”

Teacher Ma: "Do you have any other arrangements tonight?"

Chen Wen turned his head to look at Tang Jin, his third girlfriend was already full, and a pair of beautiful eyes were floating on Chen Wen's face.

Chen Wen said: "I don't have any other arrangements tonight, it's all up to you, Mr. Ma." ”

In fact, Chen Wen had a phone call tonight that he would talk to Liu Ailing, the main striker of the Chinese women's national football team, at around 9 o'clock, to determine the size and number of shoes of the players in each echelon of the DìDū women's football team, and to buy football boots tomorrow. But there's no rush in this matter, and it's not a big problem to call later.

Teacher Ma waited for his little eyes expressionlessly and said, "Cheng, since you listen to me all, then this matter is easy to do." There are a few things I need to tell you. ”

Seeing Teacher Ma's serious expression, Chen Wen said seriously: "I will definitely listen to your orders." ”

Teacher Ma said: "I'll take you two to Old Man Wang in a while, you two remember it for me, try to talk as little as possible, I'll tell him." ”

Chen Wen nodded: "I remember." ”

Teacher Ma continued: "Second, don't say you two want to buy his house, don't mention a word. The identities of the two of you, hey, didn't you just buy Mr. Qin's yard today, and you will make a visit as Old Man Wang's new neighbor. You know?"

Chen Wen hurriedly nodded: "I understand!"

Teacher Ma smiled slightly: "It's good to understand! There is one more thing, when I get to the place, I call you Chen Gongzi, you call me Teacher Ma, you are the son of a rich businessman from Shanghai." ”

Chen Wen agreed with a smile, thinking that this Teacher Ma was really ...... Wit.

Chen Wen looked at Teacher Ma as if he was looking at an old fox. Going to Old Man Wang's courtyard, Chen Wen felt like following Mr. Ma to Panjiayuan to exchange antiques, as if he was fighting wits with those dealers.

This feeling makes Chen Wen look forward to the next journey.

The discussion was decided, Chen Wen called the waiter and bought the bill. The three of them left Andingmen Quanjude.

Chen Wen proposed to take a taxi, and Mr. Ma raised his hand to slap away Chen Wen's raised wave: "Just a few steps, let's walk, take a walk after dinner!"