At night.

The family gathered around the table and had a beautiful dinner.

After being full, Huo Yaowen held his stomach, exhaled a long breath, sat on the sofa and began to eat, just at the dining table, Grandma and Grandma kept serving him vegetables, and now he feels like his stomach is about to burst.

Huo Xiufen walked over with a cup of hot water, "Cousin drink water." ”

"Thank you, Xiufen. Looking at his well-behaved and sensible cousin, Huo Yaowen took the hot water with a smile, blew slightly, and then drank a sip of hot water.

The hot water entered the stomach, which seemed to relieve the stomach that was eating and supplied, and Huo Yaowen felt a lot more comfortable.

At this time, Grandma, who put away the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen, walked out, saw Huo Yaowen leaning on the sofa, and raised his eyes to look at the clock hanging on the wall, it was already more than seven o'clock in the evening, and couldn't help but say: "Yaowen, don't go back at night, I sleep with your mother, you sleep with your old bean." ”

"No, the school is going to have a Christmas party tomorrow, and I have to rush back to school to do some things. Huo Yaowen shook his head and refused without thinking about it.

There are only three rooms in the house, one for grandma, one for parents, and one for my younger sister and Huo Xiufen, if it is summer, he can still spend one night on the sofa, but it is cold at night in winter, and it is always uncomfortable to sleep in the living room, plus Huo Yaowen doesn't want to sleep with Huo Chengcai, and his snoring sound at night can make people noisy.

"Oh well. Grandma saw that her grandson had something to do tomorrow, so she didn't force her to stay, but she still advised: "Remember to drive slower when you go back to school at night." ”

"Got it, Grandma. ”

After that, Huo Yaowen took a look at the whole house, although this house is more than 100 square meters, it seems to be enough, but there are only three rooms in the house, and the younger sister is also older, so it may not be appropriate for her to sleep with her grandmother, so since buying this new house, the reason why Huo Yaowen never stays overnight at night is that the room is not enough.

Thinking of the problem of not having enough rooms, Huo Yaowen thought of the fact that he was about to stay on duty without pay, and it didn't matter if he stopped pay, but I was afraid that he wouldn't be able to live in school.

This is not to say that the school will not let him live, but the main reason is that the University of Hong Kong is located on Pok Fu Lam East Road, where although the road is now built, it is still too far away from the city, and it takes about an hour to drive to and from Central every day.

When the time comes, he will no longer teach at the school, and continuing to live there will delay Huo Yaowen's own time.

Thinking of this, Huo Yaowen moved to buy a new house, but when he bought a house, he would not buy a house like the current one, but directly buy a single-family villa.

Grandma came out of the kitchen with a fruit bowl, put the fruit bowl on the table, and said with a smile: "Xiufen, Yaowen, you two eat fruit." ”

"Thank you, Erniang. Huo Xiufen blushed and thanked him.

Huo Xiufen lived at home these days, and her mother liked this well-behaved and sensible niece very much, and said with a smile: "You're welcome, it's all a family, what is polite to Erniang." ”

Huo Yaowen didn't eat the fruit, but after thinking about buying a new house, he raised his eyes and looked at his mother and said, "Mom, how about we buy another house?"

"Buying a house?" said the mother.

Huo Chengcai, who came out of the bathroom bath, heard his son's words, and was also surprised loudly: "Buy a house again?"

Huo Tingting heard movement in the bedroom and immediately ran out: "Brother, our family has a new house to live in?"

Grandma also came out of the kitchen curiously.

Huo Yaowen looked at the surprise, joy, and doubt in his family's eyes, and couldn't help grinning: "Yes, I want to buy a villa." ”

Everyone was surprised: "Villa!!"

...

After a while, the family gathered around the sofa and discussed the matter that Huo Yaowen had just said that he wanted to buy a villa.

The younger sister proposed to her brother to buy a villa, naturally it was unconditional support, after all, who doesn't want to live in a big house, let alone buy a villa, when she thought of Lu Suzhen's luxurious mid-mountain villa, she couldn't help but think of the swimming pool and garden, and her eyes became brighter and brighter.

If Huo Yaowen knew that his sister wanted to buy a mid-level villa, he might not help but roll his eyes.

Don't look at the fact that it is only 69 years old and will soon enter 70 years, but the top of Taiping Peak is home to top tycoons or Hong Kong political leaders, and there are only a handful of Chinese who can live on the top of the mountain. In the villa area in the middle of the mountain, where the house has long been famous, where a villa costs at least one or two million, and it is not something that can be bought with money.

There are so many rich people in Hong Kong, and there are still not a few who can buy a house for millions, but there are currently dozens of villas in the Mid-Levels villa area, and it is difficult to buy them when no one voluntarily sells them. Not to mention the fact that there are a few villas with 999 years of ownership, the kind of ancestral houses that can basically be passed down to future generations, and it is impossible for anyone to sell them unless that person goes bankrupt.

In addition, if you want to live in the Mid-Levels villa area, there is another way, that is, to get the approval of the Public Works Department to build a house in the Mid-Levels, or to get a piece of land when the official auction is in the Mid-Levels, only then can you buy the land and build it yourself.

But the people who can have that great ability have basically already lived in!

My mother used to be a young lady from a big family, and she naturally longed for buying a single-family villa, but after more than ten years of hard work, she was still a little worried, and looked at her son and asked, "Awen, do you have so much money?"

"There are still hundreds of thousands. ”

Huo Yaowen is not very clear about how much money he has now, but in the past few months, the British Thames Publishing Company has used a lot of the two shared manuscript fees that the British Thames Publishing Company has paid to the Standard Chartered bank account, and the remaining money is almost five or six hundred thousand when converted into Hong Kong dollars.

As for the American Bantan Book Company, later called for a "1999" share, although it is not a lot, but tens of thousands of US dollars can be converted into Hong Kong dollars, and there can be hundreds of thousands, plus the manuscript fee for publishing two books in Hong Kong and Taiwan this year, if all the miscellaneous things are added together, there are still two million smaller, and these are not counting the money made by Yaowen Book Publishing Company.

Moreover, "1999" has signed contracts with publishing companies in so many countries, and publishing companies in many countries are already distributing, and "Virtual Second World" has also begun to be distributed in the United States.

When Huo Chengcai heard that his son still had hundreds of thousands, he suddenly thought that when he went to Kowloon Chengcai Bookstore to collect the accounts, he saw that there were many villas for sale in Kowloon Tong, and he couldn't help but say: "I heard that there are many villas for sale in Kowloon Tong." ”

"Kowloon Tong? Mother was stunned.

As soon as she heard that it was a villa in Jiulongtang, Huo Tingting shouted excitedly, "Okay, okay, Kowloon Tong is very close to my college, so I can go home and live every day!"

Baptist College is located on Waterloo Road in Kowloon Tong, so every time Huo Tingting goes home to take the bus, she can see the low-rise bungalows and contiguous villas in Kowloon Tong, so she knows that the environment there is very good, and Lao Dou must be in favor of buying a villa there.

There are many wealthy residential areas in Hong Kong, and the Kowloon Tong residential area cannot be said to be the top wealthy area, but it is also a treasure land for Hong Kong's middle and upper class people, mainly because when the British government of Hong Kong developed Kowloon Tong in 1920, the then Public Works Department wanted to imitate the concept of "pastoral city" proposed by the British planner Howard, so the residential area was not so dense. (The Public Works Department is the predecessor of the Lands Department, which manages urban public works, roads, buildings, etc. in Hong Kong)

And remove the New Territories, Kowloon Tong is a rare low-density development area in the entire urban area of Hong Kong, mainly bungalows and villas, the environment is quiet, while retaining a lot of trees, green shade, quite suburban flavor, plus that there is no more than three floors of buildings, there will be no climbing and looking at the situation, so the overall privacy of the villa is very strong.

Regarding Lao Dou's proposal to buy it in Kowloon Tong, Huo Yaowen's eyes lit up, and he nodded and said: "Kowloon Tong is okay, the house is very good anywhere, it is a separate courtyard, and it is close to the Baptist College of the little sister, so the little sister doesn't have to go home to live every weekend in the future." ”

Grandma glared at Huo Chengcai, complained that he was too talkative, turned her head to look at her grandson and asked, "Won't it be too expensive?"

"I'll find out tomorrow. ”

Although Huo Yaowen doesn't know how much the villa in Kowloon Tong is, he thinks that the most expensive villa is not more expensive than the villa in the mid-levels, and if you buy it now, it is definitely cheaper than buying it in two years, and when the Hong Kong stock market is booming, housing prices will naturally rise.

Although after the 73 stock market crash, Hong Kong's housing prices will be cheaper, but Huo Yaowen didn't buy it for short-term investment, just think about it in the long run, and after a few decades, that set will be worth at least one or two hundred million.

Lao Dou Huo Chengcai was very diligent, seeing that Grandma was a little unhappy, and hurriedly said: "A set over there is a maximum of hundreds of thousands, it shouldn't be very expensive, I'll go over tomorrow to take a look, and after I buy it, I can use it as a wedding room for Yaowen." ”

Although the old lady doesn't know how much money Huo Yaowen makes now, she often reads the name of her grandson mentioned in the newspaper at home, and she can guess that her grandson must have a great future, and it is also necessary to buy a better villa as a wedding house.

...

The next morning.

Huo Chengcai didn't even open a bookstore, and after contacting a real estate agency, he determined that there was a villa for sale there, and went directly to Kowloon Tong with his family.

The other side.

In the morning, after Huo Yaowen woke up in the dormitory, he participated in the meeting of the school board at nine o'clock, and the members must attend, and spent two hours listening to a long-term discussion by the principal Le Pinchun and several school directors and committee members, and then hastily ate in the cafeteria at noon, and went to attend the internal meeting of the teachers of the University of Hong Kong.

was busy until more than three o'clock in the afternoon, and Huo Yaowen had the opportunity to say hello to Director Huang, saying that he would not attend the Christmas party in the evening, and then drove to the Mandarin Hotel for an appointment.

As for the person who went to the appointment, it was Huo Guantai mentioned to Huo Yaowen by grandfather Huo Zongming yesterday.

Originally, Huo Guantai made an appointment to meet Huo Yaowen on the 27th, but it was about to be the end of the year, and his shipping company was still busy settling the annual accounts, which was relatively busy.

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