Chapter 262: The Haunted Castle
Living in Oxford, Li Han usually has nothing to do except cook occasionally and go to the library to read books. Although she didn't hire a nanny and a part-time worker, Lydia was getting more and more neat at housework, and Li Han was afraid that one day her father-in-law would regret not marrying her daughter to him when she saw her daughter's hard work.
When people are bored, they will want to spend money. The average person probably goes shopping, buying clothes and eating delicious food. Li Han is an otaku, and when he is bored, he wanders around the Internet. This time I went to the real estate transaction website, and the apartment was not uncommon, and I went straight to the villa and the castle.
The villa is nothing to look at, and after buying the ancient castle, the small villa Li Han has completely ignored it. There are two castles for sale, one is too small, with only four rooms, which is not as good as an ordinary single building, and it has to be maintained every year, which is really not cost-effective. The other one is not bad, although not as big as Richmond Castle, and has about a hundred rooms.
However, the reason why Li Han was interested in this castle was that it was rumored that this castle was haunted, and this rumor lasted for more than two hundred years, and every owner of the castle could not live in it for a long time, and he was haunted by ghosts.
There are many haunted houses in the world, but there are few that are really ghosts, and Li Han doesn't know if this castle really has ghosts or other reasons. Anyway, I was idle, and I was interested in the castle, so I decided to go over and have a look.
The castle is located in Scotland, southeast of Loch Ness, not far from the ancient battlefield of Carenton. The intermediary Dean is already waiting, he has served Li Han many times, and he knows what this local tyrant likes. Li Han is also used to him, and the business is familiar. The person is also quite kind, so I didn't think about changing.
The castle is surrounded by open meadows, and a small river runs the castle from the southeast to the half-enveloping and crystal clear, while the west side of the castle is a dense wooded area with small animals from time to time.
The castle has three floors, in the shape of a figure 7, and one horizontal is the main house. One vertical is the east wing. The exterior is pale off-white. Solemn and majestic, steady and simple. The open space in the middle of the figure 7 is a well-manicured meadow, the right half of the cross of the concrete road is slightly shorter, and to the right of it is a circular fountain pool.
Just looking at the appearance of the castle and the surrounding environment, Li Han was very satisfied. As long as the interior decoration has gone. There is nothing strict about the quality. You can buy it at the right price.
It's not that he's a collector, but that he has a whim, and he's going to buy it as a hotel. This castle has been haunted for more than 200 years. The most attractive for tourists. If there is really a ghost in the ancient castle, it will be a matter of minutes for Li Han to clean it up, if there are no ghosts, there are still two of them living in his jade pendant, just let them out for activities. As long as it doesn't hurt anyone, the haunted it is, the better the business.
The interior of the castle is the luxury style of the English Middle Ages, with a variety of red and golden colors decorating the castle magnificently, as well as various relief paintings, lacquer gold, portraits, etc., and there is a feeling of being an aristocracy in it.
Although it is not very in line with Li Han's preferences, what is needed here is this original taste, as long as the quality is okay, Li Han does not need to redecorate, just add some necessities before opening the hotel. They walked along the corridor to the main building and the east wing, hundreds of rooms, although not every one of them was seen, but it also took more than an hour, and the body was almost a little tired.
"The castle is not bad, but there is no swimming pool and golf course and other entertainment, if I want to build a hotel, I have to change it now," Li Han said dissatisfied, "I don't know how much this castle city costs?" It's not cost-effective if it's too expensive. ”
Dean laughs: "Although there is no pool and golf course, the recreation room and sun room are not small, and can seat dozens of people. Golf courses take up too much space, and not every castle has them. If you must want to build it, it is still no problem to build a driving range on the grass behind the castle. He paused, "It's not expensive, it's fifteen million pounds." ”
Li Han shook his head again and again: "It's too expensive, it's worth 10 million at most, I bought two ancient castles, and it's boring for you to open it for me at such a price." ”
Dean smiled bitterly: "This price is not false at all, this castle covers an area of more than one acre, plus this castle is well maintained, you have also seen, if you don't want to open a hotel, you can live directly without repairing it." ”
"I'll buy it for 10 million, no matter how big the area is, it's only one acre, it's too small, and it's not like my one with mountains and woods or something, but the area of the castle is not as big as the vampire castle, I heard that it's still haunted, and I think it's a bit expensive for 10 million." Li Han really didn't tell a lie, there are indeed ghosts in this ancient castle, just in an attic on the west side of the main house, it doesn't seem to mean harm, it's not a ghost.
Speaking of hauntings, Dean felt a chill behind him, he used to only think it was a legend, but when he came to inspect the house before, he accompanied the client to see the house a few times, and he heard the movement, as if someone was sighing for a long time. The two customers were scared away like this before, if it was not his duty to take someone to see the house, if it wasn't for the commission to cover his family's expenses for more than half a year, he would also want to run!
He frowned sadly: "Doctor Li, I don't want to ask for a high price, but this seller is cheap and refuses to sell, so let's take the lowest price for you, 13 million, no matter how low it is, I can't be the master." ”
"Twelve million, the tax is paid by the seller." Li Han didn't bother to grind for this money, he wouldn't bargain, but he didn't want to be wronged. If you calculate it by half of the occupancy rate, after deducting labor, water and electricity, etc., you will only earn more than one million yuan a year, plus maintenance costs, you will not be able to recover the cost in ten years. He is usually too lazy to invest in business, otherwise how can he put money here?
Dean finally found a customer who is not afraid of ghosts, where is he willing to let go? After making a phone call to the seller, the deal was closed, and then I waited for the lawyers of both parties to come over to sign the contract and pay.
When the villa was in hand, Li Han did not leave, and after the agent and the lawyer left, he returned to the attic on the west side of the main house again. The ghost was still there, and it didn't make much trouble, just walked around and sighed all the time. She wore a very extravagant 19th-century floor-length gown, which was rumored to be haunted.
Li Han directly pushed open the door and walked in, and asked, "Madam, can you ask why you are sighing?" ”
The female ghost was startled and turned around. Li Han saw her appearance at this time, she was about thirty years old, and she was quite beautiful, but there was sadness between her eyebrows. She probably didn't think that anyone would dare to take the initiative to talk to her, but she had been a ghost for two hundred years, and she had no curiosity for a long time. He just glanced coldly at the strange man and didn't speak.
Li Han was not angry, and directly took out the jade pendant and released Green and Nelson, and then took her in in the surprise of the female ghost. The two ghosts were fully awake, and it was difficult to see the difference between them and humans when they deliberately condensed the entity. It's just that no matter what, they are too different from modern society, Li Han is not a holy father, and he is really too lazy to pretend to be a person for them, so he has been putting them in the jade pendant.
"You can live here in the future," Li Han said, "I'll go back and let people arrange it, you guys will appear every once in a while, just let people know that there are ghosts here, be careful not to really scare people to death." ”
After explaining the plan to the two ghosts in detail, Li Han called Qi An'an and asked him to find a decoration company to come and decorate the castle into a hotel. There is no need to change the room, just add the necessary furniture and appliances to each room, such as TV, air conditioner, refrigerator and so on. Dig a pool and build a golf driving range.
Qi An'an was numb to his boss's random purchase of villas and castles, and he was also from Huangguo, and he understood the boss's heart of buying a house. And the decoration comes and goes, even the housing with the clinic, from he followed Li Han to now it has only been more than a year, and the decoration has not been less than ten times, and there has long been a "queen" decoration company, which is convenient!
Li Han has always been the shopkeeper, throwing all the decoration and publicity to Qi An'an, and after throwing the scary things to the two ghosts, he clapped his hands and went back to Oxford to hug his wife. I spent more than 10 million yuan on a trip, and I don't know how much it costs to decorate the castle and buy furniture and appliances, plus to recruit employees for the entire hotel.
Fortunately, the loan at Richmond Castle has been paid off, and 10 million pounds is now only a little more than a month's income for him, which is nothing, similar to the average person buying a computer with a better configuration. He also bought a big toy for himself, think about it, haunted hotel, thought it was rumored that the guests saw that there were really ghosts haunted in the castle, and thought it was funny.
Lydia was a little surprised to see him come back after only one day's trip: "I thought you would spend a few more days in Scotland, isn't it boring to stay at home?" ”
"But I'm bored in Scotland alone, and you're not there." Li Han now opens his mouth when he talks sweetly, "When you graduate next year, we will go out to travel and have fun for a few days." "Most of the postgraduate courses in the UK are only one year, and if you don't want to come and get a diploma, the students are basically very hardworking, reading and writing papers every day, and there is little time to rest.
Qi An'an is still very capable, after understanding the meaning of the boss, he quickly found someone to take a few photos with "ghosts" in the castle, called the marketing account to promote it on Twitter and Facebook and other online social media, and soon hit the popularity out, just waiting for the hotel to be renovated and the staff can open after they are ready.
Li Han also deliberately took a screenshot and posted it on Weibo in China, Huangguo is now also a big tourist country, there are not too many people who travel abroad every year, and the age level is getting lower and lower, young people will definitely like this kind of hotel. Although the accommodation fee of the castle will be slightly higher relatively speaking, there are many rich people in the Huangguo country now, even if ten out of a hundred people who travel abroad are rich, and one of the ten rich people is willing to live in his castle, then there is money to be made. (To be continued......)