I have to mention that the book "How Much Love Can Be Dead" published by her did not become a big hit, but the bookseller's eldest sister called and said that the book did not lose money, and made her earn tens of thousands of yuan, and there were two reasons why it did not catch fire.

First, although her writing is very stylish, her writing is still relatively young and has no popularity base.

Second, she is a newcomer, not a celebrity, and the publisher does not dare to risk investing in her publicity, she has not done any publicity, and she has made tens of thousands of dollars, which is not bad.

Therefore, after two years, the bookseller's eldest sister kept her promise to Jiang Xi and published a copy of Jiang Xi's "Half of Passion is Toss".

Jiang Xi was very happy at the time, thinking that he would be able to publish the third book after the second book was released, and he felt that this time it was really going to be popular, but as a result, there was no third book after the second book was released.

It's not because she doesn't write well, the bookseller's eldest sister in the second book also made tens of thousands of yuan, but the development of online literature is getting stronger and stronger, almost devouring the paper book publishing industry with a gluttonous attitude, so some small booksellers have been devastated, even if the bookseller still wants to come up with Jiang Xi's out, it can't be published, and the real publishing house review requirements are particularly strict, and Jiang Xi's text has not yet met that requirement.

Therefore, after she submitted several manuscripts to the publishing house and all of them were in vain, Jiang Xi took her mind back to the Internet, and although she still hit the street, she still persevered in her efforts.

She said that if you have good grades, you should be lucky, and if you have bad grades, you will be treated as someone else's apprentice for money, and you will not lose anything.

I, "......", okay, as long as she is in a good mood, she can do anything, anyway, our family's living expenses are not lacking in her manuscript fee.

One day when I came home from work, Jiang Xi was so excited that he said to me, "I saw a house on the Internet, a small three-bedroom of 56.7 square meters, in Deshengmenwai Street, Wulutong Primary School District, Xicheng District, and the current price is 830,000." ”

In fact, she said that I don't understand this large string of data, and I don't know if it's cheap or expensive, and I haven't studied it, and I don't know what's good or bad, anyway, she said so, and I also said excitedly, "Then let's take a look?"

Jiang Xi said, "I'll make an appointment with the agent." ”

Jiang Xi moved very fast, and it didn't take a few minutes to make an appointment with the intermediary, and the intermediary said that it was convenient to see the house.

I suddenly thought of a concern, "If we like it, we can't buy it, our house hasn't been sold yet, besides, the market price of our small house is 700,000 yuan, and I don't know how much it can be sold at that time, and I don't know if we can sell it!"

Jiang Xi smiled and said, " Don't worry about these, this kind of thing will go with the flow, anyway, we go to see the house and not lose, if we see it, we will hurry up and sell our house, in time, in time, in time, just buy, in time, in time, in time, just buy other houses, I have seen a lot of houses this week, choose different types of houses to see, only to know which one is most suitable for us to buy, if you see less, buy a house is too dazed, but once you have money, when you should shoot, don't be too indecisive, so as not to miss the most suitable. ”

"Wife, you're right!"

I smiled and said, with a sycophant look, in fact, I was almost dizzy when I listened to her words, I still decided not to worry about it, maybe I don't have the talent for this, the more I listen, the more confused I become, everything is better to listen to her.

Deshengmenwai Street is not far from my house, it can be reached in ten minutes by walking, I hugged Jiang Xi with Jiang Xi, and Jiang Xi's mother, our family of four walked around after dinner and followed the intermediary to see the house.

This is a staff dormitory building built in the 80s, a house in the second and third ring roads, we don't consider the new house, because we can't afford it, and the old house can barely buy less than 60 square meters.

The house I see today is a very small number of all the house types that can be made into a three-bedroom house of 56.7 square meters.

I followed them into the house to see, the decoration of the house is already very old, but fortunately it is still relatively clean, only a single young man lives in the house, because everyone else has moved away, live in a better and bigger house, this young man is the grandson of the original owner of the house, the old man of the family died, leaving this house for the descendants, and the descendants of four or five brothers are waiting to sell the house for a penny.

This house is also a small horizontal walkway into the door, and then a bedroom in the south, two small bedrooms in the north, the kitchen is not big, it is no problem to stand alone to cook, but the toilet is very small, it seems to be only a little more than two square meters, and there can only be a bath standing inside, or a person sitting on the toilet, and there is no more spare space.

Imagine that the three bedrooms of 56.7 square meters are not all squeezed out of the kitchen, bathroom, and living room, which is actually equivalent to only one walkway, no living room, but ......

It's still a luxury house for us.

Jiang Xi's eyes lit up when she saw this house, and she said to me happily, "Such a large house, only this one is a three-bedroom apartment, very rare, if we can buy this house, my mother can have a bedroom of her own, I have a bedroom with you, and Jiang Xi can also have a small room of his own." ”

Originally, I didn't think this house was very good, after all, the toilet and kitchen were so small, and there was no living room, but as soon as I was infected by Jiang Xi's beautiful and yearning look, I felt that I would be very happy to live in a shack with her.

So I smiled and said, "Wife, it's good if you think it's good." ”

"However, I found that there is still a problem with this house," Jiang Xi seemed to suddenly notice.

"What's the question?" I asked immediately.

Jiang Xi glanced at her mother and said, "This house is on the third floor, and I'm afraid my mother will become more and more unable to climb." ”

Jiang Xi's mother immediately said, "You don't have to worry about me, how many more years can I live, you just have to look at it." ”

Jiang Xi and I were very uncomfortable when we heard this, although we also knew that Jiang Xi's mother didn't mean anything else, and it was what she said in her heart.

Jiang Xi's mother also seemed to feel that what she said was not very good, and immediately changed her words and said, "I can still crawl now, when I can't crawl, you can rent me a first floor to live in, I think this is easy to solve, if this house is really good and rare, it is worth buying." ”

This reminded Jiang Xi, and Jiang Xi immediately said, "That's right, when the time comes, our family will rent a first floor to live in, this rare house, if we can buy it, I think the appreciation value will be higher than that of a house of the same size in the future." ”

I can't figure out the value of living, and I can't figure out the value of appreciation, so what she says is what it is.

"Wife, then sell my house quickly, and buy it as soon as it is sold. ”

"Hmm!" Jiang Xi smiled at me and agreed, then turned to the intermediary Xiao Zhang and said, "Hurry up and help me sell my house." ”

Xiao Zhang said, "Okay, sister, I'll try to help you sell." ”

On the way back, I asked Jiang Xi, "Do you still see other houses?" Didn't you say it would be better to see more?"

Jiang Xi said, "Now there is no need to look at too many houses, I have already chosen the type of house I want to buy, I will not look at other types of houses, unless there is an exact type of house out, I will see, otherwise there is no need to waste time, if this house is sold, I will retreat and choose a two-bedroom apartment of about 60 square meters." ”

"Oh, that's right!" always felt that she knew everything very well.

This was done, but because the real estate was not very good at that time, and the world was in an economic crisis, the real estate transaction volume was very low, and no one knew if our old dilapidated house could be sold.

The most serious economic crisis is the sequelae of the Asian economic crisis in Hong Kong in 1997, it is rumored that there were frequent jumping incidents in Hong Kong and Shenzhen at that time, all because there were too many mortgages, and housing prices fell sharply, resulting in inversion, that is, the homeowner gave the house to the bank for nothing, which was not enough to repay the loan.

There is a period of time in Shenzhen where the most troublesome thing is that many people buy a house with a full loan with zero down payment, and then the house plummets, the rent is not worth much, the original housing plan is in vain, the bank collects the house and is still collecting debts, the person who is being chased is dark, and he can't afford to repay the loan, and he also feels that the house can't go up, and some can't think of it, and he doesn't want to go to jail, so he jumps off the building directly.

In fact, those people are too stupid, there is hope when they are alive, and then the housing prices did not rise, and those who died died in vain, and those who insisted on living lazily may have turned over.

Therefore, to live, we must be prepared for danger in times of peace, to live, we must also face difficulties, and to live, everything is possible!

Because of the impact of these things, social experts and relevant people at that time would rub the heat and say: The housing prices in the mainland are growing too fast, this is already the sky, and it will not rise again, and it will definitely fall suddenly like Hong Kong and Shenzhen, so I advise everyone not to buy a house, and wait for the house price to drop before buying, otherwise it may repeat the mistakes of Hong Kong and Shenzhen people.

In an instant, experts flew all over the sky, rumors spread everywhere, and people who bought and sold houses were also panicked, not knowing whether to buy or sell.

But it didn't seem like these rumors had any effect on Jiang Xi, and I never saw her talking to me about these things in a panic.

It didn't take long for our house to be sold, it was bought by a local couple in Beijing, this young couple is a year or two younger than me and Jiang Xi, they both work in the bank, this is their second house.

When signing the contract, I heard the little daughter-in-law's mother-in-law whispering to Jiang Xi, looking unhappy, "Our daughter-in-law learned that I got a pension of 180,000 yuan, so she wanted to take the 180,000 yuan for herself, she couldn't find a good reason, so she said that she wanted to buy a house, and my old man and I didn't agree to buy it, but my son didn't listen to us, so he said he wanted to buy it, and then the two of them took 180,000 yuan as a down payment, and they repaid the rest of the loan themselves, cough!" We are just one son, we can't resist them, and we have eaten up all our pension money, and we have no savings now. ”

When the old lady said this, Jiang Xi couldn't say anything, so she smiled and said, "As long as the son and daughter-in-law are filial, they will support you in the future." ”

The old lady pouted, "Hmph, who knows if we can raise it, when we can't move, we won't be able to receive a pension, I don't know what will happen, and I may die at that time, originally I and the old man planned to use this money to go on a trip, but I haven't traveled much in my life, and now it's in the soup, and the two of them have no money, so they all rely on their monthly salaries to repay the loan." ”

I listened to her words, my heart was very complicated, but I couldn't explain clearly, I was not qualified to judge who was right and who was wrong, and I did not do a good job with my parents.

Yang Lin and Jin Dan heard that our house was sold, and they also heard that Jiang Xi was going to buy a house immediately, so Yang Lin and Jin Dan came to talk to Jiang Xi for a time. Yang Lin also came with her two-year-old daughter, my eldest daughter was three years old at that time, and she could take her children to play for a while.

It happened to be the weekend, and the three of us sat in the small space of my house and had a lively conversation, so they sat directly on Jiang Xi's mother's bed and chatted, because they were too cramped in the restaurant.

Yang Lin said loudly and squeezingly, "Jiang Xi, let me tell you, since your house has been sold, you can keep the money in your hands, you must not buy it at this time, I know a director in Hong Kong, he said that their current housing prices in Hong Kong have fallen very badly, and they are dying in five or five years, and the mainland's current economy is not very good, and the housing prices have grown a little bit in the past two years, and your small dilapidated house looks no bigger than a public toilet, from 150,000 to 700,000, which sounds like a fantasy, how can it still rise!"

Jiang Xi listened to their words, just smiled and lowered her eyes, looking like a calm sister, but she didn't respond, didn't object, and didn't agree.

Jin Dan looked at her like this and was anxious, stood up and pinched her waist and said, "Jiang Xi, don't really look like everyone is drunk and I am sober, the economic crisis is really not a joke, there are more people jumping off the building, if you buy a house from a small family, if you cut it in half, can you stand it?"

Jiang Xi finally spoke with a smile, "Thank you for the reminder, I will seriously consider your words." ”

When she said this, Yang Lin and Jin Dan could be considered to let go of this matter.

Jiang Xi asked, "How is Yang Lin now? Is she on good terms with your husband, and is the family happy?"

When asked this, Yang Lin's eyes drifted for a moment, and she said with a smile, "Very good, I think my husband and I are in the best state now, and we are both very happy." ”

Jiang Xi was very happy for her, "That's great." ”

At this time, Jin Dan on the side said meaningfully, "She and his husband are now getting along peacefully, playing each other and not interfering with each other." ”

Jiang Xi and I were stunned.

Jiang Xi immediately asked, "What do you mean by playing each other?"

Jin Dan said, "It's his husband who is willing to take money to support their mother and daughter in front of the children, but she can't care how his husband plays outside, his husband can have a girlfriend casually, she can also have a boyfriend casually, and his husband doesn't care about her, the two agreed that as long as they don't bring it to the house, they will play their own way." ”

I went to another room to lie down and rest, and when I heard this, I really felt very unbelievable, thinking that there are still such couples in this society.

Yang Lin didn't feel that this was a shameful thing, she also smiled and said, "This is the best way for me and my husband to get along, for you and your husband may feel incredible, but in fact, there are many young couples who get along like this, do you think, two people together, passion retreats, good feelings become family affection, what about bad feelings? Then I have to think of a way to regulate my emotions, divorce is too complicated, too troublesome, like my husband he doesn't want to divorce me, lest he have to give me half of the property, and I don't want to divorce, this is my long-term meal ticket, left, where can I find someone who is willing to support me and my daughter? ”

"Ahem!" Jiang Xi sighed deeply, and finally said angrily, "Yang Lin, you know that you are dancing on the bonfire?

Yang Lin said disapprerovingly, "Hahaha, what kind of campfire dancing, don't rely on yourself to write the one who hit the street and drag this word with me, I think our current life is the best, I want to fall in love, just get a boyfriend, break up at any time if you are unhappy, if you don't like it, change another one, and then I am not short of money to spend, my husband gives me 30,000 yuan of pocket money every month, I am quite content with my current life, if I can be like this for the rest of my life, I don't know how happy I am." ”

When I heard this, I suddenly felt that Yang Lin's life was not the life that many women yearn for? Someone gave her money to spend, food and shelter, and also provided her with a little white face? Isn't this life a little too chic?

Jiang Xi didn't say anything about this matter after that, she changed the subject, "What are Jin Dan's plans for the future?"

Jin Dan said, "I'm going back to Wenzhou soon, my dad said let me enter his real estate company to work, I really don't want to go to his company at all, every day I can see several twisted buttocks secretly to my dad to run a company slut, every time I see me, I look like I'm about to be my little mother, but I don't dare to be too presumptuous in front of me, I want to pat the ass no chance, want to give me a horse, and don't have that strength, are so sassy and cowardly, as soon as I see them, I want to kill people in a rage." ”

Jiang Xi said, "You have grown up, you have to face the reality, your father and your mother have been divorced for so many years, you have to look a little open, have that energy, it is better to do a career yourself." ”

Jin Dan smiled and said, "I'm okay in terms of career, last year my dad gave me three million start-up capital, I invested in two hotels in Beijing, not only returned to the capital in a year, the annual income has been two million, but my dad said, let me not be proud, this is just for me to practice, he will take me to do hundreds of millions of business in the future." ”

"You're awesome!" Jiang Xi sighed from the bottom of his heart.

I also sighed in my heart, the children of entrepreneurs are born higher than the starting line of others, as long as they are not too unprofessional, they can really soar all the time without falling.

Ordinary people like us don't want to compare with these.

After Yang Lin and Jin Dan left, I came out of the back room and asked her, "Do we still buy our house?"

Jiang Xi said with certainty, "Of course I bought it." ”

I wondered, "Do you think they don't make sense?"

Actually, I was a little moved by what they said, and I also felt that now might not be a good time to buy a house.

Jiang Xi saw my doubts and patiently explained to me, "Listen to me, I don't know if what they said is right, no one knows what the future will bring, but I only decide this matter based on the situation of our family." ”

She looked at me and became more and more serious, "First, our family is bought to live in, even if it falls by half, it may rise again in a few years, from this point of view, the rise and fall have little impact on our family; second, we only need to borrow 200,000 yuan, and about 2,000 yuan a month to repay, with the current strength of our family, as long as you have a stable job and repay this loan, there will not be much crisis, so from the perspective of repayment, the rise and fall still do not have much impact on our family; third, ......."

When it came to the third, Jiang Xi paused, I knew that the point was coming, so I listened very carefully.

Jiang Xi said, "If the house price rises, we don't have to multiply it several times like the previous two years, and the house of 800,000 yuan will rise by another 200,000 yuan, and we will not dare to buy it, and then we may be homeless, and we can't buy a toilet with 600,000 yuan in our hands, can you understand this kind of crisis?"

I silently digested her words.

She continued, "Which do you think we should choose?"

She said it all so clearly, if I don't understand, I'm really mentally retarded.

She added, "I'm not greedy about how much the house goes up, so I hope that I can buy it, and our family of four can live more comfortably, and I will be content." ”

"Wife, you're right. ”

I held her tightly in my arms, and her analysis was indeed very reasonable, and the pros and cons were very clearly weighed.

So, it is particularly fortunate that the small three-bedroom has not been sold to others.

After signing the contract for our house, Jiang Xi found an intermediary to negotiate the contract of the house, and I could see that Jiang Xi was the kind of person who couldn't wait to sign the small three-bedroom house.

The price of the house is not expensive at 830,000 yuan, and at first glance, it is the price of selling sincerely, Jiang Xi directly said to the intermediary, "I will pay 820,000 yuan, and I will arrange to sign the contract immediately." ”

The offer was 830,000, and she gave 820,000, which was nothing to talk about at all, and the landlord soon came to sign the contract.

It's just that there are more names on the house book of this house, because it is the inheritance of the old man's inheritance, so the names of four or five sons and daughters, and some of them are no longer in Beijing, in Shanghai, there was no high-speed rail at that time, it is not easy to come to Beijing, they do not want to come, they have to go to the notary office to write a notarial certificate, and spend hundreds of yuan to do notarization, so as to prove that one of their sisters agreed to handle the real estate transfer on behalf of each of them.

Because the procedures for this house are very complicated, it takes an unusually large number of days, about more than four months to complete.

And the formalities on our side were completed quickly, according to the time agreement, we got the full payment of the house, and we had to vacate the house for others, so we didn't have a house to live in for two or three months, so we rented a house temporarily.

The rented house is not much of a choice because it is in a hurry and short-term, but fortunately, not far from my family's newly bought house, it is also a regular two-bedroom apartment of 80 square meters on the central axis road in Beijing.

Eighty square meters, that's really a mansion, the hall is the hall, the bedroom is the bedroom, the north and south are transparent, very comfortable.

It's just that we rent a twelve-story building, and it's not tiring to have an elevator, but Jiang Xi and I both found a problem.

I haven't lived in a high-rise building before, but I suddenly lived on the twelfth floor, and there was always a feeling of hanging in the air, and when the two of us were lying in bed, a big truck passed by the street at night, and I always felt that the building was swaying, which made people feel very unsure.

This feeling is strongest during the Olympic Games, when the ceremonial flowers for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games are placed along the central axis. Jiang Xi and I lay on the bed hand in hand, and I had the feeling of experiencing an earthquake, those beautiful big footprints, five-pointed stars, and the inheritance of dragons...... The fireworks were over our heads, and even the burned-out fireworks skins fell from our windows, and neither of us had the heart to look at them, only shivering in fear and not sleeping all night.

At that moment, Jiang Xi said to me, "Let's not buy high-rise buildings in the future, it's too insecure." ”

I tightened her hand even more and said, "Wife, you're so right, it's terrible!"

Probably both of us are afraid of heights, and then came to other people's homes, and lived in high-rise buildings, and found that not all buildings are so shaky, but that one "Lou Shaking" was met by us, but we seem to have left a psychological shadow, and then we still resolutely do not live in high-rise buildings.

After the three-month rental period, we moved to our new house, still not decorated, this time not because there is no money to decorate, but because there are children at home, Jiang Xi said, absolutely not decorate, she made some foam board herself and pounced on the ground, so that it is beautiful, and can be used by the child to crawl on the ground to play.

No matter how old the house is, in Jiang Xi's hands, she can be dressed up warmly, beautifully, and beautifully.

My house was sold for 680,000 yuan, and the house here was bought for 820,000 yuan, and we took out a loan of 200,000 yuan, and we went to various handling fees, and we still have a deposit of 100,000 yuan in our hands.

Doesn't it sound like life is good.

This house is still written in the name of Jiang Xi alone, at this time, I don't care who writes the name of the house at all, I don't think Jiang Xi will abandon me for the rest of my life, and I will not abandon her.

This faith she gave me with love!

Life was going on very well, and although it was rumored every day that the economic crisis was coming, it had not yet come, not only did it not come, but there were a few months when the stock market soared to new heights.

For a period of time, the news reported that the employees of major companies could not work with peace of mind, and they were all speculating in stocks, and some made hundreds of thousands or millions overnight, and then quit the next day.

If there are such employees in any company, will other employees be able to work with peace of mind? Everyone's eyes are fixed on the stock market.

I remember that at that time, the market sellers were talking about the stock market, and even learning to speculate in stocks, more speculation with more money, and less speculation with less money, and it is said that many people have also made money.

My colleague in my company is no exception, my colleague sitting next to me, he told me that he used 100,000 yuan of start-up capital to make 100,000 yuan a week by trading stocks, and in three weeks, he has earned a total of more than 300,000 yuan.

This colleague is under my nose every day, the work is not good, nothing to look at the information of the stock market, his economic foundation is the same as mine, he said that he suddenly earned 300,000, as soon as I heard the news, my heart was also on fire, I also want to earn 300,000, it seems to be really easy!

At that time, it was true that whoever bought made money, and there was no loss at all, I didn't understand the stock market, and I didn't understand why, because of this, I became more and more anxious when I watched others make money.

I thought to myself, my family also has a deposit of 100,000 yuan, and it is good to put it into the stock market to earn 100,000 yuan a week and take it out immediately?

After work, I happily went home and planned to discuss with Jiang Xi, and I think she will definitely agree, because really, really, during that time, whoever bought and who earned, there was really no one who lost money.

Isn't this just money falling from the sky?

"Wife, wife, let me tell you, my colleague earned 300,000 yuan in less than a month, enough for my salary for three years, I am really envious, jealous, hateful, we must also buy stocks, now everyone is buying, the whole people are speculating in stocks. ”

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